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Monday, December 28, 2015
Book Review ~ The Botanical Hand - Lettering Workbook
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Friday, December 18, 2015
Miniature Quilt Shop Reveal!
Just like I did with my miniature sewing room, I am going to share the details of the quilt shop in a few separate posts. Let me talk about the left side of the room...
The very last thing I made for the shop was this quilt for the wall. It is 4"x 4", and I am quite in love with it. I like the block so much that I might have to make a real person sized quilt with this block.
I will be back with more posts about other parts of the room next time, stay tuned! :)
Monday, December 14, 2015
Christmas Miniature Rooms Reveal and Little Thoughts to Share
I hosted a potluck/recipe exchange Christmas party last week. As a host, I really wanted everyone to have a good time and enjoy themselves. With good food and company, we played some games and visited with each other and it was so much fun! I was so happy to see a room full of ladies (17 of us! We missed some of them who couldn't make it) just chatting and laughing away.
One of the games we played was a game I found at Happy Home Fairy. It seemed very simple to prepare, and the people in the picture she posted looked like they were having so much fun, I decided to give it a try.
As prizes for this game, an idea popped in my head... miniature christmas rooms!
Are you ready for a closer look?
This one is very close to my color scheme. Lots of white and a hint of blue. I love the fluffy "giant pillow" by the fire place and the cake stand I created with buttons and beads.
My Minds Eye. Don't you think it adds a vintage feel to the whole room?
When the party came to an end and people start leaving one by one, I had mixed feelings inside. A sense of relief for the success of the party mixed with a bit of sadness for the fun time coming to an end.
We all are always busy. On top of our own and family members' schedules, and other obligations to meet. Places to go, things to do... I feel like it never ends! After the party I sat in the empty room feeling so grateful for the people for taking the time to come to the party. Above all I was feeling so grateful for my family who puts up with me and my crazy ideas all the time. The big Christmas party is over, but the party I have with my family continues on. I need to remind myself to pay close attention to details and care for them like I did for the Christmas party.
Who are the important people in your life? How are you going to show them that you love them?
Those are the questions echoing in my mind lately.
Let me say thank you to you all, my beloved readers. I hope you are having a great Christmas season filled with love and joy.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Counting Down to Christmas ~ Advent Calendar
One of our Christmas traditions is doing an advent calendar for the kids. Years ago, when the kids were still small I read about advent calendars and thought, "That is such a neat way to count down to the special day."
Our first year, I got 25 envelopes and wrote numbers 1 through 25. I stuck them onto the pantry door so they would form the shape of a Christmas tree after I filled them with some notes and candies. When I introduced the calendar and how it is suppose to work to the kids the next morning, they were so excited! Every morning, they couldn't wait to open the envelop to see what's inside. I can still remember their reactions and happy faces...
A few years later, the envelopes were replaced with a wooden advent calendar with tiny doors. This year I bought a new one because one of the doors was broken. Instead of doors, this one has deep drawers and I think I like this one better. Rachel couldn't wait for me to fill up the calendar for this year and she volunteered to write all the dates on the drawers.
I feel like it was so much easier and cheaper to please them when they were little. They would get excited about pretty much anything.
I will give you some of the things I used to put in to the calendar:
Mini candy cane
Chocolate coin
small toys from the dollar store
or papers saying things like:
Family movie night
Family game night
Going through the drive through and get donuts, ice cream and such
Going to the dollar theater
A couple years ago, I decided to do things a little differently since my kids are getting older. We had a discussion about the true meaning of Christmas and it is important to be giving rather than just focusing on receiving. They had the look on their faces like, "Where is she going with this?..." and I didn't feel much excitement from them. I explained that there will still be same type of small gifts, or notes with family activities, BUT, I will be putting in some notes with "giving" types of activities and assignments.
I think they weren't so sure about this, but they went along with it. Well, what other choice did they have?? I am the mom, and I am the one who fills up the calendar... muhahahaha
So, here are the examples of some of the notes:
Do something nice to your siblings without them knowing
Open the door for someone when we go out
Say something nice to 5 people today
Shovel the neighbor's driveway secretly
Then this year, I was looking at a box of candy canes and got new idea. I wrote on the note:
Be a ninja. Give candy canes to 4 people (I divided the dozen candy canes amongst my three kids) without getting caught.
I also told them a couple rules: first, they are not allowed to open someones bags to put it in. The people might think they are trying to steal something, that is the last thing you want! Second, they have to tell me who they gave it to and how when they get home. If they were able to witness the recipient's reaction, that would be better.
The kids were giddy about the new assigment and went to school.
The results? It was awesome. Even better than I expected!
I got to hear their stories of who they gave it to and how. The kids were talking and listening to each other's stories and we laughed about their experiences. Sounds like it is very difficult to be sneaky while giving something to someone! Three out of three kids said it was a lot of fun and they loved the assignment.
I think it comes natural to some to be generous and giving. To some, this needs to be taught.
As a mom, I want to make sure that my kids know giving brings joy. Whether tangible items, service or even a kind smile and kind words. Is there a better way to count down to the special day to celebrate the birth of our Savior?
There are 18 more days to go and I know there are more "giving" notes in the calendar. The thing is that I can't remember which drawer I put it in, so every morning it will be equally surprising and exciting for me as it is to my kids! Hahaha :)
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Marie Callender's Pie Review
I can't believe the major holidays are just around the corner. What comes to your mind when you think about Thanksgiving and Christmas? Friends and family gatherings, big feast, cooking for a big crowd and cleaning up... sounds exciting but a little overwhelming doesn't it? I love to cook but I do not want to get too stressed about get togethers. Marie Callender's ready made pie shells have been a great "go-to" for me for sometime. They are made from scratch, have a homemade quality and taste great. I was given the chance to try some of the Marie Callender's pies. The pies were Coconut Creme, Chocolate Satin Pie, and Dutch Apple Pie. My family and I happened to love all these pies, so we are very excited to try them! Every Monday is our special family night. No matter how busy our life gets, we try not to schedule anything that would keep us from spending time with each other on Monday nights. We had a couple friends visiting us that night and it was just the perfect time to try the pies with them. First of all, I was very impressed when I pull them out of the box. They. Look. Exactly. The. Same. As the picture. I know, it is supposed to be that way, but when you buy something, how many times does the picture looks amazing, but the actual product doesn't look anything like the picture? This isn't the case.
My family LOVES chocolate, so naturally they were drawn to the Chocolate Satin Pie. It was decorated with real chocolate curls (which by the way, my daughter kept eating off of the pie before I could even cut it!). The rich chocolate filling is very smooth and tasty, yep, it was definitely a hit. One of my sons and I love coconut cream pie. Usually though, even in big family gatherings, because it is not as popular as chocolate pie, we don't have it on the table. I realized that with Marie Callender's that problem is solved! The creaminess of the coconut custard with crunchiness of the real toasted coconut created a great flavor and texture in my mouth. Mmm... heavenly... Now, last but not least, the Dutch Apple Pie became one of our favorites. The delicious aroma of fresh Fuji apples and brown sugar streusel filled our house while it was baking in the oven. Even though I said that my family loves chocolate, the dutch apple pie got eaten the quickest! I loved the combination of the extra flaky crust with the filling. Special occasion or not, having a delicious home made quality dessert by Marie Callender's will be a great help to celebrate our everyday lives with our loved ones.
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Apple's been granted a preliminary injunction to stop sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 across the entire European Union on the basis of patent infringement. The ban excludes the Netherlands, where Apple has a separate lawsuit pending due to differences in patent law.
Samsung and Apple have been entangled in their lawyered-up nerd fight since April, when Apple sued Samsung for copying the iPhone and iPad with its handsets and tablets. Samsung countersued, but the back-and-forth in the following months saw Cupertino strike all the heaviest blows.
Samsung has already been barred from selling its tablet in Australia, where it lost a similar case against Apple. [Foss Patents]
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- Elvis (new character) : W707 (Alicia)
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Backfire at the disco
There is something so appealing about fire but know one can really nail why it is so cool. Is it the heat? The flickering of flames? The noise? If there is one thing that is cooler than fire it is fire being belched out of the arse pipe of a car. As they are so cool, we ...


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McDonalds -- You Don't Know Jack About Napkins ... Says Guy Who's Suing
McDonalds You Don't Know Jack About Napkins Says Guy Who's Suing
The guy who sued McDonalds for $1.5 mil for shorting him on napkins says he doesn't miss the golden arches one bit ... because now he eats at Jack in the Box.
Webster Lucas was leaving lunch in the Valley with a friend when our photog spotted his J.I.T.B. to-go bag. Ironically, we caught him holding the bag outside a Mickey D's.
Lucas groused that Ronald could learn a thing or 2 from Jack ... in the napkin dept.
As we previously reported ... Webster claims in his lawsuit he suffered severe emotional injury after being on the receiving end of racial slurs by a McDonalds manager ... who refused to give him more than one napkin.
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The Israeli election set for January 22 and the coverage thereof are very strange in several respects. It is a contest in which his opponents seek to beat centrist Prime Minister Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu, of the Likud party, in a remarkably inept manner, and in which international understanding of the issues is at the low level we've become used to seeing.
Here's a simple way to understand the situation: the far right parties and the moderate left parties are each likely to get roughly the same number of seats that they received in the 1999 election. The difference is that in 1999, the right divided its vote among three parties; today the right has largely united into one. The moderate left in 1999 gave their votes mainly to one party, and now are dividing it among four. The basic political geography has not shifted very much.
One can only note, however, that when Egypt elects the Muslim Brotherhood and one-quarter of the population vote for an openly genocidal party we are told this is an exercise in democracy whereas if ten percent or so in Israel vote for the far right and a centrist prime minister is reelected we are told by the same people that this is proof that Israel is becoming undemocratic and turning to the right.
In addition, viewing the actual electioneering by the moderate left makes one appreciate just how fraudulent political consultants are. They claim that they are going to help the candidate win, but have no idea how to do so. And in Israel they borrow childishly from the latest fads in American politics without regard to the differences.
Here are the themes pushed by the moderate left opposition:
— Bibi is for the rich. This slogan is unlikely to work in a country where lower income generally corresponds with more conservative voting. The idea is obviously stolen from Barack Obama's campaign. But Obama was going for large African-American, Hispanic, and student blocs, plus some middle class sectors that could be stirred up over hatred of the rich. This has no relevance for Israel.
— Bibi will get you killed. This theme is accompanied by a picture of a mushroom cloud. But is the idea that he will get you nuked by attacking Iran, or by not attacking Iran? It isn't clear. Since Netanyahu has the best claim to preserve the country's security, that approach is likely to be counterproductive.
— Bibi doesn't want your vote. This is the newest poster to appear, though it isn't clear who's promoting it. That makes no sense at all.
— The choice of photographs. Former Prime Minister Tzipi Livni, the candidate of her own party — and one of the quartet seeking moderate/moderate left voters — has a photograph on her poster that looks as if it were selected by her worst enemy. In it she appears ugly, angry, and confused.
— Livni's ad has several shots of Obama, and one of her standing with expected Secretary of State John Kerry. They seem to argue that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas really wants peace, but Netanyahu blocked it. Perhaps this ad was designed by left-liberal American Jewish political consultants. It won't go over well.
Shaul Mofaz, candidate of Kadima — Livni's former party that is expected to collapse completely in the election — has a terrible photograph of himself with former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. That relates to Kadima's founder, but is unlikely to win any votes. Rather than projecting leadership, the other left-of-center party leaders seem to be seeking anonymity.
What's astonishing is the obtuseness of the opposition, especially Labor. Netanyahu is going to win, but the way to get the largest vote — becoming the official opposition and possibly his coalition partner — is to run on an energetic program of domestic improvements. The obvious opposition approach should be that it is the time to improve schools, the infrastructure, and to reduce housing and food prices.
People are waiting to be told that their living standards can be improved without threatening their security. A winning theme would be to say Netanyahu has neglected these domestic issues. True, the economy has done very well, but the price of relatively high employment, rapid growth, and low inflation has been high prices.
For breakfast just now, I paid $3 for a croissant and $3 for a coffee in a country where income levels average half those in the United States. Young people can't afford an apartment in a country where rentals are relatively rare and there is not a strong mortgage system or tax deductions for paying one.
That's why there were social protests in 2011. While going into big debt and increasing subsidies — the trap into which most Western economies have fallen — would be a mistake, there are certainly good shifts to be made. Instead, voters are being treated like idiots who will be won over by some silly slogan convincing them that either the prime minister is evil or will get them incinerated. That won't win an election.
The splits in the opposition have become ridiculous. Four different parties are competing with no real differences among them and without a single charismatic leader. Mofaz may be a highly competent general but has shown himself to be a bad politician. Livni has failed repeatedly in office. Yair Lapid is following his father's political path in bashing the Haredim (those inaccurately known generally as "ultra-Orthodox"), while Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich, widely predicted to come in second, is a radio personality with little political experience. Three of them — except for Mofaz — just met to discuss unity, and broke up in acrimony.
Livni has already announced she won't go into coalition with Netanyahu, while Lapid demands that there won't be any religious parties involved. In other words, both of them plus the hapless Mofaz have boxed themselves into a corner.
This brings us into the popular international theme about the alleged meaning of the election: Israel is moving to the right and rejecting a two-state solution. A lot of this is motivated by the agenda of making Israel look as if it is against peace, despite the fact that it is the Palestinian side that makes such a solution impossible.
Yet Netanyahu's impending victory has nothing to do with any shift on that issue. Rather, it is due to the fact that the prime minister has done a reasonably good job, the economy is okay, terrorism is low, he's kept out of trouble, and he has shown he can be trusted to preserve security.
Moreover, there is no very attractive figure, unity, or single impressive party on the other side. Given this situation, Netanyahu's victory — meaning his party will come in first and he will form the next government — is a no-brainer.
There are four pieces of evidence that supposedly indicate the next government will be further to the right or more "hardline," three of which are clearly bogus.
First: several supposedly moderate candidates in the Likud primary were defeated. In fact, this group — one of whom, Benny Begin, is an honorable man but hard right — consists of nice guys who were terrible campaigners. Nothing is less surprising than that they lost.
Second: the hardline faction of Likud, led by Moshe Feiglin, a dangerous extremist, is supposedly stronger. In fact, Netanyahu held it at bay and it would have no influence in the next government as it has not had in this one.
Third: Netanyahu made a distasteful alliance with the party of the demagogic Avigdor Lieberman. While Lieberman is corrupt and a poseur, his right-wing militancy was for show and he never actually did anything materially. At any rate, with Lieberman under indictment for corruption, the political careers of his faction's parliamentarians now depend on keeping Netanyahu happy. Moreover, they represent more of a Soviet immigrant pressure group than right-wing militants.
This leaves the real fear regarding the rising star of Naftali Bennett, head of the genuinely far-right Habayit Hayehudi party. But the problem with the thesis, popular among Western journalists, that there will be a right-wing Netanyahu-Bennett coalition is that Netanyahu loathes Bennett and knows he would be a constant headache. Bennett's party would attack every pragmatic step Netanyahu took — including those needed to get along with an Obama-led America — and ache for opportunities to threaten to walk out of the coalition or actually do so.
If such a coalition does happen, it will be because Netanyahu could find no way out. It is more likely that he will do everything possible to avoid this outcome and to work with some combination of other parties, including Labor. Of course, such an outcome isn't certain, but is more likely than an all-right coalition.
The results will depend on the political math following the January 22 voting, with the key issue being how Netanyahu could assemble a parliamentary majority of 61 out of 120. Most likely would be an outcome in which the policies of the next government will be the same as the one ruling Israel for the last four years.
Right now, as Israelis realize, we live in an era when Israeli policy is necessarily more reactive and defensive. There is no diplomatic option for peace, and Israel has no influence over the Islamist direction of Egypt, Syria, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon.
The big question, of course, is whether Netanyahu would ever attack Iran's nuclear installations. I think the answer to that question is "no" for many reasons, only one of them being that this would lead to a confrontation with the Obama administration.
After decades of hearing American writers and alleged experts misunderstand Israeli politics and thinking, I can say that nothing has changed in this regard.
It is amazing to see how the election is being distorted: Bennett both demonized and made to seem more important than he is; Israel now being called anti-democratic because Netanyahu will win; etc.


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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – New Screenshots and Info About the Story-Driven, Open-World RPG from CD Projekt RED
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an unprecedented combination of story-driven RPG and vast, living, open world. CD Projekt RED talks about how the studio achieves this union of different RPG approaches.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – New Screenshots
"The Witcher 3 is full of impactful decisions, and gamers will choose between storylines that exclude one another in a single playthrough, ensuring extensive replay value. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt crowns the trilogy with the main narrative, revolving around Geralt's search for his loved ones and his conflict with the Wild Hunt. As players travel through the game, they visit lands with their own unique atmosphere, communities and memorable characters. CD Projekt RED didn't create an open world with a singular theme, but concentrated on delivering diversified and engaging environments, 30 times larger than those in The Witcher 2." said Adam Badowski, head of CD projekt RED sudio.
This setting changes depending on gamers' actions not only when completing Geralt's personal storyline, but also because of his involvement in major local plotlines in each land visited and many other carefully-designed side quests. All threads of this player-crafted tale interact with each other and the world, creating an even more nonlinear experience than ever before. The main narrative accounts for around 50 hours of gameplay in one playthrough, and the additional stories add another 50 hours of role playing, giving around 100 hours of total gaming time.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt announcement screenshots present the chilly islands of Skellige, one of the lands the players will visit during their adventures. Today CD projekt RED has released a set of in-game images. The images come from an early version of the game as the team develops a new renderer, which will be used in the final game.
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Venus Williams Legally Entered Intersection Before Deadly Crash, Police Say
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Tennis star Venus Williams legally entered an intersection but was cut off by another car, setting off a chain of events that seconds later resulted in a fatal crash with a third car, police say video released Friday shows.
The video, taken by a security camera, shows Williams heading north as she stops her 2010 Toyota Sequoia SUV at a stoplight behind a white car as she exits her Palm Beach Gardens neighborhood shortly after 1 p.m. June 9.
Report: Venus Williams Deemed At Fault In Fatal Car Crash
When the light turns green, the white car turns left onto a six-lane, heavily traveled boulevard, but Williams heads straight. A dark colored sedan turns left in front of her, causing her to stop.
She then continues straight into the far, westbound lanes, where her SUV is struck in the passenger's side by a 2016 Hyundai sedan driven by Linda Barson.
Palm Beach Gardens police said in a statement Friday that Barson's light had turned green just before Williams moved in front of her. Barson's 78-year-old husband, Jerome Barson, died June 22 from injuries suffered in the crash.
Williams, who was not hurt, has not been cited or charged. Police spokesman Maj. Paul Rogers said Friday the video has caused investigators to rescind their original conclusion that Williams was at fault and that no blame has yet been determined.
Venus Williams Emotional After Asked At Wimbledon About Fatal Car Crash
Jerome Barson's estate has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Williams seeking unspecified damages. Linda Barson, 68, suffered numerous fractures to her arm.
Williams, 37, is now in England competing at Wimbledon, a tournament she has won five times. The 10th-seeded Williams, who has won her first three matches, broke down in tears Monday when asked at a press conference about the crash.
Michael Steinger, the attorney for the Barson family, said the video shows Williams caused the crash by "violating the Barsons' right of way. "
"There is nothing that disputes Ms. Williams' was in the intersection on a red light, and the witnesses clearly confirm the Barsons had a green light and lawfully entered the intersection," Steinger said in a statement.
Williams' attorney, Malcolm Cunningham, disagreed, saying in a statement that Linda Barson was at fault.
Williams "had the right to proceed through the intersection and other vehicles including those with a red light changing to green, were obligated to yield the right-of-way," Cunningham said, adding, "she remains deeply saddened by the loss suffered by the Barson family and continues to keep them in her thoughts and prayers."
Williams has career on-court earnings of more than $34 million and her own clothing line, EleVen. According to Forbes Magazine, she also has endorsement deals with Ralph Lauren, Kraft foods, Tide detergent and Wilson sporting goods.
Her younger sister, Serena Williams, the world's fourth-ranked women's player, is sitting out Wimbledon as she is pregnant with her first child.
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Kiss has updated its website with its spring base makeup collection. The new Mat Chiffon UV Whitening Base N (1680yen) SPF26 PA++ comes in #1 Natural Matte and #2 Matte Beige. Compared to the previous version, the new Whitening Base N is supposed to have enhanced moisturising properties, better coverage of pores and skin unevenness, non-comodogenic and also a greater volume of product to provide about 10 more applications. The new Mat Chiffon Powder UV (1680yen) SPF22 PA++ is also available in the same two shades and contains chamomile extract.
Friday, 12 March 2010
Kiss Spring Base Makeup 2010
Labels: foundation, Kiss, powder
2 comments:
- tiggercheeze said...
how do u think this works as compared to the old version? i've been using the old one for a long time.
are they going to d/c the old version then?
- 13 March 2010 at 01:39
- Haru said...
Yup, the old version will be discontinued as it will be replaced by this new one. It's hard to compare the two without actually trying it out and there aren't any reviews yet on Cosme.net. The Kiss website also states that it contains placenta extract for whitening, but that just strikes me as being gimmicky and a bit offputting!
- 13 March 2010 at 05:57
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Moodle 2.5.2, 2.4.6 and 2.3.9 are now available
Moodle 2.5.2, 2.4.6 and 2.3.9 are available via the usual open download channels (http://download.moodle.org or Git).
In addition to a number of bug fixes and small improvements, security vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed. As always, we recommend that you upgrade your sites to these latest versions as soon as possible. All admins of registered Moodle sites will be notified with security issue details.
Upgrading should be very straightforward. Full details about the releases can be found in the release notes:
Note that the 2.3 branch is now supported for security fixes only.


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10 Signs of the Apocalypse
10. I bought a Prius. I would rather have gotten the new Camaro, but I'm 52 and starting to get a conscience. So I caved and got a hybrid. My soon-to-be-16-year-old daughter thinks I'll get over the conscience thing and give her the Prius. She's only half right—I'll trade it in on a Camaro.
9. Florida is losing population. And this is a bad thing?
8. Lightning struck and killed the fountain in Lake Eola. Believe me, that was a sign from God.
7. For a failing bank to get bailout money it only had to fill out a two-page form. Meanwhile, the federal government generated 36 pages of instructions and forms for participants to use in the "cash for clunkers" program.
6. Jennifer Aniston still can't hold on to a man.
5. Neither Mayor Crotty nor Mayor Dyer has raised taxes for the next budget year. They must know the situation is hopeless.
4. It's been weeks since I have heard a peep out of die-hard SunRail supporters who had floated one silly plan after another to try to get the commuter rail project approved. They probably got in their gas guzzling, taxpayer-funded SUVs and left Florida.
3. Jay Leno is on at 10 p.m. He must know his audience is getting too old to stay up past 11.
2. Gov. Perpetual Suntan continues to get high approval rating.
1. $1 trillion in bailout money and not one dime made it into my hands. If it had, I would have bought the Camaro, like the one in Transformers.


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One of Red Hat Enterprise Linux's big selling points has been its consistency, in the operating system itself and the software packaged with it. Red Hat goes so far as to offer application certification -- now with Docker support -- to ensure the software running on top of RHEL behaves as expected.
But what about developers who want to step outside the lines, so to speak, and run something a little more cutting-edge? Are they doomed to remain a version or two behind the other folks running the latest and greatest versions of PHP or Nginx? No, says Red Hat, and it's now offering the next iteration of a software package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux designed to do precisely that.
Red Hat's Software Collections, originally released in June 2013, brings together versions of many languages and platforms that are both newer than the ones bundled with RHEL and come with official support from Red Hat.
The packages included in the 1.1 version of the Collections are listed on Red Hat's site. Among them are PHP 5.4.16 and 5.5.6 (including the memcache and Zend OPcache extensions), Python 2.7.5 and 3.3.2, Ruby 1.9.3. and 2.0.0, Node.js 0.10, Nginx 1.4.4, MongoDB 2.4.9, and a number of other applications.
One interesting addition to the collection is Thermostat, a monitoring and instrumentation system for the Hotspot JVM that uses MongoDB as a data back end and can harvest data from multiple JVMs. Thermostat has been included in Red Hat's Fedora Project since version 17, although it hasn't yet been added to RHEL itself; that's slated to happen in RHEL 7.
Langdon White, Red Hat Enterprise Linux developer advocate, described the revision and upgrade process for the Software Collections as "18 months for major releases [of the Collections] and nine months (or as needed) for minor, while critical fixes and security updates are issued as soon as possible via z-stream." Most of that timeline, he explained, was derived from the fact many of the languages considered for inclusion in the Collection "averaged about a three-year lifespan" for their major versions. "We then used that number to develop our major and minor release timelines," White said.
Many of the packages were assembled via various forms of feedback, including a poll on the Red Hat Developer Blog. There, Python 2.7 and 3.3 and PostgreSQL were among the top replies for the questions "What are you using today [in the Software Collections]?" and "What are you intending to use?" Ruby 2.x was the top reply for "What do you want to see added?" Apache 2.4, Boost, MongoDB, and Nginx also made the top five. (Docker, now a major Red Hat item, came in 10th.)
White also noted the embarrassment of riches to choose from for a project like the Software Collections. "We're ultimately limited by the timelines and what we can conceivably test and verify before each release," he said. "The proliferation of tools and technologies that are generally awesome, over the last few years, has made this harder and harder."
For those who use OpenShift, White has pointed out that many Red Hat Software Collections components are also available as OpenShift cartridges. "This means that, for the most part, applications built on OpenShift can then be dropped onto the appropriate Red Hat Software Collection on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, leading to greater flexibility and productivity for developers and systems administrators alike."
A release date for the 1.1 version of the collection hasn't been specified, but there was a four-month period between the beta release of the 1.0 edition and its final release. Mark your calendars tentatively for July.


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My name is Missy and I am also a member of the Mom Bloggers Club. I have a blog,www.luxurybeautyproducts.blogspot.com and I also run the blog hop network.
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I'm fairly new to MBC myself and wanted to welcome you. I am a part-time family doctor and full-time mom of 4 boys. I have a parenting website. On the site I accept questions from parents about their kids' behavior and offer suggestions about difficult situations. I hope you will check it out, perhaps leave a question or recommend it to a friend who has a problem.
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User:Purple Wrench
From Homestar Runner Wiki
*Note that on this page (mostly in the userbox), this user is referred to in the third person with pronouns such as "tee" in place of he/she, "temm" in place of him/her, "temmself" in place of him/herself, "terr" in place of his/her, and "terrs" in place of his/hers. Why, you ask? Because making sense is not part of terr mission! Tee's stickin' with the tee.
[edit] Purple Wrench's Quote of the Week
Purple Wrench is currently changing substantial content. As a courtesy, until this tag is removed please do not view this section unless absolutely necessary. You are still welcome to view other parts of the page.
[edit] Favorite Homestar-Related Pages
These are pages that I feel are either underappreciated, unknown, or simply difficult to find. Some are legitimate while some are troll edits that have since been reverted; some are useful while others are simply hilarious. A select few are not on the wiki at all.
- The "Spoons" page which appeared underneath The Brothers Chaps' praise for the wiki in October 2009.
- Loafing's Hall of Fame of edit summaries.
- A troll who tried to pass off YouTube Poop ideas as actual pages.
- (not quite Homestar related) A troll who seems to think that, by replacing a certain user's pages with a repeating interjection, the user will be persuaded to leave the HRWiki. ...And also the TMBWiki.
- A Homestar fanfic that is hilariously awful, read dramatically by Kristanni20X6 for comedic effect.
- Fan Costumes 2016, specifically the section written by It's dot com detailing the difference between a fake wiki article and the real one. The final bullet point makes the whole page.
[edit] Wiki Pages I've Created
[edit] Regular Pages
These are regular pages in the main namespace of the Wiki.
[edit] Extra Pages
These are pages I have started in my own namespace in order to help with the comprehensive nature of the Wiki, despite not being important enough to be regular pages.
- Strong Bad's Greetings If an email has one greeting and Strong Bad says something else, it'll be here.
- Contentions I Hold Homestar-related stuff I think is true, but either I can't prove it or the wiki disagrees.
- Homestar Offsite Lets you download all the files on homestarrunner.com at once.
[edit] April Fools' Jokes
Since AFJAOBN will no longer be used to keep track of users' April Fools jokes on the wiki, here's a list of mine. Note that some of the images won't work anymore due to broken links.
[edit] 2011
- Changed my user page to a very large version of the "Potatoes" poster from pet show. Clicking on it gave a YouTube link to pet show starting at the appropriate time.
- Changed my signature to the same Potatoes poster, except that it fit inside the sig box.
- Replaced my talk page with the above signature duplicated almost 500 times. However, this has been invisible since the signature was reverted. Because I used {{User:Purple Wrench/sig}} in my talk page, any attempt to view it now results in seeing his current signature instead of the "Potatoes" signature.
[edit] 2015
(I chose not to do any April Fools jokes until Homestar Runner showed some signs of life. Since that wasn't until April 1, 2014, it had to wait until 2015.)
- Assumed the identity of D. Lindo on my user page and sig (archived on current sig page).
- Was seen transforming into this identity at the bottom of this page.
- Replaced my talk page with a giant "P."
[edit] 2016
- Assumed the identity of "The Purple Wrench Preservation Society", claiming to have preserved the Purple Wrench behind plexiglass for being one-of-a-kind.
- Encased my user page and talk page behind a CSS gradient, restricting access to both of the pages (preceding links only work on April 1; click here to view the user page year round).
- Changed my sig accordingly (archived on current sig page).
- Appended all of my edit summaries with "(edited by the purple wrench preservation society)".
[edit] 2017
- Impersonated Catjaz63.
- Changed the top of my user page to resemble what Catjaz63's page might have looked like if he had settled on one (preceding link only works on April 1; click here to view the user page year round).
- Changed the top of my talk page to use the "C.R.A.P. Meter" from Catjaz63's talk page (preceding link only works on April 1; click here to view the talk page year round).
- Changed my sig to an early version of Catjaz63's sig that did not meet wiki standards for length (archived on current sig page).
[edit] About Myself (Or, "The User Behind The Username")
[edit] Discovery
|As you can probably guess by the username, I did not become a Homestar Runner fan until its initial popularity had already waned. However, in late May 2008, I came across a YouTube video which had Everybody To The Limit dubbed in. At first, I mistook it for a cheesy song the user had made, and moved on to another video. Soon after, I found a video about Trogdor, and this time it linked to homestarrunner.com. Curious but skeptical, I did a search for Homestar Runner on YouTube, and came across several sbemails, the first of which was probably guitar (and yes, I did see dragon...). Realizing what I had found, I searched for the first Homestar cartoon (not knowing the difficulties of watching in chronological order) and found Super NES.
By this time, I knew YouTube would not be able to remain my only source, so I pointed my Wii browser in the direction of homestarrunner.com, and started looking around (and fortunately did not stumble on Main Page 24). The first cartoon I watched (or, the first I attempted to watch) was SBCG4AP Advertisement, but none of the fonts showed up, so I knew I would have to attempt using my computer to watch it and risk the potential danger. (You can see how that turned out)
The first thing I did was watch every single sbemail to date in order. After about 75 emails, I noticed that a new one had just been uploaded: love poems. Within days, I completed my task and was ready for more. The first update I "caught" on time was the June 5 Weeklies; the first short was Play Date. The first sub-series I watched was Old-Timey, and the last was Cheat Commandos (when The Next Epi-Snowed came out).
The summer of 2008 became my "Summer of Strong Badia", and Experimental Film became my "Summer Song" (coincidentally, it was released in the summer of 2004). By the time I was able to actually watch the SBCG4AP Advertisement, it was less than a month before Nintendo announced it formally. I bought all five episodes on the Wii as soon as they came out, and at the same time anticipated the day when sbemail 200 would finally be released.
[edit] The Wiki
Around the time Baddest of the Bands was released, I stumbled upon the Wiki through (what else?) a Google search. I began using the Wiki as a last resort for finishing SBCG4AP, but decided to explore further when I realized the Dangeresque 3 Walkthrough was still being written. Through the Wiki, I saw all the removed toons and secret pages, and ended up watching everything on the site. (However, I doubt I will ever be as fortunate as reading everything on the Wiki!) On July 8th, 2009, I noticed a strange parallel between A Folky Tale and an Atari 2600 prototype, and submitted my first talk page comment: "Atari Dancing Brothers?". More and more frequently, I began submitting talk page comments and making small grammar and spelling corrections under the addresses 18.104.22.168, 22.214.171.124, 22.214.171.124, and 188.8.131.52. Starting in November 2009, I began being more ambitious and editing article pages to document new updates and increase the completeness of older topics. Here is what I believe is my most important edit on such pages.
(No, really, it's this one.)
I first actually joined the Wiki on April 12, 2010. My goal was to join as soon as the Brothers Chaps made it clear that they were updating again, which they did on April 1st, 2010 with Xeriouxly Forxe. I joined as soon as I saw Main Page 26 was up, and helped contribute to the page. My first important contribution was the transcript of the Variety Playhouse They Might Be Giants 2010 Concert, as it had not been attempted for more than a month by anyone. Another notable, but not important, contribution was the discovery of an alternate edit in the YouTube version of That Time of Year.
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[edit] The Life And Times Of The Purple Wrench
[edit] In The Main Series
|The Purple Wrench has devoted its entire life to a few seconds of screen time. Born with a strange green pigment, it was dyed purple to avoid being melted down to make pennies. A result of this dye is a permanent scar which reads "PURPLE WRENCH" at one angle.
After having been orphaned by its manufacturer, the wrench was bought by a Mr. C. Greg, who refused to provide his full name for this publication.
"Yep, I bought the Purple Wrench to fix my clapperboard after using it 854 times in one day... But I never used it again, so I gave it to Bubs about a year later."
Bubs, owner of Bub's Conces5ion Stand, realized the potential of the wrench, and began enrolling it in the local drama club known as Coach Z's Nicetown Players. Its first performance was in a production of "Being Mean Ain't The Greatest Choice", cast in the role of the Baseball Borningstar held by Strong Mad.
"We applied several hundred pennies worth of makeup on the wrench to complete the illusion," remarks Bubs.
The following year, the wrench received a lost teleplay written by its manufacturer shortly before his death. The script was untitled, except for a small "62" in the bottom-right corner of the front page. Bubs hired no-armed whitey Homestar Runner to play the leading role, while the Purple Wrench was cast, for the first time, as itself. The teleplay was codenamed "Educaysh at the Foundaysh" during its filming, and Bubs spent ferty-twan dollars on digital effects to "buff out" the Wrench's scar.
The Purple Wrench currently resides in Tahoe with its fourth owner, Mr. Crack Stuntman, who acquired the Wrench off the set of a Public Service Announcement when it was used to tear down a set of bamboo trees.
A photograph of the Wrench's role in "62"
[edit] The Cupric Contraption: Old-Timey Variant
An advertisement for the Cupric Contraption from 1936
| The Cupric Contraption is an adjustable wrench made entirely out of copper which was created in 1936. It was originally planned to be the basis of a product line to be sold by then-textile manufacturer Costless Bargains. However, after a small abnormality was found in the wrench, it became the company's official symbol instead.
The Contraption fell into the hands of several families during the 20th century, the first of which was the Samuel family. Stricken by poverty, the family stole the wrench from the Costless Bargains headquarters and gave it to their son, Sickly, as a tool for killing small rodents to eat. However, the family was placed under arrest (although Sickly could not be handcuffed because his body was not tangible), and the wrench became property of the Free Country, USA police department.
Within a decade, the police department dissolved, and the Contraption was passed nearly door-to-door, as no households were interested in claiming the wrench for more than a few days. Finally, the Contraption found its way to the front door of Sir Walls the Second, the then-CEO of Costless Bargains. Sir Walls re-established the wrench as the logo of the company, and placed it under lock and key.
In 1983, Sir Walls the Third took over the family business and renamed it Cheap As Free, worried that the former aging terminology would mean nothing to modern shoppers. In 1995, to celebrate the coming millennium, he had the Contraption covered in solid titanium. To serve as the launch of a proposed massive ad campaign, the Contraption made a cameo in a Strong Bad Email; interestingly, it was cast as a wrench that was being used by Bubs, who would later own the Purple Wrench itself. This decision was met with much applause, until an 80-year-old Sir Walls the Second was arrested for stealing "public" property, as the law had stated that material confiscated by the Free Country, USA police department became public after ten years (part of the reason for its demise). Cheap As Free was absorbed into rival company Harmless Junk, Inc., which renamed itself Cheap As Free Conglomerate. The Cupric Contraption's value ironically dropped to eleven dollars and one penny, making it no more valuable than the original price of its own plastic knock-offs. Due to this rapid turn of events, the Strong Bad Email was quickly scrapped, although the Contraption's cameo remains in a clip show known as "personal favorites".
In 2001, a ten-year-old Sir Walls the Fourth, not knowing the historical significance of the wrench, gave the Cupric Contraption away as candy to an unknown man who bore a striking resemblance to Popeye character J. Wellington Wimpy. After receiving the wrench, the man proceeded to dematerialize it into thin air. When interviewed about his decision, the man replied, "Oh no, I think this is my favorite."
[edit] In The Future?
|Through the use of special radio equipment, scientists have been able to capture information which will be broadcast in approximately X6 years. On the subject of the Purple Wrench, a broken Japanese feed has been found which provides a few clues into the life of the Wrench's future variant. Here is the only available information after several noise reduction filters and a simple online Japanese-to-English translation.
Dr. Ted Averill of SBASAF, an authority on not this subject at all, had this to comment: "From what I can tell, this so-called amphibian is, in fact, an android. It seems that the Wrench in question is none other than the fingernails of which is spoken. If this is true, then we may assume that there is a possibility that X0 years from now, a metallic substance of great strength may be, artificially or genetically, implanted into the fingernails of the populace. This is, no doubt, a calmly exciting day for scientists and oracles everywhere -- no, Mr. Coopmore, I can't allow you to do that -- Mr. Captainface, please refrain from using that on-board computer, as it will most certainly provide hours of pure entertainment -- Mr. Coopmore, don't detach that microphone -- Mr. Coopmore -- Strap -- STRAP!!! -- Get me away fro-"
A wise choice of words, Dr. Averill.
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Australia's wood and paper products industries are important components of Australia's primary and secondary industry sectors. They are particularly important in providing economic development and employment in many regions of rural Australia. The industries include hardwood and softwood sawmilling, plywood and panels manufacturing, woodchip production and export, and the pulp and paper industries. In 1999-2000, the value of turnover in the wood and paper products industries was $13.6b, of which wood processing establishments (log sawmilling, timber dressing and other wood product manufacturing) contributed $7.9b (table 17.5).


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Sony Mobile today announced an Android-based SmartWatch 2 with NFC wireless and a large-screen 6.44-in. HD smartphone called the Xperia Z Ultra.
The announcement was made at the Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai. A U.S.-based Sony spokeswoman said there would be no information on U.S. availability or pricing at this time.
However, the SmartWatch 2 SW2 (its full name) is expected to be available worldwide in September, with the Ultra launching globally in the third quarter, with timing to vary by market.
The SmartWatch 2 comes with a 1.6-in., 220 x 176 pixel color LCD display with touch and swipe capabilities. It is easy to read in sunlight and battery time is three to four days with typical use, Sony said. The Android version for the SmartWatch is listed by Sony as "4.0 and later."
NFC wireless makes it the first smart watch with NFC, an update from the original Sony SmartWatch. Bluetooth 3.0 allows for easy one-touch wireless pairing to an Android phone, like the Xperia Z Ultra. When not paired to a phone, it works as a standalone digital watch where users can read previously received notifications or emails.
When paired, the SmartWatch 2 allows the taking of calls and snapping of photos by a touch of the wrist. It can be used as a second screen for an Android smartphone, as an app interface to control a presentation remotely, or to monitor a mapping app. And it can also be paired with a music player to adjust volume and select tracks.
Sony's head of companion products, Stefan Persson, said that Sony introduced its first Bluetooth watch in 2007. "Competitors are only now launching first-generation devices, while we are already launching third-generation devices with the insight gained from over half a million customers, combined with Sony's wealth of technology expertise to create the best ever smartphone experience," he said.
Apple, Microsoft and Samsung are all reported to be making smart watches for release in the coming year.
Persson said there are already 200 unique SmartWatch apps with 1 million downloads to date. He said that analysts have predicted 41 million smart watches will be sold by 2016.
The watch itself is made of aluminum and plastic and is splash-proof, but is not suitable for showering and bathing. It comes with a black metallic wristband. The watch itself is almost square and about one-third of an inch thick. Exactly, it measures 1.638 x 1.618 x 0.354 inches. It weighs less than an ounce (0.828), or 23.5 grams. Other specs were not available.
The Xperia Z Ultra runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and will come in black, white and purple. It features a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor rated at 2.2GHz, which Sony said makes it the world's fastest smartphone.
The Ultra has 16GB of internal storage, expandable with up to a 64GB microSD card.
The biggest feature of the Ultra, however, is the large 6.44-in. touchscreen display rated at 1920 x 1080 pixels and 16.7 million colors. Sony used its Bravia TV experience to enhance colors in what it calls a Triluminos display. The technology analyzes an image and reproduces pixels that are missing to optimize video quality.
At 0.46 pounds (212 grams) and just 0.25-in. thick (6.5 mm), Sony claimed it is world's slimmest full HD smartphone and world's only waterproof full HD smartphone.
Ultra allows users to sketch with any pencil, stylus or pen with a tip diameter over 1 millimeter. Face Unlock and Gesture Input are supported. It has an 8 megapixel rear camera and a 2 megapixel front camera. Ultra also supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and LTE. A large 3000 mAh hour battery is rated for up to 11 hours of talk time. Overall dimensions are 7.06 x 3.63 x .25 inches, weighing 7.4 ounces.
Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed. His email address is email@example.com.
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Baghdad • Attackers unleashed a carefully planned assault with car bombs and gunmen disguised as police on the Iraqi Justice Ministry on Thursday, killing at least 24 people as hundreds of others crouched terrified in their offices.
The large and complex raid in the heart of downtown Baghdad came less than a week before the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, showing how vulnerable this country remains to insurgent attacks.
The fighting lasted about an hour, ending with security forces storming the four-story building after some of the gunmen detonated suicide vests, according to police and witnesses. None of the attackers survived.
"It was the longest hour in my life," said Asmaa Abbas, who cowered alongside colleagues in her third-floor office while the assailants battled security forces outside.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attack bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida's Iraqi arm. The group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, frequently uses car bombs, suicide bombers and coordinated blasts in an effort to undermine Iraqis' confidence in the Shiite-led government.
The attack began shortly after midday in Baghdad's Allawi area, a largely commercial district that is home to the Iraqi National Museum and the city's main bus station.
At least two blasts, including one car bomb and another believed to be from a suicide bomber, went off near the Justice Ministry.
Two other car bombs exploded nearby in what police believe was an effort to confuse the authorities. One struck near the bus station and the other hit the headquarters for a VIP protection force that provides bodyguards for lawmakers, government ministers and other senior officials.
Amid the chaos, approximately six gunmen wearing police uniforms charged inside the ministry building, according to a police officer who was among the troops sent to clear the area. A gun battle soon broke out between the intruders and security forces.
After about an hour, security forces stormed the building, and some of the gunmen detonated explosives they were wearing, the officer on the scene said.
More than 1,000 people in the building at the time of the attack, said Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim, adding that the justice minister was traveling abroad.
Ibrahim said he hid behind the locked door of his office, ordering his bodyguards to shoot anyone who tried to enter.
He described a terrifying ordeal, with at least one suicide bomber blowing himself up on the ground floor of the building, shattering windows and damaging the ceiling.
"When the explosions and shooting started, the guards evacuated me out a back door, and I have no idea what happened after that," he said, speaking over the telephone from outside the building.
The attack killed 24 people in addition to the gunmen and wounded 57 others, police said. The dead include seven police officers.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualty numbers. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi demanded an investigation into how the raid happened.
"This blatant security violation targeting an important government building in the middle of the capital only shows the weakness of the security forces (and) their limited capabilities," he said in a statement.
Justice Ministry employees had moved to this facility after a 2009 attack on their nearby headquarters, which is now being repaired. That attack was part of a double car bombing which killed at least 147 people.
Thursday's attack took place about a mile away from the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses several foreign embassies and Iraqi government offices.
The U.S. Embassy vowed to work with Baghdad to combat those who carry out "such atrocious and senseless crimes."
A separate attack by gunmen on a military checkpoint in the town of Latifiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of the capital, left four soldiers dead and another wounded, two police officers and a medic said.
Violence in Iraq has subsided from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but deadly attacks remain frequent a decade after the March 20, 2003 start of the American-led invasion.
Iraq's government is being challenged by weekly protests that began in December from Sunnis angry over perceived discrimination. The demonstrations have been largely peaceful, and most Iraqi Sunnis do not support al-Qaida.
But al-Qaida hopes to exploit the increasing tensions. It believes Shiites are heretics and that Iraq's government is too closely allied with neighboring Shiite powerhouse Iran.
Earlier this week, al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the deaths of 51 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqis in a well-planned assault in western Iraq on March 4, intensifying concerns that the terror group is coordinating with Islamist rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.


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A casual game on the golf course turned scary for a St. Louis-area golfer Mark Mihal when he suddenly plunged through the earth into an 18-foot sinkhole, NBC News reported.
Mihal noticed an unusual depression on the 14th hole at Annbriar Golf Club in southern Illinois and told his friends how difficult it would be to have to hit out of it, according to The Associated Press.
He walked over to take a closer look when the ground underneath him swiftly gave in.
"When I was in in the air going down I thought that was probably it, because I didn't know where I was going to land," Mihal said Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show.
The 43-year-old mortgage broker landed in the mud in a cave-like area, much bigger that the opening above, according to NBC's John Yang. A golf course employee brought a ladder and put it down the hole, but Mihal had dislocated his shoulder and couldn't climb up on his own.
One of Mihal's friends, Ed Magaletta, who saw him disappear down what looked like a "tear in a carpet," climbed down the ladder.
"I asked if anything was broken, was he bleeding," Magaletta said. "He said, no, no, quit asking me questions, get me out of here."
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Magaletta made a sling out of his jacket for Mihal's shoulder and tied a rope around him so others could pull him out.
During the resuce, both men, according to Yang, were thinking about a Florida man who was swallowed by a sinkhole while asleep in his bedroom earlier this month. His body was never found.
"I feel lucky just to come out of it with a shoulder injury, falling that far and not knowing what I was going to hit," Mihal, told the AP before heading off to learn whether he'll need surgery. "It was absolutely crazy."
Despite the ordeal, Mihal says, he looks forward to his next golf game.


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U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the soldier accused of the largest leak of state secrets in U.S. history, plans to speak in a pretrial hearing this week. It will be his first opportunity to speak publicly since his arrest in May 2010.
Manning is accused of giving the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks thousands of documents related to the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
While Manning's case is the most prolific leak in U.S. history, he is far from the first.


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Book of Proverbs
This book of the Bible is a collection of moral and philosophical maxims of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic form. This book sets forth the "philosophy of practical life. It is the sign to us that the Bible does not despise common sense and discretion. It impresses upon us in the most forcible manner the value of intelligence and prudence and of a good education. The whole strength of the Hebrew language and of the sacred authority of the book is thrown upon these homely truths. It deals, too, in that refined, discriminating, careful view of the finer shades of human character so often overlooked by theologians, but so necessary to any true estimate of human life" (Stanley's Jewish Church).
As to the origin of this book, "it is probable that Solomon gathered and recast many proverbs which sprang from human experience in preceeding ages and were floating past him on the tide of time, and that he also elaborated many new ones from the material of his own experience. Towards the close of the book, indeed, are preserved some of Solomon's own sayings that seem to have fallen from his lips in later life and been gathered by other hands' (Arnot's Laws from Heaven, etc.)
This book is usually divided into three parts:
Consisting of ch. 1-9, which contain an exhibition of wisdom as the highest good.
Consisting of ch. 10-24.
Containing proverbs of Solomon "which the men of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, collected" (ch. 25-29).
These are followed by two supplements:
Solomon is said to have written three thousand proverbs, and those contained in this book may be a selection from these (1 Kings 4:32). In the New Testament there are thirty-five direct quotations from this book or allusions to it.


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Interpretation No. 4
Accounting and Financial Reporting for Capitalization Contributions to Public Entity Risk Pools—an interpretation of GASB Statements No. 10 and 14
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This Interpretation applies to capitalization contributions made to and received by public entity risk pools--both with and without transfer or pooling of risk.
This Interpretation requires entities to report capitalization contributions made to public entity risk pools with transfer or pooling of risk as deposits if a return of those contributions is probable. Otherwise, entities should report the contributions as prepaid insurance (an asset) to be allocated as expenditures/expenses over future periods (not to exceed ten years under certain circumstances) or, alternatively, in governmental funds, as expenditures in the period made. In neither case should entities report those capitalization contributions (or any participation in those pools) as equity interests in joint ventures. Furthermore, entities should continue to report capitalization contributions to public entity risk pools without transfer or pooling of risk as deposits or reductions of claims liabilities. This Interpretation also provides guidance for public entity risk pools that make capitalization contributions to other pools (such as excess pooling arrangements) in which they participate.
This Interpretation requires public entity risk pools with transfer or pooling of risk to report capitalization contributions received as liabilities if a return of those contributions is probable. Otherwise, those pools should report the contributions as unearned premiums to be allocated as premium revenue over future periods (not to exceed ten years under certain circumstances). Public entity risk pools without transfer or pooling of risk should net capitalization contributions with other amounts and report assets or liabilities, as appropriate.
The provisions of this Interpretation are effective for financial statements for periods beginning after June 15, 1996. Earlier application is encouraged.
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Somewhere on the list of 2010 milestones should be this: It was the year that unified security budgeting won the endorsement of the U.S. executive branch's top leadership. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first made this endorsement in May, during the Q&A following her speech supporting the new National Security Strategy. Joining her in the endorsement, she said, were Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Adm. Mike Mullen, who both "wrote really strong letters to the House and Senate leadership and the appropriators and the budgeteers to make the case that we have to start looking at a national security budget."
Clinton's explanation for why this makes sense was fairly simple: With such a unified budget "you can see the tradeoffs." Currently, the budgets for what the members of this Task Force call offense (our military forces), defense (homeland security) and prevention (non-military international engagement) are considered separately. This makes it hard to do integrated thinking about the security challenges we face and the best applications of our resources to address them.
Clinton also added this: "You cannot look at a Defense budget, a State Department budget, and a USAID budget without Defense overwhelming the combined efforts of the other two."
To their great credit, Gates and Mullen have also been making this last point. "It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long, relative to what we spend on the military," Gates said in 2008. In May of 2010, Mullen said, "It's time to invest in other departments, such as homeland security, intelligence and the State Department, whose budget pales compared to massive Pentagon funding. My fear, quite frankly, is that we aren't moving fast enough in this regard. U.S. foreign policy is still too dominated by the military, too dependent upon the generals and admirals who lead our major overseas commands and not enough on the State Department."
What remains is for them to move from endorsement to execution: to start doing the unified security budgeting and security budget rebalancing that they all say they want to do. Since 2004, this Task Force has been reporting on the balance of our security budget. There is improvement to report this year. The Obama administration deserves credit for submitting a budget for FY 2011 that narrows the gap between military and non-military security spending from its FY 2010 request: from 8:1 in its budget request for FY 2010 to just under 7:1 in its request for FY 2011. Most of this improvement is due to substantial increases in its request for international affairs: $14.6 billion, or nearly 29 percent.
While the administration increased its request for the military by a larger total amount — over twice as much, or $35.9 billion — this represented a much smaller proportional increase, 6.6 percent, to a much larger budget. These changes narrowed the difference between the budgets for offense and prevention from 17:1 last year to 12:1 this year.
It is important to note, however, that the largest portions of the increase in the prevention budget — about 60 percent — have been directed to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. This concentration of resources will continue to constrain funding for the broader mission of strengthening U.S. civilian capacity to carry out effective diplomacy and development around the world.


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REPORT: Lauryn Hill Sentenced to Jail
Lauryn Hill has reportedly been sentenced to three months in jail for failing to pay taxes.
According to The Associated Press, a judge determined that the Grammy winner failed to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings.
The news source reports that Hill's attorney claimed that the singer had paid more than $970,000 of her state and federal tax liabilities.
Last year, the 37-year-old mother of six pleaded guilty in the case, later claiming that she meant to pay the taxes eventually but was unable to during her hiatus from the music business.
Hill also faces three additional months of home confinement, according to the AP.


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Indigenous peoples and REDD-plus
Challenges and opportunities for the engagement of indigenous peoples and local communities in REDD-plus
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Indigenous peoples and climate change
"…Indigenous peoples (IP) face specific challenges as a consequence of climate change and related policy measures. Indigenous communities are among those who contribute least to carbon emissions, and at the same time are some of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In many cases, indigenous peoples, whose livelihoods often depend on their land and its natural resources, have been pushed to climate sensitive, resource-poor areas due to outside developments and historical marginalization from decision-making. Remaining indigenous territories are often particularly at risk and the impacts of climate change are already felt by many indigenous peoples. Factors that further contribute to their particularly high vulnerability include the lack of land and resource security, weak governance systems that do not respect their institutions and customary law, poor information access, low income, and lack of full and effective participation in decision-making processes that determine the mitigation and adaptation measures planned to be applied to their native lands.
Simultaneously, the potential for indigenous peoples to contribute to the design and implementation of sustainable mitigation and adaptation measures is considerable. Due to their long histories of adapting to climatic variability and ecosystem changes and since their livelihoods are so closely linked to their natural environments, they offer valuable long-term observations and examples based on their traditional knowledge, innovations and practices. These include traditional methods of fire and water management, agro-forestry techniques, shoreline reinforcement and seasonal migration.
Although such strategies have increased their resilience to environmental variation over centuries, their adaptability today is often constrained by the severity of climate change impacts as well as restrictions imposed by the broader socio-political context including reduced access to key lands and resources. Because IP vulnerability to climate change impacts is largely determined by the degree to which their full range of rights is recognised and secured, a rights-based approach (RBA) to mitigation and adaptation initiatives can help increase their resilience…"
REDD-plus and indigenous peoples
"…REDD-plus is a climate mitigation mechanism under negotiation at the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) that aims to generate financial flows for forest related CO2 emissions reductions and removals. In line with the Bali Action Plan and the Copenhagen Accord, REDD-plus includes reductions in deforestation and forest degradation as well as the conservation, sustainable management and enhancement of forest carbon stocks. REDD-plus can include payments for indigenous peoples and other communities that have managed and conserved forests and whose continued conservation or management efforts can protect the forest against possible deforestation and /or degradation. While contributing to the fulfilment of mitigation objectives, REDD-plus can also contribute to adaptation of vulnerable groups.
This said, although REDD has the potential to create new opportunities for indigenous peoples it may also bring additional risks. Although REDD-plus could enhance capacities, affirm rights and increase the potential contributions by indigenous peoples to forest conservation, if not approached with care, it could actually undermine these benefits. Indigenous peoples' vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the lack of clear land tenure and policy frameworks in regard to indigenous peoples, ineffective law enforcement and unrecognised customary and ancestral rights. This may create situations where REDD-plus could represent an additional threat…"


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September 5, 2012–West Nile virus (WNV) remains a threat to horses. However, with the right vaccine and preventive measures, it's not too late for horse owners to help protect their horses against this life-threatening disease.
West Nile encephalomyelitis is an inflammation of the central nervous system that is caused by an infection with WNV. It is transmitted by mosquitoes–which feed on infected birds or other animals–to horses, humans and other mammals. So far in 2012, 31 states have reported 157 cases of WNV in horses, with Louisiana and Texas having the most confirmed cases–26 and 16, respectively.
The number of reported WNV cases fell from 1,069 in 2006 to 146 in 2010, and the decline is said by health experts to reflect both vaccination and naturally acquired immunity.
"It is a good sign that the number of cases has declined over the last decade, however there has been an increasing number of both human and equine cases, especially over the last couple months," said Tom Lenz, DVM, MS, senior director, equine technical services, Pfizer Animal Health.
Vaccination remains the most effective way to help protect horses against West Nile and other encephalic or mosquito-borne diseases, such as Eastern equine encephalomyelitis and Western equine encephalomyelitis.
A trusted vaccine is available to help offer demonstrated protection against WNV and, Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis and tetanus ? WEST NILE-INNOVATOR? + EWT ? all in a single vaccine.
According to the American Association of Equine Practitioners guidelines, WNV is considered a core vaccination, along with Eastern equine encephalomyelitis, Western equine encephalomyelitis, tetanus and rabies.
In conjunction with vaccination, use good techniques for managing mosquitoes. This includes:
- Destroying any mosquito breeding habitats by removing all potential sources of stagnant water.
- Cleaning and emptying any water-holding container, such as water buckets, water troughs and plastic containers, on a weekly basis.
Remember that WNV does not always lead to signs of illness. Horses that do become clinically ill, the virus infects the central nervous system and may cause symptoms such as loss of appetite and d


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Holy Communion
At the close of the Assembly, as at its beginning, Bishop Hanson invited everyone to place their hand on their head, "recalling how baptismal grace washed over you and words were spoken to you.
Bishop Hanson invited the assembled to repeat: "I am baptized. I am chosen. I am a child of God. I belong to Jesus Christ. I am marked with the cross of Christ forever."
Bp. E. Roy Riley, New Jersey Synod, preacher at the closing worship (Aug. 14), kept a news story on the famine in Niger with him throughout the Churchwide Assembly.
Bp Roy Riley (New Jersey) preached at Sunday's worship service.
Young Adult Convocation participants were Sunday's acolytes
From left: Bp. Hanson (presiding), Pr. Michael Burk (director, ELCA worship), Diaconal Minister Tammy Devine (assisting), Bp. Roy Riley, New Jersey, (preaching)
Bp. Mark Hanson, presiding
Amendments to memorials and resolutions are projected on the big screens in the plenary hall.
During Plenary Session Twelve, Aug. 14, Voting Members finished their work on memorials and resolutions.
Moments of both levity and seriousness punctuated the last business session of the Churchwide Assembly.
Jonathan Eilert and Pyllis Wallace (Reference and Council Committee, ELCA Church Council)
Mark and Ione Hanson
"Extend your arm and place your hand on another's head," Bishop Hanson instructed, and then closed with prayer.