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(ABC News) -- Smoke rose over Kiev today, as Ukraine's capital city continued to burn following a night of deadly violence between riot police and anti-government protesters.
At least 26 people have died and hundreds of others were hospitalized, Ukrainian Health Ministry officials said.
At least 10 police officers are among the dead.
Officials claim that police officers did not use firearms during the rioting – and that some of the protesters' injuries were likely inflicted by fellow activists.
Police have erected checkpoints along the major routes into town today, halting cargo trucks to search them before allowing drivers to proceed into Kiev.
President Viktor Yanukovych blamed opposition leaders for the riots.
In a statement published online early Wednesday, Yanukovych said that he had already made several attempts to compromise, but that opposition leaders "crossed a line when they called people to arms."
Yanukovych said opposition leaders had to "draw a boundary between themselves and radical forces," or else "acknowledge that they are supporting radicals. Then the conversation ... will already be of a different kind."
The defiant tone of the statement left little hope of a compromise to resolve the crisis, which erupted three months ago when Yanukovych shelved an association deal with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia.
Tuesday's violence was the deadliest in the recent string of anti-government protests. Protesters fought back against police who tried to dismantle barricades on the square's perimeter, rolling tires into flames to fuel a wall of fire that prevented police from advancing.
Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko – a former heavyweight champ who left boxing to pursue politics – urged the 20,000 protesters to defend the camp on Independence Square that has been the heart of the protests.
"We will not go anywhere from here," Klitschko told the crowd, speaking from a stage in the square as tents and tires burned around him, releasing huge plumes of smoke. "This is an island of freedom and we will defend it," he said.
Many heeded his call.
"This looks like a war against one's own people," said Dmytro Shulko, 35, who was heading toward the camp armed with a fire bomb. "But we will defend ourselves."
As police dismantled some of the barricades on the perimeter of the square and tried to push away the protesters, they fought back with rocks, bats and fire bombs. Against the backdrop of a soaring monument to Ukraine's independence, protesters fed the burning flames with tires, creating walls of fire to prevent police from advancing. A large building the protesters had used as a headquarters caught fire and many struggled to get out.
Speaking over loudspeakers, police urged women and children to leave the square because an "anti-terrorist" operation was underway.
The protesters appeared to sense that Ukraine's political standoff was reaching a critical turning point. As the tents and also some tires went up in flames, defiant protesters shouted "Glory to Ukraine!" and sang the Ukrainian national anthem.
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Steven, an only child, is given Diesel, a lovable dog, and a loyal friendship is started. Lessons about life intertwine with activities where a loving family surrounds Steven. Sir Steven (The King) and Diesel (The Protector) defend their Kingdom, the secret tunnel, and their castle. Read about the Land Of the Keepers. Meet Cindy the Pony Girl.
There are plenty of laughs concerning some pesky squirrels, too.
Steven takes the responsibility to train Diesel.
His hard work and patience are rewarded.
This summer long, series of events is filled with subtle lessons about growing up, being friends, and sharing love.
Steven's adventures include being knighted, fun at the beach, a dreaded day of appointments, and a grand finale.
Steven is a very bright little boy and quite the prankster. Diesel is clever and has a personality of his own.
Together, they provide entertaining moments and demonstrations of friendship, trust, and loyalty. Steven displays the determination and wit that would make any mother proud.
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As the Arizona Cardinals prepare for their season finale against the rival San Francisco 49ers, the future of head coach Ken Whisenhunt continues to take center stage.
Rumors are swirling that Whisenhunt could be one of a good number of head coaches fired on "Black Monday."
ESPN NFL Insider Chris Mortensen joined The Herd with Colin Cowherd on Friday and said he believes Whisenhunt isn't the only member of Cardinals' brass who could be shown the door.
"There's going to be changes in Arizona," Mortensen said. "By the way, there's going to be a lot of general manager changes."
Mortensen said Cardinals GM Rod Graves is on thin ice with the team and he could indeed be one of the general managers on the way out.
Graves and Whisenhunt have taken a lot of heat for the Cardinals' failure at obtaining and helping to cultivate a franchise quarterback. Mortensen believes that it may be in the best interest of both Whisenhunt and the Cardinals to go their separate ways.
"Because of the quarterback situation and just how they have botched it and I know [Whisenhunt] well, I have great respect for him and I believe he will be a head coach again if he's fired," Mortensen explained. "But the quarterback thing is really on both of them and you know that the owners, the Bidwill family, are very frustrated."
While the quarterback debacle may indeed seal Whisenhunt's fate, there are other factors that indicate it could be time for a change.
The 50-year-old coach came to Arizona with the hope of using his esteemed offensive background to revamp the Cardinals' system. But in the last three years of his six season tenure, the offense has failed to meet expectations.
It's quite possible Whisenhunt could do well coaching another team, as many of his supporters suggest, but it may just be too little, too late in Arizona.
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Ohio Election Laws Eliminate Opportunities for Voters
Robert M. Brandon, 02/27/2014, Huffington Post
Just a few weeks ago the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, made up of Republicans and Democrats, released their recommendations based on testimony from election officials, experts and voters from around the country. Ohio Governor John Kasich and members of the Ohio legislature must not have read the report. If they had, they wouldn't have passed and signed two election bills last week that reduce access to voting.
A License to DiscriminateBy THE EDITORIAL BOARD February 24, 2014, The New York Times
There are 17 states where it is legal for same-sex couples to marry, and there is no evidence that the accelerating progress toward equality has compromised anyone's freedom to worship or hold religious beliefs.
Unfortunately, that has not stopped religious and social conservatives from pressing lawmakers in various states to enact noxious measures to give businesses and individuals the broad right to deny services to same-sex couples in the name of protecting religious liberty. On Thursday, the Arizona Legislature became the first state to pass such a bill, leaving it to the state's Republican governor, Jan Brewer, to decide by Friday whether to sign it or veto it, as she plainly should do. (UPDATE: This bill was vetoed by Governor Brewer.)
Boycotting Israel: Fiction and Reality
Dr. Josef Olmert, 2/26/2014; Huffington Post
A few days ago, the GSMA, the world's leading organization of mobile users, held its big international event in Barcelona, and three Israeli companies were awarded prizes for their innovations. Just a small example of what happens in the REAL world when it comes to boycotting Israel. Those who know, know better than the haters of all kinds, whether academics or in the business community who call for a boycott of Israel, its academic institutions and its flourishing industry and agriculture.
Mom Charged For Helping Daughter Obtain Illegal Abortion: Is This Our New Reality?
Robin Marty, Care2.com February 16, 2014
In the days before legal abortion, one way that abortion opponents tried to curtail illegal abortions was to discover and arrest as many people as they could find who performed them. In some cases, patients who had undergone an illegal abortion would be forced to sit at a hospital, not receiving treatment until they gave up the name of the provider. In others, police would raid offices to threaten patients with crimes in order to get them to turn in the doctor.
Israel waits for Egypt to deal with terrorists in Sinai
Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor February 16, 2014
On Feb. 17, one day after the attack on a bus of tourists from South Korea, just across from the Hilton Taba Resort in Sinai, the terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for the attack — Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis — issued a statement calling on all foreign touristsin the Sinai Peninsula to leave within four days. Those who did not, the statement read, might get hurt. Founded in 2011, this organization pledges allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahri, the leader of al-Qaeda who succeeded Osama bin Laden.
A war is going on in Sinai. It won't be decided in a day, or in a matter of weeks or months. It will be decided only when Egypt makes up its mind and shows resolve by allocating the necessary resources and manpower needed to accomplish this objective. Presently, Egypt has more pressing issues to attend to than Sinai.
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Kevin Love was named as the NBA Western Conference player of the week. It marked the first time he earned the award, and the sixth different Wolves player to be named.
Love led the Wolves to a 3-0 record for just the second time in team history. He had 31 points and 17 rebounds in the season opener followed by a 24 point, 12 rebound performance against Oklahoma capped by a 34 point, 15 rebound night against the Knicks.
Love currently leads the NBA in scoring (29.7 ppg) and ranks second in rebounds (14.7 rpg).
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Big Vine Wines is a Napa-based cooperative of wine industry professionals. They produce appellation-specific, value-driven wines from the Napa Valley and beyond.
While they are based in the heart of downtown Napa's Oxbow District, they produce wines from various appellations in two different production facilities. The Napa Valley facility is a state-of-the-art certified winery that is home to their outstanding Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and Carneros Chardonnay. Their facility in the Dry Creek Valley, just outside of Healdsburg, is 'Zinfandel Central'.
Big Vine is a concept that relies on deep roots. Their tightly-knit community of vendors, vineyard managers, winemakers and sales and marketing agents provides a progressive platform for value-creation in the wine business. The end result is an overwhelming sum of quality, appellation, value and style.
Owner, Andrew Siegal, is a New York native. He moved to wine country as an entrepreneur to introduce the concept of trade finance to the Napa Valley Wine Industry. Liquid Trade Solutions was founded over a decade ago to provide alternative financing options to wineries throughout California. The relationships Andrew has built over the years through Liquid Trade Solutions afforded him the fortuitous opportunity that lead to the first bottling of Big Vine Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon in 2009. Since that first acclaimed vintage, Andrew's breadth of wine industry contacts and depth of experience have come together in the appellation-characteristic, value-driven wines that are Big Vine.
Kent Jarman is the Director of Winemaking and Vineyard Sourcing. Kent was born in the culturally rich environment of South Louisiana. Music, food and wine have defined his environment from an early age. His grandfather managed a wine distribution business and his mother was known to many as the "Queen of Creole". He found himself constantly drawn to music spilling from the open doors of downtown New Orleans.
As a viticulture and enology graduate of U.C. Davis, Kent went from internships at J Winery and Spring Mountain Winery to Duckhorn Wine Company. Kent currently manages all matters of winemaking for Big Vine Wines.
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NABA and ACB (American Council for the Blind) are collaborating on raising awareness about living with vision loss via showings of the documentary film "Going Blind" followed by a panel discussion by members of ACB. Certificates of Attendance will be provided. Bring your own lunch; liquid refreshments provided by Albany Public Library Albany Public Library, 161 Washington Avenue, Albany. For more information call 427-4303
This Special Program for Caregivers is part of a series sponsored by Albany Guardian Society and will offer an uncomplicated look at Social Security and Medicare and will also provide a brief review of who is eligible for Medicaid and what it covers. Location:Albany Guardian Society, 14 Corporate Woods Blvd., Suite 102,Albany. There is no cost to attend these programs; however, registration is required.To register call Albany Guardian Society at 518-434-2140 and Press 1
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The Alzheimer's Café will be open on the first Thursday of each month, from 6:00-8:00pm in the Country Cafe at the Beltrone Living Center 6 Winners Circle, Colonie NY.
Light refreshments are served. Reservations are not necessary and there is no cost to attend After about 30 minutes there will be a welcome and announcement of the optional educational program (held in another room). Attendees can stay in the Café and socialize or attend the education program.
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20 U.S. Code § 6824 - Within-State allocations
(a) In general
After making the reservation required under subsection (d)(1) of this section, each State educational agency receiving a grant under section 6821 (c)(3) of this title shall award subgrants for a fiscal year by allocating to each eligible entity in the State having a plan approved under section 6826 of this title an amount that bears the same relationship to the amount received under the grant and remaining after making such reservation as the population of limited English proficient children in schools served by the eligible entity bears to the population of limited English proficient children in schools served by all eligible entities in the State.
(b) Limitation
A State educational agency shall not award a subgrant from an allocation made under subsection (a) of this section if the amount of such subgrant would be less than $10,000.
(c) Reallocation
Whenever a State educational agency determines that an amount from an allocation made to an eligible entity under subsection (a) of this section for a fiscal year will not be used by the entity for the purpose for which the allocation was made, the agency shall, in accordance with such rules as it determines to be appropriate, reallocate such amount, consistent with such subsection, to other eligible entities in the State that the agency determines will use the amount to carry out that purpose.
(d) Required reservation
A State educational agency receiving a grant under this subpart for a fiscal year—
(1) shall reserve not more than 15 percent of the agency's allotment under section 6821 (c)(3) of this title to award subgrants to eligible entities in the State that have experienced a significant increase, as compared to the average of the 2 preceding fiscal years, in the percentage or number of immigrant children and youth, who have enrolled, during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the subgrant is made, in public and nonpublic elementary schools and secondary schools in the geographic areas under the jurisdiction of, or served by, such entities; and
(2) in awarding subgrants under paragraph (1)—
(A) shall equally consider eligible entities that satisfy the requirement of such paragraph but have limited or no experience in serving immigrant children and youth; and
(B) shall consider the quality of each local plan under section 6826 of this title and ensure that each subgrant is of sufficient size and scope to meet the purposes of this part.
Source(Pub. L. 89–10, title III, § 3114, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title III, § 301,Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1696.)
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I'm a web developer, chopping up psd comps and building out sites based on my co-workers designs. Someone asks about higher quality graphics of text, and sharper images as main banners.
I'm not sure how best to design comps and graphics. Should designers always use screen resolution in the original psd file?
If you use a serif font at screen resolution and then save for web, are you getting a fuzzier image than if you work at a higher resolution and then optimize? And if you use a higher resolution in photoshop, will that throw off the measurements in pixels when individual graphics are optimized for the web?
for example, the tag line in the top left looks a little degraded on this template I'm building?
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Jennifer Stone looks pretty in aqua at the premiere of Disneynature's OCEANS held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on Saturday afternoon (April 17th).
Nearly three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water and OCEANS boldly chronicles the mysteries that lie beneath. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud dive deep into the very waters that sustain all of mankind—exploring the playful splendor and the harsh reality of the weird and wonderful creatures that live within. OCEANS offers an unprecedented look beneath the sea in a powerful motion picture that hits theaters April 22nd, 2010 (Earth Day).


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Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room every day. You should too.
The first hour of the workday goes a bit differently for Craig Newmark of Craigslist, David Karp of Tumblr, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, career writer (and Fast Company blogger) Brian Tracy, and others, and they'll tell you it makes a big difference. Here are the first items on their daily to-do list.
What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day
Agility may be the single highest priority for workplaces now and in the future.
- Brian Green, Herman-Miller, from Coworking, Swarming, and The Agile Workplace (via stoweboyd)
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The myth is that charisma is not innate. What scientists have actually discovered—like many other myths they busted this one—is it's actually a social skill, which like many others is learned. But this happens so early in life that by the time these charismatics get to adulthood, it all seems to be natural. And yet if, for example, you analyze the progression of Steve Jobs from 1984 to 2011 you'll see he painstakingly learned it step by step.
—Olivia Fox Cabane, from Cultivating Charisma: How Personal Magnetism Can Help (Or Hurt) You At Work (via fastcompany)
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"This is what work looks like now. It's been this way for so long that most American workers don't realize that for most of the 20th century, the broad consensus among American business leaders was that working people more than 40 hours a week was stupid, wasteful, dangerous, and expensive — and the most telling sign of dangerously incompetent management to boot.It's a heresy now (good luck convincing your boss of what I'm about to say), but every hour you work over 40 hours a week is making you less effective and productive over both the short and the long haul.And it may sound weird, but it's true: the single easiest, fastest thing your company can do to boost its output and profits — starting right now, today — is to get everybody off the 55-hour-a-week treadmill, and back onto a 40-hour footing. Yes, this flies in the face of everything modern management thinks it knows about work. So we need to understand more. How did we get to the 40-hour week in the first place? How did we lose it? And are there compelling bottom-line business reasons that we should bring it back?"
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Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity | Visions | AlterNet
A high level of noise may cause a great deal of distraction, causing individuals to process information to a lesser extent and therefore to exhibit lower creativity. A moderate (vs. low) level of noise, however, is expected to distract people without significantly affecting the extent of processing. Further, we reason that such a moderate distraction, which induces processing difficulty, enhances creativity by prompting abstract thinking.
people are much more productive and healthy when they can connect their values with their work.
—Ryan Vanderbilt from Building Better Businesses By Closing The Happiness Gap (via fastcompany)
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"When I speak to managers and executives, rotten apples provoke especially strong reactions.At the gathering of high-tech CEOs mentioned above, there was an interesting 90-minute stretch where each described "what keeps me up at night." One said it was a star executive who brought in a lot of business but was driving away good people.There was consensus among his fellow CEOs that "we all have seen this movie before" and they all learned, after firing someone like that, "You always ask yourself, why did I wait so long? Things are so much better now!""
Robert I. Sutton, What Good Bosses Do With Bad Apples
Even though the data around productivity has proved pretty remorseless, humans have found the message hard to accept. It seems so logical that two units of work will produce twice the output. Logical but wrong. The critical measure of work isn't and never should be input but output. What matters isn't how many hours your team puts in, but the quality and quantity of work they produce.
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What To Stop Doing
Jim Collins, Best New Year's Resolution?
Suppose you woke up tomorrow and received two phone calls. The first phone call tells you that you have inherited $20 million, no strings attached. The second tells you that you have an incurable and terminal disease, and you have no more than 10 years to live. What would you do differently, and, in particular, what would you stop doing?
I had a subarachnoid aneurysm a few years ago, and at one point I was informed — erroneously — that my brain injury was inoperable. I had some time to reflect on that, and even after it was clear that surgery was, in fact, an option, the mortality stats on my condition were pretty harrowing, with at least 50% mortality, and given the severity of my situation, significantly higher.
I have changed a great deal since then. I started playing the guitar again, after about 20 years hiatus, for example. I've started writing music and poetry again. I drink a lot more champagne, too. Have to smell those roses.
But I still need to stop once in a while and ask: what should I stop doing?
This year, I intend to raise even greater barriers to long-distance travel, which is so costly in time and often so meager in payback.
I am involved in a foundational transition in my work, started last year. I am transitioning from a modality of acting as an advisor to companies (usually software start-ups), and investing more of my my work-related efforts into various, well-defined research initiatives, often working cooperatively with other researchers. I will be saying more about these initiatives later this week, with more specific announcements.
The book that I have been talking about for the past few months (formerly called Liquid City) will be sewn into the new research agenda, and will be rolling out in pieces this year, in a slightly reconsidered form, and a new title (in process).
I have recommitted myself to connecting with the community here, in Beacon NY, my adopted home, and I am working to get a food cooperative off the ground. Most critically, my family is buying and moving into a new place here in the next week, and in the next few months we will be putting in a garden, fixing up the place, and settling in. Going to dedicate a lot to that.
I am working in NYC from the Grind coworking space, and I hope to be an active and involved member of that community, and the tech and innovation community of NYC, as well. This will all be keeping me relatively close to NYC, more local than I have been in decades.
I still plan to do 12-15 conferences in distant places, but I intend to keep to that number as a max, and the rewards — on some level or another — have to be pretty high to get me to go.
Say yes to some things, and no to most others. But I am open to discuss new ideas with people. I will be starting open office hours in February, after the move is over.
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The New Rules of Work by Division of Labor, funny 'cause they're true.
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Welcome to the future of work (by Grind)
Grind is a 22nd century platform that helps talent collaborate
in a new way: outside the system.
It's a members-only workspace and community dedicated to taking all of the frustrations of working the old way and pulverizing them to a dust so fine it actually oils the wheels of the machine
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BYOT (Bring Your Own Tech) keeps gaining ground in the workforce
Some companies have even surrendered to what is being called the consumerization of I.T. At Kraft Foods, the I.T. department's involvement in choosing technology for employees is limited to handing out a stipend. Employees use the money to buy whatever laptop they want from Best Buy, Amazon.com or the local Apple store.
"We heard from people saying, 'How come I have better equipment at home?' " said Mike Cunningham, chief technology officer for Kraft Foods. "We said, hey, we can address that."
Encouraging employees to buy their own laptops, or bring their mobile phones and iPads from home, is gaining traction in the workplace. A survey published on Thursday by Forrester Research found that 48 percent of information workers buy smartphones for work without considering what their I.T. department supports. By being more flexible, companies are hoping that workers will be more comfortable with their devices and therefore more productive.
"Bring your own device" policies, as they are called, are also shifting the balance of power among electronics makers. Manufacturers good at selling to consumers are increasingly gaining the upper hand, while those focused on bulk corporate sales are slipping.
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A Jobs Plan for the Post-Cubicle Economy
About 150 years ago, American workers began a profound shift from farms to factories. After suffering through poor work conditions, low pay, and no workplace protections, the workers organized and successfully helped build the framework of laws that became known as FDR's New Deal. This landmark legislation from the 1930s protected workers and supported labor unions by limiting the number of hours that could be worked and setting a baseline minimum pay. But from a larger perspective, the New Deal demonstrated that government had acknowledged the shift in the U.S. workforce, heard their voice, and created a new system in which they could thrive.
Now we find ourselves in the middle of an equally large transition: just as workers left the plow for the assembly line, they are now leaving the cubicle for the coffee shop. Welcome to the Gig Economy, where over 42 million Americans are working independently - as freelancers, part-timers, consultants, contractors, and the self-employed. They are simultaneously holding multiple jobs, working for different employers, and mastering diverse skills. They are accountants and fashion designers and website architects. And, they are completely left out of the New Deal, which protects the rest of the workforce.
Read more at The Atlantic
A fantastic and timely analysis from The Atlantic, at a time when most media obsesses with startups, investors and the crazy ecosystem that wants to hit homerun, this is clearly a much larger trend that defines what our new RESET economy will look like after the dust settles.
Can't tell if this article is celebrating this shift or noting some cautionary overtones. It should be the latter. This is not the rise of Richard Florida's "creative class", it's the rise of an ecosystem that put's everyone in competition with each other. This is societal union busting. There is not social contract, it's every man for himself.
Nevertheless, this is the environment your business or organization is working within. How are you connecting with the surplus of time, energy, and skill radiating around your neighborhood, city, and the virtual communities?
This is a best of times and worst of times in America. There's more skill, savvy, and talent in any given square mile, but there's also more unemployment, underemployment, and disenfranchisement.
The organizations who connect with these people and who connect people to a larger picture will be the big winners in this economy. It does not matter if you run an insurance company, a church, or a food distribution company: you are not in the service or product business, you are in the connection business. Products, new products, and are actually adding more alienation amongst users
The organizations who can help users simplify and make forward-thinking decisions will rise above the rest. And that means telling users what not to buy, even if that includes some of your product line.


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When you think of the hair and clothing styles and the "tune in, turn on, drop out" cultural zeitgeist of the 1960s, those times can seem an ancient memory. Then you hear a still-vibrant Bob Dylan song from the same decade and it hardly seems possible that a half-century has passed. Some things from that era have stayed fresh, and one of them is the deeply ingrained impulse to shape one's home into a personalized environment.
Architecture writer and editor Richard Olsen's recent book, Handmade Houses (Rizzoli, $45 in hardcover, 240 pages) reveals that the dream of designing and handcrafting an "artisan" home is very much alive, and he includes both vintage and modern examples to inspire another generation of owner/builders.
While he does include some particulars of technique and craftsmanship, Olsen's book serves more as cultural history than as a building guide. Building one's own home is actually a core element in the early American experience; it's how much of the country was settled by European immigrants. But the 1960s and 1970s were a chapter unto themselves, and they represent a sort of golden age of the "build your own pad" tradition.
Those decades experienced a confluence of historical events and trends — the war in Vietnam, a burgeoning environmental and counterculture movement, experimentation with international influences and psychedelic substances — that gave the handmade house movement a unique new tone. In addition to the practical issues of providing shelter, these dwellings allowed for self-expression, a canvas for self-portraiture in wood, glass, steel and stone.
Some of the movement reflected an architecture of protest — a refusal to conform to societal standards, but it was inspired by plenty of positives as well. The pragmatism and economy of do-it-yourself effort, respect for natural ecology and the opportunity for creative expression led many adventurous owner/builders to dive headlong into what were for many unfamiliar waters. They salvaged, scrounged and bartered materials, assembled simple tools, and got to work. The results were as varied as the personalities involved, but some common threads can be found in many of their successes:
• The friends-and-family plan: Modest budgets, repurposed materials and self-taught builders were the norm, which meant skilled crews and heavy equipment weren't an option. A communal ethic encouraged the sharing of knowledge, labor and tools.
• Materials-driven design: Salvaged redwood planking from wine tanks, old railroad bridge timbers, discarded windows, driftwood, cheap or free locally available stone, and miscellaneous materials diverted from landfills were harvested and used enthusiastically. Builders sometimes spent years assembling a store of usable materials and designed the house around them, rather than setting a plan to paper and buying goods accordingly.
• Working in stages, learning as you go: It's common for these homes to evolve over the years, as families, budgets or visions for the project grow. Starting with just a small core structure lets owners develop building and design skills at a manageable pace, and they use those lessons for subsequent expansion. Building in incremental stages also suited sloped or rural sites that might have been problematic for large trucks or equipment. Owners liken the process to the organic growth of trees and other living things.
• Celebrating the bones: Structural elements, especially massive timbers or heavy stonework, were featured prominently rather than covered with drywall or decoration. This "what you see is what you get" approach echoed a preference for personal authenticity over social niceties.
• Mixing indoors and outdoors: Open or fluid transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces not only allowed for more direct contact with the natural world, it meant that small structures would feel more expansive. Popular California locales such as Big Sur and Malibu provided a hospitable climate for these features.
Though handmade house adventures are friendly to small budgets, simple tools and untrained practitioners, Olsen's examples aren't limited to neophytes. Noted architects Bernard Maybeck and Charles Greene are in the lineup, as are woodcrafters Art Carpenter and Lloyd Kahn, poet Robinson Jeffers, and even Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist. These and other professionals reflect the diversity of this discipline.
Olsen also features recent examples of handmade houses from around the globe, not just the cluster of dwellings that sprung up in coastal California a half-century ago. Granted, those early "pioneers" enjoyed much more latitude in building permit restrictions than do current builders, and they were allowed at little or no cost to salvage old-growth timbers that nowadays command premium prices when a post-and-beam barn, vintage warehouse or railroad trestle gets dismantled.
For these and other reasons, following the exact template of those heady days isn't really possible for 21st-century dreamer/builders, but the spirit that inhabits such efforts seems to have remained the same. "It was a real scene, man," says one of the survivors from the 1960s. Yes, it was, and it still is for those with a sense of adventure.


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- House of Tolerance
- Production year: 2011
- Country: France
- Cert (UK): 18
- Runtime: 122 mins
- Directors: Bertrand Bonello
- Cast: Adele Haenel, Alice Barnole, Celine Sallette, Hafsia Herzi, Iliana Zabeth, Jasmine Trinca, Noemie Lvovsky
This claustrophobic picture (aka L'Apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close) is a frank, unexploitative account of life in a smart Parisian brothel in 1899 and 1900. It demonstrates that la belle époque was less belle for the girls than for their wealthy clients, though better than walking the streets or working in a sweatshop. The film is superbly designed to suggest the oppressive, hypocritical haut-bourgeois decor, the obsessive eroticism that excludes real desire, and the languorous timelessness that makes one day like another. There is enough detail about money, cosmetics, hygiene, sexually transmitted diseases, theatrical deportment and authentic camaraderie to qualify the film as a kind of documentary. But a final coda offering a glimpse of whores in present-day Paris, waiting in the streets for passing motorists to pick them up, shows that plus ça change, plus c'est le même commerce. The movie's most startling image is of an abused, once beautiful prostitute who imagines her client's sperm turning into tears and flowing from her eyes.


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HOUSTON, July 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuddruckers, a Texas-born heritage brand, debuts its second Italian location today in partnership with new franchisee Vinum et Alia. The 3,490-square-foot fast casual restaurant is located at Via Saronnese 12, approximately 20 miles northwest of Milan between Castellanza, home of the University of Economics Carlo Cattaneo, and Legnano, a city that traces its history back to medieval times and now boasts one of the area's most popular parks.
The new site is one of ten planned with Vinum et Alia with proposed targets in Italy, as well as in Poland and Switzerland. The 138-seat venue is the first free-standing restaurant for the partnership and benefits from immediate access to a high traffic state road. The American-style interior showcases a dynamic and playful design scheme, which emphasizes the brand's classic roadhouse origins. The result is an inviting backdrop that is ideal for a family gathering, business lunch or date night.
According to Peter Tropoli, Chief Operating Officer of Luby's, Inc., "We are excited to launch a second Fuddruckers restaurant in Italy just four months after making our European debut. We greatly appreciate the support of Vinum et Alia in identifying prime locations, and we have been thrilled by our welcome, quickly earning fans of our baked from scratch buns, which are made in house throughout the day, and 100% fresh and never-frozen Italian beef, produced to our unique specifications and then grilled to order."
New on the menu at the Via Saronnese location is a special selection of regionally-inspired platters that include roasted chicken, crispy chicken, ribs, tenderloin, sliced chicken breast and sliced beef. And while burgers are the signature, the engaging menu offers variety for many tastes with an array of sandwiches and salads. No matter what they choose, customers can customize their meal with a trip to the legendary Build Your Own produce bar, which features fantastic fixings like sun-ripened tomatoes, lettuce, sliced onions, dill pickles and classic cheese sauce.
About Luby's, Inc.
Luby's, Inc. (NYSE: LUB) operates restaurants under the brands Luby's Cafeteria, Fuddruckers and Cheeseburger in Paradise and provides food service management through its Luby's Culinary Services division. The company-operated restaurants include 94 Luby's Cafeterias, 68 Fuddruckers restaurants, 15 Cheeseburger in Paradise full service restaurants and bars and one Bob Luby's Seafood Grill. Its 94 Luby's Cafeterias are located primarily in Texas. In addition to the 68 company-operated Fuddruckers locations, Luby's is the franchisor for 112 Fuddruckers franchise locations across the United States (including Puerto Rico), Canada, Mexico, Italy and the Dominican Republic. Luby's Culinary Services provides food service management to 26 sites consisting of healthcare, higher education and corporate dining locations.
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University of Baltimore law professor Charles Tiefer said it's "surprising and significant" that the citations make no mention of video. The modest $40 penalty makes it unlikely the state's high court would find it unconstitutional, he said, "but you can do a lot of unfair things without them being unconstitutional as well."
"And it is unfair," he said. "The city hides from the alleged traffic violator the video evidence which they will use on their side — on the city's side." Revealing its existence in court, he added, is "too late for it being effectively used on the motorist's side."
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As revenue rolls in — the city says it's still owed $15 million in unpaid speed camera tickets — there are indications that the city has not always followed the speed-camera law as intended.
City officials have voided nearly 6,000 tickets because cameras were programmed with the wrong speed limit, citations incorrectly listed a camera's location or the devices malfunctioned. In all, city officials have had to recall batches of tickets due to errors seven times over three years, forgoing the revenue those tickets would have generated.
Even a failure to clear vegetation away from signs alerting motorists to the speed cameras has been an issue in the city. Such signs are required by state law. One man got a judge to throw out his ticket after going to court with photos showing the sign hidden by leaves.
Information the city recently gave The Sun included 9,500 citations where the clocked speed was less than 12 mph over the speed limit. City transportation spokeswoman Adrienne Barnes said some were among 6,000 that were voided. The rest were legitimate, she said, but due to an unexplained "error in input," the speed limit appeared in the database as 30 mph instead of 25 mph.
And now, in the case of the camera on eastbound Cold Spring Lane near Poly-Western, there are doubts that an automated citation means a vehicle was actually driving fast enough to merit a ticket.
The Sun examined eight tickets issued by the camera to two trucking companies. One citation, issued Sept. 4, claimed a truck was traveling 70 mph in a 35 mph zone. Like every speed camera ticket issued under state law, it included two photos of the truck, offered as evidence the vehicle broke the law. According to time stamps on the photographs, they were snapped by the camera a half-second apart.
A truck traveling 70 mph will cover just over 51 feet in half a second. But by measuring street markings that were clearly evident in the photo, The Sun found that the truck traveled no more than 30 feet, which translates to a speed of 41 mph. The other citations also yielded measurements indicating considerably slower speeds than those listed on the citations and none fast enough to warrant a $40 citation.
In early February, before most of the eight citations were issued, the city and Xerox were both alerted to problems with that camera, according to emails The Sun obtained between city officials and another truck operator.
In the emails, Utz Quality Foods food safety manager Phil Redding urged city officials to review a ticket issued to an Utz truck in January for driving 47 mph, noting that a video of the alleged violation "shows him not going fast." The city forwarded the complaint to Xerox program manager Donovan Wilson, who reviewed the case and told the city: "It seems that the vehicle was not going 47 mph."
A month later, city transportation engineer Francis Udenta asked Wilson if the ticket had been voided and whether "the issue with the camera has been rectified." Wilson replied that the citation had been voided, but he did not address questions about the camera's accuracy. The Sun obtained the emails from Ron Ely, an anti-speed camera activist who runs a website, StopBigBrotherMD.org, and their authenticity was confirmed by Redding.
Since the complaint from Redding, the Cold Spring camera has generated several thousand more tickets, including dozens of the fastest speeds recorded by the city's network of 83 cameras — including a school bus recorded going 74 mph.
"It doesn't make sense how the system is, and we're frustrated with it," Redding said in an interview.
At first Weiss, of Mary Sue Candy, said the tickets concerned him, because the Baltimore company never wants its drivers speeding, "especially in a school zone, and especially in a truck with our name all over it." His frustration is now directed at the city, he said. "The irritation increases as each ticket comes in."
This month, after inquiries from The Sun, city transportation officials said they were testing that speed camera and the one on the opposite side of Cold Spring.
"We have discovered that some larger vehicles may have experienced radar effects that led to abnormal speed readings," officials said by email.
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Think that corn is just for eating, think again. This little miracle food is used for everything! It's the ethanol in the fuel that gets us to work and school, it's the food that our livestock eat, the key ingredient of many plastics and adhesives, there are even chemicals made from it. Oh, we can also eat it; let's not forget about that one.
The one problem with corn is that it has to grow. It doesn't just appear one day ready to be farmed, it takes time. Through the help of companies like Potash (NYSE: POT) and Monsanto (NYSE: MON), some farms have been able to keep their corn growing, even despite the horrendous drought that has been occurring in the corn regions of the United States. While the crops continue to grow with the help of chemicals, the cost per bushel continues to increase. In 2005 a bushel could be had for 250 cents ($2.50), we're now looking at prices in the $7-8 range per bushel and it shows no sign of slowing.
The high prices per bushel mean that food production companies will eventually have to fork over the cash to continue operations. Companies like Tyson (NYSE: TSN) and Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD) who produce and market meat products are faced with higher feed costs. Consumers in the end foot the bill for all of these price raises. We end up paying more for the food, more for the gasoline to get it to us, and more for the plastic that it comes in.
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Potash and Monsanto thrive in drought conditions. These two companies make a lot of controversial chemicals that get put into crops and result in higher crop yields. Of course, people don't like chemicals being spread all over the things they eat and this is where both Postash and Monsanto need to tread carefully over the long term.
The chemical makers make their money by selling their fertilizing products to farms. They get more business when the conditions are like they currently are; drought ridden fields are prime for the fertilizing companies. Over time I think that both Potash and Monsanto will thrive. They will continue their research into safer, more effective means of fertilization, and help farmers create a better, higher yielding crop.
While dryer spells do come with more business for fertilizing companies, they do continue to make money in any climate. Monsanto has continuously grown their sales over the past decade, every single year. Potash suffered a big drop in the financial downturn but has continued to post big sales growth numbers over the period since 2008.
The chemicals also make very decent returns at Potash and Monsanto. The five year average net profit margin at Monsanto is at 15.3% while Potash actually blows it out of the water averaging 30.7% over the same time period. Potash also happens to be the king of efficiency with revenues of $1.43M per employee, beating out the industry and the S&P 500.
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Tyson, Smithfield Foods, and their many counterparts have to buy corn and other crops in order to feed their animals. Droughts and increases in the cost of feed is troubling to both companies over the long term as they both have to increase prices on the consumer, or face lower margins which is out of the question as they're at rock bottom right now.
With the higher cost of feed that Tyson and Smithfield foods are facing they are forced to keep their prices in the store competitive, something that's resulting in rock bottom margins for both companies. The average five year net profit margin for Tyson is just 1.1%, the same can be said for Smithfield Foods. These companies are also making only around $5000 per employee in profit. The S&P 500 on average has around $110,000 in profit per employee; this is definitely not where your money should be!
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If you want a black bottom line, and not that scary red color come year end, then you'd be better off avoiding the food makers Tyson and Smithfield Foods. Their margins are incredibly low which means that little slip ups are the difference between profits and losses.
Potash and Monsanto are two great companies for the long term investor and it's really down to your own tastes as to who you should pick from the two. Potash has the better numbers for me, and the much lower P/E ratio, which is at 16.36 at the time of writing.
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WEDNESDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- The costs of treating and
coping with dengue fever in Puerto Rico total nearly $38 million a
year, a new study finds.
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of the mosquito-borne disease could save $5 in illness-related
Households pay nearly half the costs of the disease, followed by
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"People generally think of dengue as a disease of poor countries; the fact that we found it to be a major burden in a U.S. territory -- and because it recently has cropped up on the U.S. mainland -- is a reminder that mosquito-borne illnesses can present an equal opportunity threat," study co-author Donald Shepard said in the news release.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) –Family members are devastated and searching for answers after Shively Police said a woman was gunned down at her own home.
Investigators took photos and evidence for DNA testing from the home in the 3300 block of Fernheather Drive Friday where 48-year-old Gloria Ross was found shot to death in the backyard Thursday night.
The coroner released Ross' name Friday afternoon and said she died of injuries sustained from multiple gunshot wounds.
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A family member called 911 after finding Ross' body around 10 p.m. Thursday. They were too emotional to go on camera Friday morning but said there may have been marital problems.
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Oxford Elementary students can compete in an after-school club competition called 'Academic Games' coached by volunteer parents. The games pose academic questions.Jennifer Washington tells Fox 2's Ron Savage she wanted her second-grade daughter to participate, so her daughter joined at the beginning of the school year. The coach told the mother after the second practice that second graders were currently not being recruited. The club is for third, fourth and fifth grade students. Then, a few weeks later, Washington says she learned first and second graders were on the team. Washington approached the coach, who said the younger students were relatives of coaches so they were allowed to play.Parents who volunteer coach are allowed to bring their children to the competition even if they are below the third grade level.
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Food and wine enthusiasts can savor sunshine, standout dishes and stellar vintages during the second annual Key West Food and Wine Festival, set for Thursday through Sunday, Jan. 27-30.
Scheduled events showcase local chefs' culinary flair, indigenous Florida Keys ingredients, premium wines from around the world and offbeat "foodie" fun like bowling with coconuts.
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"The Music Man" star Susan Luckey has passed away at the age of 74.
The actress, whose real name is Suzanne Douglas, died of natural causes at her Los Angeles home last week, according to TMZ. Her body has already been cremated.
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Born in Hollywood, she is perhaps best known for her role as Mayor Shinn's eldest daughter, Zaneeta, in the 1962 classic comedy, but she also starred in "Carousel" alongside Shirley Jones.
Her other credits include the TV movie "Annie Get Your Gun" and "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show." Douglas, who made her theater debut when she was just 6, also appeared in a number of stage productions, including the original Broadway adaptation of Disney's "Peter Pan."
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