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Plus: Trade Gap Shrinks in September, Manufacturing Technology Orders Surge and Jobless Claims Inch Down.
U.S. Trade Gap Narrows
The United States trade deficit shrank to $41.5 billion in September, a 5.1 percent drop from the revised $43.8 billion total in August and the lowest level in nearly two years, largely due to a rebound in exports and a slower rise in import rates, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. August exports rose 3.1 percent to $187 billion, while imports rose 1.5 percent to $228.5 billion.
The goods deficit for the month fell to $57.5 billion, a $1.4 billion decrease from August, while the services surplus inched up $0.8 billion to $15.9 billion. Goods exports rose by $5.4 billion, led by higher demand for industrial supplies and materials, foods and beverages and consumer goods. Goods imports increased by $3.9 billion, with the largest gains in consumer goods, industrial supplies and materials and capital goods. Meanwhile, services exports rose by $0.3 billion to $53 billion and services imports fell by $0.6 billion to $37.1 billion.
"[T]he narrower trade deficit could lead the government to revise its July-September economic growth estimate slightly higher than the 2 percent annual rate reported last month. That's because U.S. companies earned more from overseas sales while consumers and businesses spent less on foreign products," the Associated Press reports. "Economists cautioned that the increase in exports may only be temporary. One reason is soybean exports rose 32 percent in September from August, in part because of a jump in prices linked to the summer drought."
In September, the trade gap declined to its lowest level since December 2010 thanks to the largest upswing in exports in over a year. Although the European debt crisis and slower growth in emerging markets impeded sales in the third quarter, overseas demand for U.S.-made goods has rebounded. So far this year, the U.S. trade deficit is at an annual rate of $554 billion, slightly smaller than the $559.9 billion gap for the same period in 2011.
"The data was the latest positive sign for the U.S. economy, which has appeared to perk up as consumers spend more freely and home construction quickens," Reuters notes. "Chinese demand for U.S. products appeared to help exporters in September. China bought $8.8 billion in U.S. goods and services, up 0.3 percent from a month earlier…"
U.S. to Become World's Top Oil Producer
Growth in oil output will allow the U.S. to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2017, leading the rapid growth in energy production and becoming the most self-sufficient energy-producing nation in net terms by 2035, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Over the next two decades, international oil trade patterns will shift, with almost 90 percent of Middle Eastern oil exports drawn to Asia by 2035, the report explains. Total global oil demand will jump from 87.4 million barrels a day to 99.7 barrels per day by 2035.
The U.S. (which currently imports about 20 percent of its energy resources) will become the top oil producer due to the harnessing of new production technologies, as well as rising global energy prices. In addition, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has rebounded since the BP oil spill two years ago, Forbes explains.
By 2035, natural gas consumption – "the only fossil fuel for which global demand grows in all scenarios" – will also rise dramatically, the report notes. Nearly half of the increase in energy production by 2035 will come from natural gas, and most will be from the U.S., Australia and China. "In the United States, low prices and abundant supply see gas overtake oil around 2030 to become the largest fuel in the energy mix," according to the report's authors.
Machinery Demand Surges in September
The value of U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $667.47 million in September, an increase of 40.7 percent from August and up 13.4 percent from September 2011, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology's (AMT) September U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) report.
Based on data provided by AMT member companies, the September USMTO report also found that total orders for the first nine months of 2012 reached $4.3 billion, a 5.6 percent increase from the comparable period last year. Equipment demand rose in all five of the regions tracked in the report between August and September, while order totals increased year-over-year in four of the five regions.
The largest monthly gains were in the Southern region, where manufacturing technology orders rose to $103.06 million in September, a 57.9 percent increase over August and 32.1 percent more than the total for September 2011. With a year-to-date total of $619.54 million, sales in the Southern region are up 15 percent from the same period last year.
"In the 17 years that this data has been collected, there is only one other month that broke $600 million. Both of those were in months that reflected sales from IMTS, showing its strength as the largest manufacturing event in the Americas," Douglas K. Woods, president of AMT, said. "It's possible we could average $450 million a month for all of 2012 — the largest year ever for this program. This speaks to tremendous strength in the manufacturing industry, and is proof that IMTS 2012 was the strongest show seen in years."
Jobless Claims Fall
New initial jobless claims fell in the latest week reported, indicating that the labor market may be improving, despite the fact that the effects of Hurricane Sandy have begun to skew the statistics, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Seasonally adjusted unemployment insurance claims for the week ending November 3 dropped to 355,000, a decrease of 8,000 from the previous week.
However, the four-week moving average, which provides a more accurate long-term picture of the employment situation, increased by 3,250 to a total of 370,500 for the week.
Experts have cautioned that any recent week-to-week declines in jobless claims may be due to distortions caused by the storm that hit the Northeast, which caused power outages that likely prevented officials from receiving unemployment insurance claims. Claims are poised to increase as the storm's effects on the labor market are fully felt. Historically, large hurricanes drive up jobless claims by roughly 4 percent.
"It may take three to four weeks to see the full impact…which indicates claims may jump back in coming weeks as more storm-related applications begin to be processed," Bloomberg News explains. "A Labor Department report last week showed the economy added more jobs than projected in October and the unemployment rate rose as hundreds of thousands of Americans rejoined the job search as prospects improved."
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Obama wants to dumb down a college degree to something he and his supporters could pass. The kind of set-aside programs Harvard and Columbia offered to him - fully financed. It is important to our educational system that our college graduates exhibit diversity - for every hard working intelligent graduate you need one Obama supporter.


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How Can I Be Sure There Are Drugs in my Inhaler?
Many new inhalers include a counter. For those without, knowing how much medication is available in an asthma inhaler is a problem. Many people with asthma tell of using their inhalers until they can no longer hear a "puff" sound when they try to spray it. The problem is that most asthma canisters generate a puff sound long after the asthma medication is gone. You may be using the asthma inhaler properly and hearing the puff sound when you spray it, yet the asthma inhaler canister may be completely empty. This is a serious problem when you depend on the inhaled medication to relieve asthma symptoms.
The best way to know how many doses remain in an asthma inhaler without a counter is to mark the number of doses used on the inhaler and then toss the inhaler after you've used this number of puffs. You can find the total number of doses on the asthma inhaler box or canister. Mark the date on your calendar when you expect to use all of the available puffs in the new asthma inhaler and obtain a new asthma inhaler before this date. Keep one or two extra quick-relief inhalers at home. Carefully review the instructions that came with the inhaler (or locate them online). Some inhalers must be shaken before each use; others must be primed if not used for several days.
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A spacer is a tube that attaches to the asthma inhaler and holds the medication until you can breathe it in. This makes using the asthma inhaler easier and helps to deposit the medication into the lungs more efficiently. Not all inhalers should be used with a spacer, so discuss this with your pharmacist. There are times that an MDI or asthma inhaler may be used without a spacer. Your doctor will decide which method of using an asthma inhaler is best for you.
Spacers with masks are available for use by small children or anyone else who may not be able to breathe in correctly through a standard spacer connected to an asthma inhaler.
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- Remove the caps from the asthma inhaler and spacer device. Shake the asthma inhaler.
- Insert the asthma inhaler into the open end of the spacer, which is opposite the spacer's mouthpiece.
- Breathe out completely.
- Place the mouthpiece of the spacer between your teeth and seal your lips tightly around it.
- Press the canister of the asthma inhaler once to release the medicine. The medicine will be trapped in the spacer.
- Breathe in slowly and completely through your mouth. With some spacers, you will hear a horn-like sound if you are breathing too quickly. This means you need to slow down on your next breath.
- Hold your breath for at least 10 seconds to allow the medication to deposit in your lungs.
- Remove the spacer and breathe out slowly.
- Wait for about one minute and then repeat steps for every puff of medication ordered.
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A 70-year-old Michigan woman who is facing an animal cruelty charge involving a dozen horses is getting them back following a court hearing.
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Officials say the horses were found last year without food or fresh water at Wainscott's farm in Cohoctah Township, about 55 miles northwest of Detroit.
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text: Apr03 golfwomen's golffighting camelsgo camelsgocamelscampbell universitycampbelluniversityCampbell Athleticsjohn crooksbig south Campbell women's golf coach John Crooks: "We have some incredible talent" (Campbell women's golf coach John Crooks with junior Kaylin Yost. | Photo by Bennett Scarborough) On April 14, the Fighting Camels women's golf team will open play in the Big South Championship, which will be held at the Patriot Golf Club in Ninety Six, S.C. A tournament win there would give the women's golf program at Campbell its 12 conference title and berth in its 16th NCAA Regional since since John Crooks became head coach of the program in 1991. (Crooks also coaches the men's team, which has won five conference titles since 1990.) Crooks says he has coached a lot of good women's golf teams at Campbell. But he doesn't think he has ever had as many good players on one team as he does this season. "There are nine players, and any one of them has been the best one on the team on any particular day," says Crooks, who has the second most tournament wins (69) in NCAA division I history among active coaches of women's programs. This year's squad had won five tournaments through the end of March, and is ranked No. 33 in the most recent Golfstat NCAA Division 1 head-to-head national ratings. Through March, five different golfers at Campbell have been named the Big South Women's Golfer of the Week: sophomore Brooke Bellomy, the 2012 Big South Freshman of the Year; sophomore Lisbeth Brooks; junior Maria Jose Benavides; senior Teresa Urquizu; and junior Kaylin Yost, the 2012 Big South Women's Golfer of the Year. Crooks talked to us about this year's team, his coaching philosophy, and why he has stayed at Campbell for a Q&A. Scroll down to see what he also has to say about each of the nine players on the women's team. How good is this team? There are nine players on my team, and every one of them has been the best on the team on any particular day. But, six of them have proven consistent; and it's impossible to talk about the strength of the team and not talk about how good those six were in the fall. I don't care which team you are in the country; if you have somebody ranked in the Top 200 in the nation, they're good. At one point last fall, I had all six ranked in the Top 200. That just means we have some incredible talent on the women's golf team. [Editor's note: Those six were sophomore Brooke Bellomy, junior Maria Jose Benavides, senior Teresa Urquizu, junior Kaylin Yost, sophomore Lisbeth Brooks and freshman Tahnia Ravnjak.] How would you rank this team with other teams you've coached here? I think history is going to tell us. We've had an outstanding program for a great number of years. We've had a lot of really good teams. Once upon a time, in 1998, we qualified for nationals and finished 14 in the nation. There were other good players on that team, but there were two stars. It's very possible that we could have five stars on this current team. When they're good, they're very good. What makes them so good? Golf is an individual sport first; in college, we turn it into a team sport. Each of these young ladies come in being the best from their regions, whether it was Lisbeth coming from Wisconsin, Tahnia from Australia, Teresa from Spain, Kaylin from Florida, Maria Jose from Mexico. Six players were the best from where they came from, and then they get here and realize there are five other people that are just like them and just as good as them. The internal competition on the team is what is driving each of their successes. It's almost a love-hate situation. They love each other, and they know that their teammates are very good players. At the same time, they hate losing to anybody. How do you manage a tight group of individuals who are also each other's competitors? They are good young people, and there are certainly some flare ups; but if a situation occurs, we deal with it and move on. And as good as they are on the golf course, they are better people. They genuinely care about each other, and they care about doing the right thing. We have a talk on the team about making Campbell proud, and they do. What are the goals for the team this season? First goal is to be one of the 72 teams invited to the NCAA Regionals. The way to do that is to win the conference championship. And that is never, ever a given. You can't control that. All you can to do is prepare your team, but you don't know what other teams will do. Last year, we made it to regionals; and with nine holes to play on the final day we were within position to advance to the national championships. In fact, we had the lowest score on one particular round of any of the teams there. We knew we could compete on the national level, but then, on those last nine holes, we made mistakes and didn't get it done. Everybody on the team saw how close we got; the players understand that only 24 teams advances to nationals and all five players have to be at the top of the games when it counts. How do you keep them focused on that ultimate goal of making it nationals? There are not a lot of rah-rah speeches. In some sports, like football, there is a great deal of emotional burst to start of the game. But I've been coaching for 20 some years, and in those years, I've learned that I to try to keep the emotions in check. I have to keep them at a level keel, because some days we tee off at 8 o'clock in the morning and play for 10, 11 hours; and there can be big emotional shifts within those hours. Maybe my role is more of trying to keep things rather calm. You've been here for a couple of decades. Why have you stayed? Because I love it. Why? And why do you think you've been so successful here? Campbell has been very supportive of our program. We've got one of the best golf facilities in the nation; and when I'm recruiting athletes to Campbell, I'm able to talk to them about getting a great education and improving their golf game. I truly believe that Campbell might be the best place in the country to go to school. The people who come here — every single asset they need, they have. I'm just fortunate to be in a position where I can help them. —————————————————————————————————————————————- Meet the Women's Golf Team (The Campbell women's golft team. Front row, left to right: Kaylin Yost, Teresa Urquizu, Tahnia Ravnjak, Brooke Bellamony. Back row, left to right: Mary-Katelyn Holanek, Babette lemberger, Maria Jose Benavides, Lisbeth Brooks, Ali Prazak. | Photo by Bennett Scarborough) John Crooks, head coach of the Fighting Camels women's golf team, also shared with us what he wants people to know about each of the players on the squad. Brooke Bellomy, sophomore from Ona, W.Va. "Brooke started off well her freshman year but then got mono. That was a major hit. It wasn't until this past fall that she was 100 percent healthy again. She started off the year winning the first tournament in record fashion. She let the others know very quickly she was one to be reckoned with." Maria Jose Benavides, junior from Lerma, Mexico "She played a lot as a freshman. When she came back to school her sophomore year, she learned an important lesson: if you don't continue to try to improve, then it's possible to lose your spot. But Maria has an internal drive that a lot people don't have. She did things necessary to improve her skillset. When we put her back in, she proved that she could be the best player, too." Lisbeth Brooks, sophomore from Waunakee, Wisc. "The people on the team recognize her as the hardest worker. She started to run on her own in addition to our conditioning. I've heard that the cross country coach saw her running and asked if she was interested in joining the team. She's one who goes to bed every night knowing she did the best she could do that day." Mary-Katelyn Holanek, freshman from Cary, N.C. "She has been extremely supportive of everybody on the team, almost to her own detriment. She didn't want to make the others feel bad by beating them too bad. In our very first qualifying round this year, she came in and beat every one of them. And then something crept into her swing that's doing more damage than good, and we haven't been able to get rid of that yet. But once she does, she's right in the game." Babette Lemberger, sophomore from Vienna, Austria "She has excellent swing fundamentals, and she's learning to match the art of scoring with the technique she has. She is working really hard. Our person in charge of conditioning just recognized her for best effort." Ali Prazak, junior from St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands "She has the distinction of being the longest hitter on the team. She had a very good summer, and represented the Virgin Isles in the World University Games in China. But when she got back to school, for whatever reason, she went through a little slump. Rather than using her year of eligibility, we made the choice to redshirt her, which will give her options ahead." Tahnia Ravnjak, freshman from Cordeaux Heights, Australia "She's from Australia. She had some culture shock, but never once have I heard her say, 'We did it this way in Australia.' People say that freshmen have a lot more enthusiasm than experience, but she has brought both enthusiasm and experience." Teresa Urquizu, senior from San Sebastian, Spain "Our senior, our captain. She comes from a golfing family. One of Teresa's neighbors is José María Olazába, who was the captain of the Ryder Cup European team. Teresa has been around golf enough to know that nothing is ever given to you and the more you practice, the more you get. " Kaylin Yost, junior from Pembroke Pines, Fla. "I think when people meet Kaylin, she's so nice that some people might think 'This is too good to be true.' But no, she really is that nice. She's a really talented player and a good student who has overcome a lot of hardships." Permalink


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Originally titled "ZAAT" back in 1971, the movie was restored years later, with a directors cut.
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Anthony Lewis in the New York Times: "With 'Killing the Dream,' he has written a superb book: a model of investigation, meticulous in its discovery and presentation of evidence, unbiased in its exploration of every claim. And it is a wonderfully readable book, as gripping as a first-class detective story."
"What we need is a work of painstakingly honest journalism, a la 'Case Closed,' Gerald Posner's landmark re-examination of the assassination of John F. Kennedy," concluded Joe Sharkey in the New York Times.
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iPod battery lawsuit to be filed in January
"Another growing source of complaints surrounds Apple's wildly-popular iPod line of digital music players, which many enthusiasts believe will get an upgrade at Macworld with the introduction of smaller, less-expensive models and a range of case colors.
In California, a lawsuit seeking class-action status is expected to be filed January against the company over the claim that Apple's warranty does not run long enough to cover problems with the player's battery."
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This is ridiculous.
Batteries in everything die. You have to replace your car battery every 5 years lest you be stranded somewhere without jumper cables. You can't claim that on your 10yr/100,000mi warranty.
Apple righted itself with its $99 replacement plan. I'd like to see it cheaper, but batteries are expensive no matter if you're Apple or not, and installation is a personalized service—it's not machine-done.
Posted by dethbrakr in Tacoma, WA on December 31, 2003 at 6:08 PM (CST)
highest lawyer/citizen ratio in the world. They gotta do something. if not Apple, they would sue you for buying one.
Posted by bk on December 31, 2003 at 7:36 PM (CST)
While I agree that for something that costs over $400, a 1 year warrenty is insufficient, I also realize that the only people who profit from these lawsuits are the lawyers.
For instance, the recent lawsuit against the music industry for price fixing netted each of the plaintiffs a paltry $5 each while the lawyers took home millions.
Posted by Mountain Man on December 31, 2003 at 8:37 PM (CST)
<sarcasm> bah. i bought my new car and now it won't run. i called the company and they said i have to change the oil. and, get this, refuel the car. i'm suing.</sarcasm>
Posted by wheelz on January 1, 2004 at 1:07 AM (CST)
uhhh, i refuel my ipod everyday. That is not the point wheelz.
Posted by bob on January 1, 2004 at 1:25 AM (CST)
I have a radical idea. It's called an *easily* replacable battery. I don't mean un-screwing the back of the case and buying the battery from some third-party site, or mailing it in somewhere. I mean a replacable battery.
There's no cell-phone out there that doesn't have a replacable battery, there are other MP3 players that have a replacable battery,...even my shaver has a replacable battery.
It's just lazy…, and money-hungry (knowning many people won't do it themselves and will pay the extra money to have it replaced if they need to). For comparison the Creative Nomad Zen has a bulit-in battery that can be replacabled by Creative for $99. However, the newer Zen NX, and Zen Xtra have easily replacable batteries that cost $49. All the Creative MuVo2 players also use this same battery.
Posted by drdestiny on January 1, 2004 at 3:16 AM (CST)
There has to be a compromise between fasion and usability and practicality. I hope Apple figures this out with the next iPods.
Posted by dethbrakr in Tacoma, WA on January 1, 2004 at 3:49 AM (CST)
I think Bob is right; a replacable battery would end the complaints; not only can users easily replace dead batteries, but buying one or more spares would get you through longer trips where you can't recharce, f.i. intercontinental flights.
Posted by dura on January 1, 2004 at 3:53 AM (CST)
off topic, but what's "f.i." stand for?
Posted by dethbrakr in Tacoma, WA on January 1, 2004 at 4:12 AM (CST)
for instance, forgot to add 'for' after it.
Posted by dura on January 1, 2004 at 6:32 AM (CST)
Mountain man wrote:
While I agree that for something that costs over $400, a 1 year warrenty is insufficient.
A one year warranty is pretty much standard on all electronics regardless of cost. Why would/should Apple make theirs longer?
Posted by rdowns in NYC on January 1, 2004 at 7:20 AM (CST)
It's called "standing behind your product." Besides, shouldn't a device that carries a premium price tag also have a premium warrenty? I'm thinking 3 years for a $500 iPod is in no way unreasonable.
Posted by Mountain Man on January 1, 2004 at 7:54 AM (CST)
Firstly Mountain Man is spot on; it's not like it's a cheap piece of equipment.
Any Uk Ipod owner might also be interested in the new Department of Trade regulations that state products must be free from manufacturing defect for upto 6 years. Obviously if your
Posted by bobsyerunkle on January 1, 2004 at 8:38 AM (CST)
This is such a bullsh*t complaint. People who bought the ipod obviously didn't think the 1 year warranty was short enough to keep them from buying it so they're best to keep their mouths shut. All electronics have a life span that is determined by how much a product is used and how it is used. People who don't use it that often will be compaining that the battery went out in 5 years, people who use it a lot will complain that it went out in 2 years. You can't please everyone. 1 year is standard for most electronics, even those priced in the high hundreds. There is an option at most places (Best Buy, Circuit City, Comp USA) for an extended warranty that covers any problems you may have well after the actual warranty ends. If we all agree that for 400+ dollars that we should get as much protection as possible, then get the extended warranty. It should be assumed that if you have 500 dollars to plunk down on a luxury item such as an ipod, then you should have an extra 50 bucks to make sure it lasts.
Posted by dave on January 1, 2004 at 1:37 PM (CST)
Most people buy high dollar electronics with the reasonable expectation that it will last them for years, not die shortly after the warrenty expires. While this is not the case with every iPod, it is enough of a concern that Apple felt compelled to create their own extended warrenty program as well as offer iPod battery replacements. So if they can extend the warrenty for $50 (the going rate of the AppleCare plan) then why can't they go ahead and make the 2 year warrenty standard for all newly purchased items? In a sense, they already offer a two year warrenty, they're just gouging the customer for a little extra cash while they're at it.
Posted by Mountain Man on January 1, 2004 at 1:52 PM (CST)
Great. Some scumbag lawyer will end up with a million bucks, and a bunch of iPod users will each get coupons good for 5 free songs at the ITMS.
Posted by m.s on January 1, 2004 at 2:18 PM (CST)
"Besides, shouldn't a device that carries a premium price tag also have a premium warrenty? I'm thinking 3 years for a $500 iPod is in no way unreasonable."
These comments are hilarious! "Premium" price tag? Right. Look, $20,000 Plasma televisions have 1 year warranties. Even my higher-end components from Marantz and the like have 1 year warranties.
Good grief, get over it!
Posted by Atomic Bomb in Mid-Atlantic on January 1, 2004 at 3:54 PM (CST)
My $300 computer monitor came with a 3 year warrenty. Why shouldn't a $500 iPod?
Frankly, this new trend of reducing the warranties of all high priced consumer electronics to one year is rather disturbing.
Posted by Mountain Man on January 1, 2004 at 8:47 PM (CST)
It's not a new trend.
Posted by Atomic Bomb in Mid-Atlantic on January 1, 2004 at 9:27 PM (CST)
Itunes is the most talked about music download service - the media darling.
You need an IPod for it.
So if you put people off buying an ipod, and get them to buy an alternative, then you force them to use another service to get their downloads.
And what better way to put people off a product than by sueing the company that makes it - claiming negligence, a 'mightier than thou' attitude, feeding the idea that you are throwing $500 in the bin…
I think that all these lawsuits and bad publicity is a 'dirty tricks' campaign with an alterior motive.
Posted by Halo on January 2, 2004 at 6:23 AM (CST)
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As facebook rolled the new facebook profiles . in old facebook the pages i "liked" and links that i "shared" are directly shown in profile pages , but in the new facebbok both are missing So, Where i can find this ? Thanks in advance
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You can find the links that you have posted by clicking on Links on the left side of the home page (you may need to click More▾ first, or just go to http://www.facebook.com/posted.php) and then click on My Links.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- (NRF Annual Convention & Expo, Booth #2749) Wavelink, a LANDesk Software business unit (www.wavelink.com), today announced Wavelink Terminal Emulation (TE) for Android 1.3. This ground-breaking release provides new features to support an enhanced user experience and simplified management on Android mobile devices. Utilized on more than 3 million devices around the globe with nine out of the top 10 world's largest retailers choosing Wavelink TE, Wavelink TE provides reliable access for mobile users to host applications. Wavelink TE enables enterprises to manage and scale business critical applications on mobile devices, ensuring end-users always have the tools they need to get their job done. This latest upgrade brings Wavelink's 20 years of expertise in terminal emulation to the Android platform.
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7 Things You Need to Know About Illinois's New Fracking Rules
In this age of climate destabilization, including record bouts of drought, flooding and severe storms in the heartland, it seems almost unreal that the Democrat-controlled state of Illinois is leading the charge for a fracking and coal mining rush.
And this week, as central and southern Illinois folks pick up the pieces from a horrific series of tornadoes, environmentalists and citizens groups are scurrying to respond to the unmitigated disaster of the state's newly released fracking rules.
"Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear," my dear friend Dorothy Allison wrote in her book, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure.
While the news headlines now tell us that "environmentalists feel betrayed by proposed fracking rules," the truth is -- as one southern Illinois resident told me -- the "criticisms are peanuts compared to what environmentalists gave away to industry in the negotiations that led to the statute."
Two or three things we know for sure: Southern Illinoisans have a long, long, long history of betrayal over environmental and community rights issues. Still deeply entrenched in poverty and unemployment, southern Illinois has been plundered for two centuries by the logging industry for its forests, plundered by the coal industry for its coal reserves, and is now on pace to be plundered for its oil and gas reserves (after a similar oil rush in the 1940s).
"The four organizations who betrayed Southern Illinoisans on the fracking bill -- Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Faith in Place -- are now whining that the legislation which they so loved last Spring has putrefied by Winter," said Sam Stearns, a former oil rig worker, coal miner and long-time Shawnee National Forest activist in southern Illinois. "They might as well save their hand-wringing histrionics. We here in Southern Illinois have seen this show before."
Stearns added a quick history lesson:
It was the "professional" environmental organizations back in the 1970s who signed on to a watered down Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). SMCRA paved the way for the abomination of mountaintop removal mining. Here in Southern Illinois in the 1980s it was the Sierra Club which signed an agreement with the U. S. Forest Service allowing for logging on tens of thousands of acres of our Shawnee National Forest. This logging has been stayed for a couple of decades now thanks to the efforts of grassroots environmental activists; but in the interim this same Sierra Club has acquiesced to other environmental degradation on the Shawnee, including commercial development of Wilderness areas and the application of synthetic chemicals in designated Natural Areas on the Shawnee.
And now, suddenly "betrayed" by Gov. Pat Quinn's Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), Chicago-based environmentalists like NRDC's Ann Alexander think the fracking regulations just "need fixing," to stem any concern about potential water contamination, earthquakes, air pollution, well abandonment and fracking.
Here are two or three more things we know for sure -- at least from environmentalists and citizens groups that live in the fracking-targeted region of southern Illinois, unlike those quoted in the various news articles:
1) Over the Next 40 Days, We Need to Bury the IDNR in Comments About the Loophole-Riddled Fracking Rule -- And Jump Start the Fracking Moratorium Movement: As Illinois native and renowned scientist Sandra Steingraber has admonished -- and done well in New York -- the only way to keep Illinois from fast-tracking the incredibly flawed rules into law is to bury the understaffed IDNR officials during the public comment period, who are required to respond.
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Chomolhari, Bhutan's Sacred Mountain
The mighty ramparts of Chomolhari (23,997'), Bhutan's second highest mountain, rise above the hikers' base camp at Jangothang. Our spectacular trek leads to Jangothang for incredible views of this sacred peak.
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- Summary: Selma Blair, Minnie Driver, Conan O'Brien, Rosie O'Donnell, David Schwimmer, Meryl Streep, and Molly Shannon are some of the guest stars on the second season of the comedy series.
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- Season 2 premiere date: Jul 2, 2012
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Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as online shrink Fiona Wallice, but her true talent is making those around her even funnier.
It's mostly improvised, which makes the funny exchanges between Kudrow and her guest stars even more impressive.
Web Therapy is far more entertaining [than Episodes], but, alas, wildly uneven, probably in part due to the need to weave new material around the Internet series of the same name that spawned it.
Whether or not the creators of Web Therapy intended the series as anything resembling a cohesive statement, they seem to have made one thing clear: We're all just a little bit insane.
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Aug 25, 2012While the first season of Web Therapy was passable, the second season has been nothing short of brilliant so far - cheeky and immensely funny. It only helps that it also has some of the best guest appearances on any comedy show - Meryl Streep, Julia Louis Dreyfuss, Jane Lynch (season 1), Minnie Driver, Selma Blair, Rosie O'Donnell and David Schwimmer. Basically every episode has someone famous playing an extremely quirky character and unlike other shows where such a deluge of guest appearances seems more like an empty trick to attract viewership (Glee!), it only enhances the overall appeal of Web Therapy.… Collapse


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These were delicious, but I encountered a few bumps in the road... First, take note of the length of time to make these... You have to steep the cream and mint for TWO hours (I hadn't realized this and had not planned well, I ended up staying awake until 2AM partially because of this mistake.) Second, I went with 3 cups cream and 1 cup of milk. The custards were in the oven for twice as long as the recipe says and still came out very soft-set. An additional egg yolk would probably have helped. I also had no idea where to find chocolate mint, so I used peppermint from my backyard. Not sure how different chocolate mint tastes, but peppermint yielded a very strong, fresh, super-minty flavor. All that said, these were still amazing, and I plan to make them again.
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Sept. 22 is Elephant Appreciation Day!
Published on Sunday, September 15, 2013 - 2:02pm
I just learned that Sept. 22 is Elephant Appreciation Day!
I love elephants. I love their big ears and long trunks and intimidating tusks. And I love how there are tons of books with important elephant characters!
Of course, no list of elephant books is complete without mentioning Gerald from Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie books.
Gerald is a loyal friend (even when he doesn't want to share his ice cream), and sure to be a hit with young readers.
Start with My Friend is Sad.
Ivan, the protagonist of Katherine Appglegate's recent Newberry Winner, The One and Only Ivan, is a gorilla, not an elephant. But a close friendship with two captured elephants inspires him to change the lives of the animals living with him in a mall circus.
And I couldn't forget about Babar!
Jean de Brunhoff first created this silly elephant in 1931, and his son Laurent continued the series. Now there are over 20 books featuring Babar.
The first one, The Story of Babar, is still available at the library today.
Even novels for adults can heavily feature the majestic elephant. Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants is probably the most popular one, especially given the movie adaptation.
If none of these books appeal to you, you could go celebrate by visiting Ambika, Shanthi, Bozie, and Kandula, the Asian elephants at the National Zoo!


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I love this guy so much. Too bad they keep cleaning his magnificent works away.
It takes some real genius/talent/training to create 2D works of art that looks as good as that.
Yeah, this guy is great. Love his work.
I've seen a lot of this guy's stuff. Genius, really. Amazing what he can do to a 2d image with perspective and shading.
Does it work from every angle, or just the one the photo is shot from?
I highly doubt it.
@WistfulD: No, I've seen similar art work in person, and sadly, they only looks right from within a small range of angles, or certain directions, depending on the art in question…
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The word MINNETONKA has had different meanings to different people. Minne-tonka meant water-big to the Dakotah. To the pioneer it meant a township. Since World War I it has increasingly meant a suburb to families whose work require daily travel.
The warring Dakotah and the Chippewa traveled through Minnetonka often . It seems that their destinations were often Shakopee and Lake Mille Lacs. Without the obstacles of marsh or bluffs, the present area of Minnetonka Mills provided a convenient crossing of Minnehaha Creek. Wayzata, which was a part of Minnetonka Township until 1883, was an occasional campsite for the Dakotah until the Sioux Uprising in 1862.
The Dakotah sold the area including Minnetonka to the United States at Traverse des Sioux in 1851. There after the stream of land speculators and pioneers increased steadily. The first census, the Territorial Census of 1857, lists 41 households. Twenty-nine of the heads of households are listed as farmers. The occupations of the remaining twelve are associated with the operations of Minnetonka Mill and a nearby hotel. Fifteen heads of households were born in Europe, five in Canada, and twenty-one in Ohio and Eastern states. Many of them were relatives or acquaintances.
In 1852, Simon Stevens, Calvin Tuttle and several other St. Anthony businessmen traveled up Minnehaha Creek. Impressed by the rapids in what is now Minnetonka Mills area, they decided to build a saw mill. A dam was completed in early 185 3 in the vicinity of the McGinty Road bridge, and a sawmill constructed on the present Burwell School property. The square oak timbers used in construction of the first suspension bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Anthony were sawed at this Minnetonka Sawmill. The sawed lumber was sold in St. Anthony and St. Paul markets until a fire destroyed the mill in 1854.
In 1855 a two-story sawmill was constructed with a furniture factory on the second floor. A building for varnishing furniture was built on the south side of the creek, at the present Bridge Street. Production consisted mainly of chairs and bedsteads. The Minnetonka Republican at St. Anthony published a short article describing the area. The February 12, 1857 issue said:
Minnetonka City - We have already called attention to the thrift and activity of that little town. Large investments are made there. On January 1, 40 hands were being employed turning out weekly 500 chairs and 200 bedsteads. By April it will be 2000 weekly. One million feet of lumber is in the pond, half of it nicely seasoned. Machinery is on the way for a flour mill. J. P. Miller is erecting a new hotel. But competition from the mills at St. Anthony, the drowning of the mill's manager in 1857 and a fire in 1860 dashed the lofty hopes. From 1860 to 1869 the mill area had no active mill.
Thomas Perkins, in 1869, constructed a 3-1/2 story f lour mill and an ad joining cooper shop. At the peak of its production, around 1880, the mill ground 400 barrels of flour daily and employed 18 men. One of its brands, "Snow Ball," was priced at $3.00 per hundred pound, and local farmers were paid $1.00 per bushel of wheat. From 1874 to the mid-80 ' s, Charles Burwell managed the Minnetonka Mill Company's operations. After the mill's closing Burwell continued to live across the road from the mill and was one of the leading citizens of the community until his death in 1917 .
The ownership of the mill changed hands and hopes were raised that the closed mill might resume operation. That was not to be the case. It never reopened. In the back of his diary George Baker wrote, "April 25, 1895 They are taking down the old mill at Minnetonka. It was there before I was born," and the Minneapolis Journal, on December 29, 1902, reported on a disastrous fire at the mill at Minnetonka on Christmas Day. The defunct mill was no more.
Despite the prominence of the milling industry in Minnetonka, it was farming that provided the backbone of the township' s economy. Pioneer farmers began claiming acreage in the early 1850 ' s, paying $1. 25 per acre . The Chowen, Shaver, Gray and Ogin families from near Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania settled the Groveland area before 1860. The Chastek, Smetana, Empanger and Dominick families came from Bohemia in the 1850's and settled near Hopkins. The McGinty and McGann families came from Ireland during the same period and settled between the Mills and Wayzata. Their Wayzata neighbors, in the 1850' s, were the Keeslings and Harringtons, from Indiana and Canada. By 1860 Minnetonka's population had reached 293.
In the decades after 1860 additional immigrants arrived from Bohemia, the German states, and the Scandinavian countries. From the South came two former slave families, the Carpenters and the Aylors. They farmed near Williston Road and Minnetonka Boulevard. For thirty years Mrs. Carpenter was the community's midwife until the family moved at the turn of the century. By 1900 the children of the pioneers were supplying Minneapolis and Lake Minnetonka residents with fresh produce from their commercial farming operations.
But excellent transportation facilities to Hopkins and Minneapolis began to transform Minnetonka township's economy. Train service to Minneapolis had been available since the 1880's and in 1905 streetcar service began. The attraction to become a city wage earner was great and rapid transit made it possible.
Simultaneously, city dwellers were attracted to Minnetonka and rail service helped to fulfill their hopes as well. By 1913 farmers and land developers had joined their interests and platted more than one dozen residential subdivisions. The two largest subdivisions were along Minnetonka Boulevard, one immediately south of the mills, the other west of Tonkawood Road. Our city streets today still conform to the plans drawn by those developers.
As a maneuver to prevent neighboring villages from continuing to annex portions of Minnetonka township, residents in 1956 voted to establish a village out of the remaining twenty-eight square miles. Opponents, believing that the area was too large, proposed the Village of Burwell north of Minnetonka Boulevard and McGinty Road but they did not prevail.
Minnetonka Village lasted only thirteen years. The complexities and the heavy demands of administering a rapidly developing community required professional management and larger representation. In 1969 a city charter was approved to serve 35,000 residents.
Interspersed among the symbols of our modern age; freeways, shopping centers, and manicured lawns are monuments to our past. The City of Minnetonka still has more than seventy-five barns standing, visible track beds from a long-gone streetcar era, active cattle farms, and several Indian mounds. They are reminders of what we once were and a base for what we are today.
Snapshot of Minnetonka Township in 1954
By Betty Johnson
Maps are windows into the past. A
1954 U.S. Geological Survey map (Hopkins MN quadrangle) gives us a
picture of what Minnetonka was like two years before its government
changed from a township to a village. That map shows lots of white
spaces where small and large farms and five-acre (or bigger)
residential lots were then. Over the next
50 years, most of those areas filled with roads, housing developments,
industrial parks, and shopping centers. The
larger open spaces on today's map are the city's parks.
Today's second-ring suburban community looks much different than in 1954. Some of the major additions and changes in Minnetonka since then include:
-- Country Village Shopping Center. That land was part of a Holasek farm. Two Holasek homes are still there on Minnetonka Mills Road: the red farm house and the white brick house.
-- 7-Hi Shopping Center. In 1954, a drive-in theater was on the southeast corner where K-Mart is today, and Snuffy's Drive-in was on the northwest corner.
-- Opus development between Shady Oak Road and Highway 169, north of the Crosstown was still farm fields with a turkey farm (on the southeastern corner). Today it's all apartments, restaurants, high rise condos, offices, wholesalers-, a hotel, and extensive walks.
-- Minnetonka City Center, north of Minnetonka Blvd. at Williston Road, was a gravel pit and two wooded knolls surrounded by swamp.
-- Williston Industrial Park, south of Minnetonka Blvd. has been built since then.
-- Ridgedale Shopping Center, and the retail areas, hotel, condos and apartments around it, was also truck farming properties.
-- Hopkins School District's 'campus' (high school, North Junior High, Tanglen Elementary) was still Louis Larson's farm.
-- Carlson Center, north of Wayzata Blvd.
-- Glen Lake golf course along the Crosstown replaced the Oak Terrace sanatorium and nursing home.
Some of the large residential housing developments that have been built since 1954 are:
-- Most of Robinwood, west of County Road 73 south of Minnetonka Blvd.
-- Forest Hills, south of Highway 7, west of 494
-- Woodland Hills, south of Highway 7, west of Woodland Road
-- Huntingdon Drive area, west of Shady Oak Road
-- Steiner-Koppelman developments west of Tonkawood Rd. between Highway 7 and Lake St. Extension
-- Large areas on both sides of Plymouth Road north of today's Santa Fe Burlington Northern railroad
-- 'Little Switzerland', south of Shady Oak Lake to Bryant Lake in Eden Prairie
Most of the major four (or six) lane limited access highways hadn't been built in 1954.
-- Interstate 494 wasn't there at all.
-- In 1954, the road along the boundary of Minnetonka and Eden Prairie was called Townline Road. Today, it's the 62nd Street Crosstown Highway.
-- Two lane County Road 18 or Jordan Ave. or Washington Ave. S., depending on the community it went through, became Highway 169.
-- Present Interstate 394 was Wayzata Blvd., two lanes, divided, each way plus a service road on the north side from County Road 18 to Wayzata.
-- Highway 7, built in the late 1930s with four lanes, was the newest highway on the 1954 map.
Gravel pits were all over Minnetonka. Some of those shown on the map:
-- Future Cedar Pass development and Greenbrier apartments and condos on three corners of County Road 73 and Cedar Lake Road - the high hill on the northeast corner was mined a few years later; southwest corner of Wayzata Blvd. and Co. Rd. 18; future City Hall site; future City Maintenance area on Minnetonka Blvd. west of Co. Rd. 73; Babe Ruth field on south side of Minnetonka Blvd. west of Co. Rd. 73; on Woodland Road south of Highway 7.
The Shady Oak School one-room brick school on the northeast corner of Shady Oak Road and Townline Road in 1954. Desks were still visible through the windows, but its location on the map was marked as 'abandoned.'
The 1954 map also shows the the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad which ran from Hopkins through Minnetonka Mills and on west. Today's, one of the city's most popular walking/biking trail is located on that former track.
Lakeshore News: article by William Jepson
The Discovery of Lake Minnetonka
This fall my wife and I took our three sons on an autumn canoe trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. One day's paddle east of Sawbill Lake I said to my boys; 'Imagine that you are two seventeen year old boys paddling across Lake Minnetonka in 1822 when it was a wilderness on the Northwest frontier of the United States. There is a true story about how they became the first European Americans to witness the beauty of that enormous lake. Surrounding the sparkling waters they found a tall virgin forest of Oak, Elm, and Maple. They said the trees were growing so close one could barely pass through them, much like the forested islands that my sons could see surrounding us in Superior National Forest.'
Their names were Joseph Renshaw Brown, the Fort Snelling bugle boy, and William Josiah Snelling , son of the future Commander and namesake of the Fort. Joe was looking for adventure in May of 1822, and he and his friend Will had heard rumors from some Indian friends that there was a large lake about a days journey into the 'Big Woods' towards the setting sun. So he convinced Will and two unnamed soldiers to venture up the creek by canoe without permission into Dakotah Indian Territory. At the time traveling more than nine miles west of the Military Reservation at Fort Snelling meant entering lands never before seen by white men. In 1805 Lt Zebulon Pike acting for the US Government had acquired most of present day Minneapolis in a contract with the Dakotahs for 2000 dollars. That included the eastern end of Little Falls Creek, (present day Minnehaha Creek), from where it flows into the Mississippi, but not the western end where it flows out of Lake Minnetonka.
When they set out that morning they first would have portaged around Minnehaha Falls, which was known then as Little Falls. They also had to go around a cascade that was located at Penn Avenue South today and found a place to camp for the night. The next day, further upstream they encountered another cascade that decades later would provide the waterpower for the lumber and flour mills of Minnetonka Mills. The four young men continued paddling upstream until they reached the source of Little Falls Creek; the vast lake that is now called Lake Minnetonka. They entered the lake at what was later called Outlet Bay and now is called Grays Bay. As they paddled through the wild rice and water lilies they must have been amazed when they went around the bend and laid their eyes on Wayzata Bay. That evening they journeyed into the Lower Lake past Spirit Island, which was a sacred place to the Dakotah. The teepees of the tribe headed by Chief Shakopee were nearby on the north end of Wayzata Bay. The next bay to the west is now called Browns Bay, after Joseph Brown, who with his friends set up camp that night on Big Island in the middle of the lake. Joseph was a smart and good-natured young man but lacking in any formal education. His mother died young and he ran away from his strict minister father in Maryland. He joined the army under Colonel Leavenworth who was assigned to establish the fort at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers for President James Monroe. William Snelling had a quite different upbringing. After spending two years as an undisciplined cadet at West Point he traveled to Fort St. Anthony to live with his doting father and step mother. He was allowed to spend time living with his Dakotah friends in their teepees, enough to learn their language and become a translator.
In 1822 Fort St. Anthony (two years later to be named Fort Snelling ) was under construction and only occupied by a few troops including Colonel Josiah Snelling who was concerned that the boys had not shown up as expected that evening. In those days there was the real danger of encountering bears, wolves, and unfriendly Native Americans who didn't appreciate trespassers. So the Colonel sent out a search party, some of who followed the stream all the way into the lake. There they found Joe and Will, sitting on the shore eating fish and wild strawberries. They brought them back downstream to the fort in one day, half of the time that it had taken the boys to paddle the twenty-two miles upstream. The Colonel was not happy about their escapade, but there apparently is no record of any punishment that was given to the boys, and the affair was kept quiet.
The Native Americans hoped to keep their sacred lake a secret from the encroaching European Americans. They had many burial mounds near the lake which they did not want disturbed and they treasured its' bountiful hunting and fishing grounds. The discovery of the lake seems to have been lost for three decades because it did not appear on three different maps of the time by Long in 1823, Nicollet in 1836, and Pope in 1849. The US government didn't allow settlement in the area until 1851 with the signing of the Treaty of Traverse de Sioux which allowed settlement west of the Mississippi.
So in 1852 Simon Stevens, Calvin Tuttle and several other St. Anthony businessmen, including Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey, traveled up Minnehaha Creek to rediscover the lake. They decided to name it Lake Minnetonka after the Dakotah words for 'big water', and to build a dam and saw mill at the rapids of Minnetonka Mills. In the spring of 1852 their friend James Shaver staked out the first claim on Lake Minnetonka at Grays Bay where he built a log cabin and later started his family.
As I told my sons; it's good to reflect on the contrast between the primeval wilderness and what we have almost 200 years later. There was a time when there were no mansions with docks every 100 feet, no noisy motorboats and jet skis zooming by at 40 mph., no pollution and milfoil, just a pristine and peaceful lake.
By William Jepson
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Walking Tour of Minnetonka Mills
The Society plans on offering walking tours that allow patrons a walk down memory lane. The Minnetonka Mills walking tour is available now, with other neighborhoods coming soon.
Click here to go to the Minnetonka Mills Walking tour.
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