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The Alzheimer's Association applauds the Council of State Governments (CSG) in its effort to inform state legislators about cognitive impairment and the emerging Alzheimer epidemic. For 75 years, CSG has helped leaders in all branches of state government by providing information on emerging and evolving trends, their implications for state governments and potential policy solutions.
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PicoBrew's Beermaking Machine Offers Faster, Easier Home Brew
Four years ago, Bill Mitchell spent his days helping run Microsoft's Windows division and his nights struggling to craft the perfect home brew. After putting his kids to bed, the Microsoft vice president would stay up cleaning heavy pots and fermenting beer. No two attempts ever worked out the same, and he eventually called his brother Jim, a food scientist, to talk about a way to simplify the process using technology. The result, the Mitchells say, is the first fully automatic, all-grain tabletop brewing machine—one that can make beer to specifications, relatively quickly and with minimal effort.
In 2010, Bill Mitchell quit his day job to develop the company, PicoBrew; co-founder Avi Geiger, another Microsoft veteran, did the same the following year. Jim Mitchell, who scaled back his consulting work to make PicoBrew his full-time gig in 2013, says his goal was to figure out how to bring home beer brewers into this century. "They do things this way because they've always been done this way," he says. Now the first models of the $1,700 PicoBrew Zymatic are being shipped to the company's Kickstarter backers, Bill Mitchell says. At least 25 of the hundreds of Zymatics ordered so far will be hand-built by some of PicoBrew's 6 employees and 14 interns in their office on a residential street in Seattle.
The Zymatic is a stainless steel box about the size of a large microwave. It has a plastic drawer divided into five chambers, one for malted barley and other grains, four for hops. Attached is a five-gallon Cornelius keg, a home-brewing standard that holds water and, later, the beer while it ferments. After the beer lover programs in a recipe from a PC or mobile device using PicoBrew's cloud software, water cycles from the keg to the grain chamber, and then passes through the hops chambers to add bitterness, flavor, and aroma. The mixture filters back into the keg, where the user adds yeast before detaching and storing the keg to ferment for about a week. The machine's software is designed to maintain a steady water level and precise temperature, the trickiest elements for brewers to control.
The Mitchells, whose food scientist grandfather created Tang and Pop Rocks, are targeting the 1.2 million people the American Homebrewers Association estimates are making beer at home. Some professional brewers have also expressed interest in using the machine to refine their formulas. Matt Lincecum, the owner of Fremont Brewing in Seattle, says the test batches he makes in standard microbrewery tanks cost him $1,500 to $2,000 each; with the PicoBrew hardware, it's about $3. Lincecum can set the Zymatic and more or less leave it be. With most home-brew equipment, "you have to sit there and baby-sit the thing for eight hours," he says.
The software lets brewers add ingredients such as elderflower and bitter orange peel and predicts a given recipe's alcohol content and bitterness based on hundreds of test batches. Some of the preset recipes come from PicoBrew's brewmaster, Annie Johnson, who says she was skeptical of the technology until she tried it.
Bill Mitchell says he funded the company with $170,000 in cash and loans and began to expand in 2012, when the three co-founders hired their first employee, his college-age daughter. PicoBrew completed a $400,000 angel seed round last May and took in more than $660,000 from its November Kickstarter campaign, exceeding its goal in a day. He says he's raising an additional small funding round from seed investors but wouldn't disclose the target.
There's at least one other company building a high-tech automated beermaker: Belfast-based Cargo, which will begin shipping its Brewbot in May, according to the project's principal developer, Jonny Campbell. The Brewbot stands almost 4 feet tall, much bigger than the Zymatic, and costs £1,700 (about $2,855).
Bill Mitchell says he's working to lower the price of the Zymatic, which he hopes can become as common as a home espresso maker or bread machine. Reactions so far have kept him optimistic: When managing Windows, he says, "you didn't get a lot of people saying, 'That's awesome.' You get that with this machine."


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Will I have enough VP to purchase all he neat stuff or do I need to grind VP somewhere else as well?
Will I have enough VP to purchase all he neat stuff or do I need to grind VP somewhere else as well?
Somewhere else.
First of all, how would we know if you have enough VPs?
Second, there is a cap of 3000 VP, which means you can max buy 2 items, before you haveto grind new VP.
Third, each faction require you to have rep to use their VP gear, and how would you get that without grindig?
I'm at 1700 VP and 9000/12000 rep so i'm going for the shoulders right away.
I assume it's individual, because it depends on what items you have bought with VP and how long you have been saving
You'll never stop grinding VP. Also once you are revered with GL you can start doing Shao-pan and August Celestial dailys as well. Enjoy!
And in 5.1 you can upgrade any blue or epic item with JP/VP.
Rule of Thumb: If the healer's HPS is higher than your DPS, you're doing it wrong.
If that is the way you want interpreted the comment go for it. That is not how it was intended however. Until they increase the VP gain from random heroics dailys, if you have the time, are the easiest way to grind out VP. Even once they do increase it, you'll just be grinding it out in another way. There may be a short break between major content where VP is "worthless" but you'll probably be grinding it on an alt during those times and then a new VP lvl of items comes out!
Now with the system they are putting in where you can upgrade your gear with VP you probably will never stop if you are someone who doesn't farm heroics each reset.
Again, not intended to be snarky with the first comment. I genuinely meant the Enjoy!
For the OP
1: You can only earn 1000 VP a week.
2: You can only hold a max of 3000 VP at any one time.
3: Total cost of ALL VP gear is roughly around the 15,000 mark. So, 15 weeks of capping.
4: You need to get Revered with Klaxxi, Golden Lotus, Shado-Pan, and August Celestials, to have access to all of it as well.
5: Come 5.1, there will be both a new faction (Dominance Offensive/Operation: Shieldwall) to grind up too, that has some gear.
6: Also in 5.1, will be a new service with the Ethereals, to upgrade the item level of existing rare/epic gear through the expenditure of Justice/Valor Points.
In short to your question: Nowhere close.
Games are not necessarily "easier" today. You are just a better player.
It takes more now to impress many gamers than it did 2-5 years ago, because so much has already been seen and done.
Many players expect to be wow'd with every release of a beloved franchise.
These are generally NOT the fault of the developers, but the fault of many players over-hyping and/or setting expectations too high.
you can never have to much VP, so just keep farming
(i am 20 and dyslexic so yes i suck at spelling)
It will take forever and a day, but I would have to agree that we will use VP for a long time this patch


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This article presents a way to use WTL template classes on MFC window classes, that is how to transform the MFC CWnd class to its ATL/WTL counterpart CWindow, while leaving the class usable from MFC code.
Here you can find the required files, a detailed explanation in 10 steps and a working demo.
These are the basic steps to obtain hybrid MFC/WTL windows. They have been used on MFC dialog based projects, but should work with any MFC application.
// Add support for ATL/WTL #define _WTL_NO_AUTOMATIC_NAMESPACE
This prevents the WTL headers to automatically merge the WTL namespace to the global namespace. This avoids conflicts with MFC classes with the same names, such as CRect, CDC and others.
#include <atlbase.h> #include <atlapp.h> extern WTL::CAppModule _Module;
The ATL/WTL code may access the global _Module variable, so it must have external linkage.
#include <atlwin.h>
We add the common WTL header here to exploit precompiled headers, but you may want to include it only where you really need it.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // The one and only CMixedWindowApp object CMixedWindowApp theApp; WTL::CAppModule _Module; // add this line
The global _Module variable must be defined somewhere and this is a good place.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // CMixedWindowApp initialization BOOL CMixedWindowApp::InitInstance() { // Initialize ATL _Module.Init(NULL, AfxGetInstanceHandle()); ... }
int CMixedWindowApp::ExitInstance() { // Terminate ATL _Module.Term(); return CWinApp::ExitInstance(); }
Assume we want to add scrolling capabilities to a static bitmap control. We may want to use the WTL template class CScrollImpl<...> together with the MFC class CStatic, as there is no such a window class in MFC.
// Add support for scrolling windows #include <atlscrl.h>
Remember that if you didn't choose to use the precompiled header at point 3 above, you need to add that line here, before any other WTL header:
// Make this class CWindow compatible #include "Wnd2Window.h"
You may want to put the above line into your precompiled header instead, like all the other WTL headers, if you use them many times, to speed up recompilation. That's completely at your choice.
class CScrollPicture : public CWnd2Window<CScrollPicture, CStatic>, public WTL::CScrollImpl<CScrollPicture>
public: // Inline helper void DoPaint(WTL::CDCHandle dc) { OnDraw(CDC::FromHandle(dc)); } protected: // Implement painting with scroll support void OnDraw(CDC* pDC);
It may be a good idea not to mix the code too much with MFC and WTL classes used anywhere, as it could become quite confusing. An efficient way could be defining inline helper functions that translates WTL arguments to their MFC counterpart, unless you want to write the required functions using only WTL. Note that you can safely mix WTL objects with MFC code, but you always need to specify the WTL namespace when appropriate.
Using helper functions could also make writing "bridge" classes easier. For example, you could define a CScrollWnd class to reuse (through inheritance) whenever you need scrolling capabilities and custom drawing, declaring a virtual OnDraw() function like in CView and CScrollView:
public: // Inline helper void DoPaint(WTL::CDCHandle dc) { OnDraw(CDC::FromHandle(dc)); } protected: // Must be implemented in derived class virtual void OnDraw(CDC* pDC) = 0;
Well, nothing special or mysterious. The ATL class CWindow, which is used by WTL, has only one member variable, m_hWnd, that is exactly the same as the one you can find in the CWnd class. So all the CWindow member functions need just that member variable, that can also be found in a CWnd-derived class.
What I did was to copy all the CWindow members, except m_hWnd, to a include file and define a new template class.
template <class T, class TBase> class CWnd2Window : public TBase
To use the template you need to pass both the derived class and the base class, as you can see in the example above about a scrolling control.
Then I added the necessary code to enable WTL message maps. I implemented the MFC function DefWindowProc(), that is called after WindowProc(), when no entry is found in the MFC message map.
protected: virtual LRESULT DefWindowProc(UINT nMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { T* pT = static_cast<T*>(this); ATLASSERT(::IsWindow(pT->m_hWnd)); LRESULT lResult; if (pT->ProcessWindowMessage(m_hWnd, nMsg, wParam, lParam, lResult)) return lResult; return TBase::DefWindowProc(nMsg, wParam, lParam); }
Remember that WindowProc() is called first. If it is not overridden or if you pass the message to the base implementation in CWnd, the MFC message handler is called. If the corresponding entry is not found in the MFC message map or if you call the base implementation in your message handler or if you explicitly call Default(), the message finally arrives to DefWindowProc() that calls the ATL/WTL message map implementation.
Note that you don't have to change the MFC message map macros, that skip to the MFC base class ignoring the intermediate template CWnd2Window. I don't define an MFC message map there, so this is perfectly legal.
I also commented out "dangerous" member functions already defined by MFC, such as Attach(), Detach(), CreateWindow() and DestroyWindow(), but there may be others to comment out I'm not aware of. As far as I know Attach/Detach deal with CWnd maps, while CreateWindow/DestroyWindow set up Windows hooks or call some virtual functions. So if you still want to use your class as a CWnd, you need to call the original functions, not those defined by CWindow.
There may be also some functions identical to the MFC ones, that could be removed. Feel free to suggest improvements.
Well, you have to pay attention to a few things:
That's all. I just used this method a couple of times, so I'm not aware of any other problems. But I expect comments...
I suppose you can freely use the code as long as you have the right to use ATL source code. There is no original code here, except for the CScrollPicture class, only a nice idea. All the source code by me is released to the public domain, you may do what you want with it. As for the CWnd2Window class, almost all the code is copyright of Microsoft Corporation.
In the attached demo project you can find a very simple implementation of a scrolling picture control. Since I subclass a CStatic control, I need to override the default behaviour sometimes. A much cleaner implementation would have used a CWnd, but that way I can show that message routing works as expected, even mixing MFC message handlers with WindowProc().
To test the control use the mouse on the scroll bars or move the focus on it and use the keyboard arrows, holding down the CTRL key to scroll by pages. There is no focus indicator, so you have to guess by exclusion. There is also a button to load external BMP files.
Please note that this control is not meant to be fully featured, but only an example of use for WTL templates in MFC projects. In particular, I expect bugs if the control is used in a resizable dialog, as to my experience the WTL classes that implement scrolling are not "perfect" from that point of view. I'm working on a replacement class, but no time to release it yet.
Any idea to improve this article, please let me know!
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under A Public Domain dedication
#include <atlctrls.h>
#define VC_EXTRALEAN // Exclude rarely-used stuff from Windows headers #include <afxwin.h> // MFC core and standard components #include <afxext.h> // MFC extensions // Add support for ATL/WTL #define _WTL_NO_AUTOMATIC_NAMESPACE #include <atlbase.h> #include <atlapp.h> extern WTL::CAppModule _Module; #include <atlwin.h> #include <atlctrls.h>
class CSplitterATL : public CWnd2Window<CSplitterATL, CWnd>>, public WTL::CSplitterImpl<CSplitterATL, false>
#include <atlsplit.h> class CMixedWindowDlg : public CDialog { ... WTL::CSplitterWindow m_ctlSplitter1; ... }
// TODO: Add extra initialization here CRect rect; GetClientRect(&rect); m_ctlSplitter1.Create(m_hWnd, rect, NULL, 0); m_ctlSplitter1.SetSplitterPanes(m_ctlPicture1.m_hWnd, ::GetDlgItem(m_hWnd, IDC_LOAD), false); m_ctlSplitter1.SetSplitterPos( rect.right/2 );
#include <afxcmn.h> // MFC support for Windows Common Controls
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Date: Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Speaker: Dr. Dan Neumann, N.I.S.T
Topic: Neutrons at NIST — Past, Present and Future
Time and Location: 1:00 pm, with Q&A to follow; in a 1st floor conference room at the American Center for Physics (www.acp.org), 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD — off River Rd., between Kenilworth Ave. and Paint Branch Parkway.
Abstract: The 1950's were a decade of rapid progress in nuclear technology with many organizations building research reactors. Among these was the National Bureau of Standards which decided to build a relatively large reactor at its new Gaithersburg campus. The reactor, completed in 1967, is now the centerpiece of the NIST Center for Neutron Research which has become one of the leading neutron facilities in the world. This national user facility now provides measurement capabilities to more than 2000 scientists and engineers from industry, academia, and government annually. In this presentation, we will describe the technical and scientific reasons for the emergence of the NCNR as a key national resource including recent research examples.
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ComScore this afternoon reports that Google (GOOG) rose ever so slightly in U.S. search engine rankings in May, taking home 65.5% of all search traffic, versus 65.4% in April, as measured by "explicit core search," which excludes searches that "do not reflect user intent to interact with the search results," according to comScore.
More interesting, perhaps, is that Microsoft's (MSFT) search share didn't grow, for the first time since July of last year. At that time, Microsoft had 11% share. It has increased its share every month since by at least 0.1%, according to comScore's data, and as much as 1.1%.
But in May, Microsoft share was unchanged at 14.1%.
Note that July of last year was when comScore first started making the distinction in its records between "core search" and "explicit core search."
Yahoo! (YHOO) was static, at 15.9%, as were AOL's (AOL) properties, at 1.5%. IAC's (IACI) Ask Network lost a tenth of a percent, dropping to 2.9%.
The rankings cover more than 17 billion searches conducted by U.S. Internet users in May, comScore said.
Despite the lack of growth in share, absolute query volume in explicit searches rose for all players, with Microsoft capturing 2.4 billion queries, a 4% rise that trailed the 5% increase at Google and at Yahoo!
On the simpler "core search" basis, all players saw share decline in May except for Yahoo!, whose share rose 1.7 points from to 19.6%. On that basis, Microsoft's total core search share dropped by 0.7 points, the first time its share has declined since November of last year.
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NEW business SageWard Residential Lettings in Parliament Square, Hertford, was officially opened by the mayor of Hertford, Cllr Brenda Haddock, earlier this month.
Managing director of the company, 26-year-old Lisa Ward, takes time out to tell the Scene about the challenges she has faced setting up her own business, how she feels businesswomen today are perceived, and how to succeed in setting up your own venture.
Tell the reader a bit about yourself.
I live in Ware with my partner and am a very ambitious 26-year-old! I have always lived around this area and have moved approximately 10 times in my life - hence my long interest in property; it was inevitable from a young age!
What is your professional background?
I have approximately six years lettings background and almost three years in block management. My business partner and I have a collective property experience of 15 years. I have worked for several local letting agencies and have seen the good and bad parts.
When and why did you decide to open your own business?
Our official opening day was on December 4, when the mayor of Hertford officially opened the shop in Parliament Square. I was approached by an investor who knows my background and who proposed setting up in partnership. The first proposal was mentioned in June.
This is what I have always wanted to do, and to have a shop front in the centre of Hertford and to be to a high standard at this stage makes me very lucky.
I became frustrated working for other agents, where I had no real control.
Why did you decide to open your business in Hertford?
I decided to open in Hertford as I know this area well and love the town. The shop is situated in a prominent location, which I felt was key. I feel it is central to the areas I propose to cover - from Welwyn Garden City to Bishop's Stortford and from Buntingford to Cheshunt. I feel there is also room in Hertford for a letting agent who specialises solely in lettings.
What have you found to be the most challenging aspect of setting up your business?
The initial setting up of the business was hard going, what with organising contractors to tie in with the opening day, and ensuring that nothing is missed. It is a daunting time of year, what with Christmas being only a week or so away, so it is a fairly quiet time, although I have time to organise myself and prepare for the new year.
What can a client expect from SageWard?
A client can expect a personable, professional service. We have the landlords' interests in hand to find the right tenant for their property. At the same time, we look after our tenants to ensure their lettings experience is simple. Whilst we offer a first class service, our rates are also very competitive for any new landlord that comes on with us. We follow The Property of Ombudsman's Code of conduct and ensure we follow all regulations that need to be adhered to.
Do you think women today still have a tougher time in business than men?
I personally think it can be easier for women in business. It may take longer to prove themselves, but if they know the business that they are in then there shouldn't be any problems. I am confident of my abilities and see no difference in what sex you are.
What advice would you give to someone planning to set up their own business?
To set up your own business you need to have an extensive background knowledge of the field you want to be in. You also need to be passionate and determined about what you do. If you have that, and prepare yourself for the costs of running a business, and feel that there is room in the market for your business, then go for it. Research is key!


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How Did Lincoln Die?
February/March 1995 | Volume 46, Issue 1
Ford's Theatre Museum, where the weapon is currently kept, gave me a detailed description of the gun that Booth used to assassinate President Lincoln. It is a single-shot muzzleloading Philadelphia derringer with a percussion cap. Its total length is 5 27/32 inches, but the barrel is only 1 15/16 inches long. The interior diameter of the barrel is 0.4375 inch, making the gun a .44-caliber pistol (caliber refers to the barrel and/or bullet diameter in inches). The derringer shot a round lead ball. Usually a gun fires a bullet or ball of approximately the same caliber, but the pathological examination of the ball that killed Lincoln suggests that Booth used a .41-caliber ball in his .44 derringer.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine currently owns the ball that killed Lincoln. On April 6, 1971, the ball was examined. It weighed 6.314 grams and was found, by spectroscopy, to be principally lead. Its weight was not the same as at the time Booth shot it, for three reasons: the lead had corroded, and the corrosion was easily rubbed off in handling the ball; it had a small hole drilled into it prior to 1941 for mounting at an exhibition; and most significantly, part of the ball had been broken off by the skull when it entered the President's head. This fragment was found during the autopsy but was later lost. The ball was flattened by the impact of the shot; in 1971 it was measured at 13.3 mm in diameter at its widest and 12.1 mm at its narrowest point and was 7.2 mm from front to back.
The most widely accepted current theory that attempts to describe the extent of tissue damage incurred by a missile states that its wounding capacity is proportional to its kinetic energy, which may be calculated with the formula: KE = ½ mv 2 . In other words, the kinetic energy of a missile is proportional to the missile's mass times the square of its velocity. The kinetic energy, and therefore the wounding capacity, of a bullet is much more dependent on its velocity than on its mass. If a bullet's mass is doubled, its kinetic energy is doubled; if a bullet's velocity is doubled, its kinetic energy is quadrupled.
The derringer fired by Booth had a very low muzzle velocity—around four hundred feet per second, which is about that of most of today's air guns. To calculate the ball's kinetic energy, the only further measurement needed is its mass. Since the ball was weighed after a significant amount of its volume had been lost, it seems sensible to estimate its original mass using the density of lead and the volume of a .41-caliber sphere, which would have been 6.7 grams.
From this it can be calculated that the kinetic energy of the missile that killed Lincoln was 36.7 foot-pounds. Today this magnitude of kinetic energy is associated with guns of a much lower caliber. A .22-caliber short revolver, for example, produces approximately 48 foot-pounds of kinetic energy. A pathologist describing the wound of a twenty-year-old male who shot himself in the head with this type of gun noted that the bullet entered the brain in the right temporal lobe and perforated the left parietal lobe before lodging in the left occipital region. The bullet's track was straight and cylindrical, tapered at the entrance and lodgment areas, and about three centimeters wide in the middle. This wide area is the result of cavitation, a phenomenon common to missile wounds. Lower-velocity bullets will normally produce little or no cavitation, while high-velocity ones transfer more of their kinetic energy to the tissue and produce large temporary and permanent cavities. A temporary cavity is formed when the missile's kinetic energy separates the soft tissue around where it strikes, producing a wide opening for a fraction of a second before the tissue recedes back toward its normal position. If the tissue does not recede completely, a permanent cavity is formed.
The shape and size of this cavity also depend on variables other than kinetic energy, such as yaw—the wobbling motion of a bullet—and the effect of secondary missiles that form when the bullet's kinetic energy is transferred to bone, which fragments and itself becomes projectiles. When the bullet enters tissue, it chisels out a cavity much larger than its own diameter. A ball cannot produce yaw because it has no longitudinal axis to wobble on, and no secondary missiles were formed in Lincoln's injury because, other than entering the occipital bone, the ball encountered only soft brain matter. The occipital bone that was hit was driven like a plug and found in the autopsy about two and a half inches down the missile track. The hole made in the bone, wrote a witness to the autopsy, "was as cleanly cut as if done with a punch." The absence of yaw and secondary missiles combined with the ball's low velocity should have rendered the effect of cavitation in Lincoln's wound minimal, and indeed, the autopsy report seems to indicate the ball's having made a fairly clean, narrow track.


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Climbable playground equipment in the shape of different forms of carbon. The pieces are part of the science playground installed at the Discovery Center Museum in Rockford, Illinois. Accompanying website and educational curriculum has been developed to complement the playground pieces. The website introduces children at the elementary school level to the properties of carbon. The children can follow the story of Carl, a carbon atom, on his quest to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up and learn about carbon-containing molecules. On Allotrope Island, visitors learn about allotropes of carbon through online video sources, interactive games, and other online adventures. Additionally, the website also provides Discovery Projects for children to examine the properties of carbon offline. Developed by the Discovery Center Museum in Rockford, Illinois and the Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) at University of Madison Wisconsin.
- Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.


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This post is another in our special series during the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
Sometimes I wonder how we eat the seafood we do.
Take scallops, for example. With their plump and juicy meat, they are coveted for our dinner plates and in top restaurants around the world. But what are we really eating?
Well, there's the shell, more for presentation than eating, characteristically circular with ridges radiating from a rectangular hinge that holds the animal protected inside.
Shells of edible scallops, Pecten fumatus from 1970s Fisheries material.Source: Museum Victoria
And there's the body. Unlike oysters, they don't sit tight and daintily nurture pearls. Instead, they focus on moving small distances by squirting jets of water from between their shell halves, building muscle mass inside equivalent to a bodybuilder's bicep, all for our eating pleasure (and also to flap away from predators like octopuses and sea stars I guess).
Scallops for sale at the Queen Victoria Market. The white part is mostly muscle, while the orange part is known as 'roe'. Source: Museum Victoria
And what is that orange-brown blobby bit that tastes so gelatinously good? Gonads. A factory that pumps out hundreds of eggs and sperm into the water with the hope that some don't get eaten or swept away into unsuitable habitat.
But sitting on the bottom in sand or silty mud can attract parasitic friends like trematodes and nematodes. (I won't go into how many fish parasites a scientist sees under a microscope or you may never eat sushi again.)
Is it revolting to eat the disgusting? I suspect not, so long as some chef goes about his or her masterful ways to clean and transform the disgusting into the delicious.
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Scallops probably have the most eyes in the animal kingdom – they can have hundreds of eyes along the edge of their mantle. Exactly what sort of pictures they see we cannot be sure. Their shells reach about 14 cm in length and they live on shallow sandflats to waters over 100 metres deep. Their diet of floating food, such as plankton, is filtered from the water. Some species move short distances, others make more permanent homes on the reef, often becoming so encrusted with coral and sponge growth that they are barely recognisable. They were commercially harvested in Port Phillip Bay until 1996, nowadays they are taken from Bass Strait. Several species were thought to occur within the range of the common variety we eat, Pecten fumatus, but recent genetic work suggests they are all the same species.
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" The JH13 Pro was my first purchase of high-end personal audio equipment so it's difficult for me to provide a fair comparison (prior to purchasing them, I was listening to iPhone earbuds), but I can safely say that I couldn't possibly be happier with my purchase. The process of getting the impressions made was painless (albeit a bit expensive in the San Francisco Bay Area), and..." --WKHarmon
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This paper introduces an extended version of the traditional Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) model, for the implementation of scalable cluster systems, that the HyperTransport Consortium Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is working on. Using the Simics and GEMS simulators, we developed a software module that approximates the behavior of a PGAS cluster. This approach mainly provides the simplest mechanism to evaluate how much the PGAS infrastructure will affect overall the application performance. The aim of this work is to study the feasibility of the ATG's PGAS model for running applications with high memory requirements. Such a model, will let manufacturers build clusters that enable the execution of these applications, in such a way that it will be impossible to run them in a single processor, or in a multi–processor.
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eBay's Big Buy Leaves 'em Guessing
Big Skype transaction doesn't always mean big profits, analysts say.
Before the ink could dry on Internet auction giant eBay's "It is a higher premium they paid in relation to the benefit," Vamsi M. Sistla, director of broadband and digital media for New York-based ABI Research, told internetnews.com.
Sistla said eBay could have achieved the same consumer benefit for a much lower price tag.
However, if eBay allows the Luxembourg-based Skype to continue developing its VoIP business, the deal could mean significantly more across industries.
The deal calls for eBay to buy all the outstanding shares of the privately-held Skype for $2.1 billion. The sale includes $1.3 billion in cash and the value of 32.4 million shares of eBay stock.
The companies said the maximum amount potentially payable under the performance-based earn-out is approximately $1.2 billion, or approximately $1.5 billion, and would be payable in cash or eBay stock, at eBay's discretion. The expected payment date in 2008 or 2009.
David Smith, an analyst with the Gartner Group, said the acquisition will likely drive larger numbers of transactions to the auctioneer's core businesses, as well as add to Skype's $60 million in projected 2005 revenue, bottom line.
According to eBay, Skype generated $7 million in 2004, and estimates $60 million this year and $200 million in 2006.
Smith said Skype, already the leader in the surging VoIP market, possibly moves eBay in position to challenge America Online "We are seeing the emergence of Internet platforms through convergence and acquisitions," he said.
Sistla agreed, and said beyond integrating products, the e-commerce specialist also is best served squaring off with the other online giants planning to use VoIP technology to launch consumer services.
Still, Sistla added, the payoff might not match the buying price.
"I think they could have done better by spending less," he said, arguing that quality of service for VoIP is in its infancy and its market environs are far from stable.
Last week Skype's service came under fire in a market that eBay, and just about everyone else, is hoping to tap in the near future: China.
China Telecom, the nation's largest fixed-line phone carrier, reportedly began blocking access to service in the southern province of Shenzhen, and is expected to expand the ban nationally, according to the Shanghai Daily online newspaper.
Regardless of potential roadblocks, Sistla noted that synergies of both companies are similar, and that Skype has done for VoIP what eBay has done in e-commerce space.
"Right from start Skype wanted to build platforms for others to build services with, just like eBay," he said. $2.6 billion deal to acquire VoIP titan Skype this week, industry analysts were delivering mixed reviews on the move.
, Yahoo
, Google
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I'm just a happy camper!
But seriously, I don't think it's courteous to ignore someone who offered the original price. It's courteous, appropriate and necessary to refuse their offer before selling it later, though. Rather than ignore them.
Obviously, StreetMinimal is welcome to conduct his business however he pleases, but to call someone out for objecting to what is objectionable conduct is not. That's hardly courteous. Hardly befitting of iGents, no?
Matt, Papa, it is all good. No problems. Let's move on. Both of you are top gentlemen.
Dusty Brogues, I think you'll find the Gold Coast to be the nation's pulse for anabolic steroids. Tigers are clean - Tim Sheen doesn't look like he is taking any drugs?


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Shoot-out In Burke Canyon
The Idaho mine war broke into flame in 1892 and cast a glare with very long shadows
August 1971 | Volume 22, Issue 5
But as the year 1892 opened, they weren't even getting that. For the Mine Owners' Association by then had become embroiled in a dispute with the railroads over freight rates. The carriers had raised rates two dollars a ton the year before, boosting the shipping costs by about fifty dollars a carload. When the mine owners were unable to negotiate a lower rate with the railroads, they simply shut down their mines, declaring they would ship out no more ore until the railroads came to terms.
The impasse dragged on through the winter and into spring, with the miners the innocent victims of this dispute between warring capitalists. By early April the railroads had come around. But now a new element entered the picture. The owners announced they would need two thousand men to open the mines, and former employees would be given preference. But they also added an hour to the shift, offering $3.50 per day for ten hours' work instead of nine—for miners. The pay for carmen and shovellers would be cut to three dollars per day. The men could have Sunday off if they insisted, except in pumping mines—where the workweek would be seventy hours.
So now the impasse in the mines took on a new dimension. During the preceding year or two the miners had decided that in union there is strength—particularly in labor unions. Each mine or town now had its own union, very loosely confederated into the Central Miners'Union a forerunner of the Western Federation of Miners, whose officers Clarence Darrow would be defending fifteen years later.
All through that uneasy spring the union miners stayed home. They had other grievances besides the pay cut. When the mines were working, about a third of their wages went for board and room in company lodging. Company-owned stores took more of their pay. Even the saloons, where checks were seldom cashed at par, usually were owned by mine officials. But first and foremost, the union demanded $3.50 per day for every man who went into the mines, whether miner or common laborer.
At first the owners retaliated by announcing they would keep the mines shut until June. When that didn't bring the miners around, they launched a new tactic, one that was easily available to them in those days. They simply advertised in the Midwest for help. Soon every inbound train was bringing in scabs from as far away as Michigan and Wisconsin. But they didn't come in without incident. Reception committees of armed unionists took to meeting every train, a type of welcome that induced some of the newcomers to catch the next train back home.
The owners responded by hiring armed guards to escort their new employees from the station to the mines. One trainload of seventy-three men who arrived at Burke in May from Duluth was escorted to the ironically named Union Mine by sixty armed guards. Gradually, the mines resumed work through May and June, manned by imported labor, protected by Pinkerton men and husky youths from eastern Washington wheatlands, while the unions and mine owners fired salvos of propaganda at each other in the region's newspapers.
Neither side showed any indication of backing down. Angered by the continued resistance, the owners declared they would not rehire any former employees unless they promised to quit the union. More and more scabs were imported, including a big contingent from California. Tempers grew ever more edgy, ultimatums were issued by both sides and as regularly ignored, arrests for brawling and carrying deadly weapons were frequent. Two of the mines broke ranks to reopen with union help, and as a result their owners were ostracized by their fellow employers. But the big Gem and Frisco mines in Burke Canyon now were operating full-scale with nonunion men, and their continued defiance was a bone in the new union's throat.
By early July an inevitable showdown loomed. As more and more nonunion men had come into the mines, they had grown bolder, and instead of ducking away from abuse by the strikers they were more inclined to fight back. Fist fights between strikers and scabs became ever more frequent, and occasionally guns were wielded as well.
Such was the situation on Sunday night, July 10, as union men began gathering at Gem. There was an ominous tension in the town, like the mugginess that portends a thunderstorm. It was no chance gathering. Every train brought in more miners from the surrounding towns of Wallace, Mullan, and Burke. And they were carrying rifles, shotguns, and revolvers.
As the sun rose over Burke Canyon on Monday morning, the hillsides overlooking the Frisco mine were speckled with union men, guns at the ready. Down at the mine a few guards uneasily paced the dump at a tunnel entrance, trying to make out the shadowy shapes on the hillside in the early morning light. An ominous silence hung over the canyon.
This silence was shattered at 5 A.M. by the crack of a rifle. The strikers later claimed the shooting started when guards fired on a union man who was walking too close to mine property. The guards said the unionists fired the first shots to scare them off the dump.


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Jeff Kennett has pilloried Paul Little following the Essendon chairman's call for the federal government to step in and provide a "circuit breaker" to resolve the Bombers' doping probe.
Having already taken aim at the AFL and Little earlier in the saga, the former Victorian premier and Hawthorn president was incredulous on Thursday that Essendon's boss would even propose an approach Kennett termed "totally impractical, naive and unrealistic".
"It just shows again that a lot of business people, however successful they are in business, are not the best equipped to deal with things outside of the commercial world," Kennett told Fairfax Media.
"A lot of the criticism through this whole saga has been because of the way in which the then federal [Labor] government tried to orchestrate the whole deal. And now the chairman of Essendon is suggesting we should go back to the politicians.
"Now I don't think for a moment that the federal government's sport minister, Mister Dutton, in a month of Sundays would dare re-interfere with the process. I think to even ask shows a total lack of understanding of due process.
"I have always said that in this issue - which is terrible in terms of what the players were put through - the so-called substance abuse is in one sense paling into insignificance because of the cover up that has occurred ever since by members of the AFL, by members of Essendon and others.
"And so the cover up now is the thing that dominates the news, and Paul Little's comments today were just totally impractical, naive and unrealistic."
Little – who has repeatedly had his advances to speak with Minister Dutton and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority CEO Ben McDevitt rejected - later clarified he was appealing for the "circuit breaker" in the instance that Essendon wins the ongoing Federal Court case against ASADA.
In March, Kennett criticised Little for his response to the television interview Tania Hird gave that was scathing of the AFL. Kennett featured in the same television program and cited other examples that he believed demonstrated the AFL had developed a cover-up culture.
Kennett has previously termed the Essendon drugs probe as "one of the biggest PR disasters we've seen in corporate life in recent times", lambasted the AFL's "boys' club" culture he says has led to examples of poor corporate governance, and accused the league of handling the matter incompetently.


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Action Steps
Action Steps
- Review RSVP guidelines and eligibility requirements.
- Locate a candidate to support. If you need help, contact your pastor or diocesan vocations director.
- After a candidate's name and address is secured, prepare and send a letter of introduction from your council, assembly or circle.
- Define how money is to be raised.
- Define how the relationship will be managed.
- Define how money will be exchanged or presented.
- When presenting money to an RSVP candidate, notify the diocesan vocations director.
- Take photos and send them to your local and diocesan newspapers, and Columbia magazine. Be sure caption information is complete and each individual's name is spelled correctly.
- RSVP assistance also involves prayer and moral support. Make at least one personal visit to each seminarian, and send four letters – i.e.: birthday, Christmas, Easter, and welcome back to school greetings – each fraternal year.
- Encourage members and their families to keep seminarian or postulant in their prayers; make personal visits to them; and send communications throughout the year – i.e. birthday, Christmas, Easter greetings.
- Invite seminarian or postulant to all council activities and include in mailing of newsletter or other communications.
- Invite seminarians or postulants to make a presentation to the council, parish, and/or parish youth groups on what it means to prepare for priesthood or religious life.
- Arrange for seminarian or postulant to host a group of young people from the council or parish at their seminary to meet other seminarians and get a feeling of preparing for priesthood or religious life.
- Make sure to offer congratulations and support to your seminarian or postulant on their ordination.
- Apply for a refund from Supreme Council office – to be eligible for refund, monies must be given directly to an individual (not a an institution of fund)); money given to an individual must be vocations related and donated between July – June 30 of the respective fraternal year; paid with a check drawn from the council-assembly account; and copies of check or other documentation must accompany application for refund. Refer to the RSVP Refund Application (#2863) for exact details and procedures for filing for this refund.
- Request an RSVP Award Plaque. To qualify for an RSVP plaque, the council, assembly, or circle must provide financial assistance, as well as moral support throughout the fraternal year. Refer to the RSVP Refund Application (#2863) for exact details and procedures for requesting this plaque.
Support Materials
In addition to supporting seminarians and postulants through the Order's RSVP Program, councils, assemblies and circles are encouraged to conduct programs and activities that promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
The following vocations materials are available from the Supreme Council.
To order audiovisual productions, please contact the Supreme Council Department of Fraternal Mission or order online.
To order the printed pamphlets, brochures and certificates, please contact the Supreme Council Supply Department.
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Number |
Everyone Has a Vocation to Love. What's Yours? - DVD | 50046 |
Print Materials | |
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Number |
Vocations Prayer Card | 1874 |
Vocations Handbook | 1942 |
Vocations Poster (11 by 17 inches) | 2959 |
Parish Priest: Father McGivney and American Catholicism (hard cover $20.00; soft cover $12.00) |
40095 |
A Model for Our Times: The Heroic Virtue of Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney | 5044 |
Other Vocations Supplies | ||
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Number |
Price |
In Solidarity with Our Priest Buttons (package of 50) | SWP-1 | $8.50 |
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Despite most of her colleagues in local government offering an opinion on the designation of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site, Rep. Yvette Clarke has largely remained silent — and the Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development (CORD) is hoping she speaks up soon.
The grassroots organization has launched a letter writing campaign urging the federal lawmaker to take a stance on the controversial matter.
"When a community is as solidly behind a major health issue like the canal's clean up, we expect the elected officials to stand with us, since that person was elected to do just that," said Triada Samaras, CORD's co-founder. "It's a question of solidarity," she continued. "And its a question of what's right and being heard as a community."
Rep. Nydia Velázquez has already spoken out in favor of the designation, as have state Senators Daniel Squadron and Velmanette Montgomery, along with Assemblymember Joan Millman. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Councilmember Bill de Blasio have both said they don't support the designation. Bloomberg, in particular,has been staunchly opposed to the federally-overseen clean-up, arguing the stigma of Superfund could drive away millions in planned residential development. The canal was nominated for inclusion in the Superfund program last spring.
Clarke said through a spokesperson that she has a meeting planned "imminently" with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson."From there, we will be going forward on making the correct decision about where we stand on Gowanus," said Clarke spokesperson Judith Kargbo. "She really wants to focus on the facts surrounding the canal — she's not basing it on politics. It's too important to rush and make a mistake."
She said her boss "really wants to keep in sight the health of the canal and how it affects the constituents."
Samaras, an artist, recently worked with the not for profit group Starting Artists, on a project that helped local teens create "airborne contaminant masks," in response to the polluted canal's proximity to their homes.The project, she said, helps "let students know their artwork can come from a vital community concern."
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
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MCA-KC invites all contractors signatory to either LU 8 or LU 533 to send their field leadership personnel (i.e., Foremen & Superintendents) to a free, one-day workshop titled: "Coaching for Field Leadership."
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 (25 Participants Maximum)
Thursday, November 15, 2012 (25 Participants Maximum)
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This workshop focuses on building fundamental skills for coaching others. It is intended to help participants be more effective as they interact and communicate with not only their direct reports, but also with their peers and superiors. It also gives participants the opportunity to practice using the "Coaching TIPS2 Model" during case study experiences as part of the workshop, as well as receive helpful tools to successfully apply the Model in the workplace.
Workshop Objectives
ü Maximize team-member performance through encouraging improvements and leading others through positive change.
ü Motivate others to actively seek out opportunities to contribute more to the organization.
ü Resolve differences, handle team-member resistance, and confront excuses in a constructive manner.
ü Help people accept, adjust to, and acquire personal ownership of change.
ü Build positive and supportive relationships with team members.
About the Presenter
Peter Long has over 30 years of experience in training and leadership development. He has designed and developed large, multi-faceted change initiatives, project managed cross-functional teams, and facilitated countless workshops related to leadership, coaching, and team building.
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The Fundamentals of MCAA's WebLEM
All Contractors Signatory to either Local 8 or Local 533 are invited to a free lunch-hour session on the "Fundamentals of MCAA's WebLEM Software".
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
(Lunch Provided)
Overland Park Marriott Hotel
10800 Metcalf Avenue
Overland Park, KS 66210
RSVP to Cathy Paulson at firstname.lastname@example.com
Or phone: 913-948-9200
About this Session…
MCAA's WebLEM is the next generation of the popular Labor Estimating Manual (LEM), considered the industry's most reliable, authoritative source for comprehensive labor units for typical project tasks. This web-based product, which is free to all members, contains the detailed labor data that contractors have come to depend on. With WebLEM, you can quickly search for and retrieve information, as well as export the data into Microsoft Excel or CSV format
MCAA's WebLEM can save your company time and money by giving your Estimators immediate 24/7 access to a systematic approach to labor estimating that's proven successful for hundreds of mechanical contractors in generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual construction.
This session will be presented by the two Co-Chairs of the Labor Estimating Manual Committee, Tim Moormeier, President of U.S. Engineering and Ron King of Accubid, Division of Trimble. Ron and Tim were integral in the conversion of the LEM information into the current web-based product. Their presentation will focus on how to use the WebLEM effectively, how labor units are developed, what the Committee considers when making decisions on labor units, and what is coming next for the WebLEM. They will take you behind the scenes of WebLEM to understand how the labor hours are applied in the system so that you can appropriately apply your own experience modifiers in your estimating system.


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The Stories of Eva Luna Online Discussion
If you read The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, but were unable to make it to the discussion Monday night due to the thunderstorm, you are invited to post a comment here. We will have an online book club meeting. Now isn't technology great?
I will start the discussion with some brief thoughts. I loved the imagery in the book and the fairytale-like qualities of the writing. Ms. Allende really captured my attention with her characters, and I enjoyed learning something of life in South America. I will be interested to hear what others thought of this book.


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Report: Brady, Patriots agree on four-year deal |
09.09.10 at 10:12 pm ET |
It was quite a day for Tom Brady.
The Patriots quarterback started things off with a nasty car accident while he was on his way to work outside his Back Bay home. He's reportedly ended his Thursday by agreeing to a new four-year extension that will make him one of the richest players in NFL history, according to a report from Peter King of SI.com, who announced the news at halftime of Thursday's Vikings-Saints game saying he spoke to Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who told him the deal was finalized.
The former NFL MVP is scheduled to earn $6.5 million this season in the final year of a six-year contract he signed in 2005 where he earned approximately $10 million annually. It was a deal that was considered close to being an upper echelon contract when he signed in 2005, but now, leaves him woefully underpaid when compared to other quarterbacks around the league ' especially the younger crop of signal-callers, including rookie Sam Bradford and second-year quarterback Matthew Stafford.
Now, King reports Brady's new deal is one of the richest annual contracts in the history of the league. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the four-year contract is worth $72 million, $48.5 million of which is guaranteed.
Both the Patriots and Brady have been mostly mum about any sort of negotiations regarding a new deal, and the quarterback said earlier this summer he's 'not into playing games' when it comes to hammering out a new contract.
In his weekly press conference on Wednesday, he talked a little more about his situation.
'I hate when athletes say it's not about the money,' Brady said Wednesday. 'It's our job. I think really you love playing the game, that's why you do it. I think we're fortunate to get paid for something we love. If we weren't getting paid, we'd all probably have to find something else to do.
'There's no better job in the world that I'd rather have than do what I'm doing. Everything else, for me in my life, really pales in comparison to how much I enjoy this. In that sense, it's about winning games.'
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Health & Beauty
Both of our Co-op stores offer a wide range of health and beauty products, naturally. Our staff handpicks each item that's on our shelf to ensure good quality and serve our customers. More importantly, our friendly and knowledgeable staff are available to guide you through the aisles to help you choose the best products for you. If you are looking for a product we don't carry, our staff will happily special order it for you.
Health & Wellness
We offer a wide range of dietary supplements including vitamins, minerals, herbal and homeopathic remedies, protein powders, greens, and more. Some of our key lines include MegaFood, New Chapter, Country Life, Nordic Naturals, Blue Bonnet, Garden of Life, Renew Life, Boiron, Vega, Herb Pharm, Herbal Energetics, and Gaia. We even carry hard-to-find, all-natural products for pregnancy, nursing, new mothers, and babies by brands including Motherlove Herbal Company and Earth Mama Angel Baby Organics.
Personal Care
Looking for personal products you can feel safe putting on your skin? We carry a full selection of natural body care, from soap to eyeliner, tampons to first aid. Our brands include Dr. Bronner's , Acure, Derma-e, W.S. Badger, Tom's of Maine, and Healing Earth Vermont Herbals. We also carry Do-It-Yourself supplies including carrier oils, essential oils, flower waters, beeswax, bottles, and jars.
Looking For Something?
We are happy to take product suggestions and place special orders - just drop by or give us a call.
Concord: 603-225-6840
New London: 603-526-6650
We support local, independent, and organic farmers whenever possible and are committed to promoting sustainable agriculture and biodiversity.
Many of our beautiful vegetables come from certified organic local farms such as the Vegetable Ranch, Kearsarge Gore Farm, Good Earth Farm, and Shaker Organic Gardens, all just a short jaunt from the Co-op. Apples and strawberries come from Apple Hill Farm in Concord when in season, organic greens from Generation Farm in Concord, organic blueberries from Blueberry Gardens in Pittsfield. Brookford Farm in Canterbury supplies vegetables as well as numerous dairy products. We also enjoy herbs, fruit, and vegetables from our neighbors at Black River Produce and Harvest Hill Farm in Vermont. We also carry specialty items such as Micro Mama's local and organic fermented vegetables made in Weare.
These are just a few of our many local and regional growers. Our produce department is one of our crowning glories. Want to know more about our farmers? Click here for an inside look.
Not sure how to store your fresh produce once you get it home? Click here for a handy guide on storing fresh produce to reduce waste.
Hoop It Up For Year-Round Local, Organic Veggies!
We have our very own organic hoop house located at Vegetable Ranch farm that provides our customers and Café fresh produce year-round. Read more about our Hoop House, click here.
In New London
Our sister store offers seasonal local produce from Muster Field Farm in Sutton, and from other local vendors whenever possible. The selection varies from season to season but we are happy to support our local farmers and provide quality produce to our local community.
Got Produce?
Are you a farmer or backyard gardener looking to sell your fresh produce to the Co-op? We are always looking to offer a greater variety of goodies on our shelf! Call our produce manager at 603-225-6840 to talk prices, availability, and delivery times. We strongly prefer organic and naturally grown methods, and we are particularly interested in specialty produce.
Bulk Department
If one section of the store symbolizes the Co-op and the co-op food store movement, it's the bulk department. Bulk goods are the perfect way to save money, reduce packaging waste, and access otherwise hard-to-find health foods. The Co-op has made it easy for you.
You can simply walk up to our extensive bulk section and fill your container with exactly the amount you want. You can use the bags and containers we provide at no extra charge, or bring in your own containers from home to refill (just be sure to get the container's weight, or "tare," from a cashier first). The selection of products available in bulk is astounding and always changing as we adapt it to meet our customers' needs. The goodness of whole grains, beans, and legumes forms the backbone of any natural food store, and we have approximately 40 different whole grains, locally milled flour, oatmeal, gluten-free grains, and varieties of rice.
You can flavor your food for pennies with the Co-op's selection of 50+ bulk herbs and spices from Frontier Co-op, which includes sea salt, xanthan gum, cocoa powder, and other kitchen needs. You can top off your bottles with olive oil, tamari, agave nectar, local raw honey, and local organic maple syrup. We even offer bulk kombucha on tap in the produce department from Aqua Vitea. Other popular favorites include nuts, seeds, nut butters, granola, candy, Equal Exchange fair-trade organic coffee, dried fruit, and more! Fill your jugs with bulk all-natural cleaning products and castile soap, too.
Many of these same products are available on a smaller scale in our New London store.
Meat & Dairy
The Co-op's fresh and frozen meat, poultry, and pork are among the best-selling products in the whole store! That's because we are one of the few places customers can go to find trustworthy sources of a wide range of types and cuts of meat. All of the farms we purchase from are free-range and do not use antibiotics or added hormones.
Local, Grass-Fed, Organic
We carry certified organic meats; however, our customers particularly enjoy our offerings from hard-to-find New England Farms including Miles Smith, Misty Knoll, Brookford Farm, and North Hollow Farm. These small- and medium-scale farms provide a more humane environment for their grass-fed livestock, and this comes through with healthier meat that is higher in omega 3s and lower in saturated fat. Our quality national organic and natural lines include Applegate Farms, Niman Ranch, Organic Prairie, and Smart Chicken.
Straight from the farm.
The dairy case includes a fully stocked dairy cooler with raw milk from Brookford Farm and Benedikt Dairy, organic dairy products from Organic Valley, yogurt, butter, local eggs, and a wide range of vegan alternatives.
Fast, Healthy, Delicious Sushi
At Hissho Sushi in the Concord store, freshly prepared sushi daily on-site is the only way we roll. Every day, our talented chefs prepare delicious sushi that will keep your customers happy and healthy.
Hissho Sushi searches the world markets for only the highest quality products. Our seafood, rice, vinegar, soy and other ingredients are procured and tested at our state-of-the-art distribution facility. Our chefs buy fruits and vegetables locally to ensure absolute freshness.
You will never find artificial coloring in Hissho Sushi's natural wasabi and ginger. We offer multi-grain and brown rice, as well as traditional sushi rice, and many of our items are vegetarian and vegan. Our products consistently maintain the health benefits and authentic taste of true Japanese sushi.
Whether you're hosting a wine and cheese party, putting together the perfect cheese plate, or aiming to make the most amazing grilled cheese ever, we strive to carry the best cheese in a range of types and prices to fit your needs.
Local Focus
We specialize in New Hampshire-made cheese including Heart Song Farm, Robie Farm, Brookford Farm, Agape Homestead Farm, Sawyer's Artisinal Cheese, Sandwich Creamery, and Boggy Meadow Farm. And since cheese making has attained such popularity in Vermont, you'll also find a good core of regional cheeses in our case, such as Grafton Village Cheese, Vermont Creamery, and Maplebrook Farm.
Diversity of Cheeses & Accompaniments
We round out our cheese selection with some of the best authentic European cheeses and unique cheeses from throughout the United States. You'll find cheese made from goat, sheep, and cow's milk, as well as specialty products to serve along with your cheese. If you prefer organic, you'll find several options by Organic Valley and Neighborly Farms of Vermont. Our cheese department highlights crackers that are meant to go with cheese (not compete with it), including locally made Craquelins Artisanal Flatbread Crisps, as well as quince paste, Vermont Smoke and Cure sausage, Olli Salumeria Artisan Salame, and Farnum Hill Ciders. Non-dairy "cheese" can be found in our dairy case.
Beer & Wine
The Co-op works closely with representatives from both brewers and distributors to keep up with the latest seasonal offerings, and we often host beer tastings on Tasty Thursdays, the first Thursday of the month, to give you an opportunity to try before you buy it.
Our beer selection changes seasonally, with rarities that can be difficult to find in other stores. We carry single bottles, four- and six-pack selections. Our standard brands include New England microbrews like White Birch Brewing, Big Water Brewery, Great North Aleworks, Smuttynose, Moat Mountain, Oddball Brewing, Out.Haus Ales, and Peak Organic Brewing Company. We also offer gluten-free beer and cider from Glutenberg, Green's, Rekorderlig and Cowboy Nute's.
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We carry choice reds, whites, rose, sparkling, and specialty wines. Our top shelf features local vineyards and wineries including LaBelle Winery, Jewell Towne Vineyards, Hermit Woods Winery , and Coffin Cellars Winery. We also carry national, imported, and organic wines.We offer a 10% off "case discount" when you purchase six or more bottles of wine.
Expand your palate with our diverse selection of honey wines, or mead, from regional companies such as Sap House Meadery and Moonlight Meadery.
Specialty Diets
We understand that many people don't just shop at the Co-op just because we have great, all-natural, local, and organic food. For customers with special diets, we are the only place they can meet all their grocery needs in one stop.
Our entire grocery department is coded so that you can find gluten-free products quickly and easily. We scan every product that enters the store. If the label indicates that it is gluten-free, then we use an orange sticker for the shelf price label. You'll find an alternative to just about any gluten- or wheat-based treat!
Our Bakery and Café frequently offer items made without gluten ingredients, and you are also welcome to special order gluten-free or "flourless" goods. However, please understand that because we are a small, full-service kitchen, traces of allergens may still be present.
Vegetarian, Vegan & Dairy Free
We are the best place in the area for animal-free groceries! We carry a wide range of vegetarian and vegan products throughout the store - from Tofurky "turkey" to Divine Burgers, Buckleberry Foods sweets to Daiya Foods shredded "cheese," and Coconut Bliss ice cream to an enormous array of "milks" and creamers made from coconut, soy, rice, hemp, oats, almonds...
And of course, our Café frequently features vegetarian and vegan dishes and soups on our daily hot bar, our Bakery offers vegan cookies, and we are always happy to create something for your special order.
Other Special Diets
Because allergies and food sensitities are a major concern for natural food store shoppers, many of our brands, such as Enjoy Life, offer goods that are egg-free, nut-free, and free of other common allergens.


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"He's the best there is, but he's a loose cannon." With that impeccably delivered line, Guy Pearce was built up for sci-fi action hero status in the trailer for the Luc Besson-produced "Lockout." Europacorp has now followed that statement up with proof, in the form of the film's first five minutes, and they're completely implausible, nonsensically plotted, and oh yeah — pretty damned entertaining as well.
The clip starts with a fantastic credit sequence sight gag, then launches us straight into the year 2079, where government agents are interrogating Pearce with brutal force. There's some straight-faced back and forth about missing information and betrayal, but the real focus here is on spectacle, action, and humor, all of which are present in copious amounts. Wisecracks abound from Pearce, leading quick into fast-paced combat in a hotel room, then before you're aware the film has shifted to a rooftop chase scene. It's all absolutely ludicrous, but directors James Mathers and Stephen St. Legers are smart enough to shoot the action in generally clear, focused takes that keep the geography consistent. (Side note: the bloody headshot that appears in the clip below wasn't in the PG-13 American cut that we saw).
From the previous trailers alone, Guy Pearce's charisma aside, the film appeared to be a fun yet forgettable amalgam of genre tropes, akin to Neil Marshall's completely misguided "Mad Max" tribute, "Doomsday." " That said, there is an assured tone and playfulness on display that could deliver a surprise hit.
With Pearce completely chewing the scenery, and a supporting cast that includes Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, and Vincent Regan, you could do a lot worse when "Lockout opens this weekend, April 13th. [Twitch]


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You can watch a Giants game anytime you want – these days we can all record, rewind and freeze anything on television. However, there is nothing like the exhilaration of being in the stands of MetLife Stadium watching the Giants dominate the field. You can relive those moments when you sport your favorite Giants gear, and the Game Rewind tee will quickly become your go-to T-shirt! It features "New York" lettering arched over the team name with a team logo in the center. Make sure you bring out your most enthusiastic Giants spirit with this tee!
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Spurs Western Conference Finals Tickets On Sale Now
SAN ANTONIO -Tickets for the San Antonio Spurs first two home games of the Western Conference Finals (Games 1 and 2) are on sale now. Exact dates, times and opponent will be announced at a later date. The Spurs will face either the Los Angeles Clippers or Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals. The Spurs 2014 Playoffs are presented by H-E-B and World Car Auto Group.
Tickets are available online on Spurs.com or ATTCenter.com. Tickets may also be purchased at the ATT Center Southeast Box Office or by calling (210) 225-TEAM.
Purchase Spurs season tickets and guarantee playoff seats for every home game. Season ticket members receive significant savings off day of game pricing and, as part of the Spurs Family, are eligible for special benefits such as VIP access, unique game night experiences, event pre-sale opportunities and discounts at the Spurs Fan Shop located at the ATT Center.


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We gave our Margarete Top the black and white theme, to really bring out the contrast in between the piping and the white lace. We ended up finishing it with another black sash around the hem, simply a ribbon stitched to the bottom of the top. The ribbons can be closed in a big bow right over the bottom of the zipper.
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Apr 2, 2010, 08.36 PMby mlssfshn
I hadn't seen this simple beautiful!
Oct 12, 2007, 07.29 AMby lizziem
I would also love to know about the skirt!
Sep 12, 2007, 10.09 PMby xupower
Is there a pattern for that skirt? It's got a nice shape and looks like a quick weekend project.
Aug 29, 2007, 12.00 PMby squirrellypoo
That looks so comfortable, and great for layering under jackets come Fall…
Aug 28, 2007, 04.57 PMby benedikta
we added the ribbon on the bottom ourselves, it's not in the pattern, but we felt it would dress it up and make the black piping pop more…
Aug 28, 2007, 01.07 PMby marmota-b
So the ribbon is part of the top? Wow! That's really classy…
Aug 28, 2007, 12.44 PMby silverrain-x
oh dear, I just realized it's a top. Netherless, still very pretty!
Aug 28, 2007, 12.42 PMby silverrain-x
whoa, that dress is beautiful! Something, classy and simple. I will definately consider making this!
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Last night, I saw Radiohead for the fourth time. However, considering the first three were at Lollapalooza, Coachella, and from the lawn at Blossom Music Center in Ohio, I've never actually seen any members of Radiohead, up close at least. But that all changed last night in what was perhaps the highlight of my life as an amateur photographer as I got to take pictures right up close of one of my favorite bands in the history of bands.
It had been 15 years since the band had been to town for whatever reason, but better late than never I say, and it was definitely better with over 20 songs played over the course of 2+ hours and 2 encores. It's always the most exciting to see a band in my hometown, especially the ones that come to town just after I've convinced myself that they never will. The show was phenomenal as expected, giving a pretty even mix of everything OK Computer and beyond (though skewed a bit towards the newer material of course) and Mr. Yorke did acknowledge that it had been a hell of a long time since they'd come to town. Because sometimes it's nice just to hear it from the band itself.
Anyway, check out a bunch of shots below from what will likely go down as my happiest/proudest moment as a freestyle music blogger. It was funny chatting before the show with the professional photographers who shoot everyone and their brother trying to act like it was no big deal for me, all the while jumping up and down inside uncontrollably. If there was any downside to the night, it was the fact that I showed up just too late to shoot Caribou, and then heard from several people how insane their set was to start the night off. But it was all worth it in the end. Here's a few rad Radiohead remixes to stew on as well. I hope it's not another 15 years before the band comes back to town.