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The newest of the company's three Dreamliners should have left Fort Lauderdale for Stockholm on Saturday but was unable to due to technical problems, Norwegian Air said on Monday.
"We are waiting now for spare parts from Boeing, and once they arrive the technicians are going to work on the plane," Norwegian Air spokeswoman Anne-Sissel Skaanvik told Reuters.
"We are getting these spare parts soon."
She could not give more detail as to the nature of the technical problem.
The Dreamliner was supposed to be a game changer for the aviation industry as its lightweight body and sophisticated engines cut fuel consumption by 20 percent.
But it has been beset by problems, including a battery fire that grounded the model for months this year and forced Boeing to come up with a new battery design.
According to Stockholm's Arlanda Airport website, the plane is expected to arrive in Sweden at 1200 GMT on Wednesday.
"We are very sorry about the delay and we understand that this is a very frustrating time for the passengers," Skaanvik said.
Norwegian Air, Europe's third-biggest budget airline after Ryanair
But during the autumn its first two Dreamliners broke down more than half a dozen times, forcing it to lease back-up planes at short notice or cancel flights. Since then the airline has added a third Dreamliner to its fleet.
Last week Norwegian Air said it would buy another two 787-9 Dreamliners, seeing the aircraft's technical advances as outweighing its operating problems as the budget carrier expands in long-haul services.
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Eliminating a Common Bacterium Reduces Risk of Second Gastric Cancer
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Researchers in Japan have shown that when the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is eliminated in patients who are treated for early stage gastric cancer, the risk of developing a second gastric cancer decreases by two-thirds. Their report appeared the August 2, 2008, issue of The Lancet (see the journal abstract).
H. pylori infects the stomachs of approximately half the people in the world and has been clearly linked to stomach problems, including peptic ulcers and cancer. Previous studies in animals have shown a preventive effect when the bacterium is eliminated, but results in human studies have been inconclusive.
The latest report, published by the Japan Gast Study Group, comes from an open-label study that included 544 patients aged 20-79 who were either newly diagnosed with gastric cancer and planning to undergo endoscopic surgery, or who had recently undergone surgery for gastric cancer. All patients had confirmed H. pylori infection. Those randomized into the test group received a combination of the antibiotics lansoprazole, amoxicillin, and clarithromycin twice a day for a week to prevent cancer recurrence, while those in the control group received standard care but no antibiotics.
The bacterium was eliminated from approximately 75 percent of patients who received the antibiotic regimen, and approximately 5 percent of patients from the control group. The only adverse effects of the antibiotic group with notable occurrence were soft stools and diarrhea. After three years of endoscopic monitoring, second gastric cancers occurred in nine patients from the treated group and 24 patients from the control group.
An accompanying editorial by Dr. Nicholas J. Talley of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., discusses the benefits and drawbacks of widespread H. pylori screening and treatment, concluding, "Worldwide, gastric cancer kills more people [than colorectal cancer], and there is better evidence that H. pylori eradication can prevent mortality than there is for colonoscopy screening. Preventing gastric cancer by eradicating H. pylori in high-risk regions should be a priority."


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BikerXtina says:
Hi all, I have brought a Husqvarna SM610S 2005 a few months ago and I have had nothing but problems with it It
keeps backfiring and it will have no pull or power, it's so hard to
ride as it is. Sometimes it will backfire loads and be totally
unridable and other times it's not so bad.I have checked the
air box, taken apart the carb, checked the petrol tank the pipes and
the fuel tap. I have changed the spark plug. Anyone got any ideas what
it could be?Any advice would be appreciated.
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Theirs one or two on here but smoto5 has covered it.
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and also you may need to check valve timing in case this has slipped, and also valve clearances. Did any of the above you have done make any difference or none at all?
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Dont understand whats going on with the post's here?You say
I have checked the air box, taken apart the carb, checked the petrol tank the pipes and the fuel tap. I have changed the spark plug.
Fair enough,but what did you do?
Did you clean the air filter?,and is it the type that needs re-oiling?
Have you completely changed the fuel(could be contaminated?) you dont say?
You checked the air box?
Has this bike been running like this from the day you got it?or did it start its problems soon after,and had you done anything to the bike yourself?
Try these.
http://www.kawamotor.de/Husqvarna/2007/SM610/Technische%20Daten.pdf sorry its in German!!
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When I checked the carb first time there was a bit of rubber in the float and I took it out and cleaned it with petrol and it seemed to work fine for a few weeks then it started doing the same thing again.This time I checked the carb and found nothing. In fact it's worse than ever at the moment. I will check the valve timing.All of the other things I tried made no diffference at all.Thanks for the reply
The bike started backfiring about two weeks after I got it (private sale.. I must be insane) the first time we checked the carb it had rubber in the float and the air box had come loose as a result of the backfiring.This time I have checked the carb for dirt and there was none, I have cleaned the air filter (buying a new one as soon as it's running again) and changed the spark plug. I have checked the petrol tank as in taken off all pipes and made sure there are no blockages. Taken off the petrol tap, checked the petrol filter for dirt.I will try a complete fuel change and check the links you have got for me.Thanks boys
Feb 09
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cgman says:
hi all.
i am having a backfiring problem myself. every time u want to push my CG a bit, it backfires when i shut off the throttle. it has been doing this for about 11 months but now i ride with my mate i thought i had better do something. i have done everything that my haynes manual says (only says to check nut tightness at the cylinder).
sorry if it appears that i have hijacked this thread but my computer wont let me create a new one for some reason.
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thanks for the help. will check it out as soon as i can and may be on here again if it is still backfiring.
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Rubber found in float bowl May have came from the float and it might be sinking well sunk. It reaches a certain point were the plastic still floats in the gas but goes up and down much slower causing you to run out of gas breifly.and start back firing then run fine for a bit then do it again . More on bumpy roads . Good Luck
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Algoriddim, the creators of the popular music and video mixing apps for iPhones, iPads and Macs, has appointed Talk PR's technology team to help drive downloads for the new versions of the apps in the UK. Both apps, djay and vjay, transform Apple devices into a full-fledged DJ and video mixing system.
The agency was brought on board without a formal pitch following its successful work for another mobile accessory brand.
Talk PR's activity aims to encourage users of Apple products, including the recently launched new iPhone 5, to download the new versions which come with full iTunes integration and are specifically designed for Apple's latest software update. Talk PR has also been briefed to engage directly with influencers in the DJ community to help drive on and offline advocacy for the apps, and will also handle the launch of additional product releases later this year.
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When solar flares erupt they can reach earth within 18 minutes and last for minutes to 3 hours. Solar flares are a violent eruption in the sun atmosphere with an energy equivalent of 100 million hydrogen bombs. A violent explosion in the sun's atmosphere. So what is space weather? Space weather refers to the variable conditions on the sun and in the space environment that can influence the performance and reliability of space and ground-based technological systems, as well as endanger life or health.
At the Earth's surface, the atmosphere and the geomagnetic field provide ample protection from most of the solar electromagnetic radiation and charged particles. The protective boundary of the Earth's magnetic field is highly reactive to the onslaught of energy and pressure originating from the sun. However, while the sun's harmful radiation and particles don't generally reach the surface insufficient quantities to have direct harmful effects, their secondary effects are often felt. The Earth's magnetosphere redistributes its particle populations, often sending a rush of energetic particles along magnetic field lines into the atmosphere over the polar caps and creating the swirling red, green, and white auroras.
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"The Futuremakers Partner award was created to celebrate the impact of college and employer collaboration in helping hundreds of thousands of students set a direction for their future," Clancy explained.
Debbie Davidson, vice-president Workforce and Economic Development Division, Gateway Technical College, told the audience about the LINK Program through which S.C. Johnson employees have the opportunity to earn an associate degree at their workplace. Each semester more than 50 courses are offered at the Waxdale facility serving more than 300 S.C. Johnson employees.
Demonstrating its commitment to the partnership with Gateway Technical College, S.C. Johnson representatives announced during the lunch that they would be making a $100,000 donation to the Gateway Technical College Foundation, Inc. The donation is being used to create an endowed scholarship fund for Gateway students. It will fund up to five $1,000 scholarships awarded annually to students enrolled in any associate degree program.
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Ranking business schools has become an industry in itself. Each ranking evaluates a different set of criteria, surveys different audiences, and measures various aspects of a program. Each tries to provide information that will help prospective students and other business people understand more about a school.
While we recognize the importance of business school rankings and welcome the constructive feedback they can provide, the Tuck School's strategy remains consistent with our values and objectives. We will continue to focus on making the Tuck MBA the best educational experience in the world, with great professors giving unprecedented access to outstanding students.
Currently, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Financial Times, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and The Economist each regularly publish a ranking of graduate business schools on an annual or biennial basis. From 2001 through 2007, the Wall Street Journal also published a ranking based on ratings by recruiters. Below are details of the current rankings and a historical look at the rankings.
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Tuck placed #2 in world in the Economist's ranking of the best full-time MBA programs. The annual ranking is based on four factors the Economist identifies as the primary reasons students pursue an MBA: to open new career opportunities (weighted at 35%), for personal development and educational experience (35%), to increase salary (20%), and to build a professional network (10%). For the third year in a row, Tuck ranked #1 in terms of professional development and educational experience. In the category of opening new career opportunities, Tuck ranked #3. And students clearly felt that the Tuck alumni had a lot to do with their success as the Tuck network was rated #1 for its effectiveness.
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Forbes magazine ranked Tuck #6 in their ranking of the best business schools in the country. Forbes ranks business schools biennially based on the return on investment for its graduates. Forbes surveys alumni and determines return on investment by looking at five-year total compensation after graduation, minus the sum of tuition and forgone compensation. The survey listed 70 U.S. programs in total.
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Tuck placed #9 in the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of full time MBA programs. This ranking is based on a combination of surveys of deans and recruiters and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's students and employment results. In the specialty rankings, Tuck was highlighted as a top school in the management and non-profit categories. This portion of the ranking is based on ratings by educators at peer schools. Business school deans and program heads were asked to nominate programs for excellence in each of the specialty categories. Also noteworthy is that Tuck had the 2nd highest average combination of starting salary and bonus among the business schools ranked.
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Tuck placed #10 among U.S. schools and #16 worldwide in the FT's 2013 ranking of the 100 top full-time MBA programs. Data for this ranking was compiled from two main sources—statistics provided by the schools themselves and survey data for each school's alumni who graduated three years ago (Class of 2009). Data and opinions provided by alumni account for more than 50% of the ranking.
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Tuck placed #12 in the Bloomberg BusinessWeek biennial business school ranking. The ranking is based on three elements: a survey of the 2012 graduating class (45% of ranking), a survey of about 240 corporate executives (45%), and an analysis of intellectual capital (10%). The results for this year are combined with the results from the previous two rankings (2008 and 2010) with this year's results counting for 50% and each of the previous two counting for 25% to calculate the final overall rank.
Business school rankings started in the late 1980s but the number of ranking grew significantly in the early 2000s. Since 2000, there have been 60 rankings published in which Tuck has ranked #1 eight times and been in the top 10 85% of the time. Tuck is often praised as a strong general management program whose students are known for teamwork and leadership.
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Why should you care about sequels?
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However, giving birth to many sequels can be a bad thing. It's great that companies are capitalizing on these successful titles. Unfortunately, for an entertainment medium that has the potential to be creative and prove itself, we're limited to sequels year after year. Nominees for Game of the Years tend to be sequels. Last year we had Skyward Sword, Uncharted 3, and Batman: Arkham City make this list for many sites. It's quite telling when you have the best GOTY nominees mostly come from sequels. Granted, sequels improve on many of the faults of the original, and the polish that comes with it makes for a great game of the year candidate. Unfortunately, the number of sequels compared to new IPs that make this category are few in number, which shows the limited amount of new creative content.
Still, while overflooding the market with sequels is bad, this doesn't mean that they are inherently bad. "It'd be criminal to not make some sort of sequel," Adams said. "You do all the hard work and you don't get to do everything you wanted in the first one." Often times, the first game seems like a foundation. The developers build the game from ground up and lay the base for where they want the game to go. Sadly, the developers don't have the opportunity to build beyond the foundation. What they end up getting is a game where not all the ideas are expanded upon and their vision is left unfulfilled. By having a sequel, the developers have the opportunity to do stuff they couldn't do previously and create a more refined game.
Sequels are great for more of the same good stuff. After all, if it isn't broken, why change it? People usually want the same good thing. If I go to a steakhouse and I love their rib-eye, why would I want to get a different type of steak? There's no reason for me to change my dish. Of course, if a friend forcefully orders me a prime rib and I realize that this steak is just as good, that's awesome. Gamers need to expand their horizons and should try to move away from more of the same. I'm not saying it's the gamers' fault that we have sequels. I'm also not saying sequels should be up and rid of. Rather, I'm saying that gamers shouldn't often promote sequels. We constantly cry out for more great games. I have heard so many people wanting a BioShock sequel after the game's release. People want more of what's good.
What's the point of all of these perspectives? Gamers should be informed of the products they purchase. After all, by spending money on sequels, you are, in a way, promoting the company's activity to create more sequels. This isn't to say that you shouldn't buy sequels. Rather, inform yourself and become more knowledgeable about the community you're in. If you're more informed, you're likely to make an informed purchase. It's just common sense. Try to understand how sequels are made and why they're made. After all, the point of me telling you all this is so I can get your head thinking about sequels. I only scratched the surface, the rest is up for you to decide. Formulate your own stance on sequels after you've done more research.
What's my take in all of this? Moderation. Sequels are great; in fact, they are a blessing. I can't count how many times where I've been grateful for a sequel. Devil May Cry 3 and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory are two examples. These games were the height of the franchise at the time, taking everything good about the series and encapsulates it into the pinnacle of its genre. However, sequels that repeatedly come out create over-saturation resulting in a dulled experience. Here's looking at you Call of Duty. It creates a feeling of series fatigue and stagnation. To me, video game sequels are great but only in bits at a time, whether that be the number of installments or how often they come out.


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This year instead of honoring a single individual as the School's Alumnus of the Year, we are celebrating the School's rich history of being known as "the law school of judges." This tradition was undoubtedly initiated by its founding Deans at the helm from 1912 to 1928 who were judges themselves. Currently, the School has 220 alumni who are active or retired members of the judiciary. We hope to have many of them present at the Gala to celebrate with us. We will take a group photo of judges in attendance at the Reunion Gala for publicity purposes and to save for the School's archives to memorialize the special event.
Judges are asked to assist in the preparation of a PowerPoint slideshow and other materials related to the event by e-mailing or sending via U.S. mail, whichever they prefer, their judicial history [court name(s) and year(s) of service] and photo, if possible, to Assistant Dean Denise Hickey at the address below. If you have this information for any deceased alumni and wish to share it, that would be a tremendous help, also.
We will post the PowerPoint to this website after the Gala. Judges who have submitted bios and photos thus far are:
-Hon. Duncan M. Beagle, Genesee County Circuit Court
-Hon. Thomas E. Brennan, Sr. (Retired), Michigan Supreme Court
-Hon. Michael Cavanagh, Michigan Supreme Court
-Hon. Maura Corrigan (Retired), Michigan Supreme Court
-Hon. Patrick J. Duggan, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
-Hon. E. Thomas Fitzgerald, Michigan Court of Appeals
-Hon. John E. Fitzgerald (Retired), Montmorency County Probate Court
-Hon. Richard Halloran, Wayne County Circuit Court
-Hon. William G. Kelly, 62-B District Court, Kentwood, MI
-Hon. Christopher Murray, Michigan Court of Appeals
-Hon. Michael Riordan, Michigan Court of Appeals
-Hon. Michael J. Talbot, Michigan Court of Appeals
-Hon. Brian K. Zahra, Michigan Supreme Court
Thank you all for your participation. We look forward to the Gala and to celebrating the tremendous history of judicial service of our alumni.
Denise P. Hickey, Esq. ('95)
Assistant Dean of Alumni Relations
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I've never been impressed with the argument that Mitt Romney makes for a weak Republican nominee because conservatives don't like him. That's not how that party works. Like they say, "Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line." Don't believe me? Think back four years. When the race was still up in the air, the venom aimed at McCain was ten times worse than anything being suffered by Mitt. I collected the stuff back then: Rush Limbaugh said McCain threatened "the American way of life as we've always known it"; Ann Coulter said he was actually "a Democrat" (oof!); an article in the conservative magazine Human Events called him "the new Axis of Evil"; and Michael Reagan, talk radio host and the 40th president's son, said "he has contempt for conservatives, who he thinks can be duped into thinking he's one of them."
Then McCain wrapped up the nomination, and Mike Reagan suddenly said, "You can bet my father would be itching to get out on the campaign trail working to elect him." One thing Republicans understand: In American elections you have to choose from among only two people – not between the perfect and the good.
This year the pundits honk that Romney faces an even more fraught minefield than McCain did, because he is a Mormon – and the Evangelical base of the Republican Party won't vote for a Mormon. The New York Times recently introduced us to R. Phillip Roberts, the president of a Southern Baptist seminary and author of Mormonism Unmasked – subtitle: "Confronting the Contradictions Between Mormon Beliefs and True Christianity" – who chases around the country preaching that the likes of Mitt Romney are heretics. The Newspaper of Record then asked its readers "to understand the gravity of their theological qualms": While "traditional Christians believe in the Trinity: that God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit all rolled into one," the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints holds "that God the Father and Jesus are separate physical beings, and that God has a wife whom they call Heavenly Mother." They backed the claim up with statistics: Just one-third of white Evangelicals in a Pew poll last November said Mormons were Christian. And what kind of Evangelical wants a president who isn't Christian?
I think they'll get over it. In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
Consider that little more than a generation ago, Catholics had it even worse than Mormons do now. "Theological qualms"? Try this one on for size: Once upon a time many, if not most, Protestant fundamentalists identified the Roman Catholic Church as nothing less than the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth – the dreaded "Whore of Babylon" described in Revelation 17 and 18. More prosaically, they identified Catholics as an alien force. Billy Graham reassured his followers in 1960 that it was legitimate to vote against Catholic John F. Kennedy out of religious prejudice, because the Roman Catholic Church "is not only a religious but also a secular institution, with its own ministers and ambassadors."
You may have heard of the group Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Nowadays Evangelicals despise it as a heathen outfit bent on banishing God from the public square. (Here they celebrate the civil liberties victory represented by the display of a Flying Spaghetti Monster next to the Nativity scene at the courthouse in Loudoun County, Virginia.) A generation ago, however, Evangelicals were fans – back when the group was known as "Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State," and was the institutional home for those who feared the Roman church was a wicked conspiracy to colonize the United States.
Read the entire Rolling Stone piece HERE.
There's also reason to assume that anti-Mormon attitudes have moderated in the last four years, in good measure because of Romney's candidacy. In December, 2006, 36 percent of Republicans in a Washington Post/ABC poll said they'd be "less likely" to vote for a Mormon for president. Less than five years later (March 15, 2011), a PPP poll found only 20 percent of Republicans who said they were unwilling to vote for a Mormon.
For those in the evangelical community and elsewhere who reject Mormon teaching as so unusual and even bizarre that it should disqualify any Mormon candidate, it's worth remembering that every religion looks profoundly peculiar to outsiders. Many of my friends consider it odd, and even cultish that as an Orthodox Jew I can walk nearly three miles to synagogue on a Saturday morning, but can't flip the switch on the garbage disposal when I come home. People raised outside the Christian tradition may wince at the notion that, according to many denominations, perfectly kind, generous neighbors will be consigned to eternal torment without a personal relationship to Jesus.
Michael Medved (Jewish) in an article HERE in the Daily Beast, commenting on the idea of two Mormon candidates for President. Can you name them? Link through their pictures if you can't.


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F-35 cost overruns threaten Lockheed program
Design and manufacturing problems with the fighter jets jeopardize the Pentagon's largest contract.
The cost overruns have raised questions about the effectiveness of the program. The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin had earlier claimed that the Joint Fighter Jet is an "affordable, higher common fifth generation" aircraft that can be purchased in large quantities due to its cost effectiveness. But these claims seem to be losing ground, even before the first four congressional contracts are complete.
Independent U.S. congressional auditors have claimed that the program lacks reliable design and efficient manufacturing. Lockheed Martin is absorbing $328 million of the overrun costs while the Pentagon is absorbing $672 million.
This outcome has the potential to create many problems for Lockheed Martin. While on one hand, its profitability has been hit, on the other hand, future contracts from the Pentagon are on the line. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has stated that far too many engineering changes are taking place at high costs and more changes will be required, going forward. It is also doubtful about the manufacturing processes and performance indicators. While the indicators have shown some progress, the performance of the first low-initial production contracts has not been good.
The past and current performance by software in the industry has not always been up to the mark, and it is important that Lockheed Martin demonstrates that the F-35 is a creditable and stable platform. Nonetheless, the GAO has given Lockheed Martin and the program some credit for testing and manufacturing process improvements in 2011.
The cost overruns have put the Pentagon's entire program, which calls for the purchase of 365 aircraft by 2017 with an estimated cost of $69 billion, into the spotlight.
The program initially incurred a loss worth $373 million due to deficiencies discovered in flight testing. Now, with an additional $1 billion for the first 63 aircraft, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin will have to deliver solid results to allay Congress' fears and instill confidence to go ahead with the contract.
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Planting friends, row by row
by B. Durbin Wean
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Be sure that you have prepared the soil by working in compost and figured out how to get water to your vegetables. You may want to consider a drip system because it is easy, saves water and puts the moisture where you want it.
If you have rabbits that are running around in your yard, are cute and have a white cottontail they are death to your little seedlings and can strip your garden in a heartbeat. I speak from experience so take my advice and install an inexpensive little fence around your plat by pounding in three-foot metal stakes and stringing up chicken wire. It actually isn't every intrusive if you use the green stakes and wire. Rabbits dig so you might want to insert your wire in a little trench. Now you are ready!
Have you ever heard of companion planting? It is interesting in that just as you and I have good friends that we love being around there are other people that seem to be a negative influence and you avoid. Plants are the same way. As you are planning your vegetable garden it may help to plant good friends next to each other. Radishes and spinach like each other, pepper and eggplants, corn interplanted with pumpkins, squash and radishes, shallots and beets, cabbage and marigolds, potatoes and horseradish, carrots and tomatoes, or carrots and sage with leaf lettuce, cucumbers and small sunflowers all love each other.
Bush beans planted with potatoes protect the bush beans from the Mexican bean beetle, it is considered best to plant in alternate rows. While bush beans also do well when planted with cucumbers. All beans dislike onions. Can you imagine anything not loving onions?
You know how I love flowers in the vegetable garden. You will too when you know how they help your veggies. Try geraniums with cabbages, they repel cabbage worms and are good to plant among roses, grapes and corn in your fight against Japanese beetles. Use the white variety near corn. Use scented ones like peppermint, lemon and any others you can find. All the alliums – garlic, onions, chives and shallots are beneficial to roses, even helping to prevent against black spot, mildew and aphids. No guarantee, but what have you got to lose when you can enjoy the wonderful fragrance as you pull the weeds between your garlic and onions?
Of course you will want to plant plenty of basil because if you don't use it in cooking, you will want to pick up a few leaves warmed from the sun as you walk around and inspect your garden. The scent is exquisite and addictive. Also sage, dill, marjoram and other herbs are wonderful just to smell when you enter your garden.
Here are some plants that will help control your pests without using chemicals. Basil; against flies and mosquitoes; Borage: against tomato worm, Catnip; against flea beetles, Garlic; against Japanese beetles, aphids, weevils, fruit tree borers and spider mites. Garlic is good for everything!
Here are some hints for you as you prepare your garden. Don't forget to add some fun bush string beans in different colors, purple, green and wax are all delicious and you won't believe how many beans you will harvest. Unless you can or freeze them, the neighbors will love you for sharing. The purple beans turn green as they cook. Make a wigwam of willow or sticks to support a crop of scarlet runner beans. Please plant a row or a patch of red cabbage. Homegrown cabbage, red or green is so sweet and delicious. It tastes so much better than those offered in the grocery store.
Paths can be made of beaten soil and covered with straw that can be raked up each season, put on the compost pile and replaced next year with a fresh layer. You can edge your paths with strawberries and English daisies. Make patches of nasturtiums and pansies that you can add to your summer salads. Which reminds me to encourage you to plants lots of different varieties of lettuce in two-week intervals. Also, I always like to add a row or patch of mesclun because it has a great variety of mixed salad greens in red and green colors. It tastes wonderful and looks great mixed in with your other lettuce.
If you live in an apartment of a condominium, don't despair. Grow your veggies in a large container. In other words, a small one for chives and large one for zucchini. Use a high quality potting soil and don't forget a slow release fertilizer that will supply nutrients for a three or six month period. Supplement with weekly applications of fish emulsion (it smells pretty fishy but the plants love it). Have fun planting!


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Movie Review: The Other Dream Team
In Marius Markevièius' debut documentary, "The Other Dream Team," mostly set during the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall leading up to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, the Baltic state of Lithuania breaks free from Soviet rule with the help of basketball and the Grateful Dead.
You read that right. Following several decades of devastating oppression in which Lithuanian athletes were forced to compete for the USSR, the countries' top basketball players were able to compete under their own flag in the 1992 summer games, aided by some financial assistance from the famous psychedelic San Francisco band.
As the film's title suggests, the Lithuanian basketball team was the underdog antithesis of the all-star 1992 American Olympic team that included Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, and Magic Johnson. The Lithuanians didn't win against the Americans, but they did defeat the Russian Unified team for the bronze medal.
Valdas Adankus, president of Lithuania from 1998 to 2009, puts it like this: "This was not only a pride, it was an open war. We are not going to accept, no way, no time, ever, the occupation of Lithuania. We are fighting the enemy, not in the field with bombs, machine guns, or planes, but fighting them on a basketball court."
Through vivid testimony (most subtitled) from star Lithuanian players Valdemaras Chomièius, Arvydas Sabonis, Šarûnas Marèiulionis and Rimas Kurtinaitis, alongside sports commentators such as Jim Lampley, David Remnick, Chris Mullin and Bill Walton, we learn how the stage was set for the team and the now independent, country's victory.
The story of recent NBA draftee Jonas Valanciunas, who was born in 1992, is woven through the film to show us how far they've come from the days when Lithuanian players could travel to the U.S. only with a KGB escort and players would fear imprisonment if they accepted a draft from an American team, something the extremely talented Sabonis worried about in 1986 when selected by the Portland Trail Blazers.
In 1991, having been granted freedom from communism after nearly half a century, Lithuania is bankrupt, unable to afford to send their beloved basketball team to the Olympics.
That's where the Grateful Dead comes in. Members of the longtime rock band (Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Phil Lesh), who were all basketball fans, read an article about the Lithuanians' plight written by the San Francisco Chronicle's George Shirk. They decided to kick in funding through their charitable nonprofit organization, the Rex Foundation, and provided the team with tie-dyed uniforms with their distinctive skeleton logo.
You don't have to be a basketball fan or a Deadhead to appreciate seeing the Lithuanian team walking onto the court in Barcelona dressed in tie-dye shirts and shorts to pay tribute to the band that helped them get there. They became known as "Team Tie-Dye," and the slogan "Better Dead Than Red," accompanied them everywhere.
Drummer Mickey Hart, the only member of the Dead interviewed for the documentary, notes, "They could've been laughed at, you know; if they weren't as good as they were, they would've looked like fools wearing tie-dye, but we had a championship gold team flying their colors."
Despite some unnecessary pop culture cutaways in the buildup to make its Cold War case, writer/director Markevièius' first feature-length film assembles a blend of arresting anecdotes, archival footage and photos, sprinkled with new location shots of Kaunas, Lithuania, to tell its uplifting story.
In Marius Markevièius' debut documentary, "The Other Dream Team," mostly set during the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall leading up to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, the Baltic state of Lithuania breaks free from Soviet rule with the help of basketball and the Grateful Dead.(Full review)


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28 U.S. Code § 2043 - Deposit of other moneys
Except for public moneys deposited under section 2041 of this title, each clerk of the United States courts shall deposit public moneys that the clerk collects into a checking account in the Treasury, subject to disbursement by the clerk. At the end of each accounting period, the earned part of public moneys accruing to the United States shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriate receipt accounts.
Source(Added Pub. L. 97–258, § 2(g)(4)(E),Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1061.)
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|June 26, 1934, ch. 756, § 23(b)(related to clerks), 48 Stat. 1236; restated Dec. 21, 1944, ch. 631, § 1, 58 Stat. 845.
The words "Except for public moneys deposited under section 2041 of this title . . . public moneys" are substituted for "All fees and other collections other than moneys referred to in subsection (a) of this section" for consistency and because 31:725v(a) is superseded by 28:2041 and is not part of the revised title contained in section 1 of the bill. The word "Treasury" is substituted for "Treasurer of the United States" because of section 1 of Reorganization Plan No. 26 of 1950 (eff. July 31, 1950, 64 Stat. 1280), restated as section 321 of the revised title contained in section 1 of the bill. The text of 31:725v(b)(last sentence) is omitted as obsolete.
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16 U.S. Code § 3706 - Audits, report requirements, and petition of Attorney General for equitable relief
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The Foundation shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, transmit to the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report of its proceedings and activities during such year, including a full and complete statement of its receipts, expenditures, and investments; and a description of all acquisition and disposal of real property that is subject to section 3703 (e) of this title. The report shall include a detailed statement of the recipient, amount, and purpose of each grant made by the Foundation in the fiscal year.
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If the Foundation—
(1) engages in, or threatens to engage in, any act, practice, or policy that is inconsistent with its purposes set forth in section 3701 (b) of this title; or
(2) refuses, fails, or neglects to discharge its obligations under this chapter, or threatens to do so;
the Attorney General of the United States may petition in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for such equitable relief as may be necessary or appropriate.
Source(Pub. L. 98–244, § 7,Mar. 26, 1984, 98 Stat. 110; Pub. L. 100–240, § 2(b)(2),Jan. 11, 1988, 101 Stat. 1786; Pub. L. 106–408, title II, § 205,Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1780.)
In subsec. (a), "section 10101 of title 36" substituted for "the Act entitled 'An Act for audit of accounts of private corporations established under Federal law', approved August 30, 1964 (Public Law 88–504, 36 U.S.C. 1101–1103)" and "a corporation in part B of subtitle II of title 36" substituted for "a private corporation established under Federal law" on authority of Pub. L. 105–225, § 5(b),Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1499, the first section of which enacted Title 36, Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations.
2000—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–408substituted "the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate" for "Congress" and inserted at end "The report shall include a detailed statement of the recipient, amount, and purpose of each grant made by the Foundation in the fiscal year."
1988—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–240inserted "; and a description of all acquisition and disposal of real property that is subject to section 3703 (e) of this title" before period at end.
Change of Name
Committee on Resources of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.
Termination of Reporting Requirements
For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in House Document No. 103–7 (in which a report required under subsec. (b) of this section is listed on page 203), see section 3003 ofPub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance.
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Domino's Pizza Scandal Shows Effective PR & Media Training - Here's Why:
1. Domino's responded within the medium - original video aired on YouTube
2. Message from the head-honcho - says issue is serious and high priority
3. Consumer focus helps regain trust - key message is consumer health, safety, satisfaction; not profits
REMEMBER - PR pro's loyalty is ultimately to act in the public's best interest.
(Source: youtube.com)
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PR-B School Board considers increasing operating levy
The Pine River-Backus School Board held a special public meeting Tuesday, Aug. 13, to discuss options for this year's operating levy.
Under the 2013 Omnibus Tax Bill, the Pine River-Backus School Board was granted the legal authority to increase its operating levy from $1.02 per student up to as much as $300 per pupil unit without voter approval.
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