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Audits of working conditions are under way at Foxconn's manufacturing plants in China, a key link in Apple's supply chain of iPhones, iPads and other devices. The effort will include visits to at least three sites, "each with more than 100,000 workers," says Auret Van Heerden, president of the Fair Labor Association.
"So we've taken a representative sample of over 35,000 workers," Van Heerden tells All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel, in an interview airing Wednesday.
Questions about the treatment of workers at Foxconn plants first arose when a string of worker suicides, resulting in more than a dozen deaths, were reported in 2010.
The issue arose again in January, when monologue artist Mike Daisey — a self-described Apple fan, who traveled to China to learn more about Foxconn's employees — was featured in an episode of This American Life. And then at the end of January, The New York Times ran a series of articles about Foxconn and its employees.
Together, those stories portrayed a company whose plants were staffed by severely overworked employees, in environments that often ignored 60-hour-workweek limits.
To conduct its study, Van Heerden says his group is using technology that should be familiar to some of the workers: an iPad.
"The data is automatically uploaded to the Cloud," he says, "so there's no way that the data can be linked back to any worker."
When asked if he has noticed any progress in China's labor laws and working conditions during the past 10 years, Van Heerden tells Robert that workers have one advantage in high-intensity labor markets like that in Shenzhen, where jobs in the area are plentiful.
"It's a sellers' market," he says, "and workers change jobs readily, because they hear of better conditions somewhere else. And they know that they can get a job very easily."
And the workers have another ally, according to Van Heerden: the Chinese government.
"In the last 18 months, they've adopted a number of major laws which regulate the labor market," he says. "I just had a Chinese government official explaining to us today, that they are not interested in the low-wage, low-skill, low-profit-margin version of development. They want a high-wage, high-skill, high-margin development path."
The Fair Labor Association has come under criticism of its own, as some accuse the group of being too close to companies it is meant to monitor.
Van Heerden says his group takes two measures to keep it honest. First, he says, "the board is made up of equal representatives of companies, universities, and NGOs (non-government organizations)."
"But the second is the more important protection," he says. "It's that we publish our results" — a step that opens the group to criticism if it strays from its mission, or glosses over potential problems.
We know people have a very high expectation of Apple. We have an even higher expectation of ourselves. Those words yesterday from Tim Cook, Apple's new chief executive. He was speaking at an investors' conference and that word, expectation, is a clear reference to what's been an ugly new year for Apple.
Last month, the New York Times reported on worker abuses at the facilities of Foxconn, Apple's largest parts supplier based in China. And that has led to widespread criticism of Apple and protests at some of its stores.
To begin to repair its image, the tech giant has joined the Fair Labor Association. That's a nonprofit labor rights group. And this week, the FLA began an audit of three Foxconn sites. For more on that audit, we're joined now from Shenzhen, China by the president of the Fair Labor Association, Auret Van Heerden. Mr. Van Heerden, welcome to the program.
AURET VAN HEERDEN: Thank you.
SIEGEL: And, first, I'd like you to explain the depth of this audit. Where will you be? How many workers will you be interviewing?
HEERDEN: It's a very extensive assessment. We will actually be on three different sites. Each one has over 100,000 workers. So, we're taking a representative sample of over 35,000 workers.
SIEGEL: Apple's CEO Tim Cook said yesterday that 84 percent of Apple's suppliers are in compliance with the company's labor and human rights standards. One standard is no more than 60 hours of work in a week. I'd like to understand this. If your monitors hear that people are said to be volunteering to work six days a week, 12 hours a day, is that a violation, even if someone claims it's voluntary overtime that they're working?
HEERDEN: It is. China labor law is a little stricter than that and the limit that most companies have agreed to is 60 hours. So, that is certainly a challenge that we need to address.
SIEGEL: Are you confident that the workers whom your monitors will be talking to will feel confident to speak their minds and will not be intimidated by the threat of losing their job?
HEERDEN: Right. We are obliged to do our interviews onsite simply because of the nature of the sample. So what we've done is we've put in as many protections as we can. The questionnaires are anonymous. It's filled out on an iPad and the data is automatically uploaded to the Cloud, so there's no way that the data can be linked back to any worker.
But let me just mention that we've been doing this in China for some time now, and we've actually found that workers are very outspoken. It's a seller's market, if you like, and workers change jobs readily because if they hear of better conditions somewhere else. And they know that they can get a job very easily.
SIEGEL: What do you say to critics of the Fair Labor Association who say that, because it is paid by the employers, its outlook is suspect from the start, that this isn't something - your audit is not equally in the interests of employers and employees?
HEERDEN: This was a concern right from the start. So, they looked into the design of the FLA and its governance structures, certain protections. The first one is that the board is made up of equal representatives of companies, universities and NGOs. And so, it's the job, if you like, of the NGO and university reps to make sure that the company reps cannot dominate the discussions in any way.
But the second even more important protection is that we publish our results. And this is really an essential discipline on the entire process, because if we publish results which are - shall we say - too rosy or which look like we are whitewashing certain issues, they simply won't be credible.
SIEGEL: I'm just curious, Mr. Van Heerden. Since the Fair Labor Association has been at this for a while, can you point to any trend toward greater compliance with labor law in Chinese factories or is it pretty much the same as it was 10 years ago?
HEERDEN: No. There are very, very interesting developments here. The first one is that the Chinese government itself has been driving up the standards. They (unintelligible) in about the last 18 months, they've adopted a number of major laws which regulate the labor market. So, I just had a Chinese government official explaining to us today that they are not interested in the low wage, low skill, low profit margin portion of developments, they want a high wage, high skill, high margin development part.
SIEGEL: Mr. Van Heerden, thank you very much for talking with us today about it.
HEERDEN: Thank you.
SIEGEL: That's Auret Van Heerden, who is the president of the Fair Labor Association, which is conducting the audit of Foxconn, the contractor with Apple. He spoke to us from Shenzhen, China.
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If you're planning to say "fare thee well" to the Grateful Dead at Soldier Field this weekend, there are some things you should know.
The band's 50th anniversary performance, set to be members' "last-ever performance together," kicks off Friday as thousands of fans make their way to Chicago during the July 4 holiday weekend.
The "Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead" performance will see Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir reunite at Soldier Field, nearly 20 years to the day of the full band's final performance, which took place at the venue roughly one month before Jerry Garcia's death in August 1995. The band will also be joined by Phish's Trey Anastasio on guitar, Jeff Chimenti on keyboard and Bruce Hornsby on piano.
The event has made Chicago one of the top destinations for the holiday weekend, so fans will likely need to plan ahead.
Here are some things Deadheads should know before the highly-anticipated event:
1. Tailgating
Tailgating will be allowed in the parking lots of Soldier Field during the weekend, even for fans who don't have tickets to the fest. The special event parking lots open at 3 p.m. and the North Parking Garage opens at 6 a.m. Tailgating will end once the shows begin at 7 p.m. and there will be no tailgating allowed after the shows.
2. Transportation
The CTA announced Wednesday that it would provide extra buses to routes that serve Soldier field throughout the weekend. The no. 130 and no. 146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express buses will have extra service running until one hour after the concerts end. Fans can also travel to Soldier Field via Red, Orange and Green line trains. The Roosevelt station is located at Roosevelt and State streets, a few blocks west of the stadium.
Metra will also offer extra service on several lines over the weekend.
CTA buses, cabs and Uber rides can pick up riders on Columbus between Roosevelt and Balbo. A drop-off location will be set at the 18th Street turnaround just west off the 18th Street exit from Lake Shore Drive.
For more on how to get around Chicago during the holiday weekend, click here.
3. Tickets
Most tickets are commemorative tickets but a select amount of Ticketmaster tickets are not. Fans are encouraged to be very suspect of counterfeit tickets.
Those getting tickets at Will Call can pick them up across from Gate 10 on the Southeast corner. You will need a valid proof of purchase to enter the enclosed festival grounds.
Tickets are still available on third-party sites like Stubhub. Last month, ticket prices were reportedly dropping.
A three-day pass on StubHub, once priced as high as $116,000, could be purchased for less than $500. Single day passes were as low as $195. The lowest priced tickets won't give fans a full view of the show, and all of the cheaper seats are located behind the stage, however.
Click here for more.
4. Parking
Special Event Parking lots open at 3 p.m. and parking will be first-come, first-served. The North Parking Garage opens at 6 a.m.
Shuttles will also from the Millennium and Grant Park garages from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Parking rates are $49 for cars and $121 for RVs.
Lots close one hour after the show. No overnight parking will be allowed.
5. General Admission
Those with field-level general-admission tickets can begin lining up at 7 a.m. in the Stadium Green outside the southeast corner of the stadium.
6. Soldier Field Security
All concert-goers will undergo electronic wand screening and have all approved bags checked. Soldier Field will not allow backpacks bigger than 12x12x12, glow sticks, food, selfie sticks, strollers, camelbacks or companion pets. For a complete list of prohibited items click here.
7. The Stadium
The festival area opens at 10 a.m. at Soldier Field. Only ticketed fans will be allowed on the grounds surrounding Soldier Field.
Fans can enter the stadium in three spots -- one on the North side along McFetridge Drive, and two entry points on the South. Sidewalk areas from parking lots are the designated entry points to the festival grounds.
Gates open at 5 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m.
8. Refunds
Partial refunds are available for those who ordered tickets via the band's mail-order system.
More than 500,000 tickets were requested via mail order. Due to the overwhelming number of these requests, the promoters changed the seating plans to accommodate more guests. As a result, some fans were moved to seats with a lower ticket value than what they paid.
Fans who wanted a full refund needed to submit the request by June 22. But those who still want to go to the concert can receive partial refunds to make up for the difference in ticket prices. Those fans need to mail in a request by July 20.
Click here for more details.
9. Streaming
There are several options for streaming the performances at home. A YouTube stream and webcast are available for purchase each night and the shows will also be streamed live on Pay-Per-View and satellite radio. Click here for more detail on ways to stream.
10. Other GD Events, Places to Watch in Chicago
For a complete list of Grateful Dead celebrations in the city offering a live stream of the shows, click here.

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Juicy Lucy pudding
Look no further for a fruity dessert that's both delicious and nourishing
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- carbs56g
- sugars16g
- fibre7g
- protein3g
- salt0.14g
- 350g packet frozen fruits of the forest, defrosted
- 3 tbsp light muscovado sugar
- 4 tbsp no-added-sugar wild blueberry jam (we used St Dalfour, from larger supermarket branches)
Blueberries are one of the few edibles native to North America and credited with being…
- 6 medium-sized ripe pears, peeled, quartered and cored
Like apples, to which they are related, pears come in thousands of varieties, of which only a…
- 50g fresh white breadcrumb
- 25g butter, melted
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Preheat the oven to 190C/gas 5/ fan 170C. Mix the fruits of the forest in a large bowl with the sugar and jam, then add the pears and toss to mix. Tip into a deep baking dish measuring about 18x28cm, cover with foil and roast in the oven for 20 minutes. Pierce a pear or two to see if they are really tender; if not, return dish to the oven for another 5 minutes or until they feel soft.
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Staff Turnover: What Is It Costing You?
The club industry has employee turnover rates in the high double digits, with some clubs experiencing turnover near 100 percent. That means replacing one person for every person hired every year.
Did you ever stop to think what replacing is costing you? The standard costs involved in replacement (e.g., advertising, interviewing, training, new uniforms, etc.) can easily add up to approximately $1,500 to $2,000 per average hourly employee.
And what about the "hidden" costs of turnover? Employee frustration with having to teach more classes because there's a vacant position? Member aggravation because there's no continuity in classes and training? Lack of improvement/ upgrading because you're just focused on the basics? Some statistics show that when we add in all these factors, we could be spending up to two to three times the annual wage/salary of the position we replace. That's money down the drain!
How do we stop the money drain? We need to find and keep good employees! But how and where?
At the Houstonian Club, we have an annual turnover rate of 12.6 percent. We find one-third of our new hires from referrals from our current employees. No one knows the company, the culture and the expectations better than someone who works here. These employees KNOW who will "fit in," who will be dependable, whom they like working with, whom they respect as a professional, etc. Those are the people we want to interview.
Other applicants come to us because they've heard about the Houstonian. Maybe they've read about us in a newspaper article. Perhaps they are deeply involved in conservation and they've learned about our "green team" and their environmental achievements and awards. Or maybe they participated in the bike-a-thon we sponsored to benefit children with cancer. Whatever the reason, they know about our club, like the people, and want to join the team.
Once you've got them, how do you keep them? We do our best to keep employees once they are hired. We do all the basics: competitive pay, generous benefits, great facilities, etc. But we do much more! We offer biannual bonuses to all part- and full-time employees so they may share in our success. All employees have the opportunity to bring their kids to camp for a week (completely company paid). There are parties and picnics and celebrations - all to say "thank you" for working here.
Is it the perks or is it the culture? Our employees tell us they appreciate all the perks, but what keeps them coming in day after day is the culture. We don't have a big thick policy manual; we have a short simple handbook titled The Com-pass. The Compass literally points us in the right direction; the rest is up to each employee.
Our work environment is built on several principles, including respect and dignity for all employees. Everyone has value and we let them know it!
Another thing about our culture: We encourage balance. Everyone has a personal life. We know it. We accept it.
We want people to balance personal life and work life. Leaving early to go to your son's baseball game is supported, not just tolerated.
All of this adds up to an environment people enjoy coming to every day. Employees have personal relationships with other employees and with members. And with less than 20 percent turnover, our employees have time to get to know each other and our members. That makes the members happy too!
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In these quick quotes, Gina Allen, director of human re-sources for the Houstonian, of-fers up advice on attracting and retaining employees.
...Finding Good Employees
"If you don't have an employee referral program, start one! The best source of future employees is current employees. Ask your employees for referrals and then pay them for the ones you hire!"
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Sensor Solutions for Industrie 4.0 Applications
Neoception GmbH is your new partner on the path toward digitalization. From connecting your products or plants with central data services to developing completely new business models for your company, we are here to offer guidance and support.
With individual consulting, flexible engineering services, and core competence in Sensorik4.0® from Pepperl+Fuchs, we take on the implementation, operation, and maintenance of all needed IT services. Creating as much value as possible for you and your customers is always our focus.
To bring your application to life, we draw on our large network of business partners, which you can get a glimpse of on the Solutions Park. This network allows us to find the platform that best fits you and your application in order to immediately add value.
Neoception is your key partner for digital added-value services within the Pepperl+Fuchs group.
Data collected by sensors and actuators builds the basis for extensive networking of machines and other objects. To unlock the potential of this "Internet of Things", innovative solutions are needed which take advantage of the communication ability of modern industrial sensors.
With the "Solutions Park", Pepperl+Fuchs brings its approach to Industry 4.0 to trade fairs: process and status data from sensors and actuators is made accessible in internal or external IT systems. Using this data, IT systems perform visualization functions, realize model-based optimization procedures, and plan demand-based preventive maintenance processes.
Learn more about the solutions developed in close partnership with IT companies, their distinct advantages, and the refinements they provide for the future.
Pepperl+Fuchs understands Sensorik4.0® is a pioneer for the fourth industrial revolution: it delivers the necessary data. A good example for Sensorik4.0® is the R100 photoelectric sensor—this smart sensor is used in its own manufacture at Pepperl+Fuchs in Berlin. Due to its IO-Link interface, the R100 allows communication down to the sensor level, thus enabling a fully connected plant.
The new, Zone 2, Class I/Div. 2 certified remote I/O PROFINET gateway from Pepperl+Fuchs sets new standards in handling, user-friendliness and security and opens the door to Industry 4.0 applications in the process industry.
The Internet of Things—or IoT, for short—automates our everyday life. With the increasing intelligence of sensors and their connection to the Internet, they provide important information about the location as well as the condition of goods, machines or plants. The future will be shaped by Smart Cities, Smart Industry and Smart Logistics.
Intelligent multi-sensor systems with 2-D LiDAR sensors from Pepperl+Fuchs can precisely scan object contours and merge the measured data into a 3-D point cloud. The three-dimensional image of the scanned object is then made available in the NeoNeon cloud in a standardized format within a few seconds, so other systems can process the data immediately.
How can real and virtual machines work together efficiently? In which way do a digital twin, sensor technology and cloud solutions contribute to producing series without material waste or batch size 1? The fully functional fair exhibit Twin Space makes it possible to develop and optimize parts virtually before realizing the product at the touch of a button.
The consistent networking of a production process for Industry 4.0 requires comprehensive application of sensors using various functional principles. Photoelectric sensors, ultrasonic sensors, or RFID and positioning systems may be applied. Making this information readily available in the Internet means "Sensor Data as a Service."
Apps from Necoeption form the basis for transmission of process data from industry sensors. Operated on standard gateways they are the software adapters that enable connection of sensor hardware to different cloud platforms. This allows an easy access to the Internet of Things.
With the "Connecting Any Field Device" product study, CodeWrights, Neoception, and Pepperl+Fuchs demonstrate how to smoothly integrate field devices into an existing IT infrastructure and make data availble in real-time. This availability of field device data allows to remotely monitor processes and individually analyze them.
Certain Industry 4.0 scenarios require such precise object differentiation that conventional sensors are not up to the task. Pepperl+Fuchs subsidiary VMT Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH demonstrates how these applications are solved by establishing intelligent detection and segmentation of objects.
As an example, the "PickFinder" handles small chocolate tablets. The chocolate has different colors and shapes that make separation and bowl extraction an insurmountable problem for common solutions. A combination of software and precise vision sensors with a Universal Robot creates an impressive demonstration for flexible human-robot collaboration, giving a glimpse into the future of manufacturing.
Whether for detection of liquids or bulk material in tanks or silos: fill level measurement is among the most common tasks in automation technology. Intelligently reshaping these applications for Industry 4.0 creates brand new advantages.
A long-life battery powered ultrasonic sensor from Pepperl+Fuchs wirelessly transmits fill level data from different containers via mobile networks to a cloud from Neoception. Data is stored in the cloud for location-independent interpretation in SAP's Connected Goods application. As a result, distant measurement points can be monitored and correlated to one another for in-depth optimization of production and logistics processes.
In process plants, field devices produce endless additional data, for example, about their condition and environment. But such data has previously gone virtually unused since it has not been transferred to the control level. Together with four partner companies, Pepperl+Fuchs developed a solution.
Using the WirelessHART adapter BULLET, data can now be transferred via a gateway directly to the cloud, where it is made centrally available. This enables a continuous monitorung of field devices, and maintenance requirements can be identified and planned in time.
Pepperl+Fuchs and several companies are jointly developing the new "Advanced Physical Layer" (APL), enabling comprehensive Ethernet communication in process automation. Via two-wire cables, field devices are directly connected to the Ethernet – gateways are no longer needed.
With 10 Mbit/s, this direct Ethernet connection is almost 10,000 times faster than HART. Thus, data can be transferred and made available much faster. The wealth of information provided by modern field devices and sensors can be fully used, enabling Industry 4.0 applications within process automation.
This application, developed by Cluetec, a system automation company, and Pepperl+Fuchs, demonstrates a streaming platform for sensor data. The advantage of such platforms lies in the direct processing and evaluation of data streams from the sensor. If there is a deviation from the expected value, the platforms generate a warning message and can thus independently request help to check the technical system.
This is visualized in the exhibit by monitoring a mechanical linear axis. If a fault scenario occurs, it is recognized by the sensor data platform and a corresponding event is generated – for example, a message is sent to a technician.
In addition to pure process data, automation components that communicate digitally provide a multitude of extra information that is seldom fully evaluated by traditional machine control. By using a gateway to access the automation components at the lowest level and a data platform to manage type and instance data, this additional information already offers valuable added benefits for the safe operation of machines and plants.
In cooperation with its partners Hilscher Gesellschaft für Systemautomation mbH and SAP SE, Pepperl+Fuchs is exhibiting a demonstrator that visualizes the benefits of managing component data centrally on a data platform. To do so, a simple automation function is visualized using the Asset Intelligent Network (AIN).
Cloud-based sensor systems are inherently beneficial whenever data from spatially remote production systems is collected and processed. The joint project "Cloud-based Type Verification" from SAP and Pepperl+Fuchs demonstrates this in a typical just-in-time application where semi-finished components are previously tested by the component supplier so that final processing is more efficient.
During the assembly of the lamp on the carrier, an industrial ultrasonic sensor verifies the lamp type. Then, using Pepperl+Fuchs' SmartBridge technology, a track & trace production process is triggered in the SAP Cloud and sent directly to the higher-level SAP Asset Intelligence Network.
Level control management is a common application in many industries. However, smaller machines, as elements of independent production units, are often affected by inefficient monitoring and refilling procedures. Combining Pepperl+Fuchs sensors with the cloud of connectavo offers a solution that establishes economical planning and fully optimized supply-chain management.
Using SmartBridge®, sensor data is submitted to the cloud in real time, where the data is visualized and available for other devices and services. To demonstrate this, an on-demand service uses the sensor data to send a text message to the responsible person as soon as a critical fill level is reached.
By joining data from several individual sensors, the 3-dimensional analysis of large machine parts is performed quickly and with exceptional precision. Real-world measurements are compared immediately with virtual-world design data. This meets the requirement of Industry 4.0 to supply digitized data from all phases of the product-lifecycle.
Teaming up with subsidiary VMT, Pepperl+Fuchs has developed an application for the automotive engine assembly process. Several SpinScan sensors evaluate the engine cast for a motor block at various critical points and correlate these dimensions with the respective CAD coordinates. This evaluation takes place so that deviations are detected before the costly casting process is initiated.
In cooperation with Software AG and TE Connectivity, Pepperl+Fuchs has developed an application example visualizing how the availability of production lines and manufacturing processes can be markedly increased through IT systems. In this scenario, two manufacturing pre-processes pass their intermediates to the target process right in time.
This requires only a small number of networked industrial components (e.g. SmartBridge). Moreover, with very little effort, these components can be integrated into existing applications. Here, they generate additional process data allowing the IT system to gain supplemental benefits. These benefits can range from simple process optimization to condition monitoring and cleaning scheduling.


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A. BruinBill (formerly known as BAR) Accounts and Charges
All students are assigned a BruinBill (formerly known as BAR: Billing and Accounts Receivable) account. A BruinBill account records all charges and payments (excluding housing) associated with registration along with other service charges that are assessed to students.
Students must pay all charges in full by the 20th of each month or the preceding workday if the 20th falls on a weekend or holiday. If a student misses the registration fee deadline, a late registration fee is assessed and the student is dropped from classes. The delinquent fee for unpaid BAR balances that aren't registration fees is $50. Please note that the UC Student Health Insurance Plan (UC SHIP) fee is part of registration fees and is due and payable at the time registration fees are paid. Learn about waiving the UC SHIP fee.
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Payments. The UCLA Student Financial Services website is the best place to go for the most comprehensive information about making payments. Students can pay their BruinBill account electronically on MyUCLA with American Express, MasterCard, VISA or Discover Card. In addition, students can use the eCheck option or BruinPay Plan (BPP). Students can also print out a remittance document from Student Financial Services and mail in payments with a check or money order.
Students may sign up for the "autopay" feature of BruinBill; however, please be aware that once you are assessed your tuition and fees (and you've enrolled in autopay), the entire amount due will be paid out (whether or not you have sufficient funds in your bank account to cover the bill). If you do not have sufficient funds, your payment will be returned and you will be charged a "returned check fee" from the University, as well as an insufficient funds fee from your own bank. Furthermore, the autopay feature overrides BPP (the installment payment plan), so if you're enrolled in BPP, you should not elect the autopay feature.
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Kate Gosselin is months removed from her short-lived stint on "Dancing with the Stars," but her "Plus 8" bunch still aren't over it.
"The girls [watch the tapes] and they still swear that I'm the best dancer on there. God bless them," Kate told Access Hollywood on Friday, while promoting her new reality show, "Kate Plus 8," which premieres on TLC on Sunday at 9 PM, followed by "The Bakery Bunch" at 10 PM. "They still don't understand why I didn't win. I go, 'Guys! Seriously?' They go, 'No, mommy. You were the best!' They still insist. That's love."
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While adults may know the truth about Kate's "Dancing" skills, what the public is still confused over are some of the many rumors in the tabloids – rumors Kate tackled with Access Hollywood, starting with one that she's in the running for the cast of "The Celebrity Apprentice."
"I am not, but you can see how it would get started. A picture with Donald [Trump] and off and running," she said, referencing a photo which was taken of her with Donald and Melania backstage at the Lady Gaga concert in New York on July 7. "It's an example of yet another set of rumors. Right now I think I have enough on my plate… not thinking about it, but obviously everyone else is."
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Kate also shot down the rumor she has airbrushed abs, something Us Weekly questioned, previously quoting the owner of a tanning product line, who suggested Kate made herself look more trim through fake bake.
"No, I don't have airbrushed abs. Like it's called hard work. I run," she said of the suggestion. "It's just pathetic. I didn't even know about that… I did 'The View' the other day and they were talking about the contouring of the body [with] spray tanning. I didn't even know that existed…. I wouldn't waste my time."
Kate also shot down OK! Magazine's recent cover story, "How I Lost 10 LBS In 10 Days," but said it wasn't the worst incorrect story she's heard.
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"Did you lose 10 lbs in 10 days?" Access asked.
"No. I think that started because they noticed me running outside and started clocking how far I was running," Kate explained. "I did lose a couple of pounds… I mean, [it happens] when you really start really running a lot of miles every day. That's probably not the most outlandish one because I probably did lose six pounds in a couple of weeks. I'll give them credit because it was at least somewhere close."
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There are three ways to control Apple Music on Sonos. For most Sonos devices, you can use the Sonos Controller app. If you use an Alexa-enabled Sonos speaker, you can ask Alexa to play Apple Music. With some Sonos devices, you can also use AirPlay to control Apple Music on your Sonos device.
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- Download the Sonos Controller app to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Android device. If you already have the Sonos app, check for available updates and download them.
- Add Apple Music to your Sonos speaker system.* If you don't already subscribe to Apple Music, you can join on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC or join on your Android device.
- Sign in with the Apple ID that you use with Apple Music.
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Fall of the Samurai Shogun 2 expansion has pre-order incentives, new trailer
If you can handle a little historical heartbreak this early in the morning, check out this new trailer for the latest Total War: Shogun 2 stand-alone expansion, ominously titled Fall of the Samurai.
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PSA: Code Veronica, Dead Nation, Rise of the Samurai out, Once Upon a Monster demo
Some nice new nuggets hit PSN and XBL, Steam and Kinect today Get the pertinent details below the break. Decisions, decisions.
Total War: Shogun 2 DX11 patch due "first week of May"
That's the word from the community manager on the Total War forum. He's also "The Creative Assembly Lieutenant', so it's best not to argue.
Despite a listing popping up on UK retailer Game's website, Sega's told VG247 a 360 version of Total War: Shogun 2 isn't in the works.


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All And Everyone
PJ Harvey
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There's something magnetically haunting in PJ Harvey's music; it's intangible but always there, like a heart beating under the floorboards. Her eighth album pumps restlessly with this eerie substance. "England you leave a taste, a bitter one," Harvey croaks with a girly innocence -- but she's not ungrateful, just observant in her poetic tales of wars and woes. Some of the most visceral moments are strikingly upbeat: the pint-clanking bounce of "The Words That Maketh Murder" or the reggae nod on "Written on the Forehead," where Harvey, both ominously and jubilantly, declares "let it burn."


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What Price Love?
photo: Melissa Gira Grant
"I wanted us to be so naked with each other," Acker/Laure writes to Bataille, "that the violence of my passion was amputating me for you." But "as soon as you saw that I got pleasure from yielding to you, you turned away from me… You stated that you were denying me because you needed to be private. But what's real to you isn't real to me. I'm not you. Precisely: my truth is that for me your presence in my life is absence."
- Steven Shaviro, quoting Kathy Acker as Laure as if writing a love letter to Georges Bataille
I carry every love letter I wrote to B in a Gmail label on my phone. They aren't all love letters; they pitch and shift through six months of taking a conversation that began in public, across two blogs, into a more protected space.
For the last two months, I've been publishing these letters to readers who bought a subscription. I have four months left to send these letters, in which the reader receives my half of the correspondence, time-shifted one year after I wrote and sent them to B.
It's called What Price Love? and so far, in sum, love is priced at about a thousand dollars.
"...for me your presence in my life is absence."
I think about how I have made a living exposing sex, including my own, for the last 14 years. How nearly anything we are supposed to do for love but instead accept money for can be defamed – by someone uncomfortable with that exchange and our decision to enter into it – as "prostitution." Is selling a love letter prostitution? Is telling you to buy it somehow worse? I want you to read them but ...
Excerpt from "Take This Book: The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street"
An excerpt from Take This Book: The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street, an extended essay by Melissa Gira Grant, forthcoming in print, epub, and as a Kindle single. Available to support on Kickstarter.
Instagram Photo by Melissa Gira Grant
"Philosophically," Jaime, one of the librarians, said, "the books stay with the occupation."
There had been a dry run, too, the night the Occupiers prepared for the city to evict them. On October 13, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Brookfield Properties, which legally owned the park, wanted to clean Zuccotti, and the Occupiers anticipated that the mayor would also send in the New York Police Department to remove them. So the Occupiers took this order both graciously and defiantly: They would clean the park themselves, and early in the morning, when the cops and the cleaners were to arrive, the Occupiers would refuse to leave. Someone posted an invitation to Facebook on the day of the cleanup, calling people to gather before Wall Street's opening bell, and to bring brooms and mops and pails. All day, wearing ponchos and latex gloves, Occupiers scrubbed the stone steps of Zuccotti, swept the grounds, and straightened their camp's stations. As night fell, some of the camp's infrastructure was
She Was A Camera
echocam, artvamp.com, 2000
Maybe half of being a camgirl was talking about being a camgirl – not just turning a webcam on yourself and by extension your life, but documenting how your life changed from having turned a webcam on it. We were only doing this for a little while, from sometime in the late 1990's until about whenever mobile phone cameras became commonplace (let's say until the early 2000's.) Apple may also have had a hand in killing the camgirl, packaging webcams into the shells of our laptops. By extension our webcams were made less unusual, less intimate, and much less urgent. Though the golden years of camgirls were brief, they coincided with the rise of the web itself.
Screenshot, anacam.com, 2000
In 1997, a Minneapolis-based electronic pop musician named Ana Voog launched what she called "the internet's first 24/7 art/life cam," which proved to also be its longest running...


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The Media Workspace, Collection view has several new ICONs in the Right Hand Panel
- Image Details
- Image Links
- Image Notes
The image details haven't changed, in that you enter the media file Caption, Date and Time of the image, the Category that the file is part of, a Description, a place to mark this Media File as Private, the File Name and the full file path for the image.
The second ICON shows who and what FACT is linked to that media file. In this example there are only 2 people at this address, but in fact there were 4.
Click on New, will bring up a way to Link to a Person or Link to a Citation In this case we want to add two more people.
Selecting Link to Person will bring up the usual select a person screen, the person is selected, and you can link to the Person in general or to a Fact. In this case, the person's Fact.
Note: The link to Person, will put that image in the People Workspace, Person View, at the bottom (large part) of that View. Linking to the Fact, will have that image appear by selecting the Fact, and the image will be in the Media Tab on the right. So the user has a choice as to where the image will appear in the Person View.
Having completed the links, there are now 4 people linked to the picture of that house.
The new FTM2014 feature is the ability to add a note to that Media file. In this case "This is the house that my Dad built"
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1.All purpose flour - 2 1/2 cups
2.yeast - 2 tsp
3.Salt - 1/2 tsp
4.Sugar - 1/2 tsp
5.Curd - 1 tbsp
6.Luke Warm water - 1 cup or as required
7.Oil - 3 tbp
8.Wheat flour - 2 tbsp (for dusting)
Preparing the Dough:
* Take the luke warm water ,add sugar and yeast.Mix and keep it aside for 10 mins.
* After 10 mins,the mix would have become frothy.
* Take a mixing bowl,add flour,salt and curd.
* Crumble it well and now add the yeast water .
* Knead it into a firm ,yet soft dough.
* Add oil to the dough and cover with a wet towel.
* Keep the dough in a warm place for 2 hrs or untill it doubles in size.
* Divide the dough into equal sized balls.
Rolling the naan:
After dividing the dough,let it rest for half an hour.This will make the balls again double in size.But I used a technique to reduce the time.I started rolling each ball and cooking it simultaneously.Instead of rolling all the balls and cooking it in a batch.This helps other balls to raise in the mean time.
The picture shows theraised balls.
* Sprinkle wheat flour and roll the balls into a medium thicknessed rotis.Using wheat flour for dusting ,helps naan to spread a bit.
* Pull it into a oval shaped naan.
Cooking the naan in tandoor effect:
* Take a heavy bottomed pan.Apply water to one side of the naan and press it into the pan as shown in the picture four.
* Now, turn on the stove to high ,place the naan pressed pan upside down .As shown in the picture five.The pan should cover the stove completely.This will create a tandoor effect,where naan gets cooked with smoke and some fire spottings like the picture six.
* When the naan gets cooked 90 % ,it will come out of the pan.Make sure that it doesn't fall on the stove .If so, naan will start burning ,after fallen on top of the coil.
* Now turn the naan and cook for a minute on top of the flame ,with the help of the spatula as shown in the seventh picture.Dont over cook the naan,then it will become hard.
* The eighth picture shows the naan cooked on the other side.
Immediately apply butter or oil and cut the naan into 2.Serve it with any side dish.
* Instead of using pans,we can also use small pressure pans,which has heavy bottomed.
* Once the naan is cooked on the first side,ther others side will be cooked quickly.So dont keep it on the flame too much.Dont try to cook the naan on the tava .It shud be cooked on top of the flame.
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Jerry O'Connell, to his credit, looked almost embarrassed as George Lopez played his parody video in which he "auditions" for Charlie Sheen's role on "Two and a Half Men."
"It was a joke," O'Connell said on "Lopez Tonight" Wednesday.
"We did it last week when all that stuff was funny. But I think this week, it's not so funny anymore."
O'Connell's timing in the amusing Internet video and in his remarks to Lopez are spot on: There aren't many more laughs to milked from this drawn-out mess, which has morphed from sad to pathetic.
With Sheen's inevitable firing from "Two and a Half Men" this week, much of the focus of the depressing saga has turned from his antics to possible replacements for his sitcom spot. It's a moribund exercise of sorts, another major signal that the actor disintegrating in front of us, in multiple media, has been written off.
Even Sheen is showing hints of tiring of his "winning" streak. He told Life & Style this week: "I'm really starting to lose my mind." He offered apologies of sorts for insulting his TV co-star Jon Cryer and John Stamos, who has been mentioned as a possible new man for CBS' "Two and a Half Men."
Stamos has been basically silent since tweeting two weeks ago that he wasn't replacing Sheen on the show, but quipped, "Martin Sheen has asked me to be his son." Perhaps Stamos realizes there's nothing to be gained in bantering with the unhinged. Rob Lowe, another possible replacement – one with Sheen's blessing – hasn't responded to the talk, though his current bosses at NBC's "Parks and Recreation" say he's staying put, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
After Sheen was fired, Vulture notes, sitcom veteran Jason Alexander tweeted that he'd be glad to take over, if just for the chance to live a life of excess, which he described in some tawdry detail.
"I do this, not for my own joy, but for the benefit of the millions of people who ...STILL DON'T SEEM TO HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF F-----G CHARLIE SHEEN!" the former "Seinfeld" co-star wrote.
That's one way to make a point. O'Connell, whose video portrayed Sheen proving his sobriety in a manner too disgusting to recount here, chose a gentler way. "Last week... [Sheen's] like that funny uncle you have that's like crazy at a party," he told Lopez. "Now he's like, hey man, that's that weird uncle we have."
Here's hoping next week will bring a break from Sheen's self-destruction reality show, and from all the talk about who might fill the void left by the departure of his former sitcom's partying Uncle Charlie character. The only casting change worth anticipating is Sheen seeking the help he needs, putting him on the road to replacing this deeply disturbed parody of himself with a humbled man on the mend.
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Office Hours:
- The White Knoll High School office is open from 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day during the school year except for school holidays. Please check the link under Calendars for the current school year to see which days our school is closed.
- Summer office hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
If there is a question, please call ahead (803-821-5200) to make sure we are here to serve you!
Late Arrival Procedures:
Students are required to sign in and out through the attendance office. If signing in or out causes a student to miss more than 30 minutes of a particular class, the student will be counted absent for that class and a written excuse will be required as per the attendance procedures.
Early Dismissal Procedures:
No student will be permitted to leave school during the school day unless a parent/guardian or other approved person comes to school for the student or unless prior arrangements have been made with the principal If the nurse initiates contact with a parent and the parent asks for early dismissal, the nurse may release the student to the parent's designee. If the parent wants the student to drive himself/herself home, the nurse may sign the student out on the parent's authority only if the child's condition does not pose a threat to driving safety. In all such situations, the nurse should carefully document the conversation.
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In case of a school or district-wide emergency such as inclement weather, bus problems, etc., students will only be released to persons identified by the parent or guardian. A form is available in the main office that shows those allowed to pick up students. Adults or student drivers may be identified on the list. Persons picking up students must produce a driver's license for identification. Students will not be released by phone to parents or guardians. Only persons who come to the school will be allowed to check out students. If a student rides with another student to or from school, it is critical that the driver's name be on the rider's list in order to be released to that driver – provided the parent of the driver releases him/her for dismissal. This procedure will be used only in case of emergencies. It does not take the place of the normal sign-out procedures.
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Quotes from President Obama, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.
President Barack Obama:
"Since Teddy's diagnosis last year, we've seen the courage with which he battled his illness. And while these months have no doubt been difficult for him, they've also let him hear from people in every corner of our nation and from around the world just how much he meant to all of us. His fight has given us the opportunity we were denied when his brothers John and Robert were taken from us: the blessing of time to say thank you -- and goodbye.
"The outpouring of love, gratitude, and fond memories to which we've all borne witness is a testament to the way this singular figure in American history touched so many lives. His ideas and ideals are stamped on scores of laws and reflected in millions of lives -- in seniors who know new dignity, in families that know new opportunity, in children who know education's promise, and in all who can pursue their dream in an America that is more equal and more just -- including myself."
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former GOP congressman:
"I've always thought of him as one of the real bipartisan giants of the Congress and certainly of the Senate. He and I had a very cordial, warm relationship."
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin:
"I would say that in more than 45 years, Ted Kennedy has had more impact on the actions and passions of our time than any other senator, maybe any other elected official. He has devoted his life to the Senate, public service. He has been an active participant in all of the major debates. There's hardly an issue or a law that's been passed that he hasn't had some imprint on.
"Beyond his public life, he was a great person, a great spirit. People talk about that great Kennedy humor -- his laugh that could draw a crowd, his smile that lit up a room and that great Kennedy heart that had been broken so many times. He'd be the first to put his arm around your shoulder when you were going through a tough time personally.
"We know that it's going to be a struggle to pass health care. We need help to do it, and we're going to have to do our best - hope we can use the spirit of Ted Kennedy to bring us across the finish line."
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Knees are found in the Pinan / Heian series, Naihanchi / Tekki, Gankaku / Chinto and many other kata. Sadly the methods recorded in the kata are often not extracted from the kata to be drilled effectively. Kata practise alone is not enough; we need to take the information recorded in kata and make practical use of it in training. To fulfil the purpose of kata, we need to take those knees and drill them with impact equipment and utilise them in sparring. In this short clip I share some thoughts on kneeing generally and the practise of knees on impact equipment.
Knees to the body can be effective, but we do have the problems of muscle or fat protecting the recipient, the potential for the recipient's arms getting in the way, and the chance of the leg being seized. Knees to the groin can also be effective, but there is the fact the groin is an area that most men will instinctively protect. Knees are close range weapons so they are typically used when grappling has commenced. Therefore there is also the risk of being taken over due to the greatly reduced stability that ensues from a leg to knee. It is for these reasons that I prefer to deliver my knees to the inside and outside's of the enemy's thighs. Kneeing to the groin or body is fine, can be effective and should be part of training, but tactically I maintain that knees to the thighs are generally the safer option.
Thank you for watching these quick clips from my classes and seminars. I hope they prove useful!
All the best,
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A combined meeting of the Swiss OpenStack and Rhone Alpes OpenStack user groups was held at CERN on Friday 6th December 2013. This is the 6th Swiss User Group meeting and the 2nd Rhone Alpes one.
Despite the cold and a number of long distance travelers, 85 people from banking, telecommunications, Academia/Research and IT companies gather to share OpenStack experiences across the region and get the latest news.
The day was split into two parts. In the morning, there was the opportunity for a visit to the ATLAS experiment, see a 3-D movie on how the experiment was built and visit the CERN public exhibition points at the Globe and Microcosm. Since the Large Hadron Collider is currently under going maintenance until 2015, the experimental areas are accessible for small groups with a guide.
At the ATLAS control room, you could see a model of the detector
The real thing is slightly bigger and heavier... 100m underground, only one end is accessible currently from the viewing gallery.
The afternoon session presentations are available at the conference page.
After a quick introduction, I gave feedback on the latest board meeting in Hong Kong with topics such as the election process and the defcore discussion to answer the "What is OpenStack" question.
The following talk was an set of technical summaries of the Hong Kong summit from Belmiro, Patrick and Gergely. Belmiro covered the latest news on Nova, Glance and Cinder along with some slides from his deep dive talk on CERN's openstack cloud.
Patrick from Bull's xlcloud covered the latest news on Heat which is rapidly becoming a key part of the OpenStack environment as it not only provides a user facing service for orchestration but also is now a pre-requisite for other projects such as Trove, the database as a service.
In a good illustration of the difficulties of compatibility, the open office document failed to display the key slide on PowerPoint but Patrick covered the details while the PDF version was brought up. Heat currently supports AWS Cloud Formations but is now adding a native template language, HOT, to cover additional functions. The icehouse release will add more auto scaling features, integration with ceilometer and a move towards the TOSCA standard.
Gregely covered some of the user stories and the latest news on ceilometer as it starts to move into alarming on top of the existing metering function.
Alessandro then covered the online clouds at CERN which are opportunistically using the 1000s of servers attached to the CMS and ATLAS experiments when the LHC is not running. The aim is to be able to switch as fast as possible from the farm being used to filter the 1PB/s from the LHC to performing physics work. Current tests show it takes around 45 minutes to intantiate the VMs on the 1,400 hypervisors.
Jens-Christian gave a talk on the use of Ceph at SWITCH. Many of the aspects seem similar to the block storage that we are looking at within CERN's cloud. SWITCH are aiming a 1,000 core cluster to serve the Swiss academic community including dropbox, IaaS and app-store style services. It was particularly encouraging to see that SWITCH have been able to perform online upgrades between versions without problems.... the regular warning to be cautious with CephFS is also made, so using rbd rather than filesystem backed storage makes sense.
Martin gave us a detailed view on the options for geographically distributed clouds using OpenStack. This was intriguing on multiple levels in view of CERN's ongoing work with the community on federated identity along with some useful hints and tips on the different kinds of approaches. Martin converged onto using Regions to achieve the ultimate goals but there were several potential useful intermediate configurations such as cells which CERN is using extensively in the multi-data centre cloud with Budapest and Meyrin. I fully agree with Martin's perspective on the need for cells to become more than just a nova concept as we require similar functions in Glance and Cinder for the CERN use case. Martin had given the same talk in Paris on Thursday and was giving it again on Monday in Israel so he is doing a fine job in re-use of presentations.
Sergio described Elastic Cluster which is an open source tool for provisioning clusters for researchers. He illustrated the function with a youtube video which demonstrates the scaling of the cluster on top of a cloud infrastructure.
Finally, Dave Neary gave an introduction to Open Shift and how to deploy a Platform-as-a-Service solution. Using a simple git/ssh model, various PaaS instances can be deployed easily on top of an OpenStack cloud. The talk included a memorable demo where Dave showed the depth of his ruby skills but was rescued by the members of the audience and the application deployed to rounds of applause.
Many thanks to the CERN guides and administration for helping with the organisation, all of the attendees for coming and making it such a lively meeting and to Sven Michels and Belmiro Morerira for the photos.


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Exposure to violence is putting the people of Iraq at risk of serious psychological damage, says a doctor in this week's BMJ.
Previous studies have suggested that the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder following a traumatic event ranges from 7.5% to 72%, with the risk being highest in those exposed to sustained combat trauma.
With an excess of over 500,000 violent deaths, there will no doubt have been many more people exposed to grave violence. It therefore seems likely that the nation of Iraq may suffer a double blow, firstly by losing a sizeable proportion of its working population and secondly by the significant consequences of people suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, writes Dr Michael Reschen of the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
This may also be compounded by cultural barriers which prevent people from seeking psychological help, he adds.
The mainstay of the coalition's medical effort has been understandably directed at assisting with basic medical help and treating injured civilians in Iraqi or coalition hospitals. The medical literature provides ample examples of rebuilding psychiatric facilities in a post-war era, most notably the experiences of doctors in Croatia following the invasion by coalition forces.
"We must learn the lessons of history and expedite the psychiatric help for Iraqi civilians," he concludes.


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In a noisy warehouse east of Edmonton, an unidentifiable man raises a hammer over his head and brings it crashing down onto a vintage beige computer monitor. Bits of plastic shrapnel fly through the air. The man, clad in a respirator, protective eyewear, coveralls, hard hat and gloves, makes his living manually dismantling TV sets and computers at Global Electric and Electronic Processing Inc., a privately owned recycling facility at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre. The city sends electronic waste and batteries here — this is where items go after you take them to a city ecostation — but GEEP has a host of clients beyond municipalities, including London Drugs, a Canadian retailer that's doing a lot more than most businesses to reduce its impact on the environment.
London Drugs teamed up with GEEP in 2008, when it launched its "What's the Green Deal?" sustainability program, an initiative for customers, employees and the planet. With a goal of diverting 95 per cent of its waste from landfills by 2015, London Drugs now works with buyers and suppliers to improve product sustainability, offers environmental education to customers in-store and online and, best of all, has a free in-store recycling program. Anyone can show up at one of the stores and drop off electronic waste, batteries, light bulbs and more.
London Drugs sends all its electronic waste from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to GEEP at a cost of about $100 per pallet. From Alberta alone, each year the company sends approximately 50 pallets to GEEP. But its sustainability efforts go even further; it also recycles customers' Styrofoam, cosmetics and candy wrappers, among other things. No strings attached, either. In other words, you don't have to buy something at the store to drop things off. The company estimates that it spends about $50,000 annually on its recycling program in Alberta.
The "What's the Green Deal?" program is the reason London Drugs is one of two Emerald Award finalists in the large business category. The awards, administered by the Alberta Emerald Foundation, recognize outstanding commitment to environmental initiatives in this province.
"It's good recognition for us to see that we're doing our part in the environment," says Perry Lubberding, a London Drugs store manager in Edmonton. "As a company we're trying to do something good, and hopefully people see that as a (good) company to do business with."
Lubberding, a.k.a. Mister Recycling, managed Edmonton's Oliver Square location for many years before a recent move to the store in West Edmonton Mall. The Oliver location has an impressive 93-per-cent diversion rate for waste, from product packaging to the organics in staff members' lunches. Yet as Lubberding sees it, it could do better still.
"I look at it as part of my job, the more we can do to help. I hate to see a lot of garbage go to the landfill. That's my job, to ensure we're doing everything, being efficient."
The electronic waste that London Drugs sends to GEEP is sorted into component parts — copper, brass, steel, glass and circuit boards, among many other things — then sold as commodities. Many materials end up abroad, where they are reused to create new electronic products. The GEEP facility staffs about 70 employees year-round, and judging from the enormous collection of televisions, computer parts and other small appliances piled up outside the building, there's no shortage of work.
Granted, London Drug's electronics recycling program brings people in to the store, many of whom may end up purchasing a replacement electronic product. It makes business sense. "For us, if someone's recycling something, they're also looking at it in that they're looking for something new," Lubberding explains. The retailer even offers incentives from time to time: bring in your old iron and get a discount on a new iron, for example.
But it's about reducing their impact more than anything. "It's just trying to prevent products from going to waste," says Lubberding. "That's the big point from our perspective. There are a lot of companies trying to do their bit in terms of helping the environment, and this is what we're doing."
Lubberding feels good about the steps his employer has taken toward sustainability. The eco-consciousness has even rubbed off on him after hours. "At home I'm a recycle guy. My kids get a little annoyed with that. It ripples into my own life that way."


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Yep, I'm a sucker who plunked down the cash and bought myself a 2012 Class II Wave 2 case from EE. At least I got free shipping... and yes, another Anakin Starfighter for Toys for Tots!
And WTF is a "Gordman's"?!?!And why can't people on the East Coast get access to these!
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A dog found swimming some 130 miles off the coast of Thailand was rescued by an oil rig crew and is back on the mainland, authorities said Tuesday.
The dog was spotted near the Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production rig that is located 135-miles off the coast of Thailand. Vitisak Payalaw wrote on Facebook that the crew spotted the dog swimming toward the platform on Friday.
After some effort, the dog managed to make it to the platform where it clung to some support structures underneath the rig. The dog didn't bark or whimper once, Vitisak wrote on Facebook. Crew members attempted to help the dog by holding out a pole for the dog, but the waves made it difficult for the animal to climb up.
"I thought that if we didn't move quickly, I would not be able to help him," said Payalaw. "If he lost his grip, it would be very difficult to help him."
The dog continued to hold on for dear life, watching the workers as they figured out how to get the animal safely on board.
Eventually, the workers decided to throw a rope around the dog's neck and use that to pull him up. Once they got the dog on board, the washed him, and gave him some fresh water and an electrolyte drink. Payalaw speculated that the dog may have belonged to someone on a fishing trawler and may have fallen off at some point.
The shivering canine was exhausted by the ordeal according to Payalaw's post. The oil rig crew named the little brown dog, "Boonrod," which means "survivor."
Payalaw wrote on Facebook that the animal has been transferred to a clinic in Thailand where it would be given temporary shelter. If no one claims Boonrod, Payalaw said he would adopt him.


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Patrick G. Forrester
STS-128 Mission Specialist
Born on 31 March 1957 Forrester is married and has two children. He enjoys baseball and running. He has a master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering and is a Master Army Aviator, having flown in over 50 different aircraft.
He has fulfilled various Army posts as an instructor pilot, platoon leader, aviation company operations officer, assault helicopter battalion operations officer, flight test engineer and as the research and development coordinator. Designated an experimental test pilot in 1992 he was assigned to NASA as an aerospace engineer in July 1993 and has fulfilled various functions from testing Shuttle flight software to being CapCom for both ISS and Shuttle missions.
Forrester is a veteran of two spaceflights. In August 2001 he performed two spacewalks during the STS-105 mission, which exchanged ISS Expedition Crews (2 for 3) and brought 2.7 tonnes of cargo to the ISS in a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM). Forrester was prime robotics operator for MPLM installation. He also performed two spacewalks during STS-117 in June 2007, which installed the S3/4 truss segment with solar arrays on the ISS and exchanged an Expedition crewmember.


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This is a 1944 deutrches '10' Reich coin with an eagle and swastika on the front and the number 10 on the back. It is oxidized brass with some corrosion, otherwise in good condition. I have held onto it for years. I won a whole jar of mixed coins in a bet from my brother when we were little. Most of them were from vacation spots around the world and about 5 are rare.


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As president of the Friends of the Lefrak City Library and a member of the community, I want to publicly thank State Senator Jose Peralta for resolving an important community concern by helping us secure a crossing guard for our school children at the very busy and dangerous intersection of the Horace Harding Expressway and Junction Boulevard.
At a monthly meeting at the library in fall of 2012, one of the major concerns voiced by community residents was the safety of the young students crossing this very busy and dangerous intersection to get to and from school.
Two fruitless years of petitions to many officials to acquire the crossing guards gave no results. In desperation, I reached out on behalf of the community to State Senator Peralta for help. After careful investigation, he pledged his support.
Thanks to the leadership of State Senator Peralta and the dedication of the 112th Precinct, our school children can now cross this perilous intersection under the guidance of a crossing guard.
Pat Martin
Friends of LeFrak City Library


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For those times when your innate mutant abilities simply won't cut it, the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company offers supplemental superpowers in convenient carry-home canisters.
The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company raises funds for the New York chapter of 826 National, a non-profit founded by authors Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida that helps students with creative and expository writing. Each outlet has its own fantastical shop, such as the Echo Park Time Travel Mart we've mentioned in the past.
The Brooklyn shop sells everything from capes to robotic sharks to secret identities, but there's something especially wonderful about the understated packaging of their home-brewed superpowers, which also come in Immortality ("not an effective strategy for putting off student loans"), Chaos ("not as fun as it sounds"), Cloning Fluid ("You'll only have to buy one bottle. Ever."), and Omnipotence.
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Paris, 7 A.M.
I make a trip to each clock in the apartment:
some hands point histrionically one way
and some point others, from the ignorant faces.
Time is an Etoile; the hours diverge
so much that days are journeys round the suburbs,
circles surrounding stars, overlapping circles.
The short, half-tone scale of winter weathers
is a spread pigeon's wing.
Winter lives under a pigeon's wing, a dead wing with damp feathers.
Look down into the courtyard. All the houses
are built that way, with ornamental urns
set on the mansard roof-tops where the pigeons
take their walks. It is like introspection
to stare inside, or retrospection,
a star inside a rectangle, a recollection:
this hollow square could easily have been there.
– The childish snow forts, built in flashier winters,
could have reached these proportions and been houses;
the mighty snow-forts, four, five, stories high,
withstanding spring as sand-forts do the tide,
their walls, their shape, could not dissolve and die,
only be overlapping in a strong chain, turned to stone,
and grayed and yellowed now like these.
Where is the ammunition, the piled-up balls
with the star-splintered hearts of ice?
This sky is no carrier-warrior-pigeon
escaping endless intersecting circles.
It is a dead one, or the sky from which a dead one fell.
The urns have caught his ashes or his feathers.
When did the star dissolve, or was it captured
by the sequence of squares and squares and circles, circles?
Can the clocks say; is it there below,
about to tumble in snow?
In Bishop's first book of poems, North & South (1946, Houghton Mifflin), this poem is the sixteenth of thirty. It is preceded by poems which are more well-known, including "Wading at Wellfleet", "The Man-Moth", and "The Unbeliever". The poems following this one in her first book are anthologized even less often than this one, although The Poetry Foundation has posted "Roosters" online here.
The scene of "Paris, 7 A.M." is a dreamlike state of consciousness in which one observes but does nothing. The speaking persona goes anxiously from clock to clock within "the apartment", and then goes to the window and looks down at the courtyard and up at the sky, but there is no leaving the apartment or other action within it. The sense of stasis is bolstered by the notion of deadness in the absence of death:
Winter lives under a pigeon's wing, a dead wing with damp feathers. (lines 9 to 10)
The childish snow-forts...could not dissolve and die... (lines 18 to 22)
This sky...is a dead one, or the sky from which a dead one fell. (lines 27 to 29)
What can we say about why this person is anxious? We get a clue early in the poem: "days are journeys round the suburbs" (line five). Using Surrealism to conflate a cosmological perspective with that of a domestic one in these early lines, we are left with the question: "What is the urban?" The poem provides no answer, and a memory of "flashier winters" provides no solace, no re-invigoration. This poem does not clarify, elaborate or affirm but disorients and troubles. The "I" is casting about, attending first to this, then to that, and not finding a place to feel at ease.
Another clue as to this anxiety comes in lines 14 to 17:
… It is like introspection
to stare inside, or retrospection,
a star inside a rectangle, a recollection:
this hollow square could easily have been there.
Usually, retrospection and introspection are expected to be separate, even mutually exclusive, territories. But here the speaking persona seeks to collapse these territories into one. The "It" of line 14 is the scene in the courtyard; the "I" would like her interior and her exterior weathers to be the same. But they are not, and this disappoints her, causing her some anxiety.
After looking down into the lifeless courtyard and reflecting on a childhood memory that doesn't seem to help, this person wants to know where the signs of life are ("Where is the ammunition...?"). With no one else to turn to, she wants to know if the clocks can tell her what she wants to know. The "it" of the line next to last includes the pigeon, the Etoile (i.e., the star) and the sky, and the final question of the poem asks, "Is a catastrophe about to happen?"


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ALTOPIANO DEL MONTASIO, Italy - Colombian rider Rigoberto Uran won the first big mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday, and Vincenzo Nibali held onto the overall lead after the 10th leg.
Pre-race favourite Bradley Wiggins dropped further behind on the steep, uphill finish, while defending champion Ryder Hesjedal dropped out of contention on the first climb.
The 26-year-old Uran, who rides for Wiggins' Sky team and won the best young rider's jersey during last year's race, clocked more than 4 1/2 hours over the 167-kilometre leg from Cordenons to Altopiano del Montasio, which featured two difficult climbs, including a long, grueling uphill finish.
It was Uran's first victory in a Grand Tour.
"It nice to finally be able to finish off a victory," he said.
Another Colombian, Carlos Betancour, finished 20 seconds behind in second. Nibali, an Italian with Astana, won a sprint for third, 31 seconds back to keep the pink jersey.
Mauro Santambrogio was fourth and 2011 Tour de France winner Cadel Evans crossed fifth, both also 31 seconds back.
Wiggins crossed 10th, 1:08 back.
Victoria's Hesjedal was 71st in the stage, 20 minutes 53 seconds behind Uran. He dropped to 33rd overall, 23:45 behind Nibali.
Nibali earned an eight-second bonus for finishing third and increased his lead over Evans to 41 seconds. Uran moved up from ninth to third, 2:04 back. Wiggins remained fourth but now trails by 2:05, while Robert Gesink of the Netherlands is fifth, 2:12 behind.
Michele Scarponi, the 2011 Giro winner, dropped from fifth to sixth.
"Today could have been a difficult day because it followed a rest day," Nibali said. "Wiggins lost some time. I was worried about Scarponi, but he also lost something. At this point, I think Evans becomes one of the most dangerous opponents.
"I have a decent lead on Uran and just as much on Wiggins. I think we'll keep an eye on both of them. I won't know Sky's strategy but we'll try to figure it out."
Henao, another strong Colombian climber for Sky, is 19th overall.
"We had three cards to play — me, (Sergio) Henao and Wiggins — and it worked for me today," Uran said. "We have the strongest team. ... Both Henao and I know that our job is to help Bradley. But then of course we'll see day by day what happens."
The first climb over the Cason di Lanza pass lasted 14.5 kilometres at gradients as high as 16 per cent with snow lining the road. The finishing climb to Montasio, in the Giro for the first time, lasted 21.9 kilometres with leg-breaking stretches at 20 per cent gradients.
Earlier this year, fans were allowed to send in messages for the stage via Twitter, which were printed on the road leading up to Montasio, which is located in the northeastern corner of Italy.
The stage began with a 13-man breakaway, which fell apart on the first climb. Nibali had a tire puncture but quickly caught back up to the main pack with the help of his teammates.
On the finishing climb, Sky rode up front to set up Uran's attack with eight kilometres to go.
Before Tuesday's start, German sprinter John Degenkolb withdrew. He won the fifth stage.
Stage 11 Wednesday is a 182-kilometre leg from Tarvisio to Vajont featuring two category-2 climbs.
The race ends May 26 in Brescia.


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In memory
It's been a long time since I've posted, but I needed to acknowledge the passing of Susan Niebur, otherwise known as WhyMommy. She fought breast cancer and its metastases, hard, for nearly five years, while parenting and blogging and doing science and friending with more passion and love and fierceness than many fit into much longer lives. I've written about her before, here and here, but I don't think I had realized just how many lives she had touched until I read the love fest that her friends made for her on Facebook. I've been reading people's comments on her page and her blog and her twitter feed, and the only consolation is that she knew how beloved on the earth she was.
If you want to support breast cancer research and you're still pissed at Komen (and I am), you might consider giving to one of these organizations:
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation (IBC is what Susan had. Short version — not all breast cancer produces lumps. If you have a change in the skin texture, or a bruise that doesn't go away, get it checked out.)
- Lucy Fund for Metastatic Breast Cancer Research. The majority of people who die of breast cancer in the US die of metastatic breast cancer. And yet, as Susan pointed out repeatedly, only 3 percent of breast cancer research funding goes to research on metastatic cancer. It's worth hassling the big funders (e.g. Komen) about this, but also giving to dedicated research funds.
And go look at the moon tonight. It's beautiful.