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Happy 2013 to all Swinfields or those who are part of the wider "Swinfield family". I hope that it brings all that you would wish for.
As we enter yet another New Year, we all tend to look back on the past and especially what we have done over the last twelve months. We should also look forward to the future and set ourselves goals to be achieved. What have we learned through our work on the Swinfields and what more is there still to do?
I hope that I have both informed and entertained you with the Swinfield Blog. It will have been successful if you look forward to receiving each issue and enjoy reading it. I have tried to produce articles as regularly and often as I can so that there has been something new for you to learn about our family. I will endeavour to keep you informed of new developments and discoveries this year too. As I have already dealt with the history of the main lines of the family in the 19th and 20th centuries, my contributions will mainly centre on the earlier story of the family. I aim to tell you about what is known of the Swinfields of the 17th and 18th centuries. In addition, if any of you would be willing to contribute stories about your relatives, just send me the copy and I will "put it up".
Through Andrew Swinfield's efforts, a mailshot was dispatched to all Australian Swinfields listed in White Pages. Although not inundated with replies, we did receive some very valuable responses and significant new information from previously unknown branches. A worthwhile project.
Indeed, that has resulted in one new male, Maxwell Henry Swinfield, commissioning a DNA test. We await, with great anticipation, the test results when they have been processed. It would great if other Swinfield men would join in. There are some families from which we have no participants. I contacted about 20 men in December 2012 who I had "targetted" as those who I would dearly love to contribute samples (purely for valid genealogical research reasons). Sadly, none responded by paying for a test, despite there being a much reduced rate available through the FTDNA Christmas sale. Perhaps they will in 2013!
I would also love to collect as many photographs as possible of anyone who is, or has ever been, named Swinfield. The written records will probably always be with us but the faces of our ancestors and relatives are far less durable. We need to gather them together before they are lost or thrown away. These could be pictures of those who are living or those who are no longer with us. If you have any images that you are willing to share with us all, please send them to me now, telling me who they are, how they are related to you and, if possible, when and where it was taken. You could start me off by e-mailing me a group photo of yourself, your brothers and sisters (if you had any) and your parents. I will happily become custodian of the new massive Swinfield family album.
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Ben Swinfield (born 1985) & Reg Swinfield (born 11th January 1925)
As an example, on 11th January, we celebrated my Dad's 88th birthday. Reg Swinfield was born in 1925. Here he is with his me, his son, Geoff Swinfield and two of his three grandsons, Tom and Ben Swinfield, taken in the Half Moon at Sherborne, Dorset. Very rarely do four Swinfields gather together in one place which sells beer! It was something to record and commemorate!
My sincere wish for this New Year would be to have a Swinfield family gathering. I have long been hoping to organise an event where anyone and everyone who has our surname or has used it in the past (or may do so in the future?) can convene. There we could meet up with long-lost cousins and exchange information. Just think of the photo opportunity too! It would clearly attract most people if it took place close to Leicester where the majority of Swinfields still live. To get it off the ground, I do need help from those who live in that area. Where and when could we hold it? Do you know of a venue which would accommodate up to 100 Swinfields? Would you be willing to help me to fulfil my New Year's resolution?


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Keeping your Mopar looking good!
We all want our Mopar to look fantastic and stay looking great for years to come, and modern base/clear automotive finishes make this task easier than ever. Unlike single-stage paints which contain the pigment, solvents, and protective chemicals all mixed and sprayed together, base/clear paints involve a two-step process in which the pigment, or basecoat, is applied first, and then covered by a protective clear coat. This two-step process not only provides a deep glossy finish, but also offers more protection than single-stage paints. But even though modern paints will last longer and stay looking better than outdated auto refinishing products, they still require routine, preventative maintenance using the proper car care products to stay looking their best.
If you've been to a car show or local cruise night, you're likely aware that a car is often first judged by the quality of its paint. And keeping a car's paint looking good can be a daunting task for a variety of reasons, especially if your Mopar is driven regularly like our '09 Dodge Challenger. Living in Florida, the paint on our Dodge is exposed to sand and road debris kicked up by the nearly always heavy traffic, and gets parked in hot sunlight followed by intense rain showers if driven during the summer months. But no matter where you live the elements can take a toll on your paint, as can the chemicals of acid rain and driving through corrosive products designed to remove ice from winter roads. Parking under trees can provide some shade to protect your paint, but can also subject your car to falling tree limbs and sticks, tree sap, and even acorns, causing damage to your car's painted surfaces. Believe it or not, some of the worst things that happen to your car's paint can be caused by you or whoever washes or details the car, and you may not even know its happening.
So with all of these factors contributing to the eventual demise of your car's paint, the question is, how can we protect our paintjob and keep it looking its best? The answer is not as simple as it seems. First, if you drive your car and expose it to the elements, the paint will suffer inevitable defects over time no matter how often you clean and wax your car. The key is to reduce the effects of these elements by keeping your cars paint clean and protected with high-quality automotive cleaners and waxes, and use the proper procedures to apply these products.
There are numerous products on the market that seem to be the latest craze when it comes to cleaning your car, many offering ridiculous claims like "waterless car wash" or "effortless wax removal". And though we haven't tested each and every car care product out there, we have noticed that Meguiar's does a great job of providing modern products that are well engineered and provide quality shine and maximum protection for not only the paint, but the interior, glass, trim, wheels and tires.
Remember that even having the best car care products doesn't matter a whole lot unless you know how to use them properly, and we'll show you some common mistakes people make when taking care of their car's paint. And although good car care products do add expense to the maintenance of the vehicle, compared to a new paint job or paint repairs the expense is money (and time) well spent.

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As the Training Director for ReadyTalk, Shawn Cardinal is an expert in conducting and managing web seminars. He has served as a moderator and a master of ceremonies for hundreds of events and has taught thousands of people how to create their own events.
His training style is energetic, engaging and delightful. Shawn has a knack for making the most technologically challenged customers feel comfortable and confident when conducting their own events, and is delighted to share his expertise with a new audience.
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Mike has worked at ReadyTalk for the past five years. Most recently, Mike manages all of ReadyTalk's demand generation programs. With 12+ years of experience in marketing, PR and market research, he brings a wide breadth of knowledge to his job that he applies nearly everyday in his quest to satiate the sales team with qualified leads. PPC programs, prospect and nurturing campaigns, sales campaigns and tele-prospecting are just some of the programs he manages. Mike came from a software company called 3i, where he managed their international reseller network for 3 years.


text: This isn't a direct Beowulf question but I thought the people here might know the answer. I am setting up a file server for our computers, which includes a beowulf system. This file server has 5 75GB IBM ATA100 drives using Redhat 7.0 with a 2.4.0-0.26 kernel. I have two NICS in this computer to help distribute the load across our switched network. The question is, is it possible to use two NICs with their own unique IP on the same subnet? I would then allow half of our computers to connect to one IP and the other half to the other IP. I know this isn't load balancing but I think this should be doable. Right now, Linux is assigning both IPs to the first NICs since they have the same netmask and gateway. -- Cheers, Karl Bellve, Ph.D. ICQ # 13956200 Biomedical Imaging Group TLCA# 7938 University of Massachusetts Email: Karl.Bellve at umassmed.edu Phone: (508) 856-6514 Fax: (508) 856-1840 PGP Public key: finger kdb at molmed.umassmed.edu


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This card was mailed from Brooklyn, NY and postmarked December 20, 1907. It is addressed to "Mr. William Streib & Family, New Salem, North Dakota" and signed "from your Sister & Family, E. Behlert"
The Streib Family was a straightforward search. They appear in the 1910 Census, living in New Salem, North Dakota. The family consists of:
William, head of household, b. 1863, Germany
Mary, wife, b. abt. 1864, Austria
Anna, daughter, b. abt. 1892, Illinois
Elmer, son, b. abt. 1894, Illinois
Martha, daughter, b. abt. 1896, Illinois
Esther, daughter, b. abt. 1899, Illinois
William came to the US from Germany in 1881. I found his passenger record: March 21, 1881 on the ship P. Caland, from Rotterdam to New York. He was 17 years old and seems to have been travelling alone.
Esther's birth record, dated Nov 28, 1898 from Chicago, IL lists Mary's maiden name as Mueller.
I haven't figured out whose sister "E. Behlert" is yet. I found an Elizabeth Behlert on the 1911 US Federal Census in Brooklyn, with husband, Charles Behlert. I haven't found a document listing Elizabeth's maiden name. I will follow that possibility some more, and if I find anything new, will post an update here.
Don't you just love the artwork on this postcard? It was made in Germany.
Happy New Year, Everyone!
Update January 3, 2012: This postcard, along with a second one, addressed to Esther Streib, have been reunited with William Streib's great grand-daughter. As well, a third postcard was found in February, addressed to William Streib. In total, 3 postcards reunited.


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Greco-Persian Funerary Stele. Fifth century BC. From Daskylaion (Aksakal, Manyas). Inv. nr. 5763, H. 221 cm. w. 62 cm. Regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind, according to the museums catalogue. It combines the characteristics of both Grecian and Persian sculptures. The cart with its many-spoked wheels, the horses with their tails bound tightly in the middle, the crown worn by the seated woman and the high boots worn by men, all are features of Persian art, while the form of the stele, the tripod and the vessel on top and the wife and her husband intimately sitting together are typical of Greek art.
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US Courts Now Say RECAP Is Fine
from the but-who-sent-out-those-letters? deptEarlier this week, we wrote about how some Federal Courts were sending out misleading emails warning people about RECAP, the Firefox extension that would help make public domain PACER documents freely available. The warnings from the courts were scare tactics... but Paul Alan Levy spoke with Michel Ishakian, the Deputy Chief for IT Policy and Budget at the Administrative Office of the United States courts, who is apparently saying that the US courts are now perfectly fine with RECAP. That doesn't quite explain the scare tactic emails that have been sent out, but it's nice to know that (hopefully) the courts are coming around to see the value of RECAP. In fact, Ishakian apprently had a call with Ed Felten, who oversaw the RECAP project, and apparently everyone's on the same page. That's definitely good news.
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The upcoming third season of Starz' "Spartacus," now titled "Spartacus: War of the Damned," will be its last, the network announced Monday.
The decision is surprising given how important the "Spartacus" franchise has been for Starz. It's easily the network's biggest success story, putting Starz on the map as a destination for original cable series. "War of the Damned," currently in production in New Zealand, will debut in January 2013.
The show's creator and executive producer, Steven S. DeKnight, said the decision was not reached lightly. "It was an extremely difficult and emotional decision for my partners and I," he said in a press release. "Yet, in the end, the story was best served by rolling all of the remaining action and drama of Spartacus' journey into one stunningly epic season that will be extremely satisfying for everyone who's been along for the ride."
That definitely sounds like DeKnight, who over the past four years often has talked about serving the story in the best way possible—even if it means killing off popular characters. So for fans who are crying "off with Starz' heads!" understand that this isn't a cancellation, but a decision to end on a high note. "Spartacus" will no doubt end in a blaze of gory.
DeKnight told Mo Ryan at Huffington Post that when they looked at Spartacus' history, once the rebellion began it sort of became a repetitive cycle of Spartacus wins battle, Romans win battle over and over, only with a new Roman senator waging the war each time.
"So we thought, why not condense the best elements of the story, condense some characters, condense events and just give 10 of the best rip-roaring episodes we could to bring the tale of 'Spartacus' to a conclusion," he said.
"Spartacus: War of the Damned" will open a few months after the defeat of Roman commander Gaius Claudius Glaber. Spartacus and his rebels have scored victories against the Romans and increased their ranks to more than 30,000 former slaves.
The series, which will end after three full seasons and a six-episode prequel arc, has faced its share of challenges.
The "Spartacus" franchise began in January 2010 with "Blood and Sand," breaking new ground for series TV with its stunning graphic-novel visual and storytelling style. Andy Whitfield's soulful portrayal of Spartacus grounded the spectacular tone of the show and contributed mightily to its success. But shortly after the season ended, Whitfield was diagnosed with cancer and Starz made the decision to delay the second season.
Instead, DeKnight and his production partners Rob Tapert, Josh Donen and Sam Raimi, along with Starz, decided to produce the six-episode prequel "Gods of the Arena," which debuted in January 2011.
Whitfield seemed to be OK after treatment, and even attended San Diego Comic Con to promote the prequel even though he wasn't in it. But he fell ill again and decided to leave the franchise, giving his blessing for the production to recast the lead role before he passed away. Liam McIntyre stepped into the role, and "Vengeance" debuted in January 2012, becoming the best and most successful season of the franchise.
DeKnight has promised "War of the Damned" will be a "badass final season."
"We certainly could have continued for a few more seasons and stretched it out, but we really wanted to end high and not feel like we were treading water," he told Eric Goldman at IGN, talked about the challenges the show has faced. "The whole show was a huge risk from the start for Starz, and it was another huge risk when I decided to try to keep the show going after Andy's passing. Any normal studio would have just cancelled the show at that point and not risk the financial downside of it not working. But Starz, thankfully, really stuck by the show, and they really wanted it to be told all the way to the end. They didn't want to cheat the viewers and just suddenly pull the plug. So they gave us this opportunity to wrap up the story, and we're certainly taking that opportunity and running with it. This is by far the biggest season we've ever attempted."
Below is a teaser clip for "War of the Damned" and the full press release from Starz.
STARZ announced today the upcoming season of the international hit series "Spartacus" will be the conclusion of the saga. With a visual style completely unique to television, the franchise has amassed both critical and popular acclaim to become the most successful on the network and one of the highest rated programs in all of cable television. More than six million weekly viewers watched last season, "Spartacus: Vengeance," which has amassed more than 2.5 million Facebook fans. Globally, the series airs in 150 countries in more than 15 languages.
"The fans have been tremendously supportive of our show," says creator and executive producer, Steven S. DeKnight. "We did not come to this decision lightly. It was an extremely difficult and emotional decision for my partners and I. Yet, in the end, the story was best served by rolling all of the remaining action and drama of Spartacus' journey into one stunningly epic season that will be extremely satisfying for everyone who's been along for the ride."
"Steven DeKnight, Rob Tapert, Josh Donen and Sam Raimi have made one of the most groundbreaking shows we have ever seen," says Starz CEO Chris Albrecht. "'Spartacus' is a landmark series for the network which has enthralled millions of viewers and fans around the world. We are in agreement with our partners in the decision to conclude the story after 'War of the Damned,' as we believe it is the best way to maintain the integrity of the series and secure its legacy. While everyone may know the fate of Spartacus, we believe this will be a spectacular season that will startle, amaze and honor the legions of fans."
"Spartacus: War of the Damned," currently in production in New Zealand, takes place following the defeat of Roman commander Gaius Claudius Glaber. Spartacus and his men have amassed major victories against the Romans after the Battle of Vesuvius. These victories have not only forged the legend of Spartacus, but have greatly increased the ranks of the rebellion slaves to more than 30,000. Rome is indeed beginning to tremble at the threat Spartacus now represents.
The Emmy nominated series, already known for its groundbreaking production and visual style, has set the bar even higher to bring the story to its epic conclusion. This year, new sets will include the construction of a full city, a Roman Villa, and the scene of the epic battle along the Appian Way.
Airing in 150 countries, the series is considered an unqualified smash around the world, including Brazil, England, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and more. The enormous international success has led to global licensing for a variety of rights, including: authentic prop replicas, publishing, soundtracks, motion comic books, trading cards, and a few more major deals soon to be announced.
In the US and abroad, the DVDs continue to be one of the most popular titles sold at all major retailers, appearing in the Top 10 of all TV titles sold.
The "Spartacus" franchise began its run Friday, January 22, 2010 with "Blood and Sand." It was followed a year later with the prequel, "Gods of the Arena" (January 21, 2011). "Vengeance" hit the air on January 27, 2012 and "War of the Damned" is scheduled to air January 2013.
"Spartacus: War of the Damned" sees the return on Liam McIntyre (Spartacus), Manu Bennett (Crixus), Dustin Clare (Gannicus), Dan Feuerriegel (Agron), Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Naevia) and Ellen Hollman (Saxa). This year, Todd Lasance joins the cast as Gaius Julius Caesar, along with Simon Merrells, who will be playing Marcus Crassus and Anna Hutchison as Laeta.


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Tech Bids Farewell to the Director of International and Exchange Programs, Aug. 5, 2008
By Roger Renteria
Right: Brandon Samter (center) with satisfied customers.
SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 5, 2008 — New Mexico Tech students, staff and administration gave their best wishes to Brandon Samter, outgoing Director of International and Exchange Programs, in a farewell party in the Student Affairs office on August 1.
Since coming to Tech in April 2005, Samter has proved to be a valuable resource for students and staff. He helped international students adjust to life at Tech and in Socorro. He planned field trips with international students such as skiing, hiking, camping and tours of the VLA.
Light snacks, cake, and soft drinks were provided as everyone gave Samter good luck wishes at his next job in Boulder, Colo. He will soon begin his new job at Colorado School of Mines.
"The students, staff and community are unlike anything else and Socorro and Tech have a special place in my heart," Samter said. "It's been a great time here."
The Student Affairs office has not yet filled Samter's position. Melissa Jaramillo-Fleming, Assistant Vice President for Student and University Relations, said Student Affairs office staff will assist international and exchange students until a new director is found.


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The defense Packers GM Ted Thompson assembled hit its breaking point last season.
A unit that slammed the door shut on several wins during Green Bay's Super Bowl run just a year prior fell apart, piece-by-piece. The collapse was swift and strikingly easy to dissect.
The departure of Cullen Jenkins and subsequent no-show by Mike Neal robbed the defensive line of of its penetrating pass-rusher. Dom Capers tried a revolving door of outside linebackers opposite Clay Matthews, but there wasn't a starting-quality player at the position on the 2011 roster. Tramon Williams' Week 1 shoulder injury lingered all season, stripping the emerging cornerback of his effectiveness in press-man coverages. The linebackers couldn't cover anyone in the passing game. Sam Shields finally looked like an undrafted former receiver playing cornerback. The Packers' career of All-Pro safety Nick Collins effectively ended in Charlotte, NC during a Week 2 win, suddenly turning a positional strength into a major weakness. And the tackling of the entire unit was as poor as it's been during the Mike McCarthy era.
If untrained football eyes could rattle off the issues, you better believe Thompson knew them too. In fact, he's proven it over the last couple of months. One by one, the football architect has tackled the problems that plagued his defensive roster last season.
In the otherwise forgotten-about free agency, Thompson signed defensive linemen Tony Hargrove and Daniel Muir. He then spent draft picks on Michigan State's Jerel Worthy and Iowa's Mike Daniels to improve the talent level up front ten-fold. The hope is that at least one of the four will emerge as a player that can finally replace Jenkins on one side of B.J. Raji.
To fix the need for a player opposite Matthews, Thompson ended his three-year run of plugging in band-aid options by taking USC's Nick Perry in the first round. If Perry even approaches his football ceiling, the days of seeing the Frank Zombo's and Erik Walden's of the world playing meaningful snaps at the 3-4 defense's most important position should be over.
Thompson also moved up to snag Vanderbilt's Casey Hayward, a polished cornerback who should immediately push Sam Shields as the team's nickelback. At the very least, Hayward provides insurance should one of the other cornerbacks suffer an injury or continue to regress. Thompson even picked an inside linebacker with the ability to cover the league's growing tight end and running back specialists in NC State's Terrell Manning.
But if there's one need that Thompson may have put on the backburner, it's undoubtedly safety. I struggle to find the confidence in predicting that the backend of Green Bay's defense will have any kind of improvement next season.
Everything considered, what left the position far outweighs what was brought in.
The Packers brass never felt comfortable with Collins' return after spinal fusion surgery, and the team eventually made the decision to cut the three-time Pro Bowler loose. Few have placed any blame on Thompson and/or Mike McCarthy for making the decision they made in dealing with the life and well-being of a "family" member.
To fill the hole left by Collins' release, Thompson picked Maine safety Jerron McMillian with his second compensatory pick in the fourth round. The 2012 draft was admittedly shallow in the safety pool, making it difficult to find an impact player at the position.
While McMillian is certainly raw, some have compared his selection to Thompson's taking of Collins back in 2005. Stacking the players side-by-side isn't difficult: Both were considered small school prospects with upside and raw athletic tools, and McMillian might get the same early opportunity that Collins received back in 2005.
But let's keep it all in perspective, too. Collins was a second round pick, the 51st overall selection of the '05 draft. McMillian was the 133rd overall selection last Saturday.
Maybe down the road, McMillian becomes the next Collins. Or maybe he becomes David Burton or Chip Vaughn or Darrell Stuckey, other safeties picked in the fourth round since 2009. The three have a combined for 32 tackles and one interception in the NFL to date, and Burton is currently unemployed. There's no sure things in the NFL draft, and the bust rate only multiples when you start advancing the rounds.
McMillian wasn't likely to be a year one answer. It took Collins two or three years for the light to come on, and I wouldn't expect anything less from McMillian. There will be an adjustment period to maneuver through.
Given then the low probability of M.D Jennings, 2011 practice squader Anthony Levine or undrafted free agent Sean Richardson (Vanderbilt) taking the position by storm, the Packers are probably looking at another year of a familiar combination at safety: Morgan Burnett and Charlie Peprah.
The two struggled in shoring up the many leaks that sprung on the defensive side of the ball last season. In fact, no safety combination gave up more receptions or touchdowns then Peprah and Burnett in 2011.
Burnett has upside, and there's no forgetting that he's actually approaching 2012 as his true sophomore season. A torn ACL stole all but four games of his rookie season. But expecting him to completely mask the loss of Collins as the defensive centerfielder is probably optimistic thinking. He struggled to pull it off last season as the Packers gave up more passing yards than any team in the history of the league.
Playing alongside Peprah didn't help.
The veteran safety has obvious athletic limitations. And while the Packers got by in 2010 with Peprah playing a high number of snaps, offensive coordinators often found ways to expose him last season. You can bet your last dollar that playcallers will find new ways to target 26 if he's a starter in 2012, too.
Packers safeties coach Darren Perry knows his group has a long ways to go leading into 2012.
"We've got big challenges ahead of us," Perry said. "And our biggest challenge is to be consistent and eliminate big plays — too many big plays, way too many and coach Dom has been on it, and we've all looked at it."
Any improvements in the pass-rush should help the safeties, as quarterbacks often ate sandwiches and made phone calls before having to get rid of the football last season. And maybe a player like McMillian, Levine or Richardson can emerge as a viable replacement for Peprah. Charles Woodson is always rumored to be making the position switch, too.
But overall, I see safety as the one weakness in the defense Thompson didn't adequately address. Time will tell whether or not that question mark leading into next season will keep the Packers' defense from returning to 2010 levels.
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(Reuters) - The world's largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc has joined an alliance of other Fortune 500 companies, including Cargill and Kellogg Co, seeking to make agriculture more sustainable.
The Field to Market alliance was started three years ago by the non-profit Keystone Center to improve agricultural productivity and reduce the use of natural resources. It includes farm groups, grain handlers and food makers but Wal-Mart is the first retailer in the group and now its largest member.
"We have pretty ambitious goals to sell products that are sustainable and this is directly within that framework," Rob Kaplan, Wal-Mart's senior manager of sustainability, said of the new partnership.
The group studies major crops and works with farmers to make agriculture more environmentally friendly. A report released earlier this summer highlighted how six crops — corn, cotton, potatoes, rice, soybeans and wheat — are now being produced more efficiently than they were in the last three decades.
On one project sponsored by Field to Market, General Mills Inc worked with 25 wheat growers in Idaho to learn how to maximize the use of fertilizer and other products used in farming, such as seed, insecticides and herbicides.
Wal-Mart is seeking to eliminate 20 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015. Last year, the company said it turned 1.2 million pounds of cooking oil recovered from its stores into biodiesel, soap and a supplement for cattle feed.
Other members of the alliance include Bunge Ltd, Coca-Cola Co and the National Corn Growers Association.
Reporting by Michael Hirtzer in Chicago. Additional reporting by Jessica Wohl; editing by Carol Bishopric


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Summer Rhodes Receives Scholarship, May 21, 2001
SOCORRO, N.M., May 21, 2001 -- Roswell native Summer Rhodes, who is now a senior majoring in materials engineering at New Mexico Tech, recently was awarded the university's prestigious Ron Roman Scholarship.
Earlier this year, Rhodes was selected as the recipient of both the New Mexico Section of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) Undergraduate Achievement Scholarship and of the national ACerS Hoffman Scholarship.
Before starting her undergraduate studies at New Mexico Tech, Rhodes was the valedictorian for the Class of 1998 at Roswell High School. She is the daughter of Beth Rhodes and Steven Rhodes, both of Roswell.
In addition to her regular classwork at New Mexico Tech, Rhodes currently is working as a laboratory assistant in the ceramics lab at the state-supported research university. She also has interned the past two summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, performing particle-size analyses of quartz, alumina, and depleted uranium.
Rhodes is a member of Tech's student chapters of the Society of Women Engineers, Materials Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Tau Beta Pi national engineering honor society, an organization in which she is president-elect for the upcoming academic year.
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Jennifer Aniston's representative has shot down new rumors the actress is expecting twins.
The former "Friends" star has faced persistent speculation she is pregnant since she began dating Justin Theroux last year.
A new round of reports started after she confirmed her engagement to the actor in August, and editors at a tabloid magazine suggested earlier this week that the actress is carrying twins.
Aniston's publicist insists the latest story is false, telling GossipCop.com, "She is not pregnant and shame on them for once again making up the whole story."


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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Whitney: Country Wrong
Whitney Duncan hails from the great state of Tennessee and is a country music singer who made the headlines recently when her cousin, Holly Bobo, was abducted from her home. I don't know all that much about the case and it really has nothing to do with Survivor so I'll leave it alone and approach Whitney purely from a game playing standpoint.
Like I said, Whitney is a country music singer which means if I was to ever shake her hand, I'd turn to dust and blow away. Country music is the devil's music. I stand by that. Whitney's inspirations in life are Jesus and Elvis and all I want to know is whether or not she has velvet paintings of both of them in her bathroom. Isn't that where country people put their velvet paintings? The bathroom? Let's check out her video:
No offense Whitney, but I would have no idea who you were if someone hadn't sent me a Facebook message asking, "Is that the same Whitney Duncan with the missing cousin?" Calling yourself a "star" is where you lost me. I think a few days on the island will cure you of that bravado.
I'm not writing her off yet. I'll put her on my wait and see list with that other chick whose name I forgot.
12 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2011 at 6:38 PM
OMG! If she is a 'star' with all those fans, why is she doing Survivor? Overall, her video turned me off, but it should be interesting to see how she does.ReplyDelete
OMG Shut up about your record. No one knows who you are.ReplyDelete
First off...she is alright...and I have heard of her before...not by her music, but by the Holly Bobo case. Holly went missing from a town very very close to me so yeah..I have heard about it. This girl was on many of the local news channels asking for any help to find her cousin...it's a really sad story.ReplyDelete
"I'm not used to the beach thing or the ocean thing." Oh Lord...ReplyDelete
- The DevilSeptember 14, 2011 at 5:23 AM
I'll have you know that I'm actually more into hipster type music like Bon Iver and PJ Harvey.ReplyDelete
I tire of constantly having to battle preconceived notions about me. It's people like you that make life difficult by jumping to conclusions and using easy cliches to characterise and mock...
I'm going to my room.
- DiabolicalSeptember 14, 2011 at 5:41 AM
Yeah, the several mentions of her "fans" and that she's a "star" is somewhat off putting. Ten bucks says she's not on the island 2 days before she tells someone she's a "star".ReplyDelete
This is just a career move for her. She's got no interest in getting to the end of the game. I'd say she'll be out within the first 2 weeks.
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Ha! She doesn't want to play the celebrity card. wow.ReplyDelete
@Diabolical is right: not here to win, at all. I'm so tired of people who just want to be on TV.
I'm rootin for Nurse Jackie or JohnBoy--some real folks who aren't looking for a career as a 'celebrity'. ...I'm so excited to come and see Ms. Lala's first epi report!!!
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2011 at 11:29 PM
Are you serious? You've never heard of her? HAHAHA! WOW!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2011 at 11:34 PM
I'm a huge Whitney Duncan fan!!!!! I've been loving her music for about 3 years!! She's not just a country star, she's a songwriter. Not many people give credit to songwriters nor do people really pay attention to them, but she's amazing and has written so many songs for different mainstream artist! Do some research! She's written and cut songs with some legendary people.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2011 at 1:20 AM
If you're gonna criticize someone, you should do a little research first. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but Whitney is not anything like you seem to think. She's one of the most genuine people I've ever met. Like the person above me said, she's not just an artist, she's a songwriter & a damn good one at that. I'll come back and see what's happening when she's still in it after 2 weeks :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2011 at 6:27 PM
I love whitney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Holy unicorns, Lala. Look at Country-Wrong's huge fan base! I can't wait for the music 'star' to become the subject of some well-earned ridicule. (What's the name of this blog again?) ...And THEN I can't wait for some whiny, inane posts from her minuscule group of anonymous super-fans (see the mini-handful of posts above.) What a load.ReplyDelete
oh, and ps. I didn't want to get scolded by one of the anonymous superfans, so I DID do some research. (hello @anon11:34.) My conclusion: Whitney's music BLOWS. My other conclusion: I don't want to watch "Nashville Star"--ever. ...but Whit can still totally make a fan out of me if she PLAYS the almighty game of SuRvIvOr. ...We have yet to see...


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This is the tenth day of the Afraid Tour, and I've visited 115 bookstores and signed 843 books, not counting the freebies I've been giving away.
The tour stopped in Orlando for three days when I attended the Romantic Times Convention. It's a great con, and I'll post more on it later.
Special thanks to my publisher, Grand Central, for not only making AFRAID available in the goodie room, but also treating me to a nice meal, which I had to skip out early on to meet with some reviewers.
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As if it weren't easy and tempting enough already, Facebook recently made it even simpler to pry into your friends' private affairs on the social network.
Specifically, the Ask button -- which already has been available to those seeking more information about many other aspects of a given user's life -- now is an option when it comes to a user's relationship status as well.
"This feature provides an easy way for friends to ask you for information that's not already on your profile," MoMo Zhou, a Facebook spokesperson, told TechNewsWorld. "For example, a friend could ask where you work or for your hometown."
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"By default, only you and your friend can see it, and you also have the option of sharing it with others," Zhou said.
While the feature has been available to everyone on mobile and Web "for a few months now" for information such as hometown, workplace, college and book/music recommendations, "we recently began testing the 'ask' button on relationship statuses in select countries, including the U.S.," she added.
The feature is in many ways similar to "Poke," which lets Facebook users prompt their friends or friends of friends for a variety of reasons, including "just saying hello, getting their attention." the site notes. "You can understand Poke at Facebook as to say, 'hey, you! wutsup.'"
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"I don't really think it's nosy," marketing and social media expert Lon Safko told TechNewsWorld. "I think it will be received by Facebook members equally: Some will answer; some will say, 'there's a reason I set my status that way'; and some will just ignore it."
Overall, though, "I think it's a good idea," Safko said. "If someone is interested in you, it might be nice to have a way to show that."
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The Julie Ruin, 'Run Fast'
More than her sociopolitical bent, more than her tantrummy vocals, Kathleen Hanna's primary identifying characteristic — whether with Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, or the Julie Ruin — is how she makes what she's doing sound like the easiest thing in the world, both for herself and for anyone interested in joining her. The Julie Ruin's "Run Fast," her first release since 2004, doesn't change that, even with her shifted emphasis to spirited garage New Wave. Maybe too spirited at times; without the madcap intensity of Hanna's best work, too much is simply frenzied. But as she sings, "Girls like us pick up the hot handles and burn our hands and we get over it," and that undeterred exploration results in gems like "Lookout" and "Goodnight Goodbye," which equates the latest generation of punk upstarts with her younger self and suddenly mistrusts both. And the warm title track has something unusual for Hanna: room to breathe, so that even when she's done singing, there's still plenty more song to unspool. (Out Tuesday)
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who've had gastric bypass surgery might make healthier eating choices than those who opt for the weight loss procedure known as gastric banding, say UK researchers who found bypass patients less tempted by sweets and other fattening foods.
After surveying patients who had either type of surgery, and performing brain scans on several dozen of them, Dr. Tony Goldstone of Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospital and his colleagues found that even deep down in their brains, the gastric bypass patients seemed to like high-calorie foods less.
"The results suggest that gastric-banding patients had to exert quite a lot of self-control over their eating behavior. Banding patients also had higher concern about their weight," Goldstone told Reuters Health.
In contrast, gastric bypass patients "don't feel they have to exert as much cognitive control over what they're eating," said Goldstone, who presented the findings October 4th at the Obesity Society's annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.
The two weight loss operations have similar broad goals — to shrink the stomach so people feel full with less food. In gastric bypass, the stomach is surgically reduced and one end of it is rerouted to bypass part of the small intestine. With gastric banding, a silicone band placed around the top of the stomach reduces its capacity.
Although gastric banding is more popular, in part because the band can be removed, previous research has found gastric bypass patients seem to lose more weight and lose it faster than banding patients. The reasons for the differences are still unclear.
Goldstone's team studied 30 gastric bypass patients, 28 gastric banding patients and 20 people who did not have weight loss surgery. All the participants started out obese and the two surgery groups had lost similar amounts of body weight since their respective procedures, an average of 28 percent.
Since banding patients lose weight more slowly, those in this study had undergone their procedure an average of 18 months earlier, compared to the bypass patients at 10 months post-surgery.
Participants filled out an eating behavior questionnaire, and 20 people in each group underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while looking at pictures of food.
Among the significant differences in questionnaire responses, researchers found, the gastric bypass patients reported having to restrain themselves less, or finding it easier to restrain themselves from eating poorly. They also did less impulsive eating — eating something on sight, not out of hunger — and less eating to boost their mood, or "emotional eating."
Those who underwent fMRI had fasted overnight, and then viewed pictures of foods and ate ice cream during the brain scan. The gastric bypass patients rated the ice cream and pictures of high-calorie foods as less appealing than did the gastric banding patients.
Bypass patients also showed lower activity in brain areas like the orbitofrontal cortex (associated with a reward response), the amygdala (associated with emotion) and in the ventral striatum (which would register the expectation of a reward like food).
Goldstone theorizes that gut hormones that trigger a feeling of fullness after eating are released more quickly in gastric bypass patients, and these chemical signals may be influencing those patients' long- and short-term responses to food in a way the gastric banding patients don't experience.
"The connections between the biology of obesity and the mechanisms of the surgery we use is really a new science established in the last three to five years," said Dr. Robin Blackstone, president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, who was not involved in the study. "Now that we understand more about how these procedures are working, it makes sense that the bypass patients would have more control. The band would not produce those same effects."
"Bypass results in more weight loss than the band and it is a more sustainable weight loss," Blackstone added. "Now we begin to understand why that is, because it has these kinds of effects."
It's not possible yet to say that one type of surgery or another is better for a certain type of patient, noted Blackstone, who is also the medical director at Scottsdale Healthcare Bariatric Center in Arizona.
"A lot of people are working to figure out which procedure is best for which patients," she said.
"People that are motivated to use the band generally don't have much weight to lose, or they're attracted by the safety profile — the lower mortality rates — and that it's reversible," Blackstone said.
"The more we begin to understand about patients individually, including the genetic components of their obesity, we'll be able to match a procedure really well for them. We just don't know how to select people out for each procedure," she said.
Goldstone said his next step will be determining whether the reduced response to fattening foods seen in gastric bypass patients actually translates into their making healthier, low-calorie food choices.


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Just when Shrek thought he could finally sit back, relax and enjoy his happily ever after with his new family, the most joyous of all holidays arrives. It's Christmas Eve and everyone is filled with holiday cheer - except for Shrek.
Halloween is Shrek's favorite holiday - and this year he's planning a night of frights, ogre style. Instead of the usual tricks and treats, Shrek ups the ante and challenges Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots and the other fairy tale characters to spend the night in Lord Farquaad's castle telling scary stories.
"Puss in Boots" - one of the most beloved characters of the Shrek universe - tells the hilarious and courageous (daring, bold, brave) tale of Puss's early adventures as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and the street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs.
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Once upon a time in a far away swamp there lived an ornery ogre named Shrek whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairytale characters. There are blind mice in his food, a big, bad wolf in his bed, three little homeless pigs and more, all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lord Farquaad.


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TORONTO — Canadian retailer Hudson's Bay Co said on Tuesday its initial public offering will raise some $365 million, a sum that is well below the company's original target of about $400 million.
The retailer, in a brief statement late on Monday, said its offering of 21.48 million shares priced at $17 apiece – at the bottom of the company's already lowered range of $17 to $18 a share. The offering price pegs its market capitalization at just over $2 billion.
The company, which owns two venerable chains, Lord & Taylor in the United States and Hudson's Bay in Canada, had originally aimed to have the offering price at between $18.50 and $21.50 a share.
HBC said the Toronto Stock Exchange has conditionally approved its listing, and the stock will start trading on the closing of the offering, set for Nov. 26.
Founded in 1670, Hudson's Bay was a fur trading business long before it operated department stores, running trading posts across what is now Canada. It went private in 2006, as shoppers fled to specialty retailers and U.S.-based heavyweights such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
NRDC Equity Partners, controlled by U.S. real estate investor Richard Baker and his family, bought out HBC's other investors in 2008, and integrated it with Lord & Taylor, which operates 48 stores across the United States.
HBC said the offering will result in gross proceeds to the company of about $250 million and proceeds to the selling shareholders of about $115 million. Net proceeds to the company will be used to repay debt, the company said.
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Are South Dakota Politicians Attacking Women in Abortion Debate
A legislative proposal in my opinion, paints women as not too bright, and not able to make important decisions without help from the all knowing state government.
It is HB 1237 in the South Dakota Legislature. The purpose of this law is to make the waiting period for women seeking an abortion, longer.
Currently, the waiting period is 72 hours. The longest in the nation. If approved HB 1237 will exclude week-ends and holidays from the 72 hours, adding a minimum of 24 hours and up to another 72 hours if it is a three day week-end. Six days, instead of the current three.
The proposal passed the House Judiciary Committee on a 9 yes, 2 no vote. As of 2 pm on Feb. 19th it is not on the full House schedule for a vote.
Our state has a history of being "pro life." However, in two public votes in the past nearly seven years voters have in essence said, "our laws on the subject of abortion are comprehensive enough, we don't need any more."
Yet, some legislators we send to Pierre continue to push for more restrictions.
If legislators would pass a bill which would fully fund the pre- and post natal care of all pregnant women in the state, then I wouldn't object to their restrictions, since they would be paying for the full cost of care. But they won't, which in my opinion shows the hypocrisy of current and past proposals and their votes.
If women legislators were leading the charge on this issue, I would be inclined to listen to the rhetoric more openly. The prime sponsor of this bill and most of the other sponsors are men.
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Daughter of Wynwood pioneer carries on father's mission
When Jessica Goldman Srebnick — daughter of the late Tony Goldman, a force behind the revival of SoHo and South Beach — moved to Miami 16 years ago to join her father's business, she figured she'd stick around a year, maybe two.
"I was associate fashion director for Saks Fifth Avenue and was thinking about business school. My mother said, 'You really should study with your father.' I like to say that I went to the Tony Goldman school of real estate. I was 27 when he brought me down here to open The Hotel, which Todd Oldham designed. I figured I'd stay in Miami long enough to get the hotel started — and then I'd move back to New York."
Thanks in part to her father, who had a knack for seeing thriving, artsy neighborhoods where there was only urban blight, the South Beach renaissance was well under way when Goldman Srebnick moved down. But as major metropolises went, the greater Miami area was still lacking.
"I would joke that I felt like the only person walking the streets of South Beach with a purpose. Everyone else was sort of meandering. I was a New York City girl. And South Beach was a resort town where it seemed everyone was on vacation. But in fact, the whole city was quickly becoming a very serious place to do business," she says over the lunch racket at a packed Joey's, the Italian café the family opened in the heart of Wynwood in 2008, when the neighborhood still felt desolate most afternoons and menacing once evening fell.
Goldman, who died in September 2012 at 68 after a battle with pulmonary disease, recognized in his daughter his own passion for bringing derelict neighborhoods back to life and for preserving the character of a place instead of wiping everything out to build anew. They worked side by side, growing the company, developing their game plan for Wynwood, which they helped transform into a hot spot for Miami's hipsters, artists and creative types. Before his death, Goldman named his daughter CEO.
"It has been a very difficult year. I had been sitting next to my father for 16 years while he piloted this jumbo jet and then one day, the pilot is not there and I have the controls," she says. "I believed I was ready for the job, but I wasn't ready to lose my dad."
In 2006, with Jessica's brother Joey acting as scout, the family started buying up chunks of Wynwood's warehouse district, which was on its last legs. Today, more and more bars, cafes, shops, art galleries and workspaces are popping up, and with them more and more foot traffic. Wynwood now is a riot of color, internationally heralded for its proliferation of world-class street art. Ground zero for it all is the open-air gallery of murals called Wynwood Walls, dreamed up by Tony Goldman in October 2009 and opened two months later to coincide with Art Basel.
For the 12th edition of Basel this December, Wynwood Walls will open a show titled Women on the Walls, featuring original work by some of the world's best women street artists. On Dec. 6, on what would have been Goldman's 70th birthday, a memorial garden named Tony's Oasis, designed by star graffiti artist Kenny Scharf, will open at Northwest 22nd Street and Second Avenue.
Since Goldman's death, his daughter has pushed their Wynwood plan to full throttle. South Beach's popular JugoFresh, the organic cold-pressed juice company, recently leased a large space adjacent to Wynwood Walls and is expected to be open in time for Basel. The Green Space, at 310 NW 26th St., recently came online with 10,000 square feet of retail and office space and its exterior of living foliage. Expected to be operational by mid-December is Wynwood House, just across the street from The Green Space and offering 7,000 square feet of commercial space with live/work units on the top floor. Both buildings will host pop-up galleries during Basel.
"After my father died, it took me a while to get my sea legs back. But now it's time to move forward. I don't have my mentor, but I feel like I'm still learning from him, like he is still very close to me," says Goldman Srebnick, 43, who is already studying the next moribund urban center to jump start. (She's not ready to tip her hand about where that may be.)
"I'm not interested in just managing assets. We are a growth company. We like to come in and try to make a difference in a city. But I want to go slowly. A lot of developers believe if you build something brand new, people will just come. But that's not how you create a real neighborhood. You can't just invent a soul for a place out of nothing. You have to understand the DNA of a neighborhood first."
Which means there is no cutting corners, no clear formula that can be repeated.
"I'm asked to speak all over the country about our company. And even those who have never heard of us are flipped out by our story. All you have to do is show them the before and after pictures of SoHo or South Beach. Right away, people want us to come into their communities. We have been asked to do a Wynwood Walls in Beijing and in other parts of the world. But we don't believe in duplicating. We like to find what is already there that makes a place special and build on that."
She'll retain many of the lessons she learned from her father, but she says she feels confident enough now to also let her own personality and business style shine through.
"I believe I am carrying him inside in some crazy way. But I have also become more self-reliant,'' says Goldman Srebnick. "We are alike in many ways. But also different. My dad didn't know how to work a computer and he couldn't have cared less about learning. He always said, 'If you want to talk to someone, you pick up the phone. If you want to make a deal, you sit with them.' I agree. But I also believe in the Internet, in marketing, in social media. He was such a huge personality, very comfortable in his own skin. He was a huge risk taker. I'm more risk averse. He was a deal junkie. I'm more of a construction junkie. The part I like most is taking a dilapidated building and turning it into something beautiful."
Goldman Srebnick may have felt like an outsider when she first arrived in Miami. She may have been counting the days before she could head back home to New York. But today she's as much a part of the fabric of the city as anyone can be.
Her husband is Scott Srebnick, a criminal defense lawyer and the son of Cuban immigrants. She is raising three young sons who speak fluent Spanish. And thanks to her mother-in-law, she has learned to make a mean arroz con pollo, ropa vieja, fricase de pollo.
"I understand Spanish, but I'm still afraid to speak it. When you live around a whole Cuban contingent, everybody talks so quickly. It's intimidating," says Goldman Srebnick.
It could be said she married into serious Wynwood cred. Her mother-in-law, Marita Feldenkreis, has owned a zipper factory in the neighborhood for more than 30 years (Marita's husband, the Cuban-born George Feldenkreis, is CEO of Perry Ellis International).
"My mother-in-law is amazing. But when we first came into Wynwood to buy properties, she didn't get it. She said, 'What are you coming here for?' But we were looking at the character of the neighborhood. We knew it had potential. It was gritty but it was innovative. It was colorful. It was fearless.''


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- treysome at: 10:55 PM said...
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- GJKatzman at: 12:16 AM said...
Hey Jason,
Just thought you'd like to know I included one of your Wolverine fights in my latest feature "Wolverine's Best Fights." It would mean a lot if you could check it out and share your thoughts. Thanks.
- Jonathan at: 6:41 AM said...
Hey Jason.
I really liked your issue of Avengers Vs X-Men.
I had a minor request if it was all possible. Are there any plans to flesh out your story thread with Seraph, Cassie Lanthrop, and Lynx? I was so happy when you brought Cassie Lanthrop and Lynx out of character limbo! Though I have to admit I feel a bit bad for Cassie since Logan pulled a one night stand on her.
I don't know how it works over at Marvel. But if they let you do a one shot or mini series about these characters I know I would pick it up. I hope to see them come back to be involved in Wolverine's life some more. It's almost like a "team Wolverine" squad and I have always liked that idea.
Again I'm loving your work on Wolverine and the X-Men. I know you must have your plate full, but the stories you are putting out for Logan are so good I can't help but want more. =)
Also please don't let Melita Garner get killed off. (Or even worse sent to character limbo.) It feels like Logan and her just met. =( I'm begging you! She is such a awesome character.
Your number 1 fan.
~Jonathan Echevarria
- Jason Aaron at: 10:59 PM said...
Glad you like the return of Cassie and Lynx. They pop up again in Wolverine #304, my last issue. And yeah, I'd love to use them again. I'll just have to wait for the right spot.
- Flavin at: 3:31 AM said...
Hey Jason,
I found Avengers vs X-Men issue 2 to be such a triumph of the event's concept. It had great character development and deep thematic considerations, even at such a whirlwind pace that the thrilling battle provided. I think you've really help elevate Marvel to high art with your work, and so I am enraged by some of today's reviews on popular websites that are negative since they seem so out of sheer ignorance of Marvel's past 10 or so years of material (Ign for example).
It frustrates me to no end especially since my scholarship revolves around raising appreciation for contemporary mediums like comics and I was curious how you felt about it. I'm consumed with fury at how these critics slander such great work, and wondered how the artist himself felt. I understand if your not at liberty to discuss it, but would really appreciate it.
- Jason Aaron at: 11:23 AM said...
You can't please everybody. Glad you liked it.
- Unknown at: 7:27 PM said...
I don't get it. Rachel Summers was Phoenix back around X-Men 180-210 and no one made a big deal about it. John Romita Jr even drew those issues so he should remember who she is yet everyone else is pretty much ignoring her. You think with all the fuss people are making about it she would be the first person to have as a consultant because, you know, she was actually running around as the Phoenix not to long ago.
- Jonathan at: 2:24 PM said...
Actually. Rachel and her Phoenix abilities are being revisited in the AvX Tie In issues of Secret Avengers.
- kakey at: 8:24 PM said...
Loved Gambits cameo in "wolverine and the X-Men", will he have regular appearences in the book?
- Jason Aaron at: 11:05 PM said...
Rachel is the main character in WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #12. As for Gambit, no plans for regular appearances, but with this series, you never really know who might be popping up.


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The story of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's fall from power to disgraced politician who had to pull out of his own House race for fear of embarrassment is a simple story of greed and power. What's amazing is that DeLay was able to hide his lust and his scheming, underhanded immoral ways under the guise of promoting "moral values.� Christians conservatives, in particular, who bought into DeLay's temple of misbegotten rhetoric need to carefully review how they were misled, lied to and taken advantage of, if they are to avoid future deceptions by politicians who have no qualms about lying to their constituents.
Gov. James Douglas created a stir late last week by suggesting he would veto the state budget if the Legislature does not include his college scholarship proposal. The governor says the 15 year, $175 million program is "vital to the state's economic future.� Where's the proof to back up such a claim? There isn't any.
Rather, the governor has a hunch that his program might keep a few Vermont high school graduates from moving out of state to attend college and, perhaps, they would then settle down and raise a family in Vermont. The program would pay up to 1,000 students a maximum of $5,000 a year to attend college in Vermont. What the state gets for its money is a three-year obligation from the student to work in the state after they graduate.
The public should note with alarm a recent tactic by the Bush administration to distort the conclusion by American intelligence agencies that Saddam Hussein had no unconventional weapons of mass destruction and no substantive ties to Al Qaeda before the March 2003 invasion.
The method chosen by the Bush team, and conservative Republican colleagues in Congress, was to push for putting 48,000 boxes of Arabic-language Iraqi documents on the Web so anyone and everyone can play "intelligence analyst� and second-guess American intelligence officials.
We're certainly supportive of this administration putting pertinent government information on the Web for all to review. Critics of the administration's energy policy would love to see the volumes of information that came out of the closed-door meetings with oil executives and Vice-President Dick Cheney. We'd also like to see the complete file on the Valerie Plume case, not to mention more complete documentation of corporate corruption that has plagued private contractors in Iraq as well as during the Hurricane Katrina clean-up; and hundreds of other instances. We're all for such openness.
When the state's congressional delegation, joined by Gov. James Douglas, files a protest to a private company for dismissing a long-time employee, the average reader should be interested. We can't recall another time in Vermont's history that it's happened, which makes the outrage and disappointment expressed by Gov. Douglas and Sens. Patrick Leahy, James Jeffords, and Rep. Bernie Sanders, all the more poignant.
The protest is over the sudden dismissal of Chris Graff. A familiar face on Vermont Public Television's "Vermont This Week,� Graff not only worked as the Associated Press' bureau chief for the past 27 years, but he has been one of the state's most prominent and well-respected journalists — as the managing editor of a staff of fine reporters, as a keen observer of state politics and history, and as a moderator of numerous political debates and public forums. He has become, as one editor recently wrote, an institution in Vermont.
The war and town meeting
In 57 towns across the state residents discussed a resolution during town meeting concerning the use of National Guard troops in the Iraqi war, their role within the state, Â and a request for the president and Congress to take steps "to withdraw American troops from Iraq, consistently with the mandate of international humanitarian law."
In 48 towns, the resolution (in one form or another) passed. In three towns it was defeated, and in four it was effectively tabled. In Craftsbury, the resolution ended in a tie. In Addison County the measure was approved in Middlebury, Monkton, New Haven, Salisbury and Weybridge, while it was tabled or passed over in Bristol, Lincoln and Starksboro.
The news that Bennington residents rejected a town-initiated size cap on big-box retail stores reinforces the notion that the proposed state regulation on this issue should incorporate provisions to allow an appropriate measure of local control. Bennington's vote does not, however, cast any doubt on the wisdom of a statewide initiative.
For readers not abreast of the news in Bennington, residents there rejected a proposed bylaw to cap any single big-box retail store at 75,000 square feet. That measure was defeated 2,189 to 1,724, with a respectable turnout of 40 percent for a single-issue vote. The measure became a referendum on Wal-Mart, which had stated its intention to expand its existing store there from 50,000 square feet to 112,000 square feet. In a well-financed advertising campaign, Wal-Mart developer Jonathan Levy, of Ohio-based Redstone Investments, outspent proponents for the selectboard's bylaw by a 3-1 margin.
A petition proposing interim zoning measures to cap big-box stores at 50,000-square-feet in Middlebury has one primary purpose: to maintain the intent of the current town plan and zoning statutes. Doing nothing leaves the town open to costly lawsuits by applicants who could easily fight the nebulous wording in the town's current  plan.
In Middlebury, the issue centers on the clear intent within the town plan to limit any large-scale development that would cause "undue adverse economic impact on the downtown." The town fathers' intent, clearly, was to put into place measures that would maintain the vibrancy and vitality of the downtown retail district, and promote the growth of locally-owned, independent businesses throughout the community. Â
In his column Wednesday, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, asked the question: Would Deep Throat be a hero in 2005? He suggested that most people would say yes. Deep Throat, after all, was the anonymous source who led journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to the information that exposed what became known as the Watergate scandal during the early part of President Richard Nixon's second term. That information, and the dogged pursuit of the story by the Post, also exposed the complicity of John Mitchell's Justice Department and led to Nixon's resignation in disgrace in 1974.
Deep Throat was in the news, of course, because the source — one of American journalism's best kept secrets — revealed himself on Tuesday. He is W. Mark Felt, former deputy director of the FBI. According to a Washington Post editorial, Felt, who is 91, revealed his role in part "because of his family's belief that he deserves to be honored for his actions while he is alive.�
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Second U23 Championship Victory for German Sophomore
LINZ, Austria—Sophomore Hubert Trzybinski of the Yale men's heavyweight crew team claimed gold for Germany on Sunday at the 2013 World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz, Austria. He was one of three Elis—the other two were junior Simon Keenan, representing Australia, and incoming freshman Stephan Riemekasten, representing Germany—to represent their countries at the competition, which took place July 24-28.
The three Bulldogs were among the 811 athletes from 52 nations that descended on the Ottensheim international regatta course for the championships.
In his third year rowing in the single at the U23 championships, Trzybinski brought his substantial international experience to bear to take home the championship. He finished in 6:49.17, more than a second out in front of the second-place rower from Belgium. The victory adds to past success: in 2011 at Amsterdam, Netherlands, he won the championship, while in 2012 at Trakai, Lithuania, he finished second.
Fellow German Riemekasten, a two-time gold medalist at the Junior World Championships in 2010 and 2011, finished in fifth in the double at this year's U23 championship. At last year's U23 World Championship, he finished second in the double.
Meanwhile, Keenan, competing for his first time at the U23 World Championship, finished in fourth place with Australia's coxed four.
Report filed by James Lu '14, Yale Sports Publicity.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College & State University athletic department and director Wendell Staton will host a press conference Friday, April 30 at 10 a.m. to announce the sixth women's basketball coach in program history. The event will be held in the Centennial Center on the main gym floor.
The Bobcats were Peach Belt Conference (PBC) West Division Champions in 2009-10, compiling a 21-8 record overall. The ninth 20-win season in program history, it was the seventh since the program joined the NCAA Division II and the PBC.
The Georgia College women's basketball team is one of the most decorated in the southeast, winning a pair of PBC Championships and four PBC Tournament titles. The squad has also made six appearances in the NCAA Tournament, advancing to the Sweet 16 as recently as 2007.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College 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, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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I can tell you plenty of things about dosa. But I am afraid that if I start I can go on and on. If I ask my Brother-In-Law he could tell a bigger tale since he ate dosa as breakfast for 5 years straight. Sister tried hard to convince him that there are other equally delicious, if not better options and now he "appears" to be convinced. He is willing to try oatmeal and croissants with marmalade. But they always have Dosa batter in the house. So do we. :). Dosa has a way of spinning some powerful magic on the taste-buds.
For the Dosa Batter:
- 2 Cups Parboiled Rice + 1 Tsp Fenugreek Seeds , soaked overnight
- 2 Cups Raw Rice,soaked overnight
- 3/4 Cup Whole Black Gram/Black Lentil/Urad Dhal
- Handful of Flattened Rice "Poha"
- A little salt
- A pinch of Soda
- Grind the rice separately with water as needed. Add the poha to any one of the rice while grinding. Grind the Lentil to a smooth paste. One can use a heavy-duty blender or an "Indian Wet-Grinder", like the one in the picture.
- Mix the rice batter and Lentil batter into a large bowl/pail(As you let the batter ferment overnight, they double in volume). Add a little salt and soda. Stir the batter and place it in a warm spot to ferment overnight.
- The fermented batter is frothy and ready to be made into a dosa. Take a small portion of the batter and add little water. The batter shouldn't be too thick nor too runny.
- Pour a ladle of batter on spray some oil around the edges and over the top.
- Cover the griddle with a dome-lid and let it cook under and over for a minute on medium flame. For the Plain Dosa, no need to flip. Just fold and serve.
- Extra addition1: Egg Dosa: Do this right after the spreading the dosa on the griddle - Crack open an egg, Pour over the dosa batter and smear it evenly.Grind some pepper on top. This will have to be flipped so the eggs can cook.
- Extra addition2: Onion Dosa: Sprinkle some chopped onions on top and press it into the batter with a spatula. This will have to be flipped so the onions can cook.Do this right after you spread the batter. The batter must be a little thick.
- Dosa goes very well with innumerable side dishes, vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Chutneys, sambhar, kurma, kuzhambhu are all excellent choices. The day I took the photo, I ate it with Lamb Curry.


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