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project44 is the world's leading advanced visibility platform for shippers and third-party logistics firms. project44 connects, automates, and provides visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and shorten the time it takes to turn those insights into actions.
130Local Employees
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Bringg is the leading delivery orchestration platform, providing enterprises with the most efficient way to manage their complex delivery operations. Some of the world's best-known brands in more than 50 countries are using our powerful SaaS platform to achieve logistical excellence across their delivery ecosystem.
125Local Employees
Enterprise Web
G2's real-time and unbiased user reviews help you objectively assess what is best for your business. Until recently, selecting business solutions was hard, risky, and inherently biased. G2 empowers business buying decisions by highlighting the voice of the customer.
250Local Employees
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Powered by AI, DialogTech attributes customer calls to your marketing, showing you exactly how these conversations impact the customer journey. We provide the actionable analytics and technology to generate more calls at a lower cost, personalize call experiences, and drive revenue.
132Local Employees
Big Data • Healthtech
VillageMD helps each primary practice reach its highest potential, creating a more rewarding experience for patients and physicians. We bring experience in value-based contracting, -driven decision-making, and ancillary development, combined with the capital needed for success.
100Local Employees
Braviant Holdings
Braviant Holdings is a digital lending platform that combines breakthrough technology and cutting-edge machine learning to empower consumers with better credit solutions. This next-generation approach to lending is reducing credit barriers and creating a Path to Prime to help millions of underbanked consumers.
60Local Employees
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Centro provides enterprise-class software for digital advertising organizations. Our technology platform, Basis, is the first of its kind SaaS advertising solution unifying programmatic and direct media buying, along with workflow automation, cross-channel campaign planning, universal reporting and business intelligence.
265Local Employees
Clearcover is a smarter car insurance choice. The company offers better coverage at lower prices than traditional carriers by using advanced technology, eliminating wasteful spending, and promoting transparency to help consumers make informed decisions. The company has been featured in Forbes and Inc for its innovative approach.
69Local Employees
Logistics • Software
It's our mission to make global trade easier for everyone. We aim to do this by building a new Operating System for Global trade - a strategic operating model for global freight forwarding that combines technology and analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.
85Local Employees
Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. Showpad's all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers by integrating industry-leading training and coaching software with innovative content and engagement solutions.
120Local Employees
Sprout Social
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Sprout Social offers deep social media listening and analytics, social management, customer care, and advocacy solutions to more than 20,000 leading brands and agencies worldwide. Our suite of solutions enables organizations to create the kind of real connection with their consumers that drives their businesses forward.
415Local Employees
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SMS Assist provides a fully managed business solution to more than 186,000 client locations with a network of over 20,000 service providers SMS Assist is a facilities management provider that exists to deliver unprecedented choice, control, and speed of service to 186,000 properties.
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Big Data • Healthtech
Tempus is a technology company that is building the world's largest library of molecular and clinical data and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful. We enable physicians to deliver personalized cancer care for patients through our interactive analytical and machine learning platform.
350Local Employees
Networked Insights
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Networked Insights technology helps marketers from the world's biggest brands and agencies understand their customers, inform their media spend, invent new products, drive amazing creative campaigns and improve their targeting by providing game-changing insights no other technology company can provide.
63Local Employees
SilkRoad Technology
SilkRoad Technology delivers strategic onboarding solutions for global workforce readiness and transformation to drive long-term business performance. We help organizations prepare their people for change by designing intentional, personalized journeys to increase long-term engagement and retention.
55Local Employees
Consumer Web • Transportation
SpotHero is a rapidly growing tech company that's transforming the $30 billion parking industry. We are a dedicated team working together to define the future of transportation in major cities.
150Local Employees
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Vibes, a mobile marketing leader, is a team of more than 150 experts with one common goal: unlock new revenue potential for retailers and brands. We accomplish this by uniquely combining best-in-class technology with top-notch mobile expertise.
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Home Chef
Home Chef makes home cooking simple with perfectly portioned ingredients and easy-to-follow recipes delivered to your door weekly. Choose meals you'll love to cook and eat from 11 new chef-designed recipes each week, and learn new cooking techniques as you go!
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At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, we are a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow, operating in every major U.S. city.
100Local Employees
Cloud • Fintech
Billtrust is driven to make it easier for organizations to get paid. We offer a flexible, automated, cloud-based product portfolio that speeds cash application through tailored invoice delivery, secure multi-channel payment enablement, intelligent matching & payment posting.
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Attempts to put my known, good sketch in the Uno don't change it. However, the "blink" sketch does load and run fine.
I'll have to recreate my code and try uploading that.
Thanks guys. I'm guessing the answer is "no", for being able to somehow determine what sketch is loaded in the R3.


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Paper Piecing, Log Cabins and New Fabric
This post is going to be all over the place. But that's not always a bad thing, right? I've been busy sewing over the last couple of weeks. Not really finishing anything but making good progress.
First up, my Arkansas Traveler quilt. After lots of cutting, sewing diamonds, paper piecing those diamonds, trimming, trimming and trimming, I have 96+ blocks! It really feels like a huge milestone.
You can find a tutorial to make this block on Lee of Freshly Pieced's site. Those of you with an eagle eye might notice my template is a little different than the one from the Summer Sampler Series. I'm trying out something new Lee came up with, less seams, but maybe a little trickier to assemble the final block, depending on how you feel about sewing together shapes other than squares.
I know I said I wasn't going to share my final design until I was done. I guess I lied. Here's the plan! This weekend/next week I'm hoping to finish the quilt top assembly.
As a bit of a personal reward for finishing all those components, I cut into the little pack of Liberty of London Lifestyle fabric I picked up at Quilt Con.
I knew I wanted to pair it with some Essex Linen in Natural. I thought it would look super cute as one of Anna's Open Wide Pouches. Great pattern, as usual! I made the smallest size because I only had a 10" zipper on hand. (I bought my metal zipper from Zip It on Etsy.)
The inside is Stamped by Ellen Luckett Baker for Kokka.
This week I also performed a little surgery on my local Modern Quilt Guild challenge quilt top. You can read up on the sadness of unmatching white fabric here.
I finished the top yesterday (happy dance!) and will share the finished quilt next week. That is a promise - it's due Thursday!
I also have been lucky enough to receive some new fabric in the mail this week.
Windham was kind enough to send some of Lotta Jansdotter's Glimma Canvas for me to check out. I don't think I've ever worked with canvas so I'm pretty excited to try something out. They also sent a charm pack of Ride, Julia Rothman's second collection. I seriously love the little bicycle wheels. My son has already claimed this for his own, so I'm thinking of using it in some way to make him a tote bag for the library.
I also had a very happy surprise from Moda Fabrics - three layer cakes of upcoming collections.
These are S'More Love by Eric and Julie Comstock, Simply Style by Vanessa of V and Co, and Honeysweet by Fig Tree & Co. (Seriously, I don't know how I got so lucky!)
I decided to immediately cut into Vanessa's fabric because, well, I think she's pretty fun. :) I found a block in 163 Favorite Patchwork Patterns : Japanese Craft Book, an awesome book I purchased a few months ago from The Workroom in Canada.
I had some questions on Instagram about this book. It is all in Japanese. There are diagrams that help give ideas about block assembly, but there are no directions or sizes in English. If you like a challenge and are good at figuring things out, this is the book for you. I do, and really, what do you have to lose except a little bit of fabric? Keeps my old mind sharp. ;)
So anyway, I picked this cool design...
And started to layout a couple blocks...
And then something funny happened. I made these up at pretty much the exact same time Lee was writing up her post to announce her planned Bloom Bloom Pow Quilt Along with a very similar block! Yesterday morning we had a good laugh about how we must be totally on the save wave length after writing the book together. So! If you like the block, are interested in making the block, you are in luck because Lee's about to start her quilt along and will have tutorials for you. Her block just has some great additional shading.
Phew! I hope some of you made it through all that! Next week is Spring Break here. (As I ignore the -4 degree wind chill and snow outside...) I'm not really sure if that means I'll get more sewing done (not driving the kids all over the place) or less (more play time with the kids!). We'll see. My newly 4 year old wants to put on a kid art show in the house, so we have big crafting plans. Very exciting! Have a great weekend everyone!


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The Farnsworth Art Museum offers an unparalleled opportunity to enjoy a comprehensive collection of American art related to Maine.
Lucy Copeland Farnsworth, last surviving member of her family and the daughter of a successful Rockland lime merchant who founded the local water company, instructed in her will that a building she owned on Main Street "be put into condition to serve as an art gallery," which along with a library and the mid-Victorian house she grew up in were to be open to the public and named after her father. The task of creating and operating the museum was assigned by her trustee, the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, to Robert Peabody Bellows, a Harvard graduate and a partner in the Boston architectural firm of Aldrich and Bellows.
Even before the museum opened its doors to the public on August 15, 1948, it had acquired works by George Bellows, William Zorach, and Andrew Wyeth, all of whom had already established their reputations at least in part by the work they did here. Between June 1943 and July 1948, the museum acquired 915 works of art, establishing what would become the central strength of the Farnsworth, works by some of America's foremost landscape painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Early purchases by Robert Bellows included Eastman Johnson's American Farmer, George Inness's In the White Mountains, and Winslow Homer's New England Coast, followed by purchases of paintings by George Bellows, Joseph DeCamp, Frank Duveneck, John La Farge, and William Zorach. Bellows donated a small painting from his own collection by Thomas Cole, Cattle and Distant Mountains, considered to be the artist's earliest extant oil painting. In addition, Bellows acquired six works by the then little-known twenty-seven-year-old Andrew Wyeth, one of many artists painting along the Maine coast.
In 1951, the Farnsworth organized a major exhibition of the young Wyeth's work, further developing a relationship with the Wyeth family of artists that quickly came to include Andrew's father, N.C., the well-known illustrator and painter, and Andrew's son, James Browning (Jamie) Wyeth, whose own career benefited from a major exhibition at the Farnsworth in 1967.
In the years since, the Farnsworth has continued to collect and exhibit the work of nationally prominent artists whose careers have been associated closely with Maine. In the 1950s a younger generation of New York artists began to summer in Maine and eventually became identified with the work they produced here, among them the painters Alex Katz, Neil Welliver, Fairfield Porter, Lois Dodd, and Yvonne Jacquette, as well as photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burkhardt. In 1969, Robert Indiana, already nationally renowned for his prints, paintings, and sculpture, and perhaps best known for his LOVE paintings, prints and sculptures, made his first visit to Vinalhaven, an island just off the coast of Rockland, and moved there permanently in 1978. When the museum's 1979 exhibition on the work of sculptor and former Rockland resident Louise Nevelson was followed in 1985 by major donations of her work by Nevelson and members of her family, the Farnsworth engaged itself even more deeply into the world of American contemporary art.
The museum's holdings of contemporary art have been significantly expanded, too, by donations from the Alex Katz Foundation, which include paintings by Jennifer Bartlett, Francesco Clemente, Janet Fish, Red Grooms, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Philip Pearlstein, David Salle, and Hunt Slonem, sculptures by Bernard Langlais and William Ryman, and photographs by Rudy Burkhardt. The Friends of the Collection, a group founded in 2002, whose sole purpose is to provide funds for museum acquisitions, has brought works by contemporary artists John Bisbee, Sam Cady, David Driskell, Richard Estes, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Alan Magee, Louise Nevelson, Brian White, and others into the collection. The museum has also formed significant holdings of twentieth-century and contemporary photography, again focusing on artists who have worked in Maine. Among this group of more than 1400 photographs are works by Berenice Abbott, Rudy Burkhardt, Paul Caponigro, Joyce Tenneson, Elliot Porter, and Rockland native Kosti Ruohomaa.
The Farnsworth collection is promoted through school visits, studio programs, teacher workshops, lectures, family programs, youth and adult docent programs, video and film programs and seasonal celebrations. The Maine in America collection catalogue, exhibition catalogues, articles in scholarly and popular journals, and the museum's Web site provide further access. The museum's collection is rooted in the history of Maine, its people, their occupations and values, central to the Farnsworth's mission to celebrate Maine's role in American art.


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Analyst Millan Mulraine of TD Securities writes:
Even though the official market consensus forecast for today's payrolls report has now fallen slightly below our forecast of 195K to 190K, recent positioning in the markets (captured by the dramatic rally in Treasures) suggests that the "whisper number" may be for something far weaker—closer to 150K. In fact, the forecast revisions in the Bloomberg survey over the past two days have ranged between 124K and 190K, with a median entry of 175K, well below the consensus forecast of 200K at the beginning of the week. While some of the move lower in yields is attributable to the geopolitical concerns on the Korean peninsula, the last leg down in employment expectations and yields has come following the unexpected sharp rise in the pace of weekly jobless claims, which showed the biggest weekly gain since November.
For a full guide to tomorrow's jobs report, see Matthew Boesler's preview here.


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WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Al Franken's political friends want and expect him to resign.
The Minnesota Democrat plans a Thursday, Dec. 7, announcement in Washington that many political leaders expect to produce his resignation as accusations of sexual misconduct multiply.
On Wednesday, a half-dozen women senators' call for him to quit quickly became an avalanche that by day's end included more than half of Senate Democrats, the top two national Democratic Party officials and the Democratic Senate leader.
The No. 2 Democratic Party official, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, joined the chorus in a tweet: "Sen. Franken is scheduled to speak tomorrow. I think he will do the right thing and resign."
Franken, 66, has been seen in public little since the first allegations surfaced about three weeks ago. He missed many Senate votes and attended few committee meetings. He remained out of public sight Wednesday.
Minnesota Public Radio reported late Wednesday afternoon that it had confirmed Franken will resign, but a Twitter account under the senator's name quickly responded: "Not accurate. ... No final decision has been made and the senator is still talking with his family. Please update your story."
The Franken situation was the talk of Washington, with most who spoke calling for him to leave. But Franken's fellow Democratic Minnesota senator stopped short of seeking a resignation.
"Sexual harassment is unacceptable," Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Wednesday. "This morning I spoke with Sen. Franken and, as you know, he will be making an announcement about his future tomorrow morning. I am confident he will make the right decision."
Many others, however, clearly said it is time to go.
"I expect that Senator Franken will announce his resignation tomorrow," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, tweeted. "It is the right thing to do given this series of serious allegations."
Minnesota Democratic U.S. Reps.Collin Peterson and Tim Walz told a MinnPost Washington reporter that Franken should resign. Peterson said Franken no longer can effectively represent Minnesota.
Many other Minnesota Democratic leaders stopped short of asking for him to quit, albouth governor candidates State Auditor Rebecca Otto and state Rep. Erin Murphy have sought his resignation.
Franken apparently has not been in Minnesota since Nov. 11, days before sexual misconduct allegations began to be reported. He talked to some Minnesota reporters and briefly talked to Washington media last week before heading to his first Senate meeting after allegations began.
The senator largely has been silent in public in recent weeks as seven women accused him of inappropriate touching and other misconduct..
Several women say he inappropriately touched them during USO tours, at the Minnesota State Fair and in a radio studio.
The latest report of sexual misconduct came in a Politico story Wednesday. A woman congressional staffer, not named by the news organization, said Franken tried to kiss her after her boss appeared on Franken's radio show in 2006.
"It's my right as an entertainer," she told Politico that he said.
Franken released a statement denying the incident. "This allegation is categorically not true and the idea that I would claim this as my right as an entertainer is preposterous. I look forward to fully cooperating with the ongoing Ethics Committee investigation."
A Los Angeles radio host brought the first public complaint against Franken, saying he forced a kiss on her during a 2006 USO tour. She also posted a photo of him with his hands hovering over her breasts as she slept on a military airplane.
After the first report, there were allegations that Franken grabbed women's buttocks as he took photos with them.
Franken was elected in 2008, and became senator in 2009 after months of an election recount.
If Franken resigns, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton would appoint someone to fill the seat. Then that seat would be on the November 2018 ballot for a two-year term.
Talk immediately turned to who might run for Franken's seat if he resigns.
A reporter for The Hill website said that he ran into former Sen.Norm Coleman, the Republican who Franken narrowly beat in the 2008 election. "You never say never," Coleman said when asked if he would run.
The list of potential candidates, coming from the rumor mill, includes people such as former Gov. Tim Pawlenty and ex-U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann to several politicians running for governor in 2018 who could opt for the Senate instead.


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Oasis Maybe capture the sound look and feel of the Band from the 1994-1997 era performing tracks from Definitely Maybe and Whats the Story Morning Glory with a few famous B-sides and thrown in for good measure.
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During the weekend, even Ars takes an occasional break from discussing the potential of Gigabit connectivity or what browsers the feds are employing. Weekend Ar(t)s is a chance for various Ars staffers to share what they're watching/listening/reading or otherwise consuming this week. This week: new Staff Editor Nathan Mattise.
SXSW is only days away. The Interactive portion starts this coming Friday, meaning only a few listening afternoons remain before deciding if it's worth sticking around for the second half—the famed Music portion (to be fair, it usually is).
Expect samplers from a variety of places this week—NPR, Pitchfork, etc. But to help fight through the clutter now, here are four SXSW acts with potential appeal for the Ars reader.
Miracles of Modern Science
Their Ars-friendly band name evokes some hybrid of electronica and new wave, ala Devo or Thomas Dolby. But lose that preconceived notion and prepare for the latest indie rock band to seamlessly incorporate classical sensibilities. This string-based, acoustic quintet put out their debut in December but its release date was overshadowed by two larger albums (not easy to compete with The Roots or The Black Keys, even if you embody early Ra Ra Riot). They're playing major showcases for outlets like Consequence of Sound and MTV, and all right, they have one of the Internet's best Twitter handles—@WeAreMOMS.
SXSW Performance Dates: Wednesday, March 14; Thursday, March 15 (twice); Sunday, March 18 (twice)
Brooklyn, indie pop—you can stop me now, right? But Hospitality sets themselves apart with advanced songwriting, abandoning conventional song structures and unleashing surprising solo sections and interesting instrumentations. Their self-titled debut could be the strongest release of 2012, receiving praise from Rolling Stone and The AV Club among other critical outlets. If you're worried about modern music being too formulaic, allow Hospitality to treat you right.
SXSW Performance Dates: Thursday, March 15; Friday, March 16
Robert Glasper Experiment
Personal hip-hop collection feeling stale? Robert Glasper's quartet will infuse it with hints of R&B, funk, soul, and jazz. The group's album, Black Radio, debuted in mid-February and featured the likes of Lupe Fiasco, Erykah Badu, and Yasiin Bey (the artist formerly known as Mos Def). It's easy to get lost in the endless amount of rock bands at SXSW, this act could be the premier to switch it up.
SXSW Performance Dates: Thursday, March 15
The Men
Fans of lo-fi, up tempo punk—doesn't everyone have a soft spot for Iggy & The Stooges?—should make The Men a priority. They play nearly every day during SXSW's Music portion, so schedule accordingly. The band will be can't-miss if the energy off their album translates live. Open Your Heart comes out on March 6, leaving just enough time to get yourself up to speed
SXSW Performance Dates: Wednesday, March 14; Thursday, March 15; Friday, March 16; Saturday, March 17
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Pietro wrote a nice post about him finding Android malware while visiting the theatre. Thanks to Thug (thank you Angelo) and HoneyProxy, he was able to get some interesting details about their infrastructure. I was curious what kind of malware you find in a theatre, so I quickly looked at one of the samples that he mentioned: f6ad9ced69913916038f5bb94433848d. Read more »
Today, Steven Adair from Shadowserver imformed us about a new piece of malware that looks like a new version of the infamous Storm Worm. Storm was one of the first serious peer-to-peer botnets, it was sending out spam for more than two years until its decline in late 2008. Mark Schloesser, Tillmann Werner, Georg Wicherski, and I did some work on how to take down Storm back then, so the rumors about a new version caught our interest. Read more »
Some people say "Reverse Engineering is an art". Well, this might be true if you consider stuff like mathematics as art. It is more an application of standard methods that evolve constantly. Actually, everybody can learn these methods and start to RE executables. With the RE-Google plugin for IDA Pro, even your granny can start reversing :) Read more »
Many people have asked us, how Conficker looks like. That's a tough question for something that's hidden and tries to be as stealthy as possible. The last time somebody asked me: "Can you show me Conficker?", I decided to visualize Conficker. Here is a little video that shows the evil core of Conficker.C.
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While it seems to be impossible to say whether waledac is the successor of storm or not, what we can do is take a look at the traffic encryption. They guys over at Shadowserver have already blogged some details about this. We at the Giraffe Chapter investigated waledac's communication protocol further. Here are our results. Read more »
Waledac is wishing merry christmas
There is a new bot in town. It's called Waledac. The way it is spreading reminds a lot of people of the good old storm botnet: An email is sent containing a "christmas card" in form of the executable "postcard.exe".
A preliminary view on the binary has been given by the Shadowserver guys (Steve Adair).
I had the chance to have a first look at the binary (MD5 ccddda141a19d693ad9cb206f2ae0de9) and want to note down some of my few findings to let the hunt begin. Read more »


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President Barack Obama greets the crowd after speaking about immigration reform at Chamizal National Memorial Park in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, during his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Democrats have long been able to play good cop to the Republican bad cop on immigration reform and border security, which in effect has put minorities and those who care about these issues in the bind of voting for the lesser of two evils. But whether Barack Obama is trying to appeal to conservatives on immigration or is actually conservative at heart, his administration has proved that little, in fact, differentiates the two parties. Let's take a look.
Since the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, the issues of immigration and counterterrorism have been conflated. Much of the pressure to deport more and more undocumented immigrants comes from a fear that those immigrants could endanger the American people. As a result, Obama has dealt with immigration as a security problem rather than a humanitarian one. The result is what some call "Bush on steroids"—an unprecedented number of deportations, criminal-justice officers acting as immigration agents, and punitive rather than administrative detention centers.
With almost 400,000 deportations in 2010 alone, the Obama administration set a record for "overall removals of illegal aliens," an accomplishment it openly touts on its website and in Maria Hinojosa's must-see PBS Frontline documentary Lost in Detention. "Our approach has yielded historic results, removing more convicted criminal aliens than ever before and issuing more financial sanctions on employers who knowingly and repeatedly violate immigration law than during the entire previous administration," said Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano at a special press conference held in October of 2010.
To appease immigrant-rights advocates dismayed at the failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform last year, Obama assured that the focus was on detaining serious criminals—not productive members of society, and especially not students. In El Paso last May, the president reminded voters that his administration had beefed up border security so that a broad immigration-reform dialogue could begin but, he joked, Republicans would never be satisfied. Soon they'd want a moat with alligators at the border. After two and a half years of increasingly stringent immigration tactics and nothing by way of reform, the "lesser of two evils" story is beginning to come undone.
In June, the Department of Homeland Security issued an official memo instructing Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees to "refrain from pursuing noncitizens with close family, educational, military, or other ties in the U.S. and instead spend the agency's limited resources on persons who pose a serious threat to public safety or national security." In reality, however, the Obama administration arrested more than 150,000 noncriminal immigrants in fiscal year 2011. Some of those who qualified as criminal, had committed offenses as minor as driving with a busted taillight. Traffic violations are considered "level 2" crimes by ICE, which places it in the middle of the scale. Two studies cited in a report from the National Association of Social Workers found that that, depending on the jurisdiction, anywhere from 55 percent to 87 percent of "serious criminal" arrests through ICE's programs stem from misdemeanors such as traffic violations.
In August, the government announced an official policy of conducting case-by-case reviews of 300,000 pending deportations with the intent of allowing many undocumented immigrants without criminal records to stay in the United States indefinitely and apply for work permits. But in October, the national immigrant youth-led organization United We DREAM reported that those cases remained in limbo—including those of more than 100 DREAM Act students under their advisement and one of their board members, Matias Ramos.
Though Ramos was a low-priority immigrant, meaning not a criminal, and though he was eligible for the DREAM Act, he was arrested in the airport and asked to purchase his own ticket to leave the country as soon as possible. He was also ordered to wear an ankle bracelet while he remained in the U.S. With the help of United We DREAM advocates, who organized a 20,000-signature petition, Ramos was awarded a six-month stay, but his ultimate fate is still up in the air.
Before detained immigrants can even discover their fate, they are typically transferred to one of 250 detention centers running out of existing jails or managed by private corporations. One of those was a woman called "Mary," profiled in Lost in Detention. Mary was picked up in Florida for a routine traffic violation and taken to the Willacy Detention Center in South Texas, when it was discovered she had written a hot check ten years earlier. While in detention, guards repeatedly raped Mary. She begged to be deported rather than face more abuse, leaving behind her four young children. She hasn't seen them for more than two years.
An American Civil Liberties Union investigation found that claims of sexual abuse are widespread throughout the U.S. detention system, and a Frontline investigation found that the majority of the 170 complaints of sexual abuse have neither been investigated nor resolved.
While the administration continues to incarcerate undocumented immigrants in the name of "securing the border," it is also endangering the lives of American citizens and federal agents through the execution of reckless, cross-border operations unsanctioned by Congress.
The Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious, for instance, allowed illegal guns to "walk" across the border from Arizona into Mexico so that officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) could follow the weapons back to the Mexican drug-cartel leaders who use them. Slight problem: The ATF lost track of hundreds of guns, which have begun to show up in murder investigations across the Southwest. Investigators have linked the guns to a death in the Arizona desert in December 2010 and one in Mexico in February 2011.
Even more alarming are allegations, filed in federal court in August, that U.S. federal agents allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels.
These cases highlight the hypocrisy of an administration that vilifies innocuous immigrants while enabling actual criminals to conduct illegal business and even murder in the United States and throughout Mexico.
But what can Latinos do with President Obama's abysmal record, vote Republican? That would be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Republicans have been so brazen in their bias against Latinos [that some of them have begun to get recalled. Which is exactly the kind of thing President Obama plans to use to win votes in Arizona and other historically red states. It's a strategy of "Hey, I won't write the xenophobic laws." But he sure will enforce them.


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Jack Usher did his job with little fanfare, but his work as a 911
dispatcher with the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office was outstanding.
Usher, who first joined the department as a deputy, devoted half his life – 25 years – to law enforcement.
Skills he learned as a deputy were used in his later years as a 911
dispatcher at his post in the sheriff's office.
Earlier this month, Usher died following a sudden illness and the impact of his loss has been felt among the department and its employees, Usher, going back to his days as a deputy, had a keen knowledge of county roads and a unique way of giving directions to deputies on a call.
"You make a right and then turn at the big oak tree – he knew what
nformation the officers needed when dispatching them to a call,"
Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile said.
Usher could be characterized as a "model employee."
He was dependable and his work was truly a labor of love. It was common for him to take on extra duties and work extra shifts.
"He was just a company man," Faile said. "He was loyal to his agency and did what he could to benefit it. He was more than a good employee, he was a true friend."
Faile noted Usher was open to learning new tasks and technology and was quick to pass along his knowledge to other dispatchers.
Faile also noted Usher possessed a vital quality as a dispatcher. No
matter how intense an emergency situation became, Usher had a way of staying calm to assist a victim or direct a deputy to a situation.
"He was just a natural," Faile said. "He did an awesome job for us."
Usher's untimely death leaves a major hole to fill, but, at the same time, a fine model to follow.
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We cannot "firewall" or "patch" our way to secure websites. In the past, security professionals thought firewalls, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), patching, and privacy policies were enough. Today, however, these methods are outdated and ineffective, as attacks on prominent, well-protected websites are occurring every day. Most every organization in the world have something in common – they have had websites compromised in some way. No company or industry is immune. Programmers need to learn to build websites differently.
This BlackHat webinar will review the top coding techniques developers need to master in order to build a low-risk, high-security web application.
Jim Manico is the VP of Security Architecture for WhiteHat Security, a web security firm. He authors and delivers developer security awareness training for WhiteHat Security and has a background as a software developer and architect. Jim is also a global board member for the OWASP foundation. He manages and participates in several OWASP projects, including the OWASP cheat sheet series and the OWASP podcast series.
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The PCM has detected a problem in the secondary air injection system air flow or pressure sensor circuit. The secondary air injection system uses ambient air, which is pumped into the engine exhaust, to reduce emissions. "Bank 2" denotes the bank of the engine which does not contain the number one cylinder. Consult the manufacturer's service manual (or the equivalent) for the location of the number one cylinder.
Variations in secondary air injection system pressure and flow are read by the PCM in increments of input voltage. Input readings that vary from the manufacturer's referenced amount by greater than 10-percent are likely to cause a code to be stored and a malfunction indicator lamp to be illuminated. Some models require multiple ignition cycles (or drive cycles) for a malfunction indicator lamp to be illuminated but a code should be stored on the initial failure.
Symptoms may include abnormal noises from the secondary air injection system, engine hesitation upon acceleration, the engine may stall at startup or idle, a stored code, and (eventually) an illuminated malfunction indicator lamp.
The most common causes of this code being stored occur in cold weather conditions. The secondary air injection pump is protected by using a one way check valve that is integrated into the air inlet hose. The check valve usually goes bad and allows condensation (water) from the exhaust to enter the pump, where it freezes in extremely cold weather. With ice inside of the secondary air injection pump, it binds and either causes catastrophic pump failure or overloads the circuit (usually blowing the fuse). Electrical wiring and connectors are also subject to being burnt by high temperature engine exhaust.
Secondary air injection pump replacement, without fabricating a water drain on the pump housing, may lead to repeated pump failure. Testing the one way check valves is also critical to making a thorough diagnosis.


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As such, Construction Canada has been instrumental in disseminating information and keeping its readership—architects, engineers and specification writers—abreast of the latest happenings within the organization and reporting on the issues relevant to design professionals.
Construction Canada delves into the intricacies of construction projects and explores various design build challenges in an effort to give readers practical solutions to difficult problems.
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Atlanta Jazz Festival Celebrates 35 Years of Southern Hospitality and World Class Jazz
ATLANTA, GA - "We are reaching an important milestone as the Atlanta Jazz Festival celebrates 35 years," states Camille Russell Love, Director of the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs. "We take our stewardship of the festival seriously and salute the leaders whose vision and hard work created this preeminent cultural event, featuring well-known jazz legends and exciting new artists."
"For the entire month of May, through the performances in Piedmont Park over Memorial Day weekend, Atlanta Jazz Festival will continue the rich tradition of presenting world class jazz, combined with southern hospitality. Whether you like your jazz traditional or contemporary, smooth or eclectic, with big band swing or a Latin beat, we'll have something to excite your senses and soothe your soul. We invite jazz enthusiasts of all ages to join us for an unforgettable experience."
This year's performance schedule includes jazz greats Roy Ayers, Cyrus Chestnut, Kathleen Bertrand, Russell Gunn, Edy Martinez, Ojeda Penn and Johnny O'Neal. Newcomers to the festival include the rhythmic Tito Puente Jr. Orchestra, soulful singer and saxophonist Grace Kelly, and the R&B and hip-hop influenced Robert Glasper Experiment.
Here's an overview of the 35th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival:
"31 Days of Jazz"
Every day throughout the month of May there will be jazz performances in parks, restaurants, clubs and venues around Atlanta as part of this year's Atlanta Jazz Festival. Activities will include live jazz in Underground Atlanta, Martinis & IMAX at Fernbank Museum, Jazz Under the Stars at Clark Atlanta University, Friday Jazz at the High Museum and Fiesta Atlanta in Centennial Olympic Park. The entire "31 Days of Jazz" schedule will be available online at: www.atlantafestivals.com
You can also pick up a brochure with the schedule at participating partners and enter the Passport Program contest to win prizes and a special VIP Festival Experience.
AJF Weekend Evening Concerts
This year there will be three concerts at the Loews Atlanta Hotel, located at 1065 Peachtree Street, in the heart of Midtown.
· Ojeda Penn will perform on Thursday, May 24 from 8-10 pm in Bar Eleven. Admission is free.
· Johnny O'Neal will perform in the AJF35 Kickoff Cabaret on Friday, May 25 in the Mercer Ballroom. Opening performance by Jennifer Freeman. Doors open at 7 pm for an 8 pm performance. Tickets prices are $35 per person or $200 for a reserved table for 4. Tickets are available at www.ticketalternative.com
· AJF Late Night Jazz Jam with Friends will be hosted by Jason Orr on Sunday, May 27 from 10 pm-2 am in the Ellington Ballroom. Tickets are $35 per person and are available at www.ticketalternative.com
AJF35 @ Piedmont Park
The festival is back in beautiful Piedmont Park this year with three days of music over Memorial Day Weekend from Saturday, May 26 through Monday, May 28.
· Piedmont Park will be open each day during the festival from 11 am - 11 pm. The event is open to the public and it is FREE.
· Two stages will feature live music all three days from 1 pm - 11 pm.
· Two KidZone areas will offer family-friendly fun from Noon - 6pm each day. Activities will include sports like soccer and basketball, a cooling tent where popular cartoons will be screened each day, face painters, inflatables and the ever popular hula hoops! The KidZones are sponsored by Cartoon Network and Publix Super Markets.
· Go Green Jazz Eco Village will further environmental education. The Atlanta Jazz Festival is partnering with the City of Atlanta Office of Sustainability and additional organizations whose missions relate to eight areas of sustainability concern: Air quality, Land use, Transportation, Energy, Water conservation, Sustainability planning, Human health & community vitality and Waste.
Their goal is not only to reduce the festival's environmental impact during the festival, but to encourage sustainability planning beyond the festival weekend. Partners like Zipcar, Boxcar Grocer and the Department of Watershed Management will present information and demonstrations to help festival-goers learn ways to positively impact their lives, their communities, and the environment.
· A wide variety of food vendors will tempt your taste buds with BBQ, gyros, burgers, Caribbean foods and more! Browse among the booths for unique items including art, clothing and jewelry.
The 35th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival is presented by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.
For a complete listing of events for "31 Days of Jazz" and the full performance schedule in Piedmont Park, please visit the official festival web site at www.atlantafestivals.com
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Re: st: ltable for repeated events
Sowmya Rajan <email@example.com>
Re: st: ltable for repeated events
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:18:30 -0400
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try to see if I can figure this out.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Steve Samuels <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, there is no command that will do this. You will have
> to construct the tables in a do-file, and I have no example to show
> you. Before starting out, be sure to read
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/stmfail.html.
> There might well be published examples that you can imitate. A quick
> Google search found:
> http://library2.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-12192007-232441/unrestricted/ghosh_s.pdf;
> see especially Chapter 5.
> Assuming that you want something more:
> How you would set up each table depends on whether your events are of
> the same or different types and whether you consider them unordered or
> ordered. I would guess yours are ordered. In that case, you have to
> decide on the method for your analysis, as outlined in Section 3.2 of
> the FAQ page. You might want one table for each order (1st, 2nd, 3rd
> occurrence), but the start time might or might not be zero. You also
> have to decide on the quantities to appear in the table. The minimum
> would be: number at risk at each time point, number of events (of
> possibly different types, including exits), and the rates of these
> event. If you show cumulative probabilites, they should appropriate to
> the table you have created. For example, you might show probabilities
> for time to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd events, starting from entry or from the
> time of the previous event (or both!).
> This discussion assumes that no individual experiences more than one
> event at a time point. If your data are not discrete, but are grouped
> (took place within intervals, with unknown order of events within
> intervals ), then I suggest that you estimate the proportion of
> individuals with at least one event, perhaps the proportion with 2+
> events, and the average event rate (events/person-time).
> In short, with multiple failure data, you have fundamental choices to
> make, and the tables you create should reflect those choices.
> Steve
> Steven J. Samuels
> email@example.com
> 18 Cantine's Island
> Saugerties NY 12477
> Voice: 845-246-0774
> Fax: 206-202-4783
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Sowmya Rajan <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm working on discrete-time event history modeling for a case of
>> repeated events (multiple episodes). I'd like to construct life tables
>> by age and race using this data on multiple episodes per respondent.
>> As far as I can see, the STATA command for life tables is ltable;
>> unfortunately, I don't think this command is set up for repeated
>> events. I am sort of stuck here, since I am not able to find the
>> appropriate code for drawing up a life table for repeated events. I
>> was wondering if there is a specific way/ code/ command to handle
>> this, and would really appreciate any help/ advice you may have in
>> this regard.
>> Thanks!
>> Sowmya Rajan.
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LONDON (Reuters) - As baby boomers hit retirement and generation Xers become soccer moms, more and more families will be looking for vacation spots that work for a wider age group. With this in mind, the members and editors of VirtualTourist.com compiled a list of the "Top 10 Multi-Generational Destinations." The aim was to find locales that will provide stimulating activities and a multitude of options for children, parents, and grandparents while on vacation. Reuters has not endorsed this list:
1. Florence, Italy
In addition to being the center of Renaissance culture and one of Europe's most beautiful cities, Florence provides a compact, easily walkable destination for families of all ages. One great thing about Florence is that even if some family members have already visited the city, there are always more things to see, and many of the city's masterpieces are just as thrilling on the second or third visit. Architectural landmarks include the Duomo, topped by Brunelleschi's dome, and the Bapistry, with its exquisite gold doors. No trip to Florence is complete with a visit to the Uffizi Gallery and the Galleria della Accademia, which houses Michaelangelo's David. VirtualTourist members suggest getting timed tickets for both of these museums in advance of your trip; otherwise, the line can be quite atrocious! Women of all ages will enjoy strolling the Ponte Vecchio, the bridge over the Arno River that is lined with gold jewelry shops, and VT members also noted that the Palazzo Medici and the Chapel of the Magi, though not a usual tour stop, is definitely worth the extra few Euros. For those who'd like to explore other Tuscan towns, Lucca, San Gimignano, and Siena are all picturesque and very different from the bustle of Florence. 2. Washington, DC
Washington is an ideal place for a multi-generational gathering. The variety of culture is amazing - from monuments and museums to interesting culinary experiences. Children will be astounded by the airplanes hanging from the ceilings at the National Air and Space Musuem, and adults can marvel at the details of James McNeill Whistler's opulent Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. No matter their age, all visitors to the National Gallery of Art will be amazed at both the collection of works, and the Concourse walkway, where sculptor Leo Villareal's light project, Multiverse, glitters and glows. If walking between the monuments is too much, perhaps try the paddle boats at the Tidal Basin; they provide a great view of the Jefferson Memorial. One great advantage to Washington, DC, is the amount of FREE cultural experiences: all of the Smithsonian Museums and National Monuments are free to the public. If your trip allows for a short jaunt out of town, you can check out Colonial Williamsburg and Busch Gardens, located just under 3 hours south of the Capitol in Williamsburg, Virginia. 3. London, England
London has always been a great spot for family members of all ages. There are high culture activities, like the Tate Modern or the National Portrait Gallery, as well as more hands-on diversions, like the London Eye and the Royal Observatory, where you'll find the Greenwich Meridian Line. Thanks to London's fantastic "tube," it's very easy to see multiple areas in one day. Visitors might start at Trafalgar Square, visiting the National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square, and St Martin-in-the-Fields, then hop on the Tube to Westminster, where Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, and the House of Lords are all located. Other venues not to be missed are the British Museum, which houses the Rosetta Stone, and the Tate Modern in the Southbank area. Another great treat in London is the theatre - visit Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, also along the Southbank, or catch a show in the city's West End. Similar to Washington, DC, London is a great place to soak up culture, since entrance to most of the city's large museums is free, though tickets must be purchased for most special shows and exhibitions. 4. Banff National Park and Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
Skip the Alaskan cruise that all your friends are taking and go explore the true wilderness- the kind that isn't readily available anywhere nearby. Alberta, Canada is home to some of the most beautiful, pristine, and well-preserved natural settings in the world, including Banff National Park, Canada's first national park and the world's third national park. The Xplorer Club, which includes a free interactive booklet, provides interactive activities for children, including a scavenger hike and Banff National Park Bingo, so they better keep their eyes peeled for elk, bears and Woodland Caribou. The area is unique in that it provides equal amounts of activities no matter the season. In summer, there are great hiking trails, rafting excursions, biking trips, or horseback rides; the winter provides ample snow for both downhill or cross country skiing, snowshoeing, ice fishing, and enjoying the hot springs! Another great aspect of Banff & Lake Louise is that there are so many options, any activity can be modified: for example, the number of hiking trails provide for any difficulty level, length of hike, and time, so people of all ages can participate in activities. For those who aren't up for seriously steep hills, a simple stroll around Lake Louise or Moraine Lake provides some exercise and beautiful scenery. 5. Barcelona, Spain
While many European cities are difficult for an entire family to visit, Barcelona is ideal for a family. While small children can enjoy the amusement park on top of Mt. Tibadabo, they'll also admire the Modernisme architecture of Gaudi's Casa Batilo, La Pedrera, and Park Guell. Kids will likewise enjoy strolling Las Ramblas and watching street performers, with a short break at La Boqueria, Barcelona's famous market. The town's music culture and fantastic shopping will keep teenagers and young adults plenty occupied, as will its fun neighborhoods like El Born and El Raval. For older family members, the compact Barri Gotic (Gothic Quarter) is great for exploring on foot, with the Cathedral, the archway on Carrer del Bisbe, and Museu d'Historia de Barcelona all within a few blocks of each other. VirtualTourist members have remarked that the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona is a unique find - underneath the Placa del Rei, there is an archaeological site showcasing what the Roman colony of Barcino was like, giving visitors the opportunity to walk among the ruins beneath the square. A short train ride takes the family to Sitges, a beautiful beachside community, for a different view of Catalonia. 5. Costa Rica
While arts and architecture might excite some families, visiting the rainforest on an eco-tour might be just the ticket for families with both plant and animal lovers. Since 25% of the nation's land is protected conservation areas, Costa Rica is an ideal spot for this type of travel. For the more active in the group, there are zip lines and suspended bridges throughout the rainforest canopy, perfect for spotting animals and the country's unique fauna. There are numerous ways of exploring the terrain, from hiking and mountain biking, to more unique means of transport like ATVs or horseback. For those who are looking for a more relaxed travel experience, Costa Rica has beautiful beaches on both its Pacific and Caribbean shores, though travelers interested in surfing and waves might prefer the beaches along the Pacific. 6. San Diego, CA
A delight for children and adults alike, San Diego is a great place for a multi-generational trip. Possibly the most kid-friendly destination in America, San Diego boasts a world famous zoo, SeaWorld, LegoLand, and the Zoo's Safari Park. The city's proximity to Anaheim (less than 2 hours by car) means families can easily visit Disneyland for a night or two as well. In Balboa Park, the entire family can find fun activities: kids can visit the Zoo, while some adults can peruse the San Diego Museum of Art or enjoy Balboa's amazing collection of gardens. Both children and adults will enjoy a visit to Coronado, where adults will recognize the Hotel del Coronado from movies such as "Some Like It Hot," and kids will delight in the island's fantastic white sand beaches. Those interested in nightlife and a great bar scene need only venture to the Gaslamp Quarter, while couples looking for a romantic seaside stroll might want to venture up to La Jolla, one of the most beautiful beaches in California. 7. Safari in Kenya and Tanzania, Africa
If you want every generation to be amazed, few journeys and experiences can impact people of any age like the visuals of an East African safari. The itineraries can vary widely, but many trips seem to begin in Nairobi, Kenya, and include seeing both the giraffes and tribes around the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Kenya's neighbor to the south, Tanzania, is another destination not to be missed, with such natural wonders as Ngorongora Crater, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Serengeti National Park. The Ngorongora Crater, a result of a collapsed volcanic eruption, is now home to lions, elephants, hyenas, gazelles, and zebras. Serengeti National Park is the yearly site of the zebra migration, an awe-inspiring sight no matter what the traveler's age. 8. Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Only a handful of beach destinations have the luxury of being able to guarantee great weather, and with around only 7 inches of rain each year, Los Cabos is among those privileged few. For the more active travelers, there is snorkeling, windsurfing, jet skis, and parasailing. A great activity that accommodates multiple levels of activity is deep sea fishing. The Sea of Cortez is home to a wide array of game fish including blue marlin, wahoo, dorado, cabrilla, and yellowtail. While reeling in the fish can be a lot of work, the less active of the group can enjoy the boat ride and a cerveza. Between December and March, there is also the opportunity to whale watch in the waters around Los Cabos. 9. Gold Coast, Australia
A VirtualTourist.com member from New Zealand suggested Australia's Gold Coast as a great family spot, and we can't agree more! Located in the south-east corner of Queensland, Australia, the Gold Coast is almost equidistant from Byron Bay, New South Wales, and Brisbane, Queensland. With beach names like "Mermaid Beach" and "Surfers Paradise," it's understandable why the 70 km (43.5 miles) of open coastline is world-renowned. For kids who like theme parks, there is a SeaWorld, a Wet ân' Wild, and Warner Brothers Movie World, all within 25 minutes of each other. The Gold Coast is actually Australia's most bio-diverse area, filled with subtropical rainforests; lookout tracks in Lamington National Park will provide view of both lush vegetation, but also even Byron Bay! Along the coastline, there are many "learn to dive" sites, for teenagers who want to try scuba diving but are not yet certified, as well as surf schools. For those who don't want to hike for views, there is SkyPoint Observation Deck in Surfers Paradise, providing a 360 degree view of the Gold Coast from over 230m (755 ft.) above the beaches below.
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Make Every Drop Count on Your Yard
Make Every Drop Count on Your Lawn
In general, Kentucky bluegrass requires about 1 inch per week in April and May, 1 ¼ in June, 1 ½ in July and August, 1 ¼ in September and 1 inch in October.
Consider allowing Kentucky bluegrass and buffalograss lawns to go dormant. Irrigate only if no rain is received for 3 weeks. Minimize foot traffic and mowing on dormant turf. Tall fescue lawns do not recover well if allowed to go dormant in severe drought conditions.
Measure the amount of water applied in a 15 minute period using collection devices such as tuna or coffee cans. Adjust the runtime to deliver the required amount. Change the runtime seasonally and remember to subtract any rainfall.
Water to the bottom of the roots. Use a screwdriver or soil probe to determine how deep the roots are and how far the water has soaked in. Try to keep the soil moist about a half inch deeper than the deepest living roots or to a depth of 8 to 9 inches if root depth is not known.
Water in the early morning (4 to 10 a.m.). Watering is more efficient in the morning due to less evaporation and low wind speed.
Observe your automatic sprinkler system once per month. Look for heads that don't turn, that spray the street or sidewalk, bent or damaged heads, clogged or worn nozzles or orifices, turf growth around heads, etc.
Return grass clippings to the lawn using a recycling type mower. Clippings are a good nutrient source, and help to conserve moisture.
Consider reducing the number of fertilizer applications, or reducing the amount of fertilizer applied to produce less growth and moisture loss.
Mow Kentucky bluegrass lawns at 2 ½ to 3 inches; and tall fescue lawns in the 3-4 inch range to conserve moisture.
When watering on a slope, use "delayed starts". Run sprinklers until you notice runoff, then stop. Wait 3 hours, then resume. Aerate in spring or fall to increase infiltration.
When overseeding, irrigate lightly and frequently. The new turf plants have a shallow root system, so timing should be adjusted accordingly.
Adjust heads as landscape plants grow larger and begin to block the spray pattern. New installations of benches, decks, etc. can also decrease irrigation efficiency.
Make Every Drop Count in Your Landscape
The design of a home landscape should incorporate a thorough assessment of site conditions (sun vs. shade, dry vs. wet, etc.) so that seclected plants can be located to take advantage of existing soil moisture conditions and remain healthy and vigorous with minimal supplemental irrigation.
Install native and/or adapted plants that are drought resistant and require minimal supplemental irrigation once established (refer to web sites or consult your local nursery/garden center for suggestions).
Create water zones by putting plants together that have similar water needs. Ornamental plants, including turf species, can be grouped into low, moderate and high water users. Each zone should be watered according to its need for supplemental irrigation, which should be accurately estimated based upon the month of application, actual precipitation, and weather conditions (refer to web publications).
Mulch garden plants (a 2"-3" layer is most effective) to reduce evaporation and weed competion for available soil moisture. Organic mulches, such as wood chips, evergreen needles, straw, corn cobs and dried grass clippings also improve soil infiltration and water-holding capacity over time.
Amend soils with compost, manure or leaf mold to improve the water holding capacity and infiltration of soils as well as plant vigor and health during drought conditions.
Carefully assess landscape watering patterns to minimize spray on sidewalks and paved surfaces, blockage of spray by plants or other obstructions, and run-off on slopes or clay soils.
Focus irrigation for woody plants at/or beyond the dripline to promote extensive rooting. Apply water deeply and infrequently. Where practical, minimize evaporation and wind loss by using soaker hoses or drip systems, and water in the early morning (4 a.m. to 10 a.m.).
Maximize the value of natural rainfall by capturing and recycling rainwater in barrels or buckets to water patio planters, or detain stormwater runoff in dry wells or streambeds to enhance landscape soil moisture.
Automatic irrigation of woody and perennial plants should be carefully adjusted throughout the growing season so that supplemental water applications do not exceed the water amounts required by plants and lost through evaporation (refer to Nebguide publication G1400).
Regardless of ability to tolerate drought, all plants require supplemental irrigation when first established. In order to increase water use efficiency and potentially improve plant establishment in a new landscape, consider hand-watering individual plants for the first several months of the growing season (especially those with large rootballs planted in extremely compacted soils). This will ensure that the limited root systems are efficiently receiving adequate water without necessitating irrigation coverage over the entire landscape area.
Droughts are a normal part of life in the Great Plains and for Nebraska. Many droughts are short-term and may only affect small areas, but multiple-year droughts like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s are relatively common as well. In 2012, Nebraska experienced its driest summer in more than 50 years. Conserving water in your home, lawn, and landscape helps to reduce the impact of residential water demand on our natural resources.
Mountain snows in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana that provide water and fill reservoirs along the Platte and Missouri Rivers have been low for several years. Lake McConaughy could reach its lowest level since it first reached peak storage in 1952. In southwestern Nebraska, flows in the Republican River continue to set record lows. Rains may provide some relief for the state, but it is more than likely that water-related drought impacts across Nebraska will continue into the near, and possibly distant future.
For More Information:
- University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension
- Publications:
- Perennials in Water-Wise Landscapes (G1214)
- Landscape Sustainability (G1405)
- Backyard Farmer
- Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
Produced by the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension in cooperation with:
Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services Regulation and Licensure
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
National Drought Mitigation Center
Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
Nebraska League of Municipalities
Nebraska Rural Water Association
Nebraska Well Drillers Association
UNL Conservation and Survey Division
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Urbanspoon is, if you'll forgive the pun, shaking up its signature iPhone app with a completely new interface and by adding recommendations, filters and maps.
The new app available today still preserves the traditional slot-machine "shake" method of finding restaurants for which Urbanspoon is known. But the free app now highlights other methods of finding eateries:
- Filters. Restaurants now can be selected by those which are the "hottest" (have the most activity by critics and bloggers), customer thumbs-up-or-down ratings, price and other criteria.
- Reviews. Recommendations from the James Beard Foundation, Eater and Village Voice critics are now part of the app, along with input from the Urbanspoon blogger network. (Seattle Weekly is a Village Voice publication.)
- Maps. An interactive map with a drag-and-drop pin allows exploring restaurants in different areas by cuisine, distance, name and other filters.
Along with the new user interface, the Urbanspoon app also lets a wish list be created of restaurants you think you might like to try — and then alerts you when you're close to any of them.
While some of the new features aren't unique — for example, Yelp and TripAdvisor also have filtering or mapping features for restaurants — availability in a single integrated app may be appreciated by those who rely on Urbanspoon for suggestions on where to spend their next meal ticket.
Previously on GeekWire: Urbanspoon seats 1 million diners, looks to feast on OpenTable


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There are some things in life that you don't need to have experience in for them to just look appealing. Cupcakes, a nice icy drink, or for me, a good clear broth soup. I don't know what it is, but I've always just gone nuts for a good Miso or Tom Yum. For some bizarre reason, I had never ventured to try Vietnamese chicken soup (phở gà pronounced "Fuh Guh") I'm insane, I know!
I found an amazing comprehensive recipe on the Spicy Foodie, a food blog I have become very fond of, and while the list of ingredients and instructions may seem a little daunting, once you have a good read through and get your mind around it, you'll see it's not as scary as it looks, and once you get the hang of it, it'll be a walk in the park. I was determined to have the recipe turn out as right and best it could, so I made it my mission to get amongst the markets & source the freshest spices & herbs. It honestly made all the difference, I think!
Full credit of the following phở gà recipe to the Spicy Foodie, drop past their site & have a look at their amazing yums! The photos in this post are my own ^_^
Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup: Pho Ga
Author: SpicieFoodie.com & Nancy Lopez-McHugh
Serves: 4
Broth Ingredients:
- 1 chicken carcass
- 2 chicken wings
- 2 chicken breast, skinless
- water
- large pot
- 1 medium yellow onion, cut in half and do not peel
- 1 large piece of fresh ginger, do not peel
- 1 tsp. coriander seed
- 2 green cardamom pods, bruised
- 1 whole star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 5 whole cloves
- 1 tsp granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp. fish sauce
- rice noodles cooked according to package instructions
- lime wedges
- fresh cilantro leaves
- fresh mint leaves
- scallions sliced
- sliced chile
- bean sprouts
Start the broth:
- Place chicken pieces and water in a pot with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil. Use a colander to drain the chicken and discard the broth. Set the chicken pieces aside. Rinse/wash the pot out or have a new clean pot ready to use. Next rinse off the chicken pieces then place back inside the pot.
- The ginger and onion need to be charred. Place them both over an open flame/gas stove flame, or on top of a very hot griddle, or they can also be charred under the broiler setting in the oven. Turn the onion and ginger to char evenly throughout. (I used an open flame and it took me about 8 minutes.) Set aside to cool down.(I used a hot griddle & wore an oven mitt to protect my hands from the high temperatures!)
Toast the spices:
- In a clean pan dry roast the spices to bring out the scents and flavors. Roast for 2 minutes stirring often to prevent burning. Remove from pan and set aside to cool.
- Peel the onions, and using a knife gently scrape away the charred ginger skin. Cut the ginger into 4 chunks and use the flat edge of the knife to bruise the ginger.
- Place the ginger, onions, cooled spices into the pot with the chicken pieces. (Alternatively the spices may be placed inside a spice bag before putting in pot.) Add 4 liters or 8 cups of water to the pot. Then add the 1 tsp granulated sugar and 2 tbsp. fish sauce. Cover and bring to a boil, once boiling reduce heat down to medium low and leave a small crack to allow steam to escape. Simmer the soup for at least an hour, longer if time allowed. I simmer my pho for about 2-3 hours. The longer the better.
Once the soup has finished simmering, strain and discard the spices and carcass — NOT THE BROTH. Thinly slice or shred the chicken breast. Add some cooked rice noodles to the soup bowls then ladle the chicken broth over the noodles. You can either serve the additional garnishes on the side so everyone can add their own or top the soup with them.
I made this for Alex and I with much success! We ate like kings and still had a good amount of broth leftover, so I placed it in an airtight container, in the fridge to be reheated the next day. I decided to put my own twist on this serving, and this is what I did:
- Pan fried a skinless, chicken thigh fillet off the bone, which was dusted slightly with Vegeta powdered chicken stock, just to really enhance the chickeny flavour. It really added to the flavour of the broth, which I reheated to a gentle simmer on the stovetop, rather than risk harming flavours with the microwave.
- Added some raw Enoki mushrooms, Boy Choy and crushed peanuts. It was delish!- Pan fried a skinless, chicken thigh fillet off the bone, which was dusted slightly with Vegeta powdered chicken stock, just to really enhance the chickeny flavour. It really added to the flavour of the broth, which I reheated to a gentle simmer on the stovetop, rather than risk harming flavours with the microwave.
- Added some raw Enoki mushrooms, Boy Choy and crushed peanuts. It was delish!
Do you have a preferred twist on Pho? I'd love to hear it! This was my first ever experience with it, and I am very keen to make some more!
I hope this inspires you to go out and give making your own bone stock broth from scratch a go, if someone as kitchen illiterate as me managed okay, you'll be fine!
I've been cooking a lot with salmon, and even managed to convert Alex to eating it! I'll get around to posting the recipes, promise!
Happy eating!


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Okay, I'm gearing up again after the holiday weekend. My new tutorial is almost - but not quite ready. I think it will make it's appearance tomorrow.
My holiday weekend was full of ups and downs and I think I'll just sum it up with these statements:
Rain gets old
Parenting is hard
Onion rings are awesome
Free fun is especially fun
Etsy is mysteriousIce cream won't solve your problems but it really can make you feel better, at least for a short while
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On Friday, for the fifth time since winter, a judge threw out a state's ban on gay marriage and let the ruling take immediate effect, prompting a wave of confusion and celebration statewide.
The latest state to see its gay couples galvanized into action: Wisconsin.
On Friday evening pairs of men and pairs of women began lining up outside the offices of county clerks in at least two Wisconsin counties in hope of obtaining an officially signed marriage license.
In Dane County, clerk Scott McDonell feverishly processed paperwork; with at least 20 couples still waiting in line, about two hours remained before he planned to close for the day at 9 p.m. Forty couples had been served by 7:30 p.m.
Once they had their licenses, many couples kissed and hugged their way across the street, where black-robed officiants were performing weddings, according to county official Casey Becker.
The legality of the marriages is likely to be questioned. They occurred hours after U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb in Madison struck down Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage and did not issue a stay.
Wisconsin Atty. Gen. J.B. Van Hollen quickly sought an emergency order to put a stop to the weddings. He said county clerks were wrong to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses because Crabb's ruling signaled that she did not intend to order them to do so for at least two weeks.
If the judge had wanted gay marriages to start, she could have issued an injunction with her Friday ruling, Van Hollen said in a court filing.
"We've seen the disruption to couples and families throughout the U.S. when courts have first allowed same-sex marriage only to have those marriages subsequently called into question by another court," Van Hollen said in a statement. "I anticipate the U.S. Supreme Court will give finality to this issue in their next term."
Since the U.S. Supreme Court last summer ruled that parts of the Defense of Marriage Act were unconstitutional, more than a dozen state and federal courts have handed victories to same-sex marriage advocates.
Most of the rulings have been put on hold pending appeal. But in Michigan, Utah, Arkansas, Oregon and now Wisconsin, the lack of stay has allowed for same-sex marriages -- at least in the opinion of some county clerks.
With the exception of Oregon, higher courts eventually stopped clerks from issuing same-sex marriage licenses until appeals are exhausted. Pending those appeals, states have not recognized marriages performed between the lower and higher court rulings, denying the couples immediate access to the same local benefits as opposite-sex couples and leaving them unsure about what to call their relationship.
(In the Oregon case, the state declined to appeal the ruling striking down a ban on gay marriage. Many local officials in Wisconsin urged the state's lawyers to do the same.)
Indeed, as of Friday, 19 states and the District of Columbia could issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But marriage laws are under legal challenge in each of the 31 states that do not. The first appellate court ruling could come as early as next week and serve as the basis to take the issue of gay marriage to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the Wisconsin case, eight gay or lesbian couples sought either to marry or to have their marriages from other states be recognized. Crabb ruled that the state's definition of marriage as between a man and a woman violated the couples' constitutionally guaranteed promise of liberty and equality by denying them access to a "defining rite of passage" in American society.
The clerks in Dane and Milwaukee counties waived the normal requirement that couples wait several days between obtaining a marriage license and holding a wedding. Both counties also planned to continue issuing licenses to same-sex couples on Saturday.
As many as 100 couples received licenses in Milwaukee County on Friday night, according to Dane County Executive Joe Parisi on Twitter.


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We've all seen the horrible, gut-wrenching images of the Haiti disaster and our hearts go out to all the people affected by the earthquakes in that region. Julia Billen, the President of WarmlyYours, felt so strongly about wanting to help the Haitians that she proposed an idea to help raise money "in house". One of the benefits we enjoy as WarmlyYours employees is that the company pays for our lunch in the building's cafeteria every day. But on Friday, January 22nd we were given the option to bring our lunch from home instead, and all the money saved would then be donated to the Red Cross. WarmlyYours also offered to make a "dollar for dollar" match for every contribution made as a result of an employee donating their lunch money as well as for any employee's cash donation. We had tremendous success with 100% employee participation! While we are a fairly small office, every single person brown bagged it and some folks even made cash contributions for a total WarmlyYours donation of $1390! I normally wouldn't toot our horn so much, but I'm really proud of how the WarmlyYours family pulled together to help out! Hopefully, our contribution will have some small, but positive impact on the lives of the Haitian people. I know many of our thoughts and/or prayers are with them all right now.
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Like last year, the series will run in the spring with classes coming every two weeks from March through June with all but one class meeting at the Washington County Extension Office.
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