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- Vents: 10 vents
- Weight: 407g (visor and ear muffs are not included)
- Material: ABS shell + EPS foam + soft inner pads,with removable patent adjustment, nylon chin strap and ITW buckle,silver mesh ventilation system,two slots for mounting ear protection.
- Size: M/L (51-62CM)
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- New visor mounting system is made of polycarbonate and allows two positions : UP-on top of the helmet and Down-working position.
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- Certified CE EN166, anti-fog, anti-scratched.
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The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin on the eve of World War II and under the shadow of Adolf Hitler, were in large part the story of Jesse Owens and his dominance on the track.
Born in Alabama, Owens' athletic talent was recognized early. He became a star at Ohio State University where, in one of the greatest athletic feats ever, he equaled one and set four world records – in the span of one hour. Hitler's plans to showcase the superiority of his Aran athletes on the world stage of the Olympics was spoiled by the Americans, especially Owens, who won four gold medals in track and field. Triumph: the Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap takes you through Owens' remarkable acheivements, the obstacles he faced and overcame, the political turmoil that nearly canceled these games, all with a vividness that puts you track-side throughout.

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Opportunity at NSFApril 28, 2006
The National Science Foundation has released the following letter in a search for an Assistant Program Officer:
Dear Colleague,
The Division of Mathematical Sciences at NSF is recruiting a high-level staff member to assist the Division management and the scientific program officers.
The application period will end on June 1, 2006.
The position is being advertised in two ways -- as a possible permanent position or as a visiting scientist/federal temporary appointment. For information, please see the announcements:
Permanent position (announcement number E20060092):
Temporary position (announcement number E20060093):
This is an opportunity for someone interested in scientific policy and the management and funding of the scientific enterprise. One of the main duties of the position is the production of reports and studies that drive the Division's funding decisions. Another is to form a liaison with mathematical scientists to help explain the Division's current portfolio and how members of the community can best benefit from it. The position would provide an opportunity to work in the highly integrated environment of the Foundation and to gain a working knowledge of some of the practices and ideas driving other scientific disciplines.
Excellent people skills and an ability to work with data in a programming environment are essential.
A Ph.D. in Mathematics or Statistics would be ideal, but the Division would consider an application from a candidate with a masters degree and additional experience or a candidate with a higher degree in a mathematics-related discipline.
The starting point of the salary scale ($54,272 to $100,554) is commensurate with experience. Thus, for example, a postdoc with some experience past the doctoral degree could benefit from this flexibility.
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Trials Fusion Awesome Max Edition: A game for everybody and great value for money
Unless you've been hiding under a rock these days, you'll know the Trials games simply by name. If not, they are games which test your skill by making you navigate obstacle courses on a motorbike manipulated only by the rider's posture. Trials Fusion brings the series to the future setting stages in bases and testing facilities with moving platforms and spaceships. It's a cool premise that works and the developers have clearly worked hard to make sure Awesome Max Edition tops them all.
Aside from the base game, Awesome Max Edition crams in all of the season pass DLC including Riders of the Rustlands and Empire of the Sky and the newest content, the Awesome Level Max DLC which features a gun wielding cat riding a fire breathing unicorn, I am not joking. This part of the game is a surreal experience. The Unicorn control just as the bikes do and has its very own adventure mode which is nothing more than a sequence of expertly designed levels. It's a constant assault on the optic nerve and you won't be able to help yourself but laugh every-time you fail. Speaking of failure, you can do so as many times as you want in any of the tracks featured and when it happens, you can restart at a recent checkpoint or start the level over. Restarting from a checkpoint comes with a penalty however which affects your overall score.
The tracks are superbly designed. It's clear a lot of thought and trial and error has gone into them. Some thrilling some test your patience but I can't say I didn't enjoy a single one. Bursting down a huge cliff as you score huge air at the end of a ramp is breath-taking made even more so during the FMX events which require you to perform stunts for points. It's incredibly fun and for the first time in the series multiplayer is here which sees you racing your friends locally or across the wire which makes for a fantastic party game. It was a scream and superbly competitive.
Trials Fusion Awesome Max Edition looks beautiful on the PS4 as the assortment of locales shows off its graphical prowess. Gritty warzones, Star Wars-esque battlegrounds, hidden bases and icy plains are just a few of the environments you'll see here all of which was easy on the eye. Sometimes I was so interested in what was happening in the background, I found myself crashing time and time again, I didn't regret it one bit.
Tonnes of content will keep you playing for some time.
All of the DLC is included.
Futuristic setting works.
Multiplayer is great fun.
Track designs are masterful.
The Awesome Level Max content was surreal but short lived.
The Unicorn riding cat doesn't quite fit in.
Can be frustrating.
Trials Fusion Awesome Max Edition is great value for money. With all DLC's squeezed in there's stacks to keep you playing and every track here is thrilling and testing. Not only that, but they look amazing too. This is a game for everybody.


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January 26, 2009
GrandCentral 2.0, Almost Ready to Be Released
Jeff Huber from Google writes that "a new [GrandCentral] version on new infrastructure will be coming soon" in a comment of a story about a recent certificate error in GrandCentral.
David Pogue adds: "Everyone from GrandCentral still works on GrandCentral, and the 2.0 version is imminent. A PR guy explained to me that it's taken a year to merge the GrandCentral servers with Google's, but they're nearly done."
Jeff Hubert posts an interesting list of acquisitions and the resulting Google products, but the only surprising news is that Zingku, the mobile social network acquired by Google in 2007, was used to create Google FriendConnect:
"Writely + XL2Web + TonicSystems -> Google Docs,
Keyhole -> Google Earth/Maps,
Urchin + MeasureMap -> Google Analytics,
JotSpot -> Google Sites,
Zingku -> Google FriendConnect,
Android -> Android,
DoubleClick -> DoubleClick,
Feedburner -> AdSense for Feeds (in-process);
sorry about Dodgeball".
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Explain "nearly done". I read this earlier today and hope it to be true, but will not be upset if it's not. Hopefully we will see a version with Gmail/Google Contacts integration via a merge tool. One phone number per Google account would be beneficial as well.ReplyDelete
When voicemail shows up in gmail alongside emails and google talk chat sessions, and the contact database is common across all of those, that'll be nice...ReplyDelete
So is it now finally coming to europe?ReplyDelete
w00t, hopefully they release a android g1 app like the existing one!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 1:15 AM
Awesome to hear some news at least.ReplyDelete
I was beginning to worry GrandCentral was gonna go like dodgeball
When can we get it in the UK, this is a great looking package that we would love over hereReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 2:47 AM
Another vote for the UK. Would be awesome!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 3:00 AM
"Sorry about Dodgeball"ReplyDelete
Great news! I hope there is a BlackBerry app coming, as well.ReplyDelete
Awesome! Now...will 2.0 work on the iPhone?! See...it's not out and I'm complaining!ReplyDelete
Love grandcentral and with Vocito it's even more useful. Use it daily.ReplyDelete
We will have to see how it will first be implemented in Spain ( according to http://tinyurl.com/ceaznb ). Then we can maybe hope for some other EU action ... UK would be a good place to continue after Spain.ReplyDelete
Awesome! I am glad it is not cut.ReplyDelete
Cant wait for GC2.0ReplyDelete
This makes my day. Truly.ReplyDelete
Yipee!, I'm one of the lucky few who have a GC and I'm ecstatic about hearing some sort of news.ReplyDelete
It was funny a couple weeks ago when I begged a friend to let me use her GC account for my parents bill collector infested house phone because she doesn't use it and she told me "your crazy..hell no.. GC is like Gold"
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Europe? Grancentral isn't even available in all 50 US states. I hope that changes. I have a GC number, but I never use it because it's not in my area code.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I'm really glad to hear this. I love GrandCentral and depend on it every day.ReplyDelete
I predict it will be ready in the the second quarter of this year because Ribbit's Amphibian service is due to go out of BETA in Q2-2009. Ribbit is a serious competitor to Grand central. It has everything GC has and more.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Fuggin-A it's about time! Seriously though, I am stoked to hear that "the rumors of GrandCentral's death were greatly exaggerated" ;oReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 28, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Seems like along time to merge the servers with Google. It will be interesting how it compares with Ribbit.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2009 at 7:37 AM
I hope GrandCentral improves a lot cause I have tested it a few years ago and it lacked a lot of features.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 6:45 AM
I cant wait for it.ReplyDelete
GrandCentral is one of those web/communication tools that is like nothing else. I love it, been using it for many months. "Never miss a call you want to take; never take a call you want to miss." Life without it would be like life without the web... . I hope 2.0 is even better.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2009 at 9:58 AM
I'm very interested in this. For people using it, is it reliable enough to use for business calls?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Also, can you port your existing number over to Grandcentral?ReplyDelete
I am sooo not holding my breath on this one. They have just sat on this product for years now. Actually, they'll probably release 2.0 and still have no new invites. They seem to be begging someone else to take the market away from them. But then again nothing ever comes out of beta from Google. Come on guys you need actual products these days you can't just run on ego forever!ReplyDelete
Today I had an interesting thing happen on my GC account. I was going to dial out from my GC address book and it said that I didn't have enough credits and asked if I wanted to add some. I declined and clicked again and got the usual response... Could we be going to a paid model. The TOS references payment.ReplyDelete
Anyone else see this?
I haven't heard much about what will actually be in the 2.0.ReplyDelete
I wrote a blog post on what features should be in the next version. There's a survey, so that you can voice your opinion too.
Maybe we can influence what Google does…. maybe. ;-)
@completenut I used to see this all the time, now not so much.ReplyDelete
@anon I've been using it for a loooong time and it's been very reliable.
Gotta admit though, i was really nervous it was gonna die a painful dodgeball death. Now please Google give us text messaging in this bad boy. Thanks!!!
- sharcofJanuary 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM
I am ready for google's new operating system to replace the microsoft vista which has been a big problem in the last two new computers i purchasedReplyDelete


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A public health assessment requested by Lyndhurst Township of the former Penick Corporation/Penco of Lyndhurst site has concluded that the number of all cancers, and in particular the number of multiple myeloma cancer cases, were not significantly elevated from 1990-2008. Multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, was of particular concern to the residents of the Lyndhurst community.
The evaluation also concluded that past exposure to site-related contaminated soil is not expected to have harmed people's health; and that benzene, chloroform and other chemicals detected in the indoor air at four residences in 2009 are not expected to harm people's health. The report indicated that the chemicals found in the air at these residences were likely present from consumer products or other sources.
Additionally, the assessment found that indoor air tests conducted in 1989 near the site for exposure to benzene may have resulted in adverse health effects among individuals at six residences. However, it is not known whether the benzene was related to the site or other sources.
The former Penick Corporation/Penco of Lyndhurst site is located at 540 New York Ave, Lyndhurst Township, Bergen County.
The Public Health Assessment may be viewed at: http://www.state.nj.us/health/eohs/documents/penick_penco_pha.pdf
Lyndhurst's Health Department, in August 2008, requested assistance from DOH to conduct a public health evaluation of community exposure to site-related contamination. Penick Corporation operated the site from 1938 to1986 manufacturing items such as acetaminophen, specialty organic chemicals, and pesticides. In 1986, the property was acquired by Penco of Lyndhurst, which produced acetaminophen and other chemicals until 1993. Several documented chemical discharges to the environment occurred at the site between 1977 and 1983.
On May 9, 1980 a rupture in a 10,000 gallon underground storage tank resulted in a large release of toluene. To address the toluene contamination, a groundwater recovery system was installed in 1982, which contained the contamination beneath the property. In addition to toluene, groundwater was discovered to be contaminated with benzene. Since that time, the site has undergone numerous environmental reviews and investigations to assess potential health impacts on the community.
During the 1990s the entire site was remediated and, beginning in 1999, was redeveloped into a shopping mall, along with other commercial businesses.
The Public Health Assessment recommends that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) should continue remedial investigations and monitoring of contaminant levels in groundwater to ensure that it does not pose a health threat to nearby residents or to employees and consumers who frequent the shopping center located at the former Penick/Penco site. DEP should also continue to monitor the operation and effectiveness of the groundwater remediation system to ensure the contaminated groundwater is not migrating towards nearby residential areas.
The public comment period will be for 30 days from the date of the report release. Comments can be submitted to:
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CRS: THE NICARAGUAN ADJUSTMENT AND CENTRAL AMERICAN RELIEF ACT: HARDSHIP RELIEF AND LONG-TERM UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS, July 15, 1998
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Date: July 15, 1998
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ZTE has put quad-core processors in a smartphone, the Era, and a tablet, the PF100, which were among a plethora of new Android-based smartphones and tablets it launched at Mobile World Congress on Monday.
The ZTE Era runs Android 4.0 and has an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, which is also used in the HTC One X and the LG Optimus 4X HD. However, the version used on the ZTE phone runs at 1.3GHz as opposed to 1.5GHz in the other two models.
The Era is 7.8 millimeters thick, and has a 4.3-inch screen with a resolution of 960 by 540 pixels, compared to the 4.7-inch high-definition screens used by HTC and LG phones.
Other hardware specifications on the Era include 8GB of memory, which can be expanded using a MicroSD card, and an 8-megapixel camera.
This ought to make the ZTE Era cheaper than the competing products, but ZTE isn't ready to talk about price: would-be buyers will have to wait until the second half of 2012 when the product will ship in Europe and China to see if the lower spec is matched by a lower price.
The company wants to compete in the market for high-end tablets and smartphones, and is trying to grab market share from the likes of Samsung Electronics and HTC. It isn't the only Chinese company with that goal: Huawei Technologies has similar plans.
For users that are looking for a tablet powered by Nvidia's Tegra 3 processor, ZTE will be shipping the PF100. In this product the processor runs at 1.5GHz. The tablet has a 10-inch screen with a resolution that was only specified as WXGA. That designation can cover resolutions from 1280 by 720 pixels up to 1366 by 768 or 1280 by 800.
The tablet also has 16GB of memory and two cameras; a 5-megapixel camera on the back and a 2-megapixel camera on the front.
The company didn't announce pricing or a ship date for the tablet.
Just like an announcement on Sunday from Huawei, more competitive high-end products from ZTE should worry the more established vendors, according to market research company CCS Insight.
ZTE also announced a plethora of other Android-based products, including the Mimosa X and the Kis, which both run Android 4.0. The Kis also has a 4.5-inch high-definition screen and supports HSPA+, according to ZTE.
ZTE is still fairly unknown among consumers, but the company was the world's fourth-largest phone vendor by units sold during the fourth quarter, according to Gartner.
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This super hero villain personality test, quiz, survey will help you to see which popular superhero's villain you most resemble. Answer the questions honestly. These villains have been in comic books, movies, and TV shows. DC Comics: The Joker, Catwoman, Lex Luthor, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Riddler, Green Goblin and Two-Face. Marvel Comics: Venom, Magneto, Apocalypse, Juggernaut, Dr. Doom, Mystique, Dark Phoenix and Kingpin. You may ask yourself, "Which Super Villain am I?" Take the quiz to find out the answer.
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Marijuana Use After Surgical and Chemotherapeutic Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme
Dr. Grinspoon,
Thank you sir, for your efforts at righting our society's current wrong. You and I know a benign plant that provides humans with relief in whatever form they find it, should not be demonized, nor illegal.
I'm a 58 year old white male, born and raised in southern California , married father of two college grads, living in the hills above the Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz County . In January of 06 I had my second grand mal seizure, discovery and resection of my Glioblastoma Multiforme brain tumor, and a prognosis for a median life expectancy of 16 months. A clinical trial "IL-13", standard care chemo and radiation, and here I am.
I was 15 yrs. old when a friend presented me with my first opportunity to smoke pot. He and I are still friends, 43 years later, despite living more than 200 miles apart. I attended his 30th wedding anniversary party last year, and have played golf with both he and his sons a couple of times in the last three years. I 'm mentioning this because I want people to understand that lifelong cannabis users are also well adjusted, responsible, loved, loving, happy people.
I wasn't a lifelong user until I developed a medical use, and strangely enough, there are times I'm grateful for my brain tumor, without which I wouldn't be enjoying my daily ritual of getting high. That's right. I am surviving brain cancer. It wasn't until about 30 months after my tumor surgery that I had my first post-diagnosis seizure. I was prescribed Keppra as an anti-seizure medication, with its known side effect of irritability and nickname of Kepprage. I made those discoveries within a couple of weeks of starting the drug. About this same time I learned that cannabis was being used to treat seizures. I've been a daily user ever since, grateful for the compassion existing in enough people to make it legal through Prop.215. I thought it was legal. What do you think? No wonder a side effect of using the plant, for some people some of the time, is self doubt.
With the brain tumor and treatment, etc., I'm now disabled. What a beautiful country. I'd created a comfortable life for myself and family, but clearly am beyond my working life. That kind of mental energy doesn't exist for me anymore. So my life has become that of a gardener/golfer. My gardening provides my medicine, my country provides my financial needs, and my golf provides my exercise, both physical and mental. I shot a 9 over par 80 ten days ago and can still hit the ball pretty well. Being an athletic 6'4'' and 240 toned lbs., people don't recognize my disability at first glance. I was very lucky with the brain I was issued at birth. Granted, it did develop a nasty tumor, but for what it's been through, I'm extremely grateful for what I have and can do. I use it to celebrate life, finding the energy it provides me with allows me to get up and out and involved with my surroundings
I use cannabis to "get back to normal". It makes me feel "right". I've mentioned to some of my older golfing friends that it's the closest thing there is to the Fountain of Youth. It really does make me feel younger and stronger, and I use it when I have a task to perform, or just want to get a good stretching session in. I truly pity those people that have been victimized by the fear mongering "drug war" rhetoric. They are missing out on something the planet provides for our brains. I now consider cannabis, with it's chemical parallel also being produced by the human brain, a healthy choice.
I wake and bake every day. I walk 18 holes of golf several days a week. I announce the action at basketball games for my local high school, the only place where I don't proudly advocate for ending Prohibition. I think it's time we start using the capital P, and get a bit more offense minded. Those of us with the intelligence and experience to know should be fighting harder to end this Prohibition. It is criminal. Only ignorant, not necessarily stupid, people are against the people who've expanded their horizons and learned through personal experience that a little mind altering can be a good thing. Feeling better than you did before you took your medicine is certainly a good thing.
A very important consideration for those of us that know the plant well, is to recognize that some people don't have the kind of brain that can relax and enjoy the effects. Something in these poor people's brains causes them an anxiety that grows until they believe in their cores that there's something wrong with feeling good. Paranoia happens when you believe that others surely must know that you're high, and being high is illegal, and you're going to wind up in a van down by the river. Those of us that have control over our brains don't have such problems. Is it envy that causes people to prefer Prohibition?
I hope this meets with your expectations for a written contribution. Once again, I'm thanking you for lending your voice, face, name and efforts toward ending Prohibition. We're on the right side.
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Sun dogs, or parhelia, are little back-up suns that appear on either side of the sun. They are the Pips to the sun's Gladys, the Lion and the Witch to the sun's Wardrobe, and they look way cooler than rainbows.
What is it that makes these parhelia possible? Only the most badass shape in the whole world: the hexagon. It's the geometric shape that rhymes with sex and means 'an evil spell.' It's balanced, edgy. It's got an angle on everything. It's what the pentagon would have been if the government hadn't been too cheap to add that last wall. There's nothing that the hexagon can't do. When it gets cold enough, hexagons fall from the sky. Literally.
When water freezes it forms hexagonal crystals. Sometimes the crystals are long, pencil-shaped objects, but much of the time they are flat disks. When they fall, the flat side turns parallel to the earth, due to Io9's old friend, the Bernoulli Effect. When the disk tilts so that an edge pushes out, the air around it rushes past faster. This creates a low pressure zone and pulls the crystal's edges out harder, until it is flat-side-down.
This leaves the hexagonal shape of the crystal open to exploitation by miscreant sun beams. Most of us know that certain substances, including ice, can bend light. It's difficult to understand, though, how this would make duplicate suns appear.
Picture someone looking at a regular sunset. It's pretty easy to understand the course of the light. The sun gives off photons in all directions, and some of them travel in a straight line until they hit the the person's eyeball, allowing them to see the image of the sun. Now picture two other people on either side of the original person, about a quarter mile away. They would also get face-fulls of photons, allowing them to see the sun.
The same thing would happen during a cold sunset with ice crystals in the air. Some of the photons would travel in a straight line and hit each person's eyeball letting them see the sun. But they wouldn't get an eyeful all the photons which had originally travelled in that direction. Because of the hexagonal crystals in the air, some of the photons - part of the image of what the two other people would see – would be caught and redirected to the original person's position. They would see images of the sun not just from straight ahead of them, but coming in from either side.
Since the images would be coming from either side of the sun, and we assume from experience that light travels in straight lines, the person would think they were seeing three suns next to each other in the sky.
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Desert Stormfront is a Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game situated in the Middle East. You play on hot desert landscapes for power and oil. Units at your disposal include Humvees, Tanks, Artillery, Mechanics, Helicopters, Planes, Ships and Submarines amongst others. Desert Stormfront supports multiplayer games over LAN and internet including co-op multiplayer.
The game features 30 pre-defined campaign missions where you take command of the Western coalition and fight battles in the Middle East for control of major cities, oil fields and military structures. Nations in play are the USA, England, France, Italy, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan plus a rebel faction.
Desert Stormfront contains a random map generator in addition to the 30 campaign missions. Scenarios include eliminating enemy forces, capturing the flag, defending against incoming troops, convoy missions, sea and air battles as well as tank fights. The game keeps track of high scores and playing statistics.
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Dear Umbra,
Not that I am a big-drinking old lady or anything, but I find myself with a lot of wine corks that I can't find a recycling outlet for. All of my retired farmer friends have made all the cork trivets the neighborhood can stand. What to do with our corks, please?
Marianne de Sobrino
Eureka, Calif.
Dearest Marianne,
Here I go, focusing on the big stuff again. I found your letter charming, and it does bring up a three R's question along the lines of, should we drink less wine in order to Reduce? Is this our moral obligation as environmentalists? I think it cannot be. Renouncing wine would set us against millennia of human culture and history, in effect divorcing ourselves from our ancestors, when the very thing we wish to do is place environmental stewardship within the context of moral human culture.
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Phew, settled that conundrum. Now to the second R: Reusing corks in the form of the infamous hideous trivet, coffee-table top, bulletin board, corn-skewer pincushion, rocking-chair stop, slingshot ammunition, wall-art bumper, potted-plant aerator, child craft project, and buoyant key chain seem to be over in your neighborhood. I got all these ideas off the internet, let me assure you. Except the slingshot one. I also found photos of giant wreaths made from corks. Yuck!
As for the third R, Recycling: A brief reminder that cork wine stoppers can be shredded a little and composted or used for mulch. They are an organic material, aka oak-tree bark, and could take the place of bark mulch if you use it — or any brown, carbonaceous material in your compost pile. That is the only free way to recycle cork in the United States at this time.
In the antipodes, you would not have this dilemma. Australia has cork-recycling schemes, and so does New Zealand. In Canada, the Girl Guides (who I assume are the Canuck Girl Scouts) have cork drives wherein they collect satchels and satchels of corks and sell them to a cork manufacturing plant. It's a fundraiser for the Girl Guides, and based on the little I read seems a healthier fundraiser for all concerned than selling … oh, wait, I'm not meant to talk about health. Anyway, sounds good.
Here in the United States, there is a Missouri company experimenting with cork recycling. Yemm and Hart Green Materials needs 1,200 pounds of cork to process its first batch, which it will make into blocks of cork and slice into thin sheets for resale. So, Marianne, what you can do for your neighborhood is collect everyone's corks and ship them to Yemm and Hart. Not only will this be a great community service, but you will then be put on their list of donors, which you can see on their website. They're tracking the poundage donated, and at last count they had 1,194 pounds. Note: the company will accept wine and champagne corks, but not those newfangled plastic stoppers.
I foresee that someone will write in asking whether plastic stoppers, corks, or screw tops are the best for the environment, and maybe I'll answer that question someday if the letter is charming enough. But right now all I will say on that point is enjoy your wine, and recycle the glass bottle.


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"I didn't see it, because I wasn't expecting it there," might be the more accurate excuse for motorists who have just crashed into a bus or a motorcycle. The mere fact that such vehicles are less common than cars on our roads actually makes it harder for drivers to notice them, says Vanessa Beanland of The Australian National University. Beanland and colleagues conducted research at Monash University on how the so-called "low-prevalence effect" increases the likelihood of accidents. The study is published in Springer's journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
The impact that this low-prevalence effect has on a person's ability to search through static images, such as in airport luggage screening, has been the topic of previous research. However, Beanland's research team is the first to publish results on how it influences people's ability to safely perform dynamic tasks, such as driving.
They used a driving simulator experiment involving 40 adult drivers to investigate whether it is easier for drivers to detect and respond to specific types of vehicles when they occur more frequently in surrounding traffic. The drivers had to detect two types of vehicles: motorcycles and buses. The researchers varied how frequently these vehicles appeared. Half of the subjects were subjected to a high prevalence of motorcycles and a low number of buses, with the other half experiencing the reverse.
Although participants were explicitly instructed to search for both buses and motorcycles, the researchers found that the attention of the observers was biased toward whichever vehicle occurred more frequently during the simulated detection drive. This in turn affected the speed at which drivers were able to detect low-prevalence targets. In the simulated test in which motorcycles occurred more frequently, the car drivers were able to detect them on average from 51 meters farther away than in the tests where they occurred less often. In effect, at a driving speed of 60 km/h, this allowed the drivers an extra 3 seconds to respond. Similarly, drivers had an extra 4.4 seconds to react to buses in situations where they occurred more frequently.
The results suggest that drivers' inability to always notice motorcyclists is partially due to the fact that motorcycles occur relatively rarely on our roads, and that drivers are simply not on the look-out for them. It therefore appears that by increasing the prevalence of a visual search target it is possible to effectively yet temporarily make it stand out better within a specific visual environment.
"Drivers have more difficulty detecting vehicles and hazards that are rare, compared to objects that they see frequently," says Beanland, who believes that the ability to accurately perform visual searches is crucial to ensuring safe driving and avoiding collisions.
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Serve Me Right
The RPM package manager Yum has its own advantages over other tools.
A decade ago, Debian users used to look down on users of Red Hat and other RPM-based distributions. Whereas Debian users had apt-get and dpkg to save them from dependency hell – situations in which software installation is impossible because of an uninstalled library – users of RPM-based distributions had to dig themselves out of dependency hell on their own.
Today, Debian and Ubuntu users have no reason to be so smug. The RPM distros have caught up with the Debian tools and produced several package managers that more or less equal apt-get's functionality.
Of these package managers, the most popular is Yellowdog Updater, Modified, better known as Yum. This rewriting of an earlier package manager for Yellow Dog Linux is now maintained by Seth Vidal, a Red Hat Employee, and used by many of the major RPM distributions, including Fedora, Red Hat, and CentOS.
Just as apt-get in Debian provides users access to the functionality of dpkg, so Yum acts as a wrapper for rpm, the basic command for RPM package management. The main difference is that, whereas dpkg resolves dependency problems on its own, rpm does not. That functionality resides entirely in Yum.
From the user's perspective, this difference is unimportant. Although you can use Yum indirectly from such desktop applications as PackageKit and Yumex, Yum is so well written that you can easily learn to run it directly from the command line.
Learning the Basics
Like apt-get, Yum has a consistent basic format: the basic command (yum), the sub-command (what you are doing), and the packages involved. The main difference is in the list of sub-commands involved. Yum is more organized than apt-get, and some of its sub-commands provide functionality that with apt-get reside in a related utility, such as apt-cache.
The sub-command that you will probably use most often is install. For instance, if you plan to install the Book typeface for the free Gentium font, the basic command in Fedora would be
yum install sil-gentium-basic-book-fonts
much as it would be with apt-get (although the exact package name might differ).
However, Yum is somewhat more verbose than apt-get in offering feedback (Figure 1). It begins by listing which plugins are installed for Yum, then it calculates which packages need to be updated and which dependencies the requested package needs. For instance, if you decided to install Gentium Book, Yum would note that it requires the package sil-gentium-basic-fonts-common, which is needed with any weight of Gentium that you install.
Finally, Yum notes whether all dependencies are available and presents everything that needs to be installed in a table. This table is followed by a second that lists the transactions (i.e., steps) needed to complete the installation and the total amount of hard disk space required. Only then does Yum offer you a choice of whether to continue or halt installation.
Once you press y (for "yes") to continue the installation process, Yum begins to download the necessary packages, showing the progress of each download and of the overall process. After the downloads are complete, Yum installs each package and summarizes what it has done (a useful step, in that the original information might easily have scrolled out of sight). If it is successful, a succinct Complete! displays just before Yum exits (Figure 2).
With apt-get, you would use dpkg to install a package you had downloaded to a Debian system; however, with Yum you would simply use the localinstall sub-command and not have to switch basic commands.
To install a newer version of a package, you can also use install, but a better choice is the upgrade sub-command because it can handle the removal of any obsolete packages – an ability that is especially useful when you are switching from one version of a distribution to another. For the same result, you can use yum update --obsoletes. If you are cautious, you might prefer to use the check-update sub-command to see what is available before actually installing anything. Or, you might prefer to specify particular packages to upgrade instead.
To upgrade local packages, the sub-command is localupdate. To uninstall, use the remove sub-command.
All of these basic sub-commands are available for use on multiple packages. The simplest way to handle multiple packages is to enter a space between them at the end of the command. Alternatively, you might want to use regular expressions, although generally you should use the search sub-command first to see which packages will be affected.
Some Yum repositories organize packages into groups. For example, in Fedora 11, the package groups include Games, KDE Desktop, and Publishing. These groups serve much the same function as meta-packages on Debian systems, allowing you to install multiple packages without having to remember them or edit them separately. Groups have a series of special sub-commands that include groupinstall, groupupdate, and groupremove, followed by the name of the group. For example, yum groupinstall publishing would add all the files in the publishing group to your system.
Information Sub-Commands
Besides to these basic sub-commands, Yum also includes several that provide information or help you to maintain your system.
The most basic sub-command, list, is completed by self-explanatory descriptions of the information you want. For instance, the command yum list installed displays a compete list of installed packages. Similarly, yum list available lists all the packages in all repositories, and yum list updates lists all available updates. Other, more specific, descriptions include extras, which lists packages on your system that are not listed in enabled repositories, and recent, which lists the latest updates in the repositories.
When you want more specific information about a package, the sub-command to use is info, followed by the package name. The info command provides basic information about the package: its architecture; its version number and release; whether it is installed or, if not, what repository it is in; its license; and its homepage (Figure 3). Also, you will receive a single-sentence summary and a slightly longer description. The sub-command groupinfo provides similar information for package groups.
A rarer, but occasionally useful, sub-command is provides. With the provides command, you can find which package includes a particular file or feature (Figure 4). For example, in Fedora 11, the command yum list provides firefox returns exactly which package version is available or installed as well as the versions found in the repositories.
Another means of tracing references to a specific package is the search sub-command. This function will locate all packages and dependencies related to the search term, followed by a brief description. Similar to apt-cache on Debian systems, search can be useful for finding packages when you lack an exact name or are reasonably sure that a function must be available somewhere.
All these information sub-commands frequently give dozens, even hundred of lines of output. For this reason, consider piping them through the less command so that you can scroll through at your leisure. For example, with yum list obsoletes | less, you can browse a list of the installed packages that are made obsolete by packages in the repositories.
Maintenance Sub-Commands
Yum sub-commands also include a series of utilities to help you maintain and troubleshoot your system. For instance, yum makecache downloads the information for all packages in all enabled repositories, which you can use if the information is corrupted or if you have recently changed repositories. Similarly, for the rare time that dependency problems suddenly emerge, yum resolvedep can tell you which packages provide a missing dependency.
A particularly powerful maintenance tool is clean, which, like list, is completed by a description of the information source that you want to remove. However, with the exception of the command yum clean packages, which removes packages that were downloaded but not installed, using clean is an act of desperation.
Running clean followed by any other option – expire-cache, headers, meta-data, dbcache, or all – removes information that Yum requires to operate. The next time you start Yum after running clean with these completions, Yum will rebuild what was deleted, but it could take as long as 20 minutes to do so, depending on your machine. For this reason, you should only run the clean sub-command when you are having trouble with Yum and all other means of troubleshooting have failed. Unlike apt-get's clean and autoclean, Yum's clean is not for routine maintenance, but for major problems, and you will only inconvenience yourself if you run it casually.
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And, speaking of U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SPECWAR) assaulters/operators and their combat equipment, we should probably mention the Walther PPS single-stack, striker-fired 9mm compact/sub-compact semi-auto pistol. Now, this might seem like a bit of a non-sequitur, but it's not. While I was on business trip late last year, we ended up having dinner with one of our U.S. Naval SPECWAR contacts, and he told me that he and his SEAL teammates were carrying Walther PPS 9mm (9x19mm NATO) pistols for CCW (concealed carry) and covert missions/operations, and really liked them. When he told me that, the PPS, which stands for "Police Pistol Slim" by the way, seemed like a kind of non-sequitur weapon choice. To be honest, I really hadn't thought about Walther pistols for a long time, and never would have guessed that the U.S. Navy SEALs would pick a Walther product over Glock, Smith & Wesson (S&W) M&P, Heckler & Koch (HK), SIG SAUER, and/or Springfield Armory pistols. It just seemed like an out-of-left-field choice. However, our contact explained to me that the Walther PPS is a great little concealed carry pistol with nice handling and shooting qualities–and it's reliable. Its slim profile and lightweight aspect are also ideal for CCW/covert carry.
DefenseReview (DR) has yet to T&E a Walther PPS 9mm pistol at the range, but while we were at NDIA Joint Armaments Conference 2012 last month (May 2012), got a chance to handle the Smith & Wesson (S&W) M&P SHIELD compact/sub-compact single-stack 9mm pistol, and that gun looked and felt really good in our hands. So, we asked one of the S&W representatives at the booth about his preference between the two pistols, since S&W also distributes the Walther PPS. He pointed out that while he likes both pistols and thinks both are excellent, the S&W M&P SHIELD pistol is a more recent design and a simpler design in the sense that it utilizes less parts than the PPS, so if he had to choose, he would go with the SHIELD. DR should note that we haven't yet T&E'd a SHIELD pistol at the range, either.
It should be noted that the S&W M&P SHIELD 9mm pistol most likely wasn't available (or known about) when the SEALs chose the Walther PPS 9mm pistol, so it would be interesting to see which one they prefer now in a side-by-side shooting/torture test.
The following information on the Walther PPS pistol comes directly from the Smith & Wesson (S&W)/Walther America website:
"Walther PPS – More Conceal, Less Carry
The Walther Police Pistol Slim (PPS) model narrows the margin between concealment and confidence by packing Walther innovation into an unbelievable 1.04 inch profile. It's amazing how much professional-grade design actually fits into this lightweight sub-compact. Available in either 9mm or .40S&W, the PPS packs in more power. All in all, the PPS embodies both the legendary quality and tradition of innovation that make it not just a great pistol — but a great Walther pistol.
PPS Power – Small Frame, Large Caliber
In 9mm or .40S&W, the PPS has several notable features aimed at better fit and safe performance in its narrow dimensions. From your choice of perfect-fitting backstrap (small or large) to our patented QuickSafe™ innovation, no one packs in the power and features like Walther:
– 9mm Parabellum / 9x19mm NATO Caliber
– Ambidextrous Magazine Release
– Includes 2 Magazines
– Loaded Chamber & Cocking Indicators
– Small & Large Backstrap
– Trigger Safety
– Internal Striker Safety
– Walther QuickSafe™ Safety
Two 7-Round Magazines Included (6 and 8 Round Mags Available for purchase)
PPS Attraction – Flat Out Better Features
Walther QuickSafe™
Simply remove the QuickSafe™ backstrap — without it the pistol cannot be fired. Walther QuickSafe™ is maximum security made easy."
Suggested MSRP on the PPS is $599.00 USD.
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Beijing is a city rich in culture, but its history is threatened by modernization
Traditional courtyard housing is being demolished, but you can still find it if you look
Caochangdi is an urban art village started by artist Ai Weiwei
Real Beijing can be found in countless parks where locals gather to dance
Beijing is a city where history and culture are almost tangible. They sprout, grow and bloom in unexpected places, around glittering new skyscrapers, in subway tunnels and in parks. And yet, despite their prevalence, history and culture in Beijing always seem to be teetering on the verge of extinction.
No doubt, the Chinese capital has its iconic landmarks that have been around for centuries and will likely endure for centuries to come. There is the Forbidden City, which is the ancient imperial palace where dozens of Chinese emperors ruled the country for 500 years. There is also the Summer Palace, a massive imperial garden built in the 18th century that is on the outskirts of the city. And outside of Beijing, there is, of course, the Great Wall of China.
Tourists flock to these landmarks to get a glimpse of the city's ancient imperial past. Yet, the problem for many other places that are emblematic of an old Beijing is that, in 21st-century China, they are caught in the middle of a collision between history and modernity. In most cases, modernity prevails.
Countless "hutong," as Beijing's traditional courtyard housing is called, have been knocked down and replaced by skyscrapers, shopping malls and apartment buildings.
In Qianmen, a district south of Tiananmen Square once home to Qing Dynasty scholars and opera singers, old hutong were demolished and replaced by renovated hutong that now house stores ranging from Starbucks to Zara.
Yet, visitors to Beijing do not have to go too far off the beaten path to find dingy alleyways lined by what remains of the old courtyard homes that exist in clusters, like islands on the verge of being swallowed by the tidal wave of new China. Further north of Qianmen is a neighborhood called Gulou that is home to the historic Drum and Bell Towers, which have helped Beijing mark the time of day for centuries.
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The fate of the hutong in this area remains uncertain. Some have been destroyed. Yet for those that are left standing, there is a charm that endures. Numerous cafes, boutiques and galleries are hidden along the narrow lanes.
Peter Tan operates a coffee shop called Kaffa Cafe in a hutong called Guowang. Across the street from Tan's store is the hutong of a family that has lived there for three generations. Tan says he knows other families who have lived in the neighborhood for even longer. He adds that his neighborhood, and many others around him, are popular spots for travelers looking for a less-commercialized side of the city.
Tan says that the destruction of the old neighborhoods reduces Beijing into city that is "just like anywhere in the world."
About a 10-minute walk from Kaffa Cafe is the Bamboo Garden Hotel, which is located in courtyard homes that were once the residences of the postmaster general of the late Qing Dynasty. There are numerous other hutong that have been converted into hotels, offering travelers an authentic alternative to the dozens of international hotels throughout the city.
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Further outside of Beijing, situated on a broad tract of land that was once the grazing grounds for the imperial stables, is Caochangdi, an urban art village that also has an uncertain future. The village was started about a decade ago by Ai Weiwei, the now globally famous contemporary and controversial Chinese artist who was recently arrested, and later released, by the Chinese government.
In 2010, artists and gallery owners in Caoghangdi received official notices from the local government that their studios were on a demolition list.
Two years later, nothing has happened, and Caochangdi is flourishing. Caochangdi PhotoSpring, the village's annual photo exhibition held every April, now attracts photographers and tourists from around China and from around the world, while more artists are moving to the area from 798, another nearby art district, because Caochangdi is considered less commercial and more conducive to creative work.
Aside from occasional Ai Weiwei spottings (the artist still uses his studio in the village), other notable artists have studios interspersed between housing units mostly occupied by migrant workers and their families. The artists include Mo Yi, a Chinese artist from Tibet who once played professional soccer and now is known for his installations, performance art and photography both at home and abroad, and Wu Wenguang, an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker.
While Caochangdi is more rugged than the 798 Art Zone, which attracts thousands of tourists annually, it is becoming an increasingly popular destination for travelers seeking a glimpse of China's burgeoning contemporary art scene. It takes around four hours to walk around the dozens of galleries that occupy the grounds.
Some notable places to visit include F2 Gallery, which houses work from both Western and Chinese contemporary artists, as well as Galerie Urs Meile, which is housed in a complex designed by Ai Weiwei, and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.
Despite Caochangdi's rise, there are still worries that one day that bulldozers might arrive and that it could fall.
"The people who live and work out in Caochangdi and the art community are optimistic about it and want it to be preserved and to be around," said Jillian Schultz, international program manager for Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, in Caochangdi. "But it is beyond our control."
Everyday in a park in western Beijing called Purple Bamboo (in Chinese its name is Zizhuyuan) groups of Chinese gather who are intimately aware of cultural loss that is beyond their control.
They are mostly retired and in their 50s and 60s, generations whose coming-of-age experience was during the Cultural Revolution, a traumatic and complicated period in Chinese history when all things cultural, from art to dance to music to literature, were all but erased from society from the mid-1960s until the mid-1970s.
In Purple Bamboo and in parks across Beijing these groups gather together to dance the tango, the waltz, the cha cha cha, the foxtrot, mambo and salsa. In all corners of the park loud speakers can be found blaring music while couples, groups, individuals simply dance.
The dancers are perhaps one of Beijing's most charming, and undiscovered, tourist attractions. They are not hard to find, and they are worth watching because they prove that culture in China's capital is, above all, resilient.
"Before 1980, no Chinese knew how to dance," said a man whose last name is Li (he declined to provide his first name) who stood on the sidelines of around a dozen couples dancing under snow-covered trees on a recent morning in Purple Bamboo. "They come here to dance because it makes them happy."


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We visited Escalante in 2001. We liked it. So we did it again, this time with kids! 5400km of driving, 60km+ of hiking. 5 slot canyons and a tour of Coyote Gulch. We visited the Glen Canyon Dam and the Bonneville Salt Flats. It was a 10 day tour de force.Read More


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What a GREAT!!! dinner. THANKS!!! GeriReplyDelete
Gosh these look good!ReplyDelete
Yum...now this really looks delicious!ReplyDelete
I had never heard of snake bites but they sound spicy and great! I bet they'd make good little appetizer bites.ReplyDelete
I was anxious to see what snake bites were-These sound great and pretty easy--sounds like the hardest part is cleaning the skillet. Thanks so much for putting my button up--I really appreciate it!!ReplyDelete
Lip smacking delicious! I do the same thing with my cast iron skillet.ReplyDelete
Hi LoriReplyDelete
now that is so simple, it is good to have these reminders to prompt us to prepare things we might have forgotten about...
and also this perks up chicken nicely...It can get a bit boring...
To serve this chilli chicken may I suggest some sliced fresh mango as an accompaniment...
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Interesting recipe and I'm sure Mr. Tastebuds would love it. I might make some Snake Bites for this Sundays football game!ReplyDelete
I have one cast iron pan and I've never heard about cleaning it with salt. Thanks so much for this info..salt here I come!
That looks delicious but I'd have to make it a little less "hot"!! I like how you actually showed how to clean the cast iron pan.ReplyDelete
Snake bites, huh? I would be adding my New Mexico red chile powder, that's for sure! Think I'll have to do this over the weekend. I have to use my cast iron skillet on the grill- my smooth top cooktop doesn't quite cut it for this skillet. hmmm... may have to season it up a little- it's been a while since I've cooked in it. Ethel has been too busy doing other things, like sneaking over to the neighbor's yard to cut their ornamental grasses for her fall arrangements. In fact, Ethel might be enlisting HER local Lucy to accompany her tomorrow nite to get more. Lucy can hold the flashlight while Ethel uses the pruners...ReplyDelete
This look fabulous. What you called 'cilantro' on your chicken to serve, looks like what we call coriander - is it the same stuff?ReplyDelete
What a great name for this recepi! I have never heard of it. It sounds yummie! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
I clean my skillet in the same way. I've never made rattlesnake bites but I'll remedy that really soon. I hope you are having a wonderful day.ReplyDelete
Yummy recipe. I love recipes with unusual names :) You're right about the salt for cleaning cast iron pots....the best!ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
I have heard of these but never tried them. They sound delish albeit hot! Yes, cast iron pans are great. I am sorry that I donated mine when I moved--no room in this kitchen for anything but the basics.ReplyDelete
Can I come for dinner!? These look AMAZING! *drool*ReplyDelete
Is this the Leah I think it is? Of course you can darlin but that was from earlier this week. How is school going?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Hmmmm... think I better follow your blog a bit. We have 2 things in common: cooking "rattlesnake" (only I cook the real thing) and I love, love, love genealogy.ReplyDelete
I'll be back!
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Hi Lori,ReplyDelete
Well I FINALLY got myself a cast iron pan and am going to try your recipe tonight. Will let you know how it turns out!!
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. I appreciate every one of them and respond to all.


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In a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bravo reality star Bethenny Frankel openly admits that having a baby and getting married to Jason Hoppy has been good for her brands, which now includes two Bravo reality shows, a Skinnygirl Margarita mix, endorsement deals with Bluefly and British Airways, and several best-selling books.
"I'm not stupid," Bethenny says. "This is about the husband and the baby." According to the WSJ article, Bethenny can also add an endorsement for Pampers to her long list of endorsements as Procter & Gamble came calling following the birth of now 6-month old baby Bryn Hoppy.
Bethenny is even gearing up to add more to her brands as she is also working on some skin care products and a shapewear line. "It's about allowing people into my fishbowl in order to be successful," says Bethenny of her success on and off the TV screen.
"Our clients are very taken with her right now. Bethenny has entered into the mommy world and she hasn't posed for Playboy," says Amia French, a talent coordinator for Platinum Rye Entertainment, which helps corporations pair with celebrities. "Motherhood has only increased her value with us," adds Geri Allen, a spokeswoman for Campbell Soup Co.'s Pepperidge Farm unit, which also has a promotional agreement with Bethenny.
Bethenny has without a doubt come a long way since her days on Martha Stewart's The Apprentice back in 2005. She finished runner-up by the way. Since then, she has appeared on 3 seasons of Bravo's the Real Housewives of New York City before ultimately getting her own spin-off show Bethenny Getting Married following the announcement of her engagement and pregnancy.
The WSJ article also mentions that season 2 of BGM will be returning in February. The new title? "Bethenny Ever After."
Despite her success and growing number of business endeavors, Bethenny makes it clear there's still something she would like to have. Her own talk show that is. "I want to have a dialogue with my fans, and right now the only dialogue I can have is in 140-characters," she says, referring to her Twitter feed.
While everything Bethenny touches seems to turn to gold, her decision to appear on ABC's Skating With The Stars might turn out to be her biggest failure yet. The ratings for the show came out yesterday and it can only be described as disastrous. Despite having a lead-in from the most popular show on TV at the moment, Skating With The Stars only managed 11.3 million viewers. A drastic drop from the 23.3 million viewers that tuned in for Dancing With The Stars just moments before.
It gets even worse as only 6.91 million viewers tuned in for the last hour of the show's premiere. There are now rumblings that ABC is currently in panic mode.


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(SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL) A communication professor known for conspiracy theories has stirred controversary at Florida Atlantic Universitywith claims that last month's Newtown, Conn., school shootings did not happen as reported — or may not have happened at all.
Moreover, James Tracy asserts in radio interviews and on his memoryholeblog.com. that trained "crisis actors" may have been employed by the Obama administration in an effort to shape public opinion in favor of the event's true purpose: gun control.
"As documents relating to the Sandy Hook shootingcontinue to be assessed and interpreted by independent researchers, there is a growing awareness that the media coverage of the massacre of 26 children and adults was intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends," writes Tracy, a tenured associate professor of media history at FAU and a former union leader.
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The Wall Street Journal reports today on TV networks and studios currying favor with bloggers. Blogola, they call it. Back when I was a TV critic, I never went on the network junkets; I wanted to be just another member of the audience and not get starstruck; when I started Entertainment Weekly, in my brief reign, I wouldn't allow TV critics to write features about the stars they criticized. But, Lord knows, times have changed. Critics matter less. Shows are smaller. Bloggers are, truly, just viewers and fans: real people. So who's going to pass up a chance to hobnob with a star and take home some TV schwag? All this also indicates that mass TV continues to fade as even the networks realize they are selling to niches.
Speaking of shrinking TV, note that NBC — which last season essentially surrendered the 8 o'clock hour to reality junk rather than producing fictional and comedy TV — now continues to skulk:
NBC made it own schedule public yesterday, and it was, by its executive's admission, a conservative lineup with only four new hours set for the fall. Kevin Reilly, the president of NBC Entertainment, said that adding more new series now was unwise because it is so difficult to market new shows in the fall.
Yes, you can only bribe so many bloggers and that takes you only so far.


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March 6, 2016
A busker plucks at an upright bass at the Buskers' Last Stand after the final True/False 2016 movie in the Missouri Theatre.
February 28, 2016
A cocktail shaker, jigger and barspoon are the signature tools of a bartender, used for making many different kinds of delicious drinks. I spent time working in the MU Photo Studio on an assignment to practice photographing metal and glass subjects.
January 27, 2016
I was walking to a class on the Qur'an this afternoon when I passed by the mosque, and like almost always, stopped to grab a photo. I loved the person passing by at the right time, and the steam rising from the power plant in the back. I was particularly less thrilled by this big pentagonal lens flare I got stuck with. Stupid physics.
January 19, 2016
The snow came billowing in this morning and afternoon, just enough for them to cancel classes at the end of the night, after most had left anyways. The periodic flurries were a wonder to photograph, and I spent almost all my time between classes running around in the cold photographing people and the streets of downtown. Most of my friends found the situation much less ideal though and I was alone in my excitement.
January 17, 2016
A friend came over to smoke cigars and watch Critical Role in the down time between Dungeons and Dragons games. He was happy to have some camaraderie while he puffed away on a "reject" cigar that he had bought.
January 10, 2016
With our one brief flurry of snow, Gunpowder Gertie went out onto the deck to explore and see what she could find. She couldn't seem to make up her mind about the snow and after a little while came back inside to warm up, tracking little bits of ice in with her.
January 9, 2016
The snow finally arrived, and I took my new 5D out for a test spin in the cold weather. It didn't have any problems whatsoever, but my lack of a beanie or other cold-weather headgear was pretty rough. Not much snow fell but there was enough to make it fun to photograph.
January 7, 2016
Oklahoma is mostly a pretty boring place to just drive through, though if I had more time I always see things I want to stop and check out. Like this old building I drove by.
Max pours espresso over foamed milk at Filter(ed) in McKinney, Texas. Max is an experienced barista and die-hard coffee enthusiast who brings passionate enthusiasm for his coffee to the counter every time I have visited.
January 5, 2016
Onwards I move, getting a late start in the afternoon and cruising through Oklahoma as the sun started to get lower in the sky. I made it into McKinney, Texas after the sun had set, but got to enjoy the Oklahoma sights beforehand.
January 4, 2016
Left home for a brief, whirlwind road-trip, first stop: Fayetteville, Arkansas. Cruising in late at night I met up with my friends, one of whom was kind enough to lend me a couch to sleep on. They also took me around to see the sights as it were, which was mostly the lights of town from up on Mount Sequoyah, where you can ee them now pointing out the different parts of town below.
December 30, 2015
Went out partying with friends the night before New Years Eve, since I would be spending New Year's Eve itself bartending. While out dancing with a friend I got a photo of her in a hat she stole from my roommate. And then I left to go and rest up for the New Year's Festivities.
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December 25, 2015
Out on the sands of Big River Beach by Mendocino, leftover puddles from the rain reflect the clouds above on a warm and beautiful day. In the distance other visitors relax closer to the water.
November 26, 2015
My superstar sister and I hit the slopes together, along with our uncle, before the thanksgiving ritual commenced. We got off the mountain with a very, very healthy appetite, just about in time for dinner to be served.
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November 25, 2015
Spent the last few days wandering about Santa Fe, exploring shops and art galleries and waiting for clouds to roll in to really complete the perfect Southwestern sunsets. More photos should be coming soon, especially of my familial partner-in-crime.
November 21, 2015
Tali Soroker monkeys her way onto the entry sign at the New Mexico-Oklahoma border. The two of us spent almost two days crossing from KCI airport to Santa Fe.
November 20, 2015
The sun sets in front of large shipping trucks, deep in the heart of Kansas. The start of my road trip down to New Mexico got off to a spectacular start, with a phenomenal show for the first few hours, until darkness finally set in.
November 19, 2015
A woman walks in front of the Islamic Center of Central Missouri as the sun sets behind incoming clouds, during the evening of November 11, 2015.
November 11, 2015
The clouds came racing in from the west as the sun was starting to set. Just out of town the virga was obscuring the sunset, threatening to drench the city. For a few brief moments though, the wind gusted and the fallen leaves tore across the sidewalks and blew into the sky as the last puffs before the storm fled to the east.
November 7, 2015
Chris Debrodie, DJ Jailbreak, works to get the dance floor going at Deja Vu Comedy Club Saturday November 7, 2015. Debrodie plays from a neon-lit booth above the dance floor, that he does his best to populate with people coming down from the upstairs comedy show.
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October 22, 2015
Got a good learning experience with a local graduate student to explore the MKT trail at night and try a hand at shooting star photography. The trail was really cool, and there were many very interesting things to shoot, especially the other photographers.
September 17, 2015
Heading to the Mosque later today, going to be visiting with other Geography of the Middle East students. The other day, while walking by, I got a chance to see the sun rising on the minaret, lighting it up.
September 1, 2015
While studying Geography of the Middle East, I got to meet the lizards of Professor Joseph Hobbs. Above is a veiled chameleon from Yemen, Below is a Bearded Dragon, not native to the Middle East but which also showcases desert adaptations including the ability to absorb water through the skin.
August 29, 2015
Went into the International Taphouse for a few beers with my roommate. Got to enjoy some of New Belgium's more exclusive beer during a tap takeover, I particularly enjoyed the Oscar Worthy Coffee Ale.
A few others showed up later, including two little nuggets who kept company with the roomie while their mother went inside for a beer of her own.
January 16, 2015
I went for a walk to find that the creek was all frozen. Totally delightful to go play on and find things to photograph.
January 2, 2015
Went out for a walk today, heading into town to return a library book, and dragging a friend along through the freezing winds. She was not amused, though I was. Sadly this is not a shot from around here, but back in Mendocino where there is still green and frost is just a little gem found in early morning shadows.
December 29, 2014
Back in Missouri for the New Year, left California by San Francisco in the morning, just as the sun was coming up. Getting totally excited for 2015, its gonna be a good year!
December 26, 2014
Left the mountains for the beach, out at Mendocino, California. A spectacular high tide event that pushed the water in further than usual made for excellent waves, and digging an old Tamron lens out of the attic was an excellent way of mixing it up for the walk along the cliffs.
December 18, 2014
Went to a bonfire to celebrate the end of the semester, were we burned plenty of junk mail and old school papers. The ground was wet and it took us a little while but it burnt well enough with a bit of work.
It was rather cathartic to watch the fire, though taking pictures on the cold ground got very unpleasant. Plenty of lewd comments were made about me warming my posterior practically in the fire itself. The night wound down too quickly, partly because for me the semester was not yet over, and before everyone had even arrived the fire was out and we had scattered.
More snow arrived last night, and while it is now melting away, this morning there were nice flurries to freeze in while I ran around taking pictures.
While I walked around campus, the big fat flakes came drifting down and made everything so wonderfully still and quiet and atmospheric, I think anyways as I had headphones in and was listening to music.
It was a ton of fun to relax in the snow before my Arabic final, a fate that otherwise would have me looking like this unfortunate soul who must be off to his own scholarly demise.
December 8, 2014
I went exploring down a new part of the MKT trail, while waiting for a class to start. The weather has been nice and not too cold so I headed off into the woods to a little wooden bridge. Right before I got to it, there was this smaller little path off down to the creek that the bridge ran over.
Down in the creek I had to hopscotch carefully over the rocks to try and get to angles that weren't littered with trash. The area here is too close to a main road, and plastic cups and bags and cigarettes were liberally sprinkled throughout.
November 25, 2014
So I finally got home and had a chance to edit some of the more complicated shots from Monument Valley. Taken right as the sun was coming up, I got a few of these, maybe more will make appearances later. It was a little hard to see exactly what I was getting always, as I kept running inside to warm up, even though I was healthily bundled.
November 16, 2014
While I was entrenched in my apartment writing a letter to a dear friend, a dusting of snow came down, I was lucky that another buddy was kind enough to alert me to this with excited hysterics over facebook. I bundled up and headed out into the not-so-thick flurries.
I went exploring in the nearby park, just down the hill. While I was there the snow started to peter off and by the time I was in the trees it was in its last little puff before the clouds blew away.
Definitely loved the walk, though some of my friends in the area were less than amused by the meteorological turn of events. I guess its not for everyone.
November 12, 2014
Well everything is cold now, and all the trees are dropping their leaves like its going out of style. While they do everybody is bundling up. Standing in line at the store, five people in a row were there to buy gloves, and judging by the clerks banter they weren't the only ones.
November 11, 2014
Well the cold weather finally arrived this morning, and everything dropped a good 20°F into the wonderful range just below freezing. Walking to a friends house to make pancakes this morning I could smell the fresh crisp smell of the cold.
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Nez Perce tribal officer charged in shooting
A Nez Perce tribal police officer is charged with voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon in the November 2011 shooting death of a man after a highway chase in northern Idaho.
The Lewiston Tribune reports Lewis County prosecutors filed the charge Thursday against 31-year-old Robert S. Wall in the death of 46-year-old Jeffrey A. Flinn of Lewiston.
Prosecutors say Flinn led officers on a pursuit in a stolen truck until spike strips flattened the tires. Flinn stopped near Ferdinand and was shot.
Another tribal police officer is charged with lying to FBI investigators. The indictment alleges the officer knew that Flinn got out of the truck and "stood facing law enforcement officers with his hands in the air for three to five seconds before he was shot and killed."


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February 18, 2013
State and local government policy expert to serve as distinguished lecturer on Feb. 25
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A professor from Texas A&M University will visit Kansas State University to share her expertise in state and local government.
K-State's office of advancement for women in science and engineering has named Ann Bowman the program's upcoming distinguished lecturer. Bowman is a professor and Hazel Davis and Robert Kennedy endowed chair in government and public dervice at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M.
Bowman will give her speech "The State-Local Government Power Differential" at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 25, in Town Hall at the Leadership Studies Building.
Bowman specializes in state and local politics and management, public policy — especially the substantive areas of environment, economic development and land use — and intergovernmental relations.
The professor has published articles in various scholarly journals, including State and Local Government Review, American Politics Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly and Social Science Quarterly. Recent books include the eighth edition of "State and Local Government" and "Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies."
Bowman is currently a member of the editorial boards of State Politics and Policy Quarterly and State and Local Government Review, the Advisory Council of Publius: The Journal of Federalism, is vice president of the Southern Political Science Association, and chair of the American Society of Public Service's Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations section.


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