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Increasing water demands in water-scarce Jordan is putting pressure on one of the country's largest groundwater basins, the Azraq oasis
Intensive pumping carried out over the past 20 years has caused a lowering of the basin's water table, leading to increased salinity of the area's soils. Over-extraction has also led to the drying up of springs, spurring wildfires across an increasingly dry environment. Agricultural expansion, urban growth and environmental needs all tap into the dwindling water resources, deteriorating further water quality and quantity in the region. With a fourth of Azraq's groundwater channeled to Jordan's capital Amman, a concerted action on managing and preserving the basin is underway, led by the IUCN West Asia Regional Office (ROWA).
The objective of the Azraq Oasis Restoration project is to contribute to the economic development of the region, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. The IUCN Water and Nature Initiative (WANI), through ROWA is working in the Azraq basin to support the equitable management of water resources by building capacity of the different stakeholders and assisting in improving water resources management for agricultural production and environmental sustainability. This is done through enhancing participatory processes of sustainable water management as a continuous dialogue of all the different water users.
On November 17, participants of the 11th WANI meeting, including the global WANI team and ROWA project staff, met with various stakeholders of the Azraq basin. It provided for an insight perspective of the different needs and demands, and the environmental and socio-economic challenges the region is facing. The visit also included a tour of the Azraq Wetlands Reserve, a unique ecosystem lying at the heart of the basin and recognized as a Ramsar site for its wealth of biodiversity and importance for migratory bird species. IUCN is supporting the work of the Royal Society for Conservation of Nature (RSCN), an IUCN member, in its efforts to preserve and restore the Ramsar wetland site.
An important focus of the project is community empowerment, for different user groups of local communities to participate in decision making process concerning water resources and addressing long term access and rights to water. IUCN has identified the Arab Women Organization (AWO) as a partner in the project for community participatory planning and management. AWO is an IUCN member and is implementing joint project activities whilst IUCN supports AWO in process documentation and policy influencing.
The proposed project for the Azraq oasis restoration is planned for the period of June 2008 – November 2010. An important success factor will be the commitment of the Jordanian government and Azraq community to make the necessary efforts in the restoration process of the basin. The project operates under the policy and technical guidance of a Steering Committee composed of representatives from the Ministry of Environment, AWO, the Badia Development and Research Center (BDRC), and the IUCN WANI initiative.
For more information, please contact the IUCN Azraq Project Coordinator, Fida Haddad:
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Princess Mary's Pride Cocktail.
1/4 French Vermouth. (1/2 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/4 Dubonnet. (1/2 oz Dubonnet)
1/2 Calvados. (1 oz Groult Calvados Reserve)
Shake (I stirred) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Created by Harry Craddock on February 28, 1922, to mark the wedding celebrations of H.R.H Princess Mary.
Like the preceding Princess Mary, this was created to mark the wedding of H.R.H. Princess Mary. Nothing against Mr. McElhone's cocktail, but this is about a zillion times better to me.
Being 2/3 aperitif wine, it is on the light side, but the flavorful Groult Calvados still pokes it's head out, giving the drink a flavorful character.
Thoroughly enjoyable, this is one cocktail I suspect is better with Calvados than it would be with American Apple Brandy.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.

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Battlestar Galactica calls for environments that are out of this world. These worlds can cost millions of dollars to manufacture, and they also constrict the imagination of writers because, well... they have to be physical. So, in order to produce the next installment of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, NBC Universal decided to attempt a pioneering feat: Create these worlds digitally.
This new series, which made its debut on Machinima Prime's YouTube channel (and later will be broadcast on the Syfy channel, and released on DVD & Blu-ray, On-Demand, and for digital download), was shot entirely against a green screen, using a stage piece for just three minutes out of the 89 minutes recorded so far. The advantage to this type of shooting is cost. The budget for this new series was just a few million dollars, and with that, they will create a 10-webisode "backdoor" pilot for a potential new TV series.
To realize this sci-fi drama's virtual set, producers use LightWave 3D 11.5, the latest version of the software (watch a demo below).
Apart from the monetary advantage, the visual effects supervisor for the show, Gary Hutzel, said that achieving a look that was emotionally gripping but still subtle to the viewer was successfully implemented by the software's latest visualization tools and lighting effects. This software was used during the series' 10-year span, but never to this extent.
This new version of the software includes features that surely helped the show's production. New modeling tools for easier functionality and architectural advancements lead to the creation of more than 20 virtual sets. The new Genoma feature streamlines the creation of biped and quadruped animated creatures using modular rigging tools and premade skeletal parts like arms, legs, spines, and wings as rig presets.
Action scenes got a more realistic look with LightWave 3D's new soft-body bullet dynamics that provide different effects when shooting into cloth, rubber, etc., and take into account bone deformation and wind force ripples. New flocking features include organic movement for scenes between opposing groups like pray and predator, and many other mass multi-node interactions.
Interchange tools now allow the producers to view individual elements in Adobe After Effects to perfect lighting, camera settings, and to also use Adobe's Camera tracker. LightWave 3D 11.5 is also compatible with ZBrush, using tools like its GoZ, which makes it easy to get the perfect textures on renderings.
With these tools, a team of 10 CG artists accomplished all the set building, perfected lighting, designed all of the action sequences, and lined up shots to create the feel of previous Battlestar Galacticas, while making scenes look even more sci-fi. "What person who fancies himself a filmmaker doesn't dream of being able to do that? ...This is the kind of power that comes from that unassuming little CG package called LightWave," said Doug Drexler, CG supervisor on Blood & Chrome, about bringing the writer's imagination to life via the award-winning software.
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The yuan's recent decline, the first in seven years, is raising eyebrows among U.S. politicians and sparking concerns that the weakening currency could trigger another round of nasty bickering between Beijing and Washington.
The renminbi has fallen one percent against the U.S. dollar so far this year, after appreciating 22 percent since 2005 when China abandoned the currency's peg to the greenback. Analysts say the development could further the case for U.S. lawmakers, who have long held the belief that China is keeping its currency artificially cheap, giving the country's own exports an unfair advantage.
Already, the rumblings have begun. Mitt Romney, the U.S. Republican presidential candidate, has dragged in the issue in the race for the White House, declaring to voters that the U.S. will adopt a tougher stance and accuse China of currency manipulation.
Frank Lavin, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade from 2005 to 2007, said the yuan issue "is not going away" and will "surface intermittently in these final three months" of the U.S. presidential elections.
"There is a view in a segment of the electorate that the Chinese have artificially manipulated their currency to gain an unfair advantage," Lavin said. "In a political season, this view can take on a populist tone and be turned into general criticism of the Obama administration."
According to Frank Ching, a professor of Hong Kong University who specializes in Sino-U.S. relations, "The value of the yuan is much less of an issue now than previously, but in the current highly-charged political atmosphere in Washington, politicians are likely to continue hammering at it."
Market watchers say the gains made by the yuan over the years may have gone some way in soothing the tensions, but the issue will remain a sticking point so long as China maintains a significant trade surplus with the United States. While China's trade surplus with the U.S. narrowed from a record $295 billion in 2008, it still stood at $160 billion as of last year.
"As long as China runs a trade surplus with the U.S., there will be U.S. politicians claiming this is because of an overvalued (U.S.) currency and that domestic manufacturing should be protected from 'cheap' Chinese imports by a much bigger yuan appreciation," said Ray Attrill, head of FX strategy at NAB.
Slowing Growth Comes in the Way
But complicating the issue is a slowing Chinese economy, which has been partly blamed for a softer yuan. There are questions about how much the further loosening of China's foreign exchange rate system, which U.S. lawmakers have called for, can be effective in weakening the yuan.
"I think one of the greatest ironies in the world is that if they allowed the renminbi to float at this point, it may actually weaken because if you look at the dynamics of the Chinese economy, there's a tremendous amount of over-leverage and lots of mal-investment," Boris Schlossberg, Managing Director of BK Asset Management told CNBC Asia earlier this month.
According to Attrill of NAB, the yuan's appreciation has been tempered by the bursting of China's property market bubble, which removed one of the sources of hot money inflows.
"So the weakness is partly a function of foreign hot money getting out, and partly domestic investors seeing value in investing overseas and, to the extent the capital account remains quite porous, managing to get their money out," he said.
Still, most analysts agree that the yuan is "quite a heavily managed currency" and in practice, China can still steer it however they wish. The question is whether they are willing to do that at the expense of growth.
According to Mitul Kotecha, Head of FX Strategy at Credit Agricole, "Beijing is capable of pushing the currency higher via setting stronger fixings, and even interventions, but they do not want to as policy focus is now on growth and they need to help exporters ."
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Pre-Wedding Rituals of Bhumihar Wedding Event
Bhumihar caste includes the Brahmins. They are classified as Bhumihar Brahmins. Once the girl within their family reaches age wedding, they plan things. The quest for the partner begins. If it is an arranged wedding then your bride and also the groom get wed inside the same caste. They get the opportunity to speak to one another so when that they like one another, the talks are taken one step forward. In Bhumihar matrimony, you will find that the weddings have lots of customs and rituals. Yes, they're very worthwhile however they continue for any couple of days. Thus, when there's a marriage in your own home, you will notice a couple of pre-wedding events too.
The pre-wedding events
In Bhumihar weddings, there is also a quantity of pre-wedding rituals. They're:
There's a convention known as as Siddhanth custom. Within this, the priest sits and appears in to the panchang to repair the marriage date. Also, he needs to see panjis of both families. These folks also have confidence in horoscopes which plays a vital role during these weddings.
There's yet another various and strange custom. Each day prior to the wedding or even the day's a marriage, you will find that the bride to be needs to take benefits of the washer man's wife. It is because it's thought that a washer man's wife will invariably die before her husband and therefore she'd always remain suhagan.
At the time from the wedding, once the groom enters the marriage premises, the lady in the bride family would welcome him with sandalwood paste.
Within this, the pair needs to go for that kul devi shrine. The bride's father takes them. Thus, your daughter's groom would get the opportunity to seethe kul devi mandir from the bride's father.
Gauri puja can also be quite important as part of Bhumihar matrimony. This really is mainly performed to help keep the evils from the marriage ceremony.
Thus, you will notice that there are several interesting rituals as observed in Bhumihar weddings too. You'll really find these rituals quite significant. Bhumihar is straightforward people. But they're quite strict concerning the wedding and also the wedding rituals.
Within the occasions once the more youthful generation is leaving rituals, the more youthful generation of Bhumihar caste continues to be quite thinking about the marriage within an authentic and traditional way. This is the charm of Indian weddings. Much like other weddings, there's fun too active in the wedding. Obviously, additionally, you will manage to find food and attractive food offered towards the visitors within an authentic way. You'll know that wedding it's time when two families would unite. Thus, it becomes an important ceremony. Thus, all of the functions and occasions ought to be transported out correctly. Bhumihar is straightforward Brahmins. But they're knowledgeable and educated. The bride to be and also the groom will also be well introduced up plus they be aware of relevance of culture and ethics too. That's the reasons you will find these weddings classical.


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Today let's consider a popular doctrine - "touch not my anointed". In the Word of God we find this here:
"20And they wandered about from nation to nation,
And from one kingdom to another people,
21He permitted no man to oppress them,
And He reproved kings for their sakes, saying,
22"Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm." 1 Chronicles 16 20-22; then quoted in Psalm 105
In 1 Samuel 16, the prophet Samuel anointed David king while Saul (whom he had anointed previously) was still king, but God was replacing him with David because of his sin. They were both anointed of God as well as Samuel was an anointed prophet of God.
The scriptures used in this doctrine come from 1 Samuel 24 where Saul, (anointed of God), was pursuing David, (also anointed of God), to physically kill him. David had the opportunity to kill Saul in 1 Samuel 24 and did not kill him because of the scripture admonishing not to, "touch My anointed ones". Reading 1 Samuel 24 we see that David says, "I have not sinned against you", even though he had cut off a piece of Saul's robe so he would know David could have killed him and even though he strongly reprimanded Saul for wrongly trying to kill David, to the point of Saul temporarily weeping and apologizing.
In the original language, "touch" meant a physical aggression/harm, not stating a negative truth about the "anointed one".
Many today have corrupted this passage and manipulated it into a doctrine that threatens any who would disagree with a preacher/teacher/pastor with wrath from God. They hide their error, sin and even false teaching behind "touch not My anointed", sternly warning others that this means no one can say anything about them, but you can see from the Bible that it referred to physically killing God's anointed, not disagreeing as David thoroughly did and "sinned not", even cutting part of his clothing off.
There are many other examples in the Word of God where people reprimanded "God's anointed" without condemnation form God:
- Samuel reprimanded King Saul. 1 Samuel 13:13-14
- Nathan reprimanded King David, "a man after God's own heart" about his sin with Bathsheba. 2 Samuel 12
- Paul reprimanded Peter, who preached the first sermon at the birth of the church, for hypocrisy concerning eating and not eating with non-Jews. Galatians 2:11
- Priscilla & Aquila corrected wrong teaching by Apollos who was preaching the gospel, "showing him the way more perfectly in love". Acts 18:23-28
- Peter reprimanded Ananias & Sapphira, anointed because they were Christians, for lying to the Holy Spirit and prophesied their immediate deaths which followed. Acts 5:1-11
- Paul had "such a sharp disagreement" with Barnabas over John Mark, that they parted ways, yet no condemnation from God is mentioned. Acts 15:36-40
It is against everything God did in setting up His church to forbid brethren from disagreeing or pointing out sin or error in leadership, but we are to do it respectfully and in love. This abuse of "touch not my anointed" is a sinful man-made doctrine created by those in religious power to elevate themselves to an un-touchable, un-teachable level not ordained by God. We all need to be corrected at times, as an act of love for our salvation. This is NOT "touching" to "harm", but is rather love to save both that person in leadership and those they are leading astray or polluting with their sin.
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I know as grown up adults and non-shallow individuals we're really not supposed to be all that attached to "things". Still, being the person that I am, I do get attached to things. For example, at a recent event I didn't get my exact stainless 28 oz weighted shaking tins back. How different are individual 28oz weighted mixing tins? Not very. (Well, to be honest the ones I got back seemed a bit flimsier than ones I brought to the event.) Still I was disappointed that I let it happen.
Other times I'm just particular, maybe obsessive, about brands. For example, I pretty much will only use DeCecco dried pasta. I started using it when I was cooking at an Italian restaurant. I like it. I see no reason to change.
(Vegetarians may want to stop reading now.)
One of my favorite steaks is the ribeye.
I prefer bone in ribeye, but tonight I was dining alone, so tough to justify a steak that big. And I like Niman Ranch's steaks. Grass fed and corn finished seems to be the best of both worlds.
I grew up in the Midwest, where beef is king. My parents would often buy a "half a cow" and put it in the freezer. We would eat cow parts for a long time. Summer sausage, steaks, you name it. We ate a lot of beef. A few years back, when "grass fed" beef started being trendy, I had a grass fed steak in a restaurant. When I tasted it, I realized that this was the beef flavor that I had been missing. The flavor of pasture raised cattle, instead of the rich taste of corn fed, lot raised, beef.
But I still like the Niman-Ranch ribeyes a bit better than most of the purely grass fed steaks I've tried so far. Mostly because they are easier to cook. It is my understanding that the Niman Ranch cows eat grass or silage for most of their lives in pasture. Which is good because cows have evolved to eat grass. Then, shortly before their demise, they are plumped up for a month or two with feed to allow Niman Ranch to bring a fattier, richer, more marbled steak to market. Compromise, I suppose.
Another thing I am fond of is cast iron. In particular this cast iron pan. When I was shipped off to college by my parents, the first two years I lived in the dorms and survived on cafeteria food and instant ramen made in my hot pot.
The third year, however, I moved out of the dorms and into an apartment. I soon discovered that I had no cookware, the thermostat on our oven didn't work (landlord never fixed), and that I only knew how to make one thing, scrambled eggs with potatoes and cheese. Seeking to broaden my horizons and cookware selections, I headed down to the hardware store and purchased this cast iron pan.
"Why Erik," you ask, "wouldn't it have been better to get a non-stick pan, especially since you only knew how to cook scrambled eggs?" To answer your question, yes, it would have been easier and a lot less messy. I don't think I got this thing well seasoned enough to cook eggs for about 5 years. But that's me, I didn't give up and didn't give in. No non-stick frying pan for me. Giving away a bit about my age, I'm gonna say that was about 1985. So I've had this pan longer than I've known many of my best friends. Not that friends aren't great and all that. But, if you take care of it well, you can always depend on a cast iron frying pan.
I previously mentioned that I enjoy the beers, but another alcoholic beverage I enjoy is wine. A long time ago, being a pretentious git, I figured the best way to learn about wine would be to read The Wine Spectator. At the time, big California Zinfandels were all the rage. Producers like Sky, Mayacamas, Heitz, and my particular favorite Ridge. I read about one of their wines, Ridge Howell Mountain Zinfandel and it was the first wine I had to have. It was described as big, difficult, and needing someone of discerning taste to appreciate. Obviously, this was a wine for me.
I searched and searched the wine stores in town and finally found a bottle of the Ridge Howell Mountain Zinfandel. Can't remember the vintage, but I'm guessing I spent most of whatever meager weekly paycheck I received at the time on it. Unfortunately, it was one of those things. I carried it around from apartment to apartment, state to state, and city to city. Finally a couple years ago Mrs. Flannestad and I cracked it open. It wasn't corked, but with all that travel and turmoil it had probably aged faster than it would have in a nice cool wine cellar. We should have drunk it about 10 years earlier.
I still really like Ridge's wines, though they have bowed a bit to modern tastes and lightened many of their offerings. The little blurb on the back of the bottle talking about making the wine and how long it will probably last in the bottle is always something I have enjoyed. Three Valley's is basically their table wine.
At around $20 a bottle, it's a nice treat for those tough weeks at work.
Plus, it goes really well with a steak and a baked potato.
So anyway, there you go. Things. Things and memories accumulate over time. It's sad when either are lost. But probably the memories are more important.


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Morning Five: 07.24.13 EditionPosted by rtmsf on July 24th, 2013
- Tuesday was the day for the Louisville Cardinals to visit the White House to celebrate their 2013 national championship, and perhaps the very best part of the entire proceeding was the extremely lukewarm applause at the top that Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) received when introduced by the POTUS. Obama gave his standard spiel of light-hearted remarks during the 10-minute event, referencing how Rick Pitino's motivational technique of promising to get a tattoo "busted" his bracket and avoiding mention of the "other" school where the head coach won his first of two national titles. Pitino, to his credit, exalted the president while hitting on the themes of loyalty and perseverance that have come to define his teams at Louisville — giving Obama a Louisville Slugger engraved with his name to handle any future disruptive press conferences. For a much more detailed description of the Cards' visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, check out Eric Crawford's report from WDRB.com; and The Dagger has some great pictures that the players and entourage took while there. The entire press conference is at the bottom of this post.
- While Barack Obama has certainly taken his share of sniping in accordance with his lofty geopolitical position, the NCAA's Mark Emmert may have taken even more concentrated vitriol from a unilateral perspective (at least the Democrats support Obama; few seem to like Emmert). "One misstep after another," as one administrator in this ESPN.com piece from Mike Fish and Dana O'Neil describes his three-year tenure as president of the organization. The accusations against the NCAA boss are lengthy, including not only mishandling of both the Penn State and Miami (FL) investigations, but also a general misunderstanding of the desires of his membership and a combative, at best, relationship with the media. It's a really interesting read about the travails of the organization under his direction, and points again to a burgeoning restlessness among everyone that the NCAA's days as a serious player on the American sports scene are effectively numbered.
- One school that certainly has no love lost for Emmert is Connecticut, given that the NCAA banned the Huskies from last year's postseason as a result of its low APR scores. But, as Adam Zagoria at Zagsblog writes, Ryan Boatright and Shabazz Napier are back in Storrs and ready to make up for a lost season with a major postseason run in 2013-14. Louisville has to be considered the favorite in the spanking-new AAC, but the Huskies are a very interesting second banana. Kevin Ollie returns most of his key pieces from a 20-10 (10-8 Big East) squad that will no doubt enter next season with a major chip on its shoulder. If the chips fall into place for Boatright and Napier next season, there may not be a better backcourt in America. Only time will tell.
- What's good for Duke is good for Team USA? That seems to be the correlation, as SI.com's Ben Golliver relates that Mike Krzyzewski's original decision to retire as USA Basketball's head coach was more about reaching another four-year milestone at Duke than it was about international hoops. Basically, Coach K asked himself at the end of the 2012 Olympics whether he felt that he'd still be coaching at Duke in 2016, and at the time, he wasn't sure of the answer. Since he believes that Team USA's head coach should be actively involved in the sport — as he put it, "on the firing line" — he thought it would be best to give up the gig. USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo may have sensed Krzyzewski's eventual 180, as he kept the job in waiting until Coach K decided last spring to return (stating that he is "sure he's going to coach for a while."). Given K's 62-1 record and uncanny ability to get multi-millionaires to play team basketball for the USA jersey, this is a great, great thing.
- In our sport, summer is the time for testing out new things and the statistical wizardry over at KenPom is no exception. Yesterday the vaunted statistician announced a new metric to his suite of team data points yesterday: average possession length (APL). As always with KenPom, the beauty of this new metric lies in the detail. Tempo is a measure that tracks efficiency, but APL simply tracks how long you are either holding the basketball each possession, or defending the basketball each possession. The 2013 listing is here (subscription required), but as Pomeroy notes, the correlation is already clear in viewing the last four years of data. Great defenses tend to correlate well with high defensive APLs — it's harder for an offense to find a good shot — which begs the question whether faster-paced offensive coaches may be incentivized to slow things down to make their teams better overall. An interesting intellectual exercise, no doubt.


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NEW YORK — The baseball was scuffed after being put in play and the seams had a little dirt on them. But there it sat on the desk, carefully wedged between the telephone and computer keyboard so it would not roll away.
It was one of the best gifts John Farrell ever had received, a memento of his first game as manager of the Red Sox and Monday's 8-2 victory against the Yankees.
Joel Hanrahan gave Farrell the ball after he threw the final pitch of the game and got Brett Gardner to foul out.
"I thought he might like it, this being his first win as the Red Sox manager," Hanrahan said. "I hope there's a lot more."
Farrell, who arrived at Yankee Stadium at 7 a.m., six hours before the first pitch, sat back in his office chair later on and said he appreciated the gesture. It was just one game in a long season, but it was one worth remembering.
"Today was a very good day in a number of ways," Farrell said.
The Sox, so lifeless last season in losing 93 games, played with passion and a sense of purpose. They had 13 hits and drew eight walks. Five relief pitchers combined on four scoreless innings, allowing only three Yankees to reach base.
The Sox also ran the bases aggressively and made several nice plays in the field.
"Nothing complicated. Just playing hard," said Jonny Gomes, who scored from second base on an infield single in the ninth inning and popped up pumping his fist after sliding across the plate. "You saw today how to win a game."
Veteran Shane Victorino, who struggled in spring training, had two hits and drove in three runs. Rookie Jackie Bradley Jr. made an impactful debut, drawing three walks, scoring two runs, driving in another, and saving a run with a running catch.
Jacoby Ellsbury, missing for much of last season, had three hits and drove in two runs. Jose Iglesias did more with his bat than his glove, collecting three infield hits and driving in a run.
The Sox became a new team after general manager Ben Cherington remade the roster. They played like it. The team that ended last season with losses in 26 of its final 33 games is no more.
"The personality of your manager kind of plays out with the personality of the team" said Jon Lester, who allowed two runs over five innings for his first victory as an Opening Day starter. "He's a very positive, upbeat guy. He's always prepared, always full of information if you need. That trickles down to the coaching staff and to us.
"I think a lot of us felt embarrassed about what happened last year. We're busting our butts to try not to let that happen again."
Yankees starter CC Sabathia, like Lester, lasted five innings. But he gave up four runs, all in the second inning.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia walked with one out before Gomes singled off the glove of Jayson Nix at third. Bradley was next and in his first career plate appearance, he fell behind 0-and-2 and worked a seven-pitch walk to load the bases.
Iglesias grounded a ball into the hole at shortstop. Eduardo Nunez went to second base but Bradley beat the throw as a run scored. That proved big.
When Ellsbury grounded to first, Gomes was out at the plate. But Victorino, who has hit well against Sabathia in his career, singled in two with a rip to left. Dustin Pedroia then made it 4-0 with a sharp single to center.
Bradley saved a run in the third inning when he tracked down a drive by Robinson Cano on the warning track in left field with a runner on second.
"The wind was tricky all day. It was a lot harder play than it looked," third baseman Will Middlebrooks said. "Jackie is as good as everybody says in the outfield."
Lester gave two of the runs back in the fourth inning. But Farrell had relievers Koji Uehara, Andrew Miller, Andrew Bailey, Junichi Tazawa, and Hanrahan lined up for the last four innings and they allowed one runner beyond first base.
A Yankees lineup missing the injured Derek Jeter, Curtis Granderson, Alex Rodriguez, and Mark Teixeira had only six hits. It was the first time the Yankees had lost on Opening Day at home in 11 games dating to 1982.
The Sox kept pressing against the New York bullpen. With runners on first and third in the seventh inning, Farrell wanted Bradley to put down a safety squeeze bunt. But Bradley had to pull the bat back when lefty Boone Logan came inside against him. Up in the count, Bradley hit the ball hard up the middle.
The ball deflected off Logan to second base and Bradley was out. But he had driven in the run.
"I wasn't nervous," Bradley said of his full day. "I was ready."
The ninth inning was more of the same. Joba Chamberlain walked Saltalamacchia before Gomes singled and Bradley walked again. With two outs, Ellsbury grounded a ball into the hole at first base.
Saltalamacchia scored and Gomes kept coming. Cano bobbled the ball and paused just long enough to cost him. His throw to the plate was accurate but Gomes slid to the outside and was safe.
When Victorino followed with an RBI single, the Sox were celebrating again.
"There's a lot of talk about chemistry. But wins certainly are the biggest factor with chemistry and how we jell as a unit," Farrell said.
"These guys, their priority is the game. They've got a strong passion for it, they love to work, and that was evident throughout an entire spring training. Today is Day 1, but I think that showed in the intensity and the mentality of this group."
Peter Abraham can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @PeteAbe.


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There was a broad range of responses to the religious intolerance that bubbled up last summer. Opponents of a planned Muslim cultural center in lower Manhattan and radical pastors, threatening to burn the Quran, raised tensions across the world. From the president on down, people were calling for tolerance.
One response to this hate turned out to be especially timely. When a radical pastor, David Grisham, threatened to burn a Quran in Sam Houston Park in Amarillo, Texas, hundreds gathered to protest the burning and to support religious tolerance. But it was a 23-year-old skateboarder who took quick action and became an instant celebrity. Jacob Isom, a pizza cook and self-described atheist, dashed in and snatched the holy book out of the pastor's hands. Isom's quip: "Dude you have no Quran!" became a catchphrase overnight.


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"Is this our Egypt moment? Will we seize the moment?"
Former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein spoke those words at Teach for America's 20th anniversary summit last summer. Coming from Klein, who is now a divisional leader at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, incitements to political uprising might raise some eyebrows. But at the summit for the nonprofit, which recruits college graduates to be teachers in poor school districts around the country, Klein was onto something that Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman have ignored in their eight pro-TFA columns: behind the veil of well-funded, debate-worthy idealism, TFA is coordinating a political revolution.
Since its founding, TFA has amassed some 28,000 alumni. Two have made Time's "Most Influential" list: its Chief Executive Officer and founder, Wendy Kopp, and former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor and StudentsFirst founder Michelle Rhee. Others have gained prominence as the leaders of massive charter operations, like KIPP Schools and New Schools for New Orleans. And TFA alums are currently the heads of public schools in Newark, D.C., and Tennessee.
What about the other 27,000-some-odd people? That's where Leadership for Educational Equity, or LEE, comes in. LEE was founded in 2007 as a 501(c)4 spin-off of Teach for America to provide resources, training, and networking for alumni who are interested in elected office or other extracurricular leadership positions. Its goals are ambitious: by 2015, as its standard job posting reads, it hopes to have 250 of its members in elected office, 300 in policy or advocacy leadership roles, and 1,000 "in 'active' pipelines for public leadership." If all goes as planned, LEE could shift control over American education reform to a specific group of spritely college grads-turned-politicians with a very specific politics.
LEE functions in part as a network for TFA alumni. In the restricted section of its website, to which I gained access through an existing member, you can find job postings ranging from government relations at the National Education Association to Web Editor for the Heritage Foundation. Members are also encouraged to connect with each other: "[P]erhaps you want to bring some of your fellow LEE members to an education rally in Houston. You could cast a wide net, and search for all LEE members within 100 miles of zip code 77001. Your search returns about 240 LEE members—that's quite a rally."
The organization also provides resources for the electorally curious. Besides running two six-month fellowships pairing members with public officials, it offers a variety of webinars and tool-kits on organizing, advocacy, and elections. In a PowerPoint entitled "What School Boards Can Do," you meet two reformers, one of whom is pushing for "data-driven, outcomes-focused" superintendents, the other "driving debate on pay-for-performance." In another presentation, charter operator Future is Now advises on getting elected to union office. "New unionism," in its rendering, means "enabling unions to play a critical role in the development and implementation of new efforts aimed at meeting students' needs/achievement." Inspired by Obama's call to "out-educate" and "out-innovate" the world, Future is Now is in the dual business of "reforming" unions and pushing for new charter schools—in other words, something a little afield from the Chicago Teachers Union, whose reigning Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators has rallied alongside community groups to stop school closings and fight for more resources in district schools.
Though LEE's 990 filings are missing from the IRS' online database and chronically allergic to press attention, executive director Michael Buman says that its budget this year is $3.5 million. While Buman maintains that elections constitute the "minority" of LEE's work, some portion of that sum has gone toward electing TFA alums to office.
"We provide various kinds of in-kind support," he says. "If we host a training and the person is a candidate, that's an in-kind contribution. Sometimes they want us to take a look at a piece of mail that they're sending out." On the other hand, "Sometimes the candidate looks at our services and says no thanks." Furthermore, he says, LEE does not operate independent expenditures campaigns, which support candidates or candidate committees without officially cooperating or consulting with them.
The limited-access section of LEE's site reveals the numbers: In 2010, 12 LEE members ran for local boards of education (with 4 wins), 31 for Chicago local school councils (14 wins), 31 for neighborhood council or other local office (21 wins), and four for state legislature (two wins). In LEE's accounting, these totals are a step up from 2008, when five members ran for school boards (four wins) and four for other local offices (three wins). In total, as of August 2011, LEE counts 56 TFA alums in office: 14 on school boards, 13 on local school councils, 24 on neighborhood councils or other local boards, two state senators, a constable, a judge, and a justice of the peace.
LEE's poster boys—its two state senators—are of similar breeds. Soon after uprooting a 27-year incumbent to become Maryland's youngest ever elected state senator, Bill Ferguson, who is 29 years old and worked as a TFA teacher in Baltimore, introduced a package of bills last year that included a Maryland version of parent trigger. (Parent trigger laws allow some proportion of parents to vote for new school management—and in some cases, entirely new staff—at their kids' schools.) Upon entering office in Colorado in 2009, Michael Johnston, who is 37 and served as part of TFA's Mississippi Delta corps, wrote a controversial, and ultimately victorious, bill that weakened teacher tenure and upped the role of students' "academic growth" in teacher and principal evaluations to 50 percent. Ferguson got elected with significant support from TFA alumni; alumni also make up four of five Johnston staffers.
Of the five LEE members profiled at its website's "Candidate Corner," three speak a common language: Caitlin Hannon, vying for the Indianapolis School Board, supports merit-based pay and decries the "lemon dance" of "ineffective practitioners" lampooned in Waiting for Superman; Rob Bryan, a Republican running for the North Carolina House and fellow merit pay proponent, asserts that "the solution for struggling schools is not simply throwing more money at their problems;" and Allison Serafin, TFA's former executive director in Nevada and candidate for State Board of Education, has signaled support for expanded standardized testing and parent trigger. (Takashi Ohno and Jeremy Ly, candidates for the Hawaii and Illinois Houses, respectively, have meager site material on big-ticket issues; neither could be reached for comment for this piece. It's worth noting that Ly led a campaign to unionize a charter school and has received donations from the Illinois Federation of Teachers.)
According to Buman, "LEE does not have any kind of litmus test about any policies. We're completely policy-agnostic."
Alex Caputo-Pearl, a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and a member of TFA's inaugural class, is leery of LEE's politics. Caputo-Pearl is a co-founder of the United Teachers of Los Angeles' Progressive Educators for Action Caucus, which, like its Chicago allies, advocates member and community organizing and resists school privatization. "LEE hasn't been openly unsupportive of our work," he says. "But LEE is clearly looking to strategically promote folks who have a different politics"—including, he claims, his union's "NewTLA" caucus, trumpeted by Future is Now and founded by a TFA alum.
Steve Zimmer, who was elected to the LA school board with the help of TFA alumni and is still a proud alum, now feels a cold shoulder from the group—possibly, he suggests, because of his stances on charter schools and unions that buck "TFA orthodoxy." "There are many ways we can get to transformation in public education," he says. "Either TFA is going to welcome those multiple pathways or it will run the risk of creating the resistance in the political arena that there once was at the school site."
Because it counts on federal grants and local contracts—in sum, $43 million in 2011—TFA has to be involved in some amount of political advocacy. LEE voiced indirect opposition to TFA skeptic and Wendy Kopp persona non grata Linda Darling-Hammond when she was being considered as Obama's Secretary of Education. In the case of Kira Orange-Jones, TFA's executive director in Louisiana who was recently elected to the board that oversees New Orleans' Recovery School District and approves TFA's contract, TFA is in a position to influence its own contract from both sides.
LEE adds a new dimension to TFA's growing empire. A selective crowd of high-achieving college graduates is primed to take over the leadership of America's schools. This summer's elections for Nashville's school board, which featured a race between TFA alums, could be a preview of intra-family rivalries to come. (The winner, Elissa Kim, is TFA's chief admissions officer and garnered near-record donations for her campaign.) And while LEE may be policy-neutral, it isn't hard to imagine the massive proliferation of Michelle Rhees and, in turn, the entrenchment of education reform geared toward money-soaked charter expansion, "new unionism," and test-based student achievement. In other words, what began—and is still viewed by many—as an apolitical service corps could be the Trojan horse of the privatization of public education.


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Automation has long been established as a leading technological advancement since the advent of industrialization. We can now look around and see how its wide range of applications has made its way into our everyday lives.
Take, for example, the automated traffic light that beautifully conducts the flow of moving vehicles on every major street corner, or the touchscreen self-checkout machine that efficiently guides you through your purchase in most retail stores. Automation began in the industrial environments of automotive mass production and is still in great effect; large, automated machinery piecing together most of your car's nicely fitting parts (barring any recent traffic mishaps, of course).
The increased productivity and optimizing benefits of automation is largely handled by computer-aided engineering programs, known as CAD software to most of us. This computer-aided mathematical and organizational control over machinery, most commonly operating under the G-code programming language, is a large contributor to the expansion of automated design found in everyday human activity.
Some may argue that automation is also a major contributor to the rise of unemployment, though its goal of increased production can also be seen as a benefit to those deprived of goods that aren't as easily accessible on a global scale. Even so, the opportunity that computer automation presents moves our focus away from the old predominant ways of human labor and into the design world within.
The increased popularity and availability of CAD software, to anyone willing to fork over the money, results in creating an army of new engineers. We now have easier access to design, models, and even manufacture capabilities. Of course, CAD software on its own is limited in its capability.
That is where Aerotech's state-of-the-art CADFusion software comes in. Aerotech, a pioneer of precision motion control products, creates a wide range of software and hardware to meet the needs of various industries and applications such as medical, life sciences, electronics manufacturing, automotive, photonics, semiconductors, testing, research, and development. CADFusion is a program that allows you to import your CAD drawings directly into an easy-to-use canvas that is used to create a tool path for CNC machine tools. In essence, it is automation made easy.
The software implements G-code for motion programming and contains features such as manual or automatic shape reordering, feature scaling, rotational and translational capabilities, user-defined initialization, process shutdown, and shuttering commands. Once your drawing is imported into CADFusion, it is broken down into basic shapes that can be easily manipulated by the user.
Once you're ready to export the file, a full motion control program is compiled, which gives you the option of entering your own code for user-specific initialization and trigger events. The key here is that CADFusion is a platform built around the idea of motion control, not simply a plug-in like most other programs. The result is a well-designed and machine-ready product conveniently made on your home computer. Of course, it is also tremendously beneficial for industrial applications. So if you're an automation design and manufacturing aficionado, try this program out, and bring the true engineer out of you. Since I have my own home machine shop, the software will soon be put through its paces.
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After a little hiatus the Politics and Government Blog is back up and running. It's great to be back writing for The News again. As always, feel free to join the conversation in the comments section!
This blog entry is going to be a little different because it's not going to be so much about politics as about the community. Over the last year, several residents and some government entities have done an excellent job improving our communities. I wanted to take a moment to recognize everyone who was involved in these efforts.
During the spring, Perry County was visited once again by our old friend named Flood Waters. Several areas of the county were hit pretty hard. While the recovery will always continue, I wanted to note the excellent job done in cleaning my little town, Derby. I watched as flood waters slowly crept over the park and then Highway 66. After the waters receded, I was simply amazed at how quickly Derby got back to normal. The park was an absoluate wreck and in a short time it was impossible to tell anything had happened at all. My family very much enjoys the park and the rest of the little town, so good job to those who put forth the effort to clean it up quickly.
Next I would like to congratulate Tell City on the bike and walking lanes it has been placing on the streets. This is a small but significant contribution toward improving the quality of life in the city. Our entire Perry County community should be promoting outdoor recreation. Perry County is in a unique position when it comes to this subject. Not every city or county in Indiana and northern Kentucky possess the natural beauty that we enjoy. Giving citizens and visitors yet another way to enjoy what nature has blessed us with is always a good idea.
I would also like to recognize all the folks who did the movie nights at Sunset Park. I've talked to many local residents who really appreciated and enjoyed those evenings. I hope those events continue when warm weather returns to our area.
Finally, I would like to congratulate Cannelton on its recent passage of a renter's ordinance. Both sides of my family come from Cannelton. I lived there when I was very young and I have many fond memories. It saddens me greatly to drive through that small city and witness its decline. This new ordinance is one of several steps Cannelton has recently taken to recover from its slide. A handful of slum lords have taken advantage of economically disadvantaged people for too long in Cannelton. I've driven by some rentals houses and heard horror stories about others. The state of decay at some of these properties is astonishing. There is simply no excuse for what's going on there. I know this has been a controversial subject for Cannelton. Consider this though; had these slum lords simply acted as decent human beings, no government intervention would have been necessary. They couldn't even meet that low bar, which is a sad commentary on how they do "business", if you can even call it that. Cannelton's elected officials have a duty to protect their city and its citizens. Cannelton's city officials did what was right for their citizens. They did what was right for their city. They deserve to be recognized for that.
I know many people have done many things for our community over the last year. This is in no way an all-inclusive list. So, to everyone who strives to make our community a better place to live and work, I say thank you.
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Middlebury and Weybridge selectmen were right to reject the state's plan to close the Pulp Mill Bridge for up to a year for renovations before the town's proposed Cross Street Bridge was built. The state's plan would leave the town with just the Battell Bridge on Main Street to cross the Otter Creek — a move that would cripple the downtown's retail district and frustrate residents who already face traffic jams there several times throughout each day. It's as if the town's shortage of bridges across the Otter Creek has been lost on the state transportation agency, even though the town has been pressing its need for a second span for more than 50 years and has been hard at work on the Cross Street Bridge for the past several years.Let's hope the selectboard's message to do the work on the Pulp Mill Bridge after the Cross Street Bridge is in use is taken to heart and honored. As important is that the work on the Pulp Mill Bridge is dictated by common sense, not sabotaged by misguided — though well-intended — strictures. In this case, the Vermont Historic Covered Bridge Committee must sign off on any improvements or changes to the bridge, which is being renovated at a cost of over $2 million. The current bridge has structural design flaws, according to at least one expert, that should be corrected as part of the renovation. The state's plan, however, preserves those design flaws (thus weakening the bridge) in order to maintain its historical integrity. Such stupidity, if the alleged flaws would weaken the bridge, would make a mockery of the state's historical preservation efforts.A proposal to correct the flaws and construct a nearby educational exhibit detailing the original architecture — and the design flaw that was corrected — is a reasonable suggestion (see story Page 1A) that we also hope will be honored.What's alarming, on both fronts, is that the town had to ask.Angelo S. Lynn


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It was rare to see Dr. Henry Ford without a smile or a story to tell, and those facets of the late optometrist's upbeat personality will be celebrated with a party in his honor on Saturday.
Ford passed away Nov. 17 after suffering a heart attack. He was 60 years old.
Ford is remembered by family, friends and patients as a positive, friendly and talkative person, and having a party instead of a funeral is what he wanted, family members say.
"Bring your stories for a night of laughs and good memories," they wrote in his obituary.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Weekend Cocktails - Lemon Drop
Pretty darned sophisticated, huh?!
Well, I guess that would be what you call southern ingenuity! Make do with what you have. So, please also forgive my use of the margarita glass for what clearly should be in a martini glass. I'll try to redeem myself on the next martini glass worthy drink.
Y'all know I love lemonade, so I guess you could say this is like lemonade on steriods. Perfect for the summer cocktail collection but pretty strong stuff that makes for a very loooooong sipping drink for me. This one will last me all night. Happy weekend y'all!
Lemon Drop
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Couple scoops of ice
6 ounces citrus vodka
2 ounces of triple sec
Juice of two lemons, reserve rind for garnish
1 tablespoon of simple syrup, or to taste
Lemon candies and/or lemon curls for garnish
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the vodka, triple sec, lemon juice and simple syrup and shake well. Strain into chilled martini (or margarita) glass and garnish with lemon candies and a lemon curl, if desired.
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Holy moly I guess so! All booze and a little lemon LMAO that's my kind of drink! ;-DReplyDelete
Perfect for sipping during the new Mad Men!ReplyDelete
I think these little gadgets u use for making those awesome cocktails are cooler and more authentic, heheheReplyDelete
Oh Mary, how funny! You'd fit right in here in the Ozarks with your canning jar shaker. It's what we would drink your 'Lemon Drop' out of. Nothing like a good 'ol Mason jar. LOLReplyDelete
Yum!!! I need one (or three)...they look awesome. And I use canning jars for everything...I see nothing wrong with it, LOL :DReplyDelete
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Mmmmmmm lemon drops! Gotta love a nice cocktail:) I'm making homemade limoncello for Christmas and can't wait to taste the lemony goodness.ReplyDelete
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USTR Wants 'Trade Promotion Authority' In An Effort To Ram TPP Through Congress With Little Debate
from the so-that's-how-they'll-do-it... deptWhile we've noted that the White House and the USTR have insisted that ACTA is not a treaty and does not require Congressional ratification (something that many, many observers believe is wrong), with the followup TPP agreement, there's no question that it's a broad agreement that will require Congressional approval. But, now we know how the USTR is hoping to streamline that process as much as possible, too.
AndyB points us to the news that Ron Kirk, the USTR, has directly asked Congress to provide the administration with "trade promotion authority," which more or less abdicates Congress's ability to substantially question or modify any international agreement. Trade promotion authority basically forces Congress to vote on any trade agreement put forth by the administration within a very short period of time (90 days) and denies them the ability to offer any amendments (i.e., to do their job). The "reasoning" behind this is to give the administration/USTR authority to negotiate with foreign countries, such that there aren't any questions in those countries of whether or not the US will actually agree to the deal, or if they'll try to change a deal once negotiated.
And, of course, the main reason for seeking this trade promotion authority... is to ram through the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) by the end of the year.
But, such a provision is basically Congress giving up its powers. There's a reason why Congress is supposed to ratify treaties: and it's to keep the executive branch from negotiating something horrible and having us be bound to it. It's crazy to think that Congress would just give up this important check and balance on the executive branch.
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Nothing Is Shocking
Posted by el greco at 11/15/2013 | Labels: Culture, End Times, Narcissism, Quotes
There is no shock any longer. We've had to invent novel sins (such as "racism" and "homophobia") into order to preserve our capacity for outrage, and therefore the thrill of violation. For this reason there are Jewish Nazis. The swastika for them is a sexual talisman, evoking concupiscence when the taboo is dead from continual transgression. Eventually, all such prurience ends in boredom & impotence. This impotence spawned the Marquis de Sade. When one becomes acclimated to de Sade, there is only either madness, or Faith.
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UC Santa Barbara
Competed in the 100m dash and long jump throughout the 2012 season…Posted a best mark of 7.28m in long jump at Big West Championships where he placed third…Placed second and ran a best time of 10.90 in the 100m dash at Cal Poly Dual.
Competed in both the long jump and 100m events...Assisted the men's 4x100m relay team at the UCSD Triton Invite where they ran 41.76...Set a personal best in the long jump at the Big West Conference Championship with a mark of 22-6.
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Walsh qualified for the Southern California Championships with a career best 100m time of 10.95 and set a mark of 22'9.75" in the Long Jump...Member of the 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams that made it to the Southern California Championships...Member of the 2010 Western State Conference Championship Team...Western State Conference Scholar Athlete Award.
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Member of the 2009 CIF Championship team...Three time Mission League All-Academic Team 2007-2009.
Majoring in Communications...Father is Todd Walsh, Mother is Pamela Ferguson...Has Sisters Candace and Alyssa Ferguson, Christina, Nicole and Taylor Walsh and Dani Francis...Chose UCSB for the great academics, coaching staff and location...Favorite movies are "Taken" and "Superstar"...Listens to Kid Cudi and Atmosphere...Favorite athlete is Zydrunas Ilgauskas of the Miami Heat basketball team.
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1915: My mother, Beaulah Belle "Bea" Yawman, was born in Walton Township, Labette County, Kansas, the eighth and youngest child of William and Myrtle (Snider) Yawman.
Mom was twice married. In 1935 she married Archie E. Sherell in Johnson County, Kansas; they had three children, Deanna Dale, Arnold Lee, and Archie Anthony Neil. Mom and Archie were divorced in 1945 in Los Angeles County, California.
In January 1953, she married my father J. J. "Jack" Spurlock in Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona. With their marriage, my mother added another daughter to her family: Gloria Jane, my dad's daughter from his previous marriage. Two children were born to Bea and Jack: me and my sister Jennifer.
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unless you wanted to, say, put -everything- onto another microcontroller. in which case you would try to do the PWM on the attiny2313 and have that controlled via i2c.
and the attiny2313 only has 2 timers by the way, whereas the atmega168 has 3, so you'd have to do the PWM in software which means tons of fun debugging that and i2c communication at the same time. especially difficult when the user wants 8-bit PWM is at >20khz!
also, where are you getting an attiny2313 for $1.45 in qty 1? and a 8-pos DIP switch for $0.75 in qty 1?
Futurlec. Cheap shipping too.In quantities of 100 the prices are $1.05 and $0.60 respectively.
i wont copy and paste a 5-page long email thread i've had regarding orders placed with 'em, suffice to say, the prices are good because you're unlikely to ever get the parts.
for example it would only increase the price by about 3 dollars.~$1.45 for a ATtiny2313 for the I2C interface and ~$0.75 for a DIP switch to select the address.
I just found a great example of a very simple solution here, Totally user configurable... with just a few wires.http://www.ladyada.net/make/eshield/wire.htmlI think the simple solutions are often the most elegant, kudos to you, ladyada.
ok, so I wasn't totally off on the I2C thing. It sounds like a great idea, but it definitely introduces added costs(however large or small) and requires some software for the 2313.Simple jumper wires don't seem to create any additional work other than in the PCB design, and add maybe a nickel to cost for the jumper wires.... kinda seems similar to my idea about jumpers, just easier to implement.I'm gonna play with some stacky headers this weekend too.... but they are also a bit pricey... Any other ideas?
Quotei wont copy and paste a 5-page long email thread i've had regarding orders placed with 'em, suffice to say, the prices are good because you're unlikely to ever get the parts.Heh. I've always gotten my stuff. Sometimes it takes a little while if you order one of their boards (waiting on a 3.3v switching regulator board atm) but the components come fast.
Isn't implementing an I2C "slave" difficult, though? Or was that SPI? There are a couple protocols where the master has it easy, but the slave has to be able to toggle a signal on a clock edge (or similar), which is tough to do in SW.


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CHICAGO (AP) — For the first time since Prohibition, Chicago has a new Public Enemy No. 1 — a drug kingpin in Mexico deemed so menacing that he's been assigned the famous label created for Al Capone.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was singled out for his role as leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which supplies the bulk of narcotics sold in the city, according to the Chicago Crime Commission and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"What Al Capone was to beer and whiskey, Guzman is to narcotics," said Al Bilek, the commission's executive vice president, describing Guzman as a greater threat than Capone ever was.
He said Guzman deserved the designation for the "viciousness, the evil and the power of this man."
The commission designated Capone Public Enemy No. 1 in 1930. The non-government body that tracks city crime trends has called other people public enemies, but Capone was the only person ever declared its No. 1.
Until now.
Unlike Capone, Guzman doesn't live in Chicago. He lives far away in a mountain hideaway in western Mexico. But for all the havoc he creates in the nation's third-largest city, he ought to be treated as a local crime boss, the DEA's top Chicago official, Jack Riley, told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
His office joined the commission in handing out the moniker to Guzman.
Capone based his bootlegging and other criminal enterprises out of Chicago during Prohibition, when it was illegal to make or sell alcohol in the U.S. He eventually went to prison for income tax evasion, but he gained the most notoriety for the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre that left seven rivals dead.
Yet Riley says Guzman is more ruthless than Capone.
"If I was to put those two guys in a ring, El Chapo would eat that guy (Capone) alive," Riley said.
Sinaloa and other Mexican cartels that ship drugs to Chicago are rarely directly linked to slayings in the city, but Riley said cartel-led drug trafficking is an underlying cause of territorial battles between street gangs that are blamed for rising homicide rates.
He described Chicago as one of Sinaloa's most important cities, not only as a destination for drugs but as a hub to distribute them across the U.S.
"This is where Guzman turns his drugs into money," he said.
Despite his nickname — "El Chapo" means "shorty" in Spanish — Guzman is one of the world's most dangerous and most wanted outlaws. He's also one of the richest: Forbes magazine has estimated the value of his fortune at around $1 billion.
Guzman has been indicted on federal trafficking charges in Chicago and, if he is ever captured alive, American authorities want him extradited here to face trial. The U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward for his capture.
"His time is coming," Riley said. "I can't wait for that day."
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