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I'm having a pawesome time here in Greece still furiends. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better we went to a small island south of Paxos, called Anti-Paxos. I've never seen anything like it! The water is by far the prettiest I've ever seen…
I let the humans go ashore to go exploring and they found a cool taverna with the most amazing views. They were a little freaked out by the hanging octopi though!
I've got my routines down now. I'm spending the morning doing deck patrols, napping inside during the hottest part of the day and surveying everything from under the Walker Bay late afternoon.
The fun really begins at dusk though when I fit in my cardio workout. I run all over the deck and the boom. We had no connection at all in Anti-Paxos which is why you didn't hear from me yesterday, but this evening we've come back up to Paxos to a place called Gaios. There was one big problem with where we were in Anti-Paxos that I will show you when I'm able to share my SLR photos.
I hope you're all enjoying your week.
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|What is market value?
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|How are real estate taxes calculated?
|The real estate tax rate is set by Council annually. The tax rate is applied to the assessed value, per $100.
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A while back, I wrote a Firefox extension that converts pinyin with tone numbers into pinyin with tone marks above the appropriate vowels. It works on MS/Mac/Unix and it's a button that sits in your browser's Add-on bar, so it won't get in your way like an IME would when you don't want it.
For example, if you type "zhong1wen2″ into any plain-text field* in your browser, highlight it and hit the button, then it will be converted into "zhōngwén". It can also handle conversions of pinyin words mixed into English sentences, such as
Zhu1 Ge3liang4 and Cao2cao1 were famous generals. -> Zhū Gěliàng and Cáocāo were famous generals.
The specifics of the conversion process are identical to those of the online pinyin converter on Toshuo.com, which is also powers the SinoSplice Tooltips plugin for WordPress. There's a quick youtube video showing its usage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ZOUHzjru0"]http://www.youtube.c...h?v=i_ZOUHzjru0
Here's the download link:
http://toshuo.com/chinese-tools/pinyin- ... extension/
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text: Global Scan Downton Abbey's pooch has a problem — with her name October 13, 2014 The public television smash hit Downton Abbey is making waves again — though not because its killed off another character. It's because of one of the show's dogs. Specifically Isis. And you can probably figure out where this is going. Meanwhile, in Finland, the country's prime minister is blaming Apple for its economic problems. And France is blaming the English-speaking the world for being too politically correct. Those stories and more in today's Global Scan.


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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Thursday, December 21, 1911: Had to go to Watsontown again this week. This time to get that hat pin for Besse. This week seems to be flying around rather fast. Tomorrow Rufus arrives. Then my long siege of milking will be ended.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Yeah, Grandma's sister Ruth–referred to as Rufus in this entry– was coming home and Grandma won't need to do all of the milking by herself! Grandma mentioned getting up at 5 a.m. to do the milking on the 18th. Ruth was attending a teacher professional development institute.
Grandma also mentioned on the 18th that she'd bought a gold hat pin for her married sister Besse. She must have needed to go back to town to actually pick up the pin.
Watsontown is located along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River about two miles from the Muffly farm. It had more of a shopping district a hundred years ago than it does today.


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MARTINEZ — The last known witness for the prosecution in the Richmond High School gang rape dual jury trial testified Monday that DNA from both defendants was recovered from the crime scene.
Defendant Marcelles Peter's DNA was found on the interior of a discarded, broken used condom, according to DNA expert David Stockwell, who retired from Contra Costa County's crime lab in 2011. Defendant Jose Montano's DNA was found on a condom wrapper, Stockwell said.
Peter, 20, and Montano, 22, are each facing life in prison if they are convicted as charged in connection with the Oct. 24, 2009, assault on a then-16-year-old girl in a dark campus courtyard during a homecoming dance. Questions that their attorneys lobbed at Stockwell on Monday focused on the integrity of the evidence collection and testing processes, and possible scenarios as to how their clients' DNA could get on the objects in an effort to raise doubt with jurors.
Ari Morales, 19, and Manuel Ortega, 22, are already serving long prison sentences after taking plea deals in the case; Elvis Torrentes, 25, and John Crane, 46, are awaiting trial.
The lab spent a year testing all the biological evidence against DNA samples that police collected from the victim, the seven men and boys originally charged in the case, and another six men and boys who were identified as witnesses to the assault.
From the victim's body, authorities identified sperm DNA from Crane, Ortega and a male who has never been identified by police, Stockwell said.
Stockwell said he could not say whether Peter's genetic material retrieved from inside a sperm fraction sample on the condom came from Peter's sperm. It is possible, he said, that Peter's non-sperm DNA, which was also found on the condom, crossed over into the sperm fraction.
Crane's sperm was recovered from that same condom, as well as on numerous parts of the victim's body, on stains on other suspects' clothes and on various objects found at the crime scene, according to Stockwell.
Montano's DNA on a condom wrapper was of the non-sperm variety, Stockwell said. Both Peter's and Montano's DNA were also found on an alcoholic beverage can.
Prosecutor John Cope began presenting witnesses June 4, and Stockwell is his last witness unless he chooses to call a rebuttal witness to contradict testimony by any defense witnesses. Contact Malaika Fraley at 925-234-1684. Follow her at Twitter.com/malaikafraley.


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31 July
- The Toshiba Vision screen in New York City's Times Square will become the largest East Coast location for the public to see live mission coverage of Curiosity, NASA's most advanced planetary rover, as it lands on the Martian surface at 1:31 AM EDT 6 August.
- Top-secret surveillance spacecraft and several smaller research satellites will be launched aboard an Atlas 5 rocket scheduled for blastoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base early Thursday. The United Launch Alliance rocket is sitting at Space Launch Complex-3 East on South Base, where crews have spent the past several months preparing the booster for blastoff. The team is shooting for liftoff at 12:40 a.m. Thursday.
30 July
- Images taken by high-resolution cameras on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal that five of the six flags erected by Apollo astronauts are still standing.
29 July
- A second attempt to re-dock the Russian Progress M-15M resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of a new rendezvous system has been a success.
28 July
- Russia's Space Forces launched early on Saturday a Rokot carrier rocket with a Cosmos class military satellite and three civilian satellites on board. The Rokot blasted off from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia at 05:35 AM Moscow time (01:35 UTC).
- John Kelly discusses the recent review passed by the Space Launch System. But expresses concern that this may be another project given the green light by NASA that will run into budget and schedule difficulties.
27 July
- The H-II Transfer Vehicle "Kounitori 3" (HTV3) started its final approach to the International Space Station (ISS), and was captured by the ISS robotic arm at 21:23 PM on July 27 (Japanese Standard Time, JST – 1223 UTC). After being maneuvered by the arm, the HTV3 was successfully berthed to the ISS at 2:31 AM on July 28 (JST – 1731 UTC).
- Russia's Space Forces launched early on Saturday a Rokot carrier rocket with a Cosmos class military satellite and three civilian satellites on board. The Rokot blasted off from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia at 05:35 AM Moscow time (01:35 UTC).
26 July
- A Long March rocket launched the third in a series of Chinese data relay satellites on Wednesday. The Long March 3C rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center and placed into geosynchronous transfer orbit the Tianlian 1-03 communications satellite
- Even as Shenzhou 9 undocked from Tiangong 1, and before it returned to Earth, the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre was starting preparations for the Shenzhou 10 mission, possibly December 2012.
25 July
- A test of a new docking antenna on a Progress spacecraft was aborted last Monday after a malfunction. The Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft, which arrived at the station in April, undocked from the station Sunday and moved out to a distance of over 150 kilometers before returning to the station's facility for a planned redocking to test a new Kurs-NA rendezvous antenna. The docking was aborted, though, when the antenna malfunctioned when the Progress was about 15 kilometers away.
24 July
23 July
- Sally Ride died on Monday in La Jolla, California after a 17 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She is survived by her mother and partner Tam O'Shaughnessy.
22 July
- A Soyuz rocket successfully launched a collection of small satellites on Sunday. The Soyuz-FG rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:41 am EDT (0641 GMT, 12:41 pm local time) Sunday and placed five satellites into Sun-synchronous orbits.
- The Discovery Channel Telescope at Lowell Observatory has seen First Light. Images include M109, the Sombrero Galaxy and M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.
21 July
- Japan successfully launched their HTV-3 re-supply mission to the International Space Station. Docking is expected to occur on 27 July with the Harmony Node.
20 July
- On 20 July 1969, at 10:56 PM EDT, Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon.
- Orbital Sciences Corporation announced Thursday it is now planning the inaugural launch of its medium-lift Antares rocket this October, with a demonstration flight of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft to follow by the end of the year. Orbital said it plans a "hot fire" test of the first stage of the Antares on its launch pad at Virginia's Mid-Altantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in late August or early September, to be followed by the first Antares launch, carrying a demonstration payload, in October..
19 July
- Astronomers examining data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence for an extrasolar planet two-thirds the size of the Earth tightly orbiting its star. The University of Central Florida astronomers found the potential world in Spitzer observations of GJ 436, a star already known to have a Neptune-sized exoplanet, when they noted small, periodic dips in the star's infrared light that they believe are caused by another planet transiting the star's disk.
- Researchers have discovered a rare early galaxy (z=2.18) with pronounced spiral arms. The report is in the July 19 issue of Nature..
18 July
- A problem with a spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars could mean that telemetry from next month's landing by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission could be delayed by perhaps hours. NASA had expected to use the Mars Odyssey orbiter to relay data from MSL as it landed on the evening of August 5. However, officials said Monday that a problem with a reaction wheel on Mars Odyssey means the spacecraft could be out of position to relay the data live.
- Shot into space under a cloak of secrecy last month, a bright new object spotted in space this week has confirmed that the most recent Atlas 5 rocket successfully dispatched a data-relay satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office.
17 July
- A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new International Space Station crewmembers docked with the station early Tuesday. The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft docked with the station's Rassvet module at 12:51 am EDT (0451 GMT) Tuesday, two days after launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On board the Soyuz were Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, American astronaut Sunita Williams, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, who jointed the existing ISS crew of Russians Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American Joe Acaba.
- NASA picked SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket for the planned December 2014 launch of the Jason-3 satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and international partners. The satellite is designed to measure sea surface height to monitor ocean circulation and sea level. The contract is valued at $82 million.
16 July
- NASA's Launch Pad-39A serving as a back drop, bus loads of students arrived from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) Melbourne Campus to watch and participate in this year's Space University's rocket launch competition.
- Sierra Nevada Corporation has ramped up the hiring process for its Dream Chaser program in advance of a scheduled NASA announcement of the next round of commercial crew funding. Dream Chaser is in the running for additional development funds. Since NASA usually tells NASA awardees prior to the awards, the pre-emptive hiring may indicate Sierra Nevada knows it has been selected
- Is Pluto a Binary Planet?
15 July
- Russia successfully launched the Soyuz TMA-05M manned spacecraft toward the International Space Station (ISS) this Saturday evening, 14 July, at 7:40 PM Phoenix time (0240 UTC 15 July).
14 July
- Aviation Week reviews the emerging British Space Industry and its renewed cooperation with the European Space Agency.
13 July
- NASA said today that SpaceX has passed "an important design review" on the crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft. The "concept baseline review" took place June 14 at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
- Democrats Highlight Importance of the Nation's Investments in NASA that Strengthen the American Economy, and Improve Our Daily Lives
- Scientific American weighs in on the consequences of the 2013 NASA Budget for robotic exploration of the Solar System, and it isn't pretty.
12 July
- In an announcement today at the Farnborough International Air Show, Virgin Galactic revealed it is partnering with a privately funded satellite launcher to build a two stage air launched rocket capable of placing 225 kilograms into orbit for around $10 Million dollars.
- Astronomers announced Wednesday the discovery of a fifth, and very small, moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto. Scientists detected the moon, temporarily designated S/2012 (134340) 1, in Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto taken in late June and early July. The moon is thought to be irregular in shape and between 10 and 24 kilometers across, and in a circular orbit about 42,000 kilometers from Pluto.
11 July
- Rocket Crafters Inc., a Utah-based company that specializes in hybrid-rocket design and aerospace-composite technologies, said Tuesday it is moving to Titusville, where it hopes to create as many as 1,300 full-time jobs. The company plans to develop and commercialize a new hybrid rocket-propulsion technology and an ultra-light, advanced composite material for the manufacture of dual-propulsion space planes for suborbital flight.
Astronauts return to Earth weakened and unsteady after weightlessness and radiation in space take their toll on the human body. New research now shows that the humble nematode worm adapts much better to spaceflight.
10 July
- XCOR Aerospace, a suborbital vehicle developer based in Mojave, California, announced plans Monday to move its headquarters and create a research and development center in Midland, Texas. XCOR and a local development organization, the Midland Development Corporation, announced the plan that includes up to $10 million in incentives for XCOR to set up operations at the Midland International Airport.
- The "Hot-Jupiter" exoplanet that orbits only 3.3 million miles from its sun, HD 189733A, is losing its atmosphere at the rate of a thousand tons per second, according to studies by Hubble and Swift over the past two years.
- International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the SES-5 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit today on an ILS Proton for SES of Luxembourg.
9 July
- Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built, commercial spaceport, has launched a new look for its brand on Independence Day. "Spaceport America is helping a new American Revolution take place in the commercial space industry, and what better time to showcase our new brand than the Fourth of July," said Christine Anderson, Executive Director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA).
- In findings released Sunday by the journal Science, two research teams take aim at the "arseniclife" bacteria. The microbe was announced by the journal in 2010 at a NASA news briefing as "the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic." The new findings show that was not the case.
- Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has just celebrated its 3,000th sol* on Mars. This may sound like an important milestone, and it is. This tenacious six-wheeled robot has survived five Martian winters since it landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 24th, 2004 — considering its warranty was only 90 days, we're certainly getting our money's worth!
8 July
- Midland Texas newspaper reviews XCOR.
7 July
- The Guardian discusses the Opportunity mission on Mars at Endeavour Crater.
6 July
- NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) praised the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion programs for making "considerable progress" during their latest meeting, but called for managers to ensure the debut SLS flight – known as Exploration Mission -1 (EM-1) – is heavily aimed at risk mitigation, ahead of the first crewed mission.
5 July
- A dust disk spotted around a young star just a few years ago has disappeared in the course of just a few years, puzzling astronomers. In a paper published in the current edition of the journal Nature, astronomers reported that they are no longer able to detect a warm disk of dust surrounding the star TYC 8241 2652. That disk was discovered in data from NASA's IRAS satellite in 1983, and seen in follow-up observations for 25 years. However, astronomers were unable to see it in infrared observations at the Gemini South observatory in Chile two months ago, leading astronomers to conclude that the warm, infrared-emitting dust disappeared within the last 2.5 years.
- On Thursday, July 5, Arianespace successfully launched two satellites: the dedicated Internet satellite EchoStar XVII for the American operator Hughes Network Systems, and the MSG-3 weather satellite for Eumetsat, the European Meteorological Satellite organization.
4 July
- Fireworks on the fourth: The violent behaviour of a young Sun-like star spinning at high speed and spewing out super-hot plasma has been revealed thanks to the combined X-ray vision of three space telescopes, including ESA's XMM-Newton.
- The coming months aboard the International Space Station promise to be exciting and dramatic, with no fewer than two spacewalks scheduled from the US and Russian segments, plus a Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), SpaceX's first dedicated Dragon cargo flight, the maiden voyage of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus craft, the departure of a European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) and a 'fast-rendezvous' experiment which aims to dock a Progress freighter onto the space station just seven hours after launch.
- The Economic Observer compares and contrasts China's space program with the space industry in America. Their conclusion: China will be left in the dust.
3 July
- The World Policy Journal discusses the changes in space policy as the Obama Administration enlists private enterprise in the space program.
- Russia's Energia space corporation is holding talks with U.S. aerospace giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin over manufacture of docking sites and thermal protection equipment for space capsules for the U.S. firms, Izvestia daily newspaper reported on Tuesday citing Energia head Vitaly Lopota.
2 July
- Lockheed Martin has delivered the first space-bound Orion spacecraft crew module structure to the Operations and Checkout Building on NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The crew module structure recently underwent its final friction stir weld at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. and was transported to KSC last week to be readied for its Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) in 2014.
- United States Navy Captain and retired NASA Astronaut Alan Poindexter lost his life Sunday in a tragic jet ski accident near Little Sabine Bay off Pensacola Beach, Florida.
1 July
- The Soyuz TMA-03M mission spacecraft carrying three U.S., Russian and European astronauts descended to a landing in remote Kazakhstan early Sunday, closing out a 193-day mission to the International Space Station that included the first visit by a U.S. commercial re-supply craft. The Soyuz capsule carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers was greeted by helicopter borne Russian recovery teams, shortly after it touched down under parachute south of Zhezkaghan at 1:14 AM Phoenix time (0814 UTC). Pettit, Kononenko and Kuipers appeared to be in good shape.


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Wash Away Thirst, an initiative that began in Atlanta, is a campaign to bring nearly one billion people worldwide clean water. Now it's spreading from state-to-state, and up and down the east coast. Right here in Middle Georgia, one local car wash has joined the quest to quench thirst.
"Water is a precious commodity and we as a car wash are very cognizant of that and we use recall systems and recycle our water," says Al Baggarly, owner, Speed Wash.
Every car he washes helps Baggarly "Wash Away Thirst" worldwide. The initiative is simple, one cent from each car washed gives one day of water to one thirsty person.
"Every customer we have coming through here are contributing to this thing, in a different kind of way."
Every day about 300 cars come through one of Baggarly's car washes, if you do the math, that's more than 100,000 people he's helping to give clean drinking water to each year. Speed Wash is one of nearly 100 car washes in the state of Georgia and along the east coast that is making a splash in this campaign.
"I never thought it would be anything more than what we were going to do at our locations," says Wash Away Thirst founder, Jim Dudley.
He says this initiative is flooding the east coast.
"People are hearing about it, from all over and they want to be a part of it."
"You know sometimes it doesn't take but just a little bit from a lot of people, and that's what this is all about," says Baggarly.
Visit www.washawaythirst.org? for more information on you can donate or join this initiative.


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Zinc Die Casting Alloys
Because of the drastic chilling involved in die casting and the fact that the solid solubilities of both aluminum and copper in zinc change with temperature, these alloys are subject to some aging changes, one of which is a dimensional change. Both of the alloys undergo a slight shrinkage after casting, which at room temperature is about two-thirds complete in five weeks. It is possible to accelerate this shrinkage by a stabilizing anneal, after which no further changes occur. The recommended stabilizing anneal is 3 to 6 h at 100 °C (212 °F), or 5 to 10 h at 85 °C (185 °F), or 10 to 20 h at 70 °C (158 °F). The time in each case is measured from the time at which the castings reach the annealing temperature. The parts may be air cooled after annealing. Such a treatment will cause a shrinkage (0.0004 in per in) of about two-thirds of the total, and the remaining shrinkage will occur at room temperature during the subsequent few weeks.


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Mix a potion of a dedicated teacher, caring students and a worthy cause against seemingly impossible odds, and you have a subject ripe for a Harry Potter novel.
The difference, here, is that this is no fictional story. As such, there is no need to conceal the ending: This special teacher and her class will be featured Monday (May 17) on the NBC Today Show. They are one of four classes nationwide to be selected as finalists in a contest called "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Most Extraordinary Class" contest. The contest, which will be decided by votes from viewers, was open to students ages 5 to 18 in classes across the country. The segment and information will be posted online Monday at: www.todayshow.com.
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Lindsay Richard has been a teacher for nine years, after graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Houston. She taught first grade for two years in the Alief Elementary School District, before marrying fellow Cougar Michael Richard, class of 2001. The couple moved to San Antonio, where Lindsay currently teaches first grade at Wilderness Oak Elementary in the North East Independent School District. The Wilderness Oak students are being recognized for their amazing response to the Haiti earthquake crisis.
"They came to me concerned and wanting to help," Lindsay Richard says. "We began a fundraiser called 'Hearts for Haiti.' We sold Valentines to our school for $1 and initially raised more than $4,200 in one week.
"Since then, the kids have talked with their parents, who, in turn, gave more money and talked to their employers, who have donated even more money. We have now, to date, raised over $9,400
With her students, she made a three-minute video explaining their effort, and the Today Show came to their school in April to film the class for an entire day. This led to their selection among the four nationwide finalists. Voting will take place Monday through Wednesday, with winners announced live Thursday morning on the Today Show by Emma Watson, who starred as Hermione in the Harry Potter movies.
Win or lose, the experience will teach her students valuable lessons, and that's what matters most, Lindsay Richard says.
"Teaching, to me, is a work of heart," she says. "I love helping children learn, grow and, most importantly, explore their world and have fun! My job is my passion.
"I am a believer in children learning leadership skills so they may be the productive leaders of tomorrow. As a teacher, I am preparing my students for a world with technologies and jobs that don't even exist yet."
She also strives to help her students learn vital social skills and research skills so they can be successful in any endeavor they may choose in life.
"When my students came to me wanting to help others and make the world a better place, I felt it was my mission to help them with this," she says. "They were involved in our Haiti fundraiser from the planning to the counting of money and delivery of a giant check to the American Red Cross.
"They spoke with local media to let our community know of the wonderful thing they were doing. Because of this project, my students have learned so much about communication, fundraising and, most importantly, helping others in need! Now, we have brought our message to the entire world through this contest!"
Richard already knows her class can count on one vote.In an email expressing congratulations, UH President Renu Khator said, "You make us proud. I will certainly watch and vote for you."


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Nola contender: Musician flees flood for roots
Alexandra Scott still had the sheets of plywood she bought a year ago when fleeing before Hurricane Ivan. Still, after hiring a stranger to board up her house in the Uptown district of New Orleans, she had a sheepish feeling because she'd returned after Ivan to find her plants dry and wilting.
"I'm probably just over-reacting," she told a fellow Uptowner Saturday as she retreated in advance of Katrina. "That's okay," the neighbor reportedly replied. "We'll look after your house."
Scott now worries that many of her Uptown neighbors ended up in the fetid confines of the Superdome.
"I've never been so angry," says Scott. "How could they not have gotten water to people in the Superdome? What kind of government leaves old people of rooftops?"
A musician raised in Albemarle, Scott has been calling the Big Easy home since being lured there by her former husband in 2000. Now, she's back in Charlottesville as a refugee.
She may end up pursuing her career as singer-songwriter in New York since, like so many others, she realizes the Crescent City is off limits. A year ago, a weekly newspaper put her album, Spyglass, on its "best of" list. Now that newspaper, Gambit Weekly, has disappeared.
Still, good things have been coming her way. Besides a chance to stay at her mother's comfortable downtown condo, Scott was handed a little rubber bracelet reading, "hope * faith * courage * strength" on her trek home. And while walking her dog, Jack, in downtown Charlottesville, Scott found herself so moved by a neighbor's flute playing that she dropped the musician a thank-you note.
"There been so much goodness," says Scott. "Consolation seems to come in small doses."
Cruising the countryside around Lafayette, Louisiana, on Monday, August 29, with other New Orleans refugees, Scott had thought her town would survive.
"We had a little bit of the feeling we had with Ivan– 'Whew! We've been spared'," says Scott. "We didn't know about the levees."
As the hours passed and Scott and the rest of the world watched as New Orleans dissolved under a foul tide of slime, strife, and starvation, her disbelief gave way to anger. And hope.
After 9/11, she says, Americans should have learned how to cross racial, ethnic, and religious lines to help one another. "Instead," she says, "we were told to shop."
"Part of me wants to get back and help with relief efforts," she says. With such in-City efforts forbidden, Scott hopes instead to compile a benefit disc by various New Orleans musicians. And while she yearns for the town's revival, she realizes her 100-year-old house and its contents may not have survived.
"I suspect everything will have been removed from my house by the time we get back," she says.
That means she can say goodbye to five of her six guitars and the batch of cookies she baked just hours before her 4am Sunday departure.
"For some reason, I keep thinking about those cookies," says Scott. "The brain gets through shock by thinking about little things."
Scott, 32, says she and her friends had recently talked about the enthralling idea of giving up material goods. "We always had this idea that it'd be good to get rid of all our possessions– we just thought it would happen later in life."
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- The 9/11 Rope Mystery
- Bitcoin
- Rippln Scam
- James McCormick and the Fake Bomb Detectors
- Real Superheroes
- TOKiMONSTA
- Privatized Intelligence
- The Bees Are Disappearing
- Murder of DA Mike McLelland in Texas
- Xbox Durango
BlendoveR is a fun, hard-hitting pod-cast where rules are regularly thrown out the window in favor of honest, open commentating opinions. Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), and Terr Ciavarra (Media Nox from medianox.bandcamp.com), we stray on to any topic that presents itself or wanders off onto its own tangent.
The 9/11 Rope Mystery
9/11 debris found in New York identified as plane wing
9/11 Plane Wing Found In Lower Manhattan; Police Say Aircraft Part From WTC Attacks Is Not Landing Gear
9/11 Plane Wreckage Wedged Between Buildings Is A "Trailing Edge Flap"
New York officials to seek human remains at 9/11 plane part site
Plane Part Near WTC Identified as Wing Flap Support, Rope Mystery Solved
Was 9/11 landing gear found beside mosque lowered there by opponents of development? Extraordinary claims following stunning find
BBC Global News Podcast – 28 Apr 13
Blame Canada for the Bitcoin tax precedent
Hack attacks hit Bitcoin exchange rates
To someone who has not heard of bitcoin or is not tech-savvy, you are basically just ripping them off
Rippln Scam
+1 this post and I'll unveil the secret behind Rippln!
Rippln: Multi-Level-Marketing invading App store
What Not To Do In Your Startup Promo Video
James McCormick and the Fake Bomb Detectors
Businessman convicted of fraud over 'detector'
Millionaire businessman James McCormick guilty of selling fake bomb detectors
Millionaire McCormick guilty of fake bomb detector scam
Real Superheroes
Police "ready" for May Day. So is Phoenix Jones
Seattle Super Heroes Will Be On The Street This May Day To Defend The City Against EVIL
Privatized Intelligence
3 burned critically in explosions on Ala. fuel barges; spark from cleaning crew a likely cause
Amy Forliti: Helped out Texas colleagues today…
Body of Missing Student at Brown Is Discovered
ENSCO: SENTRY — CBRN Early Warning and Decision Support System
ENSCO's Leading Rail Customers
Explosions on River in Alabama Injure 3
Marathon Runner Joe Berti Witnesses Double Disasters
Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place
Oil Recovery Company – Partial Client List
Student wrongly tied to Boston bombings found dead
Suspected Iran link in Canadian rail plot puzzles terror experts
Suspects in alleged terrorism train plot make first court appearances
Wikipedia: Toronto train bombing plot
The Bees Are Disappearing
Bee deaths: EU to ban neonicotinoid pesticides
Insecticide firms in secret bid to stop ban that could save bees – Last-ditch lobbying to sway vote in Brussels to halt use of killer nerve agents
Neonicotinoid ban eases the stress on bees
Murder of DA Mike McLelland in Texas
Charges Set in Killings of Officials in Texas
Disgraced Official's Wife Accuses Him in Texas Killings
Eric Williams', ex-justice of the peace, charged in Texas slayings
FBI Offers $200,000 for Information on Murder in Texas
Investigators find vehicle linked to Mark Hasse murder
Kim Williams, wife of jailed ex-Kaufman County JP Eric Williams, arrested on capital murder charge for murder of Texas prosecutors.
Records: Ex-Official's Wife Says Husband Shot D.A.
Suspect in Texas Prosecutor Killings Has Nothing to Do With the Aryan Brotherhood
Texas: Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, wife reportedly found dead in home
Turns Out, Cops Couldn't Find Eric Williams' Missing Getaway Car Because It'd Been Towed
Wife of Former Justice of the Peace Arrested in Prosecutors Deaths – 4/17/2013
Xbox Durango
"Durango" Unchained: Will DRM cost Australians functionality with the new Xbox?
Microsoft to unveil "new generation" Xbox in May
The New Xbox: Touch Controllers and Named "Infinity"?
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Even celebrities appreciate a bargain. Perhaps that's why famous pals Katie Holmes and Julianna Margulies joined Narciso Rodriguez as he launched a limited-edition collection with a more affordable national retailer.
Holmes walked the red carpet at the launch party Monday in New York for Rodriguez's line for Kohls.
"Narciso is a friend and I'm really excited to be here to support him and I think it's wonderful what he's doing and I've been a fan of his for a long time and it's an honour to be here. It's always an honour to wear his clothing," she said.
Rodriguez's line launches Kohl's DesigNation program, which features styles inspired by faraway lands. He used as a starting point a recent trip to Istanbul, and he married elements of Turkish culture with his typical architectural construction.
"The Good Wife" actress Margulies said she not only is a fan of Narciso Rodriguez, she regards him as family. "Seventeen years ago, I met Narciso and I took him to his first CFDA Awards. I was his date. ... It's a history. He was at my wedding, he was there the day my baby was born. We're family."
Emma Roberts said she also appreciated the accessibility of the collection for Kohl's.
"I love when these big designers are collaborating with places to make their stuff more accessible to everybody and also just making kind of more everyday pieces because so many of these designers I love, but they do these gowns that you can't exactly wear to the supermarket."
She said her eye was on Rodriguez's "cute" pajama pant that she'd wear out in the daytime.
Rodriguez for DesigNation will be available in Kohl's stores on Nov. 7. In the spring, Derek Lam takes over the program for a collection inspired by his trip to Brazil.


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Federal officials in multiple agencies said they did not have specifics on how a potential government shutdown – and forced furloughs for the majority of federal workers – would affect flood relief efforts in Colorado.
Some 700 Federal Emergency Management Agency staff are on the ground and more than $4.3 million in disaster grants has been approved by FEMA for homeowners and renters in Colorado.
Since the disaster declaration four days ago, nearly 10,200 households have applied for FEMA assistance. About 7,600 of those are in Boulder County, according to FEMA.
Most of the emergency help and current response would not be affected. Individual assistance to disaster survivors should still be intact since the money has already been allocated.
Longer term recovery efforts, however, staffed by full-time FEMA employees could be affected.
All of Colorado's Republicans say they don't want a government shutdown, arguing it would be bad for the economy and the state.
They stopped short of saying what they will do, however, next week when the Senate likely sends them back a "clean" funding measure that doesn't touch the Affordable Care Act.
"I certainly don't support a policy that will shut down the government," said Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma. "I think that's up to the president whether he shuts down the government."
Colorado's Senate Democrats called action that threatens a government shutdown ridiculous given what the state is going through.
"In the end that hurts Colorado, it hurts America," said Sen. Mark Udall. "The debate ought to be .. about working together to make our government more efficient."
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In Change Your Words, Change Your Life, Joyce Meyer demonstrated the importance of controlling your tongue and speaking life enhancing words about yourself and others. Joyce Meyer pointed out that social media has introduced a whole new concept of us having to watch what we type/say to others. Cyberbullying has spread vicious words among children and teenagers. This is an important area that we have to watch what we say or type. We can choose to share positive words or negative words it's up to us. Many times we criticize ourselves or others and we don't realize the damage we're causing. Joyce stated that many believers claim to believe in God but they aren't in agreement with the promises he has declared he would do. They listen to the devil and his lies that they aren't loved and forgiven. The word says they are loved and forgiven for their sins!
One of the stories that Joyce Meyer shared was about a freshman in high school named, Kyle. Kyle was walking home from school and he had all his books with him. This other young boy noticed this and thought to himself that he must be a nerd. A few seconds later he saw a group of kids knocking his books out of Kyle's hands. The young boy befriended Kyle and reached out to him. On graduation day, Kyle revealed the truth in a speech. Kyle planned to kill himself that very day and he cleaned out his locker where his mother wouldn't have to. I paraphrase the story from pages 14-16. This story hit home to me and helped me to realize the importance of reaching out to others despite how others may criticize us for doing so. Words had such a huge impact for Kyle and it changed and saved his life. What if the young boy hadn't reached out and became Kyle's friend.
The book included a personal list that Joyce Meyer wrote in 1976 concerning the truth of what God's word and what she wanted in her future. One of my scriptures was: "As a man thinketh in his heart; so is he. (Prov. 23:7). This reminded me to control what I believe about myself. If it doesn't line up with the word of God, I have to reject it as lies. She also believed this, "All my children have lots of Christian friends, and God has set aside a Christian wife or husband for each of them. (1 Cor. 15:33). When she began confessing this life changing declaration, her oldest child was only fourteen years old! All of her children are currently married! I'm believing for the same thing over my life and my children and grandchildren lives! The list was around five pages long and I am so glad she shared this personal details. It was a huge encouragement to remind me to write down some of scriptures verses that I need to declare over my life.
I would recommend this astonishing resource to anyone who is longing to figure how to make process in taming the tongue. Words have incredible power and when used wisely can bless or we can choose to curse others. This book has the potential to change your life if you put into practice the lessons and get in agreement with speaking God's word. The book reminded me to keep my word when I tell someone I will do something I need to follow through, stop complaining, and listen to others and only share my opinion when I need to. Speaking encouragement and building up others is how mature Christians act. This is an area that I see that I must work actively to find areas to communicate to others much needed encouragement.
I immensely enjoyed the "Dictionary of God's Word" included in the back of the book. It covered scriptures to speak over your life when you're depressed, angry, seeking healing, afraid, rejected, lonely, needing financial help, and much more. There is so much power in this book that will benefit readers seeking to improve their daily life. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who struggles with saying the right things about themselves or others.
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20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week
Basketball, and soccer, and hockey — oh my! The social TV waves dribbled, dropkicked and fouled along with a handful of sports programming this past week. The NBA conference finals are in a dead-heat; each of the four remaining teams has won two games out of seven (Thunder vs. Spurs, Celtics vs. Heat). The former game airs Monday night at 9 p.m. ET.
In entertainment news, the MTV Movie Awards aired Sunday night. Host Russell Brand welcomed viewers, proclaiming the two major film franchies of the night: Hunger Games and Twilight, the latter of which won Best Movie of the Year for Breaking Dawn. In particular, Twitter lit up when Johnny Depp was given the Generation Award. He celebrated by rocking out on guitar alongside The Black Keys and trading jabs with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler.
The data is compliments of our friends at Trendrr, who measure specific TV show activity (mentions, likes, check-ins) across Twitter, Facebook, GetGlue and Miso. To see daily rankings, check out Trendrr.TV.
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One of the most important things a small business owner must understand right from the get-go is the importance of creating excellent customer experiences. Because customers are the key to profit and business longevity, maintaining a superior level of customer service and ensuring a pleasant shopping experience is as important as keeping your shelves stocked with products.
Reign in on your customer service and experience skills and fix up the mistakes that your business might be making with these five smart tips.
- As sad as it is, there will be times when your customers complain about a service, product or experience. Unfortunate as it may be, this is actually a blessing in disguise, because you're given the opportunity to make things right with the customer. Instead of giving a quick apology or simply issuing a refund, take the time to really communicate with the customer to figure out what went wrong. By providing them with patience, understanding and compassion, you can change their mind about the situation and earn a great deal of respect (and quite possibly a loyal customer!).
- With the rise of social media marketing in the business world, so many companies are now offering live chats and 24/7 customer support services. Because most small business don't have the time or resources to provide that level of service, it becomes even more imperative that the quality of your customer service is top-notch. Make sure you have enough staff working each day so customers on the phone and at the store never have to wait long to be heard. It's also a good idea for you (or a trusted employee) to monitor your social media and email accounts during the day to make sure any questions and comments can be attended to right away.
- Because people engage in so much mobile activity these days, not having a website that's smart-phone friendly is an easy way to lose customers. If they're trying to purchase something online using their mobile device and can't access your website in a fast or readable way, the customer will become annoyed and give up in a flash. To avoid this online customer experience mistake, make sure your website is mobile-friendly so you don't lose traffic, sales and the opportunity to grow your customer base.
- One of the best ways to figure out if your customers are happy with their experience is to simply ask them! If you don't have an online survey or questions and comments box in your store, your customers will either feel like they have nowhere to voice their concerns about your store … or even worse, they'll turn to social media. If you're looking for an easy way to connect with your customers, learn what they want and increase your transparency, set up a clear place for them to let it all out. And to promote this new feature, offer them a reward or draw!
- Last but not least, it's important that you never forget to praise and engage your hardworking employees. If your staff aren't happy and satisfied, your customers won't receive the excellent service and experience that is crucial for a successful business.


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Today I released biosdevname v0.3.7, after listening to feedback from all across the web, including NetworkWorld, LWN, and Slashdot. No, I'm not killing the feature, as some might hope, but some changes are in order.
First, it's amazing how many people hated the '#' character in device names. Yes, that was bound to cause some problems, but nothing that couldn't be fixed given enough time. But since it's early in the game, changing that character from '#' to 'p' accomplishes the same goal, with less chance of breakage, so that's done. pci<slot>p<port>_<vf> it is….
Second, the various virtual machine BIOSes each do something slightly different for the network devices they expose. VMware exposes the first NIC (traditionally eth0) as in PCI slot 3. KVM exposes the first NIC as in PCI slot 2, but has no information about the second NIC. Xen doesn't expose anything, so those all kept the ethX naming convention.
To address these discrepancies, and because there is no physical representation of a (virtual) NIC in a virtual machine, biosdevname no longer suggests a new name for NICs if running in a VM guest. This means all VM guests keep ethX as their naming convention. Thanks to colleague Narendra K for this fix.
Third, for everyone who still thinks renaming devices is a really bad idea, you get an out. A new kernel command line option, honored by udev, lets you disable biosdevname. biosdevname=0 will prevent biosdevname from being invoked, effectively disabling this feature, leaving you with the ethX names.
All this, and the usual assorted bug fixes as biosdevname gets more widespread exposure and testing.
Love it? Hate it? Let me know. You can find me (mdomsch) on IRC on FreeNode in #biosdevname, #udev, or #fedora-devel, as well as the usual mailing lists.


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Thor Athletes in Phoenix
Thor's Ryan Villopoto bounced back from his opening round result to earn a hard-fought second-place finish on a tough track at Chase Field in Phoenix, Ariz. Thor's Martin Davalos also earned his first podium finish of the season in the Western Regional 250SX Class after he overcame a heat-race crash and qualifying through the LCQ.
Villopoto learned right away how slick the track was during the 450SX main event, going down on the second lap and remounting in eighth. He used the remainder of the main event to pick off riders and post the fastest lap time of the race, on his way to finish runner-up. Villopoto has now climbed the points standings to sit in a three-way tie for seventh.Thor's Josh Grant continued to make improvements throughout the day in Phoenix, charging hard to a 10th-place finish in the main event.
The Western Regional 250SX class rider Davalos showed incredible heart and determination on Saturday. A crash in the heat race forced him to qualify through the LCQ, giving him 19th gate pick for the main. Despite the outside gate pick, Davalos nearly grabbed the holeshot and led for several laps of the main event before finishing on the podium in third. Teammate Tyla Rattray started outside the top-15 to race back to 12th for the night.Thor's Blake Baggett made a determined effort to race in Phoenix despite and injured wrist, but after practice made the decision not to race.
The Monster Energy Supercross riders will head to Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif. next weekend. on January 19 for Round 3 of the season.
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Sometimes as a mom I feel this way, though once he's grown and out of the house I will probably miss his dirty little fingers and crumbs all over the place.
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i feel your pain. i am in my first "real" apartment out of college and don' t want to invest a ton on anything in the apartment since it's only temporary. my boyfriend sounds similar to your son, maybe when he grows up we can have nice things too (though i doubt i will miss his crumbs)!ReplyDelete
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Mother, O' Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth.
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I've grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due,
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek - peekaboo.
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew,
And out in the yard there's a hullabaloo.
But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo.
The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow,
But children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2013
I know how you feel. We have a two year old and I feel like the level of cleanliness and ruined things has skyrocketed. Especially over the last year. We just got a new area rug and I have instilled a no eating rule around it. I' sick of having nice things and seeing them get ruined. I too am sure I'll miss his cute sticky hand prints on everything someday, but for now I'm going to try my best to tame it.ReplyDelete
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The SEC announced Thursday that George Canellos, currently deputy director of the Division of Enforcement, has been named acting director, and that David Bergers, director of the SEC's Boston Regional Office, has been named acting deputy director of the Enforcement Division.
Both men will assume their new roles Feb. 8; Robert Khuzami, director of the Division of Enforcement, is leaving the SEC on the same day.
SEC Chairwoman Elisse Walter said in a statement that "George's proven intellectual abilities and creative approach to problem solving have made him an extremely effective advocate for investors and make him ideally suited to serve as acting director. As deputy director, he helped to oversee a division that brought record numbers of enforcement actions and some of the most complex cases in the agency's history."
Khuzami said in the same statement that "George is highly respected for his intellect, prosecutorial instincts, and commitment to tough and fair enforcement of the federal securities laws. His service will benefit both the SEC's talented and hardworking staff and the investing public."
Canellos, 48, has been the division's deputy director since June 2012 and has been instrumental in developing the division's Cooperation Program; in generating numerous programmatic, policy and legislative initiatives; and in critical decisions on national priority enforcement actions.
Canellos is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University School of Law.
Walter said that Bergers "is an extremely talented attorney who has a successful track record leading the Boston Regional Office. Having worked at the SEC for 13 years, he has a deep understanding of the division, agency, and laws we enforce. And he has a true appreciation for the significant impact that the work of the SEC has on investors."
Bergers, 45, has headed the SEC's Boston Regional Office since 2006. The office oversees more than 1100 investment advisors, 60 mutual fund complexes and 375 broker-dealers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Rhode Island.
He served at the SEC from 1998 to 2000 and returned in 2001, and has served in various enforcement positions, including head of SEC enforcement in Boston. He has headed hundreds of SEC investigations into investment and financial fraud, insider trading and other securities law violations.
According to the SEC, Bergers has practiced with law firms in the Philadelphia and Boston areas and served as a vice president and assistant general counsel of a regional broker-dealer and affiliated investment adviser in Boston. He received his bachelor's degree from Eastern Nazarene College and his law degree from Yale Law School.


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Got fantasy football injuries? Go get your crying towel
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If you see me walking around town with a crying towel pressed against my face, it's with good reason.
Injuries are killing me!
They are likely impacting your team in some shape or form, too.
Green Bay tight end Jermichael Finley, whose fantasy value skyrocketed in recent weeks with injuries to Packers receivers, was going to be used in several wide receiver sets moving forward.
Last week he ends up with neck and spinal injuries and is out indefinitely. The Finley injury has left owners scrambling to find a replacement.
If you have Finley, tight ends potentially on your waiver wire include Washington's Jordan Reed, Cincinnati's Tyler Eifert and Baltimore's Dallas Clark.
Another key injury is Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler, who was crunched during a scary-looking tackle and ended up with a torn groin muscle. It hurts me just writing about it. The Bears are on the bye, but Cutler is out at least four weeks.
New Minnesota QB Josh Freeman (concussion) is another casualty and is out this week.
Cutler's replacement is Josh McCown, and having a receiver like Brandon Marshall to throw to, that's a gamble I'm willing to take when the Bears come back from their bye. Christian Ponder replaces Freeman and is a pickup option. Other quarterbacks with better upside are the Jets' Geno Smith, Houston's Case Keenum and Tampy Bay's Mike Glennon, who is playing for a long-term starting job.
Bucs running back Doug Martin, who has struggled this season, is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury. The most sought-after waiver-wire pickup this week has been his backup, Mike James, who can run and catch the ball. If he's still on your waiver wire, grab him. If you're desperate, other running backs to add if you need help are Chris Ivory of the Jets and new Giants back Peyton Hillis.
A receiving standout who is out for the season is Indianapolis' Reggie Wayne, who suffered a torn ACL against Denver last week. Receivers to key on are Darrius Heyward-Bey, who is on the bye this week but is the Colts' new No. 2, and, for an immediate fix, Green Bay's Jarrett Boykin, whose status has risen with Randall Cobb and James Jones hurting.
This season has been a trying time with injuries to elite players week after week after week. The thing to consider isn't how bad it's been, but how much worse it will get. More injuries, unfortunately, will likely occur as we move forward.
One plus last week was the return, finally, of New England tight end Rob Gronkowski, who was recovering from arm and back surgeries. He had a solid game with eight catches for 114 yards and will produce big time the rest of the season...as long as he stays healthy.


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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly last week, touching a 5-1/2 year low, suggesting a steadily improving labor market.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 326,000, the lowest level since January 2008, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Claims for the prior week were revised to show 2,000 more applications received than previously reported.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected first-time applications to rise to 345,000 last week.
While claims are extremely volatile in July because of summer auto plant shutdowns, the general tone of the report remained consistent with a pick-up in job gains.
The four-week moving average for new claims, which irons out week-to-week volatility, fell 4,500 to 341,250.
Automakers traditionally close assembly plants for retooling in July, but they have either shortened the shutdown period or completely forgone the closures, throwing off the model that the government uses to adjust the data for seasonal variations.
A Labor Department analyst said the volatility remained in the data. No states had been estimated and there was nothing unusual in the state-level data, the analyst said.
Last week's data has no bearing on Friday's employment report for July. The government's closely monitored report is expected to show nonfarm payrolls increased 184,000 last month after rising 195,000 in June, according to a Reuters survey of economists.
The jobless rate is seen ticking down a tenth of percentage point to 7.5 percent. There is a risk payrolls could surprise on the upside after a report on Wednesday showed private employers maintained a higher pace of hiring in July.
The labor market is being closely watched by the Federal Reserve, which on Wednesday offered no indication it planned to reduce its monthly $85 billion in bond purchases at its next meeting in September.
The claims report showed the number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid fell 52,000 to 2.95 million in the week ended July 20.


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Hi, this is my first time playing ROP so I'm unsure if my game is supposed to look this way.
The unit portraits at the bottom of the screen sometimes don't show all of the facial features and they are missing eyes and mouths and sometimes have question marks.
This is in fact my very first game of ROP and i'm playing Prussia in the first scenario. I also tested it with Austria and they also have missing features as well, in fact I looked at both sides in the first three scenarios and every time the graphics look like this.
So is there a problem with my game or is it meant to look like this?
I've tried checking the forum and google but I couldn't find anything related but I have noticed it in other peoples screenshots.
Both screenshots below were taken from my game at the same time showing two different Prussian stacks with this issue.


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One way to learn about endangered animals is through play. Aurora World, Inc., a toy and gift manufacturer, has a line of cute plush toys called YooHoo & Friends. The designs are based mostly on endangered animals from around the world. My daughter and son instantly fell in love with these unusual and colorful stuffed animals - those big-eyes are hard to resist. We received two 5" animals: pink Sugar Glider (Shooga) and a purple Lesser Red Panda (Hapee). Both the animals make a noise when you squeeze their bellies. All the various stuffed animals are affordable and range in cost between $7-$14 (with the exception of the giant animals). My daughter loves the sugar glider marsupial best, and has fun pretending to make it fly through the air. The sugar glider is from Australia and the surrounding islands, and we located its homeland on a world map and read about the animal online. According to Wikipedia, the sugar glider is not endangered but protected (some close relatives like Mahogany Glider are endangered). Some people keep sugar gliders as domestic pets!
The tags on the smaller animals don't contain much information about the animals, but kids can find out more about their YooHoo & Friends animals if they visit the free, interactive website at www.yoohoofriends.com. We found our animals on the animal map and learned more about each animal and it's habitat. There's plenty of games featuring the YooHoo & Friends animals to play on the website and kids can even choose a pet and decorate their pet's room in the My Room section.
Kids can also learn more about endangered animals by participating in the Design YooHoo's Next Friend Contest. They can pick what endangered species they'd like to see as a YooHoo & Friends animal and submit a drawing of their new character. Entries must be postmarked by May 25, 2010, so get drawing! After checking out several endangered species, my daughter decided to draw a Green Turtle for the contest. (Did you know that World Turtle Day also falls on this weekend, May 23rd?) Full contest details here: http://yoohoo.auroraworld.com/tmp/community/free/color_design.aspx
Yoohoo & Friends on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yoohoofanpage
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If your child would like to submit a drawing they can find more wonderful information about endangered species at these additional websites:
Konica Minolta's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Endangered Animals
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program Kids Corner
World Wildlife Federation - Species
WI DNR EEK! Our Earth: Threatened and Endangered Species
Aurora World Inc. has kindly offered to giveaway a random five inch animal from the YooHoo & Friends line to a Brimful Curiosities reader. The exact animal the winner will receive is a surprise!
To enter, leave a comment relevant to this post or comment with an endangered species you think would make a good YooHoo & Friends character.
• For contact purposes, if you are a non-blogger or your email is not accessible in your blog profile, please leave a valid email address within the comment section.Three ways to gain extra entries (Maximum total entries is 4; please leave a separate comment for each entry):
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1st extra entry: Blog about this contest then post your link in the comment section.
2nd extra entry: Follow me on twitter (iambrimful) and tweet about the contest (Sample tweet: RT @iambrimful It's Endangered Species Day on May 21. Win an @yoohoofriends stuffed animal in our giveaway - http://bit.ly/dnXZei)
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Summer is officially here! Or if you live in Australia like I do then it's almost the middle of winter, boo hoo! Well, either way, there are loads of great books to keep you happy (or warm!) this month!
1) Out July 1 *Book 3 in Ladies in Waiting series*
Miss Catherine Hart may be merely a paid companion, but she's the loveliest creature baron Lord Winston has ever encountered. The only obstacle is determining the mysterious Miss Hart's social pedigree before the handsome diplomat can court her in earnest.
Revenge, not romance, led Catherine Du Coeur to hide her aristocratic name and seek out the man who accused her father of treason. She expected a coldhearted cad, but Winston appears honorable and compassionate. Against all odds, Catherine is drawn to the very adversary she intended to ruin. And soon both will face a choice—one involving pride, old loyalties and forgiveness.
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2) Out July 2 *Book 3 in Reckless Brides series*
Assuming a false identity as a prim and proper governess, the bold and beautiful Cat Rowan thinks she has finally escaped the wild misadventures of her past—and the wickedly handsome spy who seduced her in India. Imagine her surprise when her employer introduces his brother: the very same cad who destroyed her heart!
The Honorable Thomas Jellicoe cannot believe his eyes when he sees his beloved Cat—the Scottish beauty who nearly jeopardized his mission in India. Disguised as a horse trader from the bazaars of the Punjab, the British spy risked his life for one night of passion in her arms. But here and now—breaking all rules of decorum—one heated kiss ignites a flurry of gunfire. For their enemies have followed them home. And love is the greatest danger of all…
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3) Out July 2 *Book 4 in Lonely Lords series*
Beckman Haddonfield is ready to live again…
Beckman finally emerges from the shadow of his wife's death by agreeing to restore a family estate…and embarking on a dalliance with the quiet, mysterious housekeeper who resides there. But she is not who she seems…
Riveting and refreshing, Beckman is an unforgettable story about love's power to overcome grief and guilt. Award-winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes's gorgeous writing and lush Regency world will stay with you long after you turn the final page.
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4) Out July 2
When newly widowed Lady Fiona Libourg flees to Scotland in need of protection, Lord Gavin McLendon is powerless to refuse the British beauty. Especially when she offers herself in exchange. Now the brooding Scottish warrior can think of nothing else but ravishing his delectable new mistress, even though he's duty bound to marry another…
Fiona is shocked when Gavin accepts her scandalous offer-and fretful at the thought that he will discover how little she knows of seduction. But when Gavin proves to be a skilled and achingly sensuous teacher, Fiona doesn't want their passionate arrangement to end. Now she can't help but wonder just what it would take to go from Scottish mistress…to Scottish wife.
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5) Out July 2 *Book 6 in The Rogues' Dynasty series*
Matson Brentwood has finally met the woman of his dreams. The lovely, red-haired Sophia Hart heats his blood like no other lady. Her alluring countenance has stopped him dead in his tracks. But no matter how attracted he is to her, he can't give into his desire to possess her in every way because she is the ward of the man he's sworn to hate.
Newly arrived in London, Miss Sophia Hart is in need of a husband, but not for herself. She has twin, spinster aunts and one of them has decided she wants a man. Sophia agrees to help her aunt by allowing older gentlemen to call on her and then make sure Auntie spends more time in the gentleman's company than Sophia does. But when Sophia meets the darkly handsome and intriguing Mr. Matson Brentwood, she knows that for the first time, she in danger of losing her heart.
But there's more than just an adversarial guardian and a long list of beaus standing between Sophia and Matson. Sophia promised her dying father she would honor his lifelong plan for her as an heiress and marry a titled gentleman. Matson isn't titled so she must deny her love for him and make up to her father for costing him the love of his life.
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6) Out July 2 *Book 4 in Ministry of Marriage series*
Physically reckless, irrepressibly roguish, and poised on the brink of ruin, Jonathon Westruther, Earl of Davenport, returns from the dead only to throw himself into dissipation. Until he meets his worst nightmare: a straitlaced former schoolteacher he can't get out of his head. He resolves to seduce the delightful Miss Hilary deVere by fair means or foul. But when his past returns to endanger Hilary, he must protect her at all costs…
Dismissed from her post at a ladies' academy because of prejudice against her uncouth family, Hilary will do anything to avoid going back to live with her loutish brothers. She longs for a London season to show the world a deVere can behave with utmost decorum and to find a respectable husband. Everything about Lord Davenport appalls her but desperation makes strange bedfellows. To get to London, Hilary strikes a bargain with the devilish Davenport, confident that she's immune to his charm. But as she discovers surprising depths beneath his rakish surface, this infamous scoundrel becomes more temptation than even the most proper lady can withstand…
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7) Out July 2
Maggie Johnson has been gifted with "the Sight" ever since she was a child. Her dreams bring her visions of the future, and of a presence she knows is real. She calls him Wolf, and has seen him grow alongside her from a careless young boy into a fearsome warrior. And when her life is torn asunder by unspeakable tragedy, he is her only hope.
Andrew MacDonnell is entranced by the vision of a beautiful woman who has always dwelt in his dreams. When war ravages his land and all he has ever known, he leaves the Scottish Highlands on a perilous journey to the New World to find her, knowing that their only chance of survival is with one another.
Their quest to find each other across a treacherous wilderness will test the limits of courage and endurance, guided only by their dreams–and by the belief in the true love they share.
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8) Out July 2 *Book 1 in Ladies Unlaced series*
Independent heiress Louisa Stratton is going home to Rosemont for the holidays and, at the family's request, she's bringing her new husband Maximillian Norwich, art connoisseur and artful lover, the man she's written of so glowingly. There's one hitch—he doesn't exist. Louisa needs a fake husband, and fast, to make the proper impression.
Charles Cooper, captain of the Boer War and with a background far from silver spoons or gilded cages, is so hard up that even Louisa's crazy scheme appeals to him. It's only thirty days, not till death do them part. What's so difficult about impersonating a husband, even if he doesn't know a Rembrandt from a Rousseau?
The real difficulty is keeping his hands off Louisa once there's nobody around to see through their ruse. And then there's the small problem of someone at Rosemont trying to kill him. Keeping his wits about him and defending Louisa brings out the honor he thought he'd left on the battlefield. But when Louisa tries to protect him, Charles knows he's found a way to face his future—in the arms of his heiress.
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9) Out July 23 *Book 2 in Ladies of Impropriety series*
According to society, I, Elise Sutton, haven't been a lady for quite some time—a lady couldn't possibly run the family company and spend her days on London's crowded, tar-stained docks. And she most certainly wouldn't associate herself with the infamous Dorian Rowland—privateer, smuggler and the Scourge of Gibraltar himself!
But I need Rowland and his specialized expertise—especially with the wolves circling, waiting for me to fail. I yearn to feel alive, and Rowland, who can kiss like the devil, inflames my senses and makes me dare to break free….
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10) Out July 23 *Book 1 in Season of Secrets series*
Darkly delicious Lord Adam Hawthorne doesn't care a whit for society-especially the tedium of finding a wife. So taking on a new governess for his young daughter shouldn't shake his steely disposition!
Except Mrs. Elena Leighton, an enigmatic widow, is a most intriguing addition to the household. What are those ladylike airs and graces beneath her dowdy exterior?
Despite great impropriety, Lord Hawthorne is compelled to discover the real Elena-no matter what secrets are unveiled along the way….
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11) Out July 30 *Book 6 in Inferno Club series*
Shy, warm-hearted Miss Grace Kenwood knows she has no chance of tempting her new neighbor, Lord Trevor Montgomery. Every eligible beauty is swooning over the brooding former spy. Even though he once kissed her senseless, he can have no interest in someone like her. Yet somehow, the seductive rogue unleashes her own inner devil…
Every lady loves a hero, but Trevor has no interest in any of them— except for the refreshingly candid Grace. If he had a heart left, Grace might steal it. She insists he's better than he thinks. He's sure she's absolutely wrong. Until danger threatens, and Trevor rediscovers how easy it is to be a hero…for the right lady.
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12) Out July 30 *Book 3 in Forgotten Princesses series*
When Annalise Hadley is tossed over the side of her honeymoon barge, the newly-minted duchess knows she's been left for dead — for her husband's only interest is in her vast dowry, not her muddied lineage. However, she didn't count on a savior. Especially not an honorable, sinfully intriguing earl who will tempt her to risk everything—again.
A man with his own demons, Owen Crawford, the reclusive Earl of McDowell, is enchanted by the mysterious, courageous woman he rescued. He will help her heal, teach her to protect herself, and then send her away—so that she'll never see he's far from the hero she believes him to be.
But days and nights alone prove that some secrets are meant to be discovered…some desires are too powerful to resist…and some wounds can only be healed by love.
13) Out July 30 *NEW SERIES*
Joan Bennet is tired of being a wallflower. Thanks to some deliciously scandalous—and infamous—stories, she has a pretty good idea of what she's missing as a spinster. Is even a short flirtation too much to ask for?
Tristan, Lord Burke, recognizes Joan at once for what she is: trouble. Not only is she his best friend's sister, she always seems to catch him at a disadvantage. The only way he can win an argument is by kissing her senseless. He'd give anything to get her out of her unflattering gowns. But either one of those could cost him his bachelor status, which would be dreadful—wouldn't it?
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14) Out July 30 *Book 1 in Clan Sinclair series*
For Virginia Traylor, Countess of Barrett, marriage was merely the vehicle to buy her father a title. Widowhood, however, brings a host of problems. For her husband deliberately spent the money intended for Virginia and her in-laws, leaving them penniless—unless she produces an heir. Desperate and confused, Virginia embarks on a fateful journey that brings her to the doorstep of the only man she's ever loved…
He's known as The Devil, but Macrath Sinclair doesn't care. He moved to a tiny Scottish village in hopes of continuing his work as an inventor and starting a family of his own. He bought the house; he chose the woman. Unfortunately, Virginia didn't choose him. Macrath knows he should turn her away now, but she needs him, and he wants her more than ever. Whatever game Virginia's playing, Macrath intends to win—one wickedly seductive deed at a time…
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15) Out July 30 *Book 1 in Scottish Brides series*
Lady Lucy MacMorlan may have forsworn men and marriage, but that doesn't mean she won't agree to profit from writing love letters for her brother's friends – letters that become increasingly racy as her fame grows. That is, until she deliberately ruins the betrothal of a notorious laird, Robert, Marquis of Methven.
Past centuries of bloodshed have left the Methven and MacMorlan families bitter enemies and Robert is furious that Lady Lucy's letters have cost him the bride he needs so urgently to save his ancestral clan lands. Now he makes Lucy a shocking proposal; in return for his silence she must become his wife and provide him with the heir he needs. It is an inconvenient marriage of convenience but can the rugged laird and the bluestocking beauty fight against the power of love?
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16) Out July 30
Some call him Gentleman Jack. The papers prefer Swift Nick. The only name Jack Nevison never uses is the one left to him by his abusive aristocratic father. Jack wants nothing to do with his heritage; instead, he preys on the wealthy, stealing coin (and the occasional kiss) on England's darkest roads. Jack's dangerous deeds are legend, yet the thrill of a highwayman's life is growing cold…until he meets Arabella.
Beautiful and bold, Arabella Hamilton may come from the world Jack despises, but she's a kindred spirit at heart. Their attraction is immediate and consuming, and with each encounter they risk more. Yet they remain on opposite sides of the law…and society. To be together, one of them will have to give up their world forever.
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17) Out July 30 *Book 2 in Worthington series*
After years of being a quiet, dutiful wife, the recently widowed Mrs. Miranda Talbot is finally free to do as she pleases. As an attractive woman of independent means, Miranda is suddenly turning heads all around town. When she meets the dashing Mr. Castor Worthington, she is swept away by his passion. Is he too good to be true?
Little does Miranda know that there is more to Castor than meets the eye. In fact, he's a twin. Castor's brother, also a confirmed bachelor, takes his romantic pursuits—and rivals—very seriously. When Castor discovers Miranda is being courted by his own twin, his competitive nature takes over. Who will be the one to win Miranda's hand and heart? The race to say I do is about to begin…
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18) Out July 30
For Lachann, safeguarding his clan comes before life, limb, and especially love. A political marriage in Kilgorra will ensure that MacMillan lands are protected; so much the better that his bride doesn't stir his blood. But what of the intriguing woman who arouses so much more . . . and lives in the very castle where Lachann is to wed?
A nna MacIver is content to serve in her stepfather's household despite the cruelty of her stepsister, Catriona. She has a sanctuary to which she can escape and no romantic notions to impede good sense . . . until Catriona's intended bridegroom arrives in Kilgorra and shows Anna the meaning of desire. Now, with a clan's future hanging in the balance, Anna and Lachann must decide if love is a risk worth taking . . .
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19) Out July 30 *Book 1 in Wicked Widows series*
With her whirlwind social life in London, Lady Isabella Wharton has little interest in the customs of the country. But when her godmother asks her to pay a visit to her bachelor grandson in Yorkshire, Isabella can't refuse. It behooves her to please the old dowager, since she harbors one of Isabella's most scandalous secrets. So off she goes to see the newly-titled—and notoriously rustic—Duke of Ormond…
Trevor Carey doesn't care about what goes on behind ballroom doors. He is content with the simple life—and isn't ashamed to admit it to a society flirt like Lady Isabella. But the country air brings out a different side of Isabella—one full of longing and passion. Can her sophistication be hiding a desire for love? When a blackmailer from the city arrives to threaten Isabella, Trevor will shield her from harm—even travel to London. Can the duke tackle the ton on Isabella's behalf …and manage to keep her all to himself?
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20) Out July 30 *Book 3 in London List series*
Lady Imaculata Anne Egremont has appeared in the scandalous pages of the London List often enough. The reading public is so bored with her nonsense, she couldn't make news now unless she took a vow of chastity. But behind her naughty hijinks is a terrible fear. It's time the List helped her. With a quick scan through its job postings and a few whacks at her ridiculous name, she's off to keep house for a bachelor veteran as plain Anne Mont.
Major Gareth Ripton-Jones is dangerously young and handsome on the face of it, but after losing his love and his arm in short order, he is also too deep in his cups to notice that his suspiciously young housekeeper is suspiciously terrible at keeping house. Until, that is, her sharp tongue and her burnt coffee penetrate even his misery—and the charm underneath surprises them both. Trust the worst cook in Wales to propose a most unexpected solution to his troubles…
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