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If you're an Exchange administrator, you have probably heard about the issues caused by Apple's iOS 6.1 on Exchange servers. It seems that screwy calendar code in iOS 6.1 ends up generating tons of transaction logs in Exchange, and can bring CAS servers to its knees.
As an aside, its rather timely that this has come up just after the new Blackberry 10 came out. Coincidence?????? Heh.
The temporary workarounds that MS recommends were to either apply a throttling policy to affected users, or block iOS 6.1 devices completely. Since an all-out block is generally a Bad Thing, throttling policy is the way to go. However, determining who is using iOS 6.1 and applying a throttling policy to them was not provided.
A company I do work for experienced the exact issue. Exchange transaction logs were being generated at a prodigious rate. So, rather than blocking them, we went the throttling route. First, I created a throttling policy called iOS61 and set the ActiveSync throttling to the lowest recommended values:
New-ThrottlingPolicy -Name iOS61 -EASPercentTimeInCAS 10 -EASPercentTimeInAD 10 -EASPercentTimeInMailboxRPC 10Then, I created a short Powershell script to apply the policy to any user with a device using iOS 6.1:
$DeviceList = Get-ActiveSyncDevice -ResultSize Unlimited | Where {$_.DeviceOS -match "iOS 6.1"}The script will likely throw up some warnings about completing the command but not making any changes. This happens because users may have more than one device, and the script tries to update the mailbox for every device it finds. Nothing to be alarmed about.
foreach ($Device in $DeviceList)
$DeviceDN = $Device.DistinguishedName
Set-Mailbox $MBName -ThrottlingPolicy iOS61
Quick and dirty, but gets the job done.
Once Apple comes up with a solution, you can remove the throttling policy like this (assumes the users didn't have a throttling policy before this whole debacle):
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Where {$_.ThrottlingPolicy -eq 'iOS61'} | Set-Mailbox -ThrottlingPolicy $NULL


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News Story
States' Fragile Recovery at Risk
With the national economy picking up and the housing market improving, states are poised in 2013 to finally rebound from the recession's lingering revenue crunch. But continued budget delays in Washington may dampen that prospect. (See Stateline infographic.)
For all the talk about the fiscal cliff, states already know what a free-fall in revenue feels like; they experienced one in the 2008-2009 recession. Back then, Washington bailed the states out, sending billions to help back-fill the massive deficits. Now states face the prospect of digging out of new budget holes created by belt-tightening in Washington.
"We fell off the cliff and we are limping our way back up," says Donald J. Boyd, senior fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany. The latest figures from Rockefeller suggest that state tax collections are back at the levels they reached before the recession. But adjusted for inflation, taxes are still below their 2008 peak.
"We're not yet back where we need to be," says Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers. NASBO's latest survey predicts total general fund revenues will surpass peak pre-recession levels this year for the first time since the onset of the recession. Still, Pattison warns, "money is going to be tight for the foreseeable future, for several years at least, no matter what happens."
Looming Deadlines
See Stateline Infographic: How Federal Funding to States Has Changed. Federal money on average accounts for about a third of state budgets, but the amount varies widely among the states.
Several crucial deadlines looming from Washington will have huge consequences for the budget year that begins July 1 in most states. The deal that Congress and President Obama reached in early January averted the most severe tax increases expected from the fiscal cliff, but put off the question of billion in spending cuts for fiscal 2013 until March 1, a crucial question for states since the federal government provides about 30 percent of their revenue. For some states, that amount is even more (see chart).
And while House Republicans agreed recently to extend U.S. borrowing authority until later this spring, states could still get ensnared in the debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling, the legal limit on how much the United States can borrow. The last time that the U.S. government nearly defaulted, in 2011, five states (Maryland, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia) faced seeing their top credit ratings downgraded because they rely so heavily on federal spending or borrowing. A federal default would have made it more difficult for the states themselves to borrow.
The current set of fiscal deadlines could open broader deficit reduction talks, putting policies important to states on the table. A deficit reduction deal could include major changes in entitlement programs, such as Medicaid, and the tax-free treatment Washington gives to state and local government bonds to help market them.
States are unsure how any of these talks will turn out. "All this uncertainty really puts a crimp on the potential for companies, individuals and states to embark on serious planning for the future," says Sujit M. CanagaRetna, a senior fiscal analyst at the Council of State Governments. "We're lurching from one crisis to another and not having any set plan."
Advocates for smaller government counter that states shouldn't rely so much on money from the federal government in the first place. "Federal bailouts -a.k.a. 'stimulus,' have created a disincentive for the states to pursue spending reforms," says Tad DeHaven, a budget analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in the nation's capital.
Uneven Recovery
While state revenues are gradually recovering from the dramatic recession-period decline, they are still not growing quickly enough to keep pace with Medicaid costs, looming pension bills, and increased expenditures for education and infrastructure.
The recovery has also been uneven. States such as North Dakota and Nebraska have been flush during the recession because of boom times in energy and commodities, while Nevada and Rhode Island still face double-digit unemployment rates and tight budgets, in part because of the housing bust.
|Income Tax Cuts: States to Watch
Provided the hit from Washington this year isn't too great, a group of states including Iowa, Indiana and Florida will spend much of this year debating what to do with budget surpluses. Even California, which every year for the past decade has had to dig out of a multi-billion-dollar deficit hole, now has a budget that is roughly in balance and talk is of surpluses. Governor Jerry Brown's budget assumes a $1 billion surplus by the end of 2013-14, while the state's independent analyst projects a billion surplus in 2014–15. This dramatic turnaround is due in large part to voters approving Governor Brown's temporary tax increase last November.
But revenues are tight and deficits are still showing up in unlikely places. Alaska, which has stashed away $16 billion in reserves, the most of any state, is looking at a possible deficit for the first time since 2005, pegged at $400 million, because of fluctuations in oil prices. Kansas has $700 million less in revenue after a massive income tax cut last year. "We're facing a huge hole," says Kansas State Senator John Vratill, who sits on the chamber's Ways and Means committee.
The hard dip in revenues from reducing the personal income tax in Kansas has not dissuaded Republicans from pressing for similar income tax cuts in other states. Proposals to cut or outright eliminate the income tax are already flaring in Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
Lawmakers in Washington State will be figuring out how to make up a $900 million shortfall in the next biennium while at the same time dealing with a recent court ruling that declared the state's K-12 school funding inadequate. State Representative Ross Hunter, who sits on the Ways and Means panel, estimates the ruling could cost the state $1.5 billion. At least nine other states have school finance challenges working their way through the courts that could affect budgets this year.
In Illinois, Governor Pat Quinn has called the state's pension debt, the country's largest at $95 billion, "our state's own fiscal cliff," but efforts to make sweeping changes failed again in early 2013. Illinois already has the lowest credit rating of any state from Moody's Investors Service and it could go even lower because of the state's pension debt.
And New York and New Jersey, still struggling to recover from Hurricane Sandy, both face $2 billion shortfalls. Congress did not aprove the $60 billion in storm relief states were asking for at the start of the year. The package now seems to be moving forward, but the delay outraged Northeast governors. "This is why people hate Washington, D.C.," New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said when politics prevented a vote on the plan.
With Congress unlikely to spend more money to fix long-neglected roads and bridges, look for states to consider new ways to fund transportation projects. The Republican governor in Virginia, Robert McDonnell, has already unveiled a sweeping proposal to eliminate the state's gas tax and pay for road and infrastructure upgrades with an increase in the sales tax. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, a Democrat, wants something very different for transportation: a higher income tax and a lower sales tax, with revenues going into a new public works fund.
Medicaid Top Budget Concern
Overall, though, Medicaid is still the biggest budget worry for most states in the coming year. That's because Medicaid spending continues to be the largest component of total state spending at nearly 24 percent, easily surpassing K-12 education, which takes up less than 20 percent.
Ten states are already reporting spending overruns for Medicaid and other health care programs for the current fiscal year, compared with six at this time last year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Maine, for example, is seeing costs continue to go up even as Medicaid caseloads go down. But nowhere is the deficit higher than in Texas, which faces a staggering $4.3 billion hole in its Medicaid budget. The state has some $8 billion in its rainy day fund, but lawmakers are reluctant to tap that fund to make up the entire difference.
Tax Base Volatile, Narrow
See Stateline's 13th annual State of the States report, on key issues with a particular emphasis on the relationship between states and the federal government.
One of the reasons many states are doing comparatively well is because of higher revenues from the personal income tax, which provides some 40 percent of general fund revenue in the 41 states that collect the tax. But the problem with relying on the income tax is that it's very volatile. It depends on the markets, consumer confidence and when people decide to sell investments and pay a tax on the proceeds. Many states are likely to see their income tax revenue increased for 2012 and then reduced in 2013 because taxpayers decided to sell off capital assets before the end of last year in anticipation of higher rates being imposed by the federal government. California, for example, predicted that capital gains taken by residents will increase nearly 70 percent in 2012 over the previous year.
Sales tax collections, on the other hand, have been somewhat lackluster, primarily because so few services are taxed and because of the difficulty of collecting taxes on items bought online. The sales tax accounts for about 30 percent of general revenue for the 45 states that have a sales tax.
States were hoping that Congress would approve legislation last year requiring online retailers to collect sales tax, thus providing as much as $23 billion for states and localities. That did not happen. Instead, the issue is more likely to come up as part of a broader tax reform debate in the Congress in 2013. "That's another year lost," Dan Crippen, executive director of the National Governors Association, said in December. In the meantime, states will continue to work out separate deals with on-line retailers, as many have done with Amazon. That company's latest agreement came in December with Massachusetts, where it will start collecting sales taxes November 1, 2013.
In the meantime, U.S. companies are sitting on nearly trillion in cash and other liquid assets, waiting for the economy to reach more solid footing before they hire or invest in capital. Once they do, that activity would boost national and state economies. But businesses continue to hold off in large part because of the uncertainty from Washington. "All these self-inflicted wounds put a lot of pressure on this fragile recovery," says Sujit CanagaRetna of CSG.
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History of Spain
The History of Spain covers the region from prehistory to the 1980s. For recent events see Spain
The Iberian Peninsula has been settled for millennium. In fact, some of Europe's most impressive Paleolithic cultural sites are located in Spain, including the famous caves at Altamira that contain spectacular paintings dating from about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. The Basques, Europe's oldest surviving group, are also the first identifiable people of the peninsula.
Roman Empire
Beginning in the ninth century BC, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Celts entered the Iberian Peninsula. The Romans followed in the second century BC and laid the groundwork for Spain's present language, religion, and laws. Although the Visigoths arrived in the fifth century AD, the last Roman strongholds along the southern coast did not fall until the seventh century AD.
Medieval Era
The building of a strong centralized power in the medieval period represented the victory of the crown over other power institutions, such as the nobility or self-governing towns.
Muslims and Crusaders: 711-1492
In 711, North African Moors sailed across the straits, swept into Andalusia, and within a few years, pushed the Visigoths up the peninsula to the Cantabrian Mountains. The Reconquista (wars to drive out the Moors) lasted until complete success was achieved in 1492. By 1512, the unification of present-day Spain was complete.
Muslims crossed from Africa into Spain early in the eighth century and in 711 at the battle of Río Barbate, they defeated the Visigoths and pressed forward to capture Toledo. By 718, the Moors (the name given North African Muslims by the Spaniards) had completed their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, except for small Christian remnants in the Pyrenees. They remained on for the next 674 years until driven out by Spanish and Portuguese Christians.
The period of the Spanish Crusades began in the eleventh century when a religious revival was initiated by Cluniac monks in the small kingdoms in the north of Spain, which had recovered some of their lost territory. The revival expressed itself in a growing hatred for the infidel. Slowly yet steadily, at first sparked mainly by Burgundians and Normans from France, the Christians began to force the Moors out of northern and central Spain. Known as the Wars of the Reconquest, these centuries-long conflicts intensified the Catholic sentiments of the people, developing an intense, even fanatical unity of religion and patriotism which was long characteristic of the Spaniards.
By the middle of the 15th century, the last bastion of Moorish power on the peninsula was the kingdom of Granada in southwestern Spain. When the marriage of Isabella, Queen of Castile, to Ferdinand, Prince of Aragon, in 1469 united Spain, they vigorously began their last campaign against the Moors. In January 1492 the Spanish entered the city of Granada and Moorish power ended in Europe. The expulsion of the Moors from Spain may be considered the last of the many medieval crusades.[1]
Myths and memory
he myth of Al-Andalus, the Arab-Islamic civilization of medieval Spain centered in Andalusia, was probably born among exiled Muslims in the 16th century. With the return of democracy in the 1970s, most Spaniards came to accept Al-Andalus proudly as part of their history, and it became a symbol of tolerance, even if the level of tolerance of Christians and Jews as second-class subjects in Al-Andalus would not be acceptable today. Nevertheless, Al-Andalus has been very useful to Spain as a platform for dialogue with Arab nations and the broader Muslim world.
European power
- See also Charles V of Spain king (1500-1558)
- Philip II of Spain king 1527-1598
- Spanish Armada
During the 16th century, Spain became the most powerful nation in Europe, due to the immense wealth derived from its presence in the Americas. But a series of long, costly wars and revolts, capped by the defeat by the English of the "Invincible Armada" in 1588, began a steady decline of Spanish power in Europe. Controversy over succession to the throne consumed the country during the 18th century, leading to an occupation by France during the Napoleonic era in the early 1800s and a series of armed conflicts throughout much of the 19th century.
In the late 18th century Spain at last attempted to reform the administration of its colonies. Some progress was made, but the improvements also stimulated a demand for more autonomy and even independence on the part of the creoles (people of Spanish descent born in the colonies).
19th century
Spain had built a large empire, primarily in South America and Central America; most of the colonies revolted about 1820, and many of the remainder were lost in 1898. Historians explain the collapse on an anticolonial, national consciousness among Creoles; peninsular misrule and economic mismanagement; and the seismic effects of geopolitical upheaval, particularly the Napoleonic occupation of Spain.[2]
Internally, Spain was in turmoil, with three wars over the succession issue; the Carlist Wars that pitted conservative against liberal and led to the brief ousting of the monarchy and establishment of the First Republic (1873–74); and, finally, the Spanish-American War of 1898, in which Spain lost Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States.
The loss of the War of 1898 reopened divisions between traditionalist conservatives and reformist liberals, causing deep cultural and political rifts that have still not completely healed.
20th century
A period of dictatorial rule (1923–31) ended with the establishment of the Second Republic. It was dominated by increasing political polarization, culminating in the leftist Popular Front electoral victory in 1936. Pressures from all sides, coupled with growing and unchecked violence, led to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936.
Following the victory of his nationalist forces in 1939, General Francisco Franco ruled a nation exhausted politically and economically. Spain was officially neutral during World War II but followed a pro-Axis policy. Therefore, the victorious Allies isolated Spain at the beginning of the postwar period, and the country did not join the United Nations until 1955. In 1959, under an International Monetary Fund stabilization plan, the country began liberalizing trade and capital flows, particularly foreign direct investment.
Despite the success of economic liberalization, Spain remained the most closed economy in Western Europe—judged by the small measure of foreign trade to economic activity—and the pace of reform slackened during the 1960s as the state remained committed to "guiding" the economy. Nevertheless, in the 1960s and 1970s, Spain was transformed into a modern industrial economy with a thriving tourism sector. Its economic expansion led to improved income distribution and helped develop a large middle class. Social changes brought about by economic prosperity and the inflow of new ideas helped set the stage for Spain's transition to democracy during the latter half of the 1970s.
Upon the death of General Franco in November 1975, Franco's personally designated heir Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon assumed the titles of king and chief of state. Dissatisfied with the slow pace of post-Franco liberalization, he replaced Franco's last Prime Minister with Adolfo Suarez in July 1976. Suarez entered office promising that elections would be held within one year, and his government moved to enact a series of laws to liberalize the new regime. Spain's first elections since 1936 to the Cortes (Parliament) were held on June 15, 1977. Prime Minister Suarez's Union of the Democratic Center (UCD), a moderate center-right coalition, won 34% of the vote and the largest bloc of seats in the Cortes.
Under Suarez, the new Cortes set about drafting a democratic constitution that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in a national referendum in December 1978.
21th Century
In June 2014 King Juan Carlos stepped down. As a result of it his son Prince Felipe is the king of Spain.[3]
The political party Vox is the representative of Spanish Conservatism with its leader Santiago Abascal.
Further reading
- Barton, Simon, A History of Spain (Palgrave Essential Histories) (2009) excerpt and text search
- Carr, Raymond, ed. Spain: A History (2nd ed. 2001), excerpt and text search;
- Carr, Raymond. Spain 1808-1975 (2nd ed. 1997), 888pp; outstanding for political and social history online edition
- Junco, José Alvarez, and Adrian Shubert, eds. Spanish History since 1808 (2000), essays by scholars
- Kames, Henry. A Concise History of Spain (1973)online edition
- Lloyd, Alan. The Spanish Centuries: A Narrative History of Spain from Ferdinand and Isabella to Franco (2002), popular excerpt and text search
- O'Callaghan, Joseph Y. A History of Medieval Spain (1975) 728 pp online edition
- Pierson, Peter. The History of Spain (2008) excerpt and text search; online 1999 edition
- Rodgers, Eamonn, and Valerie Rodgers. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture (1999). 594 pgs. online edition
- ↑ Charles Julian Bishko, "The Spanish and Portuguese Reconquest, 1095-1492" in H. W. Hazard, ed. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (1975) pp 396-456
- ↑ Gabriel Paquette, "The Dissolution of the Spanish Atlantic Monarchy". Historical Journal 2009 52(1): 175-212
- ↑ http://online.wsj.com/articles/spanish-king-juan-carlos-to-abdicate-prime-minister-says-1401699434


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KABUL, Afghanistan — In a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Hamid Karzai accused Pakistan of being behind a recent series of attacks and of blocking his government from striking a peace deal with the Taliban, the Afghan president's office said Sunday.
Karzai routinely makes such accusations against Islamabad, but his tone in recent days has been particularly pointed and direct. They come after three attacks in five days in the capital Kabul, the latest coming on Saturday when assailants fired machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the country's electoral commission ahead of next week's general election.
Karzai told Kerry on Saturday the attacks were complex in nature and stage-managed by "foreign intelligence agencies," a reference to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. He also told Kerry that he did not accept U.S. arguments that it had no influence "over countries that support terrorism," and said the U.S.'s refusal to go after the Pakistani intelligence agency could further hurt its relations with Afghanistan.
U.S. officials confirmed the phone call took place but declined to comment on the conversation.
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the recent violence in Kabul. Islamabad has a long and complicated relationship with the group, but few analysts accept Karzai's allegations that Pakistani intelligence agencies and not the Taliban are staging attacks. Pakistan denies that it is assisting the Taliban.
"It is highly disturbing that attempts are being made to somehow implicate Pakistan in this terrorist incident," the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement issued after the Afghan presidency blamed Pakistan a March 21 assault on the Serena Hotel that left nine dead. "We reject the insinuation. The tendency to immediately blame Pakistan is unhelpful and should be discarded."
Karzai is not allowed to run for re-election in the April 5 ballot, as he is barred by the constitution from seeking a third term in office. He is seen as positioning himself for life after the presidency, depicting himself as a tough-speaking nationalist.
Karzai has also refused to sign a Bilateral Security Agreement with the United States which would allow for the U.S. and NATO to leave behind a residual force of about 12,000 soldiers after the final withdrawal of international combat troops takes place at the end of this year. Despite widespread support for the agreement, Karzai says he first wants the U.S. to move forward with a peace pact with the Taliban, presumably by putting pressure on neighbor Pakistan.
During the telephone conversation, according to the Afghan presidency, Karzai told Kerry that the Taliban were willing to talk to his High Peace Council, an 80-member body tasked by the president to spearhead reconciliation with his armed opposition, but Pakistan was preventing them.
The presidency did not provide further details.
The Taliban has denied any talks with Karzai and says it does not want to speak with the Afghan president. However several Taliban leaders have met with members of Karzai's High Peace Council in the United Arab Emirates, according to both Taliban and high peace council members, who have previously spoken to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity so as not to disrupt the delicate diplomacy.
Also on Sunday, a roadside bomb killed a Romanian service member with the international military coalition in Afghanistan in a southeastern province, said Coalition spokesman Capt. Patrick Simmons.
The bomb was set off by remote control as a convoy reached the outskirts of Qalat, capital of Zabul province, said district governor Abdul Khaliq Ayubi. He said another three troops were wounded.
The Romanian defense ministry said Claudiu Constantin Vulpoiu died in the early Sunday attack. Romania has 1,029 troops serving in the NATO mission in Afghanistan and 23 have been killed.
Most of Afghanistan's security is now in the hands of the Afghan National Security Forces ahead of the withdrawal of international combat troops at the end of December. Still, international service personnel occasionally patrol troubled areas and assist Afghan troops when requested.
In Tirin Kot, the capital of southern Uruzgan province, a remotely detonated explosive devise apparently planted in a car killed one person and injured 14 others, according to Provincial Deputy Police Chief Mohammed Aslam Kochi.
No one took responsibility for either incidents but the Taliban are suspected in both explosions.
A stubborn insurgency still rages in Afghanistan's south and east.
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Waiting for "Superman" Explores How to Save Public Education
- Christa Banister Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2010 4 Oct
DVD Release Date: February 15, 2011
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 2010 (limited)
Rating: PG (for some thematic material, mild language and incidental smoking)
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 102 min.
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Actors: The story centers around five students named Anthony, Francisco, Daisy, Emily and Blanca.
Whether or not viewers wholeheartedly agree with how documentarian Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud) actually goes about proving his thesis, Waiting for "Superman" is still an important and compelling look at the current state of public education—unsightly warts and all.
Basically, short of an intervention from the iconic superhero in blue tights himself, Guggenheim asserts that we're all in big trouble when it comes to educating our future generation. And that need for a hero—and a powerful one at that—is what inevitably paves the way for an engaging dialogue that we all have a stake in, whether or not we've got the proverbial dog(s) in the hunt.
But instead of relying too heavily on the ol' graphs and pie charts that made An Inconvenient Truth a snooze-fest from time to time, Guggenheim mostly avoids the lengthy regurgitation of statistics and takes a more personal approach by zeroing in on five students of varying ages (Anthony, Francisco, Daisy, Emily and Blanca) and their respective families.
While they reside in different parts of the country (namely, Washington DC, the Bronx, East Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Harlem), the tie that binds these protagonists together is that each of them is fighting for a coveted slot at a local charter school where there is a better chance of getting a quality education (hence a better shot at making it to college), something that isn't necessarily the case at their local institutions where many even fail to graduate—let alone with honors.
The trouble is, getting into a charter school is akin to winning the lottery, which is exactly how who makes the cut—and who doesn't—is determined, a heartbreaking process shown to emotionally reeling effect in Waiting for "Superman." By building a connection with these kids and showing the shockingly cavalier injustice that sometimes prevents promising students from gaining all they can from their time at school, the documentary provides plenty of fodder for future discussion.
And like many films of this ilk, a particularly volatile villain certainly doesn't hurt in trying to make the point. This time around, it's the teachers' unions that bear the brunt of the burden. Represented by the current head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, a woman admittedly not easy to like here, even in limited screentime, the film points out that quality educators aren't properly rewarded and compensated for their effort (something any current teacher would heartily concur with), while bad educators are almost impossible to fire no matter how lackluster their performance.
Without better accountability and follow-through in these areas, Guggenheim says it's impossible for the system to ultimately change for the better. So what is the answer? By showcasing the efforts of reformers like Geoffrey Canada, the creator of charter schools in Harlem and Michelle Rhee, an educational pioneer who successfully fought for the very things the unions often oppose, Guggenheim unabashedly wears his agenda on his sleeve and paints his hopes for change in decidedly broad strokes.
And while the film would've benefited greatly from more specific examples for reform beyond simply adding more charter schools to the mix, not to mention more opportunities for the union folks to explain their side of the story, it's those aforementioned kids and their respective journeys that end up stealing the show in Waiting for "Superman" anyway.
After all, this flick is made with their good in mind, and how we actually go about getting there will probably always be up for debate. But if anything, the movie effectively gets everyone thinking (and talking) about this worthy topic, not to mention some major press in the meantime—and that's already a step in a promising direction, right?
Drugs/Alcohol: Smoking is shown, but not in a way that glamorizes it.
Language/Profanity: Some mild language (he--, da--) makes its way into the movie on occasion, but it's definitely not the norm.
Sex/Nudity: None.
Violence: None.
Thematic Material: Some of the discussion of socio-economic conditions and the impact on education may go over the heads of younger viewers, but for the most part, the film is appropriate for all ages.
Christa Banister is a full-time freelancer writer, specializing in music, movies and books-related reviews and interviews and is the author of two novels, Around the World in 80 Dates and Blessed Are the Meddlers. Based in Dallas, Texas, she also weighs in on various aspects of pop culture on her personal blog.
For more information, including her upcoming book signings and sample chapters of her novels, check out her Website.


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Suddenly, Democrats are in a tizzy about wasteful government spending. At hearings this week into the IRS's misuse of taxpayer dollars to fund staff junkets, Rep. Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, bemoaned, "The money that was spent on that — that's my money! That's the lady who got the early bus this morning. That's her money. The one who makes $35,000. Hers. The gentleman up the street from me who makes 45 [grand] hauling trash. That's their money! So, it was wasted."
But he shouldn't be surprised. What went on at the IRS is built into the system. It's not an IRS problem. It's a problem whenever individuals are free to spend Other People's Money. The more removed those who spend OPM are from those whose money they're spending, the greater the likelihood for corruption.
So far, the IRS inspector general has uncovered about $50 million spent on lavish conferences for IRS officials who attended events in Anaheim, Calif., and elsewhere from 2010-2012.
The IRS staff stayed in fancy hotels, ate free meals and then sought reimbursement from the government, produced foolish videos and walked away with trinkets that may not have been worth much individually but added up to $64,000 overall.
The IRS junket scandal may be what's getting attention this week, but it amounts to no more than a few crystals on the iceberg of government waste, fraud and abuse.
Where is the outrage when government waste amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars is built into public policy? Grilling a few arrogant IRS officials makes for good theater, but where are elected officials like Cummings when it comes to the far bigger problem of wasting taxpayers' money on unnecessary federal health-care payments, or paying more for federal construction projects than needed in order to appease unions, or encouraging people not to accept jobs by extending unemployment benefits for up to 93 weeks?
To take just one of the more egregious examples, studies show that the federal government wastes about $100 billion a year in Medicare overpayments. That's two thousand times more than the IRS spent on junkets.
And despite congressional and Executive Branch efforts to rein in these Medicare overpayments, it's almost impossible because the source of the problem is not simply greedy providers or actual criminals, but the disconnect between the person who is cutting the checks and the one whose money is being spent in the first place.
When I pay my own bills, I'm careful to make sure the provider is not cheating me. It's my money, after all, not someone else's, and I've worked hard for it. It's probably less likely that the provider of goods or services is going to try to pull something over on me if he knows I'm the one writing the check. After all, he wants me back as a customer — and he may even have to look me in the eye when he hands me the bill.
But that is not the way it works when a third party pays the check. There is simply no accountability. We turn our money over to the government to dispense it as our elected officials decide and then trust that the funds will be wisely spent.
I doubt the offending IRS officials gave a second thought to what they were actually doing when they traveled to Anaheim for a good time. You can't imagine one of them breaking into their neighbor's house to raid the refrigerator for free meals or to help themselves to a few trinkets to take home for their own enjoyment. But because the money belonged to other people — and anonymous people at that — it was a lot easier for those government workers to pretend their profligacy didn't hurt anyone.
The bigger government gets, the more it does; and the more of our money it spends, the greater the likelihood we'll see these scandals repeated. It's all about spending other people's money.


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Yep, the Disney Food Blog train is headed to California next month to cover Disney's fifth annual California Food and Wine Festival at Disney's California Adventure Theme Park!
We're pretty excited around here and wanted to share a little pre-trip "Dining Line-Up" for those of you who might be interested. Feel free to shout out your suggestions for dishes to try, counter service to sample, and your favorite snacks we shouldn't miss. Here's where we currently have reservations:
We're excited to take you all with us to the Festival! In the meantime, be sure to check out our Disney's California Food and Wine Festival Guide. If you're headed to the festival, click on our nifty "Reserve Now!" links to go straight to the Disneyland Website and reserve spots at your chosen events.


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Baobab the tree of life
For centuries, the people of Africa have turned to the baobab tree as a source of natural wellbeing and general health.
The Baobab is an impressive tree: With a height of up to 25 meters, the branches form a roof with more than 20 meters in diameter the tree itself may be several thousand years old. The hand-shaped leaves and the gray, smooth bark can be seen as easily as the outline of a baobab from afar.
The Baobab is native to the African savannah. Its name derives from the Arabic word bu hibab from fruit with many seeds. Of up to 15 meters high base consists of spongy fibers that store a lot of water and the tree as well as a longer drying time to keep it alive. The strong root system also contributes to its amazing drought resistance.
Baobab can contribute an important part for a healthy nutrition.
Known as the "Pharmacists-tree", Baobab supports your health.
Baobab supports the natural beautiness of your skin. Not only outside but also inside.
The symbol of the African Savannah
Because of its size and geographic dispersal the Baobab is probably the most impressive symbol of the African savannah. The special wood -properties protect the tree from fire and make it simultaneously a coveted natural water storage. Many villages in Africa have a Baobab, where small cisterns can be created in the hollowed trunk. In such areas the tradition often prohibits to cut down a baobab.
The fruit
The tree begins to bloom for the first time at the age of 20 years. It flowers throughout the year, regardless of weather conditions. The fruits of the tree develop about five to six months after flowering. These ovoid fruits have a hard wooden shell, which is covered by green and yellow hair. Inside the fruit are several seeds, which are in a powdery white flesh.
The Tree of Life
The Baobab is very important for humans and animals in the arid regions of Africa. Many animals feed on its leaves, flowers and fruits. People can make food, clothing, medicines and other useful products from it. The voluminous and often hollowed trunk also provides protection from severe weather or other hazards of the savannah. Such hollow stems arise both natural and man-made.
In spite of a hollowed trunk the tree keeps on growing and it continuously bears fruits.


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But what is simple in principle is almost impossible in practice. A few factors combine to make it almost unobtainable to accurately measure your daily calorie intake. One component has to do with the difference between how calorie counts are determined in the laboratory and how calories are extracted from food in your body. To determine the calorie content of foods, scientists incinerate them inside a device called, appropriately enough, a calorimeter. This device incinerates all types of foods equally well.
Your body is different. It extracts calories more easily from cooked foods, soft foods and low-fiber foods than it does from raw foods, harder foods and high-fiber foods. So, for example, if you eat 100 calories of steamed white rice, your body will absorb more calories than it would from 100 calories of raw lettuce.
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Things get even more dicey when you try to count calories in home-prepared meals and snacks. Even experts admit that their estimates are little more than wild guesses. "I have a Ph.D. in nutrition, and I can't tell if my dinner is 500 or 800 calories just by looking at the plate," said Jean Mayer, lead author of the study mentioned above, in an interview for U.S. News & World Report.
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The State of Israel was born on May 14, 1948, in the city of Tel Aviv, in what was then officially known as Palestine. The new Jewish state was founded 2,000 years after Palestine's Roman conquerors exiled the Jews from the land they had once ruled as the Kingdom of Israel and less than 50 years after Jewish immigrants began returning to their ancient homeland as part of the Zionist movement. Within hours of Israel's establishment, armies of the five neighboring Arab countries had already begun assembling along the new nation's borders. The next morning, Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi, and Lebanese troops invaded, launching the first in a series of conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The Establishment of the State of Israel goes in depth to explain how this conflict has affected the history of the region and the Middle East peace process.
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Dana Utman: Leave Food By Your Mailbox Saturday – May 9, 2011
In 1989 the Arcata Homeless Task Force, of which I was a co-director, released a study that showed that homelessness in Humboldt County was a growing epidemic. Part of what the task force did at that time was to try to awaken Arcata's community to the number of people who were without adequate resources, including food.
Fast forward to today. It isn't possible to not notice the growing homelessness. But do we have any idea how many people are "food insecure?" In other words, how many of our neighbors are seemingly doing all right, but quietly lacking adequate nutrition or even starving? By definition it means families that are struggling to put food on the table.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture started tracking food insecurity 16 years ago and found a growing number of Americans who are included in this category, with at least 17 million, or one in seven households.
Chicago-based Feeding America (the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity) published a report from a 2009 study that found a 46 percent rise of families seeking support from food banks since 2006.
U. S. Census statistics show that in 2008 19.8 percent of Humboldt County people lived below the poverty level, which was higher than the 13.3 percentage for all of California.
These numbers can only be getting worse with the recession and the state budget crunch. Antipoverty and food assistance programs are being cut. For example, Cal-WORKS, the state program for temporary assistance for needy families, will take a hit with a 3.2 billion dollar drop in funding for Medicaid and welfare under the state's proposed budget. It includes CalFresh (food stamps). Presently, this program helps to feed a million children.
Other programs in the federal government are being slashed, including the Department of Labor's Senior Community Employment Service, which helps to find work for the elderly who are earning less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level – $13,600 a year. Without this program tens of thousands more will be thrown out of work and unable to afford food.
"This is not a recession — it's a depression," said Val Martinez, executive director of Redwood Community Action Agency of Humboldt County, who was quoted by the Public Broadcasting System. "There's a level of desperation out there I haven't seen before. And I've been doing this for 30 years."
There seems to be a lot of food around. Every day there are many Arcatans who buy a latte and scone for breakfast without a problem (myself included). And every day good food is thrown out at restaurants, grocery stores and homes.
So what can we do? Most people who work full-time don't have the energy to volunteer any personal time. So that's where specially organized efforts pay off.
As a letter carrier I'm proud of the joint efforts my union, the National Association of Letter Carriers and the United States Post Office have made for over 18 years by continuing their annual Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive. Last year, the food drive collected a total of more than one billion pounds since it began in 1992.
If a union and the government can work together like this, then anything is possible, right?
Please help out your community on Saturday, May 14 by leaving nonperishable food in or next to your mailbox for your letter carrier to pickup.
We won't be able to solve America's hunger problem, we just want to help.
Dana Utman has been involved with the NALC Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive for 18 years and is the Vice-President of Branch #348 which represents all of the letter carriers of Humboldt County. He is also the Arcata Post Office Shop Steward. nalc.org/commun/foodrive/


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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
WW#125 - Relax
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I love that you can see everyone in the room in the steamy mirrors! :DReplyDelete
Hey.. I posted my bath earlier this week. without me in it of course.ReplyDelete
cute shot.
We have the jacuzzi and bubbles but Thankfully NOT the mirrors ;) TOO revealing LOLReplyDelete
OK First I love that bathroom. I need a tub like that!ReplyDelete
Now who invaded the bubble bath? Did she jump in your bath, or you jump in hers?
Forgot to mention, this happened at the time share we were in during the Christmas break.ReplyDelete
Forgot to mention, this happened at the time share we were in during the Christmas break.ReplyDelete
I was in (wearing my bath suit, of course) and invited Flor to join. Then, after the pictures, Juan jumped in as well...ReplyDelete
Me encanto esta foto ¡ternura total!.ReplyDelete
Looks fun! Now I want my bubble bath! LOLReplyDelete
I need a bubble bathe too now!!!ReplyDelete
Looks so relaxing and fun :)
Now I want a bath... has it been a year already? ;)ReplyDelete
Now, now... bath time is my favorite time of the day :) You two are cute!ReplyDelete
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LOL! Great photo! I need a bubblebath too :)ReplyDelete
That is my kind of relaxation!!! :)ReplyDelete
Che, ya llegamos al 17 de febrero?ReplyDelete
Me atrase el almanaque, lo parió.
Relaxation always does best with company.. quite a room full, too! :) hehe!ReplyDelete
Jua. Vaya a saber qué pasó, Jorge. Yo escribí este post por adelantado, y se ve que cuando le puse cuándo quería que apareciera, hice click en el 17 en lugar de en el 10.ReplyDelete
Lo que no entiendo es cómo cornos apareció anoche de todos modos!!!
La explicación técnica es que en Canadá todavía estamos haciendo la transición al sistema métrico decimal y se nos fue la mano. Ahora tenemos un año que tiene 100 meses de 100 días cada uno, por eso es que voy más rápido...
Juah!... no te vayas a tirar un gasecito que sale una burbuja con Flor adentro y la perdemos!ReplyDelete
What a great shot! This has me giggling. :) Happy WW!ReplyDelete
LOL - fun bath. Love the facial expressions. :)ReplyDelete
awww looks really relaxing :)ReplyDelete
u may view mine here
I WANT that bathtub!!!(Well, I want the whole bathroom, actually!) :))ReplyDelete
That looks so great!! Especially after shoveling for 3 hours!ReplyDelete
haha! Too funny. It's great that his expression looks like "Great, how many more people are going to try to get in here with me?" heheReplyDelete
What fun... Awe to be a kid again...ReplyDelete
I need a bath like that, and some of those bubbles!ReplyDelete
Wow! That looks awesome!!ReplyDelete
I'm so jealous - I want the same cool bathtub!ReplyDelete
Is that your tub? OMG, I am beyond jealous! We only have two showers here :(ReplyDelete
VERY cute, btw.
LOL. I wish it was my bathtub, I barely fit in mine!!!ReplyDelete
No, it's just the hottub from the cottage in Pennsylvania were we stayed over the Christmas break...


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K. Lorraine Graham is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Terminal Humming (Edge Books, May 2009) and several chapbooks, including Large Waves to Large Obstacles, forthcoming from Take Home Project. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Traffic, Area Sneaks, Foursquare and elsewhere. She currently lives in southern California with her partner, Mark Wallace, and Lester Young, a pacific parrotlet. You can find her online at terminalhumming.blogspot.com
There should be something in this piece about the fact that there are many Feminisms and so many kinds of Feminist poetry. Culture and language are neither universal nor static. There should also be sections in this little piece about camp and performance. I'd also like to talk about hippies and the circus, as well as the construction of animal subjectivities and how animals and women are often symbolically connected (Michelle Detoire is doing really interesting work along those lines). Probably I should also talk about aliens. In fact, I won't talk about any of these things directly, but maybe you can just try to imagine them as you read this. I will say probably say "power" and "structure" a lot.
A Feminist reader looks at a text and asks what it suggests, implicitly or explicitly, about women and gender. As a Feminist poet, I consider how my poems invite readers to think about gender and the ways gender can reaffirm and challenge cultural norms. My poetic practice is informed by both French Feminist theory then U.S. Feminist theory. Broadly speaking, though, I find the terms of French Feminism more helpful for thinking about my poetry. I'm less concerned with how to get women into institutions and positions of power than how to change the way institutions and power are constructured. Those two goals are connected, of course. Sometimes having women with economic and cultural power can change power structures, but often women with power may identify with those structures just as much as the people who created them: Margaret Thatcher. I'm interested in a Feminist poetics that critiques power structures and is alert to the roles that gender plays in creating, supporting and undermining such structures.
I am skeptical of an ecriture feminine, but Helen Cixous' description of binary oppositions and the typically subordinate place of the feminine within most symbolic orders remains very helpful. Cixous gave me a way to understand the relationship between language, culture and gender. I remember learning the word "bitch" in first grade and eventually realizing that the only way to insult a boy using this word was to call them a "son of a bitch." By now, this anecdote is a cliche--every Feminist has one like it; I'm still suprised by the ways everyday language reinforces cultural norms. I teach English as a foreign language, and I'm constantly having to explain the gendered and cultural connotation of words, how "groupie," for example, can refer to either a woman or a man but typically means a woman, how many insults are based on attacking or questioning someone's gender. My point is obvious. Still, the way we represent things matters. The words we choose and the way we put them together matters.
When I started working on my first book, Terminal Humming, (which will be out within weeks from Edge Books), I had four very general ideas in mind:
1) I wanted to write about how much employment and bureaucracy suck and
2) I wanted to write about how women and men interact.
3) I also wanted to really question my own emotional investment in these two cultural institutions--employment and romance--and I wanted to do it in a way that was as honest as possible. Finally,
4) I felt that none of the social and professional discourses I knew were sufficient enough to do this. I knew I'd need to play with everything, with words, sound, images, space, source, syntax, etc.
For me, writing is always an investigative process--an idea I initially got from Tina Darragh. I never begin a project knowing how it will end--that's also part of what I consider a Feminist poetics: even though everything I write is going to be inevitably caught up in cultural norms and expectations, I want my poems to push against such expectations, even as they acknowledge that they are caught up in them. So, I don't start with conclusions. Or, if I do have conclusions, I start by questioning them. These questions are based on a series of concerns that I want to address--usually some combination of something formal and thematic. Making the poem is a process of finding the boundaries of those concerns and edging them in different ways to see what happens. In order to be a Feminist writer I need to be a Feminist reader: Why don't I like this job? How do other people describe my job? How do I feel when I read the handbook of acronymns for the Department of Defense? How come I never got hooked on Sex and the City? Why do I love Star Trek so much? Why do my boyfriend's domestic fantasies freak me out so much?
The more I wrote about and researched employment, bureaucracy, and heterosexual love, the more worrisome and intertwined the connections between all three became. When I started writing lyric love poems that parodied bureaucratic and contractual language, I knew that I was ready to finish the project.
At its most basic, Feminism is a critique of power structures and the role that gender plays in those structures. A consideration of gender quickly, in my mind, extends to a concern with bodies and materiality--and not just women's bodies, either. If I'm really interested in a poetic investigation of power structures and my own relationship to them, then I don't see how I can avoid bodies. Poetry and Feminism aside, I don't really see how I can avoid bodies. Besides, meaning is social--it happens through contact with others. In my creative work, I like to play with an intense and exaggerated exploration of life as a female body but also an exploration of a withdrawal from the physical, even though that's impossible. In my recent readings, I've been looking to women like Lee Ann Brown and Julie Patton (who both recently performed at Cal State San Marcos), as well as recent work by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano while drawing on my own background in modern dance to incorporate movement and polyvocality into my performances. I have no idea if it's working--it feels nerdy and campy. But when my own work freaks me out, I feel like I'm on to something interesting.
All of that sounds very heady. Oh well. I agree with Yvonne Rainer that "the mind is a muscle." Here's a list of some of my feminist icons: Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Colette, Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, Yvonne Rainer, Sophie Calle, Yoko Ono, Kathy Acker...
May 7, 2009
The Mind is a Muscle by K. Lorraine Graham
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- Kate Durbin said...
Thoroughly enjoyed this (and thought of aliens throughout--maybe that's why you like Star Trek btw).
- May 7, 2009 at 4:30:00 PM EDT
- K. Lorraine Graham said...
Kate-Thank you! And yes, aliens and camp are definitely part of why I like Star Trek : )
- May 7, 2009 at 7:14:00 PM EDT
- Jeannine said...
The ideas of parodying beaurocracy with love letters sounds fantastic - can't wait to read your book!
PS: Don't forget monsters and cyborgs!
- May 16, 2009 at 10:06:00 PM EDT
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Natural-gas futures hit a fresh 10-year low Thursday and will likely decline further as the latest supply data confirms an abundance of U.S. gas supplies amid new predictions for a warm winter.
"We just got a report from NOAA about February temperatures being above average," said John Kilduff of Again Capital. "That means there's going to be below normal demand for the time being. It's good news for consumers, and as far as natural gas prices go, you can only argue for them to go lower and lower."
Natural gas futures touched $2.33 per million BTUs Thursday, the lowest price for the front month contract since March, 2002. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that total domestic gas inventories fell by 87 billion cubic feet, less than expected, to 3.290 trillion cubic feet.
A new forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday predicted February temperatures for most of the central and eastern U.S. would be above normal. Temperatures will be most above normal from the southern mid-Atlantic states through the deep south, while the Pacific Northwest will see below normal temperatures.
Kilduff said the storage estimates for the winter season's end, March 31, range from about 2 to 2.4 trillion cubic feet, well above the average 1.5 trillion cubic feet.
"This is a classic case of oversupply," said Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS CERA.
The decade low prices come as the Department of Energy considers industry requests to use the bountiful natural gas supply to feed the export market.
Government analysts Thursday issued a report, noting that natural gas prices would rise for consumers if the U.S. were to increase natural gas exports. Seven natural gas terminals, once expected to import gas, have now applied to be export locations instead.
The Energy Information Administration report forecast that increased exports would add 3 to 9 percent to natural gas prices between 2015 and 2035 for residences and industry, depending on a number of variables including the amount exported.
"Up until 2008, the expectation was that we were going to be a huge natural gas importer, and in fact we were on a course to bringing in $100 billion a year of imported LNG (liquefied natural gas)," Yergin said.
Yergin said the price and abundance of natural gas in America has also made it more palatable for industry to consider locating plants in the U.S. again. He pointed to the example of Dow Chemical and its plans for new petrochemical production in the Gulf Coast region.
"Basically, natural gas is more expensive everywhere else in the world, except for the Middle East," he said.
The U.S. natural gas supply has gotten a big boost from shale gas production, which has been criticized for its potential environmental impacts, including water contamination. Ohio officials recently halted some activity at wells used for wastewater disposal for oil and gas drilling, due to concerns it created seismic activity.
"This is why it's going to be such a great debate here going forward. It's really all about fracking and shale gas. We've cut these prices some 80 percent because of it, so what do you do?" Kilduff said. Natural gas hit a high of $15.3780 per million BTUs on Dec. 13, 2005.
"This isn't like we're saving 10 cents a gallon on gasoline. This is like gasoline is at 80 cents a gallon. That's why this is a real difference-maker for the economy and energy prices. You can't dismiss this as easily as some of the other energy debates we've had over the last decade or two."
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, requires millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals to be pumped into the ground, to break apart rock structures, to free natural gas that was otherwise unobtainable.
"A lot of this debate about the environment is really a debate about whether the states, which traditionally regulated natural gas production, would continue to do so or whether more the of the responsibility would shift to the federal government, in particular the EPA," said Yergin.
Yergin said shale gas production provides about 35 percent of the U.S. natural gas supply, from 2 percent in 2000.
Yergin said, for now, prices will likely remain under pressure. "Technology can really transform markets. The iPod transformed the music industry. Shale gas technology transformed the North American natural gas industry," he said.
Kilduff said the decline in futures prices has become self-fulfilling and an important technical level of $2.409 has been breached. He said the forward curve on the monthly natural gas futures contracts encourages investors to pay to take delivery, store the gas, and sell the futures contract.
"That will keep pressure on the spot market. It's only going to encourage more gas to be produced and put into storage," he said.
"We're behind on degree days. It's been above normal in terms of the temperature, and that has just collided with a record amount of supply being produced and in storage. We're going to end the season with a record amount of gas in storage, yet again," said Kilduff.
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Neighbors (FILM REVIEW)
Film Review by Kam Williams
Couple Confronts Rowdy Frat in Raunchy Revenge Comedy
When Kelly (Rose Byrne) and Mac Radner (Seth Rogen) decided to settle down in suburbia, they reasonably expected to raise their newborn in a quiet community. But that dream was threatened soon thereafter, when the local chapter of Delta Psi Beta bought the house next-door.
As a precautionary measure, the concerned couple introduced themselves to their new neighbors and asked for assurances that there wouldn't be any wild partying on the premises. Delta Psi's President, Teddy (Zac Efron), and Vice President, Pete (Dave Franco), did agree to keep the noise down in exchange for a promise from the Radners not to call the police.
Nevertheless, it's not long before the situation spirals out of control. After all, the infamous frat has a well-established reputation for rowdiness, having invented the toga party back in the Thirties and then beer pong in the Seventies.
So, today, Teddy feels pressure to match his predecessors' checkered past. This means he's inclined to up the ante in terms of outrageous antics, which can only spell trouble for Kelly and Mac once they go back on their word about complaining to the cops, and Delta Psi is placed on probation by the university's dean, Carol Gladstone (Lisa Kudrow).
At that point, all bets are off, and the frat and the newlyweds proceed to square-off in an ever-escalating war of attrition with more losers than winners. That is the point of departure of Neighbors, a relentlessly-raunchy revenge comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek).
Unfortunately, the sophomoric parties prove to be more cruel than clever in their attempts to get even, and the shocking behavior displayed onscreen is invariably more smutty than funny, as it features plenty of prolonged frontal nudity. Plus, the picture's only good gag, when the office chair jettisons Mac into the ceiling, was totally spoiled by the TV commercials.
Otherwise, the film is memorable mostly for its homoerotic humor, as director Stoller is fond of seizing on any excuse to lampoon gay sexuality. First, Kelly kisses a college coed she's recruiting as a confidante. Then, fraternity pledges are forced to parade naked in a circle while clutching the penis of the guy in front of him.
On another occasion, a male student is raped by a classmate seemingly in his sleep, only to later admit that he was aware and welcomed the rude intrusion. And when Teddy and Pete fight over a girl (Halston Sage), they settle their differences in bizarre fashion, namely, by massaging each other's genitals to see who climaxes first, while appropriating the gangsta' rap mantra, "Bros before hos!"
Throw in the gratuitous use of the "N-word" twice, of anti-Semitism ("You Jews and your f*cking mothers!"), as well as a profusion of misogynistic comments like referring to breasts as "udders," and there's little left to recommend about this ugly descent into depravity.
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Rated R for crude humor, graphic sexuality, full frontal nudity, pervasive profanity, ethnic slurs, and drug and alcohol abuse
Running time: 97 minutes
Distributor: Universal Pictures
To see a trailer for Neighbors, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzZgJZMXNEc


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@energynet Active 4 years ago
energynet started the topic Date format on posts in the forum Requests & Feedback 10 years, 4 months ago
Is there a way to change the current way Buddypress handles dates?
The systems has been setup to mark posts by how long ago – 4 minutes – 3 days etc.
I know this is an attempt to be informal etc. but it would be nice if some kind of real dates could also be used, so it can be referenced as "I posted it on May 15th".
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- start the Sun Update Manager application
The updatemanager command starts the Sun Update Manager application. The Sun Update Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) that you can use to manage updates and patches on your Solaris system.
For more information about using this application, see the Sun Update Manager 1.0 Administration Guide in the Sun Update Connection, System Edition Collection on docs.sun.com.
You can also manage updates and patches on the command line by using the smpatch command. See the smpatch(1M) man page.
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Home Office Alternatives
Sharing office space gives some solo entrepreneurs something they miss — interaction with other creative minds.
Nancy Nally, who felt lonely working from home, leases space at Office Divvy in Palm Coast, where rents start at $99 a month. [Photo: Martin Christopher]
But the self-employed Palm Coast mom had some difficulties working from home. For one, her little girl went through a phase of picking up the phone when it rang and not saying anything — including once when a national advertiser called. Then, there was the discomfort Nally felt handing out business cards with her home address to hundreds of strangers at industry trade shows. (She has to provide a physical address to receive sample products to review.) On top of all that, the work got lonely.
Palm Coast didn't have an urban coffee shop where Nally might find fellow bloggers. But it did have "co-working." The concept began with tech workers in major metros such as Seattle, Chicago and New York, where solo entrepreneurs pay relatively small fees for office space where they work side-by-side. Co-work pioneers in those cities were, respectively, Office Nomads, The Coop and New Work City.
Depending on the location and package, co-workers will have access to a conference table with other co-workers or their own desk for the day, for as little as $100 a month. High-speed internet access and coffee are standard amenities; for extra fees, co-workers can add a receptionist and mailing address. Unlike traditional office-suite rentals, co-workers don't leave their belongings overnight; it's more like working at a coffee shop, but with fellow professionals nearby and no latté orders ringing out.
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Co-working has been around for only a few years in Florida, but as more people become self-employed, the concept has taken hold with offerings such as Office Divvy — Nally's co-working space in Palm Coast; CoLab in downtown Orlando; HOBO (Home Office Business Office) in Jacksonville; Brikolodge in midtown Miami; and others around the state ("Co-Working Visa").
Office Divvy encompasses 2,500 square feet of office space in the West Pointe Plaza on Palm Coast Parkway just a few minutes west of Interstate 95. The company was co-founded in early 2008 by husband and wife Ky Ekinci and Lisa Schenone Ekinci and fellow entrepreneur Sim Taing, all self-employed professionals who'd relocated to Palm Coast from the Northeast. They offer other small-business services, from startup funding and flex-office space to social marketing and web design. But they've seen particular demand for co-working as self-employed area residents look for economical ways to break out of a home office. The company's 75 members — they are hoping to grow to 100, then expand to other areas — pay as little as $99 a month for access to the company's shared co-working space, along with internet access that's fast enough for video-blogging and other high bandwidth uses.
White Table Foundation, Fort Lauderdale [Photo: Eric Larsen]
Ky Ekinci, a longtime hospitality industry consultant, refers to Office Divvy's services as "office hoteling." In addition to a professional environment, the office setting also provides what many say is even more valuable: Human interaction — the ability to gut-check a design, blog or idea with a fellow professional. "Being around other professionals reminds me to focus on my accomplishments rather than my inner critic," says Nally. "That alone is worth the cost and the commute."
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Hey guys, I'd first just like to thank in advance for anyone taking the time to help out. Basically, I'm working on a project, and what I have to do is make a class that descends from exception, and make another class that throws that particular exception. In the constructor, I'm supposed to check to make sure that the idNumber is valid, and if not I'm supposed to throw the exception. If anyone can help out or give me a few tips that'd be great! Thanks again
P.S the error I'm getting with what I currently have is on the line that says "catch(IdNumberException)" and it is saying "illegal start of type ';' expected"
public abstract class Student { private String name; private int idNumber; public Student(int id, String stName) { name = stName; idNumber = id; if(idNumber < 1 && idNumber > 9999) throw new IdNumberException(); } catch(IdNumberException e) { System.out.println(e.getMessage()); } public String toString() { return("Name: " + name + " ID Number: " + idNumber); } }public class IdNumberException extends Exception { public IdNumberException() { super("Invalid ID Number"); } public IdNumberException(String message) { super(message); } }


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Monsanto Broadens Roundup Ready Plus Platform
Monsanto has expanded its popular Roundup Ready PLUS Weed Management Solutions platform to include two more post-emergence herbicides for use in soybeans. These additional options are highly effective on tough-to-control weeds, such as waterhemp and Palmer amaranth pigweed.
According to Dr. Rick Cole, Weed Management Technical Lead for Monsanto, Midwestern soybean growers are becoming increasingly aware of the threat of weed resistance to various herbicides, and the best way to manage weed resistance is to use residual herbicides this spring.
"Farmers need to be proactive in taking steps now to manage establishment of tough-to-control weeds, including those resistant to glyphosate or other types of herbicide chemistries," Cole says. "This is true whether they have experienced weed resistance or not."
The additional post-emergence herbicides for Roundup Ready PLUS in 2012 include Cobra and Flexstar. Monsanto says Cobra is an excellent fit for northern states due to its activity on waterhemp, while Flexstar will be offered for use in the Mid-South region of Arkansas, Mississippi and west Tennessee because of its efficacy against Palmer amaranth pigweed.
Listening To Customers
"We listened to our customers, who were concerned about what options farmers might have to fall back on if there wasn't sufficient rain to activate our lineup of pre-plant and pre-emergence residual herbicides," Cole says. "In the event of dry conditions, growers will now have more post-emergence residual herbicide options in soybeans."
Developed in conjunction with leading academics, agronomists and other industry partners, the Roundup Ready PLUS platform offers recommendations and incentives for control of glyphosate-resistant and other tough weeds, such as those that are resistant to multiple herbicide chemistries. Monsanto's Roundup Ready PLUS Weed-Management Solutions platform offers financial incentives to soybean growers of up to $10 per acre to use selected pre-emergence and post-emergence residual herbicides.
"It has been proven through research that soybean growers can realize a two- to three-bushel-per-acre greater yield when weed management programs include use of residual herbicides," Cole adds. "That is significant extra income that provides farmers with a greater return on investment, especially when soybeans are priced up to $12 per bushel."
Multiple Modes Of Action, Timing Critical
These recommendations focus on use of multiple herbicide modes of action as the best way to combat herbicide-resistant weeds and prevent their spread. "Regardless of what tillage system is being used – or whether farmers have herbicide-resistant weeds on their land or not – it is best to rely on planned and proactive use of residual herbicides," Cole emphasizes. "Besides doing this as an effective hedge against development and spread of resistant weeds, use of residual herbicides provides farmers with greater flexibility to manage weeds later in the growing season by reducing weed populations that emerge, and by managing tough-to-control, small-seeded broadleaf weeds early in the season when they are small and most vulnerable to herbicide treatments."
Cole reminds Midwest soybean growers that waterhemp is already becoming resistant to multiple herbicide chemistries, which makes it even more important to use and rotate different modes of action to ensure control and slow the development of further resistance. "Fighting the spread of herbicide-resistant weeds is necessary to preserve important herbicide technologies and chemistries," he adds.
Residual herbicides for soybeans covered under the Roundup Ready PLUS platform financial incentives include Warrant Herbicide, Flexstar, Authority XL, Authority Assist, Authority First and Authority MTZ, Cobra, Gangster, Phoenix, Select Max, Valor, and Valor XLT.
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Envoys from South and North Korea are expected to meet in Beijing on Wednesday. It will be the latest attempt to get multinational talks about North Korea's nuclear weapons program back up and running after a nearly three-year stalemate. But, the North's nuclear arsenal is not the only inter-Korean issue that has been grabbing attention lately. There has been renewed enthusiasm for constructing a natural gas pipeline from Russia that would run across the Korean peninsula.
Momentum gained
Talk of building a pipeline that would deliver Russian natural gas to South Korea by way of North Korea has been going on for decades.
But the project recently gained new momentum when North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il paid Russian President Dmitry Medvedev a visit in Siberia.
Footage aired on Russian television shows the two leaders shaking hands ahead of their summit last month. Reports say both men agreed that construction of a gas pipeline should finally be realized.
Following that meeting, officials in South Korea's energy sector made it clear that they too want to see the pipeline finally built.
Last week, the president of South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corporation met with representatives of the Russian energy firm, Gazprom. The agency says that the officials worked out a road map for future gas deliveries to South Korea.
Government estimates say the pipeline would cost $3.4 billion to construct. But some analysts say, in the long run, it will pay off for South Korea.
Kang Hee-chan is an environmental and energy analyst at the Samsung Economic Research Institute in Seoul.
"Our gas demands continue to grow. Most of the gas is from the shipping from Europe and West Asia. Those options are very costly," Kang noted. "When we can get gas from Russia through North Korea, it's more cost competitive."
Shared pipeline not without risks
Despite those savings, current tensions on the Korean peninsula mean the benefits might not outweigh the risks.
"In the long run, this is a very good project, its good both from the economic and political point of view," said Russia native Andrei Lankov, a North Korea analyst at Seoul's Kookmin University. "However, in order to succeed it needs [a] stable climate of cooperation, exchanges and trust. Frankly I don't see such climate coming anytime soon."
Lankov says a shared natural gas pipeline would pose risks for all parties involved, but especially for South Korea.
He says Pyongyang could steal gas or even turn the pipeline off if inter-Korean relations sour. Lankov adds that Seoul would need to have a contingency plan to compensate for that loss if tensions rise.
Building public support
In a report this week to South Korea's National Assembly, the ministry of knowledge economy said that it will consider all risks involved in doing business with North Korea. The ministry added that, for the moment, there have been no discussions with Moscow or Pyongyang on the terms of a contract.
But, already South Korean politicians are trying to build-up public support for the pipeline.
During an interview on Korean television earlier this month, President Lee Myung Bak said it is only a matter of time before the project begins.
President Lee said that both Koreas are already talking with Russia separately about the pipeline. He predicts that, at some point, all three countries will reach an agreement. He says the project could proceed faster than expected and it will be a great business if it works out.
Analyst Andrei Lankov says many politicians here are trying to win support for the pipeline by promoting it as a step closer toward unification with North Korea.
He says that is just wishful thinking. "It's a very usual type of official rhetoric in Korea. All kinds of exchanges between the two Korean states is always described as something related to unification. It's convenient, it sells very well to the nationalistic Korean public, but let's be frank, it has nothing to do with unification is just normal economic exchanges and nothing else," Lankov said.
Further talks between South Koran and Russia could occur later this year when Presidents Lee and Medvedev meet at the G-20 summit in Paris.


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Most homeowners know what it's like to find ketchup or nail polish on your favorite carpet. The following quick tips from Rainbow International can help save your area rug or wall-to-wall carpet from the peskiest stain culprits.
Gum: The most crucial ingredient when removing gum from carpets is patience. Scrape away as much of the gum as possible, using a dull object like a spoon, and apply a dry-cleaning solvent such as Goof Off. After allowing time for the solvent to soften the gym, use a white cotton cloth to pull or wipe away the gum from the carpet and repeat this process until the gum is completely removed.
Ketchup: If there are large amounts of ketchup (whether fresh or dried-on), remove it by scraping lightly with a spoon, and use a white cotton towel to blot any residual ketchup. Next, mix a solution of one teaspoon dishwashing detergent and one cup of water, and apply the mixture to the stained area. Starting at the outer edge and working inward, work the solution into the stain and rinse by dabbing with water. If the stain remains, you can attempt to remove it with a three percent hydrogen peroxide solution, but be sure to first test it in an inconspicuous part of the carpet to ensure it's safe to use.
Nail Polish: Whatever you do, don't rub the stain, as rubbing will not only cause the stain to be driven further into the carpet, but it could also cause damage to the carpet's fibers. Wipe or blot the stain from the outside in using a non-acetone nail polish. If the stain remains, you'll need to call a cleaning professional.
Lipstick: Start by removing any excess lipstick by lightly scraping it with a dull object. Then, working from the outer edges of the stain and moving toward the center, apply a dry solvent to the stain, blotting with a white cotton towel. This may take multiple attempts but the dry solvent should do the trick. Once the stain is removed, rinse by dabbing the area with a dampened cloth and blot with a dry cloth to remove as much moisture as possible. To speed up the drying process, you can use an electric fan.
Crayon: First, as with most of the previously mentioned stains, scrape away residual crayon with a dull object, and then cover the remaining crayon mark with a white paper towel. Next, heat the area with a blow dryer, which should melt the crayon and help it absorb into the paper towel.
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Claystone Launcher – Everything in your cloud and Android phone in one swipe.
With Claystone we've strived to redefine the launcher genre with our new tandem launcher, allowing you to use Claystone and your standard launcher simultaneously.
Based on your feedback, we've introduced support for a standard launcher experience alongside the intuitive, gorgeous third dimension of Claystone's Everything View. Claystone's tandem launcher doesn't replace your current launcher, but rather builds and improves on it by allowing you to access both apps at the same time.
Integrated Amazon Content
Building on our prior success with Amazon content integration, Claystone delivers an easier and more accessible set of content stacks to deliver Amazon Apps and Instant Video. Search and browse content with the swipe of a finger. Purchase and view immediately knowing that your content is always accessible in the cloud.
ADS: This free version of Claystone Launcher includes advertisements featured while browsing news stacks. To hide the ads, we invite you to download and install Claystone Pro.
Installation Instructions
1. After downloading and installing Claystone, hit 'Home' and select Claystone as your default launcher
2. Claystone will then ask which launcher you'd like to use in tandem with it
3. At any point, tap 'Home' to toggle between Claystone and your standard launcher (or tap 'Home' twice to jump directly to the standard launcher)


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It may be a little late to order this beast for your Memorial Day barbecue later this evening, but it is still a great addition to any grill hound's arsenal. The smoker provides less direct heat to the meats on the top racks.
Vizio's Latest TVs Go All Quantum
This BBQ tower has six different racks for meat and two racks underneath for the fire and any smoking flavoring. If I didn't live in a tiny apartment I would be all over something like this. It is a hell of a lot better than my George Foreman or tiny Weber grill. $500.
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Work - Gas tank replacement
My Murci fuel tank sprang a leak, while parked in the garage, spilling all the fuel. This was caused by a poor weld, and missing rubber bushings. There was a recall (NHTSA: 10V215000) on '06 - '08 vehicles to address this - mine was later than this, but was the same issue. After repeated promises by Lamborghini to investigate (and the brake switch issue) I gave up and sold the car.Read More


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Elizabeth Bishop
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- February 8, 1911 Worcester Massachusetts
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- October 6, 1979 (aged 68) Boston Massachusetts
- Awards And Honors:
- National Book Award (1970) Pulitzer Prize (1956)
- Notable Works:
- "Geography III" "North & South" "Questions of Travel"
Elizabeth Bishop, (born Feb. 8, 1911, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 6, 1979, Boston, Mass.), American poet known for her polished, witty, descriptive verse. Her short stories and her poetry first were published in The New Yorker and other magazines.
Bishop was reared by her maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia and by an aunt in Boston. After graduating from Vassar College in 1934, she traveled abroad often, living for a time in Key West, Florida (1938–42), and Mexico (1943). She was consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress (now poet laureate consultant in poetry) from 1949 to 1950. During most of the 1950s and '60s she lived with Lota de Macedo Soares in Petrópolis, Braz., near Rio de Janeiro, later dividing the year between Petrópolis and San Francisco. Her first book of poems, North & South (1946), captures the divided nature of Bishop's allegiances: born in New England and reared there and in Nova Scotia, she eventually migrated to hotter regions. This book was reprinted in 1955, with additions, as North & South: A Cold Spring, and it won a Pulitzer Prize.
Much of Bishop's later work also addresses the frigid-tropical dichotomy of a New England conscience in a tropical sphere. Questions of Travel (1965) and Geography III (1976) offer spare, powerful meditations on the need for self-exploration, on the value of art (especially poetry) in human life, and on human responsibility in a chaotic world. The latter collection includes some of Bishop's best-known poems, among them "In the Waiting Room," "Crusoe in England," and the exquisite villanelle "One Art." A collection entitled The Complete Poems was published in 1969.
Bishop taught writing at Harvard University from 1970 to 1977, and she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1976. Her posthumously published poetry collections include The Complete Poems, 1927–1979 (1983) and Edgar Allen Poe & the Juke-Box (2006), the latter of which contains previously unpublished material. The Collected Prose, a volume of fiction and nonfiction, appeared in 1984. A selection of her letters was published under the title One Art in 1994. Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008) is a comprehensive collection of her published and unpublished work.
Bishop also wrote a travel book, Brazil (1962), and translated from the Portuguese Alice Brant's Brazilian classic, The Diary of Helena Morley (1957). She edited and translated An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (1972). Bishop also was an artist, and Exchanging Hats (1996) is a collection of more than 50 of her paintings.


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Livestock Killed by Blizzard Removed from South Dakota Roads [GRAPHIC PHOTOS]
According to the Associated Press officials in the state are removing livestock killed by last weekend's blizzard from state highways.
State Veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven says the state has contracted with a rendering service to clear livestock carcasses from state highways and ditches in western South Dakota.
Oedekoven says carcasses along county roads or private roadways must be removed by counties or the owners of those private roads. Ranchers are responsible for removing carcasses on their land.
The state veterinarian says carcasses must be burned, buried to a depth of 4 feet or disposed of by a licensed rendering plant as soon as possible to prevent health and safety problems.
The question is: will the current government shutdown affect ranchers who lost livestock in the storm? The state says farmers should make note of livestock deats in order to submit for disaster payments that may be available in the future.
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