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How wonderful for DISA! A feather in your cap for the progress you have made and that we in the AIr Force don't realize at operational levels ...at least not immediately. I have like the poster from DC yet to see a smart phone employed! Why is is so difficult for DISA and the services to work hand-in-hand from development to employment of these "simple" solutions that the rest of industry has no trouble employing? Yes, I know, we're special. The inefficiencies between our agencies is pathetic. Great for you DISA. You got another PR feather in your cap but it does little to excite me at the operational unit levels!
DCO has been actively used by the military since 2007. Anyone supporting DIMHRS or now IPS-A will tell you DCO works. DCO supports online conference calls and supports file sharing between all participants from desktop. No special devices required. With limited travel funds DCO allows interactive exchanges to continue requirements. One option in DCO is Desktop sharing, a great way to demonstrate application testing. After you use DCO, check out AMERDEC Safe site. A great tool for file sharing.
Walter –Defense Connect Online has been around since 2007, and currently has more than 640,000 users across DoD. It is a free service provided by DISA, available to all DoD users (military, govt civilians and contractors) with a valid CAC and a .mil email address. To create your own account you can register at this site: https://www.dco.dod.mil. The mobile client was released earlier this month and is just starting to gain a lot of traction. We conducted a webcast on May 22nd regarding this topic and had almost 100 participants join the session, many of them via mobile devices. Please let me know if you would like demonstration of the DCO service or need more documentation regarding the mobile app. (firstname.lastname@example.com)
I would like to know who is using this, because I work for DoD and no one here has heard of this. My office has over 1,000 people in it and we are discouraged from using our own IT for work and we have no android phones or touchpad like devices for such an app in the office. Our executives are still using blackberries to keep up with meeting schedules and emails. We have 3 teleconference capable meeting rooms in the building and some more around the region, and that is about it.
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Inviting Electronic Music Enthusiasts & Dancers Statewide!
There are so many issues in this world to be concerned about who knew one of them was going to be the simple act of dancing?
As you may or may not know, the infamous venue that has been facilitating these types of events for the past two years is now in jeopardy of loosing the Condition Use Permit. As well as the right to produce any type of all-night festival ever again. This is a major sign of discrimination for the electronic music culture, and if the local courts get their way by excluding these events at their venue, the effect will only domino and come to each and every one of our venues and marketing outlets. Regardless of where your events are produced, either your marketing or your capability to run there will be jeopardized.
What promoter or club owner wants to deal with risks such as these? Therefore, this encourages them not to hold raves or any other event attracting members of a subculture such as hip-hop events. The punishments face several, years in prison and huge fines. Basically making it a crime to promote any rave, dance, music or other entertainment event, are within the target range, in which drugs are likely to be used.
Clearly the logic here is drug prevention, but what about those who attend the club or rave just to dance? Their right to dance and party is jeopardized here because this law targets the wrong people.
On June 6th, 2009, we invite the promoters, civil libertarians, health care professionals, business leaders and techno music fans gathered by the hundreds in protest of this anti-rave Act in Redlands, CA. The event will feature a variety of performers within the dance music genre, with one stage of music and spoken word. Our location for the demonstration will be released via a second press release slated for mid-May. Please spread the word and let us know if you'd like to become a part of the movement.
This event will raise the awareness of the public to the endangerment of their nightly entertainment. Crowds of concerned youth, adults and DJs of all styles are urged to defend their right to dance and to take responsibility for making parties clean, safe and fun. Groups such as Dance Safe and Right To Dance are collaborating an effort to educate the masses about drug use and abuse.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As many as 700,000 civilian employees at the Defense Department will be furloughed for as long as 14 work days beginning in June, eight fewer days than originally anticipated after Congress gave military officials greater flexibility to apportion automatic budget cuts driving the layoffs.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel described the reduction from 22 days to two weeks as "good news" during a Pentagon news conference Thursday.
Hagel also announced that President Barack Obama has nominated Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove to take over as commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe.
Furlough notices will be sent out in early May, and the furloughs will begin in June and last through September. Employees will be furloughed for one day in each of the last 14 weeks of the 2013 budget year.
The thorny issue of who will be exempt from the furloughs remains unresolved. Pentagon officials have estimated that at least 10 percent of the department's roughly 800,000 civilian workers will not face furloughs, but they have declined to identify them.
The Pentagon previously has said it will not furlough civilians in the war zone and in critical public safety jobs, or people whose jobs are not paid for through congressional funding. Also exempt are as many as 50,000 foreign nationals who work for the department but are covered by international agreements.
The automatic cuts took effect March 1, triggered by Congress' failure to trim the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over a decade. The Pentagon initially faced a $46 billion budget reduction through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, but Hagel said a new spending bill signed by Obama this week lowered the reduction by roughly $5 billion. That allows the military to start military construction projects and other programs that otherwise would have been delayed.
The furloughs are expected to save about $2.5 billion, Hagel said.
Before the bill was signed, civilians would have been required to take one day a week off without pay for 22 weeks — a 20 percent pay cut for more than five months. The spending bill gave officials the leeway to lessen the salary cuts and spread money around to other key priorities, including training, maintenance and possible ship deployments.
As an example, the Navy had delayed refueling overhauls of two aircraft carriers, the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Abraham Lincoln — critical maintenance work that officials said would be a priority if additional funding became available.
Breedlove is the top Air Force commander in Europe. If he's confirmed by the Senate, he would be the first Air Force general to hold the top NATO job since Joseph Ralston served there from 2000-2003. Breedlove would succeed Navy Adm. James Stavridis, who has held the job since 2009.
Obama chose Breedlove after his first choice for the job, Marine Gen. John Allen, announced he would retire after 19 months commanding allied forces in Afghanistan because of his wife's health.
Hagel, who said he met with Breedlove on his way back from a recent trip to Afghanistan, urged the Senate to confirm him quickly.
"We need to get that position filled," he said.
Obama said Breedlove has "served with distinction in assignments at all levels of the U.S. Air Force and around the globe, from Washington to Germany, Italy, Spain and South Korea."


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The phrase "school lunch" may be more likely to bring to mind visions of artificial nacho cheese and processed foods than fresh vegetables. But in Washington D.C., D.C. Farm to School Network is trying to change that by connecting school cafeterias with local farms and educating students about gardening and cooking with fresh produce.
Started as an initiative of the Capital Area Food Bank, D.C. Farm to School Network is a coalition of teachers, administrators, farmers, chefs, and organizations interested in providing healthy, sustainable food to school children and providing local farmers with a reliable market. By getting fresh fruit and vegetables into cafeterias, as well as creating educational experiences for students, like building school gardens and field trips to farms, D.C. Farm to School Network is working to instill healthy habits in the district's schoolchildren.
Last Tuesday, October 12, Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School (TMA) and Savoy Elementary in Anacostia, Washington D.C. hosted a kickoff event to celebrate D.C. Farm to School Week, D.C. School Garden Week, and National School Lunch Week, where the theme was healthy eating as part of a sound education.
The event included a lineup of speakers, including USDA Deputy Secretary Dr. Kathleen Merrigan and Sam Kass, the White House Executive Chef who's well-known for helping First Lady, Michelle Obama, start the White House vegetable garden. Kass spoke to students about the importance of eating right to succeed, telling the crowd of students, "To get to college, there are a few other things you have to take care of first. In order to be successful, you need to be healthy first."
Following the speakers, four local chefs, assisted by TMA students as their sous chefs, prepared dishes featuring local apples that students then voted on. The winner was an apple and cranberry crisp by Chef Tee of Station 9; and the prize- next month the crisp will be served in cafeterias throughout the D.C. public school system.
Next was a tour of the school garden built this summer by a group of students led by Mr. Sam Ullery, TMA's earth science teacher, with support from the Earth Day Network's Green Schools Campaign. Featuring apple trees, composting bins, a tool shed, and a greenhouse, the garden is a place to learn about environmental science and gardening, as well as an outdoor learning space for other classes, including Spanish and music.
Over the course of D.C. Farm to School Week, several schools around the district will be hosting classes with chefs and nutritionists, and students will be taking field trips to area farms. "The trips are a farm-to-table experience, and a lot of these students don't get that chance often," said Andrea Northup, D.C. Farm to School Network coordinator. "When they get to harvest that food, bring it home, and cook it, they're more likely to keep eating healthy food."
And making sure students eat healthy is an important goal. Research shows that typical health problems related to poor nutrition, such as obesity and anemia, significantly lower academic performance and attendance in elementary school students. In addition, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that undernourishment and unbalanced diets, such as those high in fat or simple carbohydrates, hinder a student's ability to focus.
Over 30 million US schoolchildren are on the USDA's National School Lunch Program. Ensuring their meals are nutritious could improve attendance, behavior, and academic performance.
As part of our research for Nourishing the Planet, we have come across several similar initiatives to feed school children and support the local economy across Africa. The Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) program, started by the UN World Food Programme and the Partnership for Child Development, is working in Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Mali, Kenya, and Ghana to connect local farmers with schools, ensuring schoolchildren attend school by providing them with much-needed meals and giving farmers a reliable market. And programs like Farmers of the Future in Niger and Developing Innovations for School Cultivation (DISC) in Uganda have helped several schools install gardens where students can learn about gardening and healthy foods while providing extra food to their schools and communities.
These types of programs create a healthier, more productive school environment and encourage students to be better eaters more interested in their food and where it comes from.
Dan Kane is a research intern with the Nourishing the Planet project.
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ROME -- An autopsy on James Gandolfini confirmed the "Sopranos" star died of a heart attack, with no evidence of substance abuse or foul play, a family friend said Friday.
Michael Kobold told reporters that Gandolfini's body has been released to a funeral director and that the family was working with the Italian government to speed up the bureaucratic red tape to get the body back to the United States soon. While the process can take up to 10 days, Kobold said the family was hoping to have the body repatriated by midweek with a funeral planned in New York by Saturday at the latest.
Gandolfini, 51, died Wednesday night after being discovered in a Rome hotel room by a family member.
He had arrived in Rome on Tuesday and spent his first full day in the Eternal City with his son visiting the Vatican and dining in the hotel, the luxury Boscolo Exedra.
"He had a wonderful day," Kobold said of the father-son vacation.
Asked if Gandolfini had a history of heart problems, Kobold said he was healthy.
"There's nothing out of the ordinary. It was a heart attack. It was a natural cause," he said. "There was no foul play, no substance abuse. None of that."
Morgue officials at Rome's Policlinico Umberto I hospital said the U.S. Embassy had told them not to speak to the media, and that a family representative would provide the results of the autopsy. Gandolfini's sister, Leta, went to the morgue on Friday to formally identify the body.
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I'm so sad right now. Archelon... What Infamous 3?
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Obviously they haven't announced it yet, but you know there's going to be one. Remember, killing off Nathan Hale at the end of Resistance 2 didn't stop Insomniac from making a Resistance 3. The question is how Sucker Punch will handle it, since the Good and Evil endings in InFamous 2 are vastly different.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't want the Hero Ending to be the actual ending, I want to keep playing as Cole McGrath. However, Zeke left New Marais and took Cole's body with him, but where would he go? We know he has a past history in New Marais and Empire City is gone so why would he leave? At some point Zeke has accumulated knowledge regarding the First Sons technology and has really been networking with new contacts. Perhaps it is possible for Cole to be resurrected using First Sons/Government technology. It's a surprisingly open-ended ending despite how seemingly clear cut it is!
Then again I don't know how exactly you interpret the death of Cole after the death of "Kessler". Kessler died, but Cole is still alive and we know Kessler is future Cole. My assumption is based on the Back to the Future method of time travel where "Timeline A" is the timeline Kessler lives in destroyed by The Beast, where "Timeline B" is the timeline Kessler creates by travelling back in time to change the future. But this just opened up the realization that in 2 games, Cole has died twice at the end. Dun-dun-dun!
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Social gaming is barely 3 years old, and already companies such as Zynga are reportedly earning $500,000.00 per day! And your brand can benefit from this hot market.
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By Kathryn Kopchik
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," has been named the 2010 Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters at Bucknell University.
Albee, who will become the first playwright to receive the award, will give a talk at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a book signing. Copies of Albee's books will be available for purchase in the Weis Center lobby before and after the talk.
"Edward Albee, who has been called one of the greatest American playwrights of his generation, has created an extensive body of work that has challenged and inspired theater audiences for decades," Bucknell President John Bravman said. "It is an honor to have a writer of Mr. Albee's stature visit our campus and share his life and craft."
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Albee describes his 28 plays, written over a period of four decades, as "an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen."
His first play, "The Zoo Story," was hailed in 1959 as the birth of American absurdist drama, a blend of the traditional and the avant-garde, with Albee considered a successor to American playwrights Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill. Originally titled "Peter and Jerry," the play explores themes of isolation, loneliness and social disparity.
"The Zoo Story" was followed by a series of well-received one-act plays, including "The Death of Bessie Smith," which explores racial discrimination, and "The Sandbox" and "The American Dream," both of which are linked by the theme of death. His first three-act drama, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," is the play for which is he is best known and one of his most controversial.
When its nomination in 1962 for a Pulitzer Prize was not accepted unanimously by the prize committee, two members of the committee resigned. The play received the Tony Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award and now is widely considered a classic of American contemporary theater.
Three Pulitzer Prizes
Three of Albee's plays have received Pulitzer Prizes: "A Delicate Balance" in 1967, "Seascape" in 1975, and "Three Tall Women" in 1994. "Three Tall Women" also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
"A Delicate Balance" examines the uneasy existence of upper middle-class suburbanites whose lives are disrupted by unexpected houseguests who refuse to leave because they're afraid of an unspecified terror. "Seascape" puts together two unusual couples, one of them human-sized intelligent lizards, who discuss how their lives have changed. The protagonist in "Three Tall Women" reflects on her nearly 100 years of life in a play considered Albee's most autobiographical.
Albee has also received a Kennedy Center Honor and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996. Following a revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in 2004, the Academy of Achievement-the American Theater Wing presented Albee with a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, recognizing him as America's greatest living playwright. The only other playwright to receive this honor was Arthur Miller.
In addition to his playwriting, Albee has conducted regular writing workshops in New York and taught playwriting at the University of Houston from 1989 to 2003. He released Stretching My Mind, his first collection of writings on theater, literature, the visual arts, and the political and cultural backgrounds that have defined our times, in 2005.
Weis Award
Bucknell established the annual Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters in 2002 to honor and recognize individuals who represent the highest level of achievement in the craft of writing within the realms of fiction, non-fiction or biography. Previous recipients have been John Edgar Wideman, David McCullough, Derek Walcott, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Wolfe, Salman Rushdie, John Updike and Toni Morrison.
The Weis Fellowship was established through a grant from the Degenstein Foundation in honor of the late Janet Weis, who was an author, civic leader and philanthropist. Weis also was trustee emerita of the University. Her late husband, Sigfried Weis, was chair of the Bucknell Board of Trustees from 1982 to 1988.
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Made with 100% long-lasting 200 denier SolarMax nylon material, these flags designed to resist fading and wear. Flags fly well in the lightest breezes, and dries quickly. Strong and durable, special parachute cloth treatment reduces sun and chemical deterioration. Made in the USA by Annin & Co., a proud member of the Flag Manufacturers Association of America.
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Walgreen to pay $16.6 million in California waste case
Deerfield-based Walgreen Co., the largest U.S. drugstore chain, was ordered to pay $16.6 million to resolve a lawsuit brought by California cities alleging the retailer tossed pesticides, paint and pharmaceutical waste into local landfills.
Judge Wynne Carvill in Oakland ordered the payment in a June lawsuit brought by Los Angeles and district attorneys in six California counties who claimed that more than 600 Walgreen stores unlawfully handled and disposed of hazardous materials over a six-year period, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said today in an e-mail. The order couldn't be confirmed in electronic court records.
Inspections of Walgreen trash bins conducted last year revealed that the company routinely sent waste to the landfills, O'Malley said. The company also unlawfully disposed of customer records containing confidential information, according to the e- mail.
"Since 2007, we have invested millions of dollars to develop and implement a comprehensive waste management program at all of our California stores to properly handle and dispose of discarded, damaged or expired consumer products that are covered by hazardous waste regulations in California," Jim Graham, a Walgreen spokesman, said in an e-mail.
He said Deerfield, Illinois-based Walgreen agreed to settle without admitting wrongdoing to avoid the expense of litigation.
The case is California v. Walgreen, RG12635137, Alameda County Superior Court (Oakland).
--Editors: Andrew Dunn, Glenn Holdcraft
To contact the reporter on this story: Karen Gullo in San Francisco at kgullobloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhythabloomberg.net


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Fever Raises $3M for Event-Finder App That Shows Who's Going (Not Just Who's Playing)
Fever Labs Inc. has raised $3 million in seed funding to help people find and book entertainment or activities of every stripe, with their friends, using their phones, according to founder and Chief Executive Pep Gómez.
Investors in Fever include Jeff Pulver; repeat entrepreneur and Flickr CEO Bernardo Hernandez (via StepOne Ventures, his fund); Gary Shainberg (BT Plc executive), professional soccer player Sergio Ramos of Real Madrid, and Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz.
The Fever mobile app, available for iOS and Android devices, lets users browse a list of local shows or activities that may interest them based on categories they've selected, what they liked in the past, and events that their friends have purchased tickets for, happening soon.


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PopCares Growing A Legacy of Giving in North County
|Bob and Bill St. Pierre received full support from family and friends when they thought up the concept for PopCares, an organization dedicated to their father.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — William St. Pierre was well known around the Northern Berkshires as a guy who was willing to help anyone and everyone.
About three years ago, the former textile mill manager was diagnosed with lung cancer. In February 2012, St. Pierre died.
But his legacy of giving is continuing.
"When my dad died of lung cancer, we decided we had to do something in his honor. He was always helping people, going out of his way. He would never drive past anybody broken down. He was always helping everybody and expected nothing in return," said Bob St. Pierre, who along with the rest of the family have started the nonprofit organization PopCares to provide financial help to anybody in the Northern Berkshire area struggling with cancer.
Family and friends who knew William St. Pierre as just "Pop," began the organization in late 2012, immediately following his death. Those close to the family volunteered their expertise, providing all of the accounting, legal services needed to form an official nonprofit organization — a designation approved two months ago.
Family and friends make up the board, using their skills to run the organization, and others volunteer at the events.
The organization holds various fundraisers throughout the area with all of the proceeds going to provide financial support to other families with a loved one fighting cancer. They know firsthand that fighting the disease doesn't just come at the cost of treatments and insurance.
"I know for a fact how much things cost that you don't expect," said Bill St. Pierre.
The patients need to drive out of town for treatments — emptying tanks of gasoline. They can't work and utility and other bills fall in priority. And many times, they are too weakened to clean their homes or yards.
In just over a year of full operation, the organization has helped 94 families with those costs. They have paid rents and utility bills, fixed patients' cars, bought groceries, paid house- or groundskeepers to help with properties or given gas cards to those who could use them. In just the last three months, they have allocated $5,000.
"It just makes you really want to work harder to make more money so you can help more," said Bob St. Pierre.
It isn't just those suffering from cancer either. They make a point to recognize the caregivers as well.
Bill St. Pierre said when his mother was taking care of his father, she received an anonymous delivery of flowers, which perked her up and helped. PopCares now sends flowers to caregivers to repay the favor someone had done for their mother. They provide gift cards or certificates to local restaurants so that the caregiver can get out, if only for one night.
But for the St. Pierres, the most important aspect is that every dime raised from the community goes back to others who need it within the community. They only hold their fundraisers in North County (and the neighboring Vermont towns) and only give the money back to patients here. Nobody involved takes a salary — every dollar they raise is put to use helping others.
Now, with a year and a half of experience since their kickoff event in October 2012, and their official nonprofit designation, PopCares is looking to help even more. The Pierres have been trying their best to spread the word about their organization in hopes to boost attendance at fundraisers.
On Saturday, they will be holding a spaghetti dinner at the PNA in Adams. On May 10, they will host a 5K road race in Williamstown; in August, they are putting on a golf tournament in Stamford, Vt.; in October, they will kick off their third year of operation with another dinner auction.
Saturday's event isn't just a fundraiser — with a modest cost $5 per person — but more of an event to give back to everyone who supported them, said the St. Pierres. Additionally, anyone who has or is struggling with cancer gets free admission.
In the wake of the closing of the North Adams Regional Hospital, they said every former NARH employee — since they are caregivers, too — also gets free admission.
The St. Pierres know they can't do everything, though, so they're in contact with other organizations working toward the same ends. PopCare has invited Moments House, Eva & Emma's Lemonade Stand and the AYJ Fund (for Anna Yan Ji Arabia) to their next fundraisers to help spread the word about what they do as well.
For the family, it is those "small acts of kindness" for their community that exemplifies who William St. Pierre was.
And with PopCares, his legacy of giving is continuing.
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It's almost New Year's Eve. Nothing much is going on. So why not keep up with the latest in chicken-powered Steadicams?:
Seems to work, although nobody seems to have asked the rooster whether he wanted to have a camera attached to his comb. And there's chicken defecation at the 3:27 mark — editorial comment?
Here's a highly scientific comparison of image stabilization using a rooster's head, a human head, and a handheld camera:
The rooster turns out to be, in most applications, an effective Steadicam substitute.
And here's a comparison of a chicken and a child as Steadicams:
Sure, it's a little uncomfortable, animal-treatment-wise. Not sure I approve. But it's science. And it beats a cat-powered Steadicam any day.


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Linda Arms, 63 - October 11, 2012Linda S. Arms, 63, of Cozad, formerly of Gothenburg, passed away Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, at her home in Cozad.
Memorial services took place on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, at the Berryman Funeral Home Chapel in Cozad with the Rev. Doug Smith officiating.
Arms was born Aug. 16, 1949, at McCook to Paul and Lorene (Ungles) Butter. She graduated from McCook High School in 1967.
Following her graduation, she married Dennis Resseguie. To this union, two children were born, Tammy and Danny. In later years, she married Avon Arms. Two children were born to this union, Randy and Tera.
The family resided at Arapahoe for many years before moving to Gothenburg, and later Cozad.
Arms was employed with the C.A. Mues nursing home in Arapahoe for several years. She was later employed at Hilltop Estates in Gothenburg, where she worked until her health no longer allowed for her to continue.
She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, they were the light of her life, according to family members. She had a passion for Husker football and never missed watching a game on television.
Arms was preceded in death by: her parents, Paul and Lorene; a son, Danny Arms; brother, Donnie Butter.
Survivors include: her two daughters—Tammy (Mike) Sock of Clay Center and Tera (Tim) Massie of Gothenburg; her son, Randy (Dawn) Arms of Apache Junction, AZ; seven grandchildren—Veronica (Chris) Neal of Stapleton, Danielle and John Sock of Clay Center, Monique and Mersades Massie of Gothenburg, Brian and Kennison Arms of Apache Junction; a brother, Bill (Betty) Butter of Arapahoe; numerous other relatives.
A memorial has been established.
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Bed and Breakfast Welcome
If you love art and nature, the B&B Welcome will accomodate and making you feeling just like be at home, and giving you the opportunity to visit the most beautiful and wellknow places of the'Campania Felix'.
Sorrento,Capri and Amalfitan Coast are very close to our location.
1281 meters high with a depth of 200 meters. Vesuvius is the only active volcano in continental Europe
From Pompeii you can get to Vesuvius
Bus or highway, exit the tower of the greek.
Check-in: after 12.00 (subject to any other request).
Check-out: until 10.00 (subject to any other request).
You are kindly requested (i) disclosing the exact time of your arrival with an advance of 24 hours.
Pets are allowed upon prior notice and availability only in the garden.
The rest of the amount should be paid in cash directly to the B & B at the time of your arrival.
Cancellations Policy: 72h before arrival.
Payment Types:
You can pay the deposit by charging PostePay, Wire Transfer and Postal
sent or received in e-mail or fax.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
B&B Facilities & Policies
- Air Conditioning
- Airport Transfers
- Free Breakfast
- Cots available
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- Internet Access
- Laundry Facilities
- Parking
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 3 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Reach the Bed And Breakfast Welcome is very simple: How to get to Pompeii by Train
Circumvesuviana direction Naples - Sorrento (stop Pompei Villa dei Misteri)
Circumvesuviana direction Naples - Poggiomarino (stop Pompei Sanctuary)
State Railways direction Napoli - Salerno (stop Pompei).
- How to get to Pompeii by bus
SITA from Naples and Salerno
CSTP # 4 from Salerno
CSTP swift from Salerno (via highway).
- How to get to Pompeii by Car
A3 Naples-Salerno (exit Pompei or Scafati).
- How to get to Pompeii by Plane
Capodichino airport bus then continue towards Naples Piazza Garibaldi train.
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1281 meters high with a depth of 200 meters. Vesuvius is the only active volcano in continental Europe
From Pompeii you can get to Vesuvius
Bus or highway, exit the tower of the greek.
Naples is the capital of the Campania region and of the homonymous province. With 1,064,000 inhabitants is the third Italian city and the first of its Italy. It is located between Mount Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei east to west, the gulf of the same name, the center of a vast metropolitan area, whose population density reaches values of 10000-50000 inhabitants/km2. From Pompeii you can get to Naples
Circumvesuviana Napoli Piazza Garibaldi stop http://www.vesuviana.it
State railway station Napoli Piazza Garibaldi http://www.ferrovie.it/
A3 Naples-Salerno.
One of the most beautiful places of the Sorrento peninsula, immerai in silence and surrounded by green and orange groves, parks and gardens, with its picturesque coves that lead to the sea
Pompeii you can reach Sorrento
Circumvesuviana Direction Sorrento Sorrento stop http://www.vesuviana.it.
Pompeii is a city rich in history, art, culture and religion, his excavations are the most important archaeological site in Italy and with the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin, make this city a place of great cultural and religious.


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To the Arctic 3-D is an impassioned plea for action on global warming, and the passion is intensified by the music.
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Filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, a specialist in gigantic-screen nature movies including "The Living Sea," is up to date in his use of 70mm IMAX film, but he's stuck in the past about how to tell a story.
Meryl Streep narrates a heartwarming documentary for an up close look at Arctic wildlife.
Visually stunning and narratively stunted, this IMAX documentary is the family version of 2006's "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on global warming.
See all To the Arctic reviews at Metacritic.com
OK for kids 6+
Educational documentary explores life in the frozen wild.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that To the Arctic is an educational 3-D nature documentary about the animals that thrive in the world's harshest climate. Filmed in IMAX, the movie puts a special emphasis on polar bears and the plight they face as global warming continues to extend the arctic summer season. There's nothing objectionable in the documentary, but some very young kids might be disturbed by the tense scenes when a male polar bear pursues a mother and her cubs or when the white cubs get bloody from eating freshly hunted seal meat. The narrator also explains that some cubs and caribou newborns have died because of the elements or starvation. Since the documentary is only 45 minutes long, it's just the right length to educate and entertain kids about life in the arctic's frozen world.
Educational value: Like most nature documentaries, To the Arctic offers an in-depth view of its animal subjects and how they survive and thrive. Kids will learn that the frigid arctic environment is all that these animals know, and as the summer season gets longer due to global warming, the bears and walruses and caribou of the far north face starvation -- and even extinction.
Messages: The movie's overall message is to pay attention to climate change and how global warming is affecting the polar bears and other animals that call the arctic their home. Without a human push to curb the effects of global warming, the animals will be wiped out sooner than we can imagine.
Role models: Although it's always tricky to ascribe human characteristics to wildlife, the mother polar bear is clearly a selfless mama determined to keep her cubs alive, whether that means swimming longer and farther or standing up to a much bigger, much stronger male polar bear threatening to kill her cubs.
Violence and scariness: There are a few scenes of peril and suspense as a predatory male polar bear is in pursuit of a mother polar bear and her two cubs. Also, the narration explains that baby caribou born during the migration usually don't make it to their destination and that a baby polar bear wasn't able to withstand the long distance its mother swam to look for food. A seal is caught and shared between a mother and her cubs, but audiences only see glimpses of the meat and the bloodstained bears.
Sexy stuff: Caribou give birth along a migration trail. Talk about male polar bears during mating season.
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Baskets were one of the first art forms in the Americas, with basket fragments found in California and the Southwest dating to 9,400 years ago. Over the millennia, native North Americans developed elaborate techniques and intricate designs worked in local materials, from sweetgrass in Florida to black ash in the Northeast and deer grass in California, among many others.
Large Basket with Spiral and Cross Designs
Unknown artist (Native American, Ndeh [Apache]). ca. 1900.
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the state must watch over the market to prevent the excesses that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Merkel used her New Year's speech broadcast Monday to warn that the lessons of the market collapse five years ago haven't been fully learned yet.
The German chancellor says greater international efforts are needed to control financial markets and prevent the "irresponsibility" that began when the U.S. subprime mortgage bubble burst.
Merkel warned that reforms agreed to by governments to end the subsequent European sovereign debt crisis would require patience.
Europe's economic turmoil "isn't overcome by a long stretch," she said.


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Making the Most of Your Mixer
You've got yourself a mixer and now you're ready to use it. Just plug everything in, twiddle the controls, and away you go … right? Well, if you've done this before you won't have any problems, but if this is the first time you've ever used a mixer you might want to read through this little tutorial and pick up a few basics that will help you get better performance and make better mixes.
Balanced, Unbalanced - What's the Difference?
In a word: "noise." The whole point of balanced lines is noise rejection, and it's something they're very good at. Any length of wire will act as an antenna to pick up the random electromagnetic radiation we're constantly surrounded by: radio and TV signals as well as spurious electromagnetic noise generated by power lines, motors, electric appliances, computer monitors, and a variety of other sources. The longer the wire, the more noise it is likely to pick up. That's why balanced lines are the best choice for long cable runs. If your "studio" is basically confined to your desktop and all connections are no more than a meter or two in length, then unbalanced lines are fine—unless you're surrounded by extremely high levels of electromagnetic noise. Another place balanced lines are almost always used is in microphone cables. The reason for this is that the output signal from most microphones is very small, so even a tiny amount of noise will be relatively large, and will be amplified to an alarming degree in the mixer's high-gain head amplifier.
To summarize
|Use balanced lines.
|Short line-level runs:
|Unbalanced lines are fine if you're in a relatively noise-free environment.
Long line-level runs:
|The ambient electromagnetic noise level will be the ultimate deciding factor, but balanced is best.
Signal Levels and the Decibel
Let's take a look at one of the most commonly used units in audio: the decibel (dB). If the smallest sound that can be heard by the human ear is given an arbitrary value of 1, then the loudest sound that can be heard is approximately 1,000,000 (one million) times louder. That's too many digits to deal with for practical calculations, and so the more appropriate "decibel" (dB) unit was created for sound-related measurements. In this system the difference between the softest and loudest sounds that can be heard is 120 dB. This is a non-linear scale, and a difference of 3 dB actually results in a doubling or halving of the loudness.
You might encounter a number of different varieties of the dB: dBu, dBV, dBM and others, but the dBu is the basic decibel unit. In the case of dBu, "0 dBu" is specified as a signal level of 0.775 volts. For example, if a microphone's output level is –40 dBu (0.00775 V), then to raise that level to 0 dBu (0.775 V) in the mixer's preamp stage requires that the signal be amplified by 100 times.
A mixer may be required to handle signals at a wide range of levels, and it is necessary match input and output levels as closely as possible. In most cases the "nominal" level for a mixer's input and outputs is marked on the panel or listed in the owner's manual.
To EQ or Not to EQ
In general: less is better. There are many situations in which you'll need to cut certain frequency ranges, but use boost sparingly, and with caution. Proper use of EQ can eliminate interference between instruments in a mix and give the overall sound better definition. Bad EQ—and most commonly bad boost—just sounds terrible.
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For example: cymbals have a lot of energy in the mid and low frequency ranges that you don't really perceive as musical sound, but which can interfere with the clarity of other instruments in these ranges. You can basically turn the low EQ on cymbal channels all the way down without changing the way they sound in the mix. You'll hear the difference, however, in the way the mix sounds more "spacious," and instruments in the lower ranges will have better definition. Surprisingly enough, piano also has an incredibly powerful low end that can benefit from a bit of low-frequency roll-off to let other instruments— notably drums and bass—do their jobs more effectively. Naturally you won't want to do this if the piano is playing solo.
The reverse applies to kick drums and bass guitars: you can often roll off the high end to create more space in the mix without compromising the character of the instruments. You'll have to use your ears, though, because each instrument is different and sometimes you'll want the "snap" of a bass guitar, for example, to come through.
Some Frequency Facts
The lowest and highest frequencies than can be heard by the human ear are generally considered to be around 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, respectively. Average conversation occurs in the range from about 300 Hz to about 3,000 Hz. The frequency of a standard pitchfork used to tune guitars and other instruments is 440 Hz (this corresponds to the "A3" key on a piano tuned to concert pitch). Double this frequency to 880 Hz and you have a pitch one octave higher (i.e. "A4" on the piano keyboard). In the same way you can halve the frequency to 220 Hz to produce "A2" an octave lower.
Some Frequency Facts
The lowest and highest frequencies than can be heard by the human ear are generally considered to be around 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, respectively. Average conversation occurs in the range from about 300 Hz to about 3,000 Hz. The frequency of a standard pitchfork used to tune guitars and other instruments is 440 Hz (this corresponds to the "A3" key on a piano tuned to concert pitch). Double this frequency to 880 Hz and you have a pitch one octave higher (i.e. "A4" on the piano keyboard). In the same way you can halve the frequency to 220 Hz to produce "A2" an octave lower.
Boost with Caution
If you're trying to create special or unusual effects, go ahead and boost away as much as you like. But if you're just trying to achieve a goodsounding mix, boost only in very small increments. A tiny boost in the midrange can give vocals more presence, or a touch of high boost can give certain instruments more "air." Listen, and if things don't sound clear and clean try using cut to remove frequencies that are cluttering up the mix rather than trying to boost the mix into clarity.
One of the biggest problems with too much boost is that it adds gain to the signal, increasing noise and potentially overloading the subsequent circuitry.
Your mixes can be further refined by adding ambience effects such as reverb or delay. The MG's internal effects can be used to add reverb or delay to individual channels in the same way as external effects processors.
Reverb and Delay Time
The optimum reverb time for a piece of music will depend on the music's tempo and density, but as a general rule longer reverb times are good for ballads, while shorter reverb times are more suited to up-tempo tunes. Delay times can be adjusted to create a wide variety of "grooves". When adding delay to a vocal, for example, try setting the delay time to dotted eighth notes corresponding to the tune's tempo.
Reverb Tone
Different reverb programs will have different "reverb tone" due to differences in the reverb time of the high or low frequencies. Too much reverb, particularly in the high frequencies, can result in unnatural sound and interfere with the high frequencies in other parts of the mix. It's always a good idea to choose a reverb program that gives you the depth you want without detracting from the clarity of the mix.
Reverb Level
It's amazing how quickly your ears can lose perspective and fool you into believing that a totally washed-out mix sounds perfectly fine. To avoid falling into this trap start with reverb level all the way down, then gradually bring the reverb into the mix until you can just hear the difference. Any more than this normally becomes a "special effect."
The Modulation Effects
Phasing, Chorus, and Flanging
All of these effects work on basically the same principle: a portion of the audio signal is "timeshifted" and then mixed back with the direct signal. The amount of time shift is controlled, or "modulated", by an LFO (Low-frequency Oscillator). For phasing effects the shift is very small. The phase difference between the modulated and direct signals causes cancellation at some frequencies and reinforces the signal at others and this causes the shimmering sound we hear.
For chorus and flanging the signal is delayed by several milliseconds, with the delay time modulated by an LFO, and recombined with the direct signal. In addition to the phasing effect described above, the delay modulation causes a perceived pitch shift which, when mixed with the direct signal, results in a harmonically rich swirling or swishing sound.
The difference between chorus and flanging effects is primarily in the amount of delay time and feedback used—flanging uses longer delay times than chorus, whereas chorus generally uses a more complex delay structure. Chorus is most often used to thicken the sound of an instrument, while flanging is usually used as an outright "special effect" to produce otherworldly sonic swoops.
One form of compression known as "limiting" can, when properly used, produce a smooth, unified sound with no excessive peaks or distortion. A common example of the use of compression is to "tame" a vocal that has a wide dynamic range in order to tighten up the mix. With the right amount of compression you'll be able to clearly hear whispered passages while passionate shouts are still well balanced in the mix. Compression can also be valuable on bass guitar. Too much compression can be a cause of feedback, however, so use it sparingly.
Most compressors require several critical parameters to be set properly to achieve the desired sound. The MG compressor makes achieving great sound much easier: all you need to do is set a single "compression" control and all of the pertinent parameters are automatically adjusted for you.


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U.S. Immigration Requirements for F-1 Status
The U.S. immigration system permits you to obtain an F-1 visa and/or enter the United States as an F-1 student if you meet certain requirements. In order to be eligible for an F-1 student status, you must:
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Under the U.S. immigration system, F-1 student status is considered a non-immigrant status. This means that you are expected to have a residence abroad to which you intend to return upon completing your program and/or any post-completion optional practical training for which you are eligible. If you have pursued or are pursuing U.S. permanent residency, you are considered to have 'immigrant intent' and as such would not be considered eligible for F-1 student status. Please contact the Office of International Services at email@example.com for more information.
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Teachers College is authorized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to sponsor eligible foreign nationals for F-1 student status. In order to be eligible, you must have been admitted to a full-time program of study at Teachers College and have documented adequate financial resources to meet your required tuition, fees, and living expenses. For more information about procedures for obtaining TC sponsorship, please go to the "FORMS" section of our website and download a copy of our Application for Visa Certificate (AVC).
As indicated above, F-1 students are required to have full-time study as their primary purpose for entering, and remaining, in the United States. Teachers College sponsors F-1 students insofar as their primary objective is to enter the U.S. to engage in and make full-time progress toward degree objectives. Other goals, such as seeking employment, are acceptable only insofar as they are consistent with F-1 regulations and with full-time study toward a degree objective.
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Kitchen Spotlight: Dan's Green and Bright
Most of you weren't fans of Dan's wall o' fruit stickers above his kitchen sink, but we have a hunch that you'll find something else to appreciate in his light, bright, green kitchen. Here's a peek at a homey bachelor pad kitchen, with plenty of details that we really enjoyed.
• 1 Peeking into the kitchen.
• 2 A small stove, but bright potholders.
• 3 Lovely colors.
• 4 A breezy window.
• 5 Succulents by the window.
• 6 The infamous backsplash of fruit stickers.
• See the whole apartment: House Tour: Dan's Upper Market "Lake" House
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - do you know... Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in do you know... Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Learning English View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message muniJoined: 08 May 2003Posts: 176 Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 10:22 am Post subject: do you know... If I ask my friend "do you know where Sam is ?" would this be correct. and if I say "have you seen Sam today?" would it be correct. Muni Back to top dduckJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 109Location: Scotland/Mexico Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 10:29 am Post subject: Both questions are correct. But remember to start sentences with a capital letter. Muni you need to find something more demanding to do - you keep on getting things right! Iain_________________ Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. --Chinese Proverb Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Learning English All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Microtomography of Fluid Distribution in Subducted Sediments: A New Experimental Approach to Constraining H2O Cycling in Subduction Zones
DOEI Funded Research: 2011
AbstractLarge amounts of H2O are carried into trenches via subduction of the sediments, basaltic crust and uppermost mantle that make up the oceanic lithosphere. A major open question is how much of this subducted H2O is released into the overlying mantle wedge and how much is carried deeper into the mantle. This depends on whether the fluid is able to form an interconnected network among the mineral grains that make up the rock down to very low fluid fractions. In many cases, a minimum amount of fluid (critical porosity) is required in order to achieve connectivity, such that some fluid will remain trapped in the rock.
This proposal seeks support for an experimental determination of the 3-D grain scale distribution of aqueous fluid in three types of subducted sediment: siliceous, carbonate, and clay. We will exploit synchrotron X-ray microtomographic techniques developed by Zhu et al. (2011) for the study of 3-D melt distribution in olivine-basalt aggregates to obtain 3-D data on the distribution of fluids in subducted sediment. This nondestructive 3-D imaging technique has a spatial resolution of 0.7 um and provides quantitative information on geometrical parameters of fluid topology, such as the dihedral angles, melt channel sizes and connectivity. We plan to initially investigate the distribution of water in simplified sediment analogs (i.e. quartz for siliceous sediments; calcite for carbonate sediments; smectite for clays). Fluid fraction will be varied from ~10% down to ~1% to determine the porosity at which connectivity is lost for each sediment type. Once we have characterized fluid distribution in simplified systems, we will investigate more realistic scenarios by adding more solid phases and altering the composition of the fluid to more closely approximate seawater. We anticipate that the proposed experiments will lay the necessary groundwork for an NSF proposal to determine 3-D grain scale distribution of fluids in a range of subducted lithologies, including sediments, basalt (eclogite), and peridotite. Results from the proposed study will provide important new insights into the amount of fluid that can be transported into the deep mantle by subduction.


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Complex' Pigeons and Planes Features Nas in How Having Children Affected the Music Career of 15 Legends
Nas' 2012 album Life Is Good is arguably one of his best releases in years. One standout record, a song called "Daughters," was inspired by an intimately personal aspect of the rapper's life, his eldest child Destiny.
Check out Nas in the first installment of the 55th GRAMMYs: "The World Is Listening" commercial and tune in to watch The Grammy's Live on February 10, 2013 at 8/7c!
Organizers for the annual Governors Ball music festival announced the event's 2013 lineup on Tuesday. Kanye West and the Kings of Leon, and another yet-to-be-announced act are this year's headliners.
When Nas dropped his 2012 post-divorce masterpiece Life Is Good, he once again ignited fire to a red-hot career that has spanned almost 20 years and 10 solo LPs.God's Son is so pumped about last year's work that he's ready to get back into the studio to record its follow-up, and if he has his way, he'll time include Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Frank Ocean this time around.


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- Curves and color! A friend describes the look of our house as "cheerful." When we found it, it was a drab, post WW2 "cracker box" begging for help. The kidney-shaped island not only makes us smile, it serves as a place to cook, eat, visit, watch TV, and work on projects.
- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.:
- All of the utilities were in the wrong place for a functional, modern kitchen. The original refrigerator, stove, and stacked washer/dryer stood side-by-side along one wall. The swing of the backdoor took up needed space. The wall between the kitchen and living room was confining. So we gutted the entire space, rearranged the electrical and plumbing, put in a sliding glass door, new windows, and opened up the wall to the living area. Merged living became the concept for every decision – kitchen merging into eating area, into multimedia center, into living room.
Appliances, cabinets, doors and windows came from builder outlets; lighting and an orange microwave oven from craigslist.org; 1950s cabinet handles were free at a yard sale. The spice rack is a piece of scrap steel dotted with holes. Jars 2.5" fit the holes.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Shares in Samsung Electronics Co Ltd slumped 3 percent to nine-month lows on Wednesday, as investors braced for weaker-than-expected earnings from the smartphone maker for the April-to-June period.
Shinhan Investment Corp joined a number of brokerages in cutting its target price for the South Korean technology giant, forecasting smartphone shipments and earnings would be less than it had previously expected.
Samsung Electronics shares were set to fall for a sixth consecutive session. They were down 3.1 percent to 1,257,000 Korean won ($1,100) as of 11:43 p.m. ET, underperforming the wider market's 0.2 percent drop. This was their lowest level since September 11 last year.
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Not too late to stop the flu!
By Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D.
If you didn't heed our advice last fall to get an early-bird vaccine because you were busy, you didn't think you needed one or you fell for one of the flu "fictions" circulating faster than the H3N2 virus in a crowded subway car, now's the time to step up and get that shot! It's about 62 percent effective at preventing the flu, and if you do get the virus, symptoms are a lot milder. (Tip: Exercise your arm immediately after you get the shot. It increases the likelihood that the shot will be effective.)
Still need convincing? Here are six flu falsehoods and the real scoop.
Flu fiction No. 1: It's too late.
Truth: A late flu vaccine's better than none at all. Yes, it takes about two weeks to develop antibodies, but since flu season can drag into late May, it still can come in handy.
Flu fiction No. 2: The most common flu strains this year aren't in the vaccine.
Truth: This year's vaccine contains the three strains responsible for 90 percent of flu this season. They are: A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)-like virus; A/Victoria/361/2011 (H3N2)-like virus; and B/Wisconsin/1/2010-like virus. If you get the flu after you have your inoculation, it's probably because you caught the bug before the vaccine kicked in or you've come down with a type that isn't in the vaccine.
Flu fiction No. 3: The vaccine is too risky for kids and pregnant women.
Truth: Kids – including teens and college students – and pregnant women need it, but aren't getting it. Every year, up to 40 percent of kids catch the flu – and 20,000 kids under the age of 5 wind up in the hospital as a result. Yet only around half of little kids, teens and pregnant women (and just one in five college students) get the vaccine. If you're pregnant, a vaccine protects you and your fetus – and it keeps protecting your baby after birth (the child gets your antibodies while in the womb). True, kids with severe egg allergies or anyone who's had a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine should not get the shot. But a just-approved vaccine called Flublock, for those 18-49, is OK for adults with an egg allergy. It's in limited supply this year, but it should be all over the place next year.
Flu fiction No. 4: I'm healthy, so a bout of the flu's no big deal.
Truth: Flu sets you up for bacterial infections and life-threatening health problems.
The flu vaccine can cut your risk for a heart attack or stroke by a whopping 50 percent – most likely because plaque in your arteries isn't subjected to the revved-up inflammation that happens when your immune system is battling the flu. (Inflammation can make the plaque rupture, causing a heart attack or stroke.) Could this benefit cut your risk for diabetes and cancer? Maybe. There's also news that flu increases risk for pneumonia super-infections. That's dangerous if you have asthma or other breathing problems, are age 65 or older or already have a weakened immune system.
Flu fiction No. 5: I'll just keep my hands clean.
Truth: The flu virus is mostly airborne. Tiny flu-virus particles float in the air for hours after a cough or sneeze. Wearing a facemask in crowded places could cut your risk for flu by about 50 percent, but we think it's easier just to get the vaccine! Regular soap-and-water scrubbings or rubbing on alcohol-based hand sanitizer can prevent the spread of cold viruses and bacteria that can easily infect folks with the flu.
Flu fiction No. 6: The vaccine is sold out.
Truth: You can find it. If you're among the 64 percent of people who haven't gotten their flu protection yet, track down this life-saving vaccine near you with one click: www.flu.gov in the U.S., or www.fightflu.ca in Canada.
Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of "The Dr. Oz Show," and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Medical Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. For more information go to www.RealAge.com. (c) 2013 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.


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The Great Caperton Caper
The Supreme Court talks about judicial bias. Kinda.
Read more from Slate's coverage of Sonia Sotomayor's nomination.
Today the Supreme Court decided the odd, Grisham-like story of Caperton v. Massey — finding that a justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court should have recused himself in an appeal involving a party who spent millions of dollars to put him on the bench. But lost in all the high-power judgery is this fascinating fact: Both the majority and the dissent are pretty worried about judicial bias, the appearance of judicial bias, confidence in the integrity of the judiciary, and what to do about public confidence in human-seeming judges. These are precisely the issues Judge Sonia Sotomayor has openly grappled with in her now-controversial speeches about race, gender, and judging. Indeed, if you read the opinion and the dissent in Caperton alongside Sotomayor's famous 2001 Berkeley speech, you can't help but see that she was merely giving voice to the same judicial anxieties aired by the justices today. So perhaps instead of accusing her of racism, bias, and generalized unfitness to judge, we should recognize that she, like her soon-to-be-colleagues at the Supreme Court, understands that talking about bias aloud is ultimately better than whispering about it from the shadows.
In his opinion for the five-judge majority today, Justice Anthony Kennedy—who was more or less born to author this opinion, touching as it does on Big Issues and Public Sensibilities—lays out the "extraordinary situation" in the case: In August 2002, a West Virginia jury returned a verdict finding A.T. Massey Coal Co. liable to the tune of $50 million for fraudulent misrepresentation, concealment, and tortious interference with contractual relations against Hugh Caperton and Harman Development Corp. While the appeal was still pending, Massey's CEO, Don Blankenship, spent $3 million of his own money to remove one state supreme court justice and seat another—his contributions amounting to more than two-thirds of all the funds raised. Brent Benjamin won the election, then refused to recuse himself from Blankenship's appeal, ultimately casting a vote in favor of Massey in a 3-2 verdict overturning the $50 million jury verdict.
Justice Benjamin insisted he did nothing wrong in refusing to remove himself from the case, having searched his own soul and motivations and determined that he had no "direct, personal, substantial, pecuniary interest in this case," and the Supreme Court today declined to second-guess him. The Supreme Court disagreed, however, that the test for recusal stops at the judge's own perceptions of his bias, recognizing that "there is a serious risk of actual bias—based on objective and reasonable perceptions—when a person with a personal stake in a particular case had a significant and disproportionate influence in placing the judge on the case by raising funds or directing the judge's election campaign when the case was pending or imminent." The majority concluded that in this case, "Blankenship's campaign efforts had a significant and disproportionate influence in placing Justice Benjamin on the case." After today, "the probability of bias" is the new constitutional test.
The most intriguing aspect of Kennedy's majority opinion is his meditation on judicial bias, which sounds strikingly like the all-too-public self-scrutiny of Sonia Sotomayor. Like Judge Sotomayor, Kennedy is struck by the process wherein judges attempt to monitor their own efforts at objectivity. He first quotes Benjamin Cardozo: "The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth."
Then he writes, in a passage that is strikingly resonant with Sotomayor's much-maligned Berkeley speech, about how the average judge goes about deciding a case: "The judge inquires into reasons that seem to be leading to a particular result. Precedent and stare decisis and the text and purpose of the law and the Constitution; logic and scholarship and experience and common sense; and fairness and disinterest and neutrality are among the factors at work." Experience? Common sense? Can "empathy" be far behind?
Sotomayor put it this way in 2001, quoting Judge Miriam Cederbaum: "[J]udges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices and aspire to achieve a greater degree of fairness and integrity based on the reason of law. Although I agree with and attempt to work toward Judge Cederbaum's aspiration, I wonder whether achieving that goal is possible in all or even in most cases. ... I accept the thesis of a law school classmate, Professor Steven Carter of Yale Law School, in his affirmative action book that in any group of human beings there is a diversity of opinion because there is both a diversity of experiences and of thought."
Kennedy today openly worries that "there are instances when the introspection that often attends this process may reveal that what the judge had assumed to be a proper, controlling factor is not the real one at work." Sotomayor betrayed the same anxiety about undetected bias when she said in 2001, "I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I re-evaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires."
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing on behalf of the four dissenters, is clear that he is also worried about the appearance of judicial bias and judicial integrity. His objection is principally to Kennedy's effort to create an "objective" standard for bias, which, he contends, "fails to provide clear, workable guidance for future cases." So Roberts spits out 40 questions left open by today's ruling (20 questions being for rank amateurs). Then Justice Antonin Scalia does him one better by quoting the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Aboth, Chapter 5, Mishnah 22. (Scalia is clearly teaching bar mitzvah classes somewhere this year.) Scalia also acknowledges that judicial bias is a problem: "In the best of all possible worlds, should judges sometimes recuse even where the clear commands of our prior due process law do not require it? Undoubtedly." His dissent focuses on the fact that the court should not have stepped in to "correct this imperfection through expansion of our constitutional mandate in a manner ungoverned by any discernable rule."
If Justice Kennedy's majority opinion reads like a love letter to soon-to-be Justice Sotomayor, the Scalia and Roberts dissents also do nothing but support her. Both make a point of saying that painstaking inquiries into the chimera of judicial bias ultimately harm the judiciary as a whole. So, for instance, Roberts warns, "I believe that opening the door to recusal claims under the Due Process Clause, for an amorphous 'probability of bias,' will itself bring our judicial system into undeserved disrepute, and diminish the confidence of the American people in the fairness and integrity of their courts."
So when Shelby Steele snorts in the Wall Street Journal today that "throughout her career Judge Sotomayor has demonstrated a Hispanic chauvinism so extreme that it sometimes crosses into outright claims of racial supremacy" (with no evidence beyond the Berkeley speech), is he not, as the chief justice openly frets, diminishing the confidence of the American people in the fairness of the courts? When her critics reduce Sotomayor's 18-year judicial career to a sound bite, does that not, as Roberts fears, undermine the "presumption of honesty and integrity in those serving as adjudicators."
Nobody is saying in Caperton—not the majority and not the dissenters—that judges are always perfectly neutral. Indeed, everyone agrees, although perhaps not with the effusiveness of Kennedy, that "experience and common sense" and other non-algebraic/geometric intellectual principles can sometimes influence judicial decision-making. Which means that everybody in Caperton is almost but not quite brave enough to say what Sonia Sotomayor has said aloud for years now: That being neutral is hard, perhaps ultimately impossible work and that the best judges are vigilant about trying to stay that way.
Sotomayor's Berkeley speech is nothing more than a case study for Kennedy's long meditation on the judicial craft and a check against Roberts' warning about trashing the judiciary with false claims of bias. If anything, her candor should guarantee her a seat at the high court as someone who has spent years grappling with an issue most judges would prefer to pretend away.


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You know, shed hunting is really no different than deer hunting … or turkey hunting … or any other type of hunting. Want proof? Just look inside my truck!
Yes, it seems as though we hunters get a little obsessive when it's hunting season. We focus so intently on what we're doing and where we're going next that we sometimes forget to take good care of ourselves — and our vehicles.
I couldn't help but chuckle when I looked in the back of my Yukon earlier this morning. It looked like a bomb went off! Scattered among all of my gear, boots and boxes of bottled water were, of course, my treasures from the past week. I guess I am truly a deer antler shed hunting addict.
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