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Harvin is expected to hold out under current deal
With so much talk about what the Vikings want to do with receiver Percy Harvin, there hasn't been much talk about what Harvin wants to do with the Vikings.
And Harvin, at this stage of his career, wants to get paid.
Last year, when Harvin asked for a trade, he wasn't unhappy with his financial situation. But he then viewed 2012 as a contract year. Which means that, even with one year left on his rookie deal, Harvin wants a new contract.
And he could be preparing to take a stand in order to get it. Per a league source, Harvin currently is expected to stay away from offseason workouts and training camp absent a new deal.
He's due to make $2.9 million in 2013. It's unclear what he wants, but high-end wideouts earn at or about eight figures annually.
And while it's also unclear whether Harvin wants to stay in Minnesota, whether the Vikings will pay him what he wants surely has a lot to do with whether he'll want to stay.
Because Harvin has four years of service, he could stay away from training camp and skip up to 10 weeks of the regular season while still getting credit toward the final year of his contract and becoming an unrestricted free agent next year. Though he would face significant fines and the loss of multiple game checks, a holdout is likely unless he signs a new contract.


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Weekend courses teaching oral appliance therapy are conducted all over the country and with over 100 commercially available oral appliances it can be really difficult to navigate the appliance selection process. Considering the mechanical functioning of the appliance is essential when determining which one to choose for treatment, but often times the material used to construct the appliance is equally as important and overlooked. Two of the most generally known materials are heat-cured hard acrylic and dual laminates. Studies have shown that while there are advantages and disadvantages to each material, most doctors favor heat-cured hard acrylic appliances because they have a compelling superiority over the latter when it comes to fitting, repairs, longevity and patient comfort.
Some of the most pressing issues in doctors' offices are fitting the appliance correctly in the patient's mouth. Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious medical condition that can sometimes be so severe that doctors don't have time to send back an appliance to be remade if it doesn't fit. National statistics show a lower percentage of remakes in hard acrylic formed appliances. The reason for this can partly be credited to ease of modification chairside due to minor cosmetic dental changes. If anything changes in the patient's mouth for example, the addition of a crown, a completely new appliance must be created as realignment can't be done in laminate appliances. On a hard acrylic appliance, the appliance can sometimes be ground to re-fit. Furthermore, the addition of clasps in hard acrylic appliances provide further retention whereas a laminate appliance does not allow for it to contain clasps.
Repairs are inevitable when it comes to oral appliances. Fortunately when repairs are necessary, the ramifications can be minimized simply by the choice of appliance design. Doctors can take a more basic approach to repairing hard acrylic appliances including, but not limited to, effortlessly bonding new acrylic to cracks or chips in their own. Mending a laminate appliance can become more complicated when considering the soft liner located on the inside. Many times that same soft layer has been shown to absorb moisture and start to yellow with bacteria. Unfortunately this is not a matter of repair, rather a matter of replacement.
Gergen's Orthodontic Lab, which is the largest manufacturer of the Sleep Herbst in the country, has seen hard acrylic appliances last over to 20 years. Regrettably, the soft layer in laminate appliances always eventually loses the bond to the hard layer- meaning it will always peel apart over time, leading to the doctor sending it back to the manufacturing lab to be rebuilt.
Typically patient comfort is one of the cornerstones of the decision making process in choosing treatments. While each of the designs have equal amounts of pros and cons to patient satisfaction, time and time again there have been proven patterns and methods that demonstrate it is easier to overcome the cons associated with treatment via hard acrylic appliances. This is contrary to general belief being that dual laminates are more comfortable. Moreover, tongue space is greatly reduced in dual laminate appliances due to the extra layer being present.
All things considered, both hard acrylic and dual laminate appliances grant favorable benefits in many cases. Clearly though when taking into account the comparison of both designs regarding fitting, repairs, longevity and patient comfort the preferred choice when selecting one of the two is the hard acrylic design more often than not.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Anais Ate An Apple... and than a pear...
Harvest this pattern with me in the comfort of your four walls. Blue pears, pink apples - whatever your heart desires... Put them in your minds apron. Maybe you'll make an inspiration jam out of them... to spread later on... when winter would make all things colorless and cold. Store some fun in your head pantries:)
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Monday, September 28, 2009
I'm at it again... watercoloring. It really relaxes the mind and makes procrastination - productive:)
I've had a wonderful workless weekend. I got to squeeze more of these into my life.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
1 2 3 4 5 6 7... all good patterns go to heaven...
I love designing characters. Building little stories behind them (between us friends) and giving them hats to wear. My kind of fun:) Well... and sometimes, they all end up in a pattern. They like it here - in this pattern. It's not windy, and so, the hats stay on. Plus, occasionally, a number or a shape floats on by and makes life a little more interesting.
To say that I've been busy would be an understatement. I'm buzzing around and finishing things up... and hoping for a peaceful weekend.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
inspires me today...
I'd like you to meet my new friend and a wonderful addition to my Italian pottery (from the 50s & 60s) collection - Mr. Horse.
His equine forms and beautifully textured glazes just make me happy every time I glance.
The 'art' photography is due to the fact that it is incredibly dark in my house even at the high noon.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
pigeons need folklore...
Took the pigeon out of urban setting. Pigeons need folklore too:) I'm an urban bird myself... but once in a while I want to see the country side.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
dear Mr. Blog,
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
mary had a little unicorn...
Unicorns... well, I've never been a fan... until I realized they don't have to be pink, rainbow glam with sparkles on top. So - here's is to the power of the magic of your imagination! My unicorns are brown and apple patterned. What kind are inside your head?:)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Experimenting with watercolors again. Put all that toomuchery that goes on in my head right onto paper.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
oh deer... look at all that yarn...
I've been trying to teach Lola how to knit a little while ago... but, looks like teaching is not my bag... or maybe she's too young. In any case, the imagery of yarn has been floating in my head and has finally materialized into a pattern:)
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Friday, September 11, 2009
square is in...
This kitty is too hip to be square:) ... too corny... I know...
In any case... Ta Da! My new square (8x8in) print is now available in my etsy shop!
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
fun halloween stuff...
A little while ago I did these Halloween designs for Family Fun magazine... and here they are:)
For those of us who are 'totally' into Halloween (I prefer not to think about it until November)... this could be a fun way to personalize your bags, your cupcakes and your house.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
I'm under the weather. The official sign that the school has started and the viruses are rejoicing:) Well... what can I do...
I have medicine and a large selection of movies I can watch over and over again. So... I work a little... and than I go downstairs and hug it out with my couch while watching some of my favorites. Yesterday... watched 'Run LOLA, Run'. Still love it as much as I did 10 years ago. My Lola got her name from that movie... that's how much I love it.
Well... I better run and do some real work... before DayQuil stops it's magic and this computer turns into a pumpkin...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
mini posters for American Girl magazine...
These little posters were made for the American Girl magazine. It's a halloween issue that's on stands now. Loved making these characters...
p.s.: just doesn't seem real that Halloween is around the corner. I'm holding on to the straws of summer... refusing to believe that fall is at the gate.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
heathy dose of...
Fun and friendly mutated creatures. There's always a shortage of these two... and that's where this pattern comes to the rescue. 100% monster fun and than some! Have you had your healthy dose?
Thursday, September 3, 2009
for my readers...
BlueQ has kindly offered to give my readers a 20% off
on any order over $30!
So... if you've always wanted something from BlueQ - this could be the best time to go and get it:)
Promocode: helen09
(all lower case with digits at the end – zero, nine)
From now through September 12th.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The summer is quickly evaporating. Sad, ha:(.... before it completely disappears into the thin air... I'll show you these 2 dresses I've had pleasure purchasing from a super awesome etsy store meli-melon! Made with love in Barcelona - these dresses were just too pretty to pass by...
My kids wardrobe is certainly better than mine now. I'm a little jealous:)
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
this is the way the mornings go...
First day of school:
Wake up way too early. Wash, brush, dress, feed, make hair and pack... with a side order of running around like a headless chicken. Sounds like fun... doesn't it...
Well... when it's all over, and a little yellow bus is a tiny dot on a horizon... it's time for coffee... time for blogging and... eventually - time for work. But first - COFFEE.
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For a long time society has been telling us that all we need is love to solve the problems in the world. Popular songs suggest that only love can heal the broken heart and the lonely soul.
But love is easier said than done—especially when the person you're supposed to love annoys you, gets on your nerves, or simply doesn't deserve your love. The neighbor who goes out of his way to bother you. The co-worker who gossips about you. The old friend who turns on you. The spouse who doesn't communicate or who takes advantage of your kindness. What then? How are you supposed to love someone when it's the last thing you feel like doing?
In Loving Others No Matter What, John MacArthur shows how true biblical love can bridge the gulf between you and the people you have difficulty loving. In this study you'll learn how to put heaven's love into action with friends and enemies alike, in spite of how you feel about them.
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OAKLAND, Calif.A portrait of stagnation! Thats how U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan summarized the performance of American 15-year-old students, who slipped in the latest international rankings in reading, math and science.
This wasnt supposed to happen with a U.S. Department of Education.
At the Oct, 17, 1979, Department of Education Organization Act signing ceremony, President Jimmy Carter insisted that he had come to office determined to improve the return on Americans education investment.
I dont know what history will show, but my guess is that the best move...might very well be this establishment of this new Department of Education, he remarked at the time.
History has proved Carter wrong, since overall student performance is no better today with a federal Education Department than it was decades ago without one. But were sure a lot poorer in the pocketbook.
Results on the Nations Report Card for 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and 17-year-olds in reading, math and science have virtually flat-lined since the early 1970seven though total public school funding more than doubled in real terms since thenincreasing nearly $400 billion, while student enrollment has grown less than 10 percent.
Opponents predicted such failure when the original Department of Education was establishedin 1867.
Back then opponents objected that the federal government just isnt qualified to manage education, so creating a centralized bureaucracy filled with clerks who cant teach a single student the A-B-Cs was derided as a useless extravagance.
After being downgraded to relative obscurity as the Office of Education in 1888, plans for resurrecting the department emerged during the Carter administrationlargely at the behest of the countrys largest teachers union, the National Education Association.
Twentieth-century opponents from both sides of the aisle again derided the notion that the feds or special interest groups know whats best for schoolchildren. Supporters also couldnt provide a shred of evidence that student achievement would improve under federal leadership.
Rather than waiting around a few more decades for some elusive federal know-how to miraculously kick in, we should turn to the states for evidence of actual academic improvement, particularly among disadvantaged students.
This year, nearly 245,000 students are attending schools that their parents have chosen for them through 32 voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs operating in 16 states and the District of Columbia, as well as one educational savings account program in Arizona. Scientific research consistently shows that participating students have higher graduation and college attendance rates, as well as higher reading and math scores than their peers.
These are compelling findings because students participating in parental choice programs are overwhelmingly from low-income families and previously had attended failing schools.
The reason choice programs succeed where multi-billion dollar federal Department of Education programs fail is simple. Parents are the real education experts. Unlike far-off federal politicians and bureaucrats, parents have only one special interesttheir children.
Parents empowered to enroll their children in schools they think are bestregardless of their income or addressintroduce immediate rewards for schools that perform well and unwelcome consequences for those that dont.
When schools have to compete for students, all children winnot just those participating in parental choice programs. More than 200 scientific analyses show beneficial effects of competition on public schools, including higher student achievement, graduation rates, efficiency, teacher salaries and smaller class sizes.
Nowhere does the word education appear in the Constitution. In fact, powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people, according to the 10th Amendment.
Nowadays the very notion of denying the federal government any unenumerated power is almost unthinkable. Yet, given the federal governments track record, the Framers of the Constitution were right to make the primacy of states and local citizens over education the supreme law of the land.


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For the past 20 years, I have been visiting developing nations to deliver healthcare. Recently, I made a conscious decision to look for a case of child abuse to write about. Late in 2011, during one of my visits to a third world country, I encountered multiple situations that rose to the level of possible child abuse. Here, I describe 3 such cases.
Most of the "Child Abuse-Or Mimic?" cases I have written that appear on this Web site have focused on cases involving children from developed countries. Like many of my colleagues here in the United States, I consider abuse daily in my differential diagnoses.
For the past 20 years, I have been visiting developing nations to deliver health care. Recently, I made a conscious decision to look for a case of child abuse to write about. Late in 2011, during one of my visits to a third world country, I encountered multiple situations that rose to the level of possible child abuse. Here I describe 3 such cases.
The practice of medicine in a developing nation presents a whole new dynamic. On earlier trips, I tended to view myself as a visitor present only to assist with medical issues: my goal was not to attempt to westernize the social climate. I suppose I turned a blind eye to the abuse in developing countries.
Case #1
The first case was that of a 12-year-old girl who had been impregnated by a 50-year-old man. The child presented to the clinic asking for a pregnancy test. She was very quiet and reluctant to give many details of her situation. In the United States, this would be an obvious case of statutory rape. Unfortunately, her situation proved to be more complicated. This child had been sold for a dowry when she was 11 years old-which is the social norm in some countries. She had no choice in this decision. A local nurse, who no longer follows the traditional culture, opined that this is a dreaded fate by young girls.
There was no way to help this child.
Case #2
The next case was an 11-year-old girl with a possible STI. The child, accompanied by her mother, presented with the complaint of an abnormal vaginal discharge. The mother served as the primary historian. The child sat lifelessly, wearing a blank stare while her mother conveyed the narrative. The mother stated that a local teenage boy raped her daughter as she was gathering firewood. The daughter later confirmed this story. The rape victim and her family had confronted the rapist and his family and were given assurances that this action would not occur again. The two families then "settled" the situation according to their culture-by having a joint feast.
That the child had to attend the settlement feast is unthinkable to western minds . . . yet it pales in comparison to the fact that the rapes had not ceased. This girl and her family live in a very rural area where protective elements such as Child Protective Services or local police were unable to provide any type of service. In their culture, the male suffers no consequences for his actions. The female will be treated as damaged goods for the rest of her life. Minimal advice of protection was applicable in this culture.
Case #3
The third case is another example of a cultural norm that would be viewed with horror in the United States. Children are branded as infants with a hot iron in multiple places (Figure 1). The branding serves two purposes. First, it identifies the child as part of the tribe. Second, it is necessary for acceptance in the tribe. Branding is done under unsterile and unanesthetized conditions to children who have no opportunity to refuse. The scarring it causes is irreversibly disfiguring.
This practice is tantamount to child labor. Young children as young as 6 or 7 years old are routinely seen tending part of the families' herd. Although their primary risk of harm comes from animal predators, they are missing their childhood. Missing their childhood robs them of what Americans might view as a chance to dream of a future. They are robbed of the chance to have any other view of the world.
The whole perspective is not negative though. In the government clinics that my colleagues and I staffed, I noticed posters warning of abuse, displayed for what might have been the first time. One poster pointed out the dangers of female genital mutilation (Figure 2) and warned of present and long-term problems. Our interpreter indicated that the poster presented female genital mutilation in a very negative light. Another poster warned of the dangers of domestic abuse (Figure 3). The message to adult females was: go to the hospital if this happens to you. A major problem, though, is that the hospital is a 1- to 2-day walk from most villages.
The outstanding highlight of my trip was a visit to a church-run hospital. The hospital was in the process of opening a child abuse center. The process of training local physicians to identify and refer abused children was just beginning. By report, it was the first such program in the country.
There is no one-line conclusion about these 3 cases. Was their treatment abuse-or are these simply social norms that are alien to me as a westerner? Or was their treatment an invasion of human rights?
After diligently observing the child abuse climate in a developing country, I fear that such abuse is an international scourge. It is encouraging to see the nascence of a movement in which a country rises to protect its youth. It will be interesting to see how this new trajectory will interact with societal and cultural norms.


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10 Steps to Venture Success
What If?
What if I could start my own retail business?
What if I could be a communication consultant?
What if I could launch my own computer service company?
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By taking this course, you are already taking the first step of what is an exciting and rewarding adventure for many. For others, starting and running their own venture is a bad choice. The reality is that most businesses will be out of business in less than 5 years after they get started - and most of these because they failed. The sad truth of the matter is that most of these business failures can be avoided. That is the purpose of this course - to help you avoid the pitfalls that can limit a business's success or even make it fail, and reinforce the strengths and decisions that can lead to success.
The course is a methodical 10-step process that begins with a self-assessment of suitability for being in business and concludes with a blueprint for implementing the new business venture. Each component of the program introduces a critical aspect of the entrepreneurial process and provides instructional and background material followed by self-testing tools to allow you to assess your own skills relative to the key issues of that course component. This interactive feature will productively lead you through the venture planning and preparation process.
Each step of the program builds on the prior step. At every stage, we introduce the issues that need to be addressed, the questions that need to be answered, and the additional resources that are available to assist with supporting a successful business venture.
The program is self-paced - you proceed to the next session when you are ready.
It is critical to spend time with the exercises. They are designed to provoke your thinking and the answers may not be immediately evident. We encourage you to read the materials presented thoughtfully. For once, there are no predetermined right or wrong answers - the right answers are the ones that work for you. The worksheets are in an interactive format. This means that you can complete the worksheet in your computer and then e-mail it to yourself (and anyone else you feel might be interested - your friend, counselor/consultant, or spouse, for example). We encourage you to set up a folder so that you can archive these forms once completed, forwarded to your email and printed in hard copy form. This process will help you to measure your progress, as well as provide an immediate and valuable source of reference as you move forward.
It is valuable to have someone to discuss the various worksheet results with. There are really no right or wrong answers - instead, the right answer is the one that makes most sense for you. That is why using someone else as a sounding board can help determine whether it all really makes good sense.
If you are not already working with a local business counselor or adviser such as a Small Business Development Center, Women's Business Center, or SCORE, visit www.BUZGate.org to find an experienced virtual business mentor. The BUZGate website will also provide you with a range of additional free resources based on your own interests, including young entrepreneurs, veterans, women, minorities, and manufacturers.
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Session 1: Self-Assessment
Am I suited for running my own business?
Session 2: Business Idea
Do I have a viable business idea?
Session 3: Market Analysis
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Session 4: Management Skills
Do I have the skills needed to make this work?
Session 5: Business Plan
Do I have a complete business plan?
Session 6: Forecasting
Do I have a realistic forecast of revenues and costs?
Session 7: Financing
Am I aware of my business financing needs?
Session 8: Outside Resources
Do I understand what assistance may be available from public agencies?
Session 9: Venture Launch
Do I have the licenses, approvals and other issues covered that are needed for actually starting the new business?
Session 10: Monitor Progress
Am I prepared to monitor and control operations once started?
By following the program systematically and completely, a great deal of confusion about what to do next will be eliminated and the chances of your business success will be greatly increased.
Good Luck as you start on this exciting adventure!!
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text: While Samsung has significantly improved security with its Knox technology in the Galaxy S4, when it comes to locking down corporate data, BlackBerry holds on to the crown with the Z10, experts say.Samsung introduced the smartphone this week \u00a0in a flashy event in New York. While barely mentioning the Android operating system powering the device, Samsung touted the security features that it hopes will open the door into the enterprise.For corporations that have made mobile security a top priority, The S4 is sure to go up against the Z10, which goes on sale in the U.S. next Friday through AT&T. The S4 will be available through all the major U.S. carriers in the second quarter.Both devices have new technology that sets up separate areas for corporate and personal apps, while also keeping data apart. BlackBerry calls its technology Balance; \u00a0Samsung has named its product Knox.While both features do the same thing, BlackBerry adds another layer of security, by requiring corporate customers to use Enterprise Service 10 software on a server behind the firewall.BlackBerry also provides a cross-platform management tool to stretch corporate policies managing the use of corporate data and apps across Apple iOS and Android devices. The same can be done with S4, but third-party software would have to do the heavy lifting."I don't think the S4, from a security perspective, comes anywhere near what the Z10 does," said Jack Gold, analyst for J. Gold Associates. "BlackBerry has been known forever for being a very secure platform, and they continue that with the Z10."IDC analyst Stephen Drake, said he believes Samsung had come a lot closer to BlackBerry on security, but acknowledged the latter was still king. "It's hard to judge if one is [more secure] than the other," he said. "BlackBerry is certainly known as the gold standard in security. I don't think there's any question with BlackBerry's level of security."Samsung's big achievement is in taking security on Android to a new level at a time when the operating system is increasingly under attack by hackers. The number of Android malware is growing substantially faster than any other Web-delivered malicious app, Cisco said in its 2013 Annual Security Report. In addition, cybercriminals are building better tools for attacking the OS.[Also see: FTC moves against mobile device makers over security]Recognizing the trend, Samsung knows it has to get serious about security, if it hopes to convince companies to allow employees to use their Galaxy S4 or Galaxy tablets on corporate networks. Being able to use one device for work and play is important for many customers."What Samsung has done is begin to provide a new level of security for Android that hasn't been seen," Drake said.More than 70% of smartphones sold today are running Android, with Samsung selling about half of those devices. BlackBerry has a miniscule 1.1% of the overall smartphone market, but roughly a quarter of the U.S. enterprise market.Most Samsung users are consumers, so the corporate market has lots of potential. In 2012, less than 24% of corporations used Android devices, according to IDC.Knox is based on a new version of Samsung's SAFE management and security system for Android smartphones and tablets. SAFE stands for "Samsung For Enterprise."


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Dan Aykroyd is holding my skull in his hands. A genuine smile of surprise seems to play across the actor's face. I admit that he's not the first to cradle that heavy orb. His touch, though, is more gentle than that of the craftsman who had taken a saw to it a few days earlier. Right through the forehead he had cut it, a freehand slice that took the top clean off.
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I was expecting a crowd. I was not expecting a crowd of hundreds queued up outside a San Diego grocery store, waiting for a chance to plunk down $45 (it was on sale) for a bottle. The line stretches further past a Crystal Head RV than I can make out. When I ask him about its popularity, Aykroyd says that Crystal Head had recently produced its millionth bottle. That's a lot of glass skulls knocking around the planet.
A matronly woman buys eight. Aykroyd signs them all and poses for pictures. A younger man asks him to sign one for his brother's upcoming 21st birthday. Done. The former Saturday Night Live comedian is all smiles and charm, working his way patiently through the line while support staff break sweats to open cases, maintain displays, and keep order. I don't think to ask how many bottles are on hand. Hundreds, surely. A thousand? Possibly.
|On the table at BottleHood
His crew turned it into one of my favorite new tiki mugs.
Of the hundreds of brands of cut BottleHood sells — the jelly jars made from Dublin Dr. Pepper bottles, the Patron candy dishes, the drinking glasses of Mountain Valley water — Crystal Head is one Cherry can't keep in stock. You want an 18-oz Crystal Head drinking vessel? You have to bring him the bottle.
Unless Aykroyd pulls up in that RV with a skid of empties.
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COLUMBIA, S.C (March 31, 2007) - The ETSU track and field team posted solid results at the Weems Baskins Invitational as freshman Jarrod Burton (Tazewell, Va.) set a new school record in the shot put, and the men's 4x100-meter relay team broke a 12-year-old ETSU record on the track on Saturday.
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On the women's side, senior Anna Marie Ricciardi (Canfield,
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PROTESTERS IN NORTH Carolina toppled a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier overnight at a rally against racism.
Activists in Durham brought a ladder up to the statue and used a rope to pull down the Confederate Soldiers Monument that was dedicated in 1924. A diverse crowd of dozens cheered as the statue of a soldier holding a rifle fell to the ground in front of an old courthouse building that now houses local government offices.
Seconds after the monument fell, protesters began kicking the crumpled bronze monument.
"I was a little bit shocked people could come here and come together like that," said Isaiah Wallace, who is black.
Wallace said he watched as others toppled the statue. He hopes other Confederate symbols elsewhere will follow.
"I feel like this is going to send shockwaves through the country and hopefully they can bring down other racist symbols," he said.
The Durham protest was in response to a white nationalist rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. Authorities say one woman was killed on Saturday after one of the white nationalists drove his car into a group of peaceful counter-protesters.
Although the violence in Virginia has prompted fresh talk by government officials about bringing down symbols of the Confederacy around the South, North Carolina has a law protecting them.
The 2015 law prevents removing such monuments on public property without permission from state officials.
In response to the statue in Durham being torn down, Democratic North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper tweeted: "The racism and deadly violence in Charlottesville is unacceptable but there is a better way to remove these monuments."
After the statue fell, several dozen protesters congregated on the street in front of the old courthouse. Some took pictures standing or sitting on the toppled soldier, in front of a pedestal inscribed with the words "In Memory of the Boys Who Wore The Gray."
Police cruisers blocked off the street, and officers looked on — some filming. As it got dark, rally participants began to peacefully disperse.
Robin Williamson, who works downtown, arrived in the area about an hour after the statue came down. Williamson, who is black, said he can sympathise with people who are upset with the state of racial discourse in the country.
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He said that while Confederate monuments have been defaced in other cities, it was surprising to see an entire statue brought down by protesters.
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I realized today, as I was working on a presentation offline (I was on a plane), that I hadn't used Microsoft Word's spell checker for more than a year. I don't trust it nearly as much as I trust the collective intelligence of search. The Word spell checker is a top down approach to spelling, and search is a bottoms up. Even when Word tells me, via a red underlining, that I've spelled a word wrong, I'll cut and paste that misspelled word into the Google toolbar, rather than ask Word's spellchecker for a reference. That alone I bet means a significant portion of searches lost by Microsoft to Google. I know Microsoft is working on integrating Live search into its Office applications, but since I'm offline at the moment I can't check that. No matter what, the UI has to be easier than highlight, cut, paste, return, which is what I do now. I've always got the search bar in the background close to whatever work I'm doing. It's just not Microsoft's toolbar.
In short, Google is stealing my spelling searches from Microsoft Word (and Powerpoint as well). Interesting. Never thought of it that way before. Though of course it's consistent with the idea of work that used to be confined to apps and single machines migrating to the cloud.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Might turn orange from all the pumpkins we're using lately...
I'm all about pumpkins lately and today's baking of Chocolate Chip Pumpkin-Spice Bars certainly made a dent in my mashed pumpkin stash. The amount of certain ingredients may be a little shocking compared to what we would normally do, but keep in mind that these are cut into small squares. Three of my favorite spices, Vietnamese cinnamon, ginger and cloves infused their fallish aromas into the house while these bars baked - a few of the workers commented that they could work here everyday! I used mini chocolate chips in these bars as I find they are better dispersed in batters and are less likely to sink, but you could certainly use raisins or even no mix-ins if you prefer a plain pumpkin flavor. I highly suggest some chocolate though!
On top of these golden moist gems is a generous slathering of a luxurious sweet cream cheese frosting. In the interest of variety, I left some plain, topped some with chopped toasted walnuts and the rest were adorned with a grating of bittersweet chocolate.
These may just be my new favorite fall-time baked good. The pumpkin flavor is very present with just enough boost from the spices to heighten the flavors. It also gets bonus points for not being fussy and using up a bunch of pantry ingredients.
With all the activity, I only had a short time to prepare dinner tonight, so I opted to make Stracciatella Soup. This Italian egg drop soup took less than 15 minutes to make with most of the time just waiting for the pasta to cook. We simmered orzo in a mixture of vegetable broth and water - when the pasta was tender, we mixed in baby spinach and waited a minute for it to wilt down. A couple eggs and sharp Parmesan cheese are then whisked together and slowly drizzled into the hot soup. Be sure to do this off heat so the eggs don't cook to quickly - as they are drizzled in, they form little strands that fill the soup pot. While this was light, it was quite refreshing and filling being divided into two portions. I did serve this with some Sesame Twists I made early in the morning before it turned into a mad house, but I'll talk about those tomorrow!
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I thought that soup looked familiar. I saw it in the most recent Veg Times and thought about making it. I will definitely have to give it a try.ReplyDelete
They're *still* not finished with your kitchen?!? Methinks all the delicious scents may cause the workers to linger a bit longer...ReplyDelete
I have that soup on MY menu for tonight as well! Glad to hear it was a winner- I knew it would be when I saw it posted on one of the soup threads on CLBB.ReplyDelete
The pumpkin bars look delish- I'm off to check my pantry for those items, too!
THanks Joe!
ps. can't wait to see the kitchen
The pumpkin bars look so good! I was at a Taste Of Home Cooking School last night and one of the tips they gave was to roll your chocolate chips or raisins, etc in flour before you add them to batter and they won't sink.ReplyDelete
Linda - Yep! It was very good for being so easy.ReplyDelete
s'kat - Well maybe... the bigger issue is the installer went on vacation o_O
crafty p - I can't wait to show the kitchen!
Brenda - I agree, that's why I mixed them with the flour first! Though, sometimes it just doesn't seem to work.


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In doing some research on capitalism and racism lately, I have been re-reading Oliver Cromwell Cox's pioneering and excellent Caste, Class, & Race; A Study in Social Dynamics book, which was first published in the late 1940s. It is still very much worth reading and learning from. It is available for free in various pdf and ereader formats for the Monthly Review Press edition here. (I use the Kindle formatting in quotes below.)
Oliver Cox was one of the few early black sociologists in the United States, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1938. He was a student of Robert Ezra Park, yet provided some of the deepest and most insightful critiques of Park, the early Chicago school, and Gunnar Myrdal's famous An American Dilemma in this book, Caste, Class & Race.
One of the key figures historically in what has come to be called the "Black Radical tradition," Oliver Cox was probably the first to argue in some detail that racist framing and exploitation arose in the various stages of modern capitalism:
Racial antagonism is part and parcel of this class struggle, because it developed within the capitalist system as one of its fundamental traits. It may be demonstrated that racial antagonism, as we know it today, never existed in the world before about 1492; moreover, racial feeling developed concomitantly with the development of our modem social system. Probably one of the most persistent social illusions of modem times is that we have race prejudice against other people because they are physically different—that race prejudice is instinctive. (Kindle Locations 461-487)
Modern race prejudice and framing is not instinctive but develops in the material context of early capitalism. Cox added that
The interest behind racial antagonism is an exploitative interest— the peculiar type of economic exploitation characteristic of capitalist society. To be sure, [a white person] might say this cannot be, for one feels an almost irrepressible revulsion in the presence of colored people, especially Negroes, although one never had any need to exploit them. It is evidently the way they look, their physical difference, which is responsible for one's attitude. . . . [However] the individual is born into it and accepts it unconsciously, like his language, without question.
Racist prejudice and framing are learned in the broad material context of racial exploitation, and is generally accepted by most whites without question, even those who see themselves as uninvolved in exploitation. In this negative white racial framing black Americans
must not be allowed to think of themselves as human beings having certain basic rights protected in the formal law. On the whole, they came to America as forced labor, and our slavocracy could not persist without a consistent set of social attitudes which justified the system naturally. Negroes had to be thought of as subsocial and subhuman. To treat a slave as if he were a full-fledged human being would not only be dangerous but also highly inconsistent with the social system. (Kindle Locations 461-487).
Once put into place in the U.S. case, this racial prejudice and broader racial framing spread globally:
Our hypothesis is that racial exploitation and race prejudice developed among Europeans with the rise of capitalism and nationalism, and that because of the world-wide ramifications of capitalism, all racial antagonisms can be traced to the policies and attitudes of the leading capitalist people, the white people of Europe and North America. (Kindle Locations 8327-8329).
Later on, he summarizes this way:
Race prejudice in the United States is the socio-attitudinal matrix supporting a calculated and determined effort of a white ruling class to keep some people or peoples of color and their resources exploitable. In a quite literal sense the white ruling class is the Negro's burden; the saying that the white man will do anything for the Negro except get off his back puts the same idea graphically. It is the economic content of race prejudice which makes it a powerful and fearfully subduing force. . . . However, it is the human tendency, under capitalism, to break out of such a place, together with the determined counterpressure of exploiters, which produces essentially the lurid psychological complex called race prejudice. Thus race prejudice may be thought of as having its genesis in the propagandistic and legal contrivances of the white ruling class for securing mass support of its interest. (Kindle Locations 11973-11982).
. . . . [Whites] should not be distracted by the illusion of personal repugnance for a race. Whether, as individuals, [they] feel like or dislike for the colored person is not the crucial fact. What the ruling class requires of race prejudice is that it should uniformly produce racial antagonism; and its laws and propaganda are fashioned for this purpose. The attitude abhors a personal or sympathetic relationship. (Kindle Locations 11990-11997).
More than 60 years ago, Cox vigorously argued that racial prejudice and framing are results of concrete social and material contexts, not some psychological gremlins inherent in all human beings. And they destroy personal and empathetic relationships. These early classics are indeed well worth reading again today.


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Latin Catholic archdiocese and ecclesiastical province in Russia. For the few Catholics in Russia before the partition of Poland, some mission stations sufficed. The Jesuits, who came in ambassadorial suites, laboured in Moscow from 1648, and in 1691 built the first Catholic church there. The free exercise of the Catholic religion, granted in 1706 by Peter the Great, was also allowed by his immediate successors, on condition that the missionaries did not attempt to secure converts. The Capuchins, Franciscans, and Dominicans also laboured among the immigrant Catholics with fruitful results. When the Jesuits were suppressed in 1773, many of them found a refuge in Russia. However, no special diocese for Catholics was erected. The partitions of Poland brought under Russian sway many hundred thousand Catholics, whose treatment was in striking contrast to that meted out to the Uniats. While Uniate churches and monasteries were confiscated and delivered to the Orthodox, and such Uniats as refused to join the Orthodox Church were subjected to flogging, imprisonment, and confiscation of property, policy and shrewdness led the empress to treat the Latin Church very differently. Wishing to attach it to herself, she entrusted the Franciscans with the parishes of St. Petersburg and the neighbourhood, permitted the foundation of schools, and released churches and schools from all taxes.
As in the first partition of Poland none of the old Polish sees fell to Russia, the empress decided to found a diocese for her Latin Catholic subjects, and to exclude all foreign priests from Russia. Without consulting the pope, she erected the Diocese of White Russia with Mohileff as its see (1772), and appointed as first bishop Stanislaus Siestrzencewicz Bohusz, Auxiliary Bishop of Vilna (1773). At first Pius VI refused to recognize this see, mainly on account of the empress's arbitrary action and her persecution of the Uniats, but finally appointed the bishop vicar Apostolic of the new diocese. In 1782 Catharine arbitrarily raised the bishopric to an archdiocese. After some negotiations, the pope recognized the new Archdiocese of Mohileff by the Bull "Onerosa pastoralis officii" of 15 April, 1783, which reserved to the pope the foundation of other dioceses in the territory of the archdiocese, extending from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean. At the second partition of Poland (1793) five Latin sees fell to Russia, Kamenetz, Kieff, Livonia, Lutzk, and Vilna. Although Catharine had promised in the Treaty of Grodno (1793) to maintain the status quo as regards the Catholic Church, she arbitrarily suppressed these dioceses and founded two new ones in places with hardly any Catholics. Part of the property of the suppressed bishoprics was confiscated by the State and the rest given to favourites of the empress.
Catharine's son and successor, Paul I, began, directly after his accession, negotiations with Pius VI, with a view to reorganizing the Latin and Uniat Churches. Four of the five suppressed dioceses (Kamenetz, Vilna, Lutzik, and Livonia, the last under the title of Samogitia) were restored, and the new Diocese of Minsk was founded to replace Kieff. Part of the confiscated property was restored to the Church. The four old dioceses, with the new Diocese of Minsk, were made suffragans of Mohileff, which now became a proper ecclesiastical province. Pius VI confirmed this arrangement on 15 November, 1798, by the Bull "Maximis undique pressi", which forms the substantial basis of the constitution of the Latin Church in Russia today. The Archdiocese of Mohileff did not escape the persecutions to which both the Latin and Uniat Churches were almost constantly exposed, especially during the reigns of Nicholas I and Alexander II (see RUSSIA). In the hope of weakening the Catholic religion, which it hated and barely tolerated, the Government regularly selected aged or compliant men for Mohileff, leaving the pope no option but to confirm its choice. The first archbishop, Siestrzencewicz (b. 1730; d. 1 Dec., 1826), was one of its most pliable tools. Sprung from a noble but impoverished family of Lithuanian Calvinists, Siestrzencewicz, after serving in the army, became acquainted with Bishop Mussalki of Vilna, and through his influence entered the Catholic Church and became a priest. Mussalki, who never recognized Siestrzencewicz's lack of character, made him a canon and Auxiliary Bishop of Vilna.
Ambitious, uninfluenced by motives of honour or conscientious scruples, and greedy for power, Siestrzencewicz's sole aim was to curry favour with the secular authorities and thus secure despotic power over the Catholic Church in Russia. To limit as far as possible the power of his clergy, he persuaded Tsar Paul I to establish the "College of the Roman Catholic Church", to decide, as final court of appeal, all important matters concerning the Catholic dioceses. Its decisions had to receive the approval of the ruling senate, and it was furthermore declared the duty of the clergy to submit unconditionally to the will of the emperor in all matters, secular or ecclesiastical. The presiding officer of the college was Siestrzencewicz, who now established an absolute ecclesiastical despotism, appointing to the council only unworthy and subservient men. He granted unlawful divorces for money, induced Alexander I, Paul's successor, to expel the nuncio (who had reported to Rome the archbishop's unscrupulous conduct), and did not enter the feeblest protest against the expulsion of the Jesuits from the capital in 1815, and from Russia in 1820. Casper Casimir Kolumna Cieciszewski (b. 1745), Bishop of Lutzk, succeeded Siestrzencewicz (28 February, 1827; d. 16 April, 1831). His great age prevented him from doing much in face of the series of oppressive measures of Nicholas I, a fanatical adherent of the Orthodox Church. These measures which were intended to reduce the Catholic Church to a condition of servitude, and if possible to exterminate it completely in Russia, were furthered by the practice of leaving the archdiocese vacant for long periods—e.g. after the death of Cieciszewski and his successor, Ignaz Ludwig Pawlowski (1841-42; b. 1775).
An expostulatory address presented by Pope Gregory XVI to the tsar during his visit to Rome in 1845 led to a Concordat, ratified by Russia in 1848 and promulgated by Pius IX, in accordance with which the Diocese of Tiraspol, with Saratoff as its see, was founded for the Catholic colonists in Southern Russia and made a suffragan of Mohileff. In December, 1848, Casimir Dmochowski (b. 1772; d. 11 January, 1851) was appointed archbishop. He was succeeded by Ignaz Holowin'ski (1851-5) and Wenceslaus Zylin'ski (1856-63), a tool of the government. Persecution, suppression, and confiscation continued, even after the Concordat, especially under Alexander II. The Diocese of Kamenetz was arbitrarily suppressed in 1855, and Minsk has been vacant since 1869. Under Nicholas II free exercise of religion was granted in 1905, while the edicts of toleration of 17 April and 17 October, 1905, weakened in some measure the privileged position of the Orthodox Church. These alleviations have, however, been since whittled down by the arbitrary conduct of subordinate officials, acting with the tacit approval of the government. The recent archbishops are: Antonius Fialkowski (1871-83); Alexander Casimir Dziewaltowski Gintowt (1883-9); Simon Martin Kozlowski (1891-9); Boleslaw Hieronymous Klopotowskli (1901-03); George Joseph Elesäus a Slupóff Szembek (1903-5); Appolinaris Waukowski (1909), and Vincentius Kluczn'ski (appointed 5 June, 1910).
The suffragans of Mohileff are: Samogitia, Lutzk-Zhitomir, Vilna, and Tirasopol. From 1866 Kamenetz has been administered by the Bishop of Lutzk, and from 1869 Minsk by the archbishop. The ecclesiastical province is the largest in the world, including three-fourths of European (the ecclesiastical province of Warsaw is excluded) and the whole of Asiatic Russia (5,400,000 sq. miles). According to the diocesan statistics for 1910 the archdiocese contains 28 deaneries, 245 parish churches, 399 priests, 1,023,347 Catholics. The administrators of thirty-four other parishes and chapels are immediately under the jurisdiction of the archbishop. Among these the most important are: Chernigoff (10,600), Tashkent (15,000); and in Siberia: Krasnoyarsk (13,000), Tomsk (10,000), Vladivostok (10,500), etc. The see of the archdiocese is St. Petersburg. The archbishop presides over the Roman Catholic Collegium, which regulates the relations between the respective dioceses and the Department of Public Worship, and administers the property of the Catholic Church. The Metropolitan Curia consists of a secretary and four other members; the archdiocesan chapter of a provost, dean, archdeacon, and six canons; the General Consistory of an official (secular administrator for the bishop), vice-official, three assessors, visitor of monasteries, Defensor matrimoniorum, and twelve lay members. The Roman Catholic ecclesiastical academy at St. Petersburg has a rector, spiritual director, sixteen clerical and seven secular professors, and 58 students. The seminary has 2 provisors, a rector, spiritual director, inspector, 14 clerical and 5 secular professors, 33 theological students, 59 philosophical, and 31 in the preparatory course. There are no statistics as to the monasteries of the diocese. From 1908 a Catholic monthly has been published at St. Petersburg.
THEINER, Die neuesten Zustände der kathol. Kirche beider Ritus in Polen u. Russland (Augsberg, 1841); LESC•UR, L'église cathol. en Pologne sous le gouvernement russe 1778-1876 (Paris, 1876); PIERLING, La Russie et le Saint-Siège (4 vols., Paris, 1896-1907); GODLEWSKI, Monumenta ecclesiastica Petropolitana (3 vols., St. Petersburg, 1906-9); Elenchus omnium ecclesiarum et universi cleri archidiæceseos Mohylovicensis pro anno Domini 1910 conscriptus (St. Petersburg, 1910).
APA citation. (1911). Mohileff. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10428a.htm
MLA citation. "Mohileff." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10428a.htm>.
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Santana, Carrera homer as Tribe tops Crew
PHOENIX -- Carlos Santana hit a two-run home run and Ezequiel Carrera added a solo shot as an Indians split squad beat the Brewers, 7-4, at Maryvale Baseball Park on Sunday.
Carrera also walked twice and scored two runs to help the Indians overcome a four-run Brewers first inning against Indians starter Carlos Carrasco, who pitched against Major League hitters for the first time since undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2011. Other Indians pitchers fared better, with Scott Kazmir, Trevor Bauer and David Huff each delivering two scoreless innings.
Kazmir allowed a hit with one strikeout. Bauer surrendered two hits but struck out two.
Both teams' starters struggled in the first inning.
Milwaukee's Mark Rogers made his first-career Cactus League start and allowed two runs on two hits, three walks and a wild pitch in 1 2/3 innings, including a two-run Indians first inning that included a trio of stolen bases.
Rogers said he was simply out of rhythm.
"I wasn't free and easy like I have been in my bullpen sessions," he said. "I just felt like I put a little too much pressure on myself trying to be perfect, rather than just going up there to throw the ball. I'll try to forget about this one and take it for what it is, the first start of the year. There were a lot of things I can build off of."
For Cleveland, Carrasco made his first Major League start since Aug. 3, 2011, allowing four Brewers runs, three earned, on four hits and a walk in the first inning. Caleb Gindl's two-out, two-run single was the biggest hit, and Indians defenders made Carrasco's work more difficult by committing a pair of errors.
"My arm's great," Carrasco said. "I got too excited today for the first time. It was my first outing today. I've got a couple more. This is what happened and I can't do anything about it."
Up next: The Indians hit the road for the first time this spring when they travel across town to Phoenix Municipal Stadium to meet the Athletics at 3:05 p.m. ET. Cleveland ace Justin Masterson is slated to get the start in his first action of 2013. He will likely only pitch two innings. Unlike Sunday, the team will be together for Monday's game as their next split-squad game isn't scheduled until March 6.


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Washington, D.C. -- Kohl's Corp. ranked second on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership's latest ranking of the Top 50 partners using the most renewable electricity. Kohl's joined the top-ranking Intel as the only two partners using more than 1 billion kWh of green power. The retailer increased its green power purchase to more than 1.4 billion kWh of green power annually. Other retailers in the top ten included Whole Foods Market, Staples, which Staples, which jumped from number 28 to eight in the ranks by more than doubling its renewable energy purchases, from 22% to 52%
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Product Description Sb-50 the price of fully auto mini rice mill plant in Nepal Feature: Sb-50 the price of fully auto mini rice mill plant in Nepal 1. It is mainly used for milling paddy into white rice in family, farm, grain processing plant, etc. 2. It can separates rice and bran automatically. 3. The special design of rice outlet can separate broken rice from whole rice automatically. 4.The crushing part can be used for grinding corn, soghum, rice ,beans,potato , brown rice , stem and beating. 5. It's ok to change the machine color to what you demand to satisfy your special requirement. 6. We could supply this machine with diesel or gasoline engine instead of electromotor if the electric power is unavailable. Techincal Parameter Sb-50 the price of fully auto mini rice mill plant in Nepal Overall Dimensions 760*440*1150mm Package Size 570*330*460mm Rated Power 2.2Kw Standard Motor-speed 2800r/min weight with motor 86kg Productivity Milling parts >140kg/h Rated Voltage 220 V Spindle speed Rice mill :1200 Detailed Images Packaging & Shipping Sb-50 the price of fully auto mini rice mill plant in Nepal 1. We pack the goods in durable cartons or wooden cases. 2. According to the quantity and shape of the product, we will take a different packaging process. And we can packaging as your require. 3. We could send the cargo by express, by air, by sea, or by railways via reliable forwarder. Company Information Hunan Jinsong Machinery Co.,Ltd, established in 1993,and was the first agricultural machinery company which engaged in R&D, production and sales of rice milling machine, it is the largest manufacturing base for min rice mill machine in Hunan province,China. The company has passed the ISO9001: 2008 quality management system certification, won the honors including "Hunan famous brand", and "Hunan famous trademark". It has more than 900 distribution and after-sales service networks in China, the ASEAN, and African countries. Certifications Advantages Why you choose us 1. From the hometown of China rice milling machinery Jinsong machinery is from Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province, where is the hometown of China rice milling machine with over 40 history of the development, so the quality and craftsmanship is the best in China, better than Sichuan, Wuhan, Henan and other province. 2. Focuing on one thing to make it perfection Jinsong machinery has alrady been for 25 years, and focus on make rice milling machinery for 25 years, is dedicated to research development, production, and sales, each spare parts of the machine is made by us, to control products quality strictly, we want to be the most competitive enterprises in the world.Our mission is to become "Century enterprice " on rice mill machine. 3. Convenient Transportation From our factory to Guangzhou Port only about 600 km, and to Shenzhen port about 700 km, Guangzhou Port is the one of the biggest port with long history, many customers have the forwarder in Guangzhou, the cost is cheapest in China.( Research Shuangfeng County on the Google map) FAQ Sb-50 the price of fully auto mini rice mill plant in Nepal Q1. Are you manufacturer or trading company? A: We are manufacturer based in Hunan Province. Q2. What are your terms of Packing? A: Generally we pack the small rice mill in standard export carton box, suitable for shipping container, wooden box is optional, but more expensive. Q3. How about the mini rice mill machinery delivery time? A. It will takes 7-15 days after receiving your down payment in advance as usual. Q4. What is the MOQ? A: No special requirements for the MOQ, one unit starts our business. http://www.jsricemill.comMini Rice Mill, Auto Rice Mill, Mini Rice Mill Plant,
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With the Canada Post strike showing no signs of ending, Elections BC says it's considering extending the deadline for submitting ballots in the electoral reform referendum.
Currently, voters have until Nov. 30 to get their ballot in with their opinion on proportional representation versus first past the post.
But Elections BC spokesperson Andrew Watson said Thursday the agency will push that date back if voters are prevented from participating through "no fault of their own."
"We expect to make a decision soon," Watson wrote in an email to Black Press Media Thursday. "We're in daily contact with Canada Post and are working to understand the full impact of the rotating strikes."
About 27 per cent of voters have mailed back their packages, even as critics of the referendum say the government has done a poor job of explaining the options to British Columbians.
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Planning for the Future of Vermont's Electric Power Grid
In 2007, Vermont stakeholders began convening as the Vermont System Planning Committee—or VSPC—the first statewide collaborative process for addressing electric grid reliability planning. The goal of the process is to ensure full, fair and timely consideration of all options to solve grid reliability issues. Ultimately, the VSPC helps Vermont fulfill an important public policy goal: to ensure that the most cost effective solution gets chosen, whether it is a poles-and-wires upgrade, energy efficiency, demand response, generation, or a hybrid solution.
The VSPC's work must coordinate with many other stakeholders at the local, state and regional levels. In particular, ISO-New England has the primary responsibility for transmission planning in the region, so the utilities must coordinate closely with ISO-NE in all its work. In addition, many others play important roles in Vermont's planning process, such as regional planning commissions and local energy committees.
The VSPC process is focused on grid reliability, which is essential to today's society. As other types of transmission projects, such as merchant, public policy-driven and economic upgrades, are proposed, the VSPC provides an forum for exchange about the increasingly complex electric system picture. The VSPC website has two goals:
- To provide information and transparency to the public about Vermont's transmission planning process.
- To support the information needs of VSPC participants for meeting preparation and archives.


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Local area network
A local area network is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. By contrast, a wide area network not only covers a larger geographic distance, but also generally involves leased telecommunication circuits.
Ethernet and Wi-Fi are the two most common technologies in use for local area networks. Historical network technologies include ARCNET, Token ring, and AppleTalk.
HistoryThe increasing demand and usage of computers in universities and research labs in the late 1960s generated the need to provide high-speed interconnections between computer systems. A 1970 report from the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory detailing the growth of their "Octopus" network gave a good indication of the situation.
A number of experimental and early commercial LAN technologies were developed in the 1970s. Cambridge Ring was developed at Cambridge University starting in 1974. Ethernet was developed at Xerox PARC between 1973 and 1974. ARCNET was developed by Datapoint Corporation in 1976 and announced in 1977. It had the first commercial installation in December 1977 at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
The development and proliferation of personal computers using the CP/M operating system in the late 1970s, and later DOS-based systems starting in 1981, meant that many sites grew to dozens or even hundreds of computers. The initial driving force for networking was to share storage and printers, both of which were expensive at the time. There was much enthusiasm for the concept, and for several years, from about 1983 onward, computer industry pundits would regularly declare the coming year to be, "The year of the LAN".
In practice, the concept was marred by proliferation of incompatible physical layer and network protocol implementations, and a plethora of methods of sharing resources. Typically, each vendor would have its own type of network card, cabling, protocol, and network operating system. A solution appeared with the advent of Novell NetWare which provided even-handed support for dozens of competing card and cable types, and a much more sophisticated operating system than most of its competitors. Netware dominated the personal computer LAN business from early after its introduction in 1983 until the mid-1990s when Microsoft introduced Windows NT.
Of the competitors to NetWare, only Banyan Vines had comparable technical strengths, but Banyan never gained a secure base. 3Com produced 3+Share and Microsoft produced MS-Net. These then formed the basis for collaboration between Microsoft and 3Com to create a simple network operating system LAN Manager and its cousin, IBM's LAN Server. None of these enjoyed any lasting success.
In 1983, TCP/IP was first shown capable of supporting actual defense department applications on a Defense Communication Agency LAN test bed located at Reston, Virginia. The TCP/IP-based LAN successfully supported Telnet, FTP, and a Defense Department teleconferencing application. This demonstrated the feasibility of employing TCP/IP LANs to interconnect Worldwide Military Command and Control System computers at command centers throughout the United States. However, WWMCCS was superseded by the Global Command and Control System before that could happen.
During the same period, Unix workstations were using TCP/IP networking. Although this market segment is now much reduced, the technologies developed in this area continue to be influential on the Internet and in both Linux and Apple Mac OS X networking—and the TCP/IP protocol has replaced IPX, AppleTalk, NBF, and other protocols used by the early PC LANs.
CablingEarly Ethernet used coaxial cable. Shielded twisted pair was used in IBM's Token Ring LAN implementation. In 1984, StarLAN showed the potential of simple unshielded twisted pair by using category 3 cable—the same cable used for telephone systems. This led to the development of 10BASE-T and structured cabling which is still the basis of most commercial LANs today.
While optical fiber cable is common for links between network switches, use of fiber to the desktop is rare.
Wireless mediaIn a wireless LAN, users have unrestricted movement within the coverage area. Wireless networks have become popular in residences and small businesses, because of their ease of installation. Most wireless LANs use Wi-Fi as it is built into smartphones, tablet computers and laptops. Guests are often offered Internet access via a hotspot service.
Technical aspectsdescribes the layout of interconnections between devices and network segments. At the data link layer and physical layer, a wide variety of LAN topologies have been used, including ring, bus, mesh and star.
Simple LANs generally consist of cabling and one or more switches. A switch can be connected to a router, cable modem, or ADSL modem for Internet access. A LAN can include a wide variety of other network devices such as firewalls, load balancers, and network intrusion detection. Advanced LANs are characterized by their use of redundant links with switches using the spanning tree protocol to prevent loops, their ability to manage differing traffic types via quality of service, and their ability to segregate traffic with VLANs.
At the higher network layers, protocols such as NetBIOS, IPX/SPX, AppleTalk and others were once common, but the Internet protocol suite has prevailed as the standard of choice.
LANs can maintain connections with other LANs via leased lines, leased services, or across the Internet using virtual private network technologies. Depending on how the connections are established and secured, and the distance involved, such linked LANs may also be classified as a metropolitan area network or a wide area network.


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Obama's liberal base, led by the influential Center for American Progress (CAP), proposed on Friday a number of measures designed to rollback the Second Amendment, including a proposal to disarm Americans the government has classified as terrorists.
CAP was founded by the head of Obama's presidential transition team after the 2008 election and the former chief of staff for president Clinton, John Podesta. The think tank receives funding from George Soros and the Democracy Alliance, an organization founded by former Clinton Treasury official Rob Stein. Members include former Rockefeller Family Fund president Anne Bartley, Tides Foundation founder Drummond Pike, and a roster of influential and wealthy liberals.
On Monday, CAP boss Neera Tanden will moderate a discussion between Democrats who have played leading roles in the effort to scale back the Second Amendment, including Rahm Emanuel, the current mayor of handgun-free Chicago and Obama's former chief of staff. Emanuel was instrumental during the Clinton administration in getting the first assault weapons ban passed and is currently working on legislation in Chicago to seize firearms. Other Democrats who will take part in the CAP discussion include the notorious gun-grabber Chuck Schumer from New York and California's Rep. Mike Thompson, who chairs the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.
Back in 2007, Emanuel, then a member of the United States House of Representatives, told the annual Stand Up For a Safe America event sponsored by the Brady Center that Americans on the terrorist no fly list would not be allowed to own a gun.
At the time, according to the Inspector General of the FBI-administered Terrorist Screening Center, there were well over 700,000 names on the no-fly database and the list was growing at an astronomical rate of 20,000 records per month.
"The news that the list is growing tells us that more people's rights are being violated. It's a secret list, and the government puts people on it without any explanation," said Nusrat Choudhury, an ACLU lawyer, last February.
Democrat senator Daine Feinstein, who has spearheaded the latest anti-Second Amendment effort and heads up the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in 2010 the "no-fly list itself is one of our best lines of defense" and recommended it be expanded and administered by the TSA.
In 2009, we reported that Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy had introduced The No Fly, No Buy Act (H.R. 2401), a bill to merge the TSA's no-fly list with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), the point-of-sale system for determining government approved eligibility to purchase a firearm. CAP's top recommendation is to require criminal background checks for all gun sales, including sales at gun shows and private transactions between individuals.
Since the election of Obama, liberals have crafted a right-wing terrorist narrative and have used it against their political enemies. The so-called "rightwing extremist" document produced by the Department of Homeland Security during the Bush administration and subsequently leaked to the media in April of 2009 revealed how the government considers patriot groups a terrorist threat. The DHS has worked closely with the Southern Poverty Law Center and other ideological groups to demonize a wide array of political groups and individuals ostensibly on the right.
The establishment will continue to exploit the Sandy Hook massacre and other violent incidents as they work in incremental and piecemeal fashion to destroy the Second Amendment and deny their political enemies the right to possess firearms. The government's secret no-fly and terrorist watchlists will be used to target political enemies.
So-called gun control is not primarily about protecting children. It is about disarming political enemies. The Democrat party and so-called liberal foundations have effectively corralled what they consider subversive elements on the left – as the destruction of the antiwar and Occupy movements by the establishment show – and the only remaining threat comes from patriot and constitutionalist groups that understand the importance of the Second Amendment and its real purpose – an armed defense against tyranny.


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A federal judge on Monday overturned Chicago's ban on the sale and transfer of firearms, ruling that the city's ordinances aimed at reducing gun violence are unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang said in his ruling that while the government has a duty to protect its citizens, it's also obligated to protect constitutional rights, including the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. However, Chang said he would temporarily stay the effects of his ruling, meaning the ordinances can stand while the city decides whether to appeal.
The decision is just the latest to attack what were some of the toughest gun-control laws in the nation. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Chicago's long-standing gun ban. And last year, Illinois legislators were forced by a federal appeals court to adopt a law allowing residents to carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the only state that still banned the practice. The resulting state law largely stripped city and officials of surrounding Cook County of their authority to regulate guns, which especially irked officials in Chicago, where residents had to apply for concealed-carry permits through the police chief.
National Rifle Association lobbyist Todd Vandermyde applauded Chang's decision, saying the fact a federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama "ruled in favor of the Second Amendment, shows how out of step and outrageous Chicago's ordinances really are."
Roderick Drew, a spokesman for Chicago's law department, did not immediately return telephone calls for comment.
Chang's ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers and three Chicago residents. The judge noted Chicago's ban covers not only federally licensed firearms dealers, but also gifts among family members, all in the name of reducing gun violence.
Chang wrote that the nation's third-largest city "goes too far in outright banning legal buyers and legal dealers from engaging in lawful acquisitions and lawful sales of firearms, and at the same time the evidence does not support that the complete ban sufficiently furthers the purposes that the ordinance tries to serve."
Chicago last year had more homicides than any city in the nation. City officials have long acknowledged the ban on gun sales has been weakened due to the legal sale of guns in some surrounding suburbs and states.
Chicago gun collector Kenneth Pacholski, one of the plaintiffs, said he has no interest in selling guns and buys only antique guns that he intends to keep. But he said Chicago's ban was unreasonable.
"All the people I know who own guns legally are really careful," said Pacholski, whose wife, also was a plaintiff. "I'm a collector; my guns are not going anywhere unless I know where they're going because I don't want to be responsible for someone's death."
Illinois Council Against Hand Gun Violence campaign coordinator Mark Walsh said he wasn't surprised by the ruling, based on the court's recent rulings on Chicago's gun control measures.
"I'm not sure what the city's plan is (in reacting to ruling), but I think obviously there is a need to make sure gun dealers coming into the city are aware of those who have restrictions on gun ownership and don't sell to them," he said.
Chicago still has a ban on assault weapons.


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Split Pea with Ham Soup
I love this time of year because I can make soups and stews all winter long. It has been brisk and raining this week so I decided to make a big pot of soup. My mom made split pea soup in the crockpot when I was a kid and I have always loved it. I used to make it very smooth and well blended with an immersion blender but I now like eating it with chunks of ham, carrots, and potatoes. It's a quick and easy recipe that is perfect for lunch or dinner. I served this soup with fresh baked bread and butter along with a green salad. It was a delicious, filling, and healthy dinner.
Split Pea with Ham Soup:
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1-2 carrots, diced
- 1-2 stalks of celery, diced
- 1 large russet potato, peeled and diced
- 1 lb ham steak, diced
- 7-8 cups of chicken stock or vegetable stock
- 1 1lb bag of dried split peas (rinsed)
- 1 bay leaf Salt and pepper to taste
How to Make Split Pea with Ham Soup
Heat olive oil in a dutch oven pot over medium heat. Cook the onion until slightly tender. Add garlic and ham & cook for 60 seconds.
Add the stock, split peas, bay leaf to the pot, and salt and pepper, to taste. Cook over medium-low heat for 1 1/2 – 2 hours.
Add the carrots, celery and potatoes then cook for an additional 30-45 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Remove bay leaf. If you want it to be a bit thicker, mix with an immersion blender for a few seconds. Enjoy.


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The streets are buzzing that Chanel Iman and A$AP Rocky are engaged!
Page Six reports:
Top model Chanel Iman is secretly engaged to rapper A$AP Rocky, sources exclusively tell Page Six.
We are told that while she happily accepted his proposal, the pair are keeping it quiet for the moment.
Iman was spotted without an engagement ring at Montblanc's celebration of the 90th anniversary of their Meisterstück line of pens at Guastavino's.
She mingled with guests Edward Norton, Rosario Dawson, Sebastian Stan and Alek Wek, and Montblanc's Jérôme Lambert.
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Volkswagen is recalling nearly 74,000 SUVs in the U.S. because a fuel pump flange can develop cracks and leak gasoline.
The recall covers Touareg SUVs with gasoline engines from 2004 to 2007.
It's part of a larger recall announced in July by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration involving flanges made by parts supplier Continental that could affect millions of vehicles. The agency is investigating which vehicles are affected.
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VW says the safety agency found consumer complaints about the problem. Aging oxidation can weaken the flanges and cause small cracks. Those can leak fuel and cause fires, although documents don't mention any.
Dealers will inspect the flanges and replace them if necessary. Those without cracks will get a protective cover.
Owners will be notified starting Nov. 19.


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Spanking tied to later aggression among kids
Think spanking will help teach an out of control child to stay in line? A new study suggests the opposite may be true.
Researchers found kids who were spanked as five-year-olds were slightly more likely to be aggressive and break rules later in elementary school.
Those results are in keeping with past research, said Elizabeth Gershoff. She studies parental discipline and its effects at the University of Texas at Austin.
"There's just no evidence that spanking is good for kids," she told Reuters Health.
"Spanking models aggression as a way of solving problems, that you can hit people and get what you want," Gershoff, who wasn't involved in the new study, said.
"When (children) want another kid's toy, the parents haven't taught them how to use their words or how to negotiate."
Despite mounting evidence on the harms tied to spanking, it is "still a very typical experience" for U.S. children, the study's lead author said.
"Most kids experience spanking at least some point in time," Michael MacKenzie, from Columbia University in New York, said. "So there's this disconnect."
His team used data from a long-term study of children born in one of 20 U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000. The new report includes about 1,900 kids.
Researchers surveyed parents when children were three and five years old about whether and how often they spanked their child.
Then they asked mothers about their kid's behavior problems and gave the children a vocabulary test at age nine.
A total of 57 percent of mothers and 40 percent of fathers said they spanked children when they were three years old. That fell slightly to 52 percent of mothers and 33 percent of fathers who spanked at age five.
Children acted out more and were more aggressive when they had been spanked by their mothers as five-year-olds, whether regularly or occasionally.
Spanking by mothers at least twice a week was tied to a two-point increase on a 70-point scale of problem behavior. That was after the researchers took into account children's behavior at younger ages and other family characteristics.
There was no link between spanking by parents at age three and children's later behavior, however.
Kids also tended to score lower on vocabulary tests when they had been regularly spanked by their fathers at age five, MacKenzie and his colleagues write in Pediatrics.
The average vocabulary score for all nine-year-olds in the study was 93, slightly below the test-wide standard score of 100. Frequent spanking by fathers was linked to a four-point lower score. But the researchers couldn't be sure that small difference wasn't due to chance.
Gershoff said the finding is a bit hard to interpret. "I don't think that spanking makes kids stupider," she said.
It's possible that parents who are spanking are not talking to their children as often, Gershoff said. Or kids who are spanked and act out could be more distracted in the classroom.
When it comes to disciplining children, she said there's more evidence on what doesn't work long-term than what does.
"We know that spanking doesn't work, we know that yelling doesn't work," Gershoff said. "Timeout is kind of a mixed bag. We know that reasoning does work."
MacKenzie said spanking continues to seem effective to parents in the short term, which makes it hard to change their minds about it.
"It's strongly associated with immediate compliance," he told Reuters Health. "Children will change their behavior in the moment."
Because family strain and spanking often go together, he said doctors should try to support stressed parents to encourage more positive forms of discipline.
"The techniques that are designed to promote positive behaviors … oftentimes take more effort and time to put into place," MacKenzie said.
Source: Reuters