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Well ok, I lied. I have no idea what she is wearing. But when I saw this picture of little Sci, the first thing I thought was:
You know, that gloriously beautiful, vampy glossy red that is drop dead to look at but can look hoochie if you ain't careful?
My second thought is how much she looks like Tom Cruise (to me anyway).
Anyway….if I were there I'd get a tissue and wipe off that red from her lips and replace it with something a bit more suitable, like chocolate fudge skittles lip balm or something!
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We have got one of the Apollo 500 devices, when connecting to a PC or Laptop running Windows 7 the device can be seen by Windows as a device and I can browse to it, however, when selecting on the device to download data, the device then disconnects and cannot be seen.
I have tried to update the firmware as it's not running the latest, and even though the device can be seen at first, when going to apply the firmware through the device menu it comes up with the error 'failed to mount loop device. press f1 to return to the main screen."
Has anyone come across this before or can provide any advice on how to resolve as we need to get this kit working already but struggling.

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Living in Tasmania, there is a lot of real life history around us that dates back to the convict era. That is why we decided in early December, that we would research and look at Australian Convict History, and in particular Tasmanian convict life and settlements.
One of our field trips so far has involved visiting Richmond Gaol, in the Town of Richmond, around 20 or so kilometres out of Hobart. This field trip proved to be so educational that I have started to really explore the history of the Tasmanian convict era in order to ensure that our homeschooling experience in one of fun, learning and opportunities to see first hand real life convict settlements within Tasmania.
In 2009, we will be delving deeper into the theme of Australian Convicts and will be visiting a number of historic convict places in Tasmania to help us gain a greater understanding of how they lived, what they endured and why may people where sent to Australia as convicts.
According to www.tourismtasmania.com.au tasmania has the following convict sites:
Sarah Island – The ruins of the once notorious Sarah Island penal settlement (1822-1833) can be experienced by cruise from the fishing port of Strahan on Macquarie Harbour. The island is a part of a vast tract of Tasmanian wilderness protected under World Heritage status.
Port Arthur Historic Site – The Port Arthur Historic Site (on 125 hectares/309 acres) today is a world-class tourist attraction, with an interactive visitor centre and more than 30 historic buildings and ruins, set within beautiful gardens and native surroundings.
Tasman Peninsula Convict Trail – takes in seven locations in an area where Tasmania's convict history is most concentrated. They include: Eaglehawk Neck, site of the famed Dog Line; the Coal Mines; Saltwater River and Wedge Bay. The Trail includes spectacular land formations along the coastline of the Tasman National Park. Read about the Tasman Peninsula's convict past.
The Female Factory, Hobart – considered the female equivalent to Port Arthur: hundreds of women and children were gaoled there from 1828-1877, with many dying from poor hygiene, inadequate nutrition and backbreaking work. Female Factory Website.
Richmond – the majority of this historic town appears much as it would have done in the mid-nineteenth century, when convict labour was derigetour. The gaol, built in 1825, housed prisoners, including bushranger Martin Cash. Although tiny compared with Port Arthur's immense scale, the gaol at Richmond is unique as the buildings and cells are intact and eerily reminiscent of their torturous past. Richmond has Australia's oldest road bridge, built by convict labour in 1823.
Therefore these are the ones that we will be including into our learning and Field Trip experiences over the next 12 months.
Other Interesting Articles
Home Educational Resources – Books about Australian Convict History
Homeschool Happenings – Australian Early Settlers and Convict History


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Getting Your Big-Picture Ideas Heard in the Workplace
Some people love thinking about their workplace's big-picture situation. The problem is, most people aren't in a position to change the larger organization. WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger and author Christine Bader discuss work-place idealists on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty.
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Tulo's first spring hits are big ones
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Troy Tulowitzki's first hit of the spring went a long way.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Troy Tulowitzki's first hit of the spring went a long way.
The second went even farther.View Full Game Coverage
Tulowitzki recorded his first two Cactus League hits in style, launching a solo home run in the first inning and adding a two-run shot in the third in a 7-2 win over the Angels on Friday at Salt River Fields.
Although Tulowitzki said that, like many players, he doesn't put stock in spring numbers, he admitted that his first knock caused a small sigh of relief.
"Maybe just better timing," Tulowitzki said of finally getting a hit. "That's just the way this game is. Some of my best Spring Trainings I've had have been some of my worst seasons. Some of the worst, [good seasons]. You don't look into Spring Training at all for guys that have been around."
Both home runs came off Angels right-hander Joe Blanton, and both were pulled down the left-field line. The first landed midway up the outfield's grass hill, and the second landed near the top of the hill and hopped on the concourse.
"He's one of the best in the game," manager Walt Weiss said. "You saw the game today. Just one of the best there is."
Tulowitzki also looked good in the field. He made five plays and looked smooth on each. Overall, he admitted that this spring is a welcome change from last, when he was slowly working his way back from groin surgery.
"There's no hesitations, there's no thoughts," he said of the difference. "I'm back to myself, and that feels good. That's what I'm most excited about. Even today I was, defensively, myself again, and it's nice."
Cash Kruth is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @cashkruth.


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Workload Automation, Job Scheduling, Applications and the Move to Cloud
In an earlier part of my career I learned the extreme importance of Workload Automation, aka Job Scheduling. Workload automation is the oldest IT technology on the planet coming from the need to schedule jobs on an IBM Mainframe. Job Scheduling has evolved from driving JCL (Job Control Language) to Workload Automation where the Scheduler stitches together batch and real time activities across mainframes, proprietary OS systems, x86 systems, applications (both packages and commercial off the shelf such as SAP or Oracle or Informatica) and now web service enabled applications whether they be onsite or in the cloud. Walk into the operations center of any data driven company and you will see multiple screens where operations are monitoring the state of these jobs. Why are they so critical? Over 50% of all transactions that occur on this planet are batch in nature. They are scheduled based upon specific times or based upon dependencies being met. These workloads can be a complex and interrelated set of activities. Effectively these job streams are the business processes that drive modern enterprises.
Without these jobs companies don't get information (and large amounts of it) in the right place at the right time. Most companies today could not close out their financial quarters without enterprise schedulers to move data from their disparate systems into a consolidate place for either the general ledger to close out or for a critical Business Intelligence report to run to drive placement of the correct product into the specific physical location to serve the global economy. Workload automation tools open and close stock exchanges and process all the transaction data from trades. They also drive compliance checks. This is important stuff for the global economy! This was my realization in touring key operations centers and realizing that half of the big monitors were covering the movement of batch data in the enterprise.
Hiccups in these job tasks from target systems running out of resources or other "ghosts in the IT machine" can create major issues. Company's can miss SLAs with their customers. Data can be out of sync across systems. It can cause the delay in sales order and revenue recognition. This can be a billion dollar problem.
Workload Automation, as the technology is now called, has been transformed under the watchful eye of key Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and EMA analysts. This "ancient" technology is reinventing itself. Why is this important in the data center? Virtualization and Cloud have completely disrupted the legacy model of Workload Automation. We have customers using our Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler product that integrate it with VMware. Why do they need this? Well the Scheduler is the one IT tool that understands and is aware of when very compute intensive jobs need to get executed. In one hour we will need 16 vCPU of compute resources to drive an ETL process, or pre-process and load data into a Hadoop cluster. The scheduler can proactively, at just the right time, take a Business Intelligence application from say SAP and increase the resource state to be ready just in time to receive and process the huge compute operation. When the execution is complete the application is then placed into a low resource state for normal operations. This is incredibly powerful for IT administrators. Workloads can be placed at the right resource with the right state at the exact time it is needed, resulting in less compute horsepower required when averaging over many workloads. Compute power is recovered and reused.
We are in the multi-year march from on premise applications deployments to the cloud. Workloads now need to be places across datacenters and into applications running in Service Provider clouds. We now have critical CRM, ERP and BI cloud service offers that need integration to. The old workhorse of the job scheduler has now morphed into cloud based Workload Automation. We have come a long way from Job Control Language to heterogeneous system and application scheduling. The original parents of the technology must be proud of how far their progeny have come. Talk to Derek Evan at Cisco, he is our rock star.
Learn more about this technology at Cisco at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11092/index.html .
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The agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors are the cornerstone of industries that produce food, fiber, and biofuel. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts research in order to improve worker safety and health in these sectors. This National Research Council report reviews the NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Program to evaluate the 1) relevance of its work to improvements in occupational safety and health and 2) the impact of research in reducing workplace illnesses and injuries. The assessment reveals that the program has made meaningful contributions to improving worker safety and health in these fields. To enhance the relevance and impact of its work and fulfill its mission, the NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Program should provide national leadership, coordination of research, and activities to transfer findings, technologies, and information into practice. The program will also benefit from establishing strategic goals and implementing a comprehensive surveillance system in order to better identify and track worker populations at risk.


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Flip-flops, T-shirts, beads, and shorts.
Welcome to the new-look uniform for Bruins fans as players on the quintessential winter team, battling for the Stanley Cup, become the boys of summer after the solstice at 1:04 a.m. Friday.
It is an unprecedented bit of time travel for a sport that was born on frozen ponds, nurtured in unheated rinks, and conjures up images of woolen hats and knotted scarves.
At South Boston Waterfront bars this week, as the Bruins wrested Game 3 from the Chicago Blackhawks, the pumped-up crowds could easily have been cast for a tiki party. No one asked for hot chocolate on a day when the temperature hit 87 degrees in Boston.
"When you're playing hockey in the summertime, it means the team is awesome," said Adam Rousseau, 29, a former college hockey player from Tewksbury. In other words, the late date means a championship is possible.
But the summerlike heat and humidity are taking a toll on the TD Garden ice, which has become rougher and riddled with ruts as the games progress.
"I feel terrible for the poor guys in the ice crew who were working so hard to get a decent surface," said Jack Edwards, the Bruins play-by-play announcer for NESN. "There was nothing they could do about it. There were puddles on the ice at the beginning of the second and third periods."
For the players, Edwards said, the game becomes simpler, if not visibly slower, as they are forced to adapt to a climate that makes pinpoint passing more difficult.
Game 4 of the best-of-seven series — which the Bruins lead, 2 games to 1 — is Wednesday night in Boston. Game 5, which will officially be played in summer, is set for Saturday in Chicago.
Although climate control is much more advanced than in the old Boston Garden, where the Bruins were asked to skate in circles to disperse fog during timeouts in the 1988 playoffs, the combination of high temperatures, humidity, and body heat from 17,000 fans can gain an edge over the ice.
Still, for fans and many businesses, these warm-weather Bruins are a reason to feel good about the late, late show that has become the Stanley Cup Final. The series has become appointment television for Boston sports fans, and bars with open decks are crowded with patrons watching hockey under the stars.
"The roof deck's open, and we turn up the sound," said Roger Berkowitz, president of Legal Sea Foods, whose Harborside restaurant in South Boston is drawing Bruins fans for an al fresco experience. "It does seem a little odd, though. It almost seems too warm to be watching hockey."
Edwards described the sensation as "bizarre," particularly when he leaves an arena after calling a late-season game.
"It's when I go outside, and I'm motioning to draw my scarf tight, and I don't even have a topcoat," Edwards said. "That's when the shock sets in: It's a pleasant evening, and it's summer."
The march into summer — the latest season in National Hockey League history — is the result of a players' lockout that cut 34 games from the season, which did not begin until January. As a result, the playoffs were extended deeper into June. If the Bruins and Blackhawks play a full series, Game 7 will be next Wednesday, less than a week before July.
During Game 3 on Monday, patrons at the Atlantic Beer Garden on the South Boston Waterfront said the victory was just as enjoyable on a sultry evening as it would have been in a February blizzard.
"It doesn't really matter that it's warm out; it's professional sports," said Cabell Wallace, 45, a flip-flop-wearing visitor from Williamsburg, Va. "They work their whole life to get on this ice. They don't care."
Rousseau, a Maine native who played hockey for St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vt., said, the tropical conditions outside TD Garden made the inside performance more impressive. "These guys have to be that much better conditioned to play in the summer. They have to focus so much more."
That focus, ratcheted up during the playoffs, will be followed by weeks of deep decompression. But for these players, their offseason will be the shortest in NHL history.
Edwards predicted that regular-season games next season will begin earlier than normal, probably in the first week of October, because of the need to break in early 2014 for the Winter Olympics.
Berkowitz, the Legal Sea Foods president, thinks this "winter sport" will end quickly, with a Bruins trophy.
"I think they have momentum, and I think they can do it in five," Berkowitz said. "I'm not sure if that's better for business or not."
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HOUSTON – A Houston energy company will pay $98,900 and provide additional remedial relief to resolve a discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged GES Global Energy Services, Inc., (GES) formerly known as IDM Equipment, Inc., and Global Energy Services Operating, LLC, formerly known as IDM Equipment, LLC (Global Energy Services) with race discrimination and retaliation against a group of African-Americans who worked in its "rig-up yard" in Houston.
The EEOC's lawsuit (Civil Action No. 4:10cv4977 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division) asserted that Jesse Cormier, Daniel Booth, Kelvin Turner and other African-Americans working at the defendants' Galayda Street plant in Houston were subjected to a racially hostile work environment and that Cormier, Booth and Turner were discharged after they complained.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment and pregnancy) or national origin, and prohibits employers from retaliating against those who complain about such misconduct. The EEOC filed the lawsuit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
Under the terms of the two-year consent decree settling the suit, signed Sept. 21 by U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller, the defendants will pay $98,900 in relief to compensate Cormier, Booth and Turner. Also, the decree requires significant non-monetary relief, including that the defendants' employees at the Galayda Street facility receive periodic training on laws prohibiting employment discrimination and that a non-discrimination notice will be posted in an agreed-upon location there.
EEOC Houston Regional Attorney Jim Sacher said, "Enforcement of anti-discrimination laws depends upon employees who are willing to oppose and report conduct that might violate them. This settlement achieves the EEOC'sobjectives by providing relief to Messrs. Cormier, Booth and Turner while implementing measures to prevent future Title VII violations. We are pleased that this company worked with the EEOC to negotiate a fair resolution to this matter."
According to the website www.glb-energy.com, Houston-based GES has three facilities, two in Houston and one in Rosenberg, Texas. The website describes GES as "a market leader in the design and manufacture of highly mobile land drilling rigs, premium mud pump components and expendables and fully integrated AC and DC power systems."
The EEOC enforces the federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Additional information about the EEOC is available on the agency's website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Amelia Earhart is going to attempt to fly around the world next summer.
Yes, you read that correctly.
That would be Amelia Rose Earhart, a traffic reporter for KUSA 9 News in Denver, named for the famous aviatrix, Amelia Mary Earhart.
Earhart, like her namesake and distant ancestor, says she is happiest when she's airborne, and has planned on recreating the round-the-world attempt -- hopefully to better results -- than the original Earhart.
Starting next July, Earhart and her co-pilot Patrick Carter will trace the 1937 flight that ended in mystery, taking two weeks to symbolically complete the 28,000 mile journey.
Earhart will fly a Pilatus PC-12NG, and upon completion of the journey, will be the youngest woman to fly around the world in a single-engine aircraft.
She began flying in June 2004, and created the nonprofit Fly with Amelia Foundation, which gives flight scholarships to young women.


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The atheists are coming! The atheists are coming!
A number of atheist and humanist groups like Washington CoR, the AHA and a bunch of bloggers from the Friendly Atheist are organizing to be part of Jon Stewart's Rally To Restore Sanity on Oct. 30.
Wouldn't you like to know what'll be on their signs!
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The company will offer at least nine daily deals on each day from vendors including BlueFly, EA, The New York Times, Threadless, and Wine.com.
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There's a new Bomberman clone on the Wii U's eShop called Bombing Bastards. I'm still giggling that Nintendo, of all companies, is cool with a game being sold on its store with a name like that.
There's the eShop listing, just as proof. Note that last year, Stealth Bastard had to change its name to get on Sony's PSN. Nintendo, as the operator of an online store for video games, has no such problem with the word bastard. If you're an indie developer out there toiling away on "Shithead's Fucktown" though, that might be a stretch.
The game doesn't actually look too bad either! It's Bomberman, only with a super-corny narrator and a hip-hop nutcracker soundtrack.


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Moong dhal (yellow) / pasi Payir/ Green gram lentils: 1/3 cup
Water: 1 cup
Milk: 1/2 cup
Jaggery: ½ cup powdered (less or more according ur sweet level)
Green cardamom: 4 pounded slighty
Grated fresh coconut: 3 tbsp
Cashew: 8 counts
Ghee: 1 tsp
Rinse the dhal twice and add the cup of water. Pressure-cook the dhal until two whistles.
Meantime, heat the ghee and fry the cashew nuts, keep it aside.
Once the pressure has been released, transfer the dhal in another saucepan, add the jaggery and milk, let it cook until it is well blended. You can adjust the consistency of payasam by adding milk if it is thick!
Add the fried cashews, coconut and powdered cardamom and switch off the stove.
Serve hot or at room temperature.
*The moong dhal payasam is reaching Mithai Mela hosted by Srivalli.
*I am sending this lentil dessert to MLLA 11 hosted by Lori, event originated by Susan, Thanks Curry Leaf to remind me!


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Every week, a DIY expert spares us a trip to the grocery store and shows us how to make small batches of great foods at home.
In today's Small Batch, Phoebe Lapine of Feed Me Phoebe shows us how to make rich, nutty tahini at home. Phoebe is the co-author of In the Small Kitchen.
I have a known obsession with French fries. But sometimes I think half the reason I eat so many of them on a weekly basis is because they are the best vehicles for condiments.I have very little self-control when it comes to buying, making, and hoarding condiments. Earlier this summer, I subletted my apartment to a friend. I told her I'd clean out the fridge of all perishables but leave everything else for her to enjoy. She must have been surprised to open the door and find the inside wall and one whole shelf stuffed to the gills with half-eaten red curry paste, nut butters, miso, and about 7 different kinds of mustard. In some ways this isn't the worst food quirk. If you too are the type of person who can't leave the farmers' market without buying an expensive (but interesting!) jar of jam, at least you know said purchases will have a long shelf-life. But in addition to turning your fridge into a condiment hospice, store-bought sauces in jars are possibly the most over-priced food products in existence.
Which brings me to the subject of tahini. When a gourmet store dedicated entirely to mayonnaise opens in Brooklyn, even I am apt to roll my eyes. It's one of the easiest condiments to make, and tastes much better prepared from scratch. But tahini is one of those condiments that most people, even many die-hard DIY-ers, don't bat an eyelash about buying at the store. And it's equally simple to prepare from scratch: sesame seeds and oil, pureed to smithereens.When I first set off on my DIY tahini quest, the biggest question that came up was unhulled versus hulled sesame seeds. Many recipes didn't specify, but when I experimented, the results were pretty different. Most commercial tahinis use hulled seeds, in addition to special machinery, lots and lots of oil, and superior processing, and thus, their tahini is silky smooth.
By comparison, a homemade unhulled version is decidedly the ugly stepsister of the tahini family. But it may be more beautiful on the inside. The resulting mixture is dark and very coarse – if not crunchy – and much more prone to oil separation. But it tastes deeply nutty and wouldn't be a bad substitute for one of the many nut butters I have knocking around in my fridge.
The hulled seeds at home will still give you a condiment that's a lot less creamy than the store bought version. So if you're addicted to the kind of tahini that sticks to the roof of your mouth, perhaps your brand of choice is worth the $6 you spend on it. But for me, queen of condiments, I'm happy to have one less wayward jar in my fridge, waiting for the next time I need a tablespoon for my salad dressing. When the craving for falafel hits, I pick up a couple dimes' worth of bulk bin sesame seeds, and in under 10 minutes, my condiment du jour is ready for consumption.
Homemade TahiniMakes about 1 1/2 cupsFor a coarser texture and more flavorful tahini, use unhulled seeds. For something smoother and creamier, go with the hulled sesame. I used a mixture of olive oil and vegetable oil. I found the flavor of the olive oil over-powering in a large quantity, but liked having a little bit to give it complexity. I also used a lot more total oil than most recipes out there called for (1:1 seeds to oil versus 4:1). If you find your paste comes together with less, by all means hold your horses.1 cup sesame seeds, hulled or unhulled1/4 cup olive oil1/2 - 3/4 cup vegetable oil1/2 teaspoon sea salt2 tablespoons warm waterPreheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Arrange the sesame seeds on a parchment-lined baking sheet in an even layer. Toast them until golden brown and fragrant, shaking the pan halfway through cooking to redistribute, about 6 minutes. Allow the seeds to cool slightly.
Transfer the sesame seeds to a small food processor or blender. Add the olive oil and puree, scraping down the sides of the bowl, until a paste forms.
Add the salt and 1/4 cup vegetable oil. Continue to puree until smooth. Add the water – this will give the mixture a lighter, smoother texture. Puree until the tahini is thinner than a nut butter, smooth and spreadable. Add more oil in 1/4 cup increments until you achieve this texture (it took me a whole cup!).
Transfer the tahini to a sterilized jar and keep in the fridge for up to a month with all of your other condiments, or use immediately in your hummus recipe or as a nutty vinaigrette.
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from the urls-we-dig-up deptGreat teachers aren't exactly a plentiful resource, but the market for teachers hasn't quite minted many millionaires from the scarcity. But maybe that will change soon. There are a bunch of projects that are aiming to create innovative educational tools, and some of these efforts could be hugely profitable in the future. Perhaps those who can, will teach.
- Peter Diamandis is planning to create an education X Prize. This prize is still in the planning stages, so this project hasn't settled on what kind of effort to promote -- an educational video game or some kind of crowdsourced classes... but whatever it is, it can't be solely a technological solution. [url]
- Game developers are creating some entertaining apps that also try to educate or improve the lives of gamers. Edutainment could be the way to get more students engaged in learning... as long as the games are actually fun. [url]
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation sponsored a competition to create an automated scoring algorithm for grading student-written essays. This grading software is only the first phase of a larger plan, and there will be follow-up challenges for grading shorter answers and math/logic problems. [url]
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'I promised ... that I wouldn't give up.' Documentary shows downwinders' plight
Editor's note: This story originally published on Aug. 9, 2013.
Nine years ago, Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo made a promise to victims of nuclear fallout from Cold War weapons testing in Nevada. Idaho had four of the five hardest-hit counties in the nation, and those residents were entitled to the same federal benefits paid to those in 21 counties in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, Crapo said.
When Crapo spoke at the band shell in Emmett City Park in 2004, the government had made "compassionate payments" of $50,000 to victims of 19 types of cancer, totaling $360 million under the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
Now, the figure is $855 million. But not a dollar has been paid to Idaho downwinders, whose counties were not originally included by Congress because the extent of fallout was unknown.
"It's terribly frustrating because of the human impact," said Crapo, who has introduced a string of RECA expansion bills since 2005, none of which has received a hearing. "We haven't been able to get the appropriate level of national support to move it."
On Saturday, Crapo will be back in Emmett, where a new documentary, "Downwinders," will be viewed at the sold-out Frontier Theater at 3 p.m. The senator will lead a 5 p.m. public hearing at Computators, 117 E. Main St.
The leading figure in the film, Downwinders founder Jay Truman of Malad, was exposed as a child in southern Utah and is a lymphoma survivor. Truman, 62, has been an activist since he was a teen, when he called fallout "The Demon." He will be in Emmett and plans to use the film and a series of citizen-launched hearings across the West to "drown the appropriate committee members" with calls for a hearing.
"This is just the start," said Truman. "We're going to keep this up."
The 'hot twin'
The 1-hour, 37-minute movie is a work in progress, about 95 percent complete, said co-director Tyler Bastian of South Jordan, Utah, who will appear at the screening. Bastian and co-director Tim Skousen are submitting their work to top festivals.
"We're not activist filmmakers, we're not Michael Moores," said Bastian. "But we hope people walk away thinking something was wrong and people were hurt and something needs to be done."
The change agents, Bastian said, are folks such as Crapo, Truman and Tona Henderson, who leads the downwinders group in Gem County. Gem County was No. 3 in the nation for iodine-131 fallout, according to a 1997 National Cancer Institute study. Iodine-131 is associated with thyroid cancer, a RECA-covered disease.
That trio appears in a 5-minute section of the film. Truman notes that Meagher County, Mont., was No. 1 in i-131 fallout, followed by four Idaho counties: Custer, Gem, Blaine and Lemhi. Truman grew up in No. 6, Washington County, Utah, a RECA county.
Growls the white-bearded descendant of Mormon pioneers: "Those five counties that were hotter than we were - they don't get one damn dime in compensation, they don't get any health screening. And the government would just prefer they would just go away and die quietly."
Truman convinced the filmmakers to shoot in Emmett, which he calls the "hot twin" of his hometown, Enterprise, Utah. A February meeting in Henderson's Rumor Mill bakery is shown in the film, with Truman outlining his grass-roots strategy. "Let's hold the first public hearing here in Emmett!"
"Good idea," says Crapo, who also notes that his late brother's cancer might have been connected to fallout.
John Wayne and fallout
Threaded through the film are scenes from "The Conquerer," a 1956 epic starring Wayne as Genghis Khan and produced by Howard Hughes. Filmed in Snow Canyon, near St. George, Utah, the picture was included in the 1978 book, "The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time."
Among Wayne's lines, delivered in cowboy drawl, "I feel this Tartar woman is for me; my blood says take her."
In 1980, "The Conquerer" was the subject of a People magazine story suggesting Wayne was a victim of a fallout. At the time, about 90 members of a crew of 220 had contracted cancer and 46 had died. Red sand flies during the movie's cavalry battles, horses and soldiers tumbling. For continuity, Hughes had 60 tons of sand trucked to Hollywood for studio work.
"Downwinders" raises doubts that fallout killed Wayne, a heavy smoker who died of stomach cancer in 1979. But also featured are tragicomic government films alleging no public health risk.
Truman, who began his advocacy at 13 in a correspondence with Nobel Prize chemist and peace activist Linus Pauling, says he thinks fallout played a role in Wayne's death. He reads from Atomic Energy Commission minutes from 1955 that acknowledge St. George was "plastered" with fallout.
Promise keeping
Henderson, the bakery owner and activist, shares Crapo's frustration about the lack of progress but is heartened by his persistence. His new bill is S. 773, which would expand RECA to Colorado, Idaho, Montana and New Mexico, as well as to all counties in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. It also would triple payments to $150,000 to downwinders to establish parity with uranium workers and testing site employees.
Crapo's co-sponsors include Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and the four Democratic senators from Colorado and New Mexico. Staff from the offices of Risch and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, will be in Emmett on Saturday, and Rep. Raul Labrador also might attend.
"I don't know if it will ever go anywhere," said Henderson. "But I promised Sheri Garmon that I wouldn't give up."
Garmon was the 1970 Emmett High valedictorian who died of cancer in 2005 at age 53, after having sparked Crapo's interest in RECA. She had one of her last coherent conversations with Crapo, who updated her on legislative strategy.
"We are not losing focus on this issue," Crapo tells the crowd in the film's passage on Emmett.
The key, Crapo said in an interview, is expanding support beyond the West, where fallout was highest. He said he almost enlisted Hillary Clinton as a co-sponsor when she was in the Senate, in part because New York had high i-131 doses. "Hopefully, we'll be able to make significant progress and the film will be a tool for that," he said.
The filmmakers hope "Downwinders" will be accepted for the prestigious 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, but also are applying to other festivals.
Wherever the movie lands, Crapo plans to put a DVD into the hands of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., and repeat his request for a hearing. Leahy and Crapo were the lead sponsors of this year's reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
"We've got a history of working together on issues with very high human impact," Crapo said. "So there's a real possibility there."
Downwinders history
The U.S. government tested nuclear bombs in the Nevada desert during the Cold War. Most of the radioactive fallout occurred during 90 above-ground tests between 1951 and 1962.
Wind blew radioactive clouds north and east, and iodine-131 fell on pastures and alfalfa that fed cows and goats. Children younger than 5 were hit hardest, with doses three to seven times higher than average because they drink more milk and have small thyroids.
In 1990, Congress admitted a link between fallout and cancer. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act said the tests are "presumed to have generated an excess of cancers."
RECA apologized to injured Americans and provided $50,000 in "compassionate payments" for downwinders and survivors for their involuntary exposure in the name of national security. Payments went to victims in 14 counties in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. Thirteen cancers were covered.
In 1997, the National Cancer Institute released a study estimating iodine-131 exposure in the Lower 48 states. Four Idaho counties were among the top five nationally for fallout; 13 others got higher-than-average i-131 than the average covered counties in Utah.
In 2000, Congress amended RECA to add seven counties and six diseases. But Idaho was left uncovered, in part because the Idaho delegation took no action.
In 2004, Idaho downwinders revived the issue when the National Academy of Sciences was taking public testimony on a congressionally-funded update. With pressure from Idaho politicians, a hearing was held in Boise. All four members of the Idaho congressional delegation stayed for the entire seven hours.
But in 2005, the NAS said there was no scientific reason to link Idaho or any specific region to compensation. Rather, the scientists recommended a probability standard for radiation exposure to be weighed case by case, regardless of where sickened people lived at the time of testing.
Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, continued to follow the existing model, proposing expansion of RECA to heavily exposed states. His current bill covers all of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah.
To date, $1.8 billion has been paid to about 27,600 victims and family members. Of that, $855 million went to about 17,100 downwinders; $587 million to 5,900 uranium miners; $201 million to 2,800 onsite participants; $154 million to 1,500 uranium millers; and $31 million to 300 ore transporters.


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Being Mortal
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Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
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Gawande presents a compelling case against the treatment-at-any-cost philosophy of medicine. In our quest to prolong life, we do not adequately address age-related frailty, and utterly fail to help patients mentally prepare for death.
Borrowed from Margo DeMoor. It was discussed at their joint book club meeting last year. Very well-written and right-on. He addressed end-of-life issues and the need for good quality of life rather than lengthened life, the move to change the face of care for the elderly. Shows how nursing homes have it all wrong.
If you are older then 50 and you have elderly parents this book is very good to start asking the necessary questions of those age groups. Very well written with not just a good amount of research behind it but a great intellect and heart.
"Being Mortal" examines quality of life as the primary goal in managing end of life decisions and is an accessible look at many of the ways our current approach sacrifices that goal in order to extend life at all costs. This is a terrific read for book groups, as the issues raised are profound, universal and ultimately personal.
This book was a moving and informative assessment on the state of care in our hospitals and nursing homes. This is a must read for people of any age to better care for our families and ourselves and to advocate for change in the medical community.
This book will put you into a thoughtful, melancholy (let's face it - depressed) mood, but it is a necessary book that discusses important things that we all must consider. It addressed the role of the Medical community in cases where someone is near the end of their life. Large sections of the book focus on quality of life for seniors but it also addresses those that have terminal illness. It will give you a pit in your stomach and maybe even a tear to your eye but it sure will make you consider the quality of life you want for yourself or your loved ones and will allow you to see things from another angle.
Gawande has started a conversation most Americans actively try to avoid, but the real gift of this book is being able to continue the conversation with others. Gawande provides information, giving readers a behind the scenes look into the minds of medical practitioners and the medical system. He then shares case studies, examples from people be has met and worked with and how they've gone about these difficult conversations, before sharing from his own first hand experience. There is no formula for talking about death and what matters in the end, but it is important to talk about. Gawande is vulnerable and honest, inviting the reader into this intimate conversation. Everyone can benefit from this book, as it will help deepen relationships by getting through the difficult conversations. For most readers, myself included, this would be a book chosen due to circumstances, but I hope it becomes a staple for everyone.
Perhaps the topic of the book is of concern to many people. But to me it seemed that the author have limited to give examples from the lives of sick elderly patients that he met during his career , including members of his own family. He's asking rhetorical question over and over-what should be change in a medical approach to treat those who are dying. But he himself doesn't have an answer-how to do that.
Everyone should read this book. We need to open up the conversations about death and dying and this book is a great starting off point.
Difficult subject matter? Check.
Important and informative? Check.
An essential read for every mortal being? Check.
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We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets — and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan.
Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things.
5 Key Questions at the end of Life:
1. What is your understanding of your current health or condition?
2. What are your fears or worries?
3. What are your goals and priorities?
4. Are there any tradeoffs you are willing to make?
5. What would a good day be like?
When I was a child, the lessons my father taught me had been about perseverance: never to accept limitations that stood in my way. As an adult watching him in his final years, I also saw how to come to terms with limits that couldn't simply be wished away. When to shift from pushing against limits to making the best of them is not often readily apparent. But it is clear that there are times when the cost of pushing exceeds its value. pg 262
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments -- which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life may be empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. pg 238
...Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. pg 232
The choices don't stop, however. Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you. pg 215
Even our brains shrink: at the age of thirty, the brain is a three-pound organ that barely fits inside the skull; by our seventies, gray-matter loss leaves almost an inch of spare room. That's why elderly people like my grandfather are so much more prone to cerebral bleeding after a blow to the head -- the brain actually rattles around inside. pg 31
People die only once. They have no experience to draw on. They need doctors and nurses who are willing to have hard discussions and say what they have seen, who will help people prepare for what is to come--and escape a warehoused oblivion that few really want.
Consider the fact that we care deeply about what happens to the world after we die.If self interest were the primary source of meaning in life, then it wouldn't matter to people if an hour after their death everyone they know were to be wiped from the face of the earth. Yet it matters greatly to most people. We feel that such and occurrence would make life meaningless. pg 126
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In 1945, most Americans died at home. By the 1980s that number was down to 17%. Today it is trending back upwards as more people pursue options that allow them to live out their final days in the comfort of their own homes. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande explores how dying became medicalized in the intervening years, as science offered new innovations for beating back disease in the 20th century. Encompassing both the elderly and the terminally ill, Gawande examines how end of life care falls short of providing patients with the best possible quality of life in their final days, instead focusing on what else can be tried to fix the unfixable, and beat back the inevitable. From nursing homes to cancer wards to assisted living facilities to hospice care, Gawande reveals the shortcomings of the institutions we have created for the dying, and asks how we can be better prepared to face the question of mortality with clear eyes and compassion.
While rather horrific to read there was a lot of valuable information. As you age, or if you get a disastrous disease, your body and mind are eroding to varying degrees. Our medical industry is only designed with prolong life not to ensure quality of life (and this comes from a doctor within the system). You get to decide what treatment you want and don't want (and should base that on the outcomes you want and are realistic - not what the doctor tells you have to do). Ask questions and face the reality of your situation. Some times there is no good outcome. If things are grim don't be hesitant to start Hospice care (it can manage the time you have left ). There are basically 3 types of doctors. Doctor Knows Best will just say here is what is wrong with you and here is how we will treat it. Doctor informative will say here is what is wrong with you and here are 10 options to treat it. The 3rd (and most rare) are the interpretive doctors. They tell you what is wrong with you and then ask what your goals are for you life, and then help you find a plan to meet them. As you age you should know what you want out of life and what is an acceptable life and what is not. Communicate your wishes clearly so that your loved ones are not left guessing as to what to do (this is a heavy burden to put on them). Have the hard conversations early even though it is hard. Nursing homes and assisted living are mostly designed for the children of aging parents (see the first quote I added). While a lot of aged care facilities are like prisons, there are exceptions (though rare). Dr. Gawande asserts that people need a reason to live and some degree of control over their lives. and will have better lives if they feel they do. It can be as simple as a house plant to care for or deciding if they want to eat something that may be bad for them.
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DUNWOODY, Ga. - Authorities have identified a man who was fatally shot by police in Dunwoody as Bradley Almy, of Marietta.
Officials say a police officer shot the 34-year-old man because he was driving erratically, rammed into several cars and refused to stop.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/YswfZr ) reports the incident unfolded around 6:20 p.m. Wednesday near the Perimeter Mall in suburban Atlanta.
Officials say Almy was driving erratically through a parking lot and eventually rammed several cars on a nearby street.
An officer patrolling the area on foot tried stopping Almy and fired one shot at him.
Almy crashed into a light pole and was taken to the Grady Memorial Hospital where he later died.
The officer who shot Almy is on paid leave, and additional details were not immediately available.


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Interiors Of The Luxurious Modern Residence Overlooking The Gold Coast
Hello, there! Have you ever visited the residence which is located near the ocean?Have not? Same with me. I also never been visited that residence. But I have some pictures about it, and from these pictures I imagine how interesting live in that residence. So, let's talk about it.
This residence is built in hills which is facing the ocean. This residence is also built among big rock. So that, you will find the rock and stone as the natural ornament in it. The residence has infinity pool which is completed with lounge chair and patio. This lounge chair is design in large size. The open patio is made of wood with white lather sofa and cushions.
Then let's move inside. In living room you can find green sofa which is completed with striped green cushions. Near it, there is red chair placed in the wooden corner. In front of green sofa, it it a screen flat black TV which is hanging in wooden wall paneling. This space is also completed with wooden shelf for books shelf.Read more »


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|Join hundreds of InfoSec professionals at our upcoming
[Global AppSec Amsterdam, September 23-27]
March 12, 2012
OWASP is a non-profit governed according to its mission, ethics, core purpose, and bylaws.
Access Code: 459-917-990, Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting, Meeting ID: 459-917-990
Local, International Dial in Numbers
- 1 Attendance & Certify Quorum
- 2 Welcome, Introductions
- 3 Minutes from Previous Meeting
- 4 Treasurer's Report
- 5 Old Business
- 6 New Business
- 7 Committee Updates
- 8 Optional Topics
- 9 Other Business
- 10 Next Meeting
- 11 Adjourn
Attendance & Certify Quorum
Welcome, Introductions
Minutes from Previous Meeting
Corrections, comments, approval.
Treasurer's Report
2012 Foundation proposed Budget
February 2012 P&L and Balance Sheet
Old Business
- OWASP EU Update
•EU entity established in Quick books
◦Invoicing established for EU entity
◦EURO Payment gateway needs finalization
◦Membership registration set up to process Euros (dependant on EURO Gateway)
- Transfer of funds from US account to EU account
Chapter and Conference solutions (Mark Bristow and Josh Sokol)
New Business
GMC's proposal. Use this one Original Barter And Trade Document
Barter in trade example
Discuss strategy for OWASP Foundation legal internationalization
Committee Updates
Connections Committee
Membership Committee Membership Report Add Reminder to Membership Split [OWASP PR]
Industry Committee
Projects Committee
Chapters Committee
New chapters this month -11
Current # active chapters - 174
Current # unique active chapter leaders: 388
Education Committee
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Adding Firefox Search Engines As User
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Firefox writes search engine files to /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/searchplugins, which is, by default, readable only by root. This means users cannot add search engines. You can either
chmod o+w this folder, or run firefox as root when you want to install a search engine.
To remove search engines, remove the appropriate search engine files in /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/searchplugins. Next time you start Firefox the engine won't be in the list.


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At the Crowne Plaza Chicago West Loop Hotel, we are surrounded by the popular
Randolph Street restaurants & the authentic flavors of Greektown. Our
business travelers enjoy being within walking distance of the Financial
District, Willis Tower, University of Illinois- Chicago & numerous other
companies that are headquartered in Chicago.
Your success matters. With over 8,000 sq ft of flexible meeting space, a dedicated Crowne Meetings Director, creative menus, complimentary Wi-Fi & business center, the Crowne Plaza Chicago West Loop is committed to the importance & success of your meetings & events. If you are coming in for vacation, there is plenty to do in downtown Chicago. Whether you are here to shop at the Magnificent Mile, take in a show in Chicago's Theater District, see a game or concert at the United Center (home of the Chicago Blackhawks & the Chicago Bulls), our hotel is the ideal place to stay. Located within blocks of Union Station, & right off of the 90/94 Expressway - our West Loop hotel is easy to get to. As the only hotel with walkout balconies in every guest room; our views cannot be beat.
No matter what brings you here, we are sure to complete your trip with outstanding service & amenities: fitness center, free Wi-Fi, and two acclaimed restaurants, Dine & MetroKlub, the only full service Kosher restaurant in downtown Chicago.


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'''Below are the versions of this software we developed and used locally for
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It is specific to our implementation and delivery system.
It is specific to our implementation and delivery system.
Latest revision as of 11:04, 15 February 2013
Software For You!
The above link is to open source software we developed for you to use to implement this model of digitization regardless of your method of delivering the finding aid online.
Below are the versions of this software we developed and used locally for "Digitizing the S. D. Cabaniss Papers," an NHPRC-funded grant project. It is specific to our implementation and delivery system.
- to check filenames: Windows Perl script. File:CabanissCheck.txt
- to make JPEGS on Windows using ImageMagick: Windows Perl script. File:MakeJpegsWindowsVersion.txt
- to repair multiple JPEG problem created due to multiple tiffs in a tiff file: Linux Perl script. File:RepairJpegs.txt
- Perl script to make JPEGS on the Linux server from content located on a mounted Windows area, writing the JPEGs to the server and correcting for any problems: File:MakeCabanissJpegs.txt
- to link content into the EAD. Depends on our local implementation of persistent URLs. Linux Perl script File:LinkContent.txt
- to generate very minimal MODS files for each item: Linux Perl script. File:GenerateMods.txt Depends on MODS template found here Cabaniss_MODS_Template
- to distribute MODS, EAD and JPEGS into live web directories for pickup by delivery system: Linux Perl script. File:MakeItLive.txt
- to copy the latest version of the EAD live after indexing has occurred for the new content: File:EadLive.txt
- Perl script to move the archival content from a mounted Windows area into a deposits directory on the Linux server, deleting the copies from the Windows side after verifying that the copy was successful: File:MoveCabanissContent.txt
- File:CountByBox.txt is a Linux Perl script for the Cabaniss project, that gives us a count by box number of how many files are in the archive, and how many live on the web.
- to test the file names prior to archiving: File:TestNums.txt
- to archive the content long-term in LOCKSS: File:RelocateCabaniss.txt
This same software is available in a form which allows you to enter in the collection number, here: Mass_Content_Software More software available here: Scripts


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Former Conn. Priest Indicted on Meth Charges
(BRIDGEPORT, Conn.) -- A former Roman Catholic priest from Connecticut has fallen from grace after being indicted on charges that he was part of an alleged cross-country crystal methamphetamine drug ring.
Former Monsignor Kevin Wallin, 61, of Waterbury, who was the pastor of the St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport for nearly a decade, was one of five people indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday for allegedly transporting methamphetamine from Connecticut to California.
Also charged were Kenneth Devries, 52, of Waterbury; Michael Nelson, 40, of Manchester; Chad McCluskey, 43, of San Clemente, Calif.; and Kristen Laschober, 47, of Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Wallin was also charged with six counts of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams of methamphetamine since September, according to court documents.
Law enforcement officials say they believe he received shipments of methamphetamine from the West Coast and resold the drugs out of his apartment in Waterbury, ABC station WABC-TV in New York reported.
In addition, investigators suspect that Wallin may have owned an adult video shop in North Haven called Land of Oz that he allegedly used the store to launder the money he earned selling drugs, according to court documents.
The Diocese of Bridgeport released a statement saying that Wallin resigned as pastor of the Bridgeport parish in 2011, citing health and personal issues, and was granted a sabbatical.
The diocese said that Wallin's "faculties for public ministry were suspended in May 2012, and he has not been reassigned."
Despite that, the diocese continued to pay him a stipend until he was arrested on Jan. 3, the Connecticut Post reported.
Some of his former parishioners are shocked the man they esteemed as a "very honorable man of God" would be involved in such a scandal.
"I feel terrible about it. And we just keep praying from him, that's all. If these allegations are true, we pray he repents, makes his peace with God, like we all have to," a parishioner told ABC affiliate WABC.
If convicted, Wallin faces a minimum of 10 years in prison.
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What will it take for the Kansas congressional delegation to decide enough ordinary constituents have been punished by the federal government partial shutdown -- and then support ending it? We're not sure.
In fact, we're not even sure they're conveying much information about the situation to their constituents. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., has an ObamaCare Doomsday Clock on his website's home page with all zeroes. The clock stopped the same day the insurance exchanges opened for business. He also has feature stories about a federal marriage amendment and defunding the Affordable Care Act. Not a thing about the shutdown, its effect on Kansans, or any offer of assistance to anybody in the First District whose life is disrupted by Congress' refusal to fund operations.
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., at least acknowledges a shutdown is taking place. The former Hays resident outlines spending and borrowing trends in a section titled Fight for our Future, but when it comes time to offering a solution, the visitor is redirected to other websites that Moran admits he doesn't necessarily endorse. And while there isn't anything specific for constituents affected by the shutdown, you still can utilize the popular Ask Jerry feature.
One doesn't need to Ask Jerry if anybody in Kansas is being affected by the stalemate in Washington.
More than 1,100 Kansans whose work relies on federal funding were placed on unpaid furloughs last week. The Adjutant General's Department reported idling 263 civilian employees. The Kansas Department of Labor placed 66 on unpaid leave. The Kansas National Guard sent home 772 individuals, although all but five were ordered back to work this week.
With the Federal Aviation Administration in partial shutdown, aircraft registrations cannot be accomplished. And that means aircraft sales cannot be finalized, which threatens the state's entire critical aviation industry during the busiest time of the year for deliveries.
Farmers and livestock producers no longer have access to crucial, timely reports prepared by the National Agriculture Statistics Service. While the price of seed, grain, cattle and fertilizer futures might not be mission-critical for the United States, they are indispensable for many in The Hays Daily News readership area. Even more so than the Conservation Reserve Program subsidies, which are on hold as well. Local farm services provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been shut down, so farmers can't apply for new loans, get payments for any programs they're enrolled in, sign up for programs, or take advantage of new wheat varieties because that work isn't taking place either.
Rep. Huelskamp likely could have been passing along this information, or at least providing assistance of some sort to farmers and ranchers affected, but he was booted off the House Ag Committee late last year.
Other Kansans potentially being affected are those finally able to take their long-awaited vacation, only to find all national parks are closed.
Those attempting to apply for disability benefits with either Social Security or Medicare can expect delays in the paperwork processing. No new patients are being accepted into clinical research at the National Institutes of Health. The CDC is unable to monitor disease outbreaks, just as the flu season is starting.
Low- and moderate-income homebuyers as well as first-time purchasers can expect serious delays in processing mortgage applications. Government-backed loans to small businesses have been suspended, as have multifamily FHA mortgage approvals.
The effects are real, are about to become substantial, yet our delegation is almost cavalier in its indifference.
"I prefer to think about it as just taking a little bit of a break," said Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., about the shutdown.
We need to recall that shutdowns of the government, even partial ones, ripple through the economy. As the impasse drags on, the ripples become waves that affect even more segments and individuals. Expect tsunamis if the country loses its ability to borrow via a first-time default.
We also need to remember that the Affordable Care Act does not require congressional approval for funding. It is protected from this very type of political meltdown in the same manner as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
We would encourage our elected officials to focus on ending the impasse by separating the unrelated issues the tea party faction has illogically linked. They need to begin paying attention to how Kansans are being hurt in the process, and figuring out ways to help them.
Them is quickly becoming us.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry


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Vera Igorevna Zvonareva (Russian: Вера Игоревна Звонарёва, pronounced ( listen); born September 7, 1984) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. She has reached a career high and current ranking of World No. 4. Zvonareva has won ten WTA Tour singles titles and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships and 2010 US Open. She also was a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Zvonareva was born September 7, 1984 in Moscow, Russia to Igor Zvonarev and Nataliya Zvonareva (Bykova). Igor played Bandy (Russian hockey) in the USSR championship with Dynamo Moscow, while Nataliya played (field) hockey and was the bronze medalist at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Vera was introduced to tennis at the age of six by her mother, although no other members of her family play the game.
Zvonareva started to compete on the ITF Circuit in 1999, debuting at an ITF tournament in Tbilisi, Georgia. She won three qualifying matches there to reach the main draw before losing in the first round. The next year, she won an ITF event in Moscow, Russia without dropping a set, despite being unranked. The event was just the second event she had played in her professional career. Five weeks later, she made her WTA-level debut at the Tier I tournament in Moscow, beating World No. 148 Elena Bovina before losing to World No. 11 Anna Kournikova in the second round. In 2001, she failed to qualify for WTA events in Key Biscayne, Florida and Moscow, but reached a semifinal at the ITF Circuit tournament in Civitanova, Italy. During this time, she also showed her adeptness in juniors' competition by winning the Orange Bowl under-18s event in 2000 and 2001.


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The Power of the Internet
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
I always knew that the power of the internet, especially blogs such as this one and my favorites, but never exactly until today!
I must say: Kudos to Pizza Hut!
Regarding THIS POST that I wrote last week, I had a bad experience with my local Pizza Hut surrounding their new Tuscani Lasagna.
Well, today I received an email from someone at their corporate office, requesting that I call or email them so that they could rectify the wrongs that my local restaurant performed. I was shocked!
But I shouldn't have been! I know the power of the Net better than anyone. Since I took an Internet Search course a few years back while attending college, and I learned how to search the net for exactly what you are looking for, I should have known that someone would find my blog post.
I think I really wanted them to, too.
I immediately called the woman via her toll free phone number, and she asked me to recant what happened the night I ordered the lasagna, and she documented it. She apologized and said that she was going to mail me a coupon for a free pizza! Yay!
I also forgot to mention that about 10 years ago, I used to work at Pizza Hut. Not at the same location, but another local one. (I have 3 within a 3 mile radius.)
Ahhhh.... the power of the Internet.
...and lil ole me!


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Myths and Concerns
Reality: Each time you place a bet, the outcome is completely independent of the previous one. This means that the odds are no more in your favor on the tenth bet than they were on the first bet. Over time, the more you risk, the more you'll lose.
Myth: I almost won; I must be due for a win.
Reality: "Almost" winning in no way means that a real win is around the corner. Future gambling outcomes are in no way influenced by previous outcomes.
Myth: If I play more than one slot machine or in more than one poker game at a time, I'll increase my chances of winning.
Reality: Sure, you may win more often by playing two slot machines or poker games at a time, but make no mistake about it: you'll also spend-and ultimately lose-more by doing so. Remember, over time, the more you gamble, the more you'll lose.
Myth: I have a special strategy that helps me win. I pick certain numbers for the lottery and press the stop button on a slot machine at exactly the right time.
Reality: The outcome of most games of chance, particularly lotteries and slot machines, is completely random: you cannot influence it, regardless of what you do. For lotteries, this means that betting the same numbers every week won't help you win any more than betting different numbers will. The odds of winning Lotto 6/49, for example, are 1 in 14 million each and every time you play: it doesn't matter how many people have purchased tickets or what numbers you play-the odds are the same, regardless. Whether or not you win playing slot machines is based solely on the randomly drawn numbers generated by the machine's computer-numbers which determine the game's outcome even before the reels stop. Pressing the stop button may speed up when you find out what the game's outcome is, but it won't influence what that outcome is in any way.
Myth: If I see a certain card coming up frequently in a poker game, I should bet on it because chances are it will come up again very soon.
Reality: There are 2.6 million possible hands in a deck of 52 cards. Since each hand is independent of the last, the chance of one card coming up again once it's already appeared is no more (or less) likely than that of any other card.
Myth: I have a feeling that today is my lucky day. I just know I'm going to win.
Reality: Hoping, wishing or even needing to win money has absolutely no influence on the outcome of a game of chance.
Concern: I'm worried that if I talk to my friend or family member about their gambling, they'll be offended.
It's quite understandable that you would worry about offending someone who you suspect might have a gambling problem by trying to talk to them about it. That's why it's important to gather what information you can about problem gambling beforehand and approach the person in the right way. Remember: don't accuse or preach when discussing the problem. Just enquire, talk about the facts, express concern, and offer support.
Concern: I'm not an expert: how can I solve someone else's problem?
You're not expected to solve someone else's problem: The best you can do is get informed, ask questions, express concern, and be supportive. If your friend or family member has a problem with gambling, you can only assist them in dealing with it-you cannot solve the problem for them.
Concern: If I don't say anything, won't the person eventually stop gambling on their own?
While some people can solve their gambling problems on their own, most need the support of family and friends, a professional counselor, or support group. Changing behavior can be extremely difficult and require a considerable about of time, effort, and support from various sources.


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Energy, Enzymes, and Catalysis Problem Set
Problem 4: An energy barrier separating reactions and products in a chemical reaction.
To overcome an energy barrier between reactants and products, energy must be provided to get the reaction started. This energy, which is recovered as the reaction proceeds, is called:
A. activation energy
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
University of Arizona
Wednesday, September 25, 1996
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TRENTON (AP) - The former owner of a third-party insurance administration agency is headed to prison for stealing nearly $500,000 from a trust fund that administered health insurance policies and prescription coverage.
Prosecutors say 48-year-old Catarina Young of Metuchen received seven-year sentence. She was convicted of theft and misapplication of entrusted property.
Young was the partial owner of the now-defunct firm that administered insurance plans on behalf of third parties.
Prosecutors say that between November 2003, and December 2006, Young deposited 86 checks and 16 wire transfers totaling $462,341 into her personal bank accounts, then used the money for her own purposes.
The money was supposed to be used to buy health insurance and prescription coverage. The theft resulted in the cancellation of a health insurance plan that insured hundreds of people.