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THERE was in Ithaka a common beggar; he was a most greedy fellow, and he was nicknamed Irus because he used to run errands for the servants of Odysseus house. He came in the evening, and seeing a seeming beggar seated on the threshold, he flew into a rage and shouted at him:
Get away from here, old fellow, lest you be dragged away by the hand or foot. Look you! The lords within the house are giving me the wink to turn you out. But I cant demean myself by touching the like of you. Get up now and go while Im easy with you.
Odysseus looked at the fellow and said, I have not harmed you in deed or word, and I do not grudge you anything of what you may get in this house. The threshold I sit on is wide enough for two of us.
What words this fellow has! said Irus the beggar. He talks like an old sit-by-the-fire. Ill not waste more words on him. Get up now, heavy paunch, and strip for the fight, for Im going to show all the lords that I can keep the door for them.
Do not provoke me, said Odysseus. Old as I seem, I may be able to draw your blood.
But Irus kept on shouting, Ill knock the teeth out of your jaws. Ill trounce you. Antinous, the most insolent of the wooers, saw the squabble, and he laughed to see the pair defying each other. Friends, said he, the gods are good to us, and dont fail to send us amusement. The strange beggar and our own Irus are threatening each other. Let us see that they dont draw back from the fight. Let us match one against the other.
ALL the wooers trooped to the threshold and stood round the ragged men. Antinous thought of something to make the game more merry. There are two great puddings in the larder, he said. Let us offer them for a prize to these pugilists. Come, Irus. Come, stranger. A choice of puddings for whichever of you wins the match. Aye, and more than that. Whoever wins shall have leave to eat every day in this hall, and no other beggar shall be let come near the house. Go to it now, ye mighty men. All the wooers crowded round and clapped the men on to the fight.
Odysseus said, Friends, an old man like me cannot fight one who is younger and abler.
But they cried to him, Go on, go on. Get into the fight or else take stripes upon your body.
Then said Odysseus, Swear to me, all of you, that none of you will show favour to Irus nor deal me a foul blow.
All the wooers cried out that none would favour Irus or deal his opponent a foul blow. And Telemachus, who was there, said, The man who strikes thee, stranger, will have to take reckoning from me.
Straightway Odysseus girt up his rags. When his great arms and shoulders and thighs were seen, the wooers were amazed and Irus was frightened. He would have slipped away if Antinous had not caught him and said to him, You lubber, you! If you do not stand up before this man I will have you flung on my ship and sent over to King Echetus, who will cut off your nose and ears and give your flesh to his dogs to eat. He took hold of Irus and dragged him into the ring.
The fighters faced each other. But Odysseus with his hands upraised stood for long without striking, for he was pondering whethering he should strike Irus a hard or a light blow. It seemed to him better to strike him lightly, so that his strength should not be made a matter for the wooers to note and wonder at. Irus struck first. He struck Odysseus on the shoulder. Then Odysseus aimed a blow at his neck, just below the ear, and the beggar fell to the ground, with the blood gushing from his mouth and nose.
The wooers were not sorry for Irus. They laughed until they were ready to fall backwards. Then Odysseus seized Irus by the feet, and dragged him out of the house, and to the gate of the courtyard. He lifted him up and put him standing against the wall. Placing the staff in the beggars hands, he said, Sit there, and scarce off the dogs and swine, and do not let such a one as you lord it over strangers. A worse thing might have befallen you.
Then back he went to the hall, with his beggars bag on his shoulder and his clothes more ragged than ever. Back he went, and when the wooers saw him they burst into peals of laughter and shouted out:
May Zeus, O stranger, give thee thy dearest wish and thy hearts desire. Thou only shalt be beggar in Ithaka. They laughed and laughed again when Antinous brought out the great pudding that was the prize. Odysseus took it from him. And another of the wooers pledged him in a golden cup, saying, May you come to your own, O beggar, and may happiness be yours in time to come.
While these things were happening, the wife of Odysseus, the lady Penelope, called to Eurycleia, and said, This evening I will go into the hall of our house and speak to my son, Telemachus. Bid my two handmaidens make ready to come with me, for I shrink from going amongst the wooers alone.
Eurycleia went to tell the handmaidens and Penelope washed off her cheeks the traces of the tears that she had wept that day. Then she sat down to wait for the handmaidens to come to her. As she waited she fell into a deep sleep. And as she slept, the goddess Pallas Athene bathed her face in the Water of Beauty and took all weariness away from her body, and restored all her youthfulness to her. The sound of the handmaidens voices as they came in awakened her, and Penelope rose up to go into the hall.
Now when she came amongst them with her two handmaidens, one standing each side of her, the wooers were amazed, for they had never seen one so beautiful. The hearts of all were enchanted with love for her, and each prayed that he might have her for his wife.
Penelope did not look on any of the wooers, but she went to her son, Telemachus, and spoke to him.
Telemachus, she said, I have heard that a stranger has been ill-treated in this house. How, my child, didst thou permit such a thing to happen?
Telemachus said, My lady mother, thou hast no right to be angered at what took place in this hall.
So they spoke to one another, mother and son. Now one of the wooers, Eurymachus by name, spoke to Penelope, saying:
Lady, if any more than we beheld thee in the beauty thou hast now, by so many more wouldst thou have wooers to-morrow.
Speak not so to me, lord Eurymachus, said Penelope, speak not of my beauty, which departed in the grief I felt when my lord went to the wars of Troy.
Odysseus stood up, and gazed upon his wife who was standing amongst her wooers. Eurymachus noted him and going to him, said, Stranger, wouldst thou be my hireling? If thou wouldst work on my upland farm, I should give thee food and clothes. But I think thou art practised only in shifts and dodges, and that
Odysseus, standing there, said to that proud wooer, Lord Eurymachus, if there might be a trial of labour between us two, I know which of us would come out the better man. I would that we two stood together, a scythe in the hands of each, and a good swath of meadow to be mown--then would I match with thee, fasting from dawn until evenings dark. Or would that we were set ploughing together. Then thou shouldst see who would plough the longest and the best furrow! Or would that we two were in the ways of war! Then shouldst thou see who would be in the front rank of battle. Thou dost think thyself a great man. But if Odysseus should return, that door, wide as it is, would be too narrow for thy flight.
So angry was Eurymachus at this speech that he would have struck Odysseus if Telemachus had not come amongst the wooers, saying, That man must not be struck again in this hall. Sirs, if you have finished feasting, and if the time has come for you, go to your own homes, go in peace I pray you.
All were astonished that Telemachus should speak so boldly. No one answered him back, for one said to the other, What he has said is proper. We have nothing to say against it. To misuse a stranger in the house of Odysseus is a shame. Now let us pour out a libation of wine to the gods, and then let each man go to his home.
The wine was poured out and the wooers departed. Then Penelope and her handmaidens went to her own chamber and Telemachus was left with his father, Odysseus.


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Remains Of Dead Infant Found On New Bedford Street
New Bedford Police say the remains of a deceased baby have been found on a city street.
Police confirm the body of the child was found around 6:30pm Friday in the area of County and Adams Street.
Massachusetts State Police and officials with the Bristol County District Attorney's office are on the scene assisting in the investigation.
The discovery is being treated as an unattended death. We'll have more information as it becomes available.


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Gizmo was a lovable cat who had been known to the practice for many years. She was one of those vocal Orientals who sounded like a baby crying. In fact she had reached the tremendous age of 21 years with no major health problems until his teeth started to loosen and she had difficulty eating.
We are always extremely cautious with giving anaesthetics to aged cats so we took some blood tests for organ function which came back completely normal. She came through his dental with flying colours.
A couple of months later she came back with a very painful leg, swollen around the left knee (stifle). When we X-rayed the leg our worst fears were confirmed: Gizmo had bone cancer. We took further X-rays and there was no sign of spread to any other part of her body.
Bone cancer in dogs is highly malignant and has often already spread by the time the diagnosis is made. Although chemotherapy and amputation are options, survival time can be very poor.
Cats are a slightly different proposition and their form of bone cancer (osteosarcoma) tends to stay more confined and is slower to spread.
My instinct with Gizmo being 21 was to recommend her being put to sleep but her owner was determined that we should do everything possible for her providing that he did not suffer. Prior to the surgery we were having great trouble keeping Gizmo free of pain and at home she was on strong oral pain relief every couple of hours. I agonised over the decision to operate but was eventually persuaded to go ahead by his owner's dedication to him and the fact that Gizmo behaved like a cat half her age.
The surgery went well and Gizmo recovered very quickly and was much more comfortable with the leg removed and surprisingly mobile. She lived on for another seven months when unfortunately the cancer returned in his pelvis and reluctantly at this point we had to admit defeat.
Looking back, my colleagues thought I had lost my reason undertaking this surgery on such an old cat but I think the extra quality of life which Gizmo went on to have justified going ahead. Anaesthetics and pain relief are so much better these days than they were twenty years ago. She was certainly one of those cats who seemed to inspire the old folklore about a cat having nine lives and she will never be forgotten by all of us who knew her.
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The ratio of strontium to calcium in a given layer of coral reefas well as the amount of a heavier isotope of oxygen in the carbonate itselfreflect the temperature in this historical record, but the isotopic information also reveals rainfall. "When you measure the two of them together, you can use the strontium-calcium ratio to take away the temperature and that gives you a clear rainfall signal," explains paleoclimatologist Nerilie Abrams of the British Antarctic Survey. Looking at this rainfall signal, Abrams and her colleagues were able to determine historical climate patterns in the Indian Ocean region.
These coral proxiesdrilled out of still-living reefs as well as those that had been uplifted by earthquakes in the Mentawai Islands of western Indonesiaclosely matched more recent historical measures, noting strong droughts in 1961, 1994 and 1997. Each of these monitored droughts are linked to oscillations in the so-called Indian Ocean Dipolethe El Nio of that region, in which the normally warm eastern ocean becomes quite cold and the western ocean, near Africa, warms.
Looking further back in the coral record, the researchers found that this pattern held up over thousands of years. "Every time we had one of these coolings, there has been a very strong drought in western Indonesia to accompany it," Abrams notes. This was particularly true at more distant dates as the Indian monsoons were stronger, thanks to more sunlight hitting Earth due to orbital variations.
At present, such Indian Ocean Dipole events are typically cut off by the end of the monsoon season, as the monsoon winds die down so too does the cooling near the coast of Sumatra. But in the past, such drought-spawning events actually occurred during the monsoon season; "the drought peaks at the time when normally this area is receiving its maximum month of rainfall," Abrams says.
This could mean that the stronger monsoons expected as a result of global warming will lead to stronger droughts in Indonesia and Australia. And, of course, the Indian Ocean Dipole's interaction with the actual El Nio in the Pacific, which starts off the coast of Indonesia, could further exacerbate this effect. "Longer droughts will have many additional social and economic consequences, for example on food supply, health and hydropower," climatologist Jonathan Overpeck writes in a commentary on the research published in Nature January 18. "Indonesia is also a pivotal biodiversity hot spot and drought intensification could bring significant challenges to conservation management."
It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factorssuch as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gaseswhich may play large roles. But the corals provide clues from the planet's past. "There is a lot more we can learn from the corals," Abrams adds. "It's a matter of analyzing them."


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Learn about these important issues associated with canine heartworm disease.
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Concern has been ongoing about possible heartworm resistance to macrocyclic lactone preventives. The Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) and the American Heartworm Society (AHS) created a joint statement regarding heartworm resistance, prevention, testing, and treatment, and the key recommendations for veterinarians are presented here. To see a text-only version of this article, click here.
• Keep in mind that, when used properly, macrocyclic lactones remain effective as a prophylactic agent in most dogs.
• Follow the product label dose and frequency of administration directions, and do not concurrently administer multiple products.
• Maintain heartworm preventive administration year-round, don't abandon it.
• Follow CAPC and AHS testing guidelines, and continue to stress the need to clients for annual heartworm testing of their pets.
If you diagnose heartworm disease:
• Use stage-specific medical management based on the classification of heartworm disease.
• Avoid "soft kill" heartworm treatment strategies-don't use preventives to try to "treat" heartworm-positive dogs.
However, now that Immiticide is scarce because of technical issues in the manufacturing plant, the AHS has also developed a management plan to help you help heartworm-positive dogs and dogs that haven't completed a full course of adulticidal treatment.
The three primary goals of the management plan are to
· Reduce potential pathology from heartworm infection.
· Maintain the health of a heartworm-positive dog until it can be appropriately treated.
· Prevent additional heartworm infection in the dog.
These goals can be achieved by
· Limiting an infected dog's activity level
· Administering a heartworm preventive cautiously to a nonprotected dog and monitoring its response
· Giving doxycycline
The specific management steps include
1. Verify the dog's heartworm status with a second antigen test (from a different manufacturer) and perform a microfilariae test in antigen-positive dogs or dogs that have started but not completed adulticidal therapy (because of product unavailability).
2. Pretreat microfilariae-positive dogs with corticosteroids with or without an antihistamine, administer the initial dose of a heartworm preventive (macrocyclic lactone), and clinically observe the dogs for at least eight hours. Treat appropriately should a shock reaction occur.
3. Administer a heartworm preventive to microfilariae-negative dogs.
4. Maintain administration of an oral, topical, or injectable heartworm preventive on the regular dosing schedule to limit further infection until Immiticide is available.
5. Administer doxycycline on a one-month-on/two-months-off schedule.
6. Restrict ALL of the dog's activities, and limit ALL exercise throughout the management period.
7. Medically treat symptomatic heartworm infection to relieve respiratory distress, weighing surgical options in dogs showing signs of cardiovascular compromise.
Adult heartworms will likely still be present in dogs managed with this protocol, but recheck a dog's heartworm status to reconfirm adult heartworm infection before administering adulticide treatment once Immiticide is again available.
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Read more about the CAPC-AHS statement on heartworm resistance here, and see the statement here.
Read more about the Immiticide shortage here.
Read about possible Immiticide importation from abroad here.
And read the full AHS guidance document on managing heartworm disease during adulticide unavailability here.


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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Nebraska say a teen accused of tossing a baby she had secretly delivered out of her second-story bedroom window has been charged as an adult with felony child abuse resulting in death.
Omaha police say the 16-year-old girl was booked Saturday. The Associated Press generally doesn't name juveniles charged with crimes.
Officers were called to the apartment shortly after 4 a.m. Friday, where they found a woman administering CPR to the infant. The baby and 16-year-old were taken to a hospital, where the baby was pronounced dead.
Investigators say the teen was alone in her bedroom when she went into labor and gave birth to the premature baby. Police say she then threw the infant out the window and told her mother.
Police expect autopsy results next week.


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Dallas Post Mortem: Weigh In on J.R.'s Funeral and Get Scoop on the Shocking [Spoiler] Reveal
Warning: The following contains major spoilers from this week's Dallas.
This week on TNT's Dallas, the late and very great J.R. Ewing was paid his final respects, as many tears flowed. But it was what happened in the closing minutes that roused longtime fans from their somber mood and raised a big ol' question:
Is Pamela Barnes Ewing really alive?!
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The hour opened in Mexico, where J.R.'s body, felled by bullets, had inexplicably been found in a hotel room. And though the local police were quick to pass it off as a random crime, nothing added up for Bobby, John Ross et al. Why would J.R. claim he was in Abu Dhabi? And if he was in Mexico, what would possibly bring him to a seedy flophouse? (And don't tell us it was some comely local girl!)
While that shred of a murder mystery simmered, time was made for J.R. to be remembered by friends and family, from near and far, including several returning cast members from the original CBS series. At the funeral itself, moving eulogies were shared, but perhaps none more gut-punching that those delivered by Sue Ellen, who declared J.R. the love of her life, and his brother Bobby.
In fact, so devastated by the loss was Sue Ellen that prior to the service, she just barely — and then totally — tumbled off the wagon, sloshing back J.R.'s fine bourbon.
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Just as J.R. was laid to rest, Bobby, John Ross and Christopher were paid a visit by his go-to snoop. Bum came bearing a box full of intel, pieces of what J.R. was calling his "masterpiece." And first among them was a file showing that J.R. was in Mexico following the trail of… Christopher's mother and Bobby's ex, Pam.
Is Pam alive in the TNT series' continuity? Exec producer Cynthia Cidre concedes that "the mythology is torn" when it comes to the character created by Victoria Principal.
"The last time she was seen, which I believe is Episode 282 of Dallas 1.0, she had hit an oil tanker and the car exploded, and she was burnt," Cidre recalls. "The last time Bobby saw her she was wrapped head-to-toe in bandages, and then she ran away. Several months later, there was one scene where she asked Cliff, her brother, to come see her in a hotel room, and she was with a plastic surgeon who had made her presentable. Cliff says, 'Don't you want to come back to Dallas?' She said, 'No, I don't."
What that "new" Pam — played the one time only by Margaret Michaels — was hiding was that she only had months to live, and as such didn't wish her loved ones to "lose her again."
Bringing back Pam with a new face would certainly rock the worlds of both Christopher and Bobby and solve the issue of Victoria Principal's steadfast refusal to reprise the role. In a statement issued this month to our sister site Deadline, the actress said:
Since the inception of Dallas, the creators and fans around the world have referred to Bobby and Pam as the Romeo and Juliet of Dallas. I could not agree more. And since the original author of this scenario, William Shakespeare, felt compelled to make theirs a tragic love story, of epic and unforgettable deathly loss, I think I shall respect that very successful example and leave the legacy of Bobby and Pam's tragic love story undisturbed and intact. When I filmed Pam's fatal car accident, for me that was the punctuation mark on my role as Pam. I cannot be held responsible for any choices made by producers, once I left Dallas, but I do take responsibility for my decision, not to risk tarnishing Bobby and Pam's love story with a desperate reappearance.
Asked by TVLine about that proclamation, Cidre shrugs, "Well, we're not in control of Victoria Principal's statements, and let's just say that we have had a plan for this character from the beginning, actually before Larry [Hagman]'s passing.
"We were always going to have Christopher go looking for his mother," the EP continued, "and I can't reveal to you how it turns out, but I think it's pretty clever!"
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EVIDENCE lyrics : "All Said & Done"
Yeah, it's E-V, a.k. Ev, you know me, ha ha
I got love for my people, they showed me that
Built my, empire, never one struck back
I show, trust for starters, led by example
Who work harder? Ha ha ha, you kiddin right?
Every bing, catchin a flight
Emergency row, coach, sittin up through the night
Can't stand, you carried in; ain't earned, you married in
You ain't a +Hustler+ like Larry Flynt
Some die violent, rest in peace
Instead of brew, we pourin out gasoline
It's a cold world of course, still tryin to breathe
Tryin to stay on course, in no rush to leave
JUST, stickin tongue in cheek; and speakin of
Speak to my peeps in time with the drum
This the taste to say the least, Weatherman LP
It's the shape of things to come
[Chorus: Kobe (Evidence)]
I have seen, so many pe-ople
I wonder if they knew my name (I ask myself)
Af-ter it's all, said and done
I wonder if they knew my name
(In case you didn't know, they call me Evidence)
Af-ter the fame, af-ter the mu-sic fades away
(Ladies and gentlemen, y'all need to turn it up)
I see, so many pe-ople
I wonder if they knew my name
(It's Evidence, let's go)
Khalil, you crazy~!
Look - Ev changed his flow, y'all didn't know
The whole time been capable, waitin on a sign to blow
Look, listen, observe, witness
My heart been this since a long time ago
Sleep with my eyes up, hustle never went down
Maybe as a juvenile, that's sealed and dried up
18 turned around, 20/20 focused now
Fans would support, these haters would dickride us
Magic was my idol, Bird my rival
More important than church or bibles when we "Work the Angles"
They start to bounce, so don't hold me liable
C-A, rep Lost Angels
They got it twisted, streets are still danger
People turn quick, friends become strangers
One day, this way, next they change up
Minor leaguers, thinkin they major
[Chorus: + minor ad lib changes]
Yeah, more than one hit, on tour at the same time
More than one chick, more than guns clips
More you peep, each line is more than punches
Each rhyme is hungry, didn't pack my lunches
"Marathon" cats are back, that's longevity
I might flip, I'm "Serious" as Steady B
You ain't do it right, we stealin your melody
Or maybe not, cause John Lennon said "Let it Be"
Rappers need radio for self-esteem
I'm on some brand new boombox Radio Raheem
I wonder if my grind has gone in vain
I mean it's my time, but are they on my page
I rap behind the beat but never after the fact
They put they trust in me, never ever sat back
Since that day a loop I'm choppin it
It's make history or sit around watchin it
Life goes by, pick up and drop habits
I duck cops, never caught, "The Eyes Have It"
All said and done I'd do this %#@! again
I've seen so many people, I wonder if they know my name
[Chorus: second half only, minus ad libs]
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(visited by John Dag Hutchison)
04-Jul-2007 -- Havøysund is the stepping stone for going to Rolvsøy where you find this confluence point. A catamaran leaves in the morning and returns in the afternoon.
The weather was great; sunshine, a light breeze and about 18 centigrades. The boat landed on the east coast of the island. From there it was about 6 km to the confluence point. The island has about 50 - 60 permanent inhabitants. It also has a small B & B which this summer was full with workers building a fish processing plant.
It seemed as if one from every family were at the arrival or in the local shop where they received mail and whatever they needed. From there it was easy to get a lift on the road towards Tufjord, the largest community on the western side of the island.
The confluence point is about half way from the jetty at Gunnarnes to Tufjord. From the road it is about 600 m to go. The sun was warm and climbing through the soft moss and heather resulted in a slow climb of about 150 m up.
At the arrival I found a small build up of stones with a plank stating 71/24. It was about 6 - 7 meters off the exact point according to my GPS. I later found that it had been put there by local people.
The first visitor to the confluence point, back in 2001, has still not submitted a full narrative report, nor a GPS registration.


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If you go to the store and buy a package of chewy chocolate chip cookies and try to pawn them off onto other families at your child's school bake sale, head of the New York Times' confection Staatssicherheit Jennifer Steinhauer thinks you should be locked up with all the bear wrestlers in Alabama so you can think about the cultural damage you're doing to America's proud pot-luck tradition of foisting slimy pineapple upside-down cakes onto friends and neighbors. In her article, "'Store-Bought' Spoils the Pot Luck Spirit," Steinhauer explains how those mothers who use flimsy excuses like full-time jobs to avoid breaking out the electric mixer for a school bake sale are part of a more insidious trend of substituting store-bought for homemade food, a trend, by the way, that is eroding one of pillars of the American middle-class: pot-luck. Is nothing sacred? Lest you still can't grasp just how egregious the store-bough sin is, Steinhauer is ready to re-frame her outrage in even more domestic terms:
Look at it this way: You would not resell socks you bought at Macy's on the art-sale crafts table. Respect the cookie!
Oh, that makes way more sense. Ayelet Waldman, however, was not convinced that Steinhauer's complaint had any merit at all and fired off the following outraged tweet in which she takes what is the equivalent to a heated debate at the U.N. and punches in the nuclear launch codes:
Hey, you sanctimonious bitch, I have 4 kids, a fulltime job. I don't have time to bake cookies. Lucky you that you do.
This was followed today with an article on Time's blog by Judith Warner, who acts as something like a mediator, politely explaining that, while Waldman may have gone a tad overboard, for her own part, she prefers to shove the break n' bake cookies in the oven and call it a day. Emily Matchar of the blog "New Domesticity" got in on the action right away, and offered a very articulate, well-reasoned explanation for the Ayelet Waldman hell fury that broke int he wake of Steinhauer's grand baking edict:
While I think writing personal, name-calling attacks against writers you disagree with is really unacceptable, I do think there's something to be said about Steinhauer's piece perpetuating some deep-set sexist assumptions. Mothers are still considered the moral guardians of the family kitchen in this country, and it's mothers who are being judged in Steinhauer's piece – several judgmental moms are quoted in the story, included one who says she gossips about people who bring store-bought stuff to bake sales.
Look, before I read this article I was still convinced that school bake-sales were something that only happened on family TV shows, so if Steinhauer dutifully answers the call for baked goods at her children's school and genuinely feels like parents who shamelessly peddle Chips A'hoy (best cookie name ever) next to her homemade macaroons are cheating, she's right — they are cheating. So are people who bring fancy vintner-bought wine and artisan cheeses to parties instead of stamping their own grapes like Lucille Ball or milking their own uddered barnyard mammals. Of course it's relatively easy to bake something and there's some sentimental mush that goes in the batter with all the eggs, flour, and sugar that the baker most likely didn't gather, bleach, or farm because the simple act of yelling at your kid to stop licking the goddamn batter before she gets salmonella creates an unbreakable bond between parent and child. Or, as one mother that Steinhauer interviews contends, store-bought baked goods miss the point because baking is, "an expression of you." Steinhauer interviews a woman from Los Angeles and herself writes for the New York Times, two localities that are in short supply of farms and much greater supply of grocery stores. It's the modern world, people, and the difference between baking from scratch and picking up packaged cookies is relative. Is reasonable for Steinhauer to be a little miffed that she works hard to put out a tray of hand-crafted treats while another lazy slag is dumping out a ziplock bag of E.L. Fudge cookies? Sure. When someone makes you chocolate chip cookies from "scratch" does your heart give a little leap to know that someone cares enough to burn their fingers on cookie sheets to satisfy your sweet tooth? Of course. Are you going to refuse a piece of a carrot cake because someone went out of his or her way and bought it at Whole Foods and is offering it to you for nominal fee so that the school can buy more calculators?
That's what I thought.
The Better-Bake-Sale Battle [Time]
Image via jordanpattern's Flickr.


text: Imagine a small, bustling city with a population of 6,000. Now imagine that the entire population of the city leaves, a new group of citizens arrives and the city trades all the goods and materials it needs to survive for a week\u2014all in a six-hour span.That's the kind of logistical problem Royal Caribbean International faces every time one cruise ends and another begins. So when I got the chance to visit the staff at Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE: RCL), both at the IT office and aboard its largest ship, to see how it addresses logistics with software\u2026well, let's just say it wasn't a tough decision.All Aboard Allure of the Seas: Timing MattersMy visit starts at guest relations when Allure of the Seas is docked in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. I meet Jose Machado, director of software engineering, and James Defendis, an IT manager within software engineering. After a quick trip through customs, we board the gangplank and set foot on the floating city.A view of Allure of the Seas from the gangplank.The first thing I learn about the ship's software is the split in ownership of product. STX Europe, the ship's manufacturer, provides all the navigation software; this includes everything in the bridge that covers propulsion, fuel, weather, navigation and so on. Royal Caribbean provides the software to run the hotel, from reservations to guest relations to point-of-sale software at the shops. RCL also needs to provide Internet for guests, email for employees and, among other things, software to count the number of checked-out towels at the pool.My second observation is just how much technology is integrated into the customer experience. The company is the first I've seen to adapt touchscreen technology for this purpose and not just to create efficiencies at the point of sale. Every floor of the ship has a 32-inch touchscreen that can give interactive directions to guests' staterooms (they just enter a room number), help them find events sorted by time or type or locate the nearest restroom.Defendis shows me the technology, then explains how RCL built it: I note how quickly Royal brought the product to market, as I know of few companies that could develop the expertise on emerging Linux touchscreen technologies, integrate them with a database and have them in production right now. Defendis explains that the company outsources development of new and emerging technologies, then takes over maintenance.Anything a guest can see or touch needs to be new; the company essentially "rents" expertise to accelerate the development process. The applications that will never be seen by guests, on the other hand, including staff email, the reservation system or the towel check-out, have a lower priority, he says. They need to function, and the cost of maintaining them needs to be stay lower than the cost of a rewrite.How-To: Offshore Outsourcing Can Boost AgilityAt the end of our tour, we get a few minutes to visit the data center. It's not large\u2014there are perhaps eight racks, each with a half-dozen slots for technology hardware\u2014but it's extremely busy. While I'm there, the company is ripping and replacing its old satellite Internet connection. These are huge, gold-ball-like antennae that go on top of this ship. There's a deadline to meet, too; the ship's itinerary puts it on the island of St. Thomas on Tuesday.Ritchie Coombs, the company's director of shipboard IT operations, refers to this as "open-heart surgery." The team needs to take out Internet service and replace it without interrupting service long enough for anyone to notice.I leave Ritchie to his work and head back to land. Tomorrow it's time to visit shore-side IT operations.Royal Caribbean Gets the Most from Its 20-Year-Old Reservation SystemWhile Royal Caribbean is headquartered in Miami, IT operations are based 30 miles away in Miramar, Fla. The small office complex has a sign out front and a nondescript lobby, expect for the large model of Allure.The lobby of Royal Caribbean's IT officeI meet with J.P. Hurtado, the director of customer systems, and Jason Fortier, a manger of software engineering, who explains the complexity of the organization's software. It starts with RES, the company's core reservation system, with more than 9 million lines of RPG code that is more than 20 years old.Reservations come from a half-dozen directions. Guests can create them directly, through the Royal Caribbean International website or a call center, or call a travel agent. (Defendis says 85 percent of the company's bookings occur through travel agents.) Some use CrusingPower.com; others use a SOA-based public API that created in 2007.Feature: Hotel Chain Sees Mobile App Turning 'Lookers' Into 'Bookers'Whatever the source of the booking, it all goes through RES, abstracted away through a service oriented layer. Before the API was in place, organizations built custom, one-off integration points with RES, which required maintenance and retesting with every new release. Once the cruise API was in place, customers slowly converted over to it. Royal can re-use that same API on its website and in its call center, separating the actual reservation system from its clients.Now, with the code is isolated, the company can pull one piece at a time and replace it with a more modern system. One whiteboard I pass lists goals, by year, of percentage decrease in RPG code. Within five years, RES should be 10 percent (or less) of its original self, replaced with a Java system\u2014all with no risky cut-over, no multiple teams making the same changes in both systems, and no huge project that splits the engineering department in half.Agile Lets Programmers Experiment in Two-Week SprintsThe Java conversion is its own kind of open-heart surgery, albeit a continuous one that takes several years. To do that, the team is continuing to experiment with Agile and iterative models.Neena Vicente, program manager for the company's IT transformation effort, says the company has two types of projects, traditional waterfall and Agile. Aside from standup meetings, the Agile projects are true experiments, each trying a variety of methods. Specifically, project manager Ajay Singh tells me about a recent $1.5 million project that 16 team members finished in 21 two-week sprints. The team built, regression tested and deployed to production at the end of each sprint.Management holds the programming techniques with a loose hand, allowing the developers to try different things every sprint. Singh says some teams do test driven development, but not all. Instead of requiring formal pair programming, Singh connected every new programmer to a subject matter expert programmer. These experts are expected to spend 30 percent of their time on new development and 70 percent mentoring junior developers; this provides training and collaboration at the same time. On the same project, QA got involved before the programmers started writing code. This gave programmer the "answers" for what would be tested and let them program to those precise requirements.iPad Security on a Boat: Treat Tablets Like LinensAfter talking about agile, we spoke for a few more minutes about how the company deals with emerging technologies.Shortly after Royal deployed in-room interactive televisions, Apple created the iPad. Tablet technology suddenly became viable\u2014and the interactive television looked old and obsolete.Instead of fighting the change, Royal embraced it, creating one native iPad application to help customers select wine and appetizers and another native "folio"-like app for everything from scheduling excursions to ordering room service.Feature: 3 Ways Royal Caribbean Has Embraced Mobile, Made Customers HappyRoyal's next step was providing an iPad in each suite on board the Splendour of the Seas and Rhapsody of the Seas. Beatriz Rivero, the project's program manager, describes operational challenges such as testing streaming video on multiple devices on a floor running simultaneously. (To address this, Royal added routers and reserved extra bandwidth.) The devices also have cameras, which pose a privacy risk: Next week's guests seeing last week's guests personal photos. Royal deals with this by treating an iPad like a pair of bed sheets\u2014each device is replaced with a fresh one and wiped. Meanwhile, the technology group is working with vendors to lock down local-save features.Before leaving, we go to the QA lab to see what Royal is developing next for the iPad and how it's being tested: Moving Data As Important As Moving PassengersIn addition to the problem of getting 6,000 people on and off a ship. It turns out that Royal Caribbean has another challenge in getting data on board. There's the off-loading of credit card data, the final folio, customer loyalty preferences, pictures, health records and any and all behavioral data that can be stored, aggregated and used later to predict passenger behavior or otherwise optimize the customer experience.This is best done when the ship is docked and therefore has a fast Internet connection\u2014at least for now. Broadband rollouts start in 2013, with the biggest ships going operational first. As the amount of data expands, and the standard for customer service improves, the IT staff will be continually challenged to keep ahead. At times, it feels as if Royal Caribbean is an IT company, not a guest services company. In other to help employees understand the guest life, Royal has a special orientation program. After one year, staff gets a funded family cruise vacation.That's a problem I'd sure like to have.Matthew Heusser is a consultant and writer based in West Michigan. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mheusser, contact him by email or visit the website of his company, Excelon Development. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, on Facebook, and on Google +.


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Our sponsored children are tremendously talented!
While finishing our ministry's Africa Regional Conference, we threw a big celebration dinner. Staff from nine different countries came together to dance and celebrate all that the Lord had done that week and all that He will do in the future.
The highlight of the dinner was a performance from some of Kenya's most talented child sponsorship program beneficiaries. Not every child may have the skills or desire to be in the Leadership Development Program, but they do have talents of singing or dancing.
These artistic kids not only sang and danced, but created the t-shirts they're wearing!
Today, take a minute to relax and learn a new worship song with these children. Unfortunately, this video isn't of the highest quality (I can't believe I briefly stuck my thumb over the screen around :30… good thing I'm not a videographer by trade!), but you'll enjoy watching them.
Here are the lyrics to this popular children's song in Kenya:
HE GO GO by Pastor Pat King
He go go butter me bread, He go go sugar me tea, He go go cloth my Body, He go go shelter my head.
If he did it yesterday he will do it today oh, if he does it today oh, He will do it tomorrow
He go go butter me bread, He go go sugar me tea, He go go cloth my Body, He go go shelter my head.
If he favor yesterday he will favor today oh, If he favor today oh, He will favor tomorrow,
He go go butter me bread, He go go sugar me tea…
Thank God for the gifts and faithfulness He offers each of us!


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Forever 21 has a penchant for releasing controversial clothing, but a recent muscle tee emblazoned with the words of Ayn Rand seems puzzling for the fashion line targeted towards teens.
The "Unstoppable Muscle Tee," priced at $11.80, bears a quote from the author and philospher, framed as a motivational statement:
"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." — Ayn Rand
The quote refers to Rand's capitalist-based theory of objectivism — that the moral purpose of life is rational self interest — a concept we highly doubt is taught in high school classrooms or discussed among teen lunchroom conversations. And it's not much of a theory to stand by for an age group that still financially relies on their parents.
The idea of idolizing a contentious figure is reminiscent of the famed Ernesto 'Che' Guevara t-shirts, made popular by the counterculture of the late 1960s. The t-shirt is now one of the most common shirts found on college campuses, often donned by young people who have no idea what the communist revolutionary symbolized–but check out that heroic-looking dude in the cool hat!
MORE: Forever 21 Back in Harsh Spotlight for 'Oriental Girl' Necklace


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Expert's Rating
- Affordable purchase price
- Nice color quality
- Severely overpriced toner
- Control-panel lights are difficult to interpret
Our Verdict
This color LED printer's low purchase price is tempting, but its extremely high toner costs are off-putting.
The Dell 1250c color printer uses LED technology instead of the more-common laser to create equally crisp results. Priced at just $230 (as of September 29, 2010), it makes color output seem attainable even for a home office. Unfortunately, exorbitant toner costs make this printer unbearably pricey in the long term.
Printer vendors often charge lower-volume users less for the printer and more for the toner, but Dell has set a new record with this model. The printer ships with standard-size, 700-page supplies. The black toner costs $50 (7.1 cents per page), while each color costs $55 (7.9 cents per color, per page). A page with all four colors would cost almost 31 cents. Those prices would look expensive even compared with the costs of a color inkjet printer. The higher-yield supplies, at $70 each, are merely onerous: The black toner lasts 2000 pages (3.5 cents per page), and each color lasts 1400 pages (5 cents per page). A four-color page would cost 18.5 cents.
Further disappointment lies in the skimpy design and features. The control panel consists of a couple of clearly labeled buttons and a lot of lights, the meanings of which can vary depending on the color they show and the speed of their blinking–yes, you have to figure out whether it's a fast or slow blink. You need the documentation to interpret them. The unit has just a 150-page main input tray; pages exit onto the top output tray. The tray parts are somewhat flimsy, as is typical for this price range. Duplexing is manual only, which means that only committed users will use it to cut down on paper costs, but at least the on-screen prompt is clear. A rear door opens to provide access to the paper path. A side door reveals the toner supplies, which insert easily and are keyed to prevent mixups.
Lower-cost laser printers also tend to be mediocre performers. In our tests, the 1250c posted a below-average (but typical for this price class) speed of 7.5 pages per minute printing monochrome documents consisting primarily of black text and simple, grayscale images. Graphics speed was just above average, reaching 2.3 ppm when printing snapshot-size color photos on letter-size paper. To its credit, the image quality exceeded my expectations. Our text samples looked dark gray rather than truly black, but they were crisp and precise otherwise. Color images appeared vivid and realistic, though a little grainy-looking. Note that Mac drivers are available via download only; we will update our review soon with those test results.
The help you'll get for this printer is mostly good. The 1250c comes with a standard one-year warranty; extensions up to five years total cost an additional $35 to $140. The HTML-based user guide that accompanies the printer is thorough and clear, but in a few instances we ran into dead ends because of clumsy navigation, namely links that led to mostly blank title pages with no guidance in the right direction.
The Dell 1250c puts quality color printing within range of lower-budget users. Unless you plan not to print much, however, your budget will quickly be busted by this model's high toner costs.


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This is the download link for the Samsung Galaxy Core GT-I8262B full repair / 4 file firmware.
The Samsung Galaxy Core GT-I8262B full repair / 4 file firmware(ROM) can be useful in fixing software-related issues.
Below are some of the flashing operations you can do with a Samsung repair / 4 files full firmware.
- Fix Custom Binary Blocked by FRP
- Restoring to factory defaults
- Fix stuck, hang or stopping in recovery mode.
- Remove/replace custom recovery like TWRP, Philz, CWM etc
- Fix a device stuck/hang on the Samsung logo.
- Fix or repair IMEI, Baseband, Serial Number, WiFi, Bluetooth and other connectivity related IDs
- Repair Knox
- Fix software issues causing high temperature on device
- Change CSC of your Samsung device
- Update Android version.
- Fix Camera issues on Samsung phones.
- Fix storage space full error on Samsung phones.
- To fix slow operation of Samsung device.
- Fix sensors error on Samsung.
- Fix applications stop working.
- Delete/wipe userdata(hardreset), cache, pattern or password.
- Remove root/root access on Samsung.
- Fix software related sound problems.
Before you continue, here are two important posts you should check out.
- To flash the firmware: Read the tutorial on how to flash the Samsung stock firmware/flash file via Odin
- Check the Samsung firmware compatibility codes page.
- Samsung firmware country/region, carrier/network provider and language letter codes.
Samsung Galaxy Core GT-I8262B Repair 4 Files Full Firmware (ROM)
Here are the links to the Samsung Galaxy Core GT-I8262B full repair/4 files firmware (ROM).
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Tech products can make great holiday gifts, for others or for yourself. But if you (or the gift recipient) aren't happy with the product, your options vary widely depending on the merchant's return policy—fine print that bargain hunters often ignore at their peril.
With return policies, just as with the products they cover, a little advance research can make the difference between a good experience and a disaster. Here are our best tips for navigating the sometimes rocky waters of returns, along with details on which stores make them easy and which make them tough.
Return Policies: The Good, the Bad, and the Run of the Mill
Generally speaking, Costco continues to reign supreme for returnistas, offering full refunds for anything unsatisfactory. The only deadlines for returns apply to electronics, from HDTVs and computers to MP3 players and iPods, which you must return within 90 days.
You can return products bought online to a local store, or Costco will send you a prepaid label for return shipping of items small enough to drop off at a UPS location. The company will also arrange for pickup of items that a freight service delivered. It doesn't get much better than that for tech products.
Archrival Walmart imposes much stricter return deadlines (15 days for computers and post-paid cell phones, 30 days for camcorders and digital cameras, 45 days for computer components and accessories, 90 days for just about everything else). But Walmart does have one return policy that's truly user-friendly: If you don't have the receipt, the retailer will still take back your purchase (within the deadlines for the product category) and return cash for items under $25, a gift card for anything more expensive, or an even exchange either way. (If you return more than three items without receipts in a month, however, a manager must approve the transaction.)
On the other end of the returns scale for tech products is Best Buy. Its return window for computers (including laptops, netbooks, and tablets) is, at 14 days, even stingier than Walmart's. The two-week return period begins on the date of purchase in its brick-and-mortar stores and the date of delivery for PCs bought online. For all other items, you get 30 days to act (or 45 days—even for computers—if you spend the $2500 a year at Best Buy that qualifies you for membership in the chain's Reward Zone loyalty program at the elite Premiere Silver level).
When asked about the computer policy, Best Buy spokesperson Erin Bix e-mailed us a statement saying in part: "We carefully manage our inventory and selection so that consumers have access to the latest and greatest, which means in a practical sense needing to reduce the period for returns in some categories like computing."
An NBC affiliate in Memphis, though, recently reported that a local store manager said the strict policy was a response to customer abuse of returns. "They buy them, use them for a week, then return them," store manager Jason Sampson was quoted as saying on the NBC12.com Website.
Buy.com is leery about this sort of behavior: Its return policy states that it carefully inspects all items at the warehouse, and if they aren't in pristine condition with all original packaging, you won't get your money back or a replacement. Its normal return window is 45 days from the ship date, so you may have a month to act by the time the product actually arrives. The return policy states that the product doesn't have to be in the company's possession within 45 days, but it does have to be with the shipper by then, and you must have obtained a valid Return Merchandise Authorization number. Online merchants typically require you to obtain an RMA (either by calling in or going online) before sending back any products; it allows them to track what's coming back and why.
Hooray for the Holidays
Many stores tout special holiday return policies that extend the standard return window for gifts purchased during the holiday season. Check for such policies, and pin down which purchase dates qualify. Best Buy is relatively generous here: For most gifts bought between November 1 and December 24, the return deadline is January 31. If you're the recipient, you do have to prove that you got the item as a gift by showing a gift receipt, so make sure to obtain that from the person who gave the item to you (if they didn't already pop it into the box). However, Best Buy specifically excludes computers from its holiday policy.
Walmart takes a different approach. For products bought between November 15 and December 25, the usual return time windows apply—but the clock starts ticking on December 25.
Amazon.com pledges to accept returns on items purchased between November 1 and December 31, through January 31. Recipients of items marked as gifts when purchased get a gift card for the value of the gift; buyers get refunds. Amazon's standard return policies apply, though, and the site has literally dozens of them depending on the product and how it was bought. This is one site where you really have to put in time checking out return policies before you buy a gift.
Buy.com will also accept returns through January 31 on products it sells and ships between November 15 and December 31, but the policy does not apply to items purchased from its Marketplace Sellers (third-party affiliates).
Who Pays for Return Shipping?
When it comes to responsibility for return shipping costs, most vendors aren't particularly generous. Buy.com, for example, will not pay shipping unless the return is the result of its error. Amazon will provide a prepaid shipping label for returns, but it too will deduct shipping costs from your refund unless it was at fault.
Some merchants, such as Sixth Avenue Electronics, will not only make you pay for return shipping on discretionary (buyer's remorse) returns, but also for the original shipping costs (even if you took advantage of a free-shipping offer).
Other retailers will give you the option of either paying for shipping yourself or using a prepaid label and deducting the cost from the refund. In my experience, it's difficult to match the bulk rate that these sellers get from shipping companies—and shopping around is time consuming. I usually opt for the prepaid label.
Don't Touch the Shrinkwrap
Amazon and others will also deduct so-called restocking fees for many items they sell, especially once you've opened the manufacturer's packaging. Some stores make it next to impossible to return CDs, DVDs, and/or Blu-ray discs if the shrinkwrap isn't intact, so don't open it if you don't intend to keep it.
In general, it's a good idea to keep all packaging materials together so that you can restore a product to as close to original condition as possible if you decide to send it back. You might put all the plastic casing, manuals, media, and accessories accompanying consumer electronics into a single large shopping bag, for example.
Restocking fees for computers and electronics typically run about 15 percent of the price you paid. You're most likely to see restocking fees for discretionary returns at merchants that have the lowest Web prices—this is one way for them to finance those discounts. Keep that fact in mind if you're buying a surprise gift the recipient might not want: They'll be less than happy if your present winds up costing them money.


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Past exhibition
Sep 19 - Nov 22, 2014
Mean Time To Upgrade
Artworks on the verge of technological obsolescence are presented in a group exhibition.
Past exhibition
Aug 23 - Sep 7, 2014
Sunday Drive
InterAccess mounts a satellite exhibition of Robert Donnelly in Warkworth, Ontario as part of Sunday Drive.
Past exhibition
Apr 12 - May 24, 2014
Curtains―Lucy Raven
Lucy Raven's new film installation, which is viewed with anaglyph 3D glasses, explores the digital creation of location and space as they relate to contemporary movie-making.
Past exhibition
Mar 7 - 29, 2014
Micropixies―Sayeh Sarfaraz
Through the interactions between fictional worlds of childhood and the harsh reality of uprising, Sayeh Sarfaraz's latest work attempts to stir a shared collective memory of recent social movements.
Past exhibition
Feb 8 - 23, 2014
Impedance: Games & Resistance―Vector Festival 2014
An exhibition featuring contemporary game based artworks intended to comment, reflect, and provoke.
Past exhibition
Jan 10 - 18, 2014
Beyond a Shadow of a Form―Layne Hinton
For her solo exhibition, InterAccess Media Arts Prize winner Layne Hinton combines elements of cinema, sculpture and installation to project complex shadows of three-dimensional forms.
Past exhibition
Sep 20 - Nov 23, 2013
Cold Pin―Eli Keszler
The construction of an instrument, composition of a score and orchestration of a piece happen simultaneously in Eli Keszler's automated sound installation.
Past exhibition
Jul 26 - Aug 17, 2013
Never Ever Whole
The 13th annual Emerging Artist Exhibition explores instances of technological intervention in the endless quest for an experience of totality.
Past exhibition
Jun 7 - Jul 13, 2013
Part Google, part Guggenheim; Googleheim proposes five projects that critically explore the tensions between transiency and permanence of the image in the context of contemporary art and media technology.


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Yolanda Foster underwent surgery on Friday, Apr. 19, to remove a port in her arm used to treat her chronic Lyme disease. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star tweeted a picture of herself in the hospital and called it an "exciting day."
The Dutch model, 49, announced she was having the port implanted via Twitter in December 2012. "I need to start my treatment for Neuro Borellia Lyme disease," she explained. "I can't wait to get my energy back." (A port is a medical device implanted under a patient's skin that is used to administer frequent drug injections; it also draws blood for tests. The implantation and removal of the port are done under local anesthesia and mild sedation.)
Earlier this month, Yolanda accepted the Lyme Research Alliance's Star Light Award at its Time for Lyme Gala in Greenwich, Conn. "I went from being an outspoken, multitasking social butterfly to be trapped in a mentally paralyzed cocoon. Two and a half years ago, I started going to my doctors complaining about exhaustion, joint pain, insomnia, but most importantly, my neurological malfunctions," Foster told attendees Apr. 9.
Yolanda said she met with a series of doctors before she was given a proper diagnosis. "I was so exhausted. It was even hard for me to walk from the bed to the bathroom. My migraine headaches were unbearable," she recalled. "I had this unexplainable cough that lasted for months."
The Bravo reality star credited her husband, legendary music producer David Foster, for assembling "an army of the best doctors" to take care of her. "If it wasn't for David's perseverance, I probably would not stand here today," Yolanda said. "I had become a shell of the woman I used to be. I could no longer participate in my life. I was unable to read, process information, write, or do anything as simple as watch TV. I honestly stared at the ceiling for so many months that I still remember every light bulb in it."
When she spoke of her children Gigi, Bella and Anwar, Yolanda teared up. "My children's after school smiles at my bedside were the only bright spot in my days," Yolanda recalled. "It was for them and my husband that I found the strength to fight this lonely battle and continue to live and breathe in this body that once belonged to me." After her port was inserted, "My husband took charge and became my private nurse," Yolanda said.
Yolanda saw minimal improvements after 60 days of treatment. Heeding the advice of actress pal Suzanne Somers, she ended up spending six weeks at the Sponaugle Wellness Institute in Palm Harbor, Fla. "We must speak up for those who cannot be heard," the blonde star concluded. "We must restore hope for those who have given up."
People suffering from Lyme disease suffer from headaches, fatigue, depression and fever. In more extreme cases, it can cause problems with the heart and central nervous systems. If untreated, Lyme disease can be fatal.


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The Cure for Procrastination Article by: Earl Nightingale
Have you ever noticed that the longer you look at something you should be doing, the more difficult it seems to appear? That the longer you put off something you should do, the more difficult it is to get started?
A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.
The great newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane once wrote, "Don't exaggerate your own importance, your own size, or your own miseries. You are an ant in a human anthill. Be a working ant — not a ridiculous insect pitying yourself." Strong language, maybe, but there's a lot of sense in it.
A person carrying a heavy weight is all right as long as he keeps moving. The minute he stops, puts the weight on the ground, and sits down to rest, the weight seems to become heavier; the distance to be traveled, greater; and the work, just that much more unpleasant.
Sometimes it must seem to everyone that things have piled up so high that there's just no way of digging out. But there is. Pick the thing that's most important to do, and simply begin doing it. Just by digging in, you'll feel better, and you'll find that it's not nearly as bad as you thought it would be. Keep at it, and before long, that pile of things to do that seemed so overwhelming is behind you — finished.
What overwhelms us is not the work itself. It's thinking how hard it's going to be. It's seeing it get larger every day. It's putting if off and hoping that somehow, through some miracle, it will disappear.
The Chinese have a saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step. And that step accomplishes two things. First, it automatically shortens the distance we still have to travel, and, second, and just as important, it makes us feel better, more hopeful — it strengthens our faith. If a person will just keep putting one foot in front of the other, he will be taken into new and exciting places, see new and interesting things, and think thoughts that never would have come to him if he'd remained at the starting point. Then the journey is finished. He wonders how or why he could ever have sat so long and worried and stewed about the time and trouble it would involve to do what he knew he should do.
If you'll think back, you'll remember that you've always been happiest, most contented, after having finished a difficult project or faced up to a responsibility you were worried about. It's never as bad as you think it's going to be, and the joy that will come with its accomplishment makes it more than worthwhile.
Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work.
As Calvin Coolidge put it, "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization."
Learn more about Earl Nightingale and his all-time bestselling programs The Strangest Secret and Lead the Field.


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Another New York Wage and Hour Violations Case Puts Iron Chef Morimoto in Hot Seat
Another New York Wage and Hour Violations Case Puts Iron Chef Morimoto in Hot Seat
This August 31 newyork.grubstreet.com article discusses yet another high profile New York wage and hour violations case brought by Joseph & Kirschenbaum's own Maimon Kirschenbaum – this time against the prestigious restaurant Morimoto. The article boils down the case being filed on behalf of Jose Bueno – who worked for 3 ½ years as a bar back at the restaurant. Bueno claims that management kept a percentage of his gratuities and shared tip money that should have been his with a silver polisher – a non-service employee. According to the law, non-service employees should not be allowed to participate in such a tip pool.
Attorney Kirschenbaum was quoted in the article: "The silver polisher should be well paid just like the chef and dish washer… but the customer is leaving a tip for the waiter and the tip is the waiter's tip." In response to questions about the sheer volume of New York wage and hour violations cases that Kirschenbaum has filed recently, Kirschenbaum said that, although the lawsuits may be in a sense "repetitive," they are justified because "sharing tips with management and non-service employees and taking parts of mandatory gratuities are blatantly illegal practices."
DOL Files Brief for Federal Appeal in Potentially Game Changing FLSA Case
This article, from Pharmalot.com, discusses the US Department of Labor's filing of an amicus brief to appeal a US District Court ruling in a highly contested case that may have broader implications for the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The article discusses a battle between sales reps for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and their employers over overtime compensation. Essentially, the Glaxo reps argue that they should get overtime pay, but the pharmaceutical giant says that since the reps are technically "salespeople," the company should be exempt from FLSA rules governing overtime.
The article includes a quote from Judge Frederick Martone, who sided with GlaxoSmithKline and found that the sales reps should be considered "salespeople" pursuant to the FLSA definition. It also includes a quote from Joseph & Kirschenbaum's own Charles Joseph, who celebrated the DOL's amicus brief filing. The article says that this case is very important because this issue – whether pharmaceutical sales reps should get overtime or not – is being hotly debated in other courts. Joseph & Kirschenbaum represents the Glaxo reps in this case, and the firm also represents plaintiffs in another major analogous case involving the Swiss drugmaker Novartis.
Wage and Hour Violation Lawsuit Against Mario Batali Drums Up a Lot of Press
Many mainstream publications report on a classic restaurant wage and hour violations case involving Mario Batali (famous for starring in Molto Mario and Iron Chef America).
According to the plaintiffs (represented by Joseph & Kirschenbaum), Batali and his co-owner, Joseph Bastianich, underpaid their workers, illegally skimmed tips from waitstaff, and compelled staff to work more than 10 hours a day (and more than 40 hours a week) in violation of the law. Workers claim that they had to split their tips with management based on the amount of wine they sold every evening at Batali's Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca.
See the articles for the testy air being generated by both sides in this case.


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ECE497 Project: Multiple Partitions via U-boot
Team members: Michael J. Yuhas, Jack Ma
Executive Summary
The goal of this project is to give the U-boot boot-loader the ability to mount different partitions on start-up. This would allow the user to dual-boot the beagle board by controlling the boot sequence with a user button or RS-232 link.
Currently we have discovered how to create mmc-cards with multiple partitions, and discovered a way to mount the different partitions as root during start-up using built in U-boot commands. Currently we are developing a command to allow the user to select the partitions from which to boot.
Plans for the duration of the project includes finishing development of the multiboot command and modification of the boot script to allow partition selection using the user button. We would also like to discover how to create a FAT boot partition from scratch. Finally, if time permits, we also intend to research booting from USB devices.
Installation Instructions
If you do not yet have git installed see the instruction on EBC Exercise 07.
Open a terminal on your host machine and pull our git repository:
host$ git clone email@example.com:albertlee5/project.git
To compile the code for our project you will have to source two shell scripts that set certain environmental variables:
host$ source ~/.oe/environment-oecore host$ host$ ~/.oe/crossCompileEnv.sh
Now you should be able to run make to compile U-boot.
host$ make
Next copy the resulting MLO, uboot.img, and uboot.bin to the boot partition of your mmc-card and rename the corresponding existing files so they don't interfere at startup. The beagle should now boot with our modified bootloader.
User Instructions
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Theory of Operation
The current plan of attack for our project is to write a script that will run automatically in U-boot, allowing the user to select between different partitions.
Work Breakdown
|Completion Date
|Create Project Page
|Jan 23, 2012
|Research loading multiple partitions / u-boot scripting language
|Feb 6, 2012
|Yuhas & Ma
|Determine schedule for project
|Feb 6, 2012
|Yuhas & Ma
|Create SD card with multiple root partitions
|Feb 7, 2012
|Yuhas & Ma
|Test U-boot to multiboot using command-line
|Feb 7, 2012
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Will Shortz
Doctor of Humane Letters
May 16, 2010
Native son of Crawfordsville, Wabash College is pleased to honor you on this day for your curiosity and intellect, your wit and good humor, and your love of words and language. You model for the students of Wabash a life of the mind — a life of asking and answering questions playfully and exploring the outer reaches of knowledge. And you had an early start. By age eight, you had become an 11-letter word for "puzzle maker" — C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-O-R. You sold your first puzzle at age 14 and began publishing your constructions in magazines before you had your driver's license.
You would graduate from Indiana University in 1974 having earned the nation's only degree in Enigmatology. A few years later, at age 25, you founded the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, and have been the leader of that tournament ever since. In 1993, you became the editor of the
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Cactaceae Consensus Init. 6: 18. 1998
Family: CACTACEAE
Coryphantha scheeri SB 260 (Collector Steven Brack) Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
Origin and Habitat: Distribution: New Mexico (Chaves and Eddy counties), Texas (Brewster, Crockett, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Terrell, Ward, and Maverick counties), and Sonora and Chiuahua, Mexico.
Altitude: 1,000-1,100 m above sea level.
Habitat: Grows in flat plains or lower hill slopes in semidesert grassland and open woodland in the Chihuahuan desert vegetation, usually on fairly deep, gravelly or silty soils, occasionally on rocky benches or bajadas on limestone or gypsum.
- Coryphantha robustispina subs. scheeri (Muehlenpf.) N.P.Taylor
- Cactus scheeri (Muehlenpf.) Kuntze
- Coryphantha scheeri (Muehlenpf.) Lem.
- Mammillaria scheeri Muehlenpf.
Coryphantha robustispina subs. scheeri (Muehlenpf.) N.P.Taylor
Cactaceae Consensus Init. 6: 18. 1998
Synonymy: 8
- Coryphantha robustispina subs. scheeri (Muehlenpf.) N.P.Taylor
- Cactus scheeri (Muehlenpf.) Kuntze
- Coryphantha scheeri (Muehlenpf.) Lem.
- Mammillaria scheeri Muehlenpf.
- Coryphantha neoscheeri Backeb.
- Coryphantha scheeri var. valida (Engelm.) L.D.Benson in L.D.Benson
- Mammillaria scheeri var. valida Engelm.
- Mammillaria engelmannii Cory
Coryphantha robustispina (A.Schott ex Engelm.) Britton & Rose
Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 4: 33. 1923
Synonymy: 10
- Coryphantha robustispina (A.Schott ex Engelm.) Britton & Rose
- Cactus brownii Toumey
- Cactus robustispinus (A.Schott ex Engelm.) Kuntze
- Coryphantha muehlenpfordtii subs. robustispina (A.Schott ex Engelm.) Dicht
- Coryphantha muehlenpfordtii var. robustispina (Schott ex Engelm.) W.T.Marshall
- Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina (A.Schott ex Engelm.) L.D.Benson
- Mammillaria brownii Toumey
- Mammillaria robustispina A.Schott ex Engelm.
- Coryphantha muehlenpfordtii (Poselg.) Britton & Rose
- Echinocactus muehlenpfordtii Poselg.
Coryphantha robustispina subs. uncinata (L.D.Benson) N.P.Taylor
Cactaceae Consensus Init. 6: 18. 1998
Synonymy: 3
- Coryphantha robustispina subs. uncinata (L.D.Benson) N.P.Taylor
- Coryphantha muehlenpfordtii subs. uncinata (L.D.Benson) Dicht
- Coryphantha scheeri var. uncinata L.D.Benson
ENGLISH: Pima Pineapple Cactus, Long-tubercled Corphantha, Scheer pincushion, Pineapple cactus, Beehive cactus, Needle mulee, Mulee, Devil's Pincushion, Robust Pincushion, Scheer Cory-cactus, Scheer Strong Spined Cory-cactus, Stout Needle mulee
SPANISH (Español): Biznaga-partida de Espinas Gruesas
Description: Coryphantha sulcataSN|10314]] is a low-growing solitary (occasionally multi-stemmed) cactus related to Coryphantha robustispina subs. scheeriSN|10068]].
Stem: Hemispherical to egg shaped or somewhat conical, dull green, strongly tuberculate, 5-15 cm tall, 5-10(-15) cm in diameter or exceptionally taller especially in cultivation. Apex rounded wooly.
Tubercles: in 5-8 series, 7-12(-30) mm long, 15-19 mm wide, conical to cylindrical, prisma shaped at the base, fairly firm, prominently grooved and thick with 1 to 4 reddish-brown nectar glands. Furrow deep and woolly.
Axil: At first with white wool, then naked and broadened.
Areoles: Woolly when young, oval approx 3-4 mm wide, 5 mm long.
Central spines: Usually one (but up to 4) the dominant straight (sometime bent toward the apex), subulate (1,5)2,5-3,5(-5) cm long, the other straight upwards, slightly spreading outwards, slightly darker than radials.
Radial spines: (6-)8-13(-16) straight stiff, needle-like, yellowish to creamy-white with darker tips. Lower one often brownish (1-)2-2,5(-3.5) cm long, some upper radials often thinner, much like the central spine and closer set, the other horizontal spreading and radially arranged.
Flower: Funnel-shaped, silky, dark golden-yellow to greenish-yellow, rarely streaked or blushed with reddish in centre, 4-6.5 cm long, 5-7 cm in diameter, yellow stamens yellow to orange.
Blooming period: April-July, and possibly to as late as November.
Fruit: Green, ovoid to club-shaped, 3.5 to 5.5 cm long , 1.2 to 2 cm in diameter, the pulp juicy, sweet and mucilaginous, flowers remnant deciduous when mature.
Seeds: Brown, nearly smooth, about 2-3 mm long, somewhat flattened and kidney-shaped, with a lateral hilum.
Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Coryphantha robustispina group
- Coryphantha robustispina (A.Schott ex Engelm.) Britton & Rose: (Subsp. robustispina) is typically larger and has a single curved or hooked central spine. Distribution: Arizona.
- Coryphantha robustispina subs. scheeri (Muehlenpf.) N.P.Taylor: has straight central spines. Distribution: USA (west Texas, New Mexico) and Mexico (Chihuahua)
- Coryphantha robustispina subs. uncinata (L.D.Benson) N.P.Taylor: has strongly curved or hooked central spines. Distribution (Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas) and Mexico (Chihuahua).
- Coryphantha scheeri var. valida (Engelm.) L.D.Benson in L.D.Benson: this is the New Mexican form of Coryphantha robustispina subs. scheeri. It is not enough distinct to delineate a variety or subspecies.
Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Reto Dicht, Adrian Lüthy Coryphantha: Cacti of Mexico and Southern USA (Google eBook) Springer Science & Business Media, 14 March 2006
2) Nathaniel L. Britton, J. N. Rose "Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus" Volume IV. The Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington, 24/Dec/1923
3) Edward Anderson "The Cactus family" Timber Press, Incorporated, 2001
4) James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey "The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass" Cambridge University Press, 11/Aug/2011
5) David R Hunt; Nigel P Taylor; Graham Charles; International Cactaceae Systematics Group. "The New Cactus Lexicon" dh books, 2006
6) Heil, K. & Corral-Díaz, R. 2013. Coryphantha robustispina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 April 2015.
Nectar drops from the glads in the tubercular furrow. Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
Coryphantha scheeri SB843 (Collector: Steven Brack) Brewster County, Texas, USA Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
Coryphantha robustispina subs. scheeri Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
Coryphantha robustispina subs. scheeri Photo by: Peiffer Clement
Cultivation and Propagation: This plant grows in the same habitat as Echinocactus horizonthaloniusSN|1711]], with which it has some cultivation problems in common: slow-growing, seldom reaching the same size as in nature, sensitive against over-watering (does better when grafted). Water sparingly. It needs good drainage. Keep drier in winter. Full sun to partial shade. In humid conditions, the exudation of nectar (if not completely removed by ants) can cause the formation of mould, which leads to ugly black-colouring of the epidermis. To prevent this, spray the plant with water to remove the nectar. And provide very good ventilation.
Frost hardiness: Can withstand temperatures down to -6,6º C. (or less for short periods).
Propagation: Seeds or grafting.
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I am lucky enough that my local library has Burda magazines that you can get out on loan. I get them out but hardly ever trace the patterns because it seems like too much work. I actually liked this dress so much that I did get around to tracing it. The dress is called the Parisian dress for whatever reason. I think it's meant to suggest that it's super classy and elegant, much like Parisian women (stereotyping much). Maybe it will make me classy and elegant, but I doubt it considering most of the time I can't be bothered wearing makeup or brushing my hair.
Unlike the last dress I made, this one is actually winter appropriate. I said I was going to make winter dresses for the June Challenge and then went ahead and made a summer dress for my first one. I blame it on 'earthquake brain'. Apparently, it's a thing.
The fabric is a poly blend double knit. It's fairly thick and stable. This is pretty much the first time I've sewn with a knit and it was surprisingly easy. I sewed it on my lovely green Elna supermatic. I wasn't sure how well she would sew it since, being made in the 50s, she wasn't really meant to handle knits. I needn't have worried. She sewed like a champion.
I look really annoyed but this is just how my face looks.
As per usual, I took no notice of the instructions because Burda instructions and I are not friends. I think it's the lack of diagrams. Luckily, it's a pretty basic dress, so I didn't have any trouble.
I love this dress. It's so comfortable. The fabric is lovely and soft. It feels like I'm wearing a sweatshirt but looks slightly classier.
Thanks for all your sweet comments on my last post. Some of you were surprised that I kept sewing and blogging through all the earthquakes. Much in the same way that, in Christchurch, we have to laugh otherwise we'll cry, I have to sew otherwise I will go insane. Amid all the chaos and weirdness, it helps to do normal things. Not to mention the fact that I have been so fortunate. There are so many others here that are having a far tougher time of it that I am.
* Pretty much the only things I remember from 3 years of high school French are related to food and how to order it. Obviously, I have my priorities in order.


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What do you see in this detail from the Sistine Chapel frescos?
We'll give you a hint: Look at God's neck. Still can't see it? Take a look in a May issue of the journal Neurosurgery. What do a medical illustrator and a neurosurgeon see when they look at a Michelangelo masterpiece?
We propose that in the Separation of Light From Darkness, Michelangelo drew into God's neck a ventral view of the brainstem as well as the perisellar and chiasmatic regions.
Though finding this hidden drawing seems to take a lot of squinting and genuine imagination, the article's authors claim that their beliefs have historical and artistic groundings. For one, Michelangelo was a master at dissecting cadavers, a hobby he started at age 17, the authors told NPR. They also point to the lighting, God's trimmed beard, and the fact that, as a neck, it isn't anatomically correct. For a brainstem, the authors think, it's just right. Some art historians aren't convinced. Brian A. Curran, an associate professor of art history at Pennsylvania State University toldThe New York Times:
"I think this may be another case of the authors looking too hard for something they want to find. . . I don't want to discourage people from looking. But sometimes a neck is just a neck."
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