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This was the last thing Herbalife Ltd. needed.
Just as the Los Angeles company appeared to be regaining its footing from a Wall Street hedge fund manager's assault, the company's auditor resigned abruptly because of an alleged insider-trading scandal.
Accounting giant KPMG said Tuesday that Scott London, its chief Southern California auditor, had divulged financial information about Herbalife to a friend who then used those secrets to gain an edge in the markets. KPMG fired London, who had supervised Herbalife's audits, and withdrew its approval of the company's financial statements.
The accounting firm said there's no evidence that London doctored Herbalife's books. Still, KPMG's unexpected moves are causing publicly traded Herbalife new pain.
Full coverage: KPMG auditor accused of insider trading
Without audited financials, the nutritional products company could be in violation of New York Stock Exchange rules, putting it at risk of having its stock removed from the exchange. On top of that, investors already skittish about Herbalife's business model have a new concern: There is now no independent auditor vouching for the accuracy of its statements about sales and profits.
Herbalife shares fell $1.44, or 3.75% on Tuesday, closing at $36.95.
Company officials scrambled Tuesday to reassure investors that its financial statements are accurate and that the company's stock will continue to trade as normal.
"We believe we are currently in compliance with the New York Stock Exchange listing requirements and we do not anticipate that the NYSE will initiate any type of proceeding to delist the company," Herbalife said in a statement.
Still, even fans of the company said Tuesday's events could prove disruptive for Herbalife.
Tim Ramey, an analyst with D.A. Davidson & Co. in Oregon who has long been bullish on Herbalife, downgraded the company's shares Tuesday to neutral from a buy recommendation. He also reduced his one-year price target for the stock to $38 a share from $78.
Although it's unlikely that the NYSE would delist Herbalife, Ramey said it could take a year for the nutritional supplements maker to hire a new independent auditor and have its financial statements approved. That in turn could damage its borrowing ability, he said.
"There is no reason to feel differently about Herbalife, its prospects, its historic performance or our outlook," he said in a research report. "Yet as a stock, it will be a serious problem to be out of compliance — through no fault of their own — with NYSE requirements and potentially breach their loan covenants."
Herbalife's stock price has been on a wild ride since December, when billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman argued in a Wall Street presentation that the company is a pyramid scheme because it pays its independent distributors more money for recruiting than for selling its diet shakes, nutrition bars and supplements. Ackman bet
$1 billion that Herbalife shares would fall.
The company denied those allegations, arguing that its business model is legal and profitable. It pays distributors commissions from their own sales, as well as those they recruit into the business. The company reported record sales in 2012 — and won a key supporter: investor Carl Icahn, who now owns more than 15% of the company's shares.
Herbalife isn't the only Southern California company reeling from KPMG auditor London's alleged betrayal. He is also accused of providing inside information about Skechers USA Inc. to the same friend.
The Manhattan Beach footwear maker was stunned by the news, company officials said Tuesday.
Skechers was set to announce its first-quarter earnings results this month. Now, finance and operating chief David Weinberg fears the company "may have to ask for some sort of extension."
"The game plan is to find new auditors as quickly as possible," he said. "We're obviously under some significant time restraints."
Weinberg said Skechers learned of London's alleged misconduct Monday. He said KPMG sent two partners to the shoe firm's offices, where they read a prepared statement and left without answering many questions.
KPMG had been Skechers' auditor since it launched in 1992, Weinberg said. London had worked on the account off and on for about eight years total.
"We had no idea what was going on," Weinberg said. "We're still not sure what went on."
Skechers shares gained 40 cents, or 1.9%, closing at $21.91.
Skechers isn't new to controversy.
Last year, it agreed to pay $50 million to settle false-advertising allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general of 44 states and the District of Columbia. At issue: Skechers' Shape-Ups and other toning shoes that, according to critics, failed to live up to weight-loss promises.
Now, amid the fallout from KPMG, the company has to have two years of financial statements re-audited. But Weinberg said that there is no reason "to believe that there's anything in those numbers that's not 100% true."


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I had a reader who asked me how to travel with makeup as she was preparing for a trip and was concerned about the "breakable makeup", so how DO you travel with ALL that stuff??!!
Some tips I like to recommend is to make use of all the travel-sized items that are available at drugstores, or Wal-Mart and Target. They are really great space savers and perfect for a week long vacation. However, I personally can't do the trial sized shampoos or conditioners because I have so much hair I need to bring the full-sized bottles!
The trick is to only bring what you need and try to condense everything in one thing. For example, if you must have a range of eyeshadow colors, try putting them all in ONE MAC Palette rather than bringing all 5 of your palettes each of them having one color family. Eyeshadow quads are great too. MAC Pigments? Put some in a 3 gram jar and take that with you instead of the large bulky jar it comes in.
I bought these small bottles from Nordstrom Rack for $1.99 each, I bought it to store my toner and my leave-in conditioner.
Another space saver, are eye pencils such as the Avon's eye pencils which is an eyeliner and eyeshadow in one! Great for touch ups or a quick look.
I LOVE my overnight bag (which I bought from shoebuy.com), I use it when the BF and I go away for the weekend, or when I go on trips. What I love about it is that it's soft enough for me to put it in another bag like a backpack as a carry-on on airplanes and it fits so much stuff with its trays on both sides!
See how much stuff it fits?
The three pull-out trays:
I also use a big travel bag for miscellaneous items such as my hairbrush, accessories, bobby pins, Q-tips, etc. I bought this bag from a Japanese store in Washington.
So you have all these MAC PALETTES GALORE...what do you do to ensure that they are not crumbled broken eyeshadows-turned-mineral eyeshadows when you unpack?
BUBBLE WRAP and LOTS and LOTS of padding!
Yes ladies, bubble wrap is used by UPS and FedEx for a reason, because it protects items by surrounding it with cushions of air, and to protect your precious cargo, bubble wrap is awesome!
Step 1: Lay your palettes flat onto the bubble wrap.
Step 2: Fold your palette into the bubble wrap VERY tightly so it does not move or shift.
Step 3: Tape it shut!
THEN for EXTRA special cushioning, I use my clothes that I am packing in my luggage to cushion my makeup:
Peek a boo!
I then place it in my luggage, if you are carrying-on your makeup the bubble wrap should be fine, just be careful not to drop your bag or shake it up too much. You wanna make sure that when you pack it in your luggage it's in the MIDDLE, not on the bottom where it has all that weight, or on top of your luggage as other luggages may be placed on top during the flight and baggage carriers at airports don't care, they just throw your stuff around! I add a shirt on the side so that it doesn't move during the flight.
Hope that helps! :)
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- Mrs. Lynne said...
Wonderful tips my dear. I LOVE those stubby little spray bottles you got. I have the regular travel-size ones from Walmart. Not as cute as the stubbies.
- November 12, 2007 at 2:14 AM
- sushii said...
that is such a handy and nice overnight bag!
out of curiosity.. what camera do you use?
- November 12, 2007 at 4:07 AM
- candy said...
Thanks SO much Nessa! These will really come in handy for my trip. Love your overnight bag...I totally need one of those! :D
- November 12, 2007 at 7:51 AM
- Vanessa said...
You welcome Candy! Sushii I use a Nikon D40x :)
- November 12, 2007 at 3:01 PM
- FeiFei said...
LOL. Ratatouille I wish! I'd love for a friendly critter to cook for me. Looks like you had a good time in NY. I think the Ulta Blockbuster case is similar to the overnight case you have, which is why I chose to order one for myself. Btw, I'm interested in some pig samples, but I'm not sure what you have available.
- November 12, 2007 at 5:02 PM
- Alma said...
Were you able to take makeup on board with you?? My brother told me the airlines do not allow it. How true is it, you that you travel more than I do AND carry makeup around!!! BTW I have a Stye on my lower lid so I cant wear makeup so its like my evil twin is in my place HAHA!!! It hurts tho!!!
- November 12, 2007 at 6:00 PM
- Stephie said...
awesome tips ate :) i always worry about my makeup when i travel :D lol that's what we get for investing so much in them, huh? i adore the overnight bag you have, i want i want!
- November 12, 2007 at 6:07 PM
- nilla cookie said...
I'm really diggin' the overnight bag too! I love how organized you can be with it and your tips are super cute and helpful! :)
- November 12, 2007 at 9:24 PM
- sushii said...
oh thanks!
i have fuji finepix 6900 and it's crummy compare to yours :(
i guess i should get a new one :p
can't wait for your new tut xox
- November 12, 2007 at 10:51 PM
- yummy411 said...
i love that soft traincase! great traveling buddy!
- November 14, 2007 at 8:14 PM
- j en n n y l oOo said...
where can i buy that overnight bag? ive been looking everywhere for something like that.
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From Jim Stone:
An intercepted transcript from Correct the Record reveals a LOT.
This has been out there for six months, and I missed it!
So I will guess that many others missed it also, and post it.
This conversation, which was acquired during a hack, reveals several key things:
1. Hillary has been replaced, and was replaced before the first debate.
2. Seth rich was murdered and David Brock knows who did it.
3. Correct the record was given NSA malware for the express purpose of ferreting out key people in alt media, locating their physical location, and killing them. This software was recklessly given to an army of correct the record trolls who busted into the computers of over a thousand top Trump supporting reddit users, and hundreds more chan users.
4. AS I ALWAYS SAID, Hillary lost every single online poll, and the polls were faked to show her winning. It is clearly stated here that despite doing well at the debate, Hillary's replacement still lost 100 PERCENT of ALL online polls and everyone at Correct the Record knew that.
5. Not everyone is aware of the entireity of the conspiracy, even people working deep within it. The syntax here proves it.
6. As I have said all along, there really is NSA malware that can get into your computer even if you never visit a malicious site, or click a link in an E-mail, or do anything else that is known to be able to infect a computer. My custom ROM chip is going to be replaced very soon, because it is obviously hacked. I'll make 20 of them this time, and swap them out regularly, and throw the used ones in the trash. I will also ditch the laptop battery, which has it's own processor for power management, and is definitely infected.
OK, so on to the transcript.
Begin Transcript
ekim [5:52 AM]
ekim [5:52 AM] set the channel purpose: clean up this mes
brock [5:52 AM] joined post-debate from an invitation by @ekim
brock [5:53 AM] go round up the others. i need some coffee.
brock [5:54 AM] good morning to u to fink.
efink [5:55 AM] the only good thing about it was that whoever that was, she looked pretty good. how tf did they do that?
brock [5:56 AM]I can't talk. very hush hush. still, we've lost every online poll and we need to get tough here. get this under control.
[5:59] i don't see what's so bad. She looked really healthy! I thought she did GREAT!
efink [5:59 AM] she was scoring 3 on AMTS a couple of weeks ago and 22 on mmse. Yeah, whoever that was was normal.
MY [Jim's] COMMENT: Clearly here, you can see they know it was not Hillary at the debate.[6:00] but the telemetry sucks. look at all the snap onlines: we're losing 100%
[6:00] romney v obama numbers
MY [Jim's] COMMENT: That proves they knew all the online polls were false, and had the real numbers in the background.ekim [6:01 AM] but those don't mean anything
efink [6:01 AM] it means they're enthusiastic. organized. if they can swarm a poll whats to stop them swarming a voting booth?
[6:01] it also creates a counter-nar. the free press will sniff it. we have to stop the bleeding.
[6:01 AM] k
efink [6:02 AM] don't worry. we have something. GET SHAW OUT OF BED.
[6:02] i'm going for coffee.
cshaw [6:05 AM] hello!
[6:06] hi Liz.
[6:06] I see we're not happy :disappointed:
brock [6:06 AM] Not at all.
cshaw [6:06 AM] I read the round-up. It looked good?
brock [6:07 AM] the round up my burning ass. Im talking about the real world. Trump made her look like a girl. Today we hit back. We hit back hard.
[6:07] Fink?
efink [6:07 AM] one sec.
[6:10] okay. guys, this is 18-2381 stuff. Got it?
cshaw [6:10 AM] yes
ekim [6:10 AM] yes sir.
efink [6:11 AM] alright. we need to move beyond the disruption scripts and down-voting. we need to start hurting people and that's what this is about. This is about winning because we'll never get a chance at this again. everything is justified. David?
brock [6:11 AM] dramatic.
[6:13] ****-okay. so the Trump team is an emergent order. thirty million little chan and reddit assholes that bump around and then congeal to vote in a poll or push a meme or make a hashtag trend or whatever. This is new. It isn't like fighting a centrally organized campaign.
[6:13] It's more like fighting a disease.
[6:14] So what we need to do is break the pattern. The usual means isn't working. Trump's too charismatic. Morale is too high. This is an army of chaos folks.
[6:14] so we have full clearance. Word of God.
[6:15] Fink-let's do this. I have a plane to catch.
efink [6:16 AM] uploaded and commented on an image: foxacid.jpg 1 Comment FOXACID
ekim [6:16 AM] Ew.
cshaw [6:16 AM] i like it! wtf is it??
efink [6:17 AM] This is manna from heaven, kids.
[6:18] We have the use of an NSA intrusion package. We are going to find the thought leaders. the meme-generators. the ****-posters. I need a target analysis for reddit, twitter, and the chans by tomorrow 5 PM.
[6:18] You will monitor, identify, and using the FA [foxacid] software set we have, identify/dox.
cshaw [6:18 AM] that will dox them??
efink [6:20 AM] It will man-on-the-side for the anon boards and intercept traffic. We can use that for IP addresses and loading tracking software and magic lantern onto their devices. Once we have them compromised
[6:20] David? How many do we need?
brock [6:21 AM] I want 150 from 4chan, whatever you can get from 8. I want 1000 top reddit drivers exposed and I want content analysis for their posts. I want the people who are really driving their narrative.
[6:22] I need all that in a packet by tomorrow afternoon with lexical analysis, proof of compromise. I want clips of memes. I want to up-vote patterns. All this has to be inside the US too. We can't use externals.
cshaw [6:23 AM] It won't work outside the US?
efink [6:23 AM] It works fine outside the us you idiot. That's NSA stuff.
brock [6:24 AM] WE don't work outside the US. Do you think this is ****ing bean-bag?
[6:24] We are going to disrupt them before this **** goes any further.
[6:24] if they don't have leaders, we're going to get their thought leaders.
cshaw [6:24 AM] like pajama boy!
brock [6:25 AM] I AM NOT N THE MOOD cshaw
cshaw [6:25 AM] sorry
efink [6:26 AM] just get us the target profiles. Hit the numbers. Give us a matrix for each of them. Okay? PII, influence grid, recent activity, Q-rate. Like that.
[6:26] You know what to do.
cshaw [6:26 AM] Yes sir.
ekim [6:26 AM] What are we going to do with that?
brock [6:27 AM] do u really want to ****ing know, kim?
ekim [6:27 AM] i'm good.
brock [6:28 AM] u better be. I am going to get a plane. You will be up ALL NIGHT. Keep the lab LOCKED. Fink bring in pizza or whatever to keep the kids going.
[6:30] Get those files together.
ekim [6:30 AM] I'm on it. Do you know what brock is going to do with them? I do kind of want to know, sir.
efink [6:31 AM] google Seth Rich and shut up about it.
cshaw [6:31 AM] OOg.
[6:32] well, they are deplorable. idk. I think we should have done this a long time ago.
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So... ^^^^ these are the "Russian" hackers.... and NSA and CIA, etc., are all "Russian" outfits!


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Thread: acronyms.
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#1 acronyms.
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Found this by accident, some are funny.
I'm sure you can all use your imagination to replace the *.
ACE: Ask Chief Everything!
ARMY: Arn't Ready to be Marines Yet!
ARMY: AF Rejected Me Yesterday
BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!
BOSS: Being On Ships Sucks!
BUFF: Big Ugly ****in' Forklift!
CRS: Can't Remember ****!
****: Cilvilan under navel Training
CYA: Cover Your Ass!
DEH: Don't Expect Help!
DICK: Dedicated Infantry Combat Killer.
DILLIGAF: Does it look like I give a ****!
EUSTIS: Even Uncle Sam Thinks It Sucks!
F.A.R.T.: Flatulent Airborne Reaction Team
FIDO: **** It, Drive On!
FIFO: Fit In or **** Off!
FIGMO: **** It, Got My Orders!
FILTAB: **** it, let's take a break!
FLIF: Falkland Islands Laundry Facility
FNG: ****in' New Guy!
FRED: ****ing Retard Extra Dumb.
FT EUSTIS: **** This, Even Uncle Sam Thinks It Sucks!
FTA: **** The Army!
FUBAR: ****ed Up Beyond All Repair!
FUBAR: ****ed Up Beyond Any Recognition
G2G: Good To Go!
HMFIC: Head Mother ****er In Charge.
HUOA: Head Up Ones Ass!
I&I: Intoxication and Intercourse.
KMD: Kiss My Dick!
LGH: Let's Go Home!
LLMF: Lost Like a Mother ****er.
LOST: Looking Over Strange Terrain.
MARINE: Muscles Are Required Intelligence Not Essential
MARINES: Many Americans Running Into Never Ending ****
MARINES: My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment, Sir!
MRE: Meals Rejected by Ethiopians!
MRE: Meals Rejected by the Enemy!
NAVY: Never Again Volunteer Yourself!
NAVY: Need Any Vaseline Yet?
NBC: No Body Cares!
NCO: No Chance Outside
OMGIF: Oh My God, I'm ****ed.
PENIS: Pointless Exercise Not Involving Soldiers.
PFC: Proud ****in' Civilian!
S&E: Salute 'N Execute!
S&G: ****s 'N Giggles!
****: Special High Intensity Training!
SNAFU: Situation Normal, All ****ed Up!
SONFI: Switched Off Not ****ing Interested
SPFO: Some Place ****ing Off!
SWAG: Scientific Wild Ass Guess!
TARFU: Things Are Really ****ed Up.
TEWT: Training Exercise Without Troops.
TURD: Trainee Under Rigid Discipline.
USARMY: Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet! Backwards: Yes My Retarded Ass Signed Up
USARMY: Used, Screwed, And Released My Ass, Yep
USCG: Uncle Sam's Confused Group
USMC: Uncle Sams Misguided Childern
USMC: Unlimited **** Mass Confusion
USMC: U Suckers Missed Christmas
USMC: Urine Samples Make Civilians
USAF: U Suckers Are Fairies
YMRASU: Yes My Retarded Ass Signed Up!One does not greet death when he knocks at your door.
Nay you repeatedly punch him in the throat as he slowly drags you away.
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BUFF= big ugly fat fucker
aka- B-52
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OFO: Out ****ing Off
FRED: ****ing Ridiculous Economic Disaster (used to refer to the USAF C-5)
Social Order at the expense of Liberty is hardly a bargain - Marquis de Sade
JohnGuest06-25-2008, 01:28 AM
LOL! That's a great list.
FUBIJAR : F*ck you buddy, I'm just a reservist!
From MCPO Duffys Log:
GUAM - Give Up And Masturbate
MOTO: Master Of The Obvious
NOMO: No Male Organs (Female Officers)
NAFOD-No Apparent Fear of Death
SUMAT - Shut Up Men Are Talking
WUNA - Worlds Ugliest Naval AviatorAt Coretta Scott King's funeral in early 2006, Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, leaned over to him and whispered, "The torch is being passed to you." "A chill went up my spine," Obama told an aide. (Newsweek)
Have these been approved by the Army Command Reorganization Of Name-Yielding Mnemonics (ACRONYM) initiative?
A big part of officer schooling involves classes on briefing formats (CAS3 is almost nothing but briefings), and since the only people who will see them are your fellow students and a few instructors, the opportunities for mayhem with acronyms is, shall we say, target-rich. Here are a few that I've actually worked into briefings, without spelling out the acronyms that follow in parenthesis. It's always fun to see who actually reads the sentence and then does the acronym in their heads: :D
- Programmed Event Not Involving Soldiers (PENIS) (Great for training schedules)
- Joint Operations Center-Senior Transportation Resource Allocation Programmer (JOC-STRAP)
- Force Utilization Command Knowledge Integration Team (F***IT)
- Command Organization Networking For Unified Systems In Operational Nodes (CONFUSION)
- Digital Warfare Electronic Employment Planner (DWEEB) (I actually convinced someone that this was the correct term for a 25U)
- Network Employment Research and Development (NERD)
- Unit-Planned Youth Outreach Under Recruiting Support (UPYOURS) (The recruiting and retention NCO actually did a spit take when he read this)
- Battalion/Brigade Information Technology Elements-Mission Essential (BITE-ME)
But, my personal favorite was briefing that the country of Djibouti was a sheikdom, and that the ruler was Sheik Djibouti (pronounced "shake ya-booty"). :D--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
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In an interesting article (available here), Timothy Chow proposes that a closed-form number be defined as an element of the smallest subfield of $\mathbb{C}$ that is closed under $\exp$ and a chosen branch of $\log$. It is fun to check that pretty much any number that you might accept as closed-form answer to a calculus problem belongs to this field.
He writes, "My hope is that this definition of closed-form expression for a number will become standard, and that many readers will be lured into working on the many attarctive open problems in this area." The bulk of the article relates his notion of closed-form numbers to standard conjectures in transcendental number theory, most notably Schanuel's conjecture.
My questions are
To what extent has this notion become accepted as standard?
Are there new results since the time of his writing?
There was a rekindling of interest in Schanuel's conjecture after Boris Zil'ber's categoricity results on algebraically closed exponential fields in characteristic zero. In what way has this changed the status of problems mentioned in Chow's article (if it has)?


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Let's say I have a database with a single
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The database is detached, there are no transactions and SQL Server is stopped.
I am presuming that all the data is already in the
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.ldf file is essentially empty? If the
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If I delete the
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.ldf file with same name as before, I would be able to attach the database again with no data loss?


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Several weeks ago Mom told Lydia and I that she signed us up for an online essay class, which didn't excite me at all. It made me nervous. I'd never done something like it before and I didn't know what to expect, especially when I found out there were in-class assignments! And a teacher! And worst of all, grades! I may have acted like a silly unsocialized homeschooler for a while. The upside to my nervous pessimism is that I'm usually pleasantly surprised!
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The class is for five paragraph essays, which is a bit of a rigid format, but the principals carry over to most types of writing. After all, every bit of writing should have a bit of an introduction, and once you've written and intro you have to say something about the subject, then of course, you never want to leave a reader just hanging so you must wrap it up! Besides structure Mr. Vogel has plenty to say about keeping your writing from being choppy, making it interesting, engaging your reader from the beginning, and using different styles to aid you in whatever type of writing you are using to communicate.
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Home Page Chess Life Online 2012 March The March Check is in the Mail
|The March Check is in the Mail
|By Alex Dunne
|March 9, 2012
Alfredo Gotay takes Walter Muir 11W13
Alfredo Gotay of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico has won the Master/Expert 11W13 Walter Muir with an undefeated 5-1 score.
Beauty comes in different shapes. There is the beauty of the sacrificial attack, where material seems meaningless. There is the beauty of the positional squeeze where even the squares of the board seem to assist the winner. And there is the beauty of the utilitarian conversion of a Pawn plus in the opening to an endgame victory. Let the beauty begin!
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ Bd7
Statistically Black has little reason to avoid the more usual 6...c6.
7.Qe2 Bd6 8.Nc3
Scoring very well here has been 8. b4, but only because Black rarely replies with the strong 8...c6!
Morozevich-Sokolov, Sarajevo 1999, continued 8...00 9. Bxd7 Qxd7 10. a3 b6 11. d3 c6 12. b4 Nb7 13. dxc6 Qxc6 14. Nce4 and White went on to win.
9.dxc6 Nxc6 10.0-0
Herbrechtsmeier-Prill, Badenweiser 1988, continued 10. Bxc6 Bxc6 11. 00 00 12. d3 with a sound, safe position and an extra Pawn for White and development, mobility, and the two Bishops for Black.
Saxlova-Chalupa, Most 1999, saw the more flexible 10...00 but that would most likely transpose into the Herbrechtsmeier game after 11. Bxc6.
11.Qd3 Be7
If Black is to use his lead in development, 11...Rc8 would make more sense. After 11...00 White has 12. Bxd7 Qxd7 13. Nd5! Qf5 14. Nxf6+ gxf6 15. Qxf5 Nxf5 16. Ne4 with chances.
12.Re1 Bxb5?!
This leads to an exchange of Queens and a Pawn plus endgame for White.
13.Nxb5 Nc6 14.Qxd8+ Rxd8 15.Nf3 e4 16.Ng5 a6 17.Na3 0-0 18.Nxe4 Nxe4 19.Rxe4 f5 20.Re3 Bxa3 21.bxa3
Avoiding 21. Rxa3 Nd4 and White loses material.
21...Nd4 22.Rb1 Nxc2 23.Rc3 Nd4 24.Rc7 b5 25.Kf1
Black's problem in this endgame is not so much the Pawn minus -- that is nearly negated by the doubled a-Pawns, it is the passed d-Pawn that hasn't yet moved and a remarkably healthy Bishop despite the fact that shortly almost all White's Pawns will be on dark squares.
25...f4 26.Bb2 f3 27.g3 Rf7 28.Rxf7 Kxf7 29.Rc1 Ne6 30.Ke1
White has relentlessly simplified away his problems and now stands to win the endgame. The aggressive looking Pawn on f3 is isolated from the Black forces and is a weakness, not a strength. The caged-in White King will soon escape via d1-c2-d3.
Black should probably try emergency aid to f3 by 30...g5!?
31.Rc3 Re5+
This check just seems to help White, but the endgame is already beyond salvation.
32.Kd1 Rf5 33.h4 a5
Helpless flailing now. This advance only gives White another target to shoot for.
34.Kc2 h5 35.Kd3 g6 36.Rc6 Nc5+ 37.Ke3 Nd7 38.Ra6 a4 39.Bc3 Ne5 40.Ke4 Nd7 41.Rd6 Nc5+ 42.Ke3 Ne6 43.d4
At last the d-pawn begins its march toward queening.
43...Ng7 44.Rd7+ Kf8 45.d5 1-0
At this point Black exceeded the time limit and lost but the battle is hopeless. White will soon play Ke4. Bb4 and Rb7 annexing the queenside Pawns with an easy win.
Please note ! If you suspect one of your opponents of cheating by using a chess engine, DO NOT inform your other opponents of your suspicion. That is defaming your opponent and may lead to disqualification - yours !
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Once again thirteen of our best CC warriors have entered into combat. In order of ratings they are John Menke 2453, Ted Brandhorst 2432, Harry Ingersol 2388, Dan Woodard 2369, Abe Wilson 2347, Kristo Miettinen 2321, Chris Torres 2325, Gordon Magat 2309, Danny Horwitz 2271, James Rhodes 2268, Thomas Connelly 2249, Barry Endsley 2246, and by special invitation 2007 Electronic Knights champion James Sawaski 2167.
The 2012 Absolute is to be a computer-free tournament, but starting in 2013 computer use will probably be allowed ONLY in the Absolute Tournaments. Prize money First $500, Second: $300, Third: $200.
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Cesar Tamondong 11SQ09 6-0
David Stone 11SQ15 4-2
John Collins
Steve Wyant 09C36 5-1
Thomas Buchanan 09C36 5-1
Francis McDyer 10C21 6-0
Carl Gooding 09C29 4½-1½
Robert Thunelius 09C29 4½-1½
Benjamin Wilreker 10C36 6-0
Walter Muir
David Hertz 11W25 6-0
John Badger 11W32 4 ½-1 ½
John Badger 11W18 6-0
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When White goes Pawn sniping on the kingside, he gets picked off on the kingside.
A very tactical two Bishops endgame shows the Bishops being raised to the second power.
The following is a wild West affair with both sides having six guns drawn.
This melee has the reader guessing who is going to win until Move 40.
The unexpected withdrawal of Bruce Reynolds from the finals deprived us of more games like this one.
After Black's slip on Move 11, White is merciless. That's what good chess is all about.
The positional squeeze occurs when one side gradually takes over the board one square at a time. In this game, it is the f5 square that starts the squeeze with 23. g4!
The King and Pawn endgame seemed good for Black, but the draw was well fought. Can a reader find an improvement ?
When White's Queen wanders too far afield, Black turns all his guns onto the other side of the board, resulting in a 0-1 score.


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A disabled junk dealer feuding with local officials over his debris-strewn property packed a rental car with guns and ammunition before opening fire at a town meeting and killing three men, authorities said Tuesday.
Rockne Newell, 59, had lost his property this year in a court fight over complaints that he lived in a storage shed, built an illegal culvert and used a bucket outside as a toilet.
At his arraignment on homicide charges Tuesday morning, a judge asked Newell if he owned any real estate.
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"They stole it from me. That's what started all this,'' he replied.
Newell allegedly used a Ruger Mini-14 rifle to blast a barrage of gunfire through a wall into the meeting room Monday night in Ross Township, about 85 miles north of Philadelphia, before entering the room and shooting a supervisor and four residents, two of whom survived.
Newell then retreated to the car and picked up a revolver, authorities said. When he returned to the meeting room, the 5-foot-10, 240-pound suspect was tackled by two men and shot in the leg during the scuffle, officials said.
"I wish I killed more of them!'' Newell shouted when state Trooper Nicolas De La Iglesia arrived on the scene before 8 p.m., according to the trooper's affidavit.
Two men died at the scene and the third, Ross Township zoning officer David Fleetwood, died after being flown to Lehigh Valley Medical Center. Fleetwood, 62, also served as a supervisor in nearby Chestnuthill Township, the coroner said.
Officials identified the slain residents as Gerard J. Kozic, 53, and James V. LaGuardia, 64, both of Saylorsburg.
At the hospital an hour later, Newell told police he had gone to the meeting in hopes of finding the township officials in one place.
"He intended to shoot the solicitor and supervisors and thought that he would then be killed,'' police said in the affidavit.
Newell was about to fire his .44 Magnum revolver when the township's parks and recreation director, Bernie Kozen, and resident Mark Kresh wrestled him to the ground, Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen said at a news conference.
"Two very courageous individuals positioned themselves in a way that they were able to jump on this subject as he came through the door,'' State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said. "This could have been much worse.''
The two survivors were released from the hospital, along with Newell.
Terry Doll, who lives near Newell, said he was well-known as a ``kook,'' an intelligent man whose unpredictability stoked fear in some neighbors.
"When I found out about the shooting, we all looked at each other and said his name,'' said Doll, 58, who has lived in her house for more than 30 years. "We certainly always hoped that he would have never done something like this.''
About 15 to 18 people had been at the meeting, including a Pocono Record reporter covering his first Ross Township meeting.
"The thing that got my attention: plaster flying out, blowing out through the walls. Witnesses would later tell me they saw pictures exploding away from the walls,'' reported Chris Reber said in an account to his editors.
In June, the newspaper published an article describing an 18-year fight between the township and Newell over his property, which includes an old camper filled with wooden pallets, a leaning garage close to collapse and a propane tank inside an old dog house.
Township supervisors voted in February 2012 to take legal action against Newell for alleged zoning and sewer regulations. In October, he set up a fundraising page online to try to raise $10,000 for legal fees.
"Ross township took me to court & the court ruled I have to vacate my home of 20 years,'' Newell wrote on the page. He said he lived on $600 a month in Social Security benefits and had no money to clean his property.
Newell told the newspaper he was unemployed for years after an injury from a crash and had nowhere else to go.
Credit: Monroe County Correctional Facility
The state Department of Environmental Protection had ordered Newell in March to stop dredging on the property and restore the creek.
"He wasn't happy about the situation, but he was cooperative,'' department spokeswoman Colleen Connolly recalled.
Newell didn't enter a plea at his arraignment on three homicide counts and two counts each of attempted homicide and aggravated assault. He was given a form for a public defender, but he did not request a lawyer. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Aug. 19.
Newell's father told WFMZ-TV that his son had been talking about shooting township officials for a while and as recently as Monday. Pete Newell said on the day of the shooting, his son told him he had no reason to live.
"It's no excuse for murder ... but they pushed him to his point,'' he said of the long battle to evict his son from the property.
Russell Kresge, a township supervisor who lives down the road from Newell and attended Monday night's meeting, found it difficult to discuss what happened.
"This is a little township that always ran super,'' he said from his front porch, a friendly Rottweiler by his side. Kresge's wife said the dog could sense something was wrong with her master and was shedding abnormally.


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We Are Now Closed
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To clarify, consider the following comparison between
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Some of you might remember that A. has some kind of freakish aversion to peanut butter. So, when I saw the title of this week's TWD recipe, chosen by Stefany of Proceed with Caution, I felt a little bit bad for him. After all, lots of people are actually allergic to the stuff, so I figured I could find some other thing to flavor the cookies with... and I found it!
Tahini, or a smooth paste of ground up sesame seeds, has a nutty type of flavor, and it has the texture of a thin peanut butter. Dorie's recipe says not to use natural peanut butter, but there wasn't much choice in the tahini department, so I mixed it up really well before using it. No peanut chunks or anything, but I'm not a huge fan of those, myself ;)
Here's my spankin' new Beater Blade, which held up well to these cookies!
The round tablespoons of batter, post-2-hour-chill...
...and post-15-minute-bake.
The final product tasted delicious! A little bit odd, like you couldn't place quite what the flavor was, but in a good way. The flavors blended really well with the oatmeal, chocolate chips and hint of cinnamon and nutmeg. And A. liked it, which is more than I actually expected :)
The recipe can be found on Stefany's blog or in Dorie's book, Baking. Don't forget to check out the rest of the blogs on the TWD blogroll!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Tuesdays with Dorie: Chunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters
24 comments:
- n.o.e said...
Beautiful cookies, and SO creative in your substitution. I wonder if almond butter would be good? hmm, the possibilities. My husband is allergic to chocolate so I'm often having to come up with an alternative (but sometimes he is just out of luck!)
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- September 2, 2008 at 12:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
Very, very cool. Tahini was such a neat idea.
- September 2, 2008 at 1:19 AM
- VeggieGirl said...
Tahini, eh?? Excellent!! Peanut-Butter-Oatmeal is my all-time favorite cookie variety :0)
- September 2, 2008 at 7:28 AM
- SiHaN said...
i've never thought of the substitutions! but great idea!
- September 2, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Marie said...
Your cookies look amazing!¬ Well done on the substitution! I rolled mine into balls to bake as well and had nice and lovely round cookies!
- September 2, 2008 at 8:35 AM
- Lori said...
what a great idea - tahini has such a nutty feeling to it. you couldn't really taste the peanut butter in the regular recipe anyway.
- September 2, 2008 at 8:39 AM
- ostwestwind said...
I like the idea using tahini. I'll use it for my next batch.
- September 2, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- CB said...
You are such a good wifey! Tahini butter sounds interesting. So what did you think of the beater blade?? Isn't it fabulous? I love mine.
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- September 2, 2008 at 12:01 PM
- Amy said...
What an interesting idea!! They look great!!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Jacque said...
Interesting! I would have never thought to use tahini in cookies, I've only seen it used in hummus. But now I know!
Glad to hear you both liked them :)
- September 2, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Teanna said...
Tahini! How innovative! Love it!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Flourchild said...
I love your cookies. I have never hear of Tahini before. Im glad you found something in place of the peanut butter.
- September 2, 2008 at 3:51 PM
- Nickki said...
Wow, Tahini! What a great idea! Your photos are absolutely stunning.
- September 2, 2008 at 4:23 PM
- PheMom said...
Super job, especially with finding a PB sub - they look great!
- September 2, 2008 at 6:12 PM
- Prudy said...
I get ridiculously excited to see your photos each week. What a great substitution. Mary Ann at Maresfood and fun used tahini in some cookies this week too and they both look wonderful.
- September 2, 2008 at 7:07 PM
- HoneyB said...
I'm glad you enjoyed them! I would try one in a heartbeat!
- September 2, 2008 at 8:38 PM
- Maya said...
Brilliant move to make it with tahini!
- September 2, 2008 at 9:18 PM
- Tammy said...
great substitution and great photos. At the food show last month I tried a no peanut peanutbutter made from sunflower seeds that was delicious. I think it was Australian but you may be able to get it in the states?
- September 2, 2008 at 11:17 PM
- Jaime said...
tahini? interesting addition. the cookies look perfect
- September 3, 2008 at 12:29 AM
- Anne said...
Wow, way to make the recipe work for you- the end result looks fabulous!
How's that beater blade? I've had my eye on one for a while...
- September 3, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- The DeL Sisters said...
I've made Tahini oatmeal chocolate chip cookies before, and really liked them! Yours llok great!
- September 4, 2008 at 12:31 PM
- Jules Someone said...
The tahini is very interesting! Glad they turned out.
- September 4, 2008 at 11:48 PM
- Jamie said...
Cool idea, I have a jar of Tahini in my fridge! I left you an award on my blog if you want to check it out, stop by! :)
- September 5, 2008 at 8:20 PM
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Joe i swear me and you have the same exact thoughts when it comes to Jerry's decision making, he is atrocious, i am so freakin' fed-up with watching him manage this team out of ballgames. He is a clueless idiot. Between pitching to Pujols instead of Holliday the other night with a force at each base to taking Pelfrey out and not letting him attempt to finish the inning after he appeared to be settling down, i just don't get it anymore, how did this guy ever get a job as a MLB manager? He sucks, plain and simple, he's a bumbling fool and i really believe firing him now and bringin someone like Backman in would light a fire under this teams a** and have them rip off a nice run like the Rockies teams of previous years. From my mouth to God's ears.ReplyDelete
Jerry's managing + Castillo's ineffectiveness + overworked bullpen + wasted spot keeping perez Will = NO PLAYOFFS!ReplyDelete
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I can't wait for them to start shipping some of these boxes...
Also, after a great season of art (in which you'll finish! AMAZING!) it's only fair if they make the playoffs and go deep...
Not for me, not for some fans, but for Joe.
Are you listening, Jerry?
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What is the most show-stopping dish you have ever eaten or prepared?
Chef James Dean Max is the chef at a local restaurant, 3030 Ocean, which we particularly enjoy. I once made a lobster dish from his cookbook, A Life by the Sea, for Valentine's Day. The lobster is poached in a homemade court bouillon, removed from the shell, chopped, returned to the shell, and served with a tokaji ginger sauce. It was much more labor intensive than I anticipated but the end result was fantastic; maybe a little too fantastic as neither I nor my husband spoke for at least five minute once we dug in!
What's a food you really don't like?
Tripe. My husband is Colombian and ever time we go to Colombia or a Colombian restaurant, he tries to coerce me into eating Mondongo (a Colombian stew made with tripe) but I just can't get it down. It may be more of a mind over matter thing but I just can't do it.
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My earliest great restaurant memory is when my parents took us to NYC when we were fairly young - I was probably still in elementary school. One night, we went to Mr. Chow for dinner. We didn't order anything, which in and of itself was a strange, new experience for me. The waiter simply brought out a parade of food, each course more different and unique to my young mind than anything I had ever experienced. I don't remember any course in particular, other than the duck, but it was the first time I realized that food could be an experience, not merely a means to an end. I think it was one of the defining moments in my life that initiated my love of food and cooking.
What's a piece of kitchen equipment you're dying to own?
I really miss having a gas stove so that is number one. I'd also like to have a countertop rotisserie.
What was the menu for the last dinner party you hosted?
Shellfish stew with chorizo, fennel, leeks, carrots, and green beans in a saffron and romesco flavored broth served with crusty bread. I believe we started with a variety of appetizers, including baked goat cheese with tomatoes and a small Spanish tortilla. We finished the meal with ice cream, fresh fruit and a glass of port, my favorite!
Apron or no apron?
Usually no apron but I really should never be without one. I never remember to put it on until it is too late. Not only do I completely lack grace but I'm also a major klutz so I almost always end up wearing what I am cooking (as does the floor, the counters, etc.). To top it off, I've been on crutches for the last 2 months, cooking up a storm while I roll around the kitchen on an office chair. The mess has been compounded by my inability to get around and repeatedly rolling through the mess with the chair. Luckily, I have a very patient husband.
What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?
That's a tough one but the one that comes to mind first is the scene in Pretty Women when Julia Roberts is having dinner at some fancy restaurant and her escargot shell goes flying across the room. I love that because I can totally imagine that happening to me.
What would you cook if you suddenly found out friends were coming for dinner tonight?
Goat cheese and mushroom encrusted rack of lamb, roasted asparagus, and roasted fingerling potatoes. I typically keep a few racks of lamb in the freezer and it is so easy to put together but looks much more impressive than it actually is.
You prefer to cook: a. during the day, b. at night, c. whenever
I would prefer during the day but that thing called work always gets in the way. Hence, I usually cook at night.
When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean.
I always start out with (a) and as things come to the end, it always gets a little crazy so it ends up at (c). Luckily, my husband is very good at doing the dishes and all the other little tasks I hate like chopping herbs, grating cheese, peeling potatoes; however, I think he is starting to catch on that I am giving him all the grunt work.
In Portland, Maine at a dive bar - they served raw scallop cocktail. They were huge, fresh scallops and while almost nothing was done to them, they were probably one of the best things I've ever eaten.
What's a food you really don't like?
Describe a restaurant meal that stands out in your memory.
As a wedding present, my closest friends gave us a gift certificate to Le Bernadin. It was a completely special, unique and amazing 8-course experience that we never would have had if not for them. And, it was, obviously, all seafood and fish, which always makes me very happy.
What's a piece of kitchen equipment you're dying to own?
A chinois.
What was the menu for the last dinner party you hosted?
It was for my friend's birthday. The theme was Vietnamese: shrimp paste on sugar cane skewers, rice noodle salad with seared squid, whole red snapper and a banana-coconut milk tapioca pudding. It was a lot of fun and easy because even though there were a lot of little parts, they were all completed in prep so that the actual meal was (mostly) stress-free.
Apron or no apron?
No-apron - but I do own about 8 that hang in the corner of my kitchen.
What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?
Probably more for the sentimental part of me than for the cook in me, but I always think about a scene at the end of Hanging Up - a movie I realize many people have not actually seen - when the three sisters finally come together and the two who don't cook are cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the sister who always handles family meals.
Spicy Thai Mussels, Brown Rice with Spinach and I would probably buy ice cream for dessert, then regret not baking something.
Whenever I find the time.
I wish I could say that I clean as I go, but I don't. Without fail, the kitchen is a mess when I'm done and my husband kicks me out to fix whatever damage I've done.
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Films, museum exhibitions, education, cultural preservation top the list
William R. Ferris, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), today announced 206 grants totaling $18.9 million.
"The humanities are stories and voices from the past that give perspective to our lives. As a result of today's National Endowment for the Humanities grants, millions of Americans will hear and experience these stories through radio and television programs, museum exhibitions and classroom activities," Chairman Ferris said. "The many exhibitions, documentaries and curriculum development projects we are supporting will deepen understanding and provide inspiration. It is a pleasure to announce these grants today."
Among the projects receiving funding are:
- preservation of collections at small to medium-sized museums, historic sites and archives.
- library reading and discussion projects on American presidents, work as a link between cultures, and literature of the American Midwest.
- museum exhibitions on China's historic Silk Road, the Italian Renaissance, the role of American Jews in shaping 20th-century popular entertainment, and how space travel and exploration shape human perspectives.
- radio series on American regionalism, the golden age of Yiddish radio, and philosophical and ethical questions arising from 20th-century scientific discoveries.
- film documentaries on Benjamin Franklin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Napoleon, the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, the rise and fall of Jim Crow, the history of the Miss America Beauty Pageant, and the development of the English language in contemporary America.
- summer study opportunities for both K-12 teachers and college professors.
- curriculum development projects in the humanities at all levels, K-16.
A detailed list of grants given by state is available as an Adobe Acrobat file here.
Programs and number of projects funded this round are:
Public programs (72)--$11,461,000
- film documentaries (19): $5,551,000
- museum exhibitions (32): $3,505,000
- library and other public programs (17): $2,062,000
- radio projects (4): $343,000
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Writer Charles Bowden said in the May 2009 edition of Harper's magazine that he "cannot explain the draw of the city that gives death but makes everyone feel life."
The city he referred to was Cuidad Juárez. I was drawn there too, in search of forces of creation amidst much destruction. In a place so rocked by violence, militarization and economic hardship, it can be hard to believe that—like any other big city—there are many determined individuals striving for more than mere survival. The women I met during my research for this piece have banded together to forge a hopeful vision for themselves, their families and their community.


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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called a meeting with prominent New York gay elected officials and activists amid concern over whether a provision sought by same-sex couples will be included in the immigration reform bill, POLITICO has learned.
The meeting became heated at times, as many attendees made clear to Schumer how critical it is that the overhaul allow allows U.S. citizens to seek green cards for their foreign-born partners.
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Schumer is in a tough spot over the proposed amendment, which key Republicans involved in the reform talks have said would be a deal killer. While some officials who took part in the meeting voiced support for Schumer afterward, others said they would consider it a strike on his record if the provision is left out, noting that he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and was the last of New York's major elected officials to voice support for gay marriage.
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Tiven said she couldn't discuss what Schumer said since because the May 10 meeting in his Manhattan office was off the record, but several attendees said the sentiment was clear: iIt would be unforgivable if the provision were omitted.
Among the attendees at the meeting were Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, Sstate Sen. Brad Hoylman, former Sstate Sen. Tom Duane, and a representative for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is vying to be the first openly gay mayor in New York City. She has yet to take a public position on the amendment, and an aide didn't respond to an email request for comment on the issue or on Schumer.
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Several sources said that O'Donnell and Tiven were the most vocal. Schumer has publicly expressed chagrin about the measure, saying he supports the rights of same-sex couples but also doesn't want to see Republicans walk away from the overall bill over that amendment — something Democrats in the "Gang of Eight" working on the immigration bill believe would happen.
Because of that bind, some key Democrats have pushed quietly for President Barack Obama to ask Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy — a Vermont Democrat who is a major backer of the same-sex amendment in the bill — to wait to offer it until the entire measure goes to the floor, POLITICO reported recently.
The White House has not intervened, but the overall situation reflects the party's fix. Republicans have publicly said they cannot support the amendment, and Democrats don't want to risk angering the gay community by speaking against it, or endangering the immigration reform bill by supporting it too strongly.
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O'Donnell declined to describe what took place in the meeting when contacted by POLITICO, but said, "I believe that I'm an American, comma and I believe that I should be entitled to full treatment as an American, comma and therefore, comma I believe that my relationship … should be treated the same as everyone else's."
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Snowing enough for ya? We are on track for a record season for snowfall, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear it's close to a record for low temperatures.
The Fairport school district did indeed approve the implementation of full day kindergarten. You can see the report here
. We old geezers have a tendency to wonder how we survived with only a half day, and some of that was spent taking a nap. But, things change.
Finally, the Fairport public library has decided against a revised referendum. You can see the report here
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March 5, 2014
BAY PINES, Fla. – The Bay Pines VA Healthcare System (VAHCS) will host a Stand Down for Homeless Veterans event on Saturday, April 5, 2014 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. The event is scheduled to take place in the courtyard located near building 37 at the medical center campus located in Bay Pines.
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Veterans interested in attending the event should bring a copy of their DD214 "Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty," birth certificate, social security card and two documents that can verify their mailing address. Veterans who currently reside in a shelter are also encouraged to furnish a copy of their shelter statement.
"The brave men and women who served our country with honor and distinction should never be without a place to call home, living without care," said Kris Brown, Associate Director, Bay Pines VAHCS.
"Through events like homeless stand downs and other outreach programs, we are able to partner with community agencies to provide valuable resources to homeless Veterans or those who are at risk. Our aim is to get them back on their feet and to provide them with the care they earned through their military service," she said.
Over the years, the Bay Pines VAHCS has participated in, and hosted, numerous stand down events across the 10-county area the system serves, said Jennifer Sprague, Homeless Veterans Coordinator, Bay Pines VAHCS.
"Stand down events have streamlined Veterans' access to homeless programs and resources, and reduced barriers to important VA and community resources. Services include mental health, substance abuse treatment, employment, housing, medical and dental, legal, and simple needs such as food, clothing and supplies," she said.
To learn more about the upcoming Stand Down for Homeless Veterans event hosted by the Bay Pines VAHCS, please call 727-398-6661 extension 7552.
This event is open to the media. For media inquiries or advanced information, please call Jason Dangel, Public Affairs Officer, at 727-398-9531, or 727-798-1531.
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I have been learning about Roth's theorem, trying to understand how Fourier series and dynamical systems (or even graph theory and binary sequences)are involved in counting arithmetic sequences in sets.
Any integer set of positive upper density has infinitely many arithmetic arithmetic sequences of length 3. $$ \bar{\delta}(A) = \limsup_{N \to \infty} \frac{|A \cap [-N,N]|}{2N+1} $$
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- Bohr sets $A = \{ n \in \mathbb{Z} : ||\alpha n - \theta|| < \delta/2 \}$. (Also, nil-Bohr sets).
- "Coin" flip sets
- Flip a coin heads with probability $\delta$, get $\omega \in \{ 0,1\}^\mathbb{Z}$.
- $A = \{ n\in \mathbb{Z}: \omega(n) = head\}$ is Fourier random almost surely
In both cases, the density can be found exactly $\bar{\delta}(A) = \delta$.
After some logical simplifications, the problem boils down to computing correlations between 3 copies of the set $A$
$$ \mathbb{E}[1_A 1_A 1_A] = \sum_{n,r \in \mathbb{Z}} 1_A(n)1_A(n+r)1_A(n+2r) $$
These count arithmetic sequences of all possible lengths and starting points. For Bohr sets and coin-flip sets these terms can be computed exactly.
What are the known asymptotics (if any) for the number of arithmetic sequences of a given difference $r(\bar{\delta})$ as a function of the upper density?
I am just trying to understand what is happening in the proof of Roth's theorem. Maybe it is possible to get an "explicit" proof of Roth theorem at least in some cases.


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An interesting moment occurred earlier this year as smartphone use surpassed conventional cell phone use. There is only one problem with the plethora of new smartphone users; wineries are not ready for them.
Meet Me In The Cellar's Annual Wine Marketing Symposium in Woodinville served as a case in point. When winery owners and workers were asked how many had a website for their businesses, everyone's hand went up. When they were subsequently asked how many of their websites were set up for mobile users, only one person in the room raised their hand.
Indeed, a cursory review of a number of Northwest winery websites showed very (very) few set up for mobile devices. For an example of one that is go to Woodward Canyon's mobile site at http://woodwardcanyon.com/m/index.php.
What's the difference? Websites set up for mobile devices automatically redirect users on smartphones and similar devices to a mobile friendly version of the site. This can be as simple as providing the same information in a more mobile friendly view (for example, see the Washington Wine Report mobile site here). Alternately, information mobile users are most frequently looking for is prioritized.
For wineries, this means displaying information like directions, winery hours, and contact information in a mobile friendly format. Visitors are often able to call the winery at the touch of a button. All of this is important when people are driving around wine country trying to figure out where to go, which wineries are open, and how to get there.
Want to see what the difference in experience is like for mobile visitors using a non-mobile site? For winery owners who do not have their site set up for mobile users, try visiting your website on a mobile device and see how the experience goes. I promise you, more often than not, it isn't pretty. Alternately, try looking at my site from your mobile phone with the redirect off. Yuck.
The good news is that setting up a mobile website is relatively easy to do. The bad news is, of course, that most wineries will need to contract with their web developer to make the necessary changes unless they are software savvy. If you are, take a look at your site analytics to see how many users are currently accessing your website from a mobile device. It might surprise you. For example, nearly 20% of all visitors to this site are accessing it via a mobile device.
How critical is it for wineries to set up a mobile website right now? At present, probably not very. Of course, whoever is visiting your website from a mobile device is probably having a pretty bad experience which is never a good thing. However, currently very few Northwest wineries have their websites set up for mobile users, so you're not likely to lose a potential visitor to someone who does. Of course it also means you're less likely to gain a visitor because you site is set up for mobile users.
However, in the coming months and years this is certain to change. The use of smartphones is going nowhere but up. Time to get ready.
Wineries: Time to Get Mobile
An interesting moment occurred earlier this year as smartphone use surpassed conventional cell phone use. There is only one problem with the plethora of new smartphone users; wineries are not ready for them.
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Terry Christiani Says:
Yay, Sean! Thank you for bringing this issue up. Mobile is going to be more important as we go forward. I already use my phone as a GPS/driving directions appliance. Trying to plan routes and chart the best places to visit is really helpful and very handy on my Android phone.
Trust Cellars has a mobile website and has a limited offer in the TRs using a QR code to gather names for their newsletter - sign up and get a free tasting or 1/2 off their Riesling (which I am told is currently being paired at the Herb Farm with lobster ravioli). You can see it here: http://trustcellars.com/m/
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This is less of an issue on modern smartphones and tablets which have resolutions equal or greater than laptops/desktops. My phone, the Galaxy Nexus, has a resolution of 720x1280, which renders all sites perfectly clear. Android phones especially with their larger screens make visiting non-mobile sites a breeze, even the ones using Flash.
Texas Wine Camp Says:
As someone who visits a lot of vineyards and wineries, I have to agree with Sean on this. I rarely surf the internet on my Droid. When I'm using the phone, I usually need something. And, according to my wife, I can be a little impatient. So, jumping through ten screens to find what I want, well, you know, fuel for her fire. Usually I want to know when they close, and either the directions or address.
Anonymous Says:
Many wineries/vineyards have put their listing on allvineyards.com which has a mobile app for Android and iPhone to locate and discover wineries/vineyards - this is one way that wineries/vineyards can channel their information to users. Mobile details at: http://www.allvineyards.com/apps
Max Murrey Says:
Great post Sean! Super important issue here. The future is mobile. It never hurts to be ahead of the game.
Judy Phelps Says:
Just activated my mobile website for my winery at hardrow.com. Thanks for the nudge Sean.


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It's called the "Butt Cam," a new virtual fitting room at Chicago's The Denim Lounge.
The device uses mirrors, hi-def cameras and a flat-screen TV to provide a 360-degree view and ensure a flattering jean from every angle.
The Butt Cam is the brainchild of Denim Lounge owner Wendi Shelist. After years of helping Windy City clients find the right jeans for their body (she's a mom of two so she's had some firsthand experience with body crises), she realized that sometimes, you want to see how things look for yourself, instead of trusting your derriere to some salesperson you hardly know.
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For now, the Butt Cam is a Chicago-only phenomenon, but it's a good bet to land in a dressing room near you sometime soon. Yes, it's a slightly scary concept -- especially after we might still be carrying around some extra poundage from the holidays. But wouldn't you rather take the heat in the dressing room than find out later you've been gracing town with an ill-fitting pair of pants?


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Like in the iconic scene from The Wizard of Oz, the imposing curtain has been jerked back and all who dare to look inside can see the phony, manipulated charade that the financial system really is. The average person is beginning to see the handwriting on the wall in the form of current events like the Fed's profuse money printing, euphemistically referred to as "Quantitative Easing," and in Moody's heretofore unheard of "de-rating" of the USA's credit score. The financially-influenced mewling of the otherwise muted mainstream media is no longer able to pacify an increasingly awake audience, no matter how many times, for example, the myth of a bail-out boosted recovery is touted. The "official story" of the way things are supposed to work financially has all but lost its credibility.
The only thing that is consistently, not only holding its value, but also consistently delivering a positive return on investment is precious metal, particularly silver and gold. A paradigm shift is now underway in how people everywhere in the world view paper money, especially the ailing US Dollar. Several nations of the world are now favoring physical gold as a medium of exchange, notably for the sale and purchase of oil. Moves have begun to abandon the US Dollar as the world reserve currency and exchange rate standard against which the values of all currencies are fixed.
Banks have lost their position of trust and favor as they ask too much of the populace. The growing sentiment is that the banks seem to presume that the public, is obliged to come to their rescue, in between being there only to surrender their wealth as depositors and investors. The monolithic central bank is beginning to show signs of imminent fracture. Ice-breaking efforts by outspoken Legislators and vocal, populist constituencies inside the US include public calls for, at a minimum, a complete third-party audit of The Federal Reserve, the nation's central banking system. Market downturns and banker bailouts, combined with soaring prices and a deluge of disconcerting financial news have eroded consumer confidence in the ability of the US Dollar to reliably function as a secure store of wealth.
This book is about the prominent role silver will play in the return to metal as money. This is not a book about some predictive financial philosophy, but rather a frank, no-excuses glimpse at the current state of things, and an honest, candid, look at logical outcomes. The prestidigitations of central banking, which have until recently been shielded from scrutiny by a cloak of pro-banking cultural bias, are laid bare within these pages. Intimidating and complex financial and historical connections, no matter how deep down the rabbit hole they first may seem to be, are plainly exposed by the application of good strong light and close inspection.
Formerly unquestioned fiat currency and fractional reserve banking policies and their inevitable and historical results are brought out in the open and revealed. The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction world of manipulation of the precious metals markets is opened up so that all may see inside. The focus of this book is not to persuade anyone that all of this has happened, or that it continues to happen. What is revealed here is that it is occurring in conjunction with other events of human history to create a never seen before event—the inevitable explosion of The Silver Bomb. And most importantly, practical actions and solutions are offered which will help the reader prepare for what is already upon the horizon, the end of paper money backed by nothing, and the return to metal as money.
The purpose of writing this book, on this vitally important subject, at this moment in time is to help wake people up to the imminent explosion of The Silver Bomb and what to do beyond the paper money crisis, and to help them understand how to navigate the rough economic seas ahead. It is the further aim of this book to show the reader how to invest in silver and gold, the most time-tested means of wealth preservation and appreciation.
The Dollar is nearing the end of its run as a world reserve fiat (meaning valuable only because it is stated to be valuable by legal decree, and not backed in value by anything tangible) currency, and fiat currencies are nearing their end as a whole. Silver and gold will resume their historical role as the backing for currencies and the standard of value. In these fiscally turbulent days, many investment direction-seekers are looking precisely for the information contained in this book to help them in their understanding of what happened to the dollar, what is happening to silver and to gold, and how to hedge the smart way...
"The Silver Bomb is a history lesson; not the type of dry and long-winded sermon wherein the authors flaunt their erudition, but rather an information-dense cannonball run through the most pertinent of need-to-know details. From the inception of money, through the creation of the Federal Reserve System, right up to the precipice of the economic abyss over which our leaders are hell-bent on driving us, The Silver Bomb is a crash-course in reality. Not the 'reality' so-called that is spoon-fed to a comfortably numb populace by our bought-and-paid-for mainstream media, but rather an accurate assessment of many of the imminent threats currently arrayed against a largely unsuspecting public. We are in trouble, is one over-arching message of The Silver Bomb. The Silver Bomb is absolutely need-to-know information. The time to prepare is almost at an end. Arm yourself with the knowledge contained in this book. Make haste, and may you make good speed."
-- Jed Bozza, An American Writer & Investor


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