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Health insurance stocks surge on Medicare rate hikeApril 2, 2013: 12:20 PM ET
Shares of U.S. health insurers rallied Tuesday, after the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced plans to increase the amount the government pays to insurance firms for its Medicare Advantage plan.
Investors and health insurance firms were notified late Monday that payments to insurers under Medicare Advantage will increase by 3.3% in 2014. That's a sharp turnaround from the original proposal, which called for cutting rates by 2.2%.
Analysts at Credit Suisse said the government's decision "significantly improved the 2014 outlook" for U.S. health insurers.
Shares of Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI), and WellPoint (WLP) rose between 4% and 8% Tuesday. Humana, which has the greatest exposure to Medicare Advantage, jumped nearly 10% at one point.
Related: Hedge funds bet on Obamacare
Justin Simon, an analyst at research firm Heights Analytics, said the government's decision was likely done to curry favor with Senate Republicans and clear the way for the confirmation of acting CMS director Marilyn Tavenner.
"Medicare Advantage is a beloved program among the Republican Party," said Simon. "Our view is that this big of a revision has a lot more to do with a political extraction from Republicans and little to do with high quality analysis."
CMS has had six acting administrators since 2006, but none have been confirmed by the Senate. With many provisions of President Obama's Affordable Care Act starting to take effect later this year, it's critical for the administration to have a CMS chief confirmed by the Senate as soon as possible, said Simon.
CMS declined to comment.
The health insurance industry's main lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans, had also campaigned for rates to increase. The group cheered Monday's decision: "CMS has taken an important step to help stabilize Medicare Advantage at a time when the program is facing significant challenges," AHIP's president Karen Ignani said in a statement.
Some traders on StockTwits were caught off guard by the news and perhaps even a little bitter.
$UNH wow...i hate when companies we can all agree on despising go to all-time highs (congrats longs)
Many other traders questioned the bounce on the news.
A 5% increase over what was expected for a portion of revenue shouldn't equate to a 18% increase in price. Shorting it now... $HUM
$UNH i still remember machines beating this stock to low 50's on ceo comments inspite of stelar earnings.


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Shreveport Louisiana Chapter
The Shreveport Louisiana Chapter of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association is leading the effort to promote SCA education and awareness throughout the state. Some of our members are survivors, individuals with an increased risk for SCA and family or friends of those who have suffered from a SCA. We have experience in providing customized automated external defibrillator (AED) programs and CPR training for organizations worldwide and as a part of the SCAA are helping to increase survival right here in our own state.
The mission of this chapter is to increase awareness through preventative measures, teaching preparedness and emphasizing the importance of CPR and early defibrillation. This chapter will promote partnerships with local hospitals, businesses, community organizations, schools and survivors to offer those who suffer from SCA the best possible chance for survival. We are excited to join this effort to lobby with other chapters to empower our government leaders to continue to support funding. We look forward to making a difference in the lives of those around us.
Chapter News:
Visit the Shreveport Chapter's Facebook page for more information and updates on Chapter activity.
February 25, 2012
Kristopher Edgell
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9242 Ellerbe Rd Suite 300
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The Salinas High School Mountain Bike Club began in 2006 and competes in the NorCal High School League cross country mountain bike races. Our season runs from January – May and includes 5 races culminating with the State Championship where NorCal meets SoCal.
Our mission is to provide students with the desire to ride a mountain bike, the coaching and camaraderie that will help them to achieve both competitive and non-competitive cross-country goals in a safe and enjoyable manner.
The Cowboys have consistently been one of the most competitive teams in the state.
2018 will be our 11th season. From January – May the team practices three times each week and student riders perform additional training on their own. Preparing for the races involves many hours on the trail with coaches and ride leaders. Being part of the team has provided an outlet for students to improve riding skills, build character, make friends, and keep physically active. Like other NorCal League schools, our program seeks to strike a balance between being a competitive individual and team sport while retaining the social and recreational qualities of a club activity.
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The Kia Rio GT-Line. Rio Reimagined.
With Smart connectivity, spacious cabin, dynamic handling topped off with Australia's best 7 Year Warranty[A], the Kia Rio offers smart versatility to suit your lifestyle. Enjoy its stylish design and practicality, or fuel your passion for sporty dynamic looks and exciting performance with the GT-Line.
The New Rio hatchback.
Stylish, smart, sculpted.
The new Rio maintains the versatility you expect from the distinctive hatchback, and brings updated details for improved drivability and comfort.
Poised for the Drive
The bold design of the award winning Rio hails from Germany, penned by Kia's Chief Design Officer Peter Schreyer. Aerodynamic lines and muscular contours give the Rio its distinctly vibrant looks and confident stance.
LED Daytime Running Lights
LED Daytime Running Lights (DRL) and bi-projection headlights light your way.
LED Daytime Running Lights available on GT-Line.
Halogen Daytime Running Lights available on Sport & S.
LED Fog Lamps
The striking new "ice cube" design LED fog lamps add a touch of flair to the Rio.
LED fog lamps available on GT-Line.
Side Glance
Head turning design with attention to detail. A redesigned C-Pillar reduces blind spots and improves rear visibility.
Rear Diffuser & Twin Exhaust
Newly designed rear bumper with a diffuser and twin exhaust provide a stylish hint at the underlying performance.
Rear diffuser & twin exhaust available on GT-Line.
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The Rio exudes sporty confidence from any angle. Standard rear camera across the range is neatly integrated under the KIA badge.
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The rear spoiler enhances the bold design with a sporty look.
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Enjoy the modern, sporty and driver-oriented interior of the Kia Rio. Spacious and functional yet premium and comfortable, with state of the art touchscreen to keep you connected. Make your journey a delight to look forward to.
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Kia Rio has been tuned to suit all types of roads. From the country to the city, a great handling car for all roads.
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The ANCAP 5-Star Safety awarded Rio comes with more Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) than ever. The increased rigidity of its reinforced chassis not only provides greater safety through heightened collision performance, but also improves stability, handling and Noise, Vibration & Harshness (NVH) levels.
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Lane Keeping Assist alerts you when unintentionally drift out of your lane and provides subtle corrective steering assistance when required.
Available on GT-Line.
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Combining radar and camera data, this system warns the driver and activates the brakes if it detects a potential of a collision with a car or pedestrian in front.
Available on GT-Line.
Driver Attention Alert (DAA)
The DAA system intelligently monitors the driver and will give warning signals to encourage taking a break if it senses the driver's attention level has been significantly reduced.
Available on GT-Line.
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Height-adjustable front seatbelt anchor allows you to raise or lower your seatbelt for the perfect fit and greater safety.
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- Dusk-sensing automatic headlights
- Choice of Manual or Automatic transmission
- 17" Alloy wheels
- Cruise control with steering wheel mounted controls
- Premium shift knob & steering wheel
- Heated and electric folding outside door mirrors
- Autonomous Emergency Brake (AEB) with Front Collision Warning System (FCWS)[S]
- GT-Line Body Kit (Gloss radiator grille, rear diffuser, twin exhausts)
- Sports flat bottom steering wheel with GT-Line badging
- Premium carbon-fibre look dash fascia
- Alloy sports pedals
- Lane Keeping Assist (LKA)[S]
- LED Daytime Running Lights (DRL), ice-cube style LED front fog lights, rear LED combination lights
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Red Sox - 004 000 000 - 4 5 1 Yankees - 120 011 10x - 6 9 1The Yankees hit five home runs - all solo shots - and dropped the Red Sox to 58-62, 13.5 GB in the East. Franklin Morales (5.1-6-5-1-3, 92) allowed four of the dongs.
Nick Swisher homered in the first and seventh innings, Curtis Granderson and Russell Martin went back-to-back in the second, and Derek Jeter went deep in the fifth.
Boston scored four unearned runs in the third. Mike Aviles singled and took third when Phil Hughes (7-4-4-1-4, 106) committed a throwing error on Scott Podsednik's grounder. Pedro Ciriaco's fielder's choice scored Aviles and, after Jacoby Ellsbury walked and Carl Crawford popped out, Dustin Pedroia celebrated his 29th birthday by hitting a three-run bomb to left.
However, the Red Sox would get only three runners on base over the next six innings: Aviles's two-out single in the fourth, Ellsbury's one-out single in the fifth, and Crawford's one-out double in the eighth. Boston failed to advance any of those three runners even one base. (After Crawford's double, Pedroia hit a shot to deep left center, but Granderson tracked it down one step from the wall.)
The Yankees snapped a 4-4 tie in the sixth. Casey McGehee and Granderson singled off Morales, ending his night. Jayson Nix's single off Clayton Mortensen scored McGehee.
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Here's How Sox Would Tell Their Story
By Gordon Edes
The Boston Red Sox's ownership, manager, players and fans have all complained about the negative impact media coverage has had on the team. We at ESPN Boston are opting -- for one night, at least -- to tweak our regular coverage in advance of this weekend's series against the New York Yankees, so we used our imagination to take a positive outlook on the team's current plight. We are confident that your hometown heroes will respond to our exhortations and vanquish the Mighty Bombers. Fight hard, lads!
NEW YORK -- A weary but gallant group of Red Sox players, led by their plucky skipper Bobby Valentine, gathered in Baltimore's Penn Station late Thursday night to board the iron horse that will carry them to the Big Apple and a rematch with the Mighty Bombers of Gotham.
The Sox played their hearts out the past three nights against the Orioles, but Fate and Lady Luck dealt them a tough hand. Despite their best efforts -- which included a five-inning no-hitter (!!!) by Aaron Cook -- the Sox were able to claim just one hard-earned victory, steady Clay Buchholz spinning a beauty Thursday night in Camden Yards. Once again, the game's greatest fans were represented in large numbers, having made the arduous journey down the Jersey Turnpike to show their support for A-Gon, Pedey, Our Josh and all the Boys. ...


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TFP 2011: Sous vide master class (part 2)Friday, April 1st, 2011
Sous vide fish should be cooked at several temperatures followed by stepwise cooling for the best texture
Bruno Goussault started the sous vide master class at The Flemish Primitives 2011 by arguing that precise temperature or right temperature cooking is a better term than low temperature cooking. It's really about knowing at which temperature the desired change takes place (or even better: knowing which time-temperature combinations will yield the desired results – this is a topic I will come back to soon).
Recounting the early days of sous vide, Bruno Goussault explained how he was once asked about how to produce prepare tender meat from a though cut. He was aware of a science paper on a slow cooking technique from USA (anyone know which paper this was?). It utilized a water bath, but the water washed away the juices. To avoid this Bruno wrapped the meat in cling film. A roast beef cooked at 58 °C turned out tender with a nice pink color. Then a friend working with plastics suggested that he should look into polyethylene (PE) bags in combination with a sous vide machine (boil-in-bag had already been around for some time apparently). Interestingly Bruno mentioned that during a recent Bocuse d'Or competition in USA where Bruno trained the American team, they replaced the plastic with a "skin" made from shrimps. Maybe we will see more "edible" skins used in sous vide in the future?
Bruno then went on to talk about the vacuuming process and how time/pressure profiles should be adjusted (more…)


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DoD to look at consolidating commissaries, exchanges | Community Spirit
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Defense officials have ordered a review of options that include consolidating commissaries and exchanges, as well as having commissaries adopt an "Exchange-like business model," according to information obtained by Military Times.
The review will be conducted by the Pentagon's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office, according to an internal Pentagon email sent Thursday by Christine Fox, acting deputy secretary of defense, a copy of which was obtained by Military Times and later verified by defense officials.
Fox's email also says she has directed the Defense Department to ask Congress for two "significant changes" in law: allowing commissaries to raise prices rather than sell groceries at cost from distributors and manufacturers; and allowing commissaries to sell generic products, rather than limiting the stores to selling name-brand goods.
The prospect of selling generic brands in commissaries has been cited recently by senior enlisted advisers Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (AW/NAC) Mike Stevens as a potential way to make commissaries more efficient.
The changes would be requested in legislative proposals that are due to Congress next week.
Those two changes would give the Defense Commissary Agency price and product flexibility to generate enough revenue to make up for a $200 million reduction in commissary funding that DoD has proposed in its fiscal 2015 budget, according to Fox's email.
That would mark the first phase of a three-year plan that would eventually cut $1 billion from the commissary's annual $1.4 billion budget. The remaining $400 million a year would be used only to fund commissaries overseas and in remote areas of the U.S.
The proposed funding cuts are still in play, but defense officials have scaled back on a previous draft legislative proposal that would have lifted restrictions on items that commissaries can sell, except for distilled spirits. That proposal also would have removed any reference in law to the commissary benefit as "compensation."
Fox said in her email that she has directed "that all other major aspects of current statute governing DeCA operations be maintained, and that [the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office] conduct a review" to determine what other changes in law may be needed down the road to allow DeCA to be self-sustaining with a reduced budget of $400 million per year.
Fox's email capitalizes the word "Exchange" when referring to a study of consolidating commissary and exchange functions — and that's not a typo.
The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, which began referring to itself as "The Exchange" several years ago, has produced a draft plan for consolidating commissary and exchange operations as an alternative solution to the previous far-reaching draft legislative proposals.
The AAFES proposal was submitted March 17 in response to a DoD request to submit "concerns and alternatives" for dealing with the proposed $1 billion cut in annual commissary funding.
The memo was signed by Thomas Shull, director and CEO of AAFES. "Converting the commissary operation to a nonappropriated fund instrumentality run by the best leadership from the exchanges and DeCA would maximize the probability of preserving the benefit," Shull said in the memo.
The earlier DoD proposal, Shull said, would have resulted "in the eventual closure of CONUS commissaries and the destruction of the exchanges' dividends to MWR," while driving up customer costs by a collective $1 billion per year. About 20 percent to 30 percent of exchange traffic is directly tied to customers visiting nearby commissary stores, he said.
"AAFES proposes an alternate plan: to achieve the same [appropriated fund] savings primarily driven by efficiency, and not by price increase," Shull wrote.
AAFES conducted an analysis that concluded commissary overhead expenses could be reduced by $250 million to $450 million a year.


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I had some surprisingly well-timed holiday booked this week so I decided to visit a nearby(ish) castle at Rochester. The last time I came here I was a small child and all I remember is being terrified by how tall and massive it was. Some shrinkage has occurred over the last twenty years. Still it's […]
Archives for July, 2012
Two for the price of one
Got this really cute hemp chalk bag. Climbing is all about the fashion.
Automagic Debugging
It's kind of annoying to have to go back and run GDB after your program crashes. Here's a signal handler I've been using which drops you into GDB straight away: static void gdb_sighandler(int sig, siginfo_t *info) { char exe[256]; if (readlink("/proc/self/exe", exe, sizeof(exe)) < 0) { perror("readlink"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } char pid[16]; snprintf(pid, sizeof(pid), "%d", […]
Red Flowers, Big Stone
Title says it all: some red flowers in a field last weekend: I don't know what sort they are :-(. Also a big stone in a place appropriately called Ibstone: Wikipedia thinks the stone is marking the Bucks/Oxfordshire border, which is a bit mundane. Also I've decided that driving is among the most stressful and […]


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My heart is just breaking for a sweet friend of mine, B. She lost her baby boy at 38 weeks yesterday, due to (they think) the umbilical wrapping around the baby. I cannot imagine loosing a baby at any point (and I know that many of my friends have- I pray for them too), but to loose him at 38 weeks! I just think about her having to go back home without her baby, having to see his room and his clothes and his sweet diapers. My heart literally aches for them.
Please be in prayer for my friend, her husband S, and their other son E. This is a difficult and painful road for them, and I pray that the LORD would wrap His arms tightly around them, give them breath when they feel like they can't breathe any longer, and make His presence known to them in the days ahead. They love the Lord and I know they have a long journey ahead, but I also know that their faith and their trust in Jesus will carry them.
Please, please pray....
Sunday, July 31, 2011
A Heavy Heart....
My heart is just breaking for a sweet friend of mine, B. She lost her baby boy at 38 weeks yesterday, due to (they think) the umbilical wrapping around the baby. I cannot imagine loosing a baby at any point (and I know that many of my friends have- I pray for them too), but to loose him at 38 weeks! I just think about her having to go back home without her baby, having to see his room and his clothes and his sweet diapers. My heart literally aches for them.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Fireplace Transformation
When we bought our home- just over a month ago (seriously, the first mortgage check cleared this morning!)- we knew we needed to replace the carpet ASAP. And we also knew that we didn't want our new carpet to get dirty which it would fast if it went right up to the back door like the old carpet did. SO, we decided to make a tiled area in front of the back door. But that would mean two tiles in the living room. WELL, y'all pretty people know I couldn't have that. Not in my house...it would drive me crazy!! So the fireplace became one of my famous (or infamous) "while we are at it" projects. I think that is how 99% of our last home's updates got done! HA!
Before, both the hearth and the face were a green granite. Not my taste, but I was willing to live with it. But when we decided to do the tile at the back door, I knew it was the perfect opportunity!
Here is the only before picture I have. Sorry!!! I am so bad at taking before pictures! You can't see it well, but the doors were also trimmed in brass! GAG! But don't worry, I took care of that with a little paint, just like I did at our last house! No need for new doors when you have a couple of bucks worth of black paint!!! ;) I will post on that later... moving on....
We decided to use a ceramic tile for the hearth (which is flat so it made it SO much easier) and a glass and stone mosaic for the face. The mosaic tiles were in different lengths and had a lot of character, but I still wanted to do something a little unexpected. So I decided to lay them on the vertical. My dad and husband were both skeptical of this idea. But when they saw it complete, I think they both came around and said they liked it. Probably because they never want to do it again! HA!
We mounted the TV above the fireplace since it wouldn't fit in the built-in that was meant for the TV. The house is circa 1997, and flat screens were still not around then. At least not as we know them now. So the built-ins are designed for a tube TV. As you can see below, we use that space for toy basket storage!!!
The other side is our components. My brother-in-law and dad ran the cables for us, since Cole was at work and couldn't do it. I have gotten lots of FB questions about how we did that, so I will try to do a whole post on that process. We already had a plug in on the fireplace mantle (for lamps I guess?) so we didn't have to run electrical, just HDMI. That was a huge time and money saver.
Here is the component side closed up. I am still rearranging the shelves. They have been a fun challenge for me! I can't wait to decorate them for the holidays!!! I love being able to display all of our pictures!!!
Here is the other side of the built-ins....(where to toy basket is)
Overall, I am super pleased with how it turned out!!!
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Drop It Like It's Hot
Okay y'all...we all know it is hotter than hades outside!!! But it is also pretty warm in Ava's room. And only in Ava's room. Poor girl. It's not like sweltering or anything. But she is already hot natured and I have been dressing her in shorts and t-shirts for sleep times, plus running her fan nonstop. My dad was in our attic the other day and mentioned that the attic was hot, but not nearly hot enough for the time of year. That combined with the fact that our AC is running all.the.time right now makes me think that we might have a duct leak. Something that was not mentioned in the inspection report, so I am hoping that our home warranty covers it. I read the book they gave us, but I might as well have been reading it in Spanish. I understood about every other word. Ugh.
So the AC people are coming tomorrow, and so is UVerse. AGAIN. Ever since our service was installed on the 12th, the signal has been coming and going. To EVERYTHING! Phone, internet and TV. Needless to say, I am tired of it. I don't get to watch much TV, but when I do, dang it I want to watch!!! Especially if I am paying almost 200.00 a month to watch sed TV or use sed Internet!
I am hosting a baby shower on Sunday afternoon for a dear friend of mine, Audrey. Our other dear friend Jenny and Aud's sister Amy are helping host, and I am so thankful for them! It would really be hard without their help!!! I have never hosted a shower or party with someone before, and wasn't sure how it would go since I am kinda a control freak about parties... HA! But it is going great! I just need to get my house clean and the bathroom paint touched up and the decor for the shower finished. I think it is going to be really cute, and I will do a whole post on it soon! Promise!
Sorry no house pictures in this post. Just been too busy. But to make up for it, here is a tip! My sister turned me onto an iPhone app called houzz. It is just an app that has tons and tons of house pictures from designers all over the country!!! It is AWESOME!!!
Until next time! God Bless!!!
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Friday, July 15, 2011
New House Pictures (well, some anyway!)
We got the TV up and the shelves decorated. I am sure I will change them over the years, but this is what they are now. I can't wait for Christmas so I can decorate them! SO fun!!!
If you remember the green granite that was? Yeah, it is gone. :) We got new carpet, and we wanted a small tiled area in front of the backdoor to keep the dirt off the carpet. But I didn't want two tiles in the same room, so we re tiled the hearth in the same tile we used for the back door area, and used a long glass tile/travertine mosaic laid on the vertical for the fireplace face. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way it turned out!!! Excuse the pink step stool. And the cabinet door I can't close until we get the cables ran behind the door. Ahhh, moving. ;)
Here is for those of you who can't remember or never saw the before picture of the fireplace...MUCH better now huh?!
Now on to the kitchen. The wallpaper is just a distant nightmare!!!
Yes, the green countertops remain still. :( But I have been looking at granite. I am just not 100% sold on what I want, and I would like for our poor bank account to recover from the moving expenses a bit before we off and spend 3k or more on countertops! But it will happen soon. I have faith. ;)
By no means do I like or want to keep the green. But it doesn't look AS awful without the horrid wallpaper.
I fell in love with these pictures at HobLob (50% off too! SCORE) They are french country and just perfect!!!
Now to the fun room- the room I did very first thing! AVA's ROOM!!!
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
We are home!!!
I have SO much to catch up on! But for now, I would just like to say that we are HOME in the new house and loving it! And that I still have mass amounts of unpacking to do but will post before and after pics of the rooms as soon as I get a chance to put the rooms together! HA!!!
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For a while now, I've been working with XNA for game design and development (although only for personal use ATM.) Overall, I'm a major fan of XNA itself, and it's overall "feel." However, due to the fact that:
- XNA seems to have a lack of support (no Metro support, no updates since 2010, etc.)
- I plan to try and get a job in the game development industry, and due to C++'s dominance, being more familiar with it would be very useful
- XNA only supports Windows (non-Metro) and Xbox 360, while I am interested in Mac and (to a lesser extent) Linux support.
I've been trying to shift over to C++ as my main language. However, I do not want to focus on learning raw DirectX/C++ at this time, so I've been looking for a higher level C++ API (something about the same level as XNA, although something a bit more low-level would be fine) with a feel similar to XNA. So, for someone switching from C#/XNA to C++, what would my best choice(s) be for API's similar to XNA, although unmanaged and running on C++?


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- You Read to Me, Ill Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman; illustrated by Michael Emberley (Little, Brown Young Readers, 2001)
This book is a collection of 13 short stories in rhyme/verse form that are meant to be read aloud by two voices. The fun thing about this book is that each poem is color-coded with three different colors to signal whose turn it is to read and when readers should read together.
Other books for two voices by Mary Ann Hoberman include
- You Read to Me, Ill Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together (Little, Brown Young Readers, 2004)
- You Read to Me, Ill Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together (Little, Brown Young Readers, 2005)
- You Read to Me, Ill Read to You: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together (Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007)
- From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems/Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano by Francisco X. Alarcόn; illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (Childrens Book Press, 2005)
This is a collection of summer poems that are written in both English and Spanish. Alarcόn masterfully captures the spirit and playfulness of summer in his poems that are both succinct and full of vivid imagery.
- Love That Dog by Sharon Creech (Harper Trophy, 2001)
Jack, the narrator of the story, is not impressed that his teacher is asking the class to learn about and write poetry. But, as Jack reads more poetry and begins to experiment with writing his own poetry, he finds his voice and learns that poems arent just for girls. Love That Dog is a short and simple narrative with a strong voice and a character that kids will relate to.
Cookies and Milk
Veronica, Terriza, Timmy, and Fabien enjoy chocolaty cookies while chatting with Emily about the books above. Like Jack in Love That Dog, the kids were initially a little hesitant about reading poetry but the books listed above quickly won them over. The family plans to read more poetry books together in the future.
Expert Chat
Dr. Sylvia Vardell is a professor at Texas Womans University and the author of many articles and books about poetry for children, including Poetry Aloud Here! Sharing Poetry With Children in the Library (American Library Association, 2006) and Poetry People: A Practical Guide to Children's Poets (Libraries Unlimited, 2007). On this episode of Chatting About Books, Dr. Vardell shares some ideas on how to approach poetry books with children. Check out Sylvia's Poetry for Children blog for even more ideas about engaging children with poetry.


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Foo Fighters Frontman Dave Grohl Welcomes Third Daughter, Loses His Father
This month has brought both wonderful and tragic events to Dave Grohl and his family. The rocker's wife, Jordyn, gave birth to the couple's third daughter on Aug. 1, but on Aug. 6 the Foo Fighters frontman's father, James, passed away at the age of 75.
Dave and Jordyn named their third daughter Ophelia. She joins older sisters Violet, 8, and Harper, 5. The news of Ophelia's birth was quietly posted on the Facebook page of the David Grohl Alley Scholarship Program. Us Weekly then confirmed the Aug. 1 birth date.
Meanwhile, Dave's father, James Grohl, died after a battle with cancer. He was a respected journalist whose career spanned many years. His full obituary can be seen here.
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is making waves with her new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, which encourages women to step up and take a seat at the conference table. On Good Morning America earlier this week, Sheryl said that the book is about "believing that we can do anything a boy can do."
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It's not hard to forget that the Go-Go's entered the pop music stage with a little snarl to go with their visual allure when they sprang from the Los Angeles punk scene in the early '80s. They toured with the hard-edged ska band Madness and released a demo version of their hit album "Beauty and the Beat" on the iconic British punk label Stiff Records. For many a soul walking around with safety pins decorating their ears, the Go-Go's were a very secret guilty pleasure.
Flash-forward 30 years (30!), and the pleasure is unapologetically out in the open. With the band performing Saturday night at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, it's time to acknowledge the reasons we appreciate the Go-Go's, then and now.
Best-selling: As it says on their website, the Go-Go's are "the most successful female rock group of all time," which sounds like hyperbole, but stands up to scrutiny. Their triple-platinum debut, "Beauty and the Beat," is one of Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time, and the single "Our Lips Are Sealed" made the list of the magazine's 100 best pop songs ever.
Trailblazing: The Go-Go's were inevitably softened as their handlers at IRS Records began to see dollar signs. Which was not entirely a bad thing. Arguably, if not for the Go-Go's there would be no Breeders, Bangles or Bikini Kill, no Vivian Girls or Dixie Chicks. There may have been Josie and the Pussycats, but likely no Pussy Riot.
Fashion forward: Most young women of the early '80s who were taking their fashion cues from pop culture were walking an awkward tightrope between rock and punk and disco and smooth jazz and "Tootsie." The Go-Go's popularized some new ideas on how to match Doc Martens and a peasant dress and pearls. This was a good thing. Recent onscreen appearances show they've still got style.
Belinda, candidly: Belinda Carlisle's 2010 memoir, "Lips Unsealed," was a revelatory account of her demons and drug additions, with one scene in which she is chastised for her cocaine use by John Belushi. Her candor was impressive and instructive.
"Sedated" revived: The tour set list includes the crowd-pleasing "Our Lips Are Sealed," "Head Over Heels" and "We Got the Beat," but also a sly wink to their roots with the Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated."
Starstruck: They are enthusiastic tweeters, where their regular-girl attitude shines through. A recent Twitter shout-out: "Well aalllriighht! @duranduran is our newest follower! That doesn't suck!"
Where their hearts are: The Go-Go's newest project is raising money for K9s for Warriors, which trains shelter rescues to be service dogs for veterans with PTSD and traumatic brain injury. The program gets prominent display at Facebook.com/gogosofficial.
She Jane: For us, Jane Wiedlin has always been the more kookily subversive attraction. She has her serious side, too, and raises money for a variety of charities by selling stage-worn clothes. A new effort includes an eBay auction for a stage-worn Uhura Star Trek costume to benefit breast cancer research. Info: Facebook.com/JaneWiedlin.
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28
Where: Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 NW 40th St.
Cost: The show is sold-out, so check with your favorite secondhand-ticket broker.
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The director of China's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), Wang Yi, has given Taiwan the jitters by suggesting the opening up of the Taiwan Strait median line. Such discussions had always been held behind closed doors and bringing it out into the open challenges the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) policy of avoiding discussion of unification, independence or armed conflict.
The KMT has only itself to blame because it has taken satisfaction in its ability to maintain cross-strait peace since it returned to power last year and it feels it should receive full credit for the international acclaim over the detente across the Taiwan Strait.
However, has the cross-strait crisis ever been that serious? Is the contribution of the KMT to cross-strait relations so remarkable? Why has the government decided to adamantly defend the Taiwan Strait median line?
Beijing has suggested opening the Taiwan Strait median line, a symbol of cross-strait animosity, to air traffic. This move has exposed the true colors of the KMT's policy of avoiding armed conflict and prioritizing cross-strait economic exchanges. It seems the ruling and opposition parties have reached a consensus on defending the median line, and from their and the public's unanimous reaction, it is clear that very few people consider that absence of armed cross-strait conflict is the same as "true peace."
However, the idea that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) must be prevented from taking military action to avoid cross-strait military conflict is built on the premise that the PLA can wantonly engage in military aggression.
It is thus clear that the KMT's policy to avoid armed conflict is essentially a Cold War containment policy. But the Cold War has ended, and the PLA and the Chinese regime are evolving. If the KMT continues to insist on a containment policy, it will only contain Taiwan.
The Taiwanese independence extravaganza put on by high-level government officials to further their own interests under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government never really jeopardized cross-strait peace. The reality is the PLA has never wanted to invade Taiwan, nor does Washington want to fight a proxy war between Taiwan and the PLA. The promotion of Taiwanese independence only provided Beijing with an opportunity to give Washington the impression of being a peacemaker while building its own power and creating the impression that it was cooperating with the US to manage the cross-strait situation.
When President Ma Ying-jeou was forced to define his position, his declaration was never aimed at Beijing and didn't even have anything to do with maintaining cross-strait peace. After all, cross-strait relations have never been under threat since the great powers started watching over the Strait, and the KMT itself can do nothing to change cross-strait peace. Ma's motive was thus simply to show independence supporters the KMT's determination not to abandon Taiwan. In addition, with the opposition spreading rumors about the National Security Council head abandoning arms procurement, the KMT had no choice but to make concessions on the median line issue.
If Taiwan were to declare independence, the median would be the national border. If the KMT had not declared its stance to defend the median line, it would have meant that the party denied the possibility of Taiwanese independence, which would have been tantamount to the KMT destroying its future.
Therefore, consolidating the impression of a war crisis is a KMT strategy to comfort independence advocates. In so doing, the KMT has been given the opportunity to proclaim that it is better qualified to maintain cross-strait peace than the opposition.
The PLA has given up its intention to cross the Taiwan Strait, the KMT has never wanted to provoke its Chinese counterpart, supporters of Taiwanese independence dare not declare war with China, and Washington is far from prepared to go to war.
This is a top national secret with the potential to destroy the government's legitimacy, and it has now been exposed by Wang's proposal to open up the median line.
Shih Chih-yu is a political science professor at National Taiwan University.
Source: Taipei Times - Editorials 2009/07/10
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Cemeteries are more than just places of eternal rest. They can be places of eternal beauty and ongoing life.
Recently, I learned about the Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg, home to my father's family, and its impressive antique rose collection. In May, there's a rose symposium and other horticulture and wildlife events — annual Memorial Day bird walk — you can learn about at http://www.gravegarden.org.
This fall, I learned about similar beauty among Norfolk's cemeteries. About a year ago, the city's Department of Recreation, Parks & Open Space's Bureau of Cemeteries began hosting Tours of Trees at Forest Lawn Cemetery, which was established in 1920. The free tours are led by horticulturist Malinda Potier, and take about 35 to 40 minutes to cover 65 different species of trees at the site.
Instead of focusing on technical information about each tree, Malinda talks about her experiences with the different trees and what methods she uses to keep them healthy. Each visitor is given a tree description guide they can use during the tour and then take home to read.
"Part of giving the Tours of Trees is to bring people into the cemeteries to show them how beautiful they are and educate them on restoration and preservation of cultural artifacts in our historic cemeteries," says Bobette Nelson, cultural resource management public information specialist for the department.
"Elmwood is our 'crown jewel' but Cedar Grove, West Point and Calvary are also historically impressive.
"We have a Bureau of Cemeteries because we are one of the few municipalities in Virginia that own and operate our own cemeteries — eight of them,"
From Granby Street, I recognize Forest Lawn every time I drive that way to get on the interstate ramp across from its entrance. I notice the cemetery in the Ocean View area because its lovely live oaks reach out everywhere, shading old tombstones like arching art in the sky.
Live oak, or Quercus virginiana, is the "southern symbol of strength," according to the Tours of Trees brochure. These evergreen oaks, which are common sights at Fort Monroe in Hampton, grow 65 to 85 feet tall and just about as wide. Wildlife enjoy their sweet acorns, while the strong yellowish-brown wood is used for structural beams.
Other trees at Forest Lawn include Bloodgood London plane with broad, maple-like leaves that are large; it grows in almost any soil and tolerates drought. Chinese fringetree, a nice small tree for home yard, also thrives at Forest Lawn; it grows 15-20 feet tall and 10-15 feet wide and bears white fragrant flowers just as the flowers of dogwoods fade.
The Evodia tree forms flat, white to gray clusters of small white flowers that bees like as a late summer food.
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Bill Gross: Get used to stunted returnsSeptember 5, 2012: 2:07 PM ET
Bond king Bill Gross says it's time for individual investors to get used to a new (and slower) dance.
In his monthly investment outlook letter, the founder of Pimco and manager of the world's largest bond fund, Pimco Total Return Fund (PTTRX), wrote that the age of credit expansion that led to double-digit portfolio returns is over, and the age of inflation has begun.
And that means investment returns from both stocks and bonds will be "stunted," Gross said, highlighting that even investment grade bonds are yielding just 1.75%.
The shift comes as both financial institutions and households continue to go through a deleveraging process after having taken on too much debt. That's resulted in slow economic growth, and in some countries, even recession or depression.
Gross also called out the Federal Reserve and other central banks "for the current shipwreck" that's led to record low interest rates without the economic bounce they were supposed to provide.
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"A lender will not easily lend money to an obese over-indebted borrower -- that much is clear -- but she will also not extend a check when the yield, carry and return on investment is so low that it cannot compensate for historic business model overheads," he wrote. "When yields are too low, and acceptable risk spreads are so narrow that top line interest revenue is increasingly marginalized, then lending is at risk."
In response to low yields, Gross notes that banks have slowed lending activity and in the process, they end up laying off workers, closing bank branches, and ultimately "reduce the rate of lending or credit growth which propelled the global economy so effortlessly over the past century."
Related: Wall Street prepares for more layoffs
In this "New Normal economy," Gross says lenders are dancing to the Blue Danube instead of the Lindy, and investors have to adjust their expectations to match the new tempo.
Against that backdrop, he urges individual investors to diversify their portfolios based on their age. "Own more stocks if you are young, but more bonds if you are in your 60s, like myself," he wrote.
He also warns investors to be cautious of investing fees charged by investment advisors, mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs). If overall returns are between just 3% and 4%, investors cannot afford to give back 100 basis points, especially since inflation "typically provides a headwind, not a tailwind, to securities prices -- both stocks and bonds."
Related: Bill Gross says Paul Ryan not good for bond market
It also doesn't help that investors are likely to remain disenchanted with investing for years, with stock market trading taken over by machines.
Still, Gross encourages investors to "keep on dancin'," but just to watch their step.


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Hi, we're Land Rover. You might remember us as the hard ass SUV company that the Queen used to give accolades about, for it's rugged design and capability. You might also remember us for our abilities in the UK Service, as well as on hunting exhibitions the world over. Perhaps you'll remember that Princess Diana had one of our original Range Rovers.
Anyways, now times have changed, and the 21st century is here. Most recently, we have been softening our vehicles for the average consumer, and we here at LR, think that for the most part, people haven't complained. Profit shares are up, and for the first time in decades, reliability is on the rise. We even have praise from the worlds top motoring program; Top Gear.
Unfortunately however, we have decided to graft on the look of Posh Spice's eye makeup, to every one of our cars headlamps. You see, Posh Spice help to design the Evoque, as well as the concept it was based on, and we are avid fans of her as well (Her boobs are big, what can we say?). For that very reason, and because everyone likes big boobs and fake eye lashes, we have decided to soften the visual side of LR as well, by fitting smooth contoured lines to all the front ends of our product line.
We feel that this will make buyers want to buy our cars even more, because now, not only will they be in style visually, but also reliably and publicly, through the endorsement deal with... you guessed it... Posh Spice.
But don't fret, we're still capable off road, and we're still incredibly luxurious within. The only thing you need to know now, is that we have lost our rugged good looks, and traded them, in favor of some ugly eye shadow and some overdone useless fender vents (which we might add, worked on the older LR's).
Hope you enjoy the new Land Rover, and pick us up a bottle of Krug Clos d'Ambonnay on the way from your L.A. Single Mothers book club please. Thank you.
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So who had an aura - that difficult to define "something" that made a player stand out from the rest?
Ivan Lendl was one - he dominated tennis in the 80s and was regarded as a machine in some quarters - and one that was incredibly tough to beat.
Borg was another - his coolness and tendency to say very little gave him something extra.
Federer is another - during his period of absolute and unchallenged domination from 2004 say to 2006/07 his results were such that I think many lesser players simply didn't believe they could win - they were beaten before they took to the court.
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Out in Nature this week is a paper by three Genomes Unzipped authors reporting 71 new genetic associations with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This breaks the record for the largest number of associations for any common disease, and includes many new and interesting biological insights that you should all go and read about in the paper itself (pay-to-access I'm afraid) or on the Sanger Institute's website.
One thing that we did not discuss in the paper was genetic prediction of IBD (i.e. using the risk variants we have discovered to predict who will or will not develop the disease). In this post I want to outline some of the situations in which we have considered using genetic risk prediction of IBD, and discuss whether any of them would actually work in practice.
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Villa details:
Capacity: 1 Floor. Capacity: 4 people
Number of bedrooms: 2 units
Number of beds: 3 (2 100cm x 200cm + 1 200cm x 200cm)
Bathrooms: 1 unit with shower + water heater
Family room: TV, DVD Player, Karaoke, Speakers active, Wifi, satellite TV, Sofa
The dining room: capacity of 4 seats
Space Kitchen: equipped with a gas stove, rice cooker, aqua 1 gallon, cookware and cutlery
Villa Facilities: Bicycles, racket, ball feet, congklak, chess and children's games, BBQ tools, refrigerator, GENSET used at PLN outages, water toren 1000 liters used when taps dies, CCTV
Villa complex facilities: public pool, Little venice lake, Fantasy Kids Arena (Pay admission)
The villa complex is located at Puncak-West Java, which has long been known as the resting area of Jakarta. You will enjoy the beauty of millions flowers that are in the neighborhood of the villa complex, the cool atmosphere and the view of distant mountains. Together with well maintained, clean and well-equipped facilities that the villa offers will surely not disappoint you.
The highlight of the villa complex is its various types of villa from all around the world with one of the most popular type is the Japanese-style villa with its own uniqueness and beauty. This Japanese-style villa also has the facility a la Japan as well, such as living room-style tatami. This villa is equipped with many other facilities that will make you feel at home staying here.
In order to maintain order, safety and comfort along then please pay attention to the following points :
1.The time of check -in 14:00 pm , check out 12.00 pm . ( if there is no next guest, check out Any excess charged IDR 75,000/hour) . Unless the package Eid , Christmas and New Year
2.Upon check -in , guests are expected to submit a copy of the identity card ( KTP / passport ).
3.Amount of guests ( adults and children ranging in age from 3 years old ) max . 4 ( four ) person , each person in excess of the amount of IDR. 100,000/person/night and extrabed IDR 100,000/unit/night
4.Villa kobe 8 is a family villa . If guests only consist of one man and one woman , then it is required to show ID ORIGINAL both of the guests .
5.Prohibited make noise that can interfere with each other surrounding neighbors
6.Not allowed to bring pets or animals ( dog , cat , etc. )
7.Activity is only allowed to show the late hours of 23:00 pm , loud music is not allowed to blame loud and make noise inside or outside the villa which will disturb neighbors .
8.Prohibited carrying or using illegal drugs , liquor and unlawful acts ( gambling , sexual immorality , etc. )
9.Turn off all electricity , water and other electronic equipment when you leave the villa
10.Save your valuable items including jewelry , money , etc. in the safe place . We are not responsible for any lost
11.Guests are prohibited from damaging the goods ( property ) and the villa must maintain the integrity of the goods / equipment supplied
Rules of Procedure is designed to be implemented for the sake of convenience , order and
the common good . For participating in say Thank You .
This properties availability is unknown, please check the suppliers website .


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WASHINGTON—Covington advised Merck & Co., Inc., in its definitive agreement under which Merck, through a subsidiary, will acquire privately held Peloton Therapeutics, Inc. in exchange for an upfront payment of $1.05 billion in cash. In addition, Peloton shareholders will be eligible to receive a further $1.15 billion contingent upon successful achievement of ...
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LONDON, November 15, 2007 - Covington & Burling LLP is pleased to announce its role in advising Bank of China's London Branch on the transfer of its UK retail and part of its UK corporate banking business (based in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow) to Bank of China (UK) Ltd. Bank of China (UK) Ltd is a newly established UK bank and a wholly-owned ...


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William Allen White once said: "In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life."
Since 1903, we've been teaching journalism. We've also been teaching students to be curious, questioning, hard-working and ethical. KU's William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications was founded on traditional values of journalism education – writing and editing. We're known for that. We also are recognized as one of the most innovative schools in the country. Our curriculum builds on our past and prepares graduates for the challenges of the multimedia world.
Now, we're into our next 100 years of teaching journalism. Our graduates are ready for this new media world. We teach every one of them to think critically. We also teach them to write a news story, shoot and edit video, write a news release and create advertising copy. Our curriculum gives them a chance to try out the many facets of journalism and eventually they focus on either the editorial or the commercial side of media.
You'll find our graduates in Kansas and beyond – way beyond. While Allison Kite covers business for The Kansas City Star, Julie Jacobson travels the globe as an AP photographer. Another of our graduates, Norm Bilow, owns his own advertising agency in Chicago. Wherever they are, they carry the proud traditions of being Jayhawk Journalists.
We want to make sure all our students receive a world-class education. We also want to instill in them a passion for the great art of journalism. We are one of the few top schools of journalism that requires a course in media ethics. We say it's not enough to be graduating highly skilled journalists. We want to make sure that our students understand the critical role they play in society. You will find our graduates in television studios, advertising and public relations agencies, newspaper and magazine offices, and a spectrum of other places. And, we hope that wherever they are, our graduates work with skill, passion and a sense of ethics as journalists and citizens.
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The global uprisings that began with the Arab Spring and more recently the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are indications of growing unhappiness with the state of the world, especially among the younger generation. Americans are finally directing their frustration at the right people—the financial and corporate elites who currently govern the United States and have caused the ongoing crisis. Anger and protests can be effective at bringing the current system into question. But they do little, by themselves, to lead the way to a better future. For that we need a compelling shared vision and a focus on solutions.
In 1776, a group of rebels had such a vision: a government of, by, and for the people. Notwithstanding their rather narrow definition of "the people," this shared vision had profound implications and helped solve some fundamental problems of human well-being—by spreading participation in governance to the population and rewarding intelligence, hard work, and innovation.
In 1945, the fundamental Western problems confronting our leaders concerned rebuilding the nations devastated by the Great Depression and World War II. The vision that emerged from the baby boom generation involved a focus on built capital, economic production and consumption, full employment, and an expanded middle class. The "great acceleration" that began at that time, largely driven by the consumption of oil and other fossil fuels, had profound implications and helped solve some of the significant challenges of the time. But single-minded pursuit of this vision also created a new set of problems.
In 2011, our fundamental problems include the vast gap in incomes within and between nations, the ecological limits we are exceeding or approaching (climate change, biodiversity loss, etc.), the peaking of global oil production, the deterioration of natural and social capital, and the consequent threats to human well-being and sustainability that all of these imply. What we need now is a new vision and a generational commitment to finding real solutions. The "Solutions Generation" needs to think outside the box to create a vision of a better, more sustainable world for themselves and their children. They will have to design new technologies, new institutions, and new societal norms in order to get there,1 including new political and economic systems that can create shared prosperity without increasing demands on a finite environment.
This cannot be a top-down corporate or government vision. It must be built and it must be shared. If anything, it will be "bottom-down" decision making—an approach that reflects the needs of the vast majority of the people, not just the economic elites.
Probably the most important element of this new vision will be a refocus on the goal of sustainable human well-being instead of maximizing conventional economic production and consumption (GDP). In 1945, GDP was the limiting factor to improving well-being. Now we know that continued global growth in production and consumption in the developed countries is not sustainable. It is also not desirable in that it provides only marginal improvements to societal well-being in the rich countries. As many have noted, including Tim Jackson2 and the Sarkozy Commission headed by Joseph Stiglitz,3 GDP is fatally flawed as a measure of progress, and we desperately need new measures of well-being. We know from both the latest psychological research and from ancient wisdom that well-being and happiness depend on the appropriate balance of assets and opportunities. These include those supplied by marketed goods and services but also those supplied by social and natural capital. It is clear, for example, from the work of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett,4 that countries with big income gaps have higher rates of a range of social problems, from crime to imprisonment to shorter lifespans. The existence of greater income gaps makes building social capital harder, and that ultimately leads to lower societal well-being. Likewise, it is clear that natural capital provides a range of ecosystem services that are hugely important but largely unrecognized contributors to sustainable human well-being.5,6 These services include everything from maintaining a stable climate to producing soil and water to providing spectacular and inspiring views.
We will have to create a new vision of societal goals and the technical and institutional solutions necessary to achieve them. This vision will involve a better understanding of what actually contributes to human well-being and sustainability. It is a huge challenge that will require a generation to accomplish—the Solutions Generation.
Many groups and communities around the world are already involved in building this vision and developing real solutions. There are far too many to list, but here are a few:
- Transition town movement, www.transitionnetwork.org
- Great Transition Initiative, www.gtinitiative.org
- Wiser Earth, www.wiserearth.org
- Center for a New American Dream, www.newdream.org
- Portland, Oregon, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm
- Sustainable Cities International, sustainablecities.net
It might be worth pointing out, in closing, that nature operates with a subtle dynamic between competition and cooperation. In "empty world" times of resource abundance, competition is favored. The great acceleration powered by abundant fossil fuels favored individualism, competition, and greed-based capitalism. The coming "full world" will favor cooperation and networking. We can now, as a global society, communicate, network, and cooperate as never before in the history of the planet. It will be the great work of the Solutions Generation—Gen S—to use this new capacity to envision and build a better, more sustainable, just, and prosperous society within the planetary boundaries of earth.


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Micro devices have always suffered from a limited resource set, but as technology gets cheaper and smaller, what is considered small in 2012 is much different from what was considered small in 2002. Furthermore, with performance improvements in the JVM and modular technologies like OSGi allowing applications to load and respond faster, Oracle has found that a wide range of embedded devices are now capable of running more software than ever before.
A new role for the middle tier server
Given this new reality in the mobile and embedded devices space, Oracle has made a bold move by making their Glassfish application server the central part of their new embedded offering, the Oracle Java Embedded Suite. That's right, the middle tier application server that used to reside only behind firewalls in large data centers is now being pushed onto the millions, if not billions, of embedded devices that are flooding the market.
"This is a product which oracle has brought to market to bring value added services for embedded devices," says Georges Saab, Oracle's VP of Development for the Java Platform. "Oracle's Embedded Suite includes a Java runtime which will allow you to run Java applications. It includes JavaDB, a database to allow you to securely store information on your embedded device. It has an application server with a Web profile - the Glassfish server - and finally a framework for hosting and accessing Web services - named Jersey."
At the JavaOne Embedded conference, a wafer thin embedded device that was smaller than a Ritz cracker was loaded up with the Java Embedded Suite. Because the tiny device astonishingly included built-in WiFi support, which is now becoming commonplace, the device was able to perform device to device interactions using both the Jersey support for Web Services and the Web profile of the built-in Glassfish server.
Making embedded development easier
Of course, this type of functionality isn't completely revolutionary. Many companies have made a living building these types of solutions for mobile and embedded devices. What is new is the fact that the solution is being bundled together by Oracle. Organizations no longer have to do the low level plumbing previously needed to get these types of technologies to work properly on an embedded device. "Oracle's Java Embedded Suite reduces risk, facilitates a faster time to market, is more portable between devices and provides a great partner in support,�? says Georges Saab. "By using this solution from Oracle it allows you to focus on that thing that you're doing rather than building all of the plumbing."
With new embedded devices becoming less constrained by memory and processing power, along with the increasing availability of built in networking support, Oracle's new Java Embedded Suite offering, which is optimized and tuned with memory constraints in mind, will ensure that Java will continue to be the dominant programming language for developing applications for the embedded market.


text: lossless cutters for lossy formats. 2018-02-01 23:54:37 I'm looking for a good lossless cutter with suppor for the popular lossy audio codecs, mainly Opus, Vorbis, and AAC.MP3 is well covered by the excelent mp3DirectCut, which marks the standard I'm after, with it's nice visual editor.So far I've been using LosslessCut https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/, which does the job, at least in the technical aspect: That is, it cuts the file correctly as far as I can tell. The problem is that the interface is terrible for cutting audio.The GUI is really meant for video, and, while, being based on FFmpeg, it also supports audio-only files, the position granularity seems to be meant for framesteps, which is not too good for audio. When fed with audio-only, it seems to assume a 60Hz framerate judging by to the rounded up 0.016666~ second steps that it allows. Interestingly, if you click in the positionbar, you may reach a postion that's not aligned to these imaginary frame boundaries, and if you use the framestep buttons from that non-aligned position, it advances the equivalent of 1 frame from that position. I assume that, with a video file, it will maintain frame boundary alignment, but I'm not editing video.Specially aggravating is the fact that you are given a milisecond based timestamp but you can't manually edit those. You have to use the positionbar and the framestep buttons for everything.Resuming, I'm looking for a good lossless cutter for these formats, hopefuly one that will approach the quality of mp3DirectCut.


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Android: Set up Office 365 apps
Thanks to your new Office 365 from GoDaddy account, you're in business productivity utopia. Setting up Office Apps on your Android or Android device is easy! If you have an Online Essentials, Business or Business Premium plan, you will need to download each Office App separately from the Google Play Store. Please visit the following links:
- Microsoft Office Word
- Microsoft Office Excel
- Microsoft Office Outlook
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Depending on how many files and folders you have, it may take several minutes to sync everything. After the sync is complete, you can now access, create, and share all of your documents at your fingertips.
Now that your account is all set up, you can easily share your documents by adding them as an email attachment.
To Share Documents
- Navigate to the Documents List (the little Folder icon).
- Find the document you would like to share, and then click and hold the document.
- On the Select an Action list, click the email application you would like to use.
- In the new message window, type your message, and then click Send.
Note: Sharing documents is only available as an Email attachment.
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Rügen is Germany's largest island. Its 926 square kilometres contain everything you need for a perfect holiday: Baltic beaches as far as the eye can see, unspoilt natural surroundings and luxurious seaside resorts. A dream – in the middle of the Baltic.
Rügen is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and is one of the most popular holiday destinations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Thomas Mann and the German Chancellor Bismarck were both fans of Rügen and its seaside resorts of Binz and Sellin. The height of sophistication at the time, these resorts with their elegant luxury hotels still retain much of their nostalgic charm. Racing Roland is another nod to the past. A narrow gauge railway dating back more than 100 years, it chugs along at 30km/h, carrying holidaymakers to the individual seaside resorts.
In addition to its 60 kilometres of fine, sandy beaches, Rügen has a lot to offer on the scenic-front. This includes the island's large national parks, the famous view of the Rügen chalk cliffs (as painted by Caspar David Friedrich), sleepy fishing villages and elegant manor houses. The white of the cliffs is echoed in Putbus, the oldest seaside resort on the island, whose neo-classical architecture – resplendent in white – is a stylish complement to the beautiful palace and park.
Rügen's superb countryside and coastline can also be explored by bicycle or on a sailing tour. In addition to acclaimed attractions such as Cape Arkona and Granitz hunting lodge, the island is host to the Störtebeker theatre festival, a hugely popular event that draws in more than 100,000 spectators every year. The pirate-themed plays are performed in a unique open-air setting on the shore of the Great Jasmund Lagoon in Ralswiek.
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Broken sewer line threatens Spillway Road
Emergency repairs underway in Ridgeland
A broken sewer line is threatening a major road in Ridgeland on Thursday.
City crews found the bad line under Spillway Road at Lake Harbour last week.
It's a sewer line that serves tens of thousands of homes in Madison County, but crews found it was in need of emergency repairs.
"When you have a hostile environment like sewer gases in the pipe, it causes it to break down," Ridgeland Public Works Director Mike McCollum said.
Officials said Spillway Road is one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city.
"Of course, if that caves in, you have failure of Spillway Road, and so we wanted to make sure we prevent that," McCollum said.
McCollum said the city had to act fast to keep Spillway Road from collapsing where the broken pipe sits.
It's a similar problem slowing traffic down on Old Canton Road in Jackson. A sinkhole opened up there where the road collapsed on a broken sewer line.
In Ridgeland, they hope they can get the problem fixed before it snarls traffic.
"We wanted to make sure that road stays open any way possible," McCollum said.
The city of Ridgeland said repairing the line will cost about $150,000. Work is expected to take about two weeks.


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It's as if Tammy 2's ears were ringing! Just as Ron Swanson has found a possible new love interest, she comes back to Parks and Recreation!
Megan Mullally will reprise her role as the second ex-wife of Ron (Nick Offerman) in this season's ninth episode, fittingly titled "Ron and Diane," TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Tammy will once again stir up trouble for Ron, who has only recently started a possible fling with Pawnee citizen Diane (Lucy Lawless).
Parks and Rec Video: Ron finds love with someone not named Tammy in Lucy Lawless
Beginning in Season 2, Parks started an annual tradition featuring Ron's eccentric ex-wives, beginning with "Ron and Tammy," followed by "Ron and Tammy: Part Two" in Season 3, and "Ron and Tammys" in Season 4, in which his first ex-wife Tammy (Patricia Clarkson) and his mother Tammy (Paula Pell) came to town.
Best known for playing Karen Walker on Will & Grace, Mullally, who's married to Offerman in real life, has recently appeared on Happy Endings, Party Down and Childrens Hospital.
Parks and Recreation airs Thursdays at 9:30/8:30c on NBC.


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If you "intendo" to get serious-o with your significant other, then you might want to present her with this Nintendo Controller promise ring. Fancy gems? Check. Unique design? Check. Gamer-approved? Check, check, and check!
The ring was designed by Paul Michael Designs, who have cleverly dubbed their design as the "Intendo." With gemstone buttons, a gold D-Pad, and silver "wire" that goes round and round your lovely lady's finger, I doubt she'd turn you down. Just make sure you follow through and go for the ultimate level-up in your relationship: marriage.
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The subject of money, or rather the lack thereof came up tonight when my daughter and her partner asked if we could help them out with giving them some gas money so they can get to work. As we continued to discuss the point, I became increasingly aware of the FAMILIar and dull pain located within my upper back between my shoulder blades. The pain, which had remained silent for most of the day, began to slowly radiate in a straight line through and into my chest area. Before, when my daughter has asked me for money I reacted and so this is a point I'm aware of and have been applying self-forgiveness for. It's very interesting when the pain starts, because it's like my physical body is giving me an alert to assist myself to focus on my breathing.
Continuing here further with self-forgiveness and self-commitment statements to thus move myself through this point in self-corrective application.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to exist within a point of anxiety and dread where I fear that when my daughter asks me for money that I will react in irritation and ultimately regret and within this, I see, realize and understand that my reaction is coming from a pattern as a memory/construct within my mind according to how our relationship used to be, thus I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to exist within and as a memory/construct/habit that is actually only real because I keep accepting, allowing and thus making it real.
I commit myself to stop this pattern of my mind that I have given permission for.
I commit myself to releasing the control I have given myself permission for within my mind with regards to how I have accepted and allowed the idea and the mere mention of money to seize and control me through fear, because I see, realize and understand that when I focus on breathing and remain in awareness of who I am in self-honesty then I am able to stand stable and move myself and make decisions according to what's best for all.
I commit myself to see, realize and understand who I am capable of becoming free from the impulse within my mind to over react to the subject of money, to direct myself to change the nature of who I've been within the fear of my mind being in control of me, and to instead see, realize and understand that I Decide who I am, and I Choose to Stand Stable, Equal to and one in an agreement to change the inner me to one that will ultimately manifest my outer world according to what's best for all.
I commit myself to move this point through in self-corrective application according to living as an example of how relationships can be transformed into and as agreements through self directing self walking according to what's best for all.
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...to Dody Williams Her story "Baba" will be published in the February issue of Read This Magazine. Read This Magazine is a literary magazine associated with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The editor, Claire Askew, wrote the following about Dody's story: "We were very impressed by "Baba"- it was not only skillfully written but very moving-beautifully done, a gread read. I hope you'll continue writing, and maybe submit to us again in the future!"