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A new study shows that blind love could actually be a good thing — being a little bit deluded about your partner could even save your marriage.
According to the LA Times, psychologists studied 222 couples for the first three years of marriage — "time enough, science has shown, for the marital blahs to set in" (it's kind of depressing that science has clocked the onset of "marital blahs"). The only ones who avoided a decline in satisfaction were those who were idealistic about their partners from the very beginning. Actually, only one partner had to be an idealist — a partner who thinks you're the greatest thing ever also increases your marital happiness. Says study author Sandra Murray, "We've found that being idealized by your partner changes the way you feel about yourself."
Other researchers note that idealism isn't a substitute for actually fixing problems that arise in a relationship. And of course, thinking that your partner is flawlessly honest when he's actually an international con artist could cause problems. But it's no surprise that thinking somebody's the bestest ever — or having a partner who thinks that about you — can be good for a marriage. It may be easier, for instance, to deal with a relationship's inevitable problems if you think you're basically with a great catch. The research is also a rebuke to the recently-popular gospel of "settling for Mr. Good Enough" — shockingly, people who are actually really into their partners may have a better time. And maybe when the shit hits the fan, "good enough" doesn't actually look all that awesome.
Rose-Colored Glasses May Help Love Last [LAT]
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Ability to Tag Friends in Comments
I'd like the ability to tag friends by (user)name in comments. Similar to how many other sites like Facebook and Twitter have the @ notation for making comments to a specific person and they are notified of the comment. It would add more interaction to the conversations.

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Strategy ShiftBy Dale Buss
Case Study: Land O'Lakes and Collaborative Logistics
Every Monday at 8 a.m. sharp, a semi truck pulls out from a warehouse in Syracuse, N.Y., traversing 246 miles to deliver a load of Totino's Pizza Rolls, Pillsbury Toaster Strudel or other frozen General Mills Inc. products to supermarket customers in Carteret, N.J.
From there, it's on to General Mills plants and warehouses in Allentown, Pa.; Geneva, Ill.; and Columbus, Ohio1,319 more milesbefore the truck pulls into a Land O'Lakes Inc. dairy plantnot affiliated with General Millsin Kent, Ohio, on Wednesday morning to pick up a load of butter and other refrigerated spreads bound for a Land O'Lakes warehouse in Florence, N.J., before "deadhauling" back to General Mills in Syracuse to start the circuit all over again.
It's a seemingly straightforward route of 2,243 miles but it's a significant journey for Arden Hills, Minn.-based Land O'Lakes and an historic haul for companies that follow its example and use the Web to collaborate with outsiders, and perhaps even competitors, to cut costs and rewrite industry rules in a way that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
While this particular rig on this particular route saves Land O'Lakes only about $200 a week by eliminating the need to "deadhaul" an empty semi-rig to Kent, add all these runs together, plus other shared routes, and such piggybacking is enabling a new in-house logistics strategy at Land O'Lakes that is cutting annual freight costs by 15 percent. "Before the Net, there was no way to handle the logistical, security and scheduling challenges required to team up with other companies to share delivery savings like this," says Bruce Richardson of AMR Research Inc. "The Net can give you the tools to manage it all." And how: Logistics management innovation has dairy cooperative Land O'Lakes looking at the Internet as a cash cow: So far, costs per load of product shipped, says Land O'Lakes, have been cut by up to 20 percent on some routes.
How does it work? In concept, collaboration logistics is a lot like car pooling: Just as ride sharing helps commuters reduce traffic, save fuel and, in some cases, speed the trip, Land O'Lakes is using the Web to share thousands of supply trucks to better coordinate hundreds of thousands of deliveries of everything from raw grain to boxes of sweet cream butter. And the Web is also helping LOL to negotiate better contracts with fewer carriers and rate carriers for quality, costs and performance. Does the carrier get to customers' docks on time? Are the carrier's prices competitive?
This all might not sound like a big deal, but consider this: A year and a half ago, Land O'Lakes truckerssome 50 different carriersspent much of their time shuttling empty rigs down slow-moving backwayswasting up to millions of dollars annually.
Now, thanks to the Web, the company can identify the empty rigs, best carriers and find the fastest routesand piggyback onto dozens of General Mills' and Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s routes to gain savings. These companies are able to do this, in part, by tapping into the processing power of a Web-based logistics network developed and hosted by Minneapolis-based transportation logistics software firm Nistevo Corp., that enables 24 other companiesfrom Baxter Healthcare to Seneca Foods Corp. and Ivex Packaging Corp.to share some routes for savings.
For Land O'Lakes, it's no small changeeither logistically or budget-wise. Multiply the $200 savings on a given route by 40 to 50 new weekly shared routes this year, and Land O'Lakes expects to cut its freight costs by as much as $500,000 annually. Overall, Land O'Lakes hopes to trim several million dollars in annual expenses by applying its Internet-based logistics-management system, including tapping into a collaborative network with other firms, to its annual haul of 35,000 truckloads of dairy products. "In the packaged foods industry, delivery trucks are hauling airthey're empty20 to 25 percent of the time from one stop to the next," says Patrick Johnson, supply-chain logistics manager for the $6 billion company, and the executive who has led Land O'Lakes into this collaborative future. "In the first year alone under this system we saved $2 million in freight costs, and the company was able to take that right to the bottom line."
Since LOL's Johnson launched this leg of his new logistics strategy in 2001, the savings have kept on trucking: Land O'Lakes is also moving into collaborative warehousing, another Web-based trend for companies seeking to better manage transportation costs. "The Net is changing the way industries and companies look at the nature of competition," says Stanford University professor Hau Lee, a supply-chain expert.
Land O'Lakes is not alone in reaping substantial savings: Spice maker McCormick & Co. Inc. has reduced freight costs by 5 percent to 15 percent, while General Mills has estimated savings of up to 7 percent of its overall logistics costs. And given the savings it gets from a vast and growing Web of load sharing, Kellogg Co. eventually may find it irresistible to split a truck with archrival General Mills. Similarly, collaborative logistics is winning over manufacturers of household paper products such as Georgia-Pacific and International Paper Co. Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific, for example, shares about 80 long-distance circuits with General Mills on a regular basis, cutting freight costs for those runs by anywhere from 5 to 20 percent, says Paul Snider, director of transportation for the Green Bay, Wis.-based consumer products division of the company.
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But for Land O'Lakes, using collaborative logistics to find new savings has been particularly urgent. The nation's third-largest seller of branded dairy foods ran into trouble last year in every major area of operations. Sales fell $712 million from the previous year, to $5.8 billion, partly due to smaller markets for branded dairy products as a result of the souring economy. Land O'Lakes also is saddled with debt from its 2001 acquisition of Purina Mills, the St. Louis-based company it bought to boost its clout in the highly competitive feed business.
Another factor is the long shadow of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which is marching further into the grocery business. Wal-Mart's renowned distribution system includes super-efficient regional distribution centers across the country, where trucks bringing goods in and taking them out can simply "cross-dock" without hav-ing to stash a lot of inventory in a holding area. Land O'Lakes and its rivals, therefore, must be able to accommodate Wal-Mart's demanding schedules by having trucks show up exactly when they're due. "You want to make sure," Johnson says, "that you take care of Wal-Mart."
But most pressing of all may be Land O'Lakes CEO John E. Gherty's new internal "Fit to Compete" program, a push begun earlier this year to bolster the co-op's internal efficiencies to cut costs, boost market share and shore up sagging sales. Land O'Lakes' farmer owners are insisting the dairy foods co-op play harder against the big guysdirect rivals Dean Foods Co. and Kraft Foods Inc., among them.
Land O'Lakes has to compete for space in the refrigerated case with these giants, which throw their weight around using their size, clout and relationships with supermarket retailers, paying slotting allowances and engaging in other practices that make the fight for grocery-store real estate a brutal one, says David Phillips, editor of Dairy Foods, a Chicago-based industry publication. "They're all having a hard time right now because the price of cheese has dropped and new players have come in, the price of milk has dropped, and the market appears saturated," Phillips says.
Meanwhile, the grocery business is consolidating. Fewer, bigger players are dominating the landscape, including Wal-Mart, which is shaking up the natural order in grocery retailing with its immense purchasing power and huge mind share with American consumers. Wal-Mart's aggressive foray into grocery sales cannot be underestimated, analysts say. Grocery-only chains are consolidating nationwide as well, including huge conglomerates of former regional chains such as Dutch-owned Ahold USA. Historically, supermarket profit margins top out at 2 percent, and these developments are threatening to drag them even lower in the short term.
Against that backdrop, says Land O'Lakes' Johnson, collaborative logistics has been a step toward a more connected and real-time supply chain. "The Net, with its ability to track, in real time, various shipments and what's being loaded on which trucks at any given time, made sharing routes for savings seem like a no-brainer," he says.
How does the Nistevo network work? Nistevo's site continuously updates and consolidates information about routes, loads and schedules from members' in-house logistics scheduling systems. It's an impressive feat: Consider that on any weekday, Land O'Lakes alone has some 145 loads hauled by 20 different carriers, running on hundreds of regular routes. Only Nistevo sees the whole picture: "Land O'Lakes routes are not shown to General Mills, for examplebut Nistevo sees where scheduling can occur, and does all the matching," says Johnson.
According to Johnson, the industry estimate is that 20 percent of the miles traveled by common carriers are "non-revenue miles"in other words, miles traveled by empty trucks. Nistevo scans the millions of possible route configurations and route-load combinations to look for inefficiencies that could be solved by merging loads from different companies bound for the same destination.
Cultural Roadblocks
Cultural Roadblocks
But it's not all peaches and cream. Collaborative logistics hasn't yet delivered the supersized savings that the early hype promised. Originally, Land O'Lakes had been hoping for twice the savings over five years; now, the dairy co-op expects savings of only a fraction of that by 2003. "We've not achieved the savings we'd hoped on route-sharing but we still felt it's significant," Johnson says. One drawback, Johnson says, is that there aren't many member companies who need refrigerated trucks like the ones that Land O'Lakes uses to transport its perishable cargo.
Cultural problems also continue to slow wider adoption of the concept. "Teaming with others inside your industry, some of whom are considered the enemy on other fronts, still isn't a simple concept for a lot of people," says AMR's Richardson. The misgivings of one could erode a collaborative logistics network's usefulness for all. Adds Johnson: "Learning to share is still a tremendous challenge. External sharing, our company with another, is hard enough, but sometimes it's even a challenge internally."
There's also worry about scheduling; some shippers are afraid that sharing routes with other companies could make a firm more vulnerable to scheduling delays over which individual companies may have little control. "If production went down, if a customer didn't end up ordering a product, if one link in the chain breaks, then what happens to us when we've built our schedule around that?" says Mike Sinclair, vice president of national accounts for Crete Carrier Corp., a Lincoln, Neb.-based carrier and Nistevo subscriber. "There's no shipper out there who wants to pay an extra 200 to 300 deadhead miles because one company's leg isn't there that week."
Johnson says that he, too, was worried at first, but less so now because Land O'Lakes has limited how often it uses Nistevo externally, opting more to use the network to ship products from one company location to anotherand less to coordinate direct shipments to external customers. "If there was a problem at General Mills and the truck was delayed leaving General Mills and we were counting on it being at our warehouse at a certain time so we could ship out some customer freight on it, sure we'd have some concern. But with us, it hasn't turned out to be a problem, at least not yet."
But concern across companies still runs high. According to the Georgia Institute of Technology, in a survey of corporations about their logistics practices over the past three years, interest in collaborative logistics is greater than actual use for many firms. "If you ask to what extent they're using collaborative logistics or Web-hosted spot buying right now, and to what extent they'll be doing so in the future, we always get enthusiasm for future results," says C. John Langley, professor of supply-chain management at the Atlanta school. "But when we look at the survey the next year, we keep having to conclude that the future hasn't quite arrived yet."
Johnson says the main reason for this in his view is that collaborative logistics is tough to execute. "You're having to share stuff," he says, "and that's never easy in a competitive environment that's made up of companies with different cultures and different objectives and different metrics and performance measurements." Still, Johnson believes the prizesignificant potential savings and efficienciesmake the struggle worthwhile. "Everyone at Land O'Lakes had talked about doing this for a long time, and there have been savings so far, and more to come. There are trucks, for example, that have the space on them to take 45,000 pounds of stuff to customers, yet we're getting only 34,000 or 35,000 pounds on them. If you could get somebody else on that truck with you, to fill it to capacity, it's gravy."
For now, though, some packaged goods partners continue to be plagued by a palpable cultural disconnect between their IT departments and "the logistics guys," Langley says. The big problem, he says, is the indifference or even antipathy some corporate CIOs display toward business-side logistics managers. "Particularly where companies have had a big systems implementation like SAP, they'll stiff-arm everyone else for two or three years until they think they've got everything under control," Langley says. "If you're trying to manage logistics activities, that doesn't help you a whole lot." Adds Adrian Gonzales, senior supply-chain and logistics analyst for the ARC Advisory Group: "Sometimes, the logistics groups aren't high enough on the pecking order to get the good IT support they need."
But not so at Land O'Lakes, where Johnson was determined to make logistics a priorityand worked closely with IT to develop the new logistics strategy from the start. When Johnson arrived at the company in 2000 from Pillsbury's Häagen-Dazs division, he expressed no dissatisfaction with the job being done by traditional third-party logistics provider C.H. Robinson, which saved Land O'Lakes money by negotiating better shipping rates than the co-op could get, charging the company a $15 fee every time Robinson procured a truck.
But Johnson was convinced Land O'Lakes could do betterand he was right. "From talking to carriers, we knew that there was some money on the table if we eliminated the middle person," Johnson recalls. "We figured we could go with a core-carrier strategy, using fewer carriers, which would allow us to leverage our size. We would be more important to them, and they'd want to make us happy." Direct control also would assure that needed capacity was always available. Johnson says LOL's IT people were supportive: "I think the challenge in working with IT any time is finding something you both agree on," Johnson said. "Lots of times, IT thinks it's got bigger fish to fryyou know, ERP systems and the whole nine yards. Logistics is only a very small piece, but it's been very successful for us."
To join Nistevo's network, Land O'Lakes paid an initial subscription fee of $250,000, and the co-op incurred nearly again that much in related startup costs, such as training its 10-person logistics staff to use the Web site. But Johnson says those fees were covered by savings from his logistics strategy within the first six months of use. What's next? Some companies remain determined to try to go to the next level and achieve the holy grail of collaborative logistics: two or more producers sharing a single truckload, not just a route. "There are some products we have that fill up the truck but don't weigh out, such as toilet paper," says Georgia-Pacific's Snider. "If we could partially fill that truck with items that are heavy and dense it would help. Ideally, we'd like to weigh and cube the truck out at the same time."
Land O'Lakes' Johnson, for one, is game. He's trying to arrange for a single truck to carry a refrigerated load for his company, then turn off the cooler and carry a dry loadtoilet paper would qualifyfor a collaborator on the return route. "These problems," he says, "aren't insurmountable." Indeed, for Johnson and Land O'Lakes, collaborative logistics has only begun to milk big savings.
Dale D. Buss is a freelance journalist based in Rochester Hills, Mich. He regularly writes about IT issues and the consumer packaged goods industry. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Business 2.0, Chief Executive and Brandweek. Please send comments about this story to email@example.com.


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The files contain information about reported abusers in 49 states from 1965 to 1985, representing the pain and anguish of thousands of untold scouts. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
Updated at 6:45 pm ET -- More than 1,200 formerly secret Boy Scouts' files detailing accusations of child sex abuse within the organization from 1965 to 1985 were published online Thursday by lawyers, one who said the documents revealed an unintentional but "de facto cover-up of abuse."
The documents, known as the "ineligible volunteer" files within the organization, were ordered released by the Oregon Supreme Court. Media organizations had sued for the release of the files, part of a 2010 case in which a Portland, Ore., jury decided that the Boy Scouts were negligent in allowing a former assistant Scoutmaster to associate with the organization's youth after he admitted molesting 17 boys.
"What we can read through the files, for us it represents the pain and the anguish of thousands of untold Scouts," said attorney Paul Mones, who litigated the 2010 case on behalf of victims in Oregon with lawyer Kelly Clark. "While there are 1,247 files, we know that each Scout leader (accused of molestation) molested on the average more than one Scout."
The attorneys called for Congress to audit the Boy Scouts, which is a congressionally chartered organization, to ensure that the group was following its current policy to protect children from abuse. Boy Scouts National President Wayne Perry said later Thursday the organization welcomed any additional examination by authorities.
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Portland attorney Kelly Clark is shown Tuesday with some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization.
The files, which can be accessed on www.kellyclarkattorney.com, represent reports of Scouts allegedly abused by more than 1,200 different Scoutmasters and other adult volunteers across the country.
People will see in the files "over and over again where there is a concern that this material not get out … this will make Scouting look bad," Clark said. Alleged offenders were also being "given second chances," he added.
"In too many of these individual situations what happened was a de facto cover-up. I don't believe that anybody woke up and conspired and said, 'How do we create a system that would cover up child abuse?' But when they put the interest of the organization ahead of the safety of kids, pretty soon they were engaged in a de facto cover-up of abuse," Clark said.
Child sex abuse survivor on release of Boy Scouts' files: This 'empowers us'
A sampling of some of the files:
-- An assistant Scoutmaster in Texas in 1965 admitted to several acts of "perversion," a Boy Scout executive wrote.
" … of course we don't know yet whether the parents of the boys involved" are "going to file charges or not. The Minister of the Church is doing his best to protect Boy Scouting and keep this incident as quiet as possible …," the executive wrote.
The man tried a dozen years later to take up the same post in another troop but was rejected.
-- A Scoutmaster in Pennsylvania who admitted to "acts of perversion with several troop members" in 1972 was put on probation though he had submitted his resignation letter. It's not clear from the documentation if he indeed maintained the post, but one Scout executive wrote about the situation a few months after the first report:
"If it is acceptable with you, I would like to let this case drop. [He] is undergoing professional treatment in an effort to stabilize his emotional stability. He recognizes that he has had a problem and he is personally taking steps to resolve this situation. The community involved is rather unique and one father has threatened legal action which could only injure the Boy Scouts of America. Therefore, I would suggest that we let it drop. My personal opinion in this particular case is, 'if it don't stink, don't stir it.'"
The man was later allowed to become a Scoutmaster for another troop in 1976 on a probationary status. Two years later, a Scout's mother filed a complaint saying the man had punched her son in the chest, causing him bruises. The Boy Scouts decided to keep him on a probationary status.
A Boy Scouts' director of field services wrote one year later: "We have had no negative reports on [his] service during this past year. Apparently his character and leadership requirements have been satisfactory." But in another document, that appears to be dated 10 years later, a Scouting official wrote on stationery from the national office: "This guy is not still in Scouting is he?"
-- A Cub Scout leader in Alaska was said to be caught sleeping in the nude with boys on a camping trip and showing them pornography.
"The response from the national organization … says: 'I will agree that sleeping nude and showing boys pornographic books indicated very poor judgment in dealing with Cub Scouts,'" said the attorney Clark, who was reading from a letter dated 1981 during a press conference. "'I do not know, however, that this is a serious enough offense to refuse registration anywhere he might try to register unless there are more instances.'"
The file shows that a Boy Scouts' council executive submitted information from the Air Force that the man had faced a court-martial in December 1981. He was convicted of wrongfully and willfully permitting and condoning two boys under the age of 16 to engage in sexually oriented activities.
Included in the file is a newspaper article from 1991 about a suspected child molester. Another council executive had sent it in, noting that he had contacted police who confirmed the suspect was the former Cub Scout leader.
"If we can provide the training we have available for our youth maybe we can give them the ability to recognize this guy wherever he may show up," he wrote. "Since he seems to be running and has had a past involvement with Scouting, we need to be alert."
Clark said of the files: "There is absolutely no indication that anybody at least at the national level of Scouting was being proactive to get this problem out in the open to get the help of law enforcement and act sort of proactively with it. You do see regular … examples of top Scout leadership or regional Scout leadership taking steps to try to keep this quiet, to keep it under wraps."
In a number of the cases, the allegations were later substantiated by court proceedings, the attorneys said. However, in a great many cases no such substantiation ever occurred.
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A report released by the Boy Scouts in September said that 829 of the files from Jan. 1, 1965, to June 30, 1984, involved suspicions or confirmations of inappropriate sexual behavior with 1,622 youth. The report was done for the organization by Janet Warren, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia.
Some of the findings included:
-- 486 of the men identified in the files as suspects were arrested at some time for a sex crime. It may have occurred before they got involved with Scouting, as a result of the incident noted in their file or after they left the organization.
-- In 531 of the cases, there was information indicating alleged inappropriate sexual behavior with multiple youths.
-- In 252 of the cases, the available information indicated alleged inappropriate sexual behavior with only a single victim.
-- 128 of the men in the files had their registration revoked within a year of signing up.
-- Police were involved in the investigation of 523 cases.
At the time, the Boy Scouts said in a letter that they would review their files created from 1965 to the present "and ensure that all good-faith suspicion of abuse has been reported to law enforcement." They also said that there "have been instances where people misused their positions in Scouting to abuse children, and in certain cases, our response to these incidents and our efforts to protect youth were plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong."
Boy Scouts admit response to sex abuse was 'insufficient'
On Thursday morning, the organization reiterated that in a statement and also noted: "Where those involved in Scouting failed to protect, or worse, inflicted harm on children, we extend our deepest and sincere apologies to victims and their families."
"While it is difficult to understand or explain individuals' actions from many decades ago, today Scouting is a leader among youth-serving organizations in preventing child abuse," the statement added.
In an interview with NBCDFW.com, Perry said: "I would ask parents to look at the programs we have and then judge us versus, maybe not the past, but judge where we are today and certainly judge us against any other youth service organization in the world and they will see that your kids are very, very safe."
He also said later in a statement that the organization would be hosting a youth protection meeting in November with experts to share and discuss best practices.
The attorneys said the files also could inform future prevention of child sex abuse since the documents revealed how pedophiles operated and infiltrated youth groups -- knowledge "no other youth organization had at that time or since," Mones said.
"The importance is what Scouts could have done with this information," he said. "At the trial they said they had never looked at the files to examine them for any purpose to protect Scouts. Their one goal of taking Scout leaders out who had molested Scouts, yes … they did take Scouts out. However, the information that they gleaned, how these people used Scouting activities to bring Scouts into their midst, how these guys were not just bad leaders … these people were leading Scouts."
"So our goal really is to look to the future through the past," he added.
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For John Mark Buckland, 42, who was abused by a Scout leader at Travis Air Force Base in Vacaville, Calif., the release represented an empowering moment.
"It unveils all the secrecy, or at least a good portion of it, and the secrecy is the biggest demon there is when it comes to things like this, because it's by being hidden that it basically just eats people away like a cancer," Buckland, of Huntington, W. Va., told NBC News.
"We've been powerless up to now. We've been at the whims of a multibillion-dollar organization that … has all the money to keep us under a desk in a box. And for now, they can't do it anymore."
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2013 Honda Fit EV Rated by the EPA at 118 MPGe (Press Release)
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2013 Honda Fit EV Rated by the EPA at 118 MPGe; Receives Best-Ever Consumption Rating of 29 kWh/100mi
The 2013 Honda Fit EV tops all other EV offerings in efficiency ratings, providing the most mileage for your electric dollar
06/06/2012 – TORRANCE, Calif., The 2013 Honda Fit EV, has received a combined adjusted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mile-per-gallon-equivalency rating of 118 MPGe, and an unprecedented low consumption rating of just 29 kilowatt hours (kWh) per 100 miles. With an EPA rated annual fuel cost of only $500 , the fun-to-drive 2013 Honda Fit EV can help consumers get more miles for each charging dollar. Full EPA MPGe ratings1 for the Fit EV are 132/105/118 city/highway/combined.
With such an efficient drivetrain, the Fit EV's 20-kWh lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery provides the capacity to earn an EPA combined city/highway estimated driving range rating of 82-miles, allowing the Fit EV to surpass the EPA efficiency and range ratings of the Ford Focus Electric (105 MPGe, 76-mile range), Nissan Leaf (99 MPGe, 73-mile range), and Mitsubishi i-MiEV (112 MPGe, 62-mile range). The Fit EV's exceptionally efficient design – encompassing everything from savvy powertrain design, weight-conscious engineering and effective aerodynamics – makes the most of the Fit EV's smaller battery. Additionally, the Fit EV battery can be recharged in less than 3 hours from a low charge indicator illumination point when connected to a 240-volt circuit.
"Just as important as the industry-leading fuel-efficiency and fast recharging time, as a Honda, the 2013 Fit EV will be an absolute kick to drive," said Steve Center, vice president of the American Honda Environmental Business Development Office.
The Fit EV's 92 kilowatt (123 horsepower) coaxial electric motor generates 188 ft-lb of torque, and is teamed to a chassis with a fully-independent suspension and a driver-selectable 3-mode electric drive system adapted from the CR-Z Sport Hybrid.
Honda debuted the 2013 Fit EV at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show and announced plans to begin leasing the battery-electric commuter vehicle to customers in select California and Oregon markets during the summer of 2012, followed by an East Coast rollout in 2013. The Fit EV will be offered with three-year $389/month lease2.
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The Fit EV is a part of Honda's portfolio approach, which includes the development of battery- electric, hydrogen, natural gas, and gasoline-electric powered vehicles, to improve fuel-efficiency and reduce C02 emissions. Honda has led the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) rankings of overall vehicle environmental performance since 2000, and a Honda vehicle has topped the list of America's greenest vehicles, from the America Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), for eleven consecutive years.
In 2006, Honda became the first automaker to announce voluntary CO2 emissions reduction targets for its global fleet of automobile, powersports and power equipment products and its global network of manufacturing plants. Today, the company is striving for even greater reductions in CO2 emissions that contribute to global climate change, while also working to minimize waste, water use and the total environmental footprint of its operations worldwide.
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1132/105/118 city/highway/combined miles per gallon of gasoline-equivalent (MPGe) rating; 82 mile combined (city/highway) driving range rating (adjusted). Ratings determined by US EPA. Your MPGe and range will vary depending on driving conditions, how you drive and maintain your vehicle, battery age/condition, and other factors. For additional information about EPA ratings, visit http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/label/learn-more-electric-label.shtml.
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Death is coming, and it's coming large. This grim reaper needs no dark shadows or flickering lights. There is no slender ghoul lurking just outside the periphery of vision. Where one would expect shrill violins there is thrilling chiptune. The coming darkness isn't a metaphor—it's the gaping maw of an enormous space worm, and I'm a swipe away from losing everything.
An unassuming little endless runner variant funded through Kickstarter for a mere $3,200, Golden Ruby Games' Worm Run could be classified as survival horror if you tilt your head just right. It's an anxiety generator of the highest order, in which your own mounting terror is your worst enemy.
It looks so innocent. Well, aside from the worm. You are Space Janitor Zeke Tallahassee, trapped in an ever-changing, procedurally-generated labyrinth. A bloodthirsty space worm has caught your scent, and its capability to eat its way through solid rock far outclasses your ability to run, jump and climb. Your job—your only hope, and not a very good one at that—is to make your way through the labyrinth, staying one step ahead of those irresistible jaws as you collect gems to purchase upgrades and power-ups that might help you get a few steps closer to freedom. So freedom doesn't really exist. Zeke doesn't know that.
As threatening as it might be, the worm isn't the primary source of tension in Worm Run—it's the controls. Movement is entirely swipe-based, a control system that's nowhere near as precise as your pounding heart would hope. In any other game such a scheme would be considered a liability. Here it serves to heighten the suspense.
As I delved further and further into the game's progressive environments I found myself begging the controls to work for me. I pleaded as I slowly ascended a twisting mineshaft, the creature so close I could feel its hot, fetid breath washing over me. Power-ups—bombs, ice, spring shoes and the like—only offer brief respite, gained ground quickly lost amidst those twisting corridors.
Worm Run is not a traditional horror game, and that's probably for the best. That sort of horror quickly overwhelms to the point where I have to put the controller down to catch my breath. This is a happier sort of terror, an intoxicating anxiety that keeps me coming back for more sweet, wormy death.
Worm Run
- Genre: Endless Being Chased By Giant Worm
- Developer: Golden Ruby Games
- Platform: iOS
- Price: $.99
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A woman mourns during a memorial service for the 44 people killed in a wildcat strike at Lonmin's Marikana mine on August 23, 2012 in Marikana, South Africa.
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Workers and relatives attended a memorial service on Thursday at the South African mine where labor violence left 40 miners, two police and two security guards dead last week.
The service at Lonmin's Marikana mine was expected to be the focal point during a day of mourning that will stretch across the country, as many of the victims were migrant workers whose bodies have already returned to their home villages, Agence France Presse reports.
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Much of a monarch butterfly's (Danaus plexippus) life is spent migrating between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada-a journey that for some individuals can cover over 3,000 miles. However, this journey has become more dangerous and less successful for many because of deforestation, illegal logging, increased development, agricultural expansion, livestock raising, forest fires, and other threats to their migratory paths and summer and overwintering habitats. Since 1995, the Wildlife Without Borders - Mexico Program has made a continuing commitment to support the conservation of monarch butterflies.
Conserving the Monarch Butterfly
The monarch butterfly is not currently listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) or protected specifically under U.S. domestic laws. In 1996, the Mexican government created the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve to protect monarch's wintering habitat. The Wildlife Without Borders - Mexico Program partnered with ALTERNARE, A.C., a non-governmental organization located in Michoacan, Mexico. This organization implements a training program designed to develop the capacity of the local communities to sustainably manage their natural resources, and provide economic alternatives, while strengthening community organization and participation skills.
Using a farmer-to-farmer methodology, more than 3,000 people have been trained in soil and water conservation, intensive biodynamic horticulture, food preparation, adobe brick making, use and construction of wood-saving stoves and ecological bathrooms, fire control and prevention, production of forest trees, community organization, and participation and leadership. Since the first project in 1996 Wildlife Without Borders - Mexico has continued to work with ALTERNARE, A.C providing funding of approximately $900,000 for a total of 17 projects.
During the last two years, the program has supported ALTERNARE A.C's "Sustainable Model for Recovery and Conservation of the San Juan Micro-Watershed in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve" project. The project continues to educate the communities on the value of monarch conservation and help the ejidatarios (peasant farmers) adopt sustainable and productive practices in order to recover the area's ecosystem and butterfly habitat.
In addition to the work done by Wildlife Without Borders, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System participates in the activities of the Monarch Joint Venture (MJV) a partnership of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, and academic programs working together to support and coordinate efforts to protect the monarch migration across the lower 48 United States.


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It's really all I'm capable of thinking about at this point, so I'm sorry if you're tired of hearing about my baby blues!
Speaking of baby, his nursery is just about finished, I will try to post some pictures next week-that is if I'm still pregnant!
Have a great weekend!
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i've been wondering if your baby's come yet.. hang in there! and that photo of the fawn is so precious!ReplyDelete
these are trying days, I feel for you! But you're SO close, hang in there :)ReplyDelete
Ahh we aren't tired of hearing about it-we want updates! But I say post pics NOW! haha ya never know if he comes this weekend then we have to wait for weeks until you feel up to posting! You just keep us waiting on one great thing after another! hahaReplyDelete
so exciting! keep us posted.ReplyDelete
i've just melted at the sight of that fawnReplyDelete
I can't wait to see his little nursery! All of the tidbits have been so fantastic!ReplyDelete
I hope he comes soon....
aw! cant wait to see the nursery...ReplyDelete
Aww, how exciting for you!!ReplyDelete
That photo is just adorable.
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My fingers are crossed for a quick and easy delivery! Come on, baby!ReplyDelete
aww... I love this pic:) perfect pic for babies.. I love you and hang in there:)ReplyDelete
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Peggy Noonan And The Iron Man Theory Of Presidential Politics
Peggy Noonan is lucky, in a way, for the existence of Karl Rove and Dick Morris. The duo absorbed most of the mockery and heat for their irrationally optimistic predictions that Mitt Romney would trounce President Obama last November, allowing pundits like Noonan, who were no less sanguine about the impending Romney ascendance, to ease into 2013 relatively unscathed. The day before the election, you'll recall, Noonan explained on her Wall Street Journal blog why Romney would win. "All the vibrations are right," she sensed, "Something old is roaring back."
Election Day came and went and now Noonan has to grapple with the fact that her political seismometer was off and explain why the president she thought so feeble was able to sew up reelection so easily. To that end, she's written a Journal column speculating on whether Obama is already a lame duck, and argues that part of what's keeping Obama back is that he was too good at getting reelected.
Noonan writes:
Which has me thinking of two things that have weakened the Obama presidency and haven't been noted. One was recent and merely unhelpful. The other goes back, and encouraged a mindset that became an excuse, perhaps a fatal one.
The recent one: In the days after the 2012 election the Democrats bragged about their technological genius and how it turned the election. They told the world about what they'd done--the data mining, the social networking, that allowed them to zero in on Mrs. Humperdink in Ward 5 and get her to the polls. It was quite impressive and changed national politics forever. But I suspect their bragging hurt their president. In 2008 Mr. Obama won by 9.5 million votes. Four years later, with all the whizbang and money, he won by less than five million. When people talk about 2012 they don't say the president won because the American people endorsed his wonderful leadership, they say he won because his team outcomputerized the laggard Republicans.
This has left him and his people looking more like cold technocrats who know how to campaign than leaders who know how to govern. And it has diminished claims of a popular mandate. The president's position would be stronger now if more people believed he had one.
Ah yes, the aura of competence that every politician so dreads.
There's been a lot of talk lately about the Green Lantern Theory of Presidential Power, wherein the dithering Congress can be whipped into shape by the president's mystical powers of persuasion and leadership. What Noonan is describing here is the Iron Man Theory of Presidential Politics, arguing that Obama, stripped of his technology, would have been as vulnerable and powerless as Tony Stark without his impressive suit of armor. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it does help to explain why Noonan was misled by the "vibrations" -- Obama flipped a switch and activated his army of robot voters.
That's not to say that Noonan gives Green Lanternism short shrift. Far from it! "Mr. Obama's problem isn't really the Republicans. It's that he's supposed to be popular. He's supposed to have some sway, some pull and force," she writes. Noonan is a practiced hand at simultaneously acknowledging that Republicans are immovable in their opposition to Obama, and arguing Obama is a poor leader for not being able to move the Republicans. During the fiscal cliff negotiations she faulted Obama for not making a deal with House Speaker John Boehner, leaving out the fact that Boehner did everything humanly possible to not make a deal with Obama. The idea seems to be that the GOP can't be faulted because they can't help but be obstructionist.
She expands on that argument in today's column, making the case that in 2008, Obama and his team of political neophytes dealt themselves a fatal blow by not recognizing that overheated partisan rhetoric and obstructionism were the norm in Washington, DC:
What damaged the Obama presidency more, looking back, was, ironically, the trash-talking some Republican leaders indulged in after the 2008 campaign. It entered their heads at the Obama White House and gave them a warped sense of the battlefield.
In a conference call with conservative activists in July, 2009, then-Sen. Jim DeMint said of the president's health-care bill, "If we're able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Not long after, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was quoted as saying that the GOP's primary goal was to make Mr. Obama a one-term president.
The press hyped this as if it were something new, a unique and epic level of partisan animus. Members of the administration also thought it was something new. It made them assume no deals with Republicans were possible, and it gave them a handy excuse they still use: "It's not us, they vowed from the beginning they wouldn't work with us!"
But none of it was new. The other side always vows to crush you. Anyone who'd been around for a while knew the Republicans were trying to sound tough, using hyperbole to buck up the troops. It's how they talk when they're on the ropes. But the president and his staffers hadn't been around for a while. They were young. They didn't understand what they were hearing was par for the course.
"The president and his staffers hadn't been around for a while." Really? Obama's newly formed administration featured Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Rahm Emanuel in key advisory positions, and no one would accuse them of political naivete. The reason they think the Republicans refuse to make deals is because the Republicans refuse to make deals.


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The Chicago School of Professional Psychology offers an online-blended Master's in Forensic Psychology. This program is for students interested in preserving individual rights and the justice system through the presentation of unbiased, fact-based analysis of individuals, as well as information associated with a crime. The program is designed to keep up with the latest advancements in the field and is led by experts with a broad range of workplace experiences and diverse perspectives. Students can earn a degree in as little as 20 months, and pursue careers in the justice system, child protection services, civil matters, juvenile justice and many other fields.
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I am very pleased and proud to add my signature to the LAW.GOV PRINCIPLES AND DECLARATION just posted at public.resource.org. These principles coalesced during the fifteen Law.gov workshops and have received the unanimous consent of the co-covenors of these Law.gov workshops. The principles include items that we librarians have discussed for years, even decades, like vendor-neutral citation. And these principles are consistent with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform States Laws (NCCUSL) draft of a new "Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials Act."
Here are the principles:
The primary legal materials of the United States are the raw materials of our democracy. They should be made more broadly available to enable an informed citizenry.
Primary legal materials include documents of primary authority issued by governmental bodies, such as court opinions, statutes, and regulations. They also include the supporting documents and other media issued and maintained by those bodies, such as dockets, hearings, forms, oral arguments, and legislative histories. These materials can be found in every branch, at every level, national, tribal, state and local, and should be available to anyone with the will and the heart to obtain them.
The following principles should govern the dissemination of primary legal materials in the United States:
1. Direct fees for dissemination of primary legal materials should be avoided.
2. Limitations on access through terms of use or the assertion of copyright on primary legal materials is contrary to long-standing public policy and core democratic principles and is misleading to citizens.
3. Primary legal materials should be made available using bulk access mechanisms so they may be downloaded by anyone.
4. The primary legal materials, and the methods used to access them, should be authenticated so people can trust in the integrity of these materials.
5. Historical archives should be made available online and in a static location to the extent possible.
6. Vendor- and media-neutral citation mechanisms should be employed.
7. Technical standards for document structure, identifiers, and metadata should be developed and applied as extensively as possible.
8. Data should be distributed in a computer-processable, non-proprietary form in a manner that meets best current practices for the distribution of open government data. That data should represent the definitive documents, not just aggregate, preliminary, or modified forms.
9. An active program of research and development should be sponsored by governmental bodies that issue primary legal materials to develop new standards and solutions to challenges presented by the electronic distribution of definitive primary legal materials. Examples include the automated detection and redaction of private personal information in documents.
10. An active program of education, training, and documentation should be undertaken to help governmental bodies that issue primary legal materials learn and use best current practices.
Adherence to these principles by governmental bodies is not just good for democracy and justice, it will spur innovation and will encourage:
1. Broader use of legal materials in all parts of our education system, including our law schools.
2. Researchers in law schools, universities, and other research institutions to have broader access to bulk data, spurring important research on the functioning of our government.
3. Innovation in the legal information market by reducing barriers to entry.
4. Savings in the government's own cost of providing these materials through adherence to best current practices.
5. Small businesses to understand rules and regulations they must deal with, reducing their costs and increasing their effectiveness.
6. Increased foreign trade by making it easier for our foreign partners to understand our laws.
7. Better access to justice by making legal information more broadly available to citizens.
How we distribute the raw materials of our democracy is a foundational issue in our system of government. Access to the raw materials of our democracy is a prerequisite for the rule of law and access to justice and makes real the principles of equal protection and due process.
and here are the signatories:
Jack M. Balkin
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment
Yale Law School
Robert C. Berring, Jr.
Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law
Berkeley Law, University of California
James Boyle
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law
Duke Law School
Nicholas Bramble
Postdoctoral Associate in Law
Yale Law School
Tom R. Bruce
Director, Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School
Richard A. Danner
Archibald C. & Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law
Duke Law School
Laura E. DeNardis
Executive Director, Information Society Project
Yale Law School
Edward W. Felten
Professor of Computer Science & Public Affairs
Princeton University
Jerry Goldman
Professor & Director, Oyez Project
Northwestern University
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley and Princeton University
Jennifer Jenkins
Director, Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Duke Law School
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor Foundation
S. Blair Kauffman
Law Librarian and Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Mark A. Lemley
William H. Neukom Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Paul Lomio
Director, Robert Crown Law Library
Stanford Law School
Carl Malamud
Harry S. Martin III
Librarian & Professor of Law Emeritus
Harvard Law School
Peter W. Martin
Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
John Mayer
Executive Director
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
Judy Meadows
State Law Librarian
State Law Library of Montana
Paul Ohm
Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications
University of Colorado Law School
Tim O'Reilly
Chief Executive Officer
O'Reilly Media
John G. Palfrey
Henry N. Ess III Librarian & Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Pamela Samuelson
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law
Berkeley Law, University of California
Stuart Sierra
Assistant Director, Program on Law and Technology
Columbia Law School
Stephen Schultze
Associate Director, Center for Information Technology Policy
Princeton University
Tim Stanley
Chief Executive Officer
Erika V. Wayne
Deputy Director, Robert Crown Law Library
Stanford Law School
Christopher Wong
Postgraduate Fellow
New York Law School
Tim Wu
Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Harlan Yu
Doctoral Student in Computer Science
Princeton University
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Law & Computer Science
Harvard Law School


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To some, it's just a place to keep clothes. But to Heather Addley, her closet is a dream come true.
"I love it," says the Edmonton-area homeowner of her newly renovated closet space. "I get up in the morning and I just smile."
Addley was inspired by the memory of her late husband, Larry, to turn a small spare room in her two-storey acreage home into a custom-designed closet. She says Larry was always lovingly indulgent of her passion for footwear and would just chuckle when she came home with another addition to the collection, which now numbers 50 pairs.
After he died, she decided to treat herself to the renovation. Now that it's all done, Addley finds it a com-fort to sit in the centre of the new room on a comfortable stool, and just think about her husband. She knows he would be happy with her choices.
"This was my therapy," she reflects. "I know he would just smile."
While Larry's love formed the backdrop of the renovation, it was closet designer Patsy Egan-Adams who took Addley's ideas and made them real.
"We design the closet depending on the lifestyle and the attire of the people we are working with," says Egan-Adams, owner of new Edmonton cabinetry business En Vogue.
Together with her husband, Greg Adams, Patsy launched En Vogue in mid-2011 after recognizing there was a niche available in the renovation market for a cupboard business that combined practical design with stylish finishes. While En Vogue also creates kitchen cabinets, Greg says the closet business is a growth area in home renovation.
"These are the people who have been living with (original closets) for so long," he says. "Now they are getting something done about it."
When meeting with a new client, staff at En Vogue do an interview to discover what kind of apparel is looking for a place to call home.
People who wear a lot of jeans or slacks often select pullout pants hangers for their new closets, and those with hats request wide shelves. Cloth hampers that slide out to hide laundry are popular, as are shoe trees. Drawers can be fabric-lined (a nice touch for jewelry) or fitted with little cubbies perfect for keeping socks and underwear separate.
A fold-down ironing board is another convenient option, and slide-out racks for scarves, belts and ties keep closets from turning into a snake's nest of accessories.
One big issue with the standard closets that come with a home is that a lot of the wall area can be wasted. A custom-designed closet can make use of extra space created by a modern home's high ceilings, for instance, with a mechanism that lowers a clothing rod. A well-designed closet can enjoy the look of a boutique, with decorative cabinet doors and drawer handles, and a padded stool in the centre of it all.
Addley has two shoe trees for her Steve Maddens and Stuart Weitz-mans in her new closet, one of three she had retrofitted in her home for an overall cost of $13,000. Addley's dream walk-in also features nine deep drawers for sweaters, fashioned from a mahogany-look, man-made material called Thermofoil.
Some four dozen purses are visible in matching floor-to-ceiling shelves. Several cupboards with doors keep practical household items such as the iron and bedding in order. A long, narrow shelf under a bright window in the closet room holds tiny, jewel-like collectibles shaped like shoes. Nearby, a miniature dressmaker's form is draped in costume jewelry.
Addley says having her closet in good trim makes her life easier, especially as she travels frequently. While planning what to put in her suitcase, Addley can just stand in the middle of the closet and see virtually all of her outfits.
Homeowners who don't have a spare bedroom to convert, however, can also benefit from the good organization that comes from a well-designed closet, says Egan-Adams. Two of her clients, Leo and Marilyn Fournel, recently spent $8,000 to convert a master-bedroom closet in their Edmonton condominium.
Marilyn loves her double-sided, pullout laundry basket (with separate containers for dark and light clothing) as well as a set of four drawers, including a shallow one for jewelry. Two of the deep shelves in the closet hold Leo's hat collection, which rests on Styrofoam heads.
The closet opens directly from the bedroom, connecting it to the master bathroom on the far side. The Fournels decided not to install closet doors to open up the bathroom to more light, and because the closet itself was so beautiful, they wanted people to see it.
Before the renovation, the standard-issue closet had only two long poles on either side. "It seemed like a waste of space," Marilyn recalls.
Now, four deep drawers and 12 shelves have rendered the couple's dresser superfluous, making the master bedroom seem more airy and light. The natural cherrywood cupboards took only one day to install, and Marilyn is thrilled with the organized and elegant results.
"It's beautiful," she says of her new closet. "You can't walk in and not like it, with the hats and everything else so neatly organized."
Marilyn sees the renovation as an investment in their own pleasure in the short term, and a long-term selling point for the condominium.
"We are staying here for the rest of our lives, so we wanted to have it just as we wanted," she says. "But if you change your mind, this closet would sell a lot of people."
En Vogue staff say you can spend a lot on a closet, or much less, depending on the materials used and your choice of options and extras.
"You're in control of the price," Greg says.


text: [ROM RELEASE] HeXen ROM (Froyo) FINAL HeXen ROM A DROID 2 Global Custom ROM Development: 13th Angel Development: Fenuxx This is the one, and ONLY version of HeXen that will be released based upon Android 2.2 (Froyo). Future versions will be based on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) The HeXen Development Team takes no responsibility for any damage to your device. You are installing this at * YOUR OWN RISK *. If you are not comfortable with using RSDLite to .SBF your phone back to stock, do NOT install this ROM. Current version: 1.0.1 (Build 38) FINAL (06-20-2011) MULTIUPLOAD DOWNLOAD Based on: DROID 2 Global 2.4.330 (Android 2.2) System Software File Size: 97.0 MB (101,741,824 bytes) MD5 Hash: 8688E5146E6E1AF1CE8A6B22A56A0B7E SHA-1 Hash: 8452DF3576897705AD13AC6E0FD30DB2FB3C944F Please make sure you compare one of the file hashes and/or file size (shown above) of the file you've downloaded to make sure you are getting a complete file, and not one that has been tampered with or has been corrupted! ---Installation Instructions--- IT IS RECOMMENDED TO START CLEAN BEFORE INSTALLING THIS ROM. SBF USING RSDLITE, THEN UPDATE TO 2.4.330 VIA OTA, ROOT, AND INSTALL THIS ROM Place the file (hexen-d2g-1.0.1-final.zip) on your SD Card Reboot to Clockwork Recovery, using Koush's Droid 2 Recovery Bootstrap, found in the Android Market, or HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS. **** WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET **** This means WIPE DATA AND CACHE Choose "install zip from sdcard" Choose "choose zip form sdcard" Select the .zip file (hexen-d2g-1.0.1-final.zip), install it, and reboot! ---Release Notes--- 1.0.0 Based on the DROID 2 Global 2.4.330 framework (** Credit to Team GET~R~DONE for many things with this **) BLUR IS AS GONE AS IT CAN BE! Deodexed and Zip-aligned Bloat and useless CRAP removed Build.prop tweaks, optimizations, and hacks 3G GSM speed hacks Wifi scan interval increased to 180 seconds for battery savings Dalvik heap size increased to 32MB Gingerbread Theme (it's clean, simple, and elegant) 10% battery icons (** Credit to Peter Alfonso (Bugless Beast) for the icons **) Disabled "blur on shut down" overly unnecessary/overly laggy "effect" Simplified the lock screen to be more AOSP-like (especially for those using a pattern or PIN unlock) Enabled touch screen driver filter (it is disabled in stock, but it made a difference in the responsiveness of the touchscreen in testing) Includes custom red Nexus "X" boot animation Includes DROID 2 Recovery Bootstrap (** Credit to Koush **) REMOVED Blur Launcher Replaced with LauncherPro 0.8.6 (** Credit to Fede **) REMOVED Blur Contacts/Dialer Replaced with Android Contacts/Dialer 2.2 REMOVED Blur SMS/Universal Inbox/Messaging Replaced with themed/modded Android 2.2.1 SMS (Black Background version) (** Credit to CyanogenMod **) REMOVED Blur Desk Clock/Alarm Replaced with Android Desk Clock 2.2 Added Alarm Clock for easy and quick access to alarms REMOVED Blur E-Mail Replaced with Android E-Mail 2.2 REMOVED Blur File Manager Replaced with OI File Manager 1.1.4 (** Credit to OpenIntents **) REMOVED Blur Calendar Replaced with Android Calendar 2.2 REMOVED Blur Car Home Replaced with Google Car Home 22.214.171.124 REMOVED Blur Music Replaced with Google Music 3.0.1 Includes Google Search Box (QuickSearchBox) 18.104.22.168376 Includes Google Voice Search 2.1.1 Includes Google News & Weather (GenieWidget) 1.3.04(PROD) Includes Android Market 2.3.6 Includes AppWidgetPicker Mod (** Credit to boombuler **) Includes Google Spare Parts 2.2.1 Includes Notepad 1.0.4 (** Credit to BanderLabs **) Includes DROID 2 Global QuickOffice 3.3.67 Includes Busybox 1.19.0 (** Credit to Adrenalyn **) Includes Superuser 220.127.116.11 and SU Binary 2.3.2 (** Credit to ChainsDD **) Custom init.d scripts. Incorporates some hacks by Imoseyon (** Some Credit to Imoseyon **) Sysctl.conf tweaks SD Card cache tweak Other memory management-related tweaks 1.0.1 Actually included the DROID 2 Global QuickOffice app in this build (sorry about that, folks) Updated Notepad to 1.0.6 Fixed a bug with the theme not displaying the date on the status bar when pulling down the notification bar. The color of the text was wrong ---Official OPTIONAL Addons--- HeXen Addons Pack 1 - Ringtones (MULTIUPLOAD DOWNLOAD) Install as you would any other .zip using the DROID 2 Recovery Bootstrap YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WIPE DATA OR CACHE TO INSTALL THIS OPTIONAL ADDONS PACK These ringtones were kanged from multiple sources. ---Other Notes--- The following apps are NOT included as part of this ROM. Please download them from the Android Market for the latest versions: Google Maps GMail YouTube Swype (this is the URL to sign up for the beta, as it is not available in the Market) None of the Accessibility apps, this includes: Kickback Soundback Talkback


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Interview and photos by Lydia Krupinski
As our food becomes frequently outsourced to other regions and countries, groups are taking a stand and resurrecting a time-honored tradition: the victory garden. While some movements set to re-invent the wheel, others look back to previous generations for inspiration and to empower their communities. One such group literally broke ground on the far North side of Chicago a few weeks ago. The Peterson Garden Project sets to connect Chicago residents with the earth, their food, and each other. Located just west of Western on Peterson Avenue, this incredible space is changing the way residents are looking at food, community, and empty lots.
By renting a plot, experienced and novice gardeners can share in the satisfaction of growing their own food, which in turn cuts down on both their ecological and economic footprints. For only $45 a season, growers receive a 24 square foot plot, access to the gardening forums, and unlimited advice from their fellow gardeners. For those unable to tend their own land, the Project's volunteers can nurture a crop for a reasonable donation. The only requirements: Visit your plot 2-3 times a week, commit to using organic gardening methods, and pay your dues. It's that simple!
Sprout Chicago had the honor and privilege to visit the newly tilled space and speak with the garden's founder, LaManda Joy, about the Project and more. Read the rest of this entry »


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Malaysia Airline System Bhd. will be privatised as part of a restructuring plan to keep the carrier in business after its two plane disasters this year.
The carrier said its majority investor, state-run Khazanah Nasional will offer 27 sen for each share in the company it does not own, amounting to nearly 1.4 billion ringgit ($470 million) to take the troubled airline private.
Khazanah, which owns 69.37 percent of the carrier, will undertake a comprehensive review and restructuring of the airline, which has suffered two jetliner disasters this year.
Malaysia Airlines' shares were halted from trade before the announcement on Friday.
"We reiterate that the proposed restructuring will critically require all parties to work closely together to undertake what will be a complete overhaul of the national carrier on all relevant aspects," Khazanah said. "Nothing less will be required in order to revive our national airline to be profitable as a commercial entity and to serve its function as a critical national development entity."
The move to de-list from the Malaysian stock exchange follows the airline's intensifying financial woes, having recorded a net loss for the past three years.
Private ownership will give the parent company room to introduce an appropriate capital structure to meet the airline's "substantial funding requirements" in the next few years, and to sustain operations amid a high level of debt, Malaysia Airlines said in its statement.
The move didn't come unexpected for investors. "It is easier to restructure if it's a private company," Ang Kok Heng, the Kuala Lumpur-based chief investment officer of Phillip Capital Management, said before the announcement. "They don't need to worry about making announcements and the timing of it."
A Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down in Ukraine in July, four months after Flight 370 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur vanished. Even before that disappearance, Malaysia Airlines had racked up 4.13 billion ringgit in losses over the previous three years.
The incident put the carrier under global scrutiny, jeopardising its reputation and prompting boycotts in China, whose nationals accounted for most of the passengers in the March flight that vanished.
The carrier will probably lose more than 1 billion ringgit in 2014 as it grapples with costs and an exodus of passengers, according to analyst estimates. The shares have dropped 23 per cent this year.
Khazanah said in June the carrier had funds to last about a year. .
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Is someone packing their things and moving out of the house on Graceland?
It sure seems like it, according to this exclusive sneak peek from Wednesday's new episode (10/9c, USA). After her shocking revelation last week that she knew that Briggs (Daniel Sunjata) killed FBI Agent Juan Padillo, Charlie (Vanessa Ferlito) seems dead set on cutting Paul — aka her baby daddy — out of her life once and for all.
Who earns what: TV's highest-paid stars
"You should move out," Charlie tells Briggs. "Sweetheart, I'm sorry. That's simply not gonna work for me," Briggs replies.
Will Charlie really force him out of the house? Or can Briggs convince her that Juan's death was an accident? Check out the exclusive video below to find out:
Graceland airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on USA.


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"Deep inside the jungle where nature's running wild / Coming to the rescue is a very special child / Talking to the animals and swinging from a vine / This rough and tough adventurer is working all the time / Ya viene Diego. Diego. Diego. Go, Diego, Go!"
Lions, lions everywhere! Earlier in the month we reviewed Pinkney's Caldecott medal winning book, The Lion and the Mouse. This week we watched the newest Diego DVD, Lion Cub Rescue.
Released today, January 26th, the Go Diego Go! : Lion Cub Rescue DVD includes four exciting animal rescue adventure episodes. Like in all his shows, Diego, an 8-year-old adventure hero, works to save the animals and offers children advice on how to take care of the environment while also encouraging children use their imagination and participate in the rescue. The four episodes are as follows (95 minutes total length):
"Welcome Home, Lion Cub!" - Diego and baby Jaguar visit the grasslands in Africa and help Lion Cub and the Lion Cub's daddy rescue lion family members while traveling back to the pride for Lion Cub's party. They rescue Baby Lion from a stream's rapid water, free Cousin Lion from a net animal trap and locate Sister Lion hiding in the tall grassy field.
Animal Sound: Roar"Diego's Ringed Seal Rescue" - The Ringed Seals live in a special rescue home in the arctic because their snow caves have melted. Diego and Alicia work together to save Baby Ringed Seal "Susie" from a polar bear and bring her safely back to the Ringed Seal Rescue Center. Along the way, Susie must navigate through an icy path, dive in and out of ice holes and find her way in a snow storm.
Actions: Creeping, Crawling, Freeze, Jump, Claw
Spanish Phrase: "De tal padre, tal higo." (Like father, like son.)
Environmental Advice: Pick up and throw away trash like bottle tops and plastic bags found outside
Animal Sound: Bark"Diego Reunites Hippopotamus and Oxpecker" - Hippopotamus must relocate from his river home to Hippo Lake and his "symbiotic" friend Oxpecker accompanies him on his journey. Hippo relies on Oxpecker to eat the bugs off his back and keep him clean. When Oxpecker searches for water plants for Hippo to eat, the rushing water pulls him toward a pipe entrance. While Diego and Hippo journey to save Oxpecker, they stomp through tall grass and hippo gets overheated and searches for a water hole to cool off.
Actions: Wiggle, Flap Arms
Actions: Stomp, Open Mouth Wide"Diego's Orangutan Rescue" - Diego travels to the rain forest Island of Borneo and together with his friend, Burgin, they help out the orangutans. Baby Orangutan floats away down the river in a canoe and Big Sister Orangutan asks Diego for assistance.
Spanish phrase: "Los mejores amigos son los qué se ayudan!" (Friends who help friends are the best friends of all.)
Environmental advice: Turn off the water when you brush your teeth
Animal Sound: Ooh!I like the animated Diego episodes and DVDs because they introduce my children to environmental issues in a child friendly way. The short episodes can be used in conjunction with books and other curriculum to teach kids about different types of animals and their habitats. Kids also learn Spanish words and the shows enourage movement and interaction. Both my children really enjoy singing along to the special songs incorporated in the shows. My daughter's favorite episode on this DVD is the one about the Hippo/Oxpecker. Even I didn't know what a "symbiotic" relationship was prior to watching this episode. You learn something new everyday, even from Diego!
Actions: Swing, Wave Arms, Duck head
Environmental advice: Plant trees and flowers
SpongeBob SquarePants: Viking-Sized Adventure DVD also releases today. This is the description according to the fact sheet: "Join SpongeBob and his pals as they go on a Viking-Sized Adventure, weather a storm, fill in for super heroes Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy and meet Mr. Krabs grandpappy the pirate. Guest stars include Dennis Quaid and Ian McShane!" My kids are a little too small to enjoy the humor in this one, so I'm giving away my SpongeBob review copy to a Brimful Curiosities reader.
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1. We now admit that the climate is changing. But we must also be aware that the so-called natural disasters are happening more frequently, and are more violent. And these cataclysms are happening in more places than before.
2. We see floods in New York, tsunamis in Sumatera and Fukushima, non-active volcanoes erupting, repeated volcanic eruptions in the same location, prolonged winters, high temperatures for months in many countries, tornadoes which wreck whole countries, typhoons of unprecedented strength and huge forest fires which consume parts of towns.
3. Is it just climate change which we hope will come to an end. Can we expect to go back to the years when the weather behaves in predictable cycles, i.e in the regularity of the seasons, the levels of the seas, the rise and fall of the tides, and the habitability of this planet we call Earth.
4. We now accept that the Earth is much older than we use to think. We also know that it was not always like what it is now. We know that the human race appeared probably only a few hundred thousand years ago.
5. We know that there was a time when dinosaurs inhabited the earth. They disappeared but they left their skeletons so that we cannot deny that they existed even though they were strange creatures unlike the animals we see today. Perhaps the crocodile is the only surviving species from the age of the dinosaurs.
6. We know that there were at least two ice ages, when the whole world was covered with a thick layer of ice. Life as we know today could not have survived the cold. Nothing could grow on the ground covered with the thick layer of ice. Even dinosaurs could not have survived, as there was no vegetation for them to feed on.
7. The ice melted to form oceans. The oceans and the seas receded and land masses appeared. We know the land masses grow and sundered, drifting apart to form continents. We are told the Himalaya is still growing taller. The process is very slow, but it is growing if we compare heights over the years.
8. The land masses too change in shape so that the shorelines change even during our times. We have found sea-shells on land very far from the sea, on mountains even.
9. We know all these had happened in the past. It cannot be that all these changes and processes stopped because civilised man now occupy this earth.
10. The process of change on this earth must be continuous. It must be continuing.
11. Men have always believed in the end of the world. Almost every religion talks of the Last Day of the earth. But we really do not know when it will happen. Could it be that we are progressing towards it even now.
12. It may take a hundred thousand years. But can we expect the changes to cease. Can we expect the volcanoes and the quakes, the violent storms, tsunamis and tornadoes, the floods and landslides etc to remain mild or benign as they used to be. I should think not.
13. Instead we must expect increasing frequency and violence of the natural cataclysms. The world may become so hot that living things cannot survive. The world may become so cold, the third Ice Age, that living things cannot thrive either.
14. For humanity it can mean the end of their world .
15. So it is true, what the religions warn us about. For Muslims there has never been any doubt. There will be kiamat. Perhaps the scientists too will finally admit that for men the world has come to an end.
16. But whether they do or not the end will come.


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I was raised in an Italian family with real Italian cooks, so I have a tendency give anything an Italian spin in the kitchen. Hence this week's recipe – my favorite grilled cheese sandwich – is nothing short of delicioso. It's crazy easy to make and tastes just as good as any fancy Panini.
2 Slices of bread (I like wholegrain, but if you want the traditional thing, go for ciabatta bread)
1tbsp Pesto
1 Canned artichoke – quartered
1 roasted red pepper – cut into 3 pieces
2 slices of fresh mozzarella (Mozzarella is traditional, but I didn't have any when I made the sandwich, so I substituted a blend of jack cheeses. You can experiment with whatever cheeses you like. I highly recommend it.)
Spread pesto on both halves of your bread
Place roasted red pepper on one half
Place artichoke pieces on top of the roasted red pepper
Place cheese on top of the artichokes & then toast both sandwich halves in the toaster oven – or regular oven at 350F if you don't have a toaster oven – until cheese melts (approx 5 minutes).
Place the top slice of bread on top, cut in half, and you're done!


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The Ur-Quan Masters - An inter-galactic adventure game
DescriptionYou return to Earth with a vessel built from technology discovered from an ancient race called the Precursors only to find it enslaved. Gather allies from a wide variety of races, engage in space combat with various foes, and save the galaxy from the Ur-Quan! The Ur-Quan Masters is derived from the classic game Star Control II. It includes both the adventure game described above and a fast-paced Super Melee. See the README.Debian once you have installed this package for information about where to get the uqm-music and uqm-voice packages.
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Oat-Fashioned Strawberry Dessert
Meet the Cook: Thanks to this dessert, our house is a popular place in summertime. I make it for family get-togethers, picnics and potlucks, too. It's a treat on a breakfast or brunch buffet also. We like it best with whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. We're the parents of a grown son. -Linda Forrest, Belleville, Ontario
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Bake: 35 min.
Makes9 servings
- 4 cups sliced fresh strawberries
- 1-1/4 cups whole wheat flour
- 1-1/4 cups quick-cooking oats
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup cold butter
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Drain strawberries on paper towels; set aside. In a large bowl, combine flour, oats, brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Reserve 1-1/2 cups for topping. Pat remaining crumb mixture into a greased 9-in. square baking pan.
- In a bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon; stir in strawberries. Spoon over the prepared crust. Sprinkle with the reserved crumb mixture. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 313 calories, 15g fat (9g saturated fat), 36mg cholesterol, 213mg sodium, 43g carbohydrate (22g sugars, 5g fiber), 5g protein.
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My husband enjoys this dessert. I usually bake 2 at a time.
Aug 10, 2011
I really enjoyed this recipe. I've made it with apples, peaches, blackberries, and rhubarb. Also, I've substituted the flour, baking soda, and salt for bisquik. It works just fine. Additionally, I've used a couple of Tablespoons of lemon juice as well as a teaspoon of vanilla for added flavor. Yum!
Jul 12, 2011
This was a delicious way to enjoy our extra berries!
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PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. – A 20-year-old Putnam County man was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of another man in June 2010.
After a two-day trial, a jury deliberated for less than 30 minutes before finding Evans David Perez Martinez guilty of killing Zenovia King.
Martinez was also convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon.
He faces automatic life in prison.
Martinez fatally stabbed King several times in the neck and upper torso with a knife. King was attacked by Martinez and his co-defendant, Demarkis Phillips, after King resisted being robbed of his cash and cannabis, prosecutors said.
After the robbery, the defendants split King's property, prosecutors said.


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- Release Date of film : 2012-03-07
- Original title : John Carter
- Movie Genre : Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction,
- Average rate : 6
- Societies of production : Walt Disney Pictures
- Tagline : Lost in Our World. Found in Another.
- Vote Count : 770
- Film Note : -movie_rating-
- Duration of movie : 132
- Taylor Kitsch Character (John Carter)
- Mark Strong Character (Matai Shang)
- Willem Dafoe Character (Tars Tarkas)
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- Samantha Morton Character (Sola)
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- Dominic West Character (Sab Than)
- James Purefoy Character (Kantos Kan)
- Bryan Cranston Character (Powell)
- Polly Walker Character (Sarkoja)
- Daryl Sabara Character (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
- Arkie Reece Character (Stayman #1 / Helm)
- Davood Ghadami Character (Stayman #3)
- Pippa Nixon Character (Lightmaster)
- Lynn Collins Character (Dejah Thoris)
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