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Taylor Swift Demands, Receives Another Apology on The View
Swift: "He hasn't personally reached out, but if he wanted to say hi ... "
On The View this morning, recovering interruption victim Taylor Swift recounted her tragic ordeal on Sunday's VMAs: "My thought process went something like, 'Wow, I can't believe I won, this is awesome ... Don't trip and fall ... Oh, Kanye West is here. Cool haircut. [Pauses for laughter and wild applause] Cool haircut. What are you doing there?' And then, 'Ouch.' And then, 'I guess I'm not going to get to thank the fans.'" Bound to make Taylor's un-thanked fans even more upset is the fact that, as of this morning, Kanye still hadn't reached out to her, beyond speaking with her mom backstage on Sunday, his two blogged apologies, and a emotional prime-time mea culpa before 17.7 million television viewers last night. "He hasn't personally reached out, but if he wanted to say hi ... " she said. But there's a happy ending! Kanye, who'd been watching, called her immediately. So problem solved, again.


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This could be the year that South Texas cotton farmers make money! Last summer many farmers didn't even harvest their fields because of lack of yields; and those who did harvest were faced with depressed prices. It's no wonder that many producers went into bankruptcy.
"Last year was a disaster," admits cotton farmer Lance Swanberg, "but this year it's looking good."
He, along with his brother Marshall plant dryland cotton under the name Swanco Farms,, all under conservation tillage, in Willacy County in the Rio Grande Valley.
Why this unusual optimism? "It's simply because we've had water," says Swanberg. There's been enough rain in South Texas to penetrate deep down into the soil. "It should sustain the crop for a long time."
This will also help cotton producers who irrigate since farmers have pretty much given up hope of receiving the water from Mexico they say is due them.
To keep boll weevil pressure low, the Swanbergs' cotton was planted within a three-week time period that ended April 1. Conditions during that time were almost perfect for planting, the lucky break that farmers needed.
"All of our cotton is the smooth-leaf variety," says Swanberg. This variety is a deterrent to white flies, although white flies are less of a problem in Willacy County than in other places.
"Seed is a big expense." Although Swanberg uses all certified seed, he noted that many producers are saving money by retaining their own seeds after harvest. The seeds are then sent to a processing plant for delinting and put into cold storage until the next planting season.
He, too, is considering doing this in the future. "We look for any way we can to save money."
It's no wonder. The cotton market has been anything but healthy in the last few years. When growers need to get about 72 cents per pound of cotton lint to break even, prices have been stranded at about 40 cents per pound for many years. "We'd like to see it at 85 cents," says Swanberg.
"Last year, insurance barely covered half the expenses," says Marshall Swanberg, the other half of Swanco. Cotton is an expensive crop to grow.
"We have to get a bale and a half per acre plus a good market price in order to make a profit."
Marshall Swanberg also feels that the new farm bill should provide some much needed backup for farmers. "There's no way we could be in farming without government assistance," he stressed.
The Swanbergs also produce grain, which, along with cotton occupy the most acreage on their farms, but their most profitable crop is sugar cane. They are also cattle ranchers and have been in the business of farming and ranching for over 20 years.
John Norman, cotton entomologist at Texas A&M Extension in Weslaco, is as optimistic as the farmers about this year's crop. "Right now it's not quite at 60 cents a pound, but if it continues moving along the way it has, we'll be in good shape."
He also notes that the cotton coming up is looking good.
Norman feels that farmers in the Valley pretty much adhered to the three-week window for planting. "And very few of them had to replant."
He estimates about 10,000 more acres of cotton will be planted in South Texas this year than last.
Norman, though, does warn the farmers about boll weevils, which appear to be arriving in full force.
Traps show 12 times the number of boll weevils over last year, which was too dry a year to see large numbers. This is the down side to the good news that there is plenty of moisture.

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John Shoptaw
"Times Beach is brimming, teeming with life. John Shoptaw, with breathtaking expanse and lasting intricacy, somehow writes a book in which we traverse the vastness of the American landscape—its gorgeous yet misguided rivers, its achingly honest and flawed humans, its forgotten bayous and wildlife—with a hand made nimble by reverence. In this, he revivifies American poetry into an optimism that is nearly as infinite as it is pained. This, however, is the only true kind of optimism, and how good it is to have a book of poetry that restores us into that abundance." — Katie Ford, author of Colosseum and Blood Lyrics
"Times Beach is, like most interesting American books, an original. It's about a place, the watershed of the Mississippi River, and it is an ecopoetics. Best, perhaps, to think of it as a hybrid of Hart Crane, the depression photographs of Dorothea Lange, and a nineteenth-century lantern show—they called them 'panoramas'—of the human and environmental history of our mightiest river system. It comes from a deep sense of the rhythms and dialect of a place and from a deeply literary and inventive imagination." — Robert Hass, poet laureate of the United States (1995–1997) and author of The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems
Winner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize, this ambitious collection of poems evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them. John Shoptaw guides us from the Mississippi's headwaters in Lake Itasca to its delta in the Gulf of Mexico, weaving together episodes in the life of the river system—the New Madrid earthquakes, the 1927 flood, the EPA's eradication of the dioxin-laced town of Times Beach—with his own memories of growing up in the Missouri Bootheel: picking cotton, being baptized in a drainage ditch, and working in a lumber mill. Formally renovative, the poems in Times Beach ring the changes on the big muddy place and hymn its everlasting possibilities.
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"John Shoptaw, a poet and professor at Berkeley, has written a book of poems that is as intricate and profound as the Mississippi River with its history, tributaries and deltas. Times Beach is an extremely well-made work that hearkens to Hart Crane and Walt Whitman, rhythm and blues, and the American experience of individual voices." — St. Louis Magazine.com
"The uncanny combination of experience and skills is what places John Shoptaw at the very summit of nature poets. He anchors his personal experiences in the Bootheel of southeast Missouri as touchstones while he floats the Mississippi watershed through time. An amazing feat." — Foreword Reviews
"There's much to like about Times Beach, even for the casual poetry fan. John Shoptaw's strength is unhooking poetry from its past form—a strategic uncoupling of couplets—to turn the medium into its own monstrous and vital form of energy, all the while telling stories of great depth and enchanting readers with its realism. . . . Shoptaw's 'undercurrents' run deep, and give us a taste of what true originality represents."
— PopMatters.com
"Winner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize, Times Beach is an ambitious collection of poems by John Shoptaw that evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them . . . . A seminal body of work, Times Beach is very highly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Contemporary American Poetry collections and reading lists." — The Midwest Book Review
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Manual Tasks & Ergonomics
Manual Tasks
Many jobs involve the performance of manual tasks where the body is used to move or hold an object, people or animals. Manual tasks are those that require you to push, pull, lift, carry, move, hold, lower or restrain any object, person or animal, and include tasks that have repetitive actions (including typing) or sustained postures. Manual tasks include stacking shelves, working on a conveyor belt and working at a computer or on laboratory equipment.
Hazardous Manual Tasks
Some manual tasks are hazardous and may cause musculoskeletal disorders, which are the most common workplace injuries in Australia. A manual task becomes hazardous when it involves one or more of the following:-
To manage the risks associated with manual tasks, UNSW requires that:
- individuals complete the online ergonomics training, which contains information on how to manage manual tasks, via the UNSW Moodle in myUNSW .This is a UNSW induction requirement for new staff, who are automatically enrolled. Existing staff who have not completed this induction can register via myUNSW. Contact UNSW Health and Safety at email@example.com if you have any queries.
- supervisors/managers follow the requirements of HS432 Hazardous Manual Tasks Procedure which provides information on how to identify, assess and manage hazardous manual tasks.
Office Workstations
Prolonged work at a desk or computer, and poor work station set-up are hazards that, in some circumstances, can aggravate or lead to work-related injuries or diseases, particularly of the neck, back and upper limbs.
The risk of overload of musculo-skeletal structures associated with office workstation use can be effectively managed by setting up your workstation correctly, maintaining a neutral posture and ensuring that you alternate positions periodically. UNSW requires that individuals:
- complete the online ergonomics training (see above)
- review the workstation set up guideline: HS705 Guide to your Computer Workstation
- complete the workstation self-assessment checklist: HS114 Workstation Checklist (click this link and select the category 'Ergonomics/Manual Tasks'. Note that completion of this checklist is a requirement of staff induction).
- take appropriate Rest Breaks and change position periodically (installation of rest-break reminder software may assist)
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The individual/work area will need to provide evidence that they have completed the online Ergonomics training and provide their completed Workstation Self-assessment Checklist or Hazardous Manual Task Risk Assessment to discuss during the assessment. If the UNSW Health and Safety team is unable to provide this service directly due to resource availability, you may be directed to contact a UNSW-approved external ergonomic assessment provider. See also Funding for Workers with Disabilities or Special Needs for further information on specialist assessment services through Job Access.
Note that, if a worker believes that their condition is substantially caused, or aggravated by work, they must report this as an incident through UNSW's online health and safety incident report (see instructions in HS713 Guide to Reporting Hazards and Incidents.
The incident report form that is completed in this system also enables the reporter to notify workers compensation to make a workers compensation claim for incidents impacting employees. If the claim is accepted, the UNSW workers compensation insurer will usually cover relevant medical and related expenses determined by them to be necessary. This may include a work station assessment arranged separately by them. For further information on workers compensation, click here or contact by phone on 02 9385 3194.
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Are You Really Integrating Social Media with Email?January 9th, 2012
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Recently, I've been hearing ads on the radio for a national company that provides email distribution software for small businesses. This company has made a name for itself by spending big bucks on traditional advertising promoting their online software to send email newsletters. Now I've heard their ads before, but this one stuck out in my mind, for one big reason.Email Marketing, Social Media | Tags: audience, conversion, Email Marketing, email marketing content, email marketing subject lines, fans, followers, Social Media | No Comments »


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It's been less than 48 hours since the latest bombshell dropped in Delaware, after US District Court Judge Gregory Sleet said that Delaware was playing a game of "gotcha" with holders. But what does this mean for you, the corporate unclaimed property holder?
In a surprise move today, the newly assigned judge in Temple-Inland, Inc. v. Delaware issued an opinion and order granting Temple Inland's motion for summary judgement. In 2015, the company survived a motion to dismiss. The Court found that the state's actions were troubling, to say the least.
The Court began its analysis on the substantive due process claims by stating:
Twenty-one states, led by Texas and Arkansas, have filed a lawsuit against Delaware at the U.S. Supreme Court, invoking original jurisdiction for disputes between the states. The States are seeking more than $150 million in "official checks" from Delaware, part of the ongoing dispute over the MoneyGram checks.
Delaware followed up its filings in the Federal District Court case with a Motion for Leave to File a Bill of Complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case concerning official checks issued by MoneyGram.
Connecticut is on the verge of joining a growing number of states that require gift card issuers to issue cash back on small balances remaining on gift cards, as HB 5664 awaits the governor's signature. Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy is expected to sign the legislation that would require retailers in the state to issue cash back on balances under $3 after a purchase has been made. The $3 limit is a compromise from an original $10 cash back. Once signed, the law becomes effective October 1, 2016.
Pennsylvania sued Delaware and MoneyGram in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in February 2016. Both Delaware and MoneyGram have filed Motions to Dismiss the case, saying that the U.S. Supreme Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction over the controversy.
This week, Ontario's top court gave Bell Mobility, who manages prepaid cellular accounts for Virgin Mobile Canada and Solo Mobile, a win in a certified class action lawsuit brought by consumers who said that the company had improperly applied expiration dates to their accounts.
In June 2015, Jerry Fent, a local activist attorney, filed a lawsuit against the State of Oklahoma, saying that the unclaimed property program was a Ponzi scheme since the state regularly used the unclaimed money to fund other portions of the state's budget.
DEFAC, the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council, released its latest forecast and pushed approximately $40 million of abandoned property to next fiscal year. Finance Secretary Tom Cook said that the $40 million move is due to audits that they no longer expect to close before June 30, 2016, the end of the fiscal year. Unclaimed property remains the third largest source of "revenue" for the state, behind only personal income taxes and business franchise taxes.
Today, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for writ of certiorari in Taylor v. Yee. Taylor is the long running California case which temporarily shut down the California system and resulted in the two-report process.
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THE CAUCUS; The Final Frontier
By SAM ROBERTS
Published: February 26, 2008
''Normally,'' Jon Stewart noted Sunday night at the Oscars, ''when you see a black man or a woman president, an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.''
So true.
There was Morgan Freeman as President Tom Beck in ''Deep Impact,'' the 1998 film about a comet on course to collide with the Earth.
There was also Dennis Haysbert as President David Palmer on the Fox series ''24'' -- followed by his brother, President Wayne Palmer, played by D. B. Woodside -- who both had to fend off terrorist attacks and treason within their administrations.
Television and the movies may have acculturated the country to the possibility of a black president. But a number of the fictional commanders in chief got into office largely by accident, and their apocalyptic administrations, while led by reassuring figures, may have been less likely to evoke hope than the audacity of hype.
Among the others: ''The Man'' (1972), Rod Serling's adaptation of the Irving Wallace novel and starring James Earl Jones, and ''Head of State'' (2003) starring Chris Rock, a movie whose slogan is ''the only thing white is the house.''
And then there's ''The Fifth Element'' (1997), a futuristic film in which, as a recent column in The Onion noted, a black president (Tommy Lister) does ''great things for this country by keeping the evil Mr. Zorg at bay.'' But those great things don't occur until ''years from now.'' (Mr. Stewart, too, asked in his monologue: Without a black or a woman as president, ''How will we know the future?'')
There have been female presidents, too, including an independent (Geena Davis) who ascended to the White House accidentally on the ABC show ''Commander in Chief'' in 2005. Her term was threatened -- and eventually cut short -- by poor ratings.


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25 Stylish Ways to Wear a Scarf
• 16 November 2011
I know you're going to be as excited about this little video clip as I am (!!)...how to wear a scarf in 25 stylish ways. This video tutorial is a treasure trove for anyone who loves to don a scarf every now and again (she even features this little known way a lovely Dutch woman taught me in France). Gone are the days of wondering, "how in the world did that woman make her scarf look like that?" So grab your scarf and get ready to look trés chic in under five minutes. Enjoy!
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11 comments:
- Lisette said...
Love it!! Thanks for the speedy tutorial. Now I will have to go and try a few of them before I forget.
- November 16, 2011 at 3:22 PM
This is great!! I just bought a scarf, and was looking for some creative ways to freshen up my look. This is perfect!
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- November 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM
Thanks for sharing - what a gem! Definitely filing this away for future use!
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Sooo great. Thanks for sharing,
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- Tulips & Tulle said...
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- November 18, 2011 at 7:06 AM
- kalanicut said...
You know how I love a good scarf tutorial. Some great ideas! Thanks so much for sharing.
- November 18, 2011 at 7:46 AM
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing this.
- November 18, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- Alyssa English said...
I had no idea there were so many ways to wear a scarf! Thank you so much for sharing this. I reposted it on my blog!
- January 12, 2012 at 10:47 AM
- Alyssa English said...
My comment never turned up so I will post again...
I had no idea there are so many ways to wear a scarf! Thank you so much for sharing, and I have reposted this on my blog...
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Poor Man's Steganography
Hide files inside pdf documents: "embed a file in a PDF document and corrupt the reference, thereby effectively making the embedded file invisible to the PDF reader."
Posted on July 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM • 24 Comments
Hide files inside pdf documents: "embed a file in a PDF document and corrupt the reference, thereby effectively making the embedded file invisible to the PDF reader."
Posted on July 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM • 24 Comments
pegr • July 14, 2009 2:28 PM
I bet the header is still in the clear in the PDF. 2/10, fools dummies only. (Making it 97% effective!)
This doesn't seem like all that big of a deal. Many many file formats allow for silent handling of 'garbage'.
I'm working with Microsoft's PE format (their executable format for C#) right now: it explicitly allows for 'garbage' in the blob heap as long as it is not addressable within the PE table framework. I believe word documents are notorious for having garbage in them as well.
How is this any more "sneaky" than commenting out text in a HTML file?
Now I could see this being useful if there was a way to malform the embedded file so that its not readable by humans, but search engines pick it up. You could tell if someone is distributing your work on the internet without concent using a quick google search.
Didier Stevens • July 14, 2009 2:37 PM
> Now I could see this being useful if there was a way to malform the embedded file so that its not readable by humans, but search engines pick it up.
> You could tell if someone is distributing your work on the internet without concent using a quick google search.
Yes, I've a trick to achieve this. But that's for another post.
PP Kozon • July 14, 2009 2:40 PM
Is there such thing as rich man's steganography?
Matt Simmons • July 14, 2009 2:46 PM
Steganography is one of those things that no one will ever be able to prevent. So long as one human can change something, someone else can come along and interpret that change into meaning.
Unless the Matrix runs chrooted, of course.
Didier Stevens • July 14, 2009 2:47 PM
> How is this any more "sneaky" than commenting out text in a HTML file?
Tim • July 14, 2009 3:48 PM
Yeah nothing interesting. It's clear to anyone who reads the spec that you can create PDF objects that aren't linked to from anywhere. No 'corruption' involved...
Tim • July 14, 2009 3:53 PM
This page gives a good idea of how easy it is:
Read the first example and understand the links. Now imagine you add an extra object:
6 0 obj
...hidden file here...
and update the xref table. Job done.
Didier Stevens • July 14, 2009 4:07 PM
> and update the xref table. Job done.
And also update the trailer. Don't want malformed PDF.
aikimark • July 14, 2009 4:11 PM
Nice and thanks.
However, I'm not sure I would call this trick steganographic in nature. The imbedded file's data is much too contiguous (IMHO).
Didier Stevens • July 14, 2009 4:23 PM
> However, I'm not sure I would call this trick steganographic in nature. The imbedded file's data is much too contiguous (IMHO).
Agree, but had no better word for it.
FYI: this has been used during pentests (even without the stego option) to pass files through AV and IDS.
Alice Bevan-McGregor • July 14, 2009 5:20 PM
In other steganography news, hid.im hides Bittorrent downloads in PNGs:
Anon • July 14, 2009 5:43 PM
Obfuscation is easy. If there's a lesson here, it isn't that the PDF format is a great way to obfuscate, but that data can always be "smuggled" in spite of automated filters -- that there's an essentially infinite number of ways to package it.
Makes me wonder why we haven't done better at making it trivial to get around the Great Firewall of China -- it's allegedly a simple (if huge) filter, the tools to work around it (plentiful bandwidth, crypto, etc.) are mature and widely available, and this should be the sort of cause crypto-libertarians are all about. If we can't block spam, how can China block discussion of democracy? :)
Semi-relatedly, if you're a company that wants to make a leaked document or program or something disappear, you may be pretty fucked. Storage is so cheap, and so many companies are giving it away free, that a moderately clever Internet user could get copies of a file posted in a dozen places on the Internet in an hour or two, including peer-to-peer networks and sites like Cryptome and Wikileaks that aren't wimpy about taking things offline.
Anon • July 14, 2009 7:50 PM
I know a far more pathetic example. At my work, .exe files are automatically deleted from emails and cannot be downloaded.
If, however, you rename such a file .txt it will go through just fine, and run as long as it doesn't require administrator privileges. That is good enough to install Firefox, etc.
Benson • July 14, 2009 8:12 PM
I'd like to point out the "GIFAR" concept published at last year's blackhat. Essentially, gif and jpeg files store the index at the top, zip files store it at the end. You can concatenate an image and a zip and the resultant file will be readable as both a zip and an image. Incidentally, a java "jar" is just a zip, so you can hide an entire java program in an "image file". As such, pretty much any data you'd like to share covertly could probably be uploaded to something like imageshack. I think the PDF vuln described here is just a variation on the GIFAR theme.
The Imp • July 14, 2009 8:26 PM
> However, I'm not sure I would call this trick steganographic in nature. The imbedded file's data is much too contiguous (IMHO).
Cryptography is making it unreadable, unless you know the key.
Steganography is making it invisible, unless you know where to look.
Both have advantages and disadvantages, and together they're even better (encrypted data is secure, but suspicious; obfuscated data seems benign, but is insecure; together it's secure and looks harmless). But, any detail beyond the above is academic really, and neither is without a weakness. The point that some people might think to look is kind of like the fact that people can brute-force an otherwise cryptographically secure key; that doesn't disqualify the definition, depending only on just how likely that possibility is.
DeCSS • July 14, 2009 8:47 PM
@ Benson
Wow, that's a blast from the past!
I remember that being one of the ways demonstrated for distributing the DeCSS source code, way back in 2001 or so. And I'd bet that the general technique has been around for much, much longer.
Michael • July 15, 2009 2:20 AM
Easier way - zip a file and rename the .zip to a .doc. Put it in your 'my documents file'. The size will not be abnormal and unless anyone is looking for a specific date, they will only find a corrupt .doc file. You can simply rename it to a .zip at your leisure and retrieve it.
Stringer Bell • July 15, 2009 4:23 AM
Recent MS office/open office doc files are just zip files with a different extension. You can place files inside the zip file structure by dragging the doc into winzip.
My first bit of sort-of-stenography was to write a program which stored a message in a BMP file. It made use of the extra byte on the end of odd width pixel rows.
e.g if you have a 31 pixel wide bitmap then due to rounding rows to word boundaries, you have one byte per row to set to whatever value you want (it will be ignored by image viewers).
Did Not • July 15, 2009 6:46 AM
What if the next version of PDF has case insensitive file names? Suddenly the hidden file is in the clear. This is not much better than using lemon juice as invisible ink, or using a simple substitution cipher.
Pete Austin • July 15, 2009 7:03 AM
This would work with any XML-based document format, such as ODF or OOXML, and could be built into a Word Processor or other editor.
Here's hoping no troll has patented this obvious idea yet. If not, I claim prior art to stop them.
Didier Stevens • July 15, 2009 8:04 AM
> What if the next version of PDF has case insensitive file names?
It's not the case sensitivity of the file names, but the case sensitivity of the PDF language.
Kyle Wilson • July 15, 2009 10:26 AM
The more interesting approach would be to encrypt the data before inserting it. Assuming that you insert only the 'raw' encrypted data (no headers or other recognizable bits) it should be very hard to tell whether this is simply a PDF with a corrupted/junk area or a PDF that is hiding useful data. I suspect that there are plenty of buggy PDF creator tools out there that might include 'junk' sections in final file (say regions of arbtrary process memory that got left in). Trying to prove that a blockof apparrently random junk in the file is actually and encrypted data block could be difficult.
Ven'Tatsu • July 16, 2009 3:26 PM
This idea has been taken even farther with the experimental Perl module Fuse::PDF ( http://search.cpan.org/~cdolan/Fuse-PDF-0.09/ ) which lets you mount a PDF file as a user space file system under some operating systems.
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Cllr Richard Watts, Leader of Islington Council, blogs about the recent EU rally at Islington Town Hall
This week (21 March), the Prime Minister announced that she plans to trigger Article 50 on Wednesday 29 March, officially beginning the UK's withdrawal from EU membership.
Last week, I spoke at a packed 'Islington IN Europe' rally at Islington Town Hall, where I promised to defend the rights of the 17,000 EU citizens living in Islington to stay in Britain. I spoke alongside some high profile speakers about our future relationship with the EU: campaigner Gina Miller, columnist Professor Anthony Grayling and dramatist Bonnie Greer.
You can watch a video of the rally and my speech here:
I am proud to call Islington home. It is a fiercely multi-cultural borough, where people from across the world live, work and contribute to our community. These people are our friends, neighbours and family. They are also business owners and entrepreneurs, and many of them work for our vital public services.
Islington Labour campaigned hard to remain in the EU and a record number of people turned out to vote in Islington -; 75% of whom voted to 'remain'. Many of us were heartbroken that the UK as a whole voted the other way.
The priority for us now is to ensure that Islington remains a tolerant, diverse and welcoming borough, as it always has been. We will not see politics played with the lives of our neighbours.
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Rangers edge Mariners, deny Felix Hernandez his 100th career win
SEATTLE -- All A.J. Pierzynski could do was wait.
First to see if his second-inning fly ball would clear the top of the right-field fence for a homer. Then for a crucial flip from pitcher Robbie Ross in the eighth inning as Seattle tried to squeeze across the tying run.
Both times Pierzynski and the Texas Rangers came out ahead.
Pierzynski homered, David Murphy snapped a 2-2 tie with an RBI single in the fifth, and the Texas Rangers toppled Seattle Mariners ace Felix Hernandez in a 4-3 win on Thursday night.
Pierzynski hit his second homer of the season with one out in the second. The Rangers added an unearned run later in the inning and scored twice in the fifth to deny Hernandez (1-2) a shot at his 100th career victory.
"We scored some runs off of Felix, which doesn't happen very often," Pierzynski said. "He's had the career he's had and the numbers he's put up in his career because he's one of the best. He's never a fun at-bat."
Joe Ortiz pitched two innings in relief of Texas starter Justin Grimm to get his first victory. Ortiz (1-0) allowed no hits and striking out two in his fourth relief appearance of the season. Joe Nathan pitched the ninth for his third save.
Thursday night was Hernandez's first home start since he signed a $175 million extension in the offseason that will keep him in Seattle through the 2019 season. The occasion was celebrated with all 22,000-plus fans in attendance receiving giant yellow K-cards and a yellow T-shirt with "King Felix" printed on the front.
There were plenty of cheers early when Hernandez recorded a pair of first-inning strikeouts to reach the 1,500-mark in his career. Hernandez got Murphy looking to end the first inning for No. 1,500. He walked off the mound to be greeted by a handshake from Adrian Beltre -- one of Hernandez's closest friends in the game -- and catcher Jesus Montero waiting with the ball to commemorate the milestone number.
Hernandez allowed the homer to Pierzynski in the second then saw his defense let him down. Raul Ibanez misplayed Mitch Moreland's line drive to left field for an error. Leonys Martin followed with a single and, with two outs, Elvis Andrus had an RBI single to score Moreland and give the Rangers the lead.
After Seattle pulled even, the Rangers broke the deadlock in the fifth. Ian Kinsler led off with a single and scored on Murphy's two-out hit. Nelson Cruz followed with a double to left field to score Lance Berkman for a 4-2 lead.
Hernandez allowed 10 hits and three earned runs, leaving after giving up a single to Beltre with two outs in the seventh.
"I thought he was sharper today than his last outing," Seattle manager Eric Wedge said. "He had better stuff. A couple of pitches he left up that they got to."
Seattle threatened twice late in the game, none bigger than the eighth inning. Justin Smoak singled and Jesus Montero doubled to open the eighth. Robert Andino followed with a slow chopper to score Smoak and cut the Rangers' lead to 4-3 with pinch-runner Endy Chavez advancing to third.
Seattle then tried to squeeze across the tying run, but Brendan Ryan's bunt went directly back at Ross, who moved quickly off the mound and flipped the ball Pierzynski in time to get Chavez breaking from third.
"Lucky for us he bunted it hard enough to where Robbie could get it to me in time," Pierzynski said. "I was just begging for him to get it to me as fast as he could because it's an awkward play for a catcher."
An inning earlier, Ross entered and struck out Raul Ibanez with the bases loaded to end the seventh.
It was Seattle's third straight loss and the only bit of news that was good for Seattle surrounded Michael Morse, who left the game in the seventh inning after getting hit on the right hand as he checked his swing. Morse was diagnosed with a small fracture in his right little finger. He's expected to miss three to seven days.
"I'm going to try and rehab this as best I can real quick," Morse said. "Might have to play through some pain."
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Seattle Seahawks CB Richard Sherman threw out the first pitch. He was joined by teammates Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor with seats in the first row near the Rangers' dugout. Seattle gave 2B Dustin Ackley the night off. Ackley is hitting just .100. Japanese pitchers Yu Darvish and Hisashi Iwakuma will meet for the third time in their major league careers on Friday night. The pitchers faced off six times while playing in Nippon Professional Baseball.
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At the Great Designs in Steel seminar in Livonia, MI, the Research and Development team behind the BMW X6 Sports Activity Coupe was selected as the winner of the annual Automotive Excellence Award.
The criteria used for this award was "cost-effective use of ultra high-strength steels that meet new market demands for safety, fuel efficiency and emission standards".
The idea behind Steel Automotive Excellence Award is to recognize individuals or teams who significant contributions to the advancement of steel in the automotive marketplace. Candidates were rated in several categories, including: implementation in production; overall contribution to the advancement of steel; challenges and benefits associated with cost, mass reduction and performance; replacement of competitive materials; and structural performance and efficiency.
So why was the controversial BMW X6 chosen for this award? Ron Krupitzer, vice president of automotive applications for AISI's SMDI, says that "The BMW X6 utilizes steel solutions that add to its unique, sporty design and meet new crash-test requirements, without sacrificing safety or increasing its weight. BMW's innovative use of ultra high-strength steel technologies has resulted in a vehicle that is safe, lightweight, environmentally friendly and offers the best fuel economy in its class."
BMW uses unique processing technologies and several complex, ultra high-strength steel grades in its design. The vehicle features a steel structure and steel side frames, panels, rear and B-Pillar reinforcements and longitudinal rear member, which improve cost, performance, reduce weight and meet Insurance Institute for Highway Safety side-impact crash test requirements.
While the idea behind the X6 SAC has always been somewhat criticized by the mass, no one has really disputed so far the performance, handling and technology that the X6 brings to the table. Many of the voices opposing the X6 models were focused on mostly the design and also the need of such vehicle in the current BMW line-up. Despite all of this, BMW has been satisfied with the last year X6 sales and confirmed many times that the Sports Activity Coupe is not a volume seller, but rather a niche model with its own clientele.
Bottom line: congratulations to the BMW R&D team behind the X6 and we look forward to the hybrid version.[Source: American Iron and Steel Institute ]


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Pio Schunker, one of Coca-Cola's top North America marketing execs, is leaving the company.
A Coca-Cola spokeswoman confirmed the move but declined to offer any additional details. It's expected Mr. Schunker won't land in a new post immediately, but given his background, he'd be an attractive hire for both big marketers and agencies.
Mr. Schunker joined Coca-Cola in 2003 from Ogilvy, New York and most recently held the role of senior VP-integrated marketing communications for the Coca-Cola North America Group.
Under his purview, Coca-Cola has become a more modern brand. He was involved in the brand's packaging overhaul five years ago, stripping the iconic Coke packaging back to simple red and white -- eliminating drop shadows, gradients and the like. He's pushed the brand to embrace more digital and social creative, and most recently, he's sought to inject a bit more fun into the 127-year-old brand.
"There's a lot more fun to the brand over the last two years. You're so used to seeing us do big spots like 'Videogame' or 'It's Mine,' which are absolutely things we will always continue to do," Mr. Schunker told Ad Age earlier this year. "But that's mostly what people think of us as -- we make these big epic spots. We really wanted to get back to talking about the product itself as the ultimate refreshment. We wanted to do it in a way that was more fun, surprising, funny."
Coca-Cola has been a staple in the Super Bowl and Mr. Schunker was heavily involved in planning the beverage giant's approach to the game. And he helped usher in real-time marketing advances and interactive TV ads to the Super Bowl for the first time.
In 2012, the Polar Bowl ran alongside the Super Bowl, featuring Coca-Cola's iconic polar bears -- one cheering for the Patriots, the other for the Giants -- reacting to the game, the commercials and the halftime show in real time.
This year, Coke took a different approach to Super Bowl, seeking to ensure that the brand capitalized on the engagement generated during the big game. "Mirage" -- a choose-your-own-adventure series of ads where consumers picked the ending -- became a springboard for activities throughout the year, all of which embraced the idea of Coke as the ultimate refreshment. For example, a campaign targeting teens was dubbed "The Ahh Effect" and built upon the audiences attracted during "Mirage" through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and YouTube.
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Another big part of Mr. Schunker's duties has been assembling the right team of agencies and design firms for the Coca-Cola trademark, which over the past decade has included a range of shops such as independent Wieden & Kennedy, MDC Partners' CPB, Dentsu-owned 360i, Droga5 and
Having spent time on Madison Avenue, Mr. Schunker has been adamant that the value of agencies stems from them challenging marketers, not just being "yes men."
As BusinessWeek described a few years ago in a profile of Mr. Schunker: "The big networks, he says, were just giving Coke what they thought it wanted, not what they themselves believed in. He wanted to work with agencies and design studios who would, rather than simply 'stick around for the pay cheque', believe in what they were doing and walk away if they didn't get to do it. He is adamant that he doesn't want yes men, willing to do anything that the client wants, but strong-willed, committed people who are unafraid to express an opinion: 'You want an agency to act as your conscience,' he says, to say 'that's crap, you shouldn't do that, we're not doing it.' We value them far more if they value themselves—if they just become doormats we lose respect for them."
Mr. Schunker has been especially close to Wieden & Kennedy and a champion for the shop's work, having appointed the agency in 2005.


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There seems to be tremendous interest right now in the health effects of sugar in our diets. Many people say that it is sugar, rather than fat, that is leading people to be overweight. Documentaries like "Fed Up" talk about both the addictive nature of sugar and how the idea of "eating better and exercising more" makes little sense when the environment makes it practically impossible to eliminate sugar additives from your diet in the first place. No matter how hard you try, the deck is simply stacked against you, so the thinking goes. So 21 days ago I set ...
It's almost marathon time and lots of marathon runners out there are starting to be nervous about their races. If I had a way to peek into their brains and read their thoughts, this is probably what I'd hear: "OOOOOHHHHH XXXX!!!!" You pick the expletive to fill in for the XXXXs.
The truth is that we all get anxious coming into a marathon. There are a lot of reasons for this. For one thing, if this is your first marathon, then you have a lot of doubt about the outcome. You've never run this far and every time you've told someone you were running a marathon, they gave you that look like, "really, that's soooo far!"
But there's more to it than that. You've spent four or five months preparing for the event. How many things have you put that much energy into? Maybe your wedding if you got married or maybe a big exam. And you were probably nervous as all heck on those days when they finally arrived.
You've been training, and hoping, and struggling, and succeeding, and failing and doing all kinds of things getting ready for your marathon. And it's all building up in your head. The one thing that I can say without a doubt is that the vast majority of marathon runners, first time or twentieth, think about their upcoming event probably many times each day in the week before the race – it's basically always on their minds and in their thoughts.
Oh and yes, there's that competitive thing too. We all have goals (which are a good thing), but there's that word "race" that goes along with the event. And there's that big clock, and talk of timing chips, and cut-off times, and time-limits, and pace groups. So even if we are not overtly thinking about being competitive like the faster runners up front, competition is creeping into our thinking by our very human nature.
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Slidell — Andy Prude drove past the faded blue cinder block building on Carey Street en route to work on a daily basis, but while most people would have seen nothing but another old, blighted building, the Slidell native saw something more — Olde Towne's past but also its future.
The building, originally built as a wooden structure before the 1900s, had certainly seen better days. For years it had housed Champagne's, a locally owned store that sold everything from clothing to furniture, before undergoing a number of other incarnations. After Hurricane Katrina, the house attached to the back of the business was torn down, leaving the building without a back wall and open to elements.
"I kept seeing it and knew it was on the city's list to be demolished, and then one day, I saw a 'for sale' sign," Prude said.
Many people would have been put off by the building's neglected condition, but Prude saw its potential. "I live in an old house," he said with a shrug. "I like old stuff."
He and his partner, Christopher Nogues, bought the building two years ago and launched an extensive renovation to the building, which now houses their business, Pontchartrain Investments.
The renovation "made us very visible," he said, and he and Nogues like being able to host events at the building and invite clients to come watch the Mona Lisa and Moon Pie marching parade that winds through Olde Towne.
The renovationalso gave a lift to an entire block of Olde Towne, said Katherine Olivier, the Main Street manager for the city of Slidell.
"You need somebody to get started," she said. "With the rehabilitation of that building, it was major. The whole street on one side of Carey was changed."
And now Prude has bought other nearby properties, including the old Community Feed and Seed, with plans for more renovation and economic development.
Efforts to boost Olde Towne aren't new — they've been going on for decades. The city's former central business area has been struggling with the competition posed by malls and a retail climate that stresses car traffic over foot traffic, Olivier said, a situation that's hardly unique to Slidell.
But when Hurricane Katrina flooded most of south Slidell in 2005, Olde Towne took a heavy hit. A vital part of the area's post-storm recovery came when city leaders decided to rebuild municipal buildings that had always been in Olde Towne instead of moving elsewhere.
The location of city government means there are plenty of people in the area to have lunch at eating establishments and to shop in stores, Olivier said. But it also had a symbolic importance that served to encourage merchants to stay. After Katrina "it was more of an imperative," Olivier said. "We're not going to lose the heart of our city."
Slidell Mayor Freddy Drennan also decided to pursue accreditation in Louisiana's Main Street initiative. Slidell is now in its fourth year as a Main Street city, one of 35 in the state, and was accredited by the national Trust Main Street Center in 2010.
That signaled a commitment from the city, too, since it meant hiring Olivier to serve as manager, a requirement for the program. A local board, known as Friends of Olde Towne Slidell, oversees the program. Prude serves on the board as its economic development chair.
One advantage of the Main Street program, Olivier said, is that it offers the help of a design expert who can provide ideas for property owners who want to restore or renovate old buildings. Prude received that help in the renovation of his business.
Slidell's Olde Towne is also within a designated Culture District, which is determined by the state's Division of Historic Preservation, and that allows property owners to get tax credits for renovation or restoration work. That's also something Prude used in rehabbing his building.
Olde Towne still faces challenges. Advocates of the area point to Hurricane Isaac, which caused some buildings to flood. Friends of Olde Towne Slidell board member Sonya Soniat said that storm resulted in the loss of some longtime merchants and has been a discouragement to new investment.
Dudley Smith Printing is moving out of Olde Towne, several merchants said, and Eric and Mary DuBuisson, who transformed their cleaning business into a gallery after Katrina, put their building up for sale.
But Frank Jackson, whose iconic Old Town Slidell Soda Shop was shuttered for nearly seven years after Katrina, was not deterred even though he had just reopened on Aug. 1 and was flooded by Isaac less than a month later. He reopened within five days, although he said business was off for some time, with reports of flooding making customers assume — wrongly — that Olde Towne was closed for business.
Beyond the specter of Isaac, Prude sees gaps in Olde Towne, with some pockets of success and other areas that need a boost. He and others point to the success of a row of antiques shops on First Street, and the possibility of replicating such clusters, possibly by sharing space for "businesses that want to give it a shot.'' Costs are lower in Olde Towne, too, compared with more highly trafficked strip malls, he said.
That was a draw for artist Joel Geiger, who just opened his metal art business, I.D.eel Design, on Carey Street this month.
"I just love Olde Towne,'' said Geiger, also a Slidell native. "If I could afford to have a gallery in the French Quarter, I probably would, but you have to start somewhere.''
Olivier points to Prude and other new arrivals in Olde Towne, like chef Christopher Case of Christopher's on Carey, as part of a wave of young, energized business owners in Olde Towne.
For his part, Prude certainly has ideas: he's hoping the city will approve a bike rack design he has in mind to promote bicycle traffic in the area. He wants to see a coffee shop and a pizza place. And he's eager to recruit others. A local lawyer bought a house and is renovating it for her offices. "I don't think she would have done it if I hadn't talked her into it,'' he said.
Some cities have transformed their dying centers, he said, while others have failed. "We're in the middle,'' he said.
To succeed, he said, "we need to become a destination. That's what Olde Towne can be.''


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McConkey, R, Truesdale-Kennedy, M, Crawford, H, McGreevy, E, Reavey, M and Cassidy, A (2010) Preschoolers with autism spectrum conditions: The impact of a home-based intervention to promote their communication. Early Child Development and Care, 180 (3). pp. 299-315. [Journal article]
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The complexities that practitioners face in evaluating interventions are illustrated in this article. An early intervention programme (known as Keyhole), based mainly around Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communications handicapped CHildren (TEACCH), Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and Hanen approaches, was delivered to 35 families through 15–18 home visits over a nine-month period. In addition, 26 families acted as a contrast group. A range of measures were used on a pre–post basis along with qualitative data from participants. The children as a whole showed significant improvements on different indices of communication and these were greater than those reported in the contrast group. Mothers too improved on measures of health but not of stress. These findings add to the accumulating evidence that family-delivered, communication-based interventions are effective. Lesson for service-based evaluations are drawn; in particular the reasons for the individual variation in children's and parental responses require closer investigation.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) —
Congress is unlikely to vote before the current session ends in January on allowing states to tax goods sold online, an aide to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says.
Durbin said he will introduce the tax again in the next session.
Brick-and-mortar retailers support the Marketplace Fairness Act, which was written by Durbin and two Republicans, Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
An aide to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., says Baucus — who represents a state with no sales tax — wants the online bill as part of a comprehensive tax reform passage.
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- WHAT do you think the venn diagram of people who go to Burning Man and people who read Walkoff Walk looks like? I think it looks like commenter Chief Wahoo.
- IS this series with the Reds the Cardinals' last shot at saving their season?
- WHAT is up with the Padres? They're in total freefall and their lead in the West is down to 3 games. We know one Padres fan, and he blames it all on Sports Illustrated. Of course he does.
- HOW will the Red Sox and Rangers affect the AL Central this weekend? They've got series with the White Sox and Twins respectively. I couldn't be less interested in the Manny As A White Sock subplot. It's like caring about Gary Cherone fronting Van Halen... if you're one of the morons that cared about Van Halen in the first place.
- WHAT is this crazy dame talking about? We need to leave politics out of sports, amirite guys!? /runs finger around collar.
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All Cherub Chews necklaces are made with EU sourced unfinished (no colour or varnish non toxic) wooden beads, crochet covered wooden beads made with organic cotton yarn , on an adjustable slip knotted cotton cord, so you can wear the necklace long or short. The beads range between 12 mm to 27 mm and the length is approx 30 cm full length.
The necklaces are designed with nursing and babywearing mothers in mind. They are attractive to little ones, beautiful and safe.


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I recently taught digital media to a group of Southern Ponca students at White Eagle Oklahoma for the Standing Bear's Footsteps project. The class began with nine students who were selected the Ponca Tribal Education Department. The students varied in age from 10 to 14, that's fifth to eighth grade, 4 girls and 5 boys. This was a six-week project, with classes held 2 ½ days per week. Read More... about Teaching/Learning Digital Media in an Oklahoma Heat Wave
If you've been following my blogs, of if you know me, you should know how passionate I am about Native media. In the recent years, I've taken a deeper interest in Native American Educational Media and decided to get yet another degree focusing on this subject. I've been involved with learning and teaching media for over 10 years now and I am starting to see the Native communities becoming more technically savvy, more involved in digital storytelling and more passionate about not only pre Read More... about Vision Maker Media at Vegas PBS!
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Some artists make cute little felted things - but not French designer Lise Lefebvre: for her art thesis project, titled "The aesthetics of domestic sound," she created a series of "acoustical skin" - basically covers for household appliances and tools to muffle the sound!
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It's another dust trap!
*reaches for inhaler*
*reaches for inhaler*
The loudest thing in my house is the fridge (damn you Fisher & Paykel).
I don't know that it's stupid so much as it's not really needed. These days, most household appliances are made to run more quietly. If you own something made within the last decade, like a dishwasher, for example, it's very likely that noise isn't going to be a huge issue to begin with.
That's stupid. I know a guy who designs acoustic dampeners for a living. Real original.


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Esri Mining User Group Meeting
December 14, 2012 / 10:00am - 12:00pm
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What's the story behind the newest fossil find?
What do you think of the newest human fossil discovery reported in the news this week?
I think this statement I read on a T-shirt once seems to sum it up: "Have you every seen the Energizer Bunny? You know, it keeps going and going and going… The same is true for missing links; they keep missing and missing and missing…"
To best understand discoveries such as this one of "Kenyanthropus platyops" it is necessary to understand the underlying model used to interpret the fossil. Scientifically, the best way to reconstruct the unobserved past is to build a model. Evolution and creation are best described as "models" to explain origin. A model is defined as a scientific framework of ideas used to help organize and understand facts in a meaningful way. Thus, the model that explains the greatest number of facts with the fewest number of modifications is the one most likely to be true. That is, a model will make certain predictions about what the evidence will show. If the evolution model of human origin were true, for example, we would predict that the fossil evidence would show some transitional forms between modern humans and their "common ancestor." In other words, what would be expected and thus predicted from the evolution model is a clear-cut missing link. However, discoveries such as Kenyantropus illustrate the overwhelming fallibility of the evolution model. It must bend and twist to accommodate every new discovery. Instead of confirming conclusions made by evolutionists this discovery has them in a quandary. For example, Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Museum on Natural History was quoted in USA Today saying, "What is clear is that human evolution is much more complicated than we thought."
This is not unusual. Supposed human ancestors have made a habit of mischievously showing up in the wrong place for evolutionists. An entire category of human/ape fossils called Homo habilis is a great example. These fossils were widely publicized as a bridge to the gap between humans and apes. Over the years, however, it became evidence that this group was a mixture of apes and humans. Most of the fossils in this group were simply varieties of apes. However, to add respectability fossils such as KNM-ER 1470 and 1590 were included. (KNM stands for Kenya National Museum and ER stands for East Rudolf where the fossils were found.) Later studies revealed these were simply human fossils with brain capacities well within the range of modern humans. Richard Leakey, (father of Meave Leakey who found Kenyanthropus) who discovered KNM-ER 1470 said, "Either we toss out this skull or we toss out our theories of early man. It simply fits no previous models of human beginnings." Instead of abandoning the grouping, this group is still promoted as an in-between group between the Australopithecines and Homo erectus.
Professor Marvin Lubenow in his book Bones of Contention points out the problem with claiming that such fossils support evolution: "Just for the fun of it, let's grant the evolutionist his point. Let's assume that there is something very bad about telling a student that the oldest human fossil ever discovered supports Special Creation. As bad as that might be, I can think of something even worse. To tell a student that the oldest human fossil ever discovered supports evolution. Because that would be a lie."
As difficult a job as it might be there comes a time when every child should be told there is no such thing as the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. Likewise, as difficult as it might be for evolutionists, the time has come for us to be told the truth about these fossils. Fairy tales such as evolution must be abandoned in the name of science and logic. The truth of a special creation by an intelligent designer is the only reasonable model that can defend the evidence.
The Kenyanthropus find is no surprise to the creation model. This flat-faced, small-toothed fossil creature with a brain the size of a chimpanzee was probably some variety of an ape. But, for now, evolutionists have the job of convincing the public otherwise. Attempts over the last few years to convince us that Lucy was our great, great, great….. grandmother have failed. Kenyanthropus gives them another opportunity for salesmanship until another candidate is found. I have had many questions about Lucy and I will answer those in later columns. This will shed additional light on your question about new discoveries such as this.3/31/01
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Tokyo, Sep. 17, 2009—Ricoh Company, Ltd. (President and CEO Shiro Kondo) today announced the start of operations at Ricoh Manufacturing (Thailand) Ltd., (RMT), a 100% owned subsidiary. The plant is situated in Rayong, 150km south-east of Bangkok. The entire project was conceived in the context of the East Asian Economic Partnership and Free Trade Agreements. RMT is committed to sourcing parts and materials from local suppliers and contributing to the regional economy, as well as hiring staff from the area. Strategically the new facility will serve as a hedge against over-concentration of manufacturing in China.
Starting with laser printers, RMT has set initial production figures at 8,000 units per month.
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|Ricoh Manufacturing (Thailand) Ltd.
|2. President:
|Takashi Koga
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Amphur Pluakdaeng, Rayong 21140
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|May 28, 2008
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We can all probably agree that yoga pants are great. Women love them for how comfy they feel and men love 'em for a whole other reason that has more to do with how our butts look in them, but either way it's a win-win. Yoga pants are a perfect solution for when you're feeling lazy and just need to put something on. They are your best friend when working out, since they're stretchy as hell. And they're a strong favourite when it comes to travelling, because let's be real, they're way more comfortable than jeans. Plus, we're pretty sure all women look good in yoga pants and we've got a 14 pictures that prove that!
1. Selena Gomez
Selena looks awesome no matter what she wears, so obviously she looks smashing in yoga pants. Her secret to such a great looking body is to constantly keep it guessing. She doesn't have a set exercise routine, instead she mixes and matches between dancing, hiking, doing pilates and spinning. That way she doesn't get bored of doing the same type of exercise all the time and is much less likely to skip a day of exercising.
2. Amanda Seyfried
It's been a while since her days in Mean Girls, but Amanda Seyfried just seems to be getting more gorgeous every year. She keeps herself in shape by doing a lot of running. Not only does it help her to burn some calories and workout her legs, but it also helps her deal with anxiety.
3. Jennifer Lawrence
How can anyone not like Jennifer Lawrence. She's funny and quirky, she doesn't take herself too seriously and she looks amazing. Most of the time we're not sure whether we want to be friends with her or just be her. And just look at that body. How did she get it? Mostly yoga.
4. Gigi Hadid
Gigi might have the body we all dream of having, but she still has some insecurities, so she works out hard in the gym. In order to keep those amazing abs visible she does grueling ab workouts that include crunches, leg raises and lots of planks 4 times a week.


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The President of Harvard had changed the curriculum to be completely elective undergraduate studies. He also created the requirement that any student enrolling in one of the Harvard Professional Schools needed to have an undergraduate degree. However, Harvard still did not offer a graduate program, and many young men went to Europe to get their post-graduate degrees. This void was filled with the creation of Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins University was created with a grant from the estate of a Baltimorean. He left $7 million to establish a university in his name. Johns Hopkins University became the first graduate level university in the United States. It was the center of advanced learning in the fields of research and doctoral science degrees.
Daniel Coit Gillman was the first President and created the curriculum of the university. He based...
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Backlinking is one of the great ways to promote your website and an effective way of working together with similar websites to increase your page views without hurting a mutual friends. Basically this method is if for you if you are trying to increase your SEO, meaning you want to gain a larger viewership and start bringing in tons of organic traffic, but you either do not know how to go about this or you are just trying to take a solid and effective method and turn it into more impressions for your website. There are many different reasons that someone would want to work on their SEO but in the end you will be after increasing your page views, the typical website owner's desire, and that is what we will work with today. Hopefully you will gain some knowledge from this and will more fully understand the meaning behind SEO and why it is a test of an all around skill and that optimization does not come from just one area. The one main factor that is holding back most website promoters is this unfortunate fact that website's are judged wholesomely by search engines and that having tons of SEO built into your page will not bring enough of a benefit to your website if you aren't using the offsite SEO as well.
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The best places to find backlinks for your website will be on either promotional based websites like social media, for example youtube or even twitter, or on your similar websites that play to the same crowd of viewers as you. There are different benefits for both of these types of websites but either way you are benefiting from the promotion. Do not fret if you are getting linked to from a competitor because this is great for your website in every way and often these types of off-site search engine optimization is actually the best quality backlinks possible. There is no better way to rank for your highest keyword than getting linked by your competitors. Think about it this way, everyone is always fighting to get their link on huge authority sites and typical content pages on basic websites but no one realizes that there is this hidden gold mine in the depths of similar websites. The reason comes from Google's own algorithm and the strength of its algorithm. Being after the best and most accurate search results they will always try to get links and value your own website by evaluating your competitors. This is one of the best ways to tell where you stand against your competitors and Google takes advantage of this by then ranking your on your own SEO and other websites. What this does is allows Google to have high ranking websites that aren't doing a great job on SEO but have the most accurate content, so in this respect it gives more power to the newer websites that do not have much aged content or organic traffic coming. This can be good for the novice website owners but it definitely takes away some of the power that people gain by getting your website ranked.
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Because the pancreas lies deep in the abdomen, a doctor performing an examination on a patient would not be able to feel a pancreatic tumor. Pancreatic cancer has few early warning signs, and as a result, pancreatic cancer rarely is discovered early. Many times the diagnosis is not made until the cancer has spread to other areas of the body. When early symptoms do occur, they are often vague and nonspecific and can be confused with symptoms caused by medical conditions other than pancreatic cancer.
Possible early symptoms that should be evaluated by your physician are:
* The symptoms of pancreatic cancer are easily explained by the location of the pancreas in relation to other organs in the body. A tumor located in the head of pancreas may cause jaundice to occur. The signs of jaundice are yellow skin and eyes, dark urine, and light clay-colored stool. Jaundice occurs when a substance called bilirubin builds up in the blood. This build-up causes a person to become noticeably yellow, or jaundiced and itchy.
* As pancreatic cancer grows and spreads, pain can develop in the upper abdomen and may also spread to the back. The pain may become worse after eating or lying down. Advanced cancers or cancers in the body of the pancreas are most likely to cause pain.
* Indigestion, lack of appetite, nausea, and weight loss can occur when a pancreatic tumor presses against the stomach and small intestine. These symptoms may be due to the ability of pancreatic cancers to produce certain proteins that dramatically change the body's normal physiology.
* Islet-cell cancer, which is the uncommon form of pancreatic cancer, can cause the pancreas to make too much insulin, which results in low blood sugar levels. When this happens, the individual may feel weak or dizzy. Chills, muscle spasms, and diarrhea are frequent symptoms of islet-cell cancers as well. The symptoms that develop depend on the specific hormones that are being overproduced.
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A recent Guardian blog describes university as a 'toxic environment' for women, dominated by an 'insidious rape culture'; a 'world of sexual assault, objectification and harassment'. Reports of vulnerable young women having to run the gauntlet of a university campus rife with 'rape culture' abound in both the UK and America.
But there's one big difference from a century ago: today's panics over rape 'epidemics' are not promoted by Victorian fathers but by female students. Being a feminist on campus in 2014 seems to mean calling for university managers to intervene in intimate relationships and to curtail free speech in the name of protecting delicate women from sexual threats.
Let's be absolutely clear: there is no epidemic of rape in universities. Very few articles cite any statistics to support the assertion that rape is prevalent on campus. Those that do rely on national crime statistics; recently released data suggests that in the UK in the year 2012-13 there were, on average, 22 recorded incidents of rape per 100,000 members of the adult population. This would equate to just over four recorded rapes at a typical university. This is obviously four too many, but it is hardly testament to any sort of widespread 'rape culture'. Rape Crisis, a UK charity that supports women and girls who have suffered from sexual violence, claims that in 90 per cent of rape cases women know their attackers, and that 52 per cent of women suffering serious sexual violence were attacked by their partners. The validity of applying such national statistics to a student population, which is generally young and living away from old networks of family and friends, needs to be questioned.
Other articles cite data from the 2010 NUS report Hidden Marks, which claims 14 per cent of students have experienced physical or sexual assault. Of these, 48 per cent say the perpetrator was not a student (challenging the notion of a university rape culture) and only 17 per cent of the victims reported the attack to the police or university staff because 'they did not feel what had happened was serious enough'. Of this smaller number of reported assaults, the grouping together of physical and sexual offences makes it misleading to use this data to claim anything about rape culture.


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Your city local
Located in Newton, just minutes away from the hustle and bustle of Queen St in the Auckland CBD and slap-bang on the city's divide between Ponsonby and Newmarket is an iconic Auckland treasure. The Kings Arms Tavern.
Legendary isn't an adjective that one just throws around every day, and yet there it sits comfortably in front of one of Auckland's oldest and most beloved pubs, the venue of choice for touring international, national and local acts. The Kings Arms is a pub, a live rock music venue, an affordable eatery and an authentic no-fuss experience with a sun-drenched beer garden smack bang in the centre of town.
Our legacy
The Kings Arms is steeped in history and has built a legacy unlike any other bar in Auckland. It's a fair bet that several generations of Aucklanders have darkened its doorways at one time or another, either to drink or see a band. It occupies an integral but uncelebrated place in the lives of many. On the other side of the coin, besides the well-known fact that the White Stripes once graced the stage before they were big, other celebrated artists - local and otherwise - owe a debt of gratitude to the Kings Arms for being there when they needed it. It has and always will be the backbone of the live music scene in Auckland. Every rock band from in or around NZ still has that understandable desire to say "we played the Kings Arms last night". It seems nothing much has changed. Besides, change is over-rated.
Your story
From generation to generation, we've all got a story to share about the Kings Arms. With its unique character and charm, there's no place in Auckland like it. And if you haven't been back for a while, well, it's time you came up with a new story to share.