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ezonlinedeals necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
I need a center graphic banner created, and 2 smaller additional banners that will be placed below the main banner of the homepage of http://www.TSPrintAndStitch.com. The main graphic will be between 480 x 180 and 480 x 250. The two additional graphic banners below those will be 240 x 120. For examples of banners that have already been created please visit: MiniatureGuitarWarehouse.com or 3SStore.com
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As for the graphic, you can use the pictures of products from tsprintandstitch.com or design some cool art.
For the two smaller banners below it, I will leave the designs, concept, and text up to you.

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Open Office v3.1 has just been released. You can get it here:
File is 148MB. They are using a pretty fast server so if you have a half decent connection it won't take that long. I got around 300KB/sec out here in the sticks
It is supposed to be faster and slicker than v3.0


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A new report suggests countries should bar entry to travellers from nations still plagued by polio unless they have proof they have been vaccinated.
The report says the move would safeguard other parts of the world against the possibility of polio spreading from the remaining three endemic countries.
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only countries in the world that have never managed to stop the spread of polio viruses within their borders.
The recommendation comes from a group of experts which critiques the efforts of the Global Polio Eradication Program.
The Independent Monitoring Board was set up at the behest of World Health Organization Director General Dr. Margaret Chan to identify weaknesses in the polio program and offer expert advice.
In its latest report, the monitoring board says the polio program may be on the cusp of finally conquering the disease, but critical work remains to be done.
"History may look back on 2012 as the beginning of the end for the polio virus," the advisers said in their typically bluntly worded report.
The report acknowledges that some may view as extreme the recommendation that countries should require proof of polio vaccination when citizens of the three endemic countries seek entry at their borders.
But it says the risk that polio viruses from the endemic countries will reignite spread in other nations remains too high. And some countries, particularly in parts of Africa, are highly vulnerable to renewed transmission, because many of their children are not fully vaccinated.
"Besides their human and financial costs, outbreaks are an unhelpful and demoralizing distraction to the pursuit of global eradication," the report says.
"They need to be prevented."
The experts suggest the WHO's International Health Regulations expert review committee issue a standing recommendation on the matter by next May. (The IHR, as it is called, is an international treaty aimed at trying to minimize the risk of disease spread from country to country.)
The monitoring board report also suggests polio campaign partners should work harder to link vaccine delivery with other services that would benefit communities.
In many places, it notes, parents are bewildered by repeated visits from polio vaccination teams when their children's other health needs go unmet.
"We recommend that every opportunity be taken to 'pair' other health and neighbourhood benefits with the polio vaccine," the report says, suggesting delivery of things like mosquito nets to prevent malaria or having the trucks transporting vaccination teams clear away garbage while the teams go door to door in delivering vaccine.
The report also urges the polio program to work to involve parents on committees at the local level, saying that if parents could be brought to understand why they should demand polio vaccine for their children, polio would already be history.
The polio program had hoped to stop polio transmission by the end of 2012; this is the third deadline the 24-year-old program has missed. But the monitoring board, which has been harshly critical in some earlier reviews, suggests this year real progress has been made in some countries.
An exception is Nigeria, it says, where polio case numbers have risen in the second half of this year. But the report says the Nigeria efforts may be on the brink of a breakthrough, and will be watched closely over the coming months.
To date this year there have been 193 cases of paralytic polio in the world, the lowest number ever. By this time last year there had been 536 cases, and the count climbed to 650 by the end of 2011.


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How do you get high-speed, efficient performance from a hybrid rotorcraft design? The U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for organizations to help answer that question as part of its vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) X-Plane program, and an Australian company is suggesting one possibility for the 52-month effort that has a budget of around $130 million.
StopRotor Technology, based in Sydney, is putting forth its Hybrid RotorWing, which the company says can fly as either a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft. Central to the aircraft's design is the stop rotor technology, which switches between rotary and fixed-wing "in a manner previously unexplored in the history of VTOL development," the company claims. All previous stop rotor designs have either sought to stop the rotors during forward flight or proposed an "impractical fuselage layout."
StopRotor Technology is currently undergoing proof of concept prototype testing using computer simulations and flying models. While the Hybrid RotorWing is still in the development phase, the company plans to contact DARPA's X-Plane program manager, Ashish Bagai.
Whether the concept is a fit for the program or not, Stop- Rotor Technology envisions that the aircraft "could fulfill a useful role in the rapidly expanding UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] industry."
The company is also looking for partners in the DARPA program. Spokesperson Deanne Watkins noted that, "we are keen to discuss collaborative proposals with leading innovative aerospace companies."
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I think it would be great if there was a forum in the subjects area for foreign languages, as languages are an important part of the curriculum in modern society.
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I have a thing for that Panda Mint Filled Natural Licorice Bar that you can buy at Holland and Barrett's. Every now and then I will pop in and buy 10 bars to chew on, even though I am not sure why they are organic or particularly good for you at 384 calories per tiny bar.
Holland & Barrett's is a health food store in the UK that sells – well, health food, supplements, that kind of thing. Its where your nan sends you to buy her cod liver oils and your hypochondriac sister sends you for her Echinacea before going out at the weekend to drink herself into stupor.
Guess what! They now their own comprehensive skincare/haircare/beauty range called Dr. Organic.
I knew this was going to be good or extremely poor – I am a bit of a Organic product fanatic at the moment mainly because the very sniff of SLS gives me the itches. There are so many products out there that LOOK organic, CALL themselves organic, but are anything but.
The Dr. Organic range had a few flavours to choose from – Hello Vera, Tea Tree, Manuka Honey, Pomegranate, Lavender, Vitamin E etc. I wanted to try Pomegranate and Manuka Honey so I got:
Manuka Honey Shampoo & Conditioner:
I think they were £4.99 each which is very good value.
No Parebens and No SLS! Very good:
I tried this out and I didn't get any itchies and it left my hair pretty shiny and soft. I'd like to see an intensive conditioner under the Manuka Honey range….
*I also got the Manuka Honey body lotion the other half stole and used as a hand cream which he is HIGHLY singing the praises of. Manuka I think was best for dry skins.
I got the Pomegranate deodorant and toothpaste (well…I had to try) and body butter. The body butter is now being used by the other half (he steals ALL the moisturizers) and as for the toothpaste – yes I like it! I have a think about conventional toothpastes anyway, they leave my mouth dry and generally tasting horrible in the morning (don't get me started on Listerine)….
I like Dr. Organic because:
1. The range is HUGE. It was like product overload, but you can pretty much find a deodorant or cream, or lotion or shower gel in the flavour you prefer.
2. I didn't see anything over £10. I was suspicious for a while because it is very affordable for what it is. I think the body butter at £8.99 is one of the most expensive things which is great because….
3. Organic products can be pretty expensive to purchase at the best of times and…
4. They are hard to get hold of. If someone asks me where to these paraben/SLS free products most of the time I have to direct them to the internet because the high street is seriously lacking in choice.
Verdict: Yep I'll be back for all my general toiletries – it isn't costing me more than my usual bits and pieces and at least I am avoiding any unnecessary chemicals. A success!


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Tuscan-Style Potato Soup (Adapted from CL)
For the soup
2 heads garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil, divided
1 1/2 cups finely chopped onion
fresh ground black pepper
2 1/4 pounds Yukon gold potato, peeled and cubed
4 cups chicken broth
1 cup half-and-half
2 ounces (about 1/2 cup) fresh grated pecorino Romano cheese
For the toppings
1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons olive oil, divided
1 1/2 cups finely chopped onion
8 ounces hot Italian turkey sausage, casings removed
1 ounce pancetta, finely chopped
1 cup chopped kale
1 ounce (about 1/4 cup) fresh grated pecorino Romano cheese
1/4 cup fresh sage leaves
2 1/2 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted
1 ounce pecorino Romano cheese, shaved into strips
To prepare the soup
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Peel away any of the excess papery skins from the garlic cloves, leaving the skins on the cloves intact. Slice off about 1/4" to 1/2" of the pointed end of the garlic bulb to reveal the cloves. Set both heads onto a large piece of foil and drizzle 1 teaspoon over the exposed cloves, then wrap the foil around, crimping the edges, to enclose the garlic. Place into the oven and bake until the garlic is soft, about 40 to 45 minutes. Remove and let cool for 10 minutes. Squeeze cloves to remove the garlic pulp and set aside.
In a large Dutch oven, heat 2 teaspoon oil over medium-high. Stir in onion - cook until softened, about 4 to 6 minutes. Season with fresh ground black pepper and salt. Stir in cubed potato and cook for 2 minutes. Pour in broth and bring mixture to a boil - reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are very tender, about 18 to 20 minutes.
Remove from the heat and stir in garlic pulp. Using an immersion blender, puree soup smooth. Alternatively, puree soup in batches using a blender. Stir half-and-half and grated cheese. Place the pot back over medium heat and cook, stirring often, until thoroughly heated through, about 5 minutes.
To prepare the toppings
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat 2 teaspoons oil over medium. Stir in onion and season lightly with salt - cook until softened, about 4 to 6 minutes. Add sausage and pancetta - cook, stirring to crumble, until the meat has browned and cooked through, about 8 to 10 minutes.
In a medium pot of boiling water, add kale and cook for 4 minutes. Reserve 1/4 cup of the cooking liquid, then drain kale. In a food processor, add drained kale, reserved cooking liquid, grated cheese, sage and nuts - process until finely ground. Leaving the processor on, gradually drizzle in the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and process to combine.
To serve, portion soup into bowls, then drizzle kale "pesto" evenly over each serving. Top each with a mound of the sausage mixture and shaved cheese.
Makes 6 servings.
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Suzanne Lie, Ph.D., has been a seeker since she was a child where her active "imagination" took her deep into her inner life. She continues to regularly share her experiences and Arcturian teachings on her blog, Awakening with Suzanne Lie, and she wishes to help awakening ones come out of hiding and allow the glory of their highest expression of SELF into their everyday life.
Beautiful as always. Thank you dear Suzanne and Arcturians.ReplyDelete
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Practising the breath as the Arcutrians guided us is very helpful to calmdown and to meditate. The busy head was and is a real challenge.ReplyDelete
I swim like a fish. I love like a star. I open to all, and allow all to me. I don't do much much physically, for the ocean is where i do my work, but we shine where we can... we bathe, we shine. We shine so bright, that the light might encompass the earth in a loving embrace to take seat in thy chest.
peace and harmony, through patients and love.
Much to learn, much to perfect. its not been long since we took our first step.
Thank you :) Always the Arcturian message came at the right time.ReplyDelete
Gratitude with unconditional love within this NOW.
Inner reality reset makes ones to relalise and find answers to every question and solutions to problem.
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Education Carnival: With a capital T that rhymes with P and that stands for pool
which rhymes with school. Thespis Journal hosts a Broadway-inspired Carnival of Education this week, and he even awarded me a Tony! I'm about to burst into song, (from, what you should already know, is my Favorite Musical Ever, Naturally!) In honor of the start of school:
Never've I asked an August sky, "Where has last July gone?"
Never've I wandered through the rye, wondering where has some guy gone;
Many a new day will dawn before I do!
Many a red sun will set!
Many a blue moon will shine before I do!
Go see the Carnival! You'll be glad you did!


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Fujitsu today announces two new all-in-one X-line desktop PCs with integrated features that fully support Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) environments. Fujitsu's ESPRIMO X923 and ESPRIMO X923-T take unified communications and collaboration to the next level, advancing Fujitsu's vision of a human centric intelligent society with technology that focuses on the needs of the user and on improving productivity.
More than ever before, enterprises need intelligent tools that enable a smarter, more integrated approach to communications. But due to so many communications mechanisms (email, voicemail, instant messaging and more), productivity can suffer when people are out of reach. In addition, many unified communications and collaboration environments require the use of a wide range of additional-cost accessories such as headsets, loudspeakers and handsets. With the new Multimedia module1, Fujitsu has integrated all these features into its all-in-one ESPRIMO X PCs, making unified communications easier and more effective. A busy light function indicates the user's presence status and the touch-screen option is perfect for applications such as interactive White Board sharing.
The Fujitsu ESPRIMO X series also provides an elegant solution for users who need the full functionality of a space-saving desktop, but also require energy saving and constant connectivity. Both the ESPRIMO X923 and ESPRIMO X923-T can be switched to Low Power Active Mode (LPAM), which shuts down power-hungry applications such as browsers and office programs, effectively almost turning off the device. A network connection remains in active so that office programs can remain in sync.
In Low Power Active Mode mode, the ESPRIMO X923 and ESPRIMO X923-T draw just enough energy to perform critical background tasks, yet are still immediately available for incoming communications. This is a reduced cost approach to the Always On approach, which can run up power bills when desktop PCs are left running at full power, 24x7. Fujitsu's LPAM means ESPRIMO X PCs use less than five watts per hour while still running Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional – some 45 percent below the system's maximum power consumption in standard idle mode2. This ensures that enterprises can cut their power bills and replace legacy telephony equipment with unified communications-enabled PCs.
Fujitsu also offers Managed Collaboration Services to support the entire Unified Communications and Collaboration solution stack. Managed Collaboration allows customization and parameterization, integrating and managing Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync and file services based on service classes with different availability levels and sizing options. For organizations looking to update their ICT environment, Fujitsu provides round-the-clock services, while Managed Collaboration provides a cost-effective solution with pay-as-you-grow options and a transparent cost structure.
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 170,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.4 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013. For more information, please see http://www.fujitsu.com.
In Continental Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India, Fujitsu is the leading IT infrastructure provider with a presence in all key markets serving large, medium-sized and small businesses. The company offers a full portfolio of IT products, business solutions and services, ranging from workplace systems to datacenter solutions, managed services, and cloud-based software and solutions. In CEMEA&I Fujitsu employs approximately 13,000 people and is part of the global Fujitsu Group. For more information, please see: ts.fujitsu.com/aboutus.
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Alumni Association Announces Framingham State 2011-2012 Scholarships
FRAMINGHAM, MA- The Independent Association of Framingham State Alumni, ("IAFSA"), a self-governing, non-profit organization established in 1874 which receives and administers funds that provide scholarships and interest-free loans to FSU students, has announced its list of 2011-2012 scholarship winners.
Scholarships, (and loan funding), are made possible by donations, bequests, and rental of the Alumni House.
Scholarships ranged from $500 to $2500.
Verena Lutz and Mariya Dzhyoyeva were the only Framingham residents among the 2011-2012 recipients. Both received a "Dorothy Larned Scholarship" award. The scholarship, which encourages the sharing of international cultures was ...[read more]
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Germinal (1993)
Directed by Claude BerriGenres - Drama | Sub-Genres - Period Film | Run Time - 158 min. | Countries - Belgium , France , Italy | MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Paul Brenner
Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. The film centers upon the bitter toils of Maheu (Gerard Depardieu) and his family -- consisting of his iron-willed wife (Miou-Miou) and their daughter Catherine (Judith Henry), who also works in the mines. When a new miner, Etienne Lantier (Renaud), comes to Voreux to seek work, he is befriended by Maheu, who takes him on his mining crew and allows him to stay at his home. Etienne is also an organizer for a new miner's union and, as conditions in the Voreux mines worsen, Etienne convinces Maheu to organize a miner's strike. Meanwhile, Etienne is attracted to Catherine, and Catherine to him, but she doesn't act upon her feelings, taking up, instead, with Chaval (Jean-Roger Milo), a local ne'er do well. As conditions in the mines become more desperate and unsafe, and the owners propose to cut wages, Maheu at last stages a massive strike of the miners. When that happens, the owners send in armed soldiers to defend the mines.
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BOSTON (CBS) – Wednesday could have started a few days of rest for the Boston Celtics, awaiting their Eastern Conference semifinal against the Chicago Bulls or Philadelphia 76ers.
Instead, they now have to prepare for a Game 6 against the Atlanta Hawks at the Garden on Thursday night.
The Celtics couldn't shake the pesky Hawks in Tuesday night's 87-86 Game 5 loss in Atlanta, despite having chances in the end. It took a Celtics flurry — a 7-0 run– late in the fourth to pull even at 83, and then a clutch three-pointer by Paul Pierce with 50 ticks remaining to pull within one, but then it just kind of fell apart.
"We played in spurts, and that's why we lost," head coach Doc Rivers said after the game.
From a poorly executed foul to Rajon Rondo's final… attempt, mental mishaps cost the Celtics a chance at winning the game, clinching the series, and locking up some R&R time before the next round.
It started with Pierce missing a jumper with 18.9 seconds remaining. Pierce, showing signs that his ailing knee could be worse than thought, missed badly and the ball barely hit rim, bouncing out-of-bounds to give the Hawks the ball back with an 87-86 lead. But instead of fouling right away, the Celtics let eight seconds flow off the clock.
Recap: Bulls Force Game 6 Against 76ers
Rivers said the team opted to go for the steal, but the problem was Boston still had a foul to give. Precious seconds fell off the clock as the Celtics ran around, hoping they could jar the ball loose, or into the hands of a poor free throw shooter.
"We signaled to foul, but our guys decided to go for a steal first," Rivers said after the game. "What they didn't understand was that we had a foul to give. I told them after the game — we talk about it every night and every day in practice — end-of-the-game execution is going to win or lose playoff games for you. You think about it, that's seven extra seconds that Rondo would have had (for a final shot attempt). That doesn't mean we make a shot, but you never know. We would have had extra time, and we didn't have it."
Despite their brain fart, the Celtics still had another shot at winning the game. Rondo stole Josh Smith's inbound pass with 10 seconds remaining, his fifth steal of the game, and sped down the court with the game-winner in mind. He was looking to go to Kevin Garnett, but got himself trapped along the sideline with Al Horford there to defend. Rondo in turn lost control of the ball and his desperation pass was knocked away by Smith, who breathed a huge sigh of relief as the game ended.
"I tried to make a play, but got caught on the baseline," said Rondo, who tallied 13 points and 12 assists in the loss. "Give Al credit. I just didn't come up with the shot."
"We were in a jumble," Rivers said. "I wish (Rondo) had went down the middle of the floor, I think you should always go down the middle of the floor, especially when have a big on you. Listen, it's a turnover, it's a fast break — we were just trying to go. I thought Kevin set a nice step-up pick; I was hoping he would attack the basket. But really, I just thought he lost the ball and that threw off any chance we had."
"They defended it pretty well. (Rondo) came off the pick-and-roll, they switched and then cut off the baseline. At the end of the day, he gave us a chance," said Paul Pierce, who along with Garnett led the way for Boston with 16 points apiece. "We were put in a situation where we were probably going to have to foul and maybe go down 3, but he got the steal, gave us an opportunity. Unfortunately, we turned it over. Sometimes it goes like that."
"We definitely squandered away an opportunity today, but you take your hats off to the Hawks, they came with a purpose," added Pierce. "It's a make-or-miss league, we had our opportunities down the stretch, they played with a lot of energy, a lot of pride with their backs against the wall and won a close one."
So the Celtics squandered a golden opportunity to rest up in advance of a potential second round appearance. Chances are they will close out the series on Thursday at the Garden, but with Philadelphia losing their Game 5 chance at sending the Bulls home for the summer, the Celtics missed out on a great chance to rest up their injured players while their next opponent had, at least, one more game to play.
Instead of some rest and relaxation, the elders in green have to worry about at least one more game with these pesky Hawks.


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The California State University is a leader in providing access to quality education. With 23 campuses statewide, the CSU is:
The CSU's campuses are committed to excellence, diversity and innovation, and the CSU's faculty and staff have earned national and international recognition for their academic achievements and service to community. The value of the CSU is greater than the total impact of its spending—the CSU's campuses provide hundreds of thousands of job-ready graduates each year who contribute significantly to California and its economy.


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Craig: "Well figgle my newtons!"
Marie: "What does that mean?"
Craig: "I don't know."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
and streudel will fly out of my nose and yodel.
I don't know what it means either but I'm sure gonna use it!
Fig Newtons : A term for marijuana.
thus figgle my newtons = to smoke a joint.
And that's just the polite version; the other meanings are definitely NSFW ;-)
Are Marie and Craig the twins? That is too funny?
My youngest told the oldest once: "That was diabetic!" instead of pathetic.
Growing up, my youngest brother made up an insulting name that he called people (anyone) that ticked him off. Pumos (pronounced puh-mohce) My grandfather would just laugh at him. He claims no knowledge of any such name creation.
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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Jamie Rees and the Crimson have only allowed nine goals this fall (Gil Talbot).
The Game:
The Crimson men's soccer team continues its Ivy League play as Harvard travels to Ithaca, N.Y., to take on Cornell Saturday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m.
Harvard heads into the game 2-6-1 overall and 0-1-0 in league play, while the Big Red stands at 5-1-3 on the season and 1-0-0 in league play.
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Live statistics will be available for Saturday's contest.
The Matchup:
Harvard and Cornell men's soccer have been competing with each other since 1907 and have played every year since 1955. In the last five matches against Cornell, Harvard has not lost a match to the Big Red dating back to October 7, 2006. Last season, the Crimson remained in a deadlock with the Big Red after two overtime periods in a 1-1 draw. Historically, the all-time series lead is in favor of Harvard with an advantage of 37-20-15 over Cornell.
About Harvard:
The Crimson are coming off consecutive losses against archrival Yale (Oct. 1), 1-0, and a local rival Boston University (Sept. 28), 2-1. Offensively, forward Brian Rogers, leads Harvard with two goals in eight games played. Scott Prozeller and Zack Wolfenzon have also scored goals for the Crimson.
Goalkeepers Austin Harms and Brett Conrad have each started multiple games for the Crimson. Harms stands at 2-4-0 with two shutouts and a 0.91 goals-against average. He has also made 19 saves on the year. Conrad is 0-2-1 with a 1.10 goals-against mark with nine saves this season.
Opponents are outscoring the Crimson, 9-4, and have an edge in corner kicks, 46-27.
About Cornell:
The Big Red have now extended their unbeaten streak to eight games with a dramatic 1-0 finish at Penn in regulation (Sept. 26) and a 1-1 draw at St. Bonaventure (Oct. 1).
Cornell holds the conference lead in goals against average with 0.67 goals in 870 minutes of play. This is led by goalkeeper Rick Pflasterer, who has five clean sheets in nine games played.
Daniel Haber (4-3-11) and Patrick Slogic (2-2-6) command the Big Red offense that has scored 15 goals during the 2011 campaign. In addition, Cornell is overwhelming their opponents in shots, 159-76, and corners, 61-32.
One More:
With 18 shutouts in his career, Austin Harms remains just one clean sheet away from tying Chris Johnson '06 (19) for the Harvard program record. The junior from Corona del Mar, Calif. has two shutouts this season against Northeastern, 1-0, and Massachusetts, 1-0. Harms is also sixth in program history with 158 saves, 23 shy from tying Steve Kidder '74 (177).
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Harvard has not allowed more than two goals dating back to Oct. 30, 2010 at Dartmouth. During the 2011 campaign, the Crimson averages just 1.0 goals surrendered per game. Overall, the Crimson has three clean sheets on the season, which is third in the Ivy League.
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If you built a time machine and forced Alexander the Great's army to fight Genghis Khan's, who would win? The answer: It's not even close. A thousand years separate those two forces, and they include a few striking technological achievements.
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Over at Slate's Quora blog, they break down the bloodshed, and it comes down to the invention of steel, better saddles, and gunpowder. Some salient quotes:
In Alexander the Great's time, steel was either unheard of or incredibly rare. (It's disputed.) In Genghis Khan's time, it was mass-produced by the ton to arm and armor entire armies...
Riding a horse without a solid saddle means all of your weight is on the animals' back. With a solid saddle, the weight of the rider is distributed over a larger area to the horse's flanks...
At this point in time, Chinese soldiers made use of flame throwers, shrapnel bombs, and breech-loading guns. At the height of Genghis Khan's reign, he had vanquished the northern Chinese Jin dynasty and absorbed their heavy cavalry and gunpowder armed infantry into his forces.
In other words, it's not even close. You have one army with steel weapons, good armor and flamethrowers, and the other army fighting with flimsy weapons and basically wearing no protection. The whole thing is a fascinating read. [Slate]


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I still have dead cattails standing from last year. Should I cut them down?
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It seems not even the harsh winter winds and giant piles of snow are a match for cattails growing around your pond. After a much awaited spring thaw you may still see dead cattail reeds standing tall for all to see. Nobody wants an abundance of aquatic weeds overtaking their pond so will managing those existing cattails help you maintain your pond this season?
Cattails left in your pond throughout the season will begin to go into a state of dormancy as we head into winter. While the reed or stalk of the cattail browns out and dies the rhizome, or roots, will become inactive underground until next season. At this time the dead stalks remaining above ground will begin to decompose and add muck to the pond if not removed. To remove these dead cattails from your pond you will want to use management tools like the Weed Cutter to cut through tough cattail reeds with ease and then use the Pond Rake to rake them away from the pond. Raking this debris out of the pond before it decays and turns into muck will save you the hassle of rampant algae blooms and weed growth later in the season. If you do notice an abundance of submerged debris and muck in your pond you can start using MuckAway™ or PondClear™ bacteria to help clean the pond once your water temperatures are stably around 50 degrees.
With old stalks cleared from the pond it will be easier to address any new growth that may begin in the spring. Once the cattails begin to show signs of new growth of at least 18" you can begin further treatment. To control active cattails use products like the Shoreline Defense® & Treatment Booster™ PLUS Combo as it is absorbed by the cattail reed and delivered directly to the rhizome killing the entire plant. Once the cattail reed has become inactive and brown it will no longer act like a transport system for chemical treatments rendering them ineffective and these stalks can be cut down as well.
Not all cattail growth is bad and many pond owners use cattails to provide shade for their pond, privacy, prevent soil erosion, create fish habitat and some people even cook and eat them. If you choose to leave areas of your pond more natural make sure you mark boundaries along your shoreline to ensure you can monitor the spread of your cattails and control them as necessary.
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Corporate America may be getting ready to share a bigger chunk of its record profits with investors, who lately have been getting a record-low piece of the pie.
Dividend payouts already are rising and the total dollar amount by S&P 500 companies could reach a record highthis year. Standard and Poor's analysts expect the dividend payout for the S&P 500 to surpass the record $247.9 billion paid out in 2008.
Yet, payout ratios—or the percentage of earnings paid out as dividends—are currently at a record low 27 percent. Wells Fargo analysts argue in a note that there could be a long-term opportunity in dividend paying stocks. Historically, payout ratios have averaged 53 percent.
"I think there's a change in investor appetite for risk, and that in the last couple of years that has resulted in better performance for dividend paying stocks...to the extent dividends are being paid. There are also plenty of companies choosing to do share buybacks," said Gina Martin Adams, Wells Fargo institutional equities strategist.
Dividends have provided the bulk of return to long-term shareholders for quite a while, and companies are just beginning to catch on to the fact that investors are seeking dividend-paying stocks and will reward them, according to Adams.
While the price return on the S&P 500 since 2001 has been a stagnant 2.3 percent, the total return, including dividends, is 26.4 percent, the Wells Fargo analysts note. S&P 500 dividend payers averaged a price return of 0.6 percent and total return of 3 percent, relative to a negative return for non payers of 5.7 percent.
Whether companies will pay out a whole lot more has yet to be seen.
"I still think it's kind of mixed," said Adams. "To the extent that dividend paying stocks perform better and corporates are beginning to recognize that long-term growth prospects are stable...It's almost the best of all worlds because investors are going to reward them for paying out cash."
She added: "I do think they are getting ready to step up and share more. What's happening now is they are dipping a toe in the water."
Adams said the investor mentality has shifted as sources of yield have dried up in the current record low interest rate environment. Two of the top 10 ETFs with the biggest inflows in 2011 were dividend stock ETFs—SPDR S&P Dividend ETF and Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF.
The hunt for yield—and dividends—is also a very different tactic from that favored by investors in the not-too-distant past.
"In the 1990s, they were cast in a negative tone," Adams said. "Investors sometimes thought dividends were evidence the company didn't have tremendous long-term growth prospects, but it seems now that dividends are highly valued, and it's taking time for companies to recognize that."
Bespoke Investment Group co-founder Paul Hickey said already this year, there seems to be an increase in dividend raises already, as companies become more confident.
"Compared to the last three years, I think we're going to see much more in the way of dividend raises," Hickey said. "There's more clarity out there. There's a general view that the worst is behind us. Most people would think that companies have a little bit more visibility now. With increased visibility, they'll be more likely to part with some of their cash."
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Hunting for Yield
There are a variety of strategies to play dividends. Wells Fargo analysts note that one way is through the S&P 500 "artistocrats," or dividend payers with long-term track records of increasing payouts. These stocks returned 6.4 percent beyond the index return over the past three years.
Adams said another way is to look at industries that have been slow to declare payouts but may be ready to change. She notes compared to other sectors—technology, health care and consumer discretionary—have been the stingiest when it comes to dividends.
"Technology and health care are paying more on average than they have in the last 10 years," she said. "They are recognizing the trend that they do have too much cash and aren't deploying it."
Standard and Poor's index analyst Howard Silverblatt said that Cisco'sdecision to pay a dividend last year for the first time was a major turn for technology companies. It made for the largest dividend initiation ever, with a $1.5 billion annual payout, which it has since raised. There is now speculation that Applemay share some of its giant cash horde with investors.
"In technology and health care, they are holding a lot of the cash overseas becuse of taxation. There is also a poltical concern to this," Adams said.
Another strategy Adams recommends is to look at the highest yielders in the S&P index. There are 13 companiesin the S&P 500 with better yields than the average corporate credit yield of companies with similar ratings. (see list below) There are also 227 companies in the S&P 500 that have a higher yield than the 10-year Treasury.
Some companies also choose to do stock buybacks instead. "It's a very short-term impact. Media comes to mind as an industry that focused on share buybacks rather than dividend payments," she said.
She likened corporate buybacks to 'casual dating,' versus the 'long-term commitment' companies make when they pay their investors quarterly dividends.
Dividend Catch Up
The dividend rate, or the payout rate by S&P 500 companies, hit an all-time high, in terms of cash paid out, in June 2008, but it fell sharply by August 2009 as the recession caused companies to clamp down on capital outlays.
It is now up 31.8 percent since then, but still lags the 2008 level by about 2.5 percent, according to Standard and Poor's data.
For all of last year, S&P 500 companies paid out a total $241 billion, versus the $247.9 billion they gave shareholders in 2008.
Standard and Poor's Silverblatt, senior index analyst for Standard and Poor's indexes, expects the total rate paid out by S&P 500 companies to come in at a record this year. "I'm looking for $263 billion by the time this year is over," he said.
Uncertainty about tax law changes, and the pending expiration of the Bush tax cuts, have probably also impacted corporate decisions on payouts. Adams said if the taxation of dividends is raised above the capital gains tax rate, "the dividend theme could die on the vine."
On Monday, President Obama proposed raising the tax on dividends for households making more than $250,000 to a maximum of nearly 40 percent next year, the highest tax rate set to take effect in 2013.
Obama also proposed raising the current 15 percent long-term capital gains tax rate to 20 percent for the wealthy. He had earlier also sought to set a 20 percent tax on dividends.
Who Pays What
Financials were responsible for more than 31 percent of the S&P 500 payouts in 2007, and they provided just 11.8 percent of the payout in 2011.
Consumer staples in 2011 were the biggest contributor, providing 15.5 percent of the total S&P 500 payout, while technology, seen as an underachiever when it comes to dividends, provided a surprising 10.4 percent of the total last year, according to Silverblatt.
The S&P 500 is currently yielding 2.09 percent but if stocks are removed that don't pay dividends, the average yield of the remaining 396 issues averages 2.46 percent, says Silverblatt. He said the historic yield, going back to the 1930s, is 3.76 percent and the average for the last decade was 1.9 percent.
"From 1962 to currently, the S&P dividend yield dividend by the 10-year yield was 43 percent, less than half," Silverblatt said. Now with the 10-year yielding less than 2 percent, the yield is 7 percent higher, he notes.
So far this year, 68 companies in the S&P 500 have announced dividend actions, with 66 increasing their payout rate and two companies initiating dividends, according to Standard and Poor's.
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Millions of pieces of plastic – most smaller than half an inch – float throughout the oceans. They are invisible to satellites, and except on very calm days you won't even see them from the deck of a sailboat. The only way to know how much junk is out there is to tow a fine net through the water.
Scientists have gathered data from 22 years of surface net tows to map the North Atlantic garbage patch and its change over time, creating the most accurate picture yet of any pelagic plastic patch on earth.
The data were gathered by thousands of undergraduates aboard the Sea Education Association (SEA) sailing semester, who hand-picked, counted and measured more than 64,000 pieces of plastic from 6,000 net tows between 1986 to 2008.
"The highest concentrations that we observe in the North Atlantic garbage patch are comparable to that of the North Pacific, but we don't have enough data about the size of the North Pacific one to say whether they are comparable in size," said oceanographer Kara Law of SEA, lead author of the study published August 19 in Science.
"As far as I'm aware this is the most complete and long term data set for little bits of trash floating in the ocean," said oceanographer Miriam Goldstein of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "It is hard to get long term data sets of the ocean, there aren't many programs that do it, and measure it the same way from year to year so you can compare the changes over time."
The highest concentrations of plastic were found roughly from the latitude of Virginia to the latitude of Cuba. While they were able to clearly define the north and south boundaries of the patch, the cruise tracks didn't venture far enough east to find the eastern boundary. They estimate the average concentration of plastic in this area is about 4,000 pieces per square mile, though it is as high as 250,000 pieces per square mile in some places.
To determine where the plastic is coming from, researchers used data from more than 1,600 satellite-tracked drifting buoys deployed between 1989 and 2009 to map surface currents in the region. More than 100 buoys passed through the Atlantic plastic region, most originating from the eastern seaboard. In most cases, the buoys reached the plastic patch in less than 60 days.
Plastic accumulated in regions called gyres, where currents circle and push water toward the center, trapping the floating bits. There are five major gyres in the the world, one in each major ocean.
To estimate the range and highest accumulation of plastic in the North Atlantic and elsewhere, the research team created a computer model to simulate where plastic would go over time if it originally had been distributed evenly across the planet (image above).
"We saw very high concentrations of plastic in the model in the Atlantic in the same places we observed the plastic directly," Law said. She hopes the computer model will help target future efforts to map plastic in the oceans.
One surprising conclusion of the study found the concentration of plastic in the North Atlantic has remained fairly steady during the past 22 years despite a five-fold increase in global plastic production and a four-fold increase in the amount of plastic the United States discards.
"If you are increasing the amount you put in, you'd theoretically be seeing more over time," said Law. "It makes you ask other questions about the fact that the plastic might be sinking out. I'm also fairly certain that the pieces are breaking down into pieces that are smaller than the 335 micron (0.01 inch) size of our net."
Optimistically, the study found a 1991 program by the Environmental Protection Agency to recapture industrial plastic pellets led to a significant decrease in the average number of pellets found in the Atlantic. The pellets account for less than 10 percent of the plastic out there, but the finding suggests efforts to reduce plastic waste on land can be effective.
No one knows how long plastic stays in the ocean or where most of it ultimately will end up. Sea animals such as birds and turtles often consume plastic, sometimes carrying it to land. Some likely will sink over time or wash up on shore.
"Cleaning up what is out there is really not feasible, and would likely cause as much harm as good because of all the other small creatures in the ocean that would get filtered out too," said Law. "So what's left is hoping that nature break this plastic down over hundreds of years or millenia."
"Ultimately, we need to prevent adding to what is out there," she added.
See Also:
- Chemical From Plastic Water Bottles Found Throughout Oceans
- Plastic Boat: The Building of a High-Tech Eco-Stunt
- Toxic Soup: Plastics Could Be Leaching Chemicals Into Ocean
- Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months
- California Sea Otters Mysteriously Declining Despite Protection
- Rising Ocean Acidity Could Disorient Fish
Images: 1) Skye Moret/SEA. 2) Image courtesy of Science/AAAS. 3) Nikolai Maximenko/ University of Hawii. 4) Flickr/angrysunbird.
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Cheney Role in CIA Secrecy Questioned
He Reportedly Ordered Information Withheld From Congress
By JOHN HENDREN and JONATHAN KARL, ABC News Internet Ventures
WASHINGTON, July 11, 2009—
A member of the House Intelligence Committee told ABC News Congress was "systematically misled" about secret counterterrorism programs under the Bush administration, amid reports that Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information from Congress.
The House Intelligence Committee had already begun gathering information for an investigation of the agency.
"The congress has been systematically misled," intelligence panel member Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., told ABC News. "I know I've been lied to."
According to a report in The New York Times, CIA Director Leon Panetta told congressional leaders that the CIA withheld information on a still-secret counterterrorism project under direct orders from Cheney.
The Associated Press, citing what it called officials with direct knowledge of the matter, also reported that eight years ago Cheney directed the CIA not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that Panetta terminated in June.
ABC News has learned that the counterterrorism program was only in the planning and training stages, leaving open the question of whether Congress was required to be informed under the National Security Act.
"The question was, or is, was it a program that had to be revealed to the Congress?" former CIA official Michael Scheuer told ABC News.
As criticism of the Bush administration's intelligence-gathering methods has mounted, Cheney has taken to the airwaves to defend them. Now, news of Cheney's role will likely increase calls for an investigation -- and for Cheney to explain his own role.
"This is certainly one example of an investigation that we will have into the CIA persistently lying to the Congress," Schakowsky told ABC News earlier this week.
The news comes after a new report to congress found that a secret warrantless wiretapping program produced "limited" intelligence and was carried out with "extraordinary and inappropriate" secrecy.
And on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union and Physicians for Human Rights urged the Justice Department to launch a probe of an alleged massacre in 2002 in Afghanistan by warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who was on the CIA's payroll.
Intelligence officials say on Capitol Hill, it's now open season on the agency.
"What we're seeing here is really the politicization of National Defense," Scheuer said. "Is that really the road we want to go down now?"
The growing spat between congress and intelligence agencies heated up in May, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said "The CIA was misleading the Congress" on such interrogation methods as water-boarding, a centuries-old mock drowning technique.
Some Republicans, hoping to show that Pelosi wrongly accused the agency of failing to inform her of those methods, are now joining the call for investigations.
"Why after the speaker says I've been lied to consistently over a period of years, why haven't there been hearings?" Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., told ABC News.
A former CIA official told ABC News that after 2006 the agency was under no restriction to withhold information about the project. Nevertheless, a House Intelligence Committee member said, information about the ultra-secret program was deliberately withheld, on orders.
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Fame High: When Tomorrow's Young Stars Go to Make the Grade--Plays one night: Sunday, November 11, 7:15 PM, Shattuck Theaters
At the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), "all the school's a stage." A proving ground for over-achievers and multi-taskers, LACHSA challenges a select community of teens to excel academically — researching essays, passing grueling tests — while leading parallel lives, honing their talents as singers, dancers, and actors. And the ground rules are clear: you may play piano like Thelonius Monk, but you aren't going to graduate if you can't make the grade in algebra.
Directed by Academy Award nominee (and Bay Area filmmaker) Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Fame High follows the inevitable CompDoc formula, focusing on the challenges facing four charismatic individuals as they try to follow in the footsteps of previous LACHSA grads like singer Josh Grobin, actors Jenna Ellman and Corbin Bleu, and Matt Rushing, who is now a principal dancer with Alvin Ailey's American Dance theater.
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Ruby is a red-haired scamp whose actor-dad is right by her side cheering her on and driving her to auditions.
Zak is an earnest young pianist who suffers under the thumb of his domineering father who is determined to push his son to succeed as a jazz musician—whether he wants it or not.
Brittany has the blond hair to go with the name but she's tall and long on talent, with a powerful voice and a songwriter's gift. When her drive to gain performing experience at local clubs (the LASHSA version of playing hooky), her mother (who has left the family behind in Wisconsin to support Brittany) is there to apply the reins and pass the Kleenex when emotions burst.
And, finally, there's Grace Song, a beautiful and nimble young dancer whose strict Korean-American parents demand nothing short of success—and will not accept the idea that their daughter might be longing for a boyfriend.
The kids are engaging and the stories are compelling. If there is an inherent problem with Fame High, it is simply the growing familiarity of the Compdoc format. After films like Mad Hot Ballroom and last year's First Position, two excellent films that helped define the CompDoc genre, it is no longer a surprise when a filmmaker unveils the latest pack of youngsters bless with enormous talent, laser-like drive, and the occasional soul-crushing abyss of self-doubt.
Fame High's chosen few do well: Zak overcomes an academic set-back, Ruby is on her way to a stage career, Brittany moves to London to work with Paul McCartney, and Grace fulfills her parent's dream when she is accepted at Julliard School of Dance.


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Holler news: Isabel kisses Hungrytown
Thursday, September 18, 2003 awoke gray and sullen. The news had been full of it, weather channels tracking pictures of a pleasant whirlpool of white clouds swirling over warm Atlantic waters for weeks, singing songs of 140... 160 mph winds. The whirlpool has grown to cover an area larger than Colorado.
Hurricane Isabel is preparing to pay Hungrytown, Albemarle County, a visit.
The gray builds gradually, imperceptibly: no rush, the eye of the storm isn't coming through until 2am Friday. I caulk the chimney; Polly creates an indoor jungle of elephant ears, begonias, ferns, figs, oversized rubber tree plants, that she wants to protect. Anything that can blow or move gets stashed.
The air hangs warm, heavy, waiting. By lunch, the trees are sighing gently, mournfully, heavy leaves twisting listlessly in the beginning breeze. What strikes me is how slow, ponderous, and inevitable the storm's approach seems– like the Titanic going down.
The sky sits, a great gray, threatening tank. There should be wind, thunder, lightning, 10 minutes of rain, and be done with it... A little tail end rainbow for good measure! But no, this is different. An unbelievably massive weight of water, vast quantities of the tropical Atlantic, is suspended in the air above us, and, as the mighty winds supporting this airborne sea tire from rubbing against our mountain ridges, it's going to finally obey the law of gravity and fall.
By 2pm, the trees are giving fair warning that something is wrong. My five o'clock clients call and says they think they can make it to Covesville if I can. No problem– except for a mile of forest with overarching, crying trees. The wind can't be that bad. The forecast says it will have slowed down to less than 50 mph.
Spray from that giant suspended ocean wave cools my face as I throw the chainsaw in the back of the Subaru. The mountains above our hollow are adding a low moaning note to the leaves' anxious song. Poplars sway gracefully at the field's edge like giant chorus lines. Further back in the woods, oaks stand strong, rigid, full leaved and top heavy. I'm glad we've parked the cars in the middle of the field, as far as possible from the trees, in case one decides to "lay down on the job."
It's beginning to get exciting, but I head out at 4:30. A mixture of rain and small twigs spatters my head as I tilt an old umbrella uselessly into the wind and make a run for the car. Through the steady surf roar of the mountains, I am vaguely aware of a little red light in my mind flashing, "This is stupid!"
"Naa!, it's only a mile of woods. The road's in the valley, sheltered from the wind, and the eye of the storm is 10 hours away. Nothing is really going to happen for a good while yet. Go for it!"
The road lies dark in the woods' gloom, tattered with leaves, sticks, and small branches. Great trees loom and sway above me. Half way through, a foot-thick dead white oak blocks my path. No problem, except the saw won't start. The half rotten tree has sheared at the stump and partially broken again 10 feet up.
Before I can attach rope to tree and trailer hitch, a car rolls up from the town side. He has a dull little power saw that eventually works, and I don't have to endanger my transmission after all. The woods attack us with hails of wet twigs as we roll a section of trunk as big as a car off the road.
The guy's wife cries over the mountain roar, "I think I heard another one fall..." They fly homeward. A hundred yards further on, in the path they just crossed, a dead oak snag two feet thick has slammed across the road. Five minutes until appointment time, and the wind is still rising... It's time to go home!
My answering machine is blinking: "We're having trouble getting out of our driveway. Richard's getting the power saw running. Call if you want to cancel..."
By 5:15, gray misty sheets of the falling ocean have obliterated all sight of the mountains above our hollow, but their great roaring battle with the wind continues to build. The din of rain on our tin roof is punctuated by the machine gun rattle of great green walnuts battering the metal shop roof.
Suddenly, an express train blast tears down towards us; rain goes horizontal; tulip trees lie over, vibrating leaves screaming in protest. Creak..rip...crash! Something big went! There's no way not to get wet, so I don swimming trunks and venture into the tumult. The driveway through the woods behind our cabin no longer exists, having been erased by the fifty foot crown of a big red oak. A Damson plum and Lodi apple trees have abandoned the fight in the back yard. I fly back to cover.
By 5:30 the power is gone. Towels soak up water dribbling across the fireplace hearth. With big gusts, the chimney tones a great bass pipe organ note. Overhanging eaves normally protect our cabin, but horizontal rain has a way of finding its way through chinked walls. We wring sponges and collect drips around window ledges. We still have drinking water, thanks to our faithful spring and gravity system.
Polly talks about freeing up the old wood cook stove we use for storage, but we settle for a cold supper. The small, warm glow of kerosene lamp and candles somehow balances the giant forces battling outside our door. I play quiet banjo tunes and settle for an early bedtime.
The storm howls on forever. Through the night, I wring sponges and check for flooding. By Friday morning it's mostly over, the roar of the wind replaced by the roar of raging streams, swollen by eight inches of ocean dropping on us in as many hours. Good neighbor David and his son, Daniel, help my nephew, Adam, and me chainsaw a tunnel through the crown of the fallen oak. By the time we've escaped, other neighbors have opened up the mile of fallen destruction through the woods. Later, VDOT rebuilds the road washouts with riprap and crush– and then they run. I'm glad I didn't keep that appointment.
Three days later, the electric hum of civilization returns. I'm eating a lot of smoothies made of thawed frozen peaches and trying to finish getting the dozer running. Can't let all those fallen trees go to waste.


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U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigates accident as lawmakers, environmentalists call for answers.
The dangerous chemical plume beginning on Jan. 9 that spoiled the water supply for 300,000 people in West Virginia has prompted an array of responses in Washington, including rushing emergency supplies to the state, a field visit from specialized investigators and lawmakers calling for hearings on environmental regulations.
As officials told citizens Tuesday in the Charleston, West Va. area that the water was safe again, multiple calls were heard for probes into state and federal regulatory practices that failed to prevent the coal company Freedom Industries from accidentally releasing the chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol from a storage tank into the Elk River.
President Obama declared the nine affected counties a disaster area on Jan. 10, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency dispatched water trucks and three million liters of bottled water from distribution centers near Charleston, as well as from Maryland and Philadelphia.
On Jan. 13, an investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an independent, nonregulatory agency, arrived in Charleston. "This incident continues to impact the people of West Virginia," said CSB Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso. "Our goal is to find out what happened to allow a leak of such magnitude to occur and to ensure that the proper safeguards are in place to prevent a similar incident from occurring."
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., on Jan. 14 wrote to the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requesting a comprehensive study into the long-term public health risks associated with crude 4-methylcyclohexane methanol.
"I am making this request of two separate agencies with the goal that no stone will go unturned, and no jurisdictional confusion will leave any key question unanswered," wrote Rockefeller, who urged Senate colleagues to boost fiscal 2014 funding for the U.S. Chemical Board. A 2013 report from the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity found that the Chemical Board is understaffed and underfunded to the point where its investigations remain open for too long.
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, called for hearings, as did Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
EPA gave Government Executive a statement on Wednesday saying, "We continue to work closely with other federal and state agencies in West Virginia as they begin implementing a plan for getting the water system back on-line. As those efforts are already underway, EPA is also examining state and federal response authorities associated with the incident to determine next steps and the environmental laws and regulations applicable to the facility."
State and national environmental groups said the disaster demonstrates the need for stronger public protections through regulation. "The West Virginia chemical spill that has poisoned the water supply for hundreds of thousands of people is the latest in a series of environmental and safety disasters related to shortcomings in federal and state oversight that have often been driven by vociferous, industry-funded anti-regulatory campaigns," said the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards in a statement. "It's time to reform our chemical safety laws -- both at the state and federal levels -- to prevent the next dangerous accident or spill."
Rick Hind, legislative director for Greenpeace and a member of the nonprofit Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, said the spill "exposes a host of fatal safety gaps in our regulatory program" that is built around the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act.
"In many cases, the Obama administration has authority to close these gaps," Hind said. "In other cases, especially TSCA, Congress will need to overhaul existing laws" to replace the current "patchwork" of risk-management systems, he said. "Otherwise we will continue to gamble with the lives of innocent people and businesses who bear the cost of inherently dangerous chemicals and/or processes."


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This seed gives you the opportunity to loot through nine different chests in one desert. There are two separate desert temples with four chests each, and then you can find a village with a blacksmith shop. The chest in the blacksmith shop even contains a diamond to make the deal sweeter.
Minecraft PE 1.0.0 Seeds [Infinite]
Three Neighbors [2 Villages, 1 Witch's Hut, 3 Diamonds] – MCPE 1.0
This seed has three neighboring structures within walking distance of each other. The first is a village you spawn right in front of. It has a blacksmith shop that will give you the three diamonds right off the bat. Then you can travel one direction for the second village with another blacksmith shop or in the other direction for a swamp with a witch's hut.
Double the Villages, Double the Diamonds [And a Temple] – MCPE 1.0
This seed starts by spawning you next to a village with a blacksmith shop. Just by looting the chest, you can start out with two diamonds. Then a short distance away you can find a second village also with a blacksmith shop. There you can double your diamonds. To top it off, right next to the second village sits a temple to add to your pile of treasure.
Conjoined Temples [Diamonds, Dungeon] – MCPE 1.0
This seed is all about the treasure you can get near the spawn point. The first chests to loot are in a dungeon to the right of where you spawn. Then you can find eight more chests in the desert under two conjoined temples. Yes, conjoined. These two desert temples spawned so near each other, they're actually joined together. To make it even better, one of these temples contains diamonds.
Mesa and More [2 Villages, Temple, Savanna M] – MCPE 1.0
This seed will feel like a never ending jackpot with a mix of great biomes and a variety of generated structures. When you spawn you're by a savanna village with a blacksmith. A short distance away you can find some cool savanna mountains. Then if you walk to the north you'll come across a mesa biome with a second village and a desert temple around its edges.


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Blumenthal: Beware Black Friday 'tricks and traps'
HARTFORD (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is warning of the "tricks and traps" some advertisers use to try to lure consumers into making purchases on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
The Connecticut Democrat has scheduled a Friday morning news conference at his Hartford office to highlight what he calls laughable, ludicrous and deceptive ads that consumers should be on the lookout for as the holiday shopping season begins.
He says tricks include overly broad advertisements, hidden fees when it's time to check out and emailed coupons that hide the fine print in links to other websites.
Blumenthal, who served previously as state attorney general, says consumers should always read the fine print while they do their holiday shopping.
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is typically the busiest shopping day of the year.


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Eric Jaffe
Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Taras Grescoe spends most of his new book, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, guiding readers on a world tour of public transit. We travel the subway tunnels of New York, the Art Nouveau métro entrances of Paris, the rapid-bus lanes of Bogotá, the endless bike infrastructure of Copenhagen. At each stop Grescoe blends present-day observations with a brief history and some expert analysis — delivered by policy wonks and politicians alike — on the future of travel within the city.
"This book is, in part, the story of a bad idea: the notion that our metropolises should be shaped by the needs of cars, rather than people," he writes.
Grescoe recently took a break from his platform hopping to give Atlantic Cities readers a view from his strap. "I've really focused on the urban experience in my travels," he says. And away we go.
What compelled you to write a whole book about urban transportation?
I've been exploring cities around the world for almost 20 years. I spend a lot time getting oriented to cities, and walking around cities, and exploring them by public transit. When you do that, you realize that cities are formed, to a certain extent — not inevitably, but often — by their transportation systems. I wanted to draw on my experience of urban exploring and put together a book that looked at which cities were coping best with congestion and sprawl, and which were using transit to escape from those things.
The book is as much about cars and cities as it is about public transit.
I see a lot of problems facing cities going down the road in terms of highways, cars, and sprawl. There's a certain point where I was thinking of writing just a black book of the automobile, which involved the negative impacts they have on cities. But it occurred to me that you can take a positive approach to cities too. Really the way out of the negative is the positive of public transit.
On those positive experiences, which city comes closest to perfection in terms of the way it handles transportation?
The city that blew my mind was Copenhagen. I hesitated to include it because I wasn't really thinking of the bicycle as a form of mass transit when I put together the idea for this book. When you go there you realize that 36 percent of people get to school or work everyday by bicycle. They've used extensive infrastructure to create this mass transit system. They've also got a pretty good metro system that's getting even bigger. They're building a circle line. And railways that bring you to just about everywhere in Europe. For me Copenhagen is the place that actually pulls off multi-modal transit the best.
At the other end of the spectrum, you seem to be the most bleak about Phoenix.
Well, they're trying. They bought themselves $1.4 billion worth of light rail. That's fantastic that they made the effort, but in my experience they spend most of their time rumbling past parking lots and cacti and tumbleweeds. The city's density is just too low for this to be an appropriate form of transit. I think the key is that Phoenix never really had a dense city center. It was entirely built around the automobile. You try to slap extensive transit on a city like that, it's not going to have convincing results. And you can see that in the ridership. There's only about 40,000 people using it a day, which New York's Lexington line handles every 15 minutes.
If you had to identify a single theme that runs through the successful transit systems you've visited, what would it be?
Not getting obsessed with technology. The shiniest and sexiest — the glamour of the system. Too many people want to slap a revised streetcar into an old neighborhood, or a really nice light rail into their city, when what you really need to be thinking about it is mobility. Which is why I went to Bogotá to look at the bus-rapid transit system. I have a prejudice against buses, just because I know them in North America, and they tend to be the slowest things on the road. But when you set up a bus-rapid transit system like Bogota's, with pre-payment, with dedicated lanes, which operates like a subway on the street, all of the sudden you've matched a transportation mode to urban form.
You don't exactly hide your grudge against cars and sprawl. What would you want a car-loving suburbanite to walk away from this book thinking?
I don't want to come off as an anti-sprawl, anti-car zealot. There's times in our lives when we'll all use automobiles. There are times in our lives when suburbs feel like the right choice. But what I want people to think about is the impact that automobiles have had on public space in our cities, and look at what's happening in Japan and Northern Europe, where car use has declined for a long time. I'm making the argument that among younger people in their twenties, transit is becoming less of a loser's option. It's becoming more normalized.
What will transport in the most successful cities look like in 20, 50 years?
The cities that have been working on this for a long time — like Paris, like Tokyo, like New York — never really gave up on transit. They had their ups and downs but they continued expanding networks. At this point, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, etc., the transit matches the anywhere-to-anywhere mobility of the automobile. You really don't need a car to live and thrive in those cities.
Whenever you think about the future of oil prices heading upward — and I'm not sure electric cars are the solution given the fact that so much electricity generated comes from burning coal — I think the future is improved transit networks and more bus-rapid transit. What I want is people not to shy away from the bus. Well-timed feeder buses feeding heavy rail and light rail, which is the solution they've found in a lot of mid-sized European cities. And what I really hope for is people riding more bicycles.
You've been to lots of cities over the years. What's the first thing you do when you visit a new one?
Buy a Metro card. I figure out where to get tokens. I look at a subway map and almost always stay at a hotel on a trunk line so I can discover a city by transit. Even Los Angeles, I stayed downtown at the Biltmore. I rented a car for a little while, but I ended up discovering a whole different side of the city because I was in proximity to the Los Angeles subway, which a lot of people don't know exists.
In her re-election campaign, Mayor Anne Hidalgo says that every Paris resident should be able to meet their essential needs within a short walk or bike ride.
If you misplace your phone or wallet in Tokyo, chances are very good that you'll get it back. Here's why.
A short film reveals the inner workings of Barcelona's celebrated—and controversial—street revamps.
In his 2021 budget request, President Trump sends mixed messages about federal funding for highways, bridges, and railways. Sound familiar?
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I have to create a rehearsal schedule for a play and I'm wondering if there's a web app that would help me quickly determine when different combinations of people are all free.
I have seen Doodle, but I don't think it will work, because I would be having to input the schedules myself because most of the people aren't spending a lot of time online. And without the pro version I'd need to make an account or each of them, right?
Google Calendar has some ability to do this if I make a whole bunch of calendars for everyone.
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PixelJunk Lifelike
PixelJunk Lifelike renamed to PixelJunk 4am
Q-Games has announced its renamed PixelJunk Lifelike, dropping the Lifelike subtitle for 4am. Bayion, collaborator on the game, said the reason for the name switch is because it "represents the exact mood and feeling we've captured. 4am is that deep night hour. In clubs, the music drifts to a new level entering a deepened state […]
PixelJunk Lifelike headlines
Sony E3 replay videos: Vita, Twisted Metal, PixelJunk Lifelike
The PS Blog closed out its week with three more E3 replay videos, and we have posted each one below for you with an informative blurb.
Q-Games to showcase three titles at E3
Pixeljunk series developer Q-Games has confirmed via Twitter it will be showing three titles at E3 this year.
PixelJunk Lifelike: Teaser video shows Q-Games and Baiyon playing in a forest
In the TGS teaser video posted below the break, Q-Games' Omar Cornut and musician Baiyon play around in a forest for PixelJunk Lifelike.
PixelJunk Lifelike getting TGS debut next month
Q Games' Dylan Cuthbert's revealed we'll get our first look at the studio's new PixelJunk project at TGS next month.