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Reese Witherspoon traded the red carpet for the aisle on Saturday night, marrying her Hollywood agent boyfriend Jim Toth, Us Weekly reported.
The two traded vows in a private ceremony on Witherspoon's 7-acre ranch in Ojai, Calif., People.com reported. The couple invited around 100 guests, including Renee Zellweger, Tobey Maguire, Salma Hayek, Matthew McConaughey and Alyssa Milano, E! News said.
Toth, 40, and Witherspoon's children -- Ava, 11, and Deacon, 7, from her previous marriage with actor Ryan Phillippe -- processed to the altar to "The Tennessee Waltz." Ever the lady, Witherspoon, 35, walked to "Here Comes the Bride," US Magazine reported. The bride wore a custom-designed Monique Lhuillier gown.
A reverend from an Episcopal church where Witherspoon and Toth have been attending weekly services officiated the 20-minute ceremony.
After seven years of marriage, Witherspoon and Phillippe divorced in 2007. Witherspoon spent three years with "Spider-Man" star Jake Gyllenhaal and then began dating Toth, who had never been married, Us Magazine reported.
Tall, hunky Toth hails from a former steel town in western Pennsylvania. He studied political science at Loyola Marymount University, and started out in the mailroom at Creative Artists Agency, where he's gone on to work with Robert Downey Jr. and Tobey Maguire, People.com reported.
Witherspoon first flashed her 4-carat, $250,000 engagement ring at an L.A. Lakers game in January.
Talking with "Glamour" in December, the Oscar winner called Toth a great match for her.
"It's very comfortable to be with somebody who understands my career, but doesn't do what I do. He's a great guy. He's wonderful," she said.
Reese Witherspoon Weds Agent Beau
Reese Witherspoon traded the red carpet for the aisle on Saturday night, marrying her Hollywood agent boyfriend Jim Toth, Us Weekly reported.


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NPAPI Plugins
NPAPI Plugin support for extension has been discontinued. The documentation below is preserved for historical purposes only.
Leveraging HTML and JavaScript makes developing new extensions really easy, but what if you have existing legacy or proprietary code that you want to reuse in your extension? You can bundle an NPAPI plugin with your extension, allowing you to call into native binary code from JavaScript.
NPAPI is a really big hammer that should only be used when no other approach will work.
Code running in an NPAPI plugin has the full permissions of the current user and is not sandboxed or shielded from malicious input by Google Chrome in any way. You should be especially cautious when processing input from untrusted sources, such as when working with content scripts or XMLHttpRequest.
Because of the additional security risks NPAPI poses to users, extensions that use it will require manual review before being accepted in the Chrome Web Store.
How to develop an NPAPI plugin is outside the scope of this document. See Mozilla's NPAPI plugin reference for information on how to do that.
Once you have an NPAPI plugin, follow these steps to get your extension using it.
Add a section to your extension's
manifest.jsonthat describes where to find the plugin, along with other properties about it:
{ "name": "My extension", ... "plugins": [ { "path": "extension_plugin.dll" } ], ... }
The "path" property specifies the path to your plugin, relative to the manifest file. The "public" property specifies whether your plugin can be accessed by regular web pages; the default is false, meaning only your extension can load the plugin. Add
"public": trueto make your plugin accessible on regular web pages and content scripts. But be careful - any web page will then be able to call into your plugin.
Create an HTML file that loads your plugin by mime-type.
Assuming your mime-type is "application/x-my-extension":
<embed type="application/x-my-extension" id="pluginId"> <script> var plugin = document.getElementById("pluginId"); var result = plugin.myPluginMethod(); // call a method in your plugin console.log("my plugin returned: " + result); </script>
This can be inside a background page or any other HTML page used by your extension. If your plugin is "public", you can even use a content script to programmatically insert your plugin into a web page.
Security considerations
Including an NPAPI plugin in your extension is dangerous because plugins have unrestricted access to the local machine. If your plugin contains a vulnerability, an attacker might be able to exploit that vulnerability to install malicious software on the user's machine. Instead, avoid including an NPAPI plugin whenever possible.
Marking your NPAPI plugin "public" increase the attack surface of your extension because the plugin is exposed directly to web content, making it easier for a malicious web site to manipulate your plugin. Instead, avoid making your NPAPI plugin public whenever possible.

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Loss to Navy devastates Army quarterback Trent Steelman
During the week running up to this year's Army-Navy game, players from both sides spoke of the desire to "sing second." The two service academies sing each other's alma mater after every game, but with a twist: the loser sings first, after which point the winning team sprints to its side to sing, yell, scream and celebrate with its fellow students, alumni and fans.
Another Navy win, a nail-biting, back-and-forth 17-13 victory in Philadelphia, meant that for the 11th year in a row Army was going to sing first. As the team walked toward its band, cameras hovered around Army quarterback Trent Steelman, who was unable to control his emotions while singing his alma mater.
An image of Steelman in tears, heartbroken over yet another loss to the Midshipmen, will be one of the lasting memories from the 2012 college football season.
This loss was worst than most for Army, which last beat Navy in 2001 – one year before Navy hired then-Georgia Southern coach Paul Johnson, who was replaced by Ken Niumatalolo in 2007. The Cadets led 13-10 in the fourth quarter before Navy's Keenan Reynolds ran for an 8-yard touchdown with 4:41 left to give the Midshipmen a 17-13 lead.
On the ensuing drive, Steelman led Army to the Navy 14-yard line before turning the ball over during a bobbled handoff to fullback Larry Dixon. The Midshipmen took a knee twice to end the game; Navy (8-4) will play Arizona State in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on Dec. 29.
In all, Army had 26 first downs to Navy's 18, had 418 yards of total offense to Navy's 297 and had 370 yards rushing. The difference was turnovers: Army had three fumbles to Navy's one.
On paper, it's just another loss for Army, which dropped to 2-10 – but as anyone familiar with the series knows, this is more than just another game. For Army, Saturday's game provided the team's best chance at beating Navy in more than a decade.
Steelman feels the loss more than most. His resume as Army's quarterback speaks for itself: Steelman was the first true Cadets freshman to start a season opener at quarterback in the modern era; he's the only player to throw and run for more than 2,000 yards; his 16 wins were most by an Army quarterback since Ronnie McAda from 1994 to 1996; and he finished his career ranked in the top five in program history in rushing yards, total yards and rushing touchdowns.
His ties to Army extend beyond his own four-year stint at West Point and the years he'll serve as a member of the armed forces after graduation. His grandfather served in the Air Force during World War II. His uncle served in the Army during the Gulf War.
In short, Steelman is all you'd expect and more from an Army football player. But at that moment, when the realization hit home, all Steelman could remember were four losses to Navy: 17-3 in 2009, 31-17 in 2010, 27-21 in 2011 and 17-13 on Saturday.
As he walked off the field – and jubilant Navy celebrated on its side – Steelman was hugged by Niumatalolo, who told CBS Sports' Tracy Wolfson right after the game that he was looking for Steelman, and shared words with Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the Chief of Staff of the Army. Inconsolable, Steelman headed off to the locker room.


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How to connect your program to another program? And how many program can be connected?
.well i want to call another program, e.g Theres a 3 buttons "red, blue, green" : when i click red, its going to call a program to add the numbers. when i click green, its going to call another program to subtract. and when i click blue, its going to call another program to divide. So there are 4 programs to connect. The RED, BLuE, Green and the Main program. ^^


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Tryouts set soon for Express 15U baseball
Tryouts for the New Milford Express 15U baseball team will be held soon.
Candidates must be players in the New Milford Babe Ruth program born from May 1, 1997 to April 30, 1998.
Players must attend at least one tryout and are encouraged to attend all for consideration.
Tryouts will be held March 10 at 1:30 p.m. at the Connecticut Sports Arena and March 23 and 24 at 2:30 p.m. at the New Milford High School junior varsity field.
Rain date would be March 30 at 2:30 p.m. at NMHS.
For more information, call Dan Olson at 860-350-8843 or Mark Titus at 860-210-7912.


text: "Who is this Nathan Englander, so young in novelist years, but already possessed of an old masters voice?… One reads this novel in awe of Englander's talent. —The New York Times Book Review"A mesmerizing rumination on loss and memory." —Los Angeles Times"[A] tour-de-force…. A few pages into The Ministry of Special Cases, it becomes clear how much [Englander] has to bring to the topic: pitch-black humor, a skeptical affection for his characters, and the narrative ability to trace the impact of fascism-with-a-modern-face on a cluster of lives." —The Seattle Times


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Exploring Oregon's Highways and Byways
Away From The Tracks Of My Peers
It is now becoming a rite of passage of winter to take a 4x4 up into the snow to explore some mountain trail or usually inaccessible destination. In the past I have towed a trailer and camped, as I did last year in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado and five years ago towing a 24-foot Airstream in these very same Cascade Mountains of central Oregon.
This year I took a Toyota FJ Cruiser, sans-trailer, to one of the mountains I have visited before, Mount Bachelor, some 22 miles from Bend on the eastern side of the Cascades in the high desert. Since it is a long run from Los Angeles I intended to make the "getting there" as much fun as the destination.
In the past five years the FJ has not changed significantly. More of a gradual refinement to better suit market tastes. It was a first class, capable 4x4 then, capable of towing the 4,600-pound Airstream through lots of snow and ice without so much as a hiccup, and remains so today. Toyota offers three FJ Cruiser models; the 4x2 and two 4x4s, one with a six-speed manual transmission and one with a five-speed automatic. I have the latter in the relatively new Army Green livery. It blends in well with the forest but not so much with the snow!
The power plant is a DOHC 4.0L V-6 engine that produces 260hp and 271 lb-ft of peak torque — up a little from the 239hp of five years ago. Though I see FJ Cruisers in Beverly Hills (what the British would call "Chelsea Tractors" — Chelsea is to London what Beverly Hills is to California), be assured that the FJ is a purpose-designed and built vehicle capable of exploring all but the most outrageous of off-road terrain.
Cloudy Crater
I hustled from Los Angeles to Medford, Oregon, where I called on a long-time friend who restores old cars (right now he is building a '47 Ford 4x4 truck on a '74 chassis. Although currently unfinished it will be quite the vehicle for his next show). Time was relatively short for this excursion, so from Medford I headed straight for Crater Lake, one of America's great natural wonders that I had only seen from 30,000-plus feet (usually Los Angeles to Vancouver, B.C., Canada), but never from the ground.
At 1,943 feet deep, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States. The lake surface is 6,173 feet above sea level and covers 183,000 acres. It was formed over 7,000 years ago when a 12,000-foot volcano collapsed following a major eruption. Larger and deeper than its geographic neighbor, Lake Tahoe, Crater Lake, in large part due to its lack of close proximity to a large metropolitan area, has managed to avoid Tahoe's commercial development.
John Wesley Hillman, a pioneer mine explorer, first saw the deep blueness of the lake on June 12, 1853. Through the advocacy of William Gladstone Steel, who first visited the lake in 1870, Crater Lake was officially designated a national park on May 22, 1902, when President Theodore Roosevelt signed the bill into law. It is kind of out-of-the-way, but still attracts about a half a million visitors a year.
I was looking for snow and ice with clear blue skies and stark winter sunshine, not for the rain and fog I found. The rain was continual with the clouds hanging low obscuring the mountain summits. From the Highway 62/Highway 230 junction to the entrance of Crater Lake National Park, the below normal level of snowfall was packed along the roadside, but little on the roads. That changed on the climb to the lake rim and for the first time, four-wheel drive was a safety factor as I drove over some packed ice with a light snow covering. Unfortunately for me, and this trip, the entire lake was hidden by cloud giving zero visibility.
Furthermore, a brief hike to as close to the edge as the Park Rangers would allow, only exposed me to the biting, almost gale force winds, which made the interior of the FJ a welcome igloo. After a cup of hot soup and a chat with a Park Ranger at the Rim Village Café, it became obvious that conditions were not going to change that day, or even the one to follow.
To avoid my disappointment, check with the park's webcam (http://www.nps.gov/crla/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm), or simply call the Park [(541) 594-3000] for current conditions. I have seen winter photos of Crater Lake and have been taken aback with the beauty. I know it must be worth the winter trip but this time I left with my expectations thwarted by the weather and my choice of timing.
Doggone Cold
The Christmas daylight is quite short at 42.93-degrees latitude, so knowing I needed to make my campground north of Bend before dark — some 110 miles and 2 1/2 hours in ideal driving conditions, I backtracked to Highway 62 then north towards Diamond Lake. The roads were clear but the rain relentless and visibility challenging.
During the summer there is a west loop road around Crater Lake that joins up with Highway 138 to the north near Diamond Lake, but even a snowmobile is not allowed around there in winter. These roads were good and I made good enough time to check out the still open resort on the banks of the frozen Diamond Lake. The winds howled across the vast expanse of ice prompting a hasty retreat to the road and to my nights planned abode.
If you have never heard the word "Yurt," I recommend that sometime you jump in the deep end, so to speak, and spend a winter's night in one. I stayed at the Tumalo National Park where there are parking spaces for RVs, spaces for tents, and Pacific Yurts. The Pacific Yurt is a modern adaptation of the ancient shelter used by Central Asian nomads. Though generally classified as a tent, the yurt is much stronger and weather-tight. It is a circular structure that consists of a durable fabric cover, over a wood frame that includes a normal looking framed door. Spending a night in one is a great experience; warm and cozy, even romantic (obviously an understanding partner helps with the latter — high maintenance, five-star partners might question your winter judgment).
Five years ago the entire county of Deschutes was knee deep in snow. This Christmas the snow sports people were not so blessed. Although I needed the 4x4 to safely get through the packed ice to the top of the mountain parking lot, chains were not necessary and I was getting a little disappointed with my choice of vacation time!
This not withstanding I spent a wonderful hour with the Red Hat group of sled dogs and their very friendly handlers. They offer sled rides through forests surrounding the ski slopes of Mount Bachelor — something right out of the Iditarod. In fact, I was told that more than one of their lead dogs had Iditarod experience. The $85 cost (for adults) will get you a very unique one-hour experience, cuddled up under a blanket as an enthusiastic team of dogs mush its way over the snow at quite impressive speeds.
I had no sooner finished my dog experience when the rain that had been falling steadily for over an hour turned to snow. It was time to find some trails, so I headed away from the main road and onto Highway 45 towards Sunrise and Lapine.
The main road, Highway 46, to the west of Mount Bachelor was closed for the winter, even to off-roaders and 4x4s, no matter if they were equipped with caterpillar tracks! So the road to Cascade Lakes and the Three Sisters Wilderness area lay under virgin snow and ice. Either side of the road to Sunrise there are many trails and tracks that the FJ can explore with impunity, so I did. Rest assured that you are the only vehicle around and take normal safety precautions in case something untoward might happen. Cell phone coverage is spotty, if not sparse, so do not rely on calling out the troops if you get stuck.
Road Block
There is a certain aspect of winter exploration, and that can be an uncertainty of whether you will get through or have to reverse out of an untenable situation. Some of these trails have been cleared for snowmobile use, some have not and reversing back to a place to turn around is not uncommon. I like to adopt a Zen attitude to these situations — they are what they are. Some things even an FJ, unless it is equipped with a chain saw, has to ace as being impassable.
The other aspect of trail exploration in the snow is one of meditation. No news, no radio, no music, no distractions — just the test of the terrain vs. the FJ and ones own comfort level of dealing with the unknown. I like being this isolated even just for a while. It tends to focus ones mind on what is immediate.
After several excursions along trails that presented only a modest test for the FJ, I took the road to Crane Prairie Reservoir via Highway 40. It started out as clear asphalt with a narrow, two-lane road but quickly deteriorated into rutted packed ice and later covered with fresh snow as I encountered the same snowstorm that was now covering the entire Mount Bachelor area. With visibility worsening both with the snowstorm and the oncoming end of daylight, I fast appreciated that the better part of valor would be a discretionary retreat and I backtracked to the main highway and north towards Mt. Bachelor and then on to Bend.
On my last day the sun came out. Only for a short while but it gave me a glimpse of sparkle on the snow and ice. Just enough sun and time to take a few photos and to let me explore on foot some otherwise inaccessible parts of the Deschutes River that ran behind my yurt in Tumalo National Park.
During the summer there are many opportunities for four-wheeling and great ways to communicate with nature, away from the maddening crowd, as I like to jest. I value the opportunities that vehicles like the FJ offer to an otherwise city dweller. It is even more impressive when visiting areas like central Oregon where off-roading is still recognized as a valid pastime.
Other areas I would explore in the summer that are closed in the winter are the Newberry National Volcanic Monument, the trails around the Three Sisters mountains, and if you are so inclined, spelunking, also called caving, in the lava tubes at Skeleton Cave, Arnold Ice Caves, or Lava River Cave.
Throughout the 2,500 miles I put on the FJ during this trip I averaged 19.9 mpg, which is up 10 percent over the equivalent for the FJ of five years ago (and with more horsepower). I like that kind of progress. With sales in the USA around 14,000 units a year, the FJ has earned a loyal following simply because it does what it is supposed to do without whining. As far as looks go, it is polarizing — it is a love it or hate it opinion with very little in between.
If I were to award a trophy for the most macho looking vehicle on the road today it would be to Toyota's FJ Cruiser. However I do have one major suggestion/question for Toyota, although I imagine it will be rhetorical: Why not offer the FJ with a turbo-diesel motor to maintain the power/torque, but give much better highway gas mileage?


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ESA's Swedish astronaut to return to the ISS
ESA PR 19-2009. The launch date for the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station with Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled for no earlier than Tuesday 25 August. The crew of seven includes ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang of Sweden, on his second spaceflight, a mission dubbed 'Alissé'.
For a launch on 25 August, liftoff is scheduled for 07:36 CEST from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Docking with the International Space Station (ISS) will occur on mission day three (27 August). On entering the ISS, Christer Fuglesang will be welcomed by fellow ESA astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium, aboard since 29 May.
The main STS-128 mission objective is to deliver cargo and equipment. In addition, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott will replace fellow astronaut Timothy Kopra as a permanent ISS crewmember.
During the Alissé mission (the name refers to the trade winds exploited by European sailors since Columbus to reach the New World), Christer Fuglesang will be in charge of operations involving the Italian-built Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Leonardo and will participate in two of the three planned spacewalks.
Carried into orbit inside Discovery's payload bay and then temporarily docked with the ESA-delivered Harmony Node-2 module, Leonardo will provide a pressurised environment for three life-support and three science racks to be transferred into the Station. The science racks include the second Minus Eighty Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI-2) supplied by ESA, which provides very low temperature storage for samples, as well as the first ISS research laboratory fully dedicated to Material Sciences: ESA's Material Science Laboratory.
Leonardo's payload also includes food, clothes, water and astronaut sleeping quarters. Both MELFI-2 and the sleeping quarters will be installed in Japan's Kibo research module.
During his two spacewalks, Fuglesang will dismount the European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) from an external platform on ESA's Columbus laboratory module. Designed to expose various sample materials and experiments to the vacuum of space, this facility will be returned to Earth inside Discovery's payload bay. Fuglesang will also install another material exposure experiment package – NASA's sixth Materials on International Space Station Experiments (MISSE-6) – on the external platforms of Columbus. He will also remove and replace a depleted Ammonia Tank Assembly (ATA), part of the ISS thermal control system.
Christer Fuglesang is due to return to Earth aboard Discovery on 7 September at 02:40 CEST after 13 days in space. Frank De Winne will remain on the ISS until late November, assuming the 'commander seat' in October.
For this mission, which breaks new ground in terms of ESA's activities on the ISS, ESA will arrange live transmission of the launch and the various flight events. A video News Release is already available for broadcasters on the ESA TV site (http://television.esa.int) or at the ESA launch media corner (http://video360.world-television.com/mediacorner/).
For the launch of the Alissé mission, local events will be arranged at ESA's Establishments and in Sweden at Gothenburg Universeum (see registration form linked on righthand menu). The launch coverage with live streaming and regular mission updates will also be available on the internet at the following address: www.esa.int/alisse
Media registration
Media representatives wishing to cover the launch from an ESA Establishment or in Gothenburg Universeum, Sweden, are kindly requested to fill in the registration form and return it by fax or email to the relevant ESA Communication Office of their choice.
For further information please contact:
ESA Media Relations Office
Communications and Knowledge Department
Tel: + 33 1 5369 7299
Fax: + 33 1 5369 7690


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Quality Assurance and Nondestructive Testing
Service Detail from NDE Professionals Inc.
We offer services supporting the NDT industry. From both large and small projects, NPI has fully certified inspectors and state of the art equipment. If you desire training, quality control, auditing or procedural deplopment services, NPI is here to serve your specific
NPI supplies Quality Assurance across-the-board, including:
- Third-Party Quality System Auditing
- Quality Audit Training
- Procedure Development
- Quality Development
- QA Source Inspection
Download the Industry Training Requirements
The NPI quality system meets the following requirements:
- Mil-Q-9858A and NQA-1
- Nadcap Accreditation
NPI has over twenty years experience in QA/QC/Auditing relative to Structural Steel (Bridges and Buildings), Storage Tanks, Refinery and Cross Country Piping, Semiconductor High Purity Tubing, ASME Pressure Vessels/Piping Systems and API Mechanical Integrity. Visit NPI for more information on their services.
NPI is a multi-faceted corporation providing the Northwest with Quality and NDE Level III consulting services. Over the past fifteen years, NPI has been involved with many projects in many different industrial sectors. Since 1993, NDE Professionals, Inc. has operated a Training Center for Quality Assurance and Nondestructive Testing. NPI regularly conducts a full curriculum of NDT training in the Spring and Fall each year. In addition to regularly scheduled classes, NPI provides corporate NDT Training to several major NDT users.
NDE Professionals, Inc. specializes in providing Nondestructivetesting and Quality consulting to the Commercial Aerospace, Defense, Energy, Maritime, Petrochemical, Pulp and Paper, Semiconductor and Transportation Industries


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Roasted ratatouille pasta
Prep: 15 mins Cook: 30 mins
This veg packed pasta dish provides all of your 5-a-day - and it's delicious!
Nutrition and extra info
- Easily halved
- Healthy
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal450
- fat9g
- saturates1g
- carbs83g
- sugars16g
- fibre9g
- protein15g
- salt0.07g
- 1 small aubergine, trimmed and cut into chunks
Although it's technically a fruit (a berry, to be exact), the aubergine is used as a…
- 1 courgette trimmed and cut into chunks
The courgette is a variety of cucurbit, which means it's from the same family as cucumber,…
- 1 red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, unpeeled and left whole
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 200g tomato
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 175g penne pasta
- good handful basil leaves
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Tip the veg and garlic into a roasting tin. Drizzle over the oil, then season and toss together. Roast for 20 mins, add the tomatoes, then roast for a further 10 mins.
Cook the pasta, drain and reserve 4 tbsp of water. Tip pasta, water and basil into the veg and toss. Squeeze over the soft garlic, to serve.


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The San Francisco Business Times recently named two friends of MedShare as "Health Care Heroes". Both Dr. Brayer (Chief Medical Officer with Sutter Health's West Bay Region) and Dr. Choi (from Sutter's Palo Alto Medical Foundation) have used medical supplies provided by MedShare while on their medical missions.
They are both committed to providing care to those most in need after disasters around the globe – notably, after the Haitian earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, and the more recent earthquake in Japan.
Dr. Brayer's profile http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2012/07/27/brayer-brandishes-her-medical-might.html
Dr. Choi's profile http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2012/07/27/his-mission-delivering-urgent-care.html


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The Swiss carpert manufacturer Ruckstuhl presented at this year's Salone del Mobile an Edition of remarkable new creations. Amongst them 'Frisian Wouw' a felt carpet designed by Claudy Jongstra. It is distinguished in particular by its irregular contours and wild, frenzied texture.
"The starting point for Zumbühl's contribution to Edition Ruckstuhl was once again a material discovery. The backing fabric for the Pompon carpet with its dense white tuft is made of chenille yarn, a particularly plush wool thread that has practically disappeared from the market. Pompoms stitched in at regular intervals animate the surface structure and provide colourful accents."
"The 'Dessus Dessus Dessous' carpet, which has been woven from strips of linen, can be traced back to a textile installation entitled "Plier – Entrelacer – Superposer" (Fold – Weave – Overlap) which Atelier Oï created for Designers Saturday 2008 in Langenthal at the invitation of Peter Ruckstuhl. The starting material for this work, which was nominated for the Design Preis Schweiz 2009 award, was provided by the strips of linen that are normally used for the carpet trim. The transformation from an experimental exhibition installation to a product for Edition required both the refinement of technical aspects and an upgrading of the graphic design."


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What can be more spectacular than standing on the top of the highest mountain in the Northeast and seeing the sunrise over the mountains and valleys to the east? In the pre-dawn darkness of Sunday, August 26, you'll start up the Mt. Washington Auto Road, just 13 miles north of the Inn at Ellis River, and reach the top in time to await the new day. Plan ahead, since there are only three times each summer when you can drive up the auto road yourself to witness this spectacle ~ the last Sunday mornings in June, July and August. The opening time for the Auto Road is different each month to allow for the changing seasons: 4 pm on July 29, 2012, and 4:30 am on August 26, 2012. The inn will provide you with a voucher that will let your passenger ride free ($25 charge for auto and driver) and a romantic continental breakfast picnic to enjoy.
New at the Mount Washington Auto Road this year is another option if you would like photograph the mountain top sunrise or sunset: Guided Photography Tours, led by photographer Ernie Mills, offers three hour tours every Friday. The cost for the Guided Photography Tour is $150. Here are some photos by Ernie Mills of a June sunrise to inspire you. It's a bucket list must!


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Helping Animals in the Wake of Recent Tornadoes + Floods
The Humane Society of the United States Animal Rescue Team has been on the ground for more than a week helping pets and other animals affected by devastating tornadoes and flooding in the South and Midwest. While the search for human survivors in the rubble ended already, more than 350 dogs, cats, birds, snakes, lizards and even a tarantula already have been found in the shattered neighborhoods around Tuscaloosa, and the local animal shelter is so full it had to erect tents for additional space.
The HSUS teams are rescuing cats and dogs from devastated neighborhoods, giving out pet food and supplies to residents, and helping to reunite pets with their families. They're also operating emergency shelters in Missouri and Mississippi to care for hundreds of animals. As you can see firsthand in the disaster relief video compiled by the HSUS, many animals are still roaming through the wreckage, but they are understandably frightened and disoriented after the disaster. HSUS is making efforts to set traps in locations where high numbers of cats have been seen and where residents have lost their pets.
Setting up temporary shelters, distributing donated pet food and reuniting pets with their families or finding new homes for pets is the order of the day with the Humane Society of the United States and we thank them for all their tireless, beautiful work!
How To Help These Animals in Crisis
To donate supplies or funds to assist in these rescue efforts or learn how to volunteer, click here or visit the Humane Society of the United States to learn about all the amazing ways they advocate for animals across the nation.
Source: A Humane Nation: Wayne Pacelle's Blog


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When I am the bus stop on Queens Road (the last stop before Victoria Park), waiting for the number 44, I often look at the houses on either side of the road. I really like the silly, grandiose house names their builders gave them. It's quite fun that for the first 20 or 30 years of their life, those houses were often actually known by their names rather than street number. One of these is Stoneleigh, number 51 Queens Road. There is a rather sad story of a family who lived there during the 1890s.
Fanny Burdett (c1851-1898) was born in Chichester and shortly afterwards moved with her parents to Marylebone, London. From a young age she worked as a dressmaker. Whilst in London she met Henry Rogers (1848-1920), a young tailor, and they married in 1878. They moved to Leicester before 1881, settling in London Road, and by 1891 lived at Evington Street whilst keeping the London Road premises for the tailoring business – military and livery. They had the usual Victorian brood; seven surviving children; five girls and two boys born between 1879 and 1892.
Some time between 1891 and 1895 Henry, Fanny and the children moved to Stoneleigh, number 51 Queens Road Clarendon Park. Despite the relative prosperity of the family – they always kept at least one servant, usually two – and the respectable appearance of the house, the Rogers were in crisis. Fanny was an alcoholic, her behaviour at times "like a maniac" and the children were suffering. Henry tried to protect them, but Fanny had been addicted to drink for many years and he eventually saw no option but to force her to leave the house and children.
At some point the family became known to the NSPCC, still in its infancy having been established in 1884, and brought a case to the Borough Police Court in January 1896. An inspector reported that the children had been ill treated, that they were horror-stricken and that there was a danger of the younger children losing their reason. The only answer was for Fanny to be permanently separated from her children. A document, which Henry had already prepared, was produced at court for Fanny to sign. Provision was made for Fanny's financial support. The Bench agreed that the prosecution did not need to go ahead.
Fanny returned to London, where she died just two years later, probably from the effects of her alcoholism. Henry and the seven children (Florence Annie, Gertrude Helen, Harry Burdett, Maud Eveline, Arthur Redfern, Mabel Winifred and Elsie Gwendolyn) remained at Stoneleigh for another few years. Henry's business grew. He opened a shop at 22 Market Street. Then between 1901 and 1906 the family moved to Bush Close, a house in Springfield Road. Sadly Arthur died in 1907, aged just 17.
Henry continued his business with the help of his remaining son Harry, before dying in 1920. He left over £14,000, a good sum of money.
I wondered whether, as the NSPCC inspector had feared, whether Fanny's children really did lose their reason. There isn't much to go on, but of the six surviving children only two married (Harry and Maud). Gertrude and Maud worked for a time as governesses – meaning that their education probably far exceeded that of their parents. Florence, the eldest, moved just round the corner to 36 Portland Road, and the remaining unmarried sisters Gertrude, Mabel and Gwendolyn, lived and died (in old age) together at Hove in Sussex. Harry also stayed in Leicester, after fighting in Egypt during the Great War. There's nothing to say that anyone lost their reason, but it's still a sad story. Something to ponder at the bus stop. Elizabeth


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JAMAICA, New York (February 7, 2013) – The 38th Annual ICNA-MAS Convention will be held in Hartford, CT on Memorial Day weekend, insha'Allah. This year's theme is Islam: The Pursuit of Happiness.
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The Weigh Down Diet is a popular weight loss system. Its developer, Gwen Shamblin, has grown her diet system into a multi-million dollar corporation with sales of her book, The Weigh Down Diet, in excess of one million. In addition, there are more than 30,000 workshops meeting all over the world. Thousands of these meet in churches.
Shamblin does not stress cutting out "bad" foods. She doesn't make you feel guilty for eating ice cream or some other sweet snack that most all other diets avoid. She says you can eat whatever you like. The goal is to take the focus off of food and put it on God, realize personal responsibility, and know that the body is the temple of God. Her website is full of biblical references and mentions church quite often. On her website she states:
Since 1980, she has focused her consulting practice in the area of weight control, utilizing both her formal training in Dietetics together with a strong Christ-centered orientation in her counseling. These efforts led her to be the Founder and Director of The Weigh Down Workshop. [Emphasis original]
There is nothing wrong with trying to lose weight for health benefits. All people should be encouraged to do this so they can live happy and more productive lives. There is also nothing wrong with having opinions on God, salvation, church, etc. But the problem with this diet is not in the diet itself, but in the association with the false doctrine taught by Gwen Shamblin. She denies the Trinity doctrine.
In her article, "Teaching the Trinity," which has since been removed from her site and consolidated under her FAQ, she encourages people to dig deeper into the Bible which, she states, she believes is infallible. But she also says the following:
- "No matter what form you imagine God the Father, Jesus the Son, and His Spirit--whether separate beings or if the three exist as on one throne--remember that we are commanded not to argue about words. What is important is that you obey His words!"
- The Bible teaches us that the Son doesn't even know the day or the hour, but only the Father. "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" (Mark 13:32). How could the same "being" keep a secret from part of the Godhead if indeed there is one Head and not two separate beings?
- The Trinity tradition is based on human teachings which were formed between 325 and 415 AD. These man-made teachings have been debated since its inception. I should not be looked down upon because I continue the debate. Paul warns us in Colossians, "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition" (2:8).
- I believe that Jesus and God are two separate beings. I believe that Jesus is our Lord (referenced hundreds of times) and our God (referenced approximately three times), but I believe that the God of Jesus is God the Father. Jesus is not God the Father.
- Teachers of the Trinity teach that Jesus is Jehovah; they have no scriptures to back this up, and why don't they believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that Jehovah is Jehovah?
From her Frequently Asked Questions section, she states the following:
- "The Bible does not use the word "trinity," and our feeling is that the word "trinity" implies equality in leadership, or shared Lordship. It is clear that the scriptures teach that Jesus is the Son of God and that God sends the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not send God anywhere. God is clearly the Head."
- "If God had wanted us to refer to Himself, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit as the "trinity," He would not have left this word completely out of the Bible."
Ms. Shamblin denies the Trinity, the true deity of Christ, and the personhood and true deity of the Holy Spirit. She is teaching false doctrine about God. This is such an important issue that Thomas Nelson Publishers have canceled the next weight-loss book by Shamblin. She has been removed from the Women of Faith website.
Is her false teaching on the Trinity important? Yes it is. Many of the people on weight-loss diets have battled their weight for years, undergone severe depression, suffered ill health, mockery, teasing, and poor self-image. So, for those who have found that the Weigh Down Diet helps them beat their weight problem, it is a great relief. With this, I am happy. But people have a tendency to devote themselves and follow leaders who provide solutions to their problems. These same people might then be vulnerable to suggestion. For those who have "converted" over to this system and have embraced it whole-heartedly, they might be influenced in a negative way theologically by the leader of this program . . . . and that is the danger for the Christian as well as the non-Christian. For this reason, I believe extreme caution should be exercised when considering this diet.
Her view is very close to the Jehovah's Witness teaching about God. The JW's are a non-Christian cult. So, it is quite possible that those who follow her and are influenced by her erring doctrinal teaching might very well be easy prey for the Jehovah's Witnesses.
This is a serious issue and it is unfortunate that Ms. Shamblin has adopted a false view of God.1
- 1. The following works were consulted in the composition of this article: The Weigh & the Truth--from Christianity Today and Official Weigh Down Workshop Website.


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The CodeIgniter blog has posted their latest "Community Voice" feature highlighting an article from Michael Wales:
This week, our Community Voice author is Michael Wales, a programmer, a father, an aspiring author, and an award winning Airman. For the past 3 years, he's been focusing the majority of his time on CodeIgniter. He is among the most consistent contributors to the community, has released numerous libraries and tutorials, and is one of the most highly sought after freelancers within the community.
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Students wear IDs embedded with electronic chips.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Two San Antonio schools have turned to radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to help administrators count and track the whereabouts of students on campus.
Students at Anson Jones Middle School and John Jay High School are required to wear ID cards imbedded with electronic chips, similar to highway toll tags, which allow schools to more accurately record daily attendance. Public school funding is often tied to the number of students attending class each day. The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio receives about $30 per day in state funding for each student reporting present.
The RFID tracking system can help schools count students who are in the school building, but may have missed the morning roll call. On a recent morning at Anson Jones Middle School, where 1,200 attend, the traditional roll call counted 71 students absent. But the RFID system indicated that eight of those 71 were actually in school that day. A map indicated several students were in the band hall, where practice was running late, while others were near the office. That's eight times $30 or $240 the school would have lost that day in funding.
Pascual Gonzalez, Northside's communications director, estimates the entire district has been losing about $1.7 million a year because of underreported attendance. He says the RFID system, which costs $261,000, should pay for itself in the first year.
"The revenues that are generated by locating kids who are not in their chairs to answer 'present,' but are in the building – in the counselor's office, in the cafeteria, in the hallway, in the gym – if we can show they were, in fact, in school, then we can count them present," he said.
Principal Wendy Reyes says the system has the added benefit of allowing her to find a particular student instantly. "Sometimes it's difficult to locate a student in a sea of 1,200 others, so this helps locate them in an emergency," she said.
The ID tags can only be read on campus, so students cannot be tracked outside the building.
Some parents and students fear the radio ID tags are just too much Big Brother.
Steve Hernandez, whose daughter is a sophomore, objects to the tags on Biblical grounds. He compared the badges to the "mark of the beast" as described in the Book of Revelations. "My daughter," he says, "should not have to compromise (her) religion just because Northside Independent School District wants to get paid."
The American Civil Liberties Union calls the RFID tags "dehumanizing."
"What kind of lesson does it teach our children if they're chipped like cattle and their every movement tracked?" asks Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the ACLU's Washington, D.C. office. "It doesn't create the kind of independent, autonomous people that we want in our democratic society."
Gonzalez, Northside's spokesman, says school administrators have no intention of spying on students.
"There's a misconception that somebody's sitting in a room with a bank full of monitors looking at where 1,200 kids are here at Anson Middle School. That's not true," he said. "It's not even feasible. We're not staffed nor are we interested in knowing where all the kids are at a particular moment."
What the RFID system does do, according to Gonzales, is provide an accurate, daily census of students, which helps the district make money. Based on early results, the district may consider expanding the RFID system to its other 109 schools, encompassing nearly 100,000 students.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 24, 2011) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team took Brazil to the limit, but ended up with a loss, 25-21, 22-25, 25-27, 25-16, 18-16 on Sunday in the finale of the London Volleyball International Invitational at Earls Court in Great Britain.
The U.S. finished the tournament in third place at 3-2 with 10 points. Serbia won with a 4-1 match record and 12 points. Brazil finished second with a 4-1 match record and 11 points.
Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) led the U.S. Men with 18 points on 15 kills and three blocks. Opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) added 14 points on 14 kills. Outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) finished with 10 points on 10 attacks
After losing the first set, the U.S. Men came back to take a 2-1 set lead. Brazil rebounded and ran away with the fourth set, taking the match to a tie-breaker.
In the fifth set, the U.S. held leads of 6-3, 8-5 and 9-7 before Brazil tied the score at 9-9. The U.S. held match point at 14-13 and 15-14, but each time Brazil fought it off with a kill. The U.S. took match point at 16-15 on a kill from middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.). However a U.S. service error tied the score and an attack error gave Brazil its first match point. Brazil won the match on a block.
The two teams were close in kills with Brazil leading 62-59. The U.S. had a hitting efficiency of 0.343 and kill percent of 42.1. Brazil had a hitting efficiency of 0.411 and a kill percent of 50.0.
Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) started the match at setter, but Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) substituted for him in the first set and started the rest of the match.
Brazil led in blocks, 16-9 and in aces, 4-2.
Among other U.S. scorers, middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) scored eight points on six attacks, one block and one ace. Middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Calif.) scored eight points on six kills and two blocks.
Outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) scored four points on four kills. Smith finished with four points on three kills and one block. Hansen had three points on one kill, one block and one ace.
Brazil's Wallace de Souza led all scorers with 27 points on a match-high 19 kills, a match-high seven blocks and one ace. Luiz Fonteles added 18 points on 17 kills and one block. Outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) scored one point with a block.
U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) started Anderson and Lotman at outside hitter, Holmes and Holt at middle blocker, Patak at opposite, Thornton at setter and Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) was the U.S. libero.
Besides Hansen substituting at setter, Smith also subbed in at middle blocker and started the fifth set for Holt. Jablonsky played as a substitute and started the fifth set for Lotman. Tarr and opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) also played as substitutes.
London Volleyball International Invitational
July 20-24 at Earls Court in Great Britain
U.S. Men's National Team Roster
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1. Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
3. Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4. David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
6. Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
9. Murphy Troy (Opp, 6-8, St. Louis, Mo., USC)
10. Riley Salmon (L, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
12. Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13. Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
14. Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
17. Max Holt (MB, 6-9, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
18. Jayson Jablonsky (OH, 6-5, Yorba Linda, Calif., UC Irvine)
19. Robert Tarr (OH, 6-6, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Manager: Bill Neville
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Therapist/Trainer: Mike Sealy
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Place Team (Match record; points)
1. Serbia (4-1; 12)
2. Brazil (4-1; 11)
4. Egypt (2-3; 6)
5. Great Britain (2-3; 6)
6. Mexico (0-5; 0)
Tournament Schedule and Results (all times PT)
July 20
Brazil def. Egypt, 25-22, 25-23, 25-16
Great Britain def. Mexico, 25-15, 25-20, 21-25, 25-23
Serbia def. USA, 16-25, 25-17, 25-16, 26-24
July 21
USA def. Egypt, 25-23 25-17 25-21
Brazil def. Mexico, 25-15, 25-16, 25-14
Serbia def. Great Britain, 25-18, 25-14, 27-25
July 22
Egypt def. Serbia, 34-32, 25-16, 25-22
Brazil def. Great Britain, 25-19, 25-22, 25-12
USA def. Mexico, 25-19, 25-17, 25-18
July 23
Serbia def. Brazil, 25-22, 25-18, 25-18
Egypt def. Mexico, 25-23, 26-24, 25-17
USA def. Great Britain, 25-23, 25-10, 27-25
July 24
Serbia def. Mexico, 25-21, 25-11, 25-14
Great Britain def. Egypt, 25-18, 21-25, 25-22, 25-23
Brazil def. USA, 25-21, 22-25, 25-27, 25-16, 18-16


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Even though we're longing for spring here in Sweden right now, we recently got snow again.... Right when we got used to the sun and listening to the birds singing. In winter time or whenever it's dark, it's important to be visible.
A fun way of using reflexes is to create them yourself. Here in Sweden you can find reflex fabric or wide ribbons per meter. By using Cutwork Designs, you can embroider nice flower and wear as a brosch. They are both nice looking and useful! :)
I used a design from Husqvarna Viking Embroidery Collection #228. I sewed one in the actual size and scaled one down 20% on the screen in my machine.
Then I glued both flowers on to a regular pin and added some pearls for extra effect.
I think it turned out really nice, wear them yourself or why not as a small gift to friends, we all need to glow in the dark! :)
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Peace activist Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, will speak twice at Lindenwood University on Feb. 24, 2010, as part of the school's second annual Sibley Day festivities. Gandhi's first address at 11 a.m. is titled "Lessons Learned from My Grandfather"; his address at 7 p.m. will be on "A Nonviolent Response to Terrorism."
Both speeches will be in the Spellmann Center's Anheuser-Busch Leadership Room on the main campus, 209 S. Kingshighway in St. Charles. Both speeches are free and open to the public. There will be opportunities to meet the speaker after both events.
Gandhi, who grew up in South Africa, went at the age of 12 to spend 18 months with his grandfather during the period when the famed Indian pacifist was leading the people of India in their revolutionary, nonviolent struggle for independence from British rule. During this time, Arun Gandhi learned critical lessons about his grandfather's philosophy.
After leading successful projects for economic and social reform in India as an adult, Gandhi came to the United States in 1987 to complete a study on racism in America. In 1991, he and his late wife Sunanda founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, which is currently headquartered at the University of Rochester in New York. The institute's mission is to foster understanding of nonviolence and how to put that philosophy to practical use through workshops, lectures and community outreach programs.
For more information about the lecture or the Lindenwood University Speaker Series, visit www.lindenwood.edu/speakerseries, or contact Paul Huffman at 636-949-4823 or email@example.com.


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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — St. Bonaventure University will join communities across the globe this week as it presents the world release of the award-winning documentary "Happy." The film will be shown at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on campus.
Admission is free and a reception will be held in the lobby after the 50-minute film from Academy Award-nominated director Roko Belic ("Genghis Blues").
"Happy" is a feature‐length documentary that leads viewers on a journey across five continents in search of the keys to happiness. The film addresses many of the fundamental issues faced in today's society: How do we balance the allure of money, fame and social status with our needs for strong relationships, health and personal fulfillment?
Through remarkable human stories and cutting‐edge science, "Happy" leads us toward a deeper understanding of why and how we can pursue more fulfilling, healthier and happier lives. "Happy" takes the viewer from the bayous of Louisiana to the deserts of Namibia, from the beaches of Brazil to the mountains of Bhutan. It provides an opportunity to listen to the wisdom of a Kolkata rickshaw driver, the compassion of a volunteer at Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying and the advice of some of the world's leading happiness researchers.
The film combines real‐life human drama and cutting‐edge science to provide insights into the mysteries of happiness.
In 2005, director Tom Shadyac ("Liar Liar," "Patch Adams," "Bruce Almighty") handed Roko Belic a New York Times article titled "A New Measure of Well‐Being From a Happy Little Kingdom." The article ranked the United States 23rd on its list of happiest countries. Shadyac, himself dissatisfied with his luxurious Beverly Hills lifestyle, asked Belic to make a documentary investigation into the origins of human happiness — and why the U.S. ranks so low. This simple inquiry led to a global exploration of happiness research.
"Happy" was developed under the Creative Visions Foundation, a publicly supported 501(c)(3), which supports Creative Activists who use the power of media and the arts to affect positive change in the world.
Belic has been filming "Happy" for the past four years, and has attracted well‐known experts such as Ed Diener, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and others. Marci Shimoff, best‐selling author of "Happy for No Reason" and "Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul," narrates the film.
Wadi Rum Production films are a collaboration between the two Academy Award-nominated brothers Roko and Adrian Belic. Their debut feature, "Genghis Blues," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and received acclaim at more than 100 film festivals worldwide.
The screening of the film is being coordinated by Dr. Charles Walker, a professor of psychology at St. Bonaventure who has been doing research on human well-being in higher education for more than a decade..
Learn more about the film at www.thehappymovie.com.
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PRE CRIME: Police Dept. to Use Internet to Try to Stop Mass Shootings
NY Times
Dec 22, 2012
Top intelligence officials in the New York Police Department met on Thursday to examine ways to search the Internet to identify potential "deranged" gunmen before they strike, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
"The techniques would include cyber-searches of language that mass-casualty shooters have used in e-mails and Internet postings," Mr. Kelly said in a statement. "The goal would be to identify the shooter in cyberspace, engage him there and intervene, possibly using an undercover to get close, and take him into custody or otherwise disrupt his plans."
The meeting came almost a week after a gunman killed 26 people, 20 of them children, inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
There are plans to send officers to Newtown and to scenes of other mass shootings to collect information, Paul. J. Browne, the department's chief spokesman, said.
Mr. Browne said the potential tactics included creating an algorithm that would search online "for terms used by active shooters in the past that may be an indicator of future intentions."
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Meet & Eat: Noel Cruz, Carmine Club Café
Conversations with chefs and food personalities in New York City.
"I love open kitchens. You get to be a part of the action."
Watch Noel Cruz at work for just a few mintues and you can immediately sense his dedication to his craft. His years of experience at Punch & Judy, craftbar, Dani, Elettaria, and elsewhere shine through at his newest venture, Carmine Club Cafe, where you'll feel welcome from the moment you walk in. He's recruited a crack team including Joe Vigorito (formerly at Lupa and dell'anima) in the kitchen and Davis Anderson (formerly at Il Posto Accanto) behind the bar at the West Village eatery. We caught up with Noel just as he brought the restaurant into full swing after a few weeks of limited service; they're now serving in both the upstairs bar and cafe area and the downstairs dining room.
Name: Noel Cruz
Occupation: Restaurateur, Carmine Club Café
Location: West Village
Website: carmineclubcafe.com
Twitter: @carmineclubcafe
I've loved your prosecco on tap. What other surprises are in store for the future at Carmine Club Café? We love it too—sometimes too much. It was so unique when we stumbled upon it so we had to have it. Wine on tap is gaining a lot of momentum so we wanted to find something very fun to pour.
You started your culinary career going to cooking school to be a pastry chef. How did your path lead to becoming a restaurateur? I attended both the Culinary Institute of America for culinary studies and the French Culinary Institute for a pastry degree—but the reason I came to the front of the house was having to pay my bills. Also, I love to interact with people and have that personal connection, which you don't often get as a cook.
After your last project, Elettaria, closed, was it difficult to motivate to open a new restaurant? Absolutely. Elettaria was a very heartfelt and personal project. I was lucky enough to get to work with uber-talented Chef Akhtar Nawab. We had talked about doing a place together way back when in the original craftbar days, where we first crossed paths. For a while I was in a pretty dark place having had to deal with closing that business and all of the aftermath associated. It's almost harder to close a business than to open one.
How did Carmine Club Café come to be and how did you hook up with your chef and beverage director? I was approached by an old friend to do a wine bar project; after a few meetings we started looking for spaces. I must have looked at 20 -30 spaces before stumbling upon the Carmine Street location. Oddly enough, I had seen this space about 5 years ago looking to do a project at that time with another chef.
I wanted to get an experienced sous chef type ready to take the next step—and over a few beers asked a friend, Joe Vigorito, to take on the position. I brought on Davis Anderson to handle the beverage program. I had been a patron at a wine bar in the East Village where he was working at for a number of years. I just wanted young talent ready for moving up in their career.
Other than the open kitchen, there are very few similarities with Elettaria. Why did you decide to carry over that feature? I love open kitchens. You get to be a part of the action. You get a real connection with how your food is prepared and cared for. You have to always be on your game being that exposed. Most people never get a chance to peer into the inner workings of a restaurant. I think that guests really respond well to the open kitchen. It is fun for them. It's like a show.
What was your inspiration for the decor? We wanted to capture the essence of Carmine Street past. The décor evokes kind of an old social club you may have found years ago on the street. Carmine Street has a great history in the South Village and we were paying respect to that. The space has great bones and we didn't want to hide that.
When you're not working, where do you like to eat and drink in the city? When am I not working?!
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Our latest Car-Toon straight from the 2012 Detroit Auto Show: So far, one of the best places to watch people at the show is at the Kia booth, by the giant cut-outs of their spokesgerbils. Or is it spokehamsters?
Anyway, I've seen be-suited executives and journalists, and general good-time joes like this guy here posing for photos with the big gerbil. This guy looked especially at home palling around with a colossal rodent in a beret. I wanna party and drink booze out of one of those upside-down bottles with these guys.


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Drainage Solutions
Solving drainage problems in turf, tree and landscape plantings is not a difficult task if you understand the underlying cause of the problem and you are able to redirect the excess water to a lower area such as a drainage ditch, dry well or catch basin. It is much easier and less costly however, to correct soil drainage problems during the initial design and construction phases of a project rather than afterwards. Unfortunately, we often "inherit" poor drainage problems on many sites simply because essential soil testing to determine soil texture, structure, and drainage was not previously done.
Although excessive drainage can be a problem on some coarser textured sandy soils and slopes, poor drainage is a much more common landscape problem and is considered by many to be one of the biggest killers of landscape plants. Pore space (the air space between soil particles) controls soil drainage characteristics and in soils dominated by large pore space like sands and loamy sands, water moves rapidly. To help solve water retention problems in these excessively drained soils, managers will routinely incorporate organic matter in the form of peat moss or compost into the soil via tilling or topdressing. This will increase the water-holding capacity of the soil resulting in less drought stress for the plants. In poorly drained soils dominated by many small pore spaces (such as compacted soils or those with greater than 20 percent clay); however, water is slow to move, and soils easily waterlog causing root decline, root rots, and eventual death of all but the most tolerant wetland species.
Identifying poorly drained soils is not difficult if you know what to look for. Typical soil symptoms associated with poor drainage include surface puddling or ponding, blue/gray soil matrix colors, foul "anaerobic" odors, distinct soil mottles (grey/red/orange spots) within the top 24 inches of the soil surface, percolation rates less than 1 to 2 inches of water drop per hour, and surface and subsurface impermeable crusts, hardpans, corepans and or plowpans.
To improve surface drainage problems, you must first identify and then correct the contributing factors leading to the problem.
Poor surface drainage in many landscape beds may be the result of excessive tilling, which many believe is the only way to "control weeds and aerate the soil." Ironically, excessive tillage does not improve drainage, but rather hinders it by destroying soil structure and the aggregated soil particles that help transport the necessary oxygen to a plant's roots. On these garden sites, correction of the problem involves reducing the number and frequency of tillage operations and incorporating a 1 to 2 inch layer of organic matter into the soil. This helps to aggregate and "glue" the finer clay particles into larger aggregates, creating more macropore air space and therefore improving aeration and drainage.
Organic amendments such as peat and compost aid in adding nutrients and improving soil "structure" via particle aggregation, but it decomposes with time and may cause settling. Usual recommendations warn not to add more than 20 percent by volume (1 inch peat per 5 inch root zone) in any one growing season. Levels should also not exceed 12 percent organic matter by weight (obtained from soil test reports), or excessive settling, moisture and aeration problems will result.
Most organic matter will increase the water-holding capacity, so beware of the amount applied. The dose can make the poison! Also beware of salt and ammonia problems if you use animal manures unless they are well composted, aged or leached by rainfall or irrigation. Tilling 1 to 2 inch organic matter layers into beds in the fall will help prevent nitrogen immobilization the following spring if high carbon to nitrogen ratio organic amendments are used such as sawdust or high wood content mulches.
You can also add inorganic amendments such as sand, porous ceramics, expanded shale and calcined clay to poorly drained surface soils to increase soil aeration. If you use sand to improve aeration and drainage, it is crucial to know its particle size distribution and its acidity, or "pH." Adding a small amount (<50-80 percent by volume) of a high-pH limestone sand (pH 7.5 to 8.5) dominated by "fine" particle sizes (<0.5 mm grain size) to a bed destined for acid-loving plants is a recipe for disaster and will usually result in micronutrient deficiencies unless you supplement with chelated micronutrients. You may also add Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) to restore a better calcium-to-magnesium ratio if you've already used limestone sands, but it may still be very hard to change pH once limestone sand is applied. Silica sand, unlike limestone sand, would be a much better alternative to use than limestone sand because it has little buffering capacity (defined as a "resistance" to a change in pH) and will assume the pH of the soil it's mixed with or if used alone, may assume the pH of the irrigation water used during irrigation.
It is important to avoid using mixed particle size sand with lots of fine sand because finer particles will occupy existing macropores air space if it exists producing a denser, less porous mixture. This will cause the greatest change in beneficial physical properties with the least amount of added sand. In fact, <5 percent should be comprised of fine sands passing a 100-mesh sieve size. Not until sand constitutes 45 percent or more of the volume of soil will the soil begin to have some of the beneficial properties of sand. Hence, additions of 50 to 80 percent by volume are usually required to achieve any beneficial effects and that amount of sand can be very expensive in large-scale operations.
Surface water will move quickly down a sloped surface and is typically referred to as "surface drainage." Visual observation of the landscape topography will usually indicate where surface drainage problems may occur. Many drainage problems exist simply because soil grading and leveling was inadequate. Subsurface drains are not a replacement of surface grading. Water can be removed from a site more rapidly by surface drainage, allowing use within hours after a rain. This is especially true for golf courses and sports fields.
For proper surface drainage on poorly drained clay soils, a minimum 2-percent slope is usually recommended, which requires a 2-foot vertical drop for every 100-foot horizontal distance or a 0.2 foot drop (roughly 2.5 inches) over a 10-foot horizontal distance. By properly grading the site, surface water is directed to the lowest spot on the property, which will then empty into a drainage ditch, catch basin or dry well. It is always best to check local and regional drainage laws and ordinances to avoid potential lawsuits.
Turf or landscaped areas should have a minimum surface slope of 1 to 2 percent so water flows to a lower elevation away from the site or to a grated, subsurface (sunken) catch basin or dry well. On new sites with many low spots, it may be best to remove the topsoil and stockpile it out of the way. Then establish the subsoil grade with a 1- to 2-percent slope. When adding or moving soil, always allow for about 15 to 20 percent settling on fine-textured soils and less for coarse soils. Another less costly option than topsoil removal and subsoil grading is to plow the soil as deeply as possible and then grade the site to a 2-percent slope. Surface grading, though sometimes costly and disruptive to an existing landscape, may be one of the best solutions for poor soil drainage problems and it may be the only practical and economical means of improving drainage for poorly drained or compacted clay soils.
In open turf areas, you can create a drainage "swale" by digging or grading a sloping ditch where downhill flowing water will be "intercepted" and flow to lower ground. An alternative would be to install French drains, which are simply ditch-like trenches dug and filled with rock or gravel to the soil surface and crowned to prevent soil covering the drain. To be effective, French drains must also slope at least 1 to 3 percent and flow to a discharge outlet.
Identify low spots and break up the underlying compacted soils with a tiller or backhoe and fill the low area with soil of the same texture as existing soil. This helps prevent water movement problems at the soil interface between the two soils. The same recommendation applies for raised or "mounded" beds. Do not add finer-textured soils over coarser-textured soil or perched water tables will result predisposing plants to needless root stress, rots and death.
Chris Carlson is director of horticulture technology at Kent State (Salem, Ohio).
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Ideas and Movements, The Patrons of Husbandry
Oliver Hudson Kelley was an employee of the Department of Agriculture in the 1860s. He made an official trip through the South and was astounded by the lack of sound agricultural practices he encountered. Joining with other interested individuals in 1867, Kelley formed the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization complete with its own secret rituals. Local affiliates were known as "granges" and the members as "grangers." In its early years, the Grange was devoted to educational events and social gatherings.
Growth was slow in the early years, but the attraction of social events was considerable. Farm life in the 19th century was marked by a tedium and isolation that usually was relieved only by church functions and the weekly trips to town for supplies.
Following the Panic of 1873, the Grange spread rapidly throughout the farm belt, since farmers in all areas were plagued by low prices for their products, growing indebtedness and discriminatory treatment by the railroads. These concerns helped to transform the Grange into a political force.
National Grange
Grange influence was particularly strong in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, where political pressure yielded a series of "Granger laws" designed to give legislative assistance to the farmers. Those laws received an initial blessing from the Supreme Court in Munn v. Illinois (1876), but a later counteroffensive by the railroads brought the Wabash case (1886), which wiped out those gains.
During the 1870s, the Grangers advocated programs such as the following:
* Cooperative purchasing ventures as a means to obtain lower prices on farm equipment and supplies
* Pooling of savings as an alternative to dependence on corrupt banks, an early form of credit union
* Cooperative grain elevators to hold non-perishable crops until the optimal times to sell
* An abortive effort to manufacture farm equipment; this venture depleted the Granger organization's funds and was instrumental in its decline.
A major shortcoming of the movement was the failure to address what was probably the root cause of many farm ills—overproduction. There were too many farmers and too much productive land; the advent of new, mechanized equipment only exacerbated the difficulties. A few perceptive individuals recognized that flooding the market with produce only depressed prices further. Mary Elizabeth Lease of Kansas, one of the nation's first female attorneys, traveled to grange halls and urged the farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." Such pleas went largely unheeded, since most farmers preferred to blame the politicians, judges and bankers for their plight.
The Grange as a political force peaked around 1875, then gradually declined. New organizations with more potent messages emerged, including the Greenback Party of the 1870s, the Farmers' Alliances of the 1880s and the Populist Party of the 1890s.
The Grange had played an important role by demonstrating that farmers were capable of organizing and advocating a political agenda. After witnessing the eclipse of its advocacy efforts by other groups, the Grange reverted to its original educational and social events. These have sustained the organization to the present day.
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SEC Media Notes: 06.29.10Posted by nvr1983 on June 29th, 2010
As part of our attempt to continue to provide you with the best independent college basketball information on the Internet we will periodically bring you information from conference media calls. Today's entry comes from the SEC, which amazingly was not affected what could have been a massive conference shake-up.
Ed. Note: The conference call actually took place on Monday, but I had an ophthalmologist appointment and I'm pretty sure that they used just about the entire bottle of eye drops to dilate my eyes so I'm just starting to see straight again. The below entries are my some of the key points the coaches made, but are not direct quotes. If you want to listen to the coaches speak directly, click on the link next to their name.
Anthony Grant (Alabama) – Audio
– Defense: Last year their defense gave them a chance to be in every game that they played, but they had to have that solid defense because their offense was not always there.
– Returning players: Senario Hillman one of elite athletes in the SEC and can guard multiple positions. He will need to improve shot selection and decision-making, but is making strides. JaMychal Green adds size and strength to the frontcourt, which is as good as any team in the SEC. Should improve with an extra year of experience. Tony Mitchell had a very good freshman year and being named to SEC All-Freshman team was an accomplishment. Grant is looking for the players to make a jump between their first and second year in the Alabama program.
Tony Barbee (Auburn) – Audio / Key Quotes
– Lack of Experience: Starting over is exciting because you get to mold a new group of players. It will be hard to judge what he has until he sees the team together in the Fall.
– Plan: Focus on defense because they could be "offensively challenged" because they don't know what they have outside of Frankie Sullivan. Given their lack of size on the inside they might have to focus on their offense around the 3-point line.
John Pelphrey (Arkansas) – Audio
– Frontcourt: They have Marshawn Powell on the inside, but will need to develop more on the inside to help support him.
– APR: We're all working very hard. We want to see these young men improve in the classroom and on the court. He isn't sure statistics over the short-term can adequately reflect the academic performance of a program, but is open to more long-term measures.
– Andre Clark: Aware of the transfer to TCU and does talk with players who have transferred if they contact him about an issue.
Billy Donovan (Florida) – Audio
– Backcourt: Didn't know what to expect coming into last season having lost Nick Calathes. Irving Walker played his freshman year at 2 guard spot. Kenny Boynton came in with huge reputation out of high school, but you're never sure with them making the jump. Limited depth in the backcourt meant those two played more minutes than they probably should have, which meant they couldn't do some of the stuff they would have otherwise done such as press. Coming into this year with the experience should be helpful for those two coming into this season. Still some issues with depth in the backcourt this year although they are adding freshmen Scottie Wilbekin and Casey Prather to the backcourt.
– Alex Tyus: First UF player to put his name in the NBA Draft and return to UF. It was Alex's decision. He worked out with a couple of NBA teams and listened to what NBA had to say about where he might go. No pressure from UF to come back. Donovan feels that process is only going to help the Gators going forward.
– Patric Young: Very physical and aggressive player, but needs some work on the inside. In the near term he will bring energy and a great rebounding presence to the Gators.
Mark Fox (Georgia) – Audio
– Marcus Thornton: Really big boost after picking him up following his release from his letter of intent from Clemson. Gives Georgia a lot of options because of his versatility.
– Trey Thompkins: Had discussion with family and got info from NBA. Felt it wasn't appropriate. Only would be able to work out for 1 or 2 days due to final exams and the new NBA Draft withdrawal deadlines.
– Turnovers: Feels they will take better care of the ball and they should also be able to create more turnovers on the defensive end, which should create more easy baskets.


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From Dumpster Diver to #GirlBoss
It was not long ago that Sophia Amoruso was dumpster diving for bagels and getting caught shoplifting hair products and shower curtain rings. Now she's the chief executive of a multi-million-dollar retailer.
Ms. Amoruso founded a vintage clothing store on eBay in 2006 with no seed funding, no managerial experience and, she now says, no idea what she was getting herself into. Inspired by a record from funk singer Betty Davis, she named her company Nasty Gal.
By 2008, the eBay business was growing at such a rapid pace that Ms. Amoroso created a standalone site. Soon after, she expanded the product line to include brand-name as well as vintage clothing. Last year, it generated more than $100 million in revenue.
The next step for Ms. Amoruso, 30 years old: Nasty Gal's first brick-and-mortar store, set to open this year in Los Angeles. And, with the publication of her new book #GirlBoss and an accompanying foundation, she is positioning herself as a guide for nontraditional entrepreneurs.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Minnesota Twins have filled another hole in a staff that was full of them last season, when their starters posted the second-worst ERA in the majors and 12 pitchers took at least five turns in the rotation.
After finalizing a $10 million, two-year contract with Kevin Correia on Thursday, general manager Terry Ryan acknowledged there's no guarantee the right-hander will strengthen the group. Ryan said he's still looking for candidates after casting a wide net at last week's winter meetings.
``Anybody who represented a starting pitcher, I think we talked to that agent, and that was quite a few,'' Ryan said. ``They were coming out of our suite in a rapid-fire fashion.''
The 32-year-old Correia was an All-Star in 2011 with Pittsburgh. He went 12-11 with a 4.21 ERA, 46 walks and only 89 strikeouts in 171 innings this year, losing his spot in the rotation when the Pirates traded for Wandy Rodriguez.
Correia's best season came in 2009, his first of two with San Diego, when he went 12-11 with a 3.91 ERA and 142 strikeouts in 198 innings and 33 starts.
``He knows what he's doing on the mound. He's a guy we've seen quite a bit,'' Ryan said. ``When you start cracking his numbers, they're very respectable.''
Correia, primarily a reliever with San Francisco at the beginning of his career, has pitched in parts of 10 major league seasons. He will make $4.5 million next year and $5.5 million in 2014, his first time in the American League. Correia said he's enjoyed pitching on young staffs with the Padres and Pirates, part of the reason he was attracted to the Twins.
Minneapolis was the only major league city he hadn't been to, until now.
``That's fun for me to see, seeing guys progress and get better. I think with the guys we have we can surprise some people. I like that kind of team,'' Correia said.
Ryan raised the concern of Correia's adjustment to hitters he hasn't faced much, or at all, plus the addition of the designated hitter to opponent lineups in his transition between leagues.
``But this guy's been around long enough, where I don't think that's going to affect him,'' Ryan said.
Ryan also noted Correia's low strikeout figures, particularly in the last two years, realizing there's some risk in this investment.
``I'm not banking on big strikeout totals by him, because he is a big command guy,'' Ryan said.
Correia, though, downplayed the statistic that gets so much attention.
``When I was younger, I was concerned about ERA and strikeouts and those kinds of things, but the past few years I've been worrying about one thing, and that's winning baseball games,'' he said. ``If I'm putting up wins, the team's doing better.''
He added: ``I can pitch different ways in different situations. If I need a strikeout, I think I have that capability, but I don't put a ton of stock of seeing how many guys I can strike out.''
This is the type of pitch-to-contact and rely-on-defense starter the Twins have had success with in the past but have struggled with recently. After seasons of 99 and 96 losses, the organization has begun to steer away from that mold, acquiring top prospects Alex Meyer and Trevor May in separate trades during the last two weeks with Washington and Philadelphia. But those moves are more for 2015 than 2013, so Ryan still needed to find some experience on the market.
Twins starters went 39-75 with a 5.40 ERA last year, ahead of only Colorado. After adding right-hander Vance Worley in the deal with the Phillies that forced the Twins to give up center fielder Ben Revere, they appear to have three-fifths of the rotation filled, with left-hander Scott Diamond the only returner assured of a spot.
Nick Blackburn, Samuel Deduno, Cole De Vries, Liam Hendriks and P.J. Walters are among the holdovers who will get another chance to join them in spring training, but none of them did enough to put themselves in any more of a favorable position than anyone else. Kyle Gibson, the team's first-round draft pick in 2009 who is coming back from elbow ligament-replacement surgery, is a candidate but will probably be on an innings limit.
Last year, the Twins signed veteran right-hander Jason Marquis to be their fifth starter, but he stumbled badly, posting an 8.47 ERA in seven starts with nine home runs allowed in 34 innings. He was released. Ryan said he didn't care to compare Marquis and Correia.
``Sometimes the fit just wasn't meant to be, and I don't have an explanation for that,'' Ryan said. ``But when he left here and went to the Padres, he did fine.''
Marquis went 6-7 in 15 starts for San Diego with a 4.04 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 93-plus innings.
AP Sports Writer Jon Krawczynski contributed to this report.
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