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Letter to the House of Representatives Urging to Support for the No Child Left Inside Act (H.R. 3036)
September 08, 2008
Dear Representative:
On behalf of the National Education Association's (NEA) 3.2 million members, we urge your support for the No Child Left Inside Act (H.R. 3036), scheduled for floor debate this week.
Our country is facing a host of well-documented, complicated environmental challenges that will require our citizenry to be more educated than ever before about our personal and civic choices. At the same time, due to the No Child Left Behind Act, we have seen a narrowing of school curricula, as schools are forced to spend more and more learning time preparing for high stakes testing. This trend is most exaggerated in the schools of our poorest communities.
NEA strongly supports the rich, challenging, authentic experiences that comprise environmental education for all children. Furthermore, we submit that in order to reach this goal, teachers and schools systems must have greater authority, flexibility, and support to incorporate environmental education into core subject areas. Additionally, states in partnership with LEA's and other stakeholders must develop plans to ensure that all children are provided the learning experiences they need to become environmentally literate.
The No Child Left Inside Act would help address these challenges. Specifically, it would expand the National Environmental Education Act by providing grants to:
- Ensure that teachers have the have the necessary knowledge and skills to teach environmental education; and
- Enhance national, state, and local capacity for environmental education.
Competitive grants would be available to nonprofit organizations, state educational agencies, local educational agencies, or institutions of higher education that have expertise in environmental education.
In 2008, environmental literacy cannot be a privilege reserved for a few; it is a right and a responsibility that every one of us must undertake. The No Child Left Inside Act represents a critical step in ensuring environmental literacy for all. We urge your support for this important legislation.
Diane Shust, Director of Government Relations
Randall Moody, Manager of Federal Advocacy

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Why is it that religionists accept the concept of heaven without thinking it through to its logical conclusions? To them, that is what this world is all about. Live your life within the guidelines of morality, as dictated by a book that could not be more irrelevant to the modern world, so that you may enter the kingdom of heaven …. otherwise ye shall be condemned to the firey pits of hell. Oh yeah – it's for eternity, by the way. Eternity. As in forever and ever and ever and ever.
Maybe it's just me, but when you add that "eternity" caveat, doesn't that make both versions of the afterlife seem like nothing to look forward to? Of all the vacations that I have ever taken, and of all the vacations that I would like to take but can't afford to, I cannot imagine one that I wouldn't eventually be sick of. You could send me to my own private island in the most beautiful Caribbean waters on earth, with all the free amenities, servants, delicious food and drink that I can partake in – it may take a year, it may take 5 years, but eventually it will get old and I will want to get the hell out of there. Maybe I'm off a bit, and it would take 20 years to become painfully tired of such an environment – but what is 20 years in comparison to eternity? Maybe it will take 1,000 years to get sick of it, but again - what is 1,000 years in comparison to eternity?
There is virtually nothing that a billionaire cannot afford to buy, and consequently I imagine that not much of anything falls into the category of a luxury at that point. If heaven is a land of milk and honey where you are richly rewarded with anything you desire, what would you have a desire for that would last an eternity?
If hell is eternal, wouldn't you get used to that burning sensation pretty quickly? What is torture if you cannot eventually die from it? How do trillions of souls, who cannot die again, not stand up to one devil and change their environment? How does that devil manage to control all those souls and still find time to mess with mortals on earth?
If doing things like gambling, partying, having sex, cursing, telling lewd jokes, not going to church, working on a Sunday, etc. is what lands you in hell, and doing things like singing religious hymns, proselytizing, going to church, and living a quiet, sanitized life of utter mediocrity is what gets you into heaven, which kind of souls would you rather be surrounded by for ETERNITY? Once you get beyond the paradise surroundings, and you are sick to death of being waited on hand and foot, and tired of playing golf every single day with gold plated clubs and diamond tipped golf balls, and don't want to ever see another luxury item again – the only thing you will have left to suffer through eternity with will be the trillions of other souls who you are surrounded by. It sickens me to think of myself ever being that position.
Once you think it through, the fact is that the only just reward that a god could ever grant would be the opportunity to come back to earth, or some other non-eternal place, and do it all over again. If I can't have that, then leave me to disintegrate into the earth and become a part of whatever else happens to absorb me. The heaven concept sounds grand, but thanks to that eternity clause it will eventually be as maddening as hell.
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Every once in a while, i get to pepper people with questions about heaven. It will finally get around to them saying "no one knows". Then i ask them if i can bring anything with me, and they say "don't be ridiculous". Once, my sister got mad at me for asking my nephew about heaven. She made me stop. I think i planted a seed, because recently he said that he doesn't believe all that ghost/haunted house crap, but he still calls himself catholic. I may have a chance to pull him out. The main question that makes them pause is "the location of heaven". I also like the looks i get when i ask "If your brain is dead and in the ground, how do you experience anything?"
Some parents will say anything to keep their children believers! When I was 11, after the funeral of an uncle, I upset my younger cousin (then 6) by telling her that she couldn't take her favorite teddy to Heaven with her if she died like uncle Bob can't take his favorite hat which we put on his grave, she ran to her father, telling them what I said and they responded, "Don't listen to him, he knows nothing, of course you can take Sam to Heaven." Yes, it's about telling them anything to keep them, truth means nothing to Christians. I learned from that age that they are mostly chronic liars.
Ironically, they are primarilly lying to themselves.
Sounds like the same story King Tut's father must have told him. ;)
I joke, but what a sucky afterlife that would be. Where is the justice if the rich remain rich and the poor remain poor? Nothing particularly perfect about that!
I think the one factor which cannot be overestimated is that the party, whether in heaven or hell, goes on FOREVER. Whether you're singing hymns or being tortured, it's going to be The Same Routine, day after day after day, not for a hundred years or a thousand or a million or a billion or a trillion years, but for TIME UNENDING! So, question: is there any mechanism which allows those trillions of human souls not to become bored out of their skulls or wind up climbing the walls (if they have walls!), even before the first millennium of occupancy is elapsed? It strikes me that, unless the big guy has a HUGE stash of Valium or its equivalent, that heaven could become bedlam before you can blink. As for hell, I would expect an insurrection by the inmates before the first century was up, maybe even with the help of the folks upstairs!
When you boil them both down, heaven and hell are the products of someone's fertile, though not horribly analytical imagination. I mean, we've managed to tear the concept apart with simple armchair analysis. The further heaven is dissected, the less like "heaven" it looks.
Indeed, I'd say that armchair analysis is all it should take to disregard 75% of the world's religious doctrines. Unfortunately, people have convinced themselves that without their headcrabs, they would be lost. It's a sad life, being a headcrab zombie.
LOL, If I woke up in heaven my first comment would be, WTFn Hell am I doing in this sh1t hole, send me to the other place so I can be with my kin! :-D-
so we can all arrive at heaven at the exact same moment
Ack!! Can you imagine god snapping his fingers and BAM! - you are elbow to elbow with a trillion of the most boring people in the universe? I'm imagining it being like that horribly uncomfortable moment in church (for me, anyways) where the congregation is told to stand up and shake hands with everyone you can physically reach and say "peace be with you", or something like that. Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but I always hated that. I wonder how germophobes, claustrophobics and introverts manage to convince themselves that heaven is paradise.
One more drawback of heavens is that all activities are designed for humen of 2000 years ago. There is no modren day provision. People dying after seeing todays age would find it a totally boring place.
Tell me about it. Milk and honey makes for a pretty bland diet, and I imagine that getting a good night's sleep with a pair of wings protruding out of your back is impossible.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - In front of the largest crowd of the 2009 season as the game coincided with the school's Annual Faculty/Staff Picnic, No. 13 Georgia College & State University baseball (36-14) beat Columbus State University (27-22) in a 2-1 pitchers' duel at John Kurtz Field tonight (April 29). An estimated 411 were in attendance to see the Bobcats down the Cougars, running the season series to 3-1 in GCSU's favor.
Four Bobcat pitchers combined for the gem, holding CSU to just one run on four hits. The Bobcats had just four hits themselves, two of which were home runs attributing for the 2-1 win. The Cougars sent five pitchers to the hill in the loss.
GCSU starter Alex Burkard (Alpharetta, Ga.) picked up the first win (1-0) of his collegiate career, going 5 1/3 innings stifling the CSU bats to just one run on three hits. The sophomore lefty fanned five. Junior Dylan Lightell (Rosamond, Calif.) tossed the next 1 2/3 with one hit and a strikeout, classmate Ryan Tabor (Lawrenceville, Ga.) then went 1 1/3 before turning it over to junior closer Martin Dewald (Mannheim, Germany) for the final two outs and his 14th save.
Dewald now stands one save away from the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) single-season record, and also one away from the Division II lead this season.
CSU scored first in the third, getting an RBI single from second baseman Tim Bondell. Bobcat third baseman Matt Pitts (Brunswick, Ga.) answered right back with his seventh home run of the season in the bottom half, taking a 1-1 pitch for a towering drive over the scoreboard in left-center.
The winning run came an inning later off the bat of designated hitter Buddy Elmore (Dallas), as the junior took a 3-1 pitch to the opposite field in left, bouncing off the top of the outfield wall and over for Elmore's fifth round-tripper of the season.
For CSU, Danny Davidson (2-3) took the loss, going two innings and allowing both home runs for his only hits.
The Bobcats head to the final three games of the regular season this weekend, taking on PBC foe Augusta State University in a three-game set at Kurtz Field. Play begins with a Saturday, May 2 doubleheader at 12:30 p.m. and a single game capper Sunday, May 3 at 1 p.m.
The PBC title hangs in the balance, as GCSU trails national No. 4 USC Aiken by three games and could force a co-championship with a sweep of the Jaguars this weekend.
Visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports.


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FOXBOROUGH - They reacted with a mixture of anger and disbelief, with anger eventually winning out.
The Oakland Raiders left snowy Foxboro Stadium last night following their 16-13 overtime loss to the Patriots in an AFC Divisonal playoff convinced of one thing: They had been jobbed.
The flash point for their anger was the so-called incomplete pass thrown by Patriots quarterback Tom Brady with 1:50 remaining in regulation and the Patriots trailing, 13-10.
The Raiders contended Brady had fumbled the ball (as had been ruled on the field), they had recovered, and the game was all but over.
Referee Walt Coleman, after looking at instant replay, thought otherwise and reversed the call.
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Defensive tackle Rod Coleman looked around the locker room and shook his head. "It hurts," he said. "We had the game locked up. Everything was going good. We were going to fly home and get ready for the AFC Championship game. Then this happens."
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Adam Kokesh is photographed on Thursday May 31, 2007 in Washington. The Marine Corps wants to dismiss Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran, from the reserves for taking part in an anti-war protest and other misconduct, a move the veteran claims is punishment for his political views. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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Many of the significant changes are part of the hard work from the people at LTSP.org and the Ubuntu distribution. LTSP 5 took me only 45 minutes to set up. I have been building LTSP servers for schools for 8 years now so I was greatly impressed. My first install took over 100 hours. It was very ugly back in those days having to configure the XWindow for each different video card. Today it is a project that people need to give a look at because of cost savings and savings with the central management features. If you purchase LTSP ready workstations, cost is $100-$300, they are almost plug-and-play. See the links for the few steps you need to take.
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A really good book. It's hard to follow in places but still understandable enough to be fulfilling. I haven't read the Bourne Legacy yet, but I think that this ended well enough that it didn't necessarily need another one.
Two words: eh and convoluted. I thought the first two books were hard to follow, this one was agony. The Jackal came back after 13 years for no reason I can discern, and had Bourne racing all over the place trying to kill him. Who was part of Medusa and who wasn't, who was suspected to be and who wasn't suspected but was, makes no logical sense to me and I couldn't follow all the names mentioned without a map and a storyboard. I probably followed 15-20% of what I read.
The action was good enough that I kept reading, since I did like the first two books. Too much italicizing again, though.
The Jackal was not killed in a single, easy face-off, which I'm very glad about since it happens more than I would like in books I read. But I'm still not totally satisfied with the ending.
More of a psychological struggle between Webb and Bourne in this book since he's older, which was an interesting route not too much explored in the last two books. However, considering this is the Bourne Ultimatum, he's probably only in about 50-60% of the book.
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Tonight, the Kentucky Wildcats (15-1) will pay a visit to the state of Alabama to play the Auburn Tiger (10-5). The Cats are fresh off of a good victory over the South Carolina Gamecocks Saturday while Auburn was thoroughly beaten by Vanderbilt (65-35) in its SEC opener over the weekend. Kenny Grabiel (6'8'' forward) leads the Tigers in just about every important offensive & defensive category (11.9 pts per game, 7.8 reb. per game, 1.5 steals per game and 2.7 blocks per game. While Auburn had a pretty good start to the season with their non-conference record of 10-4, they really didn't beat anybody worth speaking of. Their best win on paper appears to be against South Florida, but only because the Bulls are in the Big East Conference. Auburn had bad losses to Seton Hall (81-59), Long Beach St. (64-43) and Florida St. (85-56). The Tigers really have trouble putting the ball in the basket, even more than UK's last opponent, the Gamecocks. Usually home-court advantage means something for a team (worth between 5-10 points possibly) but for the Tigers, it just means there will be no long bus ride after this "mercy killing".
For the Cats, this game will be about focus and not letting up on the road against an inferior opponent. Terrence Jones finally re-emerged as he had maybe his best game of the season against South Carolina. Anthony Davis continues to give opposing players fit when they attack the rim. The Cats cannot come out sluggish and uninterested because much like the Commodores did, you want to take the heart and breath away from a team like Auburn early because that will lead to them hanging their heads and being frustrated.
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All these (portents of the End Times) WILL BE REALIZED IN A PERIOD WHEN COUNTRIES WILL CHANGE, HUMAN BEINGS WILL FALL INTO A DECLINE AND ABANDON ALL HOPE FOR THE COMING OF HAZRAT MAHDI (AS). Then THE QAIM (HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)) who is from by my descent, WILL EMERGE WITH A NATION AND ALLAH WILL MAKE THE TRUTH PREVAIL THROUGH THIS NATION AND CRUSH THE SUPERSTITIOUS BY SWORDS OF KNOWLEDGE… Oh people, joy with the coming of the Mahdi (as). Because the word of Allah is true, it does not come to anything. His Command is not averted. He does everything with wisdom and He knows everything. ALLAH'S CONQUER IS CLOSE. (Yanabee' al-Mawadda, p. 440)
Our Prophet (saas) told in his hadiths for the End Times about some events and developments that will happen before the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as). These hadiths comprise very important portents in order to understand that we are living in the End Times. In this hadith, our Prophet (saas) described a period when people will abandon all hope for the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and that some so-called religious scholars will make comments like, "Hazrat Mahdi (as) is acollective personality, he has already come and gone, don't wait for the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as), Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not come in this century, he will come centuries later so the morality of Islam will not prevail in this century..." He told about the crises that the whole world will go through and informed that political regimes in some countries will change. So indeed in this period that we live in, government systems of a great many countries ruled by the communist regime have changed and the world has experienced grand economic crises consecutively. And now the world is going through a big economic crisis, which seriously penetrated the whole world since the year 2007 and which will continue for 7 years as forecasted by the most reputable economic institutions. Besides, epidemics that take hold of the world and cultural breakdowns are experienced one after the other. These portents being realized one after the other like the broken off beads of a necklace indicate that Hazrat Mahdi (as) has come and begun his work. (Allah knows the truth.) As it is also seen in other hadiths, the nation from which Hazrat Mahdi (as) will arise is the Turkish nation. Allah will make His religion prevail over all other religions through wisdom, knowledge and science with the hand of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the courageous Turkish nation. In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), insha'Allah, The Turkish-Islamic Union will be established under the leadership of Turkey.


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text: Photo Essay: Kids Afield A photographic celebration of children learning and enjoying the sport of hunting PreviousNext The first time in the field can be an exciting experience for young hunters. DU stresses the importance of passing on waterfowl hunting traditions and encourages youth members to sign up for DU's Greenwing Program. (Matthew Slosar) Today's waterfowlers have a responsibility to recruit new hunters, especially youth, for the sake of our heritage and the resource. (Brent Gale) It is important to keep proper hearing protection on kids in the blind at all times. Not only does this protect their hearing, but it can be a foundation for future safety fundamentals. (Shaun Golden) Research shows that the more interest children have in nature and the more time they spend outdoors at an early age, the more likely they are to become hunters later in life. Ultimately, maintaining participation in waterfowl hunting comes down to ensuring that future generations have the same opportunities we had to enjoy the rich, diverse traditions of the sport. Ducks Unlimited's Greenwing youth membership program has received a powerful endorsement from Boy Scouts of America (BSA). DU and BSA recently signed a memorandum of understanding in which the two organizations formally agreed to work together through special youth activities and events. Having a retriever provides another element of excitement for youth in the field, and it offers them the chance to witness the dog's hunting enthusiasm. (Justin Downs) Kids not only enjoy their days in the field, but they also benefit from the camaraderie waterfowl hunting offers. A passion for waterfowl habitat and populations can never begin too early. Sometimes the excitement of a morning's hunt can be exhausting. For more photos of kids afield, check out the Photo Gallery.


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Recent reports have suggested that manufacturing has been the silver lining in the weak recovery. Growth has been stronger in the manufacturing sector compared to other sectors.
One of the key reasons for outsourcing is the cheaper labor available elsewhere – but is that offset by the higher cost to transport goods into the point of consumption in the USA? We talk continuously about the goodness of shortening lead times and try to stabilize lead times.
Lead times are essentially an evil when it comes to managing a tight inventory balance sheet. Putting this mantra into practice, one would think we are better off moving production close to the point of use. This cuts lead times and reduces uncertainty on the supply side. This helps you operate almost just in time and hence lower your costs across the board.
What else could drive the change? What do you see as trends in the newly emerging recovery?
Demand Planning LLC is currently researching this area, particularly container and bulk movement. We noticed in our research that most shipping companies are struggling. Their stocks have declined gradually to multi-year lows – Carriers that transport oil, dry goods and bulk haulers have all declined in value over the last few years.
Is this a forecast of continued weakness in the global economy or shrinking international trade or just move to making more production happen domestically in their respective countries?
Companies that own Oil tankers have suffered the most – Frontline, General Maritime Corporation etc. The latter is trading close to multi-year low of $1. The other bulk carriers have also been hit with excess capacity and declining demand. This could be the classic boom-bust scenario where the carriers have invested in excess capacity during the boom and get caught when the slow down hits them. However, there are other possibilities.
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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST! MAY 2WorldNetDaily
Guess how DHS defines who is a terrorist now
2nd 'domestic extremism' report includes 'alternative media,' 'tax resisters' in lexicon
Two weeks before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security penned its controversial report warning against "right-wing extremists" in the United States, it generated a memo defining dozens of additional groups – animal rights activists, black separatists, tax protesters, even worshippers of the Norse god Odin – as potential "threats."
Though the "Domestic Extremism Lexicon" was reportedly rescinded almost immediately, Benjamin Sarlin of The Daily Beast recently obtained and published online a copy of the unclassified memo, dated March 26, 2009.
While many of the groups listed in the lexicon – such as Aryan prison gangs and neo-Nazis – may indeed be widely considered extremists, others will likely take offense at being described as a potential "threat."
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For example, the memo defines the "tax resistance movement" – also referred to in the report as the tax protest movement or the tax freedom movement – as "groups or individuals who vehemently believe taxes violate their constitutional rights. Among their beliefs are that wages are not income, that paying income taxes is voluntary, and that the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allowed Congress to levy taxes on income, was not properly ratified."
The report, however, continues in its assessment of tax protesters, asserting that members "have been known to advocate or engage in criminal activity and plot acts of violence and terrorism in an attempt to advance their extremist goals."
Similarly, the lexicon concludes its definition of "black separatists" by asserting, "Such groups or individuals also may embrace radical religious beliefs. Members have been known to advocate or engage in criminal activity and plot acts of violence directed toward local law enforcement in an attempt to advance their extremist goals."
In his blog piece titled "Who You Calling an Extremist?" Sarlin writes, "Partisans leapt to decry the first DHS memo as part of a Democratic conspiracy to marginalize right wingers. But it became clear that DHS's broad descriptions of extremists were symptomatic of an ongoing agency problem that crossed ideological lines."
The lexicon states its purpose is to provide "definitions for key terms and phrases that often appear in DHS analysis that addresses the nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United States."
Apparently, the DHS analyzes the "threat" level of Internet news websites like WorldNetDaily, for the lexicon defines "alternative media" as "a term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and
issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets."
The term "black power," widely used in a variety of contexts, also merits a definition in the lexicon: "A term used by black separatists to describe their pride in and the perceived superiority of the black race."
The DHS memo also includes precursors to the ill-fated "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" report, which prompted outrage from legislators and a campaign calling for the resignation of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
For example, the lexicon contains virtually the same broad-stroke language the right-wing extremism report used.
"Rightwing extremism," the lexicon defines as those "who can be broadly divided into those who are primarily hate-oriented, and those who are mainly antigovernment and
reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. This term also may refer to rightwing extremist movements that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to
abortion or immigration."
The lexicon further points to those who oppose driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
"Anti-immigration extremism," the lexicon defines as "a movement of groups or individuals who are vehemently opposed to illegal immigration, particularly along
the U.S. southwest border with Mexico, and who have been known to advocate or engage in criminal activity and plot acts of violence and terrorism to advance their extremist goals. They are highly critical of the U.S. Government's response to illegal immigration and oppose government programs that are designed to extend 'rights' to illegal aliens, such as issuing driver's licenses or national identification cards and providing in-state tuition, medical benefits, or public education."
Unlike the right-wing extremism report, however, the lexicon includes definitions of extremism across a broad spectrum of issues: anarchy, animal rights extremism, black nationalism, Cuban independence, environmentalism, Jewish extremism, Mexican separatism, right-wing militias, white supremacists, the anti-war movement and more.
Among the more curious groups the DHS appears to be monitoring is the "racial Nordic mysticism" group, defined as "an ideology adopted by many white supremacist
prison gangs who embrace a Norse mythological religion, such as Odinism or Asatru."
Among the more comical definitions is the description given of what "racist skinheads" wear, enabling law officers, it appears, to identify skinheads by their preferred brand of footwear:
"Dress may include a shaved head or very short hair," the report states, "jeans, thin suspenders, combat boots or Doc Martens, a bomber jacket, and tattoos of Nazi-like emblems."
Sarlin, who first publicized the memo, reports that a spokesperson for DHS told him the memo was recalled "within minutes" of being issued but declined to offer any details on the reasons for its withdrawal.
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Well, this wasn't exactly what I was expecting. Not from Morrowind, anyway. I think I'm somehow on tour.
Okay, bit of context. As I'd said in previous postings, I've acquired (perfidy!) and modded Morrowind, and finally settled in to play the game properly. No problem. And, for the first little bit, it was exactly what I'd expected: wandering through the wilds of Vvardenfell, fighting off beasties with a big spear and somewhat-untrustworthy magic, and making my way to the (relatively) big city of Balmora. I met my rep for the organization that was apparently responsible for the main plotline, the Blades…and discovered that my all-important quest was "go get a few levels or something, kid, we can't use you as-is".
That was new. All of a sudden there was NO main plotline to follow? Skyrim or Oblivion that ain't. Heck, I can't really think of an RPG that said "er, yeah, here's a few bucks, go get some gear and levels and come back later".
A bit nonplussed, I joined both the Fighters' and Mages' Guilds there, was bounced back from the Imperial Legion, and found out about the "Imperial Cult", which is a faction supposedly tied to Skyrim's various kinda-sorta gods. A few web sources implied that the Cult was a good way to start, and found out that the way to Morrowind's Imperial capital of Ebonheart was best made by way of Vivec, Morrowind's gigantic stepped-pyramid city.
I learned that I could port directly to Vivec from Balmora as a member of the Mages' Guild. Great! That ability was one of the last ones you get in Daggerfall as a Mage's Guild member, so it's nice that it's freely available now. I teleport to Vivec, get lost for a bit, and walk on over to Ebonheart. Joining the Imperial Cult was trivial enough, and I was given a few new quests. One was in town, but the others were in different towns. So I used a teleporter to get close, and then got on a boat, then got on a strider, to get to the town I need to. That led me to some of the OTHER factions, which gave quests in OTHER towns. So I used a strider, then used a boat…
…okay, you probably see the problem at this point.
Skyrim, at this point in the game, was already a bit of a dungeon crawler. Arena and Daggerfall were practically nothing BUT dungeon-crawlers. Morrowind, though, seems to be absolutely chock-full of quests and activities that take you from town, to town, to town, to town. Sure, there are some that take you into dungeons or caves—I think—but most of it seems to be taking me from point A to point B, especially the beginner-friendly Imperial Cult stuff. So I've found myself on this grand tour of all the different towns and cities in the region, finding new destinations every time I reach one of my previous ones.
It's weird, too, because it's the last thing I was expecting. Morrowind is justly famous for not having any sort of quick-travel system beyond those boats and striders and mage guild teleporters. If you want to get somewhere outside of the town network, your options are pretty much limited to two feet and a heartbeat. You don't even get that Skyrim-style destination marker, and dungeons aren't marked on the world map at all. You have to remember where they are, or (more realistically) read it somewhere else.
I'm not sure if it's bad or good. I don't miss Daggerfall's all-dungeon-all-the-time, but I do find myself missing the way that Skyrim gets you right into dungeon-crawling. I suspect that all this may be intentional, though, as a way of getting you around the island-continent and introducing you to all the different towns, cities, and factions in a way that I haven't seen since Arena's whole Staff of Chaos thing. Oblivion, Skyrim, and Daggerfall never really do that.
Morrowind is also the sort of place you want to show off, too. Vivec is astonishing, in ways I've seen in no game made before or since, but so are places like Ald'Ruhn (built inside the shell of a city-sized emperor crab), the Canton-town of Molag Mor, and the stepped river-city of Balmora, and all those little towns and villages made out of a mix of familiar and alien building design.
Honestly, the first time I saw Sadrith Mora, it near took my breath away. The way that the home of the treacherous (and hysterically fun) Telvanni sorcerers is primarily made of gigantic, hollowed out, baroque towers of fungus just shows why people never really shut up about Morrowind, and why people put so much effort into modding it to keep it up with modern systems. My character ended up joining them just because it was EXACTLY the sort of stunning, impossible virtual environment that's fun to hang out in. (Something that too few MMO designers understand.)
Skyrim is stark and beautiful, but I haven't seen anything there that matches Sadrith Mora, Ald'Ruhn, or Vivec. I doubt I will.
So, yeah, I can handle the tour. The dungeon-crawling and the main quest can wait. I've got an easy quest to deliver a skirt to an insane sorceress. Nothing could possibly go wrong.


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Hummingbirds begin to appear this month in some places. Clean
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There is a poll for best videogame sidekick going on at gamespot, if you feel inclined you should take the link and cast a vote for dogmeat. Because we all know dogmeat is the is the best companion in exsistance.
Note: if your wondering why there is a double post I ways trying to post this in news but fail I post it in blog again.... and I can't figure out how to delete it, sorry. If someone could delete one that would be nice.


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In Excel 2010, you can fill down labels in a PivotTable so that you can more easily use the PivotTable. You can also repeat labels in PivotTables to display item captions of nested fields in all rows and columns. You can repeat labels for individual fields, but you can also turn the option to repeat labels on or off for all fields in the PivotTable at the same time.
For example, the repeat labels feature is useful when you have a PivotTable that has value fields in columns and grand totals and subtotals turned off for all fields on rows.
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Excel 2010 provides multi-threaded sorting to enable faster sorting of large amounts of data in PivotTables and Excel tables. Multi-threaded sorting can be turned on or off.
Filtering has been improved to enable analysis of large amounts of data. In Excel 2010, filtering on multiple items is much faster, and data that is not visible (such as hidden items in totals) is included when you apply filters in both OLAP and non-OLAP PivotTables. You can use the same improved filtering functionality in Excel Services.
In Excel 2010, you also have the option to use slicers to filter the data. Slicers provide buttons that you can click to filter PivotTable data. In addition to quick filtering, slicers also indicate the current filtering state, which makes it easy to understand what exactly is shown in a filtered PivotTable report.
Show Values As feature
In Excel 2010, the Show Values As feature is easier to find and use, and its functionality has been improved in both OLAP and non-OLAP PivotTables. The Show Values As feature includes additional calculations, such as % of Parent Row Total, % of Parent Column Total, % of Parent Total, % Running Total, Rank Smallest to Largest, and Rank Largest to Smallest. It's easier to specify a field or item to base the calculation on. As in non-OLAP PivotTables, you can now add the same measure multiple times to the values area in OLAP PivotTables so that you can show the value and a calculation based on the value at the same time.
Undo support for large PivotTables
Undoing operations that add multiple items to the undo stack (such as refresh operations) can significantly slow down performance in large PivotTables. To enhance performance in large PivotTables, the Undo command has been implemented to support larger undo stacks. Also, performance decreases when AutoFit and Styles are applied at the same time a PivotTable is updated or refreshed. To address this problem in Excel 2010, you can cancel AutoFit and Styles by pressing ESC. Turning these options off can enhance performance when you refresh and update data in a large PivotTable.
PivotChart improvements
In Excel 2010, it's easier to interact with PivotChart reports. Specifically, it's easier to filter data directly in a PivotChart and to reorganize the layout of a PivotChart by adding and removing fields. Similarly, with a single click, you can hide all field buttons on the PivotChart report.
New and improved functionality in OLAP PivotTables
Named sets
In Excel 2010, you can create multi-hierarchical named sets. A named set is a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) expression that returns a set of dimension members. If you are not familiar with the MDX language, you can use a dialog box to define simple named sets. If you are familiar with MDX, you can use the MDX Editor to create more advanced named sets. Named sets are supported in both PivotTables and OLAP Formulas. With named sets, you can build OLAP PivotTable reports that show different metrics for different areas of your business.
Write-back support
Write-back is an important feature for working with data in Analysis Services cubes. Write-back is often used in a variety of scenarios, from high-end planning and budgeting to simple data gathering from multiple users.
In Excel 2010, you can change values in the OLAP PivotTable Values area and have them written back to the Analysis Services cube on the OLAP server. You can use the write-back feature in what-if mode and then roll back the changes when you no longer need them, or you can save the changes. You can use the write-back feature with any OLAP provider that supports the UPDATE CUBE statement.


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In this interview with Campus Technology, Amazon Web Services General Manager Steve Halliwell reveals two new AWS services that will have an impact on the education market, explains why long-term data storage is becoming a challenge for researchers and shares his thoughts about the importance of "democratizing" infrastructure for students to transform education.
Since Steve Halliwell joined Amazon as the Amazon Web Services general manager of education in 2011, he has seen engagement with universities and colleges expand from a size where he could name all of the institutional customers to a global community of 2,400 schools. "It's grown exponentially in a very short period," he said.
While researchers turned to AWS' education services early on to support their extensive compute power and storage needs and the IT organization began using cloud computing to supplement the data center resources maintained on premise, more recently, faculty and students have adopted AWS and similar offerings to gain instructional and learning resources not easily delivered on campus.
"Education is transforming as a business," Halliwell points out. "As we work with our customers in higher ed, they come to us and they say, 'I need to lower the barrier to change from an IT perspective, both financial and technical. I have to be able to change more quickly. how will I do that?'"
In this interview, which has been edited from the original transcript, Halliwell shares two new AWS services that could have an impact on the education market, explains why long-term data storage is becoming a challenge for researchers and shares his thoughts about the importance of "democratizing" infrastructure for students to transform education.
Dian Schaffhauser: The number of offerings in AWS has grown since the last time we checked in. What are some of the newer services available?
Steve Halliwell: I'd highlight two big new products that we've announced that I think will make a significant impact on the education market, either directly or obliquely in terms of what they allow people to start thinking about. The first is one called WorkSpaces, a virtualized desktop offering [that] allows folks to bring a device to their interaction with the systems and allows the IT department or administrative group to refocus all that compute that's typically out on desktops in a distributed environment into a controlled, secured, highly scalable cloud environment. WorkSpaces allows folks to move all of the heavy lifting from the client in a distributed environment into the cloud in a managed secure environment.
This is not new. Citrix and Microsoft have done this for a long time. The difference is moving it into a cloud environment and using the same tools they're using to manage their distributed environment to manage that environment within the AWS cloud. And quite frankly, the other emphasis is on cost, to be able to do these things and scale and yet lower the total cost.
That offering also plays into some of the other experimentation we're seeing in the education market, such as [massive open online courses]. Now it might possible for somebody who's designing a course that 100,000 students might take to not just design a lecture capture delivery experience with a few computer labs, but also to deliver an experience for students they can access from a multitude of devices.
One of the other new big releases we've talked about is Kinesis. Earlier this year we released a data analytics product called Redshift, which allows folks to perform petabyte-scale data warehouse services; but it's like a tenth of the cost of the traditional data warehouse. Amazon Redshift automates a lot of the common tasks — provisioning, configuring, monitoring, the backup, all the stuff researchers or administrators don't want to spend their time on, and allows them to do deep data analytics. It's what I would consider a more traditional data warehouse offering.
Kinesis is much less traditional. Think of it as a rolling health monitor or rolling dashboard. You can create a near real-time offering that allows you to be in touch with what is happening within your operation. Let's say I'm using a MOOC and I've released a class, and I decide I'm going to change the content — put a new lab out there. One of the metrics I might have in place is the amount of social interactivity that students are having. Kinesis is designed so that you put the new module out and start collecting this new information in your second, third, fourth hour of production.
Schaffhauser: When a school adopts AWS for something more traditional such as compute or storage to get through peak demands such as registration, does it have to be an all-or-nothing thing?
Halliwell: Absolutely not. That's one of the common misconceptions people have about going to the cloud. It always seems like it's an all or nothing, one-way trip. It isn't. Depending on how your application is written, you may decide to run this piece of it on the cloud and this piece of it on premise. Or you could decide that this [application] works just fine [on premise ] except a few periods when kids are coming back and registering and all you really need is the ability to flex into the cloud for the times when you to replicate data, spin up additional application servers or Web servers, and then have all those things disappear when that workload goes away.
Schaffhauser: Let's talk about the research usage of AWS. The University of California, Berkeley has a couple of research programs based around AWS, among other cloud services, including AMPLab and RAD Lab. Can you explain how researchers are using AWS?
Halliwell: The concept of AMPLab is unique in that they are applying algorithms and computer learning to a variety of different problems in the world today. They're combining machine learning and cloud computing and crowdsourcing and really pushing the envelope with regard to storing their data in the cloud and using compute resources in an auto-scale manner. So they're using intense amounts of resources only when they need it and very little when they don't need resources. They're a great use case for how researchers can benefit from moving to the cloud.
Schaffhauser: Are there other more recent programs at other institutions worth mentioning?
Halliwell: One that the [National Institutes of Health] just announced that I would say is one to watch is their Big Data to Knowledge program. That has the potential to create one of the next great computing in analytics studies out there, and will really help education come to grips with big data and other aspects of that.
We do work with those folks and are supportive of the work of NIH and [the National Science Foundation] in helping to drive innovation in research, whether it's through cloud computing or inter-institutional collaboration, or paradigm shift or sharing of data and storage of research results. We try to make sure we're as supportive as we can be there.
Schaffhauser: When a research project is over and all that data exists out there on the cloud, what happens? Where does it go? What are researchers doing with it?
Halliwell: Some researchers are choosing to keep their data in the cloud and continue to pay for it to be stored there. It's generally, less expensive for them to store it in the AWS cloud than it is for them to move it and store it in their on-premises environment, unless that's already been bought and paid for, and so they're using capacity that's readily available at almost cost to them.
The other aspect is if they put it in the cloud, they can share that information with other researchers and not have to be shipping hard drives or trying to figure out FTP for data movement. They can simply make that data available to someone else and have that person begin to use it as it works out there.
One of the challenges that we all need to look at in the long term is what [to do] about long-term research data storage. Right now if you get federal funding for your research project, you have to keep your data for X period of time after your results are published. We are very interested in that challenge and would like to be able to come to the table with a more fully formed program around storage and even the archiving of research data to meet those requirements. When you get under the covers of the research environment, when the project is over you see how much of that data does not become available to the research community in an easy, well annotated, well curated way. It can be a bit disappointing. We're certainly tuned into that and would like to help.
Schaffhauser: Let's talk about faculty use. I was interested in to see how AWS is being used for many of the data analytics education programs out there in colleges and universities. How are faculty using AWS in their courses?
Halliwell: Let's take a look at an educator. Perhaps somebody is running a class and has an interest in leveraging the cloud. Maybe it's computer science, data visualization, something in a graduate school of business. We may see 30 students at X school have just signed up for an AWS accounts. They go to the AWS page, sign in, put their information in, and get an AWS account and use that AWS account for the class. Or the professor can administrate those accounts, set the accounts up for the students. It all depends on the content being taught. For instance, if you're teaching a class on cyber security, it might be better to have the student accounts be separate and have them run their analysis or their intrusion exercises in separate accounts. However, if you're teaching a course and it's collaborative in nature, you could use one account and have 30 different students interact within that account with our role provisions; you can spin up as many compute nodes on the back end as you need to support the 30-student interaction. On the first day of class, people sign up and get their AWS account and get access to the resource, whether compute or storage, and they're off and running and interacting.
We are at work on an enhanced coursework program, where we hope to better support professors teaching classes [involving] AWS, and it's something we hope to announce in the coming months.
Schaffhauser: Do you mean providing curriculum that they could adapt for their own courses?
Halliwell: I think there will be some of that. Some of it may be allowing them to search for content in an easier fashion or share observations. And maybe [there will be] an online community for professors that are using the cloud for teaching, so they can share best practices.
Schaffhauser: Amazon Web Services also has a program that lets student organizations or students doing special projects set up accounts for those. How are students using that?
Halliwell: We see students using that program to complete part of their formal curricula: "We need some compute and storage to do our class projects, and we decide we're going to use this data in AWS and spin that up and do that." Or it can be directed by the school or professor. There's also less formal use of that, where students may not actually have an assignment, but they have something they want to develop, something they want to create. Like-minded individuals decide they want to go build something or analyze something and see what happens. That is what our student program is designed to support.
Most importantly, it allows the student that may not have huge funding, may not have natural access to supercomputers or the best on campus lab environment to have the same amount of access as the compute and storage resources found in some of the most elite schools and research universities in the world. They've got the full power of all of Amazon Web Services data centers at their disposal.
I look at that as an opportunity to help democratize the use of technology in education. Schools that haven't historically invested in computer science or big on-premise labs can offer an educational experience to those students that rival some of these very elite schools that have everything you could possibly want in terms of technology.
Schaffhauser: The AWS grant program is dazzling in its simplicity. Talk about that for researchers, faculty, and students.
Halliwell: We have tried to keep the grants program as open as possible, meaning that the form basically has an open text field and someone can fill that in and tell us what they'd like to use AWS for, and we will assess that request. We look at those submissions as they come in and we learn a lot about how people are using AWS. But we also ask, as they use the program, to give us feedback on how it went, what kinds of results they achieved. We love to see their published work and see what they were able to do and continue to support research in a broad way.
Schaffhauser: As a percentage, how many grant applications do you approve?
Halliwell: I'm not at liberty to say, but I can tell you, we are very supportive of the applications that we receive.
Schaffhauser: Amazon Web Services talks about how simple it is to get these cloud services going, but the company also promotes education solution providers. What are those companies doing that I wouldn't be able to do myself?
Halliwell: I can answer that in two ways. Let's go through a scenario where a school wants to begin using a cloud. Schools are big enterprises. They have all of the challenges that exist in enterprises in the business world or in government with regards to their funding, their reporting requirements, their security paradigm, billing. Some of these companies are truly expert at advising their customers on how to structure and best use AWS resources. These partners will help you develop a workflow and approval process combined with accounts structure all the way through to billing and reporting and tying back to chargeback or showbacks or grant reporting, and those types of requirements.
When schools are used to a classic IT paradigm, where they buy hardware and it's a capex cost and the cost doesn't change appreciably whether the machine is used 5 percent or 100 percent, there are processes and disciplines in place to work there. When you move to the cloud, there are some new muscles you need to exercise. For instance, if you're using five percent of compute resource or using 50 times that in the cloud, your bill can go up or down. So learning how to manage a utility-based environment is a really valuable skill — something that enterprises like universities and K-12 need to be able to internalize. Sometimes schools will turn to industry experts in the form of these partners to advise them on the best way to do that.
The second way that education entities benefit from working with these partners is that many of them deliver a solution that runs on top of AWS. They have expertise within that area that AWS does not have. We're creating those building blocks, on compute, storage, networking, and security. But they're experts in learning management systems or student information systems. and AWS doesn't do that type of work. There are some great companies out there that have true depth of experience within their solution that can add real value for schools around the world.
I do think we'll be doing a lot more work in allowing students that don't have access to on-premise resources the ability to connect to a supercomputer from any school on the planet. That's a key part of what cloud provides to education that has been overlooked. Democratizing access to resources in education and allowing the brightest minds from small schools or community colleges or leap schools to do the best work they can is something we're excited about and that we think can help transform education as well.
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Webb Marathon Gold 2016.
rojo wrote:
Webb can't be 30. If he's 30, I'm almost 40. I think Webb is now 20.
Happy Bday
PS. Webb, when you want to move back down to the 1500, I'm free and available. Baltimore is close to your old home so your parents can babysit the kid. Julia and you will both benefit from it.
But just as Teg don't do the 10k, I don't coach the 5k. Too boring of an event.
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LF Tip: USB mice and laptops
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An introduction to SPF
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darkstat - a network traffic analyser
In this article we present the network traffic analyzer "darkstat". We cover installation, start and usage of this program.
Receiving faxes with efax
Setting up Efax to send and receive faxes on RedHat 7.2.
Replacing a Windows NT/2000 server using Linux and SAMBA
This article is is focused on a Linux system with SAMBA in order to run some services, typically provided by Windows operating systems.
How to secure an heterogeneous network with free tools
Security in computers networks is probably one of the biggest technology challenges of the 21st century. This article provides a general overview over the most important aspects.
Introduction to cryptography
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Chrooting all services in Linux
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MOSIXVIEW, a management-GUI for MOSIX-cluster
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Nessus : another brick in the (security) wall
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E-mail sobre UUCP: A solução profissional para utilizadores dialup
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Psionic Portsentry 1.1, o defensor das portos
Port scan detection and active defense
Através do Túnel
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Evitando Falhas de Segurança a desenvolver uma aplicação - Parte 4: formatação de strings
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Samba Configuration
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Aprendendo com o nmap
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Yellow Pages
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TCPD e Firewalls usando IPFWADM
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Acrescentando Segurança a uma Distribuição Linux
How to modify a Linux distribution out of the box to get better security.
Network Management and Monitoring with Linux
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Today I am going to share a priceless piece of advice: Marry a good man.
My daughter is not a good sleeper. Have I ever mentioned this? She does her best to make sure my husband and I do not get our 8 hours every night. And to her credit she's pretty good at it.
So last night she had a pretty rough one. She went to bed at her normal time and slept until around midnight when I fed her. Then sometime around 3am she started crying again. Or maybe it was 2am. I honestly don't know. I have been getting very good at tuning out her cries between the hours of 9pm-6am. But during my waves of semi-consciousness I could tell she was crying a lot and my husband was up with her.
Sometime around 4:30am my maternal instincts were resurrected and I got up to feed her. But after that I was out again until my husband woke me at 6am to say he was leaving for work.
Feeling guilty later this morning I finally texted him asking how long the girl one was awake last night. Here was his response:
(FYI, here is the cast of characters- Mom: Me, Dad: Husband, Callie: troublemaking 7 month old)
"Here's the breakdown:
3:30- Callie starts crying.
4:00- Dad puts her to sleep.
4:10- Callie starts crying.
4:11- Dad fails at rocking her to sleep.
4:30- Mom wakes and feeds her to sleep.
4:40- Callie starts crying.
4:50- Dad threatens to kill her and goes to her room.
5:45- Callie isn't dead and dad finally gets her to sleep.
6:00- Dad goes to work."
Oh Man. Poor Guy. So this experience is what my priceless advice is founded on today. Marry Well. Marry a man who will wake up with your screaming child while you enjoy blissful sleep. You can quote that. Frame it. Modge podge it.
Anyhoo so I've decided there is only one way to thank him: make some Eggnog Rice Krispies.
My husband Loves eggnog. Loves it. I sent him out to pick up some milk for me a few weeks ago and he came back with a carton of eggnog. This was in October. As in 2 months before accepted eggnog season. Those things couldn't have been on the shelf more then 24 hours before he pounced on them.
So I picked up some of this artery clogging goodness from the store and got to work. After several
Egg Nog Rice Krispy Treats
1 Tbsp butter
4 Tbsp Eggnog
1/4 tsp nutmeg (optional, but I liked it)
6 cups marshmallows
6 cups krispies
Pour the rice krispies in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
Melt the butter and eggnog in a saucepan over high heat and bring to a boil. Boil about 30 seconds to 1 minute until slightly thickened and reduced . Turn the heat down to the lowest setting and add the marshmallows. Stir until the marshmallows are mostly all melted (this will take a few minutes--low and slow is key for perfect texture). Add in the nutmeg and finish melting.
Once fully melted, take them off heat and pour over the rice krispies. Stir lightly to combine. Dump everything into a greased 9x9 pan. Let it sit for about 5 minutes, then with greased hands go in and flatten the top. Allow them to cool about 20 minutes. Enjoy!


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