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DFL senators have filed an ethics complaint against retiring Republican Sen. Geoff Michel for fudging the timeline of his knowledge of an affair between former Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch and staffer Michael Brodkorb to allegedly protect a whistleblower.
DFLers say Michel, who was serving as interim majority leader after Koch resigned from her position in December, told reporters at a news conference that he first heard staff complaints regarding Koch and Brodkorb's relationship just two weeks earlier. But former Senate GOP caucus Chief of Staff Cullen Sheehan later told MPR news he had approached Michel about the relationship in September, or about three months prior to the news conference.
Michel later confirmed to reporters that he had heard about the relationship in September, but said he was trying to protect the identity of Sheehan, who had recently resigned from his Senate position to take a lobbying job.
In the ethics complaint signed by Sen. Sandy Pappas, DFLers say Michel failed to act quickly enough to restore a "safe working environment" for senators, "betrayed the public's trust" by reporting an inaccurate timeline to the media and brought the Senate into "dishonor and disrepute."
In a news conference on Monday, DFL Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk stressed that GOP caucus failed to investigate the matter for itself. Bakk and Pappas said they did not anticipate seeking interviews with anyone but Michel, from whom they wanted both an apology and an explanation of his conduct during the months between time he learned of the affair and acted on that knowledge.
Pappas held out the prospect that a complaint could be withdrawn if Michel apologized on the Senate floor, but stressed that the apology would have to contain answers to the questions contained in the complaint, such as why he sat on the information for so long.
In a statement, Michel said the move is "about politics and payback and has nothing to do with ethics."
"The DFL wants a few more headlines. The conflict of interest has been resolved. The workplace environment has improved," he said. "And, we did this while protecting whistleblowers and staff. I have asked for an immediate hearing to resolve this matter."
Various senators and staffers are quoted in the six-page complaint, including Sheehan and Senate GOP communications head Steve Sviggum, who was brought in to replace Brodkorb after he was fired from the position.
Michel served as deputy majority leader in the Senate until December, when the Senate GOP caucus elected an all-new team in the wake of the Koch scandal. In early March, the Edina senator announced plans to retire from the chamber after 10 years in office.


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6-10 junior Derrik Smits of Zionsville, IN is making an unofficial visit to Clemson for today's game with Pittsburgh. This is his second visit to Clemson. He's the son of former NBA star Rik Smits.
Smits also has offers from Boston College, Butler, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue and Xavier.
2014 C Adonis Delarosa of New York will announce April 18. His top 5 is South Carolina, St. John's, Rutgers, Fordham & Hofstra.
Clemson has offered 6-6 junior Daniel Purifoy of Centreville, AL. His other offers include Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, SMU, Tennessee and others.

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I'm often asked: "so what's your favorite French dish?". And I usually gaze in indecision, eyes wide open, as if I had just been asked what the meaning of life was. Tricky question... There's so much to choose from! After pondering and some meditation, I decided to break down my thoughts into different food categories over time. So voila, in no particular order, here's my...
Top 5 French Comfort Foods:
- Le Gratin Dauphinois: Scalloped potato dish from my region, creamy and absolutely delicious.
- La Raclette: a dish of melted cheese, potatoes served with deli meat like saucisson –a type of salami- or ham and cornichons.
- A simple salad with butter lettuce and a sharp garlicky vinaigrette served with sautéed new potatoes (the tiny ones).
- Le Boeuf aux Carottes: a beef stew with carrots.
- A bowl of café au lait, a croissant and a fresh, still warm out of the bakery, crispy tartine of butter.


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About/Contact RESPIRATORY CARE
RESPIRATORY CARE is the official science journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC). It is published monthly, and is listed in Index Medicus and included in ISI's Web of Science. Its contents are searchable via PubMed and most widely-used search engines.
In continuous publication since 1956, RESPIRATORY CARE is edited by Dean R Hess PhD RRT FAARC of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The Journal's editorial office is in Irving, Texas. The editor in chief is assisted by Editor Emeritus David J Pierson MD FAARC, Deputy Editor Richard D Branson MSc RRT FAARC, five Associate Editors and an Assistant Editor, as well as by an Editorial Board, whose members include respiratory therapists, physicians, physiologists, and others involved in the field. More information on the Journal's structure and personnel is available on the editorial board page.
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$1.2 Million Best Western Escondido Hotel Renovation
The Best Western Escondido Hotel has just completed $1.2 million renovation of its 100 guest rooms with new carpet and furniture, all new bathrooms and plumbing, 42″ flat-screen Televisions, and upgraded WiFi.
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Seminar 20.1.2015: Engagement in Learning
Engagement in Learning seminar
Tuesday 20 January, 14.00 - 16.00
Room 302, 3rd floor, Siltavuorenpenger 3A, University of Helsinki
Welcome to Siltavuorenpenger in January to hear about engagement in learning. Our guest speakers, Barbara Schneider and Joseph Krajcik, from Michigan State University and professors Lavonen and Salmela-Aro are collaborators in the SAVI EAGER project. The joint project focuses on how teachers use information about student engagement obtained through smart phone technology to make formative decisions regarding classroom instruction. At the event, Schneider and Krajcik will introduce their current research after which there will be time for audience questions and discussion. Welcome!
The event is free of charge, but we ask that you register HERE
Draft programme
14.00 Coffee and welcome
Program Manager Risto Vilkko, The Academy of Finland
Professor Jari Lavonen, Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki
Professor Katariina Salmela-Aro, CICERO Learning, University of Helsinki
14.10 Professor Barbara Schneider, College of Education and Department of Sociology, Michigan State University
14.45 Dr Joseph S. Krajcik, CREATE for STEM Institute, Michigan State University
15.15 Discussion
15.45 Summary
Barbara Schneider is the John A. Hannah Chair and University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Dr. Schneider is the principle investigator of the College Ambition Program (CAP), a study that tests a model for promoting a STEM college-going culture in 13 high schools that encourages adolescents to pursue STEM majors in college and occupations in these fields. She is also co-principal investigator of the Michigan Consortium for Educational Research (MCER), a collaboration between the Michigan Department of Education, Michigan State University, and the University of Michigan created to assess the implementation and impact of two key reforms in Michigan that were designed to work in tandem to promote college attendance and workplace success. Dr. Schneider also worked for 18 years at the University of Chicago, holding positions as a Professor in Sociology and Human Development and as a senior researcher at NORC. Currently she continues to hold an appointment as a senior fellow at NORC, where she is the principal investigator of the Center on Advancing Research in Communication (ARC) in Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Her research focuses on how the social contexts of schools and families influence the academic and social well being of adolescents as they move into adulthood. Professor Schneider has published 15 books and over 100 articles and reports on family, social context of schooling, and sociology of knowledge. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She also currently serves as Past President of the American Educational Research Association.
Joseph Krajcik is director of the CREATE for STEM Institute and a faculty member in science education. A former high school chemistry and physical science teacher, Krajcik spent 21 years at the University of Michigan before coming to Michigan State University (MSU) in 2011. During his career, he has focused on working with science teachers to reform science teaching practices to promote students' engagement in and learning of science. He was principal investigator on a National Science Foundation project that aims to design, develop and test the next generation of middle school curriculum materials to engage students in obtaining deep understandings of science content and practices. He is currently serving as head of the Physical Science Design Team to develop the Next Generation Science Standards. Krajcik, along with Professor Angela Calabrese Barton from MSU, serves as co-editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Krajcik has authored and co-authored curriculum materials, books, software and over 100 manuscripts, and makes frequent presentations at international, national and regional conferences. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has served as president of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), from which he received the Distinguished Contributions to Science Education Through Research Award in 2010.


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Natural gas sales in Maryland will be fully deregulated Nov. 1, and the rush for customers is on.
With 445,000 gas customers in the Baltimore region still up for grabs, competitors of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. are beefing up their marketing campaigns with direct mail, newspaper advertisements, telemarketing and even door-to-door sales pitches.
Nearly 90,000 Baltimore-area residents have enrolled with one of the nearly a dozen natural gas suppliers operating in the territory of BGE, which continues to distribute the gas through its pipelines.


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Firstly a quick word about how George from Hanover who was 50th in line managed to become King of Great Britain and Ireland! The previous monarch, Queen Anne, didn't have any children to follow her (despite 17, yes 17 pregnancies!) and the nearest heirs to the British throne were all Catholic and had been banned from inheriting by the Act of Settlement. So the great and the good looked around and came up with George's mother, Sophia, who was a grand-daughter of James 1. She died before Queen Anne so didn't take the throne herself so it passed to George, the last British monarch to be born outside of Great Britain.
One exhibition worth a visit is at the Queen's Gallery where they are holding 'The First Georgians: Art and Monarchy 1714-1760', focusing on George 1 and 11. The Queen owns a vast amount of art and treasures which form the Queen's Collection and over 300 objects from her palaces across the United Kingdom have been brought together to give us insights into life and tastes of the early Georgians. We were extremely fortunate to be invited to visit and to be shown round by the curator, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, whose enthusiasm and deep knowledge were a delight.
|Grand approach to the Queen's Gallery
|Imposing entrance to the exhibition
We can see the faces of the key players through the portraits in the first room of the exhibition:
|George 1
|George's mother Sophia who was the blood line for his inheritance
We can see how impressive Georgian rooms would have looked through the period layout used with large paintings on all the walls, tables and chests along the walls and highly decorated items around the room. This room is packed with old masters as the Georgians were keen collectors and we can enjoy several works by Rubens.
|A grand Georgian room
|A wonderful Rubens with a statue in front of a horse and rider to mirror it
|Rubens with our guide, the wonderful curator
|The collection of miniatures is beautiful
|Canaletto's London looking west
|Close up looking west towards Westminster
|Canaletto's London looking east
|Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode
Success in war was important to these Georges and in a section dedicated to this you can see some fascinating items from Culloden, an infamous victory of George 11 against the James, the catholic heir to the throne. There are battle plans and orders to spies and lists of dead and wounded one both sides, telling part of the story of this dreadful day.
|Battle plan for Culloden
|Hand drawn plans
|Spies everywhere!
A further room has more wonderful furniture and paintings. We see their love of excess through the extravagant dining table and extraordinary tableware.
|Fine furniture and regal paintings
|Impressive dining table and furniture
|A glorious harpsichord
|Very over the top salt cellar in the form of a crab and shell
|More tableware!
As we left we bumped into huge crowds gathering for Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace, no doubt enjoying this spectacle against the blue skies
|Busy morning at Buckingham Palace
There a a great deal more to see in this exhibition than I can bring you here, so do go along and find out more about our first King Georges.
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Major Audit Firms on the Shakeup
Regulators of the audit industry will implement major changes in the market of audit firms before 2011 ends to clean up the tainted name of the profession, said Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier during an event in Brussels late last week.
The European Commission's call to effect a shakeup among the audit firms later this year has invited commendations from the four key players in the audit industry other than the Big Four.
Prior to the Brussels event, RSM International, BDO, Mazars and Grant Thornton issued a joint statement expressing their nod on the European Commission's overhaul plan.
In the joint statement, RSM International CEO Jean Stephens, Mazars Chairman and CEO Patrick de Cambourg, BDO International CEO Jeremy Newman, and Grant Thornton International CEO Ed Nusbaum have written that their firms support the calls to overhaul the audit market.
According to the top executives of each firm, the EC's plan will bring about improvements to the quality of services of the audit firms, taking into account the lessons from the recent global financial crisis.
Barnier told the audit firms the plan to overhaul the market addresses "real needs" which cannot be ignored, as quoted by Compliance Week. He said independence is a must these days.
Europe's audit market is presently concentrated by the Big Four audit firms – Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, and Ernst & Young – which have been recently grilled by the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee November last year for their role in the 2008 crisis.
Seeing the inefficiencies caused by market concentration of the Big Four, the other four audit firms have proposed to create a single audit market to enhance the competition within the industry and enhance auditing services.
Meanwhile, Barnier said he wanted to put a ceiling on the share of audit firms in which one company can simultaneously hire two auditors, one coming from the Big Four and the other at least from the other audit firms.


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The merchants of dear old Freeport, down here in Maine, sponsored an outdoor concert in the village square which, I hasten to add, I was fortunate enough to miss. It was by an organized bunch of tuba players and the musicians consisted of tuba players playing their tubas. Christmas had little to do with it, except that "Silent Night" at Christmas time is likely to draw a bigger crowd than "Swanee River" on the Fourth of July. This, I read, is one of hundreds of similar cultural offerings by the Tuba Coalition nationwide to popularize you-know-what, an instrument not yet in top public approval.
Instead of making me wonder what "Jingle Bells" sounds like in the all-tuba ensemble, the news put me in mind of Sol Littlehale, who lived in the next town where he could blow his tuba and we folks on our side couldn't hear him. Distance, I'm told, enhances the tuba.
It was in the 1940s, I wist, that our town went band-happy, and all at once our entire public-school system devoted its total energies to fielding the biggest school band in the state. The new school building, for instance, had a stage in its auditorium, but not for theatrical purposes. The stage was designed to oblige a full military band. Latin was to be offered, but classes would meet in the broom closet at a time when declensions would not disturb the drummers. Thus we took a giant step into the future.
At the next town meeting the school board had an article in the warrant asking the voters to appropriate $800 for the purpose of buying a tuba for the high school band. This was all right, and with the town devoted to the big-band theology it was assumed the $800 would be readily provided.
But when that article took its turn and came before the voters to be unanimously ratified, there was an unexpected objection. Leslie Florington, a farmer from the Rock Ledge end of town, beyond the hardscrabble, rose to say, "Mr. Moderator!" When recognized, Mr. Florington spoke as follows, to wit:
"Mr. Moderator! I ain't got no great bump o' knowledge, and I admits to lackin' in some of the finer points of manners, and the last thing I know nothin' about is this-here moozick we got goin' for us. My boy comes home from school and says he's got to get a tooter so he can be in the band, and I sell a shoat, two ewes, and a barl o' butternuts to buy the boy a tooter, and nobody told me, and now I find the town is buying this thing for some kid except mine. I ask you, and do you think this is fair?"
In our town we had Mr. Arthur C. Yeaton, who was elected treasurer every year on the total-confidence ticket. Mr. Yeaton was fast at figures, completely respected, excessively cultured, and knew something about everything. We counted on him, as a town officer, to answer all questions from the floor. Mr. Yeaton asked to be recognized. "The chair recognizes Mr. Yeaton! Please give your attention!"
Mr. Yeaton spoke. "Mr. Moderator, I think Mr. Florington has given us a point we should consider carefully. He is right to feel that public monies should not be spent in a preferential manner, and that if we do it for one we should do it for all, or not do it for anybody. However, a tuba is a special instrument that costs a good deal, and is not meant to be a solo instrument that a person would care to own for private, personal, or family purposes. It is meant to round out the total effect of a band, and since it will not likely be heard by itself, but always in concert with the aggregation, I feel it is not unreasonable to ask the town to make this purchase as a school expense. I hope I have not offended Mr. Florington in this, as I feel he has raised an important point. Thank you."
Offense was not taken by Mr. Florington. Instead, Mr. Sol Littlehale, aforesaid, who lived over the line in the next town and so wasn't even at our meeting, took it. Hearing about this, he came the next day to our town offices and burst through the front door with his tuba and proclaimed loudly that he had come to clear up a few things about yestiddy's town meeting and the scurrilous remarks made there about the tuba, which he bore in his arms and at which the officers and clerks of our community could gaze in wonder.
He had come, he announced, to prove that the tuba is, au contraire, a superb solo instrument, and in the hands of a competent musician is capable of laughter, tears, beauty, charm, grace and all other emotions and moods. Besides, it sounds good and is different. Whereupon Sol assumed the appropriate posture and began to play.
TOWN business ceased. Intent on reducing yesterday's results to the permanent records, the clerk and assistants folded hands, and then unfolded them to snuggle their ears. The selectmen forewent their finagling, and the road superintendent laid down his pencil. Sol started with the overture from William Tell. It was all right, but overwhelming in its persuasion. Sol played on. He did the Grand March from "Aida," "Matapedia" from the chorus of Bojangles Harvest Moon Minstrels. He did "Stars and Stripes Forever." He did "Keemo Kymo Daro-war." He did "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." The state auditor left, and Sol played on.
The town did buy the tuba. When the English teacher wanted to stage a play, they wouldn't let her drive scenery nails into the hardwood floor, but the band didn't drive nails and used the new stage all the time. All things are relative, aren't they? "Silent Night" by 76 tubas is certainly worth a trip to Freeport. While there, you can pick up some fishing tackle.


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Marcus Fischer, 31, to group planning director, Interpublic's Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, from partner-account planning director, One & All, Minneapolis.
Andy Sims, 31, to director-interactive marketing services, Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners, Sausalito, Calif., from media director.
John Geoghegan to VP-marketing, LucasArts, San Rafael, Calif., from president-San Francisco office, Interpublic's Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos.
Barbara Fabing to senior VP-retail design director, Publicis Groupe's Frankel, Chicago, fromVP-retail design director. Also: Chris Tull, 38, to director-sports and entertainment marketing from supervisor-sports and entertainment marketing.
Tom Lichtenfeld, 50, to VP-creative director, Cramer-Krasselt, Chicago. He previously was a senior creative at Publicis Groupe's Fallon Worldwide, Minneapolis, but in recent years had been freelancing and writing childrens' books.
Chris Sorek to senior VP-public communications, SAP Global Communications, Walldorf, Germany, from director-global communications activities, International Federation of the Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies, Geneva.
Leslie Darling, 38, to VP, ComScore Media Metrix, New York, from director-sales, Nielsen/NetRatings. Also: Lynne Gillis, 45, to VP-ComScore Survey Research, Chicago, from VP, Ipsos-Insight; Pamela McHugh, 45, to VP-ComScore Survey Research, Chicago, from VP-primary research, Claritas; and Alistair Sutcliffe, 32, to VP-ComScore Networks, Chicago, from VP, ACNielsen.
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While Brimfield is an amazing place to pick up antiques and vintage home decor, it's also a great place to find decorating and do-it-yourself ideas. One of my favorite things to do while walking around the show is snap pictures of clever booth decorations or upscaled vintage items that I can replicate in my own home. So today I wanted to share some of my favorite ideas that are just waiting to be customized for something fun in your own home. I hope you'll enjoy these as much as I did; I'm already working on finding a zinc sheet to create a hanging plant wall like the image below. Hooray for old things inspiring new DIY projects . . . xo, grace
There's more Brimfield coverage here (what we bought), here (recreation trend), here (textiles), here (equestrian trend), here (lighting) and here (leather)
Image above: I've always loved framed swimsuits. It would be so adorable to frame tiny children's suits for a kids room.
Image above: All this giant iron bowl needed to become a great decoration was a pile of sand and some pretty candles. Great for a porch or backyard where you have room to gather around with drinks.
Image above: One of my favorite ideas — a perforated zinc tray turns into a vertical garden unit when you use twine to attach a vase. Would love to replicate this on a much larger scale with a huge wall.
Image above: This DIY idea gives a whole new meaning to the concept of "key chain." Hundreds of keys were piled on a wire to create this insane rope of keys. This would be incredible done in large scale as a wall decoration.
CLICK HERE for six more great DIY/decor ideas from Brimfield after the jump!
Image above: The Big Daddy's Antique booth was selling these phenomenal mirrors, which looked like they were made from old pie tins. Even if they weren't, this is a great DIY idea. All you need is a collection of inexpensive vintage pie tins and some mirrors cut to size. So pretty.
Image above: I love using letters to spell out fun words, especially when it's one like this that I say all the time.
Image above: I always enjoy pretty planter ideas. When wrapped in burlap, this growing tree finds a home in a huge wire basket.
Image above: Whiskey and alcohol bottles are often delivered in wooden crates with holes to keep the bottles spaced evenly (and to prevent breaking/clanking). Just the neck-hole portion was used here as a wall/backdrop for a booth, and it would be such a fun way to create a room-divider at home. Or maybe even a vertical garden with succulents tucked into the holes.
Image above: School maps are always popular home decor, but we saw a TON of astrological and planet charts this year, rather than traditional country maps. I'd love to see more moon/sun/star charts popping up in people's homes.
Image above: I'm obsessed with vintage display cases. Obsessed. I'm always hunting for the perfect one that I can use to house my jewelry at home. I'd always thought I would line it with a piece of colorful velvet, but this plaid-lined case is making me re-think my plan. I love how warm and homey this feels when lined with a rich red plaid.


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DECC Consultation: On amendments to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order
ACE has submitted a written response to DECC's consultation on the Amendments to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order.
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ACE accepts the majority of the proposals within the Consultation. As part of the simplification review, we suggest that Government look at the use of Display Energy Certificates (DECs) and the role that they can play in reporting energy use from buildings within the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC-EE).
The context for this suggestion is the concurrent request for views by DECC and CLG on the use of EPCs & DECs within the Green Deal – where the Departments state their desire to move on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) earlier than required where it helps Green Deal – and the recent report by HMG on Low Carbon Construction which recommends that "Government should bring forward the mandatory requirement for the posting of Display Energy Certificates in all non-domestic buildings as quickly as possible, and in advance of the July 2013 date required by the EPBD, with ratings and accompanying recommendations made widely available."
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Luigi Peters is well known for his inflammatory statements and his refusal to kowtow to those occupying positions of political power.
This Parliamentary Don has been biffed out of the bear pit three times in recent weeks as he defied his nemesis, this week for committing the mortal sin of accusing David Carter of being biased against New Zealand First.
Peters was at Wellington's Victoria University preaching to the keen young minds yesterday about what he sees as the mainly white brorocracy, sending run down politicians to head plumb diplomatic posts overseas as a reward for what he sees as their dubious political performance here. Beneficiaries of some undeserved golden handshake, as he puts it.
Peters says if he's in a position of power after the next election, he'll block those sorts of appointments which is seen as a warning to National - widely expected to replace Lockwood Smith in London early next year with David Carter.
It has been suggested he's already told National that if they need him to get them across the line next year, then he'd demand that Carter's hauled back from the diplomatic post.
Of course he's not confirming that and chances of him teaming up with John Key would be a long shot anyway, given that he likes him about as much as Peters likes Carter. But anything's possible with Peters who, when he was Foreign Minister, himself appointed his buddy and colleague - the late Brian Donnelly - as High Commissioner to the Cook Islands.
Still, that appointment was a little more understandable than the one that's about to be made to Hawaii. This man has been stoking the political gravy train ever since he was dumped from the National Party's leadership more than thirty years ago.
Jim McLay was our United Nations Permanent Representative in the Big Apple, but on his return home a year ago a new job was created for him: special advisor to Foreign Minister Murray McCully who's now sending him to the six million dollar, four bedroom, five bathroom mansion, complete with a heated pool and waterfall, in Honolulu that was controversially purchased last year.
The appointment is apparently an acting one but it's bound to raise State Department eyebrows in Washington, given that McLay is also this country's representative to the Palestinian Authority.
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Brokerage firm Knight Capital Group said Thursday it will suffer approximately $440 million in losses after a computer glitch sparked volatile trading in 140 individual stocks at Wednesday's open.
In a press release, Knight Capital said the issue was related to its installation of trading software, which sent numerous erroneous orders of New York Stock Exchange-listed securities into the market. Clients were not negatively affected by the erroneous orders, however, the firm said.
To "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer, though, the Knight Capital catastrophe was "jarring to investor confidence." The errors threatened to wipe out the business overnight, he said. He added that the news has sent the stock sharply lower and could even spark a fire sale, if not "obliterate the entire company."
"If Knight represents a company that could conceivable be destroyed overnight by a software glitch, we clearly want the opposite," Cramer said. "We want to own companies that don't have anything like that level of vulnerability."
In Cramer's opinion, investors should look for defensive stocks, such as Clorox.
Cramer likes Clorox because it makes everything from cleaning products, such as Pine-Sol to cat litter under the Fresh Step brand, as well as Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing and Kingsford's charcoal, among many other products. People don't stop buying these items because of the economic slowdown, Cramer said.
The company does have to deal with rising commodity costs and it's also facing competition from generic brands, but he thinks these issues are already baked into the stock. Plus, Clorox has dominant market share in most every category, he added.
Clorox currently pays a dividend yield of around 3.5 percent, too.
The stock market is risky as it is, Cramer said, adding investors should not have to worry about software glitches, as well. To avoid such worries, then, he suggests sticking with dividend-paying stocks with solid businesses, such as Clorox.
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Keep Kids Busy This Summer with Ideas from Kind News Magazine
Popsicles for dogs, houses for toads, grass for cats, and other fun stuff to do and make with kids
Summer just started, but you're already wondering how you're going to keep your child (or grandchild, sibling, niece, nephew, or other kid in your life) entertained until school starts up again. Keep summer boredom at bay with cool projects that keep kids busy and help animals.
Many of the ideas below come right from the pages of our kids' magazine, Kind News. You can send a full year (six issues) of Kind News to a kid you know for just $10. Subscribe now!
You don't have to wait until the first issue arrives to start showing some love for animals. Use our list for inspiration to help out your pets and wild neighbors (and maybe even your human neighbors) right now.
- Venture into your yard or a local park to create your own backyard field guide.
- Set up a chill station for wildlife to give birds, butterflies, and other small critters some relief from the heat.
- Keep pets safe from the heat, too. Remember to call your local police or animal control if you see a dog stuck inside a parked car on a warm day, and remind your friends and family to do the same.
- On really hot days, freeze up some peanut butter popsicles for your dog. (Bonus: you can eat them, too!)
- Grow a pot of cat grass for your feline friends.
- Every week, pick a wild animal. Look up cool facts about the animal and how people can help them. For starters, check out honeybees, black bears, sharks, prairie dogs, wild horses, gopher tortoises or wolves.
- Put together a disaster kit for each of your pets. Let your family, friends, and neighbors know how important it is to be prepared, and show them how to make pet disaster kits, too.
- See what you can do to help feral cats in your neighborhood.
- Invite toads into your yard by building a little toad abode.
- Make a batch of treats or some catnip toys for the homeless pets at a nearby animal shelter.
- Got more time on your hands? Raise money, collect supplies, or find other ways to help your local shelter.
Before you know it, summer will be over, so make it count—and send Kind News to keep kids fascinated with animals all year long.


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While Comet ISON is brightening rapidly, Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) is far more impressive right now in the pre-dawn sky.
Reports indicate that the brightness of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) has surged recently, so I went out this morning to check it out for myself. And tipped off by Greg Crinklaw's Comet Chasing site, I also looked for the three other bright comets that are currently up in the morning sky.Crinklaw wrote that Comet ISON is the least impressive of the lot. I'm not sure I would agree, but there's no doubt at all which is best. Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) is a real humdinger — almost as bright now as Comet ISON was forecast to be -- which is to say, about 10 times brighter than ISON actually is. This morning Lovejoy was in the same binocular field of view with M44, the Beehive Cluster — an incredible view. The comet is big, bright, and gorgeous, with a diffuse but fairly long tail.
Moreover, Comet Lovejoy C/2013 R1 (not to be confused with other famous comets discovered by Terry Lovejoy) is very well placed in the predawn sky, high in the southeast near the Leo/Cancer border. If you prefer staying up late to getting up early, Lovejoy is reasonably high in the east by 1 a.m. at mid-northern latitudes.
ISON is feeble by comparison, though it has indeed improved a lot in the last few weeks. I swept it up easily in my 7-inch Dob at 28X, and it was quite handsome at 120X, with a 3' head and a bright, starlike pseudonucleus. I didn't see any sign of a tail. I tried and failed to see it with my 10x30 binoculars; it might be possible in a darker sky.
Comet 2P/Encke is painfully low at the onset of astronomical twilight, but also quite handsome. Its head is considerably smaller but brighter than ISON's, standing out well against the brightening sky.
Comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR) gave me the most trouble; it is both low in twilight and very diffuse — a bad combination! If you're going to skip any one of these four comets, this is the one to skip.
I drove to my astronomy club's observing field near the edge of Boston's suburbs for these observations. It's pretty dark as suburbs go; on the other hand, the comets happened to be in precisely the worst spot in the sky, right above the glow of Boston. So I think that ISON should be pretty easy to spot in a telescope now from a typical suburb, assuming you have a low eastern horizon. And Comet Lovejoy should be easy to spot almost anywhere.
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When we arrived in Le Puy Notre Dame, which seems many years ago now, I often passed "le Société des Arts", normally when I was en-route to the bar. Now, I am not adverse to a bit of art and culture but neither did I want to hang around like a spare part while people painted, sculpted and discussed how much formaldehyde it took to pickle a shark or how much detritus you could arrange, ( artistically of course), on an unmade bed. So I gave it a wide berth. However I was eventually informed that the "Art" bit was actually short for Artisan, in other words it was a Working Mens Club. After this refreshing bit of information I called in one day when Chez Sonia was closed and found, not budding Damien Hirsts or Jackson Pollocks but everyone who I normally passed the time with in the bar. Wine and beer is very cheap, annual membership is a couple of Euros and inside was a court for playing "Les Boules de Fort". Boule de Fort is a game rather like boules itself, which anyone who knows anything about France will know about. But it is played on an indoor court which is "U" shaped in profile so that the ball doesn't go in a straight line but progresses down the court in a series of sinuous curves, first rolling up one side and then the other until it finishes close to the small target boule, "le Maitre". It is decidedly addictive.
Anyway le Société or le Soc – for short, is now a regular part of life and many a happy hour has been spent there.
The scene now shifts to our friend Marcel who, after having taken early retirement, passes the bulk of his time making movies. He rang one day and asked if he could ask me a question. "Yes", said I, "of course". "Have you got a leather coat?" "Yes", I replied cautiously, I have known Marcel too long not to know when he's building up to something. "How about a cowboy hat"? "Funnily enough, no", I replied. " That's ok, I've got one" was the next cryptic comment. "Good, I'm very happy for you". I retorted, determined not to crack first and ask what the hell he was banging on about. "What about boots, cowboy boots? "No, sorry", I admitted. "Mmmm…never mind, can't be helped", he murmured. "Yes, c'est la vie", I added. Slight pause, and then he came clean. He was doing a film on Le Puy Notre Dame and wanted a jokey ending so he'd dreamed up this idea of a high-noon shootout. Four dangerous looking cowboys meet in the village and then walk, with murderous intent down to the Societé des Arts where they enter into a winner take all game of boule de fort. " So can you meet me in the Société at 1400hrs?". asked Marcel. "Certainly" I replied, "Who are the others?" He told me the names of two people I didn't know and Robert, who lives opposite. "And by the way" said Marcel, "You need to be chewing gum". I asked if cowboys always chew gum. Apparently, they do.
At five minutes to two I left the house and walked to the appointed rendezvous with Robert who, amazingly, had dug up a pair of cowboy boots from somewhere. No, I didn't ask. The day was weird enough already. We met Marcel who shoved a battered, straw sun-hat on my head and gave me a stick of chewing gum. We then stalked into the boules court, carefully arranged in height, smallest first. We then chose our boules and stood still for a moment looking terrifyingly menacing, (just for the camera, you understand). Then onto the game itself and guess who won? Why me of course. Although I've absolutely no idea how, given the fact that I don't know the rules and that my first three boules thudded into the end-boards with enough force to shake the three steeples of the nearby church.
Then onto the section of the film which will appear first which is when we are are leaning on appropriate stone walls around the church looking mean, chewing gum, (I was pretending as I'd swallowed mine in giving a shout of joy when I smashed Robert's boule away from the Maitre), and waiting for high noon. We then walked four abreast down the rue to the Société looking very serious and with a "this town ain't big enough for all of us" mindset, all it needed was some tumbleweed and a passing stagecoach. A passing tractor pulling a trailer full of some anonymous animal manure didn't really have the same effect. Marcel had even managed to get a mutual friend, Bernard, to run around with "No Entry" signs so that no passing traffic disturbed his filming. Of course it was actually counter productive as it caused more delay as everyone stopped their cars/tractors/vans, got out and asked what was going on.
So then to the bar to discuss the days artistic achievement although I was quite disappointed that I wasn't plied with free drinks being the undisputed winner. I'll post a link to the film when Marcel has finished the editing.
Just one postscript: Marcel rang later and said that he though the game lacked some crowd participation so would Sheila meet him in the Societé to play the important roll of "the crowd". This she did and each throw of a boule was interdispersed with a shot of Sheila showing various examples of emotion or, as I prefer to call it, pulling faces!!
Although less majestic than the mighty chateaux, the half hidden boule de fort in the village, gives you an idea of the real Anjou, the people who live here, who work here, and who play here, well away from the tourist hotspots.
The game has been designated a "Loire Heritage Game" by the Ministry of Culture and I raise my glass of rosé, (Cabernet de Saumur of course not Cabernet d'Anjou), to the beautiful Loire and to 'La boule de Fort' and to a new friendly rivalry, (although not friendly on camera, of course).
La Boule de Fort is a typical Angevin sport and just one of the memorable experiences enjoyed by many and one which are regular guests have yet to experience so, for those of you returning this year, it is something to look forward to not to mention the cheap wine.
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The campaign begun when Klurr, a lobsterman from the deep, decided to adventure forth onto land to spread the good word of his deity, the Overlobster.
Upon arriving on the surface world, he ventured forth into a forest and signed a contract to join up with The Professor's Adventuring Company, LLC. As an associate in this organization, he would be assigned tasks and go out and complete them – his compensation being keeping any loot he might find.
On his first assignment, inclement weather forced him to bunker down with strangers, an evil bard named Sebbadon and a fighter named (name goes here, sorry I forgot). Together, they cleared out the castle and reported back – at which time his new compatriots also signed up to join the group.
Having acquired a fortification for their personal use, the group continued to accrue goods and supplies to stock their fort whilst on a number of other missions, including liberating the port of Seawell from pirate attacks and exploring an Orc infested ruin, where they managed to convince one of the Orcs to join their group, the NPC Krug. At the end of the ruins was a partially submerged temple of unspecified alignment, which Klurr converted into a temple of the Overlobster before tasking the aquatic life therein with its care.
In the adventures since, they even managed to recruit a small tribe of Kobolds whose numbers had previously been diminished due to repeated bugbear attacks. This tribe (now slightly replenished) currently acts as repairmen for the fortress (and have even started mining out the land beneath the fortress, finding it surprisingly rich in mineral deposits).
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