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At home, you do your best to eat virtuously. Then you step into the office -- and all bets are off. It's a fat, sugar, and salt free-for-all: chocolates at the reception desk; doughnuts next to the coffeemaker; vats of gourmet popcorn, sent by the clients; birthday cakes and pizza parties.
Our workplaces are notorious derailers of healthy eating. And the boredom, stress, and plummeting energy levels we all experience from time to time don't help matters, either. We asked experts to explain why we munch so much junk at work, and their advice for resisting temptation and developing healthier habits.
Cracking down on cravings, even if they occur late in the afternoon, starts with a balanced breakfast. Meals high in simple carbs and sugars -- waffles, white toast, and many cereals and breakfast bars -- cause your blood sugar to surge and then crash, requiring another infusion of carbs. If you have something too sweet for breakfast, often you'll be hungry again soon.
To curb the cycle, start the day with a mix of protein, healthy fats, and complex carbs, says Jennifer Workman, R.D., author of "Stop Your Cravings!" "If you include an egg, cottage cheese, or some nut butter in your breakfast, you should feel full or at least satiated for the next three hours."
A puny microwave meal sets you up to snack. Highly processed foods won't satiate you, says David Kessler, M.D., author of "The End of Overeating." "Buy real food. It'll make the cues around you less powerful." Bring leftovers, or keep whole-grain bread, turkey, and tomatoes in the office fridge for an easy, healthy lunch.
Let yourself indulge once in a while, too. A study published in the journal Appetite found that a group of female dieters craved chocolate with more intensity than did nondieters. What's more, the study's authors noted that denying such richly flavored, pleasure-giving foods may induce feelings of guilt, anxiety, and depression.
Going bland in an effort to be healthy -- baked chicken and steamed broccoli, hold the salt -- can backfire. "You'll compensate by bingeing on chips or cookies," Workman cautions. The solution: Use spices liberally, and broaden your palate by exploring Japanese, Indian, and Middle Eastern cuisines. Play around with peanut satay sauce and ginger-mango chutney, or round out your meal with a spicy cup of chai. Incorporate more sour and bitter foods as well.
Target any lingering sweet and salty hankerings with healthier alternatives, like tamari almonds or dried cranberries. A hunger for salt may signal that your body needs more minerals, and loading up on leafy greens can help replenish them, says Barbara Olendzki, R.D., M.P.H., nutrition program director at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Bring a few healthy snacks to work daily. Aim for foods both nutritious and filling, like dried fruit and nuts, an apple with a mini gouda cheese, or whole-grain crackers and nut butter. You'll be less susceptible to those cookies in the break room.
When you find yourself walking toward the office candy jar, put on the brakes. "Say to yourself, 'That candy is not my friend. I'll feel better for a moment, but then I'm going to eat more and more. It's not going to satisfy me,''' says Kessler. Simple awareness can help you halt the cycle.
Dealing with office snacks can be difficult because you can't control your coworkers. But consider having a friendly word with the people who supply the goodies, Kessler says, and explain how snacks can be so difficult to resist. You could also counter the junk buffet by bringing healthy group snacks, like fruit and nuts.
Colleagues can influence your eating choices more than you may realize: Food psychologist Brian Wansink, Ph.D., author of "Mindless Eating," studied diners eating family-style and observed how many calories they ate. "The most powerful influence is the person sitting right next to you," he says. "The more she takes, the more you take."
Interestingly, women were particularly influenced by the quantity the person next to them ate, especially if that diner was another woman. So a decision as seemingly innocuous as where you sit during an office function where food is present might affect your diet.
Even with careful plotting against the allure of ice cream and cupcakes, you might still feel inspired to pull an Augustus Gloop at the Wonka factory. But "if you can ride out a craving, it will usually fade after 20 or 30 minutes," says Olendzki. To make that time pass faster, phone a friend or pick up a crossword puzzle.
Work to untangle the association of food and comfort -- sometimes easier said than done. Many of us grew up eating carbs as a way to placate feelings of unhappiness or unease. "When we got upset over something as children, our caretakers would tell us, 'Have a cookie, have some candy,'" says Rena Greenberg, author of "The Craving Cure." "So we learned to soothe ourselves with food, and the pattern became deeply ingrained."
Although carbs can be effective as quick tension-melters, so can healthier methods -- such as exercise, yoga, deep breathing, and meditation. And keep in mind that "your cravings may be trying to tell you something," she says. Perhaps that chocolate you eat after each and every staff meeting is a sign that you need a change at work. Whatever the underlying message, facing it directly will be healthier in the long run.
"Cravings seem to be learned; they have a lot in common with habit," explains food psychologist Marcia Pelchat, Ph.D. Although opening a bag of candy at 3 p.m. can quickly become a workday ritual, so can reaching for a handful of grapes and cashews.


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Why onePK is Better
This is the first in a series of posts about network based software development for "typical" enterprise developers, and how onePK can help.
Network based software development is special. The main interfaces are based on CLI interactions and SNMP, not to mention using RADIUS as a RPC mechanism, various forms of XML/HTTP found nowhere else, and additional innovations. For a typical enterprise or script developer these kinds of interfaces are unusual, to say the least.
This is both as a technical problem, and a business problem. There really aren't many developers who can grok the subtleties of screen scraping IOS CLI over telnet and SSH, and also factor in SNMP, to build stateful software systems. It can be done, but, from a business perspective, that peculiar skill set can be hard for a business to staff and build solutions. That's bad for both our customers and our partners and bad for Cisco as a business.
The onePK SDK changes this problem equation. It is better in various ways that I shall explore in this blog series in detail. At a high level though, onePK is better as it allows typical developers to build on the Cisco network platform. As a teaser example for future blog entries, with onePK you don't have to create a topology database from a combination of a parsed IOS show commands and SNMP notifications; you just call an API to get a Topology object.
With onePK the developer gets APIs, in C, Java, Python, and potentially others, that look, feel and behave just like the APIs they use for typical enterprise development. These APIs, and our SDKs, work with tools, like Eclipse, that are just the same as those used by the developer audience in general. We are positioning these APIs, with tutorials and example applications, squarely in the mainstream enterprise developer space.
I shall also be exploring some of the system design alternatives made possible by onePK, compared to more traditional EMS/NMS/OSS system architectures. I'll examine the onePK container models, and what can be done when network software systems are moved off remote servers and hosted within network elements. The role of the EMS as a translation layer, and the NMS for aggregation of EMSs, may become less relevant with onePK. I'll be tracking this and highlighting where I think I see it happening. I'll also be looking for examples where OSS/BSS functions are being deployed directly onto onePK and discussing what that might mean for systems design.
To paraphrase what my friend Ric said about onePK in his earlier blog post:
- The network really is a programming and systems deployment platform.
- You can access information about your network, and the business running over it, that gives you the visibility and control you need.
- The APIs and tools are usable by the same developers that are creating your business applications.
That really is better. Now let's start developing.
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I will definitely have a look when I can but at the moment I need to get things done and I am an absolute newbie in the whole .NET development..


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Today few individuals would deny the powerful role of fashion in everyday life. The media presents us with an array of images from the real to the fantastic. Large multinational corporations and powerful fashion houses shape the language of fashion, influence public opinion and build global production and distribution structures. Fashion is a specific vision of change that is shaped by cultural practices, economic systems and many players, not just designers. Fashion is also heavily contested, opposed and criticised. It retains in the public mind strong connections with vanity, frivolity, waste and folly. It can be conveniently blamed for everything from psychological illness to nastiness on reality television.
This course opens up the world of fashion across cultures and societies. Understand better the intimate embrace of art and fashion. Learn how to read clothes from the past. Study images of fine fashion jewels and accessories. Access rare and beautiful items of fashion, including many from private collections. Learn about the fashion worlds of men and women alike, from the middle ages to today. Find your own identities through fashion.
Dr Peter McNeil is Professor of Design History at University of Technology Sydney and Foundation Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published nine works on fashion including the bestselling Shoes, also translated into Italian (with G Riello 2006; 2011) and his current book projects include the 'long' history of luxury, supported by the UK Leverhulme Trust, fashion writing and criticism from the 17th century to the present day, and fashion journalism. In 2012 he wraps up his three-year role within a €1,000,000-funded project Fashioning the early modern: innovation and creativity in Europe 1500-1800. He is a regular fashion reviewer and co-curator, currently working with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for a major touring exhibition.
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Fashion and art
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Fashion has been both subject and object for the practice of art and, in the 19th and 20th centuries, became a type of popular aesthetics. For centuries artists engaged with and influenced fashion, many designing the very stuff of its support – cloth. Learn how art forms as different as history painting, sculpture, portrait painting, printmaking and the commercial arts, ephemera and photography of our own era have depicted, created and promoted fashions. Gain a firm sense of fashion history from the middle ages to our time.
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Much world fashion is bound up with botanical knowledge. The flower has been central to fashion's forms and its supports – textiles – in nearly all cultures. Subject to artful cultivation since ancient times, redolent of passion and hope in the middle ages, cross-cultural transportation and sale in the Renaissance, classification and hybridisation in the Enlightenment, sentiment and eroticism in the 19th century, fantasy, femininity and domesticity in the 20th century, the flower is more than a simple motif. Learn how references to floriate forms within fashionable dress contributed to the creation of patterns of thought, status, gender and nation.
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Shoes convey a wide range of meanings associated with fashion, style, personality, sexuality, class and gender. New studies have given us awareness of the personal, social and sexual connotations attributed to footwear and created by footwear. Different shapes and colours for men's and women's shoes today revolve primarily around the construction of gender difference. Many of these gendered distinctions developed in the so-called 'long 18th century'. Why do men and women's shoes look so very different today? Learn about shoes, mobility and history, from Renaissance platform chopines to Sex and the city 'limousine' shoes.
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This week explores the startling and extreme men's and women's fashions immediately following the tumult of the French Revolution, from the servant to the courtier; from the 'Incredible ones', the Incroyable and Merveilleuse, to the Revolutionary street gangs, the jeunesse dorée (gilded youth), and the muscadins, who wore aspects of court dress as an affront to the authorities and the revolutionaries. Follow English and French fashion as worn by the street gangs of 18th-century Paris.
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In the early part of the 20th century, Victorian taste was very 'out of fashion'. In the 1930s a strong female designer, Elsa Schiaparelli, rediscovered the period and cast it in her own light. Learn about the creative circles of fashion and design in inter-war Paris, understand the 'chic of poverty' promoted by couturier Coco Chanel and interior designer Jean-Michel Frank, track the stylish South Americans, and follow the collaborative inter-war aesthetic project of fashion, fantasy and surrealism.
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The HeaterTreater attacks the root cause of the failure by constructing steel hardware that is designed to last for the life of the automobile, no plastic that could ever break again. The kit includes detailed instructions and all hardware required to complete the fix, including dremel bits and metal tape to seal the cut. As opposed to other kits ours does NOT require dashboard removal. The doors are complete with sealing foam on the doors and connection out to the actuator motor to insure full functionality. Note that the actuator motors on these models are very robust and we don't recommend replacing motors like the Fords or Chevys. The Dodge Ram Pick up Truck has four doors that can all fail independently of each other. The lower blend door is a follower to the upper blend door and really can't fail if the upper door is intact. Due to poor design, the failure of each door is inevitable and we recommend you replace all of them rather than having to do the same fix multiple times. Heater Treater offers special discounts for purchasing more than one repair kit at a time. The available options for this product are shown at the bottom of this page.
If you feel uncomfortable installing the repair yourself, go Here to find a HeaterTreater certified garage near you.
The HeaterTreater replaces any of the plastic doors in the Dodge Ram HVAC system with steel. Replacing the existing doors with another plastic door is at best a stop-gap solution. The failure is a result of excessive forces generated by the DC servo motor in the calibration of the door.
If you are considering aluminum or plastic doors, please read the comments below.
There are five different door systems in the truck and HeaterTreater can replace any or all of the doors.
1. Re-circulation door.
This door is located above the fan motor behind the glove box opening. You can observe the door by fully opening the glove box and checking the door through the internal air intake grate. When broken, it can either stall in one position or fall down on top of the fan motor. It should be either fully open or fully closed, never in the middle.
The RAM has a design flaw and a stop point molded into the re-circ box is missing such that force is always applied to the door in one direction, not the limit pin as designed. This door is most susceptible to failure and replacing it with plastic will ultimately fail again. The dealer sells a complete new box with the molding error fixed, but you have to remove the plenum box and evacuate the AC to access it. Even after all the work and with re-designed parts, the cheap plastic will still fail again. Our steel door takes into account the Dodge design error and is a permanent fix.
2. Blend door
The truck has an upper and lower blend door that "clamshell" over the heater core which is on a horizontal plane. The upper door is connected to the actuator motor and has to withstand the calibration forces and is susceptible to breakage. The lower door is connected to the upper door with a wire rod and is strictly a follower to the upper door. Typically we see the upper door break and recommend replacing just the upper door and just re-use the lower plastic door since it is primarily flow control, not temperature, and it is more difficult to replace. We can replace the lower door if there is physical damage to the lower door, just contact us via email (email@example.com) and we will provide parts and additional instructions. The lower blend door is sometimes referred to as the "fifth door" and generally replacing it is not necessary.
The above discussion is for single control, not dual control(separate temperature control for driver and passenger). On the dual control system there is an actuator motor hidden on the back of the box to control the passenger side blend doors. We can replace the upper and lower doors, but this will convert the system from dual control to single control. Note that failure on the dual control system is rare and generally we recommend leaving it alone unless there is obvious physical damage. May be a different control algorithm or stronger parts, but failure is rare.
We do see issues with a temperature differential between the driver and passenger side on both dual and single control that is related to problems with the heater core and/or the AC evaporator core. If you can change temperature, but not get good performance, the core(s) are probably the problem. We have write up's on both issues and will be happy to provide additional information via an email request. The core is a parallel flow core(not serpentine) and it's common for some channels to flow poorly. One way to check is to let the engine get to full operating temperature with the heater off. If you get a burst of heat when you first turn it on, but it dissipates, this is an indication that the air flow is extracting heat faster than it's being replenished. Here are links to information on the heater core and AC evap core which outlines common problems and solutions. Heater core issues AC Evaporator Core
3. Mode 1 door
There are two mode doors that control the direction of air flow. The mode 1 door cuts the dash vents on and off, and when off air is diverted down to the mode 2 door which switches between floor and defrost. The most common symptom of a bad mode 1 door is for the truck to be stuck on dash air with no floor or defrost. This is a safety issue if you encounter ice or snow and should be fixed. The video linked below shows this door being replaced.
4. Mode 2 door
This door will switch between floor and defrost when the dash vents are off. The most common failure is to be stuck on defrost with no floor. In some areas of the country this may not be a big problem but we get complaints from guys pushing snow plows in Minnesota that can't live with cold feet!!! We recommend replacing both mode doors if either is broken.
On the four door mega-cab there may be an additional door connected to the mode 2 door that controls the amount of air flow to the back seat. It's kind of a goofy design and will cut off air to the back seat when in max defrost mode. That would be useful if climbing Mt. Everest in a blizzard but just cutting up the fan flow will generally suffice. The back seat flow is poorly designed and always breaks. The dealer solution is to replace the entire lower box, but this is at best a temporary fix. We replace the mode 2 door and just block the rear seat vent about 1/4 open or any position up to blocking rear air dependent on usage of the truck. This is how trucks were configured for years and the added functionality is problematic on the later trucks, and its best to just eliminate it.
Aluminum vs Steel air doors
We are the industry engineering experts on air doors and have been in business over ten years with multiple vehicle application. Early on we evaluated aluminum doors and found some obvious and not so obvious issues.
We generally don't address competition negative advertising, but have been attacked via videos and product listings and would prefer to get reliable scientific information to counteract un-informed comments.
Our "aluminum" competitors originally advertised a light weight blend door that was "less stressful" on the actuator motors. Comments below address that issue and the aluminum weld process, and our engineering comments provided the intelligence for them to make modifications. We don't like doing the engineering analysis for other companies, but you can't control theft… and comments below will probably extend the process.
We can't be completely positive, but the doors they manufacture look to be 3D printing using aluminum powder which is melted with a laser. This process will always look good, but is not in use for components that require structural integrity, mainly art and prototypes.
The aluminum guys give you the option of replacing the motor connector or re-using the OEM plastic piece. The plastic is not designed to withstand the forces of the calibration process and the little hollow plastic shafts break quickly. It shows a misunderstanding of the process and forces involved and is offering a customer solution that is destined for failure.
In case you are aware enough to not use the plastic and buy their aluminum connectors, there are additional problems. Aluminum is not strong enough to withstand the torque of the actuator motors. The calibration process drives the highly geared DC motor to a stall point and then reverses to find the other extent of movement. This is an automatic process governed by frequency of starting the engine and cannot be avoided. Using an aluminum interface is the equivalent of buying an aluminum screw driver…it looks good, but won't stand up to the forces. As the malleable aluminum deforms, the calibration process is compromised and the computer can't correctly position and control the doors. Our steel construction does not deform and will retain reliable operation for the life of the vehicle.
In their video they promote their use of more industry standard "OEM" foam sealant on the doors. Really just porous foam like packing material. The RAM doesn't have a cabin filter and you can get dust and organic material into the system which will lodge in the open foam. Check your old doors when you remove them and you'll see that the material flakes and is a disgusting mess. We use a dense Polyurethane foam that is moisture resistant and does not have cavities to trap particulates. It gives a clean long lasting performance There is also a claim that the cheap form is more compliant and that is true, but with the extreme forces from the motor on the doors, the polyurethane will form to the sealing surfaces and provide superior sealing to a more compliant packing foam. Using OEM sealing foam is NOT a good idea.
In short, we have been in this business over ten years and are an engineering firm that fully understands the dynamics of the system. Our steel doors are designed to last longer than the truck and we have a long track history of success with the product. The aluminum doors do look better, but with a door buried in the plenum box, beauty doesn't count, just functionality, and our doors are superior to the aluminum scam doors.
- Aluminum would appear to be lighter and less stressful on the actuator motor...not true. As we all learned in Kindergarten physics, if you have a fat guy sitting in the center of the see-saw, it doesn't have an impact. Rotational stress is a function of distance from the axis. Our doors are heavier, but the bulk of the weight is in the axle which has no impact on required torque. In fact, the added axle weight actually stabilizes movement.
- The actuator motors have waaaay more torque capacity than required for this application, and actually is the root cause of the common failures. We've been doing this across multiple models and have never seen an issue with motors wearing out or breaking with steel doors.
- Welding aluminum plate is problematic and we saw issues early on with doors breaking at the periphery of the weld pattern. Aluminum plate changes physical characteristics from the extreme heat associated with welding and becomes weaker at the weld point. This is why aluminum plate is riveted, not welded on airplanes. Welding is OK on aluminum structural components that can withstand the heat, but not plate.
- Our steel plate is more rigid and gives a more reliable and consistent seal against the extents of movement.
We've seen comments that my plastic door lasted 10yrs or more and I"ll just replace it with another plastic door and get 10 more years of service. On the surface that sounds logical, but it's not quite true.
The failure is due to the weakness of the plastic door and the torque applied by the actuator motor during the calibration process which is an automatic function that can't be controlled. The original battery in the vehicle was the minimum that the supplier could provide and lowest cost. You never see a Ford advertisement that says "buy our vehicle because we use better batteries than Chevy". However, aftermarket battery sales companies want to provide a battery that will last longer and perform better since they have to stand behind their product. It's common to go from a 55CCA OEM battery to a 70CCA replacement. You'll notice brighter headlights, quicker starting, more start power on those cold days, and power windows that go up/down faster.
This impact also shows up on the torque applied during the HVAC calibration process and will break a new plastic door much faster than the original door. The calibration is a function of on/off cycles of the engine and depending on usage, expect a replacement door to last only 12-18 months. Even a metal connection on the replacement air door to the motor will fail because the plastic stop points on the box will break, transferring force to the plastic door again. Our metal doors replace all the plastic components with steel and the doors are strong enough to withstand any forces that the system applies and will be a permanent fix to the system.
If you are selling the vehicle and just want it to work long enough to get rid of it, cheap plastic is a viable solution. If you need longer term performance, steel doors are the way to go!!
The standard Dodge dealer fix for the door failure is to remove the plenum box and replace the plenum box. Removal of the box requires removing the dash panel, removing steering wheel and steering column, evacuating and disconnecting the AC compressor, draining and disconnecting the heater hoses. Fixing the door is relatively easy, but the labor(and cost) of getting to the door makes this a time consuming and expensive job.
The Heater Treater avoids the hard work by providing a kit that allows the repair to be done with superior components without having to disassemble the automobile. 1-2 hours work vs 8-14 hours of work, and no specialized mechanical skills or tools required.
The 2002 Ram was a changeover year. If you have an '02 you should check this listing and the '95-'02 listing to see which system you have.
Do you have the problem?
The Dodge Ram Pick up Truck has four separate doors that can all fail independently of each other. Due to poor design, the failure of each door is inevitable and we recommend you replace all of them rather than having to do the same fix multiple times. Heater Treater offers special discounts for purchasing more than one repair kit at a time. We sell the first door at $119.92 which covers overhead and margin and additional doors at $45ea.
The following videos take you through the process of diagnosing which doors are broken and how to fix them. Once you have the Heater Treater system, repairing the doors takes less than an hour and can be done by anyone regardless of mechanical experience.


text: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Since this is World Spay Day, I feel like it is our day too (since we are kind of s/n freaks...you know!). So I want to share with you what is happening. As many of your know the ASNI / RAR dream team is in Suriname now providing free spay neuter on this special day. In Romania, RAR did 49 free spay/neuters in Moreni in early February to celebrate WSD. Upcoming this year, we have these plans that are funded: Moreni, 100 spays/neuters for a program in the... Spring (50 sponsored, 50 by Romania Animal Rescue). RAR is funding spay/neuter for 150 dogs in the villages surrounding Bucharest for the Red Panda charity. RAR has been funding the s/n for 50 dogs for Nanu Madalina in Craiova this winter. RAR is funding the spay/neuter for dogs in factory yards and along the sides of the roads for Asociatia A Doua Sansa (30 s/n). In May RAR will be holding another Spayathon in Craiova for the charity Sperantu Pentru Animale Craiova. This summer, we are planning to go to Asociatia Tora Bistrita once again to do more s/n. So far, funds for 250 s/n have been secured for this project. City Hall is paying for 100 s/n (GREAT news!!!) and Romania Animal Rescue is funding 150 free spay/neuters. The Bistrita folks are asking for us to come and do 500 total, but until funds are raised for this, we are not able to provide enough for 500 s/n. Wivi Dogpage, please let us know how many s/n we need to aim for in Barlad for Lucia and the Azorel shelter. So far we have received no donations for this project in Barlad. RAR will be returning to Tecuci as always once the weather is good to provide up to 100 free s/n per month as our funding allows. We also intend to go to Adjud, hopefully once in the Spring for 50 s/n and once in the summer for another 50 spays/neuters. So that's the update with our funds of availability for now. Not to mention our vet treatments provided for free for impoverished people and educational programs....have to wait until World Animal Education Day I guess!!! Love to you all, and thanks for your support. Neuter of Spay! No More Strays! No More Suffering! www.romaniaanimalrescue.org


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The images you're about to see were all done by Benjamin Huen, an artist now at Valve who used to work at BioWare. They're incredible. Especially the Mass Effect portrait pieces, which you'd demand be made available for purchase, if some of them weren't...already available for purchase.
Also included in today's gallery are Benjamin's Dragon Age works, as well as a scattering of personal stuff as well.
So, yes, those who saw those "movie posters" the other day here, know that this is the guy who actually drew most of the images, and that while you can't buy them as "movie posters", many of them are available for purchase!
If you like what you see, there's more of his work on his personal site and his CGHub page.
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Recess appointments case set
The Supreme Court will consider the Obama administration's case on the President's power to fill government vacancies at its private Conference on June 20, the Court's electronic docket indicated Tuesday. The case is National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning (docket 12-1281). Noel Canning, a Yakima, Washington, soft drink bottling company, has agreed that the Court should review the case — a major test of the Constitution's grant of power to the President to name appointees temporarily to government posts when the Senate is in recess.
Recommended Citation: Lyle Denniston, Recess appointments case set, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 4, 2013, 3:51 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/recess-appointments-case-set/


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Great choral singing in the home of Sir Thomas Beecham.
St Helens Choral Society is a mixed choir of over 60 voices, founded in 1949. We currently present three concerts a year of high-quality choral music. Find out more here.
Friends of the society
We have a scheme called Friends of St. Helens Choral Society. Those who join will receive a membership card entitling the holder to a 10% discount on 2 tickets per concert and also a free programme. Members will also be welcome at an open rehearsal to see us at work as we prepare for concerts. Find out more here.
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The Iowa State Fair's iconic and beloved butter cow sculpture was vandalized over the weekend. The cow, an Iowa State Fair tradition since 1911, was covered with red paint and the words "Freedom for all" had been smeared across the glass window of the butter cow's refrigerated enclosure. The vandals are allegedly from an animal rights group, Iowans for Animal Liberation—at least, that is who's taking credit.
According to a press release sent to KCRG Channel 9 News, the red paint "represents the blood of 11 billion animals murdered each year in slaughterhouses, egg farms and dairies." The press release went on to explain how the vandals hid inside the Agriculture Building and came out after closing in order to deface the sculpture. The release also stated that the act was meant as a "wake up call" for meat eating omnivores everywhere.
However brazen the act and for whatever reasons it was done, fair goers won't miss out on a thing. All the paint on the sculpture was scraped off and the cow repaired by time the fair gates opened.
The investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made at this time.
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Foundation's Anna Patel directed and edited a series of web docs to support the launch of Current TV's 4TH AND FOREVER which premieres Thursday, May 26th at 9/8c.
The series follows the storied Long Beach Polytechnic High School football team as they tackle the 2010 season. Poly has graduated more NFL players than any other high school in America. We sat down with a few alumni to learn what makes this such a successful football program. The first clip features Marcedes Lewis (Poly '02) of the Jacksonville Jaguars and premiered on ESPN.com.


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April 5, 2017 // All Resources // How to Buy
Buying life insurance can be a long-term financial commitment, so it's good to be informed from the start. Here are key questions to ask your life insurance agent when you first sit down together:
Each person's circumstances are different, so there's no "easy" formula that works for everyone. A middle-aged couple with no children and a house that's paid for won't need the same coverage as a young couple with a mortgage and children who have college in their future. You can get a working idea of your life insurance needs by using an online Life Insurance Needs Calculator like this. However, your insurance agent does this for a living and can help give you the most accurate assessment available. The agent can also walk you through why they might recommend a specific amount of coverage.
Again, the answer won't be the same for everyone. Term life insurance covers you for the period of the policy—ranging from 10 to 30 years. Because there's no cash-accumulation feature like you'd find with a permanent policy, it's generally less expensive initially to own, and can be a low-cost way for young families to get a large amount of coverage when the financial risks of premature death are high. However, if you're interested in lifelong coverage and like the idea of your policy accumulating cash value, you may want to consider permanent life insurance. This is where good advice from an agent can help you determine the right type—or maybe a combination—of coverage and keep it within your budget.
At this point the agent will ask questions about your health and lifestyle to get an idea of your health rating. The better your rating, the lower your life insurance premium. That's because of the underwriting process: Life insurance companies take into account health and lifestyle issues to determine your risk of dying prematurely. So, someone with high blood pressure who goes rock climbing will have a higher premium than someone with no major health issues or risky hobbies. Based on your answers, the agent can give you a working idea of how much you'll pay for your premium.
Once you give the green light, the agent or proposed insured will fill out an application. Know that the life insurance company will confirm the answers you give. The agent then submits your application to the company, along with your payment for the first premium. Find out if you'll get "conditional coverage" once your medical exam is complete (often given at home by a paramed). This is temporary coverage for the period that your application is being reviewed and can provide you with peace of mind. If not, your coverage will start once your application has been officially approved.
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Fighting the Fungus
In the race to save bats affected by the deadly white-nose syndrome, scientists from Michigan Technological University are using chemical "fingerprinting" to identify where bats hung out the previous summer.
Testing hair collected during hibernation, the researchers can match it to the hydrogen fingerprint of the geographic area where each bat grew the hair. The aim is to figure out the bats' movements, which hibernation sites are connected, and how disease could be transmitted—and ultimately managed—among locations.
It's not a moment too soon. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently confirmed white-nose syndrome now afflicts the federally listed endangered gray bats in Tennessee—upping the count to seven species.
One hopeful note: The gregarious little brown bat, which prefers to roost in dense clusters, is changing its social behavior in response to the disease, according to University of California-Santa Cruz scientists. "We now see up to 75 percent of them roosting singly," says Kate Langwig, lead author of the paper. "This study gives us an indication of which species face the highest likelihood of extinction, so we can focus management efforts and resources on protecting those species."
Lost & Found
Defenders' central Idaho field team searched for weeks for the pack of a wolf pup (far left) after out-of-state campers mistakenly thought they were rescuing an abandoned puppy over Memorial Day weekend. They watched the pup from a running car for about an hour—probably keeping the rest of the pack from coming for him. "Unfortunately, it has become much more difficult to track wolf activity in the last year or so since most of the collared wolves have been killed during the wolf hunting and trapping seasons," says Suzanne Stone, Defenders' Northern Rockies representative. A month later, a Defenders' trail camera snapped photos of an adult female (left), which in all likelihood is the mother, four miles from where the pup was picked up. But by then Idaho wildlife officials had already sent him to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Va. "We'd have much rather seen the pup survive in the wild," says Stone. "We just ran out of time."
Degrees that the average July temperature in the Lower 48 was above the 20th-century average.
The 12-month period from June 2011 to May 2012 is the hottest in U.S. history.
Source: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
After the Spill
Dolphin deaths have occurred in historically high numbers since the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a University of Central Florida study published in the scientific journal PLos ONE in July. Most troubling to scientists is the high number of young dolphins—close to half of the 186 that washed ashore from Louisiana to western Florida from January to April 2011. The number of pregnant dolphins stranded during this four-month period was six times higher than the average number since 2003.
The scientists report that a cold spell prior to the spill would have already reduced their food sources, weakening the dolphins and compromising their immune system. The 2011 cold spell that followed the spill didn't help matters. "Unfortunately, it was a 'perfect storm' that led to the dolphin deaths," says Graham Worthy, the study's co-author.
Meanwhile oil and clean-up chemicals from the spill are showing up in migrating pelicans in Minnesota—home of the largest colony of American white pelicans in North America. Nearly 80 percent of the eggs tested so far contained endocrine-disrupting chemical dispersants, used to break up oil slicks on the water, and 90 percent contained cancer-causing petroleum compounds. This could be a big problem for developing embryos. When things go wrong at that stage there's usually no recovery, says Mark Clark, an ecologist at North Dakota State University, who is helping the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources look for oil-related contaminants.
Defenders continues to fight risky offshore drilling, including in the Arctic, where below freezing temperatures and ice clogged seas would make cleanup nearly impossible much of the year. Despite this, the Obama administration allowed Shell to begin exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea in September. "Apparently, the lesson from BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill has not soaked in to the Obama administration," says Defenders' President Jamie Rappaport Clark. "There's no way to drill safely in remote, environmentally sensitive areas like the Arctic Ocean, and no technology exists to clean up an oil spill in the arctic environment with its hurricane force winds, 40-foot wave swells and unpredictable ice floes. To protect the wealth of wildlife here—including polar bears, Pacific walruses and bowhead whales—the Obama administration should proceed with an abundance of caution and oppose expanded drilling in the Arctic."
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Excited that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is an Investor in Editorially/
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures became the largest investor in Editorially last fall and I couldn't be more excited to finally be able to tell you about it. The round includes Lerer Ventures, who participated with the same level of support, Betaworks and a host of experienced angel investors from the design and creative community.
When Cameron Koczon introduced me to the company, he said they had the "best starting web team he's ever seen." He wasn't overselling either. Mandy Brown is a force. She came into my office, told me the problem she was working on, and what she was going to do about it. She had a quiet confidence that indicated that her team's success didn't really matter whether I backed her or not. There's a very fine line between begging and blowing smoke--where someone just explains how the future is going to play out and the role they're going to play. I try to be as helpful as possible as an investor, but I know that my own success will be driven by finding teams that don't necessarily depend on me to create value.
Talking to Mandy about Editorially feels a little bit like hearing someone using creative visualization--an oft attempted psychological tool where preparation and experience seperate the winners from the wishful thinkers.
You see, Mandy and her team--Jason Santa Maria, Ethan Marcotte, David Yee, and Rob Brackett--are extremely passionate about writing and the tools that writers use. What they've done, as Mandy writes on her blog, is to "set out to make the best tool for writing and editing, one that understands that good writing—like good design, or good code—is the result of iteration and collaboration."
For all of you businesspeople out there that doesn't get how that's a business, you know that Github thing--the service that developers use to create and collaborate that raised $100 million from Andreessen Horwitz? This is that, for anyone who writes professionally. Why do professionals who write need such a service? As Mandy puts it "what you see is what you get" "is an assumption that's no longer valid: on a web with hundreds of devices and platforms, and an infinite number of screen sizes — not to mention time-shifting and syndication services — "what you get" is no longer singular.".
Mandy and her team know that as ecosystems change, so do the tools. As a writer and editor, her vision is to build a tool that not only fits the current environment, but will be relevant going forward as the places where writing winds up remain in a constant state of flux. I wrote before how certain web services have been prescient in their vision for how people will interact with new technologies. Flickr touched off a slew of socially based services and opened up an era of innovation that lasted for nearly a decade. Github ushered in a new style of tools built for flexible, collaborative workforces. The key to success in these areas will be that each entrepreneur will have to adopt the framework that Github has presented for the nuances of their particular problem set. You can't be "Github for writing" unless you understand something about the way writers want to work, how they need to work in a dynamic ecosystem, and how technology is changing (or not changing) the creative process around writing.
This is where the Editorially team will succeed--and as someone who just celebrated nine years of blogging and who, everyday, needs to deal with the absolute explosion in the creation of written content on the web, I'm excited to be a part of where they're going.


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In Sioux Falls, the signs of growth are everywhere
In Sioux Falls, the most visible sign of growth is construction. New buildings, strip malls and neighborhoods are popping up on the outer fringes of the city. Forty-first Street used to be the southern edge of town, but now the city reaches beyond 69th Street. The Sioux Falls metro area population has grown to over 120,000 people.
There is more evidence of a strong and growing community in the specialty shops that are opening in all the new strip malls, according to Mary Medema, the Director of Work Force Development with the Sioux Falls Development Foundation.
One example is The Bridges at 57th Street, a new kind of pedestrian shopping mall.
"There are everything from coffee houses and services to people who happen to be in this neighborhood to restaurants and other things where people might travel a great distance to take advantage of," Medema said.
These shops are a sign of confidence by small business owners that the community will continue to grow and support them, Medema said. The shops wouldn't open if the larger industries hadn't brought in employees with money to spend, she said.
"These things are all kind of chicken and egg," she said.
Sioux Falls was once an industry town. The John Morrell Meatpacking plant used to be the town's largest employer. The 100-year old plant is still a part of the economic engine, but in the last 25 years, the financial industry has become even bigger as credit card companies have moved in and expanded.
And now another project will bring even more jobs to Sioux Falls. Sanford Health is one of two medical centers in town and is the result of a $400 million gift by philanthropist T. Denny Sanford. Sanford Health is building a new research park that's expected to bring a thousand new positions over the next 10 years.
Officials at Sanford Health say in the last year they've received 41,000 applications for job positions at the hospital. Mark Johnston, Vice President of Communications at Sanford, credits South Dakota's tax environment, no personal or corporate income tax, as well as the Midwestern work ethic for slow and steady growth in Sioux Falls.
"People don't associate South Dakota with being a high area of business development until they get here, and then they realize what opportunities are," he said.
The opportunities are especially evident along the I-29 corridor. Sixty miles north of Sioux Falls is the community of Brookings. It's home to a company called Daktronics, the nation's largest maker of score boards. It has created scoreboards for nearly every major stadium, including the Olympics and a Daktronics scoreboard is heading for the new Twins ballpark in downtown Minneapolis.
Interstate 29 connects Canada to Mexico and communities along its path are seeing a benefit, including Fargo-Moorhead.
The accelerated growth in Fargo-Moorhead is driven by oil and the agricultural economy, according to Richard Rathge, the Director of North Dakota Data Center. Technology is also a driving force of the economy, he said.
"In fact many would argue that we're in a new paradigm. And that new paradigm is almost niche marketing where instead of the old paradigm of large industrial development, you narrow it down to small niche organizations and that takes advantage of the world economy and we're being very successful with that," he said.
Rathge wonders if the growth is sustainable when the baby boomers start retiring in large numbers in the next few years. That's a challenge the region will have to prepare for even as it enjoys its growth, he said.


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On June 8, 1789, James Madison, the congressman representing Virginia's 5th District, rose to speak in a session of the First Congress and advocated passage of the slate of amendments to the Constitution to be known to history as the Bill of Rights. On December 15, 1791, the requisite number of states (three-quarters, or nine states) ratified the amendments and thus the Bill of Rights became the constitutional law of the land.
Many Americans are familiar with the 10 amendments that comprise our current Bill of Rights, but what of the other two proposed amendments that didn't make the cut? What if one of them actually was ratified? What if recognition of that ratification would bring about a significant and fundamental change in the composition of the Congress?
One man, a self-described "Democratic-Republican," has filed suit in federal court to prove that such a scenario did indeed take place and that Article the First (the first of the 12 proposed amendments, 10 of which became the Bill of Rights) should be accepted as the constitutional law of the land.
First a bit of background. Article the First was the first of the slate of 12 proposed amendments passed by the House and Senate and sent to the states for ratification. Article the First deals with the proportioning of the number of representatives in the House of Representatives.
In correspondence sent to this author, Frederick John LaVergne recounted events that he claims offer credible evidence of the ratification by the requisite number of states of one of those two originally rejected proposed amendments:
In the fall of 2011, the ratification records of Connecticut and Kentucky as concerns the "Articles of Amendment" — what we, today, refer to as "The Bill of Rights", were discovered hidden away in the drawers of the archives of those States.
In BOTH cases, the documents clearly demonstrate that "Article the First" had been passed in the affirmative by the Legislatures of those States, even though the US Government and history say they didn't. We can now prove different. [Emphasis in original.]
By ANY counting, that meant that 12 of the then 15 States voted to ratify "Article the First". [Emphasis in original.]
To become a part of the Constitution, an amendment must pass 75% of the States' Legislatures. 12 of 15 are 80% — clearly over the 75% threshold.
Therefore, "Article the First" has been the law of the land for over 220 years.
The first of two threshold questions in exploring whether Article the First was indeed ratified is whether Congress would have had to be notified of the ratification by the legislatures of Connecticut and Kentucky.
Citing the Supreme Court decision of Coleman v. Miller 307 U.S. 433 (1939), LaVergne argues that acts of state legislatures are "self-enacting" and need not be approved or even recognized by Congress in order to be effective.
The case in Coleman concerned a proposed child labor amendment to the Constitution. The Senate of the state of Kansas split evenly on the matter, leaving it to the lieutenant governor to cast the deciding vote; he voted in favor of passage. The state House of Representatives approved the measure as well.
Finally, the 20 state senators who voted against the amendment challenged the vote and the Supreme Court handed down a ruling.
While LaVergne's position that the court held votes of the state legislature to be "self-enacting" is true, the court also held:
The Congress, in controlling the promulgation of the adoption of a constitutional amendment, has the final determination of the question whether, by lapse of time, its proposal of the amendment had lost its vitality before being adopted by the requisite number of legislatures.
This ruling obviously works against LaVergne's effort to convince the court that Article the First should be recognized as ratified. There is little chance that Congress would ever vote to dilute its own power, particularly when evidence demonstrates that so many of the members of Congress depend on lobbyist money, and so many corporations in turn depend on the corporate welfare schemes annually renewed by our elected congressional representatives.
How would Article the First accomplish this reduction of power? Through an increase in size of the House of Representatives. In relevant part, Article the First reads:
After the first enumeration, required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.
One representative for every 50,000 persons. At the last census, the population of the United States was 308,745,538. Were it the law, that would increase the size of the House of Representatives from the current 435 to 6,174! While that number sounds (and is) astounding, crunching the numbers another way reveals that as pertaining to population, the ratio of Representative to citizen is 1:709,760. A far cry from the 1:50,000 ratio mandated by Article the First.
While the debate of whether Article the First was really ratified is likely to go unsettled (and Congress would never agree to it now), there remains the question of how the nation arrived at the magic number of 435.
It is because of laws passed by Congress in 1911 and in 1929. At the time of the debate on the bill setting the arbitrary limit on the number of representatives, one clear-thinking congressmen made the following observation:
The bill seeks to prescribe a national policy under which the membership of the House shall never exceed 435 unless Congress, by affirmative action, overturns the formula and abandons the policy enunciated by this bill. I am unalterably opposed to limiting the membership of the House to the arbitrary number of 435. Why 435? Why not 400? Why not 300? Why not 250, 450, 535, or 600? Why is this number 435 sacred? What merit is there in having a membership of 435 that we would not have if the membership were 335 or 535? There is no sanctity in the number 435.… There is absolutely no reason, philosophy, or common sense in arbitrarily fixing the membership of the House at 435 or at any other number.
An opinion piece published in 2010 by the New York Times agrees:
The result [of the law passed in 1911 that set the number of representatives at 435] is that Americans today are numerically the worst-represented group of citizens in the country's history. The average House member speaks for about 700,000 Americans. In contrast, in 1913 he represented roughly 200,000, a ratio that today would mean a House with 1,500 members — or 5,000 if we match the ratio the founders awarded themselves.
That ratio — the one established by the Constitution — is set forth in Article I, Section 2. "The Number of Representative shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand." The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 settled on this number after considering proposals for setting the ratio at one representative per every 40,000 (the original ratio reported out of Committee) and one for every 35,000. Additionally, there was some heated debate over whether the relative wealth of a state, as well as population, should be a factor in the equation determining representation in the House.
In the Times article, the effect of statutorily fiddling with the Constitution's math is succinctly stated: "This disparity increases the influence of lobbyists and special interests: the more constituents one has, the easier it is for money to outshine individual voices. And it means that the representatives have a harder time connecting with the people back in their districts."
Well said. There is strong historical support for this theory, as well. Madison similarly expressed the need for constituents to feel connected to their representatives to the national legislature. In Federalist,No. 57, he wrote,
The house of representatives ... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.
The Founders anticipated that the size of the House would grow. James Madison participated in that debate and wrote, "I take for granted … that the number of representatives will be augmented from time to time in the manner provided by the Constitution."
In his "Common Sense" column, Paul Jacobs made a point that was at once cogent, clever, and condemning:
Are career politicians likely to chop their own personal power to do what's best for the country and the institution of Congress? Nope. But they do talk a lot about taking the big money out of politics. Well, if they're serious, this is one way to do it without destroying the First Amendment and handing incumbents power to regulate their opponents.
Support for this movement among constitutionalists is growing. The inertia it is experiencing makes sense as Americans committed to restoring the sovereignty of states should have an affinity for such a cause, as a likely effect of successfully repealing the current cap would be strengthening of the ties that should rightfully bind congressmen to constituents.


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Renowned backcountry freestyle specialist will now have his body kept safe by Slytech. Read more…
First RDM, Then JPS, Now DCP Joins Slytech. SLYTECH is excited to announce the signing of David Carrier Porcheron – DCP. Apparently, so is he…
"Stoked to be on the team and be protected by Slytech, now, Rocks, WATCH THE FOUT!" – DCP
Originally part of the Burton team for 14 years, DCP, like Romain de Marchi's wild antics were too wild for Burton and together, along with JP Solberg started YESnowboards and is a star in Absinthe movies and YES It's a Movie (the former which Slytech has sponsored and the latter we are sponsoring this year). And like RDM and JPS before, he now joins the talented Slytech stable of riders that includes Wolle Nyvelt, Marco Feichtner, Mat Schaer, Yale Cousino and Antti-Juhani Piirainen.
DCP was born in Qubec and now calls Squamish, BC his home. He's a proud father and is married to professional snowboarder Megan Pischke. With so much to live for and such an addiction to perilous extreme snowboarding, pressure from his teammates to get on the protection program mounted. It took a while longer for him to strap one on, but the time eventually came for DCP.
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Some early users of the Touch Cover of Microsoft's Surface tablet say one of the edges splits to expose a wire just days after they starting using it.
A number of users on the Surface Forums site have reported the problem, which has also been experienced by Tom Warren, a writer on the Verge website and Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, a Windows developer.
The defect is identical in each case: the cover, which has an integral keyboard, begins to split at its seam where the device attaches magnetically to the main computer.
Microsoft did not respond to a request from The Guardian for information about how many reports there had been of the problem. Baxter-Reynolds was told to return his Touch Cover to Microsoft for a replacement, and Microsoft has been swapping faulty covers for users where it has retail stores.
It's unclear whether the problems that people have encountered are due to a faulty batch or are a subtle problem that will become more apparent as more people use it for longer- but the fact that users in the US and the UK have reported the problem suggests that it is not isolated to a single manufacturing batch.
Microsoft is expected to sell millions of the devices, though it has given no preliminary or forecast sales figures.
The split seems to caused by mechanical stress on the cover. One poster on the Surface Forums spot commented:
"I believe the seam can loosen easily if it's bent back and you let the Surface rest on your lap (for example, when you're reclining and reading something) - it's best to disconnect the keyboard when the Surface is being used in this scenario."
However, as another user suggested, that suggests the cover is failing in its job as a lid for a device that is designed to be used as both a tablet and a laptop computer.
The covers cost around $80, though there is no cost for swapping faulty covers.
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Sir Paul is said to have talked in a high-pitched Jackson-style voice when asked about the singer, which BBC managers decided could prove offensive.
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Explaining the reasoning as to why the impression could possibly be deemed offensive or unsuitable for broadcast, the source continued: "They say it's a 'trans-racial impression' - that's what they say in a memo - and even by Macca that is beyond the pale."
Sir Paul and Jackson used to be friends, but fell out when Jackson outbid the Liverpudlian for the rights to most of the Beatles' back catalogue. Jackson bought the rights for £33 million ($48m).
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