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Roger and Pre: Those Were the Days, McNamee (He Thought Palm Would Always Be)
Given all that has happened to the once promising Palm mobile platform this week, via the strategery machinating of its current owner Hewlett-Packard, it is long past time for a good laugh.
Ergo, Silicon Valley venture capitalist and pundit Roger McNamee, who always provides.
(He's shown in the above photo pointing out the most excellent lady feature — a mirror, cuz us gals like to take a gander at our lipstick now and again — of the Palm Pre).
Mirror notwithstanding, here is the spoof video done by McNamee and former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, which was shown before their introduction to the stage at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference in 2009.
In it, they are trying to figure out the right marketing message for the new Palm Pre, hindered only by McNamee's penchant for telling tall tales about technology.
It is very, very funny and but a wee taste of a time of hope for the innovative mobile operating system. As everyone knows now, HP kicked Palm's webOS to the curb earlier this week.
Along with the mock commercial — which remains better than Palm ever did seriously — is the full video of the interview the pair gave at D7 and also Rubinstein's solo stage appearance at D@CES in early 2010, in which he talks about not using an Apple iPhone.
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Sunday September 27, 2020
Case of the Week
Lucky Lucy Lindstrom's Flood Recovery Plan
Case:Lucky Lucy Lindstrom finished college and headed west. She started as a financial analyst with a large company in Seattle. After just four years, she became a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and began advising clients. Lucy also managed her own investments. With her keen insight into financial markets, Lucy soon began to move from traditional stocks and bonds into futures and commodities markets. Lucy was so successful in these markets that she now only manages her own large personal portfolio. Somewhat late in life, Lucy discovered the wonderful world of philanthropy. She volunteered at her favorite charity and has learned that giving someone in need a helping hand is even more gratifying than making another million in the futures market. After reading in her favorite charity's weekly enewsletter about the need for housing in a low-income area that had been destroyed by a flood, Lucy called Clara Johnson, the charity's gift planner.
Lucy had invested $1,000,000 in stock in a Canadian oil "wildcatter" with the name Northern Long Shot, Inc. This company has been drilling new exploratory wells in the far north. Recently, the stock rose from the $1 per share that she paid to over $5 per share. Lucy thinks that this stock should be sold as soon as possible, but she would like to receive a deduction this year. In addition, she thought that the $5,000,000 could be placed in a private foundation to make loans to low-income individuals who otherwise could not afford to rebuild their homes. Since she wanted to have direct influence over the program, Lucy called her attorney Susan White to discuss a potential major gift to a private foundation for low-income housing loans.
Question:Would this plan work? Can the private foundation receive the gift and sell the Northern Long Shot, Inc. stock? May the funds be used for the low-income housing loans? Is there a better plan?
Solution:There are several potential issues with Lucy's plan. First, a private foundation could receive the Northern Long Shot stock and immediately sell the stock. The cash would then be available for the low-income housing loans.
However, the private foundation must consider the Sec. 4944 rules on investments that jeopardize the charitable interest. Sec. 4944 imposes a tax on investments that jeopardize the carrying out of any of the exempt purposes of a private foundation. Regulation 53.4944-1(a)(2)(i) states that an investment shall be considered jeopardizing if the foundation managers have failed to exercise ordinary business care and prudence under the facts and circumstances prevailing at the time the investment is made. Since the loans will be quite risky and some low-income homeowners are at a higher risk of default, will these loans be permitted?
Since the loans are related to the private foundation's exempt purpose, this program is permissible. It passes both requirements for a program-related investment. First, the primary purpose of the investment must be to accomplish one or more of the purposes described in Sec. 170(c)(2)(B). Here, the primary purpose of the loans is to combat community deterioration in a manner that is considered charitable within the meaning of Sec. 501(c)(3). Thus, such loans accomplish a purpose described in Sec. 170(c)(2)(B).
Second, the loans must not have the production of income or the appreciation of property as a significant purpose. The funds invested by the private foundation will be used to provide financing for low-income persons and will not produce major income or appreciation.
Lucy decided to fund the private foundation. With $5,000,000 in funding, many low-income persons are now rebuilding both their homes and their shattered lives.
Previous Articles
Lucky Lucy's Foundation Goes Public
Lucky Lucy Pays Tax on "Northern Long Shot" Foundation Income
Lucky Lucy Asks If 'Northern Long Shot' Can Lobby
Lucky Lucy Lindstrom's "Northern Long Shot" Charity Diversifies


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Deus Ex: Human Revolution review
Since the introduction of the Mass Effect series, many games have tried to provide a more interactive experience by giving choices to players which have consequences to later stages of the games. Some have succeeded in this while others have failed, but none have done it quite as well as Dues Ex: Human Revolution.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the third chapter in the Deus Ex series, and the prequel to the original game. Set in the year 2027, the story follows the life of Adam Jensen, head of security to the biotechnology corporation Sarif Industries. In this world, mankind is on the brink of allowing robotic implants to be grafted on people, effectively making them "more than human", and society is torn between those who support the idea and those who are against it.
The story is compelling as it is convincing, and the voice actors and writing give so much depth to the characters that you absolutely feel for them when something breaking occurs in the game.
But many games have excellent writing, and what sets this game apart from others is in the massive amount of choice which is allowed to the player. You can play as a spy, quietly moving through the corridors, or you can go all out in a combat build. What's more, the dialogue options with the bosses of the areas are intriguing as well, giving you the ability to convince others into giving up, or provoking them into a fight.
The graphics in the game are excellent as well. Utilizing a sandbox experience, you can roam around freely in the many cities of Deus Ex, and the setting is very accurately portrayed to give players an immersive feel while playing. This is the type of game which sucks you into it so well that you end up playing into the wee hours of the morning, only stopping because you absolutely have to go to work the next day.
If you're looking for a great game to play while 30 hours of your life away, there is no other game which can provide as rewarding an experience as Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Give it a go, and I guarantee you that you'll be unable to put it down!
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According to Die Burger newspaper, security guards found Anene Booysen (17) in an industrial area of Bredasdorp in the Southern Cape on Saturday morning. She had been gang-raped and mutilated.
She was taken to Tygerberg Hospital where she died on Saturday evening, but not before she named one of her assailants, Captain FC van Wyk told the Cape Argus.
"We cannot let another girl or woman suffer like 17-year-old Anene Booysen," spokesperson Troy Martens said on Wednesday.
A hospital source told the newspaper her injuries were too horrific to describe.
"We commend her for her bravery and for identifying one of her attackers before she succumbed to her terrible injuries. We are confident police will work tirelessly to find her other attackers and ensure justice is served."
A 22-year-old man appeared in the Bredasdorp Magistrate's Court on Tuesday on charges of rape and murder, the Cape Argus reported.
The case was postponed until February 12. The man remains in custody. Police are searching for his accomplices.
Martens said the community needed to help the authorities ensure that these "despicable" characters faced the full might of the law. "Rapists need to know that no one in [a] moral society will protect them once they have committed such a heinous crime," she said. – Sapa


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Portland, Ore. -- (Portland Tribune) Don't look now, but it appears as if the Trail Blazers might be coming together at just the right time.
Portland's trending in the right direction continued with its easier-than-it-sounds 105-98 victory over Memphis Sunday night at the Moda, Center.
It was the third straight victory for the Blazers (48-27), who strengthened their hold on the No. 5 position in the NBA's Western Conference playoff race. Portland leads No. 6 Golden State -- which fell to the New York Knicks at home Sunday night -- by two games.
"Not a bad day at the office," said Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge, figuratively whistling as he sauntered to the showers after a 28-point performance.
Portland shot .520 from the field, displayed solid defense through most of the game and continued the forceful play it had showed in victories over Atlanta and Chicago to end the team's recent five-game road trip.
"We've successively ratcheted it up these last three games," said center Robin Lopez, who contributed nine points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots. "Hopefully, that will continue going forward, because it's just going to get more intense."
The Grizzlies (43-30) had beaten Portland handily in the teams' previous two meetings and entered Sunday night hoping to pick up ground in the tight back end of the West playoff hunt. The Blazers established themselves early, though, using a 16-4 run to start the second quarter to seize a 41-29 lead. They were in front 57-45 at the half and 91-70 early in the fourth quarter.
Memphis made a belated run, closing to within 103-98 with 6.9 seconds to go. It was too little, too late.
"I like how we're playing," Portland coach Terry Stotts said. "I liked our mindset tonight. I liked our focus from beginning to end. Except for a few loose possessions, we were locked in at both ends of the court."
Aldridge was the leader, sinking 10 of 20 shots from the field and 8 of 8 at the foul line. It was his third game after missing the previous seven with a sore back. It's no coincidence the Blazers have rebounded from an eight-losses-in-11-games streak with the return of their All-Star power forward.
"L.A. coming back has brought us back to what we do, and how we do it," said guard Mo Williams, who scored 17 points on 7-for-9 shooting for the Blazers.
"He's their horse," said Zach Randolph, who led Memphis with 21 points. "He's what makes them go. Any time you have LaMarcus, your best player, out there, it makes a difference."
Said Stotts: "L.A. being back makes a big difference for everybody. ... having him back has reinvigorated some people."
Though the Blazers were only 5 for 15 from 3-point range, they got plenty of open scoring opportunities from around the perimeter, many of them because of Memphis' focus defending Aldridge.
"At any point and time, we can go to the block," said Wesley Matthews, who contributed 15 points and five assists. "He's going to make something happen. Or he might command a double-team, so we get an open shot on the back side. If they play him one-on-one, we like those odds."
Aldridge took a tumble in the final minute when tripped by Memphis' Marc Gasol after a shot attempt. Aldridge looked gimpy as he ran downcourt but stayed in the game.
"Hit me right on the sore spot," Aldridge said afterward. "It hurt. It's why I iced it for a long time after the game."
Everything about Sunday's result was a good sign for the Blazers, at just the right time.
"It's not about a statement game, but I like more the process of how we've gotten better the last three games," Stotts said.
"We're having fun," said Nicolas Batum, who contributed 10 points, six assists and five rebounds. "Now it's time to win more games. The playoffs are in two weeks. We have to be ready. Just seven games left. That's it."
"I like where we're headed," Matthews said. "We're not content by any means, but our focus is where it needs to be. We're finally playing with that urgency. We came off two good wins, and we came out and took care of business tonight.
"We have L.A. back. That's what makes us a top team in the West, that guy right there. Guys are stepping it up. Our energy is back."
NOTES: Portland's next action is Tuesday night against the L.A. Lakers at Staples Center. ... Williams and Thomas Robinson provided a big lift off the bench for Portland, combining to score 25 points on 11-for-13 shooting -- 9 for 9 in the first half. Williams has made 17 of 27 shots and scored 43 points in the last three games. "All year long, when he's scored, that's been a bonus for us," Stotts said. "He leads the league in assists off the bench. He's had three good games in a row, but he's been pretty good all year for us." ... Matthews was 5 for 5 at the free-throw line, running his streak of consecutive makes to 36. That ranks sixth for the Blazers over the last 10 years, the best being Damon Stoudamire's 57 in a row in 2005. ... Aldridge was 10 for 20 from the field, shooting 50 percent in a complete game for the first time since Feb. 12. ... Portland's Damian Lillard scored all 13 of his points in the second half. ... It was the most points scored against the Grizzlies in the month of March. ... The Blazers have five of seven remaining games at home, with one-game trips to face the Lakers and Utah.
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Rabbi at Posen; died between 1710 and 1716. He was the author of "Maẓref la-Kesef" (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1681), containing extracts from and an index to the "Shene Luḥot ha-Berit" ("SHeLaH") of Isaiah Horowitz, with two appendixes, one entitled "Kur la-Zahab" and giving extracts from Gabirol's "Mibḥar ha-Peninim," and the other entitled "Teshubot Shib'im Zeḳenim" and containing maxims. A separate edition of the "Kur la-Zahab" was published at Offenbach in 1710, and in 1716 it was printed with the "Teshubot Shib'im Zeḳenim."
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2013 LA Craft Beer Crawl - NOW TWO DAYS!
213 Hospitality & The Beer Chicks
Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 1:00 PM - Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 1:00 PM (PDT)
This year the LA Craft Beer Crawl Returns for its 4th year, bigger and better than ever and a full 2 days long!
This event WILL sell out so get your tickets now!
Interested in Volunteering? We are now only taking submission to volunteer on Sunday. Click HERE
The Craft Beer Lovers Event of the Summer!
The fourth annual LA Craft Beer Crawl takes place on Saturday August 10th and Sunday August 11th benefiting the "Heal the Bay" charity. Attendees will have over 100 craft beers to sample across seven different bars and restaurants all within close proximity in Downtown Los Angeles. The event is a collaboration between 213 and Hallie Beaune and Christina Perozzi also known as "The Beer Chicks." The beer selection will be curated by The Beer Chicks. The event will feature some of the top Craft and Artisanal Brewers in the Country!
The LA Craft Beer Crawl is also proud to have a delectable list of food trucks to be stationed along the crawl route.
A portion of the proceeds will go to "Heal the Bay." A non-profit organization dedicated to making Southern California waters healthy, safe, and clean. Heal the Bay uses research, education, community action and advocacy to improve the quality and health of oceans, watersheds and neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County. Their policy work also benefits beach lovers throughout the state.
1) Choose which day you want to go and if you would like the General Admission Ticket or Early Admission ticket. The regular hours of the event are from 3 to 7pm. The Early Admission ticket gains you entry into the festival at 1pm. Only a limited number of these tickets will be sold so you will be able to enjoy the festival more intimately as well as enjoy more exlcusive beers. If you want to go to both days, choose the multi-day Early Admission pass for best value.
2) Print out your tickets and bring them to Casey's Irish Pub (613 S. Grand) to check in, recieve your tasting glass and wristband.
3) Present your ticket to get scanned at the check in points, and also your ID to prove you are 21 and over. You will then recieve your own personal 6oz real glass tasting glass that you will keep all day along with a map showing what beers are located at what bars and how to get to each of them.
4) Plan out your route by location or by importantce of what breweries you want to enjoy. Dont forget to check out the food trucks along the way!
5) Enjoy the rest of the day bouncing between bars and sampling the huge array of rare and special beers, along with some of your old time favorites.
6) All the bars will open to the public right at 7 so feel free to stick around.
7) Get home safely! Plan ahead by taking a cab or the metro, the red line takes you right to the center of the crawl route!
Make a weekend of it and stay the night! Book your hotel room at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel and you are entitled to a discounted rate of $129 + tax. The Biltmore is located just blocks from the check in area at Casey's. Guests can call reservation direct for booking at 213.612.1575 (mention code: 1308LABEER / LA Craft Beer Crawl). Please call during office hours (8am to 6pm). Call center after hours does not have access to the exclusive group rates…thank you
213 Hospitality, the first nightlife developer to stake a claim in Historic Downtown Los Angeles, has created thirteen distinctive bars set in re-imagined architectural gems, increasing your nocturnal wanderlust and entertainment possibilities.
Seven Grand, a premium whiskey bar built from the bones of the landmark Brock & Co. Jewelers building. Cole's, Originators of the French Dip, celebrated century old landmark saloon and home of the Red Car Bar and acclaimed classic cocktail outpost. The Varnish, voted Best American Cocktail Bar. Golden Gopher, a laid-back luxe lounge featuring vintage video games, a jukebox pumping with cuts from Muddy Waters to X, and liquor-to-go. Broadway Bar, a glamorous, 40s inspired, multi-tiered cocktail lounge. Casey's Irish Pub, a treasured Irish tap serving traditional pub fare and the West's largest selection of Irish whiskies & pints. Tony's Saloon, serving the deepest spirits list in the Arts District. Las Perlas, the country's first artisan-crafted tequila and premium mezcal bar. Caña Rum Bar, a membership cocktail bar just steps from Staples Center in the freshly minted South Park neighborhood. Honeycut, the only craft cocktail bar in Los Angeles with a light up disco dance floor! Normandie Club, a damn fine hotel bar. The Walker Inn, a 27 seat omakase style bar. Arts District Brewing Compnay, a 15 barrel brew house in the heart of the Arts Distric.
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In honor of the Dallas Cowboys wide receivers, we have decided to rename this normally-lame fourth day of the work week, "Keepin' It Real Thursday." I try to keep it real seven days a week, but sometimes it just doesn't work. On Monday, for instance, I was back in Wauwatosa was keepin' it as real as I know how. But I stopped concentrating for a few minutes and before I knew what was happening it was unreal, or fake. That can be scary, especially when you're used to keepin' it real without much effort. Thankfully, it didn't take long for me to bring it back to real, but those kind of lapses can be very worrisome.
We learn from Dallascowboys.com that:
Every Thursday is confidential "Keep It Real Thursday" at Valley Ranch, where the receivers spend five or 10 minutes airing anything that's on their minds. "You can't forget we're people, too," rookie Isaiah Stanback said.
We won't, Isaiah. We won't.
So what's on my mind? My morning commute. Today I left my house at 6:00 AM. As I drove into Washington, DC, I passed probably two dozen people talking on their cell phones. And I always wonder: Who in the hell are they talking to? Do they all have friends in Europe? (Doubtful) Are they talking about a Sausage McMuffin with Egg? (Judging from their size, more likely.) Or maybe they, too, knew it was Keepin' it Real Thursday (KRT) and just had to spend five or ten minutes airing whatever was on their minds.
They're people, too.
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Although some may feel that it is preferable not to know if Mr. Lippert is the biological father of your child, we believe the knowledge of biological heritage is essential to avoid half-siblings who may be living in the same communities potentially engaging in romantic relationships, as well as for family medical history.
Thomas Lippert worked at the fertility clinic from 1986-1997 or 1998, but began donations in 1983. It is possible that his sperm sample was exchanged with other intended fathers' samples and/or was frozen under other names and used after this time.
For more information, details can be found here or please contact email@example.com .
|Thomas Lippert as a young man
|Tom Lippert as he looked while working at the clinic
**Update 2/25/14: We have now confirmed that Thomas Lippert was a popular "approved" sperm donor, Donor #044, with donations beginning in 1983. In addition to being used hundreds of times in Salt Lake City, his sperm was regularly shipped to Dr. Urry's Minnesota fertility clinic and, on occasion, to other states. This greatly increases the likelihood of two or more of the hundreds of young adults who were fathered by Tom meeting and developing a relationship.
He was described in a 1991 donor profile as an attorney with 24 years of schooling. Blond with blue eyes, 5'11 and 190 lbs, O negative blood type with German heritage. Hobbies include: traveling, sports, music and videography. In 1983 he was described similarly, but instead of an attorney, he was listed as a TA (teacher's assistant) and grad student with more than ten years of education. Interests include: stamp collecting, medicine and sports.
Dr. Urry's former office manager who was familiar with the success of Tom's donations confirmed that Tom could easily have hundreds of children, including many at Dr. Urry's Minnesota clinic, and the University of Utah's own spokesperson admitted that thousands of families could be affected.
If any families discover that they are indeed affected by Tom's actions and wish to bring legal action against the university, please be advised that legal action must be commenced within one year of discovery.
**Update 4/12/18 - The photo of the unidentified boy has been identified and removed.


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Obstacle Course
Create a course and give each other instructions.
- Target Age: 4-7
- Learning Goals: vocabulary, oral language development, physical & motor skills
- Related Episode: Martha's Fails the Course, Truman on the Ball
Target Words
around, behind, directions, follow, in front, in, inside, on top, over, through, under
- chairs, stools, cardboard boxes, pillows, or Hula Hoops
- anything else you have to make an obstacle course
First create an obstacle course. It could be indoors or outdoors, and as long or short as you like. Include objects you can climb over orunder, stand on top of, walk around, or crawl through. You and your child may want to give silly names to each obstacle. Walk the route together, discussing the directions for moving around, over, under, behind, in front of, or through each obstacle.
Take turns "running" the course. The onlookers will shout encouragement, reminding the runner what to do at each obstacle, for example:
- Gallop around the tree.
- Hop over the rope.
- Crawl through the cardboard tunnel.
- Stand on top of the rock and sing "Happy birthday to me."
- We're Going on a Lion Hunt by David Axtell
Two African sisters navigate many obstacles to find a lion and get back home again in this variation on a classic chant.
- Unplugged Play: No Batteries. No Plugs. Pure Fun. by Bobbi Connor
Geared towards parents, this collection contains hundreds of fun games to build children's bodies, creativity, and imagination.
- Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
Follow fox as he follows Rosie the chicken on a walk that turns into an obstacle course.


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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) Technology is making it harder and harder to tell real life from special effects, all thanks to technology being developed at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).
If you've seen blockbusters like King Kong, Benjamin Button or Avatar then you've seen ICT's Light Stage in action.
"It's a full sphere with multiple LED lights that are used to control the illumination on an actor's face," said Abhijeet Ghosh, research professor at ICT's graphics lab.
The stage has evolved throughout the years, it started out as just a single arc rotating around an actor.
Now, it's a sphere with 346 lights inside that can capture even the smallest details on an actor's face, down to the wrinkles and pores.
"The main idea is to capture the facial appearance as realistically as possible so as to put them in computer graphics simulations and recreate those faces in computer graphics applications," Ghosh said.
The sphere allows computers to see how light falls on human skin, something that is not easily reproducible in the digital world. Then, the images turn human actors, digital.
The technology is great for movies, and maybe even more.
"Being a researcher, I'm primarily concerned with the technology from a scientific perspective," said Ghosh. "But even being able to see its applications in the entertainment industry and even possibly in medical imaging… that's exciting."
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The EAF Tools Database provides access to descriptions of all the tools that have been identified that could assist facilitators, managers and planners move through each of the four steps required for the adoption of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) into their management plans in an efficient and effective manner. Each of these tool fact sheets includes an overview description of how the tool works along with information that can assist whether it will be the most appropriate tool for use within a specific fishery.
These criteria include the cost, what background information and resources and capacity are required to use the tool effectively, stakeholder participation it will generate plus user tips on when the tool is likely to work well or not. Because the EAF Toolbox is largely focused at assisting fishery planning in developing countries, the information provided on more complex or expensive methods and tools is generally less detailed than is provided for the simpler methods.
While some of the tools are specific to fisheries management planning, many cover general planning activities, consultation and facilitation which would be relevant to any planning and implementation process. [more...]


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Google has been experimenting with letting users reorder and remove search results. This may seem strange if you think that Google cares a lot about algorithmically ranking search results. The new options allow you to promote some of the results at the top of the page, hide the results you think are not relevant and add new web pages that are missing from Google's results. These changes are saved in your Google account and only influence your results. For now, the users who see the experimental feature are randomly selected.
These new personalization options can be partly recreated using a custom search engine. You can build a custom search engine for the entire web, that should include all the sites from Google's index. Every time you find web pages or web sites that are not very useful, but have good rankings, you can edit the search engine and them to the exclusion list.
To promote search results, check this option in the custom search engine's settings: "Add my Subscribed Link to this Custom Search Engine". Then create subscribed links for some of the terms you search often. Alternatively, you could use Google Spreadsheets to define a list of subscribed links. The subscribed links are also included if you use Google's standard search engine, but they're displayed after the third search result.


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This recipe has got to be my all-time Holiday favorite. I remember eating piece after piece of this when I was a kid. My Grandmother (Dad's Mom) made this (and a lot of it) each Holiday season. I finally asked for the recipe last winter and started to make it myself. I was a little intimidated by the fact that I needed to use a candy thermometer. I didn't have one, so I used an instant read meat thermometer. That didn't work so well. The pan of hot bubbly goodness was too hot to hold the thermometer over to see it reach the desired 236 degrees or "soft-ball stage". As you can probably tell, a candy maker I am not. LOL! This year I used a different thermometer, still a meat thermometer, but it is one of those that you can place in and run the wire outside of the oven and it fit nicely in the pan, without my holding it there, and then I set the temperature alarm to go off when it hit 236. Much easier.
Remarkable Fudge (Grandma Turner)
4 cups sugar
1 cup butter (1/2 pound)
1 ½ cups evaporated milk
Cook above in buttered, heavy 3 qt saucepan to soft-ball stage (236 degrees) stirring frequently. Add:
1 12 oz bag milk chocolate morsels.
1 pt. Marshmallow crème (2 small containers, 7 oz each)
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup walnuts or pecans (I omitted)
Beat until well blended. Pour into 13 x 9.5 inch glass baking dish. Score while warm, cut when firm. I freeze some of this and then keep the remainder in the fridge b/c I like it best cold.
Pair this with the Peanut Butter Fudge that I made last week and what more do you need?
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Balloons, always a popular decoration for bar & bat mitzvahs and Sweet 16 parties, are now making their way into wedding decor – from classy and sophisticated to fun and whimsical! You'd be surprised what you can accomplish with just a little creativity. Here are 15 of our favorite ideas for using this old favorite in a new light!
1. Photo Balloons / Balloon Chandelier (Image Above from Swank Productions)
Make your balloons stand out from the bottom up. Attach old pictures of the guest(s) of honor, or any images or decorations that help tell your story or showcase your theme. Use it over your escort table or dessert buffet to add a bit of nostalgia and a whole lot of warmth. Check out Wedding Chicks for DIY Instructions for a Photo Chandelier.
2. Put a Stake in It
Balloon Decorations – Balloons with Golf StakesPhoto via Pretty Geeky
Use Golf Tees to anchor your balloons in the lawn.
3. Illuminated LED Balloons
lluminated LED Balloons, Balloon Artistry
lluminated LED Balloons by Balloon Artistry
LED lights give your balloons a gorgeous glow, like this party done by Balloon Artistry.
Balloon Decor | Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, Sweet 16, Party4. Light The Base
Balloon LED Vases, Light-Up Base
LED Base from Balloon Bouquets of Long Island
Balloon Bouquets of Long Island creates drama with LED light-up vases. The effect creates a wow factor in person and in photos!
5. Lit From Within – Glow Stick Balloons
Glow Stick Balloons, Glowing BalloonPhoto via I Girls Games
Balloons floating overhead that shine with light have an other-worldly quality about them. People will stare and wonder how you did it. It's surprisingly simple. All you need are some Glow Sticks. Lumistick Glow Sticks from Amazon.com are 2 inches long and easily fit inside a balloon. Insert them in your balloon and inflate. They actually create their own ambient lighting.
6. Lace Balloon
Balloon Decorations, Lace BalloonsCreate a gorgeous lace lantern with lace doilies and fabric stiffener using a balloon as your form. Find instructions here.
7. Floating On Air
Balloons Floating over PoolWe all know that helium gas is what causes balloons to float, but it's a whole different effect when you string the balloons with a clear filament like fishing wire. It's as though the balloons were in a state of suspended animation. Anchor the balloons in a pool for a stunning (floating on air) effect. Photo by Elizabeth Messina, Inspired by This.
8. Balloon Art
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Lollipop Balloons & Balloon Candy by Balloon Bouquets of Long Island
It's truly unbelievable what balloon artists can create. Balloon Bouquets of Long Island can shape balloons into just about anything to make your decor fun and intriguing, like these balloon lollipops and candy balloons. They look good enough to eat!
9. Feather Drama
Feather Balloon Centerpieces by Life O' The Party
Feather Balloon Centerpieces by Life O' The Party
Life O' The Party added drama to the table with a centerpiece made from oversized balloons and hot pink feathers.
10. Sparkly Balloon Garland – Bling the String
Sparkle Ribbon, LED Balloon Light-Up RibbonsMake the string as decorative as the balloon itself! LED Light-Up Ribbons from Amazon.com.
Balloon Bling StringsString Bling from Honeysuckle Life.
11. Balloon Topiary
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You don't always have to blow the balloon up. Get creative with a balloon topiary. Check out Ways to WOW Guests with Topiary Centerpieces and Candy Topiaries.
12. Confetti Balloons
Balloon Ideas – Confetti Balloons Perfectly round and so beautiful – these are not your average balloons! Filled with colorful confetti and feathers, each Bonjour Balloon comes with a beautiful hand-crafted string called "tails" that gives the balloon character and charm.
13. Approach things from a New Direction
Balloon Ideas – Inverted BalloonsSure, you can arrange your balloons on a table, but how about suspending them from the ceiling for an interesting twist? Use marbles or pennies to make them hang downward. Photo by Kimberly Jarman, The TomKat Studio.
14. Spell It Out
Name Balloons, Balloon Arch
Name Balloons by Total Party
Spell out the name of the guest of honor with balloons. Total Party LLC creates large-scale balloon sculptures to fill your space and make your event unique.
15. Balloon Exit
Wedding Balloons, Balloon ExitPhoto by Linton Photography Studios
Sparklers have become a standard for the grand exit. But beautiful monochromatic balloons can make a striking and unique photo opp.
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Not only will there be no salary cap, but there is no salary minimum either. Will Tight Ted Thompson strive to have the league's smallest payroll? Hope not.
No ceiling, no floor
4 Responses to "No ceiling, no floor"
Joe Says:
March 5, 2010 at 2:13 pm |
According to Andrew Brandt over at National Football Post, the lack of a floor is a bigger deal than the lack of a ceiling. He expects overall team payrolls to be down across the league.
CSS Says:
March 5, 2010 at 6:02 pm |
So, what unrestricted FA's would you sign (cue crickets)? Every player tendered will be matched. This year's FA class stinks and the feeding frenzy ensuing during the next 48 hours will grossly overpay for aging talent…no thanks.
Do tell, who would you bring in and for what? No offense, but this sounds like casual fan chatter with no stated solution but a broad based criticism.
TheChoj Says:
March 5, 2010 at 9:37 pm |
Cliffy gets 3-year deal. A-Rodg's blindside says "Thaaaaank Youuuuuuu!"
Brady Augustine Says:
March 23, 2010 at 2:30 pm |
I know it is hindsight but this offseason I am glad TT did not sign anyone. Other than Rolle, I don't think any of them would have helped. Brandt did help a lot in looking properly at the uncapped year…he is a great resource.


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The following is a guest post by John Sung Kim, General Manager of DoctorBase, a Kareo Company.
Marketers knew far ahead of CMS and the ONC that certain components of Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2) were simply not attainable. Thankfully, one of the original components of MU2, whereby 5% of a provider's patients have to exchange secure messages, is now being relaxed to the simple ability to have secure messaging as an available option for patients.
When MU2 was first drafted, the original threshold was 10%, which was met with a wave of criticism from vendors, analysts, and providers who pointed out that forcing patients to adopt a new technology was outside of a provider's control.
Yet, even the subsequently reduced 5% goal was difficult to achieve for most organizations, especially smaller independent practices that were dealing with a confluence of changing competitive markets, new billing codes, and mandated technological updates. Any digital marketer with two years of experience running ad campaigns could have told us this would become the case.
There were several marketing related reasons why 5% (or 1 in 20 patients) was simply not achievable for many practices, even with many modern EHR systems:
- Activation Energy: Most patient portals are too difficult to register for. It's a well known marketing rule that the number of fields a user has to fill in to register for a service is inversely proportional to the completion rate. Marketers call the amount of effort that users are required to obtain a desired action on a computer or mobile device the "activation energy." Quite simply, the activation energy required to register for most patient portals is too high.
- The Funnel: The most common way that patients look for the address or phone number of a provider is to enter permutations of the doctor's name in search engines. This is what marketers call the "top of the funnel." If a patient portal is not optimized for search engines (very few are) patients won't enter the funnel, in other words—what can't be seen at the top of a Google search result simply doesn't exist to the patient.
- Call to Action: Any modern digital marketing campaign has a "Call to Action," commonly referred to as a CTA. In healthcare, it's rare that any brochure, office sign, or practice website has a CTA asking patients to engage or interact, and that's a shame since colorful, visible (and often large) buttons directing the user to click have interaction rates that are often on an order of magnitude greater than collateral without a clear CTA.
- Responsive Design: Google recently stated that, "More Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including the US and Japan." This may be what prompted Google to recently start penalizing websites that were not mobile-friendly (deprecating them lower in the search results). Yet, have you seen most patient portal registration pages? Many lack what marketers call a "responsive design," a website whose code can automatically adjust and rearrange its page elements when viewed on a mobile device. Forcing patients to consistently pinch and resize to register for a patient portal is something any marketer would know is destined for failure.
- Email Marketing: Having worked in both digital health and digital marketing, I know how important collecting email addresses of users is, and how poorly most practices actually do this in a routine fashion. A "typical" small or group practice will have no more than 20% to 25% of their patients' email addresses. So when a marketer does the math of registering 5% of their users through emails, the true number becomes much larger. For example, a practice with 20% of their panel with an email address would need a 25% engagement rate—not 5%! That's an incredibly aggressive target, even for the biggest brands and best marketers.
Is it time for the Office of the National Coordinator and CMS to start hiring more marketers?
About John Sung Kim
John Sung Kim is the founder and founding CEO of Five9 (NASDAQ: FIVN) widely recognized as the leading company in the contact center industry. He's acted as a consultant to numerous startups including LGC Wireless (acquired by ADC), Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS), RingCentral (NYSE: RNG), Odesk (merger w/ Elance), 6connect (funded by Hummer Winblad) and M5 Networks (acquired by ShoreTel). Follow him @JohnSungKim.
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ATLANTA— Chris Douglas-Roberts dribbled into the lane and sank a short jumper as time expired, and the Charlotte Bobcats overcame a 15-point deficit in the final period to beat the Atlanta Hawks 95-93 on Monday night.
Al Jefferson had 27 points and 15 rebounds for Charlotte, which remained one game behind Washington in the race for the sixth spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Gary Neal had 17.
Jefferson's turnaround jumper gave the Bobcats a 93-91 lead before Lou Williams answered with a tying jumper for Atlanta with 2.6 seconds remaining.
Following a timeout, Douglas-Roberts penetrated and lobbed the soft jumper as the buzzer sounded.
The Hawks rested starters Kyle Korver, Paul Millsap and DeMarre Carroll. Mike Scott led Atlanta with 20 points. Shelvin Mack and Williams each had 13.
The Hawks' spot as the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference already was set. Jeff Teague, who had 11 points, did not play in the final quarter.
By contrast, Charlotte still had much to play for. The reward for sixth is avoiding Miami in the first round. Washington beat Miami 114-93 on Monday night to protect its hold on sixth and secure first in the conference for Indiana.
Jefferson scored 12 points in the first period and the Bobcats led 15-6 early, but only 26-24 at the end of the period. The Hawks stayed close despite shooting only 2 of 9 from 3-point range in the period. Atlanta took the lead when more outside shots began falling.
Atlanta led 50-44 at halftime and 80-65 entering the final period.
The Bobcats opened the fourth period with a 19-4 run, capped by 14 consecutive points, to pull even at 84. Luke Ridnour had 10 points in the run, including the tying jumper with 6:07 remaining.
Three free throws by Gary Neal gave Charlotte its first lead of the half at 87-86. The Bobcats led 91-86 before Mack's back-to-back baskets — a 3-pointer and short jumper — tied the game at 91.
Kemba Walker had five points and seven assists in his returned for the Bobcats after missing two games with a sore right groin.
NOTES: The Bobcats salvaged one win in the four-game season series. ... Former Turner Entertainment Networks president Steve Koonin was introduced in the day as the Hawks' CEO and co-owner. Koonin will direct business operations and represent the owners in league meetings. ... Jefferson posted his eighth straight double-double. ... A young fan sitting on the front row and wearing a Hawks jersey was bowled over by Charlotte's Anthony Tolliver. The boy appeared to be shaken up but quickly regrouped as he received high-fives and fist-bumps from Hawks players. During a timeout minutes later, he was presented player-sized athletic shoes which were too big to remain in his lap.


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Winter Parking Restrictions
NOTE: Winter Parking Restrictions are not in effect.
Some winters, when we have a large accumulation of snow, the City may put Winter Parking Restrictions into place. When streets are narrowed by large piles of snow along the curb, for public safety reasons, Winter Parking Restrictions are put into place to limit parking to one side of many streets. That way, emergency vehicles and everyone else can continue to get around town. The restrictions prohibit parking on the even numbered side of non-Snow Emergency Routes until April 1, or until City officials announce conditions warrant that they may be lifted.
Winter Parking Restrictions – English flyer (pdf)
Snow Emergencies during Winter Parking Restrictions
If a Snow Emergency is declared while Winter Parking Restrictions are in effect, the Winter Parking Restrictions rules will be temporarily suspended as described here, and Snow Emergency rules will apply. Drivers may start moving their cars off of Snow Emergency routes and on to EITHER side of non-Snow Emergency routes beginning at 4 p.m. on the day the Snow Emergency is declared (Day 1). Winter Parking Restrictions resume again at 8 a.m. the morning following Day 3, when the Snow Emergency comes to an end.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do we need Winter Parking Restrictions?
During some winters, the snow that is plowed up along curbs reaches a point where streets become too narrow for large vehicles to use. Public safety is a concern because fire trucks, ambulances and other emergency vehicles may be slowed or prevented from getting to people who need help. The City may then implement a one-side parking ban on non-Snow Emergency routes for as long as necessary, but no later than April 1. This change in the parking rules is commonly known as "the one side parking ban" and officially called Winter Parking Restrictions.
How is parking affected?
DO NOT park on the even numbered side of non-Snow Emergency routes until April 1, or until City officials announce a lifting of the ban. Vehicles parked where they are not allowed are subject to being ticketed and towed.
Drivers may still park on Snow Emergency routes, parkways and along the odd numbered side of non-Snow Emergency routes, provided a Snow Emergency has not been declared, or unless otherwise posted with signs.
Also, parking will be restricted on the following Snow Emergency routes to make it easier for emergency vehicles and transit buses to use. Follow the posted signs on:
- Bryant Avenue South from Lake Street to 50th Street.
- Grand Avenue South from Lake Street to 48th Street.
How can I find out if Winter Parking Restrictions are in effect?
There are several ways to know if the restrictions are in effect. Go to the City's Web page, tune into the City's cable channels 14 and 79 or call the 24-hour Snow Emergency hotline at 612-348-SNOW. People can also "like" and "follow" Snow Emergency on Facebook and Twitter.
Can I park at metered parking spaces during Winter Parking Restrictions?
Yes. Unless otherwise posted with signs, parking in metered street spaces is allowed.
Who decides if winter Parking Restrictions are needed?
The decision to implement Winter Parking Restrictions is made by the director of the City's Department of Public Works. The director makes the decision based on advice from Public Works staff and public safety officials like the fire chief.
What if there are temporary "No Parking" signs posted?
- Always look for and follow posted "No Parking" signs.
- "No Parking" zones on one-side of street
On some streets that are not Snow Emergency routes, parking is normally allowed on only one-side (odd or even). When Winter Parking Restrictions are in place, revised signs are installed allowing parking to comply with the Winter Parking Restrictions. When there's a Snow Emergency, drivers must follow both the Snow Emergency parking rules and any posted signs.
- "No Parking" zones along schools
Unique parking restrictions exist around many Minneapolis schools. When Winter Parking Restrictions are in effect, parking rule signs will change. For instance:
- Where the ODD side of a street is posted as:
"No Parking 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. School Days",
- the City will change it to:
"No Parking Anytime", and the EVEN side will be posted as
"Parking Permitted Except EVEN Side Plowing Day"
- Where the ODD side of a street is posted as:
- Disability transfer zones – These are parking zones for short-term loading, not long-term parking. These will not be affected by the Winter Parking Restrictions.
- Disability parking zones – Some streets have parking zones specifically for disability parking. In places where the zones are on the EVEN side of a non-Snow Emergency street, the property owner who had the zone put into place may request an exemption to Winter Parking Restrictions by calling 311. These requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
How do I park in areas where permits are required?
- Critical Parking Permits
If you have a permit for a Critical Parking Area, you will still need to follow Winter Parking Restrictions (DO NOT park on EVEN side of non-Snow Emergency routes). Only permit holders are allowed to park on the ODD side of non-Snow Emergency routes within the Critical Parking Area. If ODD side parking does not exist, parking will need to occur on another street.
- Street Use permits (trash bins and storage units)
All Street Use permits must comply with the EVEN side parking ban on non-Snow Emergency routes during Winter Parking Restrictions. If you have a Street Use permit , your trash bin or storage unit will need to be removed from the street until the parking ban has ended.
- Obstruction permits
When Winter Parking Restrictions are in place, all Obstruction permits will be reviewed and those with permits for overnight parking or use of the EVEN side of a street will be told that their permit is not valid during the Winter Parking Restrictions. Any permit holders with questions can call Public Works at the phone number printed on the permit.
Can't find what you want here? Call 311
Call 3-1-1 weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and a 311 agent will help you. If you are outside the Minneapolis city limits or are unable reach 311, call 612-673-3000. For TTY/TDD customers please call 612-673-2157.
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EAST GREENBUSH -- Most students their age are working in a deli, store or convenience store, but Tech Valley High School student Hunter Fortuin and former TVHS student Shane Boland had a much grander idea for income a year ago. They launched their own Internet company. The pair launchedFlitti.com
in 2011 as a social networking platform similar to Facebook, but different in that it offers free items to users through an integrated points and auction system. "The more a user is on the site, the more points they get and the more opportunity they have to receive real world tangible products. We receive the products from business[es] around the country that would like spotlight advertising on our site. It's a win-win for everybody involved," said Fortuin. The duo also runs a web design operation out of Flitti, which offers "affordable web design to those who need websites." Customers of that side of the business also have the option of integrating Flitti's points system into their site, which "gives our users incentive to go to their sites and interact with our design clients." The website, which is currently under reconstruction, may have made it to the big-time in September when Fortuin met Apple Computers Co-founder Steve Wozniak and led him on a tour of TVHS. "I told Steve Wozniak that I had a start-up business and I'd be interested in asking him some questions about Apple's starting days at some point in order to learn a little more. He reacted very positively and gave me his card and told me to get a hold of him when I needed to," said Fortuin. Start-up tests Fortuin said he and Boland launched theFlitti.com
website in the spring as a "beta test." "We ran a beta test of the social networking site from late March into April and received fantastic feedback and results. We turned a small profit during those few weeks and our servers ended up crashing. We decided to do it right and totally code the site from scratch which has taken some time with only two coders. We have a launch date in late December but are allowing users to sign up for accounts currently," he said. On the web design side, the TVHS senior said business has been good. "The web design portion of the company is what is bringing in the money while the site is being redesigned. We have four clients currently and are working on networking our business to more in the near future," he said. TVHS aids success "TVHS provided Shane and I with the necessary skills in order to operate a business," Fortuin said. "At Tech Valley I've learned organization, speaking, risk taking, motivation, networking, technology utilization and various other miscellaneous skills that aid in the operation of Flitti." Additionally, the school's ties to businesses has provided the students with inspiration and mentorship. "There are various people that we have met through TVHS that have helped us directly and indirectly," he said. Looking outside the box "We want to do something radical and change the way people use the Internet," Fortuin said. "We want to make it an even more productive work space, or play space for that matter." That's a big goal for a pair of high school students, but the duo think they will achieve it and find even greater success. "With my business and networking know-how and Shane's extensive coding knowledge I believe we can bring this to extraordinary places," he said.


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Decision : CONF 002 VIII
SOC: Niokolo-Koba National Park (Senegal)
Niokolo-Koba National Park (Senegal)
The Bureau at its last session held in Paris in July 1992, requested IUCN to provide an up-to-date report on the measures taken by the Senegalese authorities to mitigate the impacts of a road being constructed through this Park. The Committee noted that IUCN's Office for Western Africa, in co-operation with the Senegal National Park Service and the University of Dakar has undertaken a field mission to examine the mitigative measures taken and that the findings of the mission will be reported to the Bureau when it convenes for its seventeenth session.
Context of DecisionWHC-92/CONF.002/5
Decision Code: CONF 002 VIII
Themes: Conservation
States Parties (1): Senegal
Properties (1): Niokolo-Koba National Park
Year: 1992
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Regular readers of this blog, (all 7.3 of you), will know that I was pretty excited about the announcement of the Pathfinder Sandbox MMO. How excited? Well, I wasn't wearing the brown underwear for nothing. I was so convinced of the awesomeness of the idea that I pledged in their initial kickstarter drive, which was designed to raise money to complete a tech video, all with the ultimate aim of securing funding for the game. That kickstarter was a huge success, raising almost $300,000 in secured pledges, much more than their initial target.
All seemed to be going nicely. I am a regular reader and occasional contributor on their forums, so I consider myself up to date on what's going on with the game. Then out of the blue yesterday we got side-swiped with a wham, bam, thank you Maam. A brand new kickstarter pledge drive, with the goal being securing early development of the game. The target? A cool million bucks.
It's sad to have your dreams crash down around you, but straight away my bullshit detector went into overdrive. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, the initial fund-raising effort was to help secure firm investment for the game by way of the tech demo video. Now they're suddenly saying that this all went well but a million bucks is needed to not only get it to us early but:
"… The purpose of this second Kickstarter is to get the money we need to make Pathfinder Online bigger, faster and better than we can with our current level of funding. It will let us hire more people and dedicate more resources to Pathfinder Online, potentially cutting the time to launch in half, and massively expanding the content and features available on release…"
Potentially cutting the launch time in half? Does that mean they secured backing to make an MMO of 1 million bucks only? I'm having a hard time understanding their budget if they think that another million is all that is needed to get this off the ground. But wait, there's more:
"… Could we have gone out and got investment capital to do this? Sure, but with that investment comes costs and entanglements that could very well derail the vision that we have for Pathfinder Online. Investors don't like to push boundaries, color outside the lines, or think outside the box. Instead, they want you to do things only in ways already proven successful for other companies. It is their money, after all.
Our vision for Pathfinder Online doesn't fit those boundaries. It doesn't color within the lines. It doesn't want to exist inside of a box. You already get that–you have believed in us from the beginning and backed us on our first Kickstarter. We would rather report to you than to a group of investors who are only interested in making the biggest pile of money and having an early exit strategy. You are with us for the long haul. You believe in our vision for a fantasy sandbox MMO. We would prefer never to sacrifice this vision in pursuit of bigger profits…"
If investors wouldn't get your vision, why the hell would you start up the first kickstarter in order to secure funding from investors? This makes exactly zero sense, and already on the forums a very healthy dose of posters are questioning what the hell is going on, while the fanboiys ridicule anyone for daring to question the great creative vision at work here. Not only that, but what made Pathfinder intriguing was the fact that they are going to restrict early access to the game to 4500 players. Obviously everyone funded the first kickstarter with the hope that being an early backer would secure them that early access. Not a chance. Early access can only be guaranteed through the second kickstarter. It's a massive kick in the guts for what was a devoted fan base.
But I saved the best for last. This second kickstarter is being launched before they've even sent out the pledges from the first one. This all stinks to high heaven, and if people think that this is the end of the fund raising then I think they could be very much mistaken.


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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced Monday that it has fined Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. $675,000 for charging unfair prices in municipal securities transactions and for failing to have an adequate supervisory system. Oppenheimer was also ordered to pay more than $246,000 in restitution, plus interest, to customers who were charged unfair prices.
In addition, FINRA fined Oppenheimer's head municipal securities trader, David Sirianni, $100,000, and suspended him for 60 days.
In concluding this settlement, Oppenheimer and Sirianni neither admitted nor denied the charges, but consented to the entry of FINRA's findings.
"FINRA has no tolerance for firms or individuals who charge customers excessive markups," said Thomas Gira, FINRA executive vice president and head of Market Regulation, in a statement. "Oppenheimer charged customers unfair prices in numerous municipal securities transactions and failed to properly supervise municipal securities transactions with its customers."
FINRA said that it found that from July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009, Oppenheimer, through Sirianni, priced 89 customer transactions from 5.01% to 15.57% above the firm's contemporaneous cost. In 54 of those transactions, the markups exceeded 9.4%.
Sirianni purchased municipal securities from a broker-dealer on Oppenheimer's behalf, held the bonds in inventory for at least overnight, and then made the bonds available for resale at an unfair price to the firm's customers, according to FINRA. Sirianni was responsible for determining the prices paid by customers in the 89 transactions.
"Oppenheimer failed to detect the unfair prices charged. Oppenheimer's supervisory system was deficient because supervisory personnel relied solely on a surveillance report that only captured intraday transactions to review the fairness of markups/markdowns in municipal securities transactions," FINRA said. "From at least 2005 through June 30, 2009, if an Oppenheimer trader purchased municipal securities and held those securities in inventory for a day or longer, the subsequent sales to customers would not populate the firm's surveillance report or be subjected to a fair pricing review."
The firm responded in a statement: "Oppenheimer is pleased that this matter, which relates to a very limited number of municipal bond trades in 2008 and 2009, has been resolved. Oppenheimer has reviewed, and where necessary, enhanced its procedures and processes to assure that clients receive fair pricing on municipal bond transactions. Oppenheimer reviewed the transactions in question, which occurred at the height of the financial crisis, and observes that they were purchased at distressed prices in open-market transactions."
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Anonymous Wants To Conquer Twitter Trends Next
Online attack mob Anonymous famously built software enabling basically anyone to launch a denial of service attack and help crash a website. Now the group has point-and-shoot software for hijacking Twitter threads, too. Is nothing sacred?
A new tool called URGE lets an ordinary computer user flood a "trending topic" on Twitter with unrelated messages. The idea, an Anonymous member told the Daily Dot, is to sway the topic of conversation away from something trivial, like #JustinBieber, toward something Anonymous feels is more important, like #CivilLiberties — without breaking the law. Of course, URGE walks right up to the edge of violating Twitter's spam prohibition, letting users blast seven, but no more than seven, messages into a single topic. It's basically just a slightly tamer version of LOIC, the tool Anonymous members use to flood enemy websites with requests.
It sounds like the sort of tool that might come in handy if you were going to, say, rally a flash mob of demonstrators to a particular location to overwhelm transit police. Like at the Civic Center station of San Francisco's BART subway, 5 p.m. tonight, #TheMostCommonLies #BlackParentsQuotes #JustinBieber.


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New Finding Your Roots Episodes Return This Fall
New episodes of Finding Your Roots are back Tuesday, October 13, at 8/7c!
New Finding Your Roots Episodes Return This Fall
Season 6 is back with more fascinating guests at 8/7c on Tuesday, January 7th.
Season 6 Is Back!
Season six of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. premieres on October 8th!
Season 6 Preview
Téa Leoni and Joe Madison discover surprising roots.
DNA Mysteries Preview
Diane Von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez, and RuPaul Charles discover surprising roots.
Fashion's Roots Preview
Laura Linney, Lisa Ling, and Soledad O'Brien explore surprising family roots.
Criminal Kind Preview
Laura Linney reads aloud an ancestor's confession that led to their exile in Virginia.
First Ancestor in the U.S.
Lisa Ling reads an emotional excerpt from her grandmother's memoir.
A Grandmother's Memoir
Soledad O'Brien discovers the "bad leg of the family."
A Family of Convicts
Jimmy Kimmel, Marisa Tomei, and John Turturro meet ancestors who made immense sacrifices.
Italian Roots Preview
Ava DuVernay, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Questlove discover unexpected family histories.
Slave Trade Preview
Dr. Francis Collins learns his ancestors freed their slaves in 1804.
Freeing Slaves in 1804
Dr. Jackson views the 1836 estate records listing the names of her enslaved ancestors.
Take My Breath Away
Dr. Harold E. Varmus expresses his gratitude to his grandparents for leaving Europe.
Varmus Grandparents
Dr. Francis Collins learns his ancestor was a Patriot that served in the Continental Army.
Revolutionary War
Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus learn their family histories.
Science Pioneers Preview
A London newspaper runs a story about Amy Ryan's ancestor under the headline "A Bad Lot."
A Bad Lot
Justina Machado African Ancestry
Justina Machado discovers her African ancestry.
Justina Machado African Ancestry
Sigourney Weaver discovers her ancestor was one of the youngest soldiers to join the army.
Revolutionary War
Sigourney Weaver, Justina Machado, and Amy Ryan unearth surprising family histories.
Secrets & Lies Preview
Justina Machado Discovers Grandfather's Hidden Past
Justina Machado learns her grandfather was sent to prison because of a relationship.
Justina Machado Discovers Grandfather's Hidden Past
Marc Maron's Relationship with His Grandmother
Marc Maron shares the powerful role his grandmother played in this life.
Marc Maron's Relationship with His Grandmother
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Going on vacation this summer? Maybe you're going toward the southeastern part of our country, which so many of us do in the summertime. If you live in Washington D.C., this is a one hour no brainer. The village of Flint Hill is one of five villages in a beautiful, tranquil county called Rappahannock, located […]
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The first trailer for the indie comedy Robot and Frank has been released. The buddy comedy stars Frank Langella as a retired jewel thief who seeks to resume his criminal ways with the help of a companion robot, voiced by Peter Sarsgaard. Steve and Matt caught the film at this year's Sundance Film Festival and both of them thought it was great (you can read Matt's review here). The trailer definitely seems sweet and warm-hearted, but I wonder if they've revealed too much of the plot. I sincerely hope that's not the case, as the premise sounds neat and I'm eager to experience the film for myself.
Hit the jump to watch the trailer. You can read Steve's interviews with director Jake Schreier and screenwriter Christopher D. Ford, as well as Langella himself. The film also stars Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, and Liv Tyler. Robot and Frank opens on August 24th.
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Here's the synopsis for Robot and Frank:
Set in the near future, Frank (Frank Langella) a retired jewel thief gets a new lease on life when he is introduced to a surprising new companion. With the help of his new friend, he attempts to woo a local librarian (Susan Sarandon) and resume his criminal escapades. ROBOT & FRANK is directed by first time filmmaker Jake Schreier, written by Christopher Ford (TVs "Atom TV"), and produced by Galt Niederhoffer, Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee and Lance Acord.


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CRS: Sierra Leone: Transition to Peace, May 15, 2002
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Title: Sierra Leone: Transition to Peace
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Author(s): Nicolas Cook, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: May 15, 2002
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- In January 2002, UN-sponsored disarmament exercises in all of Sierra Leone were completed. The first national elections since 1996 will take place in mid-May 2002. The United States has funded the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Sierra Leone since the start of the conflict. In the mid- to late-1990s, it funded security assistance in support of the elected government of Sierra Leone. U.S. policy has emphasized political support for conflict resolution mediation, continued UN multi-sectoral assistance to the government and people of Sierra Leone, and the imposition of UN trade, travel, and other sanctions on the RUF and its domestic and international allies, particularly the Liberian government.
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I love the windy closes that extend away from Edinburgh's Royal Mile like veins on a leaf. Their unassuming, dark entrances provide no clue as to what treasures lie beyond. I chanced upon this one on a wander while on the phone.
|Dunbar's Close garden, off the Royal Mile
I had to draw on powerful reserves of altruism in order to blog about this peaceful plot of orderly vegetation; perhaps a secret garden should by definition be a private pleasure, lest it become, simply, a known garden. Not to be confused with a gnome garden.
Anyway, I highly recommend Dunbar's Close for those weary of foot or spirit - or those who entertain fantasies of being a seventeenth-century lady, taking turns about the garden before finding a sunny patch to do some stitching.
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Gayl vs. Gates on MRAPs
There are few cows more sacred in the military than Robert Gates.
The former Defense secretary has legions of admirers at the Pentagon, many more among readers of his best-selling memoir Duty, and more than a few bureaucrats and brass who respected and feared his quick draw for failing to speed gear to troops in need.
And then there's Franz Gayl.
Gayl, a civilian Marine Corps science adviser and retired officer, writes in the latest edition of Defense Newsabout Gates more with disappointment than admiration.
"Robert Gates paints a noble self-portrait. However, his recollections related to the mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle suffer from tunnel vision. Gates fails to note that MRAP was a team achievement."
Alrighty, then.
That Gayl gores Gates is to be expected. Gayl's been poking everybody from Marine officers to the SecDef, prodding them years before most anybody had heard of MRAPs much less the crash program to churn them out at a cost of $40 billion.
Gates fails to credit those who first saw the potential of the armored trucks to protect troops from improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Gayl writes. He adds that the only folks who suffered from the delay in fielding them — apart from the troops who died or were maimed in flimsy Humvees — were lower-level guys like him who pointed out their bosses' failings.
Is he right? Does Gates gloss over the good work of many in the military and in Congress, like then-Sen. Joe Biden, an early MRAP advocate, and hog too much credit?
Certainly Gates' summary of the MRAP saga in his book skips over the bureaucratic process that had ground on for years before he arrived late in 2006. Gayl and others had, in fact, pushed for the production of hundreds of MRAPs in use in Iraq.
Just as certain, Gates couldn't be expected to know about every vehicle program in the sprawling military portfolio. He'd been on the job less than half a year when his military adviser at the time, Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, called his attention to our story about the success that Marines in Anbar province had been having with MRAPs.
Did I mention that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were going badly, too? Gates had a lot on his plate.
Gates notes his book — as we have time and time again — that our story prompted him to push for more MRAPs. There's no reason to doubt that's true. And it's just as true that those MRAPs wouldn't have been in Iraq if it hadn't been for Gayl, et al, pushing for the early shipments.
What the MRAP program needed to evolve from a niche truck for troops clearing roads to the workhorse for carrying them to war was a high-profile kick in the pants from somebody like Gates.
Walk near his old office today, and you'll see Gates' official portrait. In it, Gates leans against his desk. A model of an MRAP rests on top.
Gayl's on much firmer footing in writing that nobody at a high level was held to account for delays in fielding the trucks. His Marine Corps superiors sat on an urgent need request in 2005 resulting in delays that cost countless lives. The Army, too, knew about the Humvee's vulnerability to IEDs since at least the early 1990s.
Those who blew the whistle on delays, Gayl writes, watched as their "careers, including mine, were subsequently destroyed by Marine Corps leaders at Gates' Pentagon."
Gates was "duty-bound to get to the bottom of the MRAP delay and ensure accountability to prevent 'business as usual' practices, while protecting those who challenge them. He did neither," Gayl writes.
In Duty, Gates writes that the "villains were the largely nameless and faceless people — and their leaders — who were wed to their old plans, programs and thinking and refused to change their ways regardless of circumstances."
In the end, no generals or senior officials were fired for the delays. But Gayl has been involved in endless litigation over retaliation and his career stuck in a cul de sac at the Pentagon.
Ironically, Gates, on his farewell tour of military academies, urged cadets and midshipmen to display the same sort of courage that Gayl displayed, "to press ahead at the risk of their careers in the face of incredible institutional resistance. He warned them: "In most of those cases, integrity and courage were ultimately rewarded professionally. In a perfect world, that should always happen. But sadly, in the real world it does not, and I will not pretend that there is no risk."
Gayl could lecture aspiring officers on the downside of what Gates writes about speaking "truth to power" at the Pentagon.
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The Stribeck curve is an overall view of friction variation in the entire range of lubrication, including the hydrodynamic, mixed, and boundary lubrication.
Tribology is the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear. By means of the Stribeck curve the transitions from boundary lubrication to mixed lubrication and the transitions from mixed lubrication to elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication can be predicted and subsequently the lubrication regime in which a particular contact operates can be predicted.
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Seriously Asian: Fortune Cookies
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In preparation for an impending Chinese New Year's party, I decided it would be a good idea to make specialized Chinese fortune cookies by hand, each with messages suited to the particular goals of my friends.
Such as, "May the New Year bring with it the promise of finally finishing your dissertation—so that you can transition from underpaid graduate student to underpaid, uninsured associate professor." And so forth.
Why go through the trouble of making and eating fortune cookies? Because the common takeout Chinese restaurant version just isn't good: overly egg-y and chemical-laden, sickly sweet with a gluey glaze, it hardly deserves the sentimental position it holds in American households. But here, the ritual eclipses the sensory enjoyment.
There's the pleasure of cracking open that shell of retrieving the slip of paper inside and feeling some modicum of excitement in spite of the banal, hackneyed sentences printed on the paper. I certainly can't be alone in confessing this misplaced sense of yearning for fortune cookies.
Making the cookies by hand requires no more effort than any other moderately-difficult baking project. Doing so allows you to say all sorts of interesting things to your loved ones, not to mention the culinary benefit of being able to control what ingredients go into the batter.
The batter for the cookies begins with butter aerated by sugar. Finely ground nuts and flour go into the bowl; a few egg whites bind the batter. The cookies take no more than six minutes to bake in the oven, after which the folding process is, by virtue of the rapidly hardening dough, a quick task. Buttery and nutty with a finely-textured crumb, these cookies are worth making for the sheer pleasure of eating them.
What's more, you can vary the nuts that are finely-ground to make the dough—hazelnuts, pecans, and pistachios work just as well as walnuts. Use a spoonful of matcha powder for green tea fortune cookies, or add an extra dollop of vanilla bean paste (available at specialty baking shops) or chestnut honey for a more floral approach. The dough takes so well to a whole range of flavors, in fact, that I've begun making these cookies on a whim whenever I serve a large Chinese meal to friends.
Finally, I end with a warning and an accompanying parable: while the dough must be pliable in order for the cookies to fold properly, the just-baked circles of dough are actually quite hot, I'm told. This fact was made clear to me by my assistant fortune cookie writer.
It turns out that thinking of pithy statements on the fly is not my forte. So as to speed along the process, I enlisted the help of a friend who's more talented in this area. After what turned into a lengthy period of brainstorming and general hilarity, we set to work making the cookies.
Having subjected my fingertips to the typical abuse that comes with cooking a lot every day, I picked up the cookies straightaway and began to fold. The process for forming a fortune cookie is simple: place the slip of paper in the middle of the circle, fold in half, and crimp the cookie over the rim of a glass cup. Fold and crimp. Fold and crimp.
Then suddenly from the other side of the table came the clattering of metal cookies sheets falling—the cacophony of forks, knives, scissors, and chopsticks tumbling down after.
"Damn!" my friend yelled, flailing his burned hand back and forth.
Except it wasn't "damn." My friend, with his lambent wit, happens to be one of the more gifted cursers I've known in my life. From his lips emanated a stream of vitriol so wrong and so brilliant at the same time that we stood in silence for minutes thereafter basking in the aftermath of his vehemence.
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Bad Dreams
Dir: Andrew Fleming, 1988. Starring: Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Dean Cameron. Horror.
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It is a very well-known fact that the Gaming section on the Android Market hardly contains quality' games. Yes, there are some quality games for Android like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja but that's about it. Gameloft does offer some brilliant gaming titles for Android like Dungeon Hunter, Lets Golf HD and H.A.W.X etc. but sadly the company does not list its games on the Android Market. The company sells its games via its own store which is very very bad.
However, all this is soon going to change as EA has started releasing some quality' games into the Android Market. Today, the company released the Need For Speed: Shift game into the Android Market for only $4.99. Earlier, NFS: Shift was available exclusively for a few Android handsets. EA also plans on bringing more high quality 3D games into the Android Market next year including NFL Madden 2011.
Here is a video of NFS: Shift in action on the Samsung Galaxy S -:
Talking about Gameloft, the company has also released a brand new quality' game for Android handsets Spider-man: Total Mayhem HD. Users can download the game from the Gameloft store for $4.99. However, looking at the pathetic state of the Gameloft store I would recommend users to stay away from purchasing this game.


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A Braintree martial arts instructor told police that allegations of sexual contact with a 10-year-old student resulted from "an accident," a prosecutor said yesterday.
A Braintree martial arts instructor told police that allegations of sexual contact with a 10-year-old student resulted from "an accident," a prosecutor said yesterday.
Kevin Carmichael, 40, of Millis, who runs the Masters Self Defense studio in Braintree, pleaded innocent in Quincy District Court on Monday to a charge of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.
Judge Mark Coven set bail at $2,500 and ordered Carmichael to stay away from the victim and her family and other children. Coven ordered the police report to be impounded.
Prosecutor Sarah Lelle had asked for $25,000 bail.
Carmichael told police during an interview Saturday at the police station that the alleged contact was an an accident that occurred as he was giving the girl a "training exercise," and laid on top of her for "two or three seconds" after they fell down together, Lelle said.
The girl and her mother painted a different picture in their interviews. The girl described the contact to her mother in detail, telling her that Carmichael said afterwards, "I'm sorry," Lelle said.
Carmichael is due back in court April 25 for a pretrial session. He was arrested Saturday at the police station after coming in to talk to detectives about the allegation. Police Chief Russell Jenkins said police learned of the complaint Friday and began an immediate investigation.
Carmichael has operated the Masters Self Defense studio on Quincy Avenue in Braintree since 2003.
He also taught at the nonprofit Braintree After School Enrichment program (B.A.S.E.), which is unaffiliated with the town school district.
B.A.S.E. officials had no comment on Carmichael's arrest. A spokesman said the program will send letters to parents of all children in the program.
At least six members of Carmichael's family attended the arraignment. They quickly left the courthouse without comment.
Lelle said the girl had a private, individual instructional session with Carmichael once each week. The girl told police that she and Carmichael were alone in a windowless section of the martial arts studio at the time.
The girl's mother called police Friday after her daughter began crying and told her about the alleged incident.
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Steve Digiovanna / Madison County via AP
The 19 Mile wildfire in southwest Montana consumes a home on Wednesday.
Winds and high temperatures were expected to create critical wildfire conditions this weekend in parts of Colorado, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming and nearly all of Montana -- where three new large fires started Friday, adding to the 100 square miles that have burned there in recent days.
Crews are battling 10 uncontained fires in Montana, the worst of which is the 19 Mile wildfire. A dozen homes have been destroyed there and 125 more are threatened at that fire alone.
Campers hoping to spend Labor Day weekend in popular spots were told to stay away due to the danger.
The fires and dry summer have left much of Montana either scorched or brown.
Billings has seen its driest summer on record, the National Weather Service's Billings office reported on its Facebook page, as well as its second warmest.
It's also seen 47 days above 90 degrees, when the norm is 29 days.
Watch video of some of the destruction caused by a wildfire this week near near Livingston, Mont.
So far, at least, the city's water supply has stayed healthy.
"We can be thankful that we're a little sea of green in a very brown landscape," Mike Rubich, a city water official, told the Billings Gazette.
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Land scorched by wildfires in Montana includes this patch behind the Lazy EL Ranch. The ranch was saved and that fire was fully contained on Friday.
The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and the neighboring Crow Indian Reservation have seen the worst of the Montana fires this summer.
The Cheyenne have lost 19 homes this summer, and seen 90 square miles of reservation burn, The Associated Press reported. The Crow have lost one home but have seen 150 square miles burn.
Related: Families on reservation devastated by fires
"Most of middle class America would be able to recover," Jennifer Perfater, tribal liaison for the American Red Cross of Montana, told The Associated Press. "But on the reservations here, you've got people who don't have homeowners insurance because they can't afford it. They've completely lost their homes."
Across the U.S., this year has seen fewer total wildfires than average, but a much larger area burned.
As of Friday, 7.6 million acres had burned since Jan. 1, well above the 5.9 million acre average for 2003-20012, the National Interagency Fire Center reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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