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This page will simply list those things, be they books, music, movies, whatever that I really like and thoroughly recommend with a link to where you can find them. Yes, David Bowie is one of them 🙂
Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table. I was one of the technical reviewers for this book so I have to recommend it !! However, believe me, it's a great read with some of the best Oracle experts around sharing their insights and experiences.
Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals: A must read for all developers and DBAs who are truly interested in how the CBO works. Simply brilliant.
Effective Oracle By Design. This Thomas Kyte classic is equally suitable for beginners and the not quite so Oracle beginner. It's written in a very "easy to read" style with lots of excellent tips and suggestions.
Expert Oracle Database Architecture. Thomas Kyte writes really good, easy to read, full of useful information type books. This is one of them and a must for DBAs and/or Developers.
Optimizing Oracle Performance. This is one of the first books I read that taught you how to take the guess work out of diagnosing the cause of Oracle performance issues. Highly recommended.
A Games Of Thrones. Book 1 of the excellent "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin. A must read for any Fantasy fan, it's a perfect mix of The Borgias meets The Lord of the Rings.
A Clash of Kings. Book 2 continues the excellent "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin. A must read for any Fantasy fan, it's a perfect mix of The Borgias meets The Lord of the Rings. No character is safe !!
A Storm of Swords. Book 3 continues the excellent "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin. A must read for any Fantasy fan, it's a perfect mix of The Borgias meets The Lord of the Rings. Perhaps the best book of the series with THE massive surprise !!
A Feast For Crows. Book 4 continues the excellent "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin. A must read for any Fantasy fan, it's a perfect mix of The Borgias meets The Lord of the Rings. The plot just thinkens and thinkens.
A Dance With Dragons. Book 5 continues the excellent "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin. A must read for any Fantasy fan, it's a perfect mix of The Borgias meets The Lord of the Rings. Ending with more surprises than ever, I can't wait until the release of book 6 and 7 !!
Ender's Game. This is a very very good book, the first installment of the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, it's an interesting mix of Sci-Fi and military strategy. It tells the story of the training and psychology behind making child geniuses, such as a very special 11 year child named Ender Wiggin, the hope of mankind against the threat of alien attack. Clever and quite different from other Sci-Fi books I've read.
All the albums of Pink Floyd are being re-released in new digitally remastered formats, but three of their very best albums (The Dark Side Of The Moon in late September, Wish You Were Here in November and The Wall in February 2012) get the special treatment with the release of Immersion Box Sets.
So what do you get in The Dark Side Of The Moon Immersion Box Set ?
The answer is heaps !!
In a very large box (naturally), you get:
Disc 1 , a CD containing a digitally remastered version of the album
Disc 2, a CD containing a previously unreleased live concert at Wembley dating back to 1974.
Disc 3, an audio DVD containing various 5.1 Surround Sound and Quadraphonic (as originally released in 1973) mixes of the album
Disc 4, a visual DVD containing various live performances, documentaries and all the original concert screen films (makes me want to go out and buy a circular TV !!)
Disc 5, a Blu-Ray containing both audio and video highlights of what I've listed already
Disc 6, a CD containing previously unreleased material, including demos and the various live sequences that didn't quite make it onto the final album.
You also get a whole bunch of other goodies, including colour booklets, a photo book, Storm Thorgerson artwork and cards, a set of 9 coasters, a scarf (just in time for our Canberra summer), marbles and replicas of memorabilia.
I must have for any Pink Floyd or music loving fan !!
David Bowie is quite simply the most brilliant and influential person in rock history !! From his early works with Decca, through to his first hit with Space Oddity in 1969, through his most underrated period with The Man Who Sold The World and Hunky Dory, through his Glam period with Ziggy and Aladdin, through the gems that were his "Plastic Soul" period and the risks of the Eno Berlin Trilogy, past the masterpiece that is Scary Monsters into the Stadium Rock of the 80's, past the chaos of Tin Machine, into the 90's of yet more re-invention with masterpiece after masterpiece that were Outside, Earthling and Hours and finally into the new Millennium with classics such as Heathen and Reality, Bowie has done it all. In case you're wondering, yes I'm a fan !!
David Bowie Box. Just released, this box-set features the last five studio albums recorded by Bowie, each with an additional disc featuring rare re-mixes and B-sides. An excellent way to "catch-up" for those Bowie fans that found the 80s period much too difficult. Includes the albums "Outside", "Earthling", "Hours", "Heathen" and "Reality". The last 10 years have never sounded so good !!
In Rainbows. The latest album by Radiohead. A superb offering by the one of the most influential bands around. Released on 31 December 2007.
Oh By The Way. Pink Floyd are one of the great bands of all time. From the early days with Syd Barrett, through their experimental under-rated period of the late 60s, early 70s and into their blockbuster period including such classics as "The Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", "The Wall" and beyond post Roger Waters, they have consistently produced fantastic music. This recently released box-set "Oh By The Way", features all their studio albums with authentic replica original artwork. I so wish this band will get back together one day …
My Top 10 Albums Of All Time
10. A Rush Of Blood To The Head – Coldplay 2002
I love Coldplay and all three of their albums. They write really good songs which don't need to be over produced to bring out their magic. They're also a really good "band" with each member bringing a special ingredient to their music. This is one of those albums where once you've heard a track, you're a little torn as you want to hear the track again but you also want to hear the next track as well. Always a sign of a good album. I prefer this album of the 3 as it just seems to have a bit more range. From the frantic pace of Politik to the mellowness of Green Eyes, it just has catchy songs one after the other. Britpop gets no better than In My Place, Clocks and The Scientist. The album as a whole has a dreamy, spacey quality that just sucks you in. Highlight: Clocks
9. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 – Midnight Oil 1983
Australia has produced some really great, gutsy bands but none better than the Oils. Although both of their followup albums, "Red Sails In The Sunset" and "Diesel and Dust" are also truly great albums, this is their masterpiece. Much of the album is political in nature, but it's performed with such passion and drive that you just want to jump up and down with them. Although more than 25 years old, many of the themes and issues are probably more relevant now than they were back then, a quality of several of the albums on my list. However, it's the actual song writing that's so impressive, with classics such as "Read About It", "Power and the Passion" and "US Forces" sounding just as fresh and vital as always. The production is also amazing adding to the atmosphere and raw power of the whole recording. Highlight: Maralinga
8. The Velvet Underground and Nico – Velvet Underground 1967
This album is really important to me. I first heard to it back at the time when Abba and disco were the "in thing". However, this really opened up my eyes (and ears) to the fact dark themes are also worth writing and singing about and that there was this whole other world of music that you couldn't readily find on the radio or on Top of the Pops. I remember thinking just how different and amazing this was and how much more real and rebellious it was than much of the punk stuff that was making its mark. It's a unique album and incredibly influential and remarkably recorded in 1967 during the so-called Summer of Love. With a backdrop of some of Andy Warhol's favourite themes; drugs, sex and death, John Cale's soundscapes, Maureen Tucker's drumming, Lou Reed's manic guitar, Sterling Morrison's throbbing bass and the unique flat tones of Lou Reed and Nico's vocals simply sound amazing. A stunning musical statement that in many ways has never quite been matched. Highlight: Heroin.
7. The War of the Worlds – Jeff Wayne 1978
When I was about 12 or 13, I was really sick with a bad infection and had to spend 10 long days in bed. My Dad popped down to the local library and got me a few books and this new Sci-Fi musical tape to cheer me up a bit. So started my love for this album. This album has everything, a great story, fantastic music, brilliant performances from a great cast and the incredible voice of Richard Burton holding it all together. The key though is the music and the huge production which sounds so BIG. Jeff Wayne combines hard rock with a musical theatre sound which transports the listener on this incredible, thrilling journey. I still love it. Uuuuuullllaaaaaaa !! Highlight: The Eve Of The War.
6. Lust For Life – Iggy Pop 1977
There is no one quite like Iggy Pop and there's nothing quite like an Iggy Pop concert. The guy has so much energy, it's simply impossible to replicate it on a record (although Raw Power comes close). I love The Stooges and I love everything he's done since but for me, Lust For Life, recorded during his Berlin period with Bowie, is where he recorded the perfect Iggy Pop album. From the driving, addictive rhythm of the opening title track made famous on the Trainspotting soundtrack, it includes such gems as Sweet Sixteen, Some Weird Sin, The Passenger and Success. Although some of the themes are a little dark (Tonight for example is world's apart from the version re-recording by Bowie years later), there is a general sense of optimism which makes this a personal favourite. The photo of Iggy on the cover is a classic. Highlight: The Passenger.
5. The Beatles (White Album) – The Beatles 1968
The Beatles are without doubt the most influential band there's ever been and their music is just as catchy, interesting, moving and relevant today as it was 40 years ago. Picking just one of their albums is no easy task but perhaps only because I get two albums worth of material, the so-called White Album is my selection. Full of truly classic material, this for me is The Beatles at their best although sadly it also represents the beginning of the end in so many ways as well. They're still experimenting and pushing the boundaries but manage to include songs such as Back In The USSR, Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Birthday, Helter Skelter, the list just goes on and on. The only downside was having to get up all the time to change the records over after each side, thank goodness for MP3 players these days. Tempted to place this at No. 9 on the list … Highlight: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Amused To Death – Roger Waters 1992
I feel like I'm cheating a little as Roger Waters features heavily on another of my Top 10, but this is a solo effort and so passes. Inspired by the book "Amusing Ourselves To Death" by Neil Postman, the album is a contempt filled analysis of how TV has made society numb to the horrors the TV pictures so often portray. As a "monkey" randomly switches between different TV channels, wars become nothing more than another form of entertainment to be "enjoyed" with a bunch of friends over a few beers and popcorn. However, it's not only just the lyrics that are so powerful here, the music is just as important and captivating. Featuring the superb Jeff Beck on many of the tracks, Perfect Sense, The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range, It's A Miracle and the title track are just some examples of where the music shines just as bright. They sound incredible live in concert too BTW. Sadly, the whole concept behind the album is probably more relevant today than its ever been. I've no doubt if David Gilmour featured on this album, Amused To Death would be considered by many as a Pink Floyd masterpiece. Pink Floyd however are coming up soon enough. Highlight: Perfect Sense.
3. OK Computer – Radiohead 1997
Both "The Bends" and "Kid A" would both be worthy members of my top 10 list, but OK Computer is the Radiohead masterpiece. A collection of gems loosely based on how computers, transportation and technology generally have all contributed to make humans just that little bit less human, this album is simply one great track after another. The overall production is also so good and lush that each individual track genuinely sounds like a mini epic in it's own right (except perhaps Paranoid Android which sounds like a huge epic). Thom Yorke's singing is brilliant throughout with Exit For a Film for example sending shivers upon every listen, but the overall soundscapes produced by the other band members make this an excellent "sounding" album. Paranoid Android is undoubtedly a musical Ben-Hur but Airbag, Exit Music, Let Down, Karma Police, Climbing Up The Walls and Lucky are all grand in their own ways as well. As for the other tracks, well No Surprises there, they're bloody good as well. Even the much maligned Fitter Happier fits in perfectly within the overall mood and ambiance of the whole piece. Highlight: Paranoid Android.
Boy, I could have picked any number of Pink Floyd albums but in the end, The Wall just pips some of the others. Written primarily by Roger Waters and somewhat autobiographical, the album tells the "story" of the slow decline and disintegration of poor Pink, a rock star with too many mental scars to cope with stardom. Building "Walls" between himself and his past ultimately only makes matters worse and is perhaps the albums key message. However, as ever, it's the music that really counts and here Pink Floyd manage to (just) work together to produce a collection of classic tracks. Although Roger Waters clearly dominates, David Glimour's general contributions are vital in the context of making the whole album the musical masterpiece that it is. Another Brick In The Wall, Young Lust, Hey You, Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell for example are all about as good as it gets. It's an album best enjoyed from start to finish with a pair of headphones, a comfortable lounge, a cold beer and 80 or so free minutes to reminisce where you were when you first heard Another Brick In The Wall. Highlight: Comfortably Numb.
1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars – David Bowie 1972
Of course, it had to be a David Bowie album, but picking the one was not easy. Hunky Dory almost got there but in the end, if I had to get rid of all my music and keep just the one album, this would be it. This remarkably was the very first album I ever bought and the fact it's my favourite is pretty amazing really, if only for it passing the test of time so well. Although this was the album that finally brought Bowie fame, it was as much his amazing stage act and remarkable appearance that brought him so much attention. Which in some ways distracts slightly from what is ultimately a fantastic, straight up rock 'n' roll album. Based in some future time when the Earth only has 5 years before some catastrophe destroys all life, it loosely tells the story of an alien, "Messiah" rock star who manages to give people something worth living for before the pressure of stardom and human weaknesses brings it all crashing down. Five Years is probably the best opening and Rock 'n' Roll Suicide the best ending to any album, but the collection of songs in between are just as amazing. Moonage Daydream highlights just what a great guitarist and right-hand man Mick Ronson was, Starman is a song that probably generated the best Top Of The Pops performance by any artist, whereas songs such as Hang On To Yourself, Star, Ziggy Startdust and Suffragette City are probably some of the best rock songs ever written. Surprisingly for such futurist themes, it doesn't feature any synthesisers, only standard rock instrumentation and yet it sounds so fresh as if it's still based on music that will come sometime in the future. May Ziggy play guitar for many more years to come !! Highlight: Moonage Daydream.


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At the close of a summer in which environmental news was dominated largely by record temperatures, devastating drought in the U.S. Midwest, and lackluster progress at the Rio+20 summit, reasons for optimism can seem few and far between. But in two seemingly unlikely places—countries commonly (though simplistically) associated with poverty, ecological disaster, and violence—renewable energy projects are demonstrating their ability not only to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to power economic and social recovery.
In both Haiti and Rwanda, recent stories of progress and achievement reveal how renewables are powering national development from the ground up.
Haiti: Building back better
In the wake of Haiti's disastrous 2010 earthquake, which thrust the country once more into the international spotlight as tragic victim, the Haitian government and international organizations voiced the intention to "build back better." The goal was to ensure that the post-earthquake rebuilding process focused not only on reconstructing fallen buildings, but on making sure that the country as a whole became more resilient.
According to the Haiti Regeneration Initiative, Haiti currently faces four major challenges: post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction; economic and social development; environmental stabilization and restoration; and increasing resilience against future hurricanes, floods and earthquakes, and economic shocks. A crucial element for achieving all four of these goals is the extension of affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity services.
The Haitian government recognizes the importance of electricity access. In January 2012, the government launched the "Ban m limyè, Ban m lavi" ("Give me light, give me life") program, an ambitious plan to extend electricity access to 200,000 rural households over the next two years. The program demonstrates an explicit commitment to making rural electrification a central component of the country's broader development strategy.
Given the limited functionality and reliability of Haiti's electrical grid, there is significant potential for using distributed generation – power generated from small, on-site generation units – in health clinics, hospitals, schools, and businesses. Historically, institutions and organizations that could afford it relied mostly on expensive and environmentally destructive diesel generators. Increasingly, however, groups are turning to renewable sources of distributed generation, demonstrating the critical links between renewable energy and sustainable development.
The Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital, built with the support of Partners In Health and its sister organization Zanmi Lasante, will provide improved health facilities and medical education. It is powered by roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels, which provide 400 kilowatts of electrical power—enough to offset daytime consumption. ENERSA, a Haitian manufacturer of solar panels and appliances, has begun installing solar equipment at hospitals, in villages, and at agricultural facilities, underlining the crucial role of Haitians in establishing renewable energy companies and initiating and developing successful projects.
Although many of these projects are relatively small, serving individual facilities rather than providing power to the broader Haitian population, they illustrate the ability of renewable technologies to create real progress on the ground. They could serve as models for future energy sector development based on a scaling-up of successful distributed renewable projects, especially in rural regions.
Rwanda: Transformation and stability
In Rwanda as well, renewable energy is playing a key role in transforming a country once devastated by violence. To most Americans, this East African nation is still heavily associated with the 1994 genocide that resulted tragically in the deaths of between 500,000 and 1 million people. In the 18 years since then, however, Rwanda has experienced strong economic growth and steady social gains, prompting the World Bank to describe the country as "among the most stable on the continent" and the African Economic Outlook to highlight improvements in health care, education, poverty reduction, and gender equality. Concerted efforts to improve Rwanda's business environment resulted in the country being named a "top performer" in the Doing Business Report 2010, one of the 10 most improved economies in 2011, and the third easiest place to do business in Africa in 2012.
Surveying these recent gains, Josh Ruxin, Director of Rwanda Works, is encouraged: "This country has certainly come farther…than even the most optimistic observers would have predicted." According to Ruxin, the crux of Rwanda's strategy—not only in fueling economic growth, but also in encouraging social cohesion and reparation—has been to focus on providing affordable, reliable services, including electricity, to its population.
"It has been the government's express policy," Ruxin wrote in a New York Times op-ed, "to deliver basic services and economic growth to its people in order to mitigate genocide ideology…. Access to electricity and running water, both inconsistent five years ago even for those who could pay for it, is being constantly improved."
Although Rwanda's power-sector infrastructure has improved in recent decades, the country's national electrification rate remains an abysmally low 7 percent—far lower than both the regional and continental average. The government's goal is to raise this share to 30 percent by 2020, including by adding 42 megawatts of small hydropower capacity by 2015 and developing additional sources of energy (including geothermal and waste-to-energy) to diversify the power sector. Rwanda is already home to the largest single solar installation in Africa, the Kigali Solair plant, which generates 250 kilowatts of power and feeds into the national electricity grid.
Recognizing new realities
The progress being made in Haiti and Rwanda is important to recognize. For one, it illustrates the degree to which renewable energy sources are already contributing to concrete improvements in health and education, as well as to climate change mitigation. Highlighting these developments is critical, especially during a U.S. presidential election year in which renewable energy has become a political punching bag.
Moreover, it is clear that popular conceptions of countries like Haiti and Rwanda need to change to accommodate new realities—stories that go beyond the images of violence, devastation, and poverty that have dominated the Western media. Such a shift will allow government officials, foreign donors, and international organizations—in both developing and developed countries—to move forward as true partners in the effort to expand renewable energy.
Katie Auth is a Climate and Energy Research Associate at the Worldwatch Institute.
Supported by the International Climate Initiative of the German Government, Worldwatch currently works on Sustainable Energy Roadmaps for the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica.


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FDA has recently challenged the use of wooden planks (shelving) to age certain cheeses, a practice that has been going on for centuries. The Agency is concerned that wood absorbs and retains certain bacteria, such as listeria, that can sicken cheese consumers. Many domestic and imported cheeses are aged on wood shelves, such as parmesan and certain blue varieties.
FDA's Center for Food Safety communicated this concern to the New York State Agriculture Department, in response to an inquiry from the State about the issue. The inquiry was prompted by a warning letter and proposed consent decree sent by the Agency in October 2013 to Finger Lakes Farmstead Cheese Company in upstate New York, following an inspection of the company's production facility that FDA said turned up listeria contamination. FDA took the position that wood shelving used to age cheese could be a hazardous substance, citing a longstanding regulation requiring cheesemaking equipment to be "adequately cleanable" and "properly maintained."
An ensuing outcry from cheese producers, particularly New York and Vermont artisanal makers, caused FDA on June 11 to issue a "Clarification on Using Wood Shelving in Artisanal Cheesemaking." The Agency backtracked somewhat, acknowledging that "the language used in this communication (to New York State) may have appeared more definitive than it should have," and "FDA does not have data that directly associates these instances of contamination (past inspectional observations) with the use of wood shelving." FDA stated that it "will engage with the artisanal community, state officials and others" to have an "open dialogue" about the issue.


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Young Guns, as in the famous western movie. This is the title of the competition established by the Art Directors Club seven years ago, selecting the best portfolios submitted by designers, illustrators, photographers, advertisers and art directors worldwide.
Out of countless entries from 84 countries, 50 creative professionals were chosen to join the ADC Young Guns community. Their works have been published in a full-color illustrated Moleskine book, available at the Art Directors Club Online Store.
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Mobile phones cause cancer...or not
One result of 'borderline statistical significance'
People using a mobile phone for more than 10 years have a 40 per cent increased chance of developing glioma (a kind of brain tumour), according to research reported in the Telegraph.
However, the study referenced would seem less clear-cut, and certainly the authors draw less compelling conclusions.
The study involved questioning 4,822 people, of whom 1,521 were glioma patients. The idea was to establish which hand the patients used to hold a phone, and thus which side of the head the phone was near. This data is then compared with the side of the head on which the glioma appeared.
Overall, the study found no evidence of mobile phone use influencing the incidence of glimoa, but if only those who had used a phone for more than 10 years are included (all 222 of them), there is a match at a level the report's authors describe as "of borderline statistical significance".
This could be down to the inaccurate memories of the subjects, statistical coincidence or, possibly, phones effecting glimoa. The report calls for more research. ®


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Skip to comments.Dead People Need to Eat too - Vanity
Posted on 11/09/2012 12:10:29 AM PST by GraceG
It just occured to me, all those dead voters need to eat too, I mean if you are dead and you just spent a long election season voting several times for your favorite democrat president, the food stamp president and you get bupkiss for your your vote, well nuts to that, why not sign your corpse-y self up for some government cheese? I mean if dead people gotta vote, dead people gotta eat too?
If Obama is gonna double down in his second term, why not double down on his food stamp numbers by making sure that his favorite voting block is asking "what can government do for me"....
So grab a shovel and a piece of paper and pencil and an acorn clipboard and head down to the local cemetary to sign up the dead tired, starving to death, and those who are just dying to get a good meal or two...
To heck with "going Galt" it is too slow, instead of going just over their heads by going Galt and refusing to be a maker, Go WAY OVER THEIR HEADS and "Poll Vault" by becoming a SUPER TAKER, or an "Under Maker" and sign up the dead to as many social programs and government freebies as undead-humanly possible.
If it is good enough for an election system that the UN observers from craphole countries are suprised about how insecure it is. But the left cries "voter supression" like a stuck pig when a simple fraud prevention measure like photo ID is required by a state, then why the hell should the welfare state be any different.
The dead gotta eat, and voting is hungry work....
Starve the beast by feeding the dead...
You're evil.
I like that.
When you are fighting against people who's playbook is dedicated to satan (rules for radicals), you have to start using the playbook written by cuthulu!
Trying to play Mr. Rogers doesn't work when the Civil Society has been destroyed by the "Great Society", it is time to play Mr. Macavelli.
There's been cases of dead people left in apartments so the SSI check keeps rolling.
Food and a phone is not unreasonable.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Those dead voters need subscriptions to the New York Times, Rolling Stone, et al.
What else can we sign them up for?
Thanks for the chuckle.
It wasn't meant as a Joke, I am Dead Serious!
[ Those dead voters need subscriptions to the New York Times, Rolling Stone, et al.
What else can we sign them up for? ]
That is an awesome idea! Sign up all the dead voters to magazines that support the voting rights of the dead!
Love it. Here's something a frined e-mailed.
New Twist on an Old Tale
While walking down the street one day a Corrupt Senator (that may be redundant) was tragically hit by a car and died.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the Senator.
"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from the higher ups. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."
"Really?, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the Senator.
"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course.
In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They played a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and the finest champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who is having a good time dancing and telling jokes.
They are all having such a good time that before the Senator realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises.
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens in heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him, "Now it's time to visit heaven..."
So, 24 hours passed with the Senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
"Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity."
The Senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell."
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell...
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls to the ground.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulders.
"I don't understand," stammers the Senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"
The devil smiles at him and says,
"Yesterday we were campaigning,
Today, you voted.."
"It wasnt meant as a Joke, I am Dead Serious!"
I didn't take it as a joke. I can still see humor in it though, can't I?
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There is such thing as a free lunch.
On Sunday, Oct. 20, one of Hoboken's most well known eateries, Benny Tudino's at 622 Washington St., celebrates its 45th anniversary. From 11 a.m. till 6 p.m., the restaurant will hand out free slices of pizza as well as commemorative t-shirts. The day will also feature a mariachi band and an Italian band.
Music at the pizzeria harks back to owner Benny Drishti's earliest days in the United States. It was 1963 when 26-year-old Bari Drishti — his given name, from his mother's hometown of Bari, Italy — was newly arrived from Albania. In the U.S., friends soon began calling him "Benny," and the nickname stuck.
He quickly found work at the famed Manhattan restaurant Mamma Leone's.
"I worked in the kitchen, and I sang too," Benny said in an interview earlier this month. (Leone's was known for strolling singers and musicians who made their way around the tables.) It was during this period that Benny met Sophia, a lovely young teacher who soon became his wife.
A business opportunity in 1968 brought the happy couple across the Hudson to Hoboken. Benny's cousin and a former priest — Father Tudino — had purchased 622 Washington St. It had previously been home to a Jewish bakery and luncheonette. The two men opened a pizzeria at the location — calling it Tudino's — but things weren't going well.
"They were old. They did deliveries by walking," Benny recalls. "[My cousin] asked me, 'Please Benny, come and buy this place; we can't make it.' "
For $29,000, Benny purchased the business and the three-story building. He added "Benny" to the sign, keeping the Italian surname "Tudino" up there as well. And in October of 1968, he re-launched the pizzeria.
But Benny wasn't certain he'd made the right decision.
"When I came here, Hoboken was terrible," he remembers. " 'Oh boy, what did I do?' I said when I bought the place. But I worked hard."
An odd trade, and Stromboli
Benny and Sophia moved into the apartment upstairs. Sophia worked as a cook in the restaurant, and the couple began to raise a family. They had two boys, Eddie and Arbend. (Benny also has a daughter, Raimonda, back in Albania.)
Benny was excited to put his Mamma Leone's kitchen experience to work, and found that he had a real passion for it. "To be a chef, you need to have a feeling for the dishes you make," Benny said. "I have that. I love the kitchen. I love to cook."
But hard work and enthusiasm didn't immediately translate into success.
"Nobody said hello," Benny recollected. "I was a new face in the town." But things started to change when a young man offered a trade: For a couple of slices of pizza, he'd work behind Benny's counter for a few hours. The fellow turned out to be rather skillful.
"He was a juggler, tossing the dough in the air!" Benny says. "The best pizzaman." The young man soon made a stromboli using red and green peppers, ham, salami, prosciutto, and mozzarella cheese. Benny sliced the stromboli and put it on display by the front.
"You put this in the window, and see all those colors—it looks good! Makes you hungry," Benny claims. "Everybody started buying them."
People came for the stromboli, but they stayed for Benny's special tomato sauce. He had begun developing its secret recipe while watching the chefs in the Mamma Leone kitchen. Exactly what's in there, Benny will never tell.
Giant slices become legendary
And then there are those enormous 14-inch slices—"Home of the Largest Slice" as the sign out front boldly states. The slices have become the stuff of legend, inspiring random customers to take photos of their infants next to them.
Benny still doesn't understand why they do this, but he dutifully tapes the pictures to the side of his pizza oven. And why giant slices?
The idea came from Benny's brother-in-law, who ran Four Brothers Pizza on West Side Avenue in Jersey City. Business there had been slow until his brother-in-law started making the pies larger and larger. Customers really responded, so Benny borrowed the concept — and the rest is pizza history. (Four Brothers Pizza is still in operation, under different ownership, and still offers a "big slice," but not nearly as big as Benny's.)
Benny's dedication to excellence has led to frequent appearances on best-of lists. Zagat has routinely honored the eatery, including nods as one of New Jersey's top-5 pizzerias as well as the state's "top restaurant for overall quality and value."
So it's no wonder that Benny has built an extremely loyal customer base over the years.
Hi, Benny!
As Benny sits at his regular table outside or at the front booth, it is inevitable that pleased patrons will stop by to pay their respects. One of them is Michael Matera, who has been coming to Benny Tudino's since the late 1980s. He especially loves the fresh, hot slices.
"You can't get any fresher," Michael says. "Slices sell quickly and constantly, so the pieman doesn't need to reheat yours." Michael and his dad eat there at least twice a month. Michael Sr. adds, "Benny makes us feel like we're part of the family."
The rich and famous also like to come by from time to time. During one of his last visits to Hoboken in the mid-1980s, hometown legend Frank Sinatra dropped in. ("He stayed till 2:00 at night; he kept me here!" Benny laughs.) In the '90s, Benny took notice of a certain gentleman eating pizza. "I looked at him; he had a familiar face," Benny says. It was none other than Judge Ito from the O.J. Simpson trial.
On Nov. 18 last year, another well-known visitor made an appearance at Benny Tudino's. Vice President Joe Biden was touring Hoboken, witnessing the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. After a long day, Sen. Frank Lautenberg suggested getting a quick slice at Benny's. The motorcade pulled up, and Secret Service held back throngs of photographers as the veep stood at the counter.
"He was very friendly, very sweet," Benny recalls.
But did Biden enjoy his slice?
"He loved it!" says Benny. "You can see how he grabbed it and ate it."
Benny Drishti has witnessed countless changes in Hoboken since 1968. "Look how beautiful it is now," he says. Benny credits Steve Cappiello, mayor from 1973 to 1985, with helping to turn the city around. "They need a monument to him here," Benny states. "Washington Street should be Steve Cappiello Street."
Of course, there have been changes in Benny's family as well. His boys grew up and both joined the Hoboken Police Department: Eddie is a sergeant, and Arbend is a police officer.
Benny now has five grandchildren, of whom he is exceedingly proud. His beloved wife, Sophia, passed away in 2004. "She was one of a kind," he says. "You don't find many women like that."
Music has remained a constant. In 2007, after years of encouragement from friends, Benny returned to Albania to record an album (as Bari Drishti), Shkodra Ilire. His song "Ty Ty Ty" has more than 57,000 views on YouTube.
As the Italian band plays at the pizzeria's 45th anniversary celebration on Sunday, Benny will likely be persuaded—without much arm-twisting—to croon a song or two. He'll smile, laugh, and shake hands with customers he's known for decades.
His philosophy for earning repeat business has been a simple one: "By giving you good, fresh food, you're going to come back. I'm not here for one day. I'm here for years and years and years and years."


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EASTLEIGH boss Richard Hill was delighted with the signing of James Constable, saying it sent a message of intent to the Conference Premier.
The former Oxford United midfielder, who led Eastleigh to the Conference South title last season, is confident the striker will again prove a big hit.
'I've spent the past two-and-a-half weeks speaking to James and telling him all about what we are striving to achieve here," Hill said.
"On the three occasions we've met, and during numerous telephone conversations, the subject of money has never been raised.
"In truth, James was keen to stay at Oxford and overhaul the club's scoring record; a feat that after six years of committed service he was desperate to achieve.
"He was initially holding out in the hope that Oxford would offer him fair terms to stay and do that.
"Oxford's loss, though, is definitely our gain."
Oxford United boss Gary Waddock said: "James has been a great servant to this club and a pleasure to work with.
"We respect his decision and wish him well as he moves on."
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Five Really Dumb Money Moves You've Got to Avoid
You know the smartest things to do with your money. But what are the worst moves? What should you avoid?
Weirdly enough, they are things that a surprising number of people are still doing—even though they probably know, in their heart of hearts, how foolish they really are.
Any list is going to be incomplete. But here are five to avoid.
1. Reaching for yield
What this country needs is a good 5% certificate of deposit. Instead the collapse in interest rates, and the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping them down for as long as possible, is driving people crazy—especially people who need to generate income from their investments.
In these circumstances, people start to do really foolish things in the desperate hunt for higher interest rates. That includes taking on crazy amounts of risk, or investing in complex products they don't understand, in the hope of higher yields. The Fed is producing a bull market in scams, Ponzi schemes and associated rackets.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently warned about an epidemic of bogus high-yield "corporate promissory notes" being marketed to investors by scam artists.
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The Wall Street Journal's Jason Zweig highlighted the woes of those sold complex "reverse convertibles," a legal but complicated product with embedded risks. Eric Lewis, chief investment officer of Bedrock Capital Management in Los Altos, Calif., suggests that if you can't explain an investment to a friend, including what might go wrong, you should think twice.
A high-yield bond fund such as the iShares High Yield Corporate Bond exchange-traded fund (HYG), which lends money to risky companies, sports a yield of about 5%. That's the maximum yield you can earn without taking on much more risk.
2. Going into the poor house to send Junior to a country-club college
Over the past 40 years, the cost of tuition and fees at a private university has tripled—after accounting for inflation. The cost of a public university has quadrupled.
The cost of getting a bachelor's degree has become a scandal in this country. Students spend $160,000 on a four-year degree and the results are too often questionable.
Financial planners strongly advise parents against plundering their own retirement savings, which they are likely to need, to pay for this.
Admittedly, a degree has become a protection racket—you can't get a job without one, but there are fewer jobs for those with them. But the smart move for the budget-constrained is to get a bachelor's degree at a public university. The tuition and fees average less than $9,000 a year instead of $30,000 at a private college.
3. Owning stock in your employer
This is one of the silliest and riskiest moves any investor can make. If the company hits trouble, you get whacked twice. You can lose your job and your savings—all in one fell swoop. Ask anyone who worked for Enron…or Lehman Brothers.
The law, amazingly, actually encourages this crazy move. While employers' 401(k) plans are subject to punitive regulations, lest they allow you to take on too much "risk," employers are allowed to offer their own stock among the investment options. Many do.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute says that the percentage of 401(k) assets held in employers' stock has been halved since 2000, but the numbers are still alarming. Furthermore, it's the youngest workers—those best able to take a gamble—who are shunning their employers' company stock.
At companies where the 401(k) plan offers the option, workers aged 40 or over typically hold about 20% of their entire 401(k) account in the company's stock, according to EBRI data. Crazy.
4. Taking Social Security too early
If you can afford to delay taking your Social Security retirement benefit, do.
Someone earning $50,000 a year who starts claiming Social Security as soon as he or she is able, age 62, will typically collect a monthly check of about $1,000, according to the Social Security Administration. If they wait until they are 70, that amount would double.
Taking Social Security too early, or without thinking through the consequences, is one of the biggest financial blunders people can make—roughly on a par with buying tech stocks in 2000 or a Las Vegas condo in 2006. The lure of getting money early can blind people to the big cost down the road.
(Many retirees may not have much of a choice. Hard labor at low pay over a lifetime takes its toll on a person. Also, many companies all but force older workers into early retirements.)
In any case, it doesn't take more than just a few years before the total money accrued with the higher, later benefits surpasses the total earned starting at the earlier retirement age.
But that understates the bigger issue. Social Security is insurance. For many retirees, the big risk isn't that they will run out of money before they turn 70, but after 85. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than half of women currently age 65 will live to 85 or longer, and three out of eight men.
David Blanchett, head of retirement research for financial research firm Morningstar, says it makes sense for women, married couples and those with good health to wait longer for a bigger paycheck.
5. Buying long-term bonds
A surprising number of people still subscribe to the flawed and circular argument that bonds, including long-term government bonds, are "safe." In reality, bonds—especially long-term government bonds—are the rare example of a bubble that has been explicitly declared.
The Fed is openly printing money and using it to buy up such bonds, driving up the price and driving down the interest rates, in order to help the economy. There is no dispute about this. It's public policy.
A 30-year Treasury bond currently sports an interest rate of just 3.1%. That's barely half a percentage point above long-term inflation forecasts. Based on history, the yield should be at least 4.5%, or two percentage points above inflation.
Thirty-year Treasury inflation-protected securities, known as TIPS, sport a "real" or inflation-adjusted yield of 0.6% a year. Again, it should be 2%.
The only reason to buy such bonds in any quantity is to gamble on a 1930s-style depression and world-wide deflation. Such bonds are a gamble, not a safe haven.


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I am trying to set up a triger for a database on MS SQL server. I've already tried many things, but it still don't work.
The triger is a delete function in one of the tables.
The Table holds the tracks in the album, when the tracks are deleted, the album table is updated and the length of the tracks is deleted from the total album length. As the user might delete a number of tracks at a time, I need to run a cursor to scroll through the tracks. The problem is that the cursor returns NULL value
There is the code:
CREATE TRIGGER trg_UpdateDeletion ON items FOR DELETE
DECLARE @Duration smallint, @WorkDuration int, @NewDuration int
SELECT @WorkDuration = WorkDuration FROM works
WHERE CatalogNo = (SELECT CatalogNo from deleted)
DECLARE crs_Delete CURSOR
SELECT Duration FROM items
WHERE CatalogNo = (SELECT CatalogNo from deleted)
AND SequenceNo = (SELECT SequenceNo from deleted)
OPEN crs_Delete
FETCH NEXT FROM crs_Delete INTO @Duration
WHILE @@fetch_status = 0
SELECT @NewDuration = @WorkDuration - @Duration
FETCH NEXT FROM crs_Delete INTO @Duration
CLOSE crs_Delete
DEALLOCATE crs_Delete
UPDATE works
SET WorkDuration = @NewDuration
WHERE CatalogNo = (SELECT CatalogNo FROM deleted)


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Judge tells feds to list and protect
In a slap at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a federal judge ordered the agency March 14 to list four species as endangered and to set aside the most important habitat for them and two others already listed.
District Judge Roger Strand chided the service for having repeatedly missed congressionally imposed deadlines under the Endangered Species Act by 11 months to more than two years. Affected by the decision are the jaguar, the Sonora tiger salamander, the Canelo Hills ladies' tresses, the Huachuca water umbel, and the previously listed Southwestern willow flycatcher and cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
All depend at least in part for their survival on one of the Southwest's most battered habitats: the cottonwood-willow forests that have largely succumbed over the years to groundwater pumping, cattle grazing, firewood cutting and road-building.
"The courts are now recognizing that the agencies are not credible in their efforts to protect species," said Robin Silver, conservation director for the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity, which had filed suit to get these species listed and their habitats protected.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has not commented on the decision or decided whether to appeal. Its attorneys had argued that the federal agency lacked staff and money to meet its deadlines, and that priorities had to be set for which species to protect.
The judge ruled that while officials have the power to decide how to spend the money they get, "they don't have carte blanche to decide not to carry out their duties under the guise of resource allocation."
Now, the cash-strapped agency must decide how to protect these species in the face of strong resistance from ranchers, developers and other private interests. Environmentalists say the first and boldest step the service could take would be to quickly develop recovery plans for each species, because that would clearly spell out how developers and other private interests could be affected by the listings.
Fish and Wildlife Service officials say they are more likely to protect these species with gentle approaches such as habitat conservation plans and other negotiated agreements with ranchers and landowners than with regulations or enforcement orders. But they cannot say when they'll have a plan for any of these species. That includes the Southwestern willow flycatcher, listed in 1995 and down to 300 to 500 pairs.
"Our problem is that the same person who would be doing a recovery plan has to do consultations with other agencies and work with landowners," said Sam Spiller, field supervisor for the service's Phoenix office. "All I can tell you is that we know (plans) are needed and we will try to complete them."
Tony Davis reports from Tucson, Arizona.


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Artists: Christian Masot
Silk City Tattoo
7 Garfield Ave.
Hawthorne, NJ 07506
What year did you start tattooing? How did you get started?
I started tattooing in the year 2000; I was in college at the time and all of my friends started getting tattooed. I was always drawing so everyone started asking me to design their tattoos—I didn't really know anything about tattoos so I would draw this atrocious garbage, ha ha. The artists probably hated me. After a while one of my friends told me that the guy that did their tattoo wanted to meet me. I was all nervous—I went in and he told me I should design a set of flash to sell at the upcoming NYC convention. So I got to work and did this godawful tribal set and brought it to the show. While selling it, this guy (Joey G) asked me if I wanted to learn how to tattoo. I figured it seemed like a cool job—but, I mean, it wasn't like it is now.
Where did you apprentice?
I started my apprenticeship at a shop in Secaucus called Underground Images—wicked name, I know.
And I was there for about a year. It was about that time that I met Mario Barth, and he made me an offer to come work for him. This was a really great opportunity and I figured that I could learn a lot from him, so it was then that I jumped ship and restarted my apprenticeship under him.
What conventions have you worked at? Have you won any awards?
I've done a bunch of conventions over the past years: Boston, The Biggest Show on Earth, Atlantic City, Asbury
Park, Electric City, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago, and Miami. I have a great time at the shows; it's an awesome way to meet the community. But as far as contests go, I have won a bunch of stuff—I hope that doesn't make me sound like a prick. I've won best sleeve, tattoo of the day, best of show, best Asian, best
color, best black-and-gray… I am more just happy that the people that I tattoo are proud to show what I've done on them. The trophies are nice but it's really all about the art.
How do you describe your style?
I really enjoy tattooing—like, really a lot—but if I had to describe what I enjoy doing most, I'd say a new
take on classic Japanese style, using a lot of color, but then I also really like doing intricate black-and-gray stuff as well. Recently I've really gotten into doing realism in flowers and wildlife.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
Tattooing is always changing, and you have to let your style evolve to keep up and set yourself apart.
What inspires you as an artist?
Hmm… more than anything I'd say nature. It sounds cliché, I know, but I try look at everything that I see
as how I could tattoo it. That is, if I look at something like a jellyfish, I try to see what makes it up—why does it sometimes look illuminated, how could I replicate its translucence on skin? Or if I look at a butterfly, I'll really analyze how the colors are so perfect, then I'll try to process it and come out with my take on it.
What other mediums do you work in?
I love painting. My mediums of choice are acrylics, primarily, followed by watercolors and airbrushing. One day I'd love to learn to sculpt.
What tattoo artists do you admire most?
Well, my favorite artists are Joe Capobianco, Eric Merrill, Horiyoshi III, and Shige. I also really admire Jesse Smith and Derek Noble. Also my boy Damien Friesz for his amazing painting skills. There's a lot of amazing artists out there, but these are the ones that I feel had a lot to do with keeping me inspired throughout the years.
What kind of tattoos do you look forward to doing?
I love doing big-color tattoos, Japanese stuff, black-and-gray—I just love tattooing anything interesting. If you look at my portfolio, I'm a bit all over the place, whereas some tend to really get into doing a particular style and they'll base themselves on that. I just really look at a tattoo and as long as the client is cool and lets me do my thing with it, I'll just have fun. I just can't believe this is my job—it's awesome.
Is there anyone that you would like to tattoo?
If I could have tattooed one person, it would have been my grandmother before she passed away. She always teased me and told me she wanted a rose or a butterfly, and I think it would have been awesome to do it.
Before someone gets a tattoo what advice do you give them?
Know who you're getting tattooed by—see at least 15 good pictures in their portfolio, and meet them first! Don't just like someone's work and then not be able to stand the person that's permanently marking you. For me, being very spiritual, I believe that if your artist acts like a prick while he's tattooing you, he's putting that negative energy into your body—that's not awesome. The experience is like a bond that you have. In some cultures, the artist needs to know you and designs the tattoo based on the feeling that he gets from you. That's an extreme, of course, but I'd say definitely make sure that there's a connection between you and the artist that you choose.
Is there a tattoo that you haven't done yet that you are dying to do?
Oh my God, will someone please let me do a Star Wars tattoo already? I mean, seriously—it's been 12 years,
it's one of the only tattoos that I would come in on a day off for!


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Deep Water Horizon Oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico spewed oil in to water around for 86 days, after many different trials and errors BP managed to cap the well and a few days later there was hardly any oil to be seen on the surface. As per estimates around 200 million barrels of oil leaked into the waters of the Gulf Of Mexico. The NOAA says almost 3/4th of the oil was either skimmed, burned, dispersed or consumed by the microbes in the water. There by leaving around 54 millions gallons of oil in the gulf which is still nearly five times the size of the 11 million-gallon Exxon Valdez spill, which wreaked environmental havoc in Alaska in 1989.
I found it interesting that 200 million barrels of oil could be taken off from the waters in the gulf. The skimmers were getting around 20+million barrels of oil a day. The government says about a 1/4 of the oil evaporated or dissolved in the warm Gulf waters, the same way sugar dissolves in water, federal officials said. Another 1/6 th naturally dispersed because of the way it leaked from the well. Another 1/6 th was burned, skimmed or dispersed using controversial chemical dispersants. Easily explained away with the percentages and combination's et al, but in reality it just sounds too good to be true.
I have seen and heard news reports where local boat captains and others who have been involved in the cleaning and skimming operations say they were finding it difficult to accept the claims that only 1/4th of the oil remained in the gulf of Mexico. BP is now conducting a static kill on the well in place of the 75ton cap.
During the static kill BP pumped 2,000 barrels (84,000 gallons) of synthetic drilling mud into the well, beginning 3rd August 2010. The way the system works is in a static state, meaning that the downward weight of the mud is counterbalancing the pressure of the oil pushing upward from the reservoir.
The locals along the Gulf coast are outraged by the clean claims of BP and the slowing down of the cleaning activities in the gulf.
" According to WVUE correspondent John Snell, local officials dispatched a dive team to a barrier island off of southeastern Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish to scan the sea floor for oil. The team, however, could barely see the sea floor, due to the current murky state of the area waters. But when the divers returned to shore, they made a rather remarkable discovery: Tiny holes that burrowing Hermit crabs had dug into the ground effectively became oil-drilling holes. When the divers placed pressure on the ground near the holes, oil came oozing up."
It is shameful that the largest oil spill in the nations history is being covered up without much thought, it will be decades really before we know the real extent of Deep Water Horizon Oil Spills lasting impact.
A Video from FOX WVUE on BP's Oil on the Louisiana Barrier Islands:
A video About how Oil Dispersants Work?
A CNN Video interview with Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungusser,Dated June 16, 2010
The Latest on BP in the Gulf of Mexico – as they are working on the static kill and the relief wells to confirm it worked, BP announced it's plans to drill another well somewhere nearby! BP's COO Doug Suttle "Clearly there's lots of oil and gas there and we'll have to think about what to do with that at some point," Read the entire article HERE
This Video is about Corexit the Dispersant extensively used by BP in the Gulf
Will update as I learn more, it seems like yesterday when Deep Horizon was front page news…


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Hard-lines on hydraulics really clean up the setup in your trunk, but even then, hydraulics still get a bad rap when it comes to leaks and rough rides. every car will handle and perform completely different to the last car. With hydraulics, it's a constant learning process as you learn from every car that you have owned and fine tuned. With this particular '56 Chevy bel air that "Indio" of Indio's Custom Restorations (Fullerton, California) is working on, the lines kept coming loose through the vibration of the motor as well as the normal usage of the hydraulics.
The solution to this owner's dilemma was to use seco seals' copper bushings, which were designed for steel on steel use. seco's gaskets are designed to work 100-percent of the time, nor ever wear out or need replacing in most situations. seco seals is the world leader in specialty manufacturing of high- pressure tube fitting gaskets for aerospace flight applications. seco seals makes gaskets for nasa, boeing, Lockheed and most major defense and aircraft companies.
If you're ever working with aluminum an fittings, you can use seco seals' bushings designed for aluminum, which are made of a little softer material that bonds to aluminum much better. both of these types of bushings or seals are designed to not come loose through the vibration of the engine or the hydraulic fluid running through the hard-lines.
With 37 years of experience under their belts and a record of 100-percent reliability for its products, seco seals is the real deal, and now you too can have aircraft quality and reliability for under a dollar per fitting. now follow along as Indio shows us how to play plumber and get rid of all those unwanted leaks by using seco seals' copper seals.


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Cameron Raney is only 5 years old, but he's already taken over the mayor's seat.
Cameron Raney is only 5 years old, but he's already taken over the mayor's seat.
Cameron got the chance Friday to sit in a chair normally reserved for the mayor at Leavenworth City Hall. He also got to meet three adults who faced a similar medical hardship as him.
The Leavenworth boy was at City Hall to meet with three men who were wounded while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Last summer, Cameron was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, and a portion of his left leg was amputated in November 2013.
He is awaiting a prosthetic leg, or "robot leg" as he called it Friday.
Cameron's mother, Kaitlin Jewell, said her son is fascinated by the Army, and she wanted her son to see people who have similar injuries.
"I just thought it would help him cope," she said.
Retired Staff Sgt. Tim Norton, one of the wounded warriors who visited Cameron at City Hall, is an amputee, and he showed his prosthetic leg to the local boy.
"This is a badge of honor for me," Norton said.
Sgt. James Callaway said he is stationed at Fort Riley and was asked to participate in the event as a wounded warrior.
"It did a lot more for us than it probably did for him," Callaway said of the visit.
The men presented gifts to Cameron including a pellet gun and Batman toy.
Retired Staff Sgt. Bryan Price competed in this year's Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, in cross country skiing events.
Price presented Cameron with a jersey from the Paralympics, which he autographed.
Melissa Bower, public information officer for the city, also presented Cameron gifts from the city, including free passes to the Wollman Aquatic Center.
Cameron said he felt good about the visit.
So, too, did the wounded warriors who lifted his spirits.
"You've got new buddies you can call anytime," Callaway said.


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May 17, 2012
Basehor-Linwood High School graduate Grant Moyer shakes the hand of retired Air Force Lt. Col. Gregory N. Shuey at the BLHS commencement ceremony May 17. Shuey recognized Moyer for his appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Moyer is one of 1,040 incoming cadets chosen from 12,000 qualified applicants around the country, Shuey said, and the appointment carries a value of about $414,000.
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Just to make life simpler for me, I have decided to build The Practical Television Argus TV receiver from June 1952 (using a VCR97). The main reason for this is that some while ago, I bought a set of blank chassis for it off ebay, together with a couple of CRTs.
The chassis are in 16SWG alloy with welded corners etc and are really well made. There are 5 chassis: 2 x RXs, 1 x Timebase, 1 x CRT supply and a PSU and each one has at least one big hole to drill.
I got on to Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01 ... p_0_ti,and found this little alloy box with 5 sizes of cone cutter, the largest being 1 3/8". They duly arrived and I set about the chassis. The cutters are excellent (alloy, not steel) and I can't recommend them enough - excellent. The alloy tends to cloy to the cutting edge at the smaller diameters but with paraffin as a lubricant, the larger diameters cut very well. I still needed to enlarge the maximum hole size for the B9G bases I was using - 1 1/2" required.
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Playwright turns work abroad into thought-provoking hit back home
By Jerry Tallmer
I saw that article, Leight said. The shocking thing is that when they found out he was innocent, they were going to kill him anyway, to save face. Nothing would surprise me about how things work there, added the much-younger-seeming, 48-year-old Tony-winning playwright.
His recall of how things work and do not work there stem from his nine months in China as a teacher of spoken English in 1980, hard on the heels of the chaos and brutality of the lost decadeMaos (more yet, Mme. Maos) Great Cultural Revolution. The experience provides the marrow of No Foreigners Beyond This Point, Leights richly enjoyable, deeply disconcerting new play about two Americans who go to China to teach English in the years following the Great Leap Backward. The Ma-Yi Theater Company production is at 45 Bleecker Street through October 16, maybe longer.
Warren Leight glanced again at the newspaper lying before him. The longer I stayed there, the less I understood. But I was infuriated by the people who came for three days and would write: China is smiling again. The play is darker now than it used to be, its author said. I went back and clarified a lot.
He also gave the character Xiao Wan, a childlike 19-year-old, a joke about a flock of ducks who take a long march, just like the famous 1930s Long March of Mao Tse-tungs forces to escape annihilation by the armies of Chiang Kai-shek.
Every night three people laugh, said playwright Leight. Sunday night a Chinese woman was doubled over, laughing. I decided not to kill her off little Xiao Wan. I do enough of that on Law & Order.
Leight has been one of the writers of TVs Law & Order and now of Law & Order: Criminal Intent for the past four years. (My first steady job, he says.) He lost both his parents during the past two years. I was hemorrhaging money with the elder care. It was the perfect moment to go inside.
Spoken as a true outsider.
What had helped him squirrel his way inside was a Pulitzer nomination and the Tony Award for Side Man (Best Play, 1999), a subtle, moving drama about the dysfunctional family of a dysfunctional jazz trumpeter much like Warrens own father, Donald Leight, who played with Woody Herman and everyone else you ever heard of.
That father, says the son, was of Russian-Ukrainian-Jewish extraction but of the generation that got here and wasnt. My mothers people were southern Italian. I was raised Unitarian. So Im a mutt.
Born in Queens, January 17, 1957, the mutt grew up on Manhattans Upper West Side and went to the Fieldston School, then to Stanford in California.
I had one renowned China expert at Stanford, Leight says dryly, who talked of the Cultural Revolution as a great social experiment.
The fact is, there had been a holocaust there, and no one outside China really knew the dimensions of it.
It wasnt the renowned China expert who would inspire 23-year-old Warren Leight to go to China.
What took me there? The glib answer is there was a girl at high school
I had a crush on her
I ran into her
I was freelancing, and she was applying for a teaching job in China. That sounded interesting. And a writer is supposed to have experiences.
In fact, in the play, Americans Andrew and Paula are lovers of a sort, though a fairly complicated sort meaning that they sleep together, but
It was an experience that was a little rough on Leights health and welfare, as it was on the plays Andrew. When I came back I weighed 53 pounds less than I do now. (He now weighs 165.)
What did you eat, Warren?
Rice. And more rice.
The play was commissioned three years ago by Baltimores Center Stage. They said: What would you like to write a play about? I said: Well, theres this, and this, and China and their artistic director said: My father was in China in World War II. Thats the play I want. My jaw dropped.
No, he doesnt care to say any more about the real-life girl he went to China with. She might prefer her privacy be kept beyond that point. Afterthought: Theres no word in China for privacy. And no, he doesnt wish to say anything about his present very lovely girlfriend. Shes a civilian [i.e., not of the theater]. Leave her alone.
And no, hes never been back to China. But does he want to?
Id like to. I dont know how this play will affect my chances. What would be fantastic is if theyd let me go back with the play.
Who knows? In the land where, as Andrew learns, yes means no and no means maybe, even that long march could happen.
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Hi Uberdwayne,
The civilized tone of our discussion is something you can take full credit for! You've given me no cause for annoyance.
No argument over the early currency of byz readings. As I said earlier, it may well be that many or most or even all of the readings that eventually formed the byz text were in circulation before 200—along with others. But we can't go back-projecting a before-the-fact discrete textual entity recognizable as "the byz text" on that basis. It's anachronistic even to refer to them as "byz readings"; that shorthand formula in itself misleadingly implies the preexistence of the byz text. When you say "one could infer that these readings were copied from somewhere" I hope you're not implying they were copied from a byz text. They were copied—except for any that originated in the manuscript in question—from a manuscript which had a similar mixture [anachronistic term!] of readings. A manuscript only partially exhibiting "byz" readings does nothing to strengthen the case for byz priority (contrary to what you say of P75 and B). What I see is a host of readings jostling for preference. Find me an early MS with exclusively "byz" readings and I'll recant.
Manuscripts from Egypt die off with the Arab conquest. (I recognize this is not what you meant!) Do what we might call Egyptian readings die out though? I'm largely ignorant here, but again I suspect it's at least partly a matter of terms (and hence of conceptualizations). If by Egyptian readings we mean readings found exclusively in Egyptian manuscripts, i.e. alien to the other "text types", well, they would die out by definition, wouldn't they? But what kind of readings are we talking about?, what is the nature of the difference between the Egyptian texts and the rest? You say (in somewhat different context)
" Two things that are noteable though, is that these Manuscripts are markedly different than what we have in the Byzantine, Western, and Ceasarean (I realize the dispute with this "type") traditions, and they typically show a shorter text, ergo, they get lumped into their own "type." "
Apply the "lectio brevior potior" principle ("the shorter reading's the better"), and you have the answer: the other text types are expanded versions of a more pristine text represented by the earlier (i.e. Egyptian) manuscripts. (Perhaps you're actually right in suggesting that the Egyptian texts "were considered inferior": that doesn't mean they were inferior.) But you may reject the principle—which certainly doesn't apply in all cases—and no doubt the whole situation is more complicated. Put the new Acts papyrus side by side with cod.Bezae and we see varying expansions in both manuscripts along with contractions (if they're to be accepted as such).


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That is well crap why on earth is it not working it should coz it is the same all over England it is schedualed to be on 2moz at about 5 i think! but it was on today at 12
Life would be easier if you could pick who you loved!!
At least,the majority of you have the luck or opportunity to see it on Tv,someday.Down here there's rarely such chance.
Well, I haven't seen either yet. But I'm not worried. Knowing MTV, the Awards will be shown repeatedly over the next few weeks.
As for the net, it'll pop up for us all to see eventually.
No probs.....
Patience is a virtue.
Everybody should believe in something.
I believe I'll have another coffee!
does anyone know the name of the song that is playing near the end of when they are running the clips of his movies???? i lovvve it... thanks
Jim's wings were b-e-autiful!!! he truly is an angeL!!!:)
"I don't know how to define myself and hopefully i'll never find out."
~ Jim Carrey
I just listened to a clip of it.....and darn, I do know that song.
It's hidden at the back of my head somewhere. That's gonna bug me all day now.
I'm thinking along the lines of Travis. Or someone like that.
Everybody should believe in something.
I believe I'll have another coffee!
About the dance, for the longest time I am averse to the 'pelvic thrust' as a dance step...and when I see him doing the same thing I was like Eeek! ..lol
But I find it mostly funny. Before I knew anything about him I used to watch his movies like any other movie But knowing even a little bit about the actor off-screen makes everything he does incredibly funny.
I loved the clips from his movies they put together lol. he looked incredibly hansom lol. i caught it when it was on and i also taped it so i can watch the whole thing later on i want to see steveo and pontius from wildboyz.... i also saw the bit taking the mick out of the di vinci code with jimmy fallon and adny dick that was hilarious lol. they are soo funny lol
I saw it last night on MTV. Jim came on 1 1/2 hours into the show. I really loved it. That was so cute-the bad boy Jim as an Angel. What a riot!! What a guy!!!!!!
Over at IMDb, they are saying it's 'Into the Fire' by Thirteen Senses. Just listened to a sample at iTunes and it sounds right.
Everybody should believe in something.
I believe I'll have another coffee!
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I am having a love affair with fig jam. This week, I was smitten with a recipe for Fig Glazed Burgers with Red Onion Jam that was posted on "The Bitten Word". The recipe originally comes from Southern Living Recipes, and uses ground beef and Muenster Cheese. When I think of fig jam, I tend to think of pork... or even lamb. So, I started thinking of Greek inspired ingredients, and an idea was born. I adore lamb, but my husband is so-so about it. I bought one pound of ground lamb and 1/2 pound of ground veal. I figured the mix of meats would tone down the sometimes "stronger" flavor of lamb. I didn't want to add too many seasonings, since I wanted the fig jam to be the star...
Whatever you do, don't leave out the fig jam. That's the cherry on the sundae. Or, in this case, it's the star of this burger.
As always, a printable recipe is at the very bottom of this post.
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When David Cohen and I came up with the idea for the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) in 2010, we counted roughly 100 accelerator programs around the US that were founded following the Techstars model. We labeled Techstars a "mentor driven accelerator" and reached out to others who were using the same approach to create what became GAN….
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Graveside funeral services will be held in the West Side District Cemetery on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 2:00 P.M. for Derby Acres resident, Pauline Stephens, 80. Pastor Tim Sumner will officiate.
Mrs. Stephens was born in Vian, Oklahoma on March 3, 1932 and passed away in Bakersfield on November 28, 2012. She moved to Taft in 1949 and she and her family moved to Derby Acres in 1959. Mrs. Stephens attended Taft Church of God She will be remembered as a loving wife and mother as well as being a wonderful homemaker. Mrs. Stephens was preceded in death by her son, Charles Ray Stephens and her daughter, Paula Kay Bright. Her survivors include her husband of 64 years, Charles Stephens; her children and their spouses, Roger and Glenda Stephens, Linda Perryman and John Ginther, Eddie and Debbie Stephens, Harlie and Penny Stephens, Timmy Stephens and Terri Cobb; her 13 grandchildren; her 16 great grandchildren; her one brother and five sisters. Friends are invited to pay their respects on Monday from 3:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. and again on Tuesday from 9:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. at the Erickson & Brown Funeral Home. To convey condolences or sign an online registry, please visit www.EricksonAndBrown.com


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Is your kid totally into creating science experiments? Then enter his or her project in our Innovators of Tomorrow Virtual Science Fair! Just upload a video or photo(s) along with step-by-step instructions and what your child learned. Our winner will receive $5,000 and a chance to be featured in the June issue of Parenting School Years. We'll also feature the winner and some of our other favorite projects on Parenting.com.
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You might want to take that back. With my thought experiment it's possible to have both a penis and a vagina!
You don't know that doesn't leave room for the reproductive organs (ours are located exactly where your reproductive organs are located), so you neuter yourself anyway. Also if your character has a female reproductive system, that system needs belly room to expand. And it isn't going to feel good for that character when going through certain times of the month. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcOV68Gx1YU).


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Students should request a degree audit at least 2 semesters prior to their graduation. An Undergraduate Degree Requirement Audit form may be obtained from the Graduation Office in the Office of the Registrar or downloaded from here (pdf).
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This tutorial is simply a continuation of my first tutorial, Networking
Simplified. Basically what I will go over are small bits of information
for various networking related programs/items.
The ping. I'm sure you all have used this program many times, but dont
really know what it does for sure. Well, what ping is, is a program that
lets you make sure that the ip address in question is actually there.
Meaning connected to the internet or rather connected to the/a network.
Ping stands for "Packet Internet or Inter Network Groper." What ping does
it sends a packet (for more information on packet see below) or packets to
a address and waits for it to respond back with packets. Ping flooding can
cause severe server problems if many many packets are sent at once.
Another way ping is used is for name resolution.
Packet. A packet is a piece of data that goes between your connection and
the desired destination. Anything sent across the internet is divided into
chunks that are routable size. The packets dont necessarily go along the
same route; however, they will eventually reach the same destination.
Packet-Switched networks are considered "connectionless" rather than
dedicated. Nearly all of the internet is a connectionless packet-switched
DNS. When you hear the term "DNS", all it means is the way domains are
handled across the internet. The Domain Name System just translates ip
addresses into easily rememberable names that can be accessed quicker
rather than having to remember octets of numbers.
Whois. Whois is a program that will give you information about whom owns
the domain you are requesting. For example: bash-2.05a$ whois stuff.com
will return information such as this:
Domain Name: STUFF.COM
Registrar: BULKREGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.bulkregister.com
Referral URL: http://www.bulkregister.com
Name Server: NS.IMALL.COM
Name Server: NS2.IMALL.COM
Name Server: NS3.IMALL.COM
Name Server: NS4.IMALL.COM
Updated Date: 05-nov-2001
<i have no affiliation with stuff.com>
SSL. SSL = Secure Sockets Layer. What ssl is, is a protocol that helps
with the transmission of a message on the internet. SSL is part of many
browsers and other programs to help ensure security. SSL is a bit beyond
the scope of this tutorial but for short reference this will do.
This concludes Networking Simplified Part 2. I will add more but would
rather keep them short and in sections so the persons reading this will
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News Release
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
Juvenile Impact Program Graduation
The Los Angeles Police Department will hold a ceremony for the ninth graduating class of the Juvenile Impact Program.
Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 6:30 P.M.
Harbor Area Shooting Range, Ryan Pitman Hall 2981 North Gaffey Street.
Los Angeles: Officers of the Harbor Area Community Police Station will be holding a graduation ceremony for the ninth graduating class of the Juvenile Impact Program.
The Juvenile Impact Program, a youth intervention program, was implemented three years ago. The program subjects youth that have been convicted of minor offences by the Juvenile Courts to seven, eight hours classes. Parents must also attend parenting classes offered by the Program. The program is also open to volunteer participants.
The Program's curriculum consists of classroom instruction on Life Studies; Anger Management, Conflict Resolution, and Decision-Making. Volunteer counselors, expert in these fields, conduct the classes. As part of the Physical Training (PT) portion of the Program, juvenile participants undergo a free medical examination, compliments of Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Volunteer U S Air Force drill personnel conduct the PT. The Program's participants conduct marching drills as well as physical training exercises, similar to the Armed Forces Basic Training (Boot Camp).
The Juvenile Impact Program serves as an example of a community committed to resolve one of today's most serious problems; juvenile crime.
The 52 members of the Program's ninth graduating class will receive a Certificate of Completion from Councilmember Janice Hahn's office. Harbor Area Captain Andrew Smith will officiate the graduation. Commander Jorge Gascon will be the guest of honor at the ceremony.
This media advisory was prepared by Public Information Officer Eduardo Funes, Media Relations Section, 213-485-3586.
San Pedro, CA 90731
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La Armuña lentils
Which area of Spain is it typical?
- Autonomous region: Castilla y Leon
La Armuña lentils are the ripe, dried fruit separated from the pod of leguminous plants of the Lens culinaris medius; species, and, in particular, the variety called Rubia de La Armuña.
They are planted in autumn, preferably in October, and are harvested at the end of June or beginning of the month of July. For planting, between 120kg and 130kg of seeds are used per hectare. They are light green, at times jasper coloured, and they can reach up to 9 millimetres in size. Their shape is not regular, they are usually flatter than other varieties and are fine and slippery to the touch. They are also characterised by their lack of skin when cooked, allowing the skin to be confused with the pulp when it is eaten, giving them an even texture and butteriness on the palate. As for their nutritional properties, the most notable are their richness in proteins, fibre, iron and calcium, in greater quantities in other lentils.
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Product information
- Type of product: Pulses
- Season: All year round.
- Origin: The area of production for La Armuña lentils is made up of 38 municipalities in the province of Salamanca, north of the capital and the border with the province of Zamora. The county of La Armuña is in the so-called tertiary basin of the Duero, at an average altitude of between 800 and 900 metres.
- To drink with it: Rosé wines and crianza and young reds depending on the method of preparation and the strength of the condiments with which they are prepared.
- Recipes: Lentils Alto Aragón style
Nutritional information
- Energy: Average
- Cholesterol: 0
- Comments: Rich in carbohydrates and fibre.