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Sequined One-Shoulder Dress Style HDA12\4U Tonal paillettes throughout Fabric drapes across left side of body Left shoulder with tucked detail Industrial zipper closure at back 100% Nylon $ 1,195.00 $ 718.00
The signature look that encapsulates the overall theme of LAC ET MEL's spring/summer collection! A fantastic corderoy suit modeled after Coco's look in the 20's and 30's, it's trimmed in canary yellow satin and detailed with purple buttons and lining. Perfect for lunch with the ladies or that after-hours work event.
Sydney label, Pizzuto, brings a slim-fitting pencil skirt to the States. Adorned with a jet-beaded satin belt, this high-waisted, stretchy skirt is a globetrotter's choice on either side of the Equator! Store: PlanetTogs.com Designer: Pizzuto (Australia)
Burberry Button Front Shirt with Check Trim $225.00 * Long sleeves with button cuffs. * Exploded check trim inside cuffs. * Cotton/elastane; machine wash. * Made in Italy. * Collectors.
black leather with gold hardware.
A stunning fitted blazer in luxurious black velvet! Trimmed in green velvet, including velvet-covered buttons, this exquisite German jacket is perfect for those seeking a semi-formal dinner jacket.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Style: 198951 Our Price: $690.00 This sassy satin pump breaks way to a night on the town! Fuschia satin with black patent accents. These accents frame the beauty of this shoe and the patent ankle strap keeps it edgy. 5" black high gloss heel and 1" satin covered platform.
Shell Bag Style YEW396\YC367 Zipper detail along outside of bag Chain handles Tassels on either end $ 995.00 $ 598.00
Small leather tote Genuine leather. #570531 Select Color: natural $128.00 fabric & care * 100% Leather.. * Wipe clean. * Imported. details * Top handles, topstitching throughout.
Jewel-toned dress European Collection Our Limited Edition European Collection is back with brand-new styles inspired by and designed in our European studios. See how Gap's clean, casual look is translated with international flair. fabric & care * 100% Silk. * Dry clean. * Imported. details * High-quality silk. * Seaming throughout for a more feminine shape. * Short sleeves with pintuck detail, tiered bottom with shirring. * Concealed side zip closure. * Hits just above knee.
Welcome to Debenhams :: Beauty, Designers, Womens, Lingerie, Mens, Kids, Electricals, Home, Furniture, Gifts, Flowers, Weddings
Boutique in Atlanta, Virginia Highlands area, very chic and cute!
Bottega Veneta black basketwoven leather top handle bag retail value: $2,650.00 bluefly: $2,120.00 One look at their signature woven leather and you will know that Bottega Veneta handbags are well worth the investment. * Color: Black * Signature basketwoven leather with brasstone hardware * Two-way top zip closure * 13'' dual leather handles with 4'' drop * Suede lining with interior zip and cell phone pockets * Measures 17'' at widest x 15'' tall at center x 5'' deep; weighs 3 lbs. * All measurements are approximate * Leather; Imported; style#300831401
Chain Headband Style# 83A1077 Exclusives: Only sold online or in Free People boutiques Double stranded chain headband with woven fabric detail. Elastic at the back for a snug fit. * Cotton, brass * Imported
Women's Ruffle-Sleeve Camis $19.50 Flirty and feminine ruffles by the shoulders beautify this comfy cami. In a range of such wearable colors, you'll want to pick up more than one. fabric & care * 100% cotton. * Machine wash. * Imported. details * Scoop neck * Hits at hip
Eve Gravel Lydia Deetz Dress. Women's fully lined short-sleeve lace mini dress. Fabric is 60% nylon, 40% rayon. Made in Canada.
Stroll past the Parthenon in this Grecian-inspired gown. Constructed out of pleated, hand-dyed Georgette silk, this one-shoulder dress features beaded cutouts along the neckline and a tulle handkerchief hemline.
Kenzington Satchel $29.80 Stylish synthetic leather zipper satchel featuring a fully lined interior cell phone and zipper pocket with brass metal hardware trimming, top zipper closure, and a convertible shoulder strap. - 19" L x 15" W (w/handles). - Imported. ProductCode: 1045122146
Make a statement from Bali to Buenos Aires in these luxurious wool trousers featuring a silver sequins stripe down both legs. Matching Sequins top sold separately. Designer: Miriam Ocariz Store: PlanetTogs.com
Summer silk in delicious colors! The exaggerated flutter sleeves and belted waist bestow a flattering silhouette to a simple look. Featherweight and airy, this blouse is a favorite among women on-the-go.
Get your party on with this dress! A unique number from Down Under, this dress adds shine back into your wardrobe. Wear with leggings to stay warm on a cool night in Stockholm, or go without to show off your gams! Exclusively at PlanetTogs!
Bilbao designer, Miriam Ocariz, creates an attention grabbing frock worthy of commanding the Spanish Armada. Gold trimmed buttons cap off a sea of bodice detailing while a full pleated skirt flows from a slightly dropped waist.
This baby soft creation is a stunner with its chic checkered pattern and matching black lining. Do we really want to take it off once indoors?
Diesel Daydream Bag DSLWBAGX909 $75 The warm weather months offer the perfect days for daydreaming, and internationally beloved Diesel delivers this Daydream Bag just in time for sultry, lazy days. In a slouchy cotton canvas, this muted green bag gains subtle contrast from dark silver tone logo hardware. Two zipped compartments--one with interior zip pocket-- and an exterior zip and pouch pocket maintain a utilitarian vibe. Perfect for carrying on a low-key getaway, this dual handle bag boasts sporty style. * 100% cotton * Made in China * Color: Military Green * (w) 15.5" x (d) 5.5" x (h) 11"
One of several innovative blazers from Ana Sekularac's "Matador" collection, this particular one features an asymmetrically layered coattail on the back, fan detail on the front, and extra-wide cuffed sleeves.
For the intrepid maverick comes this uncoventional bustier. A half-moon shaped organza insert rises to neck-level and fans out as a faux lapel. Pair with Ana Sekularac trousers or shorts for a truly unparalleled look.
A Japanese-inspired wool jacket direct from Belgrade! This striking jacket features an uneven lapel that can be worn open or snapped closed onto a black, "sun" patch. Full sleeves fall short before yielding to extra-wide cuffs. Wear the decorative collar up for a majestic appearance.
Another one of Ben Wu's imaginative creations! The color blocked pencil skirt contains a protruding "cube-loop" for added dimension. 23" length Side zip; kick pleat Purple, pink, black, and rose colored blocks Fully lined 100% wool Machine or hand wash Made in Singapore Color: Multi
Bilbao designer, Miriam Ocariz, creates an attention grabbing frock worthy of boarding the Spanish Armada. Gold trimmed buttons cap off a sea of bodice detailing while a full pleated skirt flows from a slight dropped waist.
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Skullcandy S2TTBZ-BZ Titan Earbuds, (Black)
" i loved the sound quality. good for everything. not bloated bass, but if you threw on some bass-heavy music they would thump. yet if the music was not bass-heavy it was not intrusive. they look cool, and are made of a cool metal. iono what it is. get some complys for it. the wire is going. one of the buds is crackling in and out when the sire moves. " --Skoobs
AWEI ES-900i Headset Earphones Speakers with Mic for Smart Phone - Black
"I actually have the ES900m, which doesn't have microphone and control buttons, but the rest is the same. For $6 it's impossible to buy a pair of earphones as good as them. I really believe that the body of the earphones are metal, even if they are not, it's made of a very durable plastic. It's nothing like the entry-level Sony or Philips earphones which are made of cheap..." --mrplt
Skullcandy Fix In Ear Headphone With 3 Button Remote - White / Chrome
"I've seen the Fix around with the standard SKDY set ups in RadioShack and other stores, but they were usually an unattractive 79.99$. I found them at TJ Maxx (Apparently always has Uptowns for 40$) and decided to throw the 15$ they were asking for them and try them out. They are awesome basshead buds!! They sound very good, no exaggerations. Seperation, imagery, soundstage are all..." --KodaO
Skullcandy INK'D Earbuds (Green)
"First of all, I gave these a 3 star mostly for their price. At about 9 bucks they are about the cheapest headphones around. I mean, who is going to pass up a deal like that. They are dirt cheap and really easy to find at about any store you can name. But you aren't reading this review just for there price. Lets check em out. Sound quality If your looking at from an..." --Bassbanger101
AWEI ES800M In-Ear Hi-Fi Headphone
"The ES800 are the kind of IEMs you won't like how they sound out of the box: they sound thin and aggressive, with piercing mids and highs. Then you will question the design: the hideous "gold drop" on the back, the flat cable, the enormous cable splitter. The tips are not so good either. So, there is a chance that, for 3 or 4 dollars, you will give it to that annoying cousin, or forget about it..." --Mellowship
Skullcandy 50/50 - Headset ( in-ear ear-bud ) - white, chrome
" These are quite good sounding for the price. The sound is well balanced and nothing overpowers anything else. The design is also quite nice. The major flaw with this and most other Skullcandy products is that they pretty much break in a month. I treat my stuff well and these only survived for around 3 months. " --TheBrutux168
AWEI ES-Q9 Super Bass Wooden Earphones Headphones Headsets Fiber Cable for Mp3 Smart Phone
"My experience with this one was enjoyable while it lasted. I liked the sound quality, a whole step above peasant IEMs on that price range. They're big so I had to fiddle quite a bit to get a good seal, also I suggest to wear the cable over the ear to avoid extra noise when the cable moves. People with small ears will have trouble with this ones. The cable produces noise, not very good. The..." --zareliman
Skullcandy S2IKDZ-003 Ink'd 2.0 - Black/Black
"SO HERE WE GO I like em alot ,fun colors so each kid can have their own ,read no fighting, l ve read they sounded best of the three available and l agree clean sound over all ,not thumpy but clear bass!! Think these be great for rock tunes !! These are light and comfortable to wear and to put in .Semi flat cable is sturdy and tangle free and l got these for my teen NOW l think l want my own..." --drkrazyrich
Skullcandy Smokin Buds - Headphones ( in-ear ear-bud ) - rasta
" These were my first phones that didn't come with an iPod, and I will say that when I got my first pair about three years ago, I was amazed that music could sound so good. After a few years of experience, I think I'm a little more qualified to write a review. First of I will say that I would reccommend these to anyone as their first IEM or headphone on a budget. I mean I can get as..." --Noyan
Skullcandy S2SYDA-008 Merge Earbud Headphones - Black/Chrome
" Upon initial listening with these buds, I was rather unimpressed as I heard the rather familiar bloated mid-bass, sharp highs, and lack of mids that SKDY's old line carried. Then I realized that I still had my source EQ'd to Vocal Booster. Changed over to R&B and wow, night and day difference. The Merge are greatly influenced by an EQ, with the R&B setting completely bring the..." --KodaO

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PESHAWAR - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto forced him to join politics, saying their fight against a particular mindset which is bent upon destabilising the country would continue until its defeat."I have learnt politics from Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Khan Abdul Wali Khan and Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Jail also taught me a lot," the president said and added he had joined politics to save the country after the assassination of the two-time former premier, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. He said this while addressing the historic session of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly as for the very first time in Pakistan's history; a president addressed any provincial assembly. He arrived in Peshawar on Monday morning not only to address the KPK Assembly's extraordinary session, but also to meet his party's provincial leadership. President Asif Ali Zardari stressed the need to defeat the negative mindset to save Pakistan, saying that mindset was totally against Pakistan.Earlier, upon his arrival, he was received by KPK Governor Barrister Masood Kausar and Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti. Federal Communications Minister Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan, KPK PPP President Anwar Saifullah, Federal SAFRON Minister Engr Shaukat Ullah, KPK Senior Minister Rahimdad Khan, Health Minister Syed Zahir Ali Shah, KPK Assembly Speaker Karamatullah Khan, Senator Sardar Ali Khan, MNA Asma Alamgir and others senior PPP leaders and officials accorded a warm welcome to the president. "Democracy is the real revolution and, after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, it was our responsibility to continue the political process. In fact, the country needs practising real democracy," he said. He maintained that completion of five-year term by the parliament was an example of maturity and patience. He hoped that future generations of Pakistan would continue to strengthen democracy as this was in the interest of the country as well as rest of the world. He also vowed to defeat the internal enemies of the country.Asif Ali Zardari said that protection of democracy is wan in the interest of the country and that, too, was the demand of the day. The PPP-led government had strengthened the parliament, democracy and forged unity among the provinces by giving them their due rights. A conspiracy to create rift among the provinces and divide the nation had been foiled by giving provincial autonomy to the federating units. President Zardari said PPP had taken revenge from the killers of Benazir Bhutto by strengthening democracy. "We believe in tolerance and reconciliation," he said.He eulogised the sacrifices made by the people of KPK in the war against terrorism and said that common people, political workers and the army had offered unprecedented sacrifices against terrorism. "I am very happy to be on Pakhtuns' soil. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has everything like minerals, oil, gas and other resources except peace," he said. He strongly condemned a suicide attack on former Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmed and said that the terrorists were not sparing even a religious person like Qazi Hussain Ahmad. He said it was the power of the parliament that forced General (retd) Pervez Musharraf to shed his uniform. He said he had handed over powers of his office to the parliament to empower it. "The provinces are stakeholders in Islamabad and it derives powers from the provinces in return," he said. Earlier, the KPK Assembly speaker welcomed the president and said the assemblies were completing their tenure for the first time in the history of Pakistan due to wise and conciliatory policies of President Zardari. He lauded the president for his policy of reconciliation. Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, in his address, said President Zardari had always listened to the grievances of KPK with great attention and had always been cooperative. The chief minister said the president was well aware of the situation and the problems being faced by the government and people of the province. He, however, said, "Today, President is our guest, so we will not make any demand from him." He said they would take guidance from the president. He said amiable atmosphere in the KPK Assembly must be an example for others. He thanked the president for addressing the assembly and applauded his policy of reconciliation.Opposition leader Akram Khan Durrani said the president had established a new tradition by addressing the KPK Assembly. He asked the government to avoid use of force and resolve all matters through talks. He said the president must announce a huge package for the province.Meanwhile, Senior Minister Rahimdad Khan said the address of President Asif Ali Zardari to the Khyber Pakthunkhwa Assembly was historic and great honour for the people of the province.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 - Warning that "American democracy in endangered," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that allowed unrestricted and secret campaign spending by corporations on U.S. elections.
The first constitutional amendment ever proposed by Sanders during his two decades in Congress would reverse the narrow 5-to-4 ruling in Citizens United vs. the Federal Elections Commission. In that controversial decision almost two years ago, justices gave corporations the same First Amendment free-speech rights as people.
"There comes a time when an issue is so important that the only way to address it is by a constitutional amendment," Sanders said of the effort to override the court decision that he labeled "a complete undermining of democracy."
Sanders' Saving American Democracy Amendment would make clear that corporations are not entitled to the same constitutional rights as people and that corporations may be regulated by Congress and state legislatures. It also would preserve the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press. It would incorporate a century-old ban on corporate campaign donations to candidates, and establish broad authority for Congress and states to regulate spending in elections.
Sanders proposal in the Senate is a companion measure to a constitutional amendment introduced in the House by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.). "The dominance of corporations in Washington has imperiled the economic security of the American people and left our citizens profoundly disenchanted with our democracy," the congressman said. "I look forward to working with Sen. Sanders to save American democracy by banning all corporate spending in our elections and cracking down on secret front groups using anonymous corporate cash to undermine the public interest."
Robert Weissman, the president of Public Citizen, praised the proposal. "Sen. Sanders' amendment returns us to shared understandings that democracy is for people. Public Citizen applauds and endorses the amendment, and thanks Sen. Sanders for his long-time campaign to reduce excessive corporate power."
Marge Baker of People For the American Way said the Sanders amendment "takes a comprehensive approach to stopping the flood of corporate money in our electoral system. Our democracy belongs to all of the people, not just the wealthy, and not to large and powerful corporate interests," she added.
Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, also applauded the amendment. She said it would "root out the rank corruption of our elections by for-profit corporations." No other amendment proposed in the Senate, she added, "has so definitively confronted the twin problems created by judges who have improperly granted rights to corporations, without democratic consent, and who have used their seats on the bench to favor the wishes of corporate CEOs."
A proposed amendment originating in Congress must be approved by a two-thirds majority in the House and Senate in order to be submitted for consideration by the states. Ratification by three-fourths of the states is required to amend the Constitution.
To read the amendment, click here: http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/S.J.Res..pdf
For a fact sheet on the amendment, click here: http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Constitutional Amendment FAQs.pdf


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qweewq_06's Event Journal
Sunday December 18, 2011 / 2:00pm
Handel's Messiah
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Premier Second Tier
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I loved Handel's Messiah! I took my Friend and her Grandmother to the symphony this weekend and it was their first time at a symphony. We all loved it and my Friend wants to go to another concert! Amazing experience!


text: Multicentre prospective cohort study of body mass index and postoperative complications following gastrointestinal surgeryT. M. Drake, D. Nepogodiev, S. J. Chapman, J. C. Glasbey, C. Khatri, C. Y. Kong +494 others2016Background: There is currently conflicting evidence surrounding the effects of obesity on postoperative outcomes. Previous studies have found obesity to be associated with adverse events, but others have found no association. The aim of this study was to determine whether increasing body mass index (BMI) is an independent risk factor for development of… (More)


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Baseball's Seesaw Game With Monarchs Ends In 6-5 Loss Despite Late Lead
Colonials Lose Despite Go-Ahead Homer From Matt Owens In Ninth Inning
Feb. 25, 2004
NORFOLK, VA - George Washington baseball fell to Old Dominion 6-5 after a hard-fought fight which featured several lead changes. GW went ahead in the top of the ninth inning when Matt Owens (Fayetteville, GA/Fayette County) hit his first home run of the year, a solo shot to right field that put the Colonials up by one. The Monarchs (4-3) scored two in the bottom half of the final inning to win 6-5, handing the Colonials (1-4) their fourth loss in five games.
The Colonials jumped ahead first for the first time this season when Owens hit a single back at the pitcher and was scored two batters later when Anthony Raglani (Indiana, PA/Indiana) singled to right scoring Owens from second. After ODU answered in bottom of the second, GW scored two in the fourth after leadoff walks to Raglani and Roberson. Brad Rosenblat (New Orleans, LA/Tulane) knocked Raglani and came alive for two hits in the game. Freshman Anthony Smith (Katonah, NY/ John Jay) had an RBI on a sacrifice fly and collected a run and a hit later in the game.
Old Dominion went ahead for the first time in the bottom of the fifth inning off of a two-run home run from Derek James. Otherwise Colonials starter Josh Wilkie (Alpharetta, GA/Chattahoochee) pitched well for his six inning start. The sophomore had three strikeouts and allowed four runs, three of which were earned, on seven hits with no walks. The loss went to Derrik Lutz (Grantville, PA/Lower Dauphin) for his second of the season. Lutz retired the first four batters he faced before giving up two runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. The first run scored on a passed ball on a pitch that was a swung on strike. The game-winning single from Old Dominion's cleanup hitter was just out of the reach of the Colonials right fielder Raglani.
While GW took the lead going into the final inning on Owens' home run, the Colonials had several other scoring chances late in the game. In the bottom of the seventh Ryan Roberson (Silver Spring, MD/James H. Blake) was thrown out at the plate from left field to end the inning. In the eighth, GW had the bases loaded and no outs and could only muster one run with the top of the lineup batting. Tom Shanley (Stanfordville, NY/Pine Plains) drove in the lone run with a sacrifice fly to score Smith.
"We are not good enough yet to make up for the small mistakes that we are making" said coach Walter after the game. Mistakes again hurt the Colonials as the Monarch's scored as a result of a passed ball to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth and on a throwing error from the catcher to tie the game in the fourth. In fact, the game-tying run reached base as the result of a throw in the dirt from GW's shortstop.


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We awoke day five of our road trip in Sidney, Nebraska, close to the Wyoming border. The weather was cold and clear and we were looking forward to a warm shower to help get us moving. Unfortunately, the shower was quite anemic in its spray and was not much help in this regard. After wondering if this was an indication of the poor water pressure of the area or Nebraskans hearty temperaments, the shower curtain offered a clue . . . it was probably an eco-friendly, water-saving measure.
The other item of note from this hotel was its valentine. The night before as we were getting ready for bed, I noticed some Hershey's kisses wrappers on the floor. "Where did these come from?" I asked my husband. Since we had not purchased any Hershey's kisses lately it was a total mystery. A quick check of the kids revealed, however, that wherever these had come from, my son had eaten them! A little more tidying later and the answer became apparent. They were a gift from the hotel my son had discovered.
When we pulled into our hotel the night before, my husband noted that the address was on "Cabela's Drive." Little did we know that a Cabela's store was just one block away, nor did we realize that we were in the "world headquarters" location.
Naturally, we had to go shopping!
Cabela's, of course, caters to hunters and fishermen. We expected a lot from the "world headquarters" store but sadly, it was pretty tiny. I'm not sure they even had one of their famous fish tanks. It had all the basics, though. It also seemed to have more large farming equipment, like tractors, than I recall seeing at other Cabela's stores.
As we perused the store, it was funny to note the gendered differences in our shopping. My husband, for example, was interested to see they had a Leatherman tool designed specifically for firearms cleaning and maintenance.
The children and I had more interest in their unique Christmas decorations.
And, of course, no visit to Cabela's is complete without a stop at the fudge counter. They have the most creative flavors of fudge, including red velvet, snickers and chocolate orange. We bought a sampler box.
Off we drove into the wilds of Wyoming.
Wyoming had been one of the concern points of our journey during the planning phases. We had been warned that winter driving in Wyoming can be especially treacherous because of Wyoming's high winds. Combine high wind with even a little snow and you create slippery driving conditions that can overturn tractor trailers. Fortunately, we had great luck and today was sunny and clear and some of the best weather on our journey so far.
As we drove, I noted how masculine everything about the landscape in this part of the country seemed to be — cattle farming, train machinery, oil drilling. It made me wonder what women in this part of the country do.
After a while, we entered Cheyenne, Wyoming, the state capital.
We headed to our first stop, a museum exhibit on Christmas decorations and fashions through the past century. It sounded wonderful!
However, in the first scheduling mishap of our journey, it was also . . . closed!
We were at a bit of a loss since there aren't a lot of activities to choose from in Cheyenne. We drove past the state capitol decked in a large wreath.
We passed a sign about the state museum. We looked it up on our phones and found it was open and had free admission! So, we stopped by for a visit.
The museum gave an overview of several aspects of Wyoming life, including its geology and dinosaur treasures, its Native American roots, and a history of its hunting, trapping and railroad origins. Most notably, however, the curator of this museum has a keen interest in preserving the objects of everyday life throughout time. If you like retro, vintage and antique, this is the museum for you! They had vintage typewriters, hair styling machines and vacuum cleaners among many other objects. It was an interesting point of view that the story of our lives is often told best by the objects we use on a daily basis.
There was a fascinating exhibit on saddles. It turns out that there are two general types of saddles: California-style and Plains-style. Plains-style saddles are generally more heavy duty. They have longer-square skirts to them and are strapped to the horse in two places rather than one. Plains saddles were developed for cowboys roping large cattle. The California saddles were designed for roping smaller animals and have rounded skirts to them.
I was also curious to see the exhibits about early Native American life that shed some light on how they managed their day-to-day activities. There was even some organizational history here. What did people do with all their stuff before there was a Container Store?
While I explored the exhibits, my husband watched the children children who were fascinated by a Montessori-style play area in one corner of the museum. There was a replica of a trading post, a covered wagon and even a wooden horse to ride. There were blocks to play with, costumes to dress up in and books to read.
We left the museum and made our way out of town. On the way, there were two items of note:
We spent the rest of the day driving through Wyoming's landscape, which is an interesting blend of plains and mountains.
The western states have so much land mass they take a long time to cross. We witnessed another amazing Western sunset.
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Threats to the Security of California
Al Qaeda and Iran
Jan 18, 2008, 00:00 ET from Iran Policy Committee
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On 17 and 18 January, 2008, Professor Raymond Tanter, President, Iran Policy Committee, spoke at the invitation of the Southern California Society for Democracy in Iran (SCSDI) in Los Angeles and the Iranian-American Community of Northern California in San Francisco. Prof. Tanter explained the terrorist threat to California ports from a potential al Qaeda attack, "The ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland represent the #1, #2, and #7 ports in terms of container traffic; the 'bomb-in-a-box' scenario poses a threat to the economy of the entire state of California, and the United States more broadly." Prof. Tanter continued by addressing the Iran threat to Persian Gulf oil, which constitutes more than one third of oil imported to the West Coast of the United States. The Iranian regime's aggression, including the kidnapping of 15 British Sailors and the harassment of U.S. Naval vessels with speedboats, makes the Strait of Hormuz a potentially devastating choke point for the flow of oil. Prof. Tanter also described the threat from al Qaeda--Iran cooperation to Californians serving in Iraq: "Californians represent more combat fatalities, 420, than military personnel from any other state. Indeed, the leading cause of combat fatalities in Iraq is Improvised Explosive Devices, most of which are manufactured in Tehran and distributed to Iraqi proxies. To deal with a Tehran threat to California's ports and economy, as well as Californians serving in Iraq, Prof. Tanter suggested that the United States and Arab allies in the Middle East "enforce smart sanctions against the Iranian regime, to alert Tehran that aggression in the Gulf and subversion of Iraq will not go unanswered." Prof. Tanter also praised U.S. Department of State and Treasury designations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and its affiliates for WMD proliferation and terrorist activity as one tool for curtailing these activities. However, Prof. Tanter concluded, "The most powerful tool the United States can use to put Tehran's rulers on alert that their support to terrorist organizations like al Qaeda and pursuit of nuclear weapons must end is to empower the Iranian people for democratic change. To this end, the United States should remove the terrorist designations of the main, democratic Iranian opposition groups. The evidence behind such designations is specious, and the hampering of the democratic opposition jeopardizes U.S. national security interests." A study conducted by the Iran Policy Committee showed that in state-run media, Tehran pays attention 350 percent more to the main opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq and the coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), than all other opposition groups combined.
SOURCE Iran Policy Committee


text: The Wii U Version Of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Won't Come With EliteJason Schreier10/17/12 12:00pmFiled to: Call Of DutyCall of Duty: Black Ops 2Wii uBlack ops 2KotakucoretweetCall of duty elite122EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Call of Duty Elite will be free when Black Ops II launches this November, but Wii U players won't be able to get their hands on it just yet. Activision told Kotaku today that Call of Duty's digital network will not be available on Wii U when BLOPS2 launches for PC and consoles next month. Advertisement Advertisement "We are currently evaluating options for Call of Duty Elite to support Nintendo's Wii U game system, however Call of Duty Elite for Call of Duty: Black Ops II will not support this platform when the game launches on November 13th," an Activision representative said in an e-mail to me.Not a great sign for the Wii U's online capabilities, which Nintendo has not yet discussed much at all.Reply122 repliesLeave a reply


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Ok, so these aren't your "typical" peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but for a person that wants to experience the deliciousness and not destroy their diet these are PERFECTION! I found myself craving a peanut butter and jelly sandwich lately. We always want what we can't have don't we? I used to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich almost every day when I was younger. I would sometimes eat grape jelly, but most of the time it was homemade blackberry jelly that my grandfather had made himself. Those were the best PB&J sandwiches I've ever tasted….probably because they were made with love by my mom 🙂
These really took me back to that place. The taste is amazing!
So, since I can't have bread (because it contains gluten) I used rice cakes for my "bread". You can use any rice cakes you prefer. I like these. They are thinner than most rice cakes and have a great taste. Plus they only have 18 calories per rice cake!!
To make these PB&J Sandwiches you will need:
4 Rice cakes
1/2 cup PB2 Powder (You can buy it in my Amazon store)
2 tbsp. local honey
1 cup ripe blackberries
First, mash your ripe blackberries to make your "jelly". That is simply all you do, don't add sugar or honey to your blackberries. They are sweet enough on their own.
Set that aside and make your PB2 mixture.
I never use exactly the same amount of PB2 it seems in my recipes. Sometimes I accidentally add to much water or not enough. So, when you see these measurements I post for PB2 you don't have to stick with that. Just mix the PB2, water, and honey if you prefer together until you reach the desired consistency. You can't go wrong.
Once you have your PB2 mixture made spread it on one of your rice cakes.
Then top it with mashed blackberries.
Top with another rice cake.
Repeat the process and make another.
These little beauties really took me back in time. You won't believe how yummy they are!
Let me know what you think!
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A few weeks ago I was sent a cookbook by an author I had never heard of before. After a bit of research I felt like I had I been living under a rock because Danielle Walker has a huge, dedicated following. I immediately understood why after reading her glorious Paleo cookbook Against All Grain. Packed with tons of recipes and gorgeous images, this is the book for you if you want to learn more about what it means to follow a Paleo diet.
I've cooked a bunch of Danielle's recipes since receiving her book, but the one that we've been making non-stop (and I mean non-stop) is her absolutely scrumptious Banana Porridge, which is packed with bananas, cashews, almonds, and pecans. Among other benefits, soaking nuts before cooking with them makes them easier to digest. It also helps make this thick, creamy porridge the perfect balanced meal to get your day started.
I've literally made this recipe at least 10 times in the past few weeks with several different variations. My husband prefers his uncooked, which saves me a precious 8 minutes in the morning; Chloe likes her's without the banana, just the tropical coconut flavor; and Kenya likes his no matter how I make it (he's just happy to have it first thing in the morning). To cut down on the fat and calories, I substitute low fat coconut milk for the full fat Danielle's recipe calls for and I can barely tell the difference.
Before I left for New York last week, I made an entire blender-full and left it in the fridge for everyone to eat while I was gone. According to my husband, it barely lasted a few days since he and the kids were eating everyday for breakfast and dessert (and he said he even found himself eating it as a late night snack!).
Thank you Danielle for adding this brilliant idea to my morning repertoire!
This recipe is very interesting. This is a way I can give nuts to my 18 month old, who finds it difficult to chew them. Can I make it the previous day for next days breakfast and store in the fridge. If so, how long can I store it?
Is there a reason why only raw almond and cashews are used and not baked ones?
I used my vitamix for this…1 min was a bit too long and turned the mixture into more of a mousse then a porridge. Taste was still great, but texture a bit odd when warm and my 2 yo wasn't so into it. BUT I put the leftovers in the fridge and gave them to him later as a dessert "mousse"…and he devoured it!
So…should we use a vitamix or a food processor?
What does palao actually mean?
I guess when it says high-powered blender it does not mean a Vitamix. One minute in my Vitamix and my porridge was more like a mousse consistency. Kind of wierd to eat but still had ok flavor. Will try again in the food processor.
How important do you think it is to use filtered water? We just use tap. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I'm so trying this out — it sounds fabulous!
Ollivia: hehe…just sent to you, sorry for the delay ya.Dolly: hehe..thanks. yea, the porridge acllauty taste quite nice. now i am hungry again. LOL
Made it this morning…very yummy and my 3yo devoured it! Could you please provide nutritional info (eg, calories, fat, etc)? I'm tracking everything I eat.
Soooooooooooo good!!!!
Am I right to assume you use canned coconut milk (as opposed to the beverage)?
Can you please share your favorite brand and/or flavor coconut milk. I've tried some and they taste weird to me…too much like the guar gum / xanthan gum they add. Thanks! I can't wait to try this!
How long did you soak the nuts? Approx. 10 hours or so?
Hi new to healthy eating… what does "raw" mean? I googled it and it saif in their shells so if this is true they need to be out of their shells to cook right??
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NEW YORK—I have a rather interesting letter as a reaction to my column in which I quoted from a gentleman's letter explaining why so many people did not vote in our country. This correspondent has another point of view. He writes:
"I have a hunch that the average citizen has found that in practice it hardly makes any difference which party wins."
Further along he says: "I once asked my Spanish friend, a very intelligent chap, what he thought was the difference between the two parties. He answered: `The Republicans are liberals in the South and reactionaries in the North. The Democrats, on the other hand, are reactionaries in the South and liberals in the North.'
"What we need is a people's party which should be for the people in all sections, not parade under the people's name and work for some special interest's group, e.g. oil."
I would like to tell my friend that, first, no party has a monopoly on people who work for special interests. These interests affect a great many different people.
But I think what is said in this letter is somewhat superficial, because one has to judge by the record of the parties when in power. It seems to me that the most forward-looking legislation that benefits the largest number of people is usually passed during Democratic administrations, and that during Republican administrations those special interests—which my correspondent is so worked up about—achieve the best climate in which to pass legislation favorable to special groups.
On Monday of this week the weather was particularly kind to me. I flew to Syracuse to see my granddaughter and her husband and children. Our plane landed in good weather and without incident, but within the hour snow was falling heavily and if we had been an hour later I don't believe there would have been enough ceiling for us to come in.
I took an afternoon train to Utica where I spoke at a meeting for a bipartisan citizens committee that has been set up to clean up things in Utica. I wish New York City could undergo the same.
Utica has a newly elected Republican mayor, but I doubt if he is any more acceptable to the Republican machine than he is to the Democrats, whose power is being slowly removed from the different departments of the city government.
The citizens were aroused by the bad conditions brought about by the Democrats, who had been in power for a long time. Of course, what happens is that one group abuses its power and, finally, the citizens are sufficiently outraged that they exercise their rights as citizens to clean house.
But the "professionals" just sit back and keep quiet for a while, confident that the reformers will get tired and then they will get back in power. This is an old story, and the pattern has been followed over and over again.
We must remember that the price of good government is constant vigilance. We cannot put people into office and then neglect or ignore them. They must have our attention and praise or blame as it is called for. This is the price of living in a democracy. And it is something that we are apt to forget!
I hope the citizens of Utica will be successful in keeping their fellow men really interested in clean, honest government.


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Germany's highest court shot down an appeal to prevent the government from ratifying a bailout fund that many investors say is critical to salvaging the European economy. The court rejected opponents' arguments that the government's bailout violated the constitution.
The news sent stock prices across Europe to four-month highs, while borrowing rates of countries experiencing economic tumult, namely Spain and Italy, eased further, according to AP.
The high court ruling is considered to be a major victory for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has spearheaded efforts to rescue the Euro zone from its debt crisis. Berlin has committed to underwriting 27 percent – nearly 190 billion euros – of the 700 million-euro bailout scheme.
The German high court insisted that Merkel's government seek parliamentary approval for any further contributions to the European rescue fund.


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2012 Canada Day According to Canadian Travel Bloggers
Canada Day is and always has been an important day for Canadians. Not only because it represents the birth of our nation, an extra day off work, or the fact that more often than not, some cold beverages are enjoyed. But I think what truly makes Canada Day so important, is that it is typically the official kickoff to summer. While I was kicking off the party in Ottawa, participating in the nations largest Canada Day events and enjoying some beers; I know that many people celebrate this holiday in their own fashion. I asked the Canadian Travel Blogger community "What did you do for Canada Day?"
[testimonial url="http://hikebiketravel.com" company="Hike Bike Travel" author="Leigh McAdam"]Kayaking on Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park. Photo of a fellow camper – quintessential Canada – a canoe, a National Park, a maple leaf on the canoe and a fishing rod.[/testimonial]
[testimonial url="http://www.candicedoestheworld.com/" company="Candice Does the World" author="Candice Walsh"]How to spend Canada Day in Prague: Walk around aimlessly, and then wander into a ridiculous bar named Kavarna Mlynska where an eccentric local artist named David Cerny created the bar-top display, complete with plastic vagina and fingers from the morgue. After getting sufficiently liquored, break out the Canada flags and the flashy headgear, and rent a paddle-boat on the Vltava. When you get harassed by Brits on a stag party, flee to the nearest beer garden and make friends with other Canadians. Sing the Canadian anthem on the riverfront.[/testimonial]
[testimonial url="http://havebabywilltravel.com/" company="Have Baby Will Travel" author="Corinne McDermott"]Growing up in Toronto watching Buffalo TV, you become kind of enamoured with all things US – Cellino & Barnes Attorneys At Law, Carvel's Cookie Puss and Fudgie The Whale, Tops Friendly Markets ("Tops Never Stops. Saving You More") – and one standout for me was Darien Lake, NY – "Darien Lake Fun Countreeeeee!" It's one of those places that I've alwayswanted to visit, and now that I'm a grown up, I can! So we spent Canada Day at an American resort and theme park, which isn't exactly very patriotic, BUT… I dressed the kids in red, we said "Please" and "Thank You" and "Sorry" (that's "sore-y" not "saw-ry") and had a wonderful time. We went on rides, we ate junk food, we watched a fireworks and laser show with a Canadian tribute (almost 60% of Darien Lake's visitors are Canucks), and we realized how lucky we are to be able to live in Canada, yet enjoy everything the USA has to offer whenever we like. Although I still have not eaten a Cookie Puss…[/testimonial]
[testimonial url="http://www.gonewiththefamily.com/" company="Gone with the Family" author="Lisa Goodmurphy"]Our family (minus one daughter who flew to Scotland the night before) drove to Stratford for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 1st Annual Canada Day Family Weekend. We watched a hilarious performance of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown followed by a family party with face painting, costumes, photos with cast members and pizza. After the party we walked along the river to feed the ducks and swans which 8 year old Emma always insists on doing. It was a low key celebration but it suited our mood this year.
It's our commitment to creating a cultural mosaic and our acceptance of diversity that has always made me proud to be a Canadian and even when it comes to our nation's birthday we celebrate in our own unique way. Whether it's at a loud and raucous party or a simple family picnic, by attending an explosive fireworks display or quietly contemplating what it means to be Canadian, on July 1st we all honour the amazing country that we call home.[/testimonial]
[testimonial url="http://www.thetravellingmom.ca/" company="The Travelling Mom" author="Claudia M. Laroye"]We celebrate Canada Day in the same way every year; in the great outdoors, celebrating the great natural beauty of Canada and its provincial parks. Our family loves camping, and every Canada Day long weekend, we visit Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park on the east side of Vancouver Island.
This spectacular park encapsulates everything we love about our province and country; the ocean; its beaches, forests and trees; natural wildlife like deer, seals, owls, eagles and shorebirds; campfire rituals like making smores; and drinking coffee (with a touch of Baileys) on the beach at sunrise. Above all, we are grateful for the opportunity to spend time together as a family, appreciating our natural surroundings, and counting our blessings to be living in such a wonderful, beautiful country. [/testimonial]
[testimonial url="http://breathedreamgo.com/" company="Breathe Dream Go" author="Mariellen Ward"]As it turns out, Canada Day was very significant for me! I spent the day with my two-year-old niece, playing in my backyard in the Roncesvalles neighbourhood of Toronto. We played in a kiddie pool, ran through the sprinkler, ate watermelon and then walked to the store for frozen yogurt. We had a wonderful time, and the best part was that it was my first real play date with her; the first time I was alone with her for an entire afternoon. It was a beautiful, hot sunny day and we did a whole bunch of classic Canadian summer stuff. I renamed Canada Day "Penny Day" just for the afternoon … I don't think Canada will mind, do you? [/testimonial]
[testimonial url="http://nearafar.com/" company="Near Afar" author="Natalie Taylor"]I was paddle boating with Candice Walsh on the Vlatva River in Prague complete with beer and sparkling wine, we did indeed get our boat hijacked by Brits from Chester. Not only did they rope their boat to ours so we literally couldn't paddle away from them, they compared me to Pamela Anderson (and this is a compliment?). We later saw some geniuses at the beer garden by the river later on waving our Canadian flag only to realize the flags were ours. This beckoned other Canadians to our table to which we were able to complete my Prague Canada Day checklist item of singing the National Anthem with the Prague Castle in the background. We ended it by waving our flags on the Charles Bridge and watching a very uneventful Euro Cup final match in a bar to escape the rain. I wouldn't have it any other way (minus the Brits and getting caught in the rain) [/testimonial]


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A la Carte Tuesday, Gluten-Free
All of the links today are about gluten-free recipes and Maggiano's ability to create amazing gluten-free dishes. There is an executive chef in every one of our restaurants and they can customize any dish for anyone! If you have a gluten intolerance or any other food allergy, please be sure to come in, tell your server your needs and the chef will gladly come to your table to talk about all of your options! Corn fusilli can be substituted in any of our non-stuffed pasta dishes or we can create a customized meal just for you!
Here is a great post from a blogger in Arizona talking about her recent experience at our Scottsdale location. She also has recipes, products and other establishments listed that offer gluten-free options!
Gluten Free Girl always has great recipes to share and her latest post gives you an easy recipe for baking without dairy!
The Urban Eye Blog talks about our restaurant in Downtown Denver and how the chef created a gluten-free vegan dish!
Lastly, every Tuesday, Serious Eats shares a gluten-free recipe with its readers, so be sure to check back weekly! Today they've shared a recipe for a Buttermilk Pound Cake that looks absolutely delicious!


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Well guys, I went ahead and did it again, I made a tutorial out of another Dragon Ball character from both DBZ and DBGT. You may recognize him because he is one of the main characters in the manga and anime. Today I am going to show you "how to draw Son Gohan", step by step. I've written about Gohan a few times which means I don't have anything really to say as far as character description goes. I have a tutorial on Kid Gohan, and just plain old Gohan that I made a while ago and to tell you the truth at least one of those lessons is pretty bad. This version of Gohan that I drew for you is him in his teenage years. You can tell his age by his hairstyle. When Son Gohan is in his teens, he still has the spiked style, but he also has that one thick chunk of hair that falls on his forehead. Now that I can draw way better than I did before, I am able to provide quality tutorials that you learn from in an easy manner. The reason why he is called "Son" Gohan is because he is the son of the original Gohan. As you know his mother is Chi Chi, and he is also the very first half Sayian that was born on Earth. The tutorial was fun to do and I know that there is a lot of Dragon Ball fans that come to Dragoart.com to learn how to draw Dragon Ball characters that they are fond of. I did some research and believe it or not, but a good amount of you guys that come to Dragoart are anime, manga fans more than anything else. Now because of this fact, I am going to show you "how to draw Son Gohan", step by step in the easiest way I know how. When you are done with the tutorial you will end up with another version of Gohan to add to your DB drawing collection. I have one more lesson coming your way guys so try and keep those pencils moving.
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Round these parts, Mandy Kellogg Rye – AKA Waiting on Martha – is a sort of celebrity. Every single girl here loves her and her easy, effortless approach to style, design, fashion, the works. She's the kind of girl that we're certain we would be best friends with. Which means that we're also secretly hoping for an invite to her ridiculously chic Halloween Party – set for only the most fabulous of trick or treaters of course. Because you just know that with ideas like this…it's going to be good.
From Mandy at Waiting on Martha…Halloween is one of my absolute favorite holidays, mainly because it symbolizes the beginning of the whole holiday season: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. It's high on my list for decorating, celebrating and entertaining. So this year, I'm planning a classic, grown up Halloween gathering.
Notorious for cheesy décor, I wanted more of a classic and understated, orange-free look. Now don't get me wrong, I adore orange. It's actually my favorite color! But I made this decision for two reasons. One, to achieve a sophisticated look that appeals to those too old to trick or treat. Secondly, because I switch out my décor seasonally and entertain on a regular basis, I tend to collect pieces that translate in many different ways. For example, I fully intend to use the black lanterns year round. And the gorgeous mercury glass pumpkins will be perfect for my Thanksgiving table. With the addition of inexpensive moss and moss branches, candles galore, and a few crows, spiders, and chains, I was able to achieve an elevated yet haunting "Halloween" look and feel without going overboard.
My no "cheese" rule also pertains to the food, which we all know lacks a certain appeal when it is over the top and grotesque. I skipped the fake fingers and dip in vomiting pumpkins for some southern staples, like biscuit sliders, easy to eat black eye pea salad, and pimento cheese dip, of course.
PS: Grab the homemade candy apple recipe here, and the apple & bourbon punch recipe here.
Styling by Mandy Kellogg Rye of Waiting on Martha | Photography: Rustic White Photography
And before we go, I'm excited to announce that the winner of our Recipe Contest is Tasneem, who's go-to recipe is a delicious carmelized onion and spinach quick bread (um, yum!). Tasneem, keep an eye on your inbox because we'll be contacting you to let you know how you can claim your William Sonoma gift card! Thanks for playing you guys. XOX


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West Virginia's Kanawha River Valley is a gritty collection of slag piles, coal mounds and sooty mine shafts. It is also a showcase for clean energy. In the unincorporated town of Alloy, a 72-year-old silicon smelter owned by West Virginia Alloys is getting a $75 million heat recycling system. If it delivers what it promises, it will produce as much electricity as $300 million worth of giant windmills or $2.8 billion in solar panels–exclusive of energy credits.
Is it possible that in their hunt for low-carbon energy, environmentalists are barking up the wrong trees? Sun and wind power are indeed clean but expensive, in part because the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. For its modest capital outlay the Alloy project is supposed to produce 357 million kilowatt-hours of juice per year. Solar cells (at least if installed in West Virginia) would pay a much lower dividend per dollar invested.
The Alloy project is the brainchild of Thomas and Sean Casten, the father and son duo who run Recycled Energy Development in Westmont, Ill. In early 2010 RED hopes to fire up a turbine that will capture the 1,500-Fahrenheit-degree heat coming off the silicon plant's five arc furnaces and feed that electricity in a roundabout way back into the factory. West Virginia Alloys makes more silicon, 72,000 tons annually, than any other single site in the world, selling the glinty metal to manufacturers of everything from cosmetics to computer chips. This plant is already the lowest-cost producer of silicon in the world and, with the Castens' technology, will save an additional 37% on its energy bills, which account for one-third of its operating costs.
The idea that you can wring value out of waste heat has a long history. Thomas Edison sold heat from the exhaust of the world's first power plant on Pearl Street in Manhattan, using it to warm nearby buildings. You do the same sort of thing when you turn on a car heater. Space heating is the easy application for industrial waste heat. But with some engineering finesse the discarded Btu can also be used to turn turbines that produce high-quality electric energy.
Why isn't more of this country's industrial waste heat put to use? The space heating application is geographically limited; customers have to be within several miles of the heat source. As for dynamos running on scrap heat: Cheap energy and grid regulations have discouraged such projects. But now the "gray power" concept is back on the table. "We're at the start of something that should have been done long ago," says Tom Casten, 65, RED's chairman. Sean, 37, is chief executive.
The Castens are armed with Department of Energy studies that suggest the U.S. could reduce its CO2 emissions by 20%, the equivalent of taking all the cars and light trucks off the road, by recycling industrial waste heat and building smaller fossil-fuel "cogeneration" plants sized to provide enough by-product heat for each factory or office park. Tom Casten goes even further, envisioning small power plants spread out across America for homes and businesses. By capturing waste heat, these power plants would operate at above 90% efficiency, Casten says, compared with the current U.S. power grid that operates at 33%, the same as it did 50 years ago.
Doubters exist on the pragmatics of cogeneration of heat and electricity for the general population. "That's a little bit of a fairy tale, but it does hold a grain of truth," says John Parsons, executive director for mit's Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research. Parsons says cogeneration could work for high-density apartment blocks but isn't reasonable for single-family homes.
Working against electricity production from waste heat is the fact that most states still have utility-friendly laws that prohibit nonutilities from selling power directly to others without going through the grid. Bilateral agreements to buy and sell power can be done across the grid, but producers such as RED must surrender roughly a third of the selling price to a utility for transmission fees, even if it's just across the street. New legislation that democratizes the world of power supply is bubbling up, however. Two years ago New Jersey began, on a limited basis, allowing commercial neighbors to sell power to one another outside of the grid. "We will either move the world to local generation or we will suffer the consequences of global warming," says Tom Casten.
The Castens founded RED in 2006 after seeing two similar, and lucrative, companies the elder Casten helped develop, Trigen Energy and Primary Energy, bought out from under him. He took Trigen public in 1994 on the New York Stock Exchange, where it traded until France's Suez launched a hostile takeover bid in 1999 that secured the 47% of Trigen it didn't already own for $138 million. Trigen operated small turbine power plants that supplied power and waste heat to customers for winter warmth and hot water. Casten's time at Primary Energy, which pursued the same business as RED, ended when the company's equity backers sold the company to Canada's Epcor in 2006 for $330 million. Casten did well on those deals but felt he never got to see either to the heights he'd envisioned. He wants to take RED public one day, while still maintaining control.
To that end, he's lured Boston's Denham Capital as a partner to fund his projects without sacrificing any equity in RED. Denham, which manages $4.3 billion from investors including Bill Gates and Harvard University, will share dividends in the projects with RED and expects a return in the 15%-to-20% range, according to Riaz Siddiqi, a Denham managing partner. "It's been fascinating, over the years, to watch Tom be so faithful to his beliefs on efficiency and how he makes money on that," Siddiqi says. Sean Casten brings his own experience as a trained molecular engineer and clean-energy consultant with Arthur D. Little. "I was into cellulosic ethanol before it was cool," says Sean.
Denham has staked RED with $500 million (and the company is hoping to borrow another $1.5 billion) to finance ventures like the one at West Virginia Alloys. At Alloy RED will sell the power to the public grid at 6 cents per kilowatt-hour and share the revenue with Denham Capital and West Virginia Alloys. The silicon maker will continue buying most of its 135 megawatts of power drawn from a hydroelectric plant eleven miles upriver at the unbeatable price of 3 cents per kilowatt-hour. The extra revenue from RED will cut its electricity budget by 37%.
It's foolish not to tap the plant's furnaces, which belch heat as promiscuously as a raging bonfire. The company warns visitors not to wear polyester, because it could easily melt during a walking tour. The furnaces are vented when needed and are water-cooled by 2-foot-wide radiator pipes that dump their heat outside in three rows of 23 loops, each 100 feet high. RED will use this heat to run steam turbines. One of those turbines, once powered by coal, is now sitting unused at the site. It is so old that some of its imported pipes carry the swastika of Hitler's Germany.
West Virginia Alloys executive Arden Sims is champing to seize on these cost savings and has plans to open a shuttered plant in economically ravaged Niagara, N.Y. Despite higher labor costs, he'll still produce silicon cheaper than in Asia because of less expensive energy. "We've known for years we've been blowing energy out the door," Sims says.
The Castens deployed similar strategies at the labyrinthine
RED's next big customer is gypsum giant usg, which operates 17 energy-hungry U.S. plants that produce 8 billion square feet of wallboard a year. usg currently burns natural gas to heat its football-field-length ovens to 700 degrees to dry out giant slabs of gypsum and paper. RED is negotiating to work on two usg plants, one in the Imperial Valley of Southern California and one in Cloquet, Minn.
RED will spend $80 million on each of these plants to equip them with gas-burning turbines sized exactly for the factories' loads. The turbines will displace purchased electricity while their 900-degree exhaust will get piped straight to the ovens. The exit gas from the ovens, which is 300 degrees and saturated with water vapor from the gypsum, will be used to boil propane to turn a turbine to produce another 12 to 15 megawatts. Each project will save the grid 30 megawatts. The water vapor at the California project, where water is scarce, will be captured for reuse. The combined system will run at 96% efficiency. "I could see us doing the whole line for usg," Tom Casten says, although that would likely exhaust RED's $1.5 billion capital pile.
Gray power may even improve the economics of the beleaguered ethanol business. A gallon of corn ethanol contains 76,000 Btu of chemical energy. Normally, it takes 60,000 Btu of fossil fuel to produce the crop and distill a single gallon. Installing Casten's cogeneration process at an ethanol refinery cuts that to 25,000 Btu. "The story with ethanol that nobody is talking about is what happens when you do the energy all at the plant rather than pulling from the grid," Casten says.


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Faraday and Innovasic Semiconductor Enter into Strategic Partnership
Faraday Assures Uninterrupted Long Term Foundry Supply While Innovasic
Contributes Critical Quality and Reliability Expertise for Industrial
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HSINCHU, Taiwan and SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Faraday Technology Corporation (TAIEX: 3035), a leading ASIC and IP provider, and Innovasic Semiconductor, a leading supplier of ICs to the industrial automation market, today announced they have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership agreement. The agreement assures Innovasic and its customers of 10+ years of preferential supply in its upcoming products. In exchange, Faraday receives expertise and technologies which are necessary for mission-critical applications in harsh environmental conditions. The exchange is designed to enable both companies to expand their addressable markets. Indeed, with the adoption of Ethernet and embedded processors, the industrial market seems destined to converge with the PC-peripheral market. However, issues such as soft error rate under high radiation environment, and extremely low defective parts per million (PPM) to name just two, are requirements quite different from Faraday's existing target markets. Through this partnership, Faraday intends to raise its quality and reliability to new heights for all customers, not just those in industrial automation. "I'm delighted to announce Faraday's long-term strategic partnership with Innovasic to help implement and test products for markets requiring the utmost in performance and reliability," said H.P. Lin, President of Faraday Technology. "Faraday has built its reputation in consumer and PC peripheral markets. Now we are ready to expand our business to tackle the most stringent applications in the industrial world." Innovasic has long built its reputation in the compatible replacement IC market, with unique technologies to match obsolete products, often with much higher quality and reliability. However, as Innovasic's market expands into high volume and brand new applications, the customers often require 10+ years of continued supply. Faraday, through its own strategic foundry relationship with UMC, has agreed to provide such assurance to enable Innovasic and its customers un-interrupted supply. In addition, Innovasic will have preferential access to Faraday's infrastructure and resources to create the world-class products necessary to compete against other suppliers in the market. "Faraday is a unique ASIC vendor with a longstanding track record of empowering fabless companies in cost sensitive consumer and peripheral markets," said Keith Prettyjohns, CEO of Innovasic. "We are excited to work with Faraday and leverage its foundry relationship to create a combined force which provides our customers a highly reliable, best-in-class and vertically- integrated supply chain." About Innovasic Semiconductor Innovasic Semiconductor designs, builds, and sells highly integrated embedded microcontroller solutions and peripheral ICs for the Industrial, Medical, Automotive, and Communications markets. The company has two product groups, Microcontroller Solutions Group and the Replacement IC Product Group. The Microcontroller Solutions Group is developing a new class of embedded microcontrollers with innovative features that will solve critical problems in real-time embedded control applications. The Replacement IC Group solves obsolescence problems by using a proprietary technology to produce ICs that are 100% drop-in compatible with an original discontinued IC. Today, many of Innovasic's replacement IC products are operating in the systems built by Fortune 500 electronics manufacturers in demanding applications ranging from engine control modules to industrial PLCs. For more information, please visit http://www.innovasic.com About Faraday Technology Corporation Faraday Technology Corporation is a leading silicon IP and fabless ASIC vendor. The company's broad IP portfolio includes 32-bit RISC CPUs, USB 2.0, Ethernet, Serial ATA, and PCI-Express. With more than 550 employees and 2004 revenue of $159 million, Faraday is one of the largest fabless ASIC companies in the Asia-Pacific region, and it also has a significant presence in other markets, worldwide. Headquartered in Taiwan, Faraday has service and support offices around the world, including the U.S., Japan, Europe, and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.faraday-tech.com Press Contact, Faraday Technology Press Contact, Innovasic Semiconductor Selina Ko Mike Berg +1.408.522.8888 ext.139 +1.505.883.5263 firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com
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My first aquarium 2 Attachment(s) Hello everyone, been on this site for a while and until now I have just been checking stuff out and learning a little bit. Well I finally decided to dive in and get my first aquarium. The last time I have had fish I was probably 7 years old with a goldfish in a bowl. I do wonder if I am being a little ambitious making my first tank saltwater but I can't help it. Fresh water just looks boring to me. I am confident between help from the people here and my local fish store I will be good to go. Anyways I got a 28g NanoCube with a stand, salt, live sand, and 31 lbs of live rock. I have everything set up and power is going. Now just to wait and see what happens. Of course I am a newb so feel free to throw out suggestions. Here's my new tank. Of course I will update with new pictures and news as it comes. =) |
Figured I should add I just bought all of this earlier this afternoon. After all was said and done I had to laugh when I realized I just spent $360 on a box of rocks. |
You'll love it. Can't wait to see some pics when you're tank clears up. If you got cured live rock, you'll be up and running in no time. If it wasn't truly cured live rock, it will take a bit for you're tank to cycle. Welcome to SW! |
It is all cured. I guess that's why it wasn't cheap lol. Plan on letting it do it's things for a couple weeks and then adding CUC at the end of the month. Will let them run for a month and then add fish. I am going on vacation in late March so I think I will be better off to wait on fish until I get back. |
Sounds like you have a good plan. |
gotta love a person with patience!! you will love your cube. i started with a 14g a few months ago and i'm cycling a 29g now. do you have a selection of fish you're thinking about? lots of great information here about stocking your tank and liveaquaria.com has really good detailed descriptions of fish, etc., that can help guide you. looking forward to watching your progress! |
3 Attachment(s) No idea what I want for fish. I know I want a Blenny but other than that not sure. Of course I don't even know if a Blenny will be happy in my tank. Originally I was thinking about a 75g tank and figured being my first time I should probably save a bit of money and make sure I am up to it first. My thought is that if things go well a 75g is in my future so I would like fish that will be fine where they are but could also do well in a bigger tank. Clown fish are cool and my wife likes them, so assuming they get along with others they will probably be in there too. I don't want to get anything that might not work in a big tank when the time comes. Once I get a big tank I want some kind of eel for sure, probably a snowflake. I like colorful and would prefer fish with personality. Feel free to throw out ideas. =) Aslo here are pictures of my tank as of now. This is about 12 hrs after adding rock, water, and sand. |
looks very nice! royal grammas, clowns, firefish are all good choices. check out the "beginner fish" and "nano fish" at liveaquaria.com. |
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Less than a week ago, publicly traded Community Health Systems (CHS) formally announced to the SEC what amounts to the second largest breach of health records (4.5 million) in U.S. history. According to the filing, the data was stolen between April and June of this year.
Whether or not it was a 90 day event as the company claims ‒ and whether or not the breach was truly a sophisticated attack by an "advanced threat group" from China ‒ has yet to be determined. That's all part of the forensic analysis and legal investigation now underway. Unlike other health record breaches, however, this one is already in District court.
Within hours of the formal announcement to the SEC, the first putative class action law suit was filed against CHS in the state of Alabama (here ‒ subscription required). That suit, which will likely be one of many on behalf of 4.5 million patients, signals what will amount to millions of dollars in cost that CHS will incur as the result of the data breach. As a footnote, earlier this month, CHS settled a Department of Justice investigation into billing practices for $98 million. Clearly this has not been the best month for the 206 hospital system with over 31,000 beds in 29 states.
It's also a leading indication of just how different this case will be compared to a typical retail data breach. In a nutshell, unlike (or UPS ‒ announced last Wednesday) health records are not credit or debit cards. In the SEC filing ‒ CHS described the stolen data this way:
The Company has confirmed that this data did not include patient credit card, medical or clinical information; the data is, however, considered protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA") because it includes patient names, addresses, birthdates, telephone numbers and social security numbers. Community Health Systems SEC Form 8‒K filing
The fact that the data included social security numbers is a bombshell ‒ for technical, legal and financial liability reasons.
There are many differences between patient data (with and without the clinical or medical component) and typical credit or debit card information. Here are three.
- Unlike credit card data ‒ which has built‒in mechanisms to protect consumers against fraudulent use (usually everything over the first $50) ‒ health data has no such "built‒in" protection.
- Social Security numbers are "the single most important piece of government-issued identification an American citizen can have, and the most valuable piece of ID cybercriminals can get their hands on" (from What to do if your Social Security Number is Stolen).
- Relative to health data, credit card "monitoring" is almost completely useless because most of the companies offer no consumer protection against the costs associated with identity theft. In fact, many organizations intentionally mislead consumers by interchanging the words credit monitoring and identity protection as if they were synonymous. They aren't.
Those that do offer actual "identity theft" liability protection are a form of actual insurance and tend to be far more expensive than credit monitoring. CHS has indicated in their SEC filing that they will be providing "identity theft protection" and that will affect their total cost by a significant amount.
Given the nature of health data generally, there are at least five big components to the cost of a large breach.
- Remediation (technical, legal and administrative)
- Fines associated with HIPAA violations (as determined by the Office of Civil Rights ‒ under HHS)
- Identity Theft Protection (or credit monitoring) for 4.5 million patients
- Defending against both patient and shareholder lawsuits (and settlements)
- The incalculable cost to the healthcare system for insurance fraud stemming from 4.5 million Social Security numbers
While the first two are largely unknown (or have yet to be determined), we do have some visibility into their potential cost. A little over two years ago, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST) estimated their cost at $17 million (for "corrective actions") around a 2009 burglary that netted about 1 million patient records. The "tighter IT" and security remediation accounted for about $7 million and the settlement with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR under Health and Human Services) for HIPAA violations was $1.5 million.
That makes the per‒record cost relatively easy to calculate ‒ about $17. Multiplied by 4.5 million equals about $77 million ‒ but that's a simple multiplication ‒ and BCBST didn't have pesky patient or shareholder suits to contend with.
The OCR fine to CHS could also be higher in this case because of both the sheer size and the fact that it spans 29 states. The largest single OCR fine to date was $4.8 million earlier this summer (Columbia and New York Presbyterian). Even if the OCR doubles the Columbia/NYP fine ‒ it would still be less than $10 million.
Actual "identity theft protection" (if that's truly what CHS meant) will be a significant component. In both cases, actual identity protection or credit monitoring is largely a "good will" gesture and it's entirely "opt‒in." Most people never sign up for credit monitoring when it is offered. According to Linn Freedman, Leader of Nixon Peabody's Privacy and Data Protection Group, only about 10‒15% of people actually sign‒up for credit card monitoring ‒ and most of the time, that protection has a relatively short duration of one calendar year.
The retail cost of an identity protection service like LifeLock (with a $1 million identity theft policy underwritten by State National Insurance Company) is about $110 per year. While the wholesale amount of that kind of service would be significantly less, it won't compare to the very low cost of a basic credit monitoring service (about $12 ‒ $20 per consumer per year). Assuming a 30% opt‒in rate (doubly generous by Linn's observation), the total amount for CHS to provide one year of coverage ranges from $20 million (simple monitoring) to over $74 million (actual protection with $1 million policy at wholesale rate of 50%).
Obviously if enrollment is higher in either program ‒ those figures could double ‒ or triple.
Relative to any class actions suits, one possible hint is the PlayStation Network settlement for $15 million which was associated with the loss of credit card data for 77 million PlayStation Network customers. That's still pending, but again, health data is vastly different than credit card data and there are a lot of unknowns around a class action health data breach at this scale (4.5 million patients across 29 states).
The OCR under HHS could also elect to be more aggressive. The Columbia/NYP fine (for $4.8 million) was for a comparatively small breach (6,800 records) and the FTC has started to flex their powers in this arena (see LabMD reference here).
For all these reasons ‒ and as pure speculation on my part ‒ I would peg the full CHS cost component to be (conservatively) somewhere between $75 and $150 million.
Whatever these costs, CHS is not the biggest loser (or victim). This case ‒ like all healthcare data breaches ‒ is one that we all have a stake in because of the incalculable cost to the healthcare system as a whole. The fact is ‒ we all wind up paying for these data breaches. Here's how.
The tendency on the part of many is to assume that Social Security numbers in general have a high resale value among criminals. They don't. What they do have, however, is a range of fraudulent uses that are all very lucrative. Assuming the breached Social Security numbers from CHS show up at all (they may not for other reasons), the commodity value of a single (or group) of numbers is very low. In this case ‒ about $10 for any quantity up to 1,000.


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I finally got around to finish making a water table for my daughters Kate and Rebecca. I had started it, and had the top made this winter, but I never quite got around to making the base of the table. I had started with a preliminary sketch of the table to use as a guide.
Google's free software Sketchup works perfectly for this sort of thing. Its a 3D design and drawing tool -- almost like a lightweight CAD program. Luckily, if you're making a very complex object you don't need to model the whole thing, but can download components here and here (to name a few). A great feature it has is that it can generate a parts list for you! That makes a handy tool to use for your woodworking projects.
So spending a little time putting some scrap pieces of lumber together, I was able to make a decent table with two routed holes in the top which washbasins can drop in. I painted the base a bright red and put a few coats of polyurethane the top. All-in-all it wasn't too much work and it just used scrap lumber. Sarah had purchased a couple plastic basins to drop in that were very inexpensive. Not bad, when you compare it to some commercial products. Sarah got the idea from a Montessori child's catalog we got in the mail. When you compare the $10 that was spent on this versus the $350 you could spend elsewhere, for example, the finished product looks even a little nicer!
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) – Eastman Chemical Co. said Tuesday its second-quarter net income jumped 47 percent, boosted by sales contributions from a recent acquisition.
The results beat Wall Street predictions and the chemicals company also raised its profit prediction for the full year. Its shares rose to an all-time high following release of the results.
The Kingsport, Tenn.-based company earned $264 million, or $1.69 per share, up from $179 million, or $1.27 per share, in the 2012 second quarter.
Excluding costs related to the acquisition, restructuring charges and other one-time items, Eastman said its adjusted profit was $1.80 per share.
Revenue rose 32 percent to $2.44 billion from $1.85 billion last year.
Analysts, on average, expected a profit of $1.63 per share on $2.39 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
Eastman said the results were boosted by its 2012 acquisition of the specialty chemical company Solutia. It also saw gains from higher sales volumes at most of its businesses and higher capacity utilization that lowered unit costs.
The company said it expects its specialty businesses to continue to deliver strong profit growth, despite the still sluggish global economy. It boosted its full-year profit prediction by 10 cents to a range of $6.40 to $6.50 per share.
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NEW YORK Jan 14 In a case with wide implications for the global banking industry, New York's highest state court has been asked to decide if banks operating in the state can be forced to turn over to litigants assets held in their foreign branches.
At issue are two high-profile cases being heard by the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. The cases involve U.S. companies that are trying to reach assets held overseas by UK-based Standard Chartered Plc and Bank of China.
In a ruling on Tuesday, a three-judge panel for the 2nd Circuit in Manhattan delayed a decision on the lawsuits, saying they raise policy concerns that should be resolved by the New York Court of Appeals.
"The questions presented by these appeals involve important issues of New York state law and policy that are likely to recur and may have important effects on a highly regulated industry," the 2nd Circuit court wrote.
At stake is whether companies can evade the enforcement of judgments by keeping assets in overseas banks. The outcome could be important to foreign banks with New York branches, which are subject to New York courts' jurisdiction.
In one of the two cases, Motorola Credit Corp, part of Motorola Solutions, has been trying for over a decade to recover billions of dollars from Turkey's Uzan family, which ran the Turkish mobile phone company Telsim.
The Uzans borrowed more than $2 billion from Motorola Credit between 1998 and 2000 for Telsim, but diverted much of the money for other uses, according to court documents.
Lawyers for the Uzans and Motorola could not immediately be reached for comment.
Motorola won a restraining order to freeze the Uzans' assets held by Standard Chartered at its branch in the United Arab Emirates, but regulators in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates intervened, according to court documents.
In May, the U.S. District Court in New York's Southern District found that New York law precludes Motorola from restraining the Uzans' assets in Standard Chartered's foreign branches. That decision was appealed.
In the second case, privately held Tire Engineering and Distribution of Sarasota, Florida, has been trying to get the Bank of China to turn over money the tire maker is owed after winning judgments against China-based competitors.
The bank has refused, saying Chinese banking laws prohibit it from complying with U.S. court orders to freeze customer bank accounts.
Tire Engineering in December asked the U.S. District Court in New York's Southern District to order Bank of China to turn over the assets, but its case was dismissed in April. Tire Engineering appealed to the 2nd Circuit.
Lawyers for Tire Engineering and Bank of China could not immediately be reached for comment.
Global banking organizations have opposed allowing U.S. courts to reach assets of bank customers in another country.
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed last year in the Motorola case, the Institute of International Bankers, the European Banking Federation and the New York Bankers Association said that compelling banks to turn over assets held at overseas branches would create "serious problems for international banks doing business in New York" and hurt the city's position as a world financial center.
To resolve the issues, the 2nd Circuit on Monday asked the New York Court of Appeals to decide whether a "separate entity rule" precludes a U.S. court from ordering banks with a New York branch to turn over assets held in foreign branches. The separate entity rule is a long-held doctrine that treats bank branches as separate for purposes of enforcing judgments.
Under the rule, courts have long held that if a foreign bank has a branch in New York, U.S. creditors cannot reach assets of its customers outside the country. However, New York's highest court "has never unequivocally approved or disapproved of the separate entity rule," the 2nd Circuit wrote in its ruling.
The cases are Motorola Credit Corp v Standard Chartered Bank, No. 13-2639; and Tire Engineering & Distribution et al v Bank of China Limited, No 13-1519, both in U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit