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Simple Valentines Snack
Graham cracker & frosting treat...just like Mom used to make.
Seafoam Candy (aka Sponge Candy, Honeycomb, Hokey Pokey, Cinder Toffee)
Crunchy, airy candy with the taste of a perfectly toasted marshmallow. Enjoy it plain or dipped in chocolate.
Raspberry Rosewater Meringues
Melt on your tongue meringues permeated with heady rosewater and a hint of raspberry. Perfect for a bridal shower or another "girly" party.
Strawberry Gin Fizz
Slightly sweet, slightly tart - totally pink. An unexpectedly perfect cocktail to drink of Valentine's Day. Especially with strawberry-studded, heart-shaped ice cubes.
Strawberry-Infused Gin + Strawberry Ice Cubes
Infuse a bit of strawberry flavor, with or without herbs, into your gin for a twist on classic cocktails (or invent new ones). The ice cubes are just fun.
Valentine's Day Red Velvet Dark Chocolate Trifle
I'm pretty picky about my chocolate and desserts, and this was good stuff! I really love the dense red velvet cake, and the dark chocolate mousse would be to die for all by itself. Combine that with the chocolate pudding just in case there's not enough chocolate, and how can you go wrong?
Toffee Bark
This recipe was adapted from Tracy's recipe on AllRecipes. It's the perfect recipe for the holidays. Easy to make, and definitely addictive!
Peppadew Love Bites
These little bites are tangy, a little sweet and perfect for feeding your valentine since peppadews are considered aphrodisiacs.
Orzo with Asparagus Pesto
Perfect for Valentine's Day, this dish features numerous aphrodisiacs! Make this for you and your sweetheart, plus have enough for a second night of laid-back leftovers. Twice the romance? Hmmm...
Dairy Free Valentine's Treats
A few different dairy free desserts for a perfect Valentines day!
Cranberry Swirl Loaf
This is an amazing recipe from Taste of Home. It's a great way to use up cranberries from the winter season and even better, it's still good after a few days!
Cranberry Orange Trifle
This recipe is the perfect way to use up leftover cranberries. From myrecipes.com
Irish Cheddar-Whiskey Fondue
This twist on the classic combines Irish Cheddar and Irish Whiskey.


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OMG , bite your tongue! I will never ever stop watching TAR Cinera!
Quote from: puddin on March 11, 2007, 08:38:25 PMOMG , bite your tongue! I will never ever stop watching TAR Cinera!
KOGS and MSWOOD, go look again at the CBS video clips. One of them has the complete marshall/lance letter and unsurprising bitter reaction to it from mirna/schmirna. Another has the patrick/susan letter to rob/amber. One has the Patrick/Susan letter(much nicer) to Uchenna/Joyce). One has the Lyn letter to Dustin/Kandice. One has the Blake/Paige letter to Danny/Oswald. One was a limerick from Frank to Joe/Bill. One has a letter from Jeremy and Dani to Eric and Danielle being read by an incompetent(at smooth reading before a camera) Eric. Ian/Teri got one from Flo/Zach. These are spread over multiple clips.
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MOORESBORO � It�s a year of transition for Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy football.
The Gryphons are joining an all-1A conference as they seek to make the playoffs for a second straight year. They�re coming off a season where they started 6-0 before dropping their final six, including a playoff loss to a Rosman team they had already beaten.
Second-year head coach Jerry Cash feels like being in a league with more similar-sized schools will help. The Southern Piedmont 1A Conference includes Cherryville, Bessemer City, Highland Tech, Community School of Davidson and Pine Lake Prep.
Cash is hoping that will cut down on some of the injuries for TJCA, which has 36 players.
�A school this size, depth becomes a factor,� Cash said. �The first 11 we put out there are about as good as anybody, but we�ve got to stay healthy.�
Cash previously was head coach for 12 years at East Rutherford and for 26 years at three South Carolina high schools. He took a three-year break from coaching before jumping back in at Thomas Jefferson.
Leading the way for Thomas Jefferson is wide receiver/defensive back Efrim Borders, a preseason NCPreps 1A all-state selection. Borders had 54 receptions for 756 yards and five touchdowns, plus two kickoff return touchdowns in 2012.
�We�re going to try to get him the ball as much as we can,� Cash said. �There�s a lot of folks that would like to have him.�
Borders knows some people think the Gryphons can�t beat the likes of Bessemer City and Cherryville. But he�s undeterred.
�I�ve got faith in my guys,� Borders said.
Mason Martin and Nick Mintz will be Thomas Jefferson�s quarterbacks, with Cody Flynn and Trey McGee stepping in at running back. Flynn, McGee and Seth McCraw will be the Gryphons� linebackers.
Cash is impressed with his group�s commitment, as it averaged 30 players at summer workouts.
�These kids are as dedicated as you can find anywhere,� Cash said. �They might get beat, but they�re not going to give up. They�re a joy to be around.�
Borders said the biggest lesson from last season is to have a short memory.
�If you lose one, you�ve just got to leave that in the past and move on to the next game,� Borders said.
Cash is simply ready to see his guys in action in the new league.
�It�ll be a good conference,� Cash said. �And I think we�ll compete well in there.�
ThomasJefferson Classical Academyfootball schedule
Aug. 23 at Robert E. Lee Academy (Bishopville, S.C.)
Aug. 30 at Rosman
Sept. 6 Avery
Sept. 20 Asheville School
Sept. 27 Rabun Gap
Oct. 4 at Highland Tech
Oct. 11 at Cherryville*
Oct. 18 at Community School of Davidson*
Oct. 25 at Bessemer City*
Nov. 1 Pine Lake Prep*
Nov. 8 Highland Tech*
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This should prove interesting, as it may have quite an effect on the types of claims made in broadcast and print advertising.
The .pdf document of the changes can be found here, although I've reproduced it here for ease of reading:
51.10 Claims for food products that refer to a rate or amount of weight loss are not permitted. Claims made for other products that individuals have lost exact amounts of weight should be compatible with good medical and nutritional practice, should state the period involved and should not be based on unrepresentative experiences. For those who are normally overweight, a rate of weight loss greater than 2 lbs (just under 1 kg) per week is unlikely to be compatible with good medical and nutritional practice. For those who are obese, a rate of weight loss greater than 2 lbs per week in the early stages of dieting may be compatible with good medical and nutritional practice.
47.10 Marketing communications should not give a misleading impression of the nutritional or health benefits of the product as a whole.
50.21 A well-balanced diet should provide the vitamins and minerals needed each day by a normal, healthy individual. Marketers must not state or imply that a balanced or varied diet cannot provide enough nutrients in general and should not encourage anyone to swap a healthy diet for supplementation. Marketing communications must not imply vitamin or mineral supplements can be used to prevent or treat illness. Marketers may offer vitamin and mineral supplements to certain groups as a safeguard to help maintain good health but they must not, unless the claims are authorised by the European Commission, imply that they can be used to elevate mood or enhance normal performance. Claims about higher vitamin or mineral intake for a specific function are permitted if authorised by the European Commission. Without well-established proof, no marketing communication should suggest that there is a widespread vitamin or mineral deficiency.
50.22 People who are potentially at risk of deficiency may be safeguarded by vitamin and mineral supplementation. If the claim made for a vitamin or mineral supplement is relevant only to a group that is at risk of inadequate intake, marketing communications must state clearly the group likely to benefit from the supplement. Indicative groups include:
a) people who eat nutritionally inadequate meals
b) the elderly
c) children and adolescents
d) convalescents
e) athletes in training or others who are physically very active
f) women of child-bearing age
g) lactating and pregnant women
h) people on restricted food or energy diets
i) people with Asian ancestry from the Indian sub-continent
j) people who smoke.
50.17 Marketers should not use health professionals or celebrities to endorse medicines. Health claims in marketing communications for food products must not refer to the recommendation of an individual health professional.
56.10 Marketing communications may give factual information about:
a) product contents, including comparisons, but must not make any health claims, which include fitness or weight control claims. The only permitted nutrition claims are "low alcohol", "reduced alcohol" and "reduced energy".
I've emphasised a few of the key phrases above in bold.
I'm sure there are plenty of products being advertised that now flout these rules. It'll be interesting to see how the regulations are interpreted, whether there is much fallout or whether the use of weaselly words will be ascended to an art form.


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Natural Histories: Pith Paper Butterfly Souvenirs main content.
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Among the Museum library's rare books is a silk-covered album containing over 100 beautiful hand-painted butterflies on a dozen plates produced sometime between 1830 and 1871.
A fine example of Chinese trade art intended for Western consumption, the book is important for two reasons: for the pith paper—unique to this genre—on which its illustrations were painted and as a window on a particular period in Chinese history. Pith paper is made from the soft fibrous material, or pith, found on the inside branches of the small tree Tetrapanax papyriferus, sometimes called rice-paper plant. (This is a misnomer, based on early mistaken references to pith paper as "rice paper"; actual rice paper is made from parts of the rice plant.)
The pith is extracted by pushing a dowel thought harvested branches that have soaked in water for days. It is dried and cut into thin slices, producing pages of soft, almost translucent paper used to fashion paper flowers or painted with watercolor and gouache. Pith paper retains color well, especially concealed from sunlight within an album. Impervious to erasure or alteration, it is also unforgiving, attesting to the skill of the artisans who mass-produced these exquisite paintings.
Watercolor souvenir books were ideal exports when trade with the West opened up after China's defeat in the Opium War in 1842. They were inexpensive and easy to pack, especially compared to heavy oil paintings. Curiously, the butterflies depicted have no scientific value to entomologists as they are inaccurate, deliberately fanciful representations.
This story is adapted from an article in the Fall 2013 issue of Rotunda, the Member magazine.
Read more about the pith paper butterfly souvenirs in the book Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library, edited by Museum Library Director Tom Baione.


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I switched my vacuum advance from ported to manifold vacuum on my 396/375hp and boy what a difference.My car always ran fine but now it runs even better.I also noticed a drop in engine temperature at idle.Any time my car idled for long periods or I got stuck in traffic I would see the temp gauge slowly go up.I had it running for a 1/2 hour and the hottest it got was 197 degrees.The only problem I have is I cannot find the correct vacuum advance.I am running 12" hg at idle and my advance starts to move at 8"hg and stops at 15"hg.So my idle is a little unstable.All the part numbers listed in the forum for the vacuum advance I need are discontinued.Car Quest told me the part number is good but they are not sure they can get it.Paragon Corvette has an aftermarket vacuum advance with the correct GM part number that I need but they said they do not know if it is the right 4"hg start to 8"hg end that it is supposed to be. I don't want to spend 45.00 and it is the wrong one.Has JohnZ ever dealt with Paragon Corvette?They have 6 different advances listed with different part numbers.I just want to know if all the advance units are the same vacuum pull but have different numbers stamped.IN NCRS judging I guess they check numbers like that.Someone who has a NCRS corvette is probably more interested in the correct numbers than drivability.
Isn't the B28 the same one as for the Z28? Does the 396/375hp engine use the same vacuum advance part?
I posted these part numbers for the "B28" vacuum advance unit before, but I can't locate the post; ALL vacuum advance units are manufactured exclusively by Standard Motor Products, who sells them to branding wholesalers who re-box them with their own part numbers (but ALL are stamped by SMP with "B"-codes, which define their characteristics)."B28" Vacuum Advance Units (start at 4" Hg., finish at 8" Hg.):GM #88924985AC-Delco #D1312CAirtex #4V1053BWD #V329Standard #VC-177Wells #DV1810Niehoff #DR-305Car Quest #57-7537NAPA/Echlin #VC-1810
John I have searched and searched for those list of numbers you have compiled but they all lead to dead ends -Discontinued probably very few being sold these days so...see my replies listed in thread above, the Carquest was all I could fine and was - get them while you can! I now have 2 B28 spares


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Warner Bros. has provided several movie bloggers and entertainment journalists with an exclusive first look at the Dark Knight Rises prologue in all its IMAX glory; as you might imagine, early reactions to the footage have been overwhelmingly positive, with the exception of one (minor) complaint: Tom Hardy as Bane is somewhat difficult to understand when he speaks, due to the muffling effect of his life-preserving mask.
Sadly, you may still struggle to understand the muscular villain all too well in the newly-released full-length trailer for The Dark Knight Rises - though, the rest of the second theatrical promo is so impressively ominous and (for lack of a better word) epic in tone that you probably won't care.
Reactions to the original Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer were decidedly mixed; not only because there was very little actual footage from the film on display (shooting had just barely commenced, at the time of its release) but also because it felt like a clumsily-structured "announcement" promo, more than an actual theatrical preview. If nothing else, the new trailer for director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy concluder should not attract similar criticisms.
No point in delaying any further - check out the official new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises below:
Head over to Apple.com for the HD version
Among the highlights of this new Dark Knight Rises trailer are:
- Some simple exposition suggesting that Gotham City is (at the film's beginning) "peaceful," eight years after The Joker's reign of terror in The Dark Knight.
- An early look at how Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle serves as a femme fatale to Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne (albeit, without her Catwoman suit) and hints about her possibly being connected to Bane. (?)
- The appearance of new technology like the Batwing and Bane's mystery device in (awe-inspiring) action.
- Brief glances at the film's various new side players, like cop John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard).
- Foreboding imagery of Bruce Wayne as he walks around with a cane - not to mention, lies bruised and battered beneath a triumphant Bane.
- Allusions to Bane's prison background and his intention to "break" Batman, in all meanings of the term.
Overall, this new Dark Knight Rises promo not only marks an improvement on its predecessor; it also does an excellent job of teasing the film's apocalyptic atmosphere, grand-scale set pieces, and thematic elements (ex. characters' use of masks looks to become all the more prominent a motif, this time around).
In addition, this new footage also makes the threequel look like a stylistic marriage of Batman Begins' gritty, yet still recognizably comic book-rooted design and the more straight-forward "realistic" aesthetic of The Dark Knight. That's all the more appropriate, seeing how Dark Knight Rises aims to bring Nolan's Caped Crusader trilogy full-circle - as should be reflected in both the film's visual structure and narrative layout.
The Dark Knight Rises stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Juno Temple, Josh Pence, Daniel Sunjata and Nestor Carbonell.
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It will open in regular and IMAX theaters around the U.S. on July 20th, 2012.
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During today's [Wednesday's] testimony before a joint hearing of the Senate and House Veterans Affairs Committees, the national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. (VFW) expressed the organization's deep concern over America's disregard for veterans.
"What concerns the VFW and patriots everywhere is that America has forgotten that OUR NATION IS STILL AT WAR," explained William A. Thien, commander-in-chief of the VFW. "We have 38,000 men and women stationed inside Afghanistan fighting to ensure the country doesn't become a terrorist training ground again. We have another 30,000 stationed in South Korea helping to preserve a 61-year-old ceasefire that is looking more and more tenuous. We have tens of thousands more service members stationed abroad helping to bring peace and stability, and humanitarian assistance when and where it's needed."
Thien went on to address the war now being waged on American soil as well, reminding lawmakers of the ongoing veterans' fight to retain their promised benefits and Quality of Life programs. He noted the passage of the recent COLA penalty, an initiative that VFW was adamantly against since its introduction late last year. "Some believe the cost of war ends when the last troops leave Afghanistan. We know this is not true, and that is why we need a fully funded state-of-the-art VA health care system, benefits programs and cemetery system."
He pledged that the more than 1.9 million members of the VFW and its Auxiliaries will fight to preserve the safety and security of America and the viability of its All-Volunteer Military. He also vowed to fight attempts to force veterans, service members and their families to shoulder an unfair share of the nation's debt, and promised to continue the fight for adequate funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as for advance appropriations for its programs.
Thien explained to Congress that the VFW's mission is to ensure that a nation that creates veterans fulfills its sacred duty to care for them when they return home. "The VFW exists to serve veterans, and that includes representing them in Washington where the voice of one veteran is often overlooked and the voice of servicemen and women is prohibited.
"Everything the VFW wants costs money, but everything the VFW wants is for someone else—someone from every city and town in every congressional district, and in every state and territory who swore an oath of allegiance to protect and defend our great country and its Constitution," Thien stated.


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Raptors overtake Warriors in 4th quarter
TORONTO - It wasn't quite complete payback for the Warriors' 27-point comeback victory in the teams' first meeting, but the Raptors got a little retribution in Sunday's matinee at the Air Canada Centre.
The Warriors lost for just the fifth time in 31 games when they went into the fourth quarter with a lead, making defensive lapses, coughing up turnovers and getting beat on the boards during a total meltdown in the final minutes of their 104-98 loss to Toronto.
"It was just a bad loss for us," Warriors head coach Mark Jackson said. "That's a good team, a well-coached team that is enjoying a very good year, but it was a bad loss for us."
The Warriors led by as many as eight points and were still ahead 84-78 on a Draymond Green driving bank shot with 9:30 remaining. The wheels then fell off the Warriors' motorcade that appeared ready to join San Antonio as the league's only teams with more wins on the road than at home.
The Raptors worked the Warriors' defense for whatever shot they wanted and missed only one of their eight field-goal attempts during a four-minute, 17-4 run. Patrick Patterson, who scored eight of 12 points during the stretch, made a three-pointer with 5:21 left to put Toronto ahead 95-88.
The Warriors' offense was just as bad during crunch time. Stephen Curry, who scored a game-high 34 points, committed four of his six turnovers during a 9:15, fourth-quarter span.
After Klay Thompson made a three-pointer with 3:35 on the clock to trim the Warriors' deficit to 97-95, Curry missed a three-point try and then committed turnovers on the next two possessions - dribbling off his foot once and then trying to pass to David Lee, who was between two defenders.
Asked how many of those possessions he wanted back, Curry said, "All of them. ... The fact that they came one after another made it tough. It's very frustrating. ... You're under a microscope at the point, so it's definitely tough, but those are plays I'm going to keep making and hopefully keep executing."
"Steph is good enough, that no matter what defense he is seeing, to not leave a game with six turnovers," Jackson said. "He knows he's got to be better."
The Warriors (36-24) had won five of six since the All-Star break, but they dropped to 2-2 on their current six-game trip with Indiana and Boston remaining. They are only two games clear of ninth-place Memphis.
It was a rough end to a day that had an odd beginning. Before he answered the first question of his pregame news conference, Jackson informed the assembled media that backup big man Jermaine O'Neal was not with the team because of a passport issue.
The Warriors certainly could have used O'Neal, who has averaged 13 points, 8.8 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots in his past five games. Aside from Curry, Lee and Harrison Barnes, who combined for 65 points on 25-for-53 shooting, the Warriors had trouble finding offense against Toronto as the rest of the team scored 33 points on 12-for-35 shooting.
The Raptors (33-26) have been playing that type of defense for a while now, having won seven of their past nine games and going without consecutive home losses since losing three straight from Nov. 26 through Dec. 1.
They had five players in double-figure scoring, including DeMar DeRozan, who scored a team-high 32 on 16 shots, and added six assists.
"I understand every game we play is important, and everybody in this locker room wants to make the playoffs," DeRozan said. "... It's a big win against a great Western Conference team, especially after the way we lost at their place."
Almost redemption.
Rusty Simmons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @Rusty_SFChron


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The way Kirk Shireman describes it, the International Space Station is fast becoming the O'Hare International Airport of low Earth orbit.
The shuttle Endeavour docked with the station Wednesday night, and shares it with a Russian Progress resupply craft that arrived in February. The shuttle is slated to leave March 24. Europe's robotic cargo ship arrives April 3. Four days later Progress leaves, while a Russian Soyuz craft arrives April 10 for a crew swap. And next year, Japan is expected to add its automated resupply ship to the mix.
"That's quite a traffic flow. We're thinking about launching an air-traffic controller soon to keep it all straight," quips Mr. Shireman, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's deputy program manager for the International Space Station.
His jest, during a recent prelaunch briefing, nevertheless highlights what several specialists see as an emerging issue for spaceflight in the 21st century: a need to overhaul the way people manage traffic in space – from human-tended craft and satellites to the long-standing problem of space debris.
Some say it may be time to set up an international body similar to the International Civil Aviation Organization to establish common standards and practices. Others suggest that individual nation-to-nation agreements could be enough.
Whatever the approach, aerospace traffic management "is getting to be a hot topic," says Ben Baseley-Walker, a consultant for the Secure World Foundation, a space-policy think tank based in Superior, Colo. Meetings on the subject that drew a few dozen academics two or three years ago are now drawing crowds of nearly 200 from around the world, he says. And several of the newer attendees are wearing military uniforms.
The reason: As more countries get into the space game, more spacecraft – manned and unmanned – will flit around Earth. "Increases in activity lead to increases in objects, and, therefore, increases in space debris. It's not a question of if, but when," says Mr. Baseley-Walker.
Close to Earth, a crowd
Outer space may be big, but the regions around Earth where satellites or humans can linger are relatively few. Low earth orbit, sun-synchronous orbits, and geosynchronous orbits are the current hot spots. And within those broad categories, there are preferred locations. Even at the moon, things are getting busy. In October, NASA is scheduled to send its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to the moon, where it will join a lunar satellite from China and three from Japan. Earlier this week, NASA announced it was interested in setting up international science "nodes" on the moon – research platforms or vehicles that eventually could be linked via a moon-orbiting communications satellite.
Back around Earth, space junk – from paint flecks to chunks of spent rocket stages – share orbital space with satellites, the shuttle, the space station, and, eventually, any privately financed space stations and orbital space tourists.
Then there are the prospect of hybrids: Suborbital tourist flights and intercontinental transport that flirt with space as they travel. These will add their own unique air and space traffic issues.
Meanwhile, the risks to orbital regions are growing. Experts cite China's antisatellite test last year as one example. The target, a one-ton weather satellite, circled Earth in a region where other weather, remote-sensing, and spy satellites commonly roam. Its destruction generated an estimated 900 pieces of debris that will remain in orbit for up to a century.
By some estimates, it would take only 10 to 12 such "tests" to render the region useless to everybody. Remaining debris from the satellite the US Navy shot down late last month, by contrast, will be gone in a matter of months since the Navy's missile hit it at a lower altitude.
One challenge to setting up a more effective system is agreeing on a definition of where traditional air space, with its national sovereignty, leaves off, and outer space, a global commons, begins. By tradition, the boundary is 100 kilometers up, or some 62 miles. But there is no legal or scientific definition to support that, analysts say. Most spacefaring nations buy into this working definition. But in 1976 a handful of countries that lie along the equator signed the Bogota Declaration, which asserts that their "airspace" – hence their sovereignty – reaches all the way up to the geosynchronous-orbit slots some 22,300 miles directly over their countries.
A system to avoid collisions
Sorting through this and other issues including national security will be challenging, acknowledges Theresa Hitchens, director of the Center for Defense Information in Washington. She says a new aerospace traffic-management scheme should include mandatory notification and consultation when a satellite operator – government or private – plans maneuvers. In addition, countries need to establish an international database on satellite and debris orbits. Currently, the US Air Force has an exhaustive database, but getting information from the Air Force can be slow and its budget for data-sharing waxes and wanes. Countries should also be required to send out a global notice when they plan to place their satellites into graveyard orbits or allow them to reenter Earth's atmosphere and burn up, she adds.
"The real crucial thing is some system for collision avoidance and a process to ensure that people don't run into each other," she says. It may look like space leaves plenty of room to maneuver, but objects are moving so fast that once they swing into sight, it's too late.
To be sure, some efforts at sharing data and coordinating activities are appearing now, although on an ad-hoc basis. Ms. Hitchens notes that when China sent up its Taikonauts, for instance, the US Air Force shared its orbital-debris data with the Chinese.
Tentative cooperation
Moreover, with this shuttle mission and the arrival of Japan's space-station hardware – as well as the launch of Europe's first automated cargo ship – six control centers in five countries are linked for the first time to coordinate activities around the space station. In the private sector, several of the world's major commercial satellite operators, including companies such as Inmarsat, Intelsat, Loral, and Eutelsat, reportedly have been working over the past 18 months to develop ways their operators can exchange data on orbits and maneuvers without exposing trade secrets.
Such approaches may serve as valuable proving grounds for more effective aerospace traffic-management techniques. "The technical issues are not difficult," says Baseley-Walker. "The key issues are political."


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Welcome to the book blast for Betrayed by Ednah Walters!
Lil isn't just an average teenager. She's one of the Nephilim--the descendants of humans and angels--which gives her some serious psi skills and a mission for redemption. Just when Lil thinks she's found a balance between her normal life with human friends and her training to become a Guardian, she's warned that someone close to her will betray her. When the boy she loves starts acting strangely and one of her human friends acquires a supernatural ability, Lil begins to realize that someone is manipulating the people she loves... and won't stop until she's been lured to the dark side.
I grew up reading Nancy Drew and Hardy boys mysteries and fell in love with books
I enjoy good love stories, tingly mysteries and epic adventures. When I finished my college and decided to be a stay-at-home mother, I devoured books like they were going out of production, until reading just wasn't enough. So I started to write.
I've written picture books (unpublished), contemporary and romantic suspense (under the pen name E. B. Walters), and finally YA fantasy (as Ednah Walters).
AWAKENED (2010) is the prequel to the YA series about the Nephilim, The Guardian Legacy series. BETRAYED(book # 1) is now available wherever books are sold, HUNTED (book # 2) will be released in February 2013 andFORGOTTEN (later in 2013).
My adult contemporary with or without suspense is about a west coast Irish-American family series. I've published four Fitzgerald books: SLOW BURN (April 5th 2011), MINE UNTIL DAWN (June 29th 2011), KISS ME CRAZY (Sept 25th 2011) and DANGEROUS LOVE (Jan 29th 2012)
When I'm not writing, I do things with my family, five children and my darling husband of 18 years. I live in a picturesque valley in northern Utah, the setting for my YA series.
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Shape Places Open House Scheduled
A public open house for the proposed Shape Places Zoning Map will be held on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., at the Anne Zabel Studio Theater within the Orpheum Theater Center (315 North Phillips Avenue) in Sioux Falls.
The open house will allow the public to gain insight into several different aspects of the new Shape Places Zoning Map. The open house will also allow citizens an opportunity to comment about the new Shape Places Zoning Ordinance. Planning and Zoning staff will be available to answer questions or direct people to the right information.
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- Police say the victims are females in their teens or early 20s
- Authorities say the attacker distracts victims at stores before cutting them
- Johnny D. Guillen is arrested in Lima, Peru
- Report: He is suspected of cutting the buttocks of 13 young women
A man suspected in a series of buttock slashings in Fairfax, Virginia, has been captured in Peru, authorities said.
Johnny D. Guillen, known as the "Corta Nalgas" -- or "butt cutter" -- was captured Friday in Lima, according to Jair Quedas, system operator for Interpol Peru.
Authorities in the United States were looking for Guillen for allegedly cutting the buttocks of 13 young women, according to America Noticias, Peruvian local television.
Fairfax County Police in Virginia posted on its website that the man -- whom it identifies as Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel -- is suspected in a retail store assault that took place last year.
County police set up a task force to try to find a serial assailant responsible for several attacks that took place between February 2011 and July 2011.
"In each case, the suspect distracts his victim before cutting them. The victims have all been teenaged women or in their early 20s," Fairfax County Police said in a statement last year.
In one incident, officers responded to a report of a woman who suffered a 1 1/2 inch wound to her buttocks at a Forever 21 store on July 25.
"The 18-year-old victim was shopping when she noticed clothes that had fallen off of a rack behind her and saw a man bending down to pick them up," police said. "She abruptly felt a sharp pain and considered that one of the hangers had struck her. A short time later, she discovered her denim shorts had been slashed; her buttocks had been cut and were bleeding."
In another case, police said, a 21-year-old woman was shopping at a T.J. Maxx store at Fairfax Towne Center on June 8 when she felt a pinch on her buttocks.
Similar to other reports, "the victim turned around, saw a man picking up pieces of clothing and thought she may have been cut by one of the hangers," police said. "When the woman returned home, she discovered cuts in her clothing."


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The new season of FX's hilarious comedy "The League" (9 30 p.m. Thursday, FX; 3.5 stars) is starting later than it would have due to the threatened NFL lockout. The premiere's title, "The Lockout," may have been inspired by real events, but has nothing to do with them.
If you think that plot line doesn't sound like it belongs in a comedy about friends in a fantasy football league, you haven't watched "The League" in the past. The beauty of this series from husband/wife team Jeff Schaffer and Jackie Marcus Schaffer is its surprises. You just never know what to expect, except to laugh out loud at all the inappropriate humor.
The season opens with reigning league champion Ruxin (Nick Kroll) choosing to hold the new season's draft at Andre's (Paul Scheer) apartment, but with a twist that involves the gang meeting Rafi's (Jason Mantzoukas) porn-making pal Dirty Randy (guest star Seth Rogen).
To say more would be to spoil, so I'll only add the in its third season "The League" is sharper and raunchier than ever, and the aforementioned cast members, as well as Mark Duplass, Jon Lajoie, Stephen Rannazzisi and Katie Aselton, score TDs with nearly every line. Some examples:
- "Pile into your clown car of lies …"
- "The dude who looks like an illiterate Wolverine."
- "Puns are as vital to the porn industry as they are to the pet shop industry and the child hair salon industry."
- "We'll have to disagree to agree."
One thing viewers can agree on: "The League" is a champ.


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Coyotes beat Wild to halt three-game skidNHL.com @NHLdotcom
The Phoenix Coyotes ended a three-game losing streak by reverting to their old formula -- tight checking, good goaltending and timely scoring.
Radim Vrbata scored twice to back a 28-save performance by Thomas Greiss in a 3-1 victory against the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday night.
Phoenix entered the game with a 14-6-4 record, though its success came despite an uncharacteristically leaky defense. But the Coyotes tightened up in front of their backup goaltender to end the Wild's six-game winning streak at Xcel Energy Center.
"It's been coming for a while," coach Dave Tippett said of the improved defensive work. "We can go back a few weeks ago, and I didn't think we were playing well enough to win even though we were winning. We know we have to get back to playing a real tight defending game, and our offensive has been good. It hasn't been an issue. We have to defend better, and hopefully tonight was a step in that direction."
Mikkel Boedker had the other goal for the Coyotes, who are off until they host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday. Dany Heatley had the only goal for Minnesota (15-7-4), which hosts the Colorado Avalanche on Friday to start a home-and-home series.
Greiss, signed during the summer to back up Mike Smith, has won all three of his starts this season.
"He's been real solid," Tippett said. "He's really earned the respect of his teammates in practice. When he gets an opportunity to play, he's played well."
Phoenix grabbed the lead 8:13 into the game thanks to a quick defense-to-offense transition. Defenseman Derek Morris broke up a rush in his own zone and triggered a 2-on-1 break the other way. Boedker carried the puck down the left side, moved into the left circle and snapped a shot over Niklas Backstrom's glove for his sixth goal of the season.
Greiss made his best stop about 4 1/2 minutes later. Heatley redirected a pass through Greiss' pads, but the goaltender got enough of the puck to deflect it just wide of the post.
Aside from Heatley's chance, the Coyotes dominated play for the rest of the period. They outshot Minnesota 12-5, and only the play of Backstrom (23 saves) kept the Wild within a goal after 20 minutes.
"We're not coming out with the same force in our game, like we're going to dictate and take control." Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "We're very reactive, on our heels.
"We're going out there and trying to be safe. When we're at our best, we're playing an aggressive game both with and without the puck."
Phoenix doubled its lead 3:42 into the second period when Tim Kennedy carried the puck around the net and centered to Vrbata, who got off a one-timer an instant before Mikko Koivu's stick would have gotten in the way. Vrbata's shot caught the far corner.
The Coyotes were outshot 10-3 in the middle period, but Minnesota generated few serious chances against Greiss. The Wild's best chance came when Heatley had a jam shot near the right post, but Greiss extended his pad to keep the puck out of the net.
"The 'D' was great all night today," Greiss said. "They played a solid game. We talked about cutting chances down, blocking more shots and helping the goalie out."
The Wild finally solved Greiss at 10:02 of the third. Greiss stopped Nino Niederreiter's slap shot, which went through a screen, but couldn't control the puck, and Heatley batted it out of the air and into the net for his fifth goal of the season.
The Wild's best chance to tie the game came with just more than two minutes remaining when Charlie Coyle jabbed at a rebound with Greiss down, but the puck went over the net. Kyle Brodziak's interference penalty with 44.3 seconds remaining forced the Wild to play down a man as they tried for the equalizer, and Vrbata hit the empty net with 22.9 seconds left to seal the win.
"We managed the puck really well tonight," Vrbata said. "We want to play in the opposition's zone as much as we can, and I think we did that tonight."
Minnesota played without its leading scorer, Zach Parise, who's out with a contusion of his left foot. The Wild announced Tuesday that he would miss 2-3 weeks, but Parise skated with the team Wednesday morning, though he didn't dress for the game.
The Wild also played all but 29 seconds without forward Mikael Granlund, who was returning from an upper-body injury. He took a high hit while trying to deliver a check to Phoenix defenseman Connor Murphy on the first shift of the game, left the ice and didn't return. The Wild did not disclose any details of his injury.
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WANDA's Barbara Loden (& John & Yoko)/
There's been a lot of good writing done on the film, including this from driftingclouds and filmmaker Mary Brownstien's piece from HammerToNail. I was really struck by the quality of the performances and Loden's willingness to let the camera linger. You can tell she is working with a tiny crew (4 people evidently) and the level of intimacy she achieves is a marvel. The budget, back in the day, was $115,000. It is required viewing.
8/31/10 Update: The New York Times just reported that WANDA is being restored. Time to rejoice!


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Learning Index >> Pioneers and their practice: a reference guide
Michael Cardew was born in Wimbledon. He read humanities at Exeter College, Oxford and, during his vacations, learnt to pot at Braunton Pottery, north Devon. In 1923, aged 22, he visited Bernard Leach's* St Ives Pottery and then took up an apprenticeship there. Leaving in 1926, he founded his workshop at the defunct Greet Pottery near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and made slip-decorated earthenware, assisted by Sidney Tustin from 1927.
Cardew married in 1933, Winchcombe Pottery expanded, and in 1938 he had his first solo exhibition at the Berkeley Galleries, London. The following year he moved to set up anew at Wenford Bridge, Cornwall. By 1942 he was embarking on a new career as a pottery instructor in Ghana, West Africa; he set up a pottery at Vum�. Ill health forced his return in 1948 and he resumed potting at Wenford Bridge, built a downdraft kiln and made stoneware for the first time. For 15 years he spent 10 months a year working in Nigeria, returning, briefly, to pot. In 1965 he left Africa permanently, visited New Zealand and Australia (to help set up a pottery for Aborigines in the Northern Territory), and in 1969 published Pioneer Pottery. In 1976 the Crafts Council organised a retrospective exhibition of his work.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Salisbury University junior defensive back Greg Stanton has been named Empire 8 Defensive Player of the Week, the league announced on Monday.
Stanton helped the No. 8 Sea Gulls to a 24-21 win over Alfred University on Saturday with a game- and career-high 12 tackles. A Damascus, Md., native, Stanton made his fourth interception of the season and sixth of his career in the third quarter.
Stanton also posted half a tackle for loss and two passes broken up on the day.
Through seven games this season, Stanton is second on the team with 44 tackles and has 1.5 tackles for loss, six breakups and one blocked kick to go along with the four interceptions.
He is the first Salisbury player this season to earn Empire 8 Defensive Player of the Week honors.
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I didn't want to go to a small independent Baptist college. No, I wanted a true college experience. I wanted drunken nights and new experiences. My parents graciously gave me two options, and since they were paying for college I had to choose one: Go to a Michigan state school and live at home or go to the small independent Baptist college in Missouri. I weighed my options and quickly decided that small freedom is better than freedom; Baptist college here I come.
That most of the degree programs involved training for some kind of ministry opportunity should come as no surprise. That most of the men wanted to be pastors, youth pastors or missionaries should also be no surprise. What did surprise me but should not have, is that those men needed wives to fulfill a great portion of the ministry needs: Teaching Sunday school, running Vacation Bible school, starting backyard Bible clubs with our flock children and neighbors, evangelizing the women, counseling the women, birthing and raising their Christian soldiers, cleaning their house, washing their clothes, cooking their meals, cleaning the church, organizing the calendar, keeping the books, the list goes on and on and on… There are many things men cannot or do not want to do while they are in the ministry. Proverbs 31 tells us good Christian women that we are honored and a good catch if we can provide all these things to our husband who is in the ministry.
There was, however, no degree program at this small independent Baptist college that read, "how to be a good wife to your husband in the ministry," no but the other degrees offered to women may as well have been titled such: Missions, Children's Ministries, Women's Ministries, Office Administration, and Music. The one accredited program offered at the time that reached beyond ministry in the church was Elementary Education. Being a realist I signed up for this course of study.
My fellow female students were all anxious to meet Mr. Right and start going on chaperoned dates where no physical contact was tolerated. I, on the other hand, was ready to meet Mr. Wrong and put my hands all over him. This was frowned upon to say the least. Students were kicked out for less. I learned quickly that women in this institution were made available to the men in almost a cattle call procession for them to choose who would best meet their future ministry needs. Having a mind of her own was not high on the list. Submissive, obedient, gentle spirit, that's what the guys were going for.
I kept my head down and plowed through school with little to occupy my desire for male companionship. My female classmates were quickly snatching up their Mrs. Degrees before their 4 or 5 year term was complete. Some would drop out at this point because, c'mon, in reality the only degree worth having was the Mrs. There is little ministry work for a single woman and the pity from others alone might kill you.
I was nearing the end of my time in college. Graduation was approaching. No ring in sight. Choices had to be made. Would I sulk around campus for a few more years hoping some desperate man might save me from spinsterhood. Hell no! I started the process and was accepted in to the Peace Corps.
One month before graduation something magical happened. I met him! He did not attend my small independent Baptist college. No, he was a former atheist attending the public university. More choices had to be made. I was scheduled to leave with the Peace Corps. Should I abandon my budding romance, or stay the course with the Peace Corps?! I talked with a Peace Corps advisor on the phone. She told me this situation happened quite frequently. People sign up and then with their future settled an aura of "I'm not interested in marriage," over takes them and they are instantly more attractive. I ultimately decided to stick around to see how the romance would play out. My logic, of course, was win/win. If I stay and we end up together, great! If I stay and we break up, well, heck then I'll join the Peace Corps.
I got my happy ending, and Mrs. Degree. I never did go to the Peace Corps but I have no regrets. I married the only man in the world I can picture myself with. And we are not in the ministry.


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The Zogby poll was commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Mayors in support of the Mayors' 10 Point Plan, "Strong Cities, Strong Families, for a Strong America," the Conference's legislative agenda of priorities for cities and urban areas.
The results of the survey were presented by Zogby International President and CEO John Zogby today during the 76th Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors at the Capital Hilton Hotel, and included a discussion of top priorities for Americans as the 2008 election season gets underway.
The results show strong support for community initiatives that focus on the environment. More than half - 56 percent - believe their local government should "go green" and make environmentally friendly and energy efficient changes throughout their local community, even if they may have to "significantly change" their lifestyle, Zogby explained.
John Zogby (Photo courtesy U.S. Conference of Mayors)
Majorities also believe that if their local communities adopt more environmentally friendly policies, there will be a positive impact on the local economy. They think green technology will create new local jobs make their communities better places to live.
Nearly half - 48 percent - say they would be willing to pay higher taxes if the increase would fund environmentally friendly improvements in their community.
The interactive survey of 32,085 adults nationwide was conducted November 27 to December 12, 2007, and carries a margin of error of +/- 0.6 percentage points.
Many Americans are already taking conservation efforts into their own hands - 68 percent say that in their personal lives they have already adopted water conservation measures.
The survey also shows more than half of Americans - 53 percent - say they would be willing to use mass transit if it were easily accessible from their homes and where they work, and the pressure of rising gas prices may make it an even more attractive alternative.
Two in three - 65 percent - said the raising price of gasoline makes them more likely to consider using mass transit and 44 percent would be willing to pay higher taxes if they knew all the added taxes were being spent on improving or creating public transportation where they live.
Although most Americans express dissatisfaction with the overall rate of return they receive for their tax dollars, they view the use of their local taxes more favorably than the taxes they pay on the state and federal levels.
Bicyclists navigate New York's Times Square. (Photo by Ian Britton courtesy FreeFoto.com)
Nearly four in 10 - 39 percent - believe they receive the best service in relation to the amount of taxes they pay at the local level, compared with 16 percent who believe they receive the most benefit from state taxes and 13 percent who believe their federal tax dollars give them the greatest return.
Tonight, Conference President Mayor Douglas Palmer of Trenton, New Jersey presented an award to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his leadership on global climate protection.
Mayor Bloomberg is being honored for his leadership on the international priority of climate protection. His plan for New York City sets a new standard for action by cities throughout the world - a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. With its 127 separate initiatives, PlaNYC strives to make New York City among the world's most sustainable cities.
Accepting the award, Mayor Bloomberg said, "This award is a real honor, but it could have gone to any number of other mayors who are some of the country's strongest environmental leaders - Chicago's Rich Daley; Seattle's Greg Nickels; Miami's Manny Diaz - those are just a few of the names that come to mind."
"In New York, we have no shame about stealing the best ideas from those cities - and from cities around the world - and working to push them to the next level. That's how we arrived at our plan to cut electricity costs in government buildings by 30 percent over 10 years and to turn our fleet of taxi cabs into hybrids, which will reduce their CO2 emissions by 50 percent. Those hybrids are allowing each cab driver to save about $5,000 a year in gas costs," Mayor Bloomberg said.
"Innovative environmental policies also make good economic sense and these days we could use a lot more good sense when it comes to how we approach our economy. If you'll allow me to veer off-topic, I'd like to say a few words about the economy, because the debate over the economic stimulus package is the big issue in Washington right now and mayors should be a part of it.
The New York mayor took this opportunity to beat the drum for his newest environmental cause - rebuilding America's decaying infrastructure.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Photo courtesy Office of the Mayor)
"Last week, I was in California with Governor Schwarzenegger and Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania. We launched a new, nonpartisan coalition of mayors and governors called Building America's Future. We're going to push for a new national commitment to infrastructure, and I hope all of you will join us," Bloomberg invited his colleagues.
"Other countries around the world are spending five to 10 percent of their GDP on infrastructure, while we've been down around 2.5 percent for decades. And it shows - not just in New Orleans and Minneapolis, but all across the country," he said.
He suggested that the federal government establish a capital budget to fund infrastructure upgrades. "Almost every mayor in this room has a capital budget, and so does just about every industrialized nation," he said. "But not Washington."
"They spent most of this decade running up bills with reckless abandon and when the economy started heading for the ditch, the special interest give-aways got even bigger. They ate the seed corn without worrying about the next year's harvest. Well, the next year is here, and the seed corn is gone. All we've got is a barn full of I.O.U.s," he declared.
"We can't borrow our way out of this," Bloomberg concluded. "The jig is up. It's time to start getting our house in order, which I believe starts with a simple idea - making decisions based on the business cycle instead of the election calendar."
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The following is based on a MCT and Dee Neely discussion about words.
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Words don't have meaning on the objective scale. They are symbols which relate to ideas, but they aren't objective. They are subjective. They are subjective depending on condition, on circumstance, on culture, on language...
Take the word power which we are discussing. The English word "power" has 20 different meanings according tohttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/power
This makes the word very, very subjective. Science and mathematics are the only reliable way to determine meaning.
Your statement than many people have been powerful and not corrupt bears investigation. I would be interested in seeing who you think qualifies as powerful and not corrupt so we can compare.
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"Words don't have meaning on the objective scale."
-Abject nonsense. The concept of ability is objective, whether we refer to it with the phoneme power or ability. It has necessary characteristics that are real and reducible to perceptual evidence in any language. We remove the unique subjective perceptions when we form concepts, that's what makes them concepts. Your willingness and attempt to defeat the process of definition by essentials cannot invalidate that XBox is an electric gaming system, no matter how you cut it. It is not a relative or subjective concept. It has necessary essentials. It is definitely some things and not others. Words, the phonemes for concepts, having objective meanings is necessary for communication about this one objective reality we all inhabit. Atheism is the belief that there are no gods. This is not a subjective definition, in fact, if it is a definition, it is not subjective. Objectification of our perceptions is necessary for language development. Cortically, this is exactly what is going on. Our cortex examines multiple versions of patterns of perceptual evidence about something that actually exists in reality and after we remove or omit the subjective arbitrary characteristics, such as color and material, in the case of a chair, and retain the objective characteristics, such as shape and purpose, we can hold this in place, attach a phoneme and communicate to others or hold in our awareness for comparing and contrasting other things like and dislike it. This is how we make knowledge. This is very consistent with new successful models of artifical intelligence, most notably Jeff Hawkins' Hierarchical Temporal Memory. Concept formation, which is necessary for rational thought and communication is the objectification of our perceptions. And someone who has the ability to walk, also, objectively has the power to walk.
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Hi John,
False dichotomy. I do this all the time. Makes it easier to analyse things and get a result.
The conclusion seems to be:
Words have objective existence, but no objective meaning.
A word is a collection of sounds uttered by the human body and are objective in existence.
A written word is a method of relating symbols to sounds and are objective in existence.
However, their objectivity ceases at this point.
The meaning of words are subjective. They have meanings that vary according to language, culture, time and area of use. Caveat: words require careful definition to limit subjectivity.
Caveat: words require careful definition to limit subjectivity.
And let's not forget that word definitions themselves are of course constructed from words, each with its own sliding subjective meaning.
All words are qualifications and/or limitations. Words are the sounds we utter to indicate meaning, and all meaning is biological determined or determined by consciousness which is biological. The physical world is utterly without meaning, meaning arises due to the effect of the physical world on our biology. All meaning is subjective, to say that meaning is objective is to state that in the absence of consciousness there is still meaning--which is absurd. Subject and object stand or fall together, take away the subject consciousness and the object ceases to be, take away the object and consciousness ceases to be.
Hi James,
Take for example the word 'horse'.
I think everybody in the world would have a slightly different variation on the image that the word horse creates in their mind. But everybody still understands it as being E. f. caballus.
When we communicate a word to another person, how we envisage that word and how the receiver envisages that word may be different, but the basic meaning, (eg E. f. caballus), is still conveyed. Does the process of communication show/prove/add any objectivity to the subjectivity of a word.
Hi leveni,
The nature of meaning is such that the physical world you might say is objective, but all meaning is relational, meaning that the experience of the object/physical world does not belong entirely to the object nor entirely to the subject. Color is perhaps a good example, we know that in the physical world there is no color per-say, only varying frequencies of vibrational light, it is that vibrations effect upon the retina and its further processing by the understanding which gives us color. Communication does not lend objectivity to the subject you communicate with, only your subjective meaning, it is if you like once removed from reality, as they say, perception to the individual is reality, to the group it is agreement. I am not sure I have satisfied your query. I believe only what you experience can be held with any degree of confidence, though even the senses and the understanding can fail us sometimes.
Hi James,
...only your subjective meaning..
This is the problem I have with subjective meaning of words when we communicate. My understanding of 'horse' when I speak about horses and your understanding of 'horse' is not going to be 100% the same. Therefore my subjective understanding of horse won't be given to you every time I say horse, you'll interpret horse in your own subjective way.
Is subjectively communicating between people possible? I speak subjectively and you understand my words subjectively. If objectivity is not involved, how are we able to understand each other? I guess 'Chinese whispers' is a good example of the subjective nature of words when communicating.
...to the group it is agreement...
It is this 'agreement', between us, about words, that makes me think there is some objectivity in words. Even though we all have a subjective understanding of the word 'horse', would this 'agreement' lend objectivity to the meaning of the word horse?
So what is the difference between 'objectivity' and 'agreement', in regards to the meaning of words.
...only your subjective meaning..
"This is the problem I have with subjective meaning of words when we communicate. My understanding of 'horse' when I speak about horses and your understanding of 'horse' is not going to be 100% the same. Therefore my subjective understanding of horse won't be given to you every time I say horse, you'll interpret horse in your own subjective way."
Yes, I do see what you mean, it would seem there is a certain continuity to what is out there in the physical world, or is the continuity due to our common biology. All meaning is relational, and do to the fact that there is variation in our common biology there will be some variation in our understanding, which depends a good deal upon our previous experiences. If I have had no experience of something you call a horse, the words would be meaningless to me.
"Is subjectively communicating between people possible? I speak subjectively and you understand my words subjectively. If objectivity is not involved, how are we able to understand each other? I guess 'Chinese whispers' is a good example of the subjective nature of words when communicating.
Communication between subjects is as I stated, once removed from reality, what most people think reality is, is composed of their experience. Group agreement is simply a collective of subjective understandings,
...to the group it is agreement...
"It is this 'agreement', between us, about words, that makes me think there is some objectivity in words. Even though we all have a subjective understanding of the word 'horse', would this 'agreement' lend objectivity to the meaning of the word horse?"
No, words are sounds or compounds of sounds we have previously agreed upon to represent a quality or sensation. All things are relational, all things are relationships. We agree upon the effect of some object upon our common biology/consciousness. Perhaps the physical world/object has some degree of objectivity but many believe it does not. Science presently tells us that our apparent reality is a delusion, though a persistent one said Einstein. Ultimate reality they say is not a place of things, things, objects and the physical world they say now, or at least infer, are consciousness dependent.
"So what is the difference between 'objectivity' and 'agreement', in regards to the meaning of words."
Objectivity and agreement are very different, as I stated above, agreement is a collective understanding of the group subjective perceptions.
I think you are on to something here, leveni.
I've held the notion for some time that a great number of disagreements can be resolved if the meaning of certain key words could be agreed upon.
I think objectivity for a particular word could be achieved within a group if everybody agreed upon the meaning of that word. That is pretty simplistic, I know, but I think it could be empirically demonstrated in a controlled situation.
Unfortunately, we don't live in controlled situations.
Even on this site for atheists we can't (or won't) agree about what atheism is. (one of my pet peeves)
So rather than spend time creating a lexicon, with objectivity being a potential benefit, we argue about whether the words we use can even have a "meaningful" meaning.
But this has been a great conversation.
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Just in time for the home-stretch of the Presidential campaign, gas prices are becoming a big story again.According to AP, the price of a gallon of gas is up about 30 cents nationally from a month ago. An average gallon of regular is now $3.71.
Gasoline prices surged in the spring, and everyone thought they would cause a summer of hell for drivers and consumers, but they faded. However, with the economy apparently gathering steam, and oil crossing back over $95, gas is back.
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After receiving over 100,000 views in 24 hours, a leaked trailer for Syfy's new space drama Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome has eager BSG fans chomping at the bit for the series to air. Unfortunately, after much deliberation, Syfy has decided not to air the Battlestar Galactica prequel as a regular series - but there is still hope for a TV movie and a digital series.
In January, Syfy's President of Original Programming Mark Stern stated that he and the network were "trying to figure out the economics right now" and that a solution would be figured out soon. Now it seems that the economics were not worked out in the way Stern had intended, as the network has decided to pass on the project as a regular series, but is leaving it open for the possibility of a digital airing.
In a statement made this week, Stern gave fans some insight into the decision:
"Though the vision for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome has evolved over the course of the past year, our enthusiasm for this ambitious project has not waned." Stern goes on to say, "We are actively pursuing it as was originally intended: a groundbreaking digital series that will launch to audiences beyond the scope of a television screen. The 90-minute pilot movie will air on Syfy in its entirety at a future date."
Originally intended as a web series, the Battlestar Galactica off-shoot was later greenlighted for a two-hour TV pilot back in October 2010, but was subsequently pushed back due to intensive post-production and special effects issues. The pilot stars English actor Luke Pasqualino ( UK Skins) as a young William "Husker" Adama, a fresh academy graduate entering the tenth year of the First Cylon War on the newest Battlestar in the Colonial fleet, The Galactica.
As far as the leaked trailer goes, NBCUniversal quickly ordered it removed from YouTube and other sources, saying it was not an official trailer - but not before it went viral. Even with swift action, the trailer can still be found if you know where to look. Outside of a digital series, Universal Cable Production, which produces Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, has not completely ruled out shopping the project to other television networks.
Fans of the successful 2004 re-imaging of Battlestar Galactica, and its not-so successful spin-off Caprica, were really excited at the prospect of Galactica and her crew making a triumphant return to television. The recent news concerning Blood & Chrome is bittersweet, as there is still a slim chance the Cylon space drama might go on in the form of a web series.
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I just got done seeing the very first rough cut of "Fun with Dick and Jane" at a test screening tonight at the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. There was only about 75 people in the audience and they told us we were the very first people to see the movie. Brian Glazer and Ron Howard were even in the audience!!
Overall very funny! Still needs some work and because it was a rough cut, the quality of the picture (sound, etc.) wasn't up to par.
I don't want to give away all of the movie but there are some funny scenes. The little boy who plays their son keeps learning spanish from the housekeeper and even picks up a spanish accent.
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Jim Carrey gets a job at a "Walmart" type of store as a store greeter. Very funny when they both have to rob stores, banks, etc. to stop from having their house repossed. The picture below of them in the "dirt hole" is actually the place where they were going to place their hot tub, until his company went bankrupt. Hate to give away anymore plot due to the fact I don't want to be sued, etc.
All I can say is go watch this movie when it comes out! Very funny...two thumbs up! Excellent movie!!


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Is SBA S.O.L.?
This story appears in the October 2001 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
People usually complain, loud and long, when a popular government agency is faced with dramatic budget cuts. So what explains the deafening silence after the Bush administration's initial budget slashed funding for the SBA by 40 percent, to $540 million? Small-business-minded senators rode to the rescue, restoring $264 million to a budget resolution in hopes of protecting the 7(a) Loan Guaranty Program and a venture capital program for businesses in economically depressed areas.
Still, some of the dramatic changes survived: Small businesses will pay twice as much-$2,800-in fees for their guaranteed loans, and for the first time, Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) will start charging entrepreneurs for counseling.
Is much of this news to you? If so, that's because few small-business advocacy groups have been raising much of a stink about the SBA's precarious position. That Bush's budget even targeted the SBA-which, after all, is supposed to represent one of the sacred cows of the U.S. economy and the new American dream-underscores the agency's weak political position.
The new SBA administrator, Hector Barreto Jr., will probably have to defend the agency's very existence. Barreto, a financial planner and vice chairman of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (of which his father was a founder), will be faced with a double whammy: a presidential administration that considers the SBA expendable and a small-business public that doesn't seem to care whether the agency exists or not.
"That there's no outcry when there's talk about cutting the funds is a clear signal to the administration and Congress to change things. It may be time to fold [the SBA] into something else," says William A. Ward, the Warehime Professor of Business Administration at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. "You could make a case that the SBA has been a victim of its own success. It has been successful in getting a lot of interest and activities started at local and state levels, too." He believes that those activities would carry on even if the SBA ceased to exist.
Public interest in small businesses saw a boom in the go-go 1990s, partly because of the seemingly endless opportunities the Internet opened up and partly because small businesses began to understand and use their clout. Scores of small-business advocacy and membership groups sprang up to advance the interests of various minority groups, regional groups, small-business-within-major-industry groups and so on. Ward contends most of these groups are more committed to promoting their own members' interests than they are to presenting a united front on issues that are pertinent to all small businesses. That's why few of them protested the SBA budget cuts, he says. As entrepreneurship grows, membership in most of these groups also expands, which boosts their clout and undermining any loyalty they have to the SBA.
Meanwhile, the SBA continues to add to its long buffet of programs and services, fueling confusion about its core mission. Ward and others charge the agency has reacted to current business and societal trends by developing a wider spectrum of ever more narrowly focused programs, instead of strategically concentrating on efforts that could lead to long-term gain for small businesses as a whole, such as providing IT assistance and training, and creating new channels for small businesses to trade overseas.
Down but Not Out
It's tempting to throw in the towel and concede that the SBA has outlived its usefulness.
Tempting-but wrong.
The plain fact is there are several compelling reasons to renovate, not junk, the SBA. A high-profile federal government agency provides a solid, steady focal point for small-business issues in a way that disparate nonprofit groups can't. Only a federal agency has the power to create important nationwide programs that can benefit all entrepreneurs, such as channels to enable small businesses to bid on government contracts. The SBA also serves as a valuable advocate for small businesses within the federal government, as it presents issues entrepreneurs care about to Congress, the executive branch and the policy-makers within other agencies.
"We've got to figure out a way to make the SBA more effective," says Scott Hauge, an independent San Francisco insurance agent who has been involved with the SBA at local and national levels. "A lot of small-business people value the advocacy role. You have at least one friend in Washington."
Even critics who would like to see the SBA scaled down and folded into the Department of Commerce concede that the core concept of having a federal office that is the fulcrum for information, advocacy and key programs for small businesses shouldn't be eliminated. The sticking point is determining which information, advocacy efforts and programs really are key to the SBA's reason for being.
Then and Now
When the SBA was launched on July 30, 1953, during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, nobody anticipated it would become as big-or as controversial-as it is today. (See timeline.) The original impetus for the agency was to make sure small-business owners had a chance to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Many big businesses thrived in the wartime economy-some at the expense of smaller competitors. Eisenhower wanted to ensure that small businesses weren't squeezed out of the recovery by advocating for them and ensuring that they got their share of government contracts and sales of surplus property.
The new agency quickly took off. Just a year after it started, it was giving and guaranteeing loans to growing businesses, making disaster loans and setting up training programs. In 1958, the SBA established the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Program, which is geared toward providing venture capital. Last year, the program participated in $5.5 billion in investments through commercial lenders and investment firms.
Not surprisingly, in the early 1970s, the SBA edged into programs that advocated social advancement through economic opportunity. Lending and advisory programs targeting aspiring business owners who lived in economically depressed areas started to take root. Today, the agency sponsors targeted outreach, loan and advisory efforts to a vast array of special interest groups, including women, minorities, the disabled, young people, veterans and, in numerous incarnations, economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs.
Slowly, the SBA's role in making and guaranteeing loans evolved. In the 1990s, the agency stopped making direct loans. In the mid-1990s, complaints about the frustratingly long approval process moved the agency to roll out its low-documentation approval (LowDoc) program, which significantly streamlined paperwork and reduced approval time. Last year, the agency participated in 48,000 loans, with 90 percent of those made through its 7(a) Loan Guaranty Program.
With dozens of programs being introduced, changed and phased out over the years, it's not hard to see why the SBA has a murky, undefined image. People aren't sure what good it will be to them and their particular circumstances.
What Can You Do for Me?
Phillip and Arleen Huddleston, co-founders of Exercise Equipment Inc., launched their Reno, Nevada-based business nine years ago. Neither had experience in retailing, wholesaling or as fitness pros. Phillip, an engineer, had discovered a knack for repairing fitness machines; when he saw the demand for his repair services, he was eager to start selling the equipment, too.
The Huddlestons had a vague idea the SBA could help them get money to buy their first inventory. All they needed was $25,000. As it turned out, though, the SBA helped them in an unexpected way-through the advice they got from the SBDC at the University of Nevada in Reno. They researched the market, wrote their business plan and boned up on financial terminology, but got nothing but rejections from banks that wouldn't even consider their application under the SBA's 7(a) program. "I was a white male with no equity," explains Huddleston. "I was totally shot down by the banks. Finally, a new bank opened up in town, and they loaned me the money [through a non-SBA loan]."
Hauge says he isn't surprised to hear about experiences like the Huddlestons'. Somehow, the SBA has let itself be defined by its financial assistance programs-possibly because getting money to start or expand a business is a big problem for business owners. Yet far more people are helped by the SBA's "technical assistance"-programs that aid entrepreneurs with all sorts of nuts-and-bolts aspects of running their companies, from setting up Web sites to learning how to bid for government contracts. An overwhelming majority of the people served by the SBA receive this type of assistance, Hauge reports. "It's Business 101 on a need-to-know basis," he says. About half the businesses served by SBDCs are start-ups, even though, Hauge says, the centers' official mission is to primarily serve ongoing businesses.
Even leaders of special interest groups say they rely on the SBA to promote their members' concerns. "The SBA keeps an eye on the rest of the government to make sure certain [federal] purchasing programs include small businesses," says Susan Bari of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council. "There are supposed to be set-asides for small businesses, but I don't think a lot of government agencies would pay attention to these if the SBA wasn't looking over their shoulders."
Some experts believe that if the SBA would take a hard look at what it does, compared to what other federal agencies and nonprofits do, it could probably hand off numerous programs and free up resources for the programs it's determined only it can do. The SBA could greatly help itself by simply analyzing which programs serve the most people the most cost-effectively and deliver the greatest return on investment, says Charles Fitzpatrick, a former SBDC director and current director of the LaBelle Entrepreneurial Center at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
"A lot of [membership] organizations are all about advocacy and don't provide business plan and start-up help like the SBDCs," Fitzpatrick explains. "Really, other than the SBDCs, there is no place to go for that, save for the occasional [local] economic development office. But even [they] won't sit there and walk someone through filling out forms."
SBA-watchers say the agency needs to do a better job of stripping out functions that are redundant with advocacy groups and those that are becoming irrelevant. "The SBA doesn't [advertise its] performance data," says Ward. "It's too broad-brush. There's a need to restructure and retrench the SBA and reallocate its resources."
For instance, as a result of the SBA's efforts to streamline the guaranteed loan program, its requirements have become virtually synonymous with traditional bank lending practices. The two are so close that it might make sense for the SBA to eliminate the guaranteed loan program-which, in most regions, has a default rate only slightly higher than that of commercial lenders anyway, says Mike Kiser, a retired SBA district director who now is president of the Milwaukee branch of Wisconsin Business Bank, an SBA lender. Banks already have requirements to invest in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, which could resolve the need for many of the SBA's specialized loan programs.
Hauge says he's "always hopeful that changes will happen." The confirmation of Barreto as SBA administrator is a positive sign: He's at least a small-business owner with experience at spearheading small-business issues. Says Hauge, "That's a step forward from the past."
The SBA Timeline
1932: Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. (RFC) made loans to businesses of all sizes undermined by the Depression and World War II. Adopted by Hoover's successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942: To protect the nation's supply chain during wartime production, Congress created the Smaller War Plants Corp. (SWPC). It made direct loans, encouraged commercial lenders to make credit available to small businesses, and advocated for small businesses with federal agencies and bigger businesses.
1946: SWPC disbanded when the war ended, and its functions folded into the RFC. Department of Commerce started some educational and training functions previously handled by the SWPC. RFC continued to oversee government loans.
1952: President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed sweeping all the small-business services into a new agency: the Small Business Administration.
1953: SBA born on July 30, 1953 by an act of Congress. Its mission is to "aid, counsel, assist and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small business concerns." SBA would also ensure small businesses a "fair proportion" of government contracts and sales of surplus property.
1954: SBA starts making direct loans, guaranteeing commercial loans, lending to victims of natural disasters, advocating for small businesses with other federal agencies, and establishing management, technical assistance and training programs.
1958: Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) loan Program created to aid high-risk small-business start-ups and fast-growth companies.
1964: Equal Opportunity Loan Program was designed to give assistance to aspiring business owners with incomes below the poverty level.
1988: Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training is launched. It has since evolved to become the Women's Business Center.
1995: LowDoc process introduced to eliminate some of the burdensome paperwork that was then required for the 7(a) Loan Guaranty Program.
1996: ACE-Net-the Angel Capital Electronic Network-is formed to help make connections between early-stage companies and investors.
1998: BusinessLINC is created to match small businesses with larger companies that can provide mentoring for them.
1999: SBA starts packaging loans in its 7(a) Loan Guaranty Program to be available for sale on the commercial secondary loan market.
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Cynthia E. Griffin contributed to this article.
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- LaBelle Entrepreneurial Center, Central Michigan
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- Wisconsin Business Bank
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., May 1 (Reuters) - Paula Broadwell said she is focusing on her faith and family as she rebuilds her life after revelations of her extramarital affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus forced his resignation and thrust her into the center of a media firestorm.
"I grew up in a strong faith-based family," she told News 14 Carolina after attending a YMCA prayer breakfast in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she lives.
"I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward," she said.
Broadwell's relationship with the retired U.S. Army general, who was once considered to be a potential contender for the White House, came to light last year after anonymous emails she sent to a Tampa socialite who knew Petraeus prompted an FBI investigation.
The sex scandal involving the married four-star general and his biographer, an U.S. Army Reserve intelligence officer who was also married, was a shocking downfall for a lauded military man credited with helping to pull Iraq from the brink of all-out civil war while commander there.
Broadwell said she was seeking meaningful work, not publicity, in the aftermath of the scandal, which she did not discuss in the television interview.
"I've been involved in a number of wounded warrior organizations and veteran support initiatives in our community," she said.
"The mission today ... was to speak about redemption and slowing down in life and finding purpose," she said. "It really touched my heart, I've made some mistakes in the past, but I'm trying to look forward with my family."
The City University of New York announced last month that Petraeus will join the school as a visiting professor starting in August. (Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Scott Malone and Maureen Bavdek)


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J.C. Penney's struggles over discounts and a dropping share price remain in focus when the retailer reports earnings. Spencer Jakab reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.
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I think it is too weak but maybe that's just me. I guess it's not supposed to be "balanced" with the other classes but some inherent abilities ALONG with the ones you get when you transform would be nice. As it is now, hitting some monsters like Meatman or Zombies are basically duds.
Also, you're basically "mirror-matching" most of the time since you change immediately when you hit an enemy. Well, I say mirror-match but something like First Strike on Goblin does nothing when both parties has it, and you don't inherit the stats multiplier of your enemies so you usually come out on the losing end it seems.