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Suunto DX - rebreather compatible dive computer
Suunto is pleased to unveil the world's first watch-sized rebreather-compatible dive computer, the Suunto DX. Pronounced 'D ten' after the Roman numeral.
It also contains all the advanced dive functions for open-circuit divers such as trimix support including helium and oxygen, and gas switching between up to 8 gases to satisfy the needs of any diver.
Suunto writes in a press release:
The Suunto DX comes in a stylish look. With a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal glass, titanium case and optional titatium bracelet, it's extremely robust. As with all Suunto diving computers it went through a rigorous testing program, including over 1,000 field test dives.
Suunto Fused™ RGBM algorithm
What also sets the Suunto DX apart is the new, advanced Suunto Fused™ RGBM algorithm that Suunto developed with Dr. Bruce Wienke. It seamlessly combines the benefits of the Suunto Technical RGBM with the latest full RGBM for deep dives. It has rebreather capability and supports dives down to 150m.
With no input from the diver, Suunto Fused™ RGBM automatically switches between the two modes to effectively manage the risks of decompression sickness. The new algorithm provides a slow continuous ascent from depth so technical and deep divers have a shorter total decompression time. It is also suitable for recreational divers, helping to maximise bottom time and minimize ascent time, so they can get the most out of their hobby. More information and Dr. Bruce Wienke's interviews on the Suunto Fused™ RGBM algorithm can be found at www.suunto.com.
"We are very proud to launch the Suunto DX. It's a pioneering dive computer that is the perfect choice not only for rebreather divers but anyone who wants a stylish and premium product for their diving and everyday use," says Mika Holappa, Dive Business Unit Director at Suunto.
Suunto Ambassador and leading underwater explorer Jill Heinerth helped to develop the Suunto DX. "The Suunto DX is one of my support computers that go with my rebreather. It's easy to integrate it into a rebreather dive plan, or any dive plan – open or closed circuit. It has one of the most accurate digital compasses, which I use to survey and make maps as well. It can really do anything, and it's a beautiful, wearable watch. It has everything you need in a very small package, and it handles itself well under any conditions."
The Suunto DX includes the following features:
• A setpoint, non-monitoring dive computer with dedicated CCR mode
• Configure up to 3 different diluents
• Adjustable high and low setpoints, as well as custom setpoint during dive
• Automatic setpoints switching at specified depths
• Possibility to switch to open circuit mode in case of bailout
• New, advanced Suunto Fused™ RGBM for CCR, technical and recreational diving
• Trimix support including helium and oxygen
• Gas switching between up to 8 gases
• 3D tilt-compensated digital compass
• Five modes: CCR, air, mixed gas, gauge, and off
• Optional wireless air integration
• Built-in dive planner
• Detailed graphical logs and dive data on your computer using Suunto DM4 software
• Stunning, compact design
• Hard-wearing premium materials:
• Titanium case and scratch-resistant sapphire crystal glass
• Optional titanium bracelet
The Suunto DX is classic Suunto. For over 75 years the Finnish company has been pioneering dive computers and sports watches. It was the first to introduce a diving compass in 1965 and with the Spyder, it was the first to create a watch-sized dive computer in 1997. Many features pioneered by Suunto such as profile memory, scrolling menus, backlit screens and RGBM algorithms are all industry standards today.
In another development, Suunto has released a new wireless tank pressure transmitter which gives current tank pressure and your remaining air time at a glance of your wrist.
A new feature is a green LED light that lets you know that the transmitter is on and sending data. Compatible with all of Suunto's air-integrated dive computers, the transmitter allows divers to monitor tank pressure and air consumption from their dive computer.


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Medium/high roast coffee beans from Caffe Roma with a fantastic velvety smoothness, producing a full flavoured, yet smooth espresso or cappuccino.
Expertly roasted using only the highest quality Fairtrade coffee beans. By choosing this Fairtrade product, you are helping to improve the quality of life for small scale coffee growers.
Caffe Roma Fairtrade Coffee Beans create a great tasting coffee which can be enjoyed at any point in the day. Whether you're relaxing at home or enjoying a refreshing break at work Caffe Roma Fairtrade Coffee Beans are the perfect coffee for you.

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Katniss Everdeen, heroine of The Hunger Games, captured a nation with just two words: "I volunteer." That may be because it remains a largely novel concept to most folks, if a new report is any indication.
A scant 10 per cent of Canada's volunteers accounted for more than half of all hours given to non-profit and charitable organizations in 2010, according to data released Monday by Statistics Canada. In other words, even as 47 per cent of Canadians age 15 and older volunteered at some point during the year, the majority of time came from a small proportion of citizens.
Imagine Canada, a national program promoting giving and volunteerism, calls it a persistent and significant concern.
"A small charity or non-profit can almost live or die on the backs of one or two volunteers," says Cathy Barr, senior vice-president. "If those people stop doing what they're doing, the whole organization can collapse."
Statistics Canada's report, which dovetails with National Volunteer Week, finds 53 per cent of the hours given to volunteer activities in 2010 came from just 10 per cent of Canadian volunteers.
University graduates were twice as likely to be "top volunteers" than people with less than a high school diploma. Attending religious services once a week also made a positive difference, with fully one in five top volunteers sharing this trait.
Overall, 65 per cent of Canadians who attended church on a weekly basis performed volunteer activities, while "frequent" attendees dedicated about 40 per cent more hours on average than other volunteers.
"The education finding is a source of comfort, since more people are getting higher levels of educations — and there's hope the volunteer pool will grow as a result," says Barr. "The religious attendance one, of course, goes in the opposite direction."
Ken Wyman, a professor and co-ordinator of the postgraduate fundraising and volunteer management program at Toronto's Humber College, suggests burnout is top of mind for those organizations that rely on a handful of "superheroes."
"They're deeply dedicated," says Wyman. "The danger is that an organization can become dependent on them, and when they move on, it takes many others to replace them."
Zoe Chance, a post-doctoral associate in marketing at Yale School of Management, says the key difference between a volunteer and a non-volunteer may surprise most people: It's simply having been asked.
"Most people aren't just going to show up," says Chance, noting that 29 per cent of people volunteer without prompting compared with 71 per cent of people who are asked to help. "This explains why religious people volunteer more: They're likely to get asked more."
According to Chance, who has expertise in this area, key benefits of volunteering include reduced mortality, less depression, greater happiness, and even slower progression of disease.
Perhaps most notably, her research shows that donating time actually gives people the feeling of having more time — a significant result, given that two-thirds of Canadians who didn't volunteer in 2010 blamed lack of time to do so.


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Reader Miguel Barreiro has proposed that the El Reg Standards Soviet adopt the charging adult elephant as an official unit of force following its deployment as a measurement of thrust of Copenhagen Suborbitals' HEAT-1XP rocket motor.
The engine in question is the "most powerful amateur rocket ever flown", and according to a photo caption here, develops around 7 tonnes of thrust, which is handily explained as being "like the power of a charging adult elephant".
Miguel notes our online standards converter makes that 68,647 newtons, or 686 Norrises. When we honoured the roundhouse-kicking hardman by naming our standard after him back in 2007, we showed that we too could cook up charging-elephant-style real-world examples, and explained: "Doctors later said Campbell's PDA had hit the maid with a force equivalent to three Norrises."
So, it appears the charging adult elephant might have legitimacy, although we're concerned about possible confusion with the elephant per second. Regular readers will recall that this entertaining idea was the brainchild of South African engineer Danie van der Spuy, who used it to clarify the amount of water passing through the sluice gates of the Bloemhof dam.
Van der Spuy's standard African elephant weighs 4.6 tonnes, meaning the dam's discharge of 2,800m³ a second added up to a breathtaking 609 Dumbos thundering through the sluices in the same period.
Well, while we consider the charging adult elephant, we leave readers to mull whether discarded small electrical appliances might be weighed in adult blue whales. Douglas de Lacey recently alerted us that Cambridge City Council has calculated that its citizens throw away 200 tonnes of said appliances every year, which tip the scales at more than a substantial cetacean.
Sadly, only 2 per cent of this old kit is recycled, subtracting just "the weight of an elephant seal" from the electrical whale mountain. ®
For those of you not familiar with the Norris and other Reg units, the lovely Lucy Sherriff reveals all...


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Giant smoke ring hovering over College Station causes stir
A blown transformer in College Station on Thursday caused a lingering smoke ring in the evening sky.
The transformer, housed in a substation in southern College Station, blew up at 8:20 p.m., causing about 3,000 customers in that city to lose power, said Carol Roach, spokeswoman for College Station Utilities.
The substation is shared with neighboring Bryan Texas Utilities, which owns the current transformer that failed, said that utility's spokesman, Paul Buckner.
"There's oil inside that transformer, and that's what caught on fire," Buckner said. "We are still investigating the cause."
None of Bryan Texas Utilities' customers lost power, he said.
When the transformer exploded, however, it triggered a protective feature in the College Station system that resulted in a power loss for the 3,000 affected customers, similar to the way a surge protector works in a home, Roach said.
College Station's power was restored at 9:12 p.m., she said.
"We had to make sure that everything was in the clear before we could restore the power," Roach said.


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Random Ramblings
Mobile Phones
I am planning to purchase a new mobile phone at some time in the future to enjoy the features of a newer smartphone. However, one thing prevents me from doing so. Currently, I have three mobile phones — a Samsung Galaxy S2 (bought in 2011), Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (bought in 2013) and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (bought in 2015) — and they are still in good condition. Well, they have to be rooted and flashed to install custom ROMs as they don't get updates anymore, but otherwise, they don't have any other issues.
So, most likely, I wouldn't buy a new phone until at least one of them dies.
Are Maps and Atlases Still Relevant?
Before the advent of electronic maps and GPS, we mostly rely on maps and atlases to learn more about the geography of a place. However, GPS, Google Street View and the internet, in general, have made them. practically obsolete. "Mapping" itself isn't obsolete since the services provided by Mapping Specialists are still essential, especially for creating custom maps. Paper maps and atlases, on the other hand, are now becoming less and less popular.
Personally, I like to bring a map or two with me when going to another country or some unfamiliar place. I think that this is a better way to travel as I don't like to mindlessly follow the direction given by a GPS app. Going from one point to another without knowing precise and shortest route opens a great opportunity for exploration. Getting lost while traveling is part of the fun.
I only use a GPS if I urgently have to go to a place that I am not familiar with.
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Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1460/70 – c. 1516), an Italian Renaissance artist, created a remarkable model of the aerial view of Venice in 1500 using six blocks of wood. The woodcuts were placed on large sheets of paper measuring 1.345 meters x 2.818 meters. It was said that it took three years for de' Barbara to complete it.
The model was created based on the work of several surveyors in bell towers around Venice. The model is highly detailed. For example, it depicts a bell tower with a flat roof in St. Mark's Square. The flat roof was added after the top of the tower was destroyed by a fire in 1489. The model was updated when the bell tower was restored in 1514. Others would also modify it from time to time to take into account the new buildings constructed in Venice.
On June 30, 1960, a thunderstorm struck the Columbia, Missouri, area and made time not only stand still, but go backward. The Columbia Missourian reported that Mr. C.W. Brenton looked at his electrical clock at 7:55 P.M. and was startled to see that the clock was running backward. During the storm a surge of lightning had entered his home along the power lines and fused some of the wiring in the clock. This apparently reversed the magnetic field of the motor, causing the hands to turn in the wrong direction.
— Peter Viemeister, The Lightning Book, 1961
The 1951 issue of The Dark Horse, the staff magazine of Lloyds Bank, gave the following jaundiced mnemonic for pi:
Now I live a drear existence in ragged suits
And cruel taxation suffering.
The number of letters of each word represents the numerical value of π. Thus, π = 3.141592653589.
Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo
Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo
Googly, googly, googly goo:
That's how we fill a column.
— G. K. Chesterton
I found this interesting little puzzle in Crux Mathematicorum, 1979, No. 83:
Which of the following statements is true:
A). All of the below
B). None of the below
C). One of the above
D). All of the above
E). None of the above
F). None of the above
Answer: A is definitely not true since a number of statements below contradict each other. B can't also be true since that would mean C (One of the above) is true as well. Only one of the statements is true, so we have to also rule C and D out. This means that E must be true since A, B, C, and D are false. Lastly, F is false since E is true.
"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong, and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." — G. K. Chesterton
This is one of the most foolish and irresponsible things to do if you are a goalkeeper. Nonetheless, watching Rene Htguita's execution of the "scorpion kick save" is impressive.


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Housing or hospitals?
Press Release – Royal NZ College of General Practitioners
Media Release
30 November
Housing or
The latest issue of the
Journal of Primary Health Care sees debate on the
issue of capping the health budget in favour of spending
more money on housing and food.
In the Back-to-Back
column Professor Howden-Chapman argues that spending on
housing rather than hospitals will lead to better health
outcomes, whereas Dr White counters that increasing spending
on hospital and other health services generates a good
return on investment.
Professor Howden-Chapman points to
the success of the now defunct Healthy Housing Programme run
by Housing Corporation New Zealand and the Auckland District
Health Boards. This was successful in reducing acute and
arranged hospital admissions for under 20s in households
participating in the programme. She sees the lack of
continued investment in the programme as misguided
considering that inequalities in infectious disease rates
are driven by poverty and household overcrowding.
Dr White
argues that spending more on health, besides improving
health outcomes, has considerable value to society
increased employment, recreation and community wellbeing.
He says the health budget should not be capped to spend more
on housing and food; instead more should be spent on
prevention of disease and in care of patients already
The journal also features the results of a population
survey about awareness of drug safety and possible adverse
effects of prescription and over-the-counter
âThe survey found adults taking
prescription and over-the-counter medications had a very low
level of drug safety knowledge.â
Also featured in this
issue is a study of nutritional risk amongst
community-living older people in Hawkeâs Bay.
study found nutritional risk is present in over half of the
over-65 year olds sampled, with older Maori 5.2 times more
likely to be at risk than non-Maoriâ, says the
Poor nutrition increases the risk of
hospitalisation, disability and morbidity. Maintaining good
nutrition is vital for healthy aging.
The Journal of
Primary Health Care is published by The Royal New
Zealand College of General Practitioners quarterly. The
December issue is available on their website at www.rnzcgp.org.nz/journal-of-primary-health-care
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Google 360 Studio tour
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1203 Snyder Ave. Phila PA 19148
Subway: 3 blocks(east) from Snyder station via Broad St Line
Bus: 79 & 23 (12th & Snyder)
Noon until 8pm.
Open most days. Studio maybe closed for a day without notice.
Parking Info
Public parking at St Agnes hospital on Broad & Mckean St.
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Drink in Eco Style With Simply Straws
I ♥ straws because…
- They protect my toofeses from acid wear.
- They help keep my lipstick and lip balm in place while I'm drinking.
- They make me feel like a kiddo again.
- They help me pace myself while I'm slurping down milkshakes.
- The ones I'm reviewing are reusable and BPA-free!
- Annnnd… they are simply tubular! 😉
BUT, conventional straws are bad for the environment and your health (BPA-style), and they cost a bit of cha-ching over a lifetime. That's why I'm all about Simply Straws! They're made out of durable, sustainable glass, and you can order them in different sizes, colors, and styles (straight or bent). I highly recommend their Simply A-Mason Combo ($18) which comes with a 16oz. mason jar with handle, a lid with straw hole, and a classic 8″ color straw.
As you can see, I rock this bad boy with my OJ. It's super fun to drink out of, it keeps the kittehs from sneakin' sips (especially while I'm chugging my yums vanilla almond milk), and this mug has a beautiful "S" etching—which I LOVE. I like to pretend the "S" is for Sunny. 😉
About Sunny (Sunny's Profile)Longtime vegan, hardcore compassionate beauty junkie, serious cake aficionado, and lover of all things floofy and sparkly! If there's something in particular you'd like me to review, drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google +.
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Got my guy these for Valentine's Day & gave 'em to him early when I caught him almost buying some at a health food store. He loves them so far! 🙂 It's good to shop around for prices on them though. Pretty sure that vegan cuts has a deal on them right now, and I got a good deal on a few (that were eligible for free shipping and included brushes!) on amazon.
I have been tempted to purchase that set! Now you tempt me even more. For shame, ma'am, for shame.


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Harrisburg mayor announces city cleanup
Hundreds expected to participate in April 20 event
Mayor Linda Thompson announced Monday that a city cleanup will take place on April 20. Hundreds of volunteers are expected to participate in the event.
During a news conference, Thompson said cleaning up the city is one of her top priorities.
This will be the second city cleanup event. The first was in 2011. Last year, the event was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy.
City officials partnered with nonprofit groups as well as county, church, and community leaders to organize the event.
Pinnacle Health donated 12 dumpsters and Waste Management is helping with hauling the trash to the city's incinerator.
Thompson said the cleanup needs more volunteers.
"I'll be out there myself. I was out there in 2011. It's not beneath me to pick up trash. I grew up sweeping down the porch," said Thompson said.
The cleanup will target these areas: the 100 block of Evergreen Street, the 300 block of South 16th Street and the first block of North 14th Street in Allison Hill; the 2300 block of North Sixth Street in Uptown; and around the Broad Street Market in Midtown.
People interested in starting their own cleanup project should visit HistoricHarrisburg.com or call John Campbell at 717-233-4646.


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OTTAWA — About 19,200 of Canada's public servants will be wiped off the federal payroll over the next three years, in the Conservatives' "moderate" deficit reduction plan, which will cut $5.2 billion annually from departmental spending.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the reductions, which will come primarily from operations, are "common sense" changes that will improve the efficiency and productivity of Canada's 400,000-strong public service.
"We will implement moderate restraint in government spending," Flaherty said Thursday. "The vast majority of savings will come from eliminating waste in the internal operations of government, making it leaner and more efficient."
The bulk of the job cuts will be in the National Capital Region, where the size of the public service has mushroomed over the past decade. The government estimates that 12,000 bureaucrats will be laid off and the remaining 7,000 cuts can be handled by attrition. The public service has an attrition rate of about five per cent; three per cent is retirements.
The growing executive cadre of the public service will be hit even harder, eliminating 600 of more than 6,500 current positions. The number of executives has increased steadily over the decade, growing by 18 per cent since the Conservatives came to power in 2006.
The government also plans to rein in the government's $42 billion yearly compensation bill and "bring public service compensation in line with public and private sector employees."
The first steps are several major changes to the pension plan, forcing public servants to boost their contribution rates so that they are picking up 50 per cent of the cost. The government also intends to open talks with the joint union-management advisory committee to increase the retirement age in the public service from 60 to 65.
The $5.2 billion a year in spending cuts are less than what many public servants were girded for. They expected the government would keep cuts at the upper end of the $4-$8 billion range it set when it launched the spending review.
The Conservatives spent months sorting through hundreds of proposals from departments, offering up two scenarios, one for five per cent reductions and another for 10 per cent.
The cuts, however, vary from department to department, ranging from a low of 1.1 per cent and 2.7 per cent for Veterans Affairs and Aboriginal Affairs respectively, to a high of nearly 17 per cent in Finance. A significant number of departments face cuts of 10 per cent or more: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Privy Council Office, Transport Canada, Shared Services Canada and Treasury Board.
The government is banking on savings from three streams — a major refocus on programs and services it provides; reducing red tape to make it easier for Canadians to deal with government; and by modernizing and reducing the outdated back office systems departments rely to deliver internal and external services. About 70 per cent of the $5.2 billion savings is expected from operations.
But the uncertainty hanging over the public servants and their fate will drag on for months. The budget offered no details on where or when these cuts will hit. Departments, however, will have to move fast to get their savings, so employees will be getting written notices that their jobs could be affected within days.
The process for laying off workers under the workforce adjustment agreement is slow and could take up to 16 months before surplus workers are off the payroll.
The government set aside $900 million to cover the salary costs, buyouts, waived pension penalties and education and training allowances that laid-off employees are entitled to under the workforce adjustment agreement. The government promised to use attrition to manage as many of the cuts as possible.
The public service has undergone unprecedented growth over the past decade, outstripping its size before the Liberals' historic downsizing in the mid-1990s that eliminated 50,000 jobs or 14 per cent of the workforce. The Conservatives continued that growth with a spending spree when it came to power in 2006. The job cuts will only reverse about 20 per cent of the job growth in the public service since 1999.
The reductions cut a wide swath from eliminating programs, such as the Public Appointments Commission, Katimavik and the National Round Table on the Environment to getting rid of the penny. It expects savings by getting public servants to use videoconferencing rather than travel and online documents rather than paper. The controversial and costly Advanced Leadership Program to groom executives is scrapped.
The government intends to expand its electronic services to Canadians and plans regulatory changes that will streamline operations and cut red tape for Canadians in departments from Agriculture and Canada Food and Inspection Agency to Health Canada to get safety-approved drugs on the market faster.
It's pinning a lot of hope on efficiency savings from modernizing the back-office operations of departments and agencies, especially by consolidating and internal services such as human resources, finance, real estate, communications and information technology. Critics have long argued that efficiency savings are the most elusive and difficult to achieve.
The budget calls for plans to bundle or cluster departments with similar portfolios and programs to share functions. The regional development agencies, for example, will be bundled with Health Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada, Agriculture Canada, Canada Food Inspection Agency to merge their back office operations.
The newly created Shared Services Canada that's supposed to modernize and manage the government's aging IT systems is a key player in promised predicted savings. The government spends about $5 billion a year on IT. The new agency is expected to streamline more than 100 email systems into one, consolidate 300 data centres and more than 3,000 electronic networks. Still in its infancy, the agency must save $150 million by 2014-15.


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and here is my card...
When I saw the picture, the colors really caught me eye. I wanted the strips of paper to be "stacked" like the boxes. I also wanted to incorporate a label holder and I finally got to use some fabric covered brads I've been hoarding. They matched the colors perfectly. :)
Okay, off to pack...be back tomorrow!
Okay, off to pack...be back tomorrow!


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Hold a pack of cards in your hand. Instantly, and visually, in front of the spectator the whole deck disappears leaving you with just one card!
Imagine the scene -you take the pack of cards out of a card box. Then the entire deck vanishes with the exception of one card! You explain to the spectator that the deck has gone back into the card box. You go back to the card box and take out the pack of cards - Amazing!
This is just one of many routines possible with the 'Travelling Deck' gimmick.
Each gimmick is custom made by hand.
The accompanying DVD explains a number of possible Travelling Deck routines; change a deck of cards into a Currency note, or a 52 on 1 card and more. We explain how to modify and repair your gimmick where necessary. Also included are 4 complete routines as well as a host of ideas and suggestions.
You will find it hard to put the Travelling Deck down. It's fun to perform and the reactions are just out of this world!
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HONG KONG — Asian stock indexes were mixed Thursday as investors assessed the latest Federal Reserve board's meeting minutes. Japanese shares slipped as the yen strengthened against the dollar.
KEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 0.3 percent to 19,544.70 a day after hitting its highest level in 13 months as the yen's strength hurt shares of some exporters. South Korea's Kospi edged 0.1 percent lower to 2,043.16 but Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 1 percent to 22,363.50 and the Shanghai Composite index in mainland China added 0.1 percent to 3,160.50. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.4 percent to 5,758.30. Benchmarks in Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines also advanced.
FED MINUTES: U.S. central bank officials think they may need to accelerate interest rate hikes if a faster-growing economy leads to lower than expected unemployment. For now they believe they can maintain stick to gradual increases, according to minutes of the Fed's December meeting. Officials also discussed the impact of Donald Trump's proposed economic stimulus program and attributed surging stock prices, rising bond rates and the stronger dollar following the election to investor enthusiasm about the president elect's plans.
QUOTEWORTHY: "The Fed, like everyone else in the market, have full focus on the execution of Trump's fiscal program and see upside risks to their forecasts if it comes off," said Chris Weston, chief strategist at IG Markets in Melbourne. "That is a sizeable 'if' because ... much needs to go right."
WALL STREET: The Dow Jones industrial average added 0.3 percent to 19,942.16. The S&P 500 jumped 0.6 percent to 2,270.75. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.9 percent to 5,477.
CURRENCIES: The dollar slipped to 116.50 yen from 116.64 yen. The euro weakened to $1.0520 from $1.0526.
ENERGY: Oil's rally fizzled out in Asian trading. Benchmark U.S. crude shed 14 cents to $53.12 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract picked up 93 cents, or 1.8 percent, to settle at $53.26 a barrel on Thursday. Brent crude, used to price international oils, lost 19 cents to $56.27 a barrel in London.


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In the early years, it was easy for Everett kids to play golf. All they needed was a few clubs, a few balls, and a willingness to climb a fence or scramble through some shrubs.
George Holland, who grew up in the late 1930s and early '40s, remembers going with friends to Legion Memorial Golf Course in the city's north end. They would play for hours on four holes in a far corner of the course, well beyond the watchful eyes of the club pro.
"We'd play those same four holes over and over and over," Holland said. There was no fence at the time, "so we'd just walk on. It was very simple. We just had make sure the guy mowing the fairways wasn't around."
A decade later, Bob Whisman and his pals were playing those same four holes, also on the sly. "It was two or three months before I ever saw the clubhouse," chuckled Whisman, who went on to become Legion Memorial's longtime head pro.
By the 1960s a fence had been installed, "so a lot of kids just threw their clubs over the fence and played," said Everett High School golf coach Darrell Olson. Among them, Olson himself.
Meanwhile, golf-hungry kids on the city's south side were also finding ways to play. In the 1940s, a young Ed Bucklin would head to Everett Golf and Country Club in the late afternoon. After making sure no one was around, "I'd crawl through the bushes to get on the course," he said.
Bob Borup did the same in the 1950s. Years later, Everett G&CC's members would be forgiving enough to hire Borup as their head pro, a job he held for 29 years until his retirement in 2006.
Yes, there was mischief in the early years, but there was also true passion for a game that was, and continues to be, rooted deeply in the community. Everett has many proud sports legacies, but for longevity and accomplishment it would be hard to top the city's distinguished golf history.
It all began on August 23, 1910.
On that day, a group of civic leaders met to form Everett Golf and Country Club. Located in what was then the outskirts of town, Everett G&CC was soon one of the city's social and recreational hubs, as it remains today.
But not everyone could afford country club golf, so in 1934 Legion Memorial opened to the public. Initially owned by the American Legion — hence the name, Legion Memorial — it developed into one of the state's more popular daily-fee courses. It also became home to the Everett High School golf team, which from the late 1930s through the early 1970s was one of Washington's premier high school programs, winning 11 state championships.
Virtually every young golfer from Everett "grew up at Legion," Olson said. "And it was a great place to grow up. There were so many kids playing out there. It was safe and you were welcomed. … If you played golf in Everett, your golf experience went through Legion."
But it was Everett G&CC that produced the city's first golf celebrity. Jack Westland, who was born in 1904 and graduated from Everett High School in 1922, honed his game at the country club, where his father Alfred J. "A.J." Westland was a charter member and his uncle John Horan was the first club president.
Back then, many of the game's top players were content to stay amateurs, and so it was with Westland. His titles included the French Amateur (1929), the U.S. Western Amateur (1933), four Pacific Northwest Amateurs (1938, 1939, 1940 and 1951), three Washington State Amateurs (1924, 1947 and 1948) and, locally, the 1946 Snohomish County Amateur.
But his biggest prize came in 1952 when he won the U.S. Amateur at Seattle Golf Club. Westland was 47 at the time, making him the oldest golfer ever to win that title.
Westland's U.S. Amateur victory qualified him for the 1953 Masters (he tied for 53rd), and by then he was both a first-term Republican congressman and a golfing buddy of President Dwight Eisenhower. Westland also played in two other Masters, three U.S. Opens (his best finish was a tie for 41st in 1934), and three Walker Cups (amateur teams from the United States vs. Great Britain and Ireland).
He made the game look easy, say those who remember. Even as a congressman in his 50s, Westland would return to Everett and drop by the country club, where "he'd check his clubs out and shoot 69, no problem at all," Whisman said. "He had one swinging motion and it never changed. He'd hit it straight down the middle.
"He was the best around," Whisman added.
Remarkably, Everett G&CC was home to another equally accomplished amateur. Anne Quast Sander was a Marysville native (her father Tom Quast designed and constructed Cedarcrest Golf Course) who polished her game at Everett G&CC before going on to a stellar competitive career. She was the 1958, 1961 and 1963 U.S. Women's Amateur champion, the 1980 British Ladies Amateur champion, the 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1993 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur champion, and she also placed fourth at the 1973 U.S. Women's Open.
"I played a lot of golf with Anne Quast," Whisman said. "She was very good. Not powerful, but she was very straight and she had an excellent short game."
Others, meanwhile, were putting their own lasting imprint on Everett golf. Ken Tucker, a 1932 graduate of Everett High School, spent 43 years as the head pro at Everett G&CC before finally retiring in 1978. In that time he touched the lives — not to mention the golf games — of generations of club members, as well as others from the community.
"He was the ultimate club professional," said Bill Meyer, a 1961 Everett High graduate and a member of the school's golf team. "He was passionate about golf, but he was more passionate about helping other people enjoy golf."
Tucker developed a strong caddy program at Everett G&CC, which was good for the members and good for the countless kids who used the experience to get started or progress in golf.
"Ken changed the lives of so many kids by them caddying up there under his tutelage," Holland said. "And he was just loved by the membership."
In Everett for more than four decades, Bucklin said, "Ken Tucker was Mr. Golf."
Among other golf notables from Everett, there was Whisman, who won five Snohomish County Amateur titles (still the most in history); Dr. Jack Lamey, who was a high school state champion and an All-American at Stanford University, and later the winner of two Pacific Northwest Golf Association Senior Amateur titles; Bill Gowan, who coached the Everett High School team for nearly three decades; Joe Richer, a former Seagulls standout who followed Gowan as head coach; and scores of talented high school, college and even pro players, among them Holland, Bucklin, Meyer and Olson.
But the influence of some extended beyond competing. Richer, in particular, was committed to seeing that every boy and girl — not just the best, not just the wealthiest — had the chance to play golf. For his efforts, the city's junior programs at Legion Memorial and Everett's other public facility, Walter E. Hall Golf Course (which opened in 1972) continue to bear his name — the Joe Richer Junior Golf Club.
"Joe was a real promoter of kids being exposed to golf," said Olson, who played for Richer for two high school seasons and later succeeded him as golf coach. "He really reached out and tried to involve as many kids as he could."
As the years passed, Everett continued to grow geographically. Also, the Snohomish County golf world was changing with the addition of several new courses. Today there are 16 public golf courses in the county — 13 with 18 holes, three with nine holes — plus a second private course, Mill Creek Country Club.
Likewise, Everett High School no longer dominates the local prep golf scene. Yet Mariner High School, which is part of the Mukilteo School District but within the Everett city limits, has produced some names of note. Brent Webber, a Mariner grad, is the current head pro at Everett G&CC, while another Mariner alum, Rich Friend, is the longtime head pro at Tacoma Country and Golf Club. Another ex-Marauder, Greg Whisman (Bob's son), spent a few years on the PGA Tour in the early 1990s.
They, like so many others, have helped to make Everett's golf history rich and lasting.
Over the years, Holland said, "the city has turned out a whole bunch of good golfers. There really is a long, sustained history of good golfers coming from Everett."
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Let It Go, Sweetheart. The Bangles have released more info regarding the vinyl 45 record they're putting out as a sneak preview of their upcoming CD. It will feature the new song, "Sweetheart Of The Sun," along with acoustic takes on "Hazy Shade Of Winter" and "Let It Go," as well as a cover of Matthew Sweet's "Anna Lee." Sweet has been working with the band on their new disc, and he recorded two CDs worth of cover tunes with Susanna Hoffs. The Bangles official website says the 45 will be available at all Maurice's, but hopefully, there will be other purchasing options for those of us who don't have one of the trendy clothing store's locations in our vicinity.
Pete Says Hello And We Hit The Ceiling. There's also good news concerning the return of another power pop band that started in the 1980s. Peter Holsapple recently tweeted that the long-awaited dBs album is almost finished. He added, "Thank you for your patience. It will be rewarded, I think, exponentially." It's a safe bet he's right.
Feel Lucky, Punk? Elvis Costello is coming back to Chicago, and he's bringing his spinning wheel with him. Tickets go on sale tomorrow for the May 15th date of Costello's "The Revolving Tour," AKA The Return Of Spectacular Spinning Songbook at the Chicago Theater. He'll be backed by The Imposters as he plays tunes randomly selected by audience members who play a sort of mammoth roulette game. Costello has used the device in the past, and I believe it resulted in him covering songs by other artists as well, such as "King Midas In Reverse" by The Hollies.
We Know Something About Tomorrow. The Bad Examples have just released an impressive new CD in Smash Record. Meanwhile, the band's guitarist Steve Gerlach will be performing with his sci-fi rock side project Tomorrow The Moon at Beat Kitchen on February 24th as part of the Lou-Aid benefit. It's the band's first show in almost half a year.
Two For Lou. Actually, several bands will be coming together for Lou-Aid on a pair of Thursday nights later this month. Proceeds will go to help musician Lou Hallwas (Penthouse Sweets, The Differents) with bills from a recent hospital stay. The showcase on the 10th at Quenchers features Suzy Brack And The New Jack Lords, Phil Angotti, The Webstirs, John's People, and Hallwas himself. The showcase on the 24th at Beat Kitchen will see performances from The Handcuffs, the previously mentioned Tomorrow The Moon, Penthouse Sweets, Organ Wolf, and We Repel Each Other. Suggested donation is $10 or more.
Rocking In Palatine. Yellow Matter Custard, a band comprised of veteran musicians Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Paul Gilbert, and Kasim Sulton, will be performing A Tribute To The Beatles at Durty Nellie's in my humble hometown on Sunday, February 27th, at 7:30 PM. The $30 tickets are available exclusively at The Drum Pad, which is located at 48 W. Palatine Road, a short walk from Durty Nellie's.
FIF Goes On Without Me. My old comedy group Famous In The Future will air its latest TV special this Monday night at 9:00PM on Channel 19 Cable Access in Chicago. The show will include skits like the children's tale/political movement mashup "Alice And The Tea Party" from Famous In The Future's appearances at the past two annual Abbie Fests at the Mary-Arrchie Theatre. It can also be seen on Channel 19 on Tuesday, February 8th at 4:00PM, and Saturday February 26th at 10PM.
Be Sure To Bring Them Something Silver. Speaking of Mary-Arrchie, the theatre will be staging a 25th Anniversary Benefit on June 13th at the Mayne Stage venue on Chicago's north side. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. Hats off to Rich Cotovsky and the crew for all those years of in-your-face theatrical productions, and for creating the annual Abbie Hoffman Died For Our Sins festival.
A New LSD Blows In. WXRT morning DJ Lin Brehmer and WBBM Newsradio morning traffic anchor Bart Shore both played an updated version of the vintage folk rock hit "Lake Shore Drive" by Aliotta, Haynes, & Jeremiah this morning. It's a very topical parody created by Skip Haynes that describes hazardous conditions that stranded several motorists on the title street this past Tuesday night.
I Am The Eggman, I Am The Clay Man. Sarah Louise Klose contributed a short item to the File column of this month's Illinois Entertainer about an artist named Taylor Zitman, who creates hand-designed polymer clay figures of rock and roll stars. The photo showed The Beatles in their Sgt. Pepper gear, and Zitman has also molded likenesses of Lady GaGa and Amy Winehouse. She sells her creations for $50 to $70, depending how much work is involved. Special orders can be made through her website.


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(NBC) We've all seen kids tune out the rest of the world, totally engrossed in technology.
Now new research suggests parents can be just as drawn to the light of tablets and smartphones as kids are.
Dr. Jenny Radesky and colleagues at Boston Medical Center did a study in which they observed how 55 caregivers interacted with young children while they were eating at fast food restaurants.
Some of the adults were absorbed in their devices, texting, swiping and scrolling their way through the meal, ignoring the kids.
Experts say face-to-face conversations are crucial to kids' development of language and social skills.
"How to take turns in a conversation and build those sorts of social skills, how to build empathy, you need to be take someone else's perspective, watch their facial reactions," said Radesky.
Researchers readily admit that this snapshot of caregiver/kid relationships is not meant to give a clear picture of all parents, but it's a good reminder for even the most well-intentioned moms and dads to turn off their phones and tune in to their kids.


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Drinking is great! Drinking too much can also be great! But drinking way too much really sucks—and a lot of the time, we do it by accident. But these Alcohol by Volume glasses will help you drink responsibly.
Each side corresponds to beer, wine, or liquor, displaying how much of each constitutes a "drink"—so pick your poison, and pour accordingly. You see, less wine packs the same punch as more beer, and so on. Now you won't have any excuse for filling a glassful of gin and punching a hole through your roommate's TV after calling every ex-girlfriend you've ever had with your other arm in the toilet. [Think Geek]


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Every time I use Google Search, the browser or the music player of my Samsing Galaxy S II (Android 2.3), even if I push the back button until it brings me back to the home screen, the apps keep running in background (seen in the "Active Applications" widget).
Do they consume my batery? Do they enter in some kind of supended mode, so they don't consume the CPU? If they do consume, is there any configuration to make them really close when I push the back button?


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UC budget lacks transparency, state audit says
SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of California should justify to the public why it spends thousands of dollars more per student at four of its 10 campuses and also do a better job of explaining how it spends more than $1 billion it allots annually to "miscellaneous services," state auditors said Thursday.
The audit found no major malfeasance in the university system's budgeting or spending, but noted a lack of transparency in the way it handles its finances that could erode public trust.
For example, $6 billion was budgeted for the UC president's office over five years, all of it falling under a line-item category called miscellaneous services.
Without offering specific detail, there is no way for the public to know what the money is used for, even if the purpose is for legitimate expenses such as office furniture, food, travel or the hiring of consultants, the report said. And that could lead to confusion and mistrust, the auditors said.
State Sen. Leland Yee, a frequent critic of UC, called for the audit early last year after several tuition increases led to student protests sparked by criticism of executive compensation and administrative spending. The San Francisco Democrat said he believed the audit would help uncover waste, fraud and abuse within the UC system.
The 15-month audit analyzed UC finances from 2005 to 2010.
On Thursday, UC President Mark Yudof noted that the "exhaustive audit" found no evidence of such problems.
"We are proud of the fact that we have come through this review with validation of so many of our procedures and policies," he said.
Confirmed criticisms
Still, the audit echoed long-standing concerns among UC students and workers.
Even before the report's release, UC officials began efforts to assess the system's accounting practices.
Among other things, the audit released Thursday also highlighted significant disparities in the amount spent on students at each of UC's campuses.
On average, the UC budget allocated $19,529 to each UCLA student while UC Santa Barbara received $12,309 per student. UCSF, which offers only graduate programs in health services, got more than $55,000 per student.
In addition, three campuses with a greater ratio of minority students - Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz - received far less per student than the other campuses, the audit found.
Those disparities can be partially explained by the costs associated with the health science programs, medical schools and number of graduate students at some of the schools, auditors said.
Even so, UC officials fail to provide those details to justify the differences, the audit found.
UC students applauded the audit's call for putting more detailed information into the public's hands.
"University of California students are excited to finally see where our tuition and fee dollars are going," said UC Santa Cruz student Claudia Magana, president of the UC Student Association for 2010-11, in a statement. "The university has not been fully transparent with its budget and fiscal policies, while making students pay more to only receive less."
Yee not mollified
Yee said the audit confirmed his belief that UC has a problem with openness.
"While the UC Office of the President knows how to pay lip-service to the goals of accountability and transparency, the state audit demonstrates how UC is falling down on the job in practice," Yee said in a statement Thursday. "It is clear that there remains many significant problems with the way UC operates, and this audit clearly illustrates both new and ongoing problems."
In addition, the amounts allocated to each campus are based on a formula that hasn't been adjusted or analyzed for 20 years, the report said.
UC officials have only recently created a committee to reevaluate the formula.
In 2009-10, the 10 campuses served 232,613 students and employed 134,410 full-time employees.
During that time, the university's revenue went up 25 percent to $11.3 billion last year, thanks mostly to four separate tuition and fee increases over the five-year period.
At the same time, pension and retirement costs soared to $3.2 billion from $211 million - an increase related to changes in accounting rules and retiree obligations.
State funding during the five years declined by 9 percent to $2.3 billion.
To see the complete audit, go to links.sfgate.com/ZLBD.
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- What Is Complera?
- Who Should Take Complera?
- Who Should Not Take Complera?
- What About Drug Resistance?
- How Is Complera Taken?
- What Are the Side Effects?
- How Does Complera React With Other Drugs?
What Is Complera?
Complera is a tablet that contains three antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) used to fight HIV: rilpivirine (Edurant), emtricitabine (Emtriva), and tenofovir (Viread). Complera is manufactured by Gilead and Janssen. In Europe it is called Eviplera. It is the second tablet that includes a complete antiretroviral regimen (after Atripla, see Fact Sheet 439).
The drugs in Complera are a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (rilpivirine) and two nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors, or nukes (emtricitabine and tenofovir). These drugs block the reverse transcriptase enzyme. This enzyme changes HIV's genetic material (RNA) into the form of DNA. This has to occur before HIV's genetic code gets inserted into an infected cell's own genetic codes.
Who Should Take Complera?
Complera was approved in 2011 as an antiretroviral treatment for adults with HIV infection who have not already taken antiviral drugs. In 2012, its approval was restricted to patients whose viral load (see Fact Sheet 125) is below 100,000.
There are no absolute rules about when to start antiretroviral therapy (ART). You and your health care provider should consider your CD4 cell count, your viral load, any symptoms you are having, and your attitude about taking ART. Fact Sheet 404 has more information about guidelines for the use of ART.
If you take Complera, you can reduce your viral load to extremely low levels, and increase your CD4 cell counts. This should mean staying healthier longer.
Complera provides three drugs in one pill. It can be more convenient to use Complera than some other combinations of drugs. This could mean fewer missed doses and better control of HIV. Complera can be an effective regimen of ARVs in one pill.
Who Should Not Take Complera?
Complera should not be used by people who have already used any other anti-HIV medications. Also, it is not recommended for patients less than 18 years of age. Complera has not been studied in people age 65 and over.
Complera is a fixed-dose combination. Dosages of the individual components cannot be adjusted. Patients who have moderate or severe kidney disease, or severe liver disease, should not use Complera.
What About Drug Resistance?
Many new copies of HIV are mutations. They are slightly different from the original virus. Some mutations can keep multiplying even when you are taking an ARV. When this happens, the drug will stop working. This is called "developing resistance" to the drug. See Fact Sheet 126 for more information on resistance.
Sometimes, if your virus develops resistance to one drug, it will also have resistance to other ARVs. This is called "cross-resistance."
Resistance can develop quickly. It is very important to take ARVs according to instructions, on schedule, and not to skip or reduce doses.
How Is Complera Taken?
Complera is taken by mouth as a tablet. The normal adult dose is one tablet, once a day. Each tablet includes 25 milligrams (mg) of rilpivirine, 200 mg of emtricitabine, and 300 mg of tenofovir.
Complera should be taken with a meal. If you miss your dose, you can take Complera up to 12 hours late. Otherwise, take your next dose at the regular time.
What Are the Side Effects?
When you start any ART, you may have temporary side effects such as headaches, high blood pressure, or a general sense of feeling ill. These side effects usually get better or disappear over time.
The most common side effects of Complera are the same as with the drugs it contains: rilpivirine, emtricitabine (see Fact Sheet 420), and tenofovir (see Fact Sheet 419). They include depression, headache, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, anxiety, rash, dizziness, insomnia, and loss of appetite.
If you have had hepatitis B or C, your liver function tests may increase significantly. These should be monitored carefully. Some people taking Complera who have previously taken emtricitabine or tenofovir have had their hepatitis B worsen significantly.
How Does Complera React With Other Drugs?
Complera can interact with other drugs or supplements you are taking. These interactions can change the amount of each drug in your bloodstream and cause an under- or overdose. New interactions are constantly being identified. Make sure that your health care provider knows about ALL drugs and supplements you are taking.
Drugs to avoid include some antacids. Drugs to watch out for include other ARVs, drugs to treat tuberculosis (see Fact Sheet 518), for erectile dysfunction (such as Viagra), and for heart rhythm (antiarrhythmics). Interactions are also possible with several antihistamines (allergy medications), sedatives, drugs to lower cholesterol, and anti-fungal drugs.
The herb St. John's Wort (See Fact Sheet 729) lowers the blood levels of some non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Do not take it with Complera.


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Stations of the Cross – Multimedia for Lent
Loyola Press has prepared a wonderful multimedia stations of the cross* for children. There is a PDF document that you can download and/or print out. In addition, there is a wonderful multimedia meditation with music and images that could be shared with your families or used in your classroom with your students.
Let's just brainstorm quickly how you could use this multimedia presentation:
- Email the families of the children in your program or class. Encourage parents to share the stations prayer with their children. Include a short invitation to your parish Stations of the Cross that will be held at your parish during Lent. Remember to include the link of this meditation in your email message. Link: http://www.loyolapress.com/multimedia-stations-of-the-cross-for-children.htm
- Open or close your class (or meeting) with the online meditation. If you do not have access to the Internet, you can download a copy of the PDF file to your computer showing the meditation on your computer screen and/or projecting the image on a screen using a LCD projector. Invite different students to say the prayer for each station. You may want to have a CD Player with an appropriate choice of music in the background.
- If you do not have a way to show the multimedia presentation, print the meditation out and go over to your church. You can distribute a copy of the prayer for each of the stations to the students and as you proceed from station to station, the student can read the prayer for the group.
To engage the students in being very involved in creating their stations of the cross, once you have a printed copy of the meditation distribute the sections of the meditation to small groups and/or individual students. Invite them to create their own images for the station using any variety of media – pens, markers, crayons, etc. Invite them to bring their drawings to class. Collect the images and ask a high school student to scan the images for you. Once they are in a Digital format, work with your webmaster to add the stations that have been created by your students to the parish website.
If students have access to a computer either in the classroom or at home, direct them to a shared folder using Google Docs – Presentation. If you need information about this Google option, go to (GDocs Presentation ) or Google Docs Tutorial. If you are interested in embedding this presentation into your blog, go to Embedding Google Docs in Your Blog Posts ) .
Of course there are other tools that you can use to create an image of the Station that you have been assigned. For those using mobile tools (especially the iPad), you may want to encourage your families to work on creating their own Stations of the Cross with their children. For the types of tools to recommend to your families, go to – Top 10 Apps for Digital Storytelling. Often these tools will allow you to share links of completed projects with others. You can ask your families to email to you the links of their meditations. These links can then be included on your websites and/or blogs.
If you are looking for other Stations of the Cross Meditations, either for your classroom or to suggest to your families, you may want to explore:
Children's Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross Carousel
Stations of the Cross for Teens
You Tube Videos – Stations of the Cross – A puppet version of the Stations of the Cross. The puppet show is created by Jesuit Brother Edward Sheehy.
Would love to hear your stories and ideas of how you are using online videos and involving your students this Lent using electronic tools.
If you like this article, click the "Like" button or add your comment to this blog. Or, forward to others who are interested in Stations of the Cross with their children.
* The stations images are from Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, Inc., Hanceville, Alabama as shown in the Loyola Press website article "Multimedia Stations of the Cross for Children"?
(c)2012, Caroline Cerveny


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I am modeling a database to be used for vehicle spare parts inventory management and I am stuck...
Some spare parts can be broken down from a kit into component parts. I would like to create a model that supports this, but do not know how to build it.
Spare parts can be issued in sets or pieces. The database should keep information about how many complete sets we have and how many have been broken into pieces. For instance, one piston ring set will have 6 different individual piston rings.
Can you point me in the right direction?


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So the weekends are more difficult for posting but that didn't mean I didn't drink this weekend. Day 7 took us back to the Left Hand Brewing Company for their 400 Pound Monkey India Pale Ale.
I am becoming a fan of the Left Hand Brewery and I am hoping Diana put more of these in the Advent.
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Welcome to the live games commentary of the World Championship match between Anand and Topalov on the international chess news website Chessdom.com.
The live games will be commented by our resident commentators team, headed by the Women World Champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, one of the top French grandmasters Christian Bauer, and the young star international master Alexander Ipatov. Besides them we will be joined live by GM Aveskulov, NM Karagianis (aka coach K), IM Miodrag Perunovic, and Jason Juett (who is to only player to have played a chess game on the scene of Anand - Topalov match photos here) and many titled guest commentators.
Anand - Topalov information: General page / Official site / Photo gallery / Schedule / Live with analysis
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Blockchains are distributed databases, secure and transparent by virtue of peer-to-peer communities that cryptographically validate each entry. As the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the blockchain has given rise to divergent speculations about the future of politics and finance outside of direct state control, from collective utopias to sublime dystopias.
Organized by Rhizome's Artistic Director, Michael Connor, "Blockchain Horizons" convenes artists, critics, and entrepreneurs to discuss the cultural implications of this technology for publishing, licensing, and distribution. In doing so, it treats the blockchain as social fact rather than science fiction.


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South Rampart Street, home to the Eagle Saloon, the Iroquois
Theater and the Karnofsky Tailor Shop and House, was once a
flourishing entertainment and commercial district for African
Americans containing drugstores, barber shops, theaters, live
music venues, combination grocery stores/saloons, second-hand
stores, saloons and pawn shops. Those who knew South Rampart
in its heyday remember it as the "hub of black life." South
Rampart was part of "back of town," one of New Orleans' most
important neighborhoods in the early development of Jazz. The
Eagle Saloon was a favorite haunt of early Jazz musicians, possibly
giving its name to the Eagle Band, the successor to Buddy Bolden's
band. Although it has not been documented with absolute certainty,
the third floor of this building is widely believed by locals
to be the location of the famed Odd Fellows ballroom, an early
Jazz venue where musicians such as Buddy Bolden and the Robichaux
Orchestra played. The Iroquois Theater, a vaudeville and silent
movie theater, was a creative center of entertainment where
musicians played Jazz and Blues to accompany stage acts and
films. Theaters such as the Iroquois served as training grounds
for young musicians and gave local players exposure to national
touring acts. Louis Armstrong recalled watching movies for ten
cents and winning an amateur contest at the Iroquois Theater.
The Karnofsky Tailor Shop and House was owned and operated by
the Karnofsky family--a Jewish family remembered for befriending
a young Louis Armstrong, who worked for their junk business.
Although records cannot tie Louis Armstrong to the tailor shop,
it is undeniable that he remained a friend of the family throughout
his career. The Eagle Saloon, the Iroquois Theater and the Karnofsky
Tailor Shop and House are a few examples of the many once thriving
businesses that drew African Americans to South Rampart Street
in the first half of the twentieth century.
WROX Building:
Clarksdale, Mississippi
In 1946, two years after its first broadcast, WROX AM moved
to 257 Delta Avenue where the station remained until 1954. During
the 1940s 66,530 families who owned radios were within WROX's
coverage area and were able to listen to "Sonny Boy's Corn Meal
and King Biscuit's show," an influential Blues show out of Helena,
Arkansas that featured Sonny Boy Williamson. Early Wright, "The
Soul Man," is believed to have become the first black deejay
in Mississippi when he joined WROX in 1947. For 52 years Wright
hosted a weekly R&B show from the WROX building, interviewing
musical personalities such as B. B. King, Charlie Pride, Muddy
Waters, Tina Turner, Bobby Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert
Nighthawk, Rufus Thomas, Elvis Presley, Little Milton and Pinetop
Perkins. He is also credited with fostering the career of Ike
Turner. Today, the WROX Building houses two retail establishments
on the first floor and a dance studio on the third floor. The
second floor, home to WROX, remains unaltered from the time
of the radio station's occupancy. Plans are underway for a restoration
of the building.
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Cassini at Saturn
An update on Cassini's recent flyby of Saturn's moon Titan. Two lakes were discovered, along with other science data.
Transcript:Hi. I'm Candace Hansen.
I'm one of the Cassini scientists and we just had another flyby of Titan on September 23rd.
This time our science goal was to dip into the atmosphere and get a sample.
And it's a little nerve-wracking because when you go down deep in the atmosphere there's always a little chance we could actually lose control of the orientation of the spacecraft.
If we lose this orientation of the spacecraft, it's fine. But we don't collect all of the science data that we intended because our instruments are not pointed in the direction that we wanted.
But we were fine the spacecraft came through just fine and we got great data. And we've learned that Titan's upper atmosphere has about 10 times as many different molecules as a similar level on the Earth.
And we also got a little sample of radar data as we flew by and found 2 more lakes.
We will have another flyby, October 9th and that one will be focused on radar so we expect to get a long swath with lots and lots of lakes.
I'm Candace Hansen with the Cassini Flyby Report.


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By Kelpie Wilson
t r u t h o u t | Report
Thursday 03 May 2007
Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia - As delegates met in Bangkok this week to debate climate change solutions contained in the IPCC's latest report, one technology not mentioned in the draft report was being closely examined at a conference in Australia in the beach town of Terrigal, just north of Sydney.
The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a "wedge" of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.
Agrichar is the term not for the biomass fuel, but for what is left over after the energy is removed: a charcoal-based soil amendment. In simple terms, the agrichar process takes dry biomass of any kind and bakes it in a kiln to produce charcoal. The process is called pyrolysis. Various gases and bio-oils are driven off the material and collected to use in heat or power generation. The charcoal is buried in the ground, sequestering the carbon that the growing plants had pulled out of the atmosphere. The end result is increased soil fertility and an energy source with negative carbon emissions.
Prominent Australian scientist Tim Flannery, who has written a book on global warming called "The Weather Makers," was on hand to give encouragement to the conferees. "I am deeply committed to your solution," he told the group. In a keynote address, Flannery provided an update on the acceleration of global warming, from the rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet to the unprecedented drought that has gripped Australia.
Because the pace of global warming already exceeds projections, Flannery is convinced that the world must do more than just reduce emissions; we must find ways to rapidly remove CO2 from the atmosphere. According to many researchers at the conference, agrichar has the potential to store billions of tons of carbon safely away in soils.
The attendees were clearly excited by this potential, and, unlike other meetings concerned with climate change, an electric buzz of optimism was in the air. Joe Herbertson, director of a consulting company called Crucible Carbon, said, "When I heard about this technology, the hairs went up on the back of my neck. This is the best news on climate change I've ever heard."
One reason for the excitement is agrichar's potential to address a range of problems from poor soil fertility to waste disposal to rural development. About half the world's population relies on charcoal for cooking fuel, and the production of charcoal drives deforestation in Africa and other places. Smoky, inefficient charcoal kilns pollute the air with noxious gases that harm health and heat the planet.
An effort to replace these kilns with modern, efficient pyrolysis units would relieve the pressure on forests by reducing waste and adding the ability to use any source of biomass, including agricultural waste products such as rice hulls. The ultimate objective is to produce enough charcoal to have some left over to bury and increase soil fertility, leading to a bootstrapping effect where increased yields provide both more food and more biomass for energy.
Projects discussed at the agrichar meeting ranged from a household-size pyrolyzing stove that produces both cooking gas and charcoal, to industrial-scale units capable of processing large waste streams from sugar mills, pulp mills, poultry farms and even municipalities.
Some participants suggested that energy, rather than agriculture, would be the key driver for adopting biomass pyrolysis. There is a tradeoff between producing energy or charcoal, as the process can be optimized for either one. Desmond Radlein of Dynamotive Energy Systems said, "It is wishful thinking that people will switch to renewable fuels unless it is cheaper. All of this is tied to the price of oil; as it goes up, many more things are possible." Because it costs money for transport and the labor to put agrichar into soil, Radlein feels that the path forward lies with biomass energy plantations fertilized by agrichar, which will become a self-sustaining loop pumping carbon into soils, paid for by the energy yield.
Robert Flanagan, an entrepreneur working in China, had a different view. There are 700 million farmers in China, he pointed out. China could quickly deploy a small, village-level pyrolysis unit he is developing, and because labor is cheap, spreading the agrichar on fields would be affordable even without a large energy harvest.
Others at the conference felt that an expanding market for carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol would be the force that drives the adoption of agrichar. Mike Mason, director of the UK biomass company, Biojoule, said the impact of agrichar on nitrous oxide emissions alone would be enough incentive to fund the needed projects.
Nitrous oxide is 270 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas and it lasts for 150 years in the atmosphere. Use of nitrogen fertilizers is a major source of the gas, and a difficult one to mitigate. But agrichar applied to fields seems to have a significant damping effect on nitrous oxide emissions. Lukas Van Zwieten, a researcher at the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, looking at preliminary results of his field trials measuring nitrous oxide emissions from agrichar amended soils, said "the more I look into this, the more excited I get."
Several farmers attending the conference were primarily interested in the increased yields possible with agrichar. Australia has some of the poorest soils in the world - 75 percent of Australia's soils have less than one percent carbon.
The exceptional properties of charcoal in soil were first noticed in the Amazon where there are large areas of what is called "terra preta" or Amazonian dark earths. These dark earths can be several feet deep and contain up to nine percent carbon, as compared with nearby soils that have only about half of one percent. In one of the most fascinating aspects of this story, the terra preta soils turn out to have been deliberately created by a lost Amazonian civilization. Some of the areas have been dated going back to more than 7,000 years, and they are still highly fertile.
Field trials and experiments in pots show impressive yield gains in charcoal-amended soils, but so far researchers don't completely understand why. One question is whether the effect is primarily chemical and physical or primarily biological. Charcoal is a highly porous material that is very good at holding nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus and making them available to plant roots. It also aerates soil and helps it retain water.
Charcoal's pores also make excellent habitat for a variety of soil microorganisms and fungi. Think of a coral reef that provides structure and habitat for a bewildering variety of marine species. Charcoal is like a reef on a micro-scale.
One of the research papers presented at the conference documented an increased diversity of beneficial microbes in terra preta soils as compared with unamended soils, but there are still no answers about whether the fertility increase is due to physical or biological factors. The best answer may be that it is both.
One very evident tension at the conference was between the scientists who are trying to better understand how agrichar works, and the farmers and investors who want to apply the technology as soon as possible. But one obstacle to deploying agrichar is the ability to quantify its effects in order to create both a reliable product for farmers and a solid guarantee of agrichar's carbon-fixing capacity for the carbon-trading market.
To that end, one of the most important research questions is how long the charcoal stays fixed in the soil. It's important to distinguish char, or black carbon, from soil organic carbon that comes from adding compost, manure or crop residues. According to John Gaunt of Cornell University, this kind of fresh organic matter does not stay in the soil but is almost all released back into the atmosphere as CO2 within ten years. For this reason, soil organic carbon has not qualified as a carbon emissions reduction that would be tradable under the Kyoto protocol.
Johannes Lehman, also of Cornell, is attempting to determine what percentage of the char stays fixed in the soil. Some of it does oxidize, he says, but it's difficult to say how much. He believes that agrichar-amended soils will see an initial period of weathering, after which they will be stable for long periods.
Certainly the existence of the terra preta soils in the Amazon is testimony to the long-term carbon-fixing ability of agrichar, and several conference participants felt that it would be best to settle on a conservative amount of guaranteed carbon fixation and move as quickly as possible to get policy in place to qualify agrichar as a tradable form of emissions reduction.
The feeling in Terrigal was universal that there is no time to waste in deploying the agrichar wedge as a global warming solution.
However, there were some additional cautions sounded about the potential for abuse, especially the pitfall of all biomass schemes - the danger that too much of the planet's land will be appropriated for human needs and not enough left for other species. Mark Glover of Renewed Fuel said that the source of biomass must be carefully determined and that it would not do to repeat the mistakes of the palm oil industry, which is rapidly deforesting the habitat of orangutans in Indonesia, or the American corn ethanol industry, which has ended up pricing tortillas out of the reach of Mexico's poor.
Mike Mason of Biojoule expressed concern over the quantities of biomass needed, but he said that if properly phased in, agrichar can be the solution we are all looking for. First, he said, we must take the four billion tons of agricultural waste products produced every year and turn as much of that as possible into char and bury it in soils to increase soil fertility. After a few years, as the productivity of our fields rises, we can begin optimizing biomass pyrolysis for energy production to help replace coal and fossil fuels. Eventually, as our energy supply becomes decarbonized and we move more and more to rely on solar, wind and ocean power, we can shift biomass utilization back to char again and keep sequestering more carbon to get atmospheric levels back to pre-industrial levels.
In addition to directing Biojoule, Mason is also the founder of Climate Care, a highly successful voluntary carbon-offset program that supports renewable energy projects in the developing world, so he is one of those visionary people who also knows how to make things happen.
By the end of the conference, after the participants had considered the political and economic obstacles to the vision, there was a bit of sobering up, but not much. Robert Flanagan set up one of his pyrolyzing wood cookstoves out on the beach and the scientists and entrepreneurs quaffed beer and roasted marshmallows over the smokeless glowing coals. Occasionally the stove would belch a sudden puff of foul smoke and Flanagan would rush to adjust the downdraft control.
After an hour or so, Flanagan opened the stove and dumped a few chunks of charcoal out onto the sand. Those small morsels of black lying on the white expanse of sand might symbolize the embryonic state of their movement, but for most of the conference participants, agrichar was still the best news they had ever heard.
Kelpie Wilson is Truthout's environment editor. Trained as a mechanical engineer, she embarked on a career as a forest protection activist, then returned to engineering as a technical writer for the solar power industry. She is the author of Primal Tears, an eco-thriller about a hybrid human-bonobo girl. Greg Bear, author of Darwin's Radio, says: "Primal Tears is primal storytelling, thoughtful and passionate. Kelpie Wilson wonderfully expands our definitions of human and family."
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