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Pick up a bag that's big on style but low on environmental impact. At Sole Society, we offer a wide selection of gorgeous bags crafted from eco-conscious vegan leather. Our vegan leather bags are crafted from materials that look and feel just as luxurious as real leather without the impact on the environment and your bank account.
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There's better-late-than-never, and then there's this story from The Hill: leading California Congressional Democrats want a meeting with President Obama to talk about the state's housing crisis.
The fact that there hasn't been such a meeting -- and that one is being sought in 2012, four years after the emergence of the crisis -- speaks volumes about the president and California's Congressional representation.
There is much to discuss here. Housing and related industries have accounted for much of the job loss in the state. Housing continues to be a big drag on the economy, and California's housing woes are far greater than those in the nation as a hole.
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In fact, California's troubled housing market is considered a national problem by many.
California's Congressional leaders tell the Hill they have lots of ideas (including a moratorium on interest payments for underwater homeowners in bankruptcy) to discuss.
They've discussed them with Obama administration officials, but they've had a hard time getting answers -- yea or nay -- on the ideas.
That's outrageous.
President Obama seems to respond to the state primarily when he's making fundraising trips here. California's Congressional representatives -- all of them -- need to be cooperating and meeting routinely to take on problems like this.
Why are only Democrats seeking this meeting with the president?
The housing crisis has hit especially hard in inland California districts represented by Republicans.
It's not too late to tackle this issue. But it's getting awfully late.
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Cabinet of Wonders to air on NPR!
For Immediate Release
February 3, 2012
"A vaudeville night that combines music and literature, resulting in one of the finest nights of entertainment this city has to offer."—The New Yorker
"Inspired silliness…the audience roared in delight."—Wall Street Journal
Musician/author John Wesley Harding once again brings his Cabinet of Wonders back to New York's City Winery for a 3-show residency on February 4, March 10 and April 28. Drawing together collaborators from the worlds of music, literature and comedy, the Cabinet of Wonders features Harding curating, hosting and performing with a number of hand-picked artists in a variety show format. The February 4 show features Edie Brickell, Eugene Mirman, Tom Perrotta, the Punch Brothers, Josh Ritter, Haley Tanner, Sarah Vowell, and the Spinto Band performing alongside John Wesley Harding and the English U.K. Participating artists in the upcoming March and April performances include musicians A.C. Newman, Will Sheff (Okkervil River), Sondre Lerche and Meg Baird (Espers), authors Colson Whitehead, Rick Moody and Megan Reilly and comedians Fred Armisen, Reggie Watts and Janeane Garofalo. "I wanted to bring together my novel writing friends (who mostly envy my musician friends) and my musician friends (who mostly envy my novel writing friends) under one flag," says Harding. "The fact is: I like everyone who's performing." Additional artists to be announced, line-ups are subject to change.
The Cabinet of Wonders is joining together with NPR to record, broadcast and exclusively distribute the show beginning this spring. Recorded live at City Winery this past winter and airing in six one-hour episodes, NPR's "Cabinet of Wonders" features an exciting mix of musicians, authors, comedians and other artists including Ted Leo, Josh Ritter, Craig Finn, Nicole Atkins, comedy from Eugene Mirman and John Hodgman, and readings from authors Patrick McGrath, Colson Whitehead and Rick Moody among many others.
The Cabinet of Wonders premiered in the spring of 2009 to packed houses in New York City presenting a diverse lineup of performers. Many talented artists have joined in. Past collaborators include Andrew Bird, Colin Meloy, Rosanne Cash, Jonthan Ames, Daniel Handler and Patton Oswalt. The Village Voice calls the Cabinet of Wonders "a brilliant evening of laid-back fun," while Time Out New York compares it to "an awesome mythological beast…another fantastic hybrid creation."
Since his critically acclaimed 1990 debut Here Comes the Groom (lauded by the LA Times as "the first great rock record of the `90s") John Wesley Harding has recorded 18 records for both major (Sire, Hollywood) and independent (Mammoth, Rhino, Appleseed) labels alike, with his most recent release The Sound of His Own Voice (Yep Rock Records) being hailed as "Wes' most exciting album ever" by Magnet and "first-rate folk-rock" by the Utne Reader. His novels have been published by Little Brown and Picador in the U.S.
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GREEN Vegan Man / Moby on 16 years of meatless living
"I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat," Moby told me last week, when he was in San Francisco touring in support of his latest CD, Hotel. Moby and I are both vegans, so our conversation had naturally turned to meatless living. "I've been doing it so long that it's just second nature," he continued. "Now, almost every city in the Western world has good vegetarian, or even vegan, restaurants."
Veganism -- living life without using any animal products, from meat, milk, fur and leather to the more obscure gelatin and isinglass and even honey -- is complete vegetarianism. Vegans are vegetarians who go all the way. Although the word vegan has been around since 1944, the practice has entered mainstream American consciousness only during the past decade. Vegan celebrities like Moby and (his polar opposite in every other regard) Pamela Anderson can take some credit for this recent popularity, but the meatless lifestyle is hardly a fad.
According to a Harris poll conducted for the Vegetarian Resource Group, 4 percent of people in the western United States never eat any kind of meat -- they're vegetarians, although many eat milk or eggs. The same survey found that a third of all vegetarians are vegan. In the Bay Area, this means there are at least a hundred thousand of us. Chances are you know a vegan or two, and, sooner or later, you'll wind up sharing a meal with one of us.
Certainly Moby, who has been vegan for more than 16 years, enjoys his visits here. "My two favorite vegan places in San Francisco are the really obvious ones," he told me, "Rainbow Grocery and Millennium Restaurant. Rainbow used to have what is possibly my favorite food on the planet -- this vegan focaccia that had roasted onions and roasted red peppers and garlic. They don't have it anymore, but it's still an amazing place."
"One of the great things about being in the Bay Area," says Michelle Anna Jordan, author of the "Veg Out Vegetarian Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area," "is that there is almost no restaurant that can't feed you. If you're a vegan and you tell someone you're a vegan, they'll get you something good." One in a series of vegetarian city guides, "Veg Out San Francisco" lists more than 100 restaurants in the area for the growing number of non-meat eaters.
Moby's veganism has been a constant thread through a career spanning countless styles of music. Boasting collaborators ranging from Elton John to Metallica, and whether racking up performances in front of just a handful of people in punk rock clubs or before 2 billion people during the closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, his message, in one way or another, has reached around the planet.
"When I think of the fact that literally tens of billions of animals are killed every year for human purposes," he says softly, "part of me wants to go out and join the Animal Liberation Front [a militant group that breaks into labs and factory farms to release the animals held there]. But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective."
To that end, Moby's approach to communicating his message has evolved. Animal Rights, an angry, dissonant album, sold poorly when it came out in 1996. But in 1999, with the infinitely more accessible, danceable Play, Moby hit platinum. And with every copy of Play comes a concise, heartfelt plea for the welfare of the planet's animals. Because millions of copies of that album have been sold, its booklet is probably the most widely read vegan treatise ever. And now Moby is taking the message a step farther.
In 2002, he opened Teany, a cozy vegetarian tea shop in his Manhattan neighborhood that immediately became a popular hangout. This year, Moby released "The Teany Book." Part recipe book, part scrapbook, with the familiar style of a friendly blog, it's an easygoing handbook to the vegan good life. Right after a recipe for rich (but of course eggless and milkless) chocolate cake, you'll find pictures from a Teany tea party for Lulu, "the cutest little girl in the entire world." A recipe for a peachy white sangria promises "the kind of everything-is-going-to-be-OK feeling that only sangria can give you." There's nary a mention of suffering animals or the environmental devastation wrought by meat production.
"The number of vegetarians seems pretty stable, but the number of vegans is actually increasing," says Joe Connelly, founder and publisher of VegNews, a San Francisco-based national lifestyle magazine. (Connelly, who has been vegan for more than a decade, is also the original Green columnist). "It's a natural progression," he says. "Anyone who goes vegetarian will eventually lean toward veganism: They will see the connections and understand them."
That's certainly the route I took. First, I eased off meat for environmental reasons. A few years later, I stopped all dairy, just to try it out. I felt great, and never looked back. Perhaps it's the logistical element that makes this such a popular route to veganism -- rather than change your diet completely, it's easier to transform it, one ingredient at a time.
Connelly also says that new categories, such as "flexitarians" -- people who eat meat only when they go out -- or "pescetarians" -- people who won't eat animals other than fish -- are part of a tacit popular endorsement of veganism's premise: that it is better to avoid animal products.
Though no official arbiter of what it is to be vegan exists, the term's social meaning is emerging. "Veganism is a choice," says Connelly, "so it's not that inaccurate to say that it's a lifestyle, but it's also so much more than that. Philosophy is closer."
For me, making the choice six years ago to use no animal products led to some surprising changes in my life. After laying off meat and dairy, I found I was more open to understanding animals as living beings. When I couldn't bring myself to kill a clam that had been sentenced to the chowder pot, I realized I had become vegan. Call me a wimp, but it seems to me that if you can't look a creature in the eye (or siphon tube, in the clam's case) and take its life, then you have no business eating it -- especially when the consuming is not even remotely a case of subsistence.
That's what led me to giving up leather -- that, and the emergence of chic vegan shoes and clothing from boutiques such as Otsu, a sunny storefront in the Mission that has helped revamp the City's vegan style quotient. The shop, which opened in 2002, is part of a wave of new expressions of the vegan life in the Bay Area.
There are vegan magazines, like VegNews, vegan artwork, like Lart Cognac Berliner's dreamy sketches, vegan music, vegan porn and vegan dating. We have vegan ice cream sundaes at Maggie Mudd in Bernal Heights, where vegan mommy groups bring their little charges for a treat. We have vegan meatballs at Safeway, and even vegan options at several of the area's soup kitchens.
The spread of the vegan parallel universe is most obvious in the supermarket. "The availability and selection of vegan foods was much less when I became a vegan," Connelly points out. "I mean, now you can go into 7-Eleven and get soy milk."
But Connelly also says it's much more than just about food. "Veganism's just getting more acceptable," he continues. "The path has been paved, and it's only going to get wider."
It's a way of defining ourselves that stretches all the way from the sharply-put-together yoga-limbed set that enjoys ordering raw dishes called I Am Worthy and I Am Flourishing at Cafe Gratitude to the raggedy anarchists at Food Not Bombs, who you'll find dispensing free vegan food every weekday evening to a decidedly less flourishing, if no less worthy, crowd near San Francisco's City Hall. From Pamela Anderson and Moby to me and all our fellow vegans, we've been brought together by a recognition that how we engage the world means something, and that being aware of what we put in our bodies is the first step toward changing the world.
"One of the hallmarks of our culture is that we're so far removed from the means of production of just about everything that fills our lives," Moby said to me. "So the people who do eat meat really know in the back of their minds that it's produced in a barbaric, unethical way, but they've never actually seen it firsthand. My challenge to anyone who is a hardcore meat eater is if you're so devoted to being a carnivore, why not visit a slaughterhouse to see what you're eating?"
Moby is also motivated by the environmental impacts of animal husbandry. "The main environmental argument for not eating meat for me personally is deforestation," he says. "The primary cause of deforestation in the third world is to create grazing land for cattle. Then there's the amount of waste that is produced by factory farming -- not just animal waste, but all the antibiotics and pesticides. All the chemicals that go into trying to keep a factory farm from being just a septic mess all get washed into the water supply."
It's all this thinking about the bad things in the world that can sometimes make vegans seem threatening (or annoying, depending on how you look at it). Certainly, vegans exist out there who think that hectoring their friends about the misery endured by laying hens is going to get the perpetrators to cheerfully give up omelets -- but that kind of attitude isn't inherent to veganism. "Strident people might become vegan," Joe Connelly says, "but vegans aren't by nature or by definition strident."
Moby, who says he's been through his own strident-vegan phase, now thinks that's not the best way to reach people. "Before I became a vegan," he says, "if someone had come to me and yelled at me, and told me that the way I was living was wrong, I would have just become defensive. But if someone had come to me in a very even-tempered, respectful way, and made me think about the way I was living and the way I was eating, and maybe given me information that I could think about on my own, I would have responded a lot more positively. It's just respectful communication."
"You should feel good when you're vegan -- you shouldn't have to apologize for it," adds Joe Connelly. "The reality is that if you're eating a healthy diet and you're a vegan, you are leaving less of a footprint on the Earth."
Gregory Dicum, author of Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air, writes about the natural world from San Francisco. A forester by training, Gregory has worked at the front lines of some of the world's most urgent environmental crises. For more of his work, see dicum.com.


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What is 'Podsafe' Music?
by David Wimble, The Indie Bible,
As you visit the hundreds of music podcast and MP3 blog sites you'll notice that most them feature something called PODSAFE MUSIC. For this article I have gathered information from various internet sites in order to help clarify what podsafe music is and how it can become another helpful tool to place into your marketing utility belt.
Definition of podsafe music (from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org)
Podsafe is a term created in the podcasting community to refer to any work which, through its licensing, specifically allows the use of the work in podcasting, regardless of restrictions the same work might have in other realms. For example, a song may be legal to use in podcasts, but may need to be purchased or have royalties paid for over-the-air radio use, television use, and possibly even personal use.
The effective definition of "podsafe" for a given work depends entirely on the contract through which the podcaster licenses the work; there is no single podsafe license. The concept of podsafety, in its true form, greatly favors the artist and the profitability of the artist's product, in exchange for only very limited concessions to the podcasting community.
While some works such as public domain works or works under some Creative Commons licenses are inherently podsafe, the only actual requirement for a work to be podsafe is that any licensing requirements it has, if applicable, allow for the work's free use (typical broadcast use in its original form, if in no other form, depending on the specific license) in a podcast or web broadcast. This gives specific favor to podcasts only, allowing the artist to impose more traditional constraints on everyone else. Podsafe licensing can, for example, continue to require non-podcast consumers to pay for the work, require royalties on derivative works, and profit significantly from the work's use in traditional radio, television, or film.
The licensor of any podsafe work must be legally capable of making it so. An artist cannot distribute his or her own work through a podsafe license if doing so would break any laws or breach any standing agreements (e.g. with the RIAA). The creator of a derivative work may also not claim this work podsafe without express permission from the original copyright holders. (PMN has more specific and stringent terms to this effect in its agreement.) Another point of contention is that not all podcasts are non- commercial works; in fact, an increasing number of podcasts are taking on sponsors and looking to make a profit. In general, no significant distinction is yet made between podsafe for non- commercial use and podsafe for commercial use, but it could easily arise at any moment.
Motives for the podcaster to use podsafe music (from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org)
As podcasting grows more and more popular, illegal use of heavily licensed music (as through the RIAA) becomes increasingly difficult to hide. This is in general of greater concern to podcasters than to the typical sharer of music, because podcasters usually produce their shows for and promote them to the public-a far more overt and traceable action.
Including such licensed music legally has its own set of caveats. Indeed, under many jurisdictions it's currently impossible, but the message from those in the know is that many licensing agencies, if they do intend to allow the use of their music on podcasts, will require not only the payment of royalties but also the use of DRM on the shows. (DRM, because of its proprietary, system- specific nature, would be destructive to the general openness and system independence of podcasts.)
Use of podsafe music instead of more stringently licensed material allows a podcaster to continue to produce an inexpensive, legal program with little hassle. Not least important for an independent podcaster is the promise of being able to avoid the confusing maze of licensing organisations.
Motives for the artist to use podsafe music (from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org)
Conventional radio (and television) can present a difficult, and not always logical, barrier of entry for a musician or other media artist involving large sums of money and often a great deal of surrender in both ownership and creative freedom.
In contrast, podcasting, an increasingly popular medium for audio programs, is as a whole very receptive, indeed thirsty for artists and input. This is due in part to the creative and economic nature of the largely independent podcasting community and further fueled by its need to avoid repetition. While a conventional radio show may be able to risk replaying a large part of its music selection from day to day, there would be little point in downloading a music podcast whose selection did not vary significantly from a previous show. Podcasting is thus a voracious medium. With a growing and international audience podcasting is now becoming an effective means for inexpensive artist promotion often aimed squarely at the people most like to be interested in that type of music.
What is The Podsafe Music Network?
The Podsafe Music Network (music.podshow.com) is a comprehensive source for podsafe music. It was founded in 2005 by ex MTV VJ and current podcaster Adam Curry (Daily Source Code). PMN brings a large group of podcasters together with a wide variety of all-podsafe music and the artists who produce it.
According to PMN, podsafe music is music that meets all of the following conditions:
1. Works submitted to the Podsafe Music Network are the property of the artist, and all rights to these works, including lyrics and music, are the property of the artist.
2. All works contain no recordings, lyrics, copyrights, or other elements that are the copyright of any other artist, except under the limited provisions of the Creative Commons License Agreement www.creativecommons.org
3. Despite any recording contracts with RIAA, ASCA, BMI or other recording industry entity, the artist retains ownership of the works and is free to distribute, broadcast, license or sell these works at the artist's discretion.
The licensing agreement between the artist and PMN: music.podshow.com/music/artistTerms.htm What are Creative Commons Licenses? (from www.creativecommons.org)
Creative Commons Licenses help you publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and can't do with your work. When you choose a licence, we provide you with tools and tutorials that let you add licence information to our own site or to one of several free hosting services that have incorporated Creative Commons.
1. Standard License License your song under your terms. Our set of standard licenses will let you share music with fans while protecting your song from limits you put in place. Or, choose a prepared license for audio works.
2. Sampling License People can take and transform pieces of your work for any purpose other than advertising, which is prohibited. Copying and distribution of the entire work is also prohibited.
3. Share Music License This license is aimed at the musician that wants to spread their music on web and filesharing networks legally for fans to download and share, while protecting the music from commercial use or remixing of any kind.
How does a Creative Commons license operate?
Creative Commons license are based on copyright. So it applies to all works that are protected by copyright law. The kinds of works that are protected by copyright law are books, websites, blogs, photographs, films, videos, songs and other audio & visual recordings, for example. Software programs are also protected by copyright but, as explained below, we do not recommend that you apply a Creative Commons license to software code or documentation.
Creative Commons licenses give you the ability to dictate how others may exercise your copyright rights-such as the right of others to copy your work, make derivative works or adaptations of your work, to distribute your work and/or make money from your work. They do not give you the ability to restrict anything that is otherwise permitted by exceptions or limitations to copyright- including, importantly, fair use or fair dealing-nor do they give you the ability to control anything that is not protected by copyright law, such as facts and ideas. Creative Commons licenses attach to the work and authorize everyone who comes in contact with the work to use it consistent with the license. This means that if Bob has a copy of your Creative Commons-licensed work, Bob can give a copy to Carol and Carol will be authorized to use the work consistent with the Creative Commons license. You then have a license agreement separately with both Bob and Carol.
Where are the forms that I have to fill out?
Creative Commons licenses are expressed in three different formats: the Commons Deed (human-readable code), the Legal Code (lawyer- readable code) and the metadata (machine readable code). You don't need to sign anything to get a CCL. Just select your license here: www.creativecommons.org/license Hmmm ...what if I change my mind?
This is an extremely important point for you to consider. Creative Commons licenses are non-revocable. This means that you cannot stop someone, who has obtained your work under a Creative Commons license, from using the work according to that license. You can stop offering your work under a Creative Commons license at any time you wish; but this will not affect the rights with any copies of your work already in circulation under a Creative Commons license. So you need to think carefully when choosing a Creative Commons license to make sure that you are happy for people to be using your work consistent with the terms of the license, even if you later stop distributing your work.
Before you do anything, make sure you have the rights!
Before applying a Creative Commons license to a work, you need to make sure you have the authority to do so. This means that you need to make sure that the person who owns the copyright in the work is happy to have the work made available under a Creative Commons license.
Where do podcasters find podsafe music? (from Dave's Imaginary Sound Space soundblog.spaces.live.com)
Discovering new music and the ability to use it fairly without fear of copyright infringement is a key issue for podcasters and listeners alike. Artists, composers, producers and consumers can all benefit from clear, fair and flexible copyright licenses that embrace new technologies. 'Podsafe' means non-RIAA audio and video that can be used legally in podcast productions and freely distributed online for downloading. Podsafe music can be found in many locations on the web including: artists websites, MP3 blogs, open source music communities, podcast directories, netlabels, P2P networks and BitTorrent hosts. A quick search for "podsafe" in a podcast directory like PodcastAlley.com reveals a rich and diverse array of productions featuring podsafe music. Unfortunately it becomes extremely time consuming for podcasters to source available music and listen to it. Recommendations by listeners and fans play an important part in the podcast production process.
The definitive list of podcasting safe music sites can be found athttp://soundblog.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pXOS7l93k8mqeQ7FlEEmOSQ907.entry It's always about the music
For an artist just entering into the podcast/MP3 blog universe, the amount of information to take in can be overwhelming. It's not unlike a lifelong typist being plopped in front of a computer and asked to create a spreadsheet with colored charts.
As you watch the internet continue to explode with new technologies, it may feel like life has passed you by and left you lying in the dust. However, the truth is we're all still tightly bundled together. No one is ever left behind. The opportunity to move towards the cutting edge is available to anyone (my father-in-law has just learned how to use a computer at the age of 81). Don't let fear (and the excuses it can conjure up) lessen your attempts to succeed.
Remember, it has always been, and always will be about the music - that unique expression that you have to offer to the world. Podcasts, podsafe music, MP3 blogs, Creative Commons licenses and all that other bounce-off-the-head stuff is simply a collection of new and useful tools to help you get your music heard by more people.
Final thoughts
For the newbie, my suggestion would be to take it slow. Open one small door at a time and get a feel for it all. You'll eventually discover that bloggers and podcasters are simply human beings with a passion for music - a collection of music lovers that are ready and willing to help you get your songs heard by a new stream of potential fans.
David Wimble is Editor and Publisher of the Indie Bible - a yearly music directory for recording artists that helps them to gain exposure for their music. The Indie Bible was first published in 1999. www.IndieBible.com


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Follow the epic story of Hobo. He is now considered as a major threat to the city. He is brutal and he won't show any mercy. With his brute strength, he can even kill an army.
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Defeat the Hobo clones. You were abducted by the aliens and they managed to drain your powerful combos. You have to fight back to regain your combos. Do your best to defeat those aliens with lasers.
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Go out of your mind and be crazy enough to fight the devils of hell. As if you can really do anything, you are dead and you do not want your soul to be tormented.
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Related to tethered cord syndrome: spina bifida, Chiari malformation
1. string or thin rope made of several twisted strands
2. a length of woven or twisted strands of silk, etc., sewn on clothing or used as a belt
3. a ribbed fabric, esp corduroy
4. US and Canadian a flexible insulated electric cable, used esp to connect appliances to mains
5. Anatomy any part resembling a string or rope
6. a unit of volume for measuring cut wood, equal to 128 cubic feet
(1) A very strong twisted thread of cotton or chemical fiber used in the rubber industry for the manufacture of textile products that serve as semifinished components of rubber goods (such as tires).
(2) A woolen fabric, characterized by a special type of weave that forms longitudinal grooves (3–8 mm wide) along its face. Depending on its strength and thickness, cord is used in the manufacture of dresses, suits, and coats. The heaviest and most durable cord serves as excellent material for automobile upholstery.
What does it mean when you dream about a cord?
Sometimes restriction, but, alternatively, the bonds we have with others. The umbilical cord indicates dependency, and in those kinds of situations we talk about "cutting the cord."
A small, very flexible insulated cable.
A unit of measure for wood stacked for fuel or pulp; equals 4 × 4 × 8, or 128 cubic feet (approximately 3.6246 cubic meters).
A long, flexible, cylindrical construction of natural or synthetic fibers twisted or woven together.
Strands of material forming the plies in a motor vehicle tire.
electric cord
One or more flexible insulated electric conductors in a flexible insulating covering which is equipped with terminals.


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Google Announces One Less Reason to Export to Word
A recent sampling of U.S. PC users by research outfit NPD found that 73 percent had never even heard of Google Docs, the search sovereign's collaborative word-processing tool, or any other online productivity applications, for that matter. That may soon change, thanks to an embellishment that adds offline access to what had been an exclusively online app. Over the next few weeks, Google (GOOG) will begin enabling offline access to Docs, via Gears – a browser plug-in that can store files and data locally. Soon, Docs users will be able to edit their documents in the cloud and on the desktop in the same application.
The availability of an offline component for Google Docs might not convince businesses to standardize on Google Apps, but it will undoubtedly get them thinking about it a bit more. Certainly, Docs' lack of offline access has been one of the biggest objections to the Web-hosted application. Allowing Docs users to work on their word processing documents without an Internet connection, gives them one less reason to export them to Microsoft Word.


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DOVER — Based on the evidence, offensive balance is overrated as far as the Wofford College football team is concerned.
"We're going to run the football," the Terriers say. "Try to stop us."
Think they're bluffing? Just look at the numbers. Wofford rushed for 3,830 yards during the regular season and passed for a whopping 574. That's a game for Old Dominion.
Senior fullback Eric Breitenstein is the focal point of the Terriers' triple option attack they call the wingbone. He averages 150 yards rushing per game and has gained more than 100 yards in all but one game this year.
The lone exception was when he was pulled early in an 82-0 blowout of Lincoln the second game of the season. The 5-foot-11, 230-pounder has rushed for more yards this year (1,653) than Wofford has undergrads (1,550).
"We do a lot of different things out of a lot of different formations," said Breitenstein, the two-time Southern Conference offensive player of the year. "You hear announcers say teams run the ball to set up the play-action pass. A lot of what we do is run the ball to set up other running plays. We run the ball a million different ways out of a million different formations. If something isn't working we'll go to something else. We run the ball to set up the play-action run I guess you could say. People know it's coming, but it's pretty hard to stop the way we do it."
Ten different players have rushed for more than 100 yards this season for the Terriers, who host the University of New Hampshire at Gibbs Stadium on Saturday (2 p.m., ESPN3) in the second round of the FCS playoffs.
Wofford's ground game ranks second nationally behind only SoCon rival Georgia Southern. In fact, the Terriers have ranked first or second in rushing in each of the last seven seasons.
UNH ranks 67th nationally against the run and in its last game gave up 415 yards on the ground in a 64-35 loss to Towson at home.
"When you play against a team that doesn't see the triple option two or three times a year that's a plus," Breitenstein said. "We think that gives us an edge."
Following a 5-0 start, the Terriers are 3-3 in their last six games, including a 24-7 loss to South Carolina of the bowl subdivision in the final game of the regular season.
The contest was tied at 7 going into the fourth quarter when the No. 10/11 Gamecocks scored 17 unanswered points. No. 9 Wofford, which outgained South Carolina and rushed for 259 yards, lost a season-high three fumbles in that game, including one that was returned for a touchdown.
"The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win the game," said longtime Wofford coach Mike Ayers. "The team that creates problems for themselves with fumbles and interceptions will be in for a long afternoon."
The No. 11/13 Wildcats have won six of their last seven games and will be making their ninth consecutive appearance in the Division I-AA/FCS playoffs, the longest active streak in the nation.
It could be a short stay if they can't contain the Terriers' ground game and its ability to move the chains or create some turnovers. UNH ranks 103rd nationally in total defense.
The unit is anchored by senior linebackers Matt Evans and Alan Buzbee and senior tackle Jared Smith.
"They do a good job" Breitenstein said. "They've been big-played here and there a little bit this year, and I think that's what killed them. They have that star linebacker (Evans). He does a lot for them. We'll have to play our best game."
"Defensively, I think they're one of the top teams in the country in takeaway margin," Ayers said. "They're a team that plays defense to the end of the whistle. They have talented players."
Wofford is making its third straight trip to the FCS playoffs and fifth in six years. The Terriers earned a share of the Southern Conference championship with Georgia Southern and Appalachian State.
The Terriers complement their rushing attack with a defense that ranks 10th nationally in fewest points allowed per game (17.7).
"They have all the bells and whistles as far as reverses and running with their quarterbacks," Ayers said of UNH. "They throw it all over the lot and they run every pass route known to man."
In terms of offensive philosophy, the teams are polar opposites. The Wildcats couldn't be more balanced with 2,604 yards rushing and 2,578 passing.
They're ability to control the ball and finish drives could be their best defense.
"New Hampshire is a great football team," Breitenstein said. "Obviously they proved that this year and over the past decade. They know how to win. We're going to have to show up and play our game and do what we do."
Wofford is 5-0 at home this season.
"You'd like to say their team is going to come down here and lay an egg," Ayers said, "but that's not going to happen."
Terriers get a rush out of running the ball
DOVER — Based on the evidence, offensive balance is overrated as far as the Wofford College football team is concerned.


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Major Canadian condo markets might be plagued with fears over high personal debt and overbuilding, but experts say an even bigger threat to owners involves problems with insurance. In a two-part series, The Gazette reveals how ignorance, bad luck, and a mix of rising claims and premiums have left some Montreal condo owners one fire or flood away from risking their investments. This week, we look at the risks of under-insurance.
MONTREAL - The first flood started in a bathroom, possibly after a child threw something in the toilet, causing it to overflow.Then there was the resident who forgot to shut his bathtub tap, causing another $25,000 worth of damages, as water leaked from his apartment to the one below in the Montreal condo building. After yet a third flood last year, co-owners were left in a bind when renewing their building's insurance policy this fall: their annual premium had doubled to $35,000, and they were no longer covered for water damage.
Now each time a toilet or bathtub overflows — in what's an exceptionally well-maintained condo building — a bill will have to be paid directly by the 50 co-owners.
"We went to every insurance company around," said Michael Wilk, property manager for the building, which he declined to name. "We even asked to have a $100,000 deductible, but they refused. No one else wanted to insure us. It (the building) is now basically self-insuring (for water damage)."
The case above is an extreme example of what experts are calling a growing problem in residential real estate: Canadian condo owners lack ample insurance for rising repair costs at a time when property values have soared in the country's largest cities. While there are no statistics documenting under-insurance in condominiums, co-owners, lawyers, insurance brokers and industry officials interviewed by The Gazette say it has become a critical and widespread issue in the condo market, the fastest-growing housing sector in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Indeed, inadequate coverage — either because of frequent damage claims, attempts by owners to reduce monthly fees by keeping premiums low, or a failure by condo boards to determine the true costs of replacing their buildings — has emerged as a bigger threat to the condo sector than the much-publicized risk of overbuilding, several real estate experts say.
One particularly alarming tendency has been the small but growing number of Montreal-area condo buildings that now have insurance deductibles as high as $100,000 — a trend first seen in Vancouver.
"A condo isn't a home where there is one person. You are multiplying the risk," said attorney Yves Joli-Coeur, a specialist in condo law at the Montreal firm De Grandpré Joli-Coeur. "If you have too many floods in an apartment, then the insurer will tell you either 'I won't insure you' or you will have a high deductible. This is what we are going to see in the future in Quebec. There will be buildings that are no longer insurable.
"And when we have trouble finding insurance, then it has a direct impact on the value of the condo."
Concern over home insurance comes at a time when Quebec and Ontario are updating provincial condo laws to better protect existing owners and the growing number of new buyers. By 2016, the number of Quebec households living in condos is expected to swell to 266,000, provincial data show, while there are at least 500,000 condo units already in the province of Ontario — with tens of thousands of new ones under construction in Montreal and in the Greater Toronto area.
This week, recommendations to overhaul Quebec's aging condo laws — including calls for condo boards to obtain "reasonable deductibles" — were made to Parti Québécois Justice Minister Bertrand St-Arnaud, who is moving forward with reforms next year.
In both provinces, condo boards — staffed by volunteer owners — are legally obliged to have insurance covering their buildings, from common areas like the lobby, to the basic structure of the private units. Individual owners — who are responsible for the value of their own furniture and any improvements they make to their condos, like the installation of hardwood floors — don't always bother to get personal insurance, sometimes because they mistakenly believe their units are fully covered by the condo board, mortgage brokers say.
"People don't always understand who is responsible for what," said Serge Meloche, business-development manager of the insurance brokerage Dale Parizeau Morris Mackenzie.
Meloche cited the result of an internal study by a large Quebec evaluation firm, which showed that 70 per cent of the 270 homeowners surveyed were under-insured for the value of their properties.
"One of the big issues is that people buy condos without thinking of this (insurance costs)," said Line Crevier, a technical expert at the Insurance Bureau of Canada's Quebec chapter.
Even real estate brokers contacted by The Gazette said they were unaware of the complexities of condo insurance — where responsibility for coverage and the sharing of blame in the case of damages, can vary from building to building depending on what's written in the declaration of co-ownership.
"If you are a real estate broker, then you must make sure you inform the buyer that the building isn't sufficiently insured," Joli-Coeur said.
That information is critical because even as the number of condo owners is rising in Canada, so are the costs of protecting their homes, especially from the growing incidents of water damage — including sewer backups and burst pipes — the most common problem in condo buildings, experts said.
Intact Insurance spokesperson Gilles Gratton said the cost of water damages for the company over personal properties in Quebec grew from $14.2 million in 2002 to $48.5 million in 2011, with the average claim more than doubling during that period. In an email, Gratton attributed the rise in the water damage in Quebec and other parts of the country to a greater prevalence of severe storms — like May's flash flood in Montreal — a problem compounded by aging municipal infrastructure that cannot cope with the increased rainfall, and a rise in the proportion of basements that have been transformed into living spaces.
"The severity of water damage in condominiums is high, as a single occurrence may affect many units at the same time," he said.
Gratton said Intact doesn't intend to cease insuring condos, but remains vigilant about costs: "We pay close attention to ensure that the protection offered is priced adequately and this line of business remains sustainable over the years,"
A spokesperson for Aviva Canada Inc. didn't return The Gazette's repeated requests for insurance data.
While the insurance industry couldn't provide statistics on average rises in premiums, anecdotes from Montreal brokers, owners and property manager suggest they've risen faster than property values over the last few years.
One well-known Montreal insurance broker, who oversees policies for 300 different condo boards, said his clients' premiums rose between 20 and 50 per cent — depending on the size of the building — over the last three years.
To reduce the cost of premiums, or because they've made repeated claims for damages, some condo boards in Vancouver and now Montreal have $50,000, even $100,000 deductibles in buildings with as few as 40 units.
"I know there are a few (in Vancouver) that have six-digit deductibles," said Lindsay Olson, an Insurance Bureau of Canada spokesperson for Western Canada. "I think it's a fairly unusual situation, but we're seeing more of it. And if you're living in one of those apartments, it should be a cause for concern."
The risk is that they leave individual co-owners exposed to hefty bills in cases of negligence. Ontario, Quebec and B.C. all allow condo boards to sue a co-owner for the deductible if it's proven that he or she is responsible for the damages, real estate lawyers from all three provinces say.
"If your washing machine breaks or if your dishwasher overflows, you're responsible," explained B.C. attorney Jamie Bleay, an expert in condo, or strata law at Access Law Group in Vancouver. "As the deductibles go up, it's becoming more of an issue to owners."
While individual co-owners can get private coverage to protect them in such cases of negligence, an owner who doesn't have insurance could be left paying a $100,000 deductible out of pocket. And in a case where no one in the building is deemed responsible for the damages, high deductibles can lead to repeated bills for owners.
A co-owner's personal insurance can help defray these costs, but companies set limits on coverage for condo board deductibles. Intact Insurance, for example, sets a maximum limit of $500, an amount that won't go far in a building with a $50,000 deductible, 50 co-owners and even two floods a year.
"If you put deductibles that high, then you're not accomplishing your goal of insuring a building," said Joli-Coeur, who believes Quebec condo laws should be changed to prevent cases of deductibles being raised to "unreasonable" amounts to lower premiums.
At the Montreal building with no insurance for water damage, the estimated 50 co-owners agreed to set aside $50,000 in a special fund to cover themselves in the case of future incidents, Wilk said. Another $50,000 might be set aside next year.
Living in a building with no insurance for water damage means being especially vigilant, with a special meeting held recently to remind owners to turn off their taps. Memos are to be sent out warning residents to shut their main valves if they're going out of town for the holidays, Wilk said.
What's most tragic about this particular building is that it lost its coverage, even though condo board administrators had done everything right.
"It's just absolutely bad luck," Wilk said. "It's a great, beautiful building that's really well-maintained with a really strong, proactive condo board. It's a bit scary because if it can happen in this building it can happen to anyone."
Puzzled over condo insurance issues in Quebec? Read the list of common questions and answers on the insurance broker's site (in French): http://www.assuremoncondo.com/faq/reponses-a-vos-questions
See also: Condo insurance: Who pays for what?


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With last year's leading receiver, Michael Crabtree, out an estimated six months with a torn Achilles tendon, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh says he's confident someone will step up to fill the void.
Harbaugh isn't totally sure who that "someone" will be, though.
Harbaugh said on 95.7 The Game that he believes the most likely candidates to take Crabtree's place in the offense are last year's first-round pick A.J. Jenkins and this year's fourth-round pick Quinton Patton as well as Ricardo Lockette, who has never played in a game for the 49ers but spent most of last year on the roster and has reportedly looked good in practices.
"We'll put Jenkins, Patton, Ricardo Lockette at the same position and let them compete and emerge," Harbaugh said. "The good news is that somebody will emerge because they have to."
Harbaugh also said he believes the 49ers have a lot of depth at the receiver position.
"Then on the other side, Anquan Boldin, Chad Hall, Marlon Moore has been doing some really nice things in the offseason," Harbaugh said. "Joe Hastings will compete on the other side. Kyle Williams eventually will come back from his injury. He's doing real well, coming along very nicely. And Mario Manningham — probably a little bit later than Kyle, but he's on track to be healed up and ready to go, as well. A real good chance for some young guys to emerge, get some reps and contribute. I very much anticipate that will happen."
For the 49ers, it needs to happen. Crabtree was the 49ers' best wide receiver and a big reason that Colin Kaepernick settled into the starting quarterback job so smoothly last year. He won't be easy to replace, but the 49ers have no choice but to find someone who can do it.


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| Yelabuga Convent of the
Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
|Diocese of Kazan and Tatarstan,
Church of Russia
|Female Monastery
|Abbess Vera (Shevchenko)
|Approx. size
|15 nuns
|Yelabuga City, Tatarstan
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The '''Yelabuga Convent of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God''' is a monastery for women that was founded in the mid-nineteenth century in the city of Yelabuga in the Diocese of Kazan, Tatarstan. Having been virtually destroyed during the Soviet years, restoration of the convent has been ongoing since its return to the Church of Russia in 1995.
The merchant I. I. Stakheyev initiated the establishment of the convent in 1868, at his expense. The overall design of the convent complex was by the architect G. A. Boose, who placed the main temple, the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in center of the convent grounds, with the whole surrounded by a stone wall. This church was completed in 1868. Other buildings were built, arranged around the central church. Three story residence buildings were built to the east and north of the church. The monastery hospital was incorporated in the northern building, that also included, since 1887, the Church of the Great Martyr Barbara. The residence of the Mother Superior was a small two-story house built in the eastern part of the compound. Entrance to the monastery was through a turreted and arched gate in the southern part of the wall.
After the Bolsheviks took control of Russia in 1917, the Commissariat for Enlightening established a children's city within the convent grounds, yet permitted the community of nuns and the church to continue to function, although this was not permissible under the new Soviet laws. This changed when the government of the city decided to close the convent in 1928. The members of the convent community petitioned for return of the church, but were refused.
With the nuns banished from the convent, the Soviets destroyed the wall and disassembled the church and bell tower. The bricks from the buildings were given to a construction group. The children's city continued to function until 1930 while the remaining buildings of the monastery were used as ordinary living quarters. During World War II the grounds of the monastery were used as a prisoner-of-war camp, a use that continued until 1949.
Restoration of the convent began in 1993 when part of the monastery was returned to the Diocese of Kazan, On February 8, 1995, the ruling hierarch of the Diocese of Kazan and Tatarstan, Archbishop Anastassy, consecrated the restore Church of the Great Martyr Barbara and the monastic community was revived. Restoration work has continued including repair of the residential buildings and reconstruction of the monastery wall and the central Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. From the onset of the reconstruction, the revival of the convent has been under the guidance of the Mother Superior, Abbess Vera (Shevchenko), who leads the community of fifteen nuns.


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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:12 am
Post subject: Culinary wasteland?
Hello all,
We will be staying in the 9th, just across the road from the 18th at Place D'Anvers. There seems to be little in the way of bistros in the neighbourhood that I can find out about. Can anyone help me out please?
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You'll be pleasantly surprised when you get there: the area couldn't be further from a culinary wasteland!
I can recommend Rose Bakery, Corneil, Le César, le Takbo, Fuxia, Sole Caffe e Cuccina, Les Vivres, Pétrelle, Tienda Nueva, and ever so slightly further but still within walking distance, Carte Blanche, Velly, and le Bar à Manger... I don't think you'll go hungry!
You can see pictures of dishes from some of these restaurants on my
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:58 pm
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Ah, thank you Clotilde, I'll be in Paris for a week 17-25 march, staying partly near Opéra (21-25 mar) and I'm considering staying somewhere else for the first few days - this might be the neigbourhood! It's going on the 'to think about' list
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Hi Dear Swan,
Welcome back from the cold.
I understand you will be staying near the Opera part of your visit. That's already near the 9th, so if you may wish to live more in the centre, you could choose the Marais & Halles district. You also told us about your Market tour with David Lebovitz, and living in that wonderful area will bring you closer to the starting point of the tour.
I'm just back from 10 days in Paris. Though I could write half a booklet about it, I'll just mention one thing which really amused me very much: I usually hunt for books, cookbooks in particular, and I entered also to the FNAC to browse the new titles: there were about 10 (TEN!!) new books, diferent sizes and prices, about CRUMBLE dishes, it was incredible. SO that's the new trend? The good old english crumble? Next in line were the sushi books. Vive la cuisine francaise...!!!
No more war, more crumble !
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:28 pm
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Pat, if you're willing to venture up into Montmartre, there are some other places worth trying (not too far up the hill) - La Famille, L'Homme Tranquille (both French) and Le Mono (African).
Simona, yes, I am most amused by the vogue for crumble in France. In fact I actually broke down and bought a crumble cookbook when I was in Lille in November, flying in the face of my usual self-imposed prohibition on buying single-recipe cookbooks. I guess one could think of it as England's sweet (in all senses!) revenge for the Norman Conquest...
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Ha, ha!! I love the idea of the French taking the dear old crumble and doing their own version... and watching English cooks grumbling 'cos the French version out does their own!!!
We call it Sleepy Pudding in our family, because after lunch you have crumble with custard (thick, not watery) and then fall asleep with your stomach feeling like it's the size of Russia!!
Hmm, I wonder what Clotilde would do with the 'umble crumble?
I've had apple and ginger, apple and blackberries, autumn berries, pear and ginger... and of course the old fashioned apple. All good, warm and filling!
I don't think the Normans would grumble too much at this revenge tho'!
Confusion comes fitted as standard.
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thanks for the information. You dont know how much better I feel knowing there are good places to eat close to where we are staying!
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Post subject: Rose bakery
some good pics of Rose Bakery, and info about the food, can be found here:
"there is time for work and time for love and there is no more time." Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel
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Pat, your problem will be choosing which place to eat at - not finding anywhere!!
Bring a second stomach with you so you can fit in all the gourmandising that you will want to do....
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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I've only just discovered this thread.
Swan I'd love to hear about your David Lebovitz tour. Is it coming up or have you posted it somewhere?
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