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Unbelievably I seem to have ignored my blog for 8 months, and my last post told you that I was coming back to blogging. I doubt if there's anyone out there following now, but if you are there "Hello! And Happy New Year!"
Life was somewhat hectic last year as I began feeling my feet in the 'days after Dairy House' and before I knew it December and Christmas were on us. Home life continues in much the same way and all the house and garden plans I had are still plans rather than reality; but 2014 is hopefully the year to set the wheels in motion! Florence the Granddaughter is now three and a half and has been at pre-school since September. She spends a lot of time on the farm and her animal husbandry skills are already well-formed, frequently surprising her mummy and daddy with knowledge gleaned from 'Grampy'.
Vintage to Victorian is back on the Fairs circuit and this weekend will see me (possibly freezing) at Shepton Mallet 3-day Antiques Fair. If anyone is visiting, my regular spot is in Mendip 2 Hall. I veered away from linen and lace for a short while, concentrating on leather luggage and suchlike, but soon found that on buying trips I was making a beeline for anything textile-related, thus the breakaway was short-lived. So my stock-in-trade is what it always was - linen, lace, haberdashery, French and English vintage or antique textiles, Welsh blankets, eiderdowns and quilts, millinery flowers, mannequins, boxes, buttons and so on.
It would be good to get back to blogging and catch up with you all so fingers crossed ...
In the meantime, here's the list so far of the Fairs I have booked for 2014, which is far more than I realised! I need to relearn how to add them to the sidebar but with a little perseverance I'll hopefully manage it!
Hope to see you again soon x
15 January 2014
Eight Months On ...
3 comments:
- Nostalgia at the Stone House said...
Hi Sue - Happy New Year! Thanks for your comment on my blog...I've been emailing you in reply to yours, but mine have been bouncing back to me...No idea why. (I left a message on your FB in the end.) Thanks for the offer of tickets to 3-day - I shall probably go on the Sunday...Possibly with Deb, so hope to see you then.
Can't believe how many other fairs you've booked! - You are going to be very busy!
Hope 2014 will be kind to you,
Niki xx
- 1:45 pm
- Sandies' Patch said...
You have been missed!
Happy New year to you and yours too!
This is going to be a very good year for you, I feel sure of it.
Sandie xxx
- 2:01 pm
- Pearly Queen said...
I'm here!
- 3:43 pm
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California Drives the Future of the Automobile
California Drives the Future of the Automobile
Impatience with fossil fuels is shaking California, which is the world's sixth-largest economy and has the dirtiest air in the United States. The state's leaders have their sights set on hydrogen.
In October 2003, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger came to office in a recall election promising to create the world's first "hydrogen highway," with hydrogen fueling stations situated along the state's major roads. "I intend to show the world that economic growth and the environment can coexist," he told constituents in his January 2004 "state of the state" address.
This may sound strange coming from a former Hollywood action hero who has owned at least seven Hummers, gargantuan vehicles that get only 10 to 12 miles per gallon. But Schwarzenegger is coming through on his promise. Six months after taking office, he signed an executive order to develop the new California Hydrogen Highway Network by 2010. The goal is to speed the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles that run on hydrogen, one of the cleanest energy carriers* in existence (see sidebar, next page).
Shifting the state's transportation system, including its 10,000 retail gasoline outlets, away from petroleum and toward alternative fuels would be a milestone for California-and for the world. California currently leads the United States in gasoline consumption; its 30 million cars, trucks, and buses guzzle more than 40 million gallons each day. These mobile sources accounted for nearly 60 percent of the state's carbon dioxide emissions in 2003, and today more than 90 percent of Californians live in areas where air quality fails to meet federal standards.
State officials hope the new Hydrogen Highway will help California meet and even exceed its air pollution targets, among the most stringent in the world. In 1990, the state adopted legislation requiring that 10 percent of new vehicles produced for sale by 2003 be "zero-emissions" (a standard that has since been modified to require that two percent of vehicles sold be zero emissions and another eight percent be low-emission hybrids or super-clean vehicles). And in 2002, California became the first state or country to regulate the global warming impacts of motor vehicles, requiring automakers to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and several other pollutants by 30 percent starting in 2009. Not surprisingly, car companies have contested the ruling in court.
Many analysts view hydrogen as the obvious means of storing and moving energy in a post-fossil-fuel economy. It has strong allure as a long-term gasoline replacement because, unlike carbon-based fuels, it is abundant and releases only water vapor (when used in fuel cells). Moreover, hydrogen can be derived from water using almost any form of energy, including renewable resources such as solar energy, wind power, and biomass derived from crops and waste. (For the near term, however, the most economical source of hydrogen is likely to be fossil fuels, particularly natural gas.)
Terry Tamminen, former head of California's Environmental Protection Agency and now the state's cabinet secretary, has outlined an early network of 150-200 hydrogen fueling stations, or roughly one station every 20 miles along the state's 21 interstate freeways. The pumps will be located in the maintenance yards of bus stations, at rest stops along highways, in the parking lots of "big box" retail stores, and perhaps ultimately at some of the 250 stations that now sell natural gas in the state. The goal is to make hydrogen accessible to most Californians, Tamminen says: "If you get the baseline network evenly distributed around the state, you can give confidence to consumers that...they will find the fuel."
You First
For a long time, hydrogen has been plagued by a "chicken or egg" problem. Developers of hydrogen fueling facilities have been reluctant to invest too heavily in the sites because very few vehicles can actually use them. And with only a handful of filling stations out there, automakers have held back from large-scale production of fuel cell vehicles. "To get this to work, both the hydrogen infrastructure and the technology that uses it need to be developed in parallel," notes Bob Wilkinson, lecturer in environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
More recently, investors have embraced a more integrated strategy. The bulk of the funding for California's initial hydrogen network-estimated to cost anywhere from $74 million to $200 million-is expected to come from private partnerships, with limited support from federal, state, and local governments. Key players include the California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative, a group of organizations working toward the commercialization of stationary fuel cells in the state, and the Sacramento-based California Fuel Cell Partnership, a coalition of public and private stakeholders that seeks to advance new fuel cell vehicle and hydrogen infrastructure technologies. One Partnership member, Toyota, is building some of the fueling stations as well as experimenting with prototype fuel cell vehicles.
Today, enthusiasm for hydrogen is soaring in California. As of December 2004, the state boasted more than a dozen fueling facilities, including sites in Los Angeles, Davis, and Oakland. Another 20 or so are slated for development in the next few years under the Hydrogen Highway initiative. These early stations will provide hydrogen mainly for stationary fuel cells used by buildings and industry, according to state officials. Ultimately, however, they will be used to fuel a growing fleet of fuel cell cars, buses, and other vehicles. The California Fuel Cell Partnership has placed 55 prototype fuel cell vehicles on California roads and plans to have some 300 passenger cars in use by the end of 2007.
California isn't the only place experimenting with hydrogen as a way to meet its future energy and transport needs. In June 2002, a demonstration station offering compressed hydrogen opened in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the city is now converting a fleet of vehicles to run on the gas. A new hydrogen-dispensing pump was also recently installed at a Shell gas station in Washington, D.C.-the first in the country to be housed at a public station, though for now only a handful of vehicles can actually use it. Several other countries have similar visions of hydrogen highways (see sidebar).
Many Paths
Making hydrogen for fueling is a challenge, however. While the element is abundant in nature, it is usually tied up with other substances, such as the oxygen in water or the carbon in other fuels. To produce the hydrogen, some of the stations along California's Hydrogen Highway will electrolyze water, using electricity to break the molecular bonds and isolate the gas. Other stations will liberate the hydrogen from hydrocarbon fuels, such as natural gas, gasoline, and methanol, via a process known as steam reforming.
Several companies hope to bypass the costly highway infrastructure by bringing hydrogen fueling capacity directly to people's homes. Toronto-based Stuart Energy is developing a home fueler about the size of a dishwasher that will enable homeowners to produce their own hydrogen by water electrolysis. Installed in the garage, the unit could fuel a vehicle overnight, when electricity rates are sometimes lower. (Alternatively, homeowners could install rooftop solar panels to avoid the environmental impacts of fossil-fuel electricity generation.) The Latham, New York-based company Plug Power is working with Honda to develop a home fueler that produces hydrogen by natural gas reforming.
Some drivers prefer not to wait for fuel cell vehicles to come on the market and are instead converting traditional internal combustion engines (ICEs) to burn hydrogen directly. (Fuel cells don't burn hydrogen, they produce electricity without combustion. ICEs, however, can burn hydrogen after engine adjustments.) Several manufacturers, including Ford Motor Company and BMW, have developed demonstration vehicles with hydrogen-burning engines. "We can build and sell them right now," Ford's vice president for environmental and safety engineering, Sue Cischke, told reporters in 2004. The main impediment, she noted, is a hydrogen fueling infrastructure, along with uniform regulations to allow the use of hydrogen vehicles across the United States.
Hydrogen packs in more power per unit of weight than gasoline, though much less power per unit of volume, which is why developing ways to store sufficient hydrogen fuel is a top priority. It is, however, much cleaner, releasing fewer byproducts even when burned in ordinary engines. "The exhaust is almost nothing but harmless water vapor plus trace emissions from tiny amounts of engine lubricants," explains Peter Hoffman, editor of the Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter. "No carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide is emitted. No unburned hydrocarbons, no stench, no smoke, nor any of the other carbon-bearing, earth-befouling discharges we suffer today."
Even though hydrogen itself is clean, however, producing it isn't always environmentally friendly, whether it burns in an engine or powers a fuel cell. The most cost-effective methods of liberating hydrogen today-deriving it from natural gas or water using electricity from fossil-fuel power plants-are still quite polluting. Producing hydrogen is also inefficient, as it takes more energy to isolate the gas than is contained in the hydrogen itself. In a recent report, the libertarian Reason Foundation noted that many of the "clean" benefits hydrogen brings would be offset by the carbon dioxide and other emissions generated in manufacturing and distributing it. The group argues that environmental benefits can be better achieved with lower highway speeds, smaller cars, and increased conservation.
Environmentalists, however, say these concerns could largely be addressed with greater engine efficiencies-which would help offset the energy used in producing the hydrogen-as well as the widespread use of renewable energy for water electrolysis. With solar energy powering the production process, for instance, hydrogen would be the ultimate clean energy carrier, the equivalent of storing sunshine in your tank. Schwarzenegger himself has promised that a "significant and increasing percentage" of the hydrogen offered on his Highway will be produced using renewable energy. (However, he recently vetoed legislation that would have accelerated California's transition to renewables. The bill would have required power suppliers to obtain at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2010, not 2017 as mandated in earlier legislation.)
Safety issues could be another stumbling block. Hydrogen can leak through many substances, and since it is odorless and burns with a clear flame, leaks can be hard to detect. Designing high-pressure, leak-proof storage tanks for fueling stations or vehicles remains a challenge. Yet the risk of an explosion is relatively low. The gas is so light that it disperses into the air almost immediately, and it's almost impossible to bring it to an explosion in the open with a spark or a flame. (Contrary to popular perception, the 1937 fire aboard the Hindenburg did not begin with ignition of the hydrogen lifting the airship, but of its highly flammable cellulose, iron oxide, and aluminum skin.)
The Sunny Side of the Street
Dan Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Davis, says it's important not to put hydrogen in a negative light. "It does have safety concerns, but so does gasoline. Consider the many fires and explosions from gasoline. None of these would have happened with hydrogen." Some researchers advocate that hydrogen be mixed with a colorant or with small quantities of gaseous hydrocarbons to increase flame visibility. Sensors are also being developed that will detect hydrogen leaks and cause an automatic system shutdown if an accident occurs.
Until hydrogen's kinks are worked out, California is hedging its bets by embracing a range of other automotive technologies in its transition away from fossil fuels. Alternative fuel options include ethanol and biodiesel, a cleaner-burning diesel made from renewable sources such as vegetable oils. California is also doing more than any other state to promote purchases of hybrid vehicles that run on both gasoline and electricity, such as the Toyota Prius, the Honda hybrids (Civic, Accord, and Insight), and the Ford Escape hybrid. Statewide incentives, including purchasing rebates and exemptions from parking fees, appear to be working: of the roughly 84,000 hybrids sold in the United States in 2004, more than a third were bought in California.
Andy Frank, head of the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Design Center at the University of California at Davis, is a strong promoter of "plug-in" hybrids, a transitional technology he says is ready to go. He and his students have converted nine sedans and sport utility vehicles to the technology, which enables the machines to travel up to 60 miles on electricity supplied by a battery, after which the gasoline engine kicks in. Frank says widespread use of plug-in hybrids could cut California's gasoline consumption by 90 percent, given that most of the state's drivers travel only 30 miles a day. With the plug-in option, drivers could recharge the battery at an outlet when not in use, either at home or at any of California's 519 existing electric-charging stations. Frank is now working with a group called the California Car Initiative (CalCars) to promote the wider adoption of the technology.
In the end, while hydrogen's promise is huge, its ultimate place in the energy regime remains murky. There is a serious debate about hydrogen, a debate as volatile as the gas itself. As suggested earlier, hydrogen boosters argue that it is the inevitable fuel system of the near future, while skeptics believe it may be decades, if ever, before hydrogen plays any significant role in the energy economy. The credibility of the hydrogen dream depends heavily on the analytic assumptions used, and the speed with which that dream is realized-or shattered-will be determined by the policy choices governments make.
In that light, California's determined pursuit of its own hydrogen dream is significant. On October 22, Governor Schwarzenegger opened the state's first retail hydrogen fueling station, at Los Angeles International Airport. True to an earlier promise, he pulled up to the pump in a converted hydrogen Hummer. The prospect of multitudes of such vehicles plying the state's Hydrogen Highway could still be distant, but nevertheless the world's transportation future somehow seems a little more hopeful.
Annie Birdsong is a freelance writer living in College Park, Maryland.

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HAYWARD — The Hayward BART Station was closed for over an hour late Saturday as police investigated a shooting that left one man injured near the station's parking lot.
Investigation of the shooting at the station's bus zone, which occurred around 10:14 p.m., continues by BART and Hayward police Sunday.
BART police did a second check of the area early Sunday morning to utilize the daylight, BART police Lt. Randy Gregson said. Detectives continue to look into possible leads, he said.
The station reopened just before midnight, while investigators remained at the scene near the station's bus zone, BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said.
Trost said that a man was shot in the stomach apparently at the station's bus zone. The victim walked into the station after the shooting. He was later transported to Eden Medical Center where he was being treated for non-life-threatening wounds, Trost said.
Hayward police and Alameda County sheriff's deputies are assisting in the investigation.
During the station closure, trains were continuing to travel to their regular destinations, but were not stopping at the Hayward station.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call 510-464-7040. Callers can remain anonymous.
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435. Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164.


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This is a page pertaining to a former employee. We appreciate all his hard work in digitizing and developing scripts.
Austin Dixon is our Digitization Technologist. In addition to digitizing content for Acumen, he also creates and maintains software that automates our department's workflow.
He is also working on data visualization apps to help users experience our digital collections.
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India is a land of diversified culture. You have different types of communities and people with different financial backgrounds. As a result house plans in India are an amalgamation of house types, surrounding ambience, lifestyle, aesthetics, family status and budget. Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations.
A basic division is between free standing houses or single family homes and various types of attached or multi-user dwellings. Most builders are now opting for Group Housing projects, Plotted Projects and Builder Flat Projects. In the National Capital Region (NCR), localities of Noida, Greater Noida and Gurgaon exhibit almost all kinds of such homes. Property in Noida Extension, Yamuna Expressway and other parts of Greater Noida is increasingly showing a dynamic trend.
Farm Houses and Bungalows-These are family owned. In India you will find a lot of independent homes especially in the non-urban areas.
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Matamata-Piako schools are being invited to become part of the Enviroschools facilitated programme.
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Matamata-Piako schools are being invited to become part of the Enviroschools facilitated programme.
After more than 15 years without a regular public bus service, the people of Mangakino and Whakamaru will now have the chance to make use of a three-day a week service to the next major town, Tokoroa – thanks to a new service opening today.
The Regional Land Transport Committee has signed off on a key milestone in the development of a land transport strategy for the greater Waikato Region.
Transporting quarry aggregate to Auckland by barge is one way of reducing road congestion on the accident blackspot State Highway 2, says the chairman of Environment Waikato's Regional Land Transport Committee, Angus Macdonald.
Environment Waikato's Environmental Initiatives Fund has granted $1000 to Tairua School to develop a composting worm farm and native planting project.
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NEW YORK -- Norah O'Donnell understood the cultural differences that led Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to shake her hand before their "CBS This Morning" interview last week, and to request that she not cross her legs. But his references to her as "the lady" were almost too much.
"I had to repeatedly bite my tongue and not say, `You know, my name is actually Norah O'Donnell,'" she said. "I thought the questions were more important."
Wise decision. It would not have resulted in the kind of publicity a rookie morning-show host needed during her first month on the job. O'Donnell, who jumped to CBS last year after more than a decade at NBC News, replaced Erica Hill within the trio of "CBS This Morning" hosts that also include Charlie Rose and Gayle King.
O'Donnell has the chance to learn her trade and build a following in the relative obscurity of a perpetual underdog program. Competitors Robin Roberts at ABC and Savannah Guthrie at NBC have more viewers but also more pressing problems: Roberts trying to recover from a rare blood disease and Guthrie facing a wide-scale audience defection following the messy dismissal of Ann Curry.
The 38-year-old O'Donnell grew up in Washington journalism. As an ABC News intern, she grabbed a notebook and stood in the back of the room at a White House news conference with President Bill Clinton. She worked at Hotline, then as a reporter for Roll Call.
Her job at Roll Call led to frequent cable television appearances and eventually the job at NBC. She was a White House correspondent during President George W. Bush's administration and hosted a daytime show on MSNBC. Leaving NBC was a tough decision but O'Donnell saw more opportunity at CBS, where she would be White House correspondent, chief substitute for Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation" and eventually, perhaps, Schieffer's replacement.
That was until getting a call this summer from CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager and President David Rhodes, asking to see her.
"I figured I must be in trouble if they both wanted to see me," she recalled. Instead, they offered her the job on "CBS This Morning."
The new gig required some personal juggling. O'Donnell and her husband have 5-year-old twins and a 4-year-old daughter. She flies to New York Sunday nights and leaves after the show Thursdays to have three days with her family. Friday she works from a Washington studio.
Still, O'Donnell said, "It's not the kind of a job you turn down." Her family is expected to move north this winter.
"Morning TV is the crown jewel of broadcast journalism," she said. "Where else can you do two hours of live television with the audience that we have?"
That audience isn't nearly as big as it is for "Good Morning America" and "Today." Sometimes, it's about half the size. But there have been positive signs lately; viewership was up 3 percent over last year and ratings up 13 percent among the key audience of women age 25-to-54 during the week that ended on Sept. 21. CBS hopes to take advantage of a tumultuous time at its rivals.
Chris Licht, the show's executive producer, references that point in messages to the staff.
"Every second of every show has to be the best we can be," Licht said. "More than ever you're going to have people flipping around."
The CBS show differs from its rivals in that two or all the hosts may conduct newsmaker interviews together. In an unspoken way Rose and O'Donnell often settle into different roles, with Rose looking at the big picture and O'Donnell boring in on specific points to try and advance news stories. She tried twice to get Ann Romney to comment on Clint Eastwood's Republican convention speech on the morning after; the answer was more evident in Romney's face than her words.
O'Donnell confronted Ahmadinejad with an underling's declaration that Iran was supplying aid to Syrian President Bashar Assad's military crackdown on his own people. The Iranian leader chuckled, denied the statement and made it clear that he saw the interview more as sport than a way to provide information.
Licht said he's seen O'Donnell come in and change the direction of segments based on some reporting calls she had made the night before.
"She has sources," he said. "She goes on the air with information not that she's gotten from a one-sheet but from picking up the phone and calling sources. She's going to bring a totally different dynamic and very specific reporting than you're going to find with most anchors."
O'Donnell did have something of a blank look on her face one day last week as she sat at the anchor desk with Rose, King and musician Dwight Yoakam. She winced recalling an admittedly star-struck chat with Serena Williams. Morning TV requires a command over a broad range of subject matter, and that's something O'Donnell needs to work on.
"I am so used to concentrating on facts and what politicians have said in the past and what votes they've made, that it is sort of a different experience for me to step back and have a conversation with people who are successful in sports or music or innovation in business," she said.
There are plenty more of those opportunities to come.
CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; NBC is controlled by Comcast Corp.; ABC is a unit of The Walt Disney Co.
EDITOR'S NOTE _ David Bauder can be reached at dbauder(at)ap.org or follow him online at http://www.twitter.com/dbauder


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Attention Mid-Missouri Glibbers! Go See Bully!
March 2, 2012 § Leave a comment
by ELENA
Yes, I've coined a new term for Women's Glib readers: Glibbers.
Yes, it's cheesy.
Anyay, if you are located in Columbia Missouri, check out the True/False Film Festival going on this weekend. And, especially check out a fantastic documentary about bullying, appropriately called Bully.
I had the chance to see Bully at the Savannah Film Festival last November, and I loved it. And I cried. A lot.
Bully follows once school year through the ees of children (and their parents) who experience horrific instances of bullying on a daily basis. You will also meet a variety of school administrators, whose responses to bullying vary from willing ignorance, to denial that bullying is truly a problem within their district.
Bully, like Food, Inc is not only a documentary, but a call to lead a grass-roots movement to put a stop to bullying. The Facebook page for the film offers a variety of ways to get involved.
Tickets at True/False sell out quickly, and each screening of Bully will feature appearances from the director Lee Hirsch.
Bully will open in wide release at the end of March, for those of you not located in the middle of the Show-Me State.
But seriously, go and see Bully. And bring tissues.


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I wonder if anyone could recommend some books (other than Princeton Review) to prepare for the GRE math subject exam. I've heard that the REA books have lots of typos, though it has 6 practice exams. So I am really looking for the books with some practice exams, but needs to be well-written.
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Death is not a subject that Disney or Pixar have ever really shied away from. Finding Nemo, which makes its 3D debut in theaters this weekend, begins with a death that helps set up the story for an overprotective clownfish and his only son Nemo. Among the projects in the works at Pixar is the Untitled Pixar Movie About Dia de los Muertos, which may be taking an even more direct approach to the subject of death. Little is known about the project, other than that it will somehow involve the Mexican holiday, which means "Day of the Dead."
When I had the opportunity to visit Pixar Studios last month to talk to director Lee Unkrich about the Finding Nemo 3D release, I asked him about the Dia del los Muertos project. Unsurprisingly, he wasn't willing to give up much about the film, which he's directing. But he did say a few interesting things about it, including his thoughts on the reality of death.
I can't really talk about it, other than that it exists and that I'm directing it. I'm making a film that's kind of set in the world of Dia de los Muertos. All I can say - based on the films that we've made - is that death is a part of life. Yes, it's easy to kind of look away from it and pretend it doesn't exist. But it is kind of the same reality that we all have to face. And it's a powerful thing. I'm proud that we haven't kind of hidden away from it.
Put that way, I'm even more excited about this project. That might sound morbid, but what he's saying makes sense, and though this concept could be risky, depending on how deeply they approach the subject of death, and particularly if they're planning to incorporate humor into the story, it could also prove to be another step forward for Pixar's evolution. When Unkrich spoke to us about Finding Nemo, he mentioned Finding Nemo's success giving them the confidence to be more emotional and "attack deeper things." And you can see evidence of that in some of the films that followed Nemo. Whether or not this new project sees that kind of success remains to be seen, but if it does, perhaps it will have a similar effect on how Pixar approaches darker subjects.
Talking to Unkrich, I was also curious about how culture might be explored in this film. Again, he didn't offer any details there, but from what he says, it sounds like the story they're going for is - like other Pixar movies - is more character driven than culture driven. "It's never kind of a choice to say 'Well, this would be an interesting culture to explore,'" Unkrich told us. "It honestly comes down to character first. That's usually where all this comes from, is that we have an idea for a certain character and sometimes it ends up feeling naturally like it should be set in a certain world."
Later, during the interview, he mentioned doing "some interesting research trips" for the film he's working on now, and that it's let him do "some fun stuff." While that's not a lot to go on, it's still exciting to hear updates on this project. We have a long way to wait for this one though. The last update on the release has it set for sometime in 2015.
More about our trip to Pixar Studios, including photos and comments from Lee Unkrich on Nemo's 3D release here.


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Durban, South Africa, 28 November 2011 (IUCN) – Governments cannot ignore the immediate and effective role that nature plays in stemming the impacts of climate change, says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
Among the key issues at the UN's Climate Change Summit are how to make the best use of nature-based solutions in reducing harmful climate change impacts that will complement the urgent action that governments must take in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"Ecosystem- based adaptation is a cost effective, no-regrets solution that governments ought to incorporate into national policies and take immediate action to implement on the ground," says Stewart Maginnis, Director of IUCN's Environment and Development Group. "Improving the management of river systems, coral reefs, mangroves and forests all tangibly improve the resilience of people's livelihoods as they deal with the sudden and long-term consequences of climate change."
There is evidence that appropriate management of nature helps to reduce the vulnerability of people to the threats posed by climate change. Protecting natural ecosystems also helps to slow the rate of climate change by capturing and storing large amounts of carbon.
"Investments and commitments made by governments to conserve biodiversity in intact ecosystems, including through protected areas, is a win-win solution that is cost-effective and applicable where it really matters at a local level by indigenous peoples, local communities, and especially women," says Trevor Sandwith, Director of IUCN's Global Protected Areas Programme.
The most advanced of such options is a forest-based protection programme to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD+. We must accelerate the implementation of an environmentally sound and socially equitable REDD+ mechanism at a national level, IUCN says. The industrialized world needs to remove bottlenecks that are currently holding up the flow of promised resources, and tropical countries need to seize this moment to strengthen and—above all—avoid weakening existing legislation and policies that will enable fast start action on REDD+.
Forests are not the only natural systems that offer governments practical nature-based options in the fight against climate change. Protection of coastal and marine ecosystems as well as the world's grasslands and drylands, are crucial elements for conserving carbon and maintaining the resources upon which millions of people depend on daily for water, food and safety.
"People often don't realize just how effective nature can be in tackling the effects of climate change," says Edmund Barrow, Head of IUCN's Ecosystem Management Programme. "The challenge is to find the most appropriate and sustainable ways to manage and use these resources. Intact coastal ecosystems offer a double benefit in the face of climate change - not only do they protect communities from inevitable sea level rise and storm surges, but healthy coastal systems also capture and store huge amounts of carbon."
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"A coach is more than physical, more than golf. A great coach is all about trust. I call Joe about a lot of things that have absolutely nothing to do with golf."
That nugget came from LPGA Player of the Year Stacy Lewis late Tuesday afternoon at the PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit in Orlando, part of a week's worth of events surrounding the PGA Merchandise Show. The "Joe" she was talking about was her coach Joe Hallett, who stood on stage with Stacy and talked about the bond between coach and student.
"Golf is not everything," Lewis said. "You have to have some balance. There are a lot of times when Joe is my 'vent line.' I'll call just to vent."
And like all great coaches, Hallett is available on the other end to listen.
"You can forget about time zones when you're coaching an elite player," he said. "As a coach you have to be on call, and you have to know what to say and when to say it."
There were times when Hallett videoed lessons from baggage claim at the Las Vegas airport, and times when he sent texts in the middle of the night, saying things like "two birdies a side," little reminders to break the round into manageable bites.
But it was the genuine, close, emotional bond between the two of them that came through during their hour together on stage in front of 700 PGA members. That bond was a recurring theme throughout the two day summit.
Hall of Fame college football coach Bobby Bowden summed up the bond between a coach and his players best through a personal story, one he told with a quiver in his voice and a drop of moisture in his 83-year-old eyes.
"When I was coaching at West Virginia, one of my sons (Tommy) was playing for me, and during practice one day he got hit really hard and went down," Bowden said. "He had blood coming out of his mouth and out of his ear and he wasn't moving. As much as I wanted to run over there and say, 'Hey, take care of this one, this is my boy,' I couldn't do it because of the message it would have sent to everyone else. They all would have thought that I cared more about my own son than I did about them.
"You see I had promised them and their families that I would treat every one of my players like I would my own sons. I would love them and coach them and teach them and do everything in my power to make them better men, because that was what they deserved. They might not all be my sons, but they were somebody's sons. They deserved the very best I had to give them, so that's what they got."
Not everyone summed it up so eloquently and personally, but you got the same message from everyone there. You could see it in the eyes of Jim McLean who lit up like a proud papa when talking about Lexi Thompson and the evolution of the ten-year-old girl who first came to see him at Doral.
You could sense it in the impassioned stories Martin Hall told about his mentor Jim Flick, and all the people who walked away from the Nicklaus-Flick Golf Schools believing that they were the most important student Jim had ever taught.
And you could hear it in the words of Butch Harmon who said of his profession, "I don't teach golf, I teach people. I teach people to play golf."
The two day summit was designed to help instructors with their knowledge of the game and their communications skills. It was meant to give every teacher a crumb or two to take back to the lesson tee at home.
But the overarching message turned out to be much more profound.
"You gotta love 'em," Coach Bowden said, pumping his fist to punch each word. "That's the most important thing of all. If you're going to coach them, you gotta love 'em."
He wasn't talking about golf, but that just might have been the greatest lesson of them all.


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Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) is a great solution for any project which requires bulk emails. the primary advantage of SES is cost, at $0.10 per 1000 emails sent it is between 5-10x cheaper than other alternatives such as SendGrid. There is a downside to the SES service, however and it is that it currently doesn't provide an SMTP wrapper so whilst SendGrid and others allow you to simple change your SMTP settings, with SES you will have to do a bit more work.
Amazon (AWS) provides a very useful .NET SDK (complete with dll's for .NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0) which you can simply copy into your project and start calling the Amazon functions from a .NET app such as an ASP.NET site. You can download the SDK here.
The below code shows a simple example of how to use the Amazon AWS SDK in .NET to send emails.
Dim listColl As New System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String) '//TODO - Write a simple loop to add the recipents email addresses to the listColl object. Dim client As New Amazon.SimpleEmail.AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClient("aws_public_key_here", "aws_private_key_here") Dim mailObj As New SendEmailRequest Dim destinationObj As New Destination(listColl) mailObj.Source = "email@example.com" '//The from email address mailObj.ReturnPath = "firstname.lastname@example.com" '//The email address for bounces mailObj.Destination = destinationObj '//Create Message Dim emailSubjectObj As New Amazon.SimpleEmail.Model.Content("This is the Subject") Dim emailBodyContentObj As New Amazon.SimpleEmail.Model.Content("This is the Body
In Html") Dim emailBodyObj As New Amazon.SimpleEmail.Model.Body() emailBodyObj.Html = emailBodyContentObj Dim emailMessageObj As New Message(emailSubjectObj, emailBodyObj) mailObj.Message = emailMessageObj Dim response = client.SendEmail(mailObj)
That's it, there's really not a lot of heavy lifting to get starting using SES with .NET. the only thing I didn't show in the code above is the loop for adding email addresses as strings to the generic collection, this loop will vary a lot depending on your exact requirements.
One thing to note above is that you will need to import the namespace
AWS SES is not as full featured as a lot of solutions such as SendGrid, however it does have several useful features out-of-the-box such as the ability to perform email validation:
Dim testEmail As String = "email@example.com" Dim verRequest As New VerifyEmailAddressRequest() verRequest.EmailAddress = testEmail client.VerifyEmailAddress(verRequest)
This should get you going with SES, I will update this page once the service develops.


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The Angele defeated the Red Sox again to sweep the season series from Boston for the first time.
Zack Greinke stopped worrying about his rocky start with the Los Angeles Angels when he figured it couldn't get any worse.
Since then, Greinke and the Angels have both been plenty good enough to think this season might still have a happy ending.
Greinke yielded five hits over seven strong innings, Albert Pujols hit an early two-run double and the Angels swept their season series with Boston for the first time with a 5-2 victory over the Red Sox on Thursday night.
Greinke (3-2) was unintimidating but effective in his seventh appearance for the Angels, striking out five and limiting Boston to two runs during his third victory in four starts. The right-hander might have found his groove in Orange County after a slow start following his arrival from Milwaukee, yielding three runs in 14 2-3 innings over his last two starts.
"I was doing so bad, I figured I couldn't do any worse," the 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner said. "The main thing (now) is I'm not worried about messing up. ... Better location, I guess that's the main thing. I'm not leaving my mistakes over the middle of the plate."
Mark Trumbo and pinch-hitter Alberto Callaspo drove in runs in the third inning for the Angels, who stayed in the AL wild-card hunt by winning all six meetings with Boston over the past 10 days. Los Angeles has won seven of nine overall, keeping pace with Baltimore and Oakland in the five-team wild-card race.
Mike Trout tied the franchise rookie record by scoring his 103rd run for Los Angeles, which has won eight straight over Boston dating to last season, one victory shy of the Angels' club record against the Red Sox.
"Right now, we're playing like it's all or nothing, and we're all in," said Torii Hunter, who had three hits for the second straight night. "They're kind of in a rebuilding stage. You've still got to respect the pitching over there, but we're feeling good about how we're playing."
James Loney went 3 for 4 with a homer and Jon Lester threw a nine-hitter for the Red Sox, who have lost eight of 11. Boston, which had never been swept in a season series of at least six games by any opponent in franchise history, hit several hard shots right at Los Angeles fielders in the final innings, leaving manager Bobby Valentine even more frustrated than usual.
"That eighth inning, we had two line drives with guys on base and couldn't find a gap," Valentine said. "Their guys were playing in the right place in the outfield."
Kevin Jepsen escaped a jam of his own making in the eighth, and Ernesto Frieri pitched the ninth for his 16th save in 18 chances.
Lester (8-11) gave a lift to Boston's worn-out bullpen by pitching a complete game, but fell behind 5-1 in the fourth inning. The left-hander's first three-game winning streak of the season ended.
"That's probably one of the best lineups in the American League, just because they can do everything," Lester said of the Angels. "It's pretty impressive to see them run around the bases."
After Trout led off the game with a four-pitch walk, Hunter singled. Pujols drove them both home with a sharp double down the left-field line, giving the three-time NL MVP 90 RBIs in 124 games during his first season with Los Angeles.
Greinke then issued back-to-back walks to load the bases in the second inning, but Boston managed only one run on Mike Aviles' sacrifice fly.
Los Angeles scored twice on four straight singles against Lester in the third inning, capped by Callaspo's run-scoring hit.
Callaspo replaced second baseman Howie Kendrick, who left with a sore right knee. Kendrick, who said his knee suddenly pained him while he ran off the field midway through the third, flied out in the first inning, which meant his 15-game hitting streak ended.
Kendrick isn't expected to have an MRI, and he plans to try to play Friday in Seattle.
Loney sneaked his first homer for the Red Sox just over the short fence in the right-field corner in the sixth inning. The former Dodgers first baseman has a hit in each of his first five games with Boston.
NOTES: Trout scored 103 runs in 108 games to tie the Angels rookie record set in 1987 by Devon White, who needed 159 games to reach the same number. ... Greinke allowed a homer in his sixth consecutive start, matching the longest such streak of his career in 2005. ... After one home series, the Angels are back on the road for another week starting Friday in Seattle, where Dan Haren faces Kevin Millwood. ... Boston's nine-game West Coast road swing continues in Oakland tonight


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Remember Packie's brother Gerry, one of the guys from the bank heist? Well, if you go and visit him at his place off of Bunker Hill Avenue in Dukes, you'll be able to get some missions from him. The first mission he asks you to get (as he chugs half a bottle of whiskey before your very eyes) involves some dirty work. Some really dirty work. Gerry has located a car bomb that will be placed on the car of a rival crime syndicate. It will be detonated in such a way that another syndicate, and not the Irish guys you're currently dealing with, are blamed for the attack.
The first leg of our journey involves retrieving the bomb Gerry procured. It's located in an alleyway in between Inchon Avenue and Dukes Boulevard, which is pretty close to Gerry's place. Boost a car and follow the GPS along the brief route to the alleyway, and grab the bomb marked by a turquoise arrow hanging over it. Once you grab it, Niko will then call Gerry, and the next leg of our adventure will begin.
Your destination isn't in Dukes or Broker, so you're going to have to take the East Borough or Algonquin Bridges to head to Algonquin, where the car we have to rig is located. Either way, the GPS will take you to where you need to go. Once you arrive at your destination, which is located off of an alleyway attached to Garnet Street near the southern end of Algonquin, the fun will begin. Get out of your car and approach the car targeted on your HUD. Head to the back end of the car and follow the on-screen prompt to place the bomb, and then make way to your car and head out of the alleyway before the gangsters return to their vehicle.
Drive your vehicle around the block to the front of the building as marked down on your HUD. When you do, you'll see the mobsters walk out of their meeting and get into the car you just strapped a bomb to. Now, it's time to follow them to their destination. They'll take a long, roundabout way to get there, and we won't even tell you where they're going to end up (so you avoid the urge to skip ahead to the location, which won't work). So, just follow them, but don't get too close, and don't stray too far. Definitely lean towards the latter, though, since the game will warn you if you're too far away, at which point you can just step on the gas and catch up.
When you arrive at your destination, which is one of the mobsters' compounds, you'll see them park their car and then they all will congregate. Now seems like a great time to detonate the bomb, since Gerry made sure you knew that none of them should live. So, get out of your car and head onto the slight hill across from the compound. Once you arrive at the designated spot, break out your cell phone and call Gerry. Choose the "Detonate" option, and the bomb will explode in glorious fashion.
The bomb will cause a massive amount of damage and take many lives, but there's going to be some remaining foes that weren't killed in the blast. The game will instruct you to eliminate any remaining foes, which are represented on your HUD as red dots. So, break out an automatic weapon and run towards the compound to mow down the stragglers. There's plenty of cover for both you and your enemies to work with due to the explosion's debris, so use it wisely, and navigate around it to nullify all enemies. Then, to fully complete the mission (at which point a phone call to Gerry will occur), grab a nearby car and lose the cops.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many inner-city men don't understand basic terms having to do with the prostate, according to a new survey, which could make it difficult for them to decide on treatment options for related cancers.
"The risk to benefit ratio of prostate cancer screening and treatment depend a lot on patient preferences, so it is critical that patients can understand the tradeoffs that are involved," said Dr. Stacey Loeb, a urologist at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.
"This is particularly true for high-risk groups such as African Americans, who are known to be at greater risk for aggressive prostate cancer," Loeb, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
Another study this year indicated that the educational materials and websites doctors direct patients to are still too difficult for many patients to understand (see Reuters Health story of May 20, 2013 here: reut.rs/11cXHeQ).
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for men in the U.S., killing about 30,000 men each year according to the Centers for Disease Control. It's not always aggressive, however, meaning that men may be subjected to surgery or radiation, and side effects, without necessarily extending their lives.
Researchers distributed "pop quiz" surveys on common terms related to urinary, bowel and sexual functions at two clinics for low-income patients.
Of 109 men, 95 percent did not understand what the prostate does, according to results published in the journal Cancer. The numbers were better but still low for terms like "incontinence," "urinary function" and "bowel habits."
Many of the men read at a 9th-grade level.
"As our results indicate, most physicians likely overestimate patient understanding of these terms," coauthor Dr. Ashesh Jani told Reuters Health by email.
Prostate cancer can be confusing even for men with high literacy, said Jani, a radiation oncologist treating prostate cancers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta.
These results are "exactly what I would expect," according to Dr. Mack Roach, chair of radiation oncology at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.
But he's not necessarily worried about the patients as long as they're cared for by quality doctors, said Roach, who was not involved in the study.
"Allowing (patients) to feel comfortable about asking questions is most important, but this depends on the doctor," Roach said.
"For practicing clinicians, this is very important information," Dr. Durado Brooks of the American Cancer Society in Salt Lake City, Utah, told Reuters Health.
He found the numbers in this study "a little shocking," and stressed that doctors need to assess how much a patient understands, since some are embarrassed by their lack of knowledge.
Patients with low knowledge levels could jeopardize the patient half of "shared decision making," the collaborative process between patient and physician to come to a treatment decision, Loeb said.
"However, it is important to note that most of the men in this study did not have prostate cancer," she said. "Many people without any previous knowledge about a medical problem will read up on it if they are diagnosed."
SOURCE: bit.ly/13iQ0TK Cancer, online June 3, 2013.


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PASADENA, Calif., July 8, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) today announced that it will host a conference call to discuss second quarter 2014 financial results on Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 5:00 pm ET. A press release with second quarter 2014 financial results will be issued after the market closes that same day. The conference call can be accessed live over the phone by dialing(877) 300-8521, or for international callers (412) 317-6026. A replay will be available approximately two hours after the call concludes and can be accessed by dialing (877) 870-5176, or for international callers (858) 384-5517, and entering the conference ID 10049286. The replay will be available through Thursday, August 7, 2014. The call will be webcast live from the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.greendot.com/. About Green Dot Green Dot Corporation is a technology-centric, pro-consumer Bank Holding Company with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. The company is the largest provider of prepaid debit card products and prepaid card reloading services in the United States, as well as a leader in mobile banking with its GoBank mobile bank account offering. Green Dot Corporation products are available to consumers at more than 90,000 retailers nationwide, online and via the leading app stores. The company is headquartered in Pasadena, California with its bank subsidiary, Green Dot Bank, located in Provo, Utah.
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If there's one thing you'd think we don't need more of, it's jellyfish. They swarm through every ocean in the world, sting anything that comes near them and take over local ecosystems when fish stocks drop. What's more and let's be honest any creature that's been around for 500 million years and still hasn't figured out how to grow a brain was never going to amount to much anyway.
But as a paper published in Nature Biotechnology reports, a team of bioengineers at Caltech and Harvard places they grow very big brains indeed has announced that it has built what is essentially a living, swimming artificial jellyfish. And for folks who think the team could at least have picked a species that needs a little help pandas, anyone? the researchers stress that what they learn in the lab could eventually be put to work saving human lives.
Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct. A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was. But it's the bell that interested the investigators most. All muscles including those that make up the heart, the intestinal system and other organs operate on a common principle of individual cells contracting in an orderly sequence. The better scientists can understand that phenomenon, the better they can repair damaged tissue or build replacement parts.
"It occurred to me in 2007 that we might have failed to understand the fundamental laws of muscular pumps," says bioengineer Kevin Kit Parker of Harvard, a co-leader of the study. "I started looking at marine organisms that pump to survive. Then I saw a jellyfish at the New England Aquarium, and I immediately noted both similarities and differences between how the jellyfish pumps and the human heart."
Parker reached out to John Dabiri, a Caltech professor of aeronautics and bioengineering, and the two of them, along with Caltech doctoral student Janna Nawroth, spent several years mapping the muscle fibers in the jellyfish bell. Over time, they were able to develop a sort of schematic of the tissue that could, in theory at least, serve as an instruction manual for building their version of the critter.
They began that assembly work with a thin polymer membrane that closely replicates the flexibility of real jellyfish tissue and cut it to the size and vaguely eight-armed shape of a small jellyfish. They then harvested cardiac cells from the hearts of rats. Scattering the individually pulsating cells over the polymer could cause it to move after a fashion, but the motion would be uncoordinated and random. Instead, the researchers laid down a road map of protein along the membrane, following the jellyfish blueprint they had drawn up. Rat cells applied to the polymer ought to follow those nutrient routes and grow in just the right arrangement.
That, as it turned out, is exactly what happened. And when the investigators immersed their invention in a tank of electrically conductive fluid and hit it with a fluctuating current, the polymer jellyfish behaved just like the genuine article which is to say, it swam, and with proper jellyfish motion too.
"I'm pleasantly surprised at how close we are to matching the natural biologic performance," says Dabiri.
Practical applications of the work are still a long way off, but a good first target would be to use the technology to develop a living pacemaker for human hearts one that doesn't have to be replaced or maintained, never mind recharged. That could lead to the construction of more complex pumping or contracting organs, including the bladder. Eventually, such work could become almost routine.
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young has been arrested in California for the third time in a week.
Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Joe Balicki says the 23-year-old Young was arrested late Friday in San Clemente for allegedly breaking into a home.
Balicki says Young fought with deputies after a foot chase.
He has been charged with attempted burglary, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. He is in custody Sunday on $75,000 bail.
Last Sunday, Young was arrested in Riverside County on suspicion of driving under the influence then arrested again the same day for trying to take his car from a tow yard.
The Lions drafted Young in 2011, but released him in February after a drop in productivity and disputes with teammates.
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The sort of movie that reinforces New Yorkers' worst suspicions that all Los Angeles residents are shallow, "Celeste and Jesse Forever'' belongs, like last week's "Ruby Sparks,'' to the school of romantic comedy that adheres religiously to the formulas that it's trying to subvert.
At least this week's writer-actress, Rashida Jones of TV's "Parks and Recreation,'' has written a much juicier part for herself than Zoe Kazan did in "Ruby Sparks.''
Jones is impressive as Celeste, a snarky trend spotter for a marketing firm who's plunged into comic emotional turmoil when her estranged husband and BFF indicates that he finally wants to get on with his own life.
The sweetly goofball hubby is played by Andy Samberg, late of "Saturday Night Live,'' who demonstrated in 2007's "Hot Rod'' just how ill-equipped he is for a movie lead.
It's hard to believe Jones' control-freak Celeste would stay married to Samberg's Jesse for six weeks, much less the six years the script insists their union has endured.
For the film to work at all, Jones and her director, Lee Toland Krieger, have to exile Samberg off-screen for long periods.
Jesse has abandoned playing what often comes off as a gay best friend to his wife because he's impregnated a one-night stand whom, for reasons never elaborated upon, he decides to move in with.
Not that we ever get much more than brief glimpses of this woman, lest Celeste's attempts to sabotage her relationship with Jesse make her seem even more unsympathetic than she does already.
Fortunately, it's Jones' movie, and she gives herself lots of good moments, whether it's moving copies of her new book ("Shitegeist'') to a more prominent place in a bookstore, or aiming withering putdowns at a guy in her yoga class who has the temerity to attempt a polite pickup. (He's played by the ubiquitous Chris Messina, the producer's husband, who had a similarly thankless role in "Ruby Sparks.'')
Celeste's agita — over losing Andy Samberg? — begins spilling into her work, where a major goof-up inadvertently helps a squeaky-clean singer (Emma Roberts) find an entirely new audience.
Jones is often very funny, and gets good support from (co-writer) Will McCormack, Eric Christian Olsen and Elijah Wood, the last playing the film's official gay best friend.
With its dating montages and inevitable climax set during a wedding, "Celeste and Jesse Forever'' often seems to have been designed by a screenplay-writing computer program.
It may have the faintest relationship to any kind of reality, but Jones' tart performance cuts through the saccharine.


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Captain America continued his heroic run this weekend. The Winter Soldier held on to number one for a third weekend in a row, adding $26 million to its domestic total and pushing past the $200 million mark. Rio 2 also held strong, continuing in second place with $22 million, just edging out the new competition.
Of the four new wide releases opening Easter weekend, Heaven is for Real came out on top, landing at third place with $21 million. That was significantly better than the lukewarm reception Johnny Depp's latest movie enjoyed. Transcendence only earned $11 million against its $100 million budget. With less than $30 million in international sales to date, it's on track to the be the fourth Depp film in a row to struggle at the box office.
A Haunted House 2 opened at fifth place with $9 million. While that's only half what it's predecessor banked on its opening weekend last year, it's still a solid profit thanks to the movie's tiny $4 million budget.
Disney's almost perennial Earth Day documentary, Bears, arrived this weekend, but with just $4 million it had the worst opening of the nature series to date and missed the top ten, banking a close eleventh place. The documentaries have never been blockbusters, and it may see a boost during the next week thanks to school trips and Earth Day activities to bring it on par with past entries.
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Chocolate Chia Smoothie
serves 1 ~ $2.15 per serving
3 tablespoons ground chia seeds ($.30)
4 tablespoons hemp protein powder ($.30)
2 bananas, frozen ($.70)
1 cup cold almond milk ($.40)
2 tablespoons cacao powder ($.40)
a few drops stevia
a few chopped pistachios ($.05)
This is a simple, creamy ~ kind of decadent ~ way to start the day, that's also packed with healthy protein and omega-3s.
In a blender, combine all ingredients except for the pistachios. Puree until very smooth. Top with a few chopped pistachios, if desired.
calories: 555
fat: 21 gr
carbs: 81 gr
protein: 26 gr
Cucumber Club
serves 1 ~ $2.08 per serving
1 cucumber ($.59)
1 small onion
1 avocado ($1.49)
This is another recipe idea from Bette. It's so simple and made a great lunch that was both light and filling.
Peel the cucumber and cut in half. Using a spoon or scoop, scrape out the seed cavity and some of the flesh so that it's a hollowed boat. Keep what has been scraped out and chop finely. To that, add one chopped avocado and one finely minced onion. Mix together and use this to fill the cucumber.
calories: 299
fat: 22 gr
carbs: 27 gr
protein: 5 gr
Tropical Mushrooms
serves 2 ~ $3.70
2 portabello mushrooms, sliced ($4.00)
1 green pepper, thinly sliced ($.50)
2 medium onions, thinly sliced ($.20)
1 cup pineapple, sliced or chopped ($1.50)
4 tablespoons agave ($.40)
4 tablespoons olive oil ($.40)
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar ($.40)
2 cloves garlic, pressed
salt and pepper
This is one of those dishes that no one would guess is raw. It's definitely hearty and filling.
Slice the portabellos, green pepper, and onions. Also slice the pineapple. I sliced mine into fairly large rectangles, bit smaller chunks would work, too.
Put these in a lidded container. Whisk together the remaining ingredients and pour over the sliced mushroom and veggie mix. This step can be done in the morning {or even the night before} and left to marinate. Just toss it into the dehydrator about an hour before you want to eat.
Pour out onto a lined dehydrator tray and dehydrate for about an hour, until warm and slightly softened. Serve with red cabbage sauerkraut, if desired {recipe coming soon}.
calories: 425
fat: 27 gr
carbs: 36 gr
protein: 5 gr
Pizza Pie
serves 4 ~ $1.51 per serving
3/4 cup walnuts ($1.50)
3/4 cup raisins ($1.00)
1/2 cup cashews ($1.00)
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon agave ($.10)
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup strawberries ($1.50)
2 tablespoons agave ($.20)
2 bananas, grated ($.30)
1 kiwi, sliced and quartered ($.45)
This is such a fun dessert! To make the crust, in a food processor fitted with an "S" blade, process the walnuts and raisins until they're ground up fairly well and start clumping together. Press into a dinner plate or pie plate (or a small pizza pan!).
In a bullet type blender, puree the cashews, water, agave, and salt until creamy, which takes a few minutes. Once blended, pop in the freezer to chill for a few minutes.
Again using a bullet type blender, puree the strawberries and agave until very smooth.
Using a food processor fitted with a grating blade, grate the bananas (almost unripe bananas work the best).
To assemble, spoon a layer of cashew cream on the crust, spreading almost to the edge of the crust. Spoon a layer of strawberry puree on top of the cashew cream. Sprinkle the grated bananas over the strawberry puree (the bananas will be a bit gooey, so it takes a bit of finessing). Top with the cut kiwi. Let chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour before cutting into pizza shaped wedges and serving.
calories: 445
fat: 24 gr
carbs: 58 gr
protein: 9 gr
Total cost for the day: $9.44
total calories: 1,724
total fat: 94 gr
total carb: 202 gr
total protein: 45 gr
total protein: 45 gr


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Managed Care
Choosing A Managed Care Health Plan
- What is Managed Care?
- Choosing Wisely
- Guidelines for Optimal Coverage
- Is your own doctor part of the plan, and does she expect to stay on the plan?
- Do you need to see specialists?
- Is medical care available close to home?
- Is prescription drug coverage adequate?
- Does the plan offer preventive and other specialized services?
- How extensive is mental-health coverage?
- Are "complementary" or "alternative" services part of the plan?
- Does the plan have a "lifetime maximum"?
- What do your co-workers think of their plan?
It used to be that selecting a health plan was a relatively simple process. Your employer offered to enroll you in the company plan, and once you signed on the dotted line, most of your health care expenses were covered.
But times have changed. For many people, choosing health insurance feels like a high-wire act, where even a single misstep might send them into a free fall if illness strikes.
Managed care is still the name of the game for many consumers, forcing them to make sense of the alphabet soup of health care delivery systems, most commonly HMOs (health maintenance organizations) and PPOs (preferred provider organizations).
What is Managed Care?
Managed care is a way to ensure that the patient receives the right care, in the right place at the right time. There are two basic types.
An HMO offers a kind of one-stop shopping for health care. HMOs provide a comprehensive health care services on a pre-paid basis to its members. An HMO member selects a primary care physician as his or her personal doctor and agrees to use only doctors and hospitals affiliated with the HMO. In return, an HMO minimizes out-of-pocket expenses members have to pay when they see doctors. There are usually no deductibles and very small co-payments. PPOs do not require members to select a primary care physician. However, the PPO members receive financial incentives to use doctors and hospitals affiliated with the PPO. Generally, there are no deductibles and small co-payments. A PPO may pay 50 to 70% of the cost of services provided by a non-PPO affiliated doctor or hospitals.
Being in a managed care plan is different from traditional health insurance. Traditional health insurance pays doctors from each service provided, known as fee-for-service. There are fewer restrictions on what doctors and hospitals you may choose. However, you will pay more in premiums, deductibles and other expenses that with a managed care plan. Preventative services are usually not covered.
"Managed care health plans emphasize preventative health care and a strong relationship with your primary care physician," says Dr. Joseph Hindo, internal medicine physician member of the Silver Cross Managed Care Organization for over 15 years. "With HMO plans, a primary care physician, like myself, manages your referrals to specialists and other health services." -- Back to top.
Choosing Wisely
Even if you're among the majority of Americans who obtain your health insurance through your employer, you'll need to choose from among the plans being offered, and make sense of the scope of the coverage and how much you'll be paying out-of-pocket.
"As a result, you need to practice your own "planned patienthood," says Dr. Hindo. "Comparison-shop to make sure you're selecting the right coverage for you and your family. The average person spends only about 16 minutes looking at health-plan materials before he or she makes a decision. It would be worth spending more time than that." -- Back to top.
Guidelines for Optimal Coverage
To help you navigate successfully through the health-plan obstacle course, Dr. Hindo suggests some key issues to examine: -- Back to top.
Is your own doctor part of the plan, and does she expect to stay on the plan?Before selecting your coverage, choose your physician, and find out what plans she participates in. If you don't already have a primary care physician, you may want to contact the Silver Cross Physician Referral Service. Here you can find information on a doctor's philosophy of practice, where the he received his training and also his office hours. If you already have a doctor who you want to keep seeing, ask her (or her office staff), "I'm thinking of committing myself for the next year to a plan that you're on; is it safe to assume that you're going to continue participating in it for the entire year?" -- Back to top.
Do you need to see specialists? If you have a chronic health problem—like diabetes or allergies—or if you develop a serious condition that should be treated by a cardiologist or gastroenterologist, for example, make sure that you can receive care from such a specialist. Because your choice of doctors is limited to those who participate in the plan, you want to choose a managed care organization that gives you an abundance of physicians to choose from-like the Silver Cross Managed Care Organization, which offers a choice of over 200 primary and specialty physicians." -- Back to top.
Is medical care available close to home? Check the locations of physicians' offices and hospitals that are part of the plan, and make sure they're as convenient as possible. The Silver Cross Managed Care Organization offers physicians in 25 locations throughout the southwest suburbs and is affiliated with Silver Cross Hospital-one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation according to Thomson Reuters, the leading source of health care business intelligence. -- Back to top.
Is prescription drug coverage adequate? There can be big differences among plans in their medication benefits. Check on co-payments, the pharmacies you can use, and the maximum amounts that the plan pays per year. On many plans, you will have much smaller co-payments when you choose lower-cost generic drugs. -- Back to top.
Does the plan offer preventive and other specialized services? Look for plans that cover vaccinations, preventive screenings (such as mammograms), and "well visits" to the doctor. Also check for coverage for dental and eye care. -- Back to top.
How extensive is mental-health coverage? Services by a psychologist or psychiatrist may be limited in the number of office visits and/or the amount of reimbursement per session. There may also be caps on the number of inpatient hospital days for covered psychiatric disorders and substance abuse. -- Back to top.
Are "complementary" or "alternative" services part of the plan? Check whether the plan pays for treatment by chiropractors or acupuncturists, for example. -- Back to top.
Does the plan have a "lifetime maximum"? There may be a limit to the total health care benefits available to you over a lifetime—typically, $1 million. This may seem like a lot of money, but if you develop a catastrophic illness or have a major operation (an organ transplant, for example), you could be well on your way to reaching the maximum level. For that reason, the higher the cap, the better. -- Back to top.
What do your co-workers think of their plan? If you get your health coverage at work, ask your fellow employees whether they're satisfied with the plans offered by your employer. If you are new to the company or the community, co-workers are also a good referral source for choosing a physician and hospital provider. -- Back to top.