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Flower and berry ice cubes! What a cute idea!
ohhh i am SO DOING THIS when i get home!
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Flower and berry ice cubes! What a cute idea!
ohhh i am SO DOING THIS when i get home!
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i wrote an English translation of the recipe:
(Makes about 35 cookies)
180g (roughly 3/4 cup) butter or margarine, softened and cut into pieces
70g (5/8 cup) powdered sugar
zest of 1/4th lemon
1 egg yolk
20ml (1 1/4 - 1 1/2 tablespoons) freshly squeezed lemon juice
a pinch of salt
280g (2 1/4 cup) flour
thick white embroidery thread
labels (here or here or here or here)
dark chocolate for dipping
In a large bowl, cream the butter. Add the powdered sugar and mix vigorously with a wooden spoon until the mixture becomes creamy and smooth.
Add the lemon zest, egg yolk and lemon juice and mix thoroughly until everything is well incorporateds.
Sift the flour and salt and gradually incorporate just enough to form a dough, with no trace of flour.
Form a ball with the dough, press into a disc and wrap with plastic wrap. Place in the fridge to firm up a half hour minimum.
Preheat oven to 180°C (350 F). Cover 2 or 3 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Lightly flour the work surface. Spread the dough to a thickness of about 5 mm (just below 1/4").
Trace a teabag on cardboard to make a template. Using the template to cut out cookies and place place them on the sheet, with at least 4 cm (1.5") distance between each one. Gather up scraps, press into a ball, re-roll, cut, and repeat until all dough is used.
With the tip of a stiff straw, make a hole about 1 cm (between a fourth and a half of an inch) from the top of the cookie.
If possible, refrigerate the cookies on their baking sheet for twenty minutes: the rest will keep them from spreading and allow them to retain their shape.
Place the sheets on the center rack and bake the cookies about 15 to 18 minutes: the cookies should remain quite pale with gold edges (the bottom should be light brown). Let cool 5 minutes, then using a spatula move the biscuits to a wire rack and leave until completely cooled.
Assemble the cotton thread and the label on each cookie (I double the cotton thread and then I pass the loop through the small hole in the cookie, then pass the free ends through the loop. Using a small pair of scissors, I snip at the crease of the label and insert the free ends of the cotton. Just tie a knot and glue the label to itself and voila!)
Melt chocolate in double boiler if possible. Dip the cookies halfway up to mimic the tea leaves and place on a sheet of parchment paper or shiny foil or cellophane. Allow chocolate to crystallize, preferably several hours or overnight.
And voila! Enjoy!
should be pretty easy to veganize, or since it's just shortbread i could use a vegan recipe.
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roasted turnips on a salad of mixed greens and sprouts, with lemon thyme vinaigrette. everything from scratch, following a recipe that came with my CSA box this afternoon. it was really, really great. the turnips were incredible. i had half a bowl of yesterday's soup with it. i called it my lemony-wemony thymey-wimey dinner, because i am the worst. just the worst.
sweet potato and white bean soup for dinner tonight! adapted from one of kathy hester's recipes, using my last 2 purple sweet potatoes and collards instead of kale. i ate about half the bowl before stopping to clean up and snap a pic. glad i bothered, it's so pretty!
made this tonight on a whim, except instead of cupcakes i made a cake. my frosting is coming apart so i put it in the fridge to see if i could get it to firm up that way. oh dear.
breakfast of scrambled tofu!
halved everything; added half a jalapeno, half a tomato, and half an avocado.
i get impatient cooking tofu, so it was good for me to do prep work while the tofu was browning. i let the tofu actually brown, for once. this does take a bit longer than scrambled eggs, but hopefully with practice i can get it down to 10-15 min.
it's gorgeous and tastes amazing. this is the first time i've really been able to taste the nutritional yeast, i think, and i freakin love the flavor it adds.
none, oh my god, this is awesome. the spice mix is a really great base.
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made chickpea curry w/coconut rice tonight! no pics, but it was pretty.
brown basmati rice instead of white; curry powder instead of my own mix; 1/2 t cinnamon instead of a stick; canned tomatoes instead of fresh; used canned tomato juice + 4 cubes of my own bouillon as part of the 2 c water.
everything went more or less to plan except that i didn't set a timer for the rice. i had to keep lifting the lid to check the progress, which of course only made it take longer.
freakin owned, would make again.
i'd probably sharpen my knives first or buy a better set so i can dice the onion smaller. and i'd also add a bit more curry powder.
doesn't this plate look awesome?? baked kale chips on the left (tossed with olive oil, sesame oil, teriyaki sauce, red pepper flakes, salt) and coriander collards with purple sweet potatoes on the right. both were just absolutely awesome!
got my first batch of CSA veggies! gonna go chop up some sweet potatoes and collards right now. no onion in the house, but i will make do.
saw a friend of mine having this for lunch. something to think about for later this week! gotta pick up coconut milk and basmati rice.
Today is a great day to eat a piece of art.
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After we checked in the hotel and recharged our phones – and bundled up… We headed out to Macy's! Once known as Marshall Fields!
It was cold and a little rainy on the walk over. Did I mention – Chicago and the surrounding areas were bracing for a "blizzard" of some sorts. I heard flights were cancelled later in the day.
We decided to have lunch at The Walnut Room – I had no idea how large this restaurant was… And we still had about an hour wait. During our wait, we did a little shopping…but didn't find anything that we needed. Everything we "wanted" was probably under the tree at home anyway… Plus we really didn't have space in our carry on to purchase much to bring back to Texas.
But we did hear carolers – and spotted them up above
The tree that sits in The Walnut Room
Sadly our table would not be next to the tree…but far enough away that we couldn't see it while we ate lunch – lol
This was our view
I hate to be ugly during Christmas… But the food and the service was kinda crappy.
And this would be our first of three visits to Macy's on State this trip! On our walk back to our hotel it started to sleet…we were frozen by the time we made it back.
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With the core hound packs on the way to Magmadar - at 85, you can just waltz right past them without proximity aggro. And as long as you take Magmadar at the very back of the room, his fears are unlikely to send you all the way into one of the packs either.
In fact, the only trash you can't just walk past are the Core Hound patrols - they've got a really large aggro radius for some reason. Not that killing them is hard, but it's handy to know ahead of time what trash you'll be forced to fight.
Assuming you don't aggro the core hounds in front of Garr, you can fight him at the back of his alcove without having to clear out nearby mobs either. Just make sure your back is to the wall to avoid his minion's knockback when he dies!
Geddon is annoying with multiple living bombs - it's not the explosion that gets you, but the repeated fall damage. Parachute cloaks, rocket boots, disengage etc all help avoid the impact damage.
Shazzrah - again, another boss you can ignore nearby mobs and just kill him where he stands.
Sulfuron is the only boss you want to bother clearing out the rock elemental and corehound patrols before fighting, as it's the one fight you're guaranteed to get adds in otherwise.
All in all, a full clear of all the bosses on my hunter only takes about half an hour to complete - the place is a cakewalk, really.


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"...Government is staffed with mostly well-intentioned but incompetent people... Conspiracy theorists reverse this: They think government is evil-intentioned but supremely competent. That's crazy-talk, Count Chocula."Except in parodies, all villains in fiction are magically immune to the problems of bureaucracy, logistics, and bad luck. Their powers are so strong that this even transfers to their lowest minions. This trope is the opposite of the much less common (but much more realistic) Dystopia Is Hard. Let's say you want to ride in an airplane. The airline staff are always putting your luggage on the wrong plane but if an agent of the Government Conspiracy is riding the same plane, his luggage will always be fine. Why? Somehow, the conspiracy makes everybody as competent as their masters - even the airline staff they bribe, who are barely in on the conspiracy at all. Even stranger is that the power of the conspiracy extends to people who don't work for them. Does the airport have an Obstructive Bureaucrat who makes people miss their planes by petty delays? On bombing day, he'll suddenly be clean and efficient, and the agent will board on time. The conspirators didn't bribe him or blackmail him - he will simply never make a mistake that could hurt them. This power does not extend to the heroes, who may be strip-searched by the bureaucrat while the bomber goes untouched. The Government Conspiracy isn't the only group that can do this. An army of Nazis, Orcs, Scary Dogmatic Aliens, etc., can march anywhere, any time, without slowing down to rest or eat, while the poor heroes are tired and hungry all the time. Logistics problems - insuffficient reinforcements, food, fuel, medicine, pay, equipment, weapons, ammunition, spare parts - don't apply to them. The villainous army never slows down because an Evil Supply Officer forgot to order enough supplies, or because a greedy Evil Supply Officer sold some for cash, or because their needs were just plain impossible to meet. Meanwhile, any heroic army will have at least one Obstructive Bureaucrat getting in the way. This power extends further to inanimate objects. An evil commander's cell phone never goes out of order, but a hero's cell phone will go out of order whenever it would be inconvenient for the author. The stupid ticket machine at the airport which ate the heroes' money will always give the villains the plane tickets they need. The villains will never fail at anything For Want of a Nail. The exception is a Spanner in the Works, but that usually happens at the end. This is perfect for maintaining a Masquerade. You can have hundreds, nay, thousands of people keeping the same secret, and nobody will screw it up. The Men in Black Cleaners will never get the wrong address and remove all evidence of alien activity at the house next door of where they should have gone. The assassin never gets cold feet or an attack of guilt or decides he can make more money through blackmail or writing a tell-all book detailing the conspiracy. The commanders never put their own careers over the goals of the organization, The Weirdness Censor fails so rarely that the Only Sane Man is easily dismissed, and the Mooks never form a union. The only way that an Enemy Civil War can occur is through deliberate manipulation on the heroes' part (such as Feed the Mole). In an evil empire this is sometimes justified because any incompetent officials were long ago executed and been replaced with much more efficient and highly motivated employees. The Heroes on the other hand will constantly try to improve these incompetents rather than just firing and replacing them. One more thing; this trope describes (real or fictional) entities which are either realistically prone to complications or unrealistically immune. Examples of how (real or fictional) entities are protected by the Weirdness Censor, Mind Control, human nature, or integrate those complications into their plans belong elsewhere. From a narrative standpoint, this happens because it is emotionally satisfying to see the intrepid heroes defeat the villain's Evil Plan because of their determined efforts to overcome both the villain's schemes and random obstacles. It is considerably less satisfying to see the villain fail because the airline lost his luggage and the heroes got lucky. Also, the audience usually wants to see that the villain's plan would have succeeded were it not for the heroes, and because Villains Act, Heroes React, the villain's first action would have to have succeeded. That said, there are still plenty of aversions and inversions in the examples below. Supertrope to Repressive But Efficient. Inversion of Evil Will Fail and Fascist, but Inefficient. Gambit Roulette is a Sister Trope, where all the factors that would most likely make The Plan fail just don't happen. See also Hanlon's Razor, Villains Blend in Better, Sinister Surveillance, Offscreen Villain Dark Matter and Reality Is Unrealistic. When this happens in Video Games, it's because The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard. Contrast Harmless Villain, Third Act Stupidity. Not to be confused with Mobile Menace.
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There comes a time in every writer's life, no matter which genre you work in, that your creative switch gets a short. In these moments, it seems like nothing you do gets the creative juices flowing.
However, there are some fun exercises you can use to cure this right away. It requires stepping out of your box though and sometimes out of yourself, as you will see.
1. Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
Put a different pair of glasses on.
Are you a man? Write from a woman's perspective.
Are you a minority woman? Write through the eyes of a Caucasian CEO.
Sometimes, just putting on different goggles will put your writing machine into a completely different mode.
Don't worry that the article or story isn't right for the intended audience right away. The point is to write from a new angle and take your creativity a new direction.
Then, you can edit to your heart's content, but words must be on the paper first.
2. Become a Stalker
Okay, not really, but seriously, watch people. Go to a coffee shop, sit there and absorb the conversations going on around you.
After relaxing and listen for a bit, you'll find yourself mentally responding to comments that are made and questions that are raised. It doesn't matter if the topic relates to your writing assignment.
The idea is for your mind to work on its own without purposeful direction for a while. Soon, you'll come up with your own conversation and that gives you something to start working with.
It's all about new input and new ideas from unexpected sources. Pay attention to what's going on around you and see what inspires you.
3. Answer a Question
Yes, answer any question. Do you have kids around? Tell them to ask you something.
If you don't have kids around that are always full of creative thoughts, ask another adult. It doesn't matter what they ask you–the point is to "shock" your brain into coming up with an answer to a question you were not anticipating.
After answering the question, consider what made them come up with that particular one. What thoughts were they mulling over before they presented it to you?
Now you're on the trail of the question's background and who knows what mysteries you will uncover?
4. Create a Person
Sometimes it's not about the story or the article–it's about the main character. Have some fun–create a person.
Don't think about their routine or their life–just write down everything about them from their physical description to their clothing. After that's done, think about what they're doing and why they're dressed that way.
Just by taking your attention away from the main part of the story or article for a few minutes, you'll inspire some creative directions for your assignment or post.
5. Animate Various Objects
Pick a household item–anything you want–and give it a voice. It can be silly, fun, dramatic, any direction you want to take it.
Again, the point is to do something completely out of character. Got a vacuum? Make it talk–write a little piece from the vacuum's point of view.
If nothing else, your kids will crack up over it and the laughter alone will give you ideas. These may sound silly, but they work when you become overwhelmed by technical details and deadlines.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After Tuesday's powerful earthquake in Chile, NewsChannel 5 checked in with several college students from Nashville who are in the country studying abroad.
Immediately after the earthquake, students said phone and internet lines were jammed with people trying to tell loved ones they were unharmed.
One student who grew up in Nashville and was living near the coast of Chile while studying abroad said she had to be evacuated away from shore as the threat of a tsunami loomed.
Because of Chile's long coastline, several people in some parts of the country didn't even feel the earthquake. One group of students from Lipscomb reached out on Twitter to get the word out that they were safe.
"I guess it was just the most convenient way," said Adriana Leon, one of the Lipscomb students studying abroad. "That way, other people who also follow Lipscomb were aware of what was going on in Chile if they hadn't heard about it already."
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In March, I went on my first vacation of more than a few days since starting our test prep company in 2009. For the first time, I left the day-to-day responsibilities of running the business to someone else — my new full-time sales director, Bryan. As I saw an email trail of him taking care of the business as well or better than I would have, I realized I should have brought him on six months earlier.
As the company grew, the day-to-day tasks of running the business took over more and more of my time. Doing all of those day-to-day tasks myself meant that I was no longer spending any time on growth projects. I now realize this was actually putting the brakes on our company's growth. My job needs to be growing the company -– I'm much better at that than managing day-to-day.
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A young lord returns to his home village where his lover was murdered a year earlier; but something else is also now around, attacking the townsfolk. (Seto/Yami)
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the hipster au no one asked for.
the hipster au no one asked for.
It's easy to just go, sketch after sketch, almost on autopilot. He thinks about the little things that had jumped out at him yesterday — hipster summer slouch, the heavier materials of middle America, the washed out neutrals of his own childhood. The ghost stories and monster tales sit at the back of his mind, spectral and glowing, and he knows they're guiding some of what he's drawing, in the abstract.
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Former Gym Dog Sierra Sapunar (ABJ '05) stars in Cirque du Soleil's "Viva Elvis" at the Aria in Las Vegas. She wears this showgirl costume during the finale, which features the songs "Viva Las Vegas" and "Hound Dog." Aaron Felske/Costume by Stefano Canulli/Cirque du Soleil
Five nights a week, Sierra Sapunar puts on makeup for a solid hour. She applies false eyelashes and layers bright colors, creating highlights and contours. The result is "intense."
"It's more makeup than I ever thought I'd have to wear," Sapunar (ABJ '05) says. "Ever."
But the makeup is part of the job when you're starring in "Viva Elvis," a Cirque du Soleil show that pays tribute to the life and music of Elvis Presley.
Ten years ago Sapunar had no idea she'd be joining the circus. She'd spent her childhood training to become an Olympic gymnast, leaving her California home for a gym in Cincinnati at the age of 13. But a broken elbow caused her to miss the Olympic trials in 2000, so Sapunar started looking at colleges.
"Georgia was the place that I felt the most comfortable with," she says. "It was just a this-is-where-I-belong feeling."
As a Gym Dog, Sapunar helped UGA win four SEC championships and earn four top-three finishes at the NCAA championships while also earning All-American honors for herself. And in addition to getting a degree in telecommunications, she rediscovered her passion for being in front of audiences.
"After missing the Olympic team and all that heartbreak, college brought the love back in me for gymnastics and performing," she says. "And I think that's just what kind of spurred me to keep going."
After graduation she worked in circus production, meeting performers that she later visited in Las Vegas. During her trip she auditioned for "Folies Bergere" and was hired on the spot. Sapunar spent two and a half years with the show, housed at the Tropicana, performing in classic showgirl style and honing her aerial skills on the side. She applied to Cirque du Soleil but waited more than two years before they called.
"It was like a dream come true," she says. "The Olympics of the circus—that's what I call Cirque."
Sapunar headed to Cirque headquarters in Montreal to train for the new show. The regimen included acting, singing, clowning and percussion classes and lasted eight hours a day, five days a week—later increasing to 10 hours a day, six days a week.
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Tapped for two pieces, Sapunar was presented with a huge metal structure for bar work, which she hadn't done in years. The "Return to Sender" set resembles a barracks and references Presley's Army stint, with Sapunar and others flying from bar to bar.
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Her second piece, choreographed to the song "It's Now or Never," started as a stationary Chinese pole but evolved into a new apparatus, a "spin pole" that bends in the middle and swings around in circles.
"It's come so, so far in the beauty of it and the synchronicity of the number, and it's something that the world's never seen," she says. "The world has seen high bar before. The world has never seen this unusual pole that leans to the side with girls dangling off of it."
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Families of HOPE: Susan Morrow
Susan Morrow was reunited with her children 13 years after they were abducted by their father. Read about her experience in our ongoing series from volunteers with Team HOPE, a peer support program for families with missing or sexually exploited children.
On Nov. 2, 1987, my two children, Monica, 6, and David, 1½, were abducted by their father and taken to Mexico. I did not know about the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. There was no Team HOPE to provide support at that time. I did not know where to turn or what to do.
What I fervently did know was that I would find and be with my children no matter the obstacles. Above all, I vowed I would never give up hope.
During the almost 13 years it took for me to locate and reunite with Monica and David, my journey had many twists, turns and often heartbreaking dead-ends.
For a long time, I was unable to look at or touch my children's toys and clothes that were left behind. I would drive by the school where Monica had attended kindergarten and start to cry. A child in a stroller would remind me of David.
There were numerous calls to and conversations with law enforcement and attorneys in both the United States and Mexico. There were repeated futile attempts to find organizations that would help. There were disreputable private investigators who claimed they would find and bring Monica and David home if I just paid inordinate amounts of money.
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As the years went by, I knew that I had to take care of myself in order to be a strong parent when I reunited with Monica and David.
I met a man, Earl, who is now my husband. He has been my rock and support through all the ups and downs of searching for and reuniting with my children. My husband and I learned together how difficult it was to explain to other people, including mental health professionals, about Monica and David.
Through the relentless efforts of several at NCMEC and two attorneys in Mexico, Monica and David were found in Toluca, northwest of Mexico City. I will never forget April 4, 1999, when I received the incredible news!
Except it was not a fairy tale reunion. I was a stranger to Monica and David. They had been told I was dead. When they saw I was still alive they asked why had I waited all these years to come for them? Both stated that we would never be friends and, definitely not family.
My journey in searching for my children was not over. It had actually just begun. And, I was determined, more than ever, to remain hopeful and patient that one day I would have a relationship with my children.
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And, nine years after we reunited, on February 4, 2008, my birthday, David called me.
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Today, Monica calls me Favorite Mom and she is Favorite Daughter. And David calls Earl "Dad" and signs his cards, emails and texts: Love, Son.
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If you don't know Bowen or his work, that really says a great deal about him and his management skills. Think about it. When was the last time you heard any great grumbling, any at all, really, about the city's water?
Water rates have been moderate. Water supply has been kept steady, through drought, flood or city expansion.
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Our City Hall reporter, Ted Siefer, noted this in a recent Sunday column.
"While complex infrastructure systems rarely generate big headlines, it's worth noting that, under Bowen, the Water Works has gained national recognition for the quality and taste of the water it conveys through city taps," Siefer wrote.
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Dear Psychology Today,
On behalf of the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT), we would like to thank you for continuing to host Dr. Bill Ahearn's blog, "The Radical Behaviorist" on your website. Dr. Ahearn provides a much needed scientific perspective on the field of autism treatment and he does it in a way that is understandable to the experts and non-experts alike.
His recent post on the use of facilitated communication with children with autism, "FC is BS" (April 7, 2010), is an excellent demonstration of the importance of looking to the science when selecting an intervention for a child with autism. It also reminds us of the dangers of pursuing non-evidence based interventions. Dr. Ahearn's account of the research at the New England Center for Children that helped to debunk facilitated communication is a story that should be heard by all families, professionals, and policy makers interested in providing the best possible treatment for individuals with autism.
In this age of media saturation in which practices with limited or no scientific evidence are given equal time or often even more time than evidence-based approaches, it is more important than ever for the public to have access to resources such as the Radical Behaviorist blog that provide a scientific perspective. The story of facilitated communication demonstrates that reason and the weight of scientific evidence is often not enough to discredit even the most egregiously unsupported practices in the eyes of the mass media. Thank you for hosting one of the voices out there that is dedicated to the scientific method and rigorous scrutiny of interventions for individuals with autism.
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Determinants of Rural-Urban Migration in Konkan Region of Maharashtra
AbstractThe study has identified the factors responsible for rural-urban migration based on 120 sample respondents each of migrants and non-migrants spread over two districts, viz. Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg of Konkan region of Maharashtra by employing the logit model. The study has highlighted the importance of rural development programs like MGNREGA that are being implemented by the government with a view to provide employment and income to the rural population in the country. It has also shown that for both migrant and non-migrant households,, agriculture was the major source of income, and their consumption expenditure was more than the production expenditure. It has also been observed that migration has a positive impact on income, expenditure and net savings of migrant sample households. The regression analysis has shown that one unit increase in the age of household-head increases the probability of migration of family members by 0.81 per cent. The probability of migration of family member decreases by 0.003 per cent with one unit increase in before-migration income of a household. The odds ratio for familysize has indicated that with one unit increase in family-size, the probability of migration of family members increases by 8.7 per cent. There is a negative relationship between migration of family members and income from agriculture. As off-farm income of a household increases, the probability of migration of its family member decreases. The odds ratio for off-farm income implies that with one unit increase in off-farm income of a household, the probability of migration decreases by 0.018 per cent.
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A motorcycle crash closed down a section of Route 202 in South Hadley for several hours Tuesday night. The road way opened shortly after 10:00 p.m.
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Just thought I would write my thoughts on what has been an very enjoyable weekend at my local climbing wall, firstly the charity event in support of the Five Stars Scanner Appeal, the event was successful of course with team competing against the clock literally to achieve a target height. Secondly the enthusiasm with which this was done, all teams competing in a manner of urgency and competively.
Then of course there was speed climbing, and the boulder problem set by John Dunne himself entitled "Nemesis", the following day seeing more teams aiming to achieve the target height of "Everest" to raise funds for an MRI scanner for the Fivestars appeal, and then the climax of the weekend, the Chris Sharma lecture which by all accounts was inspiring to see the very man who gives inspiration to so many climbers around the world who enjoy climbing for what it is overall the whole event was fantastic and the turn out was great too, thanks for a brilliant weekend!
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The days of riders stopping on the hard shoulder to turn the page of the map are numbered, following the arrival of the latest Satellite Navigation system from BMW Motorrad.
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Billionaire Steve Cohen's Favorite Coal Stock?
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According to a 13G filed with the SEC, billionaire Steve Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors recently owned 3.3 million shares of Walter Energy (NYSE: WLT), a $1.8 billion market cap coal miner. We track 13F filings from hedge funds as part of our work researching investment strategies (we have found, for example, that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds generate an average excess return of 18 percentage points per year). We can also see from this database that SAC Capital had reported a position of 1.7 million shares at the end of December, so the fund has roughly doubled the size of its position so far this year.
Walter is a leading metallurgical producer, and also mines thermal coal and other minerals. The company reported 7 million metric tons of met coal and 3.1 million metric tons of thermal coal. Metallurgical coal is a crucial input in steel production, where demand has been low in the last couple years due to macro factors (Walter's beta is 2.1, demonstrating the company's general sensitivity to economic conditions). Thermal coal, also known as steam coal, is purchased by electric utilities for power generation purposes, and has also been a struggling industry (at least in the U.S.) due to the abundance of cheap natural gas.
Walter's revenue declined 7% last year in comparison to the recast 2011 numbers, and operating income (after adding back a large goodwill impairment and other special items) came in at only about $100 million, down from about $570 million. The company also recorded over $100 million in net interest expense, making Walter unprofitable for 2012 even after the addbacks. The stock price has fallen 54% in the last year.
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Other producers of thermal and metallurgical coal include Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI), CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX), Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), and Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR). Arch Coal and Alpha are actually forecast to have negative profitability in 2014, and revenue at each of those companies was down about 20% in the fourth quarter of 2012 versus a year earlier (in addition to stock prices which have been cut in half).
Alpha and Arch Coal are also particularly popular short targets, likely due to their perceived weakness even among coal companies in general. Peabody and CONSOL have had a more modest reaction to industry dynamics, though even in those cases revenue was down about 10% last quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2011. CONSOL is actually profitable on a trailing basis, with a P/E multiple of 21, and though that is high the company is at least starting from positive earnings in the event of an industry-wide recovery. In terms of forward earnings estimates these two stocks are priced about in line with Walter.
Coal companies are in too poor a situation to be value stocks at this time, and we are skeptical that the market for thermal coal will improve by much in the near future. Barring industry consolidation an investment thesis would therefore rely on a ramp-up in steel demand; even if we were convinced that macro conditions (particularly in China and other developing countries) were strong enough to support higher steel production we would at least want to look at miners of steel, copper, and other industrial materials to see if they are better options than the coal miners.
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CARSON CITY, Nev., (UPI) — Officials in a Nevada city said the cousin of a man who died with a treasure trove of gold bullion and coins is set to inherit more than $6 million.
Carson City Clerk Alan Glover said more than 2,600 gold and silver coins were divided into six lots and auctioned Tuesday at the Carson City Courthouse for $3,192,400, ABC News reported Wednesday.
The coins, along with a stash of gold bullion auctioned for $3.5 million in February, belonged to Walter Samaszko Jr., 69, who died in his home of heart problems. Officials said Arlene Magdanz of San Rafael, Calif., Samaszko's first cousin, was determined to be his closest living relative and will receive the profits from the auctions.
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First Fremont Tarball
The first tarball of the Fremont development branch of Drizzle was created this week, following our tradition of releasing a tarball every two weeks. It includes many experimental things such as the libdrizzle-2.0 separation and the multiple master to single slave replication.
For those wanting the stable release we suggest sticking to the Elliott branch which our GA was cut from. New releases for this will be created much less frequently and will only include bug fixes.
Stewart Smith's work on integrating Xtrabackup into Drizzle has now been merged into Fremont. When installing it will create a binary called 'drizzlebackup.innobase'.
Multi-Master Replication
By this I mean the work going into replication of multiple masters to a single slave. Patrick Crews has written the first part of blog post covering the testing of this new feature.
Drizzle Migration
I have written an article for The H Online called 'A migrator's guide to Drizzle' which was published yesterday. For anyone migrating from MySQL to Drizzle this should act as a useful guide. I will also be giving a talk at the 2011 O'Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo entitled 'MySQL to Drizzle, stress free migration' which will be along similar lines.
FreeBSD support has initially been dropped for Drizzle due to issues we were having with that platform. It may well be coming back soon with the aid of Greg Larkin from FreeBSD who has offered to help get things running again.
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If you happen to be in the vicinity of Santa Clara, CA between the 11th and 14th April we have quite a few talks on Drizzle as well as a booth in the expo hall. It is a great opportunity to meet the team behind Drizzle.
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Without a doubt, Twitter was one of the success stories on the Web in 2007 as geeks around the world embraced the ability to communicate (and I use that word rather loosely) in 140-character bursts.
Putting the aside Twitter's addictive-ness and utility (or lack thereof), an interesting question is whether Twitter is a stand-alone business or a service looking for a home.
The former seems difficult to envision given mobile advertising seems to be taking its sweet time to gain momentum, even though there are reports the global mobile ad market could hit $3-billion this year. And it's hard to believe Twitter users will enthusiastically accept advertising as they pound away on their 140-character missives.
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As important, it would also give Facebook some much-needed strategic cache in the wake of the Beacon disaster. With $250-million of Microsoft cash in the bank, it is expected that Facebook will be making acquisitions this year so why not kick-start the process with the purchase of a high-profile start-up with a group of investors that includes Union Square Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant.
Twitter will be acquired this year; the question is who the buyer will be, and, from here, Facebook looks like the obvious choice.
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Kate Middleton's highly anticipated walk down the aisle was - by all accounts - a royal hit. Now known as Her Royal Highness, Princess William of Wales, Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton wore an ivory and white lace gown designed by Sarah Burton, creative director of British-based design house Alexander McQueen.
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