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Toronto investment banker settles U.S. insider-trading case
A former Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce investment banker on Tuesday agreed to pay $340,000 to settle charges brought by U.S. regulators that he illegally traded ahead of a buyout offer for Tomkins Plc based on information he gleaned from his job.
Richard Bruce Moore, 49, was charged in a civil complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The agency said Moore had bought Tomkins ADRs, which trade on the New York Stock Exchange, several weeks before the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and private equity firm Onex Corp announced plans in July 2010 to buy the UK manufacturing and engineering company.
The 49-year-old Toronto resident made $163,000 on the Tomkins trades, after the securities jumped 27 percent on the day the deal was announced, according to the complaint.
The SEC said the Ontario Securities Commission also brought related action against Moore for insider trading in Tomkins common stock.
The Canadian pension investment board was one of Moore's top clients at CIBC in 2010, the SEC said. Moore learned of the pending deal from an unnamed friend who was a managing director at the investment board.
The complaint does not implicate the friend. Rather, it says that Moore pieced together that a deal was pending, including by observing an encounter between the friend and Tomkins' CEO at a charity event.
Herbert Janick, a lawyer for Moore, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Kevin Dove, a spokesman for CIBC, said that CIBC was not a subject of the SEC investigation. Moore did not comply with bank policies regarding disclosure of accounts outside of CIBC and did not receive CIBC approval for the investment, Dove said.
Moore resigned from the bank in 2011, Dove said.
Linda Sims, a spokeswoman for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and Kevin Callahan, an SEC spokesman, declined to comment on the settlement.
(Reporting By Bernard Vaughan; Editing by Martha Graybow and Jim Marshall)


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As you've already seen, I've not been blogging actively much over the last few months. It's a mix of being busy and also not feeling the pull in the same way I once did.
Blogger, the service I've used to publish this blog from the beginning, has recently announced that they're discontinuing FTP support for Blogger in the next few weeks. That means I won't be able to have this blog hosted at my Lehigh webspace while also using their service. The stated reason is that FTP and SFTP create a large number of technical problems -- which rings true, since I've never quite been able to get Blogger to update my blog templates right.
It turns out it's fairly easy to move Blogger-based blogs to a custom domain name hosted by Google. I used to own www.amardeepsingh.com, but I let it go, and now some parasite company owns the domain.
As a result, for now I'm going to be using WWW.ELECTROSTANI.COM, which is also my Twitter name. The entire blog should already be available there, though most of the links will point back to posts at Lehigh. All new posts will appear there.
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Naturally occurring bacteria in the mouth devour sugar, creating acids that attack tooth enamel. This can lead to decay, as well as a host of other problems, including gingivitis.
Living in a culture that moves as quickly as ours, it's easy to bypass a nutritious diet in favor of a diet comprised of fast food and snacks high in sugar. The detrimental effects of this lifestyle are clear. More than 25 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 5 have experienced tooth decay, and almost 80 percent of young people have had a cavity by age 17.
"We live in a high-stress society and fast food offers a quick fix," says Academy of General Dentistry spokesperson Maria A. Smith, DMD, MAGD. She adds that an overabundance of sugar is not only detrimental to oral health, but also the rest of the body's well-being.
For example, the average 12-ounce can of soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar; and many manufacturers incorporate sugar into their foods to help ensure a return purchase. Today, the average person consumes approximately 150 pounds of sugar a year, or about 40 teaspoons a day.
It's not only our culture that defines the amount of sugar we consume, but also a lack of education on how much sugar we consume every day especially when it comes to children and the elderly. Dr. Smith says parents may believe they are doing right by feeding their children processed fruit juice or raisins, however products such as these are mostly sugar. Processed foods also can be harmful because of the low-nutrition and high-sugar content. Substituting these products for fresh fruits and vegetables is a better option.
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The Year in Mass Shootings
Since 1968, at least 1.4 million Americans have been killed by guns—more than all the U.S.'s accumulated war dead in that same period. Any way you look at it, 2013 was another killer year for arms manufacturers and armed bullies.
There is much debate over how to define a "mass shooting." The FBI classifies a mass murder as four fatalities, not including the killer. Mother Jones uses that, plus several situational criteria, for a mass shooting. The Redditors at "Guns Are Cool" considers any time four people are shot (not killed) a mass shooting, and with good reason: "The most obscene incidents of gun violence usually do not make the mainstream news at all."
Even by the stringent federal criteria—which we use below, representing but a fraction of all U.S. victims of gun violence—this has been a bloody year.
7 - Tulsa, Oklahoma: Four women ranging in ages from 23 to 55 were found in their apartment shot dead with their hands tied behind their backs. A pair of brothers was arrested for allegedly robbing and killing them.
19 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: 15-year-old Nehemiah Gringo allegedly used an AR-15 to kill his entire family—his gang-member-turned-preacher father, his mother, a 9-year-old brother, and two sisters, ages 5 and 2. He also reportedly had plans to shoot up a Walmart.
13 - Herkimer, New York: A 64-year-old "loner" died in a gun-battle with police after he killed four at a barbershop and oil-lube shop. He also killed a 2-year-old police dog, Ape, before succumbing.
18 - Akron, Ohio: Two men and two women ranging in ages from 19 to 23 were lined up in their basement and shot in the head point-blank. Two men have been arrested in connection with the murders.
22 - Federal Way, Washington: A man with a carry license killed his girlfriend, then shot three other neighbors in her apartment complex to death before himself being killed by shots from eight police officers.
24 - Manchester, Illinois: A man angered over a custody dispute killed five of his daughter's mother's family members in their home, then led police on a high-speed chase. He later died in officers' custody.
28 - Ottawa, Kansas: A man allegedly murdered his best friend and a roommate before raping the best friend's girlfriend, then shooting her and her 18-month-old daughter to death. The shooter, who awaits trial, says he "ain't never hurt no man that didn't have it coming."
11 - Waynesville, Indiana: Four people were shot in their rural home. After a search of the home turned up meth, police concluded the killings were drug-related. The following month, a suspect who was already in jail was arrested for the murders.
13 - Fernley, Nevada: A man killed two couples in their homes over Mother's Day weekend, burning their houses. He also slew a newspaper deliveryman and stole his truck.
7 - Santa Monica, California: An emotionally troubled 23-year-old with 1,300 rounds of ammunition killed his father and brother before going on a rampage that killed three more at Santa Monica College. The gunman was killed on campus by police.
26 - Hialeah, Florida: A workout enthusiast under scrutiny for sending abusive emails to an ex-employer killed the husband-and-wife managers of his apartment, then murdered four more neighbors before taking hostages. He was killed by police; the hostages were unharmed.
26 - Clarksburg, West Virginia: A gunman killed two in a suspected drug house, then while fleeing shot and killed a 70-year-old man and his 47-year-old son who were in the neighborhood to deliver the local paper.
7 - Dallas, Texas: A former teacher and football coach killed his girlfriend, estranged wife, and two of their children before police arrested him.
14 - Oklahoma City: A "weird" 40-year-old man killed his mother, sister, niece, and a 7-month-old nephew with a .380 pistol. He currently awaits trial.
11 - Crab Orchard, Tennessee: A man and a woman were arrested for killing four people, ages 16 to 22, in their car during a robbery that followed a botched marijuana deal.
16 - Washington, D.C.: A military contractor who claimed to hear voices murdered 12 ex-coworkers with a sawed-off shotgun at the federal Navy Yard before he was killed by police.
20 - Rice, Texas: A woman killed her husband, their three sons, and herself in their apartment. The husband had been arrested for a domestic violence charge two weeks before.
9 - Paris, Texas: Four people were found dead in a home; it's not yet clear what transpired or who killed them.
26 - Phoenix, Arizona: A man who was allegedly thrown into a rage over the neighbors' two barking dogs killed the animals, then his four neighbors, then himself with a pump-action shotgun.
28 - Terrell, Texas: A man who "appeared to be intoxicated" killed five people, including a convenience store clerk, at four locations before police caught him.
29 - Callison, South Carolina: A man killed his ex-girlfriend, her parents, and two of her children before taking his own life.
7 - Jacksonville, Florida: Two men and their girlfriends were killed in what appeared to be a planned drive-by shooting. The suspects are at large.
23 - Tulsa, Oklahoma: Four people were killed in a suspected meth house. No suspects have been arrested.
1 - Topeka, Kansas: Four people were killed at a house in the town's southwest section. No suspects have been named.
3 - Alma, Arkansas: After arriving home with them, a man killed his daughter's boyfriend in the car, then killed his 4-month-old grandson while he lay in his car seat. He pursued his daughter and four-year-old granddaughter into the backyard, killing the granddaughter before turning the gun on himself.
3 - Erwin, Tennessee: A man with a record of domestic unrest killed his wife, son, and daughter before committing suicide.
8 - Manchester, Connecticut: A man killed his ex-girlfriend and two friends, then fled with the couple's 13-month-old child. When confronted outside by police, he set the child down on the ground and fatally shot himself.


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Will Damning Obama Footage Still Be Released After Breitbart's Death?• www.prisonplanet.com
Breitbart's untimely death has shocked the media world and left some to question whether or not damning footage of Obama in his youth, which Breitbart announced he had obtained only last month, will still be released.
According to some observers, the footage threatened to sink Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
"I've got video from his college days that show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008 – the videos are going to come out," Breitbart told a crowd during a CPAC speech in February, adding that the video shows Obama meeting "a bunch of silver pony tails" like Bill and Bernardine Dohrn (Weather Underground members), who radicalized him.
Breitbart was probably best known for his role in exposing ACORN, a community-based organization with links to the Democratic Party, with the release of undercover videos showing ACORN workers advising people how to hide evidence of prostitution and commit tax evasion.
In recent years, Breitbart became known as a fearless conservative activist, confronting leftist media elites and publicly taking Obama supporters to task.
When placing Breitbart's tragic early death in the context of the media landscape, it becomes clear that today's news, allied with James Murdoch's exit from the UK in the aftermath of the phone hacking scandal, will leave major gaps in the ongoing media tug of war between Rupert Murdoch and George Soros.
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DefenseReview (DR) got a chance to interview 3-Gun competition shooter Robby Johnson of Remington Defense at NDIA Joint Armaments Conference 2012 about the Remington ACR PDW SBR (Adaptive Combat Rifle Personal Defense Weapon Short Barreled Rifle) and Remington Individual Carbine (IC) candidate at NDIA Joint Armaments Conference 2012 in Seattle, Washington. According to Johnson Remington ACR PDW 5.56mm NATO (5.56x45mm NATO) SBR was originally developed as part of an effort to comply with the Individual Carbine Competition (ICC) weight requirement of 8 pounds (8 lbs) or less with a loaded magazine, which meant that an empty ACR carbine (14.5" barrel, no ammo) had to come in just under 7 lbs at approx. 6.8 lbs empty. Remington was able to take about to reduce the Remington ACR carbine's weight by about 2 lbs to meet the IC weight requirement.
The Remington ACR PDW SBR sports a 9.75" barrel in order to come in within 20 inches (20") with the buttstock folded, which was a federal contract requirement. The ACR PDW weighs approx. 6.5 lbs, according to Johnson.
The Remington ACR PDW and ACR Individual Carbine candidate both utilize the Remington MSR (Modular Sniper Rifle) barrel nut system rather than a QCB (Quick Change Barrel) system for optimal accuracy, since they were seeing some point-of-impact shift with the original QCB system. The Remington Defense ACR development team also modified the ACR's ambidextrous (right/left swappable) charging handle to make it a folding charging handle, for superior ergonomics/usernomics. The folding charging handle makes the handle longer when being used, making it easier to operating with gloves and when various combat optics and tactical accessories like an AN/PEQ-15 (ATPIAL) or AN/PEQ-16 is mounted. The new folding charging handle can also be locked into position for barricade shooting.
Johnson claims that the ACR's short-stroke gas piston/op-rod (push-type operating rod) operating system is now squared away and that the weapon is now even more reliable under adverse combat conditions than AR-15-platform weapons, including the Colt M4A1 and Heckler & Koch HK416 (also written HK 416), as well as other gas piston/op-rod ARs, which implies that Remington probably feels it's also superior to the Remington R5 RGP (Remington Gas Piston) carbine (unconfirmed/unverified). Defense Review wrote about the the prototype version of the Remington R5 RGP, the "Remington R4 GPC (Gas Piston Carbine)" prototype weapon, a couple years ago.
DR would very much like to see how the latest Remington ACR weapons platforms stack against the FN Herstal FN SCAR PDW, Heckler & Koch HK416C (HK416 Compact) PDW and FERFRANS SOAR-P 7.5" tactical piston AR PDW, respectively, in a military-level adverse conditions/high-round-count test with regard to
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by Anthony Sizemore, Student Sports Reporter
The Alice Lloyd Lady Eagles were out on the road over the weekend to take on the St. Louis College of Pharmacy Lady Eutectics and the IU Southeast Lady Grenadiers. What follows is a recap of each game.
Game 1
Box Score
Alice Lloyd's matchup with the St. Louis College of Pharmacy was played at nearby Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. The Lady Eagles came into this game brimming with confidence after defeating Berea in overwhelming fashion.
ALC got off to a fast and furious start and clearly had the talent advantage over their conference counterparts, which showed almost immediately. When the first half ended, Alice Lloyd had a massive 45-14 cushion.
The second half was a repeat of the first for the Lady Eagles. The Lady Eutectics had no answers, and Alice Lloyd steamrolled their opposition, outscoring them 50-19 in the final stanza. It was an opportunity for Alice Lloyd to empty their bench and get everyone into the scoring column.
For the Lady Eagles (10-6, 5-2 KIAC), Ariel Nickell had 20 points to go along with 15 rebounds, while Morgan Chestnut claimed a double-double of her own with 14 points and 10 boards. Every player on ALC's team got some big minutes and contributed to the final score.
SLCOP's (2-6, 0-1 KIAC) co-leaders in scoring were Emily Nickels and Jordan Ivey with 8 points.
Game 2
Box Score
The following day, ALC ventured to New Albany, Indiana for the weekend's second conference test. Alice Lloyd was looking to go 3-0 against a much more formidable foe in IU Southeast.
The score remained tight for the first seven minutes of the opening half with the two teams tied at 13. Alice Lloyd would go on an 11-2 run over the course of the next five minutes to make it 24-15. Later in the half, the Lady Grenadiers made a spurt of their own to cut ALC's lead down to three, 29-26. Alice Lloyd would maintain that slim lead (31-28) as they headed into the locker room.
Going into the second half, the Lady Eagles knew they were going to have to earn this win, and they did just that.
At the 16:30 mark, ALC increased their lead to seven (40-33). The lead would stay within a six to eight-point range over the next ten minutes until IU Southeast generated a small scoring run. The Lady Grenadiers' streak culminated with a three to pull them to within one with 5:53 to go.
From this point forward, the Lady Eagles had to grind it out. Senior Courtney Crowder came up big twice in the final ten seconds. With ALC up one with seven seconds remaining, the Harrogate, Tennessee native prevented IU Southeast from taking the lead by making a steal. Ariel Nickell, Alice Lloyd's go-to player, also came through in the clutch. The senior drained two free throws in a tense one-and-one situation to make it 68-65.
The Lady Grenadiers' final shot was blocked by Crowder, allowing ALC to escape with the three-point victory.
For the visiting ALC Lady Eagles (11-6, 6-2 KIAC), Nickell finished with 28 points and hauled in 13 big rebounds. Carla Booth overcame 6 turnovers to put up 20 points, 6 rebounds, and 5 assists. Impressive freshman Taylor Arthur flirted with a triple-double as she had 7 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 blocks.
For IU Southeast (8-9, 4-3 KIAC), Megan Cureton had 23 points.
The story of the game came down to shooting. Alice Lloyd shot 46% from the floor and a respectable 42% from the beyond the arc. IUS was a chilly 39% from the floor on the day and an even colder 32% from long range. The Lady Grenadiers lost this one on the free throw line, however, visiting the stripe 23 times but only connecting on 16.
The Lady Eagles were scheduled to face Asbury on January 21st, but the flu has unfortunately taken its toll on the team, forcing them to postpone. Alice Lloyd will return to action on Saturday, January 25th, at Midway College. Tip time is set for 2 PM.


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Is it too early to award Chelsea the Prem title? I mean, why not get it over with and wrap (or even better, garotte) a Portuguese scarf around the Special One's neck, bronze John Terry's captain's armband, apologize for all the mean things we said during the World Cup about Frank "Totally Frank" Lampard, Herr Ballack and Comrade Sheva and stab ourselves in the head with a commemorative Thierry Henry fork? And while we're at it, why don't we also call up Fergie and tell him how sorry we are for betting $100 that ManU (or ManUre, as we like to call them around our water cooler) won't finish in the top FIVE, and that Sir Alex would not see out the season in a vertical position.
What else can an Arsenal fan do after the soul-crushing performances that the Blues and Reds turned in on the Prem's opening weekend while our beloved Gooners gave us a shit-ass debut against a Villa team that we tore apart 5-0 last season? If, as they say, a tie is like kissing your sister, a 1-1 tie against Villa is like having your sister put a ball gag in your mouth and drag you around by a studded leather dog collar. At this rate, how long will it be before the inevitable chant of "Wenger is a Wanker!" is heard around Emirates Stadium — the shiny new Arsenal home that plunged the club into a staggering $500 million of debt, leaving only a few pence for Arsene to play with in the transfer market.
Yes, he bought Rosicky — I'm not saying I love the Czech midfielder, but I do carry around his FIFA trading card in my wallet — but the rest of his acquisitions amounted to a big bag of gruel. If we're to take away anything positive from yesterday's dismal start, it's that we now know that Theo Walcott, the Suri Cruise of English soccer, really exists and can even play a little, as evidenced by his seeing-eye ball in the 84th minute onto the instep of Gilberto whose cracking volley salvaged a point from the dreary afternoon. But whatever vindication Wenger must have felt at the emergence of Walcott — after all, he talked Erickson into taking him to Germany only for the 17-year-old prodigy to spend the entire World Cup in some sort of Witness Protection Program —- it was tempered by the lovefest at Stamford Bridge. That's where the newly shorn but still odious Mourinho was trotting out his latest edition of The Best Team Money Can Buy while whining about all his injuries and lack of match fitness. Yes, Ballack, Cole, Cech and Makelele were all sidelined, but who needs them when you have ELEVEN other World Cup players in your squad?
And yet, as comprehensive as was Chelsea's 3-0 vivisection of Man City, it paled next to ManU's 5-1 carpet bombing of Fulham. You've got to hand it to that wily old geezer Fergie for fooling everybody into thinking he was a bitter and desperate has-been when he showed the club's horse-faced assasin Van Nistelrooy the (barn) door and backed up the Brinks truck for Carrick in a craven attempt to make Old Trafford forget Keano. As long as Sir Alex has his pit bull (Rooney) and his show pony (Christiano Ronaldo) on the field at the same time and not trying to claw each other's eyeballs out, he can do pretty much what he wants and look like an effin' genius. Rooney stuck in two yesterday, but it was the goal he made for Ronaldo that was truly ominous, coming as it did in their first appearance together since their famously testy World Cup dust-up over Ricardo Carvalho's testicles.
Then again, maybe I'm making too much of ONE game, when there are 37 more to go and we have Man City to fatten up on next Saturday. C'mon, you Gunners!
Deadspin's World Cup columnist David Hirshey will write about the Premiership throughout the season. He is also a New York Giants fan and would have written something excellent about them had Will Leitch not been an idiot and screwed up the schedule.


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If you've ever opened a PC case and stared inside, or looked at a bare motherboard, you may be taken aback by the number and variety of connectors, pins, and slots that exist on a modern PC motherboard. In this guide I'll identify some of the most common (and a few uncommon) connectors on motherboards used in most home PCs. I won't cover server- or workstation-class boards here, just what you might find in a typical midrange or high-end home PC.
For a similar discussion of the ports that you're likely to encounter on the exterior of a PC case, see "Multiple Ports on Your PC: What Do They Do for You?"
Since no single motherboard contains every type of connectors, I've used photos of four different boards to illustrate key examples. In one or two instances, there is some overlap; but for the most part, connectors are mentioned only once. Many of them may exist across different motherboard designs, however.
Asus P5WDH Deluxe
Let's start with an older motherboard, an Asus P5WDH Deluxe. This motherboard has a few connectors that aren't included on current-generation boards, as wll as some that do are still included, but are more readily visible here.
Audio front panel: This ten-pin connector links to the front-panel headphone and microphone inputs. The particular connector shown is an AC97 connector, which existed prior to multichannel HD audio. It's still in common use today.
Azalia digital audio header: You rarely find this connector, used to tie the motherboard to multichannel digital outputs on the case, on current motherboards.
Serial-port header: This connector isn't physically present on the board shown–you can just see the solder points for it. But this header does appear on a few modern boards. It supports a nine-pin, RS-232 serial port, usually as a bracket that occupies a slot space on the back of the case. A number of RS-232 connections remain in use today, mostly in point-of-sale devices or specialized test instruments. Consumer boards typically don't have them.
FireWire (IEEE 1994a): Once common as a digital camcorder interface, FireWire has largely been supplanted by USB, and the motherboard makers are gradually phasing it out. Some professional audio hardware still uses FireWire, though; you may also occasionally find higher-speed IEEE 1394b headers, but they are even rarer.
USB 2.0 front panel: These connectors are used to link to the front-panel USB ports on PC cases.
SATA connectors: These components connect via cables to various storage devices, including hard-disk drives, solid-state drives, and optical drives.
IDE connector: Rarely found today, IDE connectors were used to link to older hard drives. In addition, until a couple of years ago, many optical drives supported IDE. Today, all new storage devices ship with SATA.
Floppy disk connector: The venerable 3.5-inch floppy disk drive survived for nearly two decades–an eternity in the tech universe. But unless you have a pile of old floppies, you won't need a floppy drive. And if you do find yourself needing a floppy drive, you can always pick up an external, USB-connected drive.
Intel DP67BG
Now let's examine a more recent motherboard: an Intel D67BG, based on Intel's P67 chipset and supporting LGA 1155 CPUs (like the Sandy Bridge-based Core i7-2600K).
DDR3 memory sockets: Current-generation PC systems use DDR3 memory, but in many instances they support different operating speeds. The P67 chipset used in this board maxes out at DDR3-1600, but to achieve that level of speed you'd have to overclock the chipset–officially the P67 supports only DDR3-1333. Here, we see four memory sockets. The system supports dual-channel memory, meaning that the system is populated with paired memory modules, which are mounted in sockets of the same color.
CPU fan header: This connector is specifically designed to link to the CPU cooling fan. The system BIOS monitors CPU cooling fan speeds; and if the fan isn't connected to this header, you may get an error at bootup.
Eight-pin ATX12V (CPU power) connector: Back when the Pentium 4 processor first shipped, Intel realized that high-performance CPUs needed their own source of clean, dedicated power beyond what the standard 24-pin power connector could deliver. Thus was born ATX12V. You'll see four-pin connectors on lower-end boards supporting CPUs with lower thermal design power (TDP), but the eight-pin version of the connector is used with higher-end processors and on boards that users may overclock.
Power for secondary fans: Many motherboards with secondary-fan power headers; these connectors are mainly used to power and monitor various case fans.
PCI Express x1 connector: PCI Express is a serial interface, though multiple lanes may be ganged together. The "x1" refers to a slot supporting a single PCI Express lane; it is used for I/O devices that don't require bidirectional bandwidth greater than 500 megabytes per second (gen 1 PCIe). Sound cards, for example, are typically PCIe x1 devices.
PCI Express x16 (graphics): PCI Express x16 slots are used mostly for graphics cards, though they can be used with any PCI Express card. Confusion may arise, however, because not all PCIe x16 slots are true PCIe x16. Occasionaly, you'll see PCIe x16 connectors that are physical slots for accommodating graphics cards, but are actually eight-lane (x8) or even four-lane (x4) electrically.
On some boards, even slots that support true 16-lane PCI Express for graphics may revert to eight lanes if you install a second graphics card into a second PCIe x16 slot on the motherboard. The P67 chipset, for instance, has only 16 total PCIe lanes for graphics. So if you drop in two graphics cards to run in dual GPU mode, each card will have just eight lanes available to it. This situation isn't as bad as it sounds, though, since even eight lanes in a PCIe 2.0- or 3.0-based system delivers plenty of bandwidth for most games.
32-bit legacy PCI slot: The now-classic 32-bit PCI slot has been around since 1993. A host of expansion cards support 32-bit PCI; and to accommodate them, most motherboards are likely to have at least one 32-bit PCI slot going forward. You may see some system boards configured so that a particular back-panel case bracket can support either a PCI slot or a PCIe slot, with some overlap between the two because they're very close together.
Front-panel switch header: This header connects various wires to the front panel of the case, where they link to power and reset buttons, and status LEDs for power and storage-drive activity.
Next: Motherboards for AMD CPUs and for the Intel Z77 chipset
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7
Next we'll turn our attention to a motherboard that supports AMD CPUs. Note that AMD-chipset boards support many of the same features as Intel-based boards–that's the great thing about industry standards.
24-pin ATX power: This connector exists on all current ATX-based motherboards, and is the standard means of connecting power from power supplies. This connector delivers power to all interfaces, including 3V, 5V, and 12V. The typical ATX12V version 2.3 PSU delivers up to 75W for PCI Express graphics cards; but numerous modern graphics cards need more than that, which is why you'll often find secondary six- or eight-pin power connectors on the graphics cards themselves.
ATX4P: This unusual item is actually a SATA power connector for delivering power to SSDs, hard drives, or optical drives from the motherboard itself.
TPM connector: Some off-the-shelf PCs and laptops use the Trusted Platform Module connector to link to a cryptographic processor module for storing encryption keys and handling dedicated encryption chores such as hard-drive encryption and certain types of digital rights management (DRM) decryption.
USB 3.0 front panel: This connector is used to drive front-panel USB 3.0 connectors. It requires more pins than USB 2.0 connectors do, but it drives two USB 3.0 ports instead of one. If your PC case lacks a USB 3.0 internal cable, you won't be able to use it. Like back-panel connectors, front-panel USB 3.0 ports are often color-coded blue.
AMD CPU socket: I'm calling out this component because its style differs from that of a modern Intel CPU socket. AMD CPUs still have pins, whereas Intel has moved the pins to the motherboard socket.
Intel DZ77GA-70K
I'm using a photo of just one section of this board, to call out some specific connectors and to get a little closer in. The Intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard is designed to accommodate the latest Intel Z77 chipset.
Case fan header: As noted earlier, most higher-end motherboards have several of these fan headers scattered around the board. If enough of them are available, you should connect your fans to them, so that the BIOS can monitor and manage the fan speeds–unless you're a serious overclocker who uses separate fan-control modules.
PCI Express x4 slot: This relatively rare physical and electrical PCIe x4 slot is used for higher-performance networking cards and for some storage controller cards.
S/PDIF digital audio: This older type of connector was originally used to connect to CD-ROM drives. Today it's still used to connect to some optical drives and other audio devices that support S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) digital audio.
USB 3.0 front panel: The DZ77GA motherboard ships with two front-panel USB 3.0 connectors, driving up to four USB 3.0 ports on the front of the PC case.
High-current USB 2.0 front panel: This is a slightly different type of USB 2.0 connector. Though it acts as a normal USB 2.0 port when sending or receiving data, it can deliver extra current to permit fast charging of mobile devices, and it can even charge devices (like Apple's iPad) that requires more current than standard USB 2.0 normally delivers.
Consumer IR: This connector is used to attach front-panel infrared receivers, which enable users to control the PC via a standard programmable remote.
Diagnostic LEDs: Most motherboards have simple LEDs that light up or change color if the board experiences problems. A few higher-end boards, however, have these status LEDs, which flash an alphanumeric code that helps the user narrow down the source of a boot problem.
That wraps up our tour of various motherboard connectors, pins, and ports. Though I haven't covered all of the possibilities by any means, the ones listed here account for the vast majority of connectors you'll encounter on today's motherboards.
Rarely will you use every single connector on a board, but understanding these connectors should help you choose a PC case that suits your needs, or that accommodates new devices that you plan to add in an upgrade. Also, if you have a specific need, you'll be better able to shop for a motherboard capable of handling your application.


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Massachusetts is the only state that has agreed to send mass mailings to register welfare recipients to vote, following a series of state lawsuits brought by the liberal group Demos, which is chaired by the daughter of Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
Republicans say the mass mailings indicate that Massachusetts went above and beyond what was necessary to turn out likely Democratic voters for the November election.
Other states have settled Demos's lawsuits by agreeing to less costly steps, such as better training for welfare officials or upgraded computer systems.
But Demos says it pushed Massachusetts to mail the voter registration forms to thousands of welfare recipients because the lawsuit here was filed so close to the election that simply allowing recipients to register the next time they went to a public assistance office was not practical.
The voter registration drive has erupted as a sharp point of contention in the race between Warren and Senator Scott Brown, a Republican.
Brown argues that the effort was a ploy to boost Warren's campaign at the behest of Demos, a New York advocacy group of which daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, serves as chairwoman of the board.
Demos officials maintain that the effort has nothing to do with Warren's campaign. They say they have sued nine states as part of a national campaign to enforce federal voter registration laws that began in 2004, well before Tyagi joined the board in 2006.
The group initiated its lawsuit against Massachusetts in December 2011 — three months after Warren entered the Senate race — and formally filed the suit in May. The state agreed to Demos's demands last month, rather than face an Aug. 17 court date.
Demos said it brought the lawsuit after finding that Massachusetts was not actively offering welfare recipients the opportunity to register vote, as required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
That law, also known as the motor voter law, requires states to provide voter registration materials at certain government offices, including public aid agencies and military recruiting stations.
"It would be irresponsible of us, from my perspective, to avoid Massachusetts simply because a family member of a board member was running for office when we saw the problems," said Lisa J. Danetz, a senior counsel at Demos. She, like a number of Demos officials and board members, has donated money to Warren and other Massachusetts Democrats.
Danetz said Tyagi played no role in the lawsuit, despite her position on the board.
"She had no role in deciding to bring litigation; she had no role in picking the state," Danetz said. "She hasn't had any involvement in this at all."
Board members are not involved with day-to-day decisions, which are handled by the staff and the president, who is chosen by the board, said Lauren Strayer, a Demos spokeswoman. The board meets about three times a year to choose the president, provide strategic advice, and approve the annual budget, Strayer said.
Tyagi, 40, lives in California and wrote two books on the middle class — "The Two-Income Trap" and "All Your Worth" — with her mother, a Harvard Law School professor and consumer advocate.
Demos bills itself as a nonpartisan public policy group but is known for its liberal views. It receives financial support from George Soros, the billionaire financier and major backer of Democratic candidates. At least four members of the Demos board have contributed to Warren's campaign.
Warren herself was honored, along with talk show host Tavis Smiley and AFL-CIO official Elizabeth Shuler, at Demos's 10th anniversary gala in New York in May 2010. Demos was saluting Warren's work as head of the committee overseeing the federal bank bailout.
Demos has not lost a case against against any of the nine states it has sued for failing to register welfare recipients to vote. Five states have settled and four, including Massachusetts, face ongoing litigation. Demos has sent letters to four more warning they may be sued if they do not take steps to comply with federal law.
In Massachusetts, the only reason welfare officials said they agreed to send voter registration forms and prepaid return envelopes to 478,000 welfare recipients was to comply with federal law. The cost of the mass mailing was $276,000.
"This is solely about the law and adhering to the [law] — nothing more and, certainly, nothing less," said Daniel J. Curley, the commissioner of the Department of Transitional Assistance, whose agency was named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Anyone who suggests otherwise, he said, "is just being ludicrous."
Such mailings are not without precedent. Danetz said Demos got the idea for them from a case in Michigan, which agreed to send voter registration forms to settle a lawsuit brought by another voting rights group in the 1990s.
The Brown campaign said Thursday that the fact that the Patrick administration agreed to the welfare registration effort in an election year was evidence of a "rigged game " and "Beacon Hill machine politics."
"The state of Massachusetts is using hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to finance a massive voter registration drive targeting nearly half a million welfare recipients — that's about one-third of the votes necessary to win," Jim Barnett, Brown's campaign manager, wrote in fund-raising appeal. "This is what we're up against in the political machine in Massachusetts, where years of one-party rule has perpetuated a culture of corruption and sleaze."
The state Republican Party, meanwhile, filed a public information request demanding e-mails relating to the lawsuit that were sent between the Warren campaign, the Patrick administration, and the secretary of state's office.
History shows that poorer voters tend to vote Democratic. The majority of voters in the bottom fifth of the income scale have voted for the Democrat in every presidential election but one since 1960, according to American National Election Studies, a collaboration of Stanford University and the University of Michigan.
Barbara Norrander, a political scientist at the University of Arizona, said when Congress was debating the National Voter Registration Act in the early 1990s, that disparity led to a partisan impasse over where states would supply voter registration materials. Republicans wanted them in military recruiting stations, Democrats in social services offices, she said.
As a state legislator, Brown was a leading supporter of efforts to require voters to show identification at the polls. He and other Republicans argued that the requirement would ensure the integrity of the vote. Democrats contended that the bills were an attempt to disenfranchise minorities and the poor.
Michael Levenson can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @mlevenson.


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Teen 'Peace Warriors' fight gun violence in Chicago and beyond
The Peace Warriors of North Lawndale College Prep High School provide support to students who have lost loved ones to gun violence. The teens, who advocate for more funding for mental health clinics and schools in low-income neighborhoods, have become leaders in the national youth movement against gun violence.
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At his desk at North Lawndale College Prep High School, Gerald Smith keeps a small calendar that holds unimaginable grief.
In its pages, the dean and student advocate writes the name of each student who's lost a family member, many of them to gun violence. And then he deploys the Peace Warriors – students who have dedicated themselves to easing the violence that pervades their world.
The Warriors seek out their heartbroken classmates. They offer a hug and a small bag of candy.
Since September, Mr. Smith has added more than 160 names to that little book, roughly half the student body at this campus on Chicago's West Side. And that doesn't even include those whose friends have been killed.
"We would run out of candy," says Smith, sadly.
It is hard and often anguishing work, keeping the peace. North Lawndale's Peace Warriors do it in small and large ways. When invited to Parkland, Fla., after 17 people died in a school shooting there in February, they answered the call – to mourn together and to unite in what's become a national youth movement aimed at stopping gun violence.
Weeks later, Alex King and D'Angelo McDade, seniors at North Lawndale, walked onto stage at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. with fists raised. They marveled at the masses of young people who'd joined the fight. "We knew this was going to be in the history books. And for me, it was like, 'Wow! I'm actually being heard,' " said Alex.
They continue to press their solution to urban violence: more jobs and investment in low-income communities like theirs. But that's the long game.
First, the Peace Warriors must survive – and help their peers do the same.
"Good morning, good morning, good morning!"
A small band of Peace Warriors greets students who make their way into the school's main foyer after going through a bag check and metal detector.
This is when the Warriors get a sense of how the day may go and where they may need to step in to maintain calm.
Most everyone is upbeat, though perhaps a little sleepy. A few dance to old-school soul over the sound system, until a young woman arrives, sobbing. Two Peace Warriors rush to embrace her and escort her to the school office, where she can collect herself.
When the group began in 2009, there were just 17 Peace Warriors on the school's two campuses. Back then, that small corps spent much of its time breaking up fights, "interrupting nonsense," as they call it. Since then, their ranks have grown to more than 120 – and fights have dropped markedly, Smith said.
Now, the Peace Warriors focus more on running "peace circles," mediating verbal altercations between students and tense exchanges on social media.
Alexis Willis is among the newest recruits. Like the others, she had to learn the "Six Principles of Nonviolence" of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before she could call herself a Peace Warrior.
The civil rights activist lived in the neighborhood in 1966 in an apartment that was just down the street. He chose that location to draw attention to segregation and extreme poverty – issues that persist there today.
Alexis, a freshman who trained in January, likes King's first principle best: "Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people."
She admits that, as a child, she sometimes solved problems with her fists. But as the level of violence has escalated in her city, and she has matured, she has been drawn to "this life," as the Peace Warriors sometimes call their pacifist practice.
Alexis says her resolve to help her classmates "do better" was only solidified when, in April, her beloved 16-year-old cousin, Jaheim Wilson, was shot and killed as he walked with a friend in an alley near his Chicago home.
"Nobody that's 16 should have to die," Alexis says, quietly.
Less than two weeks after her cousin's death, she received her first Peace Warrior shirt with her name and an image of a large hand flashing a peace sign on the back.
"When you put on this shirt, you put on a target. People will test you," Smith tells his students when first handing them their shirts.
Indeed, being a Peace Warrior can be a challenge. Some students call them snitches or see them as meddling do-gooders. In recent years, Smith has had a harder time recruiting young men to join the group, unfortunate since they are most often the victims of violence.
Alex confesses that he first simply joined the group because he wanted to wear the Peace Warrior shirt to school instead of the otherwise required collared white polo. But he soon came to see the group as family.
Speaking at the March for Our Lives, he shared the story of his nephew, Daishawn Moore, also 16, who was gunned down last May.
"Through my friends and colleagues, I found help to come up out of a dark place," Alex told the crowd. Full of rage and sorrow, he had planned to retaliate against his nephew's killer, until fellow Peace Warriors talked him out of it: "Everyone doesn't have the same resources or support system as I was lucky to have."
The alliance with Parkland unites the North Lawndale students with those from a very different world – wealthy and suburban, a place where shootings are far from the norm.
While students from Parkland and elsewhere are pushing lawmakers for stricter gun regulations, the Peace Warriors have made poverty their target. Among other things, the Peace Warriors want more funding for mental health clinics and schools in low-income neighborhoods. Both have seen cuts in recent years in Chicago.
At North Lawndale College Prep, a charter school that is privately funded, Smith says there once were four counselors, one for each grade. Now there are only two who serve grades nine through 12.
It means that Smith and other staff – and even the Peace Warriors – must pick up some of the slack.
On that recent morning, the girl who'd arrived at school sobbing walks up to the school security desk, where Smith is tracking late arrivals.
He knows why she wasn't in class. Her boyfriend had just been shot and killed. But why, he asks, is she carrying a bundle of clothing?
"It's his clothes," she answers in a monotone before heading down the hallway in a daze.
Smith covers his eyes for a moment, then reveals cheeks wet with tears.
It doesn't matter how many times this happens. He'll never get used to it.
This wasn't work he'd planned to do. The "reluctant" fourth-generation pastor ultimately answered the call to work with youth. Now he has a knack, he says, for spotting potential leaders, some of them also reluctant.
A few days later, freshman Robert Cooks sits in the deans' office, awaiting a detention slip.
Above Smith's desk in that office, red letters are stuck to the wall – a message where there used to be a clock. Smith never bothered to replace it after a distressed student knocked it down.
"This is KAIROS Time," the message reads, using a Greek word that refers to a decisive and opportune moment.
Smith sensed that kind of moment when he accompanied the Peace Warriors to Parkland and later to Washington for the march.
This summer – Chicago's worst time for violence – is another, as he and his students plan sessions to train more Peace Warriors in the neighborhood. Students across the country also plan voter registration drives with an eye on the midterm elections in November. But here, safety must come first.
"This summer is critical. Can't wait until next summer. Can't wait until November," Smith says.
As he works in his office, he stops and gazes at Robert, the dejected freshman, as if he's seeing him with fresh eyes.
Has Cooks ever considered being a Peace Warrior? The teen says he gets in too much trouble.
"Peace Warriors aren't perfect," Smith tells him. "Don't count yourself out. We need some strong young men."
Maybe, just maybe, this is another "kairos." One of those critical moments.
Time will tell.
This article was reported by The Associated Press.


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• Interview (Audio): Pat Thomas was on BBC Radio's Front Row Daily last Friday talking about his book Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 — follow the link and "it's the one that says 'Tracey Emin; news from Cannes' — I'm on for about 10 minutes at the end," instructs Pat
• Commentary: Robot 6's Chris Mautner takes you back to "Comics College" with another of his handy reader's guides, this time to the work of Charles Burns


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1945: Hermann Fegelein, Eva Braun's brother-in-law
11 comments April 28th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1945, Waffen-SS officer Hermann Fegelein was shot in the Reich Chancellery's basement, or else its garden.
"One of the most disgusting people in Hitler's circle," in the estimation of Albert Speer, this rank opportunist had found his way there via Heinrich Himmler's patronage.
On June 3, 1944, Fegelein married right into Hitler's personal clique by tying the knot with Gretl Braun — sister of longtime Hitler mistress Eva Braun. Hitler and Himmler were both official witnesses.
They had a two-day wedding bash. Then the western allies landed at Normandy.
Fegelein still found plenty of time to party and womanize for the eleven remaining months that he and national socialism had a run of the place. But as a rank opportunist, he also had his antenna up for a post-Nazi arrangement by the spring of 1945. Here, his proximity to power did him no favors.
Posted directly to Hitler's bunker as Himmler's personal representative, the guy would have a harder time than some anonymous bureaucrat in slipping out of besieged Berlin.* When he absented himself from the bunker for two full days, Hitler himself noticed.
The guy sent to retrieve Fegelein found him drunk in a Berlin flat, hurriedly stuffing valuables into suitcases with a mystery woman who promptly disappeared out the window.
Having obviously been attempting to desert, Fegelein was in a fix when he was hauled back to the bunker.
Unluckily for Fegelein, this was also the date that Reuters reported news that his patron Himmler had attempted to surrender Nazi Germany to the U.S. and Britain — news that made its way into the hands of a livid Hitler. You've got Fegelein trying to defect (incidentally inviting Eva Braun to come with), his boss is selling right out, and he's consorting with a potential mole.
According to James O'Donnell, Hitler and his loyal satrap Martin Bormann were obsessed with leaks in the last days of the war, and the circumstances of Fegelein's capture conspired to make him look like a potential source of those leaks.
As the Fuhrerbunker consumed itself in paranoia, Fegelein — only slowly sobering up — disappeared into the hands of the Gestapo, and was shot. His body, presumably abandoned with other casualties of little interest to Berlin's conquerors, was never recovered.
Hundreds of kilometers to the south on the same day, Hitler's longtime Italianate partner Benito Mussolini was getting his. It would be a stark warning to Germany's fading dictator not to let the same fate befall him.
Hours after Hermann Fegelein's execution, his sister-in-law Eva finally wed Adolf Hitler … and on April 30, those two took their lives together.
A week after Hermann Fegelein's execution, on May 5, his widow bore him a posthumous daughter: Eva Barbara Fegelein, named after the child's late famous aunt.
* Fegelein had actually been out in Bavaria with Himmler — "safe", relative to what happened to him — but taken a hazardous flight back into besieged Berlin just a couple of weeks before his death. He was either trying to be Himmler's dutiful personal plant in the bunker, or trying to use his posting as a pretext to retrieve for the perilous postwar years the many valuables he had cached in Berlin.
On this day..
- 1876: Louis Thomas, gallows builder - 2020
- 1494: Joan Boughton, "old cankered heretic" - 2019
- 1708: William Gregg, spy of slob - 2018
- 1909: A triple execution in Chalco - 2017
- 1770: King David Hartley, Yorkshire coiner - 2016
- 1634: Mikhail Borisovich Shein, for failing to take Smolensk - 2015
- 1876: The slave Francisco, Brazil's last execution - 2014
- 1899: Not J.M. Olberman, spared by Oregon's governor - 2013
- 1882: George Henry Lamson, aconitine poisoner - 2011
- 2010: Zheng Minsheng, child-stabbing doctor - 2010
- 1772: Johann Friedrich Struensee, the doctor who ran Denmark - 2009
- 1945: Benito Mussolini, his mistress, and his aides - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Desertion,Espionage,Execution,Germany,History,Military Crimes,Notably Survived By,Occupation and Colonialism,Shot,Soldiers,Summary Executions,Wartime Executions
Tags: 1940s, 1945, adolf hitler, april 8, eva braun, heinrich himmler, hermann fegelein, world war ii


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Leaked Debate Agreement Shows Both Obama and Romney are Sniveling Cowards
Time's Mark Halperin has made himself useful for once by obtaining, and publishing, a copy of the 21-page memorandum of understanding that the Obama and Romney campaigns negotiated with the Commission on Presidential Debates establishing the rules governing this month's presidential and vice presidential face-offs. The upshot: Both campaigns are terrified at anything even remotely spontaneous happening.
They aren't permitted to ask each other questions, propose pledges to each other, or walk outside a "predesignated area." And for the town-hall-style debate tomorrow night, the audience members posing questions aren't allowed to ask follow-ups (their mics will be cut off as soon as they get their questions out). Nor will moderator Candy Crowley.
Most bizarrely, given the way the debates have played out, the rules actually appear to forbid television coverage from showing reaction shots of the candidates: "To the best of the Commission's abilities, there will be no TV cut-aways to any candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question or to a candidate who is not giving a closing statement while another candidate is doing so." The "best of the Commission's abilities" must be rather feeble, seeing as how almost every moment of the two debates so far was televised in split-screen, clearly showing shots of a "candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question."
Which means some of the rules below that both campaigns stipulated to in a desperate attempt to wring any serendipity out of the events may be honored in the breach:
- "The candidates may not ask each other direct questions during any of the four debates."
- "The candidates shall not address each other with proposed pledges."
- "At no time during the October 3 First Presidential debate shall either candidate move from his designated area behing the respective podium."
- For the October 16 town-hall-style debate, "the moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates during the debate...."
- "The audience members shall not ask follow-up questions or otherwise participate in the extended discussion, and the audience member's microphone shall be turned off after he or she completes asking the questions."
- "[T]he Commission shall take appropriate steps to cut-off the microphone of any...audience member who attempts to pose any question or statement different than that previously posed to the moderator for review."
- "No candidate may reference or cite any specific individual sitting in a debate audience (other than family members) at any time during a debate."
- For the town-hall debate: "Each candidate may move about in a pre-designated area, as proposed by the Commission and approved by each campaign, and may not leave that area while the debate is underway."
Here's the full document:
The 2012 Debates - Memorandum of Understanding Between the Obama and Romney Campaigns
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Monday, August 15
Daily Farm Photo: 8/15/05
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- Anonymous8/15/2005 7:58 AM
Hi Farmgirl, I do love your photos, and your stories as well !ReplyDelete
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thank you for sharing, and for joining me if you like, and have a nice day just as beautiful as the sunrise shown ! And MANY pats to Lucky Buddy Bear from Gino (also called "The Bear", if you want to see some photos you can check my main website, the link is shown in the right column) all the best to all of you, angelika
Mmm. Beautiful. Here in the city there are too many houses around to see the sunrise. I can't wait until we live in the country (soon!) so we can see it rise and set every day. Beauty like that would certainly be sufficient motivation to get me out of bed a little earlier!ReplyDelete
The sky is such a great colour fgReplyDelete
Hey, come stick a pin in me and tag a food blogging friend!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/17/2005 12:35 AM
Great sunrise, DD!ReplyDelete
I love sunrises--how amazing to watch your whole day start. Great photo.ReplyDelete
December 2015 update: Hi! For some reason I can't figure out, Blogger hasn't been letting me leave comments on my own blog (!) for the last several months, so I've been unable to respond to your comments and questions. My apologies for any inconvenience! You're always welcome to email me: farmgirlfare AT gmail DOT com.
Hi! Thanks for visiting Farmgirl Fare and taking the time to write. While I'm not always able to reply to every comment, I receive and enjoy reading them all.
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Please note that I moderate comments, so if I'm away from the computer it may be a while before yours appears.
I try my best to answer all questions, though sometimes it takes me a few days. And sometimes, I'm sorry to say, they fall through the cracks, and for that I sincerely apologize.
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Bipartisan budget deal sets off some grumbling
Modest budget deal might be as good as it gets, but sets off some grumbling on both sides
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Backers of a narrowly drawn budget deal are selling it as a way to stabilize Congress' shaky fiscal practices and mute some of the partisan rancor that has helped send lawmakers' public approval ratings plummeting. But the bipartisan pact doesn't solve long-term tax and spending issues, leaving liberals and conservatives alike grumbling.
House and Senate floor votes are being sought on the plan announced Tuesday by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, and applauded by the White House, with the aim of securing passage before lawmakers go home for the holidays.
But skepticism surfaced in both the Democratic and Republican caucuses.
Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican and leading deficit hawk, panned the new deal in an interview Wednesday, saying it fails to address core issues of wasteful spending in Washington. He said it was probably "the best" that Ryan and Murray could get at this time. But said he was disappointed in its failure to address core fiscal issues such as duplication and wasteful spending in Washington.
The agreement, among other things, seeks to restore $63 billion in automatic spending cuts affecting programs ranging from parks to the Pentagon. The deal to ease those cuts for two years is aimed less at chipping away at the nation's $17 trillion national debt than it is at trying to help a dysfunctional Capitol stop lurching from crisis to crisis. It would set the stage for action in January on a $1 trillion-plus spending bill for the budget year that began in October.
The measure unveiled by Ryan, R-Wis., and Murray, D-Wash., blends $85 billion in spending cuts and revenue from new and extended fees — but no taxes or cuts to Medicare beneficiaries — to replace a significant amount of the mandated cuts to agency budgets over the coming two years.
The package would raise the Transportation Security Administration fee on a typical nonstop, round-trip airline ticket from $5 to $10; require newly hired federal workers to contribute 1.3 percentage points more of their salaries toward their pensions; and trim cost-of-living adjustments to the pensions of military retirees under the age of 62. Hospitals and other health care providers would have to absorb two additional years of a 2-percentage-point cut in their Medicare reimbursements.
The plan doesn't attempt to resuscitate earlier attempts at an accommodation that would have traded tax hikes for structural curbs to ever-growing benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security. But it would at least bring some stability on the budget to an institution — Congress — whose approval ratings are in the gutter.
"Our deal puts jobs and economic growth first by rolling back ... harmful cuts to education, medical research, infrastructure investments and defense jobs for the next two years," Murray said.
Ryan is set to pitch the measure to skeptical conservatives at a closed-door GOP meeting on Wednesday. Democrats are set to discuss it as well, but the measure won an immediate endorsement from President Barack Obama if only tepid approval from top Capitol Hill Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee.
"Tonight's agreement represents a step toward enacting a budget for the American people and preventing further manufactured crises that only harm our economy, destroy jobs and weaken our middle class," Pelosi said in a statement.
"This agreement makes sure that we don't have a government shutdown scenario in January. It makes sure that we don't have another government shutdown scenario in October," Ryan said. "It makes sure that we don't lurch from crisis to crisis."
The budget deal was one of a few major measures left on Congress' to-do list near the end of a bruising year that has produced a partial government shutdown, a flirtation with a first-ever federal default and gridlock on Obama's agenda.
In a blow to Democrats, the agreement omits an extension of benefits for workers unemployed longer than 26 weeks. The program expires Dec. 28, when payments will be cut off for an estimated 1.3 million individuals. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has agreed to stage a test vote on the measure this year, but it's not clear whether he'll get enough GOP support to advance it.
Aides predicted bipartisan approval in both houses in the next several days, despite grumbling from liberals over the omission of the unemployment extension and pressure from tea party-aligned groups that are pushing Republican conservatives to oppose the deal.
The agreement would increase the cap on so-called discretionary spending from the $967 billion mandated by Washington's failure to follow up a 2011 budget agreement with additional deficit cuts. The cap would rise to $1.012 trillion for the ongoing 2014 budget year and up to $1.014 trillion for 2015.
The relief to the Pentagon is relatively modest since the agency started out facing a cut of $20 billion below the harsh cuts it faced in 2013; the agreement replaces those cuts but doesn't bring the military's budget much above 2013 levels.
"While modest in scale, this agreement represents a positive step forward by replacing one-time spending cuts with permanent reforms to mandatory spending programs that will produce real, lasting savings," said Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Even before the deal was announced, conservative organizations were attacking the proposal as a betrayal of a 2011 agreement that reduced government spending and is counted as among the main accomplishments of tea party-aligned Republicans who came to power earlier the same year in the House.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., issued a statement opposing the measure and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was seen as likely to oppose it as well. But key Democrats lined up behind Obama, especially after Ryan eased demands on making federal workers contribute more to their pensions.
"This agreement isn't perfect, but it is certainly better than no agreement at all," said Van Hollen, the top House Budget Committee Democrat.
Coburn made his remarks in an appearance Wednesday on MSNBC.


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In 2017/'18, more girls than boys in the third year of secondary education were studying at a higher level than recommended by their primary school.Read publication
At the end of 2017, nearly 7 percent (228 thousand) of all minor children were living in a family claiming income support, down by nearly 3 thousand on 2016. It was the first drop in the number of children from such families since 2009.Read publication
The Annual Report Youth Monitor 2018 Summary presents an outline of the life situation of Dutch youth at both national and local level. At local level, a description of youth in the Caribbean Netherlands is included. The report focuses on all ages, from very young children to older youth.Read publication
For eight months now, unemployment among youth has fallen below the lowest point before the economic crisis in 2008. At European level, the Netherlands is in the top three of countries with the lowest youth unemployment rate.Read publication
In 2017, 4 percent of young people in the Netherlands aged 15 to 24 years were neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET). This is equivalent to 84 thousand young people.Read publication
In 2016, 1,492 teenage girls gave birth to a child in the Netherlands. This number was again slightly lower than one year previously. The share of Dutch teenage mothers per one thousand 15 to 19-year-old girls was the lowest of all EU countries.Read publication
In 2016, most young people in the Caribbean Netherlands between the ages of 15 and 24 were enrolled in education. This share was highest on Saba: 72 percent. On Bonaire, one-third of this age group are no longer enrolled in education but are in work. They are often full-time workers, similar to the group aged 25 and over.Read publication
The Annual Report of the National Youth Monitor provides insights into the situation of the nearly 5 million young people in the Netherlands. The report also includes information about young people in the Caribbean Netherlands. The lives of young people are described using various indicators and themes. Topics addressed here include family situation, children in families on income support, education, labour market, alcohol consumption, crime and crime victim rates, youth care and overall satisfaction with life.Read publication
Fewer young, highly educated people have completed technical studies compared to ten years ago. Among these engineering graduates, the number of men is four times as high as the number of women. According to Statistics Netherlands, nearly 30 percent of female and almost half of male engineering graduates start working in technical occupations.Read publication
Many municipalities in Groningen province have a very low employment rate among young people aged 15 to 27. Likewise, many young people in the larger cities in the provinces of South and North Holland are unemployed. Labour participation rates among young people in Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam are 59 percent, 52 percent and 53 percent respectively, considerably lower than the national average of over 62 percent.Read publication


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MIAMI (AP) — The mother of an American freelance journalist held hostage and threatened with death by Islamic militants pleaded for his release Wednesday in a video message aimed directly at his captors.
Shirley Sotloff, who lives in the Miami area, addressed the leader of the Islamic State in seeking the return of Steven Sotloff, 31. Shirley Sotloff said that her son shouldn't pay for U.S. government actions in the Middle East over which he has no control, and that as a journalist he cared about the weak and oppressed.
''I want what every mother wants, to live to see her children's children.'' she said. ''I plead with you to grant me this.''
Shirley Sotloff cited by name the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has described himself as a caliph intending to lead the Muslim world. She asks him to show mercy and follow the example of the prophet Muhammad in protecting people of Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths.
''You, the caliph, can grant amnesty. I ask you please to release my child. I ask you to use your authority to spare his life,'' Shirley Sotloff said on the video.
The video was aired on the Al-Arabiya television network. A telephone message left at the Sotloffs' suburban Miami home was not immediately returned Wednesday.
Sotloff was last seen in August 2013 in Syria. He was threatened with death by the militants on a video unless the U.S. stopped air strikes on the group in Iraq. The same video showed the beheading of fellow American journalist James Foley.
The new video by Shirley Sotloff marked the first detailed public comments the family has made since Steven Sotloff went missing. Several U.S. officials, including U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., say they have been working behind the scenes to find out more about him and try to secure his release.
At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters he did not know whether President Barack Obama had seen Shirley Sotloff's video, but he said the administration is ''deeply engaged'' in trying to gain release of all Americans held hostage in the Middle East.
''She obviously, as is evident from the video, feels desperate about the safety and well-being of her son, and understandably so, and that is why our thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Sotloff's family at this very difficult and trying time.''
On his Twitter feed, Sotloff described himself as a ''stand-up philosopher from Miami. Currently in Libya.'' He also mentions several publications in which his work appeared, including Time and Foreign Policy magazines.
Before Sotloff was shown on the Islamic State video, only a few friends and family knew he had been taken hostage, said Sotloff's former roommate at the University of Central Florida, Emerson Lotzia. His parents didn't want anyone to go public. Lotzia said he recently spoke to Sotloff's father, Arthur Sotloff.
''He was in the best of spirits, then he was in the worst of spirits,'' said Lotzia, now a local TV sports anchor in West Palm Beach. ''He told me, 'At last I know my son is alive. But look at the situation.' It's killing him, and he's trying his best to stay on an even keel.''
Just how Sotloff made his way from Florida to Middle East hotspots is not clear. But Lotzia told the UCF student newspaper, the Central Florida Future, that Sotloff was doing what he loved.
''A million people could have told him what he was doing was foolish, it seemed like it to us (as) outsiders looking in, but to him it was what he loved to do and you weren't going to stop him,'' Lotzia said. ''Steve said it was scary over there. It was dangerous. It wasn't safe to be over there. He knew it. He kept going back.''
According to a society notice in The Miami Herald's archives, Sotloff graduated from Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire in May 2002 and began attending the University of Central Florida that fall. The notice says Sotloff was co-editor of the student newspaper, The Kimball Union, and received an award for student journalism.
UCF spokeswoman Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala said school records show Sotloff was a student majoring in journalism from fall 2002 until fall 2004. She said the school has no record of him graduating.
UCF student newspaper archives show Sotloff wrote frequently for the publication on topics ranging from presidential politics to a fire at a campus-affiliated apartment complex.
More recently, Sotloff published articles from Syria, Egypt and Libya in a variety of publications, including Time.com, the World Affairs Journal and Foreign Policy. He posted links to many of them on his Twitter feed, and several focus on the plight of average people in war-torn places such as Aleppo, Syria.
James Denton, publisher and editor in chief of World Affairs, said Sotloff was an occasional and well-regarded contributor.
''He is known to us as an honest and thoughtful journalist who strives to understand the story from local perspectives and report his findings straightforwardly,'' Denton said in an email statement. ''He is certainly courageous.''
Aside from the Middle East, Sotloff's Twitter feed shows he was a big fan of the NBA's Miami Heat.
''Is it bad that I want to focus on #syria, but all I can think of is a #HEATFinals repeat?'' he tweeted in June 2013 before the team won its second consecutive title.


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Ready, Set, Knit! 331: Kathy talks with Sara Delaney
This week Kathy talks with WEBS Marketing Coordinator, Sara Delaney, about the October KAL/CAL.
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Kathy and Sara discuss the October KAL/CAL happening in the All Things WEBS group on Ravelry, this month's theme is Stuffed Toys.
What are we making?: knit and/or crocheted stuffed toys
What's the timeline?: Begin anytime in October, post your finished pictures in the October KAL/CAL Entry thread by 10/31 at noon Eastern.
What's the prize?: One randomly selected entry will be chosen and will receive a $50 WEBS gift card.
- Must be a member of the All Things WEBS group.
- Must be a stuffed animal (or monster, doll, etc.) – knit or crocheted (or both).
- Must cast on October 1st (or after) and finish by October 31st at noon Eastern.
- Must include a photo of the finished object in the KAL/CAL Entry thread. Only one entry (post) per project, but you can enter with more than one project. Just create a new post with the picture.
- We encourage you to use a yarn (and/or) pattern that you've purchased from us, or one that we carry (your handspun is okay too), but it isn't required.
- We will lock the thread at noon Eastern on October 31st and the winner will be chosen randomly and posted the next day.
You can find a great selection of knit toy patterns here, crochet toy patterns here as well as the Valley Yarns Creatures! both knit and crochet. And check out our Pinterest Board for even more ideas.
Coming up in November we'll be running a KAL with our NEW! Safe Passage Set. All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to Safe Passage. Get your copy of the pattern and yarn today so you can cast on November 1st!
Steve's Yarn Picks:
- Madeline Tosh ASAP
- Cascade Pacific
- Opal Rainforest 9
- Frabjous Fibers BFL Sparkle
- Universal Yarns Classic Worsted Tapestry – Closeout
- Rosetti Polaris – Closeout
- Universal Yarn Spiceberry – Closeout
- Filatura di Crosa Tiffany – Closeout
- Plymouth Jelli Beenz – Closeout
- Laines du Nord Romeo – Closeout
- Queensland Alpaca Bamboo Soft – Closeout
Stitches East is coming up! November 8-10 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT. There are still lots of open seats in classes and the Market is not to be missed!
Adventures in Yarn Farming Book signing with Barbara Parry, November 14th from 6:30 – 8:00pm
Ready, Set, Knit! listeners are you up for a challenge?! The KnottyGirls Knitcast issued a challenge and started the Ravelry Podcaster Throwdown. They claimed that their listeners will turn in more hats for Halos of Hope by the end of Stitches West 2014 than any other podcast out there. You all know that Kathy has a competitive streak a mile wide and can't resist a challenge! Steve has even stepped in and said that he will ship all the collected hats to Stitches West! Here's what you need to do:
Make as many knit and/or crochet hats as you can (check here for preferred fibers and free patterns) and get them to us by February 1, 2014. Make sure each hat and package is labeled with "Team RSK!" Please mail all packages to:
We are no longer accepting donations of hats – please send all hat donations to
Halos for Hope
20987 N. John Wayne Pkwy
Maricopa, AZ 85139
If you're posting about your progress on Facebook or Twitter please use #PodcastThrowdown. And please join the Podcasters Throwdown Group on Ravelry and show your support in the Team RSK thread! If you've sent in hats let us know who you are.
- Ready, Set, Knit! 474: Kathy talks with Andra Asars - January 28, 2017
- Ready, Set, Knit! 473: Kathy talks with Maura Pfeifer - January 21, 2017
- New Designs in Valley Yarns Colrain! - January 20, 2017
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