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The biggest problem with California's high-speed rail project may not be that it's estimated to cost $70 billion -- money the state doesn't have. The biggest problem may be that, by the time it's built in 20 years or so, high-speed rail may be obsolete.
So suggests one of California's most celebrated entrepreneurs, Elon Musk, in an interview with the magazine Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Musk, best known for the private firm SpaceX and the electric car company Tesla, takes a shot at high-speed rail by way of declaring that he's working on an alternative -- a new, solar-powered technology that would get people from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in just 30 minutes.
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If he pulls it off, it would be faster than planes, and five time faster than the high-speed rail project, which, according to current projections, would require nearly 3 hours for the same journey.
Musk calls his new transportation technology "Hyperloop." The magazine explains:
On the assumption that people will be living on earth for some time, Musk is cooking up plans for something he calls the Hyperloop. He won't share specifics but says it's some sort of tube capable of taking someone from downtown San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes. He calls it a "fifth mode of transportation"—the previous four being train, plane, automobile, and boat. "What you want is something that never crashes, that's at least twice as fast as a plane, that's solar powered and that leaves right when you arrive, so there is no waiting for a specific departure time," Musk says. His friends claim he's had a Hyperloop technological breakthrough over the summer. "I'd like to talk to the governor and president about it," Musk continues.
Musk, as is well known, is a big-thinking visionary whose companies have had trouble turning technologies into real products and advances. So skepticism about this scheme is highly warranted.
But it's a reminder that the world changes fast, and technology is advancing. And a state that bets tens of billions of dollars on a technology -- high-speed rail -- that is already old could be making a historically bad bet. And not just because of all the money required.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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James Holmes received six shipments of ammunition from an online retailer, carried a platinum MasterCard and photographed the door to the movie theater where he allegedly killed 12 people and injured 70, according to court records released Wednesday.
The tidbits come in search warrants unsealed at the direction of the judge overseeing the case against Holmes, who could be executed if convicted of the July 20 shooting.
The warrants show that in the hours after the attack, investigators wanted to search Holmes' bank records and an iPod Touch. They found that Holmes had received ammunition from the website BulkAmmo.com at his apartment in Aurora. Authorities wanted to determine whether he had received other material at the nearby University of Colorado, Denver where he had been a neuroscience graduate student or at his parents' home near San Diego.
Detectives also wrote that on July 9, Holmes downloaded a U.S. Postal Service form to track shipments. That was around the time Holmes shipped a notebook and burnt $20 bills to his former psychiatrist at the university. That package was not found until after the shooting. The notebook's contents have still not been disclosed.
The documents released Wednesday didn't show what investigators found. They did say that Holmes carried an iPhone that contained pictures of the theater where the massacre occurred. Included in those pictures were images of the door jamb at the theater. Prosecutors have said Holmes entered the theater that night apparently unarmed, slipped out the external exit door then returned with his weapons and body armor.
Holmes is attempting to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. He's due to appear in court Thursday for a routine hearing.
Wednesday's release is an addition to a wider April disclosure of documents sealed in the days after the shooting. Media organizations successfully sued to unseal those search warrants and affidavits. But a handful of records were omitted from the April disclosure and were released Wednesday.
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For the past months, well, it's fair to say we've had more than our fair share of some s-e-r-i-o-u-s weather. And now, just when you thought it was safe to emerge from your winter cocoon, April showers are upon us -- and the very notion of throwing on some banal, beige raincoat and boring rubber boots is a bit of a downer.
"Your mother probably got you a London Fog when you graduated from college, or you have a basic Burberry," says Adam Glassman, creative director at O, the Oprah Magazine. "So many people have such shlumpy rain gear that ruins their look, and there's so much über-chic stuff out there."
Indeed, this season, designers and retailers are offering up smart, stylish, lively options that explode with color and pattern. Michelle Smith, the designer and founder of Milly, is among those who have put a fun spin on rainwear. "I wanted to add some humor and wit to the classic rain trench this season, so I made it transparent," says Smith. "Rainy days are universally rather depressing, so my hope is that this coat will make you a little more excited to get out of bed and get dressed in the morning."
If you don't want to go clear, find blasts of turquoise and red and chartreuse, patent finishes and mod prints among other gloom chasers.
Rain, rain, go away? Not so much this season.
Posh galoshes
We've all been there -- you're struttin' in your new, gorgeous suede stilettos, and the skies open up, drenching you and virtually destroying your shoes.
No more. A clever new "over-boot" called PYSIS (pronounced like Pisces, the water sign) comes in its own carry bag and slips over most shoes and boots. They're kind of like your dad's old galoshes -- remember those? But these are so much more chic with a shiny waterproof, patent finish, easy elastic closures and a molded rubber sole. And best of all, they'll save your shoes. Disaster averted.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. — So, you strapped in yet? As if the 2019 Masters needed any help getting golf fans fired up, a guy named Tiger Woods placed his name atop the leaderboard for much of the afternoon. He was later surpassed by heavyweights like Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, and then Bryson DeChambeau, who nearly holed out on No. 18 with an amazing shot that hit the stick and then nestled inches from the cup.
And this was just opening day.
Here's a look at the leaderboard, and here are five things you need to know about the Masters from Thursday:
Sure he's shown flashes, but on Thursday at Augusta National it sure looked like the old Tiger Woods was back. Woods posted back-to-back birdies on Nos. 13 and 14 to jump into a tie for the lead. He dropped a shot on No. 17 but still finished with an impressive 70.
Despite swirling winds, Woods told reporter Brian Mull for this piece at Augusta.com that he was pleased with his control.
"It kind of swirls out there and it's hard to get a bead on exactly what it's doing at all times," Woods said. "With as hot as it was the ball was flying a long way and you had to take advantage of it. I played well today and controlled my golf ball today."
Woods previously told longtime Augusta Chronicle golf writer David Westin in this article penned prior to the event that he was feeling like he could make a run.
"I'm right there where I need to be," Woods said. "I've gotten a little bit more consistent with my play, and I think that everything is headed on track towards April."
Here's a look at Woods' round in photos.
2. DeCHAMBEAU, KOEPKA GOT IT GOING
After watching Tiger and others go struggle with the breeze, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau had little trouble with the afternoon conditions as they each used big back nines to climb to the top of the leaderboard.
DeChambeau's final iron of the day was scintillating — the native Californian hit the stick on No. 18 and watched his ball finally come to rest a few inches from the cup. He putted out for a fourth straight birdie, finishing the day at 6-under par.
Koepka, meanwhile, had birdies on five six holes after making the turn and also finished with an opening round 66.
As for playing well in a major, that's becoming old hat for Koepka, who has won three majors in the last two years.
"I enjoy the big stage," he said. "I enjoy major championships. I just get a good feeling; I don't know how to explain it."
You'd think Justin Harding might be a bit intimidated, making his first appearance at Augusta National and all.
Instead, the South African saw his name near or at the top of the leaderboard for much of Thursday afternoon.
Harding told David Westin for this story at Augusta.com that a long stretch of solid play has set a positive tone.
"Golf is purely momentum based," Harding said. "If you take enough confidence into the rounds then you're bound to play well. Just pretty much need to get out of your own way."
Harding finished with five birdies on the day, including one on the opening hole courtesy of an impressive 10-foot putt.
"That one going in gave me a boost and calmed me down," he said.
After fine-tuning his game in weeks prior to the Masters, many assumed Rory McIlroy would roar out of the gates on Thursday.
Instead, Rory knocked his first shot of the day into the trees, and struggled to an uneven 73.
Even more frustrating, Will Cheney wrote in this story for Augusta.com, was the fact that the course was there for the taking.
"I mean, I felt the course was there. It's soft. There's not much wind," he said. "I made five birdies, that wasn't the problem. I just made too many mistakes and that was the problem. And I'm making mistakes from pretty simple positions, just off the side of the green, 17 and 18 being prime examples of that."
The opening day at the Masters brings one of the greatest moments in sports — the Honorary Starter ceremony.
This year's event didn't disappoint. For the second consecutive year, Gary Player outdrove Jack Nicklaus — and the masses loved every minute.
CBS commentator Jim Nantz told reporter Doug Stutsman for this article at Augusta.com that he nearly missed the moment due to traffic.
Nantz said the moment just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
"I've never seen this many folks," Nantz said. "It's tremendous. Maybe chalk it up to our reduced field and the (opening ceremony) being about a half-hour later than other years. We've had this as early as 7:40 a.m. but this time was 30 minutes past that. That extra half-hour allowed a lot more people to be here."
Here's a link to a photo gallery from folks spotted on the course.
And here's a list of reporters who are at Augusta (and Tweeting) this week:
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Ind., Ky. brace for new casino in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI (AP) — With a glistening $400 million casino set to open in downtown Cincinnati, officials and casino executives in two neighboring states are looking at the development with trepidation as they prepare to watch tax dollars flow into Ohio.
Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati is all but guaranteed to dip into Indiana's casino revenues, which have steadily declined in the past few years. For Kentucky, Cincinnati's casino represents money that it could be, but isn't, making.
The casino will open Monday night after more than two years of construction. It will be the last of four casinos that Ohio voters approved in 2009 after a statewide campaign touted the immediate boost the casinos would give to Ohio's economy.
Casinos in Cleveland, Toledo and Columbus all opened over the past year and have brought in nearly $404 million combined. From that, about $133.2 million has gone to Ohio schools, counties and cities.
Cincinnati's casino is projected to draw about $227 million in gross revenue in its first year. That would bring in about $75 million in taxes.
Though those figures are far lower than earlier estimates, Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory hailed the casino as a regional and national destination ahead of its opening.
"It's a home run," Mallory said. "This casino will have the ability to draw people from all around the country. ... This is a top-line casino, and the people who are accustomed to the big casinos in Vegas, they're not going to miss anything here."
Though no hotels are attached, and nothing quite compares to the energy or spectacle of the Vegas strip, Mallory referred to the Cincinnati casino's bustling location on what used to be a run-down parking lot and ticked off amenities including a buffet, a VIP players' lounge with high limits, a World Series of Poker room and three outward-facing restaurants, including Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and Bobby's Burger Palace by celebrity chef Bobby Flay. Both Buffett and Flay also have outposts in Las Vegas.
Across the state line in Indiana, casinos and state leaders have been bracing for the development.
"The hovering threat to Indiana's dominance in commercial casino revenues among its sister states is evolving into reality," Ernest Yelton, executive director of Indiana's Gaming Commission, wrote in a 2012 annual report to Gov. Mitch Daniels. Nearly all of Indiana's 13 gambling venues would be affected, he added, "some dearly."
Over the past two decades, Indiana's casino industry has brought in $10 billion in taxes to become the state's third-largest revenue source after sales and income taxes.
But casinos there are in decline. Last year, taxes on casino revenues in Indiana dropped 4.2 percent, from $787.4 million in 2011 to $754 million in 2012, the steepest drop amid a three-year fall.
In the annual report, Yelton cited the economic climate, pointed to threats to Indiana's industry from several neighboring states, including Michigan and Kentucky, and called Ohio's new casinos the biggest challenge facing Indiana.
In Kentucky, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has tried and failed every year since his 2007 election to legalize casinos in the face of opposition from Republican lawmakers and a racetrack industry worried about competition.
At a news conference Feb. 21, Beshear lamented the opening of Cincinnati's casino.
"The casino in Cincinnati's good news for Ohio and bad news for Kentucky," Beshear said. "Right now we've got thousands of Kentuckians that have been going out of state, and now they'll also be going to Cincinnati to spend their Kentucky money in Ohio, and then Ohio's going to keep the benefits of that."
Beshear said that Kentucky needs to legalize casinos to start bringing in taxes for schools and infrastructure.
"I hope that sooner or later we get our act together here and legalize casino gaming so that we can start keeping our money at home," he said.
Ohio had a similar battle before voters approved the state's four casinos in 2009, with four previous failed attempts.
The 2009 issue won approval after proponents lamented tax dollars going to Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia, and said that casinos in Ohio's four largest cities would create tens of thousands of jobs and boost the economy.
Opponents of Ohio's casinos largely consisted of groups that criticized revenue predictions as inflated and pointed to the societal ills of gambling, including addictions that leave some destitute. They also criticized Ohio's 33 percent tax rate on the casinos for being lower than some other states.
Ohio's casinos were original forecast to bring in nearly $2 billion annually. That would have generated $643 million in taxes for schools, counties and cities. Now, their yearly revenues are now expected to be just under $1 billion.
Industry experts say the lower revenues are a result of the economic climate and competition from storefront gambling-style operations in the state known as Internet cafes.
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The distributed ledger technology known as blockchain, holds potential to revolutionize global financial markets.
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Social innovation organizations, such as non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), are embracing blockchain for humanitarian efforts. Still, most of these blockchain applications are in pilot stages. Why?
Accenture interviewed industry experts and examined approximately 30 blockchain use cases for solving social challenges. We also studied a blockchain implementation at Akshaya Patra, a meal provider serving over 1.6 million children in India.
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Social innovation organizations face four mission-critical challenges: affordability, accountability, reliability and marketability.
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How should a social innovation organization align blockchain with its vision and mission to bring about a strategic transformation through an innovative business model?
How can non-profits orchestrate an ecosystem to ensure a successful blockchain implementation?
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For example, a project called Bitland is helping settle land disputes in Ghana through an open ledger of land registrations. Currently being piloted with 28 communities in Kumasi, the Bitland leaders aim to enhance transparency in the land registration system by allowing individuals and groups to record titles on an immutable public ledger.
Blockchain helps social innovation organizations build a system that is tamper-proof, generates real-time information through the entire value chain, allows operational changes to be transmitted in real time and enables all parties to transact and share information in a trusted, easily auditable way.
Achieving the strategic goals will require huge operational and financial transformation by building the right kind of ecosystem enabled by emerging technologies like Blockchain. In the words of Shridhar Venkat, CEO of Akshaya Patra Foundation: "a key element of scaling up is the power of collaboration for transformational change."
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Elvis Costello Tells His Fans 'Steal This Record'
from the this-price-is-crazy deptThe price at which labels want to sell music and the price customers are willing to pay are often two totally different things. Yet, as we talk about this price disparity, we very rarely consider the price at which the artist wants to sell the music. This point of contention has come to a head with the release of Elvis Costello's latest music collection. In a post titled "Steal This Record", Costello states his album, "The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook", just plain costs too much.
Unfortunately, we at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend this lovely item to you as the price appears to be either a misprint or a satire.Yeah, I would say that $202.66 is a joke. For that price you get 1 CD, 1 DVD and 1 Vinyl EP
After hitting a brick wall with his label, Costello has decided to take drastic measures to get his point heard. He is suggesting that his fans avoid buying the album and instead buy something he feels is far superior and cheaper to boot:
All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless but rather than detain you with tedious arguments about morality, panache and book-keeping - when there are really bigger fish to filet these days - we are taking the following unusual step.That is quite a show of humility. Not only does he suggest Armstrong's album as a better buy for the money, he also gives Armstrong props for making better music. This is a pretty good endorsement and according to Amazon, "Ambassador of Jazz" is already sold out. So people are listening. Perhaps the end goal here is to get the label to admit that it screwed up the pricing and to soon change it. However, if even the artist cannot get the price changed, what hope is there for a consumer boycott?
If you should really want to buy something special for your loved one at this time of seasonal giving, we can whole-heartedly recommend, "Ambassador Of Jazz" - a cute little imitation suitcase, covered in travel stickers and embossed with the name "Satchmo" but more importantly containing TEN re-mastered albums by one of the most beautiful and loving revolutionaries who ever lived - Louis Armstrong.
The box should be available for under one hundred and fifty American dollars and includes a number of other tricks and treats. Frankly, the music is vastly superior.
We talk a lot about the need for artists to connect with fans as a way to give them a reason to buy. Here, we have an artist connecting with fans and asking them to avoid buying. You would think that this would be counter productive for the artist but this move shows that Costello has the best interests of his fans in mind and will do anything to protect them from unscrupulous business moves. That is certainly a reason to support an artist.
If you really want to support him, Costello gives his fans other options if they really want this album but don't want to pay the current asking price:
If on the other hand you should still want to hear and view the component parts of the above mentioned elaborate hoax, then those items will be available separately at a more affordable price in the New Year, assuming that you have not already obtained them by more unconventional means.
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During the past few weeks, I've been interested to see how many of the genealogies bloggers have referred to their top 10 or whatever blog posts during the past year. This seems to be some sort of tradition among journalists, to give a recap of the top 10 stories at the end of each year. My problem is that looking at the top 10 blog posts simply by the number of responses of the readers is embarrassing. My prime example is my all time most favorite blog post which currently shows almost 40,000 views happens to be a knock off, two paragraph mention of a correction to a previous post.
Introspectively, I would suppose that most bloggers are interested in the reasons why some blog posts are popular and others seem to fall flat. From my own personal experience, looking at the statistics the reasons seem to defy analysis. For example, I can write two blog posts on exactly the same subject and the second post on the same subject can have two or three times as many readers as the first post. This makes no sense to me. On the other hand, it is really easy for me to predict which blog posts will be ignored completely. It is usually those posts that involve announcements of programs or events that are otherwise abundantly covered in the blogging community. My two cents worth is not worth two cents. I've also noticed that my tirades seem to garner more attention than my serious research efforts. What does that tell me about blogging community?
Well, last year I wrote 877 blog posts. Now, if I had started out the year with the goal to write 877 blog posts I think I would have been terminally discouraged. That averages out to 2.4 per day. (I have no idea how I would write a .4 blog post). 2013 was challenging for the variety of topics that became interesting during the year. Whenever I got discouraged about coming up with new topics it seemed like there was always something that happened to reverse that trend almost immediately. Of course, from an overall perspective throwing out a number like 877 is nothing more or less than a challenge to the blogging community. I'm sure there are some of you out there who will feel discouraged because you only turned out 500 blog posts. I'm also sure there are some who will take this as a challenge and try to write more than 877 blog posts in 2014. To give a small measure of consolation, I might note that I am running only at the rate of 2.2 blog posts per day so far in 2014 for Genealogy's Star. However, if you take into account the fact that I am writing blog posts for the website Answers.com, which I was not doing during 2013, and if you add in the number that I have already written so far this year for that website, and if you add in the blog posts I have done for other websites such as my new Rejoice and be exceeding glad blog, I am presently running at the rate of 4.2 blog posts per day Which would put me at over 1500 blog posts during 2014.
Oh, oh, I should not have figured that out. Maybe I should just write all of those in the first month and take the rest of the year off? Hmm. If I stay up all night and don't eat, I think I can do it.
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Dr. Jörg Zinken
I have a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Bielefeld, which I completed in 2002. Since then, I have been working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. I have also been a Fellow at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the University of California at Los Angeles. We have three young children who are now getting thoroughly acquainted with Lake Constance.
Research Interests
My research was initially (in my PhD days) concerned with patterns of metaphor use across languages (Zinken, 2007). An interest in how people do things through language in actual situations and a cross-linguistic perspective still characterise my work. I have been doing research on how grammatical structures constrain and shape action in everyday interaction (Zinken & Ogiermann, 2011); on how writing style helps predict the outcome of psychotherapy (Zinken et al. 2011; 2010); and on how spatial concepts are or are not recruited for communication about time in different cultural settings (Richmond et al., in press; Sinha et al., 2011; Zinken, 2010).
The focus of my current work is on developing a new approach to the study of the relationship between grammatical diversity and cultural diversity (Zinken, 2012; Zinken & Ogiermann, 2011). Using methods from Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, I examine how grammatical practices in different languages are involved in different forms of social life. In the long run, I hope that this leads us to a comparative science of social action. This work has been supported through grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and, most recently, the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz.
Position within the Center
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (September 2012–August 2013)
Research project "Linguistic relativity of situated action"
Selected Publications
Zinken, J. (in press). Late cooperation. The moral meaning of the wez-V2 (take-V2) double imperative in Polish. In N. Thielemann (ed.), Approaches to slavic interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Richmond, J, Wilson, C. J., & Zinken, J. (in press). A feeling for the future: How does agency in time metaphors relate to feelings? European Journal of Social Psychology.
Zinken, J. (2012). Situated action is the primary locus of linguistic relativity [Comment on Sidnell & Enfield: Language diversity and social action. A third locus of linguistic relativity]. Current Anthropology, 53(3), 326-327.
Zinken, J. & Ogiermann, E. (2011). How to propose an action as an objective necessity. The case of Polish trzeba x ('one needs to x'). Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44(3), 263-287.
Zinken, J., Blakemore, C., Michałowska, K., Butler, L., & Skinner, T. (2011). Narrating psychological distress: Associations between cross-clausal integration and mental health difficulties. Applied Psycholinguistics, 32, 263–274.
Sinha, C., da Silva Sinha, V., Zinken, J., & Sampaio, W. (2011). When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture. Language and Cognition, 3(1), 137-169.
Zinken, J. (2010). Temporal frames of reference. In P. Chilton & V. Evans (Eds.), Language, cognition, and space (pp. 479-498). London: Equinox.
Zinken, J., Zinken, K., Wilson, J. C., Butler, L., & Skinner, T. (2010). Analysis of syntax and word use to predict successful participation in guided self-help for anxiety and depression. Psychiatry Research.
Zinken, J. (2008). The metaphor of 'linguistic relativity'. History & Philosophy of Psychology, 10(2), 1-10.
Zinken, J. (2007). Discourse metaphors: The link between figurative language and habitual analogies. Cognitive Linguistics, 18(3), 443-464.
e-mail joerg.zinken[at]port.ac.uk


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Pan. Years I-V (all published). Edited by Julius Meier-Graefe and Otto Julius Bierbaum. A complete run of all five years, bound in 21 parts as issued (altogether 347, 351, 266, 267, 279 pp.) Sm. folio. Orig. wrpps., a few chips and tears at edges, some covers professionally repaired. Berlin (Genossenschaft Pan) 1895-1899. (45601)
In the late 19th Century, a new moon was rising over the old continent. Some caught sight of its glinting rays more quickly than others. In Berlin, the fiercely intellectual, young art critic Julius Meier-Graefe drew on his connections in Paris, Stockholm, Vienna and London to illuminate the pages of an ambitious new arts journal with works by the era's brightest stars in painting and the graphic arts, among them Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac, Seurat, Vallotton and Zorn.
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Ga. governor suspends DeKalb school board members
Georgia's governor has signed an order to suspend six of nine members of an Atlanta-area school board that oversees the state's third-largest school system.
The DeKalb County School Board was previously put on probation through the end of 2013 and risks losing accreditation. An audit of the school system found evidence of fiscal mismanagement and unethical practices.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal announced the suspensions Monday although federal judge issued an order temporarily preventing him from replacing board members until after a hearing on Friday.
State education officials recommended suspensions for the board members after a roughly 14-hour meeting on Thursday.
Deal says he will appoint a nominating committee to find replacements for the ousted board members, although they will have 30 days to apply for reinstatement after the executive order is signed.


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Tagged: Chone Figgins
Who will be at third?
It's a simple question. Who will be playing at Third Base for the Phillies next season?
Right now, it looks like it's been narrowed down to three candidates. Mark DeRosa, Adrian Beltre, and Placido Polanco.
Chone Figgins seems out of the Phillies grasp, and Feliz won't return. Plus, he's been connected to the Orioles.
In my humble opinion, Polanco is probably the best deal. Sure, he's a Second Baseman, not a Third Baseman. But he's got a big bat, and that's what we needed in the World Series. A bat. That, and for Hamels and Lidge to actually not play like crap.
I wouldn't mind DeRosa. But Beltre doesn't seem all that much of an improvement over Feliz. I would still take Feliz's glove, I would take Beltre's bat over Feliz's, but Beltre's an uncertainty. He's been plagued by injuries. We have to sign a sure thing, because we have no other options in the Farm System. The only possible third basemen we have is Greg Dobbs. Hardly an improvement over Feliz.
Hardly a good third basemen.
Right now Amaro is really going after Beltre. Beltre is who the Phillies are linked to the most. We need a Third Baseman with a good glove, and a great bat, and I honestly think Polanco is the answer.
Plus, I miss Polanco. I always liked him. Even though I'll take Utley over him any day of the week.
So which will we sign? I have no idea. But I hope it's Polanco.
Looking ahead to the Offseason
Sorry I haven't updated in a while.
Well, the Phils lost the Fall Classic to the Yankees, and so the offseason begins. Cliff Lee will play for the Phils next year, while Brett Myers will not. Those two things are the only sure things so far. So here are my predictions, and I use that term lightly, for the Phillies' Offseason. It's more like Suggestions actually.
Need 1) Replace Pedro Feliz
Now I have nothing against the guy, I'll say that now. He has a great glove, but the bat needs work, and that's the problem. Because of the lack of a bat, he's probably our worst overall position player. We can either sign him for 5 Million in 2010, or axe him and pay him 500K.
Right now, I'm thinking to replace him at third with Chone Figgins of the Angels. Figgins is a Free Agent, unless the Angels sign him by Monday. He is not only a drastic improvement over Feliz, in offense, speed, and possibly even defense, he can play every position, except for 1B, Catcher, and Pitcher. He is one of the best utility guys in the majors. Even if we keep Feliz, I still say sign him. He would drastically improve our bench.
Figgins would not only be an offensive improvement over Feliz, but he would add even more speed to this lineup. He could probably even replace J-Roll in the 1-Hole. Of course, that would mean that either J-Roll or Victorino would have to move down to the 7 Spot, but that's a small price to pay to add such a helpful player.
So, I say replace Pedro Feliz with Chone Figgins. It could work wonders.
Need 2) The Bench
The bench was, let's say it, horrible this season. Matt Stairs, Greg Dobbs, Eric Bruntlett, and Miguel Cairo didn't do all that well. Especially Matt Stairs. He's most likely not even going to return next season. Though I do give props to Eric Bruntlett for that Triple Play. Thanks for rubbing our success into the Mets' Face even more.
No offense to the guy, but when your best bench player is Ben Francisco, you're in trouble. Though Ben Francisco has been a blessing in desguise for us so far. He's done a great job, and was definitely worth the price we paid for him. Which was virtually nothing. The four prospects we gave up was for Lee, not Francisco. Francisco was just a free parting gift in my eyes. Francisco is argueably the most underrated player on this team, except for maybe Jayson Werth.
Anyways, what could we do to improve this bench?
First off, you could go after the two guys that was the main reason the Yanks beat us this year. Johnny Damon, and Hideki Matsui. Now I highly doubt we'll get either of them, but think about it. Now Damon would probably be a definite no, because he would want a full time position, not a bench position, but Matsui could work. He can't really play the outfield anymore (though he said he was going to work on his knees and market himself as an OF), but he's still got a bat. He's proved that to us in Game 6. If we manage to land Matsui, it could improve our bench immensely.
Another option to consider is Jim Thome, though I doubt he'd want to be a bench player. He wants a full time DH gig, but not many DH spots are open. If he is without a team by January, I'd say go after him. Who knows what would happen? He would be like a Matt Stairs 2.0. Except he has more Home Runs than Reggie Jackson. And he hits home runs much more often.
Will the Phillies get any of the guys I mentioned? On a scale of 1 to 10:
Damon: 1
Matsui: 3.5
Thome: 3.5
Yeah, I doubt we'll get any of them. But still, the point is, we need to improve the bench drastically. Heck, Nomar is a possibility too. The Phillies have been linked to Garciaparra a lot since last Winter. Maybe this winter they'll actually sign him. Don't count Nomar out yet, his name has been tossed around as late as August, when teams were still trading.
Garciaparra: 1.5
I'm not good at names. But the point of this big mess of paragraphs is: Improve the Bench
Need 3) The Bullpen
This is a no-brainer. All I can really say is improve it. I really have no clue who's on the market when it comes to the bullpen. Eyre, and Park could return next season. That's a start. Brad Lidge needs major work. If he's still blowing saves in April, I say give'm the Brett Myers treatment. Even though that means he'll be gone after 2011.
I'm litterally scanning through a list of Bullpen Free Agents right now.
J.J. Putz is an option. He had an injury plagued 2009, but he could still have something in him for 2010. It's not like the Bullpen could get worse. Oh wait….It could. Still, he's worth a look at the least. Horacio Ramirez could be your lefty specialist is J.C. Romero is still working out some kinks.
Honestly, I'm litterally typing random names. Again, the point is to improve the bullpen.
Need 4) GIVE LEE AN EXTENSION
It speaks for itself. We need to give Lee a contract extension. If we can nail him down for a few years, it would put us (The Phillies) in near-definite playoff contention for years to come. Sure, the Phillies don't like signing long term contracts, but this is CLIFF FRIKKIN LEE. This guy is Yankees calibar, and I say Yankees Calibar meaning that if he was on the market, the Yankees would give him a 7 Year, 190 Million Dollar Contract, or something rediculous like that. You have him for another year, extend it. Nail down Lee while you can.
Listening to everything I said, here's our 2010 Phillies:
Moyer/Martinez (Assuming Martinez is still on the team)
Eyre (If he doesn't retire)
Park (If he resigns)
*FA ARM*/Bastardo/Condrey
Not sure if Condrey or Bastardo or either will be in the lineup, so I just put them in as maybes.
How does it look?
Well, It really depends on who fills those 3 Free Agent Spots I put in there.
But overall, we could definitely win the Pennant again. All depends on who fills the spots, and how they perform.
This is Smash, signing out. Can't wait to see how the offseason turns out.


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Washington, DC, July 18, 2013 -- Today, a group of U.S. Senators from both sides of the aisle introduced a compromise measure to lower interest rates for 100 percent of borrowers who have taken out, or will take out, a new federal student loan after July 1, 2013.
According to a statement released today by the Senate HELP Committee, the Act requires that for each academic year, all newly-issued student loans be set to the U.S. Treasury 10-year borrowing rate (specifically, the yield on the 10-year note as determined by the last auction held before June of each year—not the changing daily rate) plus add-ons to offset costs associated with defaults, collections, deferments, forgiveness, and delinquency. The resulting interest rates for loans taken out this year, after July 1, 2013, would be 3.86 percent for subsidized and unsubsidized loans for undergraduate students, 5.41 percent on unsubsidized loans for graduate students, and 6.41 percent on PLUS loans for parents and graduate students. These rates would apply retroactively to newly issued loans taken out after July 1, 2013. The interest rate would be fixed over the life of the loan to provide borrowers with certainty to plan for the future.
Additionally, this bill protects against the threat of unforeseen circumstances by imposing a cap to ensure interest rates never exceed 8.25 percent for undergraduate students, 9.5 percent for graduate students, 10.5 percent for PLUS borrowers. The Congressional Budget Office has determined this legislation would save taxpayers $715 million over ten years.
Justin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), released the following statement regarding the compromise:
"The financial aid community is pleased to learn that lawmakers have reached a comprehensive, long-term solution on student loan interest rates.
This compromise would set interest rates based on market conditions and will ensure that federal student loans stay on par with—or cost less than—private education loans, which contain fewer safeguards for students and parents.
Interest rate caps will also ensure that loans remain affordable in the future.
NASFAA applauds President Obama's leadership on this issue, and thanks the sponsors of this bill for reaching a compromise that will benefit millions of students and families."
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The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) is a nonprofit membership organization that represents nearly 20,000 financial aid professionals at more than 3,000 colleges, universities, and career schools across the country. Each year, our members help nearly 15 million students receive funding for postsecondary education. In all, NASFAA member institutions served 97 percent of all federal student aid recipients in the US. Based in Washington, DC, NASFAA is the only national association with a primary focus on student aid legislation, regulatory analysis, and training for financial aid administrators. For more information, visit www.nasfaa.org.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
NSD/Royal Wedding Sale and freebie!
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Monday, April 11, 2011
A Day at the Beach - CT Layout
My daughter's kindergarten class went to the beach for an end-of-year field trip. I loved the way the bright colors the kids wore showed up against the gray rocks, water, and sky. Amanda's new May Flowers kit was perfect for scrapping these photos!
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Sunday, April 03, 2011
Free wallpaper for April
Amanda has allowed me for sometime to make a new wallpaper using her products and post it to my blog. Well now, we will be posting them here too. I'm Lynncat and I used Amanda's brand new kit April Showers for this months wallpaper.
If you scroll down you can see both of the new kits now available and a link to the store where you can purchase either or both, she had a neat bundle price that includes the cutest alphabet.
So, here is the preview of the wallpaper.Just click on the preview to download. They are made in 3 sizes, one of which will hopefully fit your monitor, and they may be slightly different do to the difference is sizes.
You can always find them each month on my site as well.
Cattail Designs
I hope you enjoy.
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LOs with Latest Kits
Here are some LOs with Amanda's latest creations. Gallery
|With Amanda Thorderson's April Shower kit
|With Amanda Thorderson's May Flowers Kit
|With Amanda Thorderson's Egg-cellent kit
|With Amanda Thorderson's challenge freebie for the April Calendar Challenge at Digitals
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Friday, April 01, 2011
Egg-cellent Easter Collection
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Rainy Day Parade
I created this page using Amanda's new kit "Warm April Showers". It was perfect for my photos of a rainy day parade!
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Stroll for the Heart & Soul
Thursday, September 12th 2019 • 7:30am - 9:00am
Start your day off feeling peaceful and invigorated with a complimentary walk in the Idaho Botanical Garden. The Garden will be open most Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. May – September for these early morning, free, walks.
No registration required.
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"John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort."—The New York Times Book Review
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Phones We LOVE: Top 5 Staff Picks
February 9, 2012
In honor of Valentine's day, the folks over here at kajeet decided to let you in on the five phones we heart!
Name: Daniel AKA Head Dude in Charge
Phone You Love: Black Samsung Conquer Android Smartphone
Favorite Feature: The textured back. Plus, Android is a great mobile OS (and my favorite chess program was written by a Google developer).
Phone Fact About Me: As a kid, I actually did make a "phone" from tin cans and string. But I like the newer technology much better…
Name: Matt
Phone You Love: Berry Samsung Replenish
Favorite Feature: The huge screen for widgets to post stuff on Facebook. And the pink design. Only a real man can rock a pink phone!
Fun Phone Fact About Me: One time, my friends and I were running into the beach, and I totally forgot I had my smartphone in my pocket. Fortunately, my tears of sorrow were mistaken for ocean water.
Name: Wayne
Phone You Love: Kyocera Milano
Favorite Feature: Slide out keyboard and size of the phone (fits perfectly in the palm of my hand!)
Fun Phone Fact About Me: I check my phone right before bed and first thing when I wake up…
Name: Tomara AKA Sweet T AKA Tallulah
Phone You Love: Purple LG Optimus (duh!!)
Favorite Feature: Touch screen keyboard; easy to text plus I hate texting on little keys (don't see how blackberry owners function)
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Dear Insurance Adviser,
I've heard that homeowners insurance doesn't cover flooding. But do I need flood insurance? How would I know? My neighborhood isn't near a river, and I don't think we've ever had a flood.
— Dry Guy
Dear Dry,
You're right. Homeowners policies don't cover flooding or any kind of water damage from water that enters the house at or below ground level. Fortunately, the federal government offers flood insurance. The question is: Do you need flood insurance if you don't live along a body of water like a lake or river? The answer is: maybe.
For sure, you need flood insurance if you live near a coastal area, as disastrous storms such as Katrina and Sandy have proven. Flooding often accompanies hurricanes, and not just along the coast but miles inland. Also, ocean-based earthquakes can cause tsunamis capable of causing flooding not just directly along the coast but also for some distance inland. (Remember the tsunami that was predicted to ravage the Oregon-Washington state coast two years ago, caused by the quake off the coast of Japan?)
But you might still consider flood insurance even if you live far from a beach or riverbank. The policies cover not only overflows of bodies of water but also torrential rain runoff, though only in certain circumstances. If heavy rain pours into your basement in Drytown, USA, flood insurance might provide some compensation, but only if:
- One other home nearby also is flooded, or you own two or more acres.
- Your basement or lowest level is a walkout or has a ground-level access door, so the water can flow out, not just in.
Also note that the policies wouldn't cover belongings in the basement other than large appliances, such as your washer and dryer.
Talk to your homeowners insurance agent, who can help you evaluate your need for flood insurance and how much, if any, coverage to buy. You can plug your home address into the National Flood Insurance Program's website to get a quote on coverage as well as information on whether your flood risk is low, medium or high. Be sure to buy the insurance well in advance of any flooding, because there's a 30-day waiting period for new policies.
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Plug in your address at the National Flood Insurance Program's FloodSmart.gov to determine your flood risk:
|What it means:
|High risk
|Homes in these zones have at least a 1 in 4 chance of flooding during a 30-year mortgage. Flood insurance will be required if you have a federally backed mortgage, such as through the Federal Housing Administration, or FHA.
|Moderate-to-low risk
|Homes in these zones are at a reduced risk of flooding. The areas receive one-third of disaster assistance for flooding and submit around 20 percent of flood insurance claims. Flood insurance isn't required but is recommended.
|Undetermined risk
|Homes in these zones have some flood risk, though no analysis has been done to determine the severity of the local flood hazard.
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An Arizona man was arrested after posting a video showing a 16-year old boy walking the streets of Phoenix with a fake rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The man said the incident was staged to test police response time following the deadly theater shooting in Colorado. TODAY's Natalie Morales reports.
PHOENIX -- Police have arrested an Arizona man who allegedly filmed his 16-year-old nephew walking city streets dressed in a sheet and carrying a fake grenade launcher, authorities said on Wednesday.
Michael David Turley, 39, was arrested Monday over the making of the video, in which an unidentified narrator says he aims to discover how quickly police in Phoenix would respond following the fatal shooting of 12 people at the screening of the "Dark Knight Rises" Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado, in July.
The bizarre, amateurish video depicts a person with a fairly realistic but fake grenade launcher walking around a Phoenix intersection in what appears to be a blue sheet with dark material covering his head and face.
Made eight days after the shooting at a screening of a Batman movie, the film was posted on YouTube and titled, "Dark Knight Shooting Response, Rocket Launcher Police Test."
"Given this event, I wanted to run a little test here in Phoenix, Arizona," the narrator says in the film. "I want to find out how safe I really am, and I want to know the response time of the Phoenix police department."
The filmmaker claims it took 15 minutes for police to respond.
The first officer finds the filmmaker and the teen standing in a driveway. The officer calmly tells the boy to put down the weapon and the man to put down the camera. He didn't draw his gun.
Officer James Holmes, a police spokesman, said Turley told the officer they were just filming a movie, and the officer took down their names and left.
Three Aurora theater shooting victims suing Cinemark; theater to reopen in 2013
After interviewing people who called 911 and later seeing the video posted on YouTube, police arrested Turley.
"It surprised us that he actually put that video on YouTube," Holmes said.
Not 'fun and games'
Holmes said the police response took just over three minutes from the first call, and a helicopter and SWAT team was dispatched as backup.
The Anonymous Filmmaker explores how the Phoenix Police Department reacts days after the event at the Century 16 Movie Theater in Aurora, Colorado where a gunman, James Holmes, killed 12 people and injured 58 more at the premiere of Batman The Dark Knight Rises. In our Hollywood style video, a man resembling a terrorist paces around a busy street in Phoenix Arizona carrying a rocket launcher until the police apprehend him. This film explores the response time and reaction of law enforcement within the Phoenix rural community. You will be shocked to see what happens.
Turley was charged with knowingly giving a false impression of a terrorist act, endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and misconduct involving a simulated explosive.
He is being held in county jail on a $5,000 bond. If convicted, he faces up to 45 months in prison, said Maricopa County Attorney's Office spokesman Jerry Cobb.
"We take something like this seriously," Phoenix police spokesman Officer James Holmes said. "It wasn't fun and games to all the people who were affected by this. We don't behave like this in this country to prove a point."
Read more U.S. stories from NBC News
The 16-year-old has not been arrested, Holmes said.
"The video told us what Turley was intentionally trying to do -- creating a terrorist hoax for his own personal ideals," he said.
Turley doesn't have a listed phone number. He didn't immediately respond to messages sent Wednesday through the YouTube account.
An attorney for Turley could not be immediately reached for comment.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Three Hundred Chess Games
English Language EditionProduct Code: B0007HY
Publisher: Hays
Author: Siegbert Tarrasch
Year of Publication: 1999
Pages: 365
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)
Book DescriptionLearn Great Chess From the Greatest Chess Teacher!
Grandmaster Siegbert Tarrasch, in Three Hundred Chess Games, takes the combinational school of Paul Morphy and combines it with the positional school founded by Wilhelm Steinitz. The result is a powerful system of chess player utilitized by some of the greatest masters since the turn of the twentieth century. Dr. Tarrasch's system reflects the entire store of knowledge of chess, up to the hypermodern era.
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Austria (Off Market)
For Sale, 1,688,576 USD
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With the development of the fourth floor, the top floor and the roof terrace of the late Wilhelmine house, Wehdorn Architekten Ziviltechniker GmbH is bringing one of Vienna's historic monuments into the twenty-first century. With loving attention to detail, the architects are linking the charm of the old town with French flair and contemporary luxury.
The sophistication and exclusivity that have always set the building apart remain in evidence in this exclusive apartment today after the revitalization of the building. Specifically selected materials, the finest wood floors, elegant wall coverings, cutting-edge technology and a host of other exceptional details combine to create an extraordinary lifestyle. You don't just live here, you reside in the most superior surroundings.
In this exclusive penthouse that spreads over 89 m² you will find 2 bedrooms, a spacious living room with open kitchen, one bathroom and an additional separate toilet well as a sunny rooftop-terrace with barbecue area.
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The apartment is very close to the Viennese city center and thereby in one of the best locations of Vienna. It is connected to the subway system by the lines U4 and U2 whilst still surrounded by green walkways. Embedded between the 1st and 19th Viennese district, amid extensive parks, you can feel the French charme everywhere. In the Servitenviertel you can not only enjoy the unique French flair but the excellent infrastructure too. The connection to the public transport system is in close proximity to the Ringstraße and also the airport is only 20 minutes away by car and hence guarantees highest flexibility in a wonderful environment.


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It's not an uncommon sight on Hawaii's Big Island, but it's awesome every time it happens. Over the weekend, lava from Kilauea — which has been erupting constantly for nearly 30 years — found its way down to the ocean. It had to travel 7 miles over rocky terrain to get there, and here you can see the spectacular results in these photographs from Reuters' Hugh Gentry.
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Cooperative control of multi-robot systems
Cooperative control of multi-robot systems focuses on modeling and control of groups of high-speed mobile robots while accommodating communication latencies and nonlinear vehicle dynamics. In distributed cooperative control, robots communicate information about their state to each other; communication latencies and error depends on the amount of information communicated and the number of robots. We are developing distributed control system modeling and design tools that seek to maximize control bandwidth for a given information set. These tools will also assist in assessing the value of information transmitted in maintaining stability and performance of group dynamics. Both potential function path planning and control and predictive control methods are being developed.
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CHICO — A fire that broke out on the roof of the Safeway on Mangrove Avenue Wednesday caused the store to close for almost an hour.
A customer noticed smoke coming from the roof of the store and informed employees. Peter Boero, a Safeway assistant manager, went outside, saw the smoke and called 9-1-1 at 2:44 p.m.
Customers and employees were immediately evacuated.
Safeway employees went to the Heel and Sole shoe store next door and a roll call was taken, Chico Fire Department spokeswoman Marie Fickert said. She said all business should have a similar system in place.
Store manager Art Campion went to the roof with an extinguisher and attempted to put out the fire. He noticed that a metal box between solar panels on the roof had ignited and another had smoke, Fickert said. Foam roofing material was also in flames.
Campion had to use a second extinguisher to try and knock out the fire, but flames got bigger, Fickert said.
Once the Chico Fire Department and Cal Fire/Butte County arrived, they were able to stop the fire.
Customers were let back in at 3:32 p.m.
The cause of the fire is still unknown, but it was a type of "electrical event" that occurred, Fickert said. The fire department is working with the solar company to learn how the fire began. Damages are still unknown.
Business owners are encouraged to call Marie Fickert at 897-3492 for free emergency preparedness for businesses. Fire drills and free fire extinguisher training can also be provided.
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For months now I've been scratching my head wondering why the green movement has stopped. Worse than stopped – reverse might be a better word for it. I've been asking questions like "why are people back shopping at Walmart?" and been at a loss, but I think I know the answer. The retail world and marketing minds behind them have simply started to overuse a word we used to trust. The word green meant safe, it meant Eco-friendly, and something we didn't have to research, but with everybody now using this word is no longer has meaning. And with big box stores now offering 'green' selections, people just throw up their hands and start shopping back based on price.
Here are some tips to cut through greenwashing and hold stores or products accountable for their green rating:
1) What is the item made from? Make sure to cover exterior and interior of a product. I see so many products coated with a form of antibacterial coating but marketed as winkle free, or a good thing with avoiding germs. If you are looking for natural materials (100% cotton, etc.) ask that it's in fact 100%.
2) What is inside the product? When the item you are purchasing doesn't contain an ingredient list, this can be difficult but someone selling the product is responsible for knowing this information. Is the stuffing or inside sprayed with flame retardants?
3) Where was this item manufactured? * I have a story that is a great example of why a product might not be 'green' if it's not locally made. This is a great question and why it's not asked more often I have no idea. I ask it every time I go to the Mall. Ask the question every time you purchase something and the answers might surprise you.
4) Where can this item go when I'm finished with it? The end of a product's life is pretty important. Once you figure out that land fills are getting to a point where they can't take more junk, the 2nd hand stores are full of crap, and if we are back to shopping based on cost alone, my fear is we are turning away from a simplified approach to living that we've been moving towards over the last couple of years. Invest in quality, not quantity and you'll learn that heirloom products in your life are important because they can be reused for a long time.
* I have an example that covers 'green' items that are imported. There are many items that we don't manufacture yet in North America, however you might be surprised at how many we can! I actually felt ill when I received a price list sent to me by an overseas rep a few months ago. Because I'm the owner of Green Planet Parties, I'm often sent pitches from overseas companies and a flower felt garland caught my eye. I thought – "how cute and it's made from felt!" But when I saw the price list my heart just dropped…the cost of the garland was $0.15. I had no idea this was how inexpensive overseas products could be. For 4 years I've had party decorations made locally by moms that sew so I've never out-sourced decorations before. Do you know how much I pay someone to make a garland? $9. How would a store like mine ever be able to compete with prices this low? I guess the only way is if you, the consumer, care that someone is receiving a penny to manufacture an item or not. Asking the simple question of "where is this made?" is easy, interesting, and will salvage small businesses and local artists. There is a great quote on Pinterest that captures this concept from Anne Lappe: "Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for what kind of world you want."
If you are new to the term 'green washing' it simply means to market a product as 'eco-friendly' when it's actually not. There have been great articles written about pink washing lately too! This term deals with the topic of companies that put pink ribbons on their products for breast cancer awareness when the product actually contains ingredients that are linked to cancer. Pink washing again is a marketing ploy to sell products based on 'marketing' not the integrity of the brand.
If we continue on the journey of supporting big businesses that think they have our health and the environment's interests at heart, I think we're in trouble as consumers. If you are a big box business, in my opinion, you have a diluted business plan – meaning you carry everything under the sun because you want to be an all inclusive one-stop shop for everything a person needs to purchase. But by doing this, you are diluting more than just your products…but also run the risk of diluted product knowledge. If I'm shopping at the butcher shop – would I ask him/her for tips on how to garden? Or about the latest fads for my hair style? No I wouldn't. Individual product expertise when we are talking about bringing new products into your home, this is the edge a small business has over big stores. I know of a respected organic skin care line that catered to children with sensitive skin. In order to be available at the big box stores, they had to add a new preservative to this line of skin care. Being available in the big box store actually made the small company reformulate their ingredient list. But when you drive prices down and don't ask questions, these are the types of problems that will occur. Chemicals that are hard to detect like lead and flame retardants – you need expertise product knowledge to counter act if you are looking to bring 'green' items into your life.
I'm not the only person frustrated by green or pink washing. Here are some related articles for more info!
Avoid Greenwashed Brands by Fashioning Change http://fashioningchange.com/blog/five-ways-to-avoid-greenwashed-brands
Why Pink Ribbons Are Fading by EcoMom Alliance: http://www.ecomomalliance.org/profiles/blogs/why-pink-ribbons-are-fading
What Does Natural Mean To You? by Organic PR: http://www.organicprpro.com/2011/07/what-does-natural-mean-to-you/
From Paige Wolf, author of Spit That Out! Sins of Greenwashing http://www.spitthatoutthebook.com/2011/09/whats-a-green-mom-to-do-an-excerpt-from-%E2%80%9Cthe-sins-of-greenwashing/
And Danika, editor of https://www.facebook.com/greenwala manages two Facebook pages on the topics of Greenwashing and Pinkwashing


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It's the first Wednesday of the month again, and that means it's time for the Pivotal Labs/Outside.In monthly Ruby Happy Hour. It's the first one since GoRuCo, so there's even more to talk about than usual. (Thanks Josh, Francis, and everyone else who made this a great conference again this year.)
Where: Outside.in, 20 Jay St Suite 1019 (10th Fl), Brooklyn, NY
When: 7-9PM today, Wednesday June 3rd
Who: If you're a developer who uses Ruby and would like to meet some other Ruby folks, toss around ideas, or just have a few beers, we welcome you with open arms!
There will be pizza, beer, and great discussions for everyone. More details on the Outside.In Blog, and please RSVP if you can, so we know how much pizza to get.
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First video sample from Google's Project Glass
May 25, 2012
In a gallery posted to Google+, Google has included a sample video from its Project Glass device, providing an early look at how the glasses can capture video and photos.
Although it doesn't offer any additional clues to the exact technology behind Project Glass, it's another key example of how Google's vision to "let technology get out of your way" is slowly becoming a reality.
Video Source: The Verge


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The Top 10 Mistakes Incident Responders Make Combating Advanced Threats
Whether they work for an up-and-coming start-up or an industry giant, security response teams are under siege as never before. Today's cyber attacks are sophisticated, relentless, and devastating, costing U.S. businesses $8.9 million a year each on average. Attacking in multiple stages across multiple vectors, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and other sophisticated attacks easily evade signature-based detection and other traditional defenses.
This white paper describes:
- The 10 most common mistakes, strategic and technical, that incident response teams make;
- The effect of these mistakes and how to avoid them with a well-defined incident response plan.


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Our cushion covers are beautifully hand printed, cut, stitched and packaged at our studio in Muizenberg.
A scatter cushion is a cost effective way to change your décor and add colour to your home.
Our covers are printed on both sides and each cushion cover is finished off with a zip, wash care label and a Carole Nevin side winder.
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• We print on natural cotton and linens, therefore due to the nature of the fabric, colour variations will occur.
• Cushion covers are made slightly smaller than the inners they are designed for, in order to ensure a snug fit.
• Colours may fade over time if fabric is exposed to harsh sunlight.
• Once your order is placed we will update your regularly with the progress of your order.
• We have used eco friendly pigments in the creation of this product
• If you would like to purchase the cushion inner please contact us - (We have a variety of cushion inners available from 100% feather to a feather mix)-Inners excluded from free shipping.
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