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September 23, 2013
From the DNR
With many duck hunters taking to the outdoors for the Sept. 21 Minnesota opener, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is reminding everyone that safety never takes a break, especially during waterfowl season.
Since 2005, five people have died in duck hunting-related boating accidents.
Overloading, swamping and capsizing are the most common causes, while lack of life jacket use is the most common contributing factor.
"The message is simple," said Kara Owens, DNR boat and water specialist. "Life jackets save lives."
A U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket is required for every person on board all boats, including duck boats.
For boats 16 feet and longer, there must be one U.S. Coast Guard-approved flotation seat cushion on board, to throw to someone in distress.
Life jackets are now made with the waterfowler in mind and are available in camouflage colors, including inflatable life jackets and belt-pack vests.
"They have mesh in the upper body that allows you to shoulder a gun," Owens said. "That way, you don't have to keep taking the vest off when you shoot."
The DNR offers these water safety tips for duck hunters:
• Don't overload boat; take two trips if necessary. • If wearing hip boots or waders, learn how to float with them on. • Stay near shore and avoid crossing large expanses of open water, especially in bad weather. • Share trip plans with someone and advise them to call for help if traveling party does not return on schedule. • In case of capsizing or swamping, stay with the boat; even when filled with water, it will still float and is more likely to be seen by potential rescuers.
The DNR has a free "Water Safety for Duck Hunters" publication.
It is available by contacting the DNR Information Center at email@example.com or calling 651-296-6157 or toll-free 888-646-6367.
Events added to Waverly Gun Club calendar
Individual Doubles League will start 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3 for five weeks at the Waverly Gun Club.
Rifle sight-ins are planned for three consecutive weeks: Saturdays and Sundays, Oct. 19 and 20, Oct. 26 and 27, and Nov. 2 and 3. More information available on the club web-site at www.waverlygunclub.org.
Friends of Wright County Federation of Sportsmen's Club annual banquet Sept. 23
The Friends of Wright County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs will hold its annual fundraising banquet Monday, Sept. 23, at the Classic Hall Event Center in Annandale.
Activities for the evening include a banquet meal, silent auction, and other games and activities.
Prizes and auction merchandise include limited edition firearms, knives, prints, and general outdoor gear.
The funds raised at the banquet will directly support local organizations whose events and activities are critical to the continuation of the shooting sports.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. If you would like to attend the banquet contact Bruce Bartl at (763) 682-0653.
Get discount at corn maze with hunting or fishing license From the DNR
Kids and adults who have a 2013 Minnesota hunting or fishing license can get free and discount admission for the 101 Market Corn Maze in Otsego Saturday, Sept. 21, through Thursday, Oct. 31, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said.
This year's theme is "Hunt and Fish Minnesota," which features a corn maze depicting a deer hunter targeting his buck, a pheasant hunter with his dog and an angler with her catch.
"Just like hunting and fishing, mazes are a fun way to spend time with friends and family in the great outdoors," said Jenifer Wical, DNR customer enhancement manager. "This partnership is a way to say thank you for purchasing a Minnesota hunting or fishing license."
To receive this special offer, people should show their 2013 hunting or fishing license at the time of purchase.
Discounts include either free maze entry (a $6 value) or $3 off a $15 dollar unlimited activity package.
All tickets purchased under that license will receive the discount with a limit of six free admissions per license. Additional discounts cannot be used.
Marilyn Nathe Specht, event coordinator at 101 Market, said this new partnership with the DNR made sense.
"Our themed corn maze promotes the great outdoors and for us this offer is a way to express our appreciation for those who have contributed to fish and wildlife conservation through their license purchase."
The Harvest Corn Maze and Fall Festival at 101 Market will have activities beyond the corn maze like an animal-themed train, corn cannon, corn pit, duck races, jumping pillow, pedal carts, potato slinger, spider web and zoo.
For directions and more information go to www.mndnr.gov/cornmaze.
Minnesota 2013 fishing and hunting licenses can be purchased on a mobile device or online at www.mndnr.gov/BuyALicense.
DNR confirms zebra mussels in Maple Lake in Douglas County From the DNR
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the presence of zebra mussels in Maple Lake in Douglas County after responding to a report of zebra mussels attached to the wheel of a boatlift in the lake earlier this month.
DNR staff searched several docks, lifts and near shore areas in Maple Lake and found numerous small zebra mussels attached to several pieces of equipment in the north end of the lake.
Further searches found additional small zebra mussels at the south end of the lake.
While no zebra mussels were found in Lake Reno or Turtle and Long lakes, these lakes will be designated as infested waters.
Water from Maple Lake can flow into Lake Reno, and both Turtle and Long lakes are located downstream from Maple Lake.
Searches will occur on Lake Reno later this fall when docks and boat lifts are pulled from its shores.
These designations will serve as a means to get ahead of an infestation, thus educational and enforcement efforts to limit the spread of invasive species will increase in these waters.
The designations also will mean that boaters can expect an increased presence of decontamination units and crews on these lakes.
"These recent discoveries reinforce the importance of practicing proper aquatic invasive species preventative methods," said Joe Eisterhold, DNR invasive species specialist at Itasca State Park. "We want to remind folks to inspect all water-related equipment when it is removed from the water at the end of the season and report any suspected zebra mussel discoveries to the local DNR area office."
Lakeshore owners should also keep in mind that moving docks and boat lifts from one lake to another is a serious issue.
Boat lifts and docks are of particular concern because they sit in the water for extended periods, giving adult zebra mussels a greater opportunity to attach themselves.
State law requires that all boat lifts, docks and swim rafts removed from any lake, river or stream remain out of the water for 21 days before being placed into another water body.
More information about aquatic invasive species is available on the DNR website at www.mndnr.gov/ais.
DNR seeks applications for OHV grants From the DNR
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking applications for off-highway vehicle (OHV) trails grants for projects and new trail proposals.
Application forms for projects on existing trails are due to a Parks and Trails area supervisor's office each year by Nov. 30. New trail proposals are accepted throughout the year.
First authorized in 1984, Minnesota's OHV trails assistance program is a cost-share program intended to help develop and maintain trails for use by all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), off-highway motorcycles (OHMs) and off-road vehicles (ORVs).
Known as the OHV grant-in-aid (GIA) program, it helps to establish and maintain recreational trails at the initiative of clubs and other organizations, with the support and participation of local government sponsors.
Organizations can apply for GIA funds through counties, cities or townships.
All aspects of OHV trail development and maintenance are eligible for funding, including project administration, site planning, trail improvements, land acquisition for trail development, and trail maintenance.
Proposals with a focus on maintaining or improving existing trails and trail systems will be assigned a higher priority.
Program and application information is available online at www.mndnr.gov (www.dnr.state.mn.us/grants/recreation/gia_ohv.html), or by contacting the DNR Information Center at email@example.com or 651-296-6157 (888-646-6367 toll free) between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
DNR extends deadline to recruit new conservation officers From the DNR
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has extended the application deadline for its 2014 Conservation Officer Academy to Friday, Sept. 20.
The original sign-up period was Aug. 26 to Sept. 13 but reports of difficulty accessing the online application caused the extension, said Col. Ken Soring, DNR Enforcement director.
"By fixing the glitch and extending the deadline to Sept. 20 we'll ensure a more complete applicant pool," Soring said. "We're sorry for any inconvenience."
Questions can be directed to 651-259-5888.
Conservation officers work to ensure public safety and compliance with state game and fish, recreational vehicle, and natural resource commercial operation laws.
Applicants must have a valid Minnesota peace officer's license; or be eligible to be licensed by the Minnesota Peace Officers Standards and Training Board (POST) prior to the time conditional offers are made; or complete basic police training and be certified as a full-time peace officer in a state or federal law enforcement agency with which Minnesota has reciprocity and pass the POST Board reciprocity exam by the time conditional job offers are made.
Candidates must pass the general written exam to be admitted to other portions of the exam/selection process.
Other portions of the process will include: oral interviews and completion of a comprehensive background investigation.
Final job offers will be based on passing a medical evaluation, functional capacity exam and psychological evaluation.
The written examination will tentatively be held on Oct. 5 at Bemidji State University; Cloquet Forestry Center; Central Lakes College, Brainerd and the Minneapolis Convention Center.
All communication will be handled electronically.
Applicants must have an updated email address on their resume or they may not be contacted by the DNR.
For more information and instructions on how to appy for the job, go to the DNR website at www.dnr.state.mn.us/enforcement/jobs/hiring.html.
To ensure consideration for this position, both new and returning applicants need to apply directly to posting number 131743000001 by checking the "Apply for this job" box near the bottom of the announcement.
CO weekly reports From the DNR
• CO Brian Mies (Annandale) checked goose hunters. CO Mies also checked archery deer and small game hunters on the opener. CO Mies also assisted neighboring officer with an investigation.
• CO Rick Reller (Buffalo) gave a presentation to a Youth Firearms safety class in Monticello. Reller also checked anglers, goose hunters, archery deer hunters and small game hunters. A wetlands complaint of possible illegal tilling was also investigated.
• CO Steve Walter (Waconia) worked the small game and archery deer opener finding very few hunters. Goose hunters were checked all week having very good success. AIS checks were done reminding goose hunters to remove aquatic vegetation and drain plugs from their boats
• CO Jackie Glaser (Mound) worked goose and archery deer hunters in Hennepin County finding violations of lead shot, no PFDs, and no HIP certification. She followed up on several hunting complaints. She investigated a waters violation in Plymouth and attended court in Minneapolis for a BUI case.
• CO Jen Mueller (Hutchinson) checked anglers along with goose and dove hunters throughout the week. She followed up on a complaint of an ATV driving on the Luce Line trail. She also investigated a TIP call of shooting before and after hunting hours for geese. Mueller also spoke at two firearms safety classes, one at Gopher Campfire and one in Sleepy Eye.
• CO Brett Oberg (Hutchinson) worked the opening of the archery deer and small game seasons. Oberg checked small game hunters having some success with fox squirrel in the area. Off-highway vehicle enforcement was worked in the river valley with enforcement action taken for operating in unfrozen waters. While working the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Oberg located a lost Labrador and was able to reunite him with his owners.
Question of the week From the DNR
Q: It appears to be that time of year for tree diseases to surface. Is there anything homeowners can do to protect their trees from diseases and possible mortality, regardless of tree species?
A: There are a number of things homeowners can do to help keep their trees healthy.
Since many areas of the state are experiencing drought, a good place to start is watering the trees.
Lack of water predisposes drought-stressed trees to insects and pathogens that can attack.
Wherever possible, homeowners should give their trees about one inch of water each week.
In addition to watering, organic mulch, two-to-three inches deep and spread out three to eight feet from the trunk, will guard against lawn mower injury and keep roots moist.
Homeowners should also avoid using weed and feed fertilizer products, which contain herbicide.
While the product makes lawns look good, it does kill tree roots.
Picking up and properly disposing of fallen leaves and tree branches can help prevent the spread of tree diseases now and next spring.
For more information go to DNR's website at www.dnr.state.mn.us/treecare/index.html.


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Mac Office 2016 & Webdav
I recently noticed a user with Office 2016 (Mac – El Capitan) and accessing Office files with a webdav connection to a server. It appears editing Office files on a webdav connection in Office 2016 (Mac) is not supported. See this link. A workaround was to setup CyberDuck and download the word doc, make the changes and re-upload it to the webdav server.

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Wiring is the practice of wrapping aluminum or copper wire around the bonsai trunk or branches to shape the tree. Training bonsai is never easy, but it can be made easier by proper preparation and execution. Here are some basic guidelines.
The first step is to select the appropriate wire for the job. Aluminum (Al) and copper (Cu) are the two most common choices, with copper considered more attractive for the long bonsai training period. Use annealed copper only. Never use steel wire to wrap a bonsai, it is toxic to several species.
In order for the wire to shape the tree, small stresses must be placed at various points along the length of the trunk or branch. This means the wire has to be stiffer than the trunk or branch. Otherwise, the wire bends rather than the tree.
Thicker wire is generally stiffer. Aluminum is easier to bend, hence easier for novices to apply. Copper is generally stiffer, but more prone to scarring the tree if applied incorrectly. A good starting point is wire 1/3 the thickness of the branch that will be shaped.
Practice wrapping on a tree branch of similar species to develop the dexterity needed. Test different thicknesses on test branches from a similar size and species before using any on the tree to be trained. Several different thicknesses will be required to do the entire tree – practice with all of them. Start with 1mm and work your way up to 4mm.
Wrap from the base of the trunk upward, thicker branches next, smallest branches last. When wrapping a branch, start at the base and wrap toward the tip.
Bend gently into shape, listening for cracking. If you hear any, stop immediately and check for damage. Repair with tree paste or glue and do not work again with that branch for at least a year.
Use a wire length about 1/3 longer than the trunk or branch and wrap slowly in a spiral motion around the trunk or branch. Apply firmly, but not too tightly. You don't want to have the bark grow around the wire, resulting in scarring.
Wiring is often done on deciduous trees in late autumn, after the leaves have fallen. This creates a more visible work area. If you choose to wire in summer, as is done with conifers for example, be sure to avoid wrapping wire on top of needles.
It is considered bad form for any wires to cross. There's no physically necessary reason for this, other than some small additional stress on the branch at the point they cross. These points can be the most likely to scar. However, the Japanese and Chinese art of training bonsai is very traditional and respecting it is worth serious consideration.
After wrapping is completed, observe the tree closely over time to watch for a wire that begins to cut into a branch. If you see this about to happen, cut off – don't unwrap – the wire carefully using wire cutters that can snip at the tip.
When the training period is complete, after a few months, again cut, don't unwrap, the wire. To save a few pennies of wire, you are risking cracking a branch that make take years to heal. Cracking a trunk will most likely lead to the death of the tree.
Wrapping properly is a delicate skill, requiring patience to master. But it is within reach of any dedicated practitioner, and the results are well worth the effort.


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Travel notes: museums
▪ The Museum of Modern Art in New York will celebrate Jerry Lewis' 90th birthday next month with a retrospective of some of his films, nearly all presented in rare 35mm prints. Lewis' birthday is March 16; the screenings will be March 1-15 and will be shown at the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters.
Highlights include The Ladies Man (1961), directed by Lewis; That's My Boy (1951), one of his first with Dean Martin; The Bellboy (1960), Lewis' directorial debut; Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958), one of his solo films; and Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982), one of Lewis' last films.
Details: www.moma.org/calendar/film.
▪ The Mob Museum in Las Vegas will debut a permanent display from the TV show Breaking Bad on Friday. Among the items in the exhibit: the yellow hazmat suit worn by Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) when he cooked up a batch of meth. Two gas masks and a rubber apron worn during the series will also be on view.
Breaking Bad, which won 16 Emmys and two Golden Globes, tells the story of White, a high school chemistry teacher who manufactures and sells methamphetamine after he learns he has inoperable lung cancer.
"Breaking Bad effectively dramatized organized crime and today's illicit drug trade," says Geoff Schumacher, director of content at The Mob Museum, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement.
Details: http://themobmuseum.org
▪ Opening Sunday at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change. The exhibition, done in partnership with the Columbus Museum of Art, examines the dramatic fluctuations in Picasso's style from 1912 to 1924, a period that encompasses World War I. About 50 works by Picasso plus a few by his friends and contemporaries will make up the show.
According to the museum, the exhibition looks closely at the strange ambivalence characterizing Picasso's wartime production, exploring it in connection with changes to his personal life, with his misgivings about cubism, and with the political meanings ascribed to cubism during the war.
The exhibition runs through May 9, then will travel to the Columbus Museum of Art in June. Details: www.barnesfoundation.org.


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- A nearby highway was closed
- Pipeline company reports about 40 residents were evacuated
(CNN)The Burt County Sheriff's Office received a call Monday night of an odd smell eight miles north of Tekamah, in northeast Nebraska.
Now authorities suspect that smell caused the death two hours later of 59-year-old Phillip Hennig, after an ammonia pipeline leaked in the nearby area.
What happened
Fire officials were dispatched to the site shortly after the leak was confirmed.
The surrounding area was evacuated, according to a written statement made to CNN by Burt County Sheriff Robert Pickell.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says anhydrous ammonia is a pungent gas with suffocating fumes that is used as a fertilizer.
When released, the vapors initially move close to the ground, causing greater risk for exposure.
Bruce Heine of Magellan Midstream Partners, the company who owns and operates the leaking pipeline, said the incident is under investigation with the National Transportation Safety Board.
Eric Weiss, a spokesperson for the NTSB, confirmed the agency is investigating the incident but cannot provide immediate detailed information.
Duty Officer Brandon Weatherly of the National Response Center, a federal point of contact for environmental discharges, said the center received three reports of the leak.
Local impact
Terry Schroeder, an emergency manager for Burt County, confirmed with CNN affiliate KETV that the incident forced a number of families to be evacuated and that a nearby highway was closed.
Magellan reported that about 40 residents in 23 homes were told to leave the area.
According to KPTM, the pipeline company will pay the families' expenses.
As of Wednesday morning, the pipeline company said it had 50 employees on site alongside federal regulators and state and local emergency responders. The pipeline section where the leak occurred was shut down.
"Progress is being made on repairs at the release site and air quality readings continue to improve," the company said. "It is our goal to completely isolate the failed portion of the pipeline (Wednesday), which will allow the reopening of local roadways."
Those evacuated have not been able to return.
"No one is allowed in the area of the leak until further notice," Pickell said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
The incident is still under investigation.


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I enjoy having the opportunity to practice my own drawing skills when demonstrating drawing techniques in class. These three images are part of a one-point perspective drawing demonstration using a sofa as the subject.
We started with the large rectangular box which was divided into quarters on the outside. This grid provided us with assistance in drawing the correct proportions for the image. The first shape drawn of the image was the front of the trunk. The top was added with the sides moving back in perspective. We drew the contour lines of the sofa and then the accessories behind the sofa.
Before adding details to the image, we practiced the fabric rendering on a separate sketch page. The fabrics selected show a variety of pattern adding interest to the image.
We added drawing marker on top of the pencil drawing. Adjustments and changes were easily made as we finalize the drawing. The rendering of the fabric finishes were added next. Finally the pencil lines are erased to finish the drawing.
I was happy to see this post because it is so similar to the exercises we have been doing in class. I like the use of detail in terms of shadow and texture. The pillow designs and couch fabric make the trunk and lamp shade stand out more. The pen is a nice touch and helps define the lines to make the image sharper and cleaner. Happy to have learned these techniques so that I can practice to improve my skills. Thank-you Professor Sipp.
The steps in Line Drawing have always interested me. To think of how a simple sketch that's loose and all over the place turns in to a crisp tight structured drawing has always made me think of how an idea becomes reality.


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'There are a lot of dimly lit, narrow streets around here,' says Alan Lydon, 55, in the Independent . 'But now we've got clusters of paparazzi everywhere and all the flashing lights keep our streets well lit.'
Apart from this neighbourhood love-in, however, there's nary a mention of St Valentine in the papers today, apart from a warning in the Associated Free Press that office romantics should avoid sending e-cards, on the off-chance it 'results in a sexual harassment claim'. The FBI also issued a warning about e-love notes, saying they may contain the Storm Worm virus. And who says romance is dead?
Well, Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, for one. Under the headline 'House values likely to fall', the Financial Times has printed another doomsday prophecy for the housing market. The bloom seems to be officially off the rose, with house prices expected to dip 'in real terms for as long as the next four years,' Norma Cohen reports.
Beijing is feeling like a jilted lover as well, after Stephen Spielberg's withdrawal from his role as 'artistic adviser' to the Beijing Olympics this summer. The break-up is making headlines in every country, except China. 'The state-controlled media pointedly ignored the story,' reports the Guardian . It's been a bad few months for Beijing, with news last week that the British Olympic Association's athletes' contract had to be re-written, after a clause was found barring athletes from discussing 'politically sensitive' issues.
All in all, the only place feeling the love today seems to be Newcastle-under-Lyme, which has benefited to the tune of £2.8 million by being 'mistaken' for Newcastle upon Tyne by a group of civil servants in Whitehall. 'Even the two places' different policy over hyphens – a regular question in pub quizzes and Trivial Pursuit – failed to alert the London civil servants to their muddle,' the Guardian reports. But even this love affair is officially over, with the department now 'taking steps' to ensure this prince-and-the-pauper mix-up doesn't happen again.
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Join The Conversation With Mishpacha's Weekly Newsletter
It suddenly hit me last week as I was reading Rabbi Moshe Grylak's latest piece on emunah how terribly unappreciated he is. Because he has been turning out penetrating columns on a regular basis for over forty years we have come to take him for granted. In our minds, that's his job: to force us to think a little more deeply and clearly. And after a while one just comes to expect him to keep doing his job.


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Electronic Funds
If you have read the introduction in detail, you would have noted that one of the problems encountered when gambling in this manner is that only one of our outcomes chosen will be a winner, while the others would be losses. As a result, one of our accounts with a chosen bookmaker would increase while the others would decrease.
This raises the need to be able to move funds quickly and in real time between accounts from one bookmaker to another. We can use credit cards, which in fact are almost indispensable with some bookmakers, but many accept deposits through other systems like electronic funds or "wallet".
The one critical element is to have a valid e-mail address, after which, once the funds are deposited (by cheque, bank transfer or credit card), the transfers (deposits and withdrawals) will take place in real time.
Transfers are done through e-mail, hence the e-mail we use to register with the operators of the virtual funds must be the same one used to register with the bookmaker.
The following are a few key operators of electronic funds.
Moneybookers/Skrill: World leader in on-line transactions. You can transfer and receive money, and do on-line shopping just by using your e-mail address. Their site, in various languages, is simple and intuitive. Deposits at Moneybookers must be done through credit cards (instant credit) or other methods, cheques or bank transfers (taking about 3-5 days to credit your account).
Neteller: Another important leader in on-line transactions. There are many bookmakers who use Neteller for transactions. They use the same principle as Moneybookers and credits and debits occur in real time.
Paypal: Easily the most renown of the electronic funds operators, being part of the Ebay.com group, the famous on-line auctioneers. Paypal too lets you make and receive payments using an email address.


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Rep. Girod Jackson III
(Louisiana House of Representatives website)
State Rep. Girod Jackson III, whose firm was at the center of a federal audit of the Jefferson Parish Housing Authority, was charged with fraud and failure to file taxes in a federal bill of information released Thursday. (See update.)
U.S. Attorney Dana Boente's office charged Jackson with one count of making a fraudulent statement in his tax returns and two counts of willful failure to file taxes.
Prosecutors alleged that Jackson's 2006 federal tax return misrepresented how much his company, Diversified Ventures, earned that year. They said the company made about $600,000 from contracts with public and private entities, but that tax forms Jackson and his wife filed listed only $108,000 of the company's income. In doing so, the charges said, the Jacksons avoided paying almost $80,000 in taxes.
Jackson did not return a telephone message Thursday seeking comment. Jackson's wife was not charged in the documents filed.
Jackson also failed to file any tax returns for 2007 and 2008, even though he had earned enough to require tax filings, according to the charges. The documents said Diversified Ventures received more than $436,000 in payments in 2007 and more than $423,000 in 2008. Prosecutors also said Jackson received almost $38,000 in wages in 2008 from his job as a state legislator.
Jackson, a Marrero resident, represents the 87th district in West Jefferson.
Jackson sucessfully sought one-year extensions to file taxes in 2007 and 2008, but failed to submit the records by the new deadlines.
Questions about payments to Jackson's firm first surfaced last year, when a federal audit challenged payments by Jefferson Parish's housing agency to Diversified Ventures. Auditors said the housing authority broke federal rules and created a conflict of interest when it paid Jackson's firm $91,200 for recovery work following Hurricane Gustav in 2008.
Those payments also came under scrutiny earlier this year, as part of a criminal investigation by the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. FBI agents raided the housing authorities offices earlier this year.
When NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune broke news of the investigation in March, Jackson said he was not aware of the probe and that he had not been contacted by agents. He also said there was nothing improper with his firm's contract with the housing authority.
"I have no information on anything else that may have been going on" at the agency, Jackson said in March.
Prosecutors filed the charges Thursday in a bill of information, a document listing what the government claims it would prove if the case went to trial. That generally suggests a plea deal is in the works, as defendants can only be charged in that manner if they waive their right to a grand jury indictment, and that almost always happens as a result of a plea agreement.
Jackson was elected to the Legislature in 2007, when state Rep. Terrell Jackson and another candidate withdrew from the race. Jackson graduated from John Ehret High School in Marrero and served in the Army and the National Guard. He was re-elected without opposition in 2011.
The next year, Jackson was mentioned as a candidate in the 3rd District state Senate race, after Derrick Shepherd resigned from office after pleading guilty to money laundering.


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The Saints are used to putting up big numbers.
But they're used to doing it with their offense, not a defense that's leaking at historic levels.
Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune details the avalanche of evidence that the Saints defense might be one of the worst ever.
The gave up 530 yards to the Broncos in last night's loss, pushing their season total to 3,323 for the season.
That's 474.7 per game, more than 50 yards per game worse than the merely awful Bills' 424.1 average (which is only slightly worse than the Saints season-low of 421 allowed to the Packers in Week Four).
No team in league history has allowed as many yards to start the season as the Saints have en route to a 2-5 start, and they've given up at least 400 yards every week, and at least 500 in three of the past five.
So not only are they bad, but they're getting worse. As Duncan points out, this isn't a problem of scheme, rather a lack of players that are capable of tackling people, or even getting close enough to them to try.


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Information Technology
Observers at Georgetown's School of Medicine might be forgiven if they wonder how its students have so much free time to listen to music, and do so much texting, on their "i" devices. The students seem obsessed with their iPods(R), iPhones™, or iPod Touches(R) – they are always at hand, at ear, even during patient rounds.
The students aren't just using them for recreation. If buds are in their ears, they are probably listening to lectures being digitally streamed from GUMC computer servers. If they look like they're texting, it is likely because they are accessing the Internet to find information from a cornucopia of databases available through these tools-- everything from the National Library of Medicine to patient practice guidelines and drug reference guides. Handhelds can help physicians pull up clinical information on the spot, at the point of care.
What medical school should do is both teach students the fundamentals – gross anatomy or pharmacology principles, for example – and also focus on how to apply the latest clinical knowledge to support a decision.
This can only help the practice of medicine in the long run. Medical mistakes are made by every physician, and they are made every single day, but most don't cause harm.
Other databases and tools are also available, such as the Framingham Risk Calculator, which looks at risk of having or developing heart disease. That can be used to, say, decide whether an individual patient needs to go on a statin drug to lower cholesterol, but at the same time, treatment guidelines can be accessed which help define which statin drug is best given the latest research. These treatment, or practice, guidelines are developed by the government as well as by physician professional organizations, to promote best practices based on available evidence.
Patients have significant access to information these days, but need help interpreting and applying this information. Doctors can now call up original studies and other relevant information to answer their patients' questions. Students need to be prepared for this type of medicine.
The GUMC is planning to use electronic information systems on an even broader scale. Curricula projects underway for next year are student training in "e-prescribing" and use of electronic health records. The bioinformatics group is currently exploring adapting WorldVistA, an open-source, electronic health record and health information system designed for use by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, for educational use at GUMC. It will be used in a patient simulation center with "patient" actors. Their task will be to use these tools to help support the treatment decisions they make, and to also help answer patient's questions.
The GUMC also using informatics to help track student procedures and performance and to continue to build up GUMC's web-based presence, such as the archiving of streaming lectures, podcasts, and videocasts that students can download at any time.
By Renee Twombly, GUMC Communications


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Reformation Heritage
In the Footsteps of Martin Luther
Our Reformation Heritage tour is the perfect choice for those who prefer to focus on Martin Luther and his life. Here is a sample 10-day itinerary:
Reformation Heritage Itinerary
Day One: US Departure
Day Two: Frankfurt - Worms
Worms - site of Luther's trial and excommunication.
Day Three: Worms Area - Coburg - Erfurt
Coburg - the fortress refuge, where Luther began the translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew.
Day Four: Erfurt
Erfurt - Luther's university and the start of his monastic life.
Day Five: Erfurt - Wartburg - Eisenach - Erfurt
The Wartburg - Luther's hiding-place for 10 months following the Diet of Worms, where he translated the New Testament from the original Greek text into German.
Eisenach - where Luther attended school and sang as a choirboy and birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music became a celebration of his Lutheran faith.
Day Six: Erfurt - Weimar - Eisleben - Leipzig
Weimar - the cradle of German culture and one of the earliest cities to embrace Luther's Reformation.
Eisleben - the town where Martin Luther was born and, concidentally, also died. The houses associated with both events now trace the origins of the Reformation through Luther's own roots and heritage.
Day Seven: Leipzig - Torgau - Wittenberg
Leipzig - the crucible of the peaceful revolution which led to the downfall of East Germany's Communist regime in 1989.
Torgau - the 'wet-nurse' of the Reformation, because it was here that the articles were drawn up, which later became the basis for the Augsburg Confession.
Day Eight: Wittenberg
Wittenberg - the city regarded as the very cradle of the Reformation, where Luther lived and worked from 1508 to 1546 and where his action of nailing the 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in 1517 set in motion the movement which would shake the Christian church to its foundations.
Castle Church in Wittenberg
Photo used with permission of WittenbergKultur e.V
Day Nine: Wittenberg - Berlin
Berlin - fascinating city reinstated as Germany's capital and seat of government after re-unification in 1990.
Day Ten: Berlin - USA
Booking Your Luther Decade Tour
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You know that feeling, as a child, when you have been away at your granparents house or someone elses house for an extended holiday, and that moment, feeling, smell, when you step back into your home?
That warm, safe feeling when your mum or dad wraps their arms around you and give you that strong, safe hug. The type of hug that makes you feel like nothing in the world could hurt you?
(Don't worry, because I never actually experienced that as a child myslef, but I did read about it.)
Well it is that feeling, the feeling I got when I first stepped my foot into Heathenry.
No matter how many Pagan hats, shooes, dresses etc I tried on, none of them seemed to fit right. It wasn't until I found Asatru/Norse Reconstructionism that I had a sense of home. That feeling of 'this is where I belong'.
If you don't feel like that in your current path, keep searching becasue you are not where you belong.
Don't get me wrong, I love all the Pagan religions, from Buddhism and Celtic Druidry through to Wicca. They all have their good points and their not so good points. If it wasn't for those other Pagan paths, I may never have found my home… Well I probably would have, but it probably would have taken me a lot longer.
You see I didn't have the most loving childhood, or pleasant for that matter (another story for another time). I spent most of it fighting monsters. When I was about 10 years old (or maybe 9) I had this dream, a dream I could and will never forget. Now some will call me crazy, but that's ok, crazy is better than some of the names I have been called in my life.
This dream, there was a man, a big strong man, he was blonde, blue eyed… Just like I was as a kid. I felt safe, not scared, he was kind, well he gave off that energy. He said "I am Thor. You have strength child, but if you ever doubt yourself, think of me and I will lend you some of mine. You are a survivor. Search for me. Come and find me" and then he was gone.
Now I was a 10 year old, living in rural Australia, I had no idea who this Thor was, I didn't know about Marvel comics or even Pagansim at that age. I grew up in an agnostic household. Religion was never spoken about, I never went to church, I attended a coupl of Religious Educaton classes in school but only ever walked out with more quesntions and confusion because the babble they talked about was just that too me, babble.
So who was this kind man? I know Thor is a big Red-headed, red-bearded hulk of a man, but I have talked to a few people and some have seen him with blonde hair, others with darker hair. Maybe the Gods come to us in an image that is safe and familiar to us.
It took me a long time to embrace anything other than pain and misery. I battled monsters and demons as a child and teenager. There was no internet, social media, no yahoo threads. Just me and my oun heart, mind & soul.
Fast forward to the 90s and the decade of Wicca. Everyone (or girl at least) wanted to at the very least dip their toes into Wicca. I tried really hard but just couldn't get my feet to fit the Wiccan shoes. I used to say I was a Lazy Pagan because I couldn't be bothered with the tiresome amounts of ritual and initiation that was involved. It was just like Sunday School… Too many rules, too many 'have to do it this way', just too many, too much, and not the right fit… But I did like Paganism.
I had always loved the histories, the Greek mythos, Egyption mythos etc. I even chose Ancient History as an elective for my final years in high school… Unfortunately only 3 of us wanted too, the rest chose Modern History… But I still enjoyed it… It was history after all.
I found Greek mythos easy to navigate. I could easily identify with some of the traits of the Gods & Goddesses. Even though Thor didn't fit in with the Greek Myths, he was still a part of my deity list. In 1993, I even got my first tattoo of a Pegasus, and I still don't regret getting it because it is a part of my journey.
It wasn't until about 2008 that I really embraced what the internet could offer as far as information goes. It is then that I had a glimpse of the Norse Mythos… But then my world came crashing down as my family fell apart.
By the time 2010 rolled around I was an out & open Pagan, with my little toes still in the Wiccan waters and needing a place to call home. I started looking into the Norse Mythos thinking that I still had to be Wiccan to be a part of any 'Mythos'. I found my gods & Goddesses but still hadn't found my home. By 2011, I had resigned myself to being a lazy Pagan that believed in the Norse Gods and some of the Greek ones too.
Then in 2012 again my world was torn apart by yet another family tragedy, this one was so horrible that it was literally hanging on by a few threads. For the first time I needed that strength that Thor had offered me all those years ago. I was tearing at the seams, and the ground was falling out from under my feet. Within 4 months my family had suffered a traumatic event and a 1400km relocation, to a place where we had some family but knew no-one.
My whole perspective of life had changed in those 4 months. I knew there was more to life than the bubble I had been living in. I needed a home I couldn't find, I needed Gods I couldn't find, I needed something that I just couldn't find.
Then it happened…
I opened up Facebook one morning and there it was… Asatru… It was like Thor was standing there with his arms open waiting to greet me with a huge hug. That hug that I spoke about earlier, the one that made you feel safe, secure, warm, made you feel like you were finally home.
And so began my path, I had walked through the doors of a world that had been there the whole time, I just couldn't see it until then. The more I read about Asatru, the more I realised that I had always lived there, my morals were the same, my personal 'code' was the same, my philosphies were the same. It was all the same, there in front of me the whole time. I was home.
It has been 7 years since I found Asgard, and nearly 5 since I realised I had been living on Midgard my entire life. It has been nearly 5 years since Thor lead me to the Hammer that I wear around my neck 99% of the time. It has been nearly 5 years of navigating my place within the Heathen community and nearly 5 years since I took my foot out of the Wiccan shoes that didn't fit and into my own clothes, that fit me perfectly.
I know this post is long and about nothing interesting, but I wanted to share with you how it took me a long time to find my home and my place within the Pagan world. I have many Pagan friends, Wiccan's, Druid's, Heathen's, Buddhist's. I just felt like sharing part of my story on how I found Heathenry and how I knew it was for me. As the saying goes:
"If you don't feel passionate about your path, maybe it isn't your path to walk".
Maybe it is time that I share more of my home with you all. Maybe this post will give you some food for thought.
Anyway, until next time my Crazies, don't let the straight jacket get too tight.


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Midwest Renewable Energy Association, Wisconsin, 2008
Pictured above is a beautiful sunset (I shot the picture from the window of our van while driving). Look carefully and you can see Mick Sagrillo's 3 wind turbines (where we put on this work shop) and then a utility wind farm in the very back ground. Wisconsin is beautiful.
These next couple pages contain photographs and commentary about the 'homebrew wind turbine' workshop we taught for MREA at Mick Sagrillo's shop near Algoma Wisconsin in May 2008. It was a 6 day long workshop, with 18 students. The goals were ambitious: cover a bit of wind power theory, discuss a bit about wind turbine design, and build 3 wind turbines. Details about the 3 wind turbines planned:
A 10' diameter machine basically from a 'kit'. All the flat steel parts were cut on a water jet table but past that we planned to do all the metal work (cutting, welding, grinding), fabricate the magnet rotors, the stator, carve the blades etc.
A 12' turbine, very much along Hugh Piggott's 12' design but with a different frame, slightly smaller stator, larger magnets and a much lower resistance stator. This turbine we planned to build completely from scratch and much of the final design was figured out during the workshop. It's very close to one that we built in February 2008 for the Blue Energy Group in Bluefields Nicaragua.
A 17' diameter turbine. This one had a customer who was willing to pay for materials and willing to let students build the machine. We did all the metal work on this machine here in our shop before the work shop and had it powder coated so we had to carve blades, fabricate a stator and magnet rotors. We ran into other problems with the assembly of that machine that will be discussed later.
Nice to teach a workshop like this surrounded by wind turbines! Pictured above is Mick's old Jacobs turbine. Currently it's shut down needing new brushes and maintenance. Nice old machine though.
Mick also has a new South West Windpower 'skystream'. Its a 12 foot diameter turbine with a built in grid tie inverter rated at 1800 Watts. It's a down wind turbine. The blades are funny looking, the idea (from our understanding) is that they are shaped the way they are to minimize the 'thumping' sound that happens in some down wind machines when the blades pass through the 'shadow' behind the tower. This machine was also broken down when we arrived, the built in inverter is likely the problem but nobody was sure. Mick said that when it is running, it's rather loud. He said the alternator makes quite a fair bit of noise and the blades also still make too much noise as they pass through the wind shadow behind the tower. We never got to hear it.
Mick also has a very impressive ARE (Abundant Renewable Energy) 442. This is basically a very much scaled up (23 foot diameter I think - 10kW rated output) version of the old African Wind Power turbine. Very nicely made (and expensive) machines. Unfortunately though this one was also broken down when we got there. They did fix it while we were at the workshop. It was terribly noisy when running though. It is a new design and I expect the company will solve that problem.
The first day started out at a local 'town hall' that we used for a bit of classroom time, to go over some basics about wind power theory and wind turbine design. Then we had lunch and got started with work in the shop.
John did great work and he gets the award (there really is no award) for traveling the greatest distance to our work shop. He came all the way from Australia! Pictured above he's cutting slots on the front of a blade so that it can be carved more easily with a draw knife.
Jody laying out the blades. Lots of work to carve all these blades. We needed to have between 4 and 6 folks working on blades for almost the whole work shop. 10 foot diameter blades are not so bad, but the 17 foot diameter set is quite a lot of work.
Mick offered us a nice shop to work in. It's basically divided into two rooms - a wood working area and a metal working area. Pictured above is how the wood room looked at the end of most days. At first, the hours of the workshop were 9am to 6 pm after which we'd clean up shop and put tools away. The last couple days had me worried that we might not get everything done so most folks started at 8 am and we often went into the evening on some projects.
Forrest cutting out the centers of the magnet rotors for the 12 foot turbine with a hole saw. Again, the 12 foot machine was totally from scratch. The magnet rotors are 14 inches in diameter, cut with a torch out of flat 3/8 inch steel.
Pictured above: Cliff soldering connections between coils for one phase of the 10 foot diameter wind turbine.
Pedro placing the large 3 inch x 1.5 inch x .75 inch thick magnets on the rotors for the 17 foot dia turbine. These magnets are very strong and difficult to handle.
I made this jig for welding the stainless steel bands that we shrink around the magnet rotors together. It worked well. The bottom is lined with copper so we don't weld the stainless to the jig itself.
Ken using the torch to heat one of the stainless steel bands for the 17 foot diameter machine. When we make the band, we cut it about 3/16 inch shorter than the circumference of the magnet rotor and weld it together. Then we heat it with the torch until it just starts to turn slightly yellow in color.
Once the band is hot enough, somebody (Paul, in this case) wearing leather gloves grabs it and quickly drops it around the magnet rotor. It shrinks to be a very tight fit after it cools.
George was with us to give instruction on metal work. Pictured above he's pondering the frame for the 12 foot turbine.
There's the nearly finished stator for the 17 foot turbine! All the coils wound, not much left to do except for casting.
The stator mold for the 12 foot turbine is square, 17 inches on each side. In the picture above they've cut the fiberglass for the stator, folded it up and put it in the corners.
Cliff seems quite please with the stator for the 10 foot turbine! It came out perfectly, no air bubbles or imperfections of any kind.
On Thursday the 10 foot turbine was about ready to go, folks follow the instructions in the book to assemble the alternator.
Pictured above the alternator for the 10 foot diameter wind turbine is finished.
Again, the SW Windpower Skystream was broken down. It was up on a 80 foot tilt down tower, so we figured we'd lower it - remove it from the tower for repairs and adapt the tower top to fit our own 12 foot diameter wind turbine. Before lowering the tower Mick gave a good talk about towers, the geometry of tilt up towers, and tower safety.
Down goes the skystream!
One of the students was building his own 20 foot diameter wind turbine just like ours. He had built the stator mold at home but wanted to wind and cast the stator during the workshop. We mostly did this after hours. Paul decided to use plexi-glass for the bottom, and the top of his mold. Bad idea as we all learned, the vinyl ester adhered to the plexi-glass (actually seemed to melt it some). We got lucky, it did finally come out of the mold but only after hours of chipping bits of plexiglass off the stator with chisels and hammers.
The stator for the 12 foot turbine ready for casting. We wound these coils with two strands of 13 gage wire in hand and 33 turns per coil. It's for a 24 Volt system.
Fitting the stator to the 17 foot wind turbine! This one got a bit frustrating - we assembled the whole machine and noticed the back magnet rotor wobbled rather badly, so much that we could not get the airgap adjusted within reason. So we took it back apart to figure out the problem. On this machine, the back magnet rotor comes right up against back surface of a 6000 pound wheel hub. We always choose a hub that has the back surface machined (it's a lathed surface). Turns out the hub was about .040 out of true.
Fortunately we had a lathe available. John C. turned the back surface of the hub so that it was within .001 inch. After that the alternator for the 17 foot turbine went together smoothly.
Rich explains how to assemble the blades for the 12 foot turbine.
I try to figure out how to assemble the 12 foot turbine - since we'd never built one just like this before. It's a neat machine, and very robust with a very strong spindle/bearing. I think there is lots of safety factor in this one with regard to the strength of the frame, the size of the bearings, and the resistance in the stator.
Larry lowers the front magnet rotor onto the 12 foot turbine while John and Alex watch.
An interesting picture of the 12 foot wind turbine on the work bench with bush, silo, and large wind turbine in the back ground. DanF got most of these pictures - nice job!
Pictured above I'm wiring up the 12 foot turbine on the end of the 80 foot tower. At this point it's Saturday just before lunch - last day of the workshop. We have a few hours left!
Up goes the 12 foot turbine! Pretty interesting erection really. The gin pole for this tower is about 25% the tower height, Mick pulls it up with a tractor but the weight of the tractor and the traction is marginal - he needs to push off with the bucket to get started moving! We also had a block and tackle to help - without that it'd be impossible.
The 12 foot machine seemed to work fine at least in the low winds we did have. I wouldn't be surprised if the alternator stalled the blades a bit in higher winds, in which case we would add a bit of resistance to the line. As it was though, winds were between 8-12mph and we were seeing output averaging around 200W.
There is the 10 foot wind turbine finished up. It came out nicely.
So there's the whole crew! We got everything done (and nicely done) with about 1 hour to spare it seemed. Great bunch of folks - we had fun. Not shown here in pictures are all the fun nights we had at the local restaurant/bar eating fish and all the fun nights around the camp fire!


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The Majestic Yosemite Hotel
Nestled at the base of sheer rock face, the impressive stone-and-wood Majestic Yosemite Hotel (formerly known as the Ahwahnee) is the quintessential California mountain lodge. This 123-room property is surrounded by dense pine and sequoia forests and clear streams; the popular summits El Capitan and Half Dome are about 10 to 15 minutes away by car and are visible from many of the rooms. It's worth booking a stay simply for the Great Lounge -- a stately space with a 24-foot ceiling and an enormous stone fireplace -- alone.
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Residents in MP Kelly Block's riding of Saskatoon Rosetown Biggar were surprised in mid October when they found a flyer in their mail boxes celebrating the end to "unfair" benefits for refugee claimants. The flyer states, "They've had free prescriptions, Not anymore." The mail-out was from MP Kelly Block's office, and it had her constituents along with defenders of health care for refugees upset.
Dr. Mahli Brin-damour, a pediatrics resident Block's said, "It's biased and misleading. It's trying to pit Canadians against this vulnerable group."
Block for her part has since said that the mailout, "wasn't meant to be divisive."
The mail-out refers to cuts to healthcare services for refugees that were implemented on July 1st of this year, despite opposition from over 17 health associations across the country including the College of Family Physicians and the Canadian Medical Association.
A rally on October 20th to oppose Block's mail out attracted over 400 people in Saskatoon. On October 22nd, Dr. Mahli Brin-Damour took her fight to parliament hill along with students from the University of Ottawa's medical school. On today's episode of HJR, we take you there.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks fell Friday, with the major indexes recording their worst week this year, after China reported its economy slowed more than anticipated.
"The market dropped because China's economy is slowing down more than expected," said Jim Sloan of Jim Sloan & Associates in Houston, Texas.
"Everybody's worried and everybody's unsure if the global economy can stand on its own, and China is a big part of global growth. If it slows too rapidly, that would create a lot of pain. I don't think it will, but there's uncertainty," said Alan Skrainka, chief investment officer at Cornerstone Wealth management LLC.
Still, "after an explosive 30% rise we were due" for a correction, said Skrainka of the market's climb from its October lows.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.25% fell 136.99 points, or 1.1%, to close at 12,849.59, leaving it down 1.6% from the prior week, its most substantial weekly hit since the middle of December.
Dow component J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.72% reported a larger-than-expected profit in the first quarter, the first major U.S. bank to report results for the quarte. Its shares lost 3.6%. Read more on financial stocks.
'The world economy is being held together with baling wire and chewing gum.'
The S&P 500 SPX, -0.22% dropped 17.31 points, or 1.3%, to 1,370.26, off 2% from the week-ago close, with financial and technology faring the worst and utilities and consumer staples the best performers among its 10 industry groups.
Google Inc. GOOG, +0.58% shares were among those hit, down 4.1% in its worst drop since late January, as corporate-governance entities voiced concern about the most recent effort by the online search engine's founders to retain control.
Google detailed Thursday a plan that allows it to issue new shares without diluting the voting power of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Read more on Google shares.
The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.32% fell 44.22 points, or 1.5%, to 3,011.33, leaving it down 2.3% from last week's close.
The indexes also fell last week, the first back-to-back weekly losses for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq of the year.
For every stock rising roughly three fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where 771 million shares traded; composite volume came to 3.5 billion.
Commodities hit
Oil and gold prices fell, with crude futures CLK22, -49.68% falling 81 cents, or 0.8%, to finish at $102.83 a barrel. Gold futures GCM22, -50.06% for June delivery fell $20.40, or 1.2%, to settle at $1,660.20 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Read more on oil futures and gold futures.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's initial index of consumer sentiment declined in April to 75.7 from 76.2 last month. Read more on consumer sentiment.
A separate report, from the Labor Department, had consumer prices climbing 0.3% in March after a 0.4% rise the prior month. Read more on consumer prices.
China's National Bureau of Statistics on Friday said the nation's annual rate of economic growth slowed in the first quarter to 8.1% from 8.9% during the prior three months. Read more on China GDP.
Rising borrowing costs in Spain also weighed on sentiment. Read how investors are bracing for more pain from Spain.
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It's OK but when it comes to data entry we create apps or web pages for that. It really does not matter if you use SQL or not but you do want a database. Use one you know. My first MySQL app took about 3 months to hammer out till we put it into production.
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Hi. I have to create a software/application which will help me in extracting data from excel sheets and perform certain calculations on a daily basis. It should 2 options. 1 is to enter data and 2nd is to view reports which will be generated by excel. Right now I have been advised to use the following:
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Elsie M. Dudley, Poppy Flower, Papaver Rhoeas - 1883 watercolour painting
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An original 1883 watercolour painting, Elsie M. Dudley Poppy Flower, Papaver Rhoeas.
A delicate botanical watercolour study by Elsie (Eliza) Mary Dudley (d.1903), future wife of artist Thomas Campbell-Bennett (1858-1948). Dudley's ancestor was Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I.
The particular interest and charm of this painting lies in the detailed botanical notes that accompany it and its forming part of a collection of works which evidence horticultural knowledge being applied in the field: the 'specimens' collected for this project were observed and gathered at various locations around the UK - including at Dudley's native Kinver in Staffordshire, and further afield at Conwy Castle and Penmaenmawr in North Wales, and Glen Lyon in Perthshire.
In most cases the specific location of the original specimen is recorded in the accompanying notes and also the name of the person who gathered the specimen - often this is Elsie herself, but sometimes it is others such as Thomas Campbell-Bennett.
The painting is accompanied by botanical notes in the artist's hand on a separate piece of paper, as shown. Please note that the inscription paper comes folded.
Initialled lower centre.
In good condition for its age. The picture may have minor imperfections, such as slight marks, toning, foxing, creasing or pinholes, commensurate with age. Please see photos for detail.
16.2cm x 9.1cm.
Elsie Mary Dudley married artist Thomas Campbell-Bennett in Staffordshire in 1886. Bennett is recorded as having exhibited at RSA Birmingham from 1882 until 1906. By 1888 the couple had moved to Cornwall and bought Hingston House at St Ann's Chapel near Gunnislake. Elsie would have moved in artistic circles with her husband, in the acquaintance of Devon artists, Widgery, Pike and Ager. Bennett was a founder member of the Westward Ho! Art Club, Bideford, Devon.
This collection also includes a small number of botanical paintings by Thomas Campbell-Bennett, one of which is initialled and inscribed 'TCB For Elsie'.
Text copyright © 2018 Somerset & Wood Fine Art Ltd. All rights reserved.
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The Eagles didn't have 2012 second-round pick Vinny Curry on the gameday roster in either of the first two weeks of the season, but they've decided to make a change on Thursday night.
Curry is active and the team could look to him to boost a pass rush that didn't give Philip Rivers much trouble at all in last Sunday's loss to the Chargers. It's not a sure thing, though. Curry played in six games as a rookie without recording a sack.
The Eagles that did wind up on the inactive list are quarterback Matt Barkley, cornerback Roc Carmichael, cornerback Jordan Poyer, tackle Matt Tobin, tackle Dennis Kelly, defensive end Damion Square and tight end Emil Igwenagu.
The Chiefs will have cornerback Brandon Flowers, who was listed as questionable because of a hamstring injury, in the lineup. Tight ends Anthony Fasano and Travis Kelce are both inactive, however, and the Chiefs will be thin at the spot on Thursday night.
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A Stamping and Drawing lesson to go with the Mapping Unit in our 1st Grade, however I think this is also a great Fall Lesson for Harvest.
You will need:
Sponges cut into simple shapes
Tempra or Acrylic Paint
Pencils and Erasers
I bought sponges at the Dollar Store and cut them into shapes of trees, houses, yards and fields.
I folded the 12"X12" paper into thirds and demonstrated stamping with the sponges in 3 rows across and down. This leaves room for roads and other details they may want to add.
The sponges stay with their color so the paint doesn't get all mixed up.
While this dries I'm going to show them some examples of other artist's work similar to this, such as Grandma Moses and Charles Wysocki
If you're in a hurry you can always use a blow drier to dry them faster.
Grandma Moses, July 4th
Charles Wysocki, Black Birds Roost
Then the students will add all their details to their Neighborhood.
I'm not going to talk to much about accuracy - it's from their imagination and they can use their "Artistic License"
If they know the names of their streets and their address they can add those too.
I'm going to let them draw until they are happy with their "Maps" or "Neighborhoods", adding whatever details they want to add.


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Three years after making mincemeat of two of Jeopardy's most decorated champions, IBM's supercomputer Watson is making the leap into financial planning.
Last week, IBM announced the launch of the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit that will bring cognitive computing to businesses, including financial planning. Cognitive computing is a new area of technology that is able to think for itself, to an extent.
"What Watson does at its most basic level is it reads a lot of information and it understands it," said John Gordon, vice president of IBM Watson Group.
The world got a sense of just how well Watson can understand complex information when it starred on the television game show Jeopardy three years ago and was able to beat both Ken Jennings, who holds the longest Jeopardy winning streak, and Brad Rutter, who is the all-time money winner, handily.
Since then, Watson has improved its performance by 2,400%, and gotten 24 times faster and 90% smaller, according to IBM.
IBM has already announced a partnership with Singapore's DBS Bank to help manage its wealth management clients, and Mr. Roberts sees a lot of potential to help advisers in the U.S.
"Every adviser has their own approach," he said. "Watson can help make them better. It can provide the right information to help scale the number of clients."
Watson's biggest contribution to advisers will be how it helps sort through vast amounts of information, only flagging articles or reports that could lead to a change in how an adviser thinks about an asset class or individual security, Mr. Gordon explained. That will leave advisers more free time to work directly with clients and focus on finding new ones.
When it comes to new clients, Watson can also act as a first contact to help them with simple questions they may be hesitant to ask a financial adviser.
"Some people don't like to stop and ask for directions but no one minds using a GPS," Mr. Gordon said. "Watson can answer questions that, at first, clients don't want to talk to a financial adviser about because they think it's too complicated or they don't have enough money."
IBM has not released a rollout schedule and Watson isn't going to be immediately practical for smaller advisers, but the company's plan is eventually to open up the system to businesses of all sizes. It's cloud-based, so advisers won't have to buy any hardware to run it.


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Cannabis doesn't affect your IQ, new study finds
In 2012 Duke University studied 38 heavy marijuana smokers and figured that their use of cannabis lowered their IQ. At the time there were a lot of people asking if you could really use 38 people as a basis to declare, marijuana lowers your intelligence. A couple of days ago, University College London released a stronger evidence based study on the subject. In this study, 2,612 young people from Bristol(UK) were the subjects of the report. Their IQ scores were taken at age 8 and again at 15. There was no relationship between cannabis use and IQ decline. The anti pot propaganda side will be further disheartened today. What about the children, they have said?
What the study did find, was there was a real affect between alcohol consumption and lowered IQ. Thats right folks, alcohol is the real threat to our children. In fact, the study from the London University reported that the claimed negative effects of cannabis is a distraction from the real harms to young people's IQ. Just in case you missed previous posts, the alcohol lobby does fund anti pot campaigns. Cannabis is a direct threat to the alcohol industry. When you look at the health benefits of cannabis versus the unhealthy side effects of alcohol, I can imagine the public switching to marijuana as soon as prohibition ends and the deceitful propaganda is completely discredited.
Cannabis protects brain cells, alcohol kills them. In fact, cannabis has been scientifically shown to repair the damage of alcohol on brain cells! Cannabis has been proven to kill cancer cells, tobacco causes cancer. Tobacco and alcohol are both addictive substances, whereas cannabis is not physically addictive. All the negative reports and nonsense that is quoted in the media about marijuana refers to heavy users of the plant. For some reason, there is a small percentage of people who abuse nearly every substance. Eat too much sugar, drink too much vodka and you will put your body in danger. To say a heavy cannabis smoker is the reason to save the public from the plant is ridiculous, especially when you consider that alcohol kills tens of thousands of people each year, whereas marijuana has killed zero people, ever.
Even with this new scientific information, no serious cannabis activist will call for allowing children to have access to cannabis. There should still be a legal limit on when you can use the plant, unless it is for medical reasons. By continuing the prohibition of cannabis, young people have almost free access to the plant. With the weight of evidence now behind the benefits of pot, I think governments need to swallow their pride, admit they didn't know what they were talking about and legalize the plant. Prohibition doesn't work, especially when we have just as much information as the government does. Oh what a bright new world we are stepping into!


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So this is what Park City looks like right now. It's been snowing and windy, but today it looks peaceful. Sidewalks cleared of snow. Volunteers roaming the streets preparing for the real storm ahead. It's called the Sundance Film Festival.
In one more day, this:
Will become this:
Run almost entirely by hundreds and hundreds of volunteers, the festival has been growing the last 4 years. The mood has shifted each one of those years for various reasons. But, it's still an incredibly fun and well done festival that I can't help but go.
The Sundance Film Festival has the unusually good fortune of providing the festival-goer with a personal experience; allowing you to get close and connect to film crew, directors, actors. You'll be exposed to new technologies and art forms you've never seen before – and in some cases you may never see again. Not because they suck, but because they are unique, one-of-a-kind experiences the artists chose to share at Sundance.
With any good storm, you've got your forecasters and your weather guides to help you navigate the turbulent events. In the case of the festival, your guides are your volunteers and they will all be wearing the same gear. The color of their gear and their uniform jackets change from year to year, but they're not hard to spot and THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. If you need help of ANY kind, walk up to one of them and ask. They're trained, knowledgeable, and I've never run into one in a bad mood.
Sundance Film Festival is funny, fries your brain, challenges what you think you know or believe, and is never short on bold style, crazy fashion choices, and colorful people!
Robert Redford's commitment to staying the course and providing a venue where a unique voice can jump off of the page and onto the screen is endless. He's witty, thoughtful, and smart. And for filmmakers and festival-goers alike, he's considered an open-thinker, adventurer, and ground-breaker when it comes to promoting arts and artists alike with his ongoing @SundanceOrg workshops. The opportunities are endless.
Come to Sundance. Kick it with us. There's so much to do you'll forget about sleeping. And you'll feel great doing it!
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Joe Hanauer
Joe F. Hanauer has served as one of the Company's directors since November 1996, as vice chairman of our board of directors from November 2001 to January 2002, chairman of the Board since January 2002, and lead independent director since December 2004; he was the National Association of REALTORS® representative on the Board through November 2000. Since 1988, Mr. Hanauer, through Combined Investments, L.P., has directed investments in companies primarily involved in real estate and financial services. Mr. Hanauer is a former chairman and director of Grubb & Ellis Company, a former chairman and chief executive officer of Coldwell Banker Residential Group, Inc. and a member of the National Association of REALTORS®. Mr. Hanauer was a trustee of the Calamos Fund Complex, a fund complex of 19 portfolios, from 2001 to December 2009. Mr. Hanauer served as a director of MAF Bancorp Inc. from 1990 until its acquisition in August 2007. Mr. Hanauer serves as one of the Company's representatives on the Policy Advisory Board of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.


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I was desperate to get home. I longed for the comfort of my own surroundings and to be able to come and go as I pleased, without constant supervision, a chaperone, and time restrictions. At this stage in my recovery I wasn't sure if that was weeks or months away. I was caught in time. Frozen in my state of "unknowing". All I knew was that the next big step had arrived. I had overnight leave and I was going to make the most of it.
Just to give it some context, by making the most of it I mean enjoying a cosy night in with my family, not downing jägerbombs until dawn. I wouldn't like to see what a medication and shots cocktail would look like. I'm guessing it wouldn't be pretty. One thing that my psychosis taught me, and there were a staggering amount, was to savour and value the mundane, the everyday, even the down right boring. After experiencing hyper-reality, I realised that plain old reality is a beautiful place to be.
Coming back to Earth after visiting planet Insania is a scary trip. It requires a very slow and steady approach. I had been desperate to get overnight leave and now that I had it, it was a prospect so daunting I was almost prepared to stay on the ward so that I didn't have to face it. It was an existential lurch and it felt deeply unsafe to my fragile psyche. Each of these hurdles to the finish line of normality seemed too high to jump. I had to coach myself over each one. I had to believe I could, take off, and hope that a lagging back foot wouldn't trip me up.
"I just need to get to Pimlico. I have to get to Pimlico. Will they give me overnight leave, because I can only use the flat in Pimlico this week" Pimlico dominated my thoughts and feelings. It was my Mecca, my Nirvana, and my Moscow.
We were very very lucky to have a friend who had a flat there, who said we could stay there anytime in the week, as they were away. We didn't have anywhere else to do an overnight stay in London that could fit me, my husband, my mother-in-law and our baby boy, so it was Pimlico or bust.
I fought so hard for that leave. I knew that, in order for it to be granted, I had to demonstrate that I could take care of Albert overnight, even though I would have the help of my husband on leave. So for the week leading up to ward round I pushed through my very zombie-like state; I forced myself to stand to soothe him in the early hours, even though my legs were numbed, and I prepared bottles while the dressing gown of sedation hung heavy on my shoulders.
The staff could see my struggle. But they could see the effort, the will, and the desire I had to do all of my motherly nigh-time tasks despite the huge obstacles I faced.
I struggled when I was on leave. How could anything live up to the image I'd created in my head? It was freedom and a step closer to home. But it was a home that wasn't mine, in a bed I didn't know, surrounded by things I didn't recognise. It made me feel further from home than ever. If I found this hard, how would I ever get back to my house, with my bed and my things?
I had to pause. To re-evaluate. To congratulate myself on this monumental and minuscule step. We cooked a meal and sat together in front of the tv. There was no negotiation with other patients about what to watch and it was delightful to have a meal that wasn't cooked in a plastic bag. This was all strangely normal. Here we all were together, and there was no-one calling time on visiting hours. I didn't have to hand Albert over to anyone apart from his dad, and I could be beside my husband tonight, all night, for the first time in weeks.
We watched Frozen. We laughed, sang and held each other on the sofa. Tears silently fell down my cheeks as Let It Go blasted out of the speakers and I knew that that was what I needed to do.
Love and lovely boring little things,Mutha Courage x


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Multiple users
Share the same iPad among many users at home or your study group, with optional password access. IQuinas runs on iOS 8.1 or later on iPad, iPad Mini, and the iPad Pro.
Automatic Drills
IQuinas schedules drills automatically based on a user's level of mastery. Difficult cards repeat more frequently while easy ones less so.
View your personal status and mastery information in the IQuinas dashboard. Difficult cards may be reviewed conveniently in a 'difficult cards for the day' section.
Import Cards
Flashcards can be imported in many different ways, such as text files from Quizlet, or your own. Flashcard features include text, images, and difficulty level reports.
Parents/teachers can view all students' progress in one glance with an easy-to-understand summary.
Multiple Databases
Create up to two live databases. IQuinas also comes pre-installed with a demo database for training and demos.
The iPad app 'IQuinas' is a fully automated memorisation system that allows students of any age to study and memorise content from flashcards (which can be made by the student or teacher) and then generate the drills for each respective subject to prepare for exams, tests, quizzes, or just simply to expand your knowledge! The app allows multiple users in one device, with optional password protection. It uses the SuperMemo algorithm to automatically create drills based on the user's level of mastery. The same set of flashcards are shared among multiple users, while still tracking each card for each user. Flashcards can be imported in many different ways. To summarise, once you've learnt a subject, IQuinas helps you remember the content, and thus enabling you to excel in it!
Why is the app called IQuinas?
IQuinas is a portmanteau of "IQ" and Saint Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of students and universities (and of course, the app!). St. Thomas Aquinas is an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest who was born in 1225. He was a highly influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism. The Catholic Church honours Aquinas as a saint and a Doctor of the Church.
Source 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas Source 2: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=2530
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