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If saving money is important to you but staying sober isn't, a BYOB restaurant might be your best bet for dining out. In the past few months, five new spots with a liberal DIY libation policy have opened their doors. To take the guesswork out of your booze buying, we asked staffers to suggest what beverage would best match each eatery's most popular dishes.
The Lazy Parrot
2257 W. North Ave. 773-227-5299
What to bring: Pinot grigio would partner well with this tropical Bucktown eatery's shrimp fiesta dish ($18), which features more than two dozen garlic-seasoned and coconut shrimp, said manager Samantha Laguardia. Red wine also works with the restaurant's oxtail stew, which is made with tender oxtail that's marinated for about a week and served with white rice and black beans ($19). "I've noticed a lot of people prefer merlot with it," Laguardia said.
Bonus beverage: Look for non-alcoholic mojito and margarita mixers to debut in a few weeks so you can spike your own cocktails at the table.
BYOB until: February. The restaurant plans to apply for a liquor license in January and is hoping to receive it by Valentine's Day.
Corkage fee: No charge.
Local liquor supply: Evolution Wines and Spirits (1704 N. Milwaukee Ave. 773-772-9463)
Embers on Broadway
2835 N. Broadway 773-327-9593
What to bring: The best beverage to sip with the Lakeview eatery's surf and turf platter ($25.95)—Maine lobster tail, served with a 7-oz. strip steak—would be red wine. "People love merlot with it," executive chef Alan Peterson said. Or try the farm-raised grilled tilapia ($15.95), served with a dill sauce, matched with pretty much any variety of white wine.
Bonus beverage: Starting Saturday, Embers will offer brunch every day from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with orange juice at the ready for mimosa-making.
BYOB until: The end of the month, at least. Peterson said Embers eventually will apply for a liquor license, but a timeline isn't finalized.
Corkage fee: No charge.
Local liquor supply: Apple Bite Mart (2919 N. Broadway 773-477-2710)
Trattoria Ultimo
1953 W. Chicago Ave. 312-243-6343
What to bring: "Any red goes wonderfully with the braised lamb shank," manager Nathan Godfrey said. The dish is served with rosemary-seasoned yukon gold potatoes and a mix of roasted carrots, celery, broccoli and cauliflower ($19.50). Pinot grigio, sauvignon blanc or other white wines pair well with linguine and sauteed cod with a slightly sweet tomato sauce ($13.50). Just don't expect fancy stemware: Because of the trattoria's rustic (and therefore a bit uneven) tabletops, wine is served in small water-sized glasses to curb spills.
Bonus beverage: Diners who prefer vodka to vino can mix it with San Pellegrino's lemon- or orange-flavored sodas ($3).
BYOB until: Forever. Trattoria Ultimo has no plans as of yet to apply for a liquor license.
Corkage fee: $5 per bottle.
Local liquor supply: The Noble Grape (802 N. Bishop St. 312-846-1204) and Dominick's (2021 W. Chicago Ave. 773-799-9000)
Bistro Dre
2965 N. Lincoln Ave. 773-697-9067
What to bring: Break out the brews, said chef/owner Andre Christopher, who recently changed his Lakeview restaurant's name from Flour & Water. "I'd get a really cool artisan beer," to go with the hand-cut Belgian fries with truffle-bechamel sauce and slow-smoked brisket ($10; $8 without brisket), Christopher said. "The smokiness of the brisket and the heartiness of the truffle would pair deliciously with a stout. You could get something on the sweeter side, or an IPA." White wine also would compliment Christopher's grilled French green beans served with blue cheese grits and turmeric-infused breadcrumbs ($12). "Just think about summertime," he says. "Something grilled is going to taste good with a nice, crisp white wine—possibly something with [notes of] apple in it."
Bonus beverage: Bring a bottle of bubbly to pair with mimosa mixers ($9 a pitcher) in flavors such as pomegranate-raspberry and cucumber-celery during weekend brunch (Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.).
BYOB until: Forever. Christopher doesn't have any immediate plans to apply for a license.
Corkage fee: No charge.
Local liquor supply: Foremost Liquor Stores (3014 N. Ashland Ave. 773-472-7471)
Oliver's Cafe
451 W. 31st St. 312-791-1230
What to bring: Hearty red wines make a smart match for chef Oliver Valenzuela's beef short ribs ($15), which are served with balsamic glaze, root veggies and horseradish-laced mashed potatoes. Dry whites will help cut the subtle spice of appetizers such as Gulf shrimp with avocado salad and roasted piquillo pepper sauce ($6.50). For a sweet finale, stow away a coffee stout or porter to sip with the dessert egg roll stuffed with cinnamon apples, pineapple and raisins ($5).
BYOB until: Forever. Valenzuela and his wife Marcy don't have plans to add liquor.
Corkage fee: $3 per bottle
Local liquor supply: Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar (960 W. 31st St. 773-890-0588)
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Japan, U.S. raise chance of new North Korea nuclear talks
TOKYO -- The United States and Japan on Sunday offered new talks with North Korea to resolve the increasingly dangerous standoff over its nuclear and missile programs, but said the reclusive communist government first must lower tensions and honor previous agreements.
North Korea has a clear course of action available to it, and will find "ready partners" in the United States if it follows through, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters.
Japan's foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, who appeared with Kerry at a news conference, was more explicit, saying that North Korea must honor its commitment to earlier deals regarding its nuclear and missile programs and on returning kidnapped foreigners.
The officials agreed on the need to work toward a nuclear-free North Korea and opened the door to direct talks if certain conditions are met.
Their comments highlight the difficulty in resolving the North Korean nuclear situation in a peaceful manner, as pledged by Kerry and Chinese leaders in Beijing on Saturday.
Gaining China's commitment, Kerry insisted, was no small matter given Beijing's historically strong military and economic ties to North Korea.
The issue has taken on fresh urgency in recent months, given North Korea's tests of a nuclear device and intercontinental ballistic missile technology, and its increasingly brazen threats of nuclear strikes against the United States.
U.S. and South Korean officials believe the North may deliver another provocation in the coming days with a mid-range missile test.
"The question," Kerry said, "is what steps do you take now so we are not simply repeating the cycle of the past years." That was a clear reference to the various negotiated agreements and U.N. Security Council ultimatums that North Korea has violated since the 1990s.
"We have to be careful and thoughtful and frankly not lay out publicly all the options," Kerry said.
Given their proximity and decades of hostility and distrust, Japan and South Korea have the most to fear from the North's unpredictable actions.
Kerry said the U.S. would defend both its allies at all cost.
He also clarified a statement he made Saturday in Beijing, when he told reporters the U.S. could scale back its missile-defense posture in the region if North Korea goes nuclear-free.
It appeared to be a sweetener to coax tougher action from China, which has done little over the years to snuff out funding and support for North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program.
China fears the increased U.S. military presence in the region may be directed at it as well.
Kerry said America's basic force posture wasn't up to debate. "There is no discussion that I know of to change that," he said.
But he said it was logical that additional missile-defense elements, including a land-based system for the Pacific territory of Guam, deployed because of the Korean threat could be reversed if that threat no longer existed.
"There's nothing actually on the table with respect to that. I was simply making an observation about the rationale for that particular deployment, which is to protect the United States' interests that are directly threatened by North Korea," Kerry said.
Kerry's visit to Japan followed two days of meetings in South Korea and China.
Six-nation talks with North Korea collapsed more than four years ago, and Kerry said that for negotiations to resume, North Korea "needed to indicate their willingness to move toward denuclearization."
"They have to take some actions," he said. "How many or how much? I'd have to talk to folks back in Washington about that. But if the Chinese came to us and said, `Look, here's what we have cooking,' I'm not going to tell you I'm shutting the door today to something that's logical and might have a chance of success."
At round-table session with U.S. journalists, Kerry said that under the right circumstances, he even would consider making a grand overture to North Korea's leader, such as an offer of direct talks with the U.S.
"We're prepared to reach out," he said.
Kerry said diplomacy required risk-taking and secrecy such as when President Richard Nixon engaged China in the 1970s or U.S. back-channel talks were able to end the Cuban missile crisis a decade earlier.
"I'm not going to be so stuck in the mud that an opportunity to actually get something done is flagrantly wasted because of a kind of predetermined stubbornness," Kerry told reporters.
"You have to keep your mind open. But fundamentally, the concept is they're going to have to show some kind of good faith here so we're not going to around and around in the same-old same-old."

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Tyranny being redefined
Written by Neil A. Davis, Gothenburg Friday, 14 June 2013 13:17
On April 29 of this year President Obama called NBA player Jason Collins to congratulate him for his courage in coming out as a gay black man. Last year on Sept. 11, as four truly courageous public servants were being murdered in Benghazi, Libya, the only phone call Obama made was to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Apparently to get their cover-up story straight for the next day's press statement.
Obama said "We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act." Now nine months later, a film maker thrown in jail on bogus charges, is the only evidence of that commitment.
When Obama tells people "we've got your back," I wonder who was behind Ambassador Chris Stevens as he was being slaughtered? We still don't know what Obama did that night or who gave the order for military personnel to stand down (not make a rescue effort).
It brings to mind Jack Nicholson's line from "A Few Good Men" "We use words like honor, code, loyalty...as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline."
Since the Obama administration hasn't been forthcoming with information, congressional investigations have attempted to bring out the truth. In defiance, Obama told graduates at Ohio State University on May 5, that they should reject voices that warn of government being the root of all our problems. "They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner."
Five days later, news came out that the IRS Exempt Organizations division has been targeting conservative, religious and pro-Israel organizations applying for tax-exempt status since March of 2010. Hundreds of groups with Tea Party, Patriots, etc. in their names or ones that advocated education about the Constitution and Bill of Rights, were intimidated, forced to jump through hoops and essentially placed on hold for years.
Conveniently, this prevented the groups from contributing to the mid-term and presidential elections. Details of their organizations were given to progressive smear groups and left leaning organizations were given express service to confirmation. Isn't it comforting to know that 16,000 more IRS agents will be hired to track you down, fine you or throw you in jail if you don't buy into Obamacare?
Supposedly Obama learned about the scandal only after it came out in the media. Really? I guess the topic never came up during IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman's 157 visits to the White House between 2009 and 2012. Remember that Obama didn't know he was smuggling guns to Mexican drug lords either.
The guy who is touted as the smartest person in the room, doesn't appear to know much. Add in, the DOJ seizing phone records of reporters at the Associated Press and Attorney General Eric Holder lying about his involvement in singling out Fox News reporter James Rosen.
Now the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting information on 3 billion of your phone calls a day and data mining every keystroke on your email and social networking sites. Don't forget your credit card information.
What is Obama's definition of tyranny?


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World Cup notes: Japan washes away loss with hot tub party
Japan washed away the stains of their "rubbish" World Cup performance against the Ivory Coast in a jovial Jacuzzi session, with the mood in the squad bubbling nicely ahead of Thursday's clash with Greece.
The Asian champions have been frank about their problems in coping with the Ivorians after they threw away a 1-0 halftime lead to lose the Group C clash 2-1 in Recife Saturday.
Playmaker Shinji Kagawa was one of those who struggled badly, complaining of losing a psychological battle with himself before kickoff, but striker Yoshito Okubo said the squad had rallied around him.
"He really was on a downer but he is fine now," the Kawasaki Frontale forward told Kyodo News. "A few of us had a bit of a chat in the Jacuzzi the other day. We talked about how the team played but had a bit of a laugh about how we were feeling.
"We told each other how rubbish we were but not to let it get to us. It's good to finish things off with a laugh. There is nothing you can do about it and there are still two games left.
"It is important to regroup. You can't dwell on things as it only brings a negative vibe to the team. The mood in the team isn't bad. There is no need to be down in the dumps."
Japan takes on Greece, which lost the opener 3-0 to Colombia, in Natal before facing the South Americans in Cuiaba Tuesday.
Ivory Coast will be without forward Didier Ya Konan for Thursday's World Cup Group C clash against Colombia because of a knee injury, coach Sabri Lamouchi said Wednesday.
Ya Konan came on as a substitute for the final 12 minutes of Saturday's 2-1 comeback win against Japan in Recife and Lamouchi said he was hopeful the 30-year-old would be fit for Ivory Coast's final group game against Greece on Tuesday.
"We do not want to take any risks with him," Lamouchi told a news conference at the national stadium. "We hope he will recover as early as the match against Greece but if that doesn't happen then maybe for the second round."
Lamouchi was predictably bombarded with questions about whether the African side's talisman, Didier Drogba, would make a return to the starting lineup after he was left on the bench until the 62nd minute against Japan.
Two minutes after the 36-year-old entered the fray Ivory Coast levelled through Wilfried Bony and Gervinho struck the winner a further two minutes later.
Holding African champions Nigeria to a stalemate is one thing, but divine intervention will be required if Iran is to get anything from its World Cup clash against Lionel Messi's Argentina, coach Carlos Queiroz said.
The two sides meet in Belo Horizonte Saturday with a lopsided victory for the twice-champion South Americans the only result expected against the limited, defensive Iranians.
"It will require a miracle since Argentina is one of the best teams in the world and also they have one day of rest more than we do," Queiroz was quoted as saying by the Telam News Agency.
"Messi could be the best player in the world if he was human, but as he is not human he does not enter the race."
The two teams have met once before, a 1-1 draw in a friendly in Madrid in 1977. A repeat result in Brazil is highly unlikely, with the Iranians having won only one match in three previous World Cup appearances.
Germany's Toni Kroos is happy to be called 'the waiter' if it means he's feeding his teammates with appetizing passes.
But off the field he prefers to order his meals from someone else.
Asked at a news conference if he would like the Brazilian nickname 'Garcon', given to a player who delivers the ball to the strikers, the midfielder smiled before answering.
"If you're talking about the term 'Garcon' in the sense of setting up my teammates with good passes, that's alright," Kroos said after 76 of his 79 passes were on target in the 4-0 win over Portugal in their opening Group G match on Monday.
"But when we're sitting around together in the evening, I'm not the waiter. I prefer to be served myself then."
Michael Essien's woes with Ghana look to have no end after the midfielder missed training Wednesday with a toe injury that threatens his participation in their next game against Germany.
Essien, who has suffered two serious injuries in the past on national team duty and missed out on the 2010 World Cup, picked up the injury in the 2-1 loss to the U.S. Monday after coming on as a second-half substitute, the Ghana Football Association said Wednesday.
The 31-year-old suffered a cruciate ligament injury playing for Ghana in 2008 and was out for six months at the height of his career at Chelsea.
He suffered a second serious knee injury at the 2010 African Nations Cup, missing the World Cup in South Africa that year, and retired from international play until coming out of his self-imposed exile last year.
Argentina stuck to their tactic of keeping their big name players out of the World Cup spotlight as much as possible, rolling out two reserve goalkeepers to face a throng of media representatives Wednesday.
The tactic has so far worked well, with Argentina kicking off their campaign with a 2-1 opening victory over Bosnia and Iran awaiting Saturday in Belo Horizonte.
Reserve keepers Mariano Andujar and Agustin Orion entered a room packed with hundreds of reporters, with many spilling out on to the gardens at the sprawling Atletico Mineiro training ground outside Belo Horizonte.
Earlier Wednesday four-time world player of the year Lionel Messi was on the pitch along with Sergio Aguero, Gonzalo Higuain and Angel Di Maria for their daily training session but team officials opted to keep them well away from the story-hungry press corp.
All previous news conferences included equally low-profile players, apart from when Messi faced the media following his man-of-the-match award in the win over Bosnia.
Argentina is among the title favourites in Brazil, with Messi under pressure to deliver at a World Cup as he has done so many times for his club Barcelona.
Police fired stun grenades and tear gas in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre Wednesday to disperse protesters demonstrating against the World Cup.
The 150 protesters, who marched in the city centre as the World Cup match between Australia and the Netherlands kicked off, were met by a force of several hundred police, witnesses said.
At least two protesters and three journalists were hurt after police fired tear gas and stun grenades at them. After the initial confrontation, the protesters changed course and marched through nearby streets until they finally dispersed.
One woman carried a banner saying "F— FIFA". Protesters also chanted at the police: "You are working for FIFA, you are not Brazilian, you are s—."
Protests by Brazilians angry about alleged wasteful spending for the World Cup have broken out in several cities and some have turned violent, but most have attracted only a few hundred people and they appear to be shrinking by the day.
The strait-laced Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte may not have sun-kissed beaches to entertain fans between matches but it does have its very own singing garbagemen.
Every night, the rubbish collectors trundle down streets chanting songs, shouting and sticking thumbs up to football fans, and banging rhythms out on metal bins and lorries.
"It's the World Cup. We're happy and so we want you to be happy too," said Matheus Pinto, 24, wearing a Brazil scarf over his working garb as he tapped out some samba on the back of a lorry near Liberty Square in central Belo Horizonte. "This is the land of music and football."
Foreign fans had been expressing disappointment at the lack of World Cup colour in the city, a conventional state capital and business centre. So there has been general delight when the garbagemen come out and do their stuff.
"It's fantastic. This place is, frankly, rather boring. But these guys are hilarious," said Andres Ortiz, 39, a businessman in town with friends for the Argentina-Iran game Saturday.
The Belo Horizonte binmen were perhaps inspired by Rio de Janeiro street sweeper Renato Sorisso, who became famous as a samba dancer at carnival.


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Legislation poised to pass the Senate would allow a small group of hunters who've been storing polar bear pelts in Canada to import them to the United States.
The bill, which is described as one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation for sportsmen in a generation, will be among the first to be passed by the Senate in the days following the election. The Senate voted 92-5 Tuesday to move the bill forward to a full vote later this week.
The legislation was also the first bill from Congress to get a post-election nod from President Barack Obama. The White House said Tuesday in a statement of administration policy that it "looks forward to continuing to work with the Congress and with the American people to advance a community-based conservation agenda."
"This legislation, a compilation of bipartisan bills, would promote our recreational hunting, fishing and shooting heritage and would continue a number of key initiatives and public-private partnerships that support conservation of fish and wildlife populations and vital habitat," the Office of Management and Budget wrote. "This bill is consistent with the administration's commitment under the America's Great Outdoors Initiative to provide opportunities for outdoor recreation, restore critical landscapes and support a robust outdoor economy."
The legislation is wildly popular in his state, said Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat who narrowly won re-election over Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, the state's sole congressional representative.
"One in three Montanans hunt big game," Tester told the Senate. "More than one-half of us fish."
Tester's office is careful to differentiate his bill from one Rehberg championed. The Rehberg bill did allow some hunting on national parks; Tester's does not. It does, however, allow bow hunters on national parks with their weapons. They are not allowed to use them, but they are allowed to use the parks to access other areas where bowhunting is allowed.
Among the bill's more obscure provisions: Allowing 41 hunters who killed polar bears in Canada before 2008 to import their pelts to this country. Since polar bears were listed in 2008 as threatened, Americans haven't been able to import polar bear trophies – generally a tanned skin and claws along with the skull and the penis bone, known scientifically as a "baculum" and in the indigenous languages of the Arctic as an "oosik." Many of the hunters have been keeping their trophies in cold storage in Canada.
The bill applies only to pelts that hunters took before the 2008 ban. It keeps in place the existing ban, which doesn't allow any new pelts to be imported. That effectively keeps U.S. hunters from participating in Inuit-led hunts in Canada. Such hunts, which require hunters to travel for days by dog sled to the far northern reaches of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, cost $40,000 to $60,000.
Hunters who have polar bear trophies in Canada must submit an application to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to import them. Those applications, which are charged a $1,000 fee, are published in the Federal Register.
Sport hunting for polar bears has effectively been off limits in the United States for four decades. Alaska Natives can shoot a limited number each year under U.S. subsistence hunting laws. About three dozen are shot each year in Alaska, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The legislation also requires a study of what happens to artificial reefs when oil platforms and related structures are removed in the Gulf of Mexico. It also aims to end billfish overfishing in the Pacific by ending imports of foreign-caught billfish for sale in the United States. Billfish include marlin, sailfish and spearfish; the legislation doesn't include swordfish. It also doesn't apply to Hawaii. The U.S. banned the commercial sale and harvest of Atlantic-caught billfish two decades ago, although catch-and-release recreational angling is allowed.


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China's central bank is sitting on a giant pool of U.S. dollars. It's the world's biggest holder of foreign reserves, worth over $3 trillion at last count.
All that money has piled up because every year, China exports more than it imports; it runs a trade surplus.
There are lots of reasons for China's trade surplus. In the past few decades, China has built an amazing manufacturing ecosystem. It's become the factory to the world.
But China's central bank has also given the country's exporters an extra boost.
It has kept China's currency artificially weak relative to the dollar, which makes China's exports cheaper in the rest of the world. It also makes imports more expensive in China.
So keeping the currency weak increases China's trade surplus on both sides of the ledger — it increases exports and decreases imports. And, year after year, China's pile of dollars keeps getting bigger.
This has become a problem for both China and the U.S.
It means U.S.-made goods are more expensive in China — which is why you often hear U.S. politicians talking about China manipulating its currency.
What's more, China's giant pool of dollars — much of it invested in U.S. Treasury bonds — makes China uncomfortably dependent on the health of the U.S. economy.
"Foreign exchange reserves have exceeded our country's rational demand," the head of the China's central bank said last year. This is an understated way of saying, enough already with the giant pool of dollars.
And, in fact, China has been letting its currency get stronger over the past few years. That has been pinching the nation's exporters.
"I'm making much less," Rosalia Yang, whose company sells imitation-wood flooring, told us recently, when we visited her factory outside Shanghai.
But the strengthening currency does have a flip side for people in China: It makes their imports cheaper. As a result, Rosalia Yang is looking to get into the import business.
"We would love to buy products from U.S.," she told us. "We have seen what is happening in China, so we believe the market needs to turn."
She's not sure what she'll import — maybe medical devices. In any case, she says, the U.S. brand is really strong in China; people associate Made in America with quality.
And as people in China get richer, they can afford to buy more American goods. now. If Rosalia is right — if the market does turn, and China's imports start to balance its exports — it could be a good outcome for everyone.
The U.S. would sell more stuff to China. Things would get cheaper for Chinese people. And dollars would stop piling up in China.
When some tourists go to China, they want to see the Great Wall or Forbidden City. When our Planet Money team went to China recently, they were excited to see China's Central Bank. Over the past the decade, the People's Bank of China has amassed an unbelievably large pile of U.S. dollars. Jacob Goldstein and David Kestenbaum explain how the pile got there and why it's a problem for China and the United States.
DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: We requested an interview at the People's Bank of China, but we didn't get one. So we did the second best thing.
JACOB GOLDSTEIN, BYLINE: A distant second.
KESTENBAUM: One cold night we went and stood outside the building on the streets of Beijing.
GOLDSTEIN: That is a giant pool of money.
KESTENBAUM: There it is.
GOLDSTEIN: How big is the giant pool of money these days?
Let me read to you from a document I have in my hand: From the People's Bank of China, conveniently published in English, the dramatic title Financial Statistics, Q1 through Q3, 2011. China's foreign exchange reserves stood at U.S. $3.2017 trillion.
GOLDSTEIN: Trillion dollars, right here. We're here. We made it.
KESTENBAUM: How did China get this giant pool of dollars? By selling so much stuff to the rest of the world, stuff like this.
GOLDSTEIN: Artificial wood flooring.
KESTENBAUM: Feels very solid.
GOLDSTEIN: Yeah, we're at a factory now on the outskirts of Shanghai.
KESTENBAUM: In front of us is a machine that's making - seeming out of nowhere - what looks like a very long plank of wood.
GOLDSTEIN: Rosalia Yang works for a company called the Zaonee Group. She sells this fake wood to buyers in the U.S. and Canada. People use it to build backyard decks. And Rosalia says customers buy it for all kinds of reasons.
ROSALIA YANG: So first, it's anti-termite.
KESTENBAUM: Anti-termite.
YANG: Anti-termite.
KESTENBAUM: Termites don't like to eat plastic.
YANG: No. (unintelligible) no. So it's great for California. And it's fire resistant. (Foreign language spoken)
GOLDSTEIN: There's one other big reason this flooring sells so well: it's cheap. And China's central bank, that building we stood outside of in Beijing, it's working to keep it cheap.
KESTENBAUM: The central bank does this, by keeping China's currency artificially weak. The world's other major currencies they trade on the open market, they go up and down. But in China, the central bank just says this is the exchange rate.
GOLDSTEIN: Keeping the currency weak helps every exporter in China. It helps them so much that China sells way more stuff to the rest of the world than it buys. This buying and selling, it happens in dollars. China has more dollars coming in than going out so, year after year, those dollars have been piling up at the Central Bank.
KESTENBAUM: This situation, it's not great for China or the United States. From the U.S. perspective, China's weak currency makes our goods more expensive in China. When you hear U.S. politicians complain about how China manipulates its currency, this is what they're talking about.
GOLDSTEIN: But the situation isn't great for China either. That huge pile of U.S. dollars, it makes China very dependent - too dependent even - on the health of the U.S. economy.
KESTENBAUM: Which may be why, over the last couple years, China has started to let its currency get stronger. For Rosalia and her colleague Jacki Jong, in the short-term, this is hard. It makes Chinese exports more expensive.
YANG: So that's mean I'm making much less.
JACKI JONG: That's very bad. We lost much.
GOLDSTEIN: So what does that mean for your business?
JONG: Oh, pain. Painful.
GOLDSTEIN: But a stronger Chinese currency does mean American stuff is now cheaper in China. And here, Rosalia says the words that every American manufacturer and politician wants to hear.
YANG: Actually we will love to buy products from U.S. We have seen what is happening in China, so we believe the market need to turn.
KESTENBAUM: They're not sure what they'll import - maybe medical devices. But if Rosalia is right, if the market does turn, that pile of dollars in China, it would stop growing. One day those dollars, they might even start coming back home.
I'm David Kestenbaum.
GOLDSTEIN: And I'm Jacob Goldstein, NPR News.
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In case you're keeping tabs on the saga, Karrueche claims she's no longer dating Chris Brown or anyone (Right when news of his possible bipolar disorder came out). Meanwhile, Lupita Nyong'o had plenty of, er, supporters after winning best supporting actress at the Academy Awards, Fabolous loves girls who love drill music, and Jaden Smith has some insight on relationships. Check out this week's best and weirdest celebrity tweets.


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It wasn't that long ago, in May 2007 to be precise, that I was the area defense counsel at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, as an active-duty officer serving in the Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps. I was defending Airmen at courts-martial and other adversarial proceedings at the very busy B-52 and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) air base in the very northern plains of the United States. Now, today, here I am: a civilian and back in my home state of Indiana as the general counsel for the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance, the state agency that oversees the budget process for the state's more than 2,400 taxing units (i.e., schools, cities, libraries), and the highly contentious property tax assessment system. This former JAG officer now finds himself primarily as a municipal law and property tax attorney. Many days I sit and wonder, "How'd this happen?"
I had some interest in being a tax attorney during law school, but the terrorist attacks of 9/11 during my final year diverted my career to military service. After four and a half years as a JAG, I made the decision to separate from active duty and return with my wife and three kids to Indiana. I had a brief stint at a general practice law firm in my hometown of Elkhart, but the opportunity to serve as the top attorney for the Department of Local Government Finance was too tempting for me to pass up. Currently in Indiana, property taxes and local government spending are hot-button issues. I've always enjoyed a good challenge, so I jumped at the job. That's why I'm where I am.
My advice to a young lawyer who is thinking about working at a government agency is "Go for it!" but don't sell yourself short. Take on a challenge. Get out of your comfort zone. Pick the agency that is going to challenge you intellectually, professionally, and personally. It may benefit you in the long run. Here's a recent example. As general counsel, I have two staff attorneys and two legal interns working for me. A few months ago, we had a young staff attorney leave for an opportunity in the private sector after only 15 months on the job—a job she had since right after law school. She was smart, friendly, and very capable. And, fortunately for her, the hard work at the agency paid off. She is now in a higher-paying job as a staff attorney in the legal department of an international corporation in Indianapolis. Not bad at all.
A government job is certainly on the lower end of the pay scale when compared to our private sector counterparts. But it's not bad. In my experience, salaries for a staff attorney with an Indiana agency vary from approximately $35,000 to $60,000 depending upon the agency. Research salaries before you make a decision about what agency you want to work for. State salaries are public information and can be found by doing an Internet search. As a general counsel for an Indiana agency, the salary situation is similar to that of staff attorneys—it varies depending on the agency. I've seen salaries for general counsels range anywhere from $79,000 to $100,000.
A young attorney also should consider health insurance costs and retirement plans. Frankly, in addition to the challenge, these favorable benefits are another reason why I left private practice for state government. In fact, I'm paying only about one-third of the cost per month in health insurance premiums compared to what I paid at the law firm.
Consider being an attorney with a state agency. And if you do, don't be afraid to challenge yourself. If you do a good job, you can take that government experience and springboard into a job in the private sector with a firm or corporation. Finally, when thinking about whether to take that government job, don't look at just the salary, but also consider the lower health insurance costs and favorable retirement benefits.
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From the screenshots, Ubisoft's new Wii game Emergency Heroes looks action packed. Described as an arcade racer, players will have to control different police, fire and EMT vehicles. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for a few chopper missions.
As for gameplay, it sounds like it will be an open world title, with the bland name of San Alto. There's co-op feature that will be interesting. I'm guessing that it will play like the ambulance and viligante missions in Grand Theft Auto series albeit with a lot less blood and violence. You hear about a crisis and race to the scene. This is a family game after all.
Emergency Heroes will land in shelves in May.


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Back to drawing board-Panettone
I posted this on the end of Floyd's post on Panettone but I thought better of it getting more readers on its own. I could use some help.
My batch of Panettone smelled heavenly as it baked for nearly 2 hours. I checked every 15 minutes after an hour. i divided the recipe in Floyd's post in half and loaded it in two ornamental paper buckets. It was about 1/4 to 1/3 full. I let them proof for 3.5 hours at around 80F and I did use the osmotolerant yeast. They rose slightly and did dome some where I made a cross cut and plopped a dollop of butter.
I'm pretty sure the reason it took so long to get an internal temp of 185F is that the dough was so dense.
Looking at why it didn't rise well:
I saw on the Italian site that they use only egg yokes. Sooo, I figured that 2 egg yokes would be about the same as 1 whole egg. Later I checked and I see a yoke is around 18g where the entire large egg, minus the shell is closer to 50g. I was a little short of egg product it seems.
Thinking about how the dough felt, I think it may have been a little dry. I added the egg yokes to the booze and whisked them together. I added the butter to the flour and other dry ingredients and broke it up by hand similar to making a pie crust or biscuit. Now I'm thinking maybe I should have added it after the dough was combined and partially developed, similar to a straight brioche.
I just put together a batch of mid level brioche in my old KA mixer to see how it would compare in texture. It is a very nice dough of much better quality than what I did yesterday and I have no doubt it will rise perfectly later today and would be a good base for Panettone with the fruit additions.
I should say that my wife has been noshing all morning at my mistake and thinks I'm nuts. She thinks it tastes great. It's starting to look like the first 2 Lb loaf isn't going to last the day.:>) Yes, I know you are supposed to wait a couple days to cut into it.
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Windows 7 eLearning Kit For Dummies
Table of Contents
Author Information
Related Websites
About This Kit 1
How This Book Is Organized 2
How This Book Works with the Electronic Lessons 3
Conventions Used in This Book 3
Foolish Assumptions 3
Icons Used in This Kit 4
Class Is In 4
Lesson 1: Getting Started with Windows 7 5
Logging In and Off Windows 7
Types of user accounts 8
Making a good password your key 11
Making Windows more usable 11
Logging on to your account 13
Logging off your computer 14
Logging off automatically 18
Managing Accounts 19
Giving your account a new face 20
Changing your password 21
Giving your account a new name 22
Adding new accounts 23
Setting Up a Good Work Environment 24
Say hello to Windows! 24
Adjusting your monitor(s) so you can see 26
Adjusting the size of stuff onscreen 27
Setting the right date and time 29
Arranging, hiding, and removing icons 31
Making the boring desktop just a little less so 33
Fine-Tuning Your Desktop 34
Turning on ClearType to read more easily 35
Hooking up two monitors 36
Adding and removing gadgets 38
Taking the mouse cursor out of hiding 40
Getting Control of All Those Windows 41
Mastering the mouse or mouse replacement 42
The altered states of windows 43
Controlling a window's size and position 44
Scrolling a window's contents 45
Snapping a window in place 46
Arranging multiple windows 48
Getting all windows out of the way 49
What's the deal with dialog boxes? 50
What you find in application windows 52
Summing Up 52
Know This Tech Talk 53
Lesson 2: Playing with Programs, Folders, and Files 55
Launching Programs 57
Launching a program from the Start menu 58
Pinning and re-arranging programs on the Start menu 58
Launching programs from and pinning programs to the taskbar 60
Using jump lists in the taskbar 62
Switching among open programs 63
Finding a program to start (or a fi le to open) 64
Organizing Your Files 67
Opening Windows Explorer (the file manager) 68
Figuring out what to do with a file manager 69
Finding out what's where 70
Creating a new folder 73
Searching for files 74
Deleting files via the Recycle Bin 76
Managing Libraries 78
Rearranging a library 79
Adding a folder to an existing library 80
Creating a new library 81
Accessing libraries via the Start menu 82
Adding links to more libraries 86
Summing Up 89
Know This Tech Talk 90
Lesson 3: Organizing Your Pictures, Movies, and Music 91
Wrangling Windows Media Player 93
Understanding Digital Media 94
Maintaining your privacy 94
Shopping where you like 96
Deciphering media file formats 96
Knowing your usage rights 98
Setting Up Windows Media Player 98
Watching and Listening to Files in WMP 103
Watching DVDs 104
Playing video files 106
Playing audio CDs 107
Assembling playlists 107
Editing an existing playlist 112
Burning your own mixes 112
Ripping tracks from audio CDs 114
Playing with Your Photos 116
Adding pictures to the Pictures library 116
Browsing your photos 118
Printing a photo 120
Using a Windows Live Account to Share Photos 122
Getting a Windows Live account 123
Establishing your Windows Live profi le 126
Creating and sharing photo albums 130
Installing Windows Live Essentials 132
Sharing Photo Gallery Albums with Windows Live 135
Summing Up 136
Know This Tech Talk 137
Lesson 4: Networking Your PCs 139
Assessing Your Network Connectivity 141
Setting Up a Home Network 144
Securing your file sharing fi rst 144
Introducing your router 148
Planning for better wireless accessibility 149
Managing your router from any PC 152
Comprehending how routers map addresses 154
Setting up your router 157
Managing Your Windows Connections 163
Setting the network connection profile 163
Manually establishing a Wi-Fi connection 165
Manually setting Windows' IP address 169
Verifying the connection status 173
Restarting the network from Windows 174
Building a Homegroup 175
Getting the homegroup started 177
Sharing files and printers with a homegroup 179
Summing Up 184
Know This Tech Talk 185
Lesson 5: Playing on the Internet 187
Navigating the Web with Internet Explorer 9 189
Making sense of the address bar 190
Back and Forward 193
Setting your starting point 195
Managing your browsing history 195
Marking, recalling, and managing Favorites 198
Working with multiple tabs 201
E-Mailing Friends, Relatives, and Everyone on the Planet 203
Adding one or more accounts 204
Reading messages 206
Replying to and sending messages 208
Sending and receiving messages with attachments 210
Wading through junk (and not junk) e-mail 212
Sort messages into folders 214
Summing Up 215
Know This Tech Talk 215
Lesson 6: Staying Safe and Secure 217
What Is User Account Control? 219
How UAC works and why 219
Setting up an administrator account 222
Taking Care of Everyday Maintenance 224
Getting familiar with Task Manager 225
Removing a wayward application or process from memory 227
Seizing control of Windows Update 229
Applying updates judiciously 232
Uninstalling faulty updates 236
Backing up data 237
Setting Up Security and IE9's Protections 241
Using Windows Firewall 242
Installing Security Essentials 245
Using a virus scan to quarantine and remove a suspect file 247
Keep out what you don't want in 249
Managing How Your Kids Use the PC 252
Setting strict time limits 253
Restricting the use of specifi c programs 254
Restricting games your kids play 256
Setting up Family Safety 257
Blocking and allowing sites 261
Examining an activity report 264
When Disaster Strikes 265
Running your PC in Safe Mode 265
Repairing Windows 7 Startup 268
Summing Up 271
Know This Tech Talk 272
Appendix: About the CD 275
System Requirements 275
Launch Instructions 275
Operation 276
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General Practice, Solo & Small Firm DivisionMagazine
Volume 17, Number 3
April/May 2000
SUCCESSION AND VALUATION: How to Transfer Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual property is now fashionable. No longer is the patent bar the redheaded stepchild of the legal profession. Suddenly, it seems, the entire bar sees the value in what we IP pros1 have been preaching for many years: Intellectual property rights are valuable, and need to be considered not only in the transfer of businesses but also when dealing with estates. Woe betide the general practitioner who fails to deal knowledgeably with what turn out later to have been valuable rights!
Many practitioners have some passing familiarity with patents, copyrights, and trademarks, but it is worthwhile to provide a brief refresher, if for no other reason than to provide context. This article will address how to recognize various intellectual property rights, point out some of the pitfalls that one may encounter when dealing with these rights, and discuss the problem of valuing them.Copyrights
Perhaps the easiest area of intellectual property rights to grasp in a general way, copyrights offer some of the deepest pitfalls and most vexing problems.2 In the simplest sense, copyright is a set of rights with respect to an expression. The expression may be in the form of a visual image, a sound recording, text, or combinations.3 It may be owned by a single person, or it may be jointly owned. Copyright is easy to create: The mere act of creation is sufficient to vest the copyright in the creator. No registration is required, no fees, and no umpires. Would that it were all so easy.
Let us consider creation. If the creation falls within the subject matter of what is copyrightable,4 what then? Say I am an artist and create a painting, "Blue Dribbles on Gray." What rights do I have? The basic law is that I have the exclusive right to (1) reproduction of my work; (2) making derivative works from it ("Son of Blue Dribbles on Gray"?); (3) public distribution and performance; and (4) public display. I sell the painting to an admirer and find months later that a photograph of my painting has been included in a book, "Noted Dribblers and Droolers of the Twenty-First Century." Do I have cause to complain?
Certainly! I sold only the tangible expression of my work, not the copyright. It is no different than had I sold a copy of a book I wrote: The buyer owns the copy, not the embedded work. My customer may hang the painting in his home, but he has no rights of public display or reproduction.
Let's change the context: It's 2015, and your client's deceased husband was an author who signed over all his rights to his book, Chewing Gum Memories, 36 years ago for a pittance. Last year, the book was rediscovered. It's now on the Times' Best Seller List. Can you help your client? Sure-the law always protects widows and orphans! Under existing copyright law, even though an author has signed away all his rights, and even though an author has passed on to his just desserts, his surviving spouse, or children if there is no spouse, or grandchildren if the kiddies are gone,5 have the right to terminate the transfer or license of the copyright made by the author at any time during the five years following 35 years from the date of execution of the author's original grant. It makes no difference if the author tried to waive the termination rights-such waivers are ineffective.
How long does a copyright last? That's not an easy question to answer. It depends on where it was created, when it was created, and what steps may have been taken along the way. Some rights may have gone into the public domain, only later to be reclaimed under a quirk of law. Generally, under today's U.S. copyright statute, the life of the author plus 70 years is the rule. But beware-other rules apply for works for hire.6
And let us dispel the notion that work for hire is simply work for hire: It is a group of statutorily defined categories of works.7 If the work isn't within the categories, it's not a work for hire-even if your client hired someone to create the work. For example, unless your client gets a written assignment of copyright in a painting that she commissions, she may own the oil but not the right to put it on the cover of her book. The artist still owns the copyright.
So your client shows up on your doorstep and says her Aunt Julie is dead, and your client is the executrix. You find out Aunt Julie was a professional photographer of some note, a painter, an author, and a singer with 11 Grammy awards to her name. What do you do? Call for help. Issues of valuation aside (which I address below), this is a job for an expert in copyright. Unless otherwise disposed, Aunt Julie's copyrights are part of her vast and complex estate. Just identifying them may be an impossible task.
Often it is adequate to deal with copyright issues in a simple estate by an omnibus residual clause, but the residuary legatees ought to be advised of the existence of such rights, including but not limited to the termination interest. In more complex cases, or where the value of the copyrights may form a material part of the estate, assistance from a copyright practitioner should be sought.Patents
Unlike copyrights, patents exist only when they have been granted by the government, which keeps a public record of them.8 It would seem that this is a safer area, in which a nonspecialist practitioner may tread. What is simpler, says the savvy solo, than looking up what patents are held by the deceased and simply including them in the estate?
I always worry about what I may have said or failed to say that may leave the client believing he owns more than he really does. Say you check and find that there are seven patents in the name of your deceased, and they all have at least eight years remaining in the term. You're even savvy enough to check to see if any have maintenance fees due, and see that the fees are paid. You have an expert opinion that says they are worth $100,000, you have a buyer willing to purchase them outright, and your heirs are willing to sell. No problems?
There may be. While ownership of patents generally is recorded at the Patent and Trademark Office (and there can be significant adverse results for failing to record a transfer within three months), there are no requirements that licenses to patents be recorded, meaning that the executor may have sold a patent to a purchaser who subsequently discovers that its biggest competitor has a permanent license to practice the invention. That can make a purchaser cranky. There is no absolutely certain means by which you can assure that no prior rights have been granted, which means a seller must craft her sale or license documents carefully-and so advise the heirs.
Another problem can arise where one or more patents may be in the application process, and thus are not yet available for public scrutiny. Patent applications are held in confidence until they issue. It will be important to determine if the deceased had any pending applications, and if so, discover who is prosecuting them and who has authority now to deal with them. Deadlines happen in patent prosecution that, unlike those in other areas of practice, are absolute-no excuse accepted. Failure to meet deadlines can result in the permanent loss of the patent rights, which can be uncomfortable to explain to a penurious and irate client. Beware especially of pending foreign filings (so-called PCT or Patent Cooperation Treaty filings), which have an entirely different set of deadlines and interplay with pending U.S. applications. And to make things interesting, the rules have just changed.Trademarks
Remember this: Trademarks and goodwill are inseparable. A trademark without goodwill is a goner.9 You learned about that (and were titillated by the idea of naked assignments) in law school.
That being said, does the goodwill of a sole proprietorship die with the proprietor? Of course not, and neither does the value of the trademarks and service marks associated with the business. Trademarks and service marks are heritable in the same way that the goodwill of the business is. Just because a mark has not been registered does not mean that it is neither valid nor valuable. Registered marks are just easier to find. Don't make the mistake of assuming that the only marks are those currently in use: Absent express abandonment, an unused mark may still be effective months, even years, after it has last been used in commerce.
Ownership of a mark may have more value in what it can prevent than in what it can provide. Some marks may be desirable, and while a mark may be worth only a few thousand dollars to one business, it may be worth several times that to another business that would like to adopt the mark but is prevented from so doing in an area because of prior rights.
One word about domain names: The USPTO recently issued guidelines for the registration of so-called dot-com trademarks.10 Domain names and trademarks and their interplay are confusing, and as of this writing the matter has not been definitively sorted out. If your client has a domain name, it's an asset, and it may be a trademark asset as well.Valuation
Surely the gentle reader will not be surprised to discover that valuation of intellectual property assets is a complex undertaking, especially given that merely identifying and cataloging such assets is so daunting. I know of no safe harbor rule for valuation.
For assets that have been licensed, or for which there is a ready, willing, and able buyer and seller, the problem can become trivial. Other assets, such as a portfolio of photographs, may have value only to a particular buyer, who may be hard to find. Often the best that can be accomplished is to obtain an appraisal from a qualified appraiser and obtain agreement from the concerned parties as to the appraisal figure, if possible. Whether the number is in fact meaningful may be an entirely different concept, and one needs to be aware of the hawklike vision of the party looking backward who gave up rights that now seem to have been undervalued at the time.
A difficult problem arises in a situation in which an estate must be liquidated. It is best for the executor and her advisor to be well informed when disposing of intellectual property assets, and where such disposal merits, it is worthwhile to bring an expert to assist in the valuation and disposal. Frequently, however, the value of an asset may not be apparent at the time it is being disposed of, so it is a good idea to document the steps that were taken to value the asset and to market it. Patent rights disposed of by auction with Uncle Edward's sofa may come back to haunt sooner than Uncle Edward.
There are a number of quite technical books on the topic of intellectual property valuation.11 Valuation of Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets, 3d ed., by Gordon V. Smith and, Russell L. Parr (John Wiley & Sons, 2000), is a great read for a sleepless night, and if nothing else will impress upon the casual reader the great complexity of valuing these assets.
- I can claim that appellation now that I've passed the patent bar examination. Before that, believe me, I felt the hierarchical nature of the IP bar! Back to Article
- And we will not even deal with, except in the most cursory manner, the problems posed by nonuniform international laws and treaties. Back to Article
- "Original works of authorship...fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived...either directly or with the aid of a machine..." 17 U.S.C.A. § 102(a). Back to Article
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gwen. in green.Monday, August 11, 2008
It is a simple A-line baby sweater. All in stockinette. On size *8* needles. I am in love.
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The sweater is beautiful. I love the buttons and the contrast finish work. Nice job!ReplyDelete
That is BEAUTIFUL!!! You are so talented!!ReplyDelete
Oh, wow. That is beyond adorable, Leslie. Your friend will love it. And it's not too late. It's right on time :o)ReplyDelete
So cute! Perfect for a stylish baby:)ReplyDelete
That is so cute!ReplyDelete
That is so beautiful. I love the shape and the color choices. Just perfect.ReplyDelete
super sweetness!ReplyDelete
Very cute! There is something about the simple lines that will let the baby cuteness show right through.ReplyDelete
beautiful and simple. it's wonderful! I would also like one in my size. how cute would that be??ReplyDelete
That is adorable! Just love it!ReplyDelete
omg - so cute, leslie!ReplyDelete
when i saw the photo on flickr with you casting on, i thought it was rialto, but then doubted myself. but hey, i really did know! ha! i love that yarn - it's so squishy.
How lovely that is! Will the purple one have black trim too? Great buttons. :^)ReplyDelete
Love your new blog header photo, simple and oh so sweet! The baby cardi looks so pretty - I love A line cardis too.ReplyDelete
such a wonderful knit, really great! and that purple looks yummy too!ReplyDelete
Very pretty. Can't believe you knit that fast! I love the fact that you made it green. It is great to see little ones in something else besides the pink and blue or yellow :)ReplyDelete
Debbie Bliss is bliss :-)ReplyDelete
The sweater is perfect. Even though you said it was simple, it's the color choices and the bands that really set it off. Sometimes simple and classic is way better than tons of color and crazy patterns. Nice job!ReplyDelete
I'll add my voice to the throng and say how spectacular your green Gwen is!ReplyDelete
- elise8/12/2008
and flintknits on ravelry has modified the Eliz. Zimmerman feb baby sweater for adults, and it appears to be quite similar to the debbie bliss.
here's the link to her website, where the free pdf is:
i have modified it to use a seed stitch border and stockinette for the yoke, and it is an easily modified pattern.
happy knitting!
beautiful sweater, leslie!ReplyDelete
love it!
Great colors! My boyfriend (a new and amazing one!)'s sister just had a beautiful baby girl on Saturday and I am itching to knit her something cute for when she is a little older! Great little cardi!ReplyDelete
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Monday, November 26, 2012
A reader sent me a link to an online turn-based tactical fantasy roleplaying game, called Conclave. It plays a bit like 4th edition D&D combat, but the story part is limited to scripted quests with a few multiple choice branches. The interesting part is that it is hard to solo, and thus you can group up with other players to make the fights easier, or to tackle more difficult quests.
The obvious disadvantage is that this group play is asynchronous, once you made your move you need to wait for the other group members to move to continue. To avoid waiting forever, there is an auto-move after 24 hours. Still you tend to get only a few rounds of combat done per day, so this isn't a game for the impatient.
The interface might look a bit strange on the PC, but that is because it is designed to also run on mobile devices. Works perfectly on an iPad, I tested that. Joining a group of strangers is easy enough. And if you want more, you can play in parallel with several characters. Nice, I like it!
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In celebration of Barack Obama's inauguration, RIT Archive Collections is hosting an exhibition featuring one of the university's historic collections: The Frederick Wiedman Jr. Collection of Presidential Papers. Currently open for viewing, the exhibition runs through March and is featured in two areas of The Wallace Center: the RIT Museum on the third floor and the Gallery for RIT History and Art on the first floor.
According to RIT archivist Becky Simmons, the documents—with signatures of 43 U.S. presidents—provide a glimpse into the lives of the individuals who have held the most important office in the nation. "Almost like relics, we feel the presence of the men who touched these documents that occupied a moment in their lives," Simmons says.
Some highlights of the exhibition range from the personal to the official:
The collection was assembled by Frederick Wiedman Jr., a longtime Rochester attorney and supporter of RIT. He became a member of the RIT Board of Trustees in 1986, and upon his death in 1995, bequeathed the major portion of his assets to the university to support educational programs.


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BiographySenior Professor, University of Rochester Oleg Prezhdo was born in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1970. He obtained Diploma in Theoretical Chemistry with Honors from Kharkov National University in 1991. His thesis work was on focused on the optical properties of molecules and was performed under supervision of Prof. Anatoly Luzanov. From 1991 to 1993, he developed a for interaction of molecules with liquids, guided by Prof. Stanislav Tyurin in Kharkov Polytechnic University. Having moved to USA in the fall of 1993, he completed his PhD on chemical reaction dynamics in solution under Peter Rossky at UT-Austin in 1997. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship with John Tully at Yale, where he worked on electron transfer at surfaces, he moved to the University of Washington in Seattle in 1998. In 2002, he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2005 to Full Professor. In 2008 he became a Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. In 2010 Oleg Prezhdo was offered and accepted a Senior Professorship position at the University of Rochester. Oleg Prezhdo is married to Marina Prezhdo since 1990. They have 2 children: Eugenia born in 1991, and Natalie born in 2004. Oleg Prezhdo's research interests range from the fundamental aspects of chemical reaction dynamics in gas phase, solution and on surfaces, optical properties of molecules and energy losses to heat, to the applied problems in energy harvesting and storage, molecular electronics and computing, lasers, flat screen displays, electro-optic polymers, protein-protein interactions in biology, etc.


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High & Low: Mirrored Consoles & Side Tables for Every Budget
Mirrored accents are just the thing to add a little bling to a room. Mixed with other textures, reflective side tables and consoles add a dose of refinement. Here are some options in a range of prices.
1. Foxed mirror console from West Elm, $549
2. Threshold mirrored modern accent table from Target, $99
3. Square iron and glass Newman side table from Lamps Plus, $540.91
4. Plum & Bow Libby side table from Urban Outfitters, $149
5. Mirror and rust side table from Lamps Plus, $99.91
6. Safavieh Treasures Rory side table from Overstock.com, $181.99
7. Marnie mirrored night stand from Pottery Barn, $799
8. Gold mirrored butler tray from World Market, $89.99
9. Hayworth C Table from Pier 1, $69.98
10. Faceted mirror side table from West Elm, $199
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We're winding our way up the Poudre Canyon in my old four-wheel drive - a strange group, to be sure. There's me at the wheel, hoping this morning will go right. There's my 14-year-old son, silent in the backseat, watching the canyon flash by. There's dark-eyed Eva. And there's the dead woman, Mary. Mary wanted her ashes scattered in the river up this canyon, and we are on our way to honor her wish.
I glance at my son in the rearview mirror. His hair is still damp from his early morning run. He'd tugged self-consciously at his T-shirt when I picked him up from running practice. "Shouldn't I change?'" he'd asked. "I mean, since. ..." His green eyes shone too brightly. Mary wouldn't mind what he wore, I'd told him. She'd just be glad he came.
Mary died months ago, a suicide. I had reeled at the news of this abrupt and final decision by a woman who'd stuck out life for more than six decades. Many things had gone wrong for Mary, I knew. But she had remained active and - I thought - engaged in living. Just days before her death, she'd been telling me how much she loved to watch the deer and eagles in the foothills near her home.
I hadn't seen this death coming, and I didn't understand it.
It was even worse for my son, with whom she had shared the sort of kindred-spirit friendship that transcends age. When I told him she was gone, he paled. He nodded his head in one short jerk as if to say, So that's how it is. Then he clammed up.
Knowing my son was one of the things that had gone right for Mary. The friendship that started when he was a grade-schooler in bifocals and she was a silver-haired artist had been good for both of them. They often walked along the neighborhood irrigation canal, a diversion from the Poudre River. One summer day earlier in their friendship, I had joined them. They crunched along through dried grass, heads up, talking and searching for ripe mulberries. She promised to bring him her next copy of Architectural Digest. She asked how his artwork was progressing, considered his ideas about religion, and agreed that, yes, sometimes kids are mean. That was Mary: involved, alive.
Now that he's older, my son has lost the bifocals, added muscle and height to his thin frame, and learned what it feels like to belong. But there had been a time when Mary's friendship was his life raft. In return, he had offered her, perhaps, something of the happiness of a relationship with a son or grandson, without all the complications. Because I am deeply grateful for their friendship and because I am haunted by the image of Mary dying alone, I hope for a lot today. I hope that what we do here will somehow take care of Mary in a way that no one could seem to manage while she lived - and in turn take care of us as well.
I first met Mary's best friend, Eva, at the memorial service, which Eva arranged. Eva said she planned to scatter Mary's ashes when the time was right - and yes, we could come along.
But now that we've come, I'm feeling awkward. We have no minister, no script, no experience in scattering ashes. We've grown quiet in the truck, wondering how this will work out. But we've made our way to the spot Eva chose, and there's nothing for it but to pull in and park.
We unload Mary's box in its bag of crushed velvet and look around. This is a happy, open place where families come. The river runs high, talking to itself as it rushes by. The cottonwood leaves glow yellow against a muted autumn sky. How right that it has toned down its usual, northern Colorado bright-eyed blue. How right everything around us feels, in fact. My awkwardness slips away.
Eva holds out the velvet bag. "Do you want to choose the spot?'" she asks my son. Her offer takes my breath - can he handle such a gift? He looks across the river, then back at us. "Yes, I do," he says. He accepts Mary's bag in both arms.
And so my son leads us among the water-worn rocks on the edge of the Poudre. He stops by a set of flat stones that extend into the water. Eva pulls Mary's crematory box from the bag, pries it open, and hands my son a bag of finely powdered ashes.
We say our goodbyes on the rocks in the Poudre. Eva and I speak many words. My son simply tells Mary that he will miss her. And this is enough. The three of us exchange clear-eyed glances. "Are you ready?'" Eva asks my son. He steps to a rock in the middle of the current, opens the bag, and begins to gently shake its contents over the clear water.
A light wind picks up; a veil of powder laces the air downwind of us. My son's runner's legs are steady on his rock, his movements calm and sure as if he'd done this before. We're silent, listening to the Poudre move down the mountains and past this place. Ashes stream above us into the wind, below us into the water. They diffuse into the golden-brown river bottom and become indistinguishable from the moving current.
Kathleen Dean lives and writes in Fort Collins, Colorado. This essay first appeared in the 2006 anthology Pulse of the River, edited by Gary Wockner and Laura Pritchett.


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Among the very best views of the sprawling fugitive slave village that rose up in the ruins of Hampton during the Civil War is a December 1864 photograph taken by famed photographer Timothy O'Sullivan.
Probably shot from the roof or cupola of the city's old courthouse, which had been converted into a bustling school by Northern abolitionist missionaries and runaway slaves, it looks west towards the burned-out brick shell of St. John's Church and a panoramic landscape filled with slab-wood shacks and fenced-in gardens.
Some 7,000 people flocked here during the war after Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler of Fort Monroe made his landmark decision to offer asylum to fugitive bondsmen as "contraband of war." Later historians have described this pioneering group, which organized their own schools and churches in a defiant effort to carve out lives as free men, as "Freedom's First Generation."
Click on the enlarged pdf file and you'll be able to see not only the individual cabins and the shadowy figures of some of the contrabands but also the tidy fenced lots where they supplemented their meager rations with gardens. You can also see a small part of dirt-paved Queen Street running diagonally from left to right as well a now filled-in branch of the Hampton River.
To the far right is the southern part of the 17.7-acre tract that is now slated by the city for the construction of a new court house as well as private development. If you zoom in on the pdf file, you easily see that the cabins continue to run in that direction as well as far off to the west.
Just how much of the property was covered by the homes of the fugitive slaves is unknown. But a recent map of African-American landmarks created by Hampton University architecture students under the supervision of Prof. Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle shows the village extending well to the north of current-day Lincoln Street, perhaps nearly as far as Pembroke Avenue, and to the west past Armistead Avenue.
Archaeologists familiar with Hampton's history believe there's a high likelihood that some of the historic camp's features may be preserved under the surface. They also believe that a nearby mid-17th-century site unearthed on the other side of Pembroke Avenue in 1996 suggests there's a good chance of finding more of the city's pioneering early colonial landscape under the surface, too.
Still, any investigation will have to be preceded by a thorough study of surviving records, including a 1878 map and this photograph as well as one other taken by O'Sullivan at the same time, the archaeologists say. And only after that can anyone really begin to talk about whether or not it's worth finding the funding to put a shovel in the ground. -- Mark St. John Erickson


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One of the Israelite judges, of the tribe of Dan (Judg. 13: 24–16: 31). He was a Nazirite, but sat lightly to his vows (Judg. 14: 8–10). He carried on a mostly individual battle against the Philistines. The stories of Samson's erotic attachment to women are legendary. They include the discovery by Delilah of the secret of his astonishing strength, which lay in his uncut hair. When it was shorn, he was captured and blinded, but in a last display of strength, as his hair grew, he seized the pillars which supported the house where the Philistines were celebrating, and died together with his mocking captors (Judg. 16: 4–31). The story of Samson was used by Handel for his oratorio, and there are many great pictures (by Rubens, Rembrandt, Reni) in the art galleries of London and other cities.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The mayor called the case "stupid" and a jury swiftly said it shouldn't stick, taking the eraser to vandalism charges for a man who wrote anti-bank slogans on San Diego sidewalks.
A Superior Court jury deliberated for five hours after a four-day trial before acquitting Jeff Olson Monday of the 13 misdemeanor charges that could have brought 13 years in jail and $13,000 in fines.
Olson, 40, was charged with scrawling messages like "Shame on B of A" and "No thanks, big banks" in water-soluble chalk on sidewalks outside San Diego Bank of America branches from April to August 2012. He included a drawing of an octopus reaching for dollar bills.
Olson turned to his attorney, nodded and smiled as the verdicts were read.
The trial was the latest in a series of dustups between City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, who prosecuted the case, and Mayor Bob Filner, who called it a "nonsense prosecution" that came in response to complaints from Bank of America.
"It's washable chalk, it's political slogans," Filner said last week. "I think it's a stupid case. It's costing us money."
Jail time is highly unusual for graffiti convictions, which typically result in fines or community service.
The city attorney's office said it offered to reduce the charges if Olson agreed to perform community service by cleaning up graffiti, but he refused. The office said the case was referred by the police department.
"Graffiti remains vandalism in the state of California," the city attorney's office said. "Under the law, there is no First Amendment right to deface property, even if the writing is easily removed, whether the message is aimed at banks or any other person or group. We are, however, sympathetic to the strong public reaction to this case and the jury's message."
The judge, who imposed a gag order on participants during the trial, refused to allow Olson's attorney to argue that the messages were constitutionally protected free speech. Instead, the attorney argued the messages caused no damage and were not malicious.
Olson, who was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, said he was relieved by the outcome and that the prosecution brought more attention to his views than he ever imagined possible.
"I couldn't have done better if I rented an airplane with a banner and put billboards up all over town," he said.


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An interview with the director of training at APD
In addition to our coverage of the citizen-formed copwatch group and police oversight, the Alibi also spoke with the lieutenant who directs training at the police academy about officer-involved shootings.
On Tuesday morning, the Albuquerque Police Department fired its guns for the 11th time this year down the street from our Downtown office. The man who was shot is in stable condition at UNMH and is said to have been armed with a serrated butter knife.


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The ad ran for 4 days in total, resulting in a credit card charge of US$20 and a doubling of the number of fans for the Society of Australian Genealogists page on Facebook.
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