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Owlet Baby Care is launching its smart sock via an independent crowdfunding campaign in hopes of bringing the product to market. The sensor-packed sock measures your baby's heart rate, blood oxygenation levels, sleep quality, skin temperature, and sleep position, which parents can access via a smarpthone app.
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1968 GMC 1/2 Ton Truck - Ready To Go
Russ Kemmit's '68 GMC 1/2-Ton
Modern technology allows us to do hundreds of tasks faster than ever, but there are still a few that take just as long as they always did.
You can bake a potato in the microwave in 10 minutes instead of the hour or more it takes in the oven. You can email a message in a matter of seconds as opposed to the days it takes the mailman. But other things: mowing the lawn, driving to Phoenix, building a custom truck still take about the same amount of time. There is no high-speed button to push to make those jobs go faster.
Actually, when it comes to building a custom truck, we're starting to wonder if maybe there is a high-speed button Russ Kemmit knows about that we don't. We met Russ at the Goodguys Spring Nationals in Scottsdale-on the other side of Phoenix from his home in Peoria, Arizona.
We weren't surprised to find out that his beautiful golden orange '68 GMC had been finished only a few weeks before the event. What did widen our eyes a little bit was finding out that the blow-it-apart-and-completely-rebuild-the-whole-thing project hadn't begun until the fall of 2009. When Russ had purchased the truck at the end of the summer, it was a one-owner survivor still wearing white paint and running the factory six-cylinder engine. It was driveable, he told us, and he could describe it in two words: plain Jane.
A month later, Russ, working at the pace of an Indy car pit crew, was reassembling the chassis with the powdercoated original 'rails. The frontend and steering system from a '72 Chevy was installed along with a set of 21/2-inch drop spindles. In the rear, Russ used a Dana 44 rearend with a locker and 3.73:1 gears. Stock springs were retained all around and Monroe shocks were added front and rear. Fuel lines and a 21-gallon gas tank from a Chevy Blazer were installed for eventual service and disc brakes were added all the way around.
In November, work began on the '72 Chevy 383 stroker engine that would replace the original six-cylinder engine. You can see that it turned out immaculate, but looks don't move you down the road. The 383 is loaded with 10:1 Manley pistons, and features Dart Iron Eagle heads. Induction is handled by an Edelbrock carburetor and intake manifold combo. An MSD ignition fires the mixture, and exhaust exits through Hooker headers to Flowmaster mufflers. The factory three-speed was swapped for a 700-R4 from Sav-On Transmission in Phoenix.
With the end of the year approaching and the body back from the paint shop, Russ installed the engine and transmission, then added the air-conditioning system from Vintage Air and wired the gauges, including a tach and a vacuum gauge.
At Sainz Auto Body, the truck underwent some sheetmetal straightening on the cab and bed. It also went through a color change, from factory kitchen appliance white to a glowing House Of Kolor hue called Bittersweet.
As 2010 was just firing up, Russ was ready to get busy on the truck bed and interior. He covered the bed floor in oak. He didn't think that holding the tailgate with chains was in line with the overall theme of the truck. The solution was to mount up GM seatbelt latches to do the job.
The interior was the next part of the project tackled. Country Upholstery in Phoenix covered the late-model buckets in tan leather. Russ installed the aftermarket instruments and a billet steering wheel, using an ididit steering wheel adapter to fit the Billet Specialties wheel to the GM tilt column.
In February, the transformation has been almost entirely accomplished except for the wheels and tires. The wheels had to keep up with the eye-catching paint and these 17x8 and 17x10 Sphere models from Intro suit the whole exterior. The tires are from Falken and are 225/50R17s in the front with 275/50R17s mounted at the rear.
By the second week of March, the local radio stations were announcing the arrival of the Goodguys Spring Nationals, which would be the first big event for Russ' freshly finished GMC. The truck he'd previously described in two words-plain Jane-he now described in three: ready to go.


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Smiling and waving as we go
On a recent trip to Georgia to visit my relatives and to take care of some pressing business, I learned a valuable lesson from my longtime sister in law, Teresa Fowler Stancil. We have been in the same family for more than 40 years and have shared much humor, some illness, hundreds of Scrabble games, lots of other good times, a few sad ones, child rearing secrets, and years of life experiences. She is quite the teacher and I have found myself gleaning tidbits from her vast table of knowledge.
I do believe I learned one of my greatest lessons from her on this trip. She and her daughter, Melissa, who lives next door in beautiful Atlanta suburbia, often used an expression, complete with overdone waving motions, while my daughter DeAnna and I were in their home. I couldn't help but inquire as to what it meant.
DeAnna and I were there to attend a court hearing and almost everyone knows that when two parties set out to settle differences, there is some winning and some losing on both parts. At any time that a negative subject was broached, or it seemed that something unkind was about to be uttered about any individual, Teresa and Melissa, if she were present, would simply wave and smile broadly. Teresa explained that she had discovered for herself that there are certain times in life when all one can do is smile and wave. She said it works for her, and as I began to put the thought into practice, I found it works for me, too. So smiling and waving we go down life's often-obstructed pathway.
My first thought was that they were mimicking the Queen of England or a monarch of some other country. It seems that when television newscasts show the queen, she is sitting in the royal car traveling slowly through the appointed town, village, or city, and that as if on command, she waves and smiles from under her colorful, broad brimmed hat that always matches her outfit perfectly. I have wondered what she is really thinking behind the elegantly orchestrated English dignity in which she is clothed.
I remember one news segment that aired the idea that the new princess had lessons on the proper way to wave to the many folks who lined the streets to see her. It was a dignified wave, but it seems to me that Kate got into the spirit of the thing and forsook the demure, small wave for one that was open and friendlier. I know at the tennis match the other day, she really did get into the wave along with the crowd of onlookers cheering English players on the court.
My sister in law said, "No, that is not where we got it, actually, although I can see why you might think that." Teresa went on to explain that while watching "Madagascar" with her four grandsons, she noted that the mischievous penguins were always smiling and waving. They did not allow the other animals or people to get them down, steal their joy, or make them miserable. When things happened in their lives, and they realized they could do nothing about them at the moment, the penguins simply smiled and waved.
So Teresa and her family adopted the practice and have been doing it ever since.
DeAnna and I found the idea encouraging and adopted it for our own lives. As we traveled through the busy Atlanta airport, waited on planes to be cleaned and checked over, learned of long weather delays that could not be avoided both in Atlanta and Houston, sat almost two hours on the runway waiting to take off, (we were told that we were No. 27 to leave that particular runway), and as we repeated the same procedures in Houston at Bush, we caught ourselves smiling and waving. It sure breaks the ice with those you happen to be around at the moment. They wonder what you are up to and you can share or not.
Even though it may not seem very finely tuned, it is Scriptural, I determined when I got home again to Texas. Read the 12th chapter of the Book of Romans. Paul said in Verse 9, "Let love be without dissimulation (disguise), abhor that which is evil and cling to that which is good." Verse 10 follows with "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another." Verse 12 admonishes us to "rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, continue in prayer," and Verse 14 teaches, "Bless them which persecute you, bless, and curse not." Verse 18 suggests that "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men (and women)."
I should think that a big smile and a friendly wave would help to ensure that goal. I'm fairly certain that a smile and a wave would be more in line with getting along than clenched fists and a loud and scary snarl.
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Goals: 6 vs. Iona (2/3/13)
Assists: 4 at UC Santa Barbara (3/11/12)
Steals: 6 (3x) last vs. Iona (2/26/12)
2014 (Senior)
Earned CWPA Southern Division Second Team honors ... Tabbed Harvard's MVP ... Finished her final season with 58 goals, second on the team ... Added 30 assists and 38 steals ... Netted four goals at Villanova and registered three goals and three assists against Iona (Feb. 1) … Dished out an assist and a steal against VMI and tallied a goal, a helper and a steal against Iona (Feb. 8) … Scored two goals versus Wagner (Feb. 9) … Had five goals, one assist and two thefts against Wagner and three goals versus Siena (Feb. 22) … Tallied three goals and an assist against Villanova and recorded two goals and a helper versus Iona (Feb. 23) … Chipped in three goals, three helpers and two steals against Michigan and two goals and three steals against San Diego State (March 8) … Had a goal and an assist versus Marist (March 9) … Scored a goal and had two steals versus Cal Lutheran and registered a goal and steal at San Diego State (March 15) … Tallied a goal against San Jose State (March 16) … Netted three goals and added an assist and steal at Whittier before chipping in two goals and an assist against Pomono (March 19) … Had two goals, an assist and a steal at Cal State Northridge and added an assist and a steal against Cal Lutheran (March 20) … Had a goal, a helper and a steal at UCLA (March 21) … Buried two goals and added an assist and three steals at UC Santa Barbara (March 22) … Scored two goals at George Washington (March 29) … Tallied a goal and three steals at Brown (April 2) … Had an assist and two steals at Bucknell (April 5).
2013 (Junior)
Tallied 76 goals, 33 assists and 39 steals ... Scored a game-high six goals and got one steal in the opening game against Iona (Feb. 2) ... Recorded one assist while also getting three steals against Villanova (Feb. 2) ... Put in one goal and notched an assist in a win over CAMO (Feb. 2) ... Notched two goals and two steals in the Princeton Invite opener against California (Feb. 9) ... Recorded a goal and a steal against Princeton (Feb. 9) ... Handed out three helpers, while also amassing two goals in the team's win over NYAC (Feb. 10) ... Recorded one goal, three assists and two steals against Villanova (Feb. 10) ... Had a takeaway against Wagner (Feb. 23) ... Tallied four goals, two assists, and one steal versus Iona (Feb. 23) ... Notched one goal and two steals in a victory at Villanova (Feb. 24) ... Scored two goals and had one assist in a win over Siena (Feb. 24) ... Finished with two goals and two steals against Mercyhurst (March 2) ... Scored once, handed out two assists and stole the ball twice against Bucknell ... Tallied two goals and a steal against Gannon (March 3) ... Led the team with four goals, two assists and one steal at Santa Clara (March 17) ... Recorded a hat trick and a steal against Occidental (March 17) ... Named CWPA Southern Division Co-Player of the Week (March 18) ... Totaled two goals, an assist and two steals versus Frseno Pacific (March 18) ... Scored three times, assisted on three others and stole the ball once at UC Davis (March 18) ... Delivered a score, a helper and a theft versus Pacific (March 19) ... Delivered a goal and two steals at San Jose State (March 21) ... Found the back of the net once against No. 2 Stanford (March 22) ... Scored four times versus No. 5 Cal (March 23) ... Recorded three assists and two steals versus Brown (April 3) … Credited with one goal and one assist in a winning effort over George Washington (April 6) … Tallied three goals, one assist and two steals against Princeton (April 6) … Posted five goals and two steals in a contest against Cal State Bakersfield (April 7) … Scored four goals and dished out one assist in a matchup with Arizona State (April 7) ... Notched four goals and two assists in a victory over Mercyhurst (April 13) … Credited with two goals and one assist in a matchup with Brown (April 13) … Scored a team-best four goals and dished out two assists in a win against George Washington (April 14) ... Posted two goals, one assist and two steals in a victory against Notre Dame (Ohio) (April 26) … Credited with one goal and three steals in a matchup with Hartwick (April 26) … Compiled two goals and one assist in a win over George Washington (April 27) … Tallied four goals and two steals against Brown (April 28) ... Handed out three assist and recorded a steal against George Washington and added two goals, an assist and two steals versus Princeton at the CWPA Southern Division Championship (April 12) ... Netted a goal and handed out an assist against Bucknell in the third place game (April 13).
2012 (Sophomore)
Finished with 40 goals, 36 assists, and 63 steals ... Named Southern Division Defensive Player of the Week Feb. 28 after making 18 steals in three games ... Made six steals in three consecutive games Feb. 25-26 ... Season-high four goals came in a 13-8 win over Bucknell March 3 ... Dished out a season-high four steals at UC Santa Barbara March 11 ... Had a streak of eight straight games with at least one goal Feb. 25 - March 12 ... Awarded Southern Division Player of the Week March 27 by contributing on five of seven of the Crimson's goals, as Harvard pulled away from Brown for a 7-5 win ... Helped Harvard to a pair of Southern Division wins over Mercyhurst, 10-4, and George Washington, 18-12, March 31 with two goals, six assists and two steals ... Registered eight goals, an assists and eight steals in three games to help Harvard to a third-place finish at the CWPA Southern Division Championship.
2011 (Freshman)
Named CWPA Southern Division Defensive Player of the Week April 4 ... Named "excellent" student-athlete by CWPA ... Finished rookie campaign fourth on the team in scoring with 33 goals, tied for fifth in assists (20) and fifth in steals (39) ... Received Harvard Rookie of the Year award ... Scored first two career goals and grabbed first career steal against Iona, then tallied another goal, raked in four takeaways and handed out first three career assists against Villanova Feb. 5 ... Posted a hat trick with three goals and added three steals against Siena in the Marist Tournament Feb. 19 ... Collected three steals and put in two goals at Marist in the Marist Tournament Feb. 20 ... Notched two goals, dished an assist and had three takeaways against Brown Feb. 23 ... Found the back of the net twice and had a steal against Fresno Pacific March 14 ... Tallied three scores, handed out two helpers and gathered four steals versus Connecticut College April 2 ... Had two goals, an assist and two takeaways against George Washington, then grabbed three steals, passed out three helpers and scored once against Indiana April 16 ... Led team with three goals against Princeton in the CWPA Eastern Championship May 1.
Before Harvard
Played water polo and swam for four years at Punahou School … Captained water polo team as a senior … Named Most Outstanding Player at State Championship Tournament in 2009 and 2010 … Named Interscholastic League of Honolulu Player of the Year as a senior … Three-time first-team all-league .. Member of the Hawaii Junior Olympic team from 2007-10 … Participated on three Hawaii State Championships teams … Received the HMSA Kaimana Scholarship Award … Won the Social Studies Excellence Award, the Multi-Lingual Award and the Student-Athlete Achievement Award … Member of the National Honor Society and Key Club … Graduated with Honors … Participated in summer mission trips to help orphans in Mexico and Swaziland, Africa … Also volunteered at the Salvation Army Preschool and Palolo Chinese home … Sister, Aisha '13, plays soccer and water polo for the Crimson.


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Hip-hop's prodigal son is almost back from the wilderness.
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Word of the booking was first leaked by UsWeekly. Neither West, 33, his reps, or MTV have confirmed the reports. Other performers scheduled to hit the stage are Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Usher and Katy Perry.
West faded from public view after his VMA outburst and maintained a low profile until staging a slow-building comeback this summer. He wowed the crowds at the BET Awards in June with a rousing performance of his new single, "Power." He picked up social networking cred with a visit to Facebook's corporate offices and quickly became a star on Twitter after joining the microblogging site in July. And after a recent episode of "Jersey Shore," West premiered the video that accompanies "Power," a lush, 90 second "video painting" that recalls the works of the Renaissance.
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Spurs striker Adebayor hints at Villas-Boas rift as he goes to African Nations Cup
EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR has been included in Togo's African Nations Cup squad despite the striker hinting Andre Villas-Boas was not totally happy about him playing in the competition.
Spurs confirmed this afternoon that after weeks of indecision, Adebayor had finally agreed to answer his country's pleas and will play in the tournament, which runs from January 19 to February 10.
Spurs boss Villas-Boas has always insisted when asked about the situation that he would be happy to let Adebayor go to the tournament despite the fact that it would leave him with only one recognised striker in Jermain Defoe.
Yet Adebayor hinted in an interview that despite Villas-Boas' public declaration of support, the Portuguese may not be happy with the 28-year-old's participation in the tournament.
"That is what he said to the press, but not what he said to me," Adebayor said.
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Adebayor retired from international football following the deadly gun attack on the Togo team bus at the competition in Angola in 2010.
He reversed his decision the following year, but he then retired again in 2012. Initially he said he would not compete for Togo due to a row over unpaid bonuses, but then claimed his refusal was down to fears the Togo team could be subjected to another horrific attack similar to the one in Angola.
Three people, including Togo's assistant coach, were killed during the ambush when terrorists sprayed the team's coach with machine gun fire. Adebayor hid under a seat and survived the attack.
After meeting with Togo president Faure Gnassingbe, Adebayor was convinced that security around the team had been improved, and that he would be safe during the tournament, which will this year be held in South Africa.
Adebayor added: "I have met the head of state on two occasions. We talked, I told him what was wrong with Togolese football.
"He must, at all costs, find solutions. We discussed it and he guaranteed that he will take charge of everything.
"In 2010 I wanted to go to the African Nations Cup to win and you saw all that happened, how that turned out. I hope this time will be better for me, for my team-mates, for all of Togo."
Villas-Boas will now have to deploy Clint Dempsey or Gylfi Sigurdsson alongside Defoe for the duration of Adebayor's absence - which could be up to four matches - or sign another striker.
Villas-Boas admitted earlier this season that Leandro Damiao was on Tottenham's shortlist, but the Brazil striker's agent claimed yesterday that despite reports to the contrary, Internacional had not received any fresh bids for the highly-rated forward.
Spurs have also been linked with Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha, but chairman Daniel Levy has not lodged a bid for the player.
One crumb of comfort for Villas-Boas is that he will have Adebayor available for Saturday's trip to QPR, after which the striker will head to South Africa for Togo's pre-tournament training camp.
That Togo are big outsiders to progress from a group containing Ivory Coast, Algeria and Tunisia will also be a boost to Villas-Boas.
Should Togo be eliminated from their group, Adebayor will be free to fly home on January 30, perhaps leaving him free to play for Spurs at West Brom having only missed their fixtures against Manchester United and Norwich.
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Nearly 30 years after he hijacked a Miami-bound plane and demanded to be flown to Cuba, William Potts voluntarily returned to South Florida Wednesday.
Potts, 56, was taken into custody by FBI agents shortly after his charter flight arrived around noon at Miami International Airport.
It wasn't immediately known when he would make his first court appearance.
He had arrived at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana before dawn Wednesday to meet with American officials who escorted him on the charter flight to Miami.
"I've got kind of mixed emotions, let me say that at least, about touching American soil for the first time in nearly 30 years," Potts said. "So much has changed, and I'm just going to have to wait and see what it looks like when I get there."
Potts, a member of the Black Panthers, has been in Cuba since 1984, when he pulled a gun hidden in a plaster cast and commandeered Piedmont Flight 451 headed from New Jersey to Miami.
He ordered it to the communist nation, where he expected authorities to offer him guerrilla training. Instead, he was convicted of air piracy and jailed for more than 13 years.
Potts said he seeks "closure" by facing the U.S. justice system. He argues that the time he served in Cuba should mitigate further punishment back home, but admitted there's no guarantee.
"My position is I am a free man. I have served my time," Potts said. "But they seem to have another concept. They are going to take control of me. I will be under their authority."
He said he had high hopes for his return to the United States.
"To go home to my family, to my daughters -- that's what I'm hoping," Potts said.
His ex-wife shared similar hopes.
"I hope the American authorities consider that he already served 15 years in prison in Cuba," said Aimee Quesada, his ex-wife. "It was a moment in his youth and he hurt no one. For the welfare of his daughters and his family, I hope he can resolve this problem soon."
U.S. authorities have aggressively prosecuted some returning fugitives, while others saw their sentences reduced significantly for time served elsewhere. U.S. Interests Section, FBI and Cuban officials so far have declined to comment on Potts' case.
After getting out of jail in Cuba, Potts set about making a new life in Cuba, where he has been granted permanent residency. He and Quesada live in a modest Soviet-style apartment block east of Havana.
Even though Potts intends to continue to call Cuba home for the foreseeable future, he decided to return home and take his chances with the legal system. The pending U.S. case against him keeps him from living his life fully, he said.
"It's time it had closure. Why leave it hanging, why leave this gaping uncertainty?" he said. "So I want to resolve that because ... having completed my sentence, I feel like I want to put all that stuff behind me. I don't want that lingering over or impeding anything I might want to do. Once you've paid your debt to society you're entitled to a fresh start."
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Valentine's Day Concert at the Sawyer Free
Last week, the Mari Martin Trio (Mari Martin, Ken Steiner, and Mark Retallack) gave a fantastic, free, hour-long concert at the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library. (A wonderful institution, but have they considered renaming the place to something that can be said with fewer syllables?) Here are some photos.
Check out the matching shoes and beret!
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Top CEOs agree: US is down the crapper
Dumb and getting dumber
Immigration follies
The US immigration policy is counter-productive, Chambers believes. "Today we are hanging up a sign that says 'You're not welcome to come into this country'," he said. "We've gotta change that. And for those students who come to this country, we gotta say: 'When you're through, here's an automatic green card stapled to your diploma'."
Immelt agreed. "We do have great universities, but most of the graduate students in science and math and the hard sciences are coming from abroad, and we are kicking them out as soon as they graduate."
Burns agreed that educating engineering students from around the world and then not allowing them to remain in the US is "an absolutely horrible thing. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. The way we're approaching this problems is: 'There are enemies out there! And if all we can do is keep the enemies away we'll be successful'," she said of the American attitude. Such an approach is wrong-headed, Burns believes: "It's not a fight about 'them', it's a struggle about 'us'."
From Immelt's point of view, however, educating the world's engineers gives the US an advantage when it comes to building relationships. To illustrate his point, he told of his own experience at GE: "We make about 120 heavy-duty gas turbines. Almost all of them are exported from the United States. High-tech power generation. Our biggest customer over the past four or five years has been Saudi Electric Company. I go to Riyadh, meet with the management team, sit around and have lunch, at least once a year. Forty guys around lunch, sitting around talking about what we can do better, things like that. All of them are in their forties and fifties, all of them educated in the United States."
The fact that those Saudis – and engineers in other companies – were educated in the US gives him an advantage, Immelt said. "It allows me to meet with Seimens, it creates jobs in the US [because of] the relationships."
But that advantage is shrinking now that US immigration policies have become more strict – not only kicking out those engineers who studied here, but also cutting down the number who are allow into the US in the first place. "Now all of the young people from Saudi Electric are going to Canada, Australia ... to go to school, Immelt said. "So the next generation of relationships that we've enjoyed are missing. [Having those relationships] creates jobs, it creates trust."
Chambers reiterated the need for coordination. "We've got to do a better job of government and business working together to say 'Here's what's good for America'. Because each one of those engineers that I get from China or India who's educated here or who comes here to start their company, there are two more American jobs that we create within our company, and there are five more in Silicon Valley ... that get generated."
It wasn't always this way, Chambers said. "Our immigration policy used to encourage the best and the brightest to come here, stay here, start companies here. We've now reversed that. If you only have 300 million people, you aren't going to be able to have your standard of living increase unless everything changes in terms of: 'Welcome. Please stay here. Please start your companies here."
The whole US immigration system is a mess, Immelt believes, and there's one overarching reason why: "I think we've allowed this to become so politicized," he said.
When asked if the business community can separate the issue of shutting the door to the "best and the brightest" from the more gut-level, America-first, emotional anti-immigration argument, Immelt said: "I think we have to," and Chambers added: "I think the business community already has."
"This isn't real complex rocket science to change it," Chambers said. "We can't make decisions one year at a time – we gotta say 'This is the national policy: attract the best and the brightest.' Security checks are fine, but keep them here and hang out the welcome mat, and make them American citizens, not just a green card.
Immelt, however, thinks that the climate isn't ripe for Chambers' rational immigration policy. "Unfortunately, it's harder than that. If we had the luxury of having immigration explained to every American by John Chambers or Ursula Burns we could solve this, but that's not who they're hearing – they're hearing bad stories, sound bites, and things like that.
"So I think there's a broader, macro picture – and I'm not sure any one of us can do it – but it's all about rebuilding confidence and trust ... in all big institutions. What ends up happening is that things like immigration become sub-points to a broader narrative of 'We don't trust big institutions. They're taking our jobs. Globalization isn't working.' Business can no longer sit on the sidelines on any of these points. We gotta fight for our future."
Chambers believes that business is partly to blame. "I think we in business have done ourselves a terrible disservice by not doing a better job of keeping the American people's trust and working effectively with government to achieve these goals. We've almost worked at loggerheads on it. I think we need to get back to the basics. We're all good American companies. We want to grow here in America and it's not what we're working together to do it."
Good American companies, perhaps, but still businesses that look towards the bottom line. When asked if given the choice she would build a facility in America and hire Americans rather than opening facilities overseas, Burns answered: "Because a large amount of my revenues are outside the United States, I have to build close to a reasonable market. It depends upon the market segment, it depends upon the technology I'm using, but I don't wake up in the morning and say my preference is to actually employ Americans.
"My preference is to employ great people anywhere in the world ... I think that that question – which I get asked a lot – is one that does start the debate from the wrong perspective. It starts the debate from 'You have a choice between an American and a German, and you choose the German'." That's a false choice, from Burns' persepective – it's the market that makes the choice for you.
And the US market, the three agreed, has a cloudy future because of a broken educational system and a counterproductive immigration policy.
"We're falling behind on IPOs," Chambers said. "We're falling behind on graduates. We're falling behind on start-ups. We're falling behind on job creation." It's not time to throw in the towel, he said, but it is time to stop complaining and start acting. "Let's start making every decision [based] on how we get that back in line," he said.
But time is running out. "If you're one year behind," Chambers said, "you're toast." ®
Immelt gave the crowd a bit of insight as to why CEOs are concerned for America's future. "What makes us paranoid is that we see a lot, we travel a lot. I spend 60 per cent of my time out of the office, most of the time outside the country. I've been going to China and India since 1984. So I have the burden of knowing what's happening. I get back, you know, and I sleep like a baby: wake up once an hour crying. That's what it's like to be a CEO."
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Disney has teamed up with Monster to create these official Tron: Legacy T1 headphones, which have lights that glow and move and generally please the eyes. And I'm pretty sure you can listen to stuff with 'em as well.
These noise-isolating cans are designed for gaming, and as such, come with a detachable boom mic so that you can make yourself heard while raiding or rushing in whatever Blizzard game it is that you kids play these days. Available in White/Silver or Black, the lines and general styling of the headphones certainly aren't lacking in flair, but I would have preferred something a bit more minimal to go with all those nice blue lights.
And—as it typically goes with Monster products—they're not cheap. These things are $US300 on Amazon. But sometimes, that's the price you pay to feel like you're from the future.


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Welcome back to Dragoart.com and to another drawing lesson that I am about to submit for you all. In this next lesson I wanted to add the final character from the upcoming Disney movie "Bolt". I already showed you how to draw Rhino the hamster and Bolt the dog. With this next tutorial, I will show you how to draw Mittens the alley cat from Bolt step by step. Now Mittens is a black and white alley cat that accompanies Bolt in his journey across country, but along the way the two clash heads because Bolt has a positive outlook on life where as Mittens is very pessimistic. She is use to living her life as a scrapper and thief as well as a loner. She has a very gloomy attitude toward life and she trusts absolutely no one at all. But all that changes when Bolts character shines and penetrates through her dark personality. Once the journey is over Mittens starts to believe that maybe there are still such things as friends that you can trust in. This tutorial will show you how to draw Mittens the cat from Bolt step by step. I will be back in a while with more drawing fun so stay tuned okay people.
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Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which Nozlee Samadzadeh breaks down our favorite seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more by the numbers.
Last week, we talked all about citrus, from simple navel oranges to elegant bergamots. Today we're scaling down to talk about a whole range of tiny citruses, from the quotidian (lemons and limes -- what's the difference between them, again?) to the fantastical (calamondins). Pucker up and get ready -- we have so much to cover!
1. Meyer Lemon: Before we get to lemons themselves, let's talk about how dreamy Meyer lemons are. Introduced to the U.S. from Asia in the early 1900s by a man named -- you guessed it -- Frank Meyer, the fruit is a hybrid between a lemon and an orange (most likely a mandarin variety). Then, the impossible happened: in the 1940s and 50s, a citrus virus was found to be growing on almost all Meyer lemon stock in the U.S. Fortunately, some virus-free trees were found and cloned by grafting, and the Texas and California Departments of Agriculture initiated programs to distribute virus-free budwood to their citrus nurseries. The new strain's name was changed to the "Improved Meyer Lemon," and we all lived happily ever after.
Meyer lemons are rounder than the regular kind, with orange-yellow skin that this NPR article describes as "the color of a fresh egg yolk." As a result of hybridization, they have thinner skin and pith, lower acidity, and more sweetness than lemons, which means that the entire fruit is edible! You can use a Meyer lemon anywhere you'd use a regular lemon -- the adventurous can eat them raw like oranges -- although we love to highlight their delicate flavor in macarons, cheesecake, blended whole in a tart, and on focaccia. Meyer lemons store well in the fridge, so stock up while they're in season and enjoy them for months. And for you gardeners: hardy, petite Meyer lemon trees are perfect for warm climates -- or even indoors for cold ones.
2. Lime: Fully ripened limes can be confusing: they're yellow! So why are limes picked when unripe? The answer is in the taste. A lime that has reached its peak size but is still green has that balance of acidity and sweetness that we associate with the fruit. Fully mature yellow limes can develop off-flavors and an unpleasant sour sweetness. (They're still edible, mind you; it's just not what we associate as "lime.") There are many different species of lime, each with unique characteristics:
• Persian Lime: Also known as the Tahiti lime, this is the smallish, green-yellow, seedless lime you're most used to seeing in grocery stores -- it grows well even in dry climates and has a high yield, making it a favorite worldwide. • Key Lime: Tiny, spherical Mexican key limes turn yellow without flavor loss and have a surprising acidity and juiciness for their size. Because of their tiny size and thorned trees, key limes aren't often commercially available, but they're worth the trouble it takes to find, juice, and zest them. • Kaffir Lime: Native to Southeast Asia, kaffir limes have knobbly thick skin with intensely, almost inedibly sour juice. The rind and leaves of the kaffir plant are used in curry pastes and soups across Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, and more. You can sometimes find frozen kaffir limes and leaves at Southeast Asian markets. • Finger Lime: These Australian limes look like fat, squat pickles. Cut them open and they're even more delightful: the vesicles of juice pour out of their membranes like pearly caviar! Lucky Californians can occasionally find these at the farmers' market -- the rest of us have to be content with just photos.
3. Lemon: As acidic citrus goes, lemons are on the more mellow side of things -- it's no surprise they're the most popular tiny citrus around. (We probably don't need to tell you about the amazing recipes you can make with lemon zest, juice, and pulp, but just in case: lemon-basil sherbet, lemon curd, lemon-caper dressing.) The lemons you buy at the grocery store are almost guaranteed to be either Eureka or Lisbon fruit, known for their seedlessness, relatively thin rind, juiciness, and flavor. But keep an eye out for more interesting lemons: there's a Eureka variety with pink flesh (for true pink lemonade!). And in Italy they even name each of the six lemon harvests of the year, with dozens of local varieties from the baseball-sized Femminello Sfusato of the Amalfi coast, used to make limoncello, to the sought-after green Verdellis lemon.
4. Kumquat: Delicate, olive-shaped kumquats are one of the oldest citrus varieties around -- they were grown in China as far back as 1100s! There are ovular and globular varieties, both of which have the extremely thin, sweet skin and sour pulp that characterizes the fruit. While you can just pop whole kumquats as a snack, they're also wonderful in the kitchen: their small size makes them perfect for candying and marmalades, or you can stud them with cloves for a pretty garnish in your apple cider. Kumquats have been hybridized with many other varieties of citrus, which brings us to our next fruit...
5. Calamondin: Most popular in the Philippines, the calamondin is a hybrid of a kumquat and a tangerine. They're used in fruit juices, marinades, and pickles just like other citruses. In general, hybridizing a citrus with a kumquat yields a tiny version of itself. Calamondins, lemonquats, limequats, orangequats, and yuzuquats all share the same characteristics: thin, sweet skin and flesh that's like a more sour version of the second citrus.
And more! there are many more tiny, acidic citruses we couldn't cover today. Here are a few to start:
• Rangpur Lime: Named for the city in Bangladesh in which they were first grown, Rangpur limes are a cross between a mandarin orange and a lemon. So they're not limes at all -- but they do share that sour, bitter acidity (which Florence Fabricant describes as having a "deeply floral, honeysuckle aroma") and can be substituted freely in recipes for curd, marmalade, and cream pie. • Yuzu: Squat, round, and with yellow-orange skin like a grapefruit, yuzu originated in China and Japan. While its rind can be used just like other citrus zest (in Korea they use it to make marmalade), it's the juice that is traditionally sought after: yuzu is the central ingredient in Japanese Ponzu sauce. You can find bottled yuzu juice in Japanese markets. • Buddha's Hand Citron: With its irregular octopal sections, this citrus looks more like Cthulhu than a hand. But to each their own! Looks aside, the fruit has little to no juice and is used primarily for its skin (zest, non-bitter pith, and all) which is candied for use in fruit cakes and puddings. Outside the kitchen, the citron also comes in handy as an offering at Buddhist temples.
We've covered so much, but when it comes to cooking with all of these fruits, there's even more to talk about! Lime pickle, preserved lemons, Omani limes…what's your favorite tiny citrus? How do you like to cook with it?
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Linux: 2.6.21 Kernel Released
The latest stable release of the Linux kernel has been released into the wild:
If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal
for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some
of the other surprises (just as an example: we were apparently unlucky
enough to hit what looks like a previously unknown hardware errata in one
of the ethernet drivers that got updated etc).
So it's been over two and a half months, and while it's certainly not the
longest release cycle ever, it still dragged out a bit longer than I'd
have hoped for and it should have. As usual, I'd like to thank Adrian (and
the people who jumped on the entries Adrian had) for keeping everybody on
their toes with the regression list – there's a few entries there still,
but it got to the point where we didn't even know if they were real
regressions, and delaying things further just wasn't going to help.
So the big change during 2.6.21 is all the timer changes to support a
tickless system (and even with ticks, more varied time sources). Thanks
(when it no longer broke for lots of people 😉 go to Thomas Gleixner and
Ingo Molnar and a cadre of testers and coders.
Of course, the timer stuff was just the most painful and core part (and
thus the one that I remember most): there's a lot of changes all over. The
appended changelog is just for the fixes since -rc7, so that doesn't look
very impressive, the full changes since 2.6.20 are obviously a *lot*
bigger (and you're better off reading the individual -rc changelogs).
Thank you, Linus Torvalds, for yet another stable Linux kernel. The smiley was all him, by the way.


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Louis Tomlinson Buys British Soccer Team Doncaster Roversby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Louis Tomlinson is now a co-owner of his hometown soccer team, the Doncaster Rovers. The One Direction boybander purchased the soccer club with John Ryan, who had been the chairman of the team for more than 15 years.
"For me, this is all about the football, the community and restoring the excitement and desire to making Doncaster Rovers the most exciting club to play for in Yorkshire," Tomlinson said in a statement (quotes via BBC).
"I want to see the Doncaster Rovers supporters get the club the success it deserves," he continued. "I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town, it's for that reason that I have a real personal passion to make Doncaster Rovers a success story."
1D fans will remember that Tomlinson played for the team's reserve side earlier this year in a charity match (but fortunately, he didn't toss his cookies that time.)
The Doncaster Rovers play in League One, two levels under the top-tier English Premier League. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tomlinson and Ryan's takeover was slightly delayed by Tomlinson's management team, who wanted to get a cut of the revenue because his name and image would be used.


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The Crimson wrapped up a trio of regattas on Sunday (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard sailing team took fourth as hosts of the Central Series Three Regatta, finished in sixth at the 45th Women's President's Trophy Intersectional hosted by Boston University and took sixth at the Friis and Marchiando Trophies at MIT this weekend.
"I continue to be pleased with our team's progress," head coach Michael O'Connor said. "We won some tough races against good teams in the Marchiando and are getting closer to the top teams in the conference."
Harvard went 6-8 at the Friis and Marchiando Regatta to take sixth place. Skippers for the Crimson were junior Luke O'Connor, sophomores Brian Drumm, Michael Drumm and Gram Slattery, and freshman Andrew Mollerus. The crew members were junior Isabel Ruane and freshmen Jacob Bradt and Sydney Karnovsky, in addition to B. Drumm assisting Mollerus and L. O'Connor sailing with Slattery.
The Crimson registered nine 1-2 finishes to conclude the round robin stages 10-4 and advance to the gold round. Harvard opened the stage with a 5-2 record, with four first-place finishes, before going 3-4 with defeats of Boston College, Dartmouth and Vermont in the second gold medal round robin.
Yale won the regatta with a 13-4 record. Boston College (11-6), Stanford (10-7), Tufts (9-8) and Brown (7-7) rounded out the top five.
The Crimson totaled 101 points at the in-conference Central Series Three Regatta. Winds ranging from 6-22 knots from the NNW to NNE on Saturday shifted to 8-18 knots from the SSW on Sunday. Harvard's Division A sailors, juniors Ames Lyman and Jacquelyn Cooley, won their fifth race and took second on three occasions to accumulate 51 points. Senior Jinyan Zang paired with freshman Matthew Clarida for a consistent day in Division B, which was highlighted by a second place finish in the final race of the day to end the competition with 50 points.
Boston College won the regatta with 62 points, followed by Connecticut College (73), MIT (93), Harvard and Brown (101). Harvard won the tie-breaker for fourth place with a greater number of high-place finishes.
Harvard took sixth behind 187 points at the BU President's Trophy. Sailors faced a northwesterly breeze in the 10-20 knots and huge gusts throughout the weekend. Juniors Morgan Russom and Caitlin Watson led the Crimson with 85 points out of Division A. Sophomore Asleigh Inglis and freshman Sophie Bermudez concluded the Division B races with 102 points.
Complete results for the regattas can be found by clicking BU President's Trophy, Central Series 3 or Friis and Marchiando.
Harvard will compete in four regattas from April 13-14. The women's team heads to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy for the Emily Wick Trophy. The coed team will split forces between the Savin Hill Invitational at Boston College, the Northeast Dinghies/68th Alumni Bowl at Brown and the 70th Oberg Trophy at Boston University.


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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have always said they won't get married until gay marriage is legal in the United States. But a few people may be causing them to rethink that stance.
The persuasive individuals aren't politicians or activists. Their names are Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Knox, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.
"The kids ask about marriage," Pitt, 47, told USA Weekend. "It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at."
That day may still be far off, but it's clear that even with careers that take them all over the world, Pitt and Jolie, 35, have this whole being-a-family thing down to a science.
"On the road, we're a military mobile unity," Pitt said. "The kids have got their stuff down to one backpack, and they're each responsible for their own bag. Mom does the packing; she's quite gifted at that. Puts in just what we need – nothing extra."
They also do everything they can to make life as normal as possible for their boys and girls, he said. And that includes letting them know that they're growing up in a loving home.
"We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss," said Pitt. "They go, 'Eww, gross!'"
Selected Readings: USA Weekend,People


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Welcome to Pilot Knob Vineyard!
Named for the prominent volcanic formation some 6 miles southeast of the vineyard, Pilot Knob brings a new perspective to wine making in Texas. Perched on a ridge overlooking the beautiful Texas Hill Country, Pilot Knob provides an ambiance that is uniquely Texas, while delivering a wine experience that is unlike any Texas has ever offered.
Read more about Pilot Knob
JifferDoodle - Jenni Roberts
A Vintner, a Songwriter and a Photographer Walk Into a Winery...http://jifferdoodle.blogspot.com/search?q=vintner
Vintage Texas Blog
Russ Kane....http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=5019
Texas Wine Lover Blog
Jeff Cope....http://txwinelover.com/2011/07/texas-wine-pilot-knob-vineyard/


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An influential teachers union has endorsed state Sen. Kirk Dillard in the Republican primary for Illinois governor.
The Illinois Education Association announced its endorsement Friday in Chicago.
Cinda Klickna is IEA's president. She says Dillard believes in public schools and says teachers and support staff "believe in Kirk Dillard.''
He faces state Sen. Bill Brady, businessman Bruce Rauner and Treasurer Dan Rutherford in the March primary.
The union endorsement could be a big boost for Dillard, who has lagged well behind Rauner and Rutherford in fundraising and has been unable to buy television advertising.
IEA also endorsed Dillard in 2010, when he lost the primary to Brady.
Dillard says he's proud to receive the endorsement.
The IEA represents more than 130,000 teachers, staff and higher education faculty outside Chicago.


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I am a beginner to java, and as I was reading my textbook I got confused....so I'm here.
It says you can create your own classes which define methods, then you can write a separate code which invokes that new class you created and creates objects with reference to the new class. My question is, in my book they are shown in two files...how do you connect the two so the code knows where the class info is? Make sense?