text:
Casual truffle brown microfiber chair. Matching affordable series of sofas/loveseats available. Matching storage ottoman also available. A large variety of colors in bonded leather/microfiber and combinations of both.
Model: GL622
SKU: G622Measurements:
No reviews for this model at this time. Be first to write one!
No questions for this model at this time. Be first to ask one!
Use 'Ask a Question' for general questions about this model, and we will reply to your request within 1 business day
For stock information please call/email or use check stock feature in a shopping cart since stock changes every day.
NJ-based wholesaler of imported furniture. Very attractive pricing and good quality, along with some pretty unique designs make Glory Furniture one of premier players in the area.


text:
- Inside Athletics
- Tickets
- Fan Zone
- Media Zone
- Social
- Shop
- E Fund
In the Blue singles, Yevgeniya Stupak (
Also in the Blue singles, senior Masha Ilina (
Competing in the Carolina singles, freshman Brittany Stewart (Brentwood, Tenn.) defeated Jessica Eblen of Greensboro, 6-4, 4-6, 1-0(6). She will take on Anna Volkova of
Local native Tara Byrne (
The Lady Bucs started the day off in doubles action as the Ukrainian duo of Stupak and Ilina fell after a hard fought match to No. 8 Carolina Escamilla and Whitney Spencer of
In the Tarheels bracket Stewart and Trotter fell to Stephanie Smith and Yuliana Svistun of
Competing in the White doubles bracket Batsula and Byrne fell to Ragini Acharya and Magda Bresson of William and Mary, 8-6 before defeating Valerie Behr and Lisa Suggs of
"Overall, I think we played pretty strong. We beat all the people we were supposed to beat and beat some teams that we might not have thought we could," said head coach Steve Brooks. "I felt good about our play today and hopefully tomorrow we will have another good day."
The ETSU women's tennis team will continue play in the Kitty Harrison Invitational Saturday, with the two rounds of singles action and the final doubles matches. For more information on the Lady Bucs tennis team, visit www.etsubucs.com.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
I was told the Magians perp staves have a hidden effect of elemental bp boosts. Anyone know if this is true? And if it is how it compares to soulscourge.
I am asking because I did some testing and found with my current perp gear I get +3mp with both magian and my Fey. If there is no hidden boost I'm tossing the Magians and going back to my Fey (8 less staves in my locker).
Also does the nirvana have a hidden effect? And how that would compare with magian and soulscourge.


text:
Meet thousands of Elroy singles through one of the best Elroy online dating sites. Matchmaker.com has great instant messenger and live video Elroy chat service for our members. Elroy dating has never been easier with our show interest feature that will allow you to break the ice with attractive local singles.
Matchmaker.com has some great services for Elroy singles looking for a longer term relationship. Besides our great Elroy chat product with live video matchmaker users can send email messages to people in the area. The Elroy dating scene can be hard to find the right person at times; however, we are here to help and our Elroy online dating service is free to register.
ElroyJoin Now Free!
Elroy Girls | Elroy Men | Elroy Gay | Elroy Lesbians
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
More Elroy Links:
Elroy Personals | Elroy Speed Dating | Elroy Chat | Elroy Singles | Elroy Love
Senior Dating | Catholic Dating | Christian Dating | Muslim Dating
Black Singles | Asian Singles | Latin Dating
Try our Elroy dating service today. Matchmaker.com is one of the oldest Elroy online dating services on the Internet and has brought thousands of couples together from the area. Test drive our Elroy Chat room with one of the best online communities for the Elroy single person. Also, keep in mind that we have a huge member base of Elroy singles and that we also cater to members of the many backgrounds.
Still not convinced that matchmaker is the free Elroy dating service for you? Once you've filled out the quick registration process you will be to see full size photos and profiles of thousands of Elroy singles. Did you know that free Elroy dating is a few clicks away? Find love and romance in Elroy at matchmaker today!


text:
Control and Measurement System for a Compressing Unit
Abad Perez, Enrique
Permanent address of the item is
Summary ViewShow full item record
Pulp for making paper is produced in grinding machines whose operation principle is based on the compression of logs against a grinding stone. The aim of this Master Thesis is to develop and implement a control and measurement system for a laboratory compressing unit which carries out this first step in paper making process. For this purpose, a hand drive and a computer interface are designed and configured. The thesis is divided in three sections. In the literature study the theories involved in the research work are analyzed. Control and measurement methods are detailed as well as the hydraulic system needed to operate the compressing unit. In the second section the development of a control and measurement method suitable for the unit is carried out. It is based on the study of the most important variables involved in the process. Last section focuses on the implementation of the control and measurement system. A hand drive and a computer interface are considered. The latter is developed using LabView software. In this section, the hand drive design is analyzed and the LabView code is explained. In addition, a measurement approximation method is implemented in order to display the correct variable values. Finally a verification of the whole system is carried out. The results of this study suggest that the control and measurement system satisfies the requisites needed to develop future researches related to this compressing unit. The values displayed by the hand drive and computer interfaces are similar to the theoretical ones and the control system avoids dangerous situations. This Master Thesis suggests future research work in order to improve the accuracy of the control and measurement system. /Kir10


text:
I want to keep wearing the high-waisted flare jeans I got this spring, but what
The fabulous thing about fashion is that there is no one right way to go about wearing a certain piece. High-waisted flare jeans are the perfect example because they can easily transition from season to season with the proper counterparts. Now, let's discuss how you can turn the spring staple into a fall favourite.
Thinking chic-how else?-the first outfit that comes to mind is to style your beloved wide-leg jeans with a knit tee (a cosy alternative to spring's lightweight tops!), structured jacket-try a richly-coloured, cropped option or neutral blazer-and posh platform booties. This will create a solid foundation for an office-appropriate look that will also keep you warm when the temperature starts to drop. But we're not done just yet! As a final touch, make sure to personalise the ensemble with a few thoughtfully chosen accessories, like a classic skinny leather belt and conspicuously printed scarf.
Taking your baby blue flares into the weekend, it is always a good idea to have a casual, yet crisp getup on deck so that you can head out the door at the last minute while still looking put together. For this instance, I've got you covered by suggesting you team your high-waisted pants with a long, loose-fitting tunic, chunky knit cardigan, and wow factor wedge sandals. Hide messy hair under a stylish hat, such as a feather-adorned fedora or slouchy beanie for added cool points. Still feel like the look is missing something? Punch it up with a ruby red manicure! Hope this helps you work your wide-legs! xoRZ


text:
Wholeport offers a free craft sample every Sunday morning at 10:00 am. They also show the future offerings so you can decide what you might be interes…
Try it - Like it - Create it Disclosure: Some posts are written in exchange for complimentary products or payment in order to share this information along with an honest opinion. Sponsored posts are also shared in order to receive a small amount to help support this site. Please see the Disclosure Policy document for further information.
Try it - Like it - Create it Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Blog posts : "free craft supplies"
recent posts
- How to Make Faux Silver Earrings
- Little Women Review and Fandango Cash Giveaway
- Creatively Crafty Link Party #137
- When Midwesterners go to Daiso
- Hiding Places CD - review and giveaway
- After 2 Total Knee Replacements, I Traveled to Greece and Rome
- A Great Day Greeting Card Made With The Best Glue Ever
- Fabric Coasters with Cricut
- Pick Your Own Cricut Promo
- Creatively Crafty Link Party #136
- Unbroken Movie Review and Giveaway
- T-shirt Made Using the New Cricut EasyPress 2
- DIY a storage pocket - a Dollar Tree Craft
- Recipe for a Delicious Life Cookbook Review
- Creatively Crafty Link Party #135
- September 2018 (19)
- August 2018 (19)
- July 2018 (19)
- June 2018 (17)
- May 2018 (25)
- April 2018 (16)


text:
- Retail Price:
(Save 60%)
FREE Shipping for Club Members
What is a Bargain?
Customers Also Bought
From the author of "Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me" comes this great baby shower or Mother's Day gift--a hilarious take on the nitty-gritty of the first year of motherhood. Two color. Illustrations throughout.
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
- Publish Date: April 2003
- Page Count: 256
Related Categories
Fear of parenting
Take charge with advice geared to help you survive raising children
Snakes, public speaking, flying, death: many people cite one of these as their greatest fear, but obviously parenting was not listed among the choices on their questionnaires. Nothing could be more intimidating, more hair-raising than the prospect of being handed a helpless infant and expected to nurture it into a capable adult.
Cynthia L. Copeland understands the daunting quality of the task at hand. Her light-hearted yet heart-lifting book, The Diaper Diaries: The Real Poop on a New Mom's First Year is for moms, by a mom and at under $10, it's a bargain. Armed with this book and what this mother of three identifies as the essential ingredient for surviving motherhooda healthy sense of humorfirst-timers can face everything from discomfiting body changes to the breast vs. bottle dilemma.
Along with dirty-diaper disasters, laughter-inducing sections include "Projecting the Future," which compares a proud mother's wishful thinking about her baby's traits to their more likely outcomes. When your baby "is not afraid of getting shots at the pediatrician's office," she writes, you are apt to envision the child becoming a world-famous humanitarian like Dr. Jonas Salk. But Coleman injects her own needle of reality, humorously predicting that the child will more likely become a tattoo artist in Atlantic City.
Mingled with her "been there, done that, and you can too" humor (and smile-invoking illustrations) is some sage advice. Copeland suggests using an empty box, the ground or "indestructible daddy" to entertain baby, rather than store-bought, expensive paraphernalia. And she wisely warns new moms about the "All-Baby, All-the-Time" trap. "Sweet newborns turn into cranky two-year-olds who become close to intolerable 13-year-olds," she cautions. "But your husband will always be the same good guy who thinks you have a cute butt and makes the world's best lasagna."
No matter how well you survive that first year, however, issues of discipline will surface along with your child's first utterance of defiance. (Typically, the word "NO.") No More Misbehavin': 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them (Jossey-Bass, $14.95, 352 pages, ISBN 0787966177), by Michele Borba Ed.D., offers an in-depth examination of 38 specific behaviors, from shyness to stealing, and step-by-step instructions on how to modify them. Each chapter contains strategies and tips, a behavior makeover plan, and a place to record your family's progress.
If you are the mother of a daughter approaching her teens, you'll appreciate a new book written specifically for this troublesome stage, When We're in Public, Pretend You Don't Know Me: Surviving Your Daughter's Adolescence so You Don't Look Like an Idiot and She Still Talks to You (Warner, $12.95, 208 pages, ISBN 0446679518) by Susan Borowitz. The author acknowledges that the friction that develops between mothers and their maturing daughters is a natural outgrowth of the daughter's need to create her own identity. The trick for mothers is to stay connected during this tumultuous time, and Borowitz offers a wealth of ways to keep the lines of communication open. "Kids are at their most vulnerable when they go to bed and therefore are much more inclined to be open with you," she writes, explaining that her nighttime talks with her own teenage daughter proved among the most "fruitful and connecting" during those difficult years.
Finally, we'll close with a book we hope you don't need, but if the "D" word has crept into your life, this volume may be the most important one in our lineup. What About the Kids? Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce (Hyperion, $23.95, 400 pages, ISBN 0786868651), by Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee, is a comprehensive guide for helping ease the effects of divorce.
Wallerstein is the author of The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, a bestseller that delved into the long-term effects of divorce on children. In What About the Kids? she addresses the problems that occur at different stages of the breakup and different ages of the affected children.
Wallerstein doesn't flinch in tackling painful subjects, offering advice from her many years of counseling families. "Parenting is always a hazardous undertaking," she writes. "Much of the time it's like climbing a mountain trail that disappears and reappears, making you wonder if you're still headed for the top or if you're stranded on a cliff. But parenting in a divorced or remarried family is harderit's like climbing that same trail in a blizzard, blinded by emotions and events out of your control."
Parenting may be the most frightening, difficult thing you ever do, but you should be able to survive it and live to enjoy the fruits of your labor with guidance from these parenting veterans.
Linda Stankard, a writer in New York, is a survivor of parenting.


text:
Frazier Says Decision To Start Freeman Was Right
EDEN PRAIRIE (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings are reeling from another embarrassing performance.
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said Tuesday that he wouldn't change his decision to start Josh Freeman at quarterback against the New York Giants on Monday night. Freeman struggled through a 20-for-53 passing night in the 23-7 loss.
Frazier says he felt confident that Freeman had enough time to learn the offense and prepare for the job despite being with the team for just two weeks. The coach said he thought Freeman's throwing mistakes were mechanical, not mental.
Frazier also said Freeman will still be the starter this week, when the Vikings host the Green Bay Packers.


text: Some of the regulations that appear on this Web site are derived from documents used by the Secretary of State in preparing the official Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR). Their content and format may or may not have been subsequently modified. Other regulations may appear in a format specifically created for service providers, in which case the official regulation has been modified by adding a header on every page. Although we try to keep the regulations on our Web site up-to-date, that is not always possible. In the case of any discrepancy between the version on our Web site, and the official Code of Massachusetts Regulations published by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State's version takes precedence.


text:
Meet thousands of Stow singles through one of the best Stow online dating sites. Matchmaker.com has great instant messenger and live video Stow chat service for our members. Stow dating has never been easier with our show interest feature that will allow you to break the ice with attractive local singles.
Matchmaker.com has some great services for Stow singles looking for a longer term relationship. Besides our great Stow chat product with live video matchmaker users can send email messages to people in the area. The Stow dating scene can be hard to find the right person at times; however, we are here to help and our Stow online dating service is free to register.
StowJoin Now Free!
Stow Girls | Stow Men | Stow Gay | Stow Lesbians
More Stow Links:
Stow Personals | Stow Speed Dating | Stow Chat | Stow Singles | Stow Love
Senior Dating | Catholic Dating | Christian Dating | Muslim Dating
Black Singles | Asian Singles | Latin Dating
Try our Stow dating service today. Matchmaker.com is one of the oldest Stow online dating services on the Internet and has brought thousands of couples together from the area. Test drive our Stow Chat room with one of the best online communities for the Stow single person. Also, keep in mind that we have a huge member base of Stow singles and that we also cater to members of the many backgrounds.
Still not convinced that matchmaker is the free Stow dating service for you? Once you've filled out the quick registration process you will be to see full size photos and profiles of thousands of Stow singles. Did you know that free Stow dating is a few clicks away? Find love and romance in Stow at matchmaker today!


text:
'Stay Well This Winter' campaign launches to urge people who are most vulnerable to flu to get their free vaccination.
People who are the most vulnerable to flu are being urged to get their free vaccination from today (12 October 2017), ahead of the winter period when the virus is most common.
This year, Public Health England (PHE) are aiming to vaccinate more people than ever around 13 million people in total. Children in school year 4 will be offered the vaccine for the first time and children over age 4 in reception year can get their vaccine in school.
The national drive marks the start of Stay Well This Winter, an initiative from PHE and NHS England to help the most vulnerable people prepare for winter and avoid having to visit hospital due to common winter illnesses.
Professor Paul Cosford, PHEs Medical Director, said: "This year we are offering the nasal spray vaccine to more children than ever. Ensuring children get vaccinated is extremely important not only to protect them from flu but also to stop then spreading it to vulnerable groups they come in to contact with. For someone with a long term health condition like asthma or COPD, flu has the potential to turn very serious. We want as many eligible people as possible to get their jab, as it is the best way to protect everyone from flu and minimise the burden on the NHS during the season when it faces the most pressures."
Around 6.3 million people under 65 in England have a long-term health condition and are more at risk of suffering potentially fatal complications from flu. Last year, uptake amongst high risk groups increased by 3.5% amongst eligible people.
Those who are eligible for the free flu vaccine include:
adults over 65
pregnant women
children aged 2 and 3 as well as pupils in reception class and school years 1 to 4
people with long-term health conditions (including asthma, COPD and cardiovascular issues)
Another way of protecting vulnerable adults is to vaccinate children, who are super-spreaders of the vaccine. For healthy children aged 2 and 3 the flu vaccine is in the form of a nasal spray, administered by a health professional. Parents of over 3 million children in reception class and school years 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be asked to agree to have their children vaccinated in school.
Last years flu vaccination programme reduced the risk of flu in children who received the vaccine by 65.8% compared to those that didnt.
Dr. Rosemary Leonard, GP and broadcaster, said: "Young childrens bodies can find it hard to cope with flu, so it is especially important to protect them with the vaccine. The nasal spray is a quick, effective and painless alternative to needles.
"Once ill, children also tend to spread infection more than adults. The vaccine helps to reduce the spread of flu to other more vulnerable family members, such as grandparents."
To get your vaccine or find out if you are eligible, contact your GP, pharmacist or midwife for more information. Visit nhs.uk/staywell for more details on how to help you and your family to stay well this winter.


text:
For the past few weeks, I've been publishing an ongoing interview with Keith Curtis, an ex-Microsoft employee who walked away from a several-year gig at the software giant with a surprising conclusion: Microsoft's proprietary software development model is doomed, he says, and destined to be replaced by community-created open software.
Aside from the message itself, Curtis's timing is interesting because it comes amidst a growing move towards cloud computing solutions--software services that live in the Internet cloud. Curtis doesn't dismiss cloud computing, but he doesn't think that's the future either.
You can read more about his views on the future of computing at the URL below (part three of the interview should be available sometime this week as well), but in speaking with Curtis, I've come to wonder anew about some of the trends and events that are impacting the direction our industry is taking. And none is bigger than the announcement this week that Oracle is buying ailing UNIX server vendor Sun Microsystems.
The transaction itself is straightforward. Oracle will pay $9.50 a share for Sun, which amounts to about $7 billion, or a hair more than a similar offer for Sun that IBM walked away from about a week ago.
Not so straightforward is the rationale for the purchase. Oracle says that it will combine its database and other enterprise-software solutions with Sun's "mission-critical computing systems"--that is, its Solaris-based servers--to create aggressively integrated solutions. This will result in lower costs for customers, Oracle says, while improving "system performance, reliability and security." Sounds very Microsoftian.
I also don't believe that has anything to do with the transaction. Sure, many of Oracle's biggest customers are still running on Sun silicon, but the trends there are obvious and heading downward fast. And while Solaris is at least respected industry-wide, let's face it, the UNIX ship has sailed and Linux is the future of that market. Sun has paid a lot of lip service to Linux, but it's worked harder to get Solaris caught up with Linux than it has pushing any real interoperability or up-sell opportunities. Oracle, conspicuously has pledged to keep supporting Linux fully.
What Sun does have, however, is Java and MySQL. Java is the middleware glue that makes Oracle's new enterprise platform work, by combining Solaris or Linux with Sun hardware (Sparc or, increasingly, Intel-based hardware) and Oracle's enterprise solutions. And MySQL? The open-source database was a competitor and threat. Now it's inhouse, and Oracle can focus on Microsoft SQL Server.
Oracle has always been a serious Microsoft competitor in the server space, but with the Sun acquisition, the company has become a goliath that competes with Microsoft at virtually every level. And it's certainly put UNIX vendors like IBM and HP on notice as well. What's interesting is that even in a scenario where cloud computing does become the mainstream computing model, Oracle is now poised to compete effectively in that Software-as-a-Service model as well. Sun was right when it said that the network was the computer: It was just ahead of the curve.
To read my interview with Keith Curtis, see Supersite for Windows, "After the Software Wars: An Interview with Keith Curtis."


text:
(A) Agilent Technologies' Latest ADS 2012
Agilent Technologies Inc. (A) launched the latest version of its flagship Advanced Design System (ADS) 2012 software for its radio frequency (RF) and microwave EDA platforms.
Agilent's ADS is an automatic electronic design software system used by designers of RF, microwave and high-speed digital applications products in the making of mobile phones, pagers, wireless networks, satellite communications, navigation and radar systems and high-speed data links.
The latest version of ADS comes with lots of improvement like enhanced user interface, and dockable windows that will help the users to quickly access frequently used dialog boxes. New functions such as new component search and net navigator make it easier to work with complex designs. Further, another new archive/un-archive utility makes the sharing of the designs easier for the designers in the workplace.
MMIC designers, signal integrity engineers, RFIC and RF & Microwave board designers and RF system-in-package & RF module designers use the ADS software.
Simultaneously, RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) has updated their process design kits (PDK) with the latest ADS.
Of course Agilent does have some formidable competition from companies like National Instruments Corporation (NATI) and Transcat Inc. (TRNS) among others.
According to a research by MarketsandMarkets, the RF components (RFC) market is expected to reach $17.12 billion by 2017 at an estimated CAGR (2012- 2017) of 19.4%. Agilent is well positioned to leverage the increasing opportunity going forward.
There is ample room for growth if Agilent plays to its strengths and remains committed to its customers by providing world class, affordable test and measurement solutions. Agilent's testing systems have proved to be effective in the past, enabling it to build a strong position for itself. The electronic measurement segment has been improving over the last few quarters as Agilent has been launching new products.
Agilent's revenue in the third quarter was flat sequentially and up 1.9% year over year, short of management's expectations of a 2-3% sequential increase ($1.77 billion to $1.79 billion).
The Electronic Measurement segment contributed 49.0% of revenue. The weakness was on the computing/semiconductor sides of the business. The Life Sciences segment generated 23.0% of revenue, down 1.0% sequentially and up 2.1% from last year. The Chemical Analysis segment generated 22.0% of third quarter revenue, down 8.8% sequentially and 7.0% year over year. The sequential decline was largely because of weakness in food testing.
Currently, Agilent Technologies has a Zacks #5 Rank, implying a short-term Strong Sell rating.
Read the full analyst report on "A"
Read the full analyst report on "RFMD"
Read the full analyst report on "NATI"
Read the full analyst report on "TRNS"
Zacks Investment Research
About vitalstocks
This is a sample profile field. Vitalstocks is the operating company for Stockbloghub. This will place the picture of the author or company in the profile. Here is another extra line of information.
Powered by Facebook Comments
Similar Posts: A | ADS | Agilent Technologies Inc | Alliance Data Systems Corporation | NATI | National Instruments Corporation | Regions Financial Corporation | RF | RF Micro Devices Inc. | RFMD | Transcat Inc | TRNS | Scientific & Technical Instruments | Technology
RSS feeds: A | ADS | Agilent Technologies Inc | Alliance Data Systems Corporation | NATI | National Instruments Corporation | Regions Financial Corporation | RF | RF Micro Devices Inc. | RFMD | Transcat Inc | TRNS | Scientific & Technical Instruments | Technology |
Other Posts by vitalstocks | RSS Feed for this author


text:
ESIP is the U. S. Department of Education's plan to assist State and local educational agencies (SEAs and LEAs) to improve the implementation of the equitable services requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for eligible students enrolled in nonprofit private elementary and secondary schools and, as applicable, their teachers and parents.
To build more effective relationships with the private school community and State Directors of Federal Education Programs, the Department will:
- Facilitate communications (including meetings, as appropriate) with national private school leaders to ensure ongoing discussion regarding the implementation of equitable services requirements under the ESEA and IDEA.
- Host conference calls twice each year with State Directors of Federal Education Programs to discuss the ESEA and IDEA equitable services requirements, progress and promising practices in the implementation of these services.
Listserv Messages
See a list of past and upcoming calls here.
Last Modified: 06/04/2013


text:
ADEBOLA ADEWUNMI is the NCP State House of Ass. Member Candidate contesting in LGA, .
Nigeria she hails from Ekiti State. She is 37 years old.
Login to edit candidate's information
Title None
Surname ADEBOLA ADEWUNMI
Other Names
Gender Female
Date of Birth January 01, 1981
State of Origin Ekiti
Local Government Area N/A
Home Town N/A
Marital Status N/A
Brief History N/A
Asset Declaration N/A
Manifestoes N/A
Political Party National Conscience Party
Campaign Organisation N/A
Contact Address N/A
Contact Phone N/A
Website N/A
Facebook Page N/A
Twitter Page N/A
Not Specified
Copyright © 2015 Nigeria Elections Coalition
Home | About Us
Platform powered by WANGONeT Supported by the MacArthur Foundation


text:
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. says two directors who served on the bank's risk policy committee at the time of its $6 billion "London whale" trading loss are stepping down from the board.
The nation's largest bank says David Cote and Ellen Futter have retired, and it plans to name replacements later this year.
Cote, the chairman and CEO of industrial conglomerate Honeywell Inc., and Futter, the president of the American Museum of Natural History, were both re-elected to new terms this year but they were targeted by activist investors and received diminished support from shareholders.
Futter has been on the board for 16 years and Cote has been on the board for five years. They served on the risk policy committee when the bank suffered the surprise trading loss.
Cote and Futter were both re-elected with less than 60 percent approval from shareholders at the company's annual meeting in May. So was James Crown, who runs a privately owned investment company and also sat on the risk policy committee. The company's other eight directors were re-elected with support of more than 90 percent.
Lee Raymond, the number two director on the board behind Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, said in May that JPMorgan would continue to evaluate the makeup of the board.
The trading loss is nicknamed the "London whale" for the location of the responsible trader and its size. The trader made the outsized bets on complex debt securities that went wrong. JPMorgan first disclosed the losses in May 2012, estimating them at $2 billion. Two months later it disclosed that the loss would be about $6 billion. The company said traders may have tried to conceal the losses.
JPMorgan said it closed the division responsible for the mistake.
Shares of JPMorgan Chase fell 31 cents to $56.06 in midday trading after trading as high as $56.56 earlier in the day. That matched its highest level since August 2000, according to FactSet.


text:
For over 30 years the leading pallet and sawmill magazine in America.
Read What's Related:
Supply Chain Integration: Baker Answers Raw Material Shortage in the Pallet Industry
Supply Chain Integration: Industry pioneer, Ed Baker, revamps his sawmill adding a Baker Tri-Scragg while launching his first logging crew to ensure lumber supply for his pallet operation. At the same time, he is buying timber and doing stand improvement to manage the forests for the future. Is this the way forward for others to model?
By Chaille Brindley
Date Posted: 5/1/2014
Baker Answers Raw Material Supply Challenge
Ed Baker revamps his sawmill adding a Baker Tri-Scragg while launching his first logging crew to ensure lumber supply.
Never afraid to innovate and tackle tough challenges, Ed Baker, owner of Baker Products and his team at Baker Enterprises have taken a huge leap forward in improving its raw material procurement strategy. It started with going back to the drawing board and rethinking everything from timber harvesting and procurement to sawing and wood processing. Many years ago Ed was a pioneer in the field of thin kerf bandsaws. Today, he hopes to change how timber is managed as well as redesign his showcase operation in Ellington, Mo.
And if this strategy works, it could be a road sign to the future for other large pallet companies that want to explore more vertical integration. The fact of the matter is that lumber is scarce, and it is likely to remain a concern until logging and sawmill infrastructure improve.
Large companies that have the resources may have to develop their own sawmill and logging capabilities to ensure at least part of their production. This process shouldn't be taken lightly or done without a full examination of the costs and challenges that lie ahead. But Ed is betting big on this gamble that the future belongs to those who put in the right equipment and infrastructure now to allow for growth because lumber will be the bottleneck of the future for most operations.
Ed explained, "I am going to more than double sawing capacity, which will allow me to add a second shift and double production in my pallet operation. Instead of being at the whims of the market and getting the remnants
of what others can provide, I intend to actively go out and acquire timber to feed our mill."
Let's start at the end of the process and work backward. Baker Enterprises, the pallet company and sawmill located in southeastern Missouri, is in the process of installing a Baker Products Circular Tri-Scragg sawmill to replace its current line.
New Baker Tri-Scragg System
Baker products has sold this tri-scragg system designed for production in many installations across the country. It is best suited for processing tree-length logs, but it will also be capable of handling smaller material, including shorter logs taken from Ed's timberlands.
Currently, Baker Enterprises processes cants into boards using a Baker multi-head cut-off saw and five head band resaw line. The existing cut-up line will remain in place to process cants. But Baker Enterprises is adding a whole new scragg system around it to provide wider versatility in what it can process.
The design project was led by Clay Hedrick, a veteran sales consultant for Baker Products. Hedrick said, "The system is designed to be versatile and allow us to process whatever we have access to including tree length, short logs, cants, and lumber."
The beginning of the line has a tree length log cut up system. This system can cut and kick out any logs big enough for ties and grade. The small diameters then flow inside to be processed. Also, a small infeed deck has been incorporated to receive scragg blocks as short as 43" or so. The reason for this is to allow farmers and people with small wood lots to thin and remove undesirable trees, thereby improving their timber.
As the blocks flow through the mill, they first go through two circle saws, then that two sided piece flows through a horizontal band, making two three-sided pieces. The two slabs flow through a vertical band edger, making them into small three-sided pieces. All material then flows through a band double end trim. Automatic transfers then convey material to one of two resaw lines.
Hedrick stated, "Our thought with having two lines, one a nine-head resaw and the other a five-head resaw is to do as much single pass processing as possible."
One line is a nine-head Model C Baker Resaw while the other is a five-head Model C Resaw. In addition, the plan calls for leaving the existing Multi-Head cut-off saw in place to process cants that are bought on the outside. Hedrick commented, "We can bring cants in and cut those to length, and they will be added to the same transfer and run through the same resaws."
All the waste, including slabs, shim cuts and end trims, will be coming out the side to the main waste conveyor that feeds into a new Montgomery hog. This material is ground up and then sold to Kingsford Charcoal.
Finished cut boards come out to a transfer line, where an unscrambler feeds into a Baker side winder deduster. Boards will be removed by hand stackers while stringers will travel down the conveyor to be notched in a Baker X2 Double Notcher.
The entire line requires between 10-12 workers and can process 35-60,000 board feet in a shift.
Most of this system is similar to what Baker Products, the machinery manufacturing division, has sold other companies plus a few small tweaks. The band edger was built a bit different to see if a new design will be more operator friendly. Traditionally, the units are built to run flat side up. But this system will run flat side down and uses a roller feed to push material to the edge. Also, the two resaw lines will feature 36" wheels instead of the conventional 28" design. The idea is to see if the company can achieve better bandsaw blade life.
Mike McNail, CEO of Baker Enterprises and Baker Products, stated, "Our pallet facility has been operating over 30 years, our machinery company over 26 years. Our success in the manufacturing of our equipment has been by trial & error in our own pallet operation. It has allowed us to put equipment through the paces before a customer ever sees it. Some of the changes to this system will surely be a benefit to our end customer."
Turnkey Operation
A smooth install starts with proper planning. Baker designs its equipment to be easy to install and get up and running. Hedrick explained, "We test all of our new equipment before we send it out of our shop to ensure that customers have no unpleasant surprises when the machinery arrives."
The plan at Baker Enterprises is to install the new scragg mill over a long weekend so that the operation doesn't miss much production time at all. McNail said, "We plan to take off on a Wednesday afternoon and be up and running with the new line Monday morning."
Since the machines come ready with electric hookups, all you have to do is drop them in place. McNail stated, "As long as we have our electric and dust collection ready, there is very little we have to do to get the equipment ready when it hits the floor."
Logging Crews Provide Dependable Timber Supply
One of the most interesting aspects of this new plan is that Baker Enterprises is going beyond just running a sawmill and pallet operation. It is adding one logging crew to harvest timber off land owned by Ed Baker. This crew is managed by Bryan Martin and Shawn Wenger. The duo are capable of harvesting about 20,000 board feet per day.
Ed Baker recently purchased a Timber Pro TL 735B harvester with a Log Max head as well as a Rottne F 15 forwarder. Both machines were purchased from Steve Ory, owner of Pioneer Equipment Co. in Rhinelander, WI.
Ed commented, "Steve Ory of Pioneer Equipment up in Wisconsin, was a logger for 30 years. I like dealing with him because he is so knowledgeable." Ory came to Missouri and walked the land that Baker intended to log guiding him in the right piece of equipment to buy.
Ed said that he started out to buy a wheeled harvester, but after walking the land Ory convinced him to buy a tracked harvester because it will operate better on steeper ground. Also, Ory suggested that cut-to-length logging is the way to go because it reduces waste. Ed explained, "As soon as the tree is down, it is cut to the length you want, plus or minus an inch or less. The old way of logging tends to damage existing timber and can hurt the ground as well."
Instead of having one big biomass staging area where tress are delimbed and stacked, Ed wanted slash scattered throughout the stand. Ed added, "These machines are more yield efficient. They glean more usable material from the woods even though they are not quite as productive as a clam bunk skidder."
Currently, Baker Enterprises is in crisis mode looking for lumber, just like almost everybody else in the country. Baker is using mills to saw logs into lumber. One is located near the logging site and the other operates at the Baker facility in Ellington. The crews are using a Baker Model 3665D Portable Sawmill. The mill located near the logging site is processing 7' logs into three-sided pieces. These pieces go to the pallet facility and are processed with the Multi-Select cutoff saw and resaw line. Ed stated, "There is very little waste in how we do this logging and sawmilling process in the woods."
The sawmill located at the Baker facility in Ellington is processing the higher grade logs into grade lumber and pallet squares. McNail commented, "The two sawmills that we have put into operation have been a big help in supplying material for our pallet mill."
Building a Sustainable Future
Beyond just logging land for volume, Ed has taken a long-term approach with the plan to do timber stand improvement on the land his crews log. Ed explained, "You hardly damage any timber with the operation......The purchase of this machinery allows me to garden the forest for the future."
Instead of cutting for grade and removing all the valuable trees first, he cuts some grade material while leaving some good trees to grow and replenish the forest. He personally went through and marked each stand to indicate which trees to remove and keep. The idea is to provide enough space for the good trees to thrive and spread their superior genetics throughout the forest. This particular 340 acre tract is also being managed as habitat for deer and other wildlife. Ed's ultimate goal is to turn it into a hunting preserve that will attract tourism and other business. Since my visit, Ed has planted 40,000 trees of various species as a reforestation project on this 340 acre tract.
A professional forester from the Missouri Department of Conservation walked the land as we toured the operation. He said that he wished all the forest landowners in the state took such an approach. This forester call the Baker land one of the best examples of well managed forests that he had seen in the state.
None of this came cheap for Baker. He has invested over a million dollars in his approach. But he feels it will be worthwhile in the long run and it all depends on how you look at what truly costs money and will produce a greater return in the future.
Besides the hunting preserve, Ed recently built a lodge that is absolutely gorgeous inside. Full of unusual animals from all over the world, the lodge is designed to serve Baker customers as well as others that want to rent it for various purposes. The lodge, capable of sleeping 10 people, comes with 7 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Adapting to Thrive
A big part of the goal of this entire effort is to boost production and enable growth at Baker's pallet operation. The facility doesn't really need to add nailing capacity, although it will likely add a second shift. Baker Enterprises has relied on Viking Turbo machines for years and has found that they work well and are reliable. The new sawmill will give Baker room to grow its' lumber and pallet operations
Since Ed started in the forest products industry many years ago, he has adapted to challenges and helped change the industry in the process. Some say he is taking a big risk with his new logging crew, timber management philosophies and revamped sawmill. Others just wonder if he is blazing a trail for the rest of us to follow.
For more information on machinery from Baker Products, visit www.bakerproducts.net or call 800-548-6914.


text:
Dell and Microsoft, in cooperation, provided guidelines and design principles to assist customers in designing and implementing a balanced configuration for SQL Server data warehouse workloads to achieve "out-of-the-box" scalable performance. These database reference architectures enable each of the components in the entire database stack to provide optimal throughput to match the database capabilities of the specific setup.
This white paper describes the architectural design principles and guidelines to achieve an optimally balanced SQL Server Data Warehouse solution according to the Microsoft Fast Track Data Warehouse 4.0 guidelines.
Hide comments


text:
The discipline of civil engineering at Flinders is closely aligned with the strong industry and government need for high quality graduates and high-end research, both in civil engineering and in agricultural and biosystems engineering.
The Civil Engineering coursework degrees (at both undergraduate and postgraduate level) are broad based degrees focussed on the requirements of complex civil infrastructure. At postgraduate research level the focus is on cutting-edge transport systems technology.
Agricultural and biosystems engineering has been developed more recently as a blend of civil and mechanical engineering together with specialist agricultural engineering study and study of agricultural and fisheries production practices.
All Flinders Engineering degrees have been designed in close collaboration with industry in order to meet future development needs. Students gain specialist knowledge in key areas and an integrated tool kit of skills that will enable them to meet the technical criteria required by industry and to engage professionally with on-going technical developments.
A distinctive feature of the Flinders degrees is the nationally recognised industry placement. All students have the opportunity during their degree to undertake six months in industry. This has distinguished Flinders courses from their counterparts for many years and continues to be well regarded both by industry and by the students themselves. More than 100 local, national and international companies support the program, which provides students with 20 weeks of structured industrial work experience. Students thus complete their final year of study having already gained a first-hand understanding of the role of the graduate engineer. They graduate with a proven on-the-job performance and many go on to work full-time with the company that provided their placement, or with another in the same industry.


text:
You'll Never Walk Alone!
The English Premier League (EPL) is the single largest sports league in the entire world. Until this season, those of us in the USA that follow it had to search all over to try to find the live matches of our favorite teams. Well this year, things are different. Things are very different, at least in the USA.
This year the EPL license for the US was bought by NBC and the US will get to see every single match. Matches will show on NBC, NBC Sports, streaming from the NBC site, and for the first time ever, live streaming in the NBC Sports Live Extra app. According to NBC, every single match will be live streamed in the app. That's right, every single match of the entire EPL season. The US is the only country that gets that luxury, not even the home country of the UK gets to watch every single match. I'm a bit excited, can you tell?
The best part of this new license is that to view the games is free as long as you have a cable subscription with NBC Sports channel. Most US cable providers should have that as a basic package station and you should be covered. You will need to validate your cable subscription in the app via your cable system login, something that has become common in video apps.
Get ready, the English Premier League starts this weekend! Grab the NBC Sports Live Extra app from Google Play.


text:
NEW YORK (AP) — Kaylee DeFer and Fitz of Fitz and the Tantrums are the proud parents of a baby boy.
The lead singer of the rock band and the "Gossip Girl" actress welcomed Theodore Ignatius Fitzpatrick on Friday. The baby weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces.
Fitz, whose real name is Michael Fitzpatrick, said the couple had a doula to help with the birth. He said DeFer was "amazing" in the delivery room.
Said Fitz: "I'm so proud of Kaylee ... she is the rock star in the family."
DeFer celebrated her 27th birthday on Monday.
Fitz, 43, has a few weeks at home with his new baby before his band kicks off a U.S. tour in Richmond, Va.
DeFer is working on a TV pilot.


text:
Bioenergy Action Plan
Docket # 10-BAP-1
Lead Commissioner who oversaw this proceeding:
Carla Peterman
- 2012 Bioenergy Action Plan
Prepared by the Bioenergy Interagency Working Group
(PDF file, 45 pages, 1.5 megabytes)
- 2011 Bioenergy Action Plan
(PDF file, 87 pages, 774 kb)
Bioenergy is renewable energy produced from biomass wastes, including forest and other wood waste, agriculture and food processing wastes, organic urban waste, waste and emissions from water treatment facilities, landfill gas and other organic waste sources. Biomass waste can be used to generate renewable electricity, liquid fuels and biogas.
California has enormous potential to create energy from organic waste materials. Urban, agricultural and forest wastes that would otherwise go to landfills or be burned can, instead, be used to produce electricity, transportation fuels, combined heat and power (CHP), and more. Expanding bioenergy also creates jobs, provides local energy, enhances energy security, and helps protect public health and safety by reducing waste materials and fire danger. Using biomass waste resources also complements other state mandates, such as waste diversion, fire-risk reduction, climate change and adaptation, and environmental protection.
California has adopted numerous policies to promote bioenergy, but significant barriers to its development remain. The 2011 Bioenergy Action Plan identifies those barriers and recommends actions to address them, so that the state can meet its clean energy, waste reduction and climate protection goals.
- Increase environmentally and economically sustainable energy production from biomass waste.
- Encourage development of diverse bioenergy technologies that increase local electricity generation, CHP, renewable natural gas, and renewable liquid fuels for transportation and fuel cell applications.
- Create jobs and stimulate economic development, especially in rural regions of the state.
- Reduce fire danger, improve air and water quality, and reduce waste.
Status of Bioenergy in California
Current bioenergy production in California includes:
- 33 biomass plants that generate a combined 600 megawatts of electricity, nearly 2 percent of California's total electricity supply.
- 11 dairy digesters that produce electricity, CHP, and biogas.
- 500 megawatts of electricity generated at biogas facilities at wastewater treatment plants and landfills.
- 50 to 100 million gasoline gallon equivalent produced at in-state ethanol and biodiesel facilities.
California generates 36 million bone-dry tons of biomass from the urban, agricultural and forest sectors. Producing energy from biomass provides numerous benefits. Bioenergy produced from in-state biomass reduces California's reliance on fossil fuels and out-of-state fuels. Biomass can be used to generate renewable electricity that is available 24/7. Bioenergy can significantly reduce water and air pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions. Woody biomass facilities are also critical to reduce forest fire hazards by lowering excess fuel loads. Biomass can also produce CHP for schools, hospitals and industrial processes. Bioenergy from organic urban waste directs that waste from going into the state's landfills, and bioenergy from agricultural wastes reduces open field burning.
Despite its many benefits, bioenergy production now only uses 15 percent of California's available biomass waste, and production is decreasing. Regulatory and financial incentives for renewable power do not adequately monetize the many benefits of bioenergy, and regulatory barriers compound these challenges. Some incentives for bioenergy have been inconsistent or discontinued while others have failed to account for the additional costs and benefits of biomass. Environmental, waste disposal, public health, and pipeline safety regulations often complicate bioenergy permitting and development and sometimes contradict each other. Access to transmission lines, pipelines and other distribution networks also pose significant challenges to bioenergy development.
Some of these challenges require additional research and demonstration to ensure that bioenergy production is environmentally and economically sustainable. Other barriers require regulatory changes, including permit streamlining and consolidation, utility procurement requirements, and financial incentives that reflect the many benefits of bioenergy.
Recommended Actions
To meet California's renewable energy, waste reduction, environmental, and public safety goals, the Bioenergy Working Group recommends the following:
- Increase research and development of diverse bioenergy technologies and applications, as well as their costs, benefits, and impacts.
- Continue to develop and make accessible information about the availability of organic wastes and opportunities for bioenergy development.
- Streamline and consolidate permitting of bioenergy facilities and reconcile conflicting regulatory requirements to the extent possible.
- Assess and monetize the economic, energy, safety, environmental, and other benefits of biomass.
- Facilitate access to transmission, pipelines, and other distribution networks.
For more information, please contact:
Le-Huy Nguyen
California Energy Commission
1516 Ninth Street, MS-45
Sacramento, CA 95814-5512
Telephone: 916-654-4599
E-mail: email@example.com
Note: The first Bioenergy Action Plan of 2006 and the 2009 update - Bioenergy Action Plan: Progress to Plan are located on the Commission Energy Archive website.
Proceeding Information
Previous Plan and Progress Updates
- 2009 Progress to Plan - Bioenergy Action Plan for California
Pub # CEC-500-2010-007, April 2010
- Bioenergy Action Plan for California - 2007 Progress to Plan
Pub # CEC-100-2007-006, July 2007
- Bioenergy Action Plan for California
Pub # CEC-600-2006-010, July 2006
- Original Bioenergy Action Plan Proceeding (Docket # 06-BAP-1)


text:
Meet local Farmington singles in your area by filling out our quick registration form. Once inside you will be area to search thousands of single Farmington members. Personal ads of singles in the Farmington area will be at your fingertips and with our new matchmaker service you will receive new matching members in your email inbox on a weekly basis. Find the best Farmington singles when joining our online dating service today!
FarmingtonJoin Now Free!
Farmington Girls | Farmington Men | Farmington Gay | Farmington Lesbians
More Farmington Links:
Farmington Dating | Farmington Personals | Farmington Speed Dating | Farmington Chat | Farmington Love
Senior Dating | Catholic Dating | Christian Dating | Muslim Dating
Black Singles | Asian Singles | Latin Dating
Matchmaker.com offers its members a great resource for Farmington singles looking for a short or long term relationship. We have compiled a hundreds of dating and online dating related articles to help give you timely and detailed advice. Some interesting topics include tips for single parents, Farmington singles, first date ideas, valentine gift ideas, love poems and great tips on cooking for a date. We are here to help the Farmington singles with free advice.


text:
By Jeff Mason and Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tapped Mike Froman and Penny Pritzker for the last two vacant Cabinet slots on his economic team on Thursday, turning to a law school classmate who is already one of his chief advisers and a billionaire businesswoman who helped put him in the White House.
As key members of his team, the two will work to boost demand for U.S. goods and workers, Obama said as he announced the nominations at the White House shortly before leaving on a trip to Mexico, a key U.S. trading partner.
He urged the Senate to quickly confirm the pair.
Froman, Obama's pick to be U.S. trade representative, is little known to the American public but a heavyweight in diplomatic circles for his role as the president's chief international economic affairs adviser, a post he has held since Obama took office in 2009.
Pritzker, tapped to become the U.S. Commerce secretary, is an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and was finance chairman for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. She is ranked 271st on Forbes Magazine's list of the wealthiest Americans and eighth on Chicago Magazine's list of the city's most powerful people.
If confirmed, as expected, Froman would succeed former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk as the top U.S. negotiator on international trade. Kirk left the administration in March.
Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee which will consider the nomination, said Obama's choice of Froman shows "the administration is sending a clear signal that trade is a top priority."
Some key Republicans in the House of Representatives also voiced support for Froman, but Senator Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the finance panel, was more circumspect.
"I look forward to fully examining Mr. Froman's background and qualifications as the nomination moves forward," he said.
Pritzker would replace acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank, who is leaving the government in July. As the head of the Commerce Department, she would serve in effect as an ambassador to the U.S. business community.
After winning re-election in November, Obama replaced several members of his economic and national security policy team. He tapped White House budget director Jack Lew to replace Timothy Geithner at the Treasury Department and put new leaders at the State Department, Pentagon and CIA.
Both of the nominees announced on Thursday have long ties to Obama, in Froman's case going back to the days when they were editors on the Harvard Law Review. Pritzker met Michelle and Barack Obama in the late 1990s, when she took her children to a basketball clinic run by the Michelle's brother, Craig Robinson.
Froman would take the reins at USTR in time to potentially oversee the completion of a landmark free trade agreement, the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership among 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Those talks, which have recently been expanded to include Japan, are slated to conclude this year.
But tough decisions on issues including rules for state-owned enterprises, protections for workers rights and the environment, and phasing out tariffs on sensitive agricultural and manufacturing products could push the talks into 2014.
The United States and the 27 countries of the European Union are also preparing to launch talks on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a free trade pact covering more than half of world economic output.
"The new USTR has both enormous opportunities and enormous challenges that have be reckoned with," said Charlene Barshefsky, who held the post in the late 1990s under former President Bill Clinton.
In addition to forging the regional trade pacts, the United States needs to confront threats to its competitive advantage from other countries that are stealing its intellectual property and valuable corporate trade secrets, she said.
During his confirmation hearing, Froman is likely to face questions on how forcefully Obama will push for "trade promotion authority." That legislation, also known as "fast track," allows the White House to submit trade agreements to Congress for straight up-or-down votes without any amendments.
The trade law tends to divide Democrats in Congress between those who see trade agreements as an engine for economic growth and those who blame them for manufacturing job losses.
Congress last passed a trade promotion authority bill in 2002 after a bitter fight in the House of Representatives.
Pritzker, a Stanford University-trained lawyer, would bring a member of one of the country's most successful business families to the helm of the Commerce Department.
The department has played a key role in Obama's five-year goal of doubling exports to about $3 trillion by the end of 2014. But after fast export growth in 2010 and 2011, the pace faltered in 2012, raising doubt the goal can be reached.
Pritzker would also be in charge of a diverse array of agencies, including the Census Bureau, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Pritzker is on the board of the Hyatt Hotel Corp, which her uncle founded in 1957 two years before she was born. She also has pursued a separate career in real estate and investment as founder and chairman of PSP Capital Partners and its affiliate, Pritzker Realty Group.
When she was finance chairman for the Obama campaign in 2008, she oversaw the raising of nearly $750 million, a record-breaker.
Pritzker could face questions over her family's reputation for sheltering income to avoid taxes, Hyatt's battle with the Unite Here labor union and the 2001 failure of Superior Bank, which was half-owned by the Pritzker family.
Unite Here has organized a boycott of Hyatt, which it calls "the worst hotel employer in America" because of the company's treatment of workers, failure to reach a new labor contract covering thousands of its employees and opposition to allowing workers at additional Hyatt hotels into the union.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republicans tried to tar Pritzker with the failure of Superior Bank, which in the 1990s was a pioneer in subprime mortgages, the type of loans that were blamed for the global financial crisis a decade later.
Regulators closed the bank in July 2001 after auditors concluded that income from mortgage securitizations had been overstated. Five months later, the Pritzkers agreed to pay the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation $460 million over 15 years as part of a deal where the family and the other half-owner admitted no liability.
(Additional reporting by Susan Heavey and Matt Spetalnick; Editing by W Simon, Vicki Allen, Tim Ahmann and Cynthia Osterman)


text:
What's Trending: Deonte Burton's Dunk of the Year, Jim Harbaugh, Senior Night, and More…Posted by Nick Fasulo (@nickfasuloSBN) on March 7th, 2014
What's Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Nick Fasulo (@nickfasuloSBN) is your weekly host.
Deonte Burton Dunk
Nevada's Deonte Burton undoubtedly delivered the dunk of the year in college hoops. You'd probably seen it at least 15 times in the past 36 hours, but another binge watch is good for the soul.
The reaction from Twitter was swift…
The latest chapter in the fantastic college career of Mr. Russell Smith was written Wednesday night, as the Cardinals' senior guard scored 22 second half points (including six three-pointers) in a win over SMU. Here's to hoping the graphic below is used at the KFC Yum! Center on Saturday.


text:
Dec 19, 2008 at 4:53 pm
thanks nice car yourself!
Apr 18, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I will have pics of my mazda 626 on friday
Apr 17, 2007 at 7:46 am
lol i got em at Charlotte Russe for like five bucks lol! i'd never buy expense sunglasses i'd never wear them and when i would, i'd break em


text:
James W. Wilkinson was born Nov. 29, 1918, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Joseph and Junetta Hansen Wilkinson. He passed away on Oct. 7, 2009, in Mesa, Ariz. A private graveside service with military honors was held Oct. 10, 2009. The United States flag was presented to his daughter Joan.
Jim served proudly in the U.S. Army during World War II as a financial officer while stationed in London. He began his career with Chevron Oil Company in 1946 in Hood River, Ore.
Jim married Betty Collins and was devoted to her for 59 years. He retired from Chevron Oil in 1976 as vice president of marketing. He and Betty lived in Mesa, Ariz., after their retirement. She preceded him in death on Dec. 19, 2003.
A loving and devoted father, Jim is survived by sons John and daughter-in-law Pam, Jim and daughter-in-law Sharon, and Dan and daughter-in-law Linda; and daughter Joan and son-in-law Matt Thompson. Son Tom preceded his parents in death in 2003.
Jim was a loving grandfather of 15, and great grandfather of 24. He is survived by his brother-in-law Charles "Bud" Collins, of Hood River; nieces Leslie Collins Hidle, of Hood River, Susan Collins Stebner, of Tigard, Ore., and Carol Collins Pajala, of Battle Ground, Wash.
Jim enjoyed traveling, visiting Hood River, Lost Lake and the Oregon coast and driving his convertible. He also enjoyed completing family search indexing and completed over 100,000 names. He was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the LDS Church Missionary Fund.
Information from the News and our advertisers (Want to add your business to this to this feed?)


text:
|Year Introduced
|In 1977 when the Toronto Blue Jays began play in the American League they sported the now familiar Blue Jays logo that was designed by Toronto-based Savage Sloan Ltd.
|In 1997 the Blue Jays adopted a new team logo. The logo was designed by Major League Properties and brought the colour red into prominence as a maple leaf served as the backdrop for the bird logo.
|In 2000 the Blue Jays added an alternate logo on hats which were used exclusively as spring training and batting practice caps. The logo featured an animated Blue Jay holding a bat and reaching around a large red "T" to toss a ball in the air. The arm of the bird tossing the ball displays a red maple leaf. For the 2003 season, the alternate logo was used exclusively.
|Brandid, a Toronto-based firm, was selected in early 2004 from competing design teams to create a new primary mark, that would form the launching point for the rebranding process. The end result is a newly styled blue jay extending to the left from "Jays" lettering based on traditional baseball script with three-dimensional metallic letters.
|In 2007 the club added a "T" logo in the same style and energy of the primary marks. The stylized T-logo utilizes the similar colours as our primary marks: metallic graphite grey, blue and white and will be featured on the new batting practice cap and as a regular season alternate cap.
|The Toronto Blue Jays refined their classic look, using an updated version of the original Blue Jays primary mark. The logo and uniforms were created by the Toronto Blue Jays with the assistance of the Design Services division of Major League Baseball led by Anne Occi, Vice President of Design. The Blue Jays Primary Club Logo featured the Blue Jays bird head with the red Maple Leaf and ball in the centre, an arched solid blue font "TORONTO" above and scooped new split letter "BLUE JAYS" font in blue below. The logo is fully encased in a blue and white split line circle.


text:
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 crisis, when the spacecraft was crippled in the middle of its planned trip to the moon. Forget a lunar landing and moonwalk; finding a way to get the three astronauts home safely was going to be a formidable enough challenge for the NASA engineers.
A member of that space mission, Jack Swigert, was a Catholic. The predicament facing him and his crewmates held the nation and the world spellbound. Three-and-a-half days after Swigert issued his famously simple summation of the oxygen tank blast that crippled Apollo 13 — "Houston, we've got a problem" — NASA brought the crippled craft safely back to earth.
The rescue achieved a new popularity thanks to the 1995 movie "Apollo 13," with Kevin Bacon playing Swigert.
One might think there would be nothing that could surpass such a dramatic point in someone's life. And possibly so. Swigert made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 1978. Four years later, he ran for a U.S. House seat in a newly created congressional district in Colorado and won, but he did not live to be seated. Two days after winning the Republican primary in September 1982, doctors found he had bone cancer.
Thinking they had found the cancer at an early stage, Swiger's physician said at the time tht his chances of survival were "probably better than those for getting back from the moon in a broken spaceship." Swigert won the general election with 63 percent of the vote, squeezing in chemotherapy during full days on the campaign trail. That Dec. 19, he was airlifted to Washington for treatment, and the cancer was found to have spread to his lungs. He died eight days later.


text:
Kidney Stone - Adult
Kidney stones are pieces of a stone or crystal-like material. These stones form inside the kidneys or other parts of the urinary tract. The kidneys remove waste from the body. They also balance the water and electrolyte content in the blood by filtering salt and water.
There are several types of kidney stones:
- Calcium oxalate
- Calcium phosphate
- Struvite
- Uric acid
- Cystine
|Kidney Stone
|Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.
The cause of your kidney stone may be depend on the type of stone that you have. Calcium stones are the most common type.
- Calcium oxalate or phosphorus stones—These kidney stones form when the concentration of calcium or other minerals in the urine becomes too high or when minerals that prevent stone formation are too low.
- Struvite stones—These stones develop as a result of a urinary tract infection. The stones are composed of ammonium, magnesium, and phosphate salts.
- Uric acid stones—These stones form when urine is acidic. This may also occur in people with gout or those who are on chemotherapy.
- Cystine stones—These stones form due to a rare genetic disorder that causes the kidneys to build up excess amounts of cystine. Cystine is one of the amino acids that make up proteins.
Risk Factors
Caucasian men under 50 years old are at increased risk.
Factors that may increase your chance of kidney stones include:
- Personal history of kidney stones
- Family history of kidney stones
Other factors that increase your risk of kidney stones include:
Calcium oxalate or phosphorus stones:
- Excess dietary sodium and oxalate. Oxalate can be found in green, leafy vegetables, chocolate, nuts, or tea.
- Low fluid intake, especially during warmer weather, which can lead to dehydration.
- Overactive parathyroid gland.
- Chronic bowel disorders such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
- Some diuretics.
- Calcium-based antacids.
Struvite stones:
- History of urinary infection
- More common in women
Uric acid stones:
- Excess dietary red meat or poultry
- Gout
A rare genetic disorder increases the risk of cystine stones.
In many people, kidney stones do not cause symptoms and pass during urination. Other people may have symptoms, including:
- Sharp, stabbing pain in the mid-back that may occur every few minutes and last from 20 minutes to one hour
- Pain in the lower abdomen, groin, or genital areas
- Nausea and vomiting
- Blood in the urine
- Frequent urge to urinate
- Burning pain during urination
- Fever
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with:
- Urine tests and cultures
- Blood tests
Images may be taken of your kidneys and urinary system. This can be done with:
- X-ray
- Spiral CT scan
- Ultrasound
- Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)
Treatment depends on the size and location of the kidney stone. Treatment may include one or more of the following:
For small kidney stones, drinking at least 2-3 quarts of water per day helps the body pass the stones during urination. You may be given a special cup to catch the stone when it passes so it can be analyzed. If you are having a hard time keeping fluids down, you may need to be hospitalized to receive IV fluids.
You may be advised to take pain medication. You may also be prescribed medications that may help you pass your kidney stones during urination.
Surgery may be needed if the stones are:
- Very large or growing larger
- Causing bleeding or damage to the kidney
- Causing infection
- Blocking the flow of urine
- Unable to pass
Ureteroscopy uses a small camera to locate the stones in the ureter or kidney. Once found, a small basket is used to capture and remove the stones. Larger stones can be broken up into small pieces with a laser.
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy is used to treat large stones located in the kidney. A small incision is made in the lower back. A nephroscope is passed through a tube so the kidney stones can be seen. The stones are broken into smaller pieces and removed. A temporary drain may be left in the incision site.
Lithotomy is an open surgery used to remove stones. This is rarely used because of the less invasive options available.
Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
ESWL uses a device called a lithotripter that is applied to the skin. The lithotripter sends shock waves into the body. The impact of the shock waves breaks up the larger stones so they can be passed during urination.
Once you have formed a kidney stone, you are more likely to form another. Here are some steps to prevent this condition:
- Drink plenty of fluids, especially water.
- Talk to your doctor about what diet is right for you. Depending on the type of stone you have, you may have to avoid certain food or drinks.
- Depending on what type of stone you have, certain medications may be prescribed to keep stones from forming again.
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
Edits to original content made by Denver Health.
Copyright © EBSCO Information Services
All rights reserved.
a (Renal Colic; Renal Lithiasis; Nephrolithiasis; Renal Calculi)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases http://niddk.nih.gov
Urology Care Foundation http://www.urologyhealth.org
Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
The Kidney Foundation of Canada http://www.kidney.ca
Borghi L, Meschi T, et al. Dietary therapy in idiopathic nephrolithiasis. Nutr Rev. 2006;64:301-312.
Coe FL, Evan A, et al. Kidney stone disease. J Clin Invest. 2005;115:2598-2608.
Delvecchio FC, Preminger GM. Medical management of stone disease. Curr Opin Urol. 2003;13(3):229-233.
Kang DE, Sur RL, et al. Long-term lemonade based dietary manipulation in patients with hypocitraturic nephrolithiasis. J Urol. 2007;177:1358-1362.
Kidney stones. Urology Care Foundation website. Available at: http://www.urologyhealth.org/urology/index.cfm?article=148. Updated March 7, 2016.
Kidney stones in adults. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website. Available at: http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/stonesadults/index.htm. Updated February 2013. Accessed March 7, 2016.
Management of ureteral calculi: EAU/AUA nephrolithiasis panel (2007). American Urological Association website. http://www.auanet.org/education/guidelines/ureteral-calculi.cfm. Accessed March 7, 2016.
Martini LA, Wood RJ. Should dietary calcium and protein be restricted in patients with nephrolithiasis? Nutr Rev. 2000;58:111-117.
Nephrolithiasis. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114904/Nephrolithiasis . Updated June 30, 2016. Accessed September 28, 2016.
Pearle MS, Lingemann JE, et al. Prospective, randomized controlled trial comparing shock wave lithotripsy and ureteroscopy for lower pole caliceal calculi 1 cm or less. J Urol. 2005;173:2005-2009.
Vitamin C. EBSCO Natural and Alternative Treatments website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/biomedical-libraries/natural-alternative-treatments. Updated December 2015. Accessed March 7, 2016.
1/4/2011 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114904/Nephrolithiasis : Hollingsworth JM, Rogers MA, et al. Medical therapy to facilitate urinary stone passage: A meta-analysis. Lancet. 2006;368:1171-1179.
1/4/2011 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114904/Nephrolithiasis : Mora B, Giorni E, et al. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: an effective treatment for pain caused by renal colic in emergency care. J Urol. 2006;175:1737-1741; discussion 1741.


text:
is owned and operated by the folks over at
LearnItFirst.com. Originally we purchased this domain with the intent to build products around/in it but... that was years ago and, since
we've never built anything here, we've decided to sell this domain.
We use Escrow.com to handle all of our domain transfers as we feel it makes things go smoothly for all parties. You can view their fee calculator here:
Click this button to be redirected to our "Contact Us" page. In the message, please tell us that you'd like to buy this particular domain.
© Copyright 2018 LearnItFirst.com LLC. All rights reserved. All trademarks
remain the property of their respective owners. This site is not affiliated in any
way with the Microsoft Corporation.


text:
доброе утро, starting from today Moleskine.com speaks Russian.
For this special occasion, in the myMoleskine section, you can find and download for free the new creativities displayed during the Moscow Design Week in mid October, made by 4 Russian authors.
Download Bookmarks, "Do not disturb" signs and Sleeves here.
Did you know that the site is also available in other languages including Italian, Spanish, French, Deutsch, Japanese, Korean, and both simplified and traditional Chinese?
Have fun!


text:
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile US hopes to win over Leap Wireless customers by competing for them "the old fashioned way," a top executive for T-Mobile US said on Tuesday.
Some analysts had speculated that T-Mobile or another company could make a counteroffer for Leap, after AT&T Inc's proposed purchase of Leap for $1.2 billion, or $15 per share.
T-Mobile US Chief Marketing Officer Mike Sievert declined to say whether his company would put in a bid for Leap.
"We're going to take Leap the old fashioned way, customer by customer in the market and in doing so we'll probably save ourselves billions of billions of dollars," Sievert said in an interview.
Earlier this year T-Mobile US merged with MetroPCS, which was long seen as a natural merger partner with Leap as both companies have a similar customer base and marketing strategy.
Leap's shares have traded above the acquisition price since the deal was announced on Friday evening, fueling speculation that it may receive another bid. Leap shares were up 26 cents, or 1.5 percent, at $17.21 on the Nasdaq on Tuesday afternoon.
(The second paragraph of the story has been corrected to mention AT&T proposed buying Leap and not T-Mobile)
(Reporting by Sinead Carew)


text:
Smyrna Cross Country runners senior Tori Vickers, junior Gabe Mojica and sophomore David Hall are featured in a recent interview.
Athletes Profiles: Smyrna High School runners: Junior Gabe Mojica, sophomore David Hall and senior Tori Vickers
Question: How old are you, and where are you from?
Tori: I'm 18 years old, and I am originally from New Castle.
Gabe: I'm 16 years old, and I am originally from Puerto Rico. I've been in the US for five years.
David: I'm 15 years old, and I am originally from Wilmington.
Question: How long have you been running Cross Country?
Tori: This is my fourth year on varsity, and I've been running for five years.
Gabe: This is my second year on varsity for Smyrna.
David: I've been running since I was about six. I played other sports, too, and this is my second year on varsity running Cross Country and track for Smyrna.
Question: What has been your toughest meet so far?
Tori: Definitely against Caesar Rodney, because they are also a good team.
Gabe: It would have to be at the Salesianum Invitational this season at Brandywine Creek State Park because of the hills, the heat, and the tough competition that day.
David: Yes, I agree, Brandywine Creek State Park was tough because of the heat and the hills.
Question: What athlete or runner do you most admire?
Tori: I really admire Coach Suarez. I have learned a lot from her.
Gabe: Steve Prefontaine- he was a great distance runner in college and professionally.
David: I admire a lot of pro and college athletes.
Question: Which is more difficult, running on fast, flat tracks, or running on hilly conditions like at
Brandywine Creek State Park?
Tori: Hills are actually my strength, but now I am used to running on both types of courses.
Gabe: I prefer running on the flat courses. You still have to run a strategic race on either course.
David: Running on hills is tougher for me now, so I would say I like running on flat courses better.
Question: What is tougher for you, practices or meets?
Tori: I would have to say practices because Coach Suarez has us do a lot of different drills and we have to do them in certain times. In meets, we run our best. It's also hard to stay focused, but that's important.
Gabe: Definitely practices, where we do a lot of hard work. The mental aspects can be difficult.
David: Practices are very hard, but we are better prepared for meets after tough practices.


text:
TouchMyApps is giving away 5 copies of ezShare ($4.99), a fully featured and very capable file access and sharing app for your iDevice. Not only does it act as a WiFi hard drive app, but users are also able to print files, view documents and JPEGs, zip/unzip files, stream MP3s from your computer and more.
Access files stored on:
- Your Home or Work Desktop/Laptop,
- WebDav server (ex. MobileMe iDisk),
- Google Docs/Picasa (no Spreadsheets support yet),
- FTP, NAS Servers,
- Airport Extreme or Time Capsule
- Other iPhone/iPod touch users.
To enter for a chance at winning 1 of 5 copies, tell us why you'd like to try out ezShare for your iPod/iPhone and which of its many features will come in most handy for you. Winners will be selected randomly and the giveaway will close May 16th.
As well, follow us on Twitter and tweet: RT @TouchMyApps – ezShare Promo Code Giveaway! http://tinyurl.com/qcxjnw


text:
This week marked the first anniversary of an historic event in planetary exploration. One year ago, NASA's Messenger spacecraft fired a braking rocket and slipped into a looping orbit around Mercury.And what a year it's been! Previous posts here have described the planet's strange surface chemistry (almost no iron, but rich in sulfur), its weird magnetic field, the strange pitting inside many of its craters, and hints about how Mercury might have formed. Clearly, there's been no shortage of things to tell you about!
But, honestly, I've been waiting all year for three results from Messenger that involve nothing you could see by eye — and today I got my wish when the mission's scientists made a series of presentations at a huge meeting of planetary specialists in Houston.
The first involves what might be termed the "getting the lay of the land."One of the spacecraft's instruments uses a near-infrared laser to zap the surface eight times per second, all told more than 10 million times in the past year, and timing how long it takes these pulses to reflect off the planet. In doing so it's revealed the highs and lows of Mercury's northern half in exquisite detail. (Because of its highly eccentric orbit, the spacecraft swoops down close over the northern hemisphere but remains too far from the southern half for this technique to work.)
This laser altimeter has revealed that the planet has a broad, pronounced depression encircling its north pole. This low-lying plain is covered with thick volcanic layers that spewed from the interior early in the planet's history. In that respect it's not unlike one of the big lunar maria — except that its polar location is strategic. In the current installment of Science Express, the altimeter team (led by Maria Zuber of MIT) suggest that this broad lowland might have been flipped into that polar perch when Mercury's spin axis reoriented early in solar-system history.
Another topographic oddity involves the giant, 1,000-mile-wide Caloris basin, Mercury's largest impact feature. Inexplicably, part of the floor of Caloris stands higher in elevation than its rim. Zuber has a hunch this bulge might be related global stress, caused by contraction of the young planet's crust as the interior cooled — but it's just a hunch. "How indeed does the interior of Caloris end up higher than its rim?" asks geophysicist Sean Solomon, Messenger's principal investigator. "We'll be working on that question for a while."Number Two on my Messenger wish list is a map of the planet's gravity field, painstakingly assembled by tracking the spacecraft's motion as it loops around every 12 hours. In a companion Science Express article, David E. Smith (NASA-Goddard) and a host of geophysicists report that Mercury's gravity field reveals an interior structure far stranger than expected. For one thing, Mercury's iron core — already known to be enormous — takes up nearly 85% of the planet's diameter. It's got to be at least partially molten, though its center might be solid.
Such an oversize core leaves just the outermost 250 miles (400 km) for Mercury's mantle and crust! Yet, despite their unexpected thinness, the crust and mantle appear to contain nearly half of Mercury's rotational inertia. This would make sense if the solid exterior were rich in dense metals, but it's not. Instead, according to an analysis presented today by Steven A. Hauck II (Case Western Reserve), there must be a dense solid layer — iron sulfide ("fool's gold") seems most likely — sandwiched between the mantle and core.No other planet, rocky or otherwise, has internal layering as complex as Mercury's. But in one respect the dense extra layer makes sense: Mercury's magnetic field isn't as strong as it should be, given the massiveness of its iron core, and an iron-sulfide shell would tend to weaken the field.
And Number Three? About 20 years ago, astronomers discovered that the poles of Mercury "light up" when illuminated with radar beams from giant ground-based antennas. As implausible as it seems, they concluded that the radar-bright patches might be due to water ice. I am not making this up! These "snowballs in hell" are just barely conceivable because Mercury's axial tilt is very nearly 0°, so the floors of many polar craters remain permanently shadowed from the Sun's searing light.
Messenger's cameras can't see the darkened crater interiors, but the spacecraft carries a neutron spectrometer that can tell if the deposits are water ice. The details are a little thorny, but when cosmic rays strike Mercury's surface, atoms in the rocks emit neutrons — and if a neutron collides with a light atom (like hydrogen) before escaping to space, it will lose energy. If Messenger spots enough of these "slow" neutrons coming from near Mercury's north pole, water ice is the only likely cause.Images of the polar region show that the radar-bright deposits appear to be a dead match to permanently shadowed crater walls and floors. I've yet to see the laser altimeter's maps of the polar region, which determines the terrain's exact shape and slope, regardless of whether it's in sunlight of shadow. Those results will be more telling.
So is water ice hiding in those same spots? It's too early to know for sure — it takes a long time for the spectrometer to record enough neutrons. But the evidence in hand suggests that the water ice isn't just lying exposed on the surface. That's the same conclusion reached by a team that's modeled north-polar temperatures: it's too warm for water ice right at the surface, but go just a few inches down and it could remain stable for eons.
According to neutron-spectrometer team leader David Lawrence (Applied Physics Laboratory), if water ice is there, then it's either buried under a thin insulating layer or some other hydrogen-bearing compound is mixed in with it. An important clue is that the topmost layer of these putative deposits appears to be very dark, based how well it reflects the altimeter's near-infrared laser light. One crazy-but-plausible possibility is that the water ice is mantled by a thin blanket of hydrocarbon compounds — which are abundant in comets and meteorites, less volatile than water, and often very dark.
The good news is that Messenger's neutron spectrometer — and all of its instruments — will have more time to scrutinize the innermost planet. NASA managers recently gave the mission a one-year extension. One important change will come next month, when the spacecraft fires its engine to make its orbit less loopy. The apoapsis (high point) will drop from 9,500 miles (15,000 km) to about 6,000 miles (10,000 km). This means that images and other measurements of Mercury's southern hemisphere will get even better.
So this time next year we'll be celebrating its second anniversary — and, I can only hope, some equally amazing scientific results.


text:
Hey Hey,
I'd like to suggest a new forum. After talking with several of the more well versed members on this site through IRC, and various IM clients, I've come to the conclusion that a new forum is needed. One that is invite only, for those of us that actually know what we are talking about. AO is now being flooded by those looking to chat and those with basic tech support questions. 95% of the people in the addicts forum are only there because they are post whores, and some people who belong to be there aren't because they follow the rules and only post when they have a question or when they are helping out. I think an invite only forum is definately needed. One for those who present actual computer knowledge, who aren't out just to raise their post count and ask stupid little kid questions. Hell I'll even offer to sit and go threw the threads and invite members into it, if no one else wants to do it, or let a few of us that know what we're talking about in and let us vote on who's welcomed in after that. It's not fair to those of us that are here for security, to have to put up with this riff raff.


text:
Search Pegasus, The Law Library Catalog
Search Pegasus For E-Journal And E-Book Titles
Search Other Columbia University Libraries
Search For An Item In Libraries Worldwide
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library offers researchers one of the finest collections of legal materials in the country in both digital and print formats. Besides a near comprehensive American Law collection, there are strong collections in International Law and Comparative Law as well as a special section devoted to Japanese Law. The Law Library has significant collections from at least 30 different countries and a useful core of materials from many other jurisdictions.


text:
Lauren's Tiny Yet Airy Kitchen
Like this entry? Favorite it below!
- Name:
- Lauren
- Location:
- Munich Germany
- Square Feet:
- 80
- Division:
- International
- What makes your small kitchen so cool:
- Though this is smallest kitchen I've ever worked in, it's absolutely the most functional. Nothing is far, nothing a hassle to get to. Since the majority of my job revolves around what I create in that kitchen, I'm amazed that what I thought was a non-starter at the beginning has turned into one of my favorite rooms in our apartment.
- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.:
- Work space! We built a shelving unit so that we could move all of the gadgets to the other wall to free up counter space. We used this to create our recycling area as well. One of the best buys has been a large chopping board we got at Ikea. It doubled our workspace!
- What's your favorite meal to cook here?:
- My favorite is shrimp and grits with Zane's ultra fluffy buttermilk biscuits. On our last trip back to the States, I bought a 5 pound bag of grits to bring back with us. It's so nice to have a taste of home every now and then when you're living abroad!


text:
*** (out of four)
In 1984's "Red Dawn," characters used laughable secret codes, including "John has a long mustache." Minorities were referred to in ways that aren't even close to acceptable today. And a dad, separated from his son, screamed, "Avenge me!"
It's not saying much that the new "Red Dawn" is better, but it is. By quite a bit. Where the original's chilling opening of foreign paratroopers invading Colorado and firing into a school gave way to a nonsensical tale of high school kids absolutely dominating trained soldiers, the makers of the 2012 "Red Dawn" actually took time to figure out how to make the movie work.
Shot in 2009 and set in Spokane, Wash., the remake awkwardly switched its villains from the Chinese to the North Koreans, but otherwise has its head on straight. Jed (Chris Hemsworth) is now a Marine, and he combat trains the teenagers he holes up with during the invasion. His leadership convincingly mobilizes a group of kids (including Josh Peck as Jed's brother Matt and Josh Hutcherson of "The Hunger Games" as Robert) who grow up very quickly when forced to defend themselves and their homes against an enemy that apparently has wiped out all forms of communication. (Obviously Twitter would be a major factor in such an event.)
It's still absurd when the American rebels shout "Wolverines!" in salute to their high school mascot during the fight. Robert, who notes "We're living 'Call of Duty,' and it sucks," while demanding Subway sandwiches (but no flatbread!) at gunpoint, quickly goes from funny to disturbing. Thing is, teenagers go to war all the time, and this "Red Dawn" is no joke. Though the movie's also no "Skyfall," it's a scary, action-packed war zone that demonstrates the cost of selfishness and the importance of bonding as a team.
I wonder how many young fans of Hemsworth and Hutcherson will respond to the title, though. Were it not already taken, a bigger box-office hit might have come with the name "Step Up 2 the Streets."
Watch Matt on "You & Me This Morning," Friday at 6:55 a.m. on WCIU, the U
Want more? Discuss this article and others on RedEye's Facebook page.


text:
We've detected a problem with your browser settings.
in your browser settings to successfully view our site.
Sign In | Register
To serve you better please select from the list of service areas below to see relevant CenterPoint Energy information.
First time Visitor:
Returning Visitor:
First Time Employee Log In:
Returning Employees:
Important Notes: