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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Crew accomplished their goals in playing against a pair of college teams Saturday morning in Crew Stadium.
Foremost, no one was hurt to add to a growing injury list. Second, several players who have seen little or no MLS action this season got workouts.
With eight players sidelined going into this second bye weekend of the month, Crew head coach Robert Warzycha opted to change the scrimmage format he used April 2 against Marshall University and Michigan State when the Crew played full matches against them with a mixture of roster players and guests.
It was during the game against Marshall that starting defender Eric Brunner suffered a concussion, which still has him sidelined.
For Saturday's games the Crew played 45 minutes each against Duquesne and Louisville.
"There's no reason to bring 10 guest players and mix the teams," Warzycha said. "The other teams wouldn't be happy and we wouldn't be happy. We need to have all our players on the field."
The Crew beat Duquesne, 5-0, in the first half as forward Jason Garey scored in the 4th and 45th minutes and assisted on a goal by Duncan Oughton in the ninth. Emmanuel Ekpo (33rd) and Kevin Burns (44th) also scored.
Kenny Schoeni started in goal for the Crew. The rest of the lineup included Jed Zayner, Chad Marshall, Andy Iro and Gino Padula in the back; midfielders Emilio Rentería, Ekpo, Burns and Oughton; and Garey paired with Sergio Herrera. Marshall and Iro were the only holdovers from the starting lineup last weekend at FC Dallas.
Louisville scored the lone goal in the second half against the Crew. Andy Gruenebaum was in goal while Oughton, Iro, Burns and Padula were the defenders. Ekpo, Dilly Duka, Othaniel Yanez and French trialist Leandre Griffit were in the midfield. Garey and Herrera were the forwards.
The rookie Yanez was happy to play 45 minutes against his former Louisville teammates. He had dinner with several of them Friday night.
"It's just another game but it was fun," he said. "I didn't expect them to take it easy on me and I didn't take it easy on them."
Meanwhile, technical director Brian Bliss said the team and Griffit have agreed on a contract if the club decides to sign him. A decision could come early next week. The Crew would have to release a player to add Griffit to the roster.


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SAN DIEGO – Junior Seau's brain will be donated by his family for research into football-related head injuries.
San Diego Chargers chaplain Shawn Mitchell said he didn't know where the brain will be sent.
"The Seau family really has, almost like Junior, a philanthropic approach, where they always desire to help others," Mitchell said in a phone interview Friday. "The purpose is not initially to discover anything about their son and what led to these tragic circumstances, but rather the betterment of other people and athletes down the road through anything that can be learned through the study."
He said the family was not speculating as to whether concussions were a factor in Seau's suicide.
Garrett Webster, the administrator and player liaison for the Brain Injury Research Institute, said his group has requested that the family donate the brain but hasn't heard back.
"I don't want this to sound too crass, but we've sort of made our pitch," said Webster, the son of the late Hall of Fame centre Mike Webster of the Pittsburgh Steelers. "We hope the family chooses us, but the important thing is somebody's going to get it and it's going to get looked into. Junior Seau was a wonderful man and we're all aware of his work with charities. I wish it never happened. The important thing is, in some way, this will continue his legacy on giving back to the community and helping people."
Officials at Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy did not return calls from The Associated Press seeking comment Friday on whether researchers there had reached out to the Seau family. The Boston University centre has analyzed the brains of dozens of former athletes, including that of former Chicago player Dave Duerson, who shot himself in the chest last year.
Duerson's family has filed a wrongful death suit against the NFL, claiming the league didn't do enough to prevent or treat concussions that severely damaged Duerson's brain before he died in February 2011.
Another ex-player, former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, who had joined in a concussion-related lawsuit against the league — one of dozens filed in the last year — shot himself last month at age 62. His wife has said he suffered from depression and dementia after taking years of hits.
Seau, a star at Southern California before playing for his hometown Chargers for 13 seasons, was found dead Wednesday at his Oceanside home. An autopsy concluded he shot himself in the chest.
There's been no medical evidence that brain injuries from football may have played a role in his death.
Seau's ex-wife, Gina, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he sustained concussions during his 20-year NFL career, during which he also played for Miami and New England.
Mitchell said he never heard Seau complain about dizziness or headaches.
"With Junior, that would be so outside of his nature because he had an amazing threshold for pain," Mitchell said.
Family members and friends have said they weren't aware of any issues that may have led to Seau's suicide. Police said no suicide note was found.
"This is not anything I thought he would ever do," former San Diego Chargers safety Miles McPherson said.
A few weeks ago, a smiling Seau was videotaped playing a ukulele and singing while attending the spring game at Southern California, where he starred before being drafted by the Chargers in 1990.
Mitchell said that friends of Seau's who were at his charity golf tournament a month ago said his "spirits were great."


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Gabby Giffords in Maine for Michaud fundraiser
Michaud, Gifford close friends as "blue dog" Democrats in Congress
Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords is in Maine to help raise money for gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud.
Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, are headlining a fundraiser Saturday in Kennebunkport for the Democrat hoping to unseat Republican Gov. Paul LePage.
Michaud says he and Giffords became close friends as conservative "blue dog" Democrats in Congress.
Giffords has become a leading force in the push for tougher gun laws since she was shot in the head in a 2011 attack in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people and left 13 wounded.
Giffords and Kelly are also planning to meet privately with Republican former President George H. W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, at their nearby compound. Kelly and Bush's friendship began when both were based in Houston.


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This July 16, 2011, file photo shows Interstate 405 free of traffic, seen looking south from the Skirball Drive bridge, as the demolition of two lanes Mulholland Drive bridge continue in Los Angeles at dawn. "Carmageddon II: The Sequel" is coming to one of the nation's most crowded freeways later this month.
LOS ANGELES -- "Carmageddon II" — the sequel — is coming to one of the nation's most crowded freeways, and authorities are hoping its subtitle won't be "The Traffic Strikes Back."
Transportation officials say what they would like to see during the last weekend of September is a rerun of last year's two-day closure, when hundreds of thousands of motorists dodged doomsday predictions by staying away until the busy, 10-mile stretch of Interstate 405 reopened. It was one of the lightest freeway traffic weekends anyone in Los Angeles could remember.
Hopes are high that next weekend will have the same happy result, as businesses and residents prepare to avoid the roadway that must close again so work can be completed on a bridge.
At Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, just outside the Carmageddon Zone, officials plan to house as many as 300 doctors, nurses and other staff members in dorms at nearby hotels so nobody will have trouble getting to work.
Some patients, including women in the latter stages of complicated pregnancies, are being encouraged to check in before the freeway closes at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 29.
"Everybody, including myself, will be here to man the entire event, just to make sure everything goes safely for our patients and staff," says Shannon O'Kelley, the hospital's chief operations officer.
A group of art enthusiasts, meanwhile, formed "Artmageddon," featuring activities at dozens of museums and art-house theaters and listing them on the website artmageddonla.com. People are encouraged to walk or bike.
The UCLA campus, with about 41,000 students, has emergency traffic diversion plans in place. In Santa Monica, just down the road, a new emergency operations center opened last month. Authorities say every major transit, law enforcement and emergency services agency in the area has been cooperating in making contingency plans.
In the meantime, just what should people do over the weekend when they will hopefully be too afraid to pull out of their driveways?
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The city of Santa Barbara has a proposed solution: Leave your car at home and come visit us.
The Car Free Santa Barbara Project is offering Carmageddon II special discounts on train service to Santa Barbara as well as hotels, activities and restaurants, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Mary Boyd, manager of the program, which is sponsored by the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution District , told the Times: "We invite Los Angeles-area residents and visitors to use this freeway closure and traffic as a chance to think outside the car."
Or stay put. "Eat, Shop and Play Locally," advises the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, reciting its official Carmageddon II slogan.
The agency is partnering with hundreds of restaurants, tourists attractions and other venues to offer discounts to people who can show they used mass transit to get there.
If thousands of people hadn't stayed home on a mid-July weekend last year, authorities say they might have caused a traffic backup so massive it could have spread to connecting freeways, gridlocking the entire city highway system. The result, "Carmageddon," would have been miles and miles of idling cars filled with thousands and thousands of angry people.
"The risk factors are exactly the same as they were last year, so nothing has changed in terms of the heartburn that traffic agency people are feeling right now," says Dave Sotero, a spokesman for the transportation authority.
It's not just any freeway being shut down, but one that even on weekends, when traffic is relatively light, can carry a half-million vehicles. It's also the one that links the city's San Fernando Valley, where 1.7 million people live, to its dense, urbanized West Side and its beaches.
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As they did for the first Carmageddon, officials have been posting flashing freeway signs for weeks warning people all over the state to stay away. On Labor Day weekend, people driving in and out of the desert resort of Palm Springs, 100 miles to the east, began seeing the signs.
"We wanted to get that image of what the stakes were by frankly alarming the public, getting the public's attention, grabbing everybody by the lapels and saying, 'This is a real project that is going to cause a real disaster if we aren't prepared,'" says veteran Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who is credited with publicly uttering the term Carmageddon.
Although Yaroslavsky says he first heard the word from an aide, he jokes that it will be cited at the top of his obituary as one his greatest achievements.
The freeway is scheduled to reopen at 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 1, just ahead of the morning rush hour.
Last year it opened 17 hours early, but Sotero says not to expect that again because there's more work this time.
When all the work in the area is completed toward the end of next year, there will be a new, wider and seismically safer bridge crossing the freeway at the city's scenic Mulholland Drive.
The 405 itself will also be wider, making room for a carpool lane through the Sepulveda Pass over the Santa Monica Mountains, where traffic notoriously clogs almost all the time.
If the freeway doesn't reopen on time, that's when Carmageddon would really kick in.
While they insist they don't expect that to happen, officials say they will be ready if it does.
NBC News staff contributed to this report from The Associated Press.
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Ernest Thompson Seton spent his life making people aware of their impact on nature and introducing youth to the outdoors. He was an artist, woodsman and mentor who wrote more than 50 books. He confounded the worldwide Boy Scouts movement. And he was once an avid hunter who was changed into a conservationist by a spiritual experience he had in New Mexico.
The Academy for the Love of Learning, based outside Santa Fe, is about to open its permanent Seton Gallery. The nonprofit's mission is to nurture wonder, curiosity and critical thought through multiple projects and workshops. David Witt, the curator of the new collection and author of a Seton biography, says Seton developed what he called the "Lifecraft philosophy." It had to do with coming to terms with one's place in society and nature.
"Once we decide who we are as individuals," Witt says, "then it works outward from that into, What can I do for the larger community?" He says this way of thinking is similar to the pedagogy developed by Aaron Stern, the founder of the academy. In the work of the academy, Witt says, there's a lot of emphasis on personal transformation. Seton is an example of someone who underwent such a major change. He's a perfect mascot for the organization. Since Aug. 14 marks his 151st birthday, it's a fitting time to unveil the gallery.
Seton was born in Scotland in 1860, and immigrated with his family to Toronto when he was 6 years old. He grew up taking long walks in the woods, studying and sketching animals. His drawing skills developed, and he did a brief stint at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. When he returned to Canada, he continued to camp, hike and sketch wildlife. He felt a close connection to the ways of the First Nations people. He was also a hunter, says Melissa Stevens, community development manager at the academy. Sometimes he hunted to procure the anatomy of an animal he wanted to draw; other times it was for money.
In the morning Seton found Lobo caught in a trap he had set, looked into its eyes and decided he couldn't shoot him.
By 1883, when he made his first visit to the United States, Seton was an established wildlife artist. It was October, and he had come to New Mexico to hunt wolves. As the story goes, he was tracking a mated pair and shot the female. Throughout the night he heard the howling of the male, whom he named Lobo, and was deeply affected. In the morning Seton found Lobo caught in a trap he had set, looked into its eyes and decided he couldn't shoot him. Stevens says Seton never killed again.
"He got on a path where he came to believe that animals, including wild animals, are different from humans not in any fundamental way, but only by degree," Witt says. "In the 1890s this was extremely radical." Native Americans and First Nations people already believed this. Seton had studied some of their cultures and spent a lot of time with First Nations people in Canada, so he was already familiar with the concept, but Witt says Seton didn't understand it until he had the encounter with the wolves in New Mexico.
Seton became one of the primary advocates in the early wildlife conservation movement, and he formed the principles that developed into the Boy Scouts. "He thought it was necessary that he take what he had learned and share it with a wider audience," Witt says. It's estimated that since its inception, more than 350 million young people have been involved in scouts programs.
Seton spent his last years in a castle he built near Santa Fe, and the Academy for the Love of Learning is on this land. The castle burned down after the academy acquired it, but not before most of the contents had been removed. It's through these rescued archives, on display in the new gallery, that visitors can chart their own course through Seton's life. The walls are covered with paintings, Witt says. Slide open more than 50 storage drawers to see other paintings and sketches of mammals, birds, people and canoes. His journals, manuscripts and other personal items are included in the trove. There are even some pieces of his furniture.
Continuing its theme of transformation, the Academy for the Love of Learning has rebuilt the ruins of the castle into a meditation garden. Visitors can listen to the birds and feel the sun, then head inside to connect with a fascinating man who loved nature, too.


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- 1 Philosophical
- 2 The Objectified
- 3 Capitalist Usages
- 4 Legal/Political
- 5 The Witnesses of Objectification
- 6 The Others (non-objectified)
Philosophical Connections
The Philosophy of the Body can (in retrospect) be summarised by taking Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (~325 B.C.), and integrating his concept of true friendship (appreciation of virtue) with his concept of rational sexual relations (self-controlled and non-subjugated).
This is not to say that this idea was not expressed by Aristotle himself, but it appears to have been done so in a somewhat limited fashion, probably subject to social constraints at the time (including conditions for the growth and experience of another's capacity for virtue);
"And for these reasons this Friendship is thought to combine the profitable and the pleasurable: it will be also based upon virtue if they are good people; because each has goodness and they may take delight in this quality in each other"
Secondarily, the Philosophy of the Body argues that the natural bodily pleasures (eg food) cannot be equated because some involve other people.
The logic above is either rejected or unconsidered by Aristotle, where he further uses their presumed equality as a basis for arguing their necessity. It is clear Aristotle himself struggles to argue this point, using phrases (translated) such as "Homer says...", "(which answer to this description)", "Granting...", "Perhaps it even follows... (let us assume)... per se", "May we not say...".
Thirdly, the disintegration of true friendship and sexual relationship also encourages objectification (although Aristotle's work does not of itself imply this, certainly not in the context of his other arguments - ie, rationality, self-control, and self-mastery).
It is therefore recommended to read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, as it may form well as an introduction to both the Philosophy of the Body and the tolerance of objectification.
For those concerned with some of Arisotle's philosophical assumptions, it is best to become equated with various models of free will (and determinism). It is also necessary to accept our inherited belief in the significance of our own awareness - our ego being based upon belief in our own unique existence (ie, see Non-reductive Physicalism). It should also be noted as a given, that the authority of human reason must also be accepted as a premise (as no argument can can be made, scientific or otherwise, without this). Furthermore, it should also be noted that his work has unintended implications for civil rights such as slavery, having limited knowledge of the influence of society (versus nature) on the development of a civilised being. The Philosophy of the Body by contrast uses less assumptions than Arisotle with respect to philosophy of mind, and accepts biological evolution as a physical model for the development of the human body.
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Las Vegas is full of energy, abounding beauty and something to entice you at every turn and every step, but sometimes it is a hidden discovery that can turn a simple trip into much more. By making Las Vegas his home and home to his galleries, Jeff Mitchum has brought an expected treasure to Las Vegas by sharing his unparalleled photography.
It would be impossible to enter the Jeff Mitchum Gallery and not be in awe. In this day and age of everyone taking a picture of anything and everything and having the ability to use Photoshop or another computer program to make the perfect picture, they would all pale in comparison to the vision that Jeff brings to the camera lens. Jeff lives by his belief that colors should be created in a camera, not a computer. To dismiss this work as photography is a gross understatement, the beauty in each photograph is that of an artist, Jeff simply goes about it using a different canvas.
"When I get an assignment I start thinking of the sun, the moon, the tide, weather, clouds, subject matter, you gather all of those elements and then how do you arrange it," Jeff said. "I start with the final end and then back into it and bring it all together."
While the beauty in each image is there for the world to see, there is so much more to the story and that is built into the persona of Jeff. Viewing the images that Jeff has been able to create is one thing, but at the gallery you will get the backstory of each photograph. And that you will find will make each photograph even that much more stunning.
"The photograph itself is not enough, the visual journey has to be backed with an intellectual journey," Jeff said.
That gives credence to what is the most enticing reason to visit one of the two Jeff Mitchum galleries, Jeff himself. You can see the images, you can hear the stories relayed beautifully by his staff of art experts, but Jeff actually lives in Las Vegas. I can't promise Jeff will be there when you visit, but if he is you will have the opportunity to hear first-hand the genius behind the pictures and there is no one better to tell them than Jeff himself.
A collection that will stand the test of time and one that is so powerful is the "Masada Collection." Jeff will take you on a journey through Israel, but as usual with Jeff, there is far more to the story. This was his opportunity as he put it "to create fine are out of war." Sticking out of the ground in the Golan Heights Jeff saw the corner of a window frame from a Syrian bunker and found it to amazingly be 16x38 in size, perfect for his Israel panoramic collection. Jeff found enough frames to create two collections, one to be housed in Jerusalem and the other set is in his gallery at Bellagio. The beauty of Israel is brought to life in this collection of photographs combined with these historical frames is a powerful pairing that will truly touch you.
Jeff opened his first gallery inside of Bellagio in 2011 and that sole gallery was clearly not enough for Las Vegas. Jeff recently added a second Las Vegas gallery with the July opening of his 4,000-square-foot, glass-enclosed Jeff Mitchum Gallery at MGM Grand. This gallery will not only showcase his incredible landscape images but it will also introduce the world to his never-before-seen sculptures.
"It is a huge burden on me to compliment the Bellagio brand," Jeff said. "I am very guarded about what I allow in the gallery."
Next time you are in Las Vegas and you want experience something truly memorable, make your way to Bellagio or MGM for something like you have never seen before. I will leave you with a quote from Jeff that is on his website and best sums up his work, "When words were inadequate to describe the light of nature's art, God created film."
For more information on Jeff, visit: www.JeffMitchum.com


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While that might seem good for our waistlines, throwing away food actually has a big impact on the environment and food security.
One of the biggest myths about the food system is that we don't produce enough to feed the world—and that food scarcity is the reason why nearly one billion across the planet are hungry. In fact, we produce enough calories to feed every man, woman and child—and that's on top of wasting roughly 1.3 billion tons of food each year world-wide.
One-third of all food in industrialized countries gets thrown away, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. In developing countries, the problems of poor transportation, lack of storage facilities, mold, pests and bad roads result in 40% of crops being lost. The FAO says that the 1.3 billion tons of food that is wasted would be enough to feed the 868 million people who go to bed hungry each night.
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, where more than 265 million people are hungry, farmers are in a battle against post-harvest losses caused by flooding and drought, fungus and mold, or inadequate storage. Annual post-harvest losses for grains, tubers, fruits and vegetables, and meat and milk amount to roughly 100 million tons each year, the FAO reported.
Food waste tends to be pervasive across the food chain: some loss in the field, some loss in storage, some loss in transport—and then wasted at retailers, restaurants and finally by us, at home. In the United States, consumers throw away about one and a half pounds per person daily, the Environmental Protection Agency says. The cost of this waste isn't just to our wallets. As food waste decomposes in landfills it releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas with 26 times the heat-trapping capacity of carbon dioxide.
There are ways to prevent waste—and hunger—in both developing and industrialized countries alike. Many of the strategies throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America are simple, and often inexpensive, innovations. In Gambia and India, for example, solar-powered dehydrators are used to dry papayas and mangos, reducing fruit going to waste at the peak of the season and providing a great source of vitamin A throughout the year. In Bolivia, farmers are using driers to preserve a number of different crops, such as tomatoes and potatoes, throughout the year.
In Africa, hermetically sealed bags—essentially really big Ziploc bags—protect crops from moisture, insects and fungus. Researchers from Purdue University are working with farmers to protect cow peas, a legume crop that is high in protein, and to help distribute the bags across Niger, Nigeria, Mali and beyond. This technology has the potential to save farmers in the region around $44 million annually.
In Pakistan, the U.N. has helped farmers reduce grain-storage losses by up to 70% just by replacing jute storage bags and mud silos with metal grain-storage containers that protect against moisture and prevent insects and rats from eating grain.
In this country, the California Association of Food Banks launched a "Farm to Family" initiative in 2006 to collect produce from growers and packers in the state that would have gone to waste. By 2011, the program was distributing more than 120 million pounds of 38 different fruits and vegetables across the state. Author Tristram Stuart's Feeding the 5,000 project is showing consumers in the United Kingdom—and soon in sub-Saharan Africa—how to use what Mr. Stuart calls "wonky" (or irregularly shaped or imperfect) fruits, vegetables and other crops to create delicious meals.
So as you dig into your meals this holiday season, think about not piling those potatoes so high and about composting those scraps. And remember the abundance of food is all around us.
Ms. Lappé is the author of "Diet for a Hot Planet" (Bloomsbury USA, 2010) and founder of the Real Food Media Project. Ms. Nierenberg is the co-president of Food Tank: The Food Think Tank.


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In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams
It's been a summer of adventure around here.
Every weekend has been spent hitting the trails.
I enjoy hiking on the trails while the dogs prefer to run around like wild animals.
A few weeks ago our weekend adventure became a little too exciting. We were enjoying a walk through the forest when the dogs took off through the underbrush. This isn't unusual. They often take off and chase rodents or birds.
I stopped to wait for them. The dogs had run down into a ravine so I was up on hill looking down at them. All of a sudden, movement in a tree (about 50 yards in front of me) caught my attention. Sitting in that tree (and looking right at me) were three black bear cubs. The dogs were at the base of the tree, jumping up and trying to get at the bear cubs.
Yes, my dogs treed three bear cubs. Clearly, they have a death wish.
I was remarkably calm as terror swept through every cell of my body. Where there are bear cubs, there is a mama bear. Mama bears are big. Mama bears are not very happy when their cubs are threatened. Mama bears can run 30mph. I am not a petite person (I'm nearly 6′ tall), but I'm no match for an adult bear. I quickly looked behind me (fully expecting to see mama bear) but saw nothing.
I called the dogs to me. Sadie came immediately. Luka ignored me and kept trying to climb the tree to get at the cubs. I called him twice more and the third time he ran back to me. I pointed down the trail and shouted "Go! Run!". I have no idea why they obeyed a command they'd never heard before (perhaps they could hear the fear in my voice and/or were shocked that I was yelling at them) but the dogs took off running and did not leave the trail. They just ran.
I did not run (running around a bear is not smart) but I walked as quickly as I could. (Side note: I had no idea I could move that fast with a 20lbs. backpack.) I constantly checked over my shoulder to see if mama bear had found us. We kept up this pace for a couple of miles until we reached the reservoir. It was only then that I realized how horribly the whole thing could have ended. As the dogs splashed in the water I sat on the sand and trembled.
The weather has cooled off a tiny bit (instead of being 100, it's only 90) so the dogs have been able to do more running/playing. They especially love to play and run on the beach.
Here's a series of pictures of the dogs playing. I didn't expect all of these pictures to come out, but they did and I like the story they tell.
Luka asks Sadie to play.
Sadie responds.
Sadie comes to a sudden stop and nearly gets taken out by Luka.
They start running together.
Sadie veers off to come back to me while Luka keeps running.
Luka realizes his buddy is missing.
And he runs to catch up.
During our adventures I've managed to snap some nice portraits of both dogs.
I love how happy Sadie looks in this picture.
Meanwhile, Luka looks like he just wants me to hurry up.
I like these close up shots, too.
Finally…Milo's training for the sleep Olympics continues at a very strong pace.
A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden. ~Terri Guillemets
I have too many pictures for one post so today I'll focus on the sky.
Monsoon season has arrived and that always means one thing: magical sky.
Almost every day the sky manages to take my breath away.
During the past month I've seen two of the coolest clouds I've ever seen in my life. This one appeared while I was walking the dogs and I felt like I was on another planet.
I watched this cloud form while we were at the dog park one evening. It was jaw dropping.
The next post will feature dog pictures.
An obnoxious number of dog pictures.


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CHICAGO (AP) Major League Baseball Advanced Media and StubHub.com announced a new five-year deal Monday that continues the website's role as the official secondary ticket market for the sport while eliminating the cheap listings that had become an eyesore for some clubs.
The minimum price for baseball tickets on StubHub in 2013 will be $6, a far more appealing number for the league after some seats were listed for pocket change during the first five-year deal that expired after this past season.
The $6 ticket includes commissions and the delivery fee for the website, which previously charged customers at least $10.40 after they selected their seats.
``The bottom line is that we felt like for both our fans and for our teams there was an optics issue,'' StubHub spokesman Glenn Lehrman said. ``In other words, there was a lot of chatter about .99 tickets, cheap tickets, and the reality is that's not what the ticket was selling for.''
StubHub calls including the fees in the ticket listing an ``all-in pricing model,'' and Lehrman said the San Francisco-based company has been testing the system on the website all year long, mostly with Major League Soccer games. The plan is to implement the new format across the site by the end of 2013.
Bob Bowman, the CEO of MLBAM, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, praised StubHub for working with them to address their concerns. But the changes weren't enough for the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels and Chicago Cubs, three teams that opted out of the deal.
``We're continuing to explore our options in the secondary ticket market,'' said Julian Green, the vice president for communication and community affairs with the Cubs.
The Yankees and Angels are working with Ticketmaster on a new arrangement, according to a person familiar with the situation, and will announce their plan in a few weeks. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made.
Fans will still be able to purchase tickets for the three missing teams on StubHub. The biggest difference involves the sellers, who will have to type in the ticket information and use a different way to get the ticket to the buyer for the home games of the Yankees, Cubs and Angels.
Bowman said he thinks the ticket integration for the teams covered by the deal is good for fans, but the decision by the three teams that opted out gives them a chance to take a look at other models for the secondary ticket market.
``They are doing what they think is in their best interests and what's in their fans' best interest and it's our job to work with them and get them to a good spot,'' he told the AP in a phone interview.
Bowman also said some teams are going to experiment with the blackout window before games. Most teams stop ticket sales on the site two hours before the game, and a handful of clubs are going to experiment with a six-hour period next year.
StubHub struck one of its first major sports deals with the Seattle Mariners in 2001 and has separate partnership agreements with about half of the 30 major league teams, covering everything from signage to promotions. It became the ``Official Fan to Fan Ticket Marketplace'' for MLB.com in 2007.
``This partnership broke new ground when it was first introduced, and it has allowed us to greatly improve the StubHub MLB fan experience,'' StubHub President Chris Tsakalakis said in a release. ``The opportunity for StubHub to continue to partner with MLBAM is something we relish, especially as we look to continuously integrate new technology that will enhance the experience, particularly on mobile devices, for baseball fans.''
Under StubHub's new pricing model, customers will pay a $2.25 delivery fee per ticket up to $10. That's compared to a flat $5.40 delivery fee before. The service fee was lowered to $3 for tickets under $50, and is a percentage of the price above that number.
``Our original StubHub partnership provided a valuable service, giving fans a secure, simple and affordable solution for the secondary market, and this renewal reflects its successes in an ever-evolving space,'' Bowman said.
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Why We Need Bees and More People Becoming Organic Beekeepers
Bees teach us how to live our life in a way that by taking what we need from the world around us, we leave the world better than we found it.
Beekeeping is rising in popularity — from urban rooftops to backyard hives, the world is abuzz with interest in homemade honey. And who better to comment on the nature of bees than the former president of the Vermont Beekeepers Association, Ross Conrad.
MG: Describe briefly beekeeping as a business. How much energy do you focus on honey production?
RC: Honey production is not the focus of my beekeeping business at all. The focus is on caring for the honey bees and keeping the colonies as healthy and vibrant as possible. This means primarily reducing stress on the bees. In fact the only consistent observation that has been made of hives suffering from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is that the bees in infected colonies are always suffering from stress that has caused the bee's immune systems to collapse. While there are numerous stresses that the bees must deal with that we cannot directly control (see below), there are numerous other stresses on the hive that we do have control over. Such stressors include reducing chemical contaminants in the hive, eliminating the presence of antibiotics in the hive, making sure that the bees are fed a healthy diet of honey and pollen from a wide variety of plants and that the hives have access to clean uncontaminated water. When the bees health needs are taken care of, a honey harvest tends to be the natural result.
MG: Let's say I'm an aspiring small-scale farmer, or beginning life on a homestead, or merely thinking of expanding my urban garden. Why should I keep bees, in terms of honey production, and their pollination benefits, etc?
RC: The biggest benefit honey bees provide is pollination. Pollination fees are what is keeping the beekeeping industry alive today. Honey is really a byproduct of pollination. Why should anybody keep bees? As suggested above, the life support systems of our planet are collapsing. The forests are disappearing, desert regions are growing, the climate is shifting so that some areas are getting dryer, other areas are getting wetter, some areas are getting colder, other areas are getting warmer, and our oceans are collapsing with large dead zones, acidification, giant "islands" of floating plastic debris, collapsing fisheries, and ocean animals that are dying in greater numbers every day from cancer. My observation is that it is our industrial civilization that is, if not the actual cause of all this destruction, it is certainly contributing to the devastation. As a member of this society then, I am partly responsible and part of the problem. This is a wonderful thing, for if I am part of the problem, then I have the responsibility and am empowered to be part of the solution.
One of the greatest lessons we learn from the honey bee is in observing how they go about making their "living" here on earth. As they go about their business collecting pollen, nectar, propolis and water (everything they need to survive) they do not harm or kill anything in the process. Unless they feel threatened and are forced to defend themselves, not so much as a leaf on a plant is harmed. In the process of taking what they need to survive they in turn give back more than they take and make the world a better place through the pollination the plants. This gift of pollination ensures that the plants can thrive and reproduce in vast numbers which produces a large variety of seeds, nuts, berries, fruits and vegetable in all shapes and sizes, which in turn ensures an abundance of food for all the rest of the insects, animals and people on the planet. This is the ultimate lesson that the bees teach us and challenge us to accomplish: How to live our life in a way that by taking what we need from the world around us we leave the world better than we found it.
Each one of us who takes care of the honey bees and makes sure that there is adequate habitat and flowering plants for the native pollinators in our regions, is indirectly through the good work of these pollinators, making the world a better place for all of creation. This is the kind of healing our beautiful blue-green planet needs desperately at this time in history.


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Well, in an attempt to lure myself out of the knitting funk, I started a small baby sweater for a baby that's due in less than a month. It's going quickly but eh, I'm not really into it. Here's a progress pic:
The pattern is from Debbie Bliss Baby Knits and I used Knit Picks shine. It is a little old man sweater:
Also, I received a couple of balls of Colinette Prism as a gift but I'm really struggling with a purpose for them. I never knit with hand-dyed yarn and I'm not really fond of it. Still, it is gorgeous yarn. I started a garter stitch scarf but I'm not sold on it. Any ideas? Here is what the yarn looks like. I have two balls (about 240 yds) and it calls for size 10.5 needles.
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Higher domestic steel consumption, but exchange rate volatility is expected to cause more payment delays.
- Steel consumption picked up again due to demand from the automotive sector
- Payments take between 90-120 days on average
- Exchange rate volatility expected to cause payment delays
Mexico´s domestic production of crude steel increased 4.1% year-on-year in 2014, to 18.99 million tonnes, while apparent steel use increased 12.2%. Steel imports grew 19.5%, reaching 12.4 million tonnes, mainly in Japan, South Korea and China. In contrast, steel exports decreased 3.6%, to 5.8 million tonnes, causing a steel trade deficit.
In 2014 and in H1 of 2015 domestic steel demand has been driven by strong growth in the automotive industry (both car makers and car part manufacturers) as well as by a robust performance in the pipeline installation segment. This has offset weaker performance of the construction sector, which has recorded a modest recovery since Q2 of 2015; especially in the infrastructure segment (due to higher government spending). This upturn is encouraging but still not entirely satisfactory, since construction performance was subdued for a long period.
On average, payments in the Mexican steel and metals industry take 90 to 120 days. The record of payment delays and insolvencies in this sector has been stable over the last six months. However, non-payment notifications are expected to increase in the coming months, due to deprecation of the peso against the dollar, making imports more expensive.
External risk factors for the Mexican steel industry are the volatility of international metals prices, rising uncertainty concerning Chinese economic performance and oil price developments. Domestically, government investment plans in projects resulting from the recent energy reform to infrastructure remain susceptible to change.
As in 2014 our underwriting stance remains cautious, given potential exchange rate and steel price volatility that could adversely affect production costs, and the growth in imports that could harm domestic production.
To accurately assess a credit limit application in this sector, we currently ask for audited financial statements for the year 2014. If those are not yet available, we could consider year-end 2014 management accounts signed by a company director, together with the most current financial information. Some underwriting cases can be supported by trading experience and/or guarantees or promissory notes (pagarés).


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Available from 7pm on 31st December
Start your evening in style with fizz and canapés as part of our 4 course celebration to see in the New Year. Tis the season to be jolly and we invite you to get the party started and celebrate the most magical time of year with us.
Mozzarella and Cherry Tomato with Basil Pesto (V)
Scottish Oak-Smoked Salmon & Prawn with Dill Sour Cream†
Goat's Cheese Roulade (V) (N)
Goat's cheese with a walnut crumb, served with a whole roasted fig and a beetroot & watercress salad, topped with a balsamic dressing
Chicken, Confit Duck & Plum Terrine
Served with toasted bloomer bread and butter, whole roasted fig, watercress, crispy shallots and
a fig, cranberry & date chutney
Caramelised Winter Vegetable Soup (V)
With a hint of maple flavour syrup, served with bloomer bread and butter
Vegan option available
Roast Chicken in a White Wine & Mushroom Sauce^
Chicken breast and sautéed mushrooms served with a creamy white wine sauce, roast baby
potatoes and buttered cabbage
Trio of Seafood †^
Roasted sea trout topped with pan-fried scallops, served with bubble & squeak, samphire, fine green
beans, green cabbage and mussels in a shellfish bisque
Beetroot Wellington
Roasted beetroot & butternut squash with cranberry sauce, encased in puff pastry, served with roast baby potatoes, seasonal vegetables and vegan gravy
Beef Bourguignon^
7-hour slow-cooked boneless rib in a bacon, onion & red wine sauce. Served with creamy mashed
potatoes, roasted red onions and cabbage topped with crispy shallot rings
Festive Nut Roast
Butternut squash, cashew & walnut roast topped with Croxton Manor Brie and cranberry sauce.
Served with roast baby potatoes, a Yorkshire pudding, seasonal vegetables and gravy
Clementine Tart
Served with a raspberry sorbet and coulis, shortbread crumb, with a white chocolate mousse,
fresh raspberries and a marbled chocolate pencil
Prosecco Sorbet and Forest Fruits ^
A refreshing Prosecco sorbet, served with black cherry compote, fresh strawberries and raspberries
Chocolate & Salted Caramel Choux Bun
A large choux bun filled with mascarpone cream, served with clotted cream ice cream, topped with
a salted caramel sauce and warm chocolate sauce
Cheese and Biscuits (V)
Croxton Manor Brie, Stilton® and mature Cheddar, served with grapes and a fig, cranberry & date chutney
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Please note, our New Year's Eve menu is available exclusively from 7pm on the 31st December. A non-refundable deposit of £10 per adult and £3 per child (up to the age of 12) is required to secure your booking.
Can't see the date and time you're looking for? Give us a call on 0115 9732614 and we will do our best to accommodate you.
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(V) Suitable for vegetarians. (Ve) Suitable for vegans. (N) Dish contains nuts. †Fish dishes may contain bones and or shell. ^Dish contains alcohol. All weights are approximate before cooking. We aim to make our food enjoyable for as many people as possible, so we have a great range of vegetarian, vegan and dietary specific dishes.
Our menu descriptions do not list all ingredients. Some dishes may contain alcohol which may not be listed on the menu. Please advise the team of any dietary requirements before ordering. All of our dishes are prepared in kitchens where nuts and gluten are present as well as other allergens; therefore, we cannot guarantee that any food item is completely free from traces of allergens, due to the risk of unexpected cross contamination. Please be aware the allergen information for our dishes may change between the date of booking
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You've likely heard, and worse yet spread, some of the common myths around modeling and documentation on agile projects. For example, there's the myth that Agilists don't do any architecture, something that flies in the face of the fact that all systems have architectures regardless of the development paradigm used to create them. Another myth is that Agilists don't do up-front requirements modeling, yet when was the last time you saw a software development get funding without an indication of what was going to be built? Agilists apparently don't write documentation either, having magically convinced end users that they don't need user manuals, operations and support people that they don't need any sort of documentation, and the maintenance team that they don't need any sort of overview documentation. The list of things that agilists are supposedly getting away with is truly impressive, so needless to say, I believe that it is abundantly clear that these myths and misunderstandings need to be cleared up. This month I summarize the results from two surveys, one that focused specifically on modeling and documentation activities on software development projects and one that explored what agile teams actually do in practice. Reality is definitely far from the rhetoric.
Up-Front Modeling
Dr. Dobb's 2008 Modeling and Documentation survey discovered a few interesting things about how teams approach modeling. It found that 18 percent of traditional teams did no modeling at all, compared with only 5 percent of agile teams, implying that agile teams are arguably more likely to model than traditional ones. It also found that the primary approach to modeling on agile teams was that 55 percent of teams preferred to sketch to think things through or to communicate ideas, and an additional 30 percent both sketched, then captured critical sketches when it made sense to. The majority of traditional teams also focused on sketching, with rates of 33 percent only sketching and 33 percent sketching and then capturing critical ones. Seven percent of agile teams use software-based modeling tools (SBMTs) such as ER/Win or Rational System Architect (RSA) for documentation purposes and 5 percent for full round-trip engineering, compared with 16 percent and 0 percent for traditional teams, respectively. Figure 1 summarizes the results for all four types of teams that the survey looked at: ad-hoc, traditional, iterative, and agile.
The Ambysoft 2008 Agile Practices and Principles survey explored how well agile developers agreed with various development strategies. To explore whether agile teams were doing up-front requirements modeling, it asked "We do some initial requirements modeling at the beginning of agile projects for scoping and planning purposes." The survey found that 74 percent of respondents either strongly agreed or agreed with this statement, 18 percent were neutral, and only 8 percent indicated disagreement or strong disagreement. Similarly, to explore up-front architecture modeling, it asked the question "We do some initial architecture modeling at the beginning of agile projects to get going in the right technical direction." The results were almost identical, with scores of 73 percent, 19 percent, and 8 percent, respectively. In short, two different surveys to two different communities both showed that agile development teams do, in fact, model.
Agile teams are doing up-front modeling because they still need to answer questions around the scope that they're addressing, the relative cost and schedule, and what their technical strategy is. Without coherent answers to these questions, the project simply won't get funding. Although you need to do some modeling early in the project lifecycle, that doesn't imply that you need to write mounds of documentation to do so. You can gain the benefit of modeling, which is to communicate and think things through, without accepting the costs of unnecessary documentation.
Another reason why agile teams are doing up-front modeling, contrary to the popular belief of extremists in the agile community, is because architectural metaphors are not sufficient. System architectures are complex, addressing a myriad of nonfunctional requirements and technical constraints such as performance, security, scalability, usability, legacy assets, integration, and many more (see my October 2008 column on this topic). An architectural metaphor simply isn't going to get the job done. For example, consider the website for the Agile 2008 conference (www.agile2008.org), which was built around the metaphor that organizing a conference is just like running a stage production. This metaphor clearly didn't work well because people didn't find the website very usable. For example, to put together a schedule for yourself you needed to navigate the 19 stage pages to get detailed listings of what was being offered on each "stage." Yikes. A little bit of up-front requirements and architecture envisioning could very likely have avoided this sort of problem.


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I've got a colleague, not on the forum and he's having radio issues. I told him all the issues with the Z8 radio and recommended a non-BMW head unit, but I told him I'd post just to see if anyone had ideas. I read and discussed with our mutual mechanic all the issues so far posted, but why not present everyone with another wild goose chase
The radio had been out for a while, our mutual mechanic checked all the basics, for power and ground. It had 2 powers and proper grounds, so a BMW replacement radio to the tune of $1800 was installed!
It lasted 2-3 days and quit working. Then the dealer put in another radio, it failed 10 minutes after pick it up....
Thoughts beyond what's already on the board? Thanks!