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CHANGE OF PLANS: Things have changed at American Media Operations Inc., now that it has finally released its financials for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 and its restated numbers for 2005. First, the publishing company might not be interested in selling Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Country Weekly and Mira! after all because it is not ready to provide financial statements for those titles. The publications collectively represent total revenues of $20.3 million, as of June 30, 2006.
AMI needs to trim all the costs it can — the company reported a net loss of $27.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, compared with a net loss of $3.4 million in the same period in 2005. AMI's revenues (which include circulation and advertising) were approximately $116 million for the quarter, compared with $124 million during the comparable period in 2005.
In its celebrity publications segment, which includes Star magazine, operating revenue was $28.8 million for the quarter, a decrease of $4.9 million, or 14.5 percent from the prior year's comparable period. Operating income was also down $7.9 million, or 90.7 percent, to $800,000. The dramatic drop was attributed to increased Star subscription costs required to maintain its advertising rate base, as well as increased advertising related costs.
In explaining its restatement information for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, the company said that for the fiscal year ended March 2005, and quarters ended June 30, 2005 and Sept. 30, 2005, past reported information "should no longer be relied upon." The company added that it has no intention of amending these statements. — Amy Wicks
TIMELY FASHION: So, does a shaggy-haired rocker feel more pressure to dress up after attending the grand Costume Institute Gala? "Absolutely not," said John Mayer, who performed at Tuesday's Time 100 dinner at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall the day after the Met gala. Mayer was also named to the power list of entertainers, politicians, thinkers and financiers that make up Time's annual roster. Mayer had his long locks trimmed at Sally Hershberger's salon before the Monday night party and donned black Armani suits to both events. But despite the black-tie grooming, Mayer said he prefers a more relaxed look. "All fashion is about being yourself and being in touch with yourself. I'm trying to bring fashion where I am, and that's usually horizontal, laying down watching TV." On Tuesday, he stayed true to his laid-back stance and popped open two top buttons on his shirt. The message to fashion observers? "This says, I'll play your game only so far," he quipped. Other attendees included Harvey Weinstein and girlfriend and Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, Cate Blanchett (who stayed briefly and left before dinner), America Ferrara, of "Ugly Betty" fame, Rachel Roy, David Lauren and Lauren Bush and Mayer's girlfriend, Jessica Simpson, who dashed in right before Mayer took to the stage. — Stephanie D. Smith
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SWEET NOTHINGS: Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll will expand her reach online to DearSugar.com, the advice site under the Sugar Publishing umbrella that includes entertainment sites PopSugar.com and BuzzSugar.com. Carroll will answer one question a week via video, while DearSugar will link back to both AskEJean.com and Elle.com. The energetic columnist, who's contributed to Elle for 15 years, admitted she is addicted to PopSugar, and her intern reached out to the site to ask if Carroll could contribute. The twentysomething audiences are similar, and, as Carroll noted, "The Internet is where it's at."


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2011 Record (ACC):10-4 (6-2)
Returning Starters (Off/Def/ST):15 (7/7/1)
The defending ACC Champs bring back as much offensive firepower as any other team in college football, returning a 3,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher and 1,000-yard receiver. Leading the way is the one-two punch of quarterback Tajh Boyd and receiver Sammy Watkins, who look ready to build upon a 2011 campaign that catapulted both players into national prominence. Watkins broke 11 school freshman records in the first seven games last season, led all freshman in the nation in reception yards per game, all-purpose yards and touchdowns and became just the third ever true freshman to be named AP first-team All-American. However, the Tigers will have to make-do without their star receiver during the first two games of 2012 as Watkins serves a two-game suspension. Junior DeAndre Hopkins, who nearly reached the millennium plateau himself with 978 yards in 2011, will step in as the number one guy in Watkins' absence.
Running back Andre Ellington will look to improve upon his 1,178 yard, 11 touchdown performance last season, and could make a run at the Clemson career rushing record with a stand-out senior campaign. All-ACC Center Dalton Freeman is the only returning starter on the offensive line, but a pair of juniors, Tyler Shatley and Brandon Thomas, have stepped up this spring and have head coach Dabo Swinney feeling incredibly confident about his offensive line heading into this season.
Incoming Safety Travis Blanks should add some serious depth to a secondary that returns four starters in Rashard Hall, Xavier Brewer, Jonathan Meeks, and Bashaud Breeland. While the secondary is brimming with experience, the Tigers have lost some bulk in their front seven. Defensive end Malliciah Goodman is the lone upperclassman on the defensive line that has to replace ACC sack-leader Andre Branch. Sophomore tackle DeShawn Williams saw action in every game last season, and he'll likely step into a starting role alongside Grady Jarrett. Also vying for reps on the line is true freshman Shaq Lawson. There's a little more experience at linebacker, with Junior Quandon Christian and seniors "Tig" Willard and Corico Hakwins all expected to see significant playing time in 2012.
Clemson's road to their second national championship runs through a tough non-conference schedule that includes SEC opponents Auburn and South Carolina. They kick off ACC-play in Tallahassee on September 22, and will need a win there for an early leg up in the ACC Atlantic Division. Four weeks later they play host The Hokies in Death Valley on October 20th to try and make it three straight against Frank Beamer and company– who they took two games from last year by a combined score of 61-13.
BURNING QUESTION:Will there be a hangover?
One of the Tigers' biggest problems in recent years has been handling success. In 2003 Clemson came home with a Peach Bowl win and finished at 9-4 on the year. The following season saw the Tigers fall to 6-5. The 2007 squad also won nine games and finished second in the ACC Atlantic, but struggled again the following year and managed to go just 7-6. Same song and dance over the next two years, going 9-5 in 2009 and just 6-7 in 2010. So how will the Tigers fare after their first ten-win season since 1990? On paper they have the talent to make another BCS run, but it'll come down to whether or not they can finally put it all together in back-to-back seasons.
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In the third installment of "American Horror Story," the witches came out. And Sarah Paulson, who played a headmistress of an academy for young witches, kept a watchful eye at all times—not even letting a bout of blindness cause her pause.
Paulson will stop by the Los Angeles Times on Friday to take part in a live chat at 3:30 p.m. PDT to discuss the wicked world of the witchy third season.
As Cordelia Foxx, Paulson was, in a nutshell, a very tortured witch: She's intent on giving her pupils the tools to keep their powers in check—at least for a while; she's infertile and her hubby was not the man she thought he was; acid was thrown in her eyes; and she's also the estranged daughter of Supreme witch Fiona, played by "AHS" first lady Jessica Lange. It's enough to send any witch to therapy.
And yet it was a somewhat relaxed season, sprinkled with some humor, compared to the deranged experiences Paulson faced playing Lana Winters, the reporter-turned-forced-mental patient, while at Briarcliff Manor, the creepy mental institution that lighted up last season's horrors.
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Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band will release a new album of songs that create a world of adventurous listening for all ages. Lishy Lou and Lucky Too is the new album and features musical and theatrical guests, and will be available on October 1 on www.luckydiazmusic.com.
Lishy Lou and Lucky Too is a color-splashed, enhanced-reality, family-friendly variety show à la Peewee's Playhouse, with a dash of The Lucy Show and the Marx Brothers comedy. Lishy Lou (Alisha Gaddis) and Lucky (a real-life husband-wife team) live together in a magical treehouse, and each episode presents a problem that Lishy, Lucky, and their friends and guests solve together. They're a bilingual household (English and Spanish) that is filled with music and dance, encouraging movement and learning through song.
The album begins with the peppy theme song and a doo-woppy tune called "Thingamajig,". Other songs spotlight people in history like Amelia Earhart ("8,000 Feet") and Jackie Robinson ("Jackie"). The Beatles' classic "Till There Was You" takes on new meaning when Lucky and Lishy sing it, and the song "When I Grow Up" will inspire kids to live their dreams.
The idea for Lishy Lou and Lucky Too came during a road trip, when together with daughter Ella, Lucky and Alisha shared music and stories. Lishy Lou and Lucky Too follows two family music albums from Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band: A Potluck (2012), and the 2013 Spanish language release ¡Fantastico!. The band is also planning several family concerts this fall to celebrate the release, including a concert on September 14 at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.


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Hard facts and warm feelings, if you'll indulge me
We washed and cleaned out the inside of the Mobi this morning and returned it to the dealership that sells and rents them, about an hour away from Antwerp. It poured rain, a hard, drenching rain, most of the way back. This is typical of Belgium, said Daughter's Fiancé.
The young man who checked us out on the Mobi back on July 6 also was assigned to make sure the Mobi was intact when we returned it. It was. His boss was a bit upset that we didn't return it until 1:30 p.m. because we had promised to return it by 10 a.m., and Mobi was going to head out later in the day with another party. I should talk to them about the propane tank's sticky valve, and the hot-water problem. The broken door lock got the mechanics' immediate attention.
Remember how I complained that the water-intake cap was frozen shut? It was a locking cap, the young man showed me, and if I had unlocked it, a quarter-turn would have released it. Oh. I hadn't noticed the key slot in the cap. That was embarrassing. I am why Americans have a bad reputation in Europe.
The young man also said that the waste-water draining problem was a common complaint, that the valves stuck open or closed, so I shouldn't feel bad about that. And he and two mechanics discussed how it was possible that someone was able to cleanly break into the Mobi and steal Fiancé's laptop computer when we had it parked at Bratislava, Slovakia. The crooks might have been nearby (and there was a motor home right next to where we parked), using a device that would have recorded the frequency code of our locking fob, and used it to gain entry through the front door with no problem. Hmm. Or maybe I failed to lock one of the doors. This will forever haunt me.
Back at the front counter, the young man went through the paperwork and gave me a copy of our invoice. Some security deposit refunds were due us, and would come later in a bank transfer. He said we drove 4,800 kilometers. I did the math: 2,982 miles. Over 17 days, it averaged to 175 miles a day. And just one traffic ticket, thanks to those young German police officers who accepted payment with American Express (which, by the way, is not very widely accepted in Europe).
Back at Daughter's and Fiancé's apartment, I hit the "properties" tab on "My Photos." Between the four of us, we took 8,766 photos. Thank God digits are free and storage space is dirt cheap. Eight-thousand, seven hundred and sixty-six photographs, all crammed inside my little Acer netbook (and backed up every other day onto a separate hard drive).
All those miles, all those photographs, and one wonders: what was our favorite place? We loved each of them for different reasons. The frolicking beer gardens of Munich, the overwhelming history of Prague, the public spaces and monuments of Vienna, the grace of Lucerne, the dramatic setting of Luxembourg, the majestic Alps.
I decided today that my favorite place is Antwerp. We leave tomorrow at noon, and it will be so very hard because we are leaving our Daughter and her Fiancé, and won't see them again until Christmas. Conversations on Skype are nice but you can't hug on Skype.
We had so much fun over these three weeks but without a doubt, the most fun, the most treasured moments, the highlights of our time in Europe, are those spent with them. There was laughter, of course, and silliness (we've been humming the chicken dance song ever since the proposal occurred in Vienna), and there has been tears, How I wish that they, and our Son and his wonderful wife back in Las Vegas, and Jeanne and I could all live near one another. It's every parent's dream, I suppose, but parents also want their children to pursue their own dreams and sometimes they come true on the other side of an ocean.
I took a few photos today of Antwerp as we walked around this afternoon — a bit of window-shopping by Daughter and Fiancé for an engagement ring. (No, they did not order the one from Tiffany's in Vienna.) The photos aren't necessarily of the most attractive or oldest or most historically important parts of Antwerp. We've visited those neighborhoods on previous visits. But these photos represent the neighborhood where Daughter and Fiancé live — near the train station, not far from the diamond district and not a far walk, down from where the Moroccans claim their neighborhood, to a wonderful Chinese buffet. (We have concluded, by the way, that there are four truly international foods: Hungarian goulash, pizza, kebobs and anything served at an Irish pub.)
So it's over, this crazy vacation of ours. Nearly three thousand miles down narrow, old-city streets, meandering country lanes and along steep mountain sides shared with bicyclists. But the hardest miles are yet to come, the drive on Saturday to the airport for our flight home.


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Thrown water bottle could have brought tragedy
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School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology holds Open House this weekUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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On October 25 and 26, 2013, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa will welcome thousands of school children and kids of all ages to its 12th biennial SOEST Open House.
At this popular event, university faculty, students and staff will present a diverse array of entertaining and educational "hands-on" activities, interactive demonstrations, poster presentations and much more. In addition, organizations such as UH Mānoa's Waikīkī Aquarium and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be participating.
At this family-friendly event, people of all ages will learn about volcanoes, tsunamis, El Niño, planetary exploration, hurricanes, coastal erosion and marine ecosystems, to name just a few topics. They will visit state-of-the-art laboratories and hear about cutting-edge research from the scientists who are making the new discoveries!
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Make-A-Quake: Make a REAL EARTHQUAKE in a model of the Pacific region.
Doppler on Wheels: This mobile radar from the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, Colorado, will be on display with scientists to answer questions about the weather.
Explosive Eruptions: Watch a demonstration of an explosive eruption fueled by liquid nitrogen. In less than 1 second, an explosion will carry 20 gallons of water into a 10-meter high eruption column.
Pelagic Fisheries Research Program: Exhibit of fish/shark specimens, science equipment and videos. Lots to see, touch and explore!
Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL): Video highlights from HURL's recent dive season using the University of Hawaiʻi's three-man submersibles, the Pisces IV and the Pisces V.
Meteorites from Mars: See actual meteorites from the Red Planet.
Fascinating Creatures of the Deep Sea: Be introduced to the cold deep sea of Antarctica, deep-sea fisheries around Hawai'i, and some unusual marine inhabitants captured on deep-sea expeditions.
Inner Space: The James Cameron Experience: Come see the geology and biology of the world's deepest ocean trench, up close and personal with one of James Cameron's science advisors.
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The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was established by the Board of Regents of the University of Hawai'i in 1988 in recognition of the need to realign and further strengthen the excellent education and research resources available within the University. SOEST brings together four academic departments, three research institutes, several federal cooperative programs, and support facilities of the highest quality in the nation to meet challenges in the ocean, earth and planetary sciences and technologies.
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Peach and Blueberry Cobbler with Cinnamon Streusel
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26 comments:
- Susan said...
Your cobbler looks so perfect. I think I smell it.....wow!!
- June 28, 2011 at 5:06 AM
- Kalei's Best Friend said...
I am glad u are finding comfort in baking to help your grief... I am sorry I missed your other post on Tiger Lily... I know exactly what you are going through... ((HUGS)).. I feel for your other kitty, I know her heart is hurting as well.
- June 28, 2011 at 5:32 AM
- Mother Rimmy said...
I'm sorry about your kitty, but having had two dogs that were part of the family for 17 years, I can so understand how you are feeling. This wonderful, colorful cobbler looks like the perfect comfort food.
- June 28, 2011 at 6:34 AM
- Cathy at Wives with Knives said...
Wow, does that ever say summertime. I'm happy to know about Clear Jel, Debby. I think cornstarch sometimes makes a gummy filling so I'm looking forward to trying it. I'm imagining a bowl of cobbles with some vanilla ice cream...swoon.
- June 28, 2011 at 7:26 AM
- Dee in DE said...
That looks AMAZING. I'm not a cobbler person, but that looks so good, that I may end up necoming one.
- June 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Nina said...
Debby, your cobbler looks *amazing*! Wow! I have not made one before, but this is sure inspiring...So sorry about your cat. xo
- June 28, 2011 at 12:14 PM
- Joanne said...
Baking ALWAYS helps me feel better! I'm so glad it lifted your spirits. This cobbler looks absolutely delicious! Love that peach blueberry combo!
- June 28, 2011 at 6:04 PM
- Velva said...
I would eat the cobbler till it was gone. Love fruit cobblers. This is beautiful.
- June 28, 2011 at 6:04 PM
- Holly said...
That looks absolutely delish!!:)
- June 28, 2011 at 8:14 PM
- Karen said...
Oh Yum! Growing up in Texas, peach cobbler was a common dessert served by everyone. Living in New England now, it's hard to get really great peaches so I always have a bag or two of frozen peaches in the freezer.
- June 29, 2011 at 7:17 AM
- Kelly said...
Mmm this looks amazing and I love the addition of the cinnamon!! I'll definitely be trying this myself, yum! Love your blog and glad to be a new follower :)
- June 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
What beautiful photos - the colors just pop! I've never been able to get a good photo of a cobbler, but yours looks just gorgeous!
- July 1, 2011 at 5:22 AM
- MaryBeth said...
Happy 4th of July Weekend! Simply perfect hot summer night dessert!
- July 1, 2011 at 5:38 PM
- Christine said...
Oh Debby, so sorry to hear about Tiger Lily. I'm sending you a barrel of hugs. I've had to part with five Siberian Huskies over the last 30+ years and it never gets easier. Time does soften the pain and leave you with the happy memories of your loved one. A long time ago, I found the saying "God gives us memories so we may have roses in December". I still love it, though it has more meaning when you live in the snowy north vs. So Cal! Just remember the happy times and know you're being thought of. P.S. The cobbler is on my "to do" list for next week, looks too good to pass up. Again, hugs.
- July 1, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- The Short (dis)Order Cook said...
Oh yum! I would eat the whole pan of that! I really should try your frozen butter trick. I also need to get some of that gel. I've been meaning to try it for a while now.
- July 3, 2011 at 3:58 AM
- Mary said...
What an amazing your recipe. Your cobbler sounds delicious. I love that fruit combo and would really enjoy a piece of this treasure. Have a wonderful holiday, Debby. Blessings...Mary
- July 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM
- Cheryl said...
I am glad you are feeling better. I don't know why but when you make something it always looks so much better than I do, LOL. I bet it tastes better too. I have to get some of that clearjel, I have been shopping at King Arthur alot lately!
- July 3, 2011 at 9:36 AM
I used your fabulous recipe here for blueberry/raspberry Cobbler and it was fantastic! I just happen to have cream in the house because I bought a new ice cream maker. I didn't have that gel but runny fruit was just as delicious! Great recipe!
- July 4, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Ciao Chow Linda said...
darn you. I intended to lay off desserts for a while but this cobbler looks too good to resist. Thanks for the tip on the clearjel but where does one buy that? At the supermarket?
- July 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM
- Monica H said...
Peaches and blueberries are a perfect match- so are cobbler and ice cream :-)
- July 14, 2011 at 4:18 PM
Am I the only one? I have no idea how much blueberries to use! They are not listed on the recipe card.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- A Feast for the Eyes said...
Dear Anonymous!
You are the only one...the ONLY one who noticed I forgot to list the blueberries. Whoops! I've fixed that omission and thank you.
- July 29, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- Jackie said...
Hi Debby
I want to make this cobbler with just peaches. Do I add the additional amount of peaches for the swap out of the blueberries. Also, do I keep the lemon in the recipe, I assume you added the lemon because of the blueberries. Thank You.
- September 3, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- A Feast for the Eyes said...
Yes, add more peaches if you're not adding blueberries. I'd guess one extra? Keep in mind, though, that there is more pectin in the blueberries so you might want to compensate for whatever thickener you use...or expect your cobbler to be a bit more runny. Either way, it'll taste great!
- September 3, 2011 at 4:20 PM
An ingredient list would have been helpful.
Nice pictures.
- December 21, 2013 at 8:01 AM
- Debby Foodiewife said...
Dear Anonymous,
I wish you had read my instructions where you left your comment, or seen IN BIG RED LETTERS on the right side bar, how to view my printable recipe card.
It would be kinda silly of me to not give a recipe and instructions. I hope you check back, and/or would have left your email.
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A unique strategy card fighting game with RPG elements and baseball card trade-ability. Play as your favorite SNK character or play as your favorite CAPCOM character in this intense card fighting strategy game.
Card Fighters DS Features:
- All-New Card Fighters game for the Nintendo DS
- Use strategic card arrangements to win
- Over 300 different cards to use, collect, and trade
- Know your character and their special abilities and combine them for added value and strength


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Codabow Infinity Double Bass Bow, German Style
Codabow Infinity Double Bass Bow, German StyleDetails
The Codabow BIG3 Infinity Double Bass Bow has rapidly become the clear choice for solo musicians. The Infinity bow consists of a perfectly balanced stick that has a consistent feel across the entire frame. This model's German style has a taller frog for an underhand grip. The Kevlar Acoustic Core technology offers both a more sensitive feel and increased power on the strings. This Codabow comes with a 10 year manufacturer's warranty, so you can use it with confidence.
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The Infinity Series
The Infinity series of bows have been precision engineered to provide a professional action for the serious player. The bows have been carefully designed to push forward modern playing, offering you a more versatile palette of tones. The graphite weave helps create a balanced stick with the agility of all wooden professional level bows, whilst encouraging good technique to help the performer develop further. The Infinity bows bring out the best and most subtle characters from your strings, bass, and playing style.
The Graphite Diamond Weave is integrated in Codabow's professional design to produce the highly sought balance between strength and sensitivity. The fibres extend from the button to the tip of the bow, ensuring an even balance. The weave has a solid tension throughout that won't become slack over time, so you have a consistent progression of tension from the edges to the centre. The fibres connect strongly with your strings to produce the most balanced, even tone.
Traditional German Style Xebony Frog
The traditional frog design made by Walter Paulus, is made out of one of the only resourceful alternatives to the threatened supply of ebony which has been named Xebony. This material provides a natural feel which continues to impress bow makers and performers alike. The Turbo style design enables the player to make the most of the hair length of the bow while preserving thumb position and dynamic balance.
- Graphite Diamond Weave Shaft with Natural Graphite Tint
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I posted before in a different board but had slightly different questions. So I'm just throwing this out there to get some feedback and help for maybe a different approach. I'm starting to go a little batty. O_O
Baby was born at 35 weeks and she is now almost 8 weeks (3.5 weeks adjusted). At her two week appointment, she was barely making her diaper output and had slow weight gain, so we had to add supplements (she was on the breast literally non-stop at that point, so it must be that her milk transfer is poor). I saw my local IBCLC to check latch and rent a pump and she said that latch was good, she just needs to get stronger.
So I guess now my real question is...
Do I nurse until she's not actively sucking, top off, pump often?
Do I let her nurse non-stop instead?
So confused. I've been doing sort of a combo of these things because she really needs her comfort sucking. Oh, I also recently did a nursing-in-bed all day and she did fairly well, but the next two days she seemed really tired out and didn't work hard at all.
I feel like I just can't keep up with her. For almost a month now I either have her or the pump attached (during the day I usually don't let an hour go by without one of them on me). My supply really hasn't improved with all of this (and Fenugreek and lactation bars I've made and tons of water) and I still end up using a little formula.


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Katherine writes: "The Windows, GNU/Linux, and Source distributions of Greenstone v2.53 are now available for download. Important changes in this release include, in no particular order: a brand new installer; much improved GLI compatibility with Java 1.5.0; the ability to import documents exported from DSpace, and vice versa; a smarter HTMLPlug that blocks the images in the HTML files it processes, and no others; new GLI metadata sets: Qualified Dublin Core, NZGLS, AGLS, and RFC 1807; Lucene building support (for real this time!); an improved and much more bandwidth-efficient GLI applet; support for subfields in the Greenstone Editor for Metadata Sets (GEMS); and many many other improvements and bug fixes."
Michele writes: "HyperJournal is a free software application that facilitates the administration of academic journals on the Web. HyperJournal is designed according to an intuitive and elegant layout, it permits the installation, personalization, and administration of a dedicated Web site at extremely low cost and without the need for special IT-competence. HyperJournal can be used not only to establish an online version of an existing paper periodical, but also to create an entirely new, solely electronic journal."
Ronda writes: "The Fedora Development Team is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 2.0 and the launch of the new Fedora website. New features in 2.0 include Fedora Object XML (FOXML) Ingest and Export with Different XML Formats; Relationship Metadata for Digital Objects; Resource Index Module; Batch Modify Utility; Repository Administrator Reporting Tools; Example Client for Making SOAP calls to Fedora APIs Third Party Library Upgrades; Performance Tuning; API-A and API-A-LITE Changes; API-M Changes; PID Definition Syntrax Relaxed; Including PID as Default Parameter in Disseminations; Syntax of Timestamp Values Extended; Redesign of Fedora Web Site and Documentation; Fedora Tutorials. Additionally, 16 bugs have been corrected in this release. Full information about the new features and code corrections is available in the release notes.
Installation and migration instructions are also available. If you have any questions about this release, please address them to email@example.com."
anon writes: "The Virtual Data Center (VDC) team is pleased to announce the 1.0.2 release of the VDC. Release 1.0.2 adds support for Fedora 2 Core, operation behind an http proxy, and numerous small enhancements."
VDC-1.0 (Stable)
VDC writes: "The Virtual Data Center (VDC) is an OSS digital library system "in a box" for numeric data. VDC provides a complete open-source, digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange, and citation of virtual collections of quantitative data. The VDC functionality provides everything necessary to maintain and disseminate an individual collection of research studies: including facilities for the storage, archiving, cataloging, translation, and dissemination of each collection. On-line analysis is provided, powered by the R Statistical environment. The system provides extensive support for distributed and federated collections including: location-independent naming of objects, distributed authentication and access control, federated metadata harvesting, remote repository caching, and distributed virtual collections of remote objects. Release 1.0 of the VDC provides RPM's for Redhat 9.0, Fedora 1 Core and Redhat 3 Advance Server. Supported standards and protocols and formats include: DDI, Dublin Core, and MARC for metadata; R,SPSS, SAS,ASCII, and STATA for data ; OAI and Z39.50 for queries; UNF's and Handles for naming/citation."
Gerry writes: "OpenSiteSearch is the new Open Source version of OCLC's original java-based web application for building Z39.50 portals (i.e. virtual union catalogues). This project is specifically aimed at the library community."
Henrik writes: "TheOpenCD project has completed its second CD with high quality Open Source Software for Windows. The mission of TheOpenCD project is to introduce the general computer user to the world of Open Source by making it easily available for Windows users and by presenting it in a professional manner. The latest CD ISO-image is available for immediate download from download mirrors. Recent stable release of OpenOffice and Mozilla provide the cornerstones for this collection. For this version we have expanded the selection of software, while still keeping a tight focus on quality and ease-of-use. For the more complex applications such as OpenOffice and GIMP we have included guides and tutorials, and for AbiWord and Mozilla we now include a selection of plug-ins. The CD browser program is much improved from v1 and now we also include a few multimedia demos in addition to the open source texts such as 'Free as in Freedom'. Software appearing on the TheOpenCD v1.2 is as follows: OpenOffice, AbiWord, TheGIMP, Mozilla, FileZilla, HTTrack, TightVNC, PuTTY, Audacity, CDex, Celestia, ReallySlick, CrackAttack!, YASC, 7zip, SciTE, WinPT and NetTime." And Greenstone, which makes this particularly useful for our community.
Ronda wrote in with a press release, most of which is available at the Fedora site. From the version 1.1 release notes, this is mostly a bugfix release, and is compatible with 1.0 repositories (after config file updates). New features include a new API for querying repository info, better self-referential URL handling, and Oracle 9i support. Several significant-sounding bugs were squashed also.
mdewsnip writes: "Greenstone v2.40 is now available for download! A big change in this release is the inclusion in the Windows download of the "Greenstone Librarian Interface", a tool for collecting, expanding and building digital libraries. It gives you access to Greenstone's functionality from an easy-to-use 'point and click' interface, and is also available for Unix systems. Other important changes include a new plugin for importing data from perl's DBI interface, a new plugin for parsing records from OAI servers, improvements to MGPP configuration, new Czech, Galician, Japanese and Thai interfaces, and many bug fixes and other improvements."
a little birdie yim'd me that DSpace version 1.1 (inc. docs) is available. From the sf news item: "New features include Advanced Search capability with fielded searching, better Unicode support, improved performance and lots of other good stuff. And bug fixes. Lots of bug fixes."


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Cigarette Sales Facilitating Tax Collection
L. 2005, c.85, enacted on May 4, 2005, and effective November 1, 2005, requires that retail sales of cigarettes may be made only when the purchaser is in the physical presence of the seller, unless the seller has fully complied with certain requirements, including collecting or verifying payment of applicable state cigarette and sales and use taxes, and verifying certain information about the purchaser.
Expansion of Eligibility for Veterans Property Tax Deduction
L. 2005, c.64, enacted April 7, 2005, expands the definition of veterans who are eligible for various benefits. It includes Operation Northern Watch and Operation Southern Watch, occurring on or after August 27, 1992, among those operations that constitute active service in time of war. Participants in these operations are now eligible for the $250 annual property tax deduction or the property tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans.
Exclusion of Certain Military Housing Allowances from Gross Income
L. 2005, c.63, enacted April 7, 2005, and applicable immediately to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2004, amends the gross income tax act by excluding from gross income the housing and subsistence allowances given to National Guard members on active duty and members of the active and reserve components of the United States Armed Forces.
County Boards of Taxation
L. 2005, c.44, enacted March 21, 2005, and effective immediately, increases the membership of county boards of taxation.
Estimated Gross Income Tax on Nonresidents Sale of Real Property
L. 2005, c.20, enacted January 19, 2005, and applied retroactively to August 1, 2004, clarified that nonresidents must pay a minimum estimated gross income tax of 2% of the consideration paid on their sale of real property in New Jersey.
Revisions of Realty Transfer Fee
L. 2005, c.19, enacted January 19, 2005, effective February 1, 2005, and applicable to transfers of real property occurring on or after that date, made various changes in the statute imposing a 1% transfer fee on the buyer of real property purchased for more than $1 million. It limits the fee to transfers of property that is classified as Class 2 residential; or property that includes both Class 3A farm property and a structure suitable for residential use, as well as any other real property transferred to the same grantee in conjunction with that transfer; or property that constitutes a cooperative unit within the meaning of N.J.S.A. 46:8D-3. It also exempts transfers to charitable organizations that are exempt from federal income tax pursuant to 26 U.S.C.A. §501(c)(3).
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ATLANTA, Ga. --The husband of the second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola says the patient is weak but showing signs of improvement.
The president of the aid group SIM USA said Tuesday that Nancy Writebol's husband described the woman as progressing. Bruce Johnson says he spoke with David Writebol, who said 59-year-old Nancy stood and got on a plane in Liberia with assistance to head to Atlanta for treatment. When she arrived Tuesday, she was wheeled in a stretcher.
David Writebol, still in Liberia, says the family was considering funeral arrangements, but now feels relieved and cautiously optimistic. He praised her treatment in Liberia.
SIM says it's working to bring David Writebol home.
Johnson says SIM has spent nearly $1 million since the diagnoses of Nancy Writebol and the first American brought back, 33-year-old Dr. Kent Brantly. He works for Samaritan's Purse. Johnson says that group has spent more than $1 million.
Writebol arrived from Monrovia in a chartered plane at Dobbins Air Reserve Base and joined Brantly in the isolation unit at Emory University Hospital, just downhill from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Both were infected despite taking precautions as they treated Ebola patients in West Africa, where the virus has been spreading faster than governments can contain it, killing nearly 900 people so far.
And while family members said both Americans have been improving after taking this novel serum, doctors at Emory have released no details about their treatment. Writebol's employer, the SIM charity, said Tuesday that she remains in serious but stable condition.
The serum was developed with U.S. military funding by a San Diego company, using antibodies harvested from mice that had been injected with parts of the Ebola virus. Tobacco plants in Kentucky are being used to reproduce it.
It's impossible to know if this treatment saved these workers from the hemorrhagic fever killing as many as 80 percent of the people the virus is infecting in Africa.
They could be recovering on their own, or for other reasons, including the better medical care that U.S. hospitals routinely provide.
Brantly, 33, and Writebol, 59, were working at a missionary clinic outside Liberia's capital. The world's largest Ebola outbreak has now spread to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria's capital of Lagos, where millions live in densely crowded conditions.
There is no vaccine or specific treatment for Ebola, but several are under development, including ZMapp, made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San Diego. It works by boosting the immune system's efforts to fight the virus.
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency announced on July 22 that it is providing more funding to speed the serum's development, including a critical application with the Food and Drug Administration and the production of enough of the serum to carry out human trials.
Even if that process is successful, any wider use of the serum remains many months away. But when the Americans fell sick, the charity Brantly works for, Samaritan's Purse, didn't wait.
It reached out to Emory, whose doctors contacted the drug's producers. The serum was flown to Africa, and both patients got some before the long flight to Atlanta on a plane that could only carry one of them at a time.
FDA permission must be obtained before any experimental treatments in the United States, but other countries are beyond the FDA's authority, and these aid workers were first treated in Liberia. The FDA has declined to comment on their treatment.
Ebola is spread by close contact with blood and other bodily fluids, and Writebol's duties included disinfecting doctors and nurses entering or leaving the Ebola treatment area. Her son, Jeremy Writebol, said he hopes her case "might help develop a cure and resources to help those who are suffering."
The virus is much less deadly when patients get top-flight care, experts say.
The CDC has been criticized for not objecting to the arrival of Ebola victims on U.S. soil, but the agency's director, Dr. Tom Frieden, has emphasized that there is no threat of an outbreak spreading in the United States.
Writebol and Brantly will be sealed off from anyone who isn't wearing protective gear. Dr. Bruce Ribner, who will be treating them, said their families can speak with them through a plate-glass window.
But Ribner said any modern U.S. hospital could safely treat these patients using standard infection-control procedures. At least five other deadly hemorrhagic fevers have been handled at U.S. hospitals lacking such sophisticated isolation units, experts have said.
Emory's unit, one of four in the country, was built in partnership with the CDC. In 2005 it handled patients with SARS, a viral respiratory illness that spreads when carriers cough or sneeze.


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(I originally posted this over at The American Catholic, and I thought the quotemasters of Almost Chosen People might enjoy it.)
In light of the 47% (oops, where did those one to two minutes of recording go?) non-controversy, I thought that a game of guess who said the quote would be fun. Use of a search engine is verboten!
1. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
2. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled. The assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
3. I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peacetime in all American history – one which piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs or reduced earning power of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats have been retained at the expense of the taxpayer. We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people.
4. Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.
5. It is an injustice, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
6. The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
7. I favor the policy of economy not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the government. Every dollar we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
8. While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
9. Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.
10. A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.


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So She Tries Hard To Steal Him.
Two and a half years ago, I met my love from across the pond on FB. We were in love by first chat. My parents flipped out even though I am a grown adult by the time he and I met. Finally, he came to NYC to see me, and I knew I want him to be my first and the last person I will ever love. I know I maybe extreme that way, but that's the perfect picture,right? Now mind you, he had asked me once or twice to move across the pond to be with him, but being Miss "I need to be in control of my life", I said no because... well, he was unemployed. Last year, he scored a year long contract with a theater company touring Germany, and I thought, "great! he's employed, and we can maybe start planning ahead. He was excited about working, and I'm busy daydreaming about moving to Europe maybe after I finish school to become a nurse. Now at the beginning, he let everyone in his touring group know that he has a girlfriend, and that's me. Of course, some girl in his group decided that she wants a piece of him because isn't that what every girl wants? A wonderfully romantic man, who will cross the ocean (literally in my case) to be with his girlfriend. He probably sounded like a dream to her. I tell him that she is having a crush on him, and just make sure not to mislead her into thinking something will happen between them. In return, he tells me I'm over reacting until that one day he told me, " we kissed, but that was because we were drunk... I feel terrible..." BLAH BLAH BLAH. If I could reach my hand through the computer to bitch slap him, trust me, I would have! But just because one of us acted like a jackass, and like a hormone filled teenager, that doesn't mean I have to... So I forgave him, frankly, to argue through Skype is as pathetic as screaming at the television set while watching Palin being stupid. Now this girl continues to make her moves, taking pictures that made it look like he's her boyfriend and making me cringe every time I look at pictures that pops up onto his profile. The best I could come up with at this point is, me, taking a picture with my cat to tell him that not only I miss him, but my cat, who doesn't give a hairball by the way,also misses him. Yup. I have toss my dignity in the trash by trying every little thing I can think of that I can do online to make him focus on loving only me. Pathetic is a word that comes up a lot in my dictionary lately. From how things are going, I am lost cause at the moment frankly because I am taking pictures alone with a cat while she has him in person every single day.
Moral of the story, don't ever, ever, ever have a long distance relationship no matter what people tell you. It's shitty and not worth the pain. It's going to take a lot of therapy session to clean up the emotional trash that get left behind.
Thank you for reading this rambling mess from a shattered heart left behind by this relationship.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Anthony Davis had 23 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks in his first game back after a concussion, and the New Orleans Hornets handed the Charlotte Bobcats their third straight loss, 107-99 on Friday night.
Ryan Anderson hit five 3-pointers and finished with 25 points for New Orleans, which has won three of its first five games despite being without injured star guard Eric Gordon. Reserve Brian Roberts added 16 points and eight assists and Al-Farouq Aminu scored 14 points.
Ben Gordon scored 34 points to keep Charlotte within single digits most of the way, but the Hornets withstood each Bobcats surge in holding the lead for all of the final three quarters.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Davis' former Kentucky teammate and the second overall draft pick, had 12 points and six rebounds for Charlotte. Ramon Sessions scored 13 and Kemba Walker finished with 11.
One game after setting a franchise-low with 62 points in an ugly loss to Philadelphia, the Hornets shot nearly 52 percent (43 for 83) against Charlotte. New Orleans also turned the ball over only nine times after committing 24 turnovers against the Hornets.
Davis came alive after getting tangled up with Charlotte big man Byron Mullens late in the second quarter, an altercation that sent teammates running to separate them and sent official Bill Kennedy somersaulting backward into the front row, where he landed in the lap of Dennis Lauscha, president of the Hornets and NFL's Saints. (Both clubs are owned by Tom Benson, who was sitting next to Lauscha and narrowly avoided Kennedy.)
Davis scored 18 following the feud on an array of driving layups, putbacks and even a smooth baseline jumper from about 10 feet.
Davis' best play might have been an off-balance fast-break layup he tossed in off the glass as he was being fouled before crashing to the floor under the basket. He then hit the free throw for a three-point play to give New Orleans a 70-58 lead late in the third quarter.
Soon after, Anderson and rookie Darius Miller hit consecutive 3s to give New Orleans its largest lead at 76-62.
Charlotte managed to trim its deficit to five when Mullens' 3 over Davis made it 95-90 with four minutes remaining, but Aminu put back Davis' miss and Roberts added a tough layup to help New Orleans hold on.
New Orleans seized the early edge with an 8-0 run, highlighted by Jason Smith's dunk after he'd hustled for two offensive rebounds. That spurt made it 30-21, and New Orleans kept the lead throughout the rest of the second quarter, though Gordon's 19 first-half points on 8-of-12 shooting kept the margin in single digits until shortly after Davis' altercation with Mullens.
Davis then scored six straight points and Roger Mason Jr. added three free throws widen New Orleans' lead to 59-47 before Walker's layup cut it to 59-49 at halftime.
NOTES: Charlotte was without starting C Brendan Haywood, who has been away from the club for a family matter, and Gerald Henderson, who has a sprained left foot. ... Bobcats C Bismack Biyombo had 13 rebounds. ... Hornets coach Monty Williams said before tip-off it was "unfortunate" the Los Angeles Lakers did not give coach Mike Brown more than five games before firing him earlier Friday. "Dwight (Howard) didn't start practicing until late, Kobe (Bryant) hasn't practiced in a long time and (Steve) Nash is out, and it takes time to put all that stuff together," Williams said. "It's unfortunate because Mike's a really good coach and any time a guy loses a job, whether it be a player or a coach ... you're reminded of how fragile the business is."


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Need some ideas how to transform My Team.
Im looking for ways and if possible examples of how you solved the following problems. if possible any tools you may have used.
1. improve collaboration amongst your team
2.Improve collaboration between the different components or projects in the Program
3.Prevent charms ( ie the team has ideas on products and the customer whats the product but we seem to do the in between badly
4. managing a program with multiple projects (each project with its own team )
5. we have development partnerships with vendors how did you track and correlate the information vendors ( ie SW/HW roadmaps ) gave you and help you deliver better products/solutions
6.Best way to measure and track projects ( ie once KPIs or metrics have been defined) and tools you may have used.
7.keep program and projects in sync and the individuals working on these things together in terms of overall objectives / deliverables.
Essentially its a new Program level team thus the organisation has many projects going at the same time, links with vendors already but no real project management experience or program management experience. things are not being tracked, people dont know what other people/teams are doing, essentially they have the resources in place but they are not leveraging them.
So what I am asking is if you were approach to be program manager what kind of things would you implement and how.
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After the Buzzer: On Aircraft Carrier Games, Kevin Ollie's Debut, Top Five Dunks of the Weekend…Posted by Chris Johnson on November 12th, 2012
This Weekend's Lede. It's time to put all that preseason chatter on the backburner, and start drawing first impressions, because the 2012-13 season officially got underway Friday night. Unlike the murmuring fizz of an opening that usually christens a new college hoops campaign, we were treated to several high-profile clashes over the weekend. College basketball set out to establish a definitive starting point, and this year (more than any other in recent memory), it succeeded. There are inherent risks to overanalyzing single-game sample sizes, but even after just one weekend's action, we were able to learn quite a bit about some of the teams headlining the opening weekend.
Your Watercooler Moment. Stick to Dry Environments (or, Why Naval Ship Games Need to Only Take Place in San Diego).
When inclement weather forecasts pushed the Syracuse-San Diego State game from Friday to Sunday, you knew this year's slate of naval ship games were off to a bad start. That game, which concluded Sunday evening with Syracuse pretty much dominating the hometown Aztecs (62-49) in one of the Orange's rare non-conference games outside the state of New York, was played under gorgeous 60-degree San Diego skies. The two other scheduled match-ups – Ohio State-Marquette in South Carolina and Georgetown-Florida in Jacksonville – did not proceed as planned, as both games were called off when officials noticed condensation developing on both playing surfaces. The Florida-Georgetown game tipped off and ran into the half with minimal fuss. Up the coastline, though, the slick playing surface aboard the USS Yorktown prompted coaches and players from Ohio State and Marquette to mop the court in the hope that some good old-fashioned clean-up work could diffuse mother nature's influence on their much-hyped shipside season-opener. As both teams quickly learned, the condensation kept coming back, and officials then made the logical move of calling the game off. Spiritually, emotionally and patriotically, the outdoor aircraft carrier games are an excellent idea. Last season's Carrier Classic, played before gorgeous vistas and naval troops, and featuring two of the nation's most respected programs in North Carolina and Michigan State, was a definite win. And there have been few times when a college basketball non-conference game to begin the season has drawn so much national attention. It was a special night. Logistically, though, playing basketball games outdoors in November on the East Coast is fraught with risk, and event organizers learned as much Friday. If the aircraft carrier trend is to continue, the games must be played on the West Coast, where a more favorable late fall climate will increase the chances of staging contests without conflict.
Also Worth Chatting About. Give That Man a Contract (Or, Kevin Ollie Has His Squad Playing Hard).
The long-term status of UConn's head coaching job remains unresolved for the moment, but we gained some clarity on the issue Friday night. Its leading candidate, former assistant Kevin Ollie, made a resounding statement to open his one-season job trial by knocking off Big Ten contender Michigan State 66-62 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The Huskies lost the core of last season's underachieving yet talented team, including two first round draft picks (Jeremy Lamb and Andre Drummond) and two transfers (Alex Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith). Backcourt mainstays Ryan Boatwright and Shabazz Napier carried the torch Friday night against the Spartans, with Napier pouring in 25 points on 8-for-16 shooting and Boatwright adding 13. Highly-touted freshman Omar Calhoun logged 25 minutes but finished with just one point, two rebounds and two assists. The season could not have begun in a better way for Ollie, who faces the massive burden of proving athletic director Warde Manuel he's the right man for the job, the right personality to succeed the legend that preceded him in Storrs. There were concerns as to whether UConn would lack motivation this season, given their ineligibility for the postseason, but that was hardly the case Friday night. The Huskies played inspired basketball against a top-tier Big Ten foe known for its toughness and grit. If I were to grade Ollie's job candidacy one game into the season, nothing less than an A+ would suffice.


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Survivor Palau Intro (The image's at 1:08)The parts in the end are past intros.It looks like the theme this season is size matters!
Our older woman at the back
Vanuatu was the same, 16 people turned out to be 18! Then it was because of the casting process, they found 18 they wanted, and this is probably what has happened again!
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Shared from a friend: MLK expresses the ideal: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.
Curious to know when and in what context King said something so startlingly congruent with my own feelings today, I went — where else? — to Google. But all I could find were variations of the quote, disembodied from any larger source.
Then I found this, by Megan McArdle of the Atlantic: Out of Osama's Death, a Fake Quotation is Born. "Something about it just strikes me as off," McArdle says about the quote. She goes on to assert she can't find the quote anywhere on the Internet, and concludes it was made up.
But not so fast. Sifting through the rubble we call the World Wide Web, I found evidence that contradicted McArdle, at least to an extent. Someone referenced a passage from King's book Strength to Love, a collection of meditations on nonviolence he published in 1963. In a chapter titled "Loving Your Enemies," King did express at least part of the quote. Here's the section, which follows a discussion of the differing Greek terms for love, eros, phila, and the one King is interested in, agape, which he defines as "creative, redemptive goodwill for all men." I took a screenshot of the text from Google Books:
So the quote making the rounds isn't entirely specious. Intrigued now with what else the Internet would yield, I dug a bit deeper and discovered an earlier evocation of the same idea by King, using much the same language. On Martin Luther King Online, I found the text of a sermon the master preacher delivered November 17, 1957, also titled "Loving Your Enemies." The passage in question comes up in the lesson of a modern parable:
A decade later, in 1967, as riots were tearing US cities apart, King reaffirmed his belief in nonviolence:
I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.


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After more than 43 years of service to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division, Col. Winton Vidrine, 69, of Washington, has announced his retirement and will be leaving the department effective June 7, 2013.
In January of 1970, Vidrine was hired as an LDWF Enforcement Division agent. Vidrine reached the highest rank of colonel in 1988 and served the last 25 years as the division's chief of enforcement at the Baton Rouge headquarters office.
"We wish the best to Col. Vidrine in his retirement years. He has certainly deserved his retirement for all of the years he has served the state of Louisiana," said LDWF Secretary Robert Barham. "I'm proud to say that I was able to work with him these past years. He was instrumental in many programs and initiatives that improved the enforcement division over the years that have also benefitted conservation of our outdoor resources."
When Vidrine started there was no formal training for LDWF agents and he was put out in the field on his first day in civilian clothes, driving his own truck and carrying his personal pistol. He received his Peace Officer Standards and Training certification in the fall of 1970. Vidrine worked out of the Opelousas office mostly working boating, night hunting and fish shocking cases.
In 1972, Vidrine was instrumental in creating the Louisiana Wildlife Agents Association to help organize agents statewide into a collective unit. Vidrine was awarded as the LDWF "Outstanding Agent of the Year" in 1975.
After his hiring, Vidrine quickly rose through the ranks achieving captain of the Opelousas office in 1976 and then being promoted to major in 1978 overseeing the Baton Rouge and Opelousas offices. In 1980, Vidrine was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and worked out of the New Orleans office.
"I've had a great career that I wouldn't have traded for anything," Vidrine said. "Just becoming a game warden was satisfying by itself as I was an avid hunter and fisherman and got the chance to uphold rules and regulations that conserved our outdoor resources for my grandkids and their grandkids to enjoy."
After becoming Colonel in 1988, Vidrine's top priority for the enforcement division was training. Beginning in 1990, he implemented a more tailored training program for LDWF Wildlife Cadets that included classes on the laws for fisheries and wildlife management, driving while intoxicated detection, migratory game bird and fish identification, boating, and search and rescue training.
These changes increased the training a cadet receives from 12 weeks to more than 20 weeks. In 2001, LDWF initiated their first fully accredited and POST certified Cadet Academy that was completely taught and ran by LDWF agents.
Vidrine also oversaw every agent being issued a pistol beginning in the 1990s, initiation of the Maritime Search and Rescue course in the 2000s, the Maritime Special Response Team in 2010, and the first state to be accredited in the National Association of Safe Boating Law Administrator's Boat Operation and Training program in 2011.
"I've seen a lot of changes to the enforcement division in my 43 years of service," said Vidrine. "Thankfully, I was able to be in a position to make a lot of changes over the years that made us a more professional, efficient and improved law enforcement agency."
Vidrine will be retiring back to his farm in Washington with his wife of 50 years, one child, two grandkids and two great-grandkids.


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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — The 15-day Hawaiian holiday vacation is over for President Barack Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia.
The president and his daughters arrived back at the White House on Sunday morning after an overnight flight.
Michelle Obama is staying behind on the islands as a birthday present from her husband.


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For what I've read before, Nintendo wants to get the game out as soon as possible to get people interested in buying the Wii U and 3DS.
Kinda weird how they haven't showed anything related about Fire Emblem for Smash yet. Maybe is still too soon for that.Also is "Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U" the name for the project now or the official name?


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The final Harry Potter tale is here; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and penultimate film in the series has finally made it onto the screen and it will be shown in two amazing full-length feature films.
Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione are set with the dreaded task of locating and destroying the many Horcruxes that empower the Dark Lord Voldemort. The young trio are left by themselves; the Ministry of Magic has been infiltrated by Death Eaters and they will not get guidance or protection from Dumbledore any more. The three must rely on each other more than ever, especially since there are dark Forces after them.
With the Ministry under the control of the Death Eaters and Hogwarts in peril due to the forthcoming reign of the Dark Lord, the wizarding world is turned upside down as everyone who opposes Voldemort is terrorised and arrested.
In the search for the Horcruxes, Harry learns of an old wizarding tale; the tale of the Deathly Hallows and soon realises that the Hallows may not be a simple tale. If Voldemort was to find these Deathly Hallows it would mean that he would be virtually unstoppable, he could finally get the monstrous power he seeks.
The only chance for the world of the wizards to return to normal is if 'The Boy Who Lived' finally exacts his revenge on the deadly Lord Voldemort, and to do so he must concentrate on finding Horcruxes, even if that does mean strains on friendships, relationship struggles and battles with mighty enemies.
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The board voted unanimously to ask the Legislature to authorize a study of a cost-of-living factor in the school funding formula that has cost Volusia schools $97 million since it was first imposed in 2004.
DELAND — A long-term solution that's a political long shot would still be better than a short-term fix for equalizing state education funding, the Volusia County School Board decided Tuesday.
The board voted unanimously to ask the Legislature to authorize a study of a cost-of-living factor in the school funding formula that has cost Volusia schools $97 million since it was first imposed in 2004.
"This is the right thing to do and sometimes to do the right thing is not easy," School Board Chairwoman Diane Smith said. "It's about equity; it's about fairness. We need to be strong and really fight for this study."
School officials hope an independent study of what's known as the district cost differential will back up their claim it's unfair to districts like Volusia and eventually lead to changing the formula.
Volusia has lost $97 million — the most of any school district in the state — since wages were added in 2004 to the cost-of-living index that increases or decreases school funding as a result. Flagler schools, meanwhile, have lost $20 million under that adjustment.
Wages in Volusia's tourism-based economy are lower than in some other parts of the state, where school districts like Broward and Dade have reaped more than $300 million under the cost-of-living adjustment since 2004.
Volusia school officials have been trying to get the formula changed ever since lawmakers adopted it, but they picked up community support during last fall's unsuccessful campaign for a school property tax increase.
They now hope that support will help them persuade lawmakers to authorize the funding study in the legislative session that will start in March.
Superintendent Margaret Smith reported all the local lawmakers said at a December hearing they support the study. State Sens. John Thrasher and David Simmons also suggested it might be easier to push through supplemental funding for Volusia to offset some of its losses rather than to get a statewide study and formula changes approved.
Smith and School Board members said Tuesday they would appreciate any supplemental funding but it would have be in the $10 million range annually to help much. The board is expected to include a request for that funding in its 2013 legislative platform that will be up for approval Jan. 29.
It's also expected to ask for the district cost differential study as it did Tuesday in a resolution that will be sent to the governor, key legislative and education leaders, local lawmakers and city and county representatives.
The vote on the funding study came at the same meeting where the board learned it will have to hire about 123 more teachers at a cost of $7 million next year to keep class sizes within limits spelled out in the state constitution.
Volusia failed to comply with the limits last fall and is facing a $2.7 million fine as a result. The board adopted a plan Tuesday that could reduce the fine by 75 percent if the state approves the district's proposal for complying with the rules next school year.
Finding the money to comply next year will be a challenge. School officials have estimated the district is facing a $25 million budget deficit for the year starting July 1.