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The Society recently undertook an exercise meant to enable strategic thinking about the future of our scientific publishing enterprise. As you probably know, the Society owns and operates the Astrophysical Journal (including ApJ Letters and ApJ Supplement) and the Astronomical Journal, four of the most important publications in the astronomical and astrophysical sciences. Although we did not found these journals, we've been publishing them for more than 70 years. We operate them with the strategic goal of serving the scientific community by keeping costs down, maintaining a robust business model, and enhancing them technologically when necessary. For example, our journals were among the first to go online, and we were one of the first physical-science journal publishers to modify our proprietary period downward to 12 months, the de facto requirement recently imposed by OSTP.
The world of publishing, and the world of communication and entertainment generally, has undergone a revolution, and change remains rampant. Publishers are trying new experiments in providing and producing content. New business models are being tried, and some seem to be working. Even information consumers are switching to new modes of consumption, utilizing portable devices much more than was predicted to stay in touch with friends, access information, and facilitate their daily life activities.
By setting aside time to think about possible future scenarios and their impact on our journals, the participants in the Journals Futures Workshop, held in April in Dallas, Texas, produced an insightful report for the Publications Board and Council to consider. Although as an organization we have thought strategically — at least short term — about our publishing activities, we have never thought about them on a 10- to 20-year timeline. Doing so was a highly valuable activity, resulting in thoughtful new ideas, criticisms of our current status quo, and multiple visions for a bright future for our publishing activity.
Although we do not derive funds from our journals for ongoing Society activities like many organizations do, our journals do have to operate as a business, ensuring that the costs of their production are covered, that we have resources to ensure their long-term availability and technological enhancement, and that they have adequate reserves to weather challenges over time. I am happy to say that the journals are in great financial shape right now, with reserves of roughly 1.5 times annual operating expense and adequate additional reserves to ensure the curation of our archival resources. Costs of production have actually dropped and, as we are in good financial health, we are rolling these savings back out to our authors and to our members in 2014. If approved by Council, the author charges for text will drop by $5 per digital quantum (resulting in roughly $150 savings for a typical paper). Additionally, AAS members who renew before the end of the current calendar year will receive a one-time coupon for a discount on their personal share of author charges for a paper in the subsequent year. This coupon will represent a tangible benefit to our members and incentivize timely renewal of membership, which saves on administrative costs.
To ensure better service to our members and to expand our capabilities to achieve the goals set for the Society by Council, we have undertaken substantial staff training this past year. Beginning with communication and team-building exercises for the managers and now including all staff, these efforts are having a significant impact. We are operating more like a team and less like a group of aligned individuals. We have expanded our communication skills and ability to resolve conflicts and solve problems. Tooling up our staff capabilities is fundamental to our long-term success, as is making sure we have the right number of people and the right people on board.
Currently we are recruiting for three positions: the John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, an additional IT staff member, and an abstract administrator. When these slots are filled, we will be fully staffed for the first time in a while, further enabling us to achieve our goals. With the growth of the number of AAS staff over the past seven years and presaged by our now retired Society secretary John Graham, we are moving into new office space. Thankfully, space was found in the same building we reside in now, reducing downtime, cost, and confused mail delivery. We will soon be located on the third floor of the AGU building, Suite 300. The buildout of the space will conclude in July, and we anticipate a smooth transition to our new space later this summer.
Finally, I am grateful to the Council for permission to take a short break from my duties, a kind of mini-sabbatical, beginning on July 1 of this year. Motivated by several recent studies in the non-profit sector, I will take six months to drop the day-to-day activities of my job and reconnect with the scientific community. I will teach a science policy course at the University of Arizona and a non-profit management course at New Mexico State University. I'll also spend time undertaking scientific research and fulfilling a life-long desire to craft a biography of the famous 19th-century astronomer F. W. A. Argelander, author and motivator of the Bonner Durchmusterung star catalog. I will be back in the saddle, happily, prior to the 223rd AAS meeting in Washington, DC, in January 2014.
At a press conference on 28 May in Hong Kong, the Shaw Prize Foundation announced the Shaw Laureates for 2013. The Shaw Prize consists of three annual prizes: Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, each bearing a monetary award of $1 million. The presentation ceremony is scheduled for Monday, 23 September 2013.
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy is awarded in equal shares to Professor Steven A. Balbus, University of Oxford, and Professor John F. Hawley, University of Virginia, for their discovery and study of the magnetorotational instability and for demonstrating that this instability leads to turbulence and is a viable mechanism for angular-momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks.
Accretion is a widespread phenomenon in astrophysics. It plays a key role in star formation, mass transfer in stellar binaries, and the growth of supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. Sources powered by accretion can even outshine those of similar mass powered by nuclear fusion.
Accreting matter typically carries angular momentum, which causes it to flatten into a disk that orbits the central body. It was recognized long ago that disk accretion requires a mechanism for the outward transfer of angular momentum. Moreover, astronomical observations had established that many accretion powered sources are surrounded by disks. However, for many years the mechanism enabling the outward transfer of angular momentum remained elusive. All this was changed by Balbus and Hawley. Their discovery and elucidation of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) provides what to this day remains the only viable mechanism for the outward transfer of angular momentum in accretion disks.
John F. Hawley was born in 1959 in Annapolis, Maryland, and is currently Associate Dean for the Sciences, VITA Professor, and Chair of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, USA. He obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1984 and was Bantrell Fellow at the California Institute of Technology from 1984 to 1987. He has been associated with the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia as since 1987, first as Assistant Professor (1987-1993), then as Associate Professor (1993-1999), and from 1999 as Professor of Astronomy.
Established under the auspices of Mr. Run Run Shaw, the Prize honors individuals, regardless of race, nationality, gender and religious belief, who have achieved significant breakthrough in academic and scientific research or applications and whose work has resulted in a positive and profound impact on mankind.
Congratulations to Steven Balbus and especially to AAS member John Hawley!
[ Adapted from the Shaw Prize Foundation website. ]
The recently established Astrochemistry Subdivision of the Division of Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS) invites members of the American Astronomical Society, of the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD), and of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) to join the ACS Astrochemistry Subdivision as an Affiliate Member. Please complete a division application form and email or fax (614-447-3671) it to ACS Member Services. Note that the PHYS annual membership dues are $15, which should be remitted with the form. Please indicate that you would like to join the Astrochemistry Subdivision.
The Astrochemistry Subdivision provides an interdisciplinary "home" for individuals interested in astrochemically related research via experiments, theory, observations, space missions, and modeling. Astrochemistry is the study of the abundances and chemical reactions of atoms, molecules, and ions and how they interact with radiation in the gas phase and in the condensed phase in solar systems and in the interstellar medium (ISM) leading to the formation and breaking of chemical bonds. Astrochemistry presents both an interdisciplinary and a multidisciplinary field with ties to the traditional disciplines chemistry, planetary science, chemical biology, physics, and astronomy.
Here chemistry, defined as the change of matter, is vital in unraveling the chemical and astrobiological evolution of matter on the microscopic (elementary chemical reactions) and macroscopic (planets, moons, interstellar medium) levels. Since the present composition of each macroscopic environment reflects the matter from which it was formed and the chemical processes that have changed the chemical nature since the origin, a detailed investigation of the processes altering the chemical composition of the pristine environment is critical to rationalize its contemporary makeup and to understand its origin and chemistry. Astrochemistry exploits molecular tracers to rationalize the origin and chemical evolution of the interstellar medium and of solar systems by combining laboratory studies (chemical dynamics and kinetics, spectroscopy), theoretical chemistry, astrochemical modeling, astronomical observations, and space missions. This work requires a concerted interdisciplinary relationship between chemists, physicists, astronomers, chemical biologists, and planetary scientists.
We would also like to thank those of you who supported the establishment of the Astrochemistry Subdivision! We hope that this creates a thriving Astrochemistry Subdivision that is able to serve the community.
The 2013 NEOWISE Post-Cryo Release consists of over 900,000 3.4 and 4.6 micron images and a database of over 7.3 billion source detections extracted from those images, acquired by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; Wright et al. 2010 AJ, 140, 1868) between 29 September 2010 and 1 February 2011 after the satellite's solid hydrogen cryogen was completely exhausted. During this 125 day period, known as the NEOWISE Post-Cryo survey phase, the telescope and payload warmed to approximately 73.5 K, and the 3.4 and 4.6 micron detectors continued to operate with nearly the same sensitivity as in the full cryogenic mission phase with only a small increase in the number of high noise pixels. WISE obtained multiple, independent observations of approximately 70% of the sky during the Post-Cryo phase, completing a survey of the inner Main Asteroid Belt and a second coverage epoch of the inertial sky. WISE Post-Cryo survey operations and science data processing are funded by the NASA Planetary Division as part of the NEOWISE program (Mainzer et al. 2011, ApJ, 731, 53) and as part of a NEOO program grant.
The 2013 NEOWISE Post-Cryo Data Release supersedes the NEOWISE Post-Cryo Preliminary Release made in July 2012. For the 2013 Release, the Post-Cryo data have been completely reprocessed using updated calibrations and reduction algorithms that are optimized for the changing characteristics of the WISE telescope and detectors temperatures increased during the Post-Cryo phase.
The NEOWISE Post-Cryo Release products provide the best individual flux and position measurements for solar system objects that were identified by the NEOWISE Moving Object Pipeline, and they are a resources for studying time-dependent properties of inertial sources found in the WISE All-Sky Release Catalog. The All-Sky Release remains the best compendium of inertial sources of mid-infrared emission over the entire sky.
A quick guide to the NEOWISE Post-Cryo Release data products, data access instructions and supporting documentation is available on the index page. Access to the WISE data products is available via the on-line services of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive.
Research using NEOWISE and WISE data products is eligible for support under the NASA ROSES Planetary Mission and Astrophysics Data Analysis Programs.
WISE and NEOWISE are funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NEOWISE is a project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology. WISE is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology.
The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy and the AAS Employment Committee have compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from individuals on those paths.
Below is our interview with Andy Cantrell, an astronomer turned math teacher. After his first postdoc, he worked with a recruiting agency for private schools to find his new position. He describes his working environment as 'warm and supportive, and extremely family friendly'. If you have questions, suggestions, advice to share, etc. about this career path, please leave a comment below.
For access to all our Career Profile Project interviews, please visit http://aas.org/jobs/career-profiles. We plan to post a new career profile to this blog every first and third Thursday of the month.
What field do you currently work in?
What is the job title for your current position?
Mathematics teacher.
What is the name of your company/organization/institution?
The Blake School
What city, state, and country do you live in? Work in?
Minneapolis, MN
What is the highest degree in astronomy/physics you have received?
What is/was your ultimate/final academic position in astronomy/physics?
1st postdoc.
What has been your career path since you completed your degree?
- 2009-10: Postdoc with C. Bailyn at Yale.
- 2010-11: Lived in Japan, where my wife was doing dissertation research.
- 2011- present: Mathematics teacher at The Blake School.
What were the most important factors that led you to leave astronomy and/or academia?
The most important factor was simply that I loved teaching and wanted that to be my primary job. I also wanted a career path which would allow me to settle down earlier and give me more time at home with my family.
If you have made a career change, what was your age at the time?
What have been particularly valuable skills for your current job that you gained through completing your degree?
The depth and breadth of my experience with math and its applications has allowed me take students places that most calculus classes never go; for example we end the class with an exploration of the heat equation and its connections to analysis. My teaching experience as a graduate student, and the admirable mentoring I got from Charles Bailyn, was also invaluable in setting me up for a career teaching.
What, if any, additional training did you complete in order to meet the qualifications?
Describe a typical day at work.
I teach four classes a day, with the rest of the day spent either preparing materials for class or meeting with students or my colleagues. My classes are generally fairly freeform; I let myself follow up on ideas suggested by students, while also making sure we get through the core material of the class. The students I teach are smart, lively and fun; I often find myself disbelieving that anyone would actually pay me to spend the day talking about math with such a lively and interested bunch of people.
Describe job hunting and networking resources you used and any other advice/resources.
I found the job through Carney, Sandoe & Associates, a major recruitment agency for private schools. They were extremely helpful and patient in working with me to find a job which was a good fit for my skills and background.
What advice do you think advisors should be giving students regarding their career path?
I wish more advisors had real respect for positions outside academia. Even if they don't feel comfortable recommending or discussing positions outside their field, they should do whatever they can to mitigate the stigma often attached with leaving academia. I was incredibly lucky to have Charles Bailyn as an advisor, and he was completely supportive of my transition to teaching. I wish more of my peers had the same support that I did in making this transition.
How many hours do you work in a week?
40-45 hours
What is your level of satisfaction with your current job?
Very Satisfied.
I get to teach fabulous, fun, smart students; I have lively colleagues and excellent support from administrators; I get to teach math (and its applications) in the way I want, with full freedom both to shape my syllabus and to plan individual classes. Coming to work is a pleasure, and having full evenings with my family is also a pleasure.
What are the most enjoyable aspects of your job? Least enjoyable?
The most enjoyable aspect of my job is simply the interactions I have with my students: my enthusiasm rubs off on them and it is just a joy every day to see them getting fired up about math. They are also wonderfully good humored, and always make me laugh. Faculty meetings are among my most and my least favorite parts of the job: they are often inspiring discussions of how we as a community can best serve our students, but they also can drag on if the issues under discussion don't really grab the community of teachers. We have some paperwork to be done every year, documenting our progress on various fronts. This is probably my least favorite part of the job, but it is a small part of the job and not too objectionable.
What do you like most about your working environment? Dislike most?
The working environment is warm and supportive, and extremely family friendly. I enjoy being part of a community which cares so much about looking after the students in its care.
What opportunities does your job provide to be creative and/or to take initiative?
When I started my current job, I was given the opportunity to completely restructure the calculus curriculum to implement some ideas I had about how the class could be better structured to present calculus as a coherent body of knowledge. I was given completely free rein and had a wonderful year developing materials and watching kids (who mostly started out the year nervous about math) really light up with excitement as it all started to make sense.
In my second year of teaching, I was given the chance to apply the same methods to teach the AP class, and it has been a delight to fit all the AP topics within the structure of my curriculum. I've really enjoyed developing my own approach to calculus and am very pleased with how the students have responded to it.
How satisfied are you with your work-life balance in your current job?
Very Satisfied.
I have a four month old right now, and there are certainly days when I'd like to just stay home with her all day. That said, I could hardly me happier with being able to do meaningful work and still have many hours a day to spend with her.
How family-friendly is your current position?
Very family friendly.
Everyone involved with schools understands the importance and the challenge of raising children, and they have been extremely supportive of me after the birth of our first child.
What advice do you have for achieving work-life balance (including having a family)?
Surround yourself by with people who believe in you and support what you want to do. The rest takes care of itself.
Do you still interact with people who work (directly) in astronomy and/or are you still involved in astronomy in some way?
Yes. I have been working with one of my high school students on a small research project which we plan to submit to the ApJ after the end of this school year. I have also sustained some collaborations with people working on projects I had been involved with before. Its been good to see these papers come out and I've been glad to have my name on a couple papers since leaving the field.
There is a worry among those considering careers outside of astronomy or academia that you can't "go back" and/or that you feel that you betrayed advisors, friends, colleagues. Have you felt this way?
No. While my advisor was extremely supportive of my transition, some of my other collaborators were bewildered by my decision to leave the field. Some have treated me as an outcast, but others have been happy to have my input and work with me if and when I have time. I chose my advisor based partly on his interest in teaching, and I feel very grateful that I had his support as I made this transition.
What do you do for fun (e.g., hobbies, pastimes, etc.)?
Cooking, birding, ceramic art, recreational mathematics
Can we include your email address for people who may want to contact you directly about your specific career route?
Yes, email@example.com.


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|By Interested.. on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 06:53 pm: Edit
im thinking of taking one or two classes starting this january at a local college in my area (NY) does anyone know if this could potentially help me if i did well enough? would it help spell out my motivation & drive to do well? this year im taking the hardest course load possible and have about 6 clubs i'm very involved in (with officer position in two) i expect to have positions in 4 or so next year and my community service is so-so (roughly 150 hours for freshman, sophmore & part of junior year) but i plan to do more this ummer & start again over the weekends. do you think that these classes could help when applying to colleges? if so, should i take one and breeze by or take two (on top of my regular HS classes) and get (probably) a bit more stressed out? please, comments!
|By anon on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 02:56 am: Edit
Yes it's well thought of to take college courses in high school but not totally unique, lots of people do it. (I'm using the word "lots" loosely.) Only you can determine the stressload you can bear. It's good to challenge yourself but don't burn out.
|By probinson on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 07:31 pm: Edit
It all depends on what you personally can handle. On top of clubs and EC's, my daughter has taken college classes throughout high school. She's a junior this year, has 3 AP classes, the rest honors, and she is taking 4 classes at the college now and will again in the spring. She'll get her AA this year and will still likely take additional college classes in her senior year. She happens to love learning and it comes relatively easy to her. She started out at the end of 9th grade, taking one class that she thought sounded interesting and from then on she was hooked.
I would suggest that you take a look at your habits, how much study time you now require and figure out if you have the time to devote to additional classes. If you choose to take a course, you may want to consider taking one that will help you in a class you're already taking in high school. For example, my daughter is taking AP US History this year and she's also taking an upper level class at the college in US History. This strategy has helped her before with Calculus. It really reinforced the material and prepared her further for the AP's and SATII's. If you sign up for a class and find it's not something you enjoy or it takes time away from other things in your life, you can always drop the class, probably without any penalty at all.
Ultimately you should do what you can handle, but not so much that you don't have time to enjoy these years. College classes will likely neither make or break an application.
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Andrew Gimson writes in the Guardian about Boris Johnsons 'interview' in the Christmas edition of Weltwoche, a magazine published in Zurich. This story has also received coverage in The Local (Swiss news in English, available on-line).
Johnson is floating the idea of a new outer ring of European countries, ones able to trade with the EU but not being constrained by the "integrationist Brussels concept", as he terms it.
According to Gimson the subtlety of Johnson's position lies in the fact that he too is against withdrawal. That such a position can be expounded by both politician and journalist leads one to question if either know squat-diddley about that which they speak and write. If Johnson wants 'coitus-interruptus' then he has no option but to withdraw – one is either in' or 'out'. One is continually amazed by two aspects when 'matters EU' are discussed by politicians and journalists; (a) that withdrawal means an inability to trade with the European Union and, (b) that renegotiation is still possible with a view to 'clawing back' certain powers. That these myths are allowed to persist really does beggar belief.
Ever since 1972 the political class have lied to the British public about membership of the EEC/EC/EU, aided and abetted by their compliant media – and the process continues. When considering opposition to the political class where, for example, is the voice of Better Off Out or The Freedom Association when one looks at attempts to rebut these lies? More to the point where is Ukip?Other than blogs, there is no evidence of a concerted campaign by those opposed to EU membership. Unfortunately one can but assume that a concerted campaign is hindered somewhat by the egos of the various bodies that are opposed to EU membership as they will all wish to be the 'lead' organisation. Methinks that a few heads need 'banging together'.
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I don't know for certain the poker club has played its last hand, but, to borrow Texas Hold 'Em terminology, it appears some of us are "all in." In recent years we've sustained more causalities than Gen. Pickett at Gettysburg.
The club started in the early 1980s but is teetering badly after what we think is 29 or 30 continuous years. Some of the originals still play, like Digger, Bill, Frank, Lindy and me, but our losses have been significant. Reds Shinn died. Then Ted Farrow, Chuck Peters and Joe Schultes. And the injury list is lengthy. Digger, Frank, Ken, Bill and me. Maybe we'll all wind up in the same assisted living facility and play five times a week. The healthiest players? Lucky Lindy, who is also the oldest at 80-something, Curt, the youngest, and retired state cop Norm.
There was a time, not that long ago, when eight or nine players committed to playing on a given night with four or five others anxious to sub. At last Tuesday's game, four showed up, including the host, and a fifth appeared just before 9 o'clock after bowling. I know, we've got to straighten out our priorities.
If you play poker, you know a four-man game doesn't work well. I lost a $14 pot to Frank the Bank first hand of the night, which mentally is a tough way to start.
To make matters worse, two of the survivors opt to winter too long in Florida and South Carolina, affecting our ability to field a team.
I'll give you an idea what playing poker an average of 1.5 nights a week for 30 years means to a bona fide numerologist.
About 2,200 poker nights.
About 10,000 poker-playing hours, or 400 nonstop poker-playing days, or 13 nonstop poker-playing months.
About 5,000 hoagie halves consumed per player, 25,000 potato chips, 10,000 miniaturized Hershey bars, and, during rare health nights, 50 accumulated pounds of crudités. Moneybags Frank usually offers shrimp, bless him.
I quit counting wins and losses years ago. Much too depressing to keep a ledger.
We've shut down for the remainder of winter and the future is uncertain. In the context of life, loss of a weekly poker game hardly qualifies as a calamity. But for many of us diehards, it would signify the unfortunate end of an era.
Despite my occasional tirades over a lost hand, the games have represented a welcome diversion for a workaholic who really has no other hobbies. I look forward to the games — not so much for the thrill of victory or agony of defeat, but for the close friendships that have endured through personal tragedy. I gave eulogies at two of the four services for fellow players. I know many people, but these are some of my closest friends.
One player on the injured list said it best: "If I don't have poker anymore, what do I have left to do?"
He may need to find a new diversion.
We're running out of players. And time.


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Average household natural gas bill to drop 14-22 percent
Rolling from a mild winter into spring, the Pittsburgh region's three biggest natural gas utilities continued to slash the pass-through prices they charge customers for the heating fuel.
Starting on Sunday, Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania's average residential customer will pay $66.44 a month, down 22 percent from the $85 bill a year ago when market prices for the fuel were higher, spokesman Russ Bedell said.
"Natural gas costs are low and stable, and they're anticipated to stay that way" in the near term, at least, he said. Columbia, a NiSource Inc. company with a headquarters in Cecil, has 414,000 customers.
The bill is based on use of 72 therms, or British thermal units of gas. Columbia in February switched from measuring gas by cubic feet, as other local utilities do, to Btus, the standard used in the gas market. The system enables Columbia to charge based on the energy content of gas, instead of the volume, the company said.
Equitable Gas customers will pay $84.97, down 14 percent from the $99.29 bill a year ago when market prices for the fuel were higher, said Scott Waitlevertch, spokesman for the North Shore-based utility, part of EQT Corp. Bill amounts are calculated for a customer using 90 thousand cubic feet, or mcf, a year.
"With the mild winter we had, and with the supply from the shale basins," including producers in the Marcellus region, he said, "customers continue to see the benefits." Equitable has 240,000 residential customers in Western Pennsylvania.
Gas utilities are required to adjust prices quarterly, reflecting what they expect to pay for supplies. The companies don't earn profits on the gas they sell, but make money on its distribution.
North Shore-based Peoples Natural Gas Co. is dropping its bill to $70, down about 5.4 percent from $74 a year ago, based on usage of 92 mcf a year, said Joe Gregorini, vice president of rates and regulatory affairs. Peoples has 325,000 residential customers.


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Botanical name: Artemisia annua
Color: Yellow green to brownish green
Consistency: Medium
Perfumery note: Base
Related planets/deities: Moon/Artemis
Aroma: Spicy, sweet, anise-like
Energetic Properties: Cooling, astringent
Aromatherapy properties: Sweet annie is native to northern Eurasia and is related to the famous absinthe wormwood. Sweet annie stems and leaves are still used in China to make a spicy, slightly bitter salad that is considered a delicacy. Sweet annie essential oil is a yellow to brownish green liquid of medium consistency with a sweet, spicy anise-like aroma. It blends well with jasmine, lavender, oakmoss, and sweet orange oils.
Spiritual uses: Sweet annie's aroma has a calming effect on the spirit. It is often used to bolster self-confidence and enjoyment of one's own company when loneliness threatens. In a charm or sachet, sweet annie may be used in ceremonies to increase one's sexual fulfillment or address dysfunction in romantic relationships.
Blends well with: Oils of Jasmine, Lavender, Oakmoss, and Sweet Orange
History: Sweet annie, or annual wormwood, has been used since 300 AD to bring down fevers and treat infections, most famously malaria. In the Middle Ages, Europeans would strew the dried foliage around their chambers as an air freshener and moth repellent. It was also thought to counteract many poisons as well as plague, resulting in a huge demand for sweet annie during the plague years. Sometimes confused with Artemisia absinthium, the absinthe wormwood, sweet annie contains no thujone and has slightly different medicinal properties. Both sweet annie and absinthe wormwood were sometimes used to flavor beer before the Bavarian Purity law dictated that only hops, barley and water could be used in beer.
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DirecTV Latin America recently upgraded its customers throughout the Latin America and Caribbean region to new smart cards, part of the company's latest efforts to deter signal theft.
The project concluded last week as earlier versions of smart cards were deactivated throughout the region served by DirecTV Latin America. The last step in the smart card process helped eliminate pirated signals, the company said.
In total, 1.3 million new cards were hand-delivered to customers in 28 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. New DirecTV customers received the new smart card as part of their equipment when they signed up for service
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I've about had it with this clown, he has an 87 mph fastball, an ERA close to 7 and he hasn't done anything really since 2003. But as far as he's concerned he's the second coming of Nolan Ryan! The Cubs need to see what they can get for Prior now – I'd settle for Hayden Penn if Baltimore would do the deal. Prior is a whiner and the sooner we lose him the better.


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. & BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alltel Wireless and Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that Nuance's Dragon Voicemail to Text is powering Alltel's Voice2Text service. With Voice2Text, mobile phones on the Alltel network can receive transcribed voice messages as text messages delivered directly to the subscribers' message inbox.
"Carriers like Alltel need innovative voice services that meet the demands of dynamic mobile consumers," said John Pollard, vice president and general manager, voice-to-text services, Nuance Mobile. "Dragon Voicemail to Text takes a must-have service like voicemail and delivers it with the speed and convenience required in today's messaging environment."
Alltel's Voice2Text service greatly simplifies the voicemail experience. Customers can now read their voice messages as texts right on their mobile phone without the need for passwords or voice prompts. And because it's a text message, subscribers can quickly and easily respond to friends, family or colleagues via text. Voice2Text features the same accurate and reliable Dragon voice recognition technology used in the renowned Dragon Mobile apps and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Messages can be stored or forwarded, and subscribers can still hear the original voicemail recording if needed.
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In our poll, 59 percent of voters said they would deal Carlos Beltran this offseason. Reyes got 32 percent of the "trade him" vote while David Wright got 9 percent of the vote.
For fans, it is a sad end to the Big 3 that helped lead the Mets to an NL East Division title in 2006.
But, it may be necessary.
Our top sports comment comes from user nirvana26, who wrote:
Dealing Beltran is worth it just in the sense that he is off the squad. Give the playing time to Pagan, at least he deserves it.
Plus Pagan can hit at the top of the lineup if they choose to trade Reyes too.
I wouldn't deal Reyes unless you're getting an ace back.
Offer up K-Rod, Beltran, Perez and Castillo for literally anything. Don't ask for anything of value back. I'd take a 40 year old single A back up for all of them. Just get them out and at least the clubhouse will be a better place.
A quick runner-up comment from thewooooood, who was the champion yesterday. Our Mets blogger Eddie D'Anna referred to Wright, Reyes and Beltran as the "vaunted offensive triumvirate" in his post.
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Vaunted Triumvirate? Much like the Roman Triumvirate formed after the assassination of Caesar, there really is only one strong member of the trio. Beltran is like Marcus Lepidus-a man who managed to ride a few moments of grandeur into a position of undeserved power. Beltran will fade into obscurity much like Lepidus. Reyes is Marc Antony. A good soldier, but his abilities have faded with time and injury. Keep him away from Egyptian women. David Wright, like Octavian, is clearly the chosen one.
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St. Louis, MO... The St. Louis Public Library is excited to announce that after performing nearly 500 shows in 49 states and multiple countries, wizard rockers Harry and the Potters will return to the Library to perform a special FREE outdoor concert at the Buder Branch, 4401 Hampton Ave., on June 2 at 6 p.m. The musical madmen's appearance is just in time for the release of the final Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Part II.
Like a warlock Woodstock, the concert will take place rain or shine on the Buder Branch's south parking lot. [PLEASE NOTE: The south parking lot will be CLOSED to traffic the day of the event.] Additional FREE parking is available on the Bank of America parking lot across from the Branch.
After the show, the band will meet with fans and sign copies of their new album. CDs will be available for purchase.
Harry and the Potters was formed in 2002 by Paul and Joe DeGeorge, brothers from Norwood, Massachusetts. With both brothers bearing a striking resemblance to Harry Potter, Joe (on guitar) became Harry, year 4; and Paul (on keyboards) became Harry, year 7. Thus was born Harry and the Potters.
For an idea of what the band's music sounds like, imagine if Harry Potter quit the quidditch team and started a punk band—or if The White Stripes took the stage with Raffi at Hogwarts to sing songs like Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock, Expulsion During Disapparation, SPEW, and My Teacher is a Werewolf. Harry and the Potters concerts capture the magic of the books and will have you singing This Book is So Awesome!
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Our 3-year old is a good eater. But leftovers? No, sirree, this guy knows a recycled meal when he sees one.
Smart cooks can make tidy, unrecognizable, second- or third-time around dishes with all that dark and white turkey meat.
Two quick suggestions: Use thawed phyllo or puff pastry to make satchels of fresh turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and what have you. Bake and you've got a classy little appetizer or bite to eat alongside soup.
Or, make turkey salad: Toss meat into a food processor along with onions, celery and mayonnaise. Season with salt, pepper or maybe some curry powder.
How are you managing your Thanksgiving leftovers?
The following recipes are adapted from "A Bird in the Oven and Then Some" by Mindy Fox, Kyle Books, 2010. Dish photos are by Ellen Silverman.
(Makes 4)
¾ pound cherry tomatoes (about 25), rinsed and well dried
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
Coarse sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
½ loaf ciabatta bread, cut into 2 (approximately 4x4-inch) pieces and split
1 tablespoon white vinegar
4 large eggs
Good-quality extra-virgin olive oil for drizzling
10 ounces roast turkey, white or dark meat (about 8 slices)
3 ounces soft goat cheese or brie
3 to 4 tablespoons finely chopped chives
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Put the tomatoes onto a parchment-lined bake sheet in a single layer. Drizzle with the oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast until the tomatoes are collapsed,12 to 14 minutes. Meanwhile, lightly toast or grill the bread.
Combine 1 ½ inches water and the vinegar in a saucepan and bring to a simmer. Break 1 egg into a small bowl or cup and slide the egg into the water. Repeat with each remaining egg and poach until the whites are firm (2 to 4 minutes for a yolk that is at varying degrees of runniness). Transfer the cooked eggs to paper towels using a slotted spoon. Remove tomatoes from the oven.
Make sandwiches by putting the pieces of bread onto 4 individual plates and drizzling each with oil, then stacking with turkey, eggs, tomatoes (reserving any juices from the pan), and cheese. Spoon any juices from the tomatoes over the top, and sprinkle with the chives, salt, and pepper. Serve warm.
(Yields 4 servings)
2 tablespoons pine nuts
3 small to medium red onions, peeled
and cut crosswise into1/4-inch slices,
rings kept intact
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin
olive oil
Flakey coarse sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
2 cups packed parsley leaves
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 small garlic clove, peeled
¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
4 (1/2-inch-thick) slices bread from a large
rustic boule, grilled or lightly toasted
1/2 pound roast chicken slices
6 ounces sharp cheddar cheese,
thinly sliced
Preheat the oven to 425ºF with the rack in the middle. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Put the pine nuts into a small skillet and heat over low heat, occasionally shaking the pan back and forth, until the nuts are lightly golden, about 8 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
Put the onions on the prepared baking sheet, keeping the rings intact. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil and season with coarse sea salt and pepper. Roast until the edges of the onions are golden, 13 to 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine the pine nuts, parsley, remaining1/4 cup oil, lemon juice, 1 tablespoon water, garlic, and 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt in the bowl of a food processor; purée until smooth. Transfer the onions to a wire rack to cool slightly. Increase the oven temperature to broil.
Arrange the bread slices in a single layer on a baking sheet. Spread 1 tablespoon of the pesto onto each slice. Top with the chicken and sprinkle with coarse salt and pepper. Top with half of the onion slices, then cover with the cheese, tucking any exposed onion pieces under the cheese to prevent burning. Broil the sandwiches about 4 inches from the heat just until the cheese is bubbling, about 1 minute.
Dollop the warm sandwiches with the remaining pesto, top with the remaining onion slices, and sprinkle with coarse salt. Serve warm.


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GRAND RAPIDS -- First came the cozy chairs and the expanded stacks of good reads in its book departments.
Then, it went wireless.
Now, Meijer Inc. again is bringing some of the day's popular authors to meet customers as part of a traveling tour.
The Walker-based retailer will bring a bus full of authors to nine Michigan stores the next three days.
The bus will stop Friday at two Grand Rapids Meijer stores: Cascade, 5531 28th St. SE, from 3 to 4 p.m., and Knapp's Corner, 1997 East Beltline Ave. NE, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
The 27 authors on the Meijer Read This! Author Tour include veteran romance author Brenda Novak, Michigan author Chip St. Clair and actress-turned-author Victoria Rowell.
In the past few years, Meijer has taken a different approach to its book department, said Gerry Wilding, media buyer for Meijer.
The department has morphed from a display along a back wall to a destination at the front of the store furnished with cozy seating, WiFi and a selection that has grown about a third to 10,000 books.
"There has been a payoff in customer comments and selling increased units," Wilding said.
The tour stops are at stores where the book departments recently were renovated or remodeled.
The authors are expected to be greeted by crowds. "Customers love it. They love to meet the people they are reading," Wilding said.
The authors represent a variety of genres, from nonfiction to romance to inspirational fiction. But many are romance writers, reflecting the genre outselling any other category.
They are a mix of first-time and veteran authors.
One is Rowell, whose autobiographical "The Women Who Raised Me," about growing up in the foster care system, has climbed The New York Times' bestseller list.
On the road promoting her book for 18 months, Rowell has logged more than 600,000 miles and signed more than 4,000 books.
The best part is connecting with people who have followed her acting career, that includes her role as Druscilla on the CBS-TV soap opera "The Young & the Restless" and on the former CBS and now syndicated show "Diagnosis Murder."
"It's been a bonus to come off the set and thank the people who have supported me all these years," Rowell said in a phone interview from New York .
Her Web site, victoriarowell.com, has generated 10 million hits, and she plans to publish more books, including a novel about a soap opera diva and a children's book.
Brenda Novak, whose latest book is "Watch Me," is a veteran on these tours.
Book signings in a supermarket can connect authors with people who may not go to a traditional bookstore.
"I think people who haven't read a good book in a long time will peruse the aisle and buy something," said Novak in a phone interview from her Sacramento, Calif., home.
When: Friday
Where: Meijer Cascade, 5531 28th St. SE, 3 to 4 p.m.; Knapp's Corner, 1997 East Beltline Ave. NE, 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Who: The 27 authors include veteran romance author Brenda Novak, Michigan author Chip St. Clair and actress-turned-author Victoria
And traveling as a group of authors adds an extra element of fun.
"The networking opportunities are great. We are often stuck behind our computers," Novak said.
"It's fun to be involved with people who understand your life."
There are other benefits to traveling in numbers.
"Because we are pooling our fans, you have some cross-promotion. You have the power to pull in some big numbers," she said.
"This is kind of a reading celebration."
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The longball was Alabama's best friend in its first game and the opposing defense aided it in Game 2.
The end result was two more lopsided victories Friday, as No. 4 Alabama beat Grand Canyon, 13-5, and Tennessee State, 12-0, in five innings on the first day of action at the Hillenbrand Invitational in Tucson, Ariz.
Haylie McCleney, Danae Hays, Leona Lafaele and Andrea Hawkins all hit home runs for Alabama (7-0), which took an early 5-0 lead against Grand Canyon, gave it all back and ultimately scored the game's final eight runs. Lafaele's was a grand slam. Hays' was her fourth of the year.
Junior Leslie Jury surrendered five runs (three earned) and allowed 11 hits but worked all seven innings to pick up her third complete-game victory.
McCleney collected two more hits against Tennessee State for five on the day to raise her batting average to .650 through seven games. Freshman Chandler Dare went 3-for-4 with two RBIs in a game that saw Tennessee State commit five errors.
Freshman Sydney Littlejohn worked all five innings to collect her second win of the year. She struck out seven, walked one and allowed just three hits.
Through seven games, Alabama has outscored the competition, 73-8.
Alabama is back in action today with two games against New Mexico (2 p.m.) and No. 24 Arizona (7 p.m.).


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What do Intel Social Scientist Genevieve Bell, Mike "Dollar Shave Club" Dubin, Nike chief technical officer Chris Satchell, Portland start-up founders Mara Zepeda, Nat Parker and Sam Blackman, tech journalist Kara Swisher, Vox guru Trei Brundrett and Drone master Tad McGeer have in common?
They all will be speaking, along with a number of other luminaries of the start-up and tech scene, at TechfestNW, the sister event to MusicfestNW that will be taking place this August.
Now in its third year, TechfestNW has booked some of the best speakers on the planet. There will also be a talent and recruitment fair, a Venture Capital meet-up and abundant networking opportunities.
And parties.
Tickets for the event, which takes place at OMSI, went on sale last week. Seats are limited.


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I was reading an article on Yahoo! Sports today about a 10-year-old who calls himself "The Workout Kid".
The author of the article, Eric Adelson, knows that a 4th grade workout machine can be cause for concern, but says C.J. Senter is different.
With nightmares from my first sighting, years ago, of a child bodybuilder firmly entrenched in my brain, and even more skeptical after seeing a photo of C.J. rocking a 6-pack harder than most guys in their twenties, I continued to read.
Granted, when most people hear "child prodigy," they rightfully raise an eyebrow and wonder who is pulling the strings. Add a workout DVD by a fourth-grader with sculpted muscles to the mix and "cute" can turn to "concerning." But it turns out the story behind "C.J. The Workout Kid" is a lot more inspiring than insidious.
Inspiring? Inspiring me to call Child Protective Services, maybe, but I don't know how inspired I am by a 10-year-old obsessed with his muscles.
C.J. began working out at the age of 5 when his football coach told the team to exercise. As C.J. tells it, he did a few push-ups and sit-ups and loved it. He's been working out ever since, doing his own routine three times a week. He even teaches a class of mostly older kids at a nearby gym in Locus Grove, Georgia.
Sounds a little obsessive for a 10-year-old but C.J. tells Adelson he loves being fit, he doesn't diet, and he doesn't bench press because "it's not good for kids".
Dad's gotta be pushing C.J., right? Carlos Senter says nope, he's spent most of C.J.'s life in shock, beginning when the little guy climbed out of his crib at 7 months old.
C.J.'s workout DVDs are in such demand dad hired a PR rep but claims he gives most of the discs away for free to help encourage kids to workout. Wait. Did he just say "PR rep"? He sure did. He must need the agent to help him hand out all those free DVDs. Still, Carlos says as long as C.J. is happy, he's happy. C.J.'s ultimate goal is to play for the NFL and it looks like he's well on his way, having been named MVP for the state of Georgia as an 8-and-under.
I'll admit, the article portrays C.J. in a really solid light. Not at all like this kid, called Little Hercules, who really freaks me out. And then there's 7-year-old Giuliano Stroe, who, as MSNBC reports, "spends much of his playtime in his family's gym, lifting weights and toning his muscle-ripped prepubescent body." He is the proud holder of two world records for walking on his hands with a medicine ball between his legs… um… okay? And the highest number of "air push-ups" which you'll see in the Youtube clip below.
Guliano claims his son became "obsessed" with working out when he was 2. He's also making money off his son now. Tokyo-based Fuji Television Network paid him 1,000 (roughly $1,400) for a 30-second clip of his son in action. He declined to speak to Bloomberg Businessweek because, he says, he only does TV interviews now.
Can you say SUPER douche? There is also Youtube clip of Guliano bench pressing twice his weight, which, as C.J. The Workout Kid can tell you, is not a good thing for a child to be doing. Also, if that video isn't evidence of child abuse, I don't know what is.
Apparently the Stroes are icons in a rapidly growing child bodybuilding world. Taylor Hamilton, a senior research analyst for market research firm IBISWorld tells MSNBC, "Youth memberships have become one of the fastest growth areas for the fitness club industry." Over the past five years pre-adolescent and teen memberships have increased by 2.9 percent annually — and the 6-to-11 age category has almost doubled since 2005.
Jeff Martin, director of youth programming for CrossFit Brand X tells MSNBC that his business has doubled in the past three years and most of the new clients are underage. "We have kids coming into our gym now who are 2½, 3 years old." Martin doesn't set an age requirement, he just "caters to people who have the money". The mini-muscleheads work out to compete in a growing circuit of national bodybuilding events.
It's hard to criticize the movement when there is an epidemic of obese children sweeping the nation and yet, it's just gross. C.J. may appear to have it all together but something's not right when a 10-year-old is sporting a 6-pack and worrying about how ripped he is. Guliano's dad is no better than the horrible Toddlers & Tiaras moms that spray tan the skin and bleach the teeth of their toddler daughters. There is no way in hell all that exertion can be good for growing bones, not to mention the obsession with the perfect physique. Let's just hope TLC doesn't catch wind of the growing trend…
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The Stringers Spotlight has something big to show you as we give you the first close-up look at Warrior's Rabil head, part of the Rabil line that will be available before the 2013 season. This is the Rabil X head.
We've already brought you a look at the development of this rad new head, which you can see here. Warrior has made this head to be for shooters, feeders and/or dodgers, with "total performance" as the main benefit. You'll notice near the bottom that we're featuring the head on a Krypto Diamond Pro shaft, which will be new for next season.
Here's more from Warrior's description of the Rabil head:
- A head designed for total domination ... and ridiculous shot power
- Maximum TRUOFFSET design creates the perfect pocket release and higher shot velocity
- 2-Shot sidewall design allows for multi-color heads in 7 stock colors
This particular version has been strung up by the magical hands of Erik Lemelbaum, the well-known stringer who works out of Lacrosse Unlimited's Fayetteville, NY, location. This pocket is EBaum's Double-Traditional, a style that's already made its way onto Major League Lacrosse fields, as multiple pros come to him for their stringing needs and have provided overwhelmingly positive feedback so far.
Here's Erik's description: "I only started regularly stringing the Double Traditional this past winter. Before then, I had only done one or two in 19 years of stringing. Benefits are that you get the feel and ball control of traditional but an added benefit of more consistency of mesh from the overlapping diamonds. Trad pockets with just small diamonds tend to be harder to break in and have less hold, and on the other end trad pockets with big diamonds have great hold but the ball usually take forever to get out of the stick and goes right to the ground."
"This is the best of both: big diamonds that overlap creating smaller ones in a way. The best of both worlds, and it's the only pocket I use anymore. On the 'swag' side of things, two traditional pockets in one head can allow for some pretty sweet color combos for those laxers out there who need some flavor in their twig."
That being said, this stick pays homage to the Boston Cannons, the team Rabil led to the 2011 MLL championship. Having spoken to Paul recently, it's clear that he's got one thing on his mind in 2012: a repeat.
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In Nasir v. Morgan, 350 F.3d 366 (3d Cir. 2003), the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a ban on correspondence by inmates with former inmates. The Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to that rule, noting that the ban was justified by security issues.
This decision is often cited for its statement that an appellate court will uphold a district court's grant of a summary judgment motion on any basis so long as that basis was previously presented to the district court. Id. at 368.


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French politician, b. at the château of Citran (Fironde), on 28 September, 1805; d. on 7 January, 1867. He belonged to an old illustrious French family, whose name is mentioned in connection with Saint Louis's Crusade in 1248. His father, Louis de La Rochejacquelein, and his uncle Henri had won fame as royalist generals in the wars of the Vendéans against the National Convention. His mother left interesting memoirs which have been edited many times. Young La Rochejacquelein entered the military academy at Saint-Cyr at the age of sixteen and in 1823 he received a commission as second lieutenant in the cavalry. He took part in the Spanish War (1823) and in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828. In 1825 he had been made a peer, but he resigned shortly after the Revolution of 1830, which brought the younger branch of the House of Bourbon to the throne of France. The Department of Morbihan sent him to the legislature in 1842. He took his seat among the members of the Extreme Right, or Legitimist party, with whom he usually cast his vote, although he occasionally support liberal measures. In 1848 the "Gazette de France" supported his candidacy for the presidency of the newly established French Republic, but he obtained only an insignificant number of votes. In 1852 he was made a senator by Napoleon III, which caused some astonishment and comment among his friends the Legitimists. In the senate La Rochejacquelein always showed himself an ardent defender of Catholicism, but he may be reproached with having given his support to the whole foreign policy of the imperial Government. He published a number of works on political and economical subjects, among them being: "Considérations sur l'impôt du sel" (Paris, 1844); "Opinion sur le projet de loi relatif à la réforme des pensions" (1844); "Situation de la France" (1849); "A mon pays" (1850); "La France en 1853" (1853); "Question du jour" (1856); "La suspension d'armes" (1859); "La politique internationale et le droit des gens" (1860); "Un schisme et l'honneur" (1861).
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In the race to build the world's most attractive portfolio of present and prospective gold mines, Goldcorp (NYSE: GG ) sets the fastest pace.
Speeding into production growth with achievements including commercial production at the world-class Penasquito mine, and securing its future through a series of masterfully played strategic acquisitions, Goldcorp is fueled up and ready for a sustained and exciting growth spurt.
The miner turned in a fabulous third quarter on the strength of declining cash costs and, for anyone who may not have noticed, higher gold prices. With a cash margin of $979 for each ounce of gold produced, Goldcorp was able to generate a 46% increase in operating cash flow (before working capital changes) to $470.6 million. Net earnings quadrupled, from $114.2 million in the prior-year period, to $466.5 million. On an adjusted basis, earnings per share grew by 63% with only a 28% increase in revenue.
Goldcorp's new flagship Penasquito mine achieved negative cash costs during its first month of commercial production (September). That's an impressive achievement, since it's common for new mines to experience elevated costs during ramp-up. Newmont Mining's (NYSE: NEM ) challenges at the new Boddington mine come to mind. At Penasquito, the final pieces are moving into place that will see the mine ramp-up to annual production of 500,000 ounces of gold. This marks the sudden acceleration in Goldcorp's production growth trajectory that Fools have waited excitedly for.
Whether it was moving around behemoth Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX ) for a stake in the El Morro project in Chile, or outspending Eldorado Gold (NYSE: EGO ) for control of the Cerro Negro property in Argentina, Goldcorp has spent the past year earning its title as the master crafter of deals.
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F93 vs K96
I'm a 90kg-flat-water-surfer and looking for a high wind freemover/crossbord.
Currently I use a 120l JP x-cide and I'm thinking about the Futura 93 or the Kombat 96 to enjoy 6-7bft with a sailrange from 4.7 - 6.5
Which one is the best for me?
Hi Don,
The Futura93 has the performance focus more on flatwater blasting side of freeride/freemove, the Kombat96 really has the focus on the moves side of freeride.
Kombat is definitely more freeride-waves crossover.
So if you're on flat water, possibly(?) your normal ride style is more blasting - and the extra range and top end speed will be more compelling factors towards Futura93. Also being a heavier rider, the extra efficency of the Futura93 matches a little better for these two boards of similar volume.
Cheers ~ Ian
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Oddsmakers aren't expecting much of a game. The Ducks ride into this one as 35-point favorites, which means it should be a perfect opportunity for first-time starting quarterback Darron Thomas to get himself settled at the helm of the UO offense.
John Hunt, Molly Blue and I will be there to cover the game for The Oregonian.
We will post updates on OregonLive, and, if interested, you can follow the game on my Twitter feed.
Meanwhile, in Mississippi, Jeremiah Masoli received the go-head from the NCAA to resume his career.
I like the decision. Masoli screwed up here, but paid a legal price for his bad decisions and lost his spot on the team.
He graduated in less than four years and is enrolled in a graduate program at Ole Miss. Unless there is some legal reason that should bar him from the field, the NCAA should stay out of it.
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Ducks and Lobos use similar, one-back, no-huddle offensive schemes.
Ducks don't want to stumble out of the gate the way they did in 2004, 2009.
Oregon's deep, fast defense gets Its first test of 2010.
UO defense will show a lot of looks, bring a lot of pressures.
Oregon should romp in this one.
Ducks won't take the youthful Lobos lightly.
Q-and-A with Oregon tight end Brandon Williams.
Q-and-A with middle linebacker Casey Matthews.
Lobos say they're prepared and ready.
Ken Woody: Some tips on watching line play.
Point/counterpoint on New Mexico and Oregon with the Daily Emerald and Daily Lobo.
Cops say no drinking is permitted in the Autzen parking lots after games.
Top recruit Devon Blackmon has Oregon in his top six.
Masoli wins his appeal; eligible immediately.
With Steelers QB Byron Leftwich out, is Dennis Dixon next in line?
Aaron Fentress writes that there are some UO players on the bubble as the NFL cuts begin.
UO men's and women's cross country teams sweep the John Frank Invitational.
Young runners shine for the Ducks.
Quick-striking UO soccer team beats UC Davis.
Addicted to Quack's round-up of all things Duck.
So far, so good for new Tennessee coach Derek Dooley.
Tough way for new Portland State coach Nigel Burton to start, on the road at a Pacific-10 Conference team.
Paola Boivin of the Arizona Republic: The coaches and the game plans are as important as the quarterback.
Paul Buker, with Oregon State in Texas, says the Beavers were blown away by Cowboys Stadium.
Greg Hansen of the Arizona Daily Star: Wildcats do nothing to dim their Rose Bowl aspirations while pasting Toledo.
Jerry Brewer of the Seattle Times: Jake Locker's legacy will hinge on the Huskies' record.
Huskies kick off Locker's postseason honors campaign.
Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: Matt Barkley has grown into the job.
UCLA's defense will have to stop the K-State running game -- or, else.


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The Best Bubble Tea in Toronto
The best bubble tea in Toronto shows how much the landscape in the city has changed when it comes to this Taiwanese favourite. Once dominated by local chains like 168 and a slew of mom and pop stores, recent years have seen an explosion of new tea chains from Asia, each with its own unique take on this popular beverage.
Here is the best bubble tea in Toronto.
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CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice
CoCo is an extremely popular name in the international bubble tea industry, and is slowly making its way into Canada with outlets in Scarborough and North York. The high quality ingredients here make this chain a real standout. Make sure you try the interestingly named Two Ladies drink. More »
Pretty much the first name that comes to everyone's mind these days when talking about bubble tea, Chatime has expanded aggressively since its first small outpost opened on Dundas many years ago. When in doubt, go for their roasted grass jelly milk tea, and try the fruity pop-like teas if you're in the mood for something refreshing. More »
Easy Drink Easy Go
Huge in Malaysia but still in its infancy in Canada, Easy Drink Easy Go is yet another popular international chain that has relatively recently been gaining a fan following in Toronto. I love their Hokkaido milk tea (with pudding) along with their mango milk tea. Their North York location is super cozy, while their Chinatown store is more spacious. More »
Nohohon Tea Room
Unlike many bubble tea places that have a strong Taiwanese/Chinese orientation, Nohohon is very much inspired by the ingredients and flavours of Japan, and specializes in matcha/sencha teas. This newly opened store offers excellent varieties not found anywhere else, such as the honey momo oolong tea, as well as the unique umeboshi sencha. More »
Gong Cha Tea
This Taiwanese chain is gaining popularity due to their non-traditional bubble tea beverages. While they offer the usual milk teas, by far their claim to fame is the moustache series, which combines a salty cream with refreshing teas or juices, resulting in a drink that's both refreshing and visually comical (on your face, at least). More »
Cha Me Cha
If you fancy a large collection of dessert to go with your bubble tea, then Cha Me Cha is right up your alley. Originally operating in Koreatown North but now relocated to Markham, this charming shop serves up excellent shaved ice desserts with unique twists on bubble tea favourites like a sugar cane oolong tea. Service can be a bit hit or miss though. More »
Destiny Tea Cafe
A longtime classic and the first go-to place for bubble tea enthusiasts in the early 2000s, Destiny is still going strong today, with a spacious store that has a lounge-like feel. The bubble tea here is pretty good (though typically standard fare), but you do get a lot of items on the menu that can turn your small drink into a full size meal. They also have a killer cake selection. More »
Presotea is an oddity in that it's at once invisible and ubiquitous. While it rarely has its own location, the chain's drinks are often offered as part of another restaurant's selections. Because of this interesting business model, the Pacific Mall location is rare for its stand-alone status. The Panda milk tea, a simple but lovely beverage that's quite pretty to look at, is my go-to here. More »
In recent months, Sharetea locations have begun popping around town everywhere after opening its first humble location in the culinary showpiece that is Northtown Way. The brown rice milk tea is a refreshing take on a classic, while the cocoa creama is just plain unique (and delicious), period. More »
Formocha started as a charming bubble tea cafe showcasing lesser-known aspects of Taiwanese culture in their design motif, and they now boast a second location in North York. The Formocha Milk Tea is their signature offering, and is definitely on the must-try list. More »
Green Grotto Room
Green Grotto is one of the first Canadian places that opened before everyone and their aunt jumped on the bubble tea bandwagon. As competition increased, they've reinvented their concept into something akin to a reading room, with hundreds of magazines (mostly in Chinese) available for you to read while enjoying their long-time favourites like the plum green tea. More »
One of the very few entries on this list that's not part of a large corporation, Jule is (perhaps rather unexpectedly) located right by the aesthetically challenged Carlton Cinema. With bright modern decor full of zigzag motifs and a collection of signature "Jule drinks" along with pretty impressive cake and dessert offerings, this cute little shop has already become a local favourite. More »
One Hour
More than just a bubble tea shop, One Hour calls itself "a (sic) experience, a belief, a way of thinking" -- words which I still struggle to understand to this day. Fortunately, you don't need to be a Zen master to appreciate the diversity and quality of food items (such as the delicious zhajiang noodle) that accompany their lovely tea offerings. The red bean milk tea is one of my personal favourites. More »
Bubble Tease
Another local bubble tea chain that seems to have been around forever, Bubble Tease has several locations spread around town. The Dundas West store is one of the chain's better ones, with a bright and spacious interior where you can just hang out and enjoy one of their many daily special teas. More »
Yum Cha
If small, independent bubble tea places are your thing, Yum Cha should be another name on your go-to list. Featuring probably one of the cutest logos I've seen from a non-corporate entity along with delicious teas (the Okinawa tea doesn't disappoint). It's a cozy place to spend your afternoon, as long as you can spot this hard-to-find store, perched on the second floor of a nondescript building. More »