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Suite Talk, April 14, 2011
Former Voinovich aide joins Nixon Peabody
The international law firm Nixon Peabody has hired Douglas Dziak as counsel at its Washington office.
Most recently, Dziak was a legislative director and chief counsel to then-Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) and general counsel to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
"In addition to great skill in advocacy, negotiation and coalition-building, Doug brings a keen understanding of the Senate which supports the existing team's strengths," said Thomas Reynolds, head of Nixon Peabody's government relations and public policy team.
Before his stint on Capitol Hill, Dziak worked at two other D.C.-area law firms. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from Ohio University and a law degree from the College of William and Mary.
Chamber Foundation names a new VP
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's National Chamber Foundation has named Richard Cooper vice president of research and emerging issues.
Cooper is a principal with the Washington-based government and public affairs firm Catalyst Partners, for which he advises clients on homeland and national security issues. He's also chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association's Homeland Security Division.
"While the Chamber is busy working on the issues immediately impacting businesses, Rich is going to make sure we are prepared and informed for the issues that are coming down the road," said Al Martinez-Fonts, executive vice president of the Chamber's Forum for Policy Innovation, which oversees the foundation.
Before joining Catalyst, Cooper was a business liaison director for the Department of Homeland Security's Private Sector Office and a senior policy adviser at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
He has a bachelor's degree in political science and religion from the University of Mary Washington.
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NAPIER, DUNCAN CAMPBELL, British army officer and office-holder; b. c. 1788 probably on the Island of Jersey; d. in June 1865 at St Helier, Island of Jersey.
Duncan Campbell Napier joined the Commissariat Department of the British army at an early age. He spent almost the whole of his active career in Canada, stationed in either Montreal or Quebec City where he was attached to the office of the governor general's military secretary. Although his career was hardly spectacular, it does provide some useful insight into the workings of the Indian Department in the half century before confederation.
Napier seems to have been attached to the military secretary's office from the time of the War of 1812. He had a variety of responsibilities; by 1825 he was in charge of army transport for the Montreal district, the resident Indian agent for the area, and secretary at Montreal of the Indian Department, responsible for all correspondence regarding the Indian population of Lower Canada. From 1830 to 1840 he was secretary at Quebec City and from 1840 until his retirement in 1857 secretary again at Montreal. Napier was the chief official in the Indian Department in the lower province for at least 32 years.
The Indians of Lower Canada were in a very different position from those of Upper Canada during the years Napier was concerned with Indian affairs. In North America, the traditional British policy was to negotiate the surrender of Indian lands through treaties, and then to sell these lands to incoming white settlers. This model was used in Upper Canada after 1791 and in the new dominion after confederation. French authorities in New France before 1763 had had quite another practice. They had entrusted the work of cultural assimilation to religious orders, setting aside land grants for that purpose. The ownership of these grants or reserves had been vested in the religious organizations rather than the Indians. Consequently, no Indian land surrenders had been signed and Roman Catholic missionaries had often acted in a double capacity as priests and as government Indian agents. After 1763, British authorities in the Province of Quebec thus found themselves administering a system of Indian-white relations whose roots lay in the province's French past.
Under the British system of Indian treaties, bands who gave up territory received compensation in the form of yearly presents, annual payments, and interest on the capital which accrued from the sale of surrendered land. From at least the time of the American revolution the army commissariat had been involved in the annual distribution of Indian presents. Because the Indians were also regarded as military allies, it seemed logical to put one of its officers in charge of the Indians of Lower Canada. After 1800 they came under the jurisdiction of the governor general, who made the military secretary responsible. By the time of the War of 1812 it had become necessary to appoint a permanent official in Lower Canada to oversee the duties of the military secretary's office with regard to the Indians and Colonel Napier was the first officer to be appointed. Napier was therefore subordinate to the military secretary. This administrative pattern persisted in Lower Canada until the Canadian government became responsible for Indian affairs in 1860 [see Richard Theodore Pennefather], even though the Indians of Upper Canada were effectively under civil control after 1830.
Napier was responsible for a vast, ill-defined area whose Indians for the most part clung to the semi-nomadic hunting and fishing life of their ancestors. He could do little to encourage the formation of fixed agricultural settlements which was the object of official policy. His correspondence was mostly with resident priests or other religious and dealt chiefly with the mundane matters of everyday administration: population statistics, requests for funds, and salary supplements. Many Indian bands went officially unvisited for years or simply dropped out of view altogether. This situation contrasted with the one in Upper Canada, where problems were fewer and administration more innovative [see Thomas Gummersall Anderson*].
Duncan Campbell Napier was a conscientious administrator who could do little more than maintain the Indian Department's status quo in Lower Canada. Advancing age lessened his effectiveness during his last years in office. His retirement in 1857 coincided with Britain's decision to retreat from Indian affairs in Canada. That retreat marked the real end of an administrative system which had become an anachronism. It is not known when Napier left Canada or how he spent the last years of his life.
PAC, MG 30, D62, 22, pp.787–802; RG 10, vols. 22–25, 78–102, 141, 590–603, 655–655a. Gentleman's Magazine CCXVIII (January–June 1865), 801.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Why has WoW lost subs? I have a reason for you.....
I got to see first hand why some people probably quit this game. People can be complete douchebags.
The other day, my wife, a buddy, and queued up for the new Heroics. My wife was bringing along her Paladin who had not been in them yet.
We get Sylvanas for the first boss. She has never done that fight before.
We end up wiping because the tank goes to a differnt ghoul than he said he would and we get exploded.
We run back in and the Warlock is complaining about my wife's and my friend's DPS. "You aren't even above the tank".
I reply...."Neither are you."
Then he goes on a rant linking a few of the blue items my wife is wearing. Last I checked, you do not need full epics to get into the instance.
He just kept going and going. Unforunately, the vote to kick was on cooldown because we had to kick a tank who DCed immediately after we zoned it.
It is not like they were doing terrible DPS. They were both doin between 12 and 13.5k DPS, which is more than enough for these instances.
The whole situation literally made my wife cry. In real life. This is the reason why I never had her do LFG instances. People can be douchebags. It was a new encounter, her gear and DPS was plenty sufficient, and some asshat decided that it was his mission to make someone feel like shit.
If it was real life, I would have punched the motherfucker in the mouth.
This is the reason why we cant have nice things. What if someone gets into their first ever instance...YAY!!!! Part way through, someone starts talking shit and saying nasty things to them despite there being no problems clearing the instance. That person may say...."Fuck it, Im going to play Skyrim". Not only do you lose a WoW player....you lose a potential future MMO player.
One of my buddies who is hardened to it had a situation that seemed somewhat similar. Tanking an instance on his 50 something warrior, a mage is running ahead and pulling mobs. He asks for the mage to stop. Mage continues to pull. Friend says "I hate impatient DPS who dont wait for the tank". The DPS replied "I hate slow ass tanks". My friend did what I would do. Vote to kick for being a douche. He was out and the instance goes on. Unfortunately, this kind of behaviour my spell the end for players who don't feel the need to be insulted by 15 year old boys who are alt tabbed playing CoD and calling people faggots.
WoW needs and occupy movement....Occupy asshats. Do not put up with them. Flex the vote kick.
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- Wilhelm Arcturus said...
I've done dungeon finder runs throughout the whole level range with random strangers and generally have had a wonderful time. Maybe one run in 20 has somebody with an attitude issue.
For that it has been the best LFG tool ever.
Then I got to heroics (this was in WotLK) and the ratio suddenly reversed. Basically, I swore them off unless I could do them with the regular group.
My daughter started doing heroics this past weekend. I was watching as somebody started giving her a hard time about her numbers AFTER they downed the last boss. Like there isn't enough trouble in the world.
And it wasn't even like there was a constructive tone to it, some undercurrent of helpfulness. It was just all bile.
I told her to just put in, "We won, what's the issue?" and ignore him after that.
- December 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM
- Clockw0rk said...
I had a similar encounter with a jerk today in the new instances; I join with my rogue, group is at Jaina (in the End of Time) and the tank insists on, instead of fighting the trash, going around steathfully and getting the fragments.
"Fine" I think to myself, no big deal. All 16 are gathered no problem, pulls Jaina...2 groups add when she blinks and we wiped. We run back, clear two groups, pull again....she blinks into a third group of trash and we wipe.
Tank goes on a tirade at the healer for not being able to heal him through that.
I should point out that this tank is a DK wearing DPS/PvP gear.
We manage to kill Jaina after the third try, move on to Baine. Healer leaves (I assume because of the verbal abuse). We kill Baine, tanky belt drops, "tank" rolls need and when he wins it he leaves the group.
/sigh, I wish there was a system to punish asshats like that.
- December 12, 2011 at 1:20 PM
- TyphoonAndrew said...
We nee a way to rate and exclude players by accounts built into the UI. That way I'll only see the same idiot once. Most of the time when I try to add a cross-realm player to ignore it fails.
Would also be nice to add players to my whitelist, and then include by preference anyone my friend has on their lists as a priority too. Kind of like using friends of friends as a preference.
- December 12, 2011 at 6:04 PM
I joined a random last week, and after the very first trash mob, the tank said "DPS is shit". I checked recount and we were doing 18-20k dps each. How to kill people's enjoyment of a game in one comment.
- December 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM
A) I totally agree with you. People are douchebags. None of the fights in the new instances are "DPS checks" except MAYBE Murozond which you get 5 tries at.
B) 10-15k seems completely average DPS for those instances, less and you either aren't playing right or don't meet the gear level to enter, more and WTF are you doing running it? You're prolly wearing more than 378ilvl gear.
C)It is REALLY hard to out DPS the tank in 5 mans. The tank usually AOE's mobs and they go down too fast for DPS to outpace them. On certain fights, sure. I had a healer bitching about my "tank geared warrior" Cuz I had ONE piece of tank gear on, the JP chest. It obviously really hindered me as I was top DPS and pulled around 15k. I don't raid, I just want easy cool looking gear and VP. . .
- December 13, 2011 at 6:51 AM
The last group I was in kicked a healer that complained about the dps and debated with the tank from the time we started until the time we kicked him. He said he was being "social".
- December 13, 2011 at 8:21 AM
For all the reasons mentioned I absolutely refuse to pug heroics and as a result, since Cata launched have found my toons falling further and further behind the gear curve. I used to compensate with crafted items to stay competitive but the prices on the AH these days are totally ridiculous and as a result am just about ready to quit the game I love to play.
- December 13, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- Bristal said...
I'm not disputing that people act like asshats, but making the Gevlon-esque leap that the ARE asshats and deserve severe punishment is not helpful.
All players have a back story which is invisible to us in any group, even a guild run.
Your wife's story is that she's new, excited, and a bit nervous, not to mention potentially emotionally sensitive. If we're playing face to face, that is obvious and we adjust our expectations and attitudes. Hell, most would love to play with a giddy player just to get the contact high.
But we're not face to face.
What If the asshat's backstory is that he's 16, normally plays with extremely direct and impatient players his age, has recently been berated for a poor gear choice, and has a generally shitty life.
If we were face to face, we'd also adjust our attitude toward him.
Not making excuses for rude behavior, merely pointing out that in a video game, expecting manners and social skills to follow real life isn't reasonable.
Now if you had whispered this guy, "hey, that's my wife, she's a little new at this and you're really hurting her", and he kept on, then he IS an asshat.
But as far as he was concerned, he's playing with 4 other players just like himself.
Totally agree that the awkward and abrupt communication of a chat panel is damaging the amazing potential of a peerless social game.
And we come back to realID. Love it, hate it, there is no other way to legislate personally responsible social behavior.
Other than that, thicken your skin or don't play.
- December 14, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Darraxus said...
@ Bristal: Your background does not give you the right to be a dickhead.
Not everyone is used to being insulted over the internet because of a game. I have thick skin and will dish it back. Not everyone is the same. You shouldt have to put up with abuse because someone else did. That is stupid. Thicken your skin or dont play is an incredibly ignorant comment.
And no, I am not going to relate to a stranger that "Hey, this is my wife, you are hurting her feelings, be nice." Most douche bags would probably just lol and keep on, pissing me off even further.
Perception is reality. If you act like an asshat, you are an asshat.
- December 14, 2011 at 12:37 PM
- Bristal said...
I totally agree that my concluding statement was a bit blunt. That happens with the written word. I apologize.
My point is that if you choose to play with random players, it's like picking up a hitchhiker or 4 in the dark. Can't see em, they can't see you.
You will certainly meet some characters. Some have an axe to anonymously grind. Many assume that the other players are just like themselves, and that they better attack before attacked. They may be drunk, stoned, over caffienated, hungry, cranky, recently unemployed, abused, mean and any other bad thing you can imagine.
But more often you will meet very patient, educated, and awesome people. Ahem.
Obviously you know this, and put up with the risk (i.e. ignore it) as long as you're with "the guys". But bring along a more vulnerable person, and suddenly you want the rules to inexplicably change.
But suggest that the answer is to take some personal responsibility and not pick up hitchhikers and I'm a dickhead.
But, then, your infallible perception is of course reality. You did hurt my feelings, and I apologize if I hurt yours.
Perhaps my point would have been better written: "...or avoid playing with anonymous strangers on the internet."
Perception is not reality, because it is so often misunderstanding.
- December 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- Darraxus said...
@ Bristal:
I certainly agree that playing with rude players is a hazard of the random dungeon finders, but I still do not think it is acceptable behavior regardless of cicumstances.
Sorry if I hurt your feelings. My feelings were not hurt, I am just fiercly defensive when it comes to my wife.
I also agree that for the most part people are friendly, however, that one dickhead can ruin it for someone who isnt expecting to get blinsided in a game.
- December 20, 2011 at 3:23 PM


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Still Mine (Official Trailer)
Based on true events and laced with wry humour, STILL MINE is a heartfelt love story about an 89-year-old New Brunswicker (James Cromwell) who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his wife (Geneviève Bujold) whose memory is starting to go. Although Craig Morrison is using the same methods his father, a shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. Craig quickly gets on the wrong side of an overzealous government inspector, who finds just about everything unacceptable, including the unstamped wood Craig has milled from his own trees. As Irene becomes increasingly ill and amidst a series of stop-work orders Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance.
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By Kayleigh O'Keeffe
Figuring out why certain soils keep plant parasites at bay could be a boon for agriculture around the globe
September 21, 2016 — Plants around the world are constantly under attack — often with big implications for humans. In the 1960s, millions of elm trees in Britain, France and the U.S. fell victim to Dutch elm disease, which clogs the vessels that carry life-giving water to the trees' leaves. Starting in the late 1980s, Brazil's thriving chocolate industry crumbled when witches' broom disease devastated its cacao trees. Lately, banana growers have become increasingly concerned about Panama disease, which is spreading rapidly and threatening to wipe out their crops. The attackers, like many of the infectious agents that harm humans, are tiny but devastating fungi, bacteria and other microbial parasites.
Now, global change is giving these parasites an edge, helping spread deadly diseases around the globe. Desperate to find a way to fight back, some scientists have turned their attention to a special type of soil known as "disease-suppressive soil." The plants that live in it seem to magically remain relatively free of disease, even if disease-causing parasites are present. These scientists hope to improve understanding of this phenomenon so they can use it to help make agriculture more sustainable.
Perfect Combination
In the same way forts have armies to protect themselves against invaders, plants growing in disease-suppressive soil have beneficial bacteria to defend themselves against parasites attacking them from the ground. While all soil has microbes living in it, disease-suppressive soil has certain types of microbes that can fight off disease.
Not all soils are disease suppressive, and those that are weren't always that way. In many cases, soils develop protective qualities only after they host a single plant species and that species has experienced years of disease outbreak. It appears that, much as our bodies gain defenses in the form of antibodies after we get sick from the illnesses such as chicken pox or measles, soils can gain defenses in the form of the perfect combination of microbes that fend off future attacks from the same pathogen.
Just as each human has a unique set of fingerprints, each type of soil has a unique signature based on the kinds and numbers of microbes present. The phenomenon was observed as early as 1931. Since then, scientists have tried to understand which specific microbes can defend plants against their attackers and how they do so. Today, advances in microbiological and sequencing technology are enabling researchers to tease apart the complexities of the microbes that live in soils — which organisms are they, exactly, and just what do they do? It turns out that, just as each human has a unique set of fingerprints, each type of soil has a unique signature based on the kinds and numbers of microbes present.
A team of researchers based at Washington State University has focused on the suppression of take-all disease in wheat for decades. Take-all, which destroys grasses' roots, is caused by a fungal parasite. Even before this group started its research in the 1960s, it was clear that growing wheat continuously in an area that had experienced take-all would lead to a decline in the disease. Plant pathologist David Weller, a member of the research team, determined that these suppressive soils had greater amounts of a type of bacteria called pseudomonads. When research geneticist Linda Thomashow joined the group in 1985, she used molecular methods to learn more about pseudomonads and how they produce antibiotics to fight off pathogen.
In the 1990s, Linda Kinkel and Neil Anderson, plant pathologists at the University of Minnesota, went looking for a microbial explanation for an inexplicable decline in scab, a disease that disfigures crops like potatoes or radishes with dark, splotchy growths, in a potato field in Minnesota. Kinkel and her colleagues found that the soil contained greater amounts of a certain type of bacteria called Streptomyces than soil that does not suppress disease. These bacteria produce antibiotics used as weapons against parasites.
Characterizing such "microbial signatures" is just the first step toward further harnessing soil microbes to prevent disease.
Understanding the soil microbes that protect plants from disease can be a matter of life and death — not just for the plants but for us as well. "Technology provides a static picture," says Kinkel, "but these systems are so not static. … We need to understand not just which species are present, but how they are interacting." Translating their discoveries about disease-suppressive soil into management solutions, she says, will require a shift in thinking. While many researchers are searching for a "silver bullet" microbe that can be added to soil and fight off disease, the system is much more complex than that.
Food Security
Understanding the soil microbes that protect plants from disease can be a matter of life and death — not just for the plants but for us as well. Human population is growing, and plants are key to ensuring our future food security. Enlisting the help of microbes found naturally in the soil is critical, Thomashow explains, because "the agricultural systems are weakest in parts of the world where population growth is the greatest and the people can't afford chemicals."
"It's not this pie in the sky," Kinkel says. "[These soils provide] long-term, stable, virtually complete disease suppression without any pesticide input."
So what do we need to bring disease-suppressive soil into management practices more widely?
If scientists can learn more about how disease-suppressing microbes are functioning in this soil and how suppression originates, they can inform management practices to better protect plants against disease while reducing the need for artificial chemicals.
However, Kinkel points out, for that to happen smoothly, communication will be key. Scientists may figure out ways to introduce disease resistance into soil, but that won't do any good if their recommendations don't mesh well with practices farmers use in real life such as rotating crops. "I may know things [growers] don't, but they know a lot of things I don't," says Kinkel. In other words, successfully applying what has been learned about disease-suppressive soils to agriculture will require both scientists and farmers to listen to each other.
As Thomashow puts it, "We have a big toolbox, but we are not yet employing all the tools we have."
Kayleigh O'Keeffe produced this feature as a participant in the Ensia Mentor Program. Her mentor for the project was Hillary Rosner. This article was reprinted with permission: http://ensia.com/articles/soil-protects-plants-devastating-disease/
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July 11, 2013 — -- The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 4.51 percent, a two-year high, on the possibility that the Federal Reserve would reduce future bond purchases, according to Freddie Mac.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.51 percent for the week ending July 11, up from last week when it averaged 4.29 percent. Last year at this time, it averaged 3.56 percent.
The 15-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 3.53 percent, up from 3.39 percent last week and 2.86 percent from a year ago.
On Thursday morning, stocks opened at record-high levels after comments Wednesday night from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the Fed intends to keep its $85 billion a month bond purchasing stimulus program in place for the near future. The Dow closed at an all-time high on Thursday.
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Before Bernanke spoke at a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve released minutes from its policy committee meetings from June 18 and 19. Those meeting notes indicated many members were waiting for further improvement in the labor market before bond purchases could be slowed.
Last month, Bernanke hinted that the Federal Reserve could begin tapering bond purchases as early as this fall if, among other factors, the country's unemployment situation improved.
Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist with Freddie Mac, said households were moving into the mortgage-lending market out of fear that interest rates might rise.
Nothaft said June's employment numbers, which indicated a higher than expected 195,000 jobs added last month plus higher revisions for the previous two months, led to more market speculation that the Federal Reserve would reduce future bond purchases. That caused bond yields and mortgage rates to rise, he said.
"Moreover, hourly wages rose by 2.2 percent over the last 12 months and represented the largest annual increase in nearly two years," he said. "However, the minutes of the June 18th and 19th Federal Reserve's monetary policy committee meeting, released July 10th, stated that many members indicated further improvement in the outlook for the labor market would be required before it would be appropriate to slow the pace of bond purchases."
The jobs report indicated part-time jobs increased to more than 350,000, an indication that the quality of jobs did not keep pace with the quantity of jobs added.
When asked if some people are just getting into the market on the fear that mortgage rates will rise further, Zillow senior economist Svenja Gudell said that may be only one part of the story.
"Some of the demand may be pulled forward for those that are already in the process of buying and they might try to speed up closing so they are able to lock-in the lowest rate possible, but it's unlikely that a flood of brand new buyers will enter the market just because mortgage rates are rising," she said.
It's important to remember that mortgage rates are still incredibly low, she said.
"Per Freddie Mac, the average 30-year fixed rate over the past 42 years was roughly 8.5 percent, so anything below 6 percent is a bargain. Also, rates of 6 or even 7 percent won't happen overnight. While it's expected that mortgage rates, in general, will continue to rise, it will take a few years for them to reach that level," she said.
Gudell said some investors are beginning to exit markets due to rising mortgage rates and home values, especially in areas like Phoenix and Las Vegas that have seen above average investor activity. With that view in mind, homebuyers could benefit.
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Carleton Ravens Mens Hockey Archive 2008-09
This gallery includes selected images from 8 games that I photographed over the course of the season and playoffs, a very successful season for the Ravens. Images are from games vs UQTR (2 games); Gee Gees (2 games); Brock; McGill; RMC; and Concordia. The gallery is organized with the most recent photos from the end of the season at the top, and earlier games progressively towards the bottom. I have retained my full photo files from these games, for anyone searching for additional images.Read More


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Lumsden Green looks very neat and tidy. The big artwork by Marté Szirmay, the 1969 Smirnoff Sculpture, is there ...
"The 19th century cannon from the Green has been refurbished and relocated to Olympic Park."
"The 19th century cannon from the Green has been refurbished and relocated to Olympic Park."
Nice way to treat a bit of history dumping it in the grasses like that. HELLO!!! I think some people need to wake up there and sort it out. Good on you for saying something about it. That's wrong. Reminds me of the same crowd trying to get rid of the Suffrage Memorial outside the art galleryReplyDelete
Although it is history, I think it can now be viewed as a piece of art, and therefore I can say that it is disrespectful of art as well.ReplyDelete
Thanks Liz and Andrew. If this had happened in Avondale, I'd be at the next Community Board meeting in a flash expressing my views. I'm surprised local historical societies nearer to Newmarket have let this happen without any apparent word.ReplyDelete
pfft that's terrible to read! We have to treasure these relics of bygone times! How are others to learn. >:( bah humbug.... thanks for taking the time to track it down.ReplyDelete
Cheers, Sandy. Good to know I'm not the only one who thinks this treatment of an heritage object is not on.ReplyDelete
That's a shocker, maybe a phone call to the media to highlight how history is discarded like old trash could shame someone into fixing the situation?ReplyDelete
What a indictment on all concerned! What a way to treat an item that may have once stood to defend Auckland. Would have looked better than the art piece if mounted back on its orginal siteReplyDelete
Thanks for all your comments, folks. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks what has happened isn't right. Cheers.ReplyDelete


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Bad Manners at the Stop Sign
Mirror, signal left, brake and stop before the marked stop line. Look left, look right and the vehicle that was following me stops on my right, half on and half off the roadway, making his right turn. Of course, I can't see cross traffic to my right properly, so he gets to go before I do. I'll bet that he was completely oblivious to both his bad manners and the traffic rule he failed to heed.
Passing on the right is generally forbidden in BC and having to travel off of the roadway to do it is one of those instances. No matter in this case that the gravel shoulder is smooth and available to drive on it is still not acceptable driving practice. The white line that defines the right edge of the roadway at this intersection has been almost totally worn away by drivers who have preceded this man.
There is almost no doubt in my mind that if this man was waiting in a lineup for his turn and I walked past and inserted myself in front of him I would be in for at least a dirty look, if not some verbal protest. That situation is really no different from the one at the stop sign. He took a turn that was not his to take and caused inconvenience to others. That is bad manners in my view, and probably yours too.
If anyone from Royal Canin Canada is reading this, the man is a bad advertisement for your company. You may wish to ask him to be a better representative of your company or remove the advertising from the outside of his vehicle. I might not be able to speak to him directly about his behaviour, but there are other ways of getting the point across that don't provoke road rage.
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It's a highly contagious ailment that has no cure and no one is immune to. Spreading like wildfire once exposed to any considerable population, it could take down all of civilization as we know it in mere days. Don't be alarmed, but there's no sugar-coating the fact that we're all at risk for this ruthless malady. Identifying those affected is an easy task, however- Just look for the glassy eyes, goofy smiles, stuttering, rapid heart beat, and lack of coordination. These people are to be avoided at all costs, because they're likely to spread their affliction in the blink of an eye, without even knowing it. Sadly, most are far beyond saving by the time their symptoms become evident, as they're often head-over-heels… In love!
As you can see, this horrible, gruesome affliction turns mild-mannered folks into certifiable hug monsters. Especially dangerous as Valentine's Day approaches, one suffering from the disease is liable to latch on to the nearest person and simply hug and squeeze until they turn blue. Their system overwhelmed with more love than they can handle, hugs are the only way to release any of the otherwise painful tension. It's such a terribly sad thing to see.
So guard yourselves, cross Valentine's Day off your calendar, and stay away from anyone you care about, or you too might become an unwitting victim! I don't mean to alarm anyone, but left unchecked, I'm afraid this thing called "love" might just take over the world, if we sit back and let it.
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Make sure you give a hug to everyone you love!
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Associated Press//July 24, 2013
//July 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — Just a week after the Senate hashed out a compromise for approving seven of President Barack Obama's nominees to run government departments, agencies and boards, Republicans on Wednesday signaled their opposition to Obama's plan for filling vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday from law professor and former senior Justice Department official Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, one of three Obama nominees to the D.C. Circuit, often viewed as the second most influential court in the country after the Supreme Court.
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the committee, said Pillard's nomination wasn't necessary because the D.C. Circuit doesn't have enough work to justify filling its three vacancies.
"An objective review of the caseloads reveals that the D.C. Circuit is very low," Grassley said. "And it raises serious doubts regarding whether we need more than eight active judges on that court. There is no question in my mind that the statistics make clear that the D.C. Circuit does not need any additional judges."
Grassley said he recently sent letters to members of the D.C. Circuit asking about their workload and was surprised when one judge told him if there were more appointments, "there wouldn't be enough work to go around."
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Republican objections are misleading and politically motivated. He said GOP senators were coming with arguments for denying confirmation for Obama's appeals court nominees that they didn't raise when former Republican President George W. Bush's appellate nominations were at stake.
"I would hope that President Obama is not going to be held to a different standard as if, somehow, he's different than President Bush," Leahy said.
Obama announced Pillard's nomination in a Rose Garden ceremony last month along with nominations for Patricia Millett and U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins to the D.C. Circuit appellate court. "There's no reason, aside from politics, for Republicans to block these individuals from getting an up-or-down vote," he said at the time.
The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet again on Thursday morning and may vote on whether to send the nomination of Millet for a full Senate vote. At a hearing earlier this month, Republicans voiced similar concerns about the court's workload.
The D.C. Circuit has 11 judgeships authorized by Congress. Republicans have proposed moving two of the vacant seats to other circuits with larger caseloads and eliminating the third seat altogether.-


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Monday, February 22, 2010
Preserving Your Memories Without Losing Your Sanity
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Great post, Amanda......ReplyDelete
Ugh! Now you have called me out about the plastic bins filled with photographs!!! Sniff!! Guess I better roll up my sleeves and start to deal with them. Darn!! I was going to leave them for the next generation. LOL!!ReplyDelete
Great ideas too! Thanks
My hubby recently let me organize his office space and I found boxes of our old photos. I can't bring myself to throw any of them out even though some of them are just weird and random. I think it's time to at least get them organized!ReplyDelete
We used to use those slide-in photo albums, then switched to scrapbooking. And that's when I started to fall behind! I want to scrapbook everything, but I just don't have the time or energy. So yes, our photos are on memory cards, on the computer, on CDs, and in boxes.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the ideas!
Great post, Amanda! I really need to get my photos printed out and under control. I'm really behind on that. We take so many more photos now that we have digital cameras, but half the time I forget to actually print them out and do anything with them. I'm scared to go onto Picasa to see how many months I'm behind on now...ReplyDelete
So funny you write this...I am 3 years behind...that's the entire time I have been married and had Bree...of having all of my pictures printed out. They're lurking on memory cards, and cd's and my computer. I am definitely going to take a day this week to get them printed out. The ones I do have printed out, are in a box in the closet...they need to be in photo albums.ReplyDelete
Oh, Amanda. I WISH I just had Tupperware bins. In my house, photos are scattered hither, thither, and yon. The last time I put photos into an album, my middle son was two years old. He's now 16.ReplyDelete
One of these days, perhaps I'll take some inspiration from you and organize at least SOME of these. For now, I'll admire you from afar.
Oh, it is so true about the guilt and the motherhood...so, so true.ReplyDelete
I have completed a few scrapbooks, and I LOVE doing it! My sweet hubby even calls it "folk art." How sweet is that? But I am behind,...so behind. Big sigh! I have used Smilebox to do quite a few pages, and even though it feels like cheating, it has helped me catch up on quite a bit. Whatever you gotta do, I guess...
I think you read my mind! I have a photo drawer! I have printed up to Christmas this past year but not since and none of them are in albums agh!ReplyDelete
i grew up in a house with a cabinet that flooded the floor with pictures when you opened it and swore i would never be "that mom." now, i have my own cabinet full of pictures still in the costco and shutterfly envelopes just begging to be sorted and put into albums! your shelf full of albums makes me so jealous! i need an assistant!:o(ReplyDelete
Great tips Amanda!!! I just love your blog. Such good information here. I am so glad that I found you!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much!
Great tips! I am famous for buying scrapbook albums and doo-dads, then getting only partway done before life takes over LOL!! But at least I try! :) I am starting a photo wall in our stairwell and trying to print out as many photos as I can. I'm also starting a "lifetime" scrapbook for each kid where I'll just put the most special photos of them from birth through high-school graduation -- they can have it when they get their own 1st place.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the photo inspiration! :)
This is such a good post. We haven't printed a single photo in years and years. They are all saved on our computer and backed up on an external hard drive and also by some other gismo. I love looking through photo albums and do miss having printed pictures. You are smart to stay on top of the pictures that you take now by organizing them into albums.ReplyDelete
My mother has an absolute mess of pictures - drawers full of them all mixed up together. I guess I'll end up doing something with those one of these days. It sounds similar to what your mom has waiting for you.
I inherited all of Granny's slides. I started scanning them last winter and got maybe 10% of them done. I should have worked on that during my 12 day break from school.
I was an avid scrapbooker for about the 1st 12 months of my oldest's life! Now it is complete chaos as far as my photos go!ReplyDelete
Great ideas! I love scrapbooking, but I always have a lot of left over photos that are too cute to get rid of! I have been trying to start photo albums for these extras. In the end, I have soo many albums & scrapbooks. I hope someone in my family appreciates them one day! = )ReplyDelete
What a great post!
Thanks for reminding me to back up my pictures! I keep saying I'm going to then forget!ReplyDelete
Great post!
Great post and wonderful tips. And might I just add one. It is ok to throw away some pictures! One doesn't need 50 pictures to remember a great trip to the zoo, a couple really good ones will do (and they become much more valuable when they don't drown in the multitude).ReplyDelete
Just my two cents. Good luck with the giant tubs.
I am one of those moms who have 20 years worth of pictures..all over..we have moved several times and pictures are in this box, and that box. I know I need to go through these pictures and pick and choose what to keep. Most of them were taken before digital cameras were around so everything on the roll got printed..ugh. Any suggestions on how to start? Need a plan, girls..ReplyDelete
Great tips and yes motherhood and guilt go hand in hand. What I feel guilty about is the number of pictures I have of my first, and the lack of pictures I have of my second. It really is pretty sad. Thanks for visiting.ReplyDelete
Last time I put photos in an album, my middle daughter was about 3 months old. She is now almost 10. I have my photos organized on my computer but if it crashed, I'd be screwed. I do have some backed up on CD. I never thought in a million years about CDs becoming obsolete but I guess it's entirely possible. I better get busy!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the ideas and the inspiration...I need to do this SO badly! :)ReplyDelete
Have a great day!
PS..I posted my pretty in pink pantry re-do if you'd like to see it!
I've been working on getting my photos in order recently. Thanks for the tips. I think I might need a day at Starbuck's! :-)ReplyDelete
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We (http://www.lasercutcard.co.za) are working on a set of buildings designed for the Infinity game system. These are futuristic city buildings made of heavy card. The first building we did was an inner city shop that you can see here: http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/scifi-store
I made up a test model of the next building... a five level office block
The basic construction is layered sheets of card. For this test we wanted to see if we could add balconies
This is the layering in the normal configuration
Here, a few windows have been cut for the balconies
The same windows are cut into the outer layer
The test balconies are just a single piece of card folded
These are glued on the inside of the building
The balconies from the outside
For the paint test I started out with a blue undercoat using an airbrush
The top left corners of the "windows" were then shaded a darker blue
The bottom right were highlighted with a pale blue
The outer layers were spraypainted gloss white
I then went over the windows with black ballpoint pen to represent the window frames
Access to the building is via three doors at the street level lobby
The roof is accessed by the lift motor room (this is a rough mockup)
The overall effect with some models enjoying the sun
The original paint test is on the right -it is LOT more difficult to paint once the outer layer is glued on.
I started this one but it looked like a TIE fighter so I stopped :)


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The NAR 2015 Member Safety Report reminds us of the need to remain vigilant. It asked members how safe they feel on the job, about their personal safety experiences and about the safety procedures and materials provided by their brokerage. Interestingly, the report found that while 96% of realtors have never been the victim of crime, 40% have found themselves in situations where they have feared for their safety or the safety of their personal information.
During the 2015 REALTORS Conference and Expo, our agents and their colleagues from across the country had the opportunity to attend "Real Estate Safety Matters", a safety class that serves as a primer on how to limit risk and protect themselves should the need arise. Realtor and safety course supervisor Tamara Suminski emphasized the importance of awareness and trusting your instincts. NAR also provides excellent year-round safety resources, including materials to share in the office or online such as safety presentations, videos, articles and webinars.
In September, Windermere began to pilot new technology from React Mobile for National REALTOR® Safety Month. Since then, we've provided about 150 Seattle-area agents with the React Sidekick Bluetooth panic button. The React Sidekick is a personal panic button that can be used to quickly and remotely activate a widespread emergency alert without the need to find, unlock, and dial from a phone that may be out of reach.
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A Modest Craft – Sept 12, 2001
It is at times like these that we in the financial sector are humbled in the presumption of our own importance and of the meaning of our works. Daily, we chase the ebb and flow of symbols and numbers across the screens and ticker tapes of the world, seeking to distill from them a fleeting pattern, or to recognize within them some more enduring form.
Rarely, if ever, amid the hubbub of the trading room or the raw intensity of the Pit, do we reflect on the power of such symbols. We crane for each flickering change in a terse alphanumeric—USZ1, DELL, CPI +0.2%, DAX +150—each of us striving uselessly, but compulsively, to see it before our peers do, or, with a little more purpose, to interpret it more quickly than they.
These electronic lights represent a stock, a bond, a currency; of that much we remain aware. But the stocks or bonds themselves are but symbols: a claim to the ownership of a minuscule fraction of some sprawling enterprise, or a right to receive payment from it in days to come.
Again, that payment—in dollars, or euros, or yen—is another symbol: a sign that men have "laboured the earth," in Jefferson's trenchant phrase, and that they seek to exchange the fruits of those labours for our own.
This is where the chain of ciphers and sigils leads us at last, then—to the efforts of ordinary men and women going about their daily lives, working at one thing, the thing at which they are most competent, in order to swap their efforts for other things, for a whole diversity of things, made, in turn, by countless, faceless others doing what they are good at, too.
By such free and open exchange, best conducted using fair and honest chains of symbols so that no man is unwittingly deluded or knowingly defrauded in the act, we each seek to serve our enlightened self-interest and satisfy both basic needs and wider aspirations. We find the opportunity where we are most rewarded, and we send out our labours into the vast, teeming, immaterial, immanent Market that is our world.
And—O Mirabile—what things come back, in what profusion, pouring in from all corners of the globe, from people we have never seen, whom we will never see, and who equally are oblivious to our very existence also.
This is the majesty of the free market, of capitalism, this self-organizing scheme that most fully utilizes our jewelled planet's greatest resource—humanity itself—so that the masses of today live better than all the fearsome khans and haughty emperors of old.
But on Tuesday, out of a clear autumnal sky, all this was put at deadly hazard by earnest men, albeit men whose earnestness had been twisted into suicidal hatred by the potent brew of fanaticism and despair. By their intricate assault on the good people of the U.S., these men showed that they were versed in the power of symbols all too well.
To attack the Pentagon—a cabbalistic form, if ever there was one—was shocking enough, displaying what guerrilla fighters have shown from time immemorial: that all of Caesar's legions cannot guard against the man who fears nothing but to fail, and who holds his life most gloriously spent in depriving his enemies of theirs.
But far more shocking yet was the strike deep into the very heart of trade, of commerce, and of finance that those few crammed canyons of soaring steel and glittering glass at the tip of Manhattan represented, not just to America, but to the entire world. This was not just an abomination: in many ways, it was a deliberate act of sacrilege.
In tens of minutes, before unbelieving eyes staring from the streets below or gazing in horrid fascination at TV screens across the globe, fireball billowed into smoke and then collapse: crushing, utter, complete and roaring collapse.
As though struck from where they stretched unto the very portals of some jealous god to choking dust and stumbling rubble, they fell in ruinous descent, and Hope itself seemed perished.
The Twin Towers, standing symbolically over Wall Street, were a 1,300-foot rendition of those two, short verticals that transform a mere "S" into a dollar, transmuting it to a symbol for work and wealth and well-being across the Earth.
The enormity of the towers' swift destruction has been such as to suspend analysis. We have yet to truly register what has been done, how many lives have been lost in screaming (if mercifully brief) terror, how many countless other lives will bear the mark of what was wrought, shivering in the cold snatch of fear each time they see the suddenly naked skyline of New York.
It would be heartening to think that sober wisdom will now occasion restraint in the councils of the powerful, that the understandable desire for retribution, for lex talionis, to be invoked neither will lead to rash and unjust acts that only serve to excite more hatred, nor open up the way for the ever-eager State to intrude more insidiously in people's lives at home, while snarling ever more belligerently at foes—real or imagined—abroad.
It would be heartening to believe that in America of all nations, the brash, young, self-confidence of its people will swiftly reassert itself, that temperance will season justice, and that this brief, vicarious brush with mortality will give rise to a more measured outlook on life.
It would be heartening to think that, having been shocked by just how fragile is the framework on which we build our dreams, we will become less prone to forcing them upon others. Our fear must be that, in a world already made fractious and divided by the inexorable, UN-inspired, left-liberal-sanctioned politicizing of race and creed and gender, a world made insecure by the erosion of freedom and the imposition of alien values by the Guardians of our global Platonic republic, yet more discord is sown.
We must also fear that, in a world made resentful by seeing the fruits of its labours channelled to vainglorious corporate demi-gods who strut the stage like Achilles simply because a hyperactive credit system has grossly inflated their stock price, Capitalism is made to take the blame.
Capitalism is about the better production of wealth and its distribution through unrestricted exchange. It is about the multiplication of output that comes about by the division of labour. It is about the preservation of capital—those mental and physical tools that build each successive flight on our long stairway out of penury and deprivation—and it achieves that preservation only by the common virtue of thrift and the duty of stewardship on one hand, and by the banishment of envy and the sanctity of property upon the other.
Capitalism is about "labouring the earth" more fruitfully so that fewer men go needy, so that the next fanatic finds less willing recruits, so that amid bustling commercial intercourse, barriers of class and race and ignorance are dissolved into mutual respect and benefit.
Capitalism is nothing to do with the agents of the Crown who sail alongside the honest argosies of trade. Capitalism is nothing to do, either, with the forced acceptance of any creed or code of law, save that of the honest self-interest by which both buyer and seller achieve an increment of value in their exchange.
For we must realize that Capitalism, this most certain route to prosperity devised by man, is also the victim of the exactions of the State and the depredations of the credit system. Why else, even before yesterday's barbaric deeds, were we increasingly in peril of our livelihoods, our investments, and our savings?
Sadly, that is a verity too rarely glimpsed when the battle ensigns of the fleet and the Jolly Rogers of the corsairs are concealed amid the merry, ingenuous bunting of the mass of ordinary merchantmen seeking innocently to ply their trade.
From this passing meditation on these matters, which this week's dark happenings have prompted, we shall soon return to the business of chasing symbols and trying to make sense of them. That is, after all, our modest craft in the rich whirl of the market.
For today, we pray for the maimed and the bereaved. We are anxious for the path of the economy and our immediate prosperity. We fret that liberty will once again be the most enduring loser.
In memoriam,
Sean Corrigan
Chief Investment Strategist
Diapason Commodities Management S.A.


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Appendix to "Modifying the Taylor–Romer Model of Macroeconomic Stabilisation for Teaching Purposes" by Ross Guest
This appendix provides the derivation of the growth form of the IS curve (equation (1)) and the Phillips curve (equation (3)).
The Phillips curve is typically expressed in terms of inflation and unemployment as follows (symbols are as defined in the text unless indicated):
where u is the unemployment rate and u* is the NAIRU.9 It is assumed that πt – 1 = π* , where π* is the expected rate of inflation and expectations are backward looking. We then invoke Okun's Law, which relates the change in the output growth gap to the unemployment gap as follows:
where g is the growth rate of output and g* is the output growth counterpart of the NAIRU.10 Substituting equation (A2) into equation (A1) we have the Phillips curve in the text, except that the growth rate of output has replaced the level of output:
To derive the growth form of the IS curve, we start with the conventional IS curve relationship (equation (1)):
where y and y* are the level of output and potential output, respectively, and r is the real interest rate. Define the growth rates for output and potential output as follows:
where g and g* are the growth rate and potential growth rate, respectively. Substituting equations (A5) and (A4) into equation (A3), and assuming yt – 1 = yt – 1* for t = 1,11 gives:
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>[9] The NAIRU is the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment.
>[10] This can be described as the maximum rate of output growth that can be achieved with a steady inflation rate.
>[11] For t > 1 there will be lags in the rt process in equation (A6), but (A6) serves as a satisfactory approximation for pedagogic purposes.


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The title was inspired by the birth, during the writing of this volume, of a child named after the author. A second volume will bring the survey to the present and to some glimpses of that young woman's prospects. The prospect presented here is that of the sleepy young knitter of the 18th century pictured on the cover and of generations before her.
This is a very puzzling book. To judge by its title and some of its contents, its subject is the attempt to create a world order on the basis of two competing principles, adumbrated respectively in the West and in Russia. Those two principles are summed up in the figures of Montesquieu and Marx, whose ideas on social order are briefly set out in the first two chapters.
'Much nonsense has been written on this subject', wrote Keith Thomas in a famous and influential footnote to his own pioneering chapter on English witchcraft in Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971).
Simon Szreter's remarkable and very important book argues, in effect, that coincidence has deceived the historians of family sexuality in the period 1860 - 1960. The birth-rate per family in England and Wales declined ever more steeply in this hundred yea r period, and it declined with roughly the same timing and speed in most other European countries.
Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland from the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire / David Hempton
Over the past decade growing numbers of students have undertaken research into the religious dimension of the recent history of the British Isles, and in doing so have expanded its agenda away from the traditional focus on the history of doctrine and ecclesiastical institutions.
Green Imperialism : Colonial Expansion , Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism , 1600-1860 / Richard Grove
With the exception of pioneering work by Clarence Glacken , Keith Thomas and Alfred Crosby , very little has yet been written about early modern environmental thought . This has been partly determined by questions of definition .
When confronted with the term 'Illustrated' in a book title, how many historians, I wonder, would not be tempted to inwardly scoff and mentally store the book on the coffee table of their departmental common room? This review begins with a warning against such sentiments.
This book is an English translation by Mark Greengrass of a work first published in French in 1991 and is the companion volume to the author's earlier The Royal French State 1460-1610 (original French edn. 1987). Together the two books comprise the second and third volumes of Blackwell's five volume History of France which covers the period 987 to 1992.
By any standards. Ehrman's Pitt is a major achievement. The third volume, covering the years 1797 until Pitt's death in 1806, is no exhausted sequel, no plodding postscript. Pitt died in office, commanding and interesting until the end. Ehrman conclude s in full command of his biographical skills: searching in analysis, judicious in judgement and apposite in style.
Agricultural Revolution in England: the Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500- 1850. / Mark Overton
This new study of the agricultural revolution is clearly the product of many years of study and research. It is closely argued, liberally illustrated with figures and tables, and tersely written and remarkably compressed. Intended primarily for students, it will repay careful reading, and re-reading, by teachers as well as students of the subject.


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PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Lawyers for 12 Oregon National Guardsmen suing contractor KBR Inc for negligence and fraud told a jury in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday that the soldiers were knowingly exposed to toxic chemicals in Iraq that made them ill.
The Oregon Guardsmen said the exposure took place while they were in Iraq in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion to provide security for civilian workers restoring an oil industry water treatment plant that was contaminated with sodium dichromate. KBR was contracted to run the project at the plant at that time.
The guardsmen, who ask for unspecified damages in the suit in federal court in Portland, have suffered various illnesses and disabilities and are at risk for various cancers, according to court filings in the trial that began on Wednesday.
"KBR knew what needed to be done ... before any employee went on this site," the guardsmen's lawyer Mike Doyle told a jury of six men and six women, accusing the firm of rushing the work there despite knowing of the potential risks.
A lawyer for Houston-based KBR, which was contracted by the U.S. government to work on more than 200 facilities, including the water plant site, responded that "the evidence will show that KBR openly, honestly and repeatedly communicated" the risks of the sodium dichromate to the military.
"KBR did inform actual National Guard on the ground about the risk," KBR lawyer Geoffrey Harrison told the jury, adding that KBR was not in direct charge of the guardsmen at the site. "KBR was not allowed to direct the soldiers to do anything."
The chemical in question, sodium dichromate, contains hexavalent chromium, made famous in the film "Erin Brockovich," starring Julia Roberts, which depicts Brockovich's work to uncover pollution of the water supply of a California town.
The guardsmen described the compound in the court filings as "a highly potent carcinogen."
The guardsmen's lawyer Mike Doyle told jurors there were 700 bags of the chemical at the southern Iraq water facility. Court documents filed for the guardsmen said that much of the sodium dichromate was in powder form and blowing around the plant.
Court documents said that when the Oregon Guardsmen began showing symptoms such as nose bleeds, "KBR managers told soldiers on site that it was simply an effect of the dry desert air," the court documents said. The guardsmen say that in September 2003, when KBR managers inspected the plant, they wore protective gear and clothing.
Harrison questioned whether the guardsmen's ailments were caused by exposure at the site, noting an Army report that said long-term health effects were "very unlikely" from the amount of exposure that the Guards had. He also said that several of the Guardsmen were long-time smokers.
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Jun 21, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2441 S Lone Pine Ave, Springfield, MO 65804, USA
About the event
Come on to the Adult Classroom once you get to the church. Everyone welcome. Bring your own needlework items. If you don't know how, bring something you'd like to start learning.
City ordinance says you may attend unmasked if you are vaccinated.
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You know you're hardcore Jersey when you get these...
You don't think of citrus when people mention "The Oranges".
You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags.
A good, quick breakfast is a hard roll with butter.
You've known the way to Seaside Heights since you were seven.
You've eaten at a Diner
You remember that the "Two Guys" were from Harrison.
You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery.
At least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen
You know what a "jug handle" is. (Not a fat roll on the body)
You know that WaWa is a convenience store.
You know that the state isn't all farmland.
You know that there are no "beaches" in New Jersey - there's "The Shore". And you don't go "to the shore" - you go "down the Shore". And when you are there, you're not "at the shore" - you are "down the shore".
You know that "Piney" isn't referring to a tree.
Even your school! cafeteria made good Italian subs. And it's a Sub, not a submarine sandwich or worse yet, a hoagie, a hero, or a grinder.
You remember the song from the Palisades Park commercials.
You know how to properly negotiate a Circle.
You knew that the last question had to do with driving.
You know that this is the only "New..." state that doesn't require "New" to identify it (like, try...Mexico, ...York, ...Hampshire - doesn't work, does it?)
You only go to New York City for day trips, and you call it "The City".
You know that a "White Castle" is the name of BOTH a fast food chain AND a fast food sandwich.
You consider putting mayo on a corned beef sandwich is a sacrilege.
You don't think "What exit" is very funny.
You live off an exit (e.g., Garden State or NJ Turnpike Exit...)
When someone asks you how far something is, you answer by telling them how long it wil! l take to get there (e.g., How far is it to the Mall? Oh about twenty minutes.)
You know that the first "strip shopping center" in the country was on Route 22.
You know that people from 609 area code are "a little different".
You know that no respectable New Jerseyan goes to Princeton - that's for out-of-staters.
You live within 20 minutes of at least three different malls.
You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers.
Every year, you had a least one kid in your class named Tony.
You know the location of every clip shown in the Sopranos opening credits.
You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the mall.
You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights, and people from Central Jersey go to Belmar or LBI and people from South Jersey go to Wildwood. It can be no other way.
You were not raised in New Jersey. You were raised in either North Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey.
You don't consider Newark or Camden to actually be part of the state.
You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, Bamburger's and Orbach's.
You've had a Boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries.
You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.
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You've NEVER, NEVER pumped your own gas.


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We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.
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Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.


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WASHINGTON – The Georgetown men's basketball team overcame an injury to forward Otto Porter as freshman D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera scored 19 points to lead the Hoyas to a 61-55 win over Duquesne on Sunday.
Porter, a preseason honorable mention All-American, suffered an apparent eye injury in the first half and didn't return to the floor or bench as the second half began. Porter, who averaged 9.7 points and a team-best 6.8 rebounds per game last season, didn't score in six minutes.
Georgetown (1-0) used an 8-0 run midway through the second half to gain a 45-35 lead over Duquesne (1-1).
The Dukes later went on a 7-0 run, capped by Sean Johnson's three-point play, to cut Georgetown's lead to 54-50 with 2:27 left.
After the teams traded two scoreless possessions, Georgetown guard Markel Starks made a layup and Duquesne guard Jeremiah Jones answered with a 3-pointer with 31 seconds left.
Duquesne then sent Jabril Trawick to the free-throw line, and Trawick missed the first of a one-and-one. But Greg Whittington, who finished with 15 rebounds, grabbed the miss, took a foul and made both his free throws to push Georgetown's lead to 58-53.
Georgetown played one half against No. 10 Florida on Friday before the game, the Navy-Marine Corps Classic played aboard the USS Bataan in Jacksonville, was ended due to condensation on the court. Florida was leading 26-23, but the game was ruled a no-contest won't either team's record or statistics.
The Hoyas have won their last eight season openers, but Sunday's victory came with plenty of early kinks. Other than Smith-Rivera, who made all four of his 3-pointer attempts Sunday, Georgetown shot 5-of-22 with seven turnovers in the first half. The Hoyas finished with 17 turnovers.
Georgetown actually still trails its all-time series with Duquesne, 10-4, but the Hoyas have won both matchups since the 1962-63 season. Georgetown beat Duquesne, 88-86, during the 1995-96 season


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As you might imagine, I spend a lot of time taking notes, be it on the phone or in live meetings with representatives of Microsoft and other companies. In fact, from a pure time percentage, I probably spend more time taking and managing notes, and turning those notes into finished articles, than I do on any other work-related task, including email. Note-taking is, quite literally, at the heart of what I do on a professional basis.
Naturally, I've primarily used Microsoft Word for my note-taking tasks, and I have thousands of Word documents, full of notes, covering the various meetings I've had over the years, stored on my hard drive. A copy of these notes goes with me every time I travel, giving me reasonably quick access to whatever information I may need. People I've interviewed, or others who have been present while I'm taking notes, often express amazement at the amount of information I type while taking notes: I try to record everything that's said, as accurately as possible, and frankly I've been kind of amazed to watch as contemporaries at other publications sit at the same industry events, listening but not taking notes. This is bread and butter stuff, and I'm surprised how many tech journalists don't understand that.
My original plans to switch entirely to this application happened far more slowly than I had originally planned. That's because OneNote, unlike other Office applications, doesn't support the notion of true documents: You don't save or open OneNote "documents," but rather close OneNote when you're done taking notes and start it back up again when you're ready to take more notes: As with pen and paper notes, OneNote stores what you've written automatically, without requiring you to "save" it, and it returns you to the place in your notes where you were when you last shut down the application (I discuss this process in more detail in the section titled Note backup and portability, below). This style of operation is so different from Word and other Office applications that it gave me pause and it took a while for me to warm up to OneNote (and, honestly, to trust it with my data). However, once I started using OneNote regularly around August 2003, there was no turning back, and I'm now a fan and regular user of OneNote. So here are the features of OneNote that make this application indispensable to me, along with a few 1.0 quibbles that I'd like to see fixed in the next version.
Note taking and organization
OneNote, as its name suggests, is devoted to note-taking and to note management. Today, people tend to fall into one of two groups when it comes to note-taking: There are those who use software applications like Word, and those who use pen and paper. Each approach has its problems: Word and other similar applications simply aren't designed to take notes; they're designed to construct well-formatted documents. Pen and paper are even less suitable to the task, because you'll need to later transcribe those notes into electronic form to use them in a document.
Unlike Word, notes taken in OneNote can be placed anywhere on a virtual page, horizontally or vertically, in the same way that you might set the pen down on a pad of paper at any place on the page. Using a standard Windows-based PC, you can take standard typewritten notes, as per Word, and add handwritten notes if you've got a Tablet PC. OneNote also supports audio notes on all installations; see below for more information. Finally, OneNote also supports all of the standard Tablet PC drawing styles, in a manner similar to Journal; this means you can easily add drawings to your notes as you would on paper.
From a presentation perspective, OneNote presents a tabbed interface that resembles a notebook (figure). A row of section tabs runs along the top, each of which can hold one or more pages; these pages can optionally contain one or more sub-pages. But the way you organize your notes is up to you, Microsoft says: You can create any scheme of sections, pages, and sub-pages you want, making the application highly customizable. This is largely true, though I have some issues with the limitations of this design, which I discuss below. But OneNote is a very usable and structured application that excels at its primary task of note-taking and organization, and the pages you create support a variety of stationary styles and other distinctive design elements you can use to visually differentiate note pages.
Here's how I organize my notes. I create a new section for each month ("2003-09," "2003-10," and so on) and then organize all of my notes with individual pages for each event. If an event requires me to take different sets of notes--such as at a trade show or product launch, where I might meet with representatives from several different companies--I use sub-pages to segregate the notes further on a per-meeting basis (figure). This organizational approach matches the way I store work-related files on my system, and is likely tied to some low-level, anal-retentive behavior that's not really worthy of further discussion. That means it's easy for me to jump into OneNote and find what I want. But the beauty of OneNote's organizational structure is that you can tailor it to the way you take notes and organize data: With the few caveats discussed below, OneNote is almost infinitely malleable and can be made to work the way you want it to. I can't really think of any other Office application that is so agreeable in this way.
Note backup and portability
Given that OneNote doesn't create--or even allow you to create--traditional documents, ala Word or Excel, many Office users are going to be a bit uncomfortable trusting their valuable notes to this application. I was one such user, and it took me a few months of testing before I started using OneNote full-time. I shouldn't have worried. With the exception of an early beta release I was able to test, OneNote has been extremely reliable. Still, I have a need to backup and copy my OneNote notes to different machines; for example, when I travel, I need my notes on the laptop.
Fortunately, this is extremely easy to do. OneNote stores each notebook section as an individual file in a new folder called My Notebook (or My Notebook.one if you have filename extensions turned on), which can be found inside My Documents (figure). The size of these files will vary wildly depending on what kinds of notes you take: For example, handwritten notes will take up more space then typewritten notes. But this simple file structure makes your notes extremely portable: Simply copy them to the My Notebook folder on a different system, and you're good to go: The sections and their related pages and sub-pages will appear automatically when you open OneNote on the other system.
Since I can store multiple notes in a single file, and those files are all found in a single directory structure, it's actually easier to find notes now than it was under my old system. In fact, I find myself dreading having to search for notes I took before August 2003 specifically for this reason.
Also, OneNote automatically backs up your notebook at specific intervals (it defaults to once a day), and you can manually backup your notebooks at any time, and configure how many backup copies it keeps. (figure)
Working with a Tablet PC
For users lucky enough to have a Tablet PC and more at home taking handwritten notes, OneNote is even more exciting because it supports the Tablet PC's Digital Ink features fully (figure). This means you can take notes in your normal handwriting, more closely emulating the way you take notes in a real notebook. You can move around the page at will, scribble diagrams and drawings, and utilize all the pen types of colors to which you're accustomed.
That said, I'm not a Tablet PC user. But I could see this OneNote being a killer application for that platform, even more so than it is on normal PCs. If you're a Tablet PC user, you really do need to check out OneNote.
Combining notes with an audio recording
At some point, I'm going to grab a decent quality microphone and start using OneNote's audio recording capabilities in the field; until then, I feel compelled to list this feature solely as a theoretical benefit, as it's just too cool to ignore. Here's how it works: You can link an audio recording with your typewritten or handwritten notes, allowing you to follow along with your notes as you listen to the recording, or vice versa. If you record audio from your PC's microphone as you take notes, OneNote will actually sync the recording with the notes. Nice.
OneNote uses high-quality, low-bandwidth Windows Media Audio (WMA) 9 format for audio recordings, so you can be sure you're not sucking up all the available space on your hard drive recording your meetings. You can configure the sound quality, of course: The default is 12 kbps mono (for tiny file sizes).
Quibbles and complaints
As a 1.0 product, OneNote isn't prefect, and now that I've been using it regularly for a few months, I've identified a few areas which I'd like to see Microsoft improve.
Notes linking
There needs to be a hyperlink-like way to link to notes from other notes. That is, if I'm taking notes at a meeting with a particular company, and would like to reference notes from an earlier, related meeting, I should be able to type text like "See previous notes" and make it a hyperlink that jumps OneNote to those other notes when clicked. Given this, OneNote will also need navigational buttons (Back, Forward, and so on), ala Internet Explorer. I suspect the reason OneNote doesn't have this feature is that Microsoft considers notes to be only the starting point for documents, and of course in Microsoft's view, Office is all about documents. But there are valid reasons for needing this kind of functionality, especially for the types of people that would use OneNote extensively: Lawyers, reporters, students, and the like.
Variable width page titles
There's a little arrow button in the bottom right corner of the OneNote UI that toggles the display of page titles. That's a nice feature, but a better feature let you expand or contract the width of the notebook page titles. For example, I have a page titled "XP Media Center 2004 Launch Event," which naturally contains my notes from that event. But because the page title are is so thin, that page reads as "XP Media Cent," as does a separate set of notes for "XP Media Center briefing." So I can't tell them apart within mousing over them (which reveals a yellow tooltip window). If I could resize the page title area, this wouldn't be a problem.
Subnote titles
The tabs on notebook sections have titles, as do the page tabs within notebooks. But subpage tabs don't display titles, even when you manually change the subpage's title to be different from the main page. That stinks, because I have a lot of blank subpages that I need to mouse over so I can ascertain what they're for. If subnote page tabs supported titles, even optionally, finding notes on subpages would be much easier.
Make it part of office
How is it that OneNote isn't included in any of the several Microsoft Office 2003 editions? That's just silly, especially when you consider the Student and Teacher edition is specifically targeting a market segment that takes notes regularly. OneNote needs to be an integral part of Office, and not some poor step-cousin that few people will hear about or understand. I'm sure Microsoft is doing what it can to promote OneNote on campuses, and I know that Toshiba is including the product on all of its Tablet PC devices. But surely more can be done to get the word out about this unique and excellent program.
Final thoughts
OneNote is one of those applications you don't think you need until you use it, and then you wonder how you lived without it. I was immediately excited by OneNote the first time I received a demo at COMDEX Fall 2002 (in fact, I came back the next day to spend another hour discussing OneNote), and now that I'm using the product regularly, it's exceeded my expectations, though I've discovered a few areas that need improvement. The only big problem with OneNote is the cost: As a standalone Office System member, potential customers will need to fork over almost $200 for OneNote at retail, though Microsoft is offering a $100 rebate for most users (owning just about any Office-related product qualifies you for the discount) for a limited time, lowering the price to $99. Volume licensors can also get OneNote for half price if they order the product before September 1, 2004, and students can obtain it for just $49, which makes it a must-have. Unless the price is barrier, anyone that regularly finds themselves taking notes will find OneNote an indispensable tool.


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LITTLE ROCK — A state representative says he's drafting a bill that would require government boards that go into closed session to record the proceedings and have them reviewed by a prosecutor to ensure they didn't discuss matters that should have been public.
Republican Rep. Nate Bell of Mena mentioned his bill at the end of a hearing Wednesday on expanding Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act.
Bell said a prosecutor, or his or her designate, would have to get the recordings within 30 days and that if a portion of the meeting should have been held in public, that segment of the recording would have to be immediately released to the public.
The hearing before the State Agencies Committee mainly focused on ways the public can learn more about spending in state contracts.


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First, the notion of 'flattering' dressing, as practiced by What Not To Wear and its ilk, is pretty much predicated on the notion that the most desirable silhouette is a tall, slim hourglass. While this is indeed a preferred shape in our society, this is by no means the only shape, and while there are certainly benefits to looking like a tall slim hourglass, a sane person may choose a different silhouette for a variety of reasons.
Now, I'll focus here on the perceived silhouette rather than the esthetic preferences of the wearer -- mostly because the wearer's preferences are often subtly (and not subtly) shaped by reactions they garner. That is, I think it is perfectly possible for someone to like wearing a femme, 50's silhouette -- but at the same time "I just like it" is not entirely true. Clothes cannot be taken from their context, and our preferences have been shaped by other people and their responses, positive and negative, whether we like it or not. So rather than argue why we might like certain shapes, I would like to discuss on why we may choose to project certain shapes to those around us.
The choosing bit is especially important to me here. Because of course, it's possible to treat clothes as nothing but coverings for your body, and thus just go grab the first pair of pants on a rack and a random shirt and call it a day. But this is surrendering control -- that is, your clothes will still be sending messages, you just won't be in dictating it. Which to me seems like a bad thing, since you cannot opt out from the whole nonverbal communication in a patriarchal society thing.
So anyway. Evolutionary psychologists and the rest of the crowd that believes that 1950's in the US were the pinnacle of healthy and natural gender dynamics insist that hourglass silhouette is the one that men find visually pleasing (blah blah fertility blah visual cues blah we generalize things from the sample of American undergrads and assume their preferences by no means are conditioned blee)
Deb linked me to this post by a fat positive blogger. She brings to light several important points, but I would like to focus on two. First, some bodies are far away from the ideal that clothing won't be able to conceal the gulf -- and yet, they are expected to strive in that direction; that is fat women are expected to dress "thinner" even though they will never be deemed sufficiently thin by the mainstream


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By Verna Gates
BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - A necropsy will be performed on a four-month old rhinoceros believed to have been the first of its species to be born through artificial insemination in the United States, officials from the Montgomery Zoo in Alabama said on Monday.
The endangered Indian rhino, which had become a popular attraction, was found dead on Friday, the zoo said.
"It was a shock. We definitely feel the loss of Ethan," Steve Pierce, the zoo's program services manager, said of the rhinoceros.
The calf was named after Ethan Gilman, an Alabama boy who was kidnapped from his school bus in January and held in an underground by his abductor for six days before being rescued.
Gilman had toured the zoo and was fascinated by the calf's then-pregnant mother, Pierce said.
The successful artificial insemination had encouraged preservationists who hope they can rebuild the species' population, according to the Center for Conservation & Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) at the Cincinnati Zoo, which partnered in the project.
There are only 60 Indian rhinos in captivity in North America and an estimated 2,500 in the wild. Natural breeding attempts had failed due to the species' tendency to exhibit severe aggression during mating, the Cincinnati Zoo website said.
The wildlife center used frozen sperm from Himal, the resident male at the Montgomery Zoo, to impregnate a female named Jeta.
Ethan was born on June 5, and the cause of his death was not immediately known, Pierce said.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Leslie Gevirtz)