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NEW YORK (AP) - Sharon Osbourne says she and husband Ozzy aren't splitting.
Osbourne addressed recent rumors of their family problems on Tuesday's edition of 'The Talk,' the CBS chat show she co-hosts.
She told viewers she had not been aware of her husband's year-and-a-half-long relapse into prescription drug and alcohol abuse, which he made public in an apologetic Facebook post last week.
She says she is 'devastated' by their struggles, but she added that the couple has dealt with worse before.
The TV personality and music manager blinked back tears as she said, 'This, too, shall pass.'
Ozzy Osbourne was a founding member of heavy-metal pioneers Black Sabbath, but he left the group in 1979. The 64-year-old has since rejoined, and the band's new studio album is out in June.


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Weight Watchers Offers Grab and Go Meal Options
Recent statistics show the $121 billion bought-sandwich market is expected to grow by 3 percent, according to Packaged Facts.
"Research shows us that U.S. sandwich consumption is 4.1 sandwiches per person per week (or 200 per year) and 41 percent of sandwiches are bought outside of the home," says Chris Solly, VP licensed brands at Newburyport, Mass.-based Greencore USA. "Also, the IDDBA's study 'Consumers in the Deli: Attitudes, Buying Behavior, & Purchase Drivers,' found nearly two-thirds of respondents said they were making a serious effort to cut back on fat, and over half said they were trying to cut back on calories, trans fats, sugar, sodium or carbohydrates. Overlay our own research, and we came to the realization that many consumers would like a Weight Watchers version of their lunch."
To that end, Weight Watchers, the registered trademark of WW Foods LLC, under license by Greencore USA, created eight Weight Watchers Grab & Go options. They include two Weight Watchers sandwiches -- Turkey or Roast Beef; two wraps -- Turkey & Cheddar or Chicken in BBQ Sauce; and four salads -- Turkey BLT, Southwest Chicken, Chicken Caesar and Chef Salad, all served in a unique package with crisp greens and a blend of salad toppings such as cheeses, salsas, egg, beans, corn and lean cuts of chicken and turkey. Each salad includes a dressing packet, and each variety has a 6 to 7 PointsPlus value with dressing, or fewer without. The sandwiches and wraps are served on wheat or Lavash bread, containing a mix of fresh salad items, lean meats and cheeses. Some have a dressing, and each sandwich has a 6 PointsPlus value.
The new PointsPlus program goes beyond calories, taking into account the ingredients that make up calories – protein, carbohydrates, fat and fiber – and factoring how hard the body works to process them (conversion cost) as well as their respective eating satisfaction (satiety). Also listed on the packaging are calories, grams of fat, fiber and protein.
Suggested retail price of the sandwiches and wraps is $3.99, and salads are $4.99.

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Amazon.com has millions of customers all over the world and has grown into the world's largest and most trusted online marketplace. With 3dcart, you can have your own fully-customizable, branded online store while leveraging the eCommerce power of Amazon.
3dcart's Amazon integration is a multipart connection that allows your 3dcart
store to take full advantage of the features offered by Amazon.com.
With Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment, you send your inventory to Amazon for storage and management. Upon receiving an order, Amazon professionals handle the picking, packing, and shipping of the products. The customer's order is shipped right to them from Amazon's facility.
Save time and effort for your customers by letting them pay using the information they already have saved in their Amazon account. Amazon Pay adds a button to your online store, bringing the trust and convenience of Amazon right to your own storefront.
Synchronize your Amazon orders, inventory, and customers between Amazon and 3dcart. Manage everything from your 3dcart store admin, without worrying about inconsistencies that normally come with selling across multiple channels. With 3dcart's Amazon integration, everything is centralized.
The Amazon Brand Registry offers tools that enable you to accurately represent your brand on Amazon, find and report suspected infringing or inaccurate content, and uses information about your brand to help proactively protect your brand.
Enroll now to join over 100,000+ brands that use Amazon Brand Registry to help protect their intellectual property and create an accurate and trusted experience for customers on Amazon.


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Hot Offer*
*Purchase a new 322L for $424. Offer valid 01/09/19 - 31/01/20, or while stocks last, at participating Husqvarna Servicing Dealers only.
Easy Starting
Air purge for very easy starting.
Auto Return Stop Switch
Stop switch automatically resets to the ON position for trouble-free starting.
Intuitive Controls
The choke and purge are easy to reach and understand.
Commercial Grade 2-stage Air Filter
The commercial grade 2-stage air filter reduces servicing costs and also results in less engine wear.
Stand Alone Starter
The stand alone starter makes it easy to change starter cord if needed.
Tap 'n Go™ Trimmer Head
Twin line cutting system with Tap 'N Go? for quick line feed.
X-torq® Engine
The X-Torq® engine design reduces harmful exhaust emissions by up to 75% and increases fuel efficiency by up to 20%.
High Torque Bevel Gear
Bevel gear designed with high torque and the cutting equipment parallell to the ground for best cutting performance
Hard Chromium
Hard chromium plated cylinder bore provides increased durability and extended product life.
Bevel Gear
Transmission and bevel gear in proven design together with a sturdy trimmer head for trouble free work.
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|Equivalent vibration level (ahv, eq) left
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|Sound pressure level at operators ear
|98 dB(A)
|Sound power level, guaranteed (LWA)
|107 dB(A)
|Overall Dimensions
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|3000 rpm
|Spark plug
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Anyone who goes to major industry trade shows is bombarded by what readers old enough to remember Jay McInerney would call the "bright lights, bright booths" approach. Everyone there tries to capture your attention and steal a minute (better yet, a few minutes) of your time to show you their new product or service.
I recently attended the Detroit Auto Show where, according to the organizers, "future mobility innovations meet the pavement." It was, obviously, about cars. But it also had some of the elements you'd see at any trade show—lots of information about what you can get now, and a few teasers about what's to come.
But how well do these enormous investments in attempts to capture your attention actually work? This would be, I thought, a good place to run a test using some of the consumer neuroscience technology that Nielsen routinely uses to evaluate media content, advertising and packaging.
So I walked the show floor with an Automotive News reporter wired with eye tracking and biometric equipment, curious about which elements truly engaged and which did not. After all, these nonconscious measures—by which I mean any passive measure of processing below conscious awareness—provide unfiltered data and insights that are far more complete than simply asking for a spoken response.
After all, how many things can you say for certain that you're paying attention to, or even seeing, at any given moment? Whether five minutes or five hours ago, our brains just aren't good at recalling the kinds of details marketers need to evaluate their efforts in a complex world. Applying the right neuroscience tools can capture a more complete view of the experience, second-by-second. They can report, with incredible accuracy, what you see, and how deeply you engage with it.
What I and my reporter friend saw is consistent with what we at Nielsen see in everything we test: some elements engage, others don't. Some go completely unnoticed.
What did we learn from this little experiment?
The bar has never been higher to reach consumers. We are all perpetually distracted with more choices on more screens with more advertising than ever before. Our mobile, always-on lifestyles have made engaging today's consumer harder than ever. Whether you're creating an ad, understanding a driving experience, or designing a trade show experience, you need to go beyond what you think your audience will engage with—and even beyond what traditional tests suggest they will engage with. Understanding nonconscious responses gives brands the confidence to succeed in any situation.
Read the reporter's published experience in Automotive News.


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Primary Immune System Deficiency Program (Primary Immunodeficiency)
In many of the cases that we treat at the Primary Immune Deficiency Program of The Mount Sinai Hospital, a child or adult who experiences "too many infections" over a short period may be diagnosed with an immune system deficiency. In some cases, the cause is a genetic defect that has been present from birth.
Typically, patients with primary immunodeficiency disorder experience numerous respiratory or systemic infections that a healthy immune system would fight before symptoms develop. In other patients – adults as well as children and infants – weight loss, chronic gastrointestinal infections, and autoimmune disease such as immune thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, vitiligo, or pernicious anemia may signal a disorder of the immune system.
Many people believe that primary immunodeficiency disorder is typically diagnosed only in infants and young children. That's not accurate. In our experience, we have found that adult patients who may not look ill may have a significant immune system defect that can and should be treated.
The Human Immune System
To understand primary immunodeficiency disorders, it may help to understand how a healthy immune system works. The body is organized by cell units or divisions into an automatically balanced system that keeps us healthy. This system is made up of specialized cells that routinely regulate everyday functions such as body temperature, blood volume, and the ability to fight disease. Any challenge to this delicate balance is usually met by resistance from the system or systems under attack.
In a healthy human being, the body has an inborn defense system against disease called natural immunity. From birth, individual cell groups are poised to fight invaders such as bacteria entering the body. These "immune cells" are known as lymphocytes, or white blood cells (WBCs). Among these WBCs are even more specialized cell groups. Each has its own genetically programmed function, much like the rank of soldiers in an army.
When disease-causing bacteria enter the bloodstream from a cut, for example, these invaders are identified as the enemy and the immune system "army" is put on alert. Immediately, pathogen-destroying foot soldiers called macrophages speed up bloodstream activity to root out these disease carriers. This immediate response to invasion in the form of antibody production is known as the primary immune response.
In those with primary immune disorders, however, this natural defense system breaks down. That's why many people with primary immune system disorders experience frequent infections.


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Acid protection
In the engine, combustion acids can escape into the crankcase. Low quality oils may fail to protect vital components from these acids, leading to corrosion that may cause catastrophic engine failure.
Shell Rimula oils contain powerful antioxidant agents that adapt chemically to neutralise acids before they can damage your oil and your engine.


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Big12Sports.com Correspondent
LAWRENCE, Kan. - OK, so let's spin this forward. Saturday's Big 12 results didn't resolve anything in terms of first place. Kanas, Kansas State and Oklahoma State started the day tied for first place. All three won in different fashion - the Cowboys in overtime, the Wildcats with efficiency and the Jayhawks were dominant.
Kansas, which last Monday ended a three-game losing streak with an impressive victory over Kanas State, kept things going Saturday night with a 73-47 victory over Texas. The Longhorns, coming off their best offensive effort of the season, were stifled and stymied by KU's defense, which limited the visitors to 21 percent shooting.
The last three weeks of the regular season starts Monday and the threesome at the top will draw considerable attention whenever they take the court. The next marquee matchup is Wednesday in Stillwater when Kansas visits Oklahoma State, which two weeks ago won in Allen Fieldhouse, a victory that pulled the Jayhawks back to the pack.
The Cowboys lost their Big 12 opener at Kansas State on Jan. 5 and they'll close the season by hosting the Wildcats on March 9. If home court means anything, Oklahoma State has a slight edge.
"We're going to be ready," Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford said after his team's 84-79 overtime victory over Oklahoma Saturday afternoon. "And make no mistake, Kansas is going to be ready. They're going to show video of us winning at their place and everything, but when it's all said and done, when that ball is thrown up, both teams have to play."
Just before tipoff in the Phog, Kansas State's 81-61 victory over Baylor went final. The decibel reading of 115 at tipoff. That's about what it sounds standing next to a jet at takeoff. And the Longhorns (11-14, 3-9) were never cleared for takeoff.
"If you ask me, I'd say they're as good as anybody in the country," Texas coach Rick Barnes said of Kansas "But I think this is the year, and I've said it from Day One, I think it's a year where there's a lot of teams that can do something special in March. I don't think there's a dominant team. I think Kansas has as good a chance as anybody, especially when they execute."
In their cathartic victory over K-State Monday, the Jayhawks (21-4, 9-3 were rock-chalking on offense. Saturday night, they were in lock-down mode on defense. KU entered the game leading Division I in field goal percentage defense at 36.1 percent. That improved to 35.6 percent after limiting the Longhorns to 12-of-55 shooting that included a frigid 2-of-21 on 3-pointers.
"There's not a team in America that has fun every time they go play, at the same level, the same consistent level," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "We were duds there for three games, but I think we've got our personality back."
Texas made three of its first seven shots and trailed 11-8 heading into the first media timeout at 15:41. Over the next 20 minutes, stretching into the second half, UT missed 10 consecutive 3-pointers and 29 of 34 shots. During that stretch, the Longhorns had shot clock violations on consecutive possessions.
Kansas shot 35.7 percent in the first half and led 28-15. With Texas failing to launch a threat in the second half, the Jayhawks eventually got happy on offense.
"Everybody is just playing," said KU senior Elijah Johnson, who got the Jayhawks off to a fast second half start with seven consecutive points. "Nobody is thinking. We're starting to enjoy ourselves more. I think with those losses, we showed how much we cared for each other."
The fans enjoyed the halftime ceremony that featured Mario Chalmers. The 2008 national championship hero had his No. 15 retired. The crowd also was entertained by a video showing the team dancing to the Harlem Shake, the latest viral craze.
"I didn't know what the Harlem Shake was," Self said. "I think something like that video shows a lot of team unity. Is having fun a big part of success? It's huge."
Missed shots and turnovers begat run outs and the Jayhawks doubled up on the scoreboard. The final 10 minutes evolved into highlights and shout outs. Freshman Ben McLemore won the dunk contest with a 360 slam. Jeff Withey, who had 15 points and 11 rebounds, set the Big 12 career blocked shot record with 265, passing Chris Mihm of Texas.
The students chanted for freshman walk on Tyler Self (the coach's son). They were doubly rewarded. Self entered the game with 2:33 remaining and scored on a floater in the lane. The fans also chanted an invitation to top high school prospect Julius Randle, who was on a recruiting visit.
Wooing high school stars is about next year, though, and now Kansas is thinking about its next game. Bill Self is an Oklahoma State graduate and his teams have historically struggled in Gallagher-Iba Arena.
"We'll find out a lot about ourselves on Wednesday," Self said. "That'll be our toughest game of the year, going into Stillwater."


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(Reuters) - Will Obamacare's launch look more like Black Friday, when U.S. shoppers flood retail stores for bargains the day after Thanksgiving, or April 15, when procrastinators wait until nearly midnight to file their taxes?
Officials involved in implementing President Barack Obama's healthcare law, academics who study health insurance and benefits experts interviewed by Reuters expect a little of both, with a graph of enrollment timing to be shaped like a lopsided W. They anticipate a fairly busy start as some of the uninsured buy coverage soon after the state-based exchanges open on October 1, followed by a drop-off for several weeks.
A smaller uptick could come just before December 15, the deadline for buying a policy for benefits beginning on January 1, 2014. A final rush of procrastinators is likely ahead of March 31, the last day to buy 2014 coverage and avoid a penalty.
The progress of enrollment will be scrutinized by Obamacare's advocates and foes, as each side will be quick to seize on evidence that the program is working or not. The administration expects to sign up as many as 7 million people via the exchanges for 2014, and needs that number to include about 2.7 million young, healthy participants for the program to work financially.
"We're expecting there will be a big uptake on October 1 and again at the end of the year because people wait until the last minute," said Michael Marchand, spokesman for the Washington Healthplanfinder, that state's Obamacare exchange. "We'll probably also see a big wave in March - 'last call' to buy insurance (for 2014) or be penalized."
Hawaii's exchange, the Hawaii Health Connector, expects a similar pre-Christmas rush. "Given the past patterns of enrollment with other federal programs, consumers tend to wait until the month before the plan benefit period - January 2014 - to enroll and make payment," said Executive Director Coral Andrews, adding that "enrollment numbers at the end of December will" indicate whether Obamacare is working in the president's birth state.
A W-shaped chart would mimic how people have bought health insurance before Obamacare.
"Some people have that natural 'I want to get this done so I'm going to shop October 1,'" said Carrie McLean, director of customer care at online broker eHealthInsurance. But just as many eHealth customers put off shopping for insurance "and think they can call the end of the month and get insurance that starts the first of the following month," she said, so some ACA customers may also procrastinate.
eHealth, which got federal approval to help people shop for Obamacare plans, expects many people to phone its customer service representatives to ask whether a given plan will cover a treatment they need or a medication they're on, and to revisit the exchange website numerous times before signing up for a plan. Waiting to get those answers could push enrollment decisions into late fall.
"I would expect the bulk of the enrollment (for coverage beginning on January 1) to come in November and December," said Jason Alford, director of individual and marketplace sales at Health First, a Florida-based insurer that is selling policies on that state's Obamacare exchange.
Investors surveyed by Citigroup see a slow ramp-up, and lower turnout. They expect 4 million people to buy insurance on states' Obamacare exchanges for 2014, with 500,000 to 650,000 of those in signing up in October.
Obamacare's ground troops are planning for every contingency. "It's not clear at this point what the take-up curve will look like," said Rory O'Sullivan, vice president for research at Young Invincibles, a nonprofit that will help 19-to-34-year-olds, in particular, enroll. "We have six months of open enrollment ahead of us and are in it for the long haul."
Timing "could vary markedly by state depending on a state's unique population and the outreach efforts," he said. For instance, some states have stacked the deck for a "soft opening," with minimal traffic in early October.
Although no other enrollment is identical to that for Obamacare, two of them - workers signing up for employer-sponsored health benefits and enrollment in Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage when it launched in 2005 - come close, and suggest what the exchanges can expect.
According to the Health and Retirement Study, run by the University of Michigan, 11 percent of elderly beneficiaries who signed up for Medicare Part D did so as soon as they could, in November 2005, said Helen Levy, research associate professor at the university.
"Twelve percent waited until the last month (May 2006), and it was more or less smooth between those dates except there was a bit of a bump in January 2006," Levy said.
Health economist Daniel McFadden of the University of California at Berkeley and colleagues have parsed the Medicare Part D data more finely. "The sickest people, with the most to gain, signed up early in the initial enrollment period, but lots of people waited to enroll at the very end," he said. "The take-up rate was the lowest among people who were fairly healthy, poorly educated and had low incomes."
With employer-based health benefits, "a small group enrolls on the first day to get it over with, a lot wait until the last minute, but the vast majority trickle in as they get reminders," said Randall Abbott, a senior healthcare expert at Towers Watson.
That underlines how critical enrollment timing is for both practical and political reasons, including for the perceived and actual success of Obamacare.
Groups that are actively recruiting uninsured 19-to-34-year-olds say peer pressure will play an important role in driving this group's behavior.
"The marketplaces' ability to attract early adopters might create a snowball effect, particularly if people start posting on Facebook and Twitter," said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Conversely, if "none" of their uninsured friends are buying health insurance on their state's exchange, young people may be less likely to do so themselves.
And if Halloween or even Thanksgiving comes and the Obamacare exchanges have netted only a tiny fraction of the projected 7 million, it will provide ammunition for opponents of the Affordable Care Act who say the law is a "train wreck."
Along the way, it will be a challenge to gauge how many people are buying policies on Obamacare exchanges. The administration declined to say when it would announce numbers. Insurers aren't expected to discuss enrollment before they announce first-quarter earnings in early 2014.
Of course, if a state blows through its targets, that will likely be publicized. "If California signs up a million people by Thanksgiving," said Levitt, "I expect we'll hear about it."
Reporting by Sharon Begley and Caroline Humer; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Douglas Royalty


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scs_committee needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 136 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
Our current logo is 30 yrs. old and out of date. We would like a fresh new look. To view, go to: http://www.salemchristianschool.org/
Desired Color Scheme:
red and white
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Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png)
Our mission statement is: Providing the children of our community with a superior education academically, spiritually and socially in a Christ centered, biblically based environment.
The logo should contain the initials SCS and be simple, eye-catching. Our school colors are red and white.
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On January 3rd, America lost one of the greatest champions of equal opportunity and human rights that our nation has ever known. Judge Robert L. Carter, civil rights lawyer, jurist, and fierce defender of justice, passed away at age 94 after suffering a stroke.
Judge Carter was a primary architect behind the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, crafting an innovative approach that blended constitutional scholarship, social science research, historical knowledge, and strategic litigation. After the victory, he pursued a strategy that helped bring desegregation to the North, where it had long been treated as an open secret. Over his career, he argued 22 cases before the Supreme Court, and won 21 of them.
As a federal judge, he held litigants to the highest standards, while rigorously guarding equal justice under law. Over four decades on the bench, he brought greater inclusion to the New York Police Department and to construction trades that had long excluded people of color and women. And he continued to speak out against injustice wherever he encountered it. That he chose me as one of his law clerks was a singular honor; I remain humbled by having been able to serve in that capacity.
In 2007, Judge Carter honored The Opportunity Agenda by authorizing us to create a Robert L. Carter Legal Fellowship for innovative lawyers to promote equal justice under law. Our three Carter Fellows since then have secured more equal health care for people of color in New York and Connecticut, expanded fair housing in Texas and at the national level, and ensured that federal economic recovery programs reached the hardest hit communities around the country. We are proud to continue Judge Carter's legacy of excellence, innovation, and equal opportunity for all.
Thank you, Judge Carter, for your lifetime of service, for the transformative change you brought to our nation, and for the sterling example of leadership that you have given us all.


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A heavy juju set from Chief Brigadier Oluoni – working here in a version of the style that's much grittier than mainstream recordings you might know! The record features one "Juju Marathon System Jam" that spans the course of both sides – a very offbeat version of the juju groove that often has a spacey sound in the echo, and lots of weirdly-tuned guitar parts that give the recording a very dark edge – even in some of the brighter moments! Vocals have lots of odd echo too, and when they drop out, the guitar parts get even weirder – making for some especially great instrumental moments over the driving rhythms of the track (Dusty Groove)
Relentlessly off-kilter 70's Nigerian Juju. 2011 Klimt LP reissue. 320 vinyl rip by yours truly.
Chief Brigadier Olu Oni & His Marathon System - Juju-Marathon System Vol. 1 (Nigeria, 197x + Klimt, 2011)
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Tina Rupp
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- Active Time
- 20 minutes
- Total Time
- 5 1/2 hours
- 2 1/2 teaspoons instant-espresso powder
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2/3 cup plus 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 (13- to 14-oz) can unsweetened coconut milk, stirred well
- 1 1/4 cups whole milk
- 3 whole large eggs
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Special equipment: 6 (6-oz) ramekins
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Stir together espresso powder and water until powder is dissolved.
- Cook 1/2 cup sugar with a pinch of salt in a 1 1/2- to 2-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, undisturbed, until it begins to melt. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally with a fork, until sugar is melted into a deep golden caramel.
- Remove caramel from heat and whisk in espresso (mixture will steam and bubble vigorously). Once bubbles begin to subside, immediately divide mixture among ramekins, tilting to coat bottoms, and let stand until hardened, about 10 minutes.
- While caramel hardens, bring coconut milk and whole milk just to a simmer over moderate heat, stirring, then remove from heat. Whisk together whole eggs, yolks, salt, and remaining 2/3 cup sugar in a large bowl, then add warm milk mixture in a stream, whisking. Pour custard through a fine-mesh sieve into a 1-quart glass measure.
- Divide custard among ramekins. Arrange ramekins on towel in a small roasting pan lined with a folded kitchen towel (bottom only). Bake custards in a hot water bath, uncovered, in middle of oven until custards are set around edges but still tremble slightly in centers, about 1 1/4 hours.
- Run a thin knife around side of each flan to loosen, then transfer ramekins to a rack and cool completely. Chill, covered, until cold, at least 4 hours.
- To unmold, invert small plates over ramekins and invert flans onto plates.
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·Flans can be chilled in ramekins up to 2 days.


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We meddling kids in the Mystery Gang would like to wish you all a very Happy Halloween!!
Our costume ideas this year all started with this little girl. She currently has an crazy obsession with Scooby Doo. You'll remember that her birthday party was Scobby Doo themed this year. She decided months ago that she wanted to be Daphne this year.
I used the Simplicity 2437 pattern to make her Daphne dress. I just added length to make it a dress & lengthened the sleeves as well. We found the boots at a thrift store for $4.00 & this girl was in heaven in that long red wig! So cute!
So it was decided that if Sadie was going to be Daphne, then Claire wanted to be Velma. Jinkies!
I made her skirt & turtleneck without any patterns. I had trouble finding jersey knit fabric in the right color of orange & so I ended up buying a mens t-shirt on clearance (set me back $.60) from a discount store & cutting my pieces from that. I could not find knee high socks for her, so we dyed a pair of little boy crew socks orange & then cut the heels out of & sewed back together.
Claire didn't want anything to do with this wig for the longest time. We were worried that she wouldn't wear it & that was bumming us out because we knew she would look so cute in it. But once Sadie's costume was all made & she was prancing around the house in her dress & wig, Claire was ready to wear hers too! Yay! Isn't she the cutest thing? It kills me how cute she looks as "Belma"!!
Sadie & Claire won Cutest Costumes at our church Halloween party. :)
The girls wanted Dylan to be Shaggy (Zoinks!) & then couldn't decide if I should be Scooby or Fred. We finally decided on Fred. It was much more doable. There was no way I was going to buy an adult Scooby Doo costume. Ha ha.
We have gone to different church parties the past 2 nights. The girls have had a blast! And I won't lie, it was super fun to be a part of a group costume theme. We've gotten our fill of candy & are just going to hang out with family & relax tonight. The girls have had so much fun. I hope they look back & know that their momma tried to get their costumes just right because I love them so much.
I hope you all have a wonderfully fun & spooky Halloween!! :)


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MELENDEZ-DIAZ v. MASSACHUSETTS
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MELENDEZ-DIAZ v. MASSACHUSETTS
certiorari to the appeals court of massachusetts
At petitioners state-court drug trial, the prosecution introduced certificates of state laboratory analysts stating that material seized by police and connected to petitioner was cocaine of a certain quantity. As required by Massachusetts law, the certificates were sworn to before a notary public and were submitted as prima facie evidence of what they asserted. Petitioner objected, asserting that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U. S. 36, required the analysts to testify in person. The trial court disagreed, the certificates were admitted, and petitioner was convicted. The Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed, rejecting petitioners claim that the certificates admission violated the Sixth Amendment.
Held: The admission of the certificates violated petitioners Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him. Pp. 323.
(a) Under Crawford, a witnesss testimony against a defendant is inadmissible unless the witness appears at trial or, if the witness is unavailable, the defendant had a prior opportunity for cross-examination. 541 U. S., at 54. The certificates here are affidavits, which fall within the core class of testimonial statements covered by the Confrontation Clause, id., at 51. They asserted that the substance found in petitioners possession was, as the prosecution claimed, cocaine of a certain weightthe precise testimony the analysts would be expected to provide if called at trial. Not only were the certificates made, as Crawford required for testimonial statements, under circumstances which would lead an objective witness reasonably to believe that the statement would be available for use at a later trial, id., at 52, but under the relevant Massachusetts law their sole purpose was to provide prima facie evidence of the substances composition, quality, and net weight. Petitioner was entitled to be confronted with the persons giving this testimony at trial. Id., at 54. Pp. 35.
(b) The arguments advanced to avoid this rather straightforward application of Crawford are rejected. Respondents claim that the analysts are not subject to confrontation because they are not accusatory witnesses finds no support in the Sixth Amendments text or in this Courts case law. The affiants testimonial statements were not nearly contemporaneous with their observations, nor, if they had been, would that fact alter the statements testimonial character. There is no support for the proposition that witnesses who testify regarding facts other than those observed at the crime scene are exempt from confrontation. The absence of interrogation is irrelevant; a witness who volunteers his testimony is no less a witness for Sixth Amendment purposes. The affidavits do not qualify as traditional official or business records. The argument that the analysts should not be subject to confrontation because their statements result from neutral scientific testing is little more than an invitation to return to the since-overruled decision in Ohio v. Roberts, 448 U. S. 56, which held that evidence with particularized guarantees of trustworthiness was admissible without confrontation. Petitioners power to subpoena the analysts is no substitute for the right of confrontation. Finally, the requirements of the Confrontation Clause may not be relaxed because they make the prosecutions task burdensome. In any event, the practice in many States already accords with todays decision, and the serious disruption predicted by respondent and the dissent has not materialized. Pp. 523.
69 Mass. App. 1114, 870 N. E. 2d 676, reversed and remanded.
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It's never been easy for House Republicans to raise the debt limit.
They've used massive spending cuts to attract support. Earlier this year, they raised the nation's borrowing limit with a stipulation that Senate Democrats would, for the first time in years, pass a budget or risk their paychecks.
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Now, momentum is building to tie a rewrite of the Tax Code to hiking the debt cap, which will need to be raised by the fall because the limit will technically be hit this month. Top lawmakers and aides on the House Ways and Means Committee have quietly begun mulling over and crafting mechanisms that would attempt to "commit Washington" to tax reform over the next five months, several sources involved with the planning say.
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One framework that has gained significant traction — and has been ricocheting around K Street and Capitol Hill — would directly wed increases in the debt ceiling to progress in tax reform.
The idea is in its infancy, according to sources involved in planning, but here's how it would work: Legislation would authorize something like a three-month bump in the debt limit while simultaneously giving the same amount of time for the House to act on its tax-reform plan. When the House passes something, the debt limit would bet increased again, and when the Senate moves its own tax-reform product, Congress would authorize another bump in the debt ceiling. A larger increase in the borrowing limit could come if President Barack Obama signs the legislation, according to a source familiar with the thinking of the Ways and Means Committee. The plan would most likely be accompanied by a road map that lays out certain guidelines for Tax Code rewrite.
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The mechanism, which is described as one of a multitude of options that have been discussed with House Republican leadership, is occupying much of the mind share among Ways and Means aides and lawmakers as Congress wrestles with just how it will lift the nation's borrowing cap this fall.
If House Republicans choose this route, and their ploy works, they would solve a litany of problems. The debt ceiling would be raised, and tax reform would be put front and center in a town that is now focused on immigration and gun control.
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) has long been seeking a way to prioritize tax reform on Washington's crowded plate this Congress. Tying it to must-pass legislation would go a long way toward creating the deadline-induced urgency that Congress needs to get legislation passed.


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In today's society doctors are the most respected professionals. Indeed, to work to promote the health of others is a serious undertaking and requires a self-sacrificial spirit. But, in societies divorced from the morality of the Qur'an, the way people regard doctors and the character doctors develop out of this are somewhat different.
Firstly, some people mistakenly believe that their lives are in the hands of their doctors. For this reason, they look at them for help. Most families want their children to be doctors and instill this idea in them. For this reason, almost every child says that he wants to be a doctor when he grows up. Of course, it is good for a family to want their children to have a useful profession for humanity but, in a society of ignorance, the main purpose of a family that directs their children to this profession is to win adulation from their community. Another reason is that, when a family member gets sick, their children who are doctors will be able to look after them and this gives them a sense of security. And besides this, doctors make the best candidates for marriage.
This way of looking at doctors in a society of ignorance begins as soon as a student enters a faculty of medicine. The students who navigate the corridors with their white lab coats have only one model in mind. According to the model they are taught, doctors are above all sure of themselves and think they know everything. When they talk to patients they use phrases containing medical terms which the sick person cannot understand. Of course, these doctors know that their patients cannot understand this language but they continue to use it thinking that this is the way a doctor speaks. In the societies living by the morality of ignorance, after they start practicing, the majority of doctors have only a few goals left; they want to be a famous specialist or a professor, to have a luxury office and earn as much money as possible.
The greatest suggestion that people are indoctrinated with in some societies is the error that people's lives are in the hands of their doctors. It is this subconscious suggestion that underlies the respect and awe in which doctors are held in such a society. Members of ignorant society who are totally unaware of the Might and Power of Allah, Who created them from a drop of water and feeds them, are deceived to perceive doctors as beings with superhuman powers (surely Allah is beyond that). For this reason, they feel ignorantly that they are of less value than doctors and that, as we said before, doctors are their only hope for recovering from an illness. However, Allah warns human beings that they are only servants:
Those you call on besides Allah are servants just like yourselves. Call on them and let them respond to you if you are telling the truth. (Surat al-A'raf, 194)
Of course, it is right for a person to go to a doctor and follow his advice. But, in doing this, that person must not forget that it is Allah Who restores them to health. It is only He Who knows where and when an individual will die. Allah has set the time of everyone's death and all people approach that day without knowing when it will come. Many people make the great error of ignoring this reality; they forget to pray to Allah and look to their doctors for help. And because so much is expected of them, doctors, who are far removed from the morality of the religion, develop certain arrogance.
The difference between how some doctors act in their private offices and how they behave while working in a hospital well illustrates the distorted values of ignorant society. Because the office is private, the patients that come there are usually well-off. An ignorant person's love of money requires him to act politely to those who are financially comfortable and some doctors are overly polite to those who come to their offices. The patient who comes to the doctor's office has chosen him and if that patient does not like the treatment he gets, he may pay his bill and go to another doctor.
There is another aspect to this discussion; doctors' attitude to those patients who have no money. In a society of ignorance it is accepted that those who have no money are always treated without respect and some doctors who work in hospitals are very good at treating such patients in compliance with this flawed mentality. The patients that doctors have to deal with in hospitals are most often poor. For this reason, the doctors acting in compliance with the rationale of ignorance regard themselves as the most important people in the hospital. Due to the same flawed rationale, they do not often look at their patient in the face because they think that the sick person is of no value. Even most of the hospital personnel have the same point of view. They ignore someone asking for directions or for a doctor's name. They get established in their environment, become used to its sights and forget about mercy and compassion. Even as patients are entering the door of the hospital, they encounter the irritable attitude of security guards who treat them badly.
In the societies living by the morality of ignorance, majority of doctors work in a hospital more or less to earn their salary. After working there for years, they have at most a waiting room and a treatment room that doubles as an office. This is the ideal of a great many doctors. No doubt, helping people is something to appreciate. However, for the character of a doctor in a society of ignorance in the basis of such diligent efforts lie mundane expectations such as ranks, status and fame. The fact is, however, no matter what one's profession may be, what will make a person honorable, respected and esteemed will be his efforts to win Allah's good pleasure, love and the infinite life in the Hereafter and his awareness of his weaknesses.
We should keep in mind that, no matter what their profession may be, after living in this world for a short time, every person will come face to face with the next world. After his death it will not matter how many patients a doctor has treated, whether or not he knew his medical terms well enough or what title he earned; he will be asked what he did to earn Allah's favor. In societies divorced from the morality of religion, most doctors are not aware of these realities because they are living under the strong influence of ideas instilled in their minds by the ignorant society they live in. It is very important for them to win society's approval and be respected in its eyes.
Every deed done in accordance with the teaching of the Qur'an is directed towards winning Allah's approval and, no matter what their profession may be,believers exhibit high moral standards. Believers are the best supporters and helpers of those in their community who are sick, weak and helpless. This behavior comes from their adherence to the Qur'an and their unwavering dedication to the morality that Allah has commanded. A person who embraces the Qur'an knows that medical knowledge can only be gained by the will of Allah and that He has created everything that brings healing. He sees clearly that, if it were not according to Allah's will, he would not do what he does or know what he knows. He never forgets that he may become ill at any time and that, if that happened, he would have no helper or healer other than Allah.
The prayer of the Prophet Ibrahim (as) related in the Qur'an in this regard is a fine example of the high moral standards that everyone should take as an example:
He Who created me and guides me;
He Who gives me food and gives me drink;
and when I am ill, it is He Who heals me;
He Who will cause my death, then give me life;
He Who I sincerely hope will forgive my mistakes on the Day of Reckoning.(Surat ash-Shu'ara', 78-82)2012-01-21 02:49:13


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I really like Ubuntu, and I want to work with it always instead of windows. But the problem I find is that the battery runs out very fast (< 2 hours) when I use Ubuntu. It would have been great if I could get like 3 - 4 hours of battery life.
My windows provides me 4.5 - 5 hours. Is there any way to increase battery backup?
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eReaderJoy: thoughts and news from Eolake Stobblehouse about the wonderful new platform of tablets and e-reading devices. Some say, one of the biggest advances to reading since Gutenberg (Okay, I said that).
In e-form, books have never been wider, cheaper or faster available, easier to understand, use, and carry, or more comfortable to read.
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Three iPads?
Making everybody happy at a single price point (only varied by over-charging for more memory) is not so easy.
3 comments:
- Stephen A said...
In the long run it will be a necessity, but it may not be enough.
Apple is trapped in a low end disruption situation. Cheap tablets are rapidly becoming "good enough" and costs are dropping. Amazon and B&N are both deliberately driving prices down. On the high end Samsung and Asus among others are producing comparable tech at lower cost. Android tablets are already running 4 core processors on the top of the line as well as 1080p screens. Samsung may well announce a retina type display based quad core tablet this week.
If Apple simply ups their specs on the iPad3 they risk overshoot, in which the capabilities exceed the needs of most users. As a result a three prong strategy similar to the iPod (Touch,Classic,Shuffle) will staunch the bleeding.
Unfortunately it will reduce the huge margins as well. Apple's business model is dependent on huge margins to provide the design/R&D budget necessary to go it alone on hardware and software versus the pooled resources of the Android producers. Finally, it would dilute the iPad's status as a Veblen Good.
The other problem is that despite the increasing popularity of 7" tablets, he risks going against Steve Jobs' shibboleth against them.
I'd be happy with it in that I'd get to slap senseless any fanboi who utters the word "fragmentation" ever again!
- February 27, 2012 at 2:49 AM
- Eolake Stobblehouse said...
Well, a monopoly is bad for consumers.
Though I guess a non-monopoly can be as bad if everybody is competing only on price.
But I think we'll have a healthy market.
- February 27, 2012 at 5:07 AM
- TC [Girl] said...
I hardly believe this rumor about a three-iPad lineup soon, but I would love it to be true.
It seems more possible, today, Eo.
(damn these near-decipherble double captchas!)
- February 27, 2012 at 8:28 PM


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WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the departure of the top health official responsible for reforming Medicare under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law.
Jonathan Blum, Medicare director and principal deputy administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has presided over a range of reform initiatives during a five-year tenure including efforts to move the $635 billion healthcare program for the elderly and disabled away from costly fee-for-service medicine.
His work involved two proposals that drew bipartisan opposition in Congress this year.
During Blum's tenure, Medicare has seen annual per capital cost growth slow to historic lows, though analysts are divided over how much credit can be attributed to reforms ushered in by the law known as Obamacare.
His resignation, announced in an internal memo from CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, follows months of controversy over two separate proposals to scale back Medicare Advantage payments to private health insurers for 2015 and to reform the program's popular Part D prescription drug benefits.
The proposals drew opposition from Democrats and Republicans in Congress and from the private sector. Republicans accused the Democratic administration of cutting Medicare to pay for Obamacare and risking harm to senior citizens, a crucial voting bloc in November's midterm congressional elections.
The administration, which said its aim was to strengthen the $635 billion program and improve options for beneficiaries, ultimately backed down on both fronts. After first proposing a 1.9 percent 2015 cut for Medicare Advantage insurers, it announced this month that reimbursements would rise slightly. The administration also dropped proposed Part D reforms that included fundamental changes to the popular drug benefit program.
In her memo, Tavenner said Blum's accomplishments were "too many to list" including the introduction of competitive bidding for medical supply purchases and care delivery reforms intended to reward doctors and other healthcare providers for quality outcomes and cost savings instead of tests and procedures.
"Under Jon's leadership, the Medicare program has served as one of our primary drivers to shift our healthcare system to reward quality, care improvement, and value," Tavenner said.
She described Blum as Obama's first political appointee to CMS and said he will now pursue "new opportunities". His last day is May 16. (Reporting by David Morgan; editing by Andrew Hay)


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Happy 1 year anniversary, RCE-Cast!
We were recording an RCE-Cast with the PETSc guys when we realized that we had just about hit our 1 year anniversary; the first recording was posted on January 17, 2009. Wow! I had no idea that we had been doing this so long — Brock and I are both very pleasantly surprised that we've managed to keep it going this long.
If you're unaware of RCE-Cast, it's a podcast about "Research Computing and Engineering" that Brock Palen and I record every two weeks. We talk to a variety of software and hardware projects, and/or any other topic that seems to be related to HPC- or RCE-like things.
Here's an experiment for our next interview with the Condor folks: "tweet @brockpalen questions for #condor http://tinyurl.com/hqzhm next guest on #RCE".
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Restaurant review: Bonnie Gull has set up home in London's West End, serving British fish cooked simply but well.
Bonnie Gull is the latest restaurant to have taken the well-trodden route from ephemeral pop-up to bricks and mortar. But unlike others that followed a similar path to permanence – the pleasingly sleazy Meat Liquor and the BBQ and bourbon-pushing Pitt Cue Co – there's not a morsel of 'dude food' or a pickle brine shooter in sight.
Rather, Bonnie Gull is decidedly British, rather well bred (it even takes reservations) and, at least in terms of current trends for grungy interiors and refined Stateside junk food, terribly unhip by comparison. Not that a restaurant which has its origins in a trio of pop-ups, starting last summer in an Islington pie and mash shop (Bonnie & Wild), followed by a three-week spell in Hackney and, in July, occupying a London Bridge rooftop (Bonnie-on-Sky), could ever be accused of attempting to be unfashionable.
Head chef Luke Robinson , a 2006 graduate of Jamie Oliver 's Fifteen Foundation, whose CV includes time at Citrus in Umbria, ran the kitchen at Bonnie-on-Sky before taking the reins here.
Located off Great Portland Street in what local estate agents apparently like to describe as Titchfield Village, it occupies premises that previously housed another seafood concern, Back To Basics.
It's a cute corner site that, when it finally gets too cold to sit outside, as we managed to do for a late Friday lunch on a pleasantly crisp autumn afternoon, shouldn't be hard to fill because it's tiny – a marble raw bar counter squeezed alongside a handful of tables, most of them for two.
At the moment, it all looks a little bit too shiny, new, neat and tidy to be anything but a smart interior designer's idea of a seafood shack. It has gleaming, whitewashed walls, a pristine rope wall hanging, a blackboard that maps the day's catch and a wooden floor smoothly washed in pseudo weather-beaten fashion. But it's all very sweet, particularly the bathrooms labelled 'Winkles' and 'Clams'.
Because we're repeatedly told that there aren't plenty more fish in the sea, the menu, which changes daily according to the all-British catch, is necessarily politically correct and responsibly sourced.
We started with a selection from the raw bar, which arrived on a vintage silver clamshell salver with a pot of mignonette and some 'Shack' cocktail sauce, the latter thicker, tarter and a less vivid shade of coral than your typical Marie Rose/Thousand Island dressing.
Mid-autumn is arguably the best time of the year for oysters and the three we sampled – a Portland pearl, Jersey rock and, in particular, Loch Ryan native – were in superb condition. A razor clam, Scottish langoustine and 100g of palourde clams arrived similarly ship shape. A plate of Isle of Man queenie scallops came pan-fried with slices of Yorkshire chorizo and the refreshing addition of dabs of lemon purée; a salad of Scottish rainbow trout featured a selection of different shades of beetroot, horseradish and a warm, doughy potato pancake.
A whole dressed Devon cock crab, its brown meat superbly sweet despite a generous squirt of lemon juice, was faultless, while the Scottish sea trout served with samphire and more of those palourde clams made the most of a fish that I usually find hard to get excited about.
Chunky beef dripping chips with thyme salt had the right mix of crunch and fluff, and a Shack chopped salad gained a salty crispness with the addition of some samphire. The likeable, young front-of-house crew, kitted out in mismatched nautical stripes that stopped them looking like they were on loan from Pizza Express, enjoyed their work and made it look easy.
Fine British fish, simply but expertly prepared and warm service to match – it's hard not to like Bonnie Gull, even if it's nothing like any seafood shack I've ever been to.
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ASHEBORO, N.C. – B.J. Con/Sew Corporation, an Asheboro sewing contractor, will pay $75,000 and provide substantial additional relief to settle a national origin harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged the company with subjecting an employee to harassment because of his Hispanic national origin. The lawsuit further charged that the employee, Jason Ramirez, was forced to resign after the company failed to address multiple complaints that Ramirez made about the harassment.
According to the EEOC's complaint, Ramirez, who has one Hispanic parent, was subjected to the harassment on a near-daily basis from around July 2006 through June 2008. During that time, one of Ramirez's co-workers called him derogatory names including "wetback," "crazy Mexican," "dumb, stupid Mexican" and "half-breed." The complaint also alleges that Ramirez was harassed by a second co-worker, who was later promoted to a supervisory role over Ramirez. According to the lawsuit, despite Ramirez's numerous complaints to multiple levels of management including the company's plant manager and owner, the harassment continued. Around June 9, 2008, Ramirez felt he had no other choice than to resign his position to avoid the harassment.
National origin harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Further, when harassment becomes so severe or pervasive that a reasonable person would feel compelled to quit in order to escape the hostile environment, it constitutes constructive discharge. The EEOC filed suit (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. B.J. Con/Sew Corp. d/b/a B.J. Con-Sew, Inc., Civ. Action No. 1:11-CV-00450) in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to providing monetary relief and a letter of reference to Ramirez, the company agreed to conduct annual harassment training of its employees and managers, and make its anti-harassment policy available to all employees. The company will also report all harassment complaints of national origin-based harassment to the EEOC for the next three years.
"There is no place for harassment of any kind in any workplace," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District. "Employers must take complaints about harassment seriously and address them, or possibly face EEOC charges."
EEOC Supervisory Trial Attorney Tina Burnside added, "Employers have a legal obligation to address discrimination complaints, and employees should never be subjected to an intolerable workplace so permeated with harassment that their only viable option is to quit."
According to company information, B.J. Con/Sew Corporation is a family-owned and operated sewing contractor. The company employs approximately 65 people.
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It was one of those great spring days, it was Sunday, and you knew summer would be coming soon. And I remember that morning Dorrie and I had gone for a walk in the park and come back to the apartment. We were just sort of sitting around and I put on a record of Louie Armstrong, which was music I grew up with, and it was very, very pretty, and I happened to glance over and I saw Dorrie sitting there. And I remember thinking to myself how terrific she was and how much I loved her. And I don't know, I guess it was a combination of everything, the sound of the music, and the breeze, and how beautiful Dorrie looked to me and for one brief moment everything just seemed to come together perfectly and I felt happy, almost indestructible in a way.
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Southern California is loaded with parrots. Many escapes and introductions have taken place over the years and some species have found the warm, dry climate to their liking. Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond.
Red-crowned Parrot in Irvine Regional Park
Despite the number of species involved only one, the Red-crowned Parrot, is considered countable by the California Bird Records Committee. This is because of the very stringent requirements that the committee has adopted that an introduced species needs to meet in order to be placed on the checklist:
The Committee will also review records of breeding populations of introduced species not on the state list, but only if evidence is submitted that attempts to prove (a) the correct identification of the species and (b) the viability of the population. To be judged viable, a population must: (i) have bred in the state for fifteen (15) consecutive years, (ii) in general, be increasing or stabilized after an initial period of increase, (iii) be judged to have occupied all geographically contiguous suitable habitat to such a degree as to sustain the population and be thought unlikely to significantly diminish, and (iv) occupy an environment judged similar enough in ecological factors (e.g., climate, vegetation, food, shelter, competitors, predators) to the species' natural habitat, or to other successful introductions, that permanent establishment seems likely.
In particular, subsection iii seems to be the hurdle that most species can't clear. After all, if a bird is established in suburban Orange County, for it to inhabit "all geographically contiguous suitable habitat" it would have to be everywhere in suburban southern California, which is a huge swath of territory. And the problem isn't limited to parrots and parakeets. Nutmeg Mannikins, Red-whiskered Bulbuls, and other species also are found in California, the mannikins in particular in large numbers, but they can't be counted if you are playing by the rules of the California Bird Records Committee.
This is not to say that records committees shouldn't be cautious about adding introduced species to checklists. After all, the annals of North American birding history are loaded with examples of species that were introduced, flourished for awhile, and then died out. Skylarks in Brooklyn, anyone?
But this post isn't meant to be about bird records committees and their sometimes inscrutable decisions. No, this post is about the awesomeness that is Red-crowned Parrots on the loose in Irvine Regional Park.
Red-crowned Parrots have been present in southern California since at least 1963 but weren't added to the California checklist until 2001. This native of northeastern Mexico is declining in its natural range and is considered endangered by BirdLife International for, among other reasons, its exploitation by the cage-bird trade. This means that the free-flying populations in southern California and southern Texas could end up important to the species' survival in the wild, ironic because they only exist in California and Texas because of the cage-bird trade. (From 1970-1982, 16,490 birds (mostly nestlings) were legally imported into the USA.)
I love that there are wild and free parrots in southern California, though their enjoyment of acorns makes me wonder if they could have a negative effect on other species that depend on them for their food. I know that the Acorn Woodpeckers were none too happy about the parrots being in the oak trees at Irvine Regional Park and were constantly chasing the parrots away from the trees that were loaded with acorns.
The next time you find yourself in southern California take the time to check out the parrots. They are well worth going out of your way to see!
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These are SO beautiful, Corey. Well done. I, too, adore seeing free-living psittacines. For me, it points up how very wrong it is to ever confine them. They should be loose and loud and quarreling with each other, flying in pairs and flocks and covering miles. Hooray for the RCPA's of Irvine!
Jochen was writing about psittacines a year ago! I wonder what he has for us this January!
Since the Acorn Woodpeckers also live in the native range of these parrots I am sure they are quite capable of standing their ground.
I think some of these are also Lilac-crowned Parrots. In particular, in your 3rd photo from top, the right bird appears to have a dark cere and the red restricted to the forehead..
Here's a good link on So Cal's parrots for more info on IDing this species pair: http://www.californiaparrotproject.org/lilac_crowned_parrot.html
Hybridization is also a reality in the So Cal populations (looks like you've got a mixed species pair in that 3rd photo!).
Love seeing parrots in action. Friends of ours live in Pacific Palisades and have a large group of parrots who visit their feeders everyday. I spent many happy hours watching them when we visited there a few years ago. Truly amazing birds.
BTW we really like these birds counted for the World Parrot Count 2013! Please help: http://cityparrots.org/world-parrot-count/2012/1/6/world-parrot-count-2013.html
Must no less :). If they are not effecting the population size then how do they effect the ecology then?
Would love to have the Monks counted!
Wondered about those lilac-crowns. Glad to see that cleared up. Sorry, but I'm going to go all Grammar Police on you. Affect, not effect. The parrots affect acorn woodpeckers in unknown ways, and in so doing effect a change in the local food web. Done now.
Grammar mistake noted. Not my first language English.
That's cool, Roelant. Corey started it. 😉
Love your photos. Are you willing to let us know hotography?
Sorry about the typo. I meant share what camera and lenses you use?
I love seeing the parrots as well.. I live in Laguna Hills and frequently visit this park. However, I have seen PROOF that these parrots are on some scale having an impact on native species. I found a barn owl nest and I, from a distance am able to see into the hollow.. this is the SECOND year that after the owl laid her clutch , the Parrots took over the cavity leaving the owl eggs to die. Luckily barn owls can breed twice a year and most likely she moved to another hollow but the point still remains… They displaced a native species. Beings owls and parrots do NOT build or create their own nesting hollows… they are in competition. Hopefully the numbers just stay steady and don't grow to a point where the damage is done. There really is nothing like seeing a flock of thirty flying in the skies of oc 🙂
Nick, My name is Corinne and I am 10 years old. My mom is helping me type this message to you. I studied wild green parrots for my science project and was searching for information when I happened to find your comment. Your comment led my research on a totally different path, and I wanted to say thank you for your help. We went to Irvine Regional Park and made a lot of observations, and agree that even the Acorn Woodpecker is competing for hallows of these old oaks in the park. Thank you again.
Nick you seen a conflict. Nature is full of conflicts. That does not automatically conclude that the parrots are displacing another species. Barn owls occur in most of tropical America and deal with parrot there on a daily basis. They are apparently well equipped for it.
Right… But I have read too many comments on other sites about how these parrots are not a threat and they aren't competing. As you said its not enough to conclude that they are just from a barn owl losing two clutches … but there's not enough research on them to prove that that they aren't either. I love to see them.. and I love them in general… But I do think adequate research needs to be done to determine if any form of population control is needed. In another cavity there used to be a small brown owl.. not sure what species.. but a parrot now resides in there… But I cant say whether the owl was evicted or whether it left on its own.
Sure, I am for more research on the subject and it would pay to keep a check on the population. In general I think their habit of keeping to urban habitats will make impacting native species unlikely. If and when that habit changes we need to reassess.
I've been noticing a flock of what I think are wild parrots along Jamboree Road across the street from The District shopping center. Does anyone know exactly what these birds are?
Do you have pictures? Or more details for a non local for the location mention?
Owls are doubly threatened, not only by losing nest sites to non-native aggressive parrots, but by rodentcides that will sicken and kill owls, hawks, bobcats, etc. Anything that will eat a rodent sickened by poison, will also be poisoned.
We can all help the birds by avoiding poison to control rodents. Other methods are effective. (Traps, rat zapper, sanitation, etc)
A single barn owl nest will devour 1500+ rodents per year.
We are so lucky here in Tustin, ca. Every night we hear a small flock of parrots flying overhead talking to each other. They are most certainly flying to their nests, which is at the Irvine regional park in orange. As they fly over Harvard avenue they rally up all the smaller birds. It's quite spectacular!
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Hi J-Luc
Sorry, it has taken me a while to get to this, my apologies.
And I am not sure I will be adding to your already considerable knowledge, but:
I agree it looks just like a SAAF type 1 dial, and perhaps I might comment that the lume looks quite green, something I have previously taken to be a sign of an old dial long stored and not subjected to much light.
That dial was also used by the asymmetric cased British issued Lemania chronos powered by the 1872 - and these still crop up (3 have been recently listed on Ebay, 2 from Charnwood watches who have a regular Lemania stock of stuff). It is an issued dial.
The case is clearly not correct for SAAF, and looks near identical to this mystery one posted here by Lars a while back. Even though that had a model code 617 and this one 816A. I have no problem that it may be a Lemania case, but not intended for this dial, I think. I also have nothing to suggest that this case design is an issued one. It also looks phemoninally new and unused, the edges are crisp and sharp, and there is almost zero metallic degradation or even dirt to the pusher bodies.
The bezel is a familiar style, printed directly onto alloy, but not a style seen on SAAF watches.
The main hands are correct and skinnier than Omega alternatives.
The movement also looks NOS, and never had a number, by the look of it.
So overall it is a very attractive watch. Using genuine parts that are mostly intended to be used together.
However, it has a problem.
It has a dial with a military origin.
And it certainly never went anywhere near the military in any official sense.
And that makes it a franken, and problematic as a result.
My Selectron is an interesting counterpoint here.
This one
This also uses components identical to ones used in military Lemanias.
But, it is not military.
And it does not have one part that IS from a military watch.
As a result this Selectron is a much more honest watch, originally assembled as seen, not assembled some (or many) years after the parts were made.
Would you care to comment on my remarks J-Luc?? I am open to all suggstions
If it's Lemania-powered, I'm interested. Tool Chrono - interested. Dive Chrono - interested. Interesting - interested
Hi Dave,
a big thank you for your answer ! and your research.
This confirms my thoughts.
All parts are like new !
But case with ref. 816 A before 817 and why A ? and movement without serial number, made me think of possibly a prototype.
Congratulation for your Selectron, very beautiful !
Excuse my englisch, mistake.
Best, J-Luc
Well, he missing serial number made me think prototype or a replacement bridge part in that location.
And the case designation is known, and this one and this use the same reference, have the same bezel and in are the same model of Meylan.
It may be that the A designates the version with a bezel, and no A means a plain case. Not sure, but the case definitely saw production.
If it's Lemania-powered, I'm interested. Tool Chrono - interested. Dive Chrono - interested. Interesting - interested
And one of the Selectrons too
If it's Lemania-powered, I'm interested. Tool Chrono - interested. Dive Chrono - interested. Interesting - interested
Sorry, you misunderstand me. The OP watch has a military dial, the Pheon (broadarrow) is a military signature that does not belong on any non-military watch. That sign signifies military ownership. As such, and without markings elsewhere, the OP watch is a definite franken, with a military dial put into a civilian case and movement.
The Selectron has not one military part in it. All the parts are original, and belong to a non-military watch, albeit one with exactly the same specification as a military one.
As such it is more honest and complete and original example
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