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Conan O'Brien and NBC reached a deal Thursday to terminate the comedian's contract just seven months after was named host of "The Tonight Show." The network also announced that Jay Leno will return as host of "The Tonight Show" on March 1. The statement did not provide details on the agreement. But people familiar with the negotiations said O'Brien stands to receive a severance payment of about $32 million plus about $12 million for his staff.The deal is said to contain a clause that would prohibit both O'Brien and NBC from making disparaging comments about each other in public. It will also strip O'Brien of intellectual property rights to characters he created during his tenure at NBC, such as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, according to people familiar with the terms
I just think it sucks that some of these characters in essence have been written off. While individually they may not have been the greatest, collectively they made up a fantastic ensemble funny tidbits.
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Crazy Moments in American History
I don't mean the crazy stuff that's happened to us, like Pearl Harbor or 9/11, both of which we can all agree, crazy. Instead, I'm talking about moments when the crazy level in America (a measurement of our citizens' craziness) goes off the charts. Just this month, we've had the Birthers and the Health Care Town Hall Shouters, who liken Obama to Hitler because they think Obama's a socialist and Hitler was a National Socialist (a movement which was actually fascist, but hey, words are confusing). Oh, and Sarah Palin.
So, there's three. McCarthyism was pretty batshit as well. Also, waterbeds. What's your vote?


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Every investor knows intuitively that it pays to learn everything possible about a potential property acquisition. The due diligence process enables a buyer to verify the seller's representation of the property and substantiate its market value.
But a buyer's investigation should not stop with conventional due diligence, which may overlook factors that can affect the cash flow or legal exposure of the new owner. A more comprehensive study of a potential acquisition can have significant impact on the new owner's net operating income (NOI). An effective way to reduce the risk in acquiring a property and gain negotiating leverage is to include a compliance audit in the due diligence process.
A Powerful Negotiating Tool
A compliance audit goes beyond the financial findings and anomalies that may be revealed in a conventional paper audit. The compliance auditor compares the property's physical and performance profile as described in the property prospectus to what is actually happening in day-to-day operations.
The process involves a thorough, on-site examination and cross check of the property's operating records. The auditor's report will highlight any gaps that are discovered and provide the buyer with information that can affect the transaction price and increase the new owner's NOI after the sale.
The auditor performs a comprehensive analysis of the data and provides the buyer with a report that assesses the property's financial and operational health. Armed with this information, the buyer can come to the transaction table with strong negotiating power, or at least the assurance that the property is fairly priced.
Perhaps more important, the compliance audit is an effective tool for owners and investors as they operate the property. A systematic and periodic examination of ongoing operations can yield significant and sustainable improvement in NOI as a function of ongoing operations.
The following example illustrates how compliance auditing works for a multifamily property. Its methods, however, are applicable to all commercial properties. Working on-site, the compliance auditor delves into several performance areas, each affording opportunity for improvement. Some areas examined in a typical compliance audit include:
Lease folder review — The auditor examines the lease folder contents to confirm the existence of a rental agreement and to verify that a credit report is on file and that it meets the established standards. The lease folder review also is used to verify that previous landlord, credit and employment references have been checked.
Resident retention audit — The auditor reviews monthly resident retention efforts at the rental community, compares established lease renewal rates to the rental rate actually obtained, and ensures that new leases have been signed.
Rent roll audit — Here the auditor selects a representative sample from the lease portfolio and compares lease information with the rent roll data. The examination might include a search for gaps between actual lease security deposits to rent roll records, a comparison of actual rent rates to rent roll rates and a comparison of lease-term duration to rent- roll-term duration.
Management report — The auditor analyzes the findings and publishes a management report including the auditor's recommendations. The report serves as the client's road map to improved profitability by highlighting areas of non-compliance.
Standards in these areas are normally well defined by the company, and every site manager is thoroughly instructed in the company's processes and expectations. However, even the best site managers are challenged to adhere to these standards. And busy site managers and property owners often overlook the opportunities for improvement.
In the case of dishonest site managers, non-compliance issues are certain to be hidden from the owner, and the compliance auditor must be knowledgeable about how discrepancies can be concealed.
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Instituting a process of compliance auditing yields many short- and long-term benefits for current or potential owners. The process reduces delinquencies by assuring that the on-site staff is following established credit underwriting guidelines. This reduces unit turnover costs and increases cash flow. Compliance auditing also maximizes rental income potential and assures investors and clients of a commitment to management accountability.
The current economic environment requires out-of-the-box thinking to ensure the success of a potential investment and the ongoing profitability of that investment property. In good times and bad, compliance auditing is a management tool that makes good business sense.
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How Boston College and Tennessee Met in the 1941 Sugar Bowl
In October of 1940 Fred Digby covered a University of Tennessee football game. Immediately after filing his story, he sent a telegram to the Sugar Bowl urging consideration of the Vols. He informed the Mid-Winter Sports Association that no one on its schedule was capable of defeating Major Bob Neyland's squad.
Then, as the year before, there were many good football teams from which the bowls could choose: Boston College, Texas A&M, Nebraska, Mississippi State, or Fordham. All were outstanding.
Tennessee was the key. The Cotton Bowl again considered a Texas A&M-Volunteer match, while in Pasadena there was strong sentiment to invite Tennessee back a second consecutive year.
Neyland's team again finished as undefeated and untied Southeastern Conference champions. Only a loss to Southern California in the 1940 Rose Bowl spotted Tennessee's record over the course of 35 games.
The Tournament of Roses requested that Neyland hold off making a decision until it could decide. The coach saw no reason why he should gamble and take a chance of being shut out. On the evening of November 30, it was announced that Tennessee would play Boston College in the Sugar Bowl.
Boston College, under a 32-year-old firebrand coach, Frank Leahy, had run roughshod over the East and wiped out a 24-game Georgetown winning streak to wind up with a 10-0-0 record, identical to Tennessee's. An early-season 27-7 victory over Tulane in New Orleans first alerted Sugar Bowlers to Boston College's potential. Neyland was famous for putting his faith in a strong kicking game and defense, but the Vols' offense was extremely potent, having scored 319 points in 1940. Only one team in the country scored more. That was Boston College with 320. Two weeks after the announcement, the Sugar Bowl was declared a complete sellout. Despite the statistics and close rankings, Tennessee opened a touchdown favorite and stayed there.
New Orleans, for the third consecutive year, had come up with the best game possible. The Vols and Boston College were ranked fourth and fifth in the final Associated Press poll. But Minnesota and Michigan were first and third, and their conference, the Big Ten, did not allow bowl participation. Stanford, committed to the Rose Bowl, was second.
Billy Sullivan, then the Boston College publicist, remembers John Drummey, an athletic department treasurer, making the trip. Drummey was not a football fan, as Leahy found out in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where Boston College set up its pregame camp at St. Stanislaus High School. Drummey pulled up in the middle of an unusually tough scrimmage while the intense Leahy bombasted the players. Drummey left his car, cheerfully walked to Leahy and said, "Don't worry about it, coach. It doesn't make any difference. I have the biggest check we've ever received for a football game."
Leahy turned a cold glare on the accountant and softly said, "John, it's just too bad you don't realize that this may be the greatest mismatch in history. This (Tennessee) is one of the greatest teams in history, the undefeated heavyweight champion. And all you're worried about is a check."
One observer at St. Stanislaus was Louis Montgomery, who knew full well what it would take to beat Tennessee: the best from every man on the Eagle roster. Montgomery's name was on the roster, but he would not be in uniform. He was a reserve running back, and he was black. In the South of the early 1940s, there was never any thought that Montgomery would suit up with his teammates.
"It's embarrassing to talk about it now," said the Rev. Maurice Dullea, S.J., then the facility-moderator at Boston College. "But the (Sugar Bowl) committee made it quite clear that a Negro would not be allowed to play. It was kind of touchy…But that's the way things were then…One of our graduate managers was afraid someone would shoot at Louis from the stands if we even let him on the sidelines with us. …Certain things didn't go with certain people in certain parts of the country. It was simply reality. Even the United States Army was segregated."
Jerry Nason, who covered the Eagles for the Boston Globe, said, "I'm almost ashamed to say it, and I was a guy who didn't mind stirring things up over an injustice, but it was just taken for granted when a team went South to play. I think the attitude was, 'We're gonna play in the South. They are our hosts, and we are their guests. We will play by their rules.' "
Montgomery was at least able to see his teammates in the Sugar Bowl. A black family in Bay St. Louis, people with ties to Boston College, wired Father Dullea offering a place to stay for the running back. When the Eagles played in the Cotton Bowl the year before, Montgomery wasn't even able to make the trip. For the Sugar Bowl he was given a job spotting for reporters in the press box. Nason and some of Montgomery's teammates were able to see him display his athletic talents a few days later in a black All-Star game played on the Xavier University campus.
Neyland seemed skittish about his opponent, even holding secret practices. His armada of football talent didn't appear as impressed. Bob Suffridge was considered the premier guard in the country, and he overshadowed Ed Molinski only slightly. Bobby Foxx was the backfield scourge of the SEC. These were the sort of specimens that had come to be associated with the image of great football.
George Kerr, a brilliant Greek and Latin student studying for the priesthood, was a standout in the Boston College line. Charlie O'Rourke, weighing about 147 pounds by the time of the Sugar Bowl game, was the Eagles' offensive trigger. End Gene Goodreault made most All-American teams, but even here the gladiator image didn't fit; he had been struck with a form of paralysis as a child. Several relapses nearly killed him. He had heart problems by the age of 11.
Goodreault overcame it all to become an All-American. However, a knee injury threatened to, but did not, keep him out of the Sugar Bowl.
This was not the look of a team to be sent against Neyland's three-deep legions. "We'll be satisfied with anything better than a tie," said Suffridge, who won the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as the outstanding lineman of the year, "but I believe we'll win by at least a touchdown."
Recap excerpted from the book "Sugar Bowl Classic: A History" by Marty Mulé, who covered the game and the organization for decades for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.


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No one knows just when the Asian citrus psyllid will arrive in California citrus, but scientists and governmental agencies agree that it — and the world-class disease it vectors - demand vigilance and preparation.
The tiny, aphid-sized ACP does direct damage to citrus as it feeds on foliage and deposits messy honeydew that brings on sooty mold. It also damages new shoot growth.
Well-established in Asia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and parts of Central and South America, ACP was first discovered in Palm Beach, Fla., in 1998 on landscape plantings of orange jasmine, a preferred host between new flushes of citrus growth.
But more damaging than the psyllid itself is the citrus greening disease it carries. The disease, or CGD, is one of the most devastating citrus pathogens in the world and is common in Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and parts of Brazil.
CGD, also known in Asia as huanglongbing, prevents fruit from sizing and coloring and causes the fruit to have a bitter taste. Another symptom is a characteristic yellowing of foliage.
In Brazil, where it may have lurked for a decade before being detected, it destroyed thousands of acres of citrus. It has spread through Central America and to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. In 2005, it showed up in Florida, where entomologists say coping with the insect alone would be manageable, but the sooty mold and CGD pose a much more serious economic threat.
In areas where CGD is established, infected trees may survive for five to eight years without producing marketable fruit. It is also transmitted by infected budwood and possibly by citrus seed. It is not carried by the fruit.
Entomologists and plant pathologists of the California Department of Food and Agriculture and University of California are taking cues from counterparts in Florida, where the disease has reached epidemic proportions in citrus in the southern part of the state.
According to Beth Grafton-Cardwell, UC Extension IPM specialist at Parlier, the primary defenses for the California citrus industry at the moment are the disease-free budwood program and detection and eradication of the ACP.
She said the ACP's arrival in California is inevitable, although when remains a question. "It will likely come in from Mexico by flying from tree to tree or by riding on infected plant material."
Using a grant from the California Citrus Research Board, Grafton-Cardwell invited University of Florida researcher Michael Rogers to speak at a recent seminar in Tulare for growers, PCAs, and others.
Rogers, assigned to the University of Florida's Research and Education Center at Lake Alfred, Fla., has been working with colleagues on management of the ACP and sharing the findings with California researchers.
His carry-home message to the California citrus industry, once the pest is detected, is "catch it early and get on an eradication program."
A primary indication of the insect is presence of adults, often difficult to see at first but usually found feeding on the undersides of mature leaves. Yellow sticky card traps can also be used for detecting adults.
Adults have a characteristic stance with the head down and body canted at 45 degrees to the surface of a leaf. Their bright yellow-orange eggs can be found in crevices of unfolded leaves. Nymphs produce tiny, whitish tubules of honeydew.
Populations of ACP fluctuate with growth flushes and when temperatures are below about 90 degrees F. Its egg production drops off at above 91 degrees F. and remains low until cooler temperatures in the fall. Although it thrives in humidity of above 53 percent, it can survive in as little as 7 percent.
In addition to all citrus, ACP goes to the common urban ornamental orange jasmine, and plants of the genus citropsis.
Florida growers have been spraying Admire, Danitol, Lorsban and Temik (all but Temik are registered for this use in California) where control is worthwhile. Most have been spending about $20 per acre, although one grower laid out a staggering $350 per acre in his effort to manage the pest. The optimum times for treatment are when citrus is in new growth flushes.
In general, only nurseries and new plantings are treated chemically in Florida, since mature trees can withstand the physical injury by the ACP.
Rogers said there is little prospect that the disease can be eradicated in Florida at this point. With that in mind, management strategies are ensuring budwood is free of disease, solid screening of citrus nurseries, heavy insecticide use, treatment during new flush periods, and removal of infected trees when they are found. Grafton-Cardwell said anyone finding a suspected ACP should place the infested plant part in a container or place the insect in alcohol and get the sample to the local county ag commissioner's office quickly for identification.
If an infestation is determined, steps will then be taken to deal with it. Those include destruction of infested plants, insecticidal treatments of plant around the infestation, quarantine of the area, and additional surveys and treatments of the area during periods of new flush.
The yellowing of citrus foliage is a sign of the disease, and it may be mistaken for a nutritional deficiency. An infection often occurs on one side of a tree only, so the entire tree should be inspected closely.
Ted Batkin, president of the California Citrus Research Board, which is funding part of the campaign against the psyllid and citrus greening, said, "We have to go after this insect pest and we have to assume that it has the pathogen with it. Otherwise, we could find ourselves in the same situation as Florida citrus growers."
Commenting on security in ports where plant material infested with CGD could potentially enter California, Batkin said U.S. Department of Homeland Security authorities are aware of the citrus greening threat but need to give closer attention to it.
"It's thugs, drugs and bugs with them, but that may not give our concerns a high enough priority, so they need significant training to be as effective as APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) was in the past."
Grafton-Cardwell is senior author of University of California Publication 8205, "Asian Citrus Psyllid," available at UC Extension offices. It details ACP's biology, along with detection and management measures for it.


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Sunday's column revealed that Gov. Rick Scott's new appointment to the beleaguered Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority has multiple conflicts of interest with the agency he now oversees.
Specifically, engineer Scott Batterson has private business agreements that help him make money off dealings with the very agency he now helps run.
It's an obvious conflict of interest — as evidenced by the "potential conflict disclosure" forms Batterson had to fill out.
But Scott's office responded this week that the governor is OK with all that — and will simply "keep an eye on the guy."
Said spokeswoman Amy Graham: "Our position is that, just like anyone else we appoint, we expect him to follow the law."
A better idea
Anyone with a lick of good-government sense knows the public is best served by someone without financial ties to the agency they're running. (For evidence of what can go wrong, just check out past scandals at Florida's Blood Centers, Workforce Central Florida and the "culture of corruption" a grand jury found at the expressway authority itself a few years back.)
What the public truly needs is a genuine watchdog with no vested interest — someone like former Orange County Commissioner Fran Pignone.
You may recall that Pignone was the one boat-rocker on the "blue ribbon" task force, which swept many of the expressway authority's systemic problems under the rug instead of fixing them.
Pignone was smart and fearless. She unearthed bad business and bond deals that were costing toll-payers millions.
But the status-quo insiders had no interest in derailing the gravy train. So they bypassed serious reform for big talk and Band-Aid improvements.
Pignone was, of course, later proven right. (From the July 26 Orlando Sentinel: "Shaky bonds could cost toll agency $50 Million.") So you can see why watchdogs like her aren't welcome.
Shouldering costs
Perhaps you caught Thursday's story where state officials were trying to understand why Orlando's toll roads cost more than the state's. Expressway Executive Director Mike Snyder said that, among other reasons, we have better landscaping and nicer road shoulders.
The Sentinel's Tallahassee bureau chief Aaron Deslatte confirmed that Snyder said so without laughing.
Elder protection
Kudos to State Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Valrico, who lit into the state's Elder Affairs division this week for its muzzling, ousting and generally mistreating the volunteer watchdogs who try to prevent abuse and neglect in assisted-living facilities.
As I've been writing for a while, this story is one of our state's greatest shames. We should protect our frail and vulnerable seniors — not those who neglect them.
Fortunately, a growing number of people in power are waking up to this issue and demanding answers. For a recap of Tuesday's tense hearing about the ombudsman program, visit orlandosentinel.com/takingnames.
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Co-dependency is a one-way street.
The Doc and Res are here, once again unfortunately in the same room, but we promise to try like 15% harder at this, and without any references to CW shows. Apparently this is accomplished by Res word vomiting onto a Word document and Doc translating it into (semi) coherent ideas, which is still better than the hungover mess that we pumped out the day of the Michigan game.
Anyway, this week Twi gives Spike the day off while she reads the books Princess Celestia assigned for her. Twi's list-making habit has rubbed off on Spike as he tries to occupy himself. Unfortunately he reaches the end of his list rather quickly, and decides to take a hot air balloon ride. This being a childrens' cartoon show, things quickly take a turn for the life-threatening. He clumsily releases the hot air balloon and chases it through town, knocking a wheelbarrow into motion and narrowly saving Granny Smith by being remarkably badass and grabbing the wheels with his claws. That friction had to hurt, dragon or no. He finally catches up to the balloon in the Everfree Forest, where he is chased by a pack of timberwolves.
Not those kind of timberwolves. Apple Jack shows up to save the day, incidentally killing all the non-NBA timberwolves. I guess there aren't very strict nature conservation laws in Equestria, or it's timberwolf season right now. The rocks that Apple Jack used were also rockets, which was neat and punny and all of that..
Does Spike love Apple Jack now because she saved his life? A little Florence Henderson, right Doc? (Shut up, Res, sometimes my brain stops working. I can't be brilliant all the time!) What Doc meant to say is that there's a little reverse-Florence Nightingale syndrome happening here. Apple Jack and Spike return to Ponyville, believing that the timberwolves are dead. But the timberwolves are zombies! Which is also pretty neat!
Spike has a lot of Catholic guilt, I notice, and as a result he pledges to repay Apple Jack the life-debt he owes her. Also he is somewhat emasculated as a result of being constantly surrounded by strong-willed female ponies. Particularly Rarity. (Res: Who is absolutely fabulous and perfect in every way).
Apple Jack doesn't really want Spike's help, being the honest and hardworking pony that she is, so she asks Spike to help Apple Bloom clean little Piggington, a giant pig with a bow! (Whenever I see a fat person with the name "little" I assume they're in the mafia. Sooo…mafia pigs? Rad.) They clean her 'til she sparkles, and we coo over how cute Apple Bloom is with her giant bow. (She is so cute!) This might literally be one of three times that a southern accent is cute.
Spike is really good at helping Twi, but not so good at helping out on the Apple Family Farm. Maybe he should stick to books and libraries; physical labour isn't his strong suit, probably because he's the size of the cutie mark crusaders. Though you'd think with his opposable thumbs he'd have a distinct advantage over hooves…
There's a lot of innuendo in the argument between Spike and Apple Jack about the necessity of Spike's assistance to the Apple Family. (Subtext: Spike is a tweeking meth addict jonesing for his next fix, and is offering sexual favours to Apple Jack to get it.) We're probably just two jaded twenty-somethings, but go ahead and watch that conversation a few times. Just for us.
Spike reveals that he has a dragon code of honor that requires him to pay his life debt to Apple Jack by serving her all of his days, adding a nice racial element to this episode. Hope you enjoy your white guilt early on a Saturday, kids! Apple Jack reminds him that he's actually living with Twilight and acting as her assistant, which makes him realize that he then has to go break up with Twi, which is the hardest thing he's ever had to do.
When he arrives at her house, Twilight is a little preoccupied with her reading- she barely acknowledges his presence, let alone their divorce. Twi didn't appreciate a good thing when she had it – this is the saddest break up I've seen on television in a long time.
Back at the farm, Spike is trying to help Granny Smith and Apple Jack by baking. Dragons are great at many things (guarding gold, killing sheep, torching crème brulee, etc.), but baking from start to finish is not one of them. Doc asks innocently how one manages make a gray pie. "DUH YOU BAKE IT TOO LONG," responds Res, with usual insightfulness. Doc counters that stuff turns brown and then black, with no grey whatsoever in between. God, Res, haven't you ever made a damn pie? I prefer pumpkin, but still. The Res would like to point out that this is a show about talking ponies, and one of them is a physics-defying goddess. Of course there are grey pies in this world.
They make Rarity eat Spike's awful pie, which she does to make Spike happy because true love is a thing and it knows no bounds. Apple Jack explains the situation to Rarity, who explains all the ways she would take advantage of it – all fashion related assistance, of course. Rainbow Dash shows up and the same situation plays out. (How else is Rainbow Dash supposed to finish her novel/fantasy biography? I feel like that whole conversation actually happened in the MLP writer's room.) This showcases how terrible Rainbow Dash and Rarity are and consequently how great Apple Jack is supposed to be for feeling bad that someone is waiting on her hoof and hoof, especially because all she did for them was be a good friend. But that won't work, because all the false modesty is starting to get to us city folk.
Rainbow Dash suggests that they make Spike work so hard that he will have to quit. She proposes having him build a tower of rocks for Rainbow Dash to smash through. Fluttershy joins the others and points out that they should have just said they didn't have anything for them to do, which Apple Jack regrets not doing. The ploy backfires when Spike completes the tower and Rainbow Dash has to fly through it, probably concussing herself in the process. Apple Jack takes Fluttershy's advice and tells Spike that she has no more tasks for him, he goes a little crazy trying to think of things for him to help her with so they're still not rid of him.
Apple Jack gets wise and goes to Twilight for help. She gets her attention by moving one of Twi's inkpots – pony has some serious OCD. Twilight doesn't recall breaking up with Spike at all. (Yes, that's what we're calling it), but the two mares brainstorm a way to get him back where he belongs.
When the Mane Six gather at the barn to plan, Pinkie has all sorts of ideas for how to fake a dangerous situation to put Apple Jack in. She brought her own cannon and beehive (and a moustache!), which makes you wonder: Has she thought about this, perhaps late at night, standing over Apple Jack's bed? Wearing the mustache?
The plan they actually hatch mimics the original circumstances of Spike's rescue, giving him a chance to save Apple Jack's life and thereby repaying the life debt. They have a timberwolf puppet which Twilight animates with her magic and Rainbow Dash does a convincing timberwolf roar, but Apple Jack is a terrible actress. She has to pretend to be stuck under a rock, but Spike sees through the horribly contrived and blatantly transparent "danger" situation. He despairs of ever repaying his debt to Apple Jack, when the real zombietimerwolves appear. They're out for vengeance!
Apple Jack smashes them again, trapping herself in the rocks for real this time, but the zombies cannot be kept down! The three timberwolves combine like a horrible wooden transformer to make one huge monster. Apple Jack is genuinely stuck, and Spike must come to the rescue for real. WHY DOESN'T HE JUST SET THEM ON FIRE? HE'S A DRAGON.
Instead of going with the obvious solution of setting the timberwolf on fire, Spike throws a rock at it. Oh wait; he just clogs its throat with a rock, saving Apple Jack in an ironically symmetrical way. That poor timberwolf, why does everything that crosses the Mane Six die horrifically? Apple Jack gives a sermon at the end, as she is often inclined to do, about not overdoing things, and in the end, everything is back to the way it was. Twilight has Spike back in her life, and his neediness almost rivals that of Dean Winchester.
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This is by far the best dungeon mapping program that I have ever used! The controls allowing you to adjust sizes and percentages of features, rooms, and size of the overall layout allows a very customized map. Well worth the price. It's an excellent value for the price for any GM!
One of the best dungeon creators I have ever seen or used! EMG Mapper is a great product and will save me countless hours of dungeon creation. It is highly customisable; - with a bit of tinkering you can create anything from your standard run-of-the-mill dungeon (though high quality and very complex), to a intensely perplexing maze and all the way through to a City Block with shops on all sides!! Yes, that's right - an actual City Block! Whilst you can not save the maps directly from the program, all you need to do is "Preview" your newly created map and do a screen shot ("ALT" and "PrtScn") - from there you should be able to paste and save (PNG format worked best for me!) into most graphics app. ... allowing you to fine tune your map with even more levels of customisation! Plus help/support feedback was also good.
(Creating a City Block takes some tinkering to get out - and a small amount of "after-creation-editing" - as you use the generated rooms as individual shops; use Embracing Corridor; Rectangles - 100%; Large Rooms; Corridor Exits - doors 100%; Room Exits - doors 100%; Density - 100%; all Misc Settings & Exits 0% and a 20%/80% Room/Corridor Ratio. Only those rooms that front your main corridor/"Street" are shops, with the other rooms NOT fronting the corridor the homes of the shopkeepers plus back alleyways and other residential buildings ... the good thing is, because you have the option of all the rooms being numbered, if you develop a 1-100 table generator for city shops, what each shop on the block actually is is also pre-generated!! *Note for room numbers over 100, subtract 100.)
A marvellous product I can not speak highly enough of.
Probably one of the best random dungeon map generator I have ever seen even though there are some free alternatives out there.
I bought the EMG Mapper several weeks ago. It is a very good random map generator. There are many options and it is really good to get good ideas for visual design of your dungeon. My only problem is I would like to save the map for use in my Campaign management software. I emailed support twice about this and have heard nothing from them not even a reply stating we have received your emails. I am taking one point off for lack of support. Disregarding that this a great random dungeon generator. At the moment if you want to save the file I would wait or try something different until there is a way to save the map.
I found this program to be very useful for making adjustable, random maps. There are a ton of options on this program, it is 'user friendly' and I was quickly able to put it to work for me. I will be using it almost exclusively for my published RPGs.
The categories on the program are adjusted by percentages. They are too numerous to list but include rooms, room sizes, doors, secret doors, colors, shadows, traps, corridors, size of corridors, style of corridors, stairs, layout style and the list goes on and on.
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Chef Desmond Chia needs no introduction. He was one of two sons of the founder of Sik Wai Sin, one of the most reputable zi char restaurants in Singapore, famous for its limited but well-executed Cantonese menu. Diners were known to brave the heat at the non-air-conditioned Sik Wai Sin, waiting hours for a superb "home-cooked" meal. And while his brother presided over the steamed dishes at the restaurant, Desmond was the "man behind the fiery wok", honing his skills with fried dishes for 13 years.
So when Chef Desmond decided to open his own restaurant, Desmond's Creation, I had high expectations of it. I arrived at 11.45 am sharp – the opening time shown on their official operating hours; the shutter was down, finally opening at 11.55 am.
It soon became obvious that Desmond ran a tight three-person operation -- two men including himself in the kitchen and a woman manning the dining room. To their credit, and my amazement, things proceeded smoothly throughout the busy lunch hour and food was served without hiccups.
It was also instantly obvious that Desmond was not a risk-taking chef. The menu remained small and 99% of the dishes were "imported" from Sik Wai Sin. My hopes rose even higher upon seeing this, as I reckoned that nothing could possibly go wrong with such a small number of dishes – dishes that the chef had cooked for umpteen years.
The first dish to arrive was Braised Black Bean Pork Rib with Bitter Gourd. Usually, the black bean paste would be well sauted with the meat, and then with the vegetable. Here, I tasted nothing of the "fragrance" of a well-fried dish; it felt like the whole dish had been braised without undergoing fire.
Fried Beef Kailan, which came next, was decent. The vegetable was well fried and perfumed with "wok hei". The downside was that some beef was cut not across the grain, leaving it a little on the tough side. Also, it would have been perfect had the chef sprinkled on a dash of Chinese wine before serving.
When we were ordering and had asked for tofu, the woman told us bluntly that this dish would come with "big" prawns. I suppose that was how restaurants maneuvered to increase revenue; I also got the impression that those who ate at Desmond's Creation didn't mind paying for slightly more "premium" food. Either way, the prawns proved over-cooked and hard. To make the matters worse the tofu was over-fried too. What we ended up with was a plate of hard prawns, dry tofu and diluted gravy.
Steamed Minced Pork with Salted Fish was a personal favourite of mine since I was a kid. In Chef Desmond's version, he hand-chopped the pork, and this alone earned him loads of brownie points in my book. The glitch in the dish, however, was that he over-mixed the meat, causing the protein to over-bind and making the meat hard rather than crunchy.
But my biggest problem with this dish was the salted fish used. As noted earlier, since the customers were prepared to pay slighter more for their food, Chef Desmond should have opted for better-quality salted fish. The best salted fish (梅香马鲛鱼) for this dish would have been Spanish mackerel aged between 10 months and 3 years. The fish would be prepared by salting and sun-drying it for another 2 years minimum, which would leave the flesh slightly pink near the bones and with a pungent and 'fleshy' scent.
Even the portion of the salted fish that Chef Desmond used was too small for the amount of pork in the dish. The salted fish should have been of an amount sufficient to pervade thoroughly the meat and gravy during steaming. In the end, I could only detect a whiff of fish when the plate first landed on the table, and when I actually ate the salted fish itself.
Another downer was the Sweet & Sour Pork. The meat morsels were too small, slightly burnt, and too thickly coated with batter. The sensation was of eating sweet & sour pork -- in its vegetarian version.
Steamed Fresh Carp with Bean Paste was the best dish of the meal. It was brilliantly executed -- Chef Desmond timed to perfection the cooking of the fish, and the bean paste was well balanced with a cocktail of sourness, sweetness, and savouriness.
These were dishes I had grown up eating from zi char stalls all across Singapore; so, like I said, I had high expectations. Perhaps too high. Perhaps by going it alone when he did, the chef bit off more than he could chew; perhaps his skills and experience fell a little short of his dreams. Perhaps.
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2 c heavy cream
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1 T red food coloring
1 t white vinegar
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Directions: Bring cream to a simmer. Meanwhile, thoroughly whisk together egg yolks and sugar. Pour some of the simmering cream into egg yolks while stirring. Return this mixture to the pan, also while stirring. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Remove from heat. Stir in buttermilk, cocoa powder, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla extract. Pour into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap so that the wrap is in contact with the top of your mixture; refrigerate until thoroughly chilled (around 4-8 hours). Freeze in an ice cream maker. Transfer your ice cream to a covered container and place in your freezer for at least two hours to get the best consistency. Optional: Swirl with a small amount of Perfect Scoop Cream Cheese ice cream.
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Over the past decade, efforts to improve American youths' diets have been fruitful. Unfortunately, they haven't been "veggieful."
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows children are eating far more whole fruit than they used to and drinking less juice. But the amount of vegetables they eat hasn't changed.
Researchers concluded this by examining the eating habits of children, ages 2 to 18, using 2003-2010 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Over the period studied, children's consumption of whole fruit increased by 67 percent, while fruit juice consumption dropped 29 percent.
Even with the increase in fruit consumption, a majority of youths are still eating less of it than the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines recommend. And almost all children are falling short on vegetables. Depending on a child's age, USDA guidelines call for 1 to 2.5 cups of fruit a day, and 1 to 4 cups of vegetables. For reference, one cup equals a small apple or about 12 baby carrots.
The researchers found not only that children's vegetable consumption didn't improve over time, but that a lot of the vegetables they did eat weren't the healthiest choices. About 30 percent of the vegetables children reported eating were white potatoes, mainly consumed in unhealthy forms, such as fries or chips.
The research revealed some age and gender gaps. Those 2 to 5 had the greatest ratio of fruit to total daily calories, and youths 12 to 18 had the greatest ratio of vegetables to total calories. Overall, girls ate more vegetables than boys.
The scientists note that school-lunch nutrition standards and other federally subsidized nutrition programs give most children equal access to both fruit and vegetables, but youths tend to prefer the taste of fruit. The report suggests it's easier to incorporate fruit into children's diets because it can be eaten on its own, on the go, or without much preparation.


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Two new films have joined this year's crop of award-season hopefuls: Reese Witherspoon's next movie, "Wild," and Jon Stewart's directorial debut, "Rosewater."
Fox Searchlight has set a Dec. 5 release date for "Wild," the studio announced Monday, placing it squarely in the territory of presumptive Oscar contenders. Meanwhile, Open Road Films announced that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights for "Rosewater," which also will open in the fall.
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee ("Dallas Buyers Club") and based on Cheryl Strayed's bestselling 2012 memoir, "Wild" follows the author's 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. At 26, Strayed, who is played by Witherspoon in the film, spontaneously embarked on the adventure following the death of her mother and a difficult divorce.
Though Strayed encountered eclectic characters along her journey, her story is largely one of self-reflection. So there's a good chance the film will be in the vein of recent movies starring one actor alone with the elements, such as "All Is Lost" with Robert Redford or "127 Hours" with James Franco.
Strayed was heavily involved with the production, much of which took place on the famous hiking trail. Last fall, the author shared photos of a makeup-free Witherspoon from the Oregon set. The actress, 38, has not been in the Oscar conversation since eight years ago, when she won for her turn as June Carter in "Walk the Line."
"Rosewater" is also based on a bestselling memoir: Maziar Bahari's "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival," co-written with Aimee Molloy.
The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Bahari, a Tehran-born, London-based BBC journalist who returned to Iran to cover the country's 2009 presidential elections, only to end up being arrested, imprisoned and tortured for 118 days.
Stewart, who is best known as the political satirist and media critic who fashioned "The Daily Show" into a perennial Emmy winner, took a three-month summer hiatus from the show to direct the film, for which he also wrote the screenplay.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. –A pair of Atlantic Sun Conference Championships served as a tasty postseason appetizer for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons and Bisons cross country teams.
Friday morning they get to enjoy the main entree when each team participates in the NCAA South Region Championships hosted by the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The races will be run on the Harry Pritchett Cross Country Course.
Bill Taylor, Lipscomb's director of cross country and track and field, is hopeful that his teams will have room for dessert with berths in the NCAA Nationals.
"I want to win," Taylor said. "I want to do well. I want to qualify for nationals. Both teams have a chance to go to nationals. I have never been able to say that before.
"But at the end of the day whether we qualify or not is not why I coach. That is not why they run."
Florida State is ranked first in the region on the women's side followed by Florida, Vanderbilt, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Lady Bisons are ranked seventh.
On the men's side the top three teams are Florida, Georgia and Florida State. The Bisons are rated fifth.
The women, three time winners of the A-Sun Championship, will face a field of 35 teams. There are 27 men's teams scheduled to compete.
"Our best finish in the women's race in the region is seventh," Taylor said. "We are kind of going in a little beat up. We have sickness. We have rolled ankles. We have a foot injury. We have been hit with a series of strange injuries on the women's side.
"I don't know where we are. But the girls are in good spirits. They are fairly relaxed."
The emotional state of the team has been on the minds of Taylor and his staff. After watching the men win their first ever A-Sun Cross Country Championship, Taylor sensed the women were a little more tense than normal before their race began. He addressed his concerns with the women later that night.
"We met as a team and talked about it," Taylor said. "They weren't really aware they had been tense. But as we talked and it started coming out, we finally understood why. I think we got too worked up about results. We have to remember why we do this.
"We do it for the joy of it. We do it to be around each other. We have such great kids. There is such an amazing team environment here. At the end of the day we always have each other."
Taylor thinks the women's team, feeling the burden of having won the conference championship the previous two years, came Into the Sun meet fixated on what would happen if they didn't win.
"They put pressure on themselves and took away a lot of the joy of that race," Taylor said. "I want them to have a good time at the regions and still be focused and do their best.
"I want them to have the freedom to do well or not do well and not have it define us. I don't know how it is going to go on Friday for either team. I want their best effort. That's it."
Five Lady Bisons finished in the top 10 in the A-Sun Championship at the Vaughn's Gap course at Percy Warner Park. Freshman Sally Larson was fourth followed by senior Tessa Hoefle (fifth), sophomore Madi Talbert (sixth), junior Dani Walker (seventh) and freshman Hannah Feiten (10th).
The Bisons also placed five runners in the top five. Freshman Juan Gonzalez was second and freshman Christian Freeman crossed the finish line in third. Sophomore Daniel Gardner placed fifth, freshman John Kingstedt was seventh and senior Tim Muller was ninth.
Only the top two teams qualify for the nationals for the men and the women. The top eight individuals qualify.
The course for the South Region is a former golf course. Taylor is no stranger to the course.
"It is a beautiful course," Taylor said. "It is rolling. The fairways have grown up. The water traps are still there. It is one of my favorite courses in terms of how it looks.
"We have run there four times. But not many of our runners have run there before."
One of the team goals for the women all season has been to make it to the nationals. Taylor is concerned about the injury situation though.
"The positive thing is from everything I hear is we are not the only team with injuries," Taylor said. "A lot of the top teams are beat up and haven't had the seasons they were expecting.
"Even though we have had a tough year in terms of that stuff we are not alone. So it is kind of an even deal. That is why we run the race."


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If you listen to Apple podcasts - and you really should, because ATP and Gruber's The Talkshow are a delight to listen to, even if it's sometimes infuriatingly inaccurate about Windows, Android, and Linux - you would know there's a lot of talk going on about what Apple is going to do to 'salvage' the iPad, and what Apple is going to do - if anything - to replace the Mac Pro. They sometimes take it a step further, and go into what the future of macOS and iOS is going to - will they continue to exist side-by-side? Will macOS be tightened up and made more like iOS, or will iOS be expanded to make it more like macOS?
These questions arise from Apple's seeming indifference towards the iPad, and the obvious situation with the lack of updates for the Mac Pro, the Mac Mini, and to a lesser degree even the iMac. On top of that, the rumour mill is running in overdrive, and it further fuel the fires of these discussions.
I've been thinking about this a lot these past few months, and I've been talking to people who know their Apple stuff, and the more I take a step back and look at all the discussions, rumours, and Apple's actions - and lack thereof - the more obvious it becomes: it seems like Apple is about to completely redefine its infamous product matrix.
In case you don't remember, back in the late '90s, Steve Jobs showed the following product matrix:
Before I show you what I think Apple is going to do, here are a few reasons underpinning it, in list form:
- The Mac Pro was introduced to much fanfare, but hasn't been updated in - as of writing - more than three years.
- Likewise, the Mac Mini hasn't been updated in well over two years.
- The MacBook Air - the number one crowd pleaser among non-techy buyers - hasn't been updated in two years.
- The iMac hasn't been updated in over 18 months.
- Apple told Nilay Patel that the company is out of the standalone display business. If true, the logical extension of this would be that Apple is out of the headless Mac business. As John Gruber noted in the latest The Talkshow episode - do you really think Apple is going to put ugly LG monitors in its brand new, meticulously designed headquarters?
- The rumour mill claims Apple is expected to expand its iPad lineup even further, with more Pro models.
- iPads - even the basic models - have an insane amount of computing power, and newer models have lots of RAM and crazy fast processors. What for? To watch Netflix? I don't think so.
- And last but not least: Apple debuted a number of new commercials last week, in which the company positions the iPad not as a companion device, but as your only device, touting its productivity features such as Microsoft Office support.
Add all this up, and I'm getting the feeling Apple is working towards a product matrix that looks more like this:
The basic gist is that I feel Apple is slowly but surely working towards positioning iOS computers as its consumer line, and macOS computers as its pro line.
Since I can already hear people tapping away at their keyboards about Xcode this and consumption device that - it's important to note that what is iOS today will be very different from what will be iOS in the future. iOS surely has its limitations right now - specifically things like awkward and cumbersome file management, no proper windowing, etc. - but there's no reason to assume that what iOS looks and feels like today is what it'll look and feel like forever.
A lot of people are exploring what an IDE and related software will look like on iOS (just follow Steven Troughton-Smith and Federico Viticci on Twitter - they talk a lot about production-oriented iPad applications). The problem here isn't that iOS can't do complex applications - the problem is that the application ecosystem isn't conducive to such complex applications, which is quite a big hole Apple dug itself into by letting the App Store model ravage the indie developer scene, race all prices to the bottom of the barrel, and creating the expectation that everything is either 99 cents or free.
Another issue easily spotted in the product matrix is that the iPad Pro awkwardly sits in the desktop line, even though it clearly isn't a desktop device. It could very well be that we'll eventually see an iOS desktop or desktop-like device, but I honestly don't think it's worth the effort. People have overwhelmingly voted with their wallets, and portable computing has resoundingly won.
If this hunch of iOS = consumer, macOS = pro does indeed pan out, I don't expect it to happen overnight; in fact, it will most likely take several years, in a way where you barely notice it's even happening. We should be seeing a heavier emphasis on things like iPad keyboards, which may even include 'hard shell' keyboards which effectively turn them into laptops. On the software side, we should see things like mouse and trackpad support, improved multitasking (perhaps even some form of windowing), and improved file management. Of course, this would be accompanied by a marketing campaign more heavily focused on positioning the iPad as an all-round device capable of replacing your laptop.
Looking at the evidence I listed above, the conversations I've had with people who know Apple really well, and the Apple podcasts I've been listening to, I feel like this is a plausible future for Apple. I obviously don't have any insider information or anything like that - this is all based on gut feeling, some common sense, and the listed evidence. This is not a prediction, and not an "Apple must do this, or else"-kind of thing - just something I've been piecing together these past few months.
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- 1 General
- 1.1 Who are you?
- 1.2 Can I/we join?
- 1.3 Why would I (or my lab) want to join?
- 1.4 What's the deal with access?
- 1.5 I don't want someone else editing my site. Can you change who can edit what?
- 1.6 Do you ever plan on going commercial?
- 1.7 How can I be assured this site will be here tomorrow?
- 1.8 Why the dual license?
- 1.9 How did this site get started?
- 1.10 Are you people just a bunch of scientific hippies? Why are you doing this?
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Who are you?
OpenWetWare is a group of researchers that are interested in increasing the amount of organization, dissemination, and communication in biological research (or just want an easy way to keep a lab webpage up-to-date). Everyone that has access to OpenWetWare can edit all pages in the site. Thus the evolution of all the pages are due to everyone involved. If you want to know who has done what, check out the history file associated with every page.
Can I/we join?
Yes!!! The more people that are contributing, the more useful the site becomes. Please email us.
Why would I (or my lab) want to join?
Check out the Why join? page for a list of reasons why OpenWetWare may be of use to you and your lab.
What's the deal with access?
Currently we have the site as world-readable and member editable, and there are essentially no options to make pages be otherwise. We decided upon the current level of access based upon our key goals of open access and collaboration. We also understand that there are times where information cannot be posted for the world/other students/et al., to read. The Endy lab handles this by certain members having private wiki's on their own computers where they organize their thoughts and information. Other groups have internal secure wiki's to which only lab members have access. However, we feel that there is a lot of information that people will benefit from sharing on OpenWetWare.
In the future, we may be able to implement a system with more edit/view options for individual pages. After talks with some of the people over at Mediawiki, they have begun writing code to make edit/view access more dynamic and programmable by individual users. In time, perhaps we can incorporate some of these improvements as they are made available. This will offer some semblance of security (and would not get indexed by google for example), but is not as safe as say having a site behind a firewall. Anyways, there are a variety of options, but in the end you have to balance increased security with decreased ease of access and manipulability. For the time being, we will keep OpenWetWare at the current access level.
I don't want someone else editing my site. Can you change who can edit what?
We hope for OpenWetWare to achieve as large and active a user base as possible while maintaining a collaborative environment. The collaboration is critical, otherwise OWW is of no use to the community other than a glorified web hosting service (which will soon be obsolete anyways). With this in mind, we find ourselves frequently evaluating options which would increase the "comfort level" for some potential users of OWW, but decrease the overall ease and extent of user contribution and especially collaboration. This is particularly the case when evaluating access levels for editing.
For example, a researcher in a different lab on our floor recently posted a general notice on our group meeting page about an issue occuring in a shared space. Now the page outlining the topics for a lab's group meeting would very likely fall into the category of "lab-only editing", however someone from outside the laboratory made, in their good judgement, an announcement in the relevant section of our group meeting schedule page. (Our group meetings are driven from the wiki where people post announcements or whether they want to talk that week. At the start of the meeting, our PI will go to the wiki and use it to direct the schedule of what we talk about).
While this may be a particularly mundane example, it illustrates the most important point. First, It is often hard to decide ahead of time, what particular groups of people should have edit access to a particular document. In this instance, the announcement placed by a researcher outside the lab was in the best interest of everybody. What we have generally found is that the scientists and researchers that join are usually the best adjudicators of whether they should be editing another's site or not. Second, we currently have >15 labs and a fair number of individuals that currently contribute to the site. We have not had a single complaint of someone incorrectly/unknowingly/maliciously making bad edits to a particular page that is private or "belongs to a user". This may be a testament to the norms of behavior that were established for the site (see our etiquette page; for instance pages beginning with "UserName:" are pages that we ask others not to edit), but probably is also due to the intelligence of the users, and the fact that any changes are tracked and attributable to one identifiable person (by virtue of login/password requirement on editing).
One side note that has also assuaged some concerns: It is quite easy to point to a particular history page (history files have a static address), so if users want a document that in not editable, they can save it and always refer to that particular history file instead of the evolving document.
So in summary, we understand the concern of allowing non-lab members to edit a lab's protocols, however we feel that by putting an access barrier at the level of the code itself we would be creating a barrier to contribution in order to solve a problem that thus far does not exist. If and when we have a problem, we will re-evaluate.
Do you ever plan on going commercial?
How can I be assured this site will be here tomorrow?
Currently there are several labs to whom wiki functionality is vital, thus the wiki minimally will remain as long as these labs are in existance. Hardware and support has generously been donated by the MIT BioMicro Center. OpenWetWare is backed up daily, and we are continuing to improve the redundancy and backup capabilities. So as far as relying on an academic initiative goes, this is a fairly good bet.
Why the dual license?
Long story short, we like Creative Commons for its machine and human readability. We like GNU's FDL because Wikipedia and others use it. We would like the two groups to settle their trivial differences, so that we can all move on with our lives.
How did this site get started?
Are you people just a bunch of scientific hippies? Why are you doing this?
See the "who are you?" question above. In general, we are not all hippies. We are doing this to construct a resource for ourselves. It is ultimately a selfish pursuit. Peruse some of the pages and you will notice that different labs/groups/individuals use OpenWetWare in different ways. Like many other things in life, OpenWetWare is what you make of it.
How do I edit a page?
See the help page.
Are there any rules?
Check out the etiquette page for guidelines on creating and editing pages.
How do I make the wiki pages for my lab/group look like a static website?
Check out OpenWetWare:Dewikify for instructions on generating static websites from OpenWetWare wiki pages. See Synthetic Biology and http://syntheticbiology.org for a comparison of a wiki page with its static counterpart.


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How Is Being a Millennial Like Dying in WWI's Trench Warfare?
"We Are The Next Lost Generation"—a Thought Catalog exercise in putting life in perspective.
To be "deracinated" means to be torn up by the roots. The Lost Generation was made up of the 1920s' 20s-somethings, young men and women that were deracinated by World War I. Lives were lost and the ideals of the past were lost with them. Whether or not they had fought on the European front, they were different after the war. The atrocities of war broke them, shattered their once optimistic view of humanity. Their homeland didn't feel like home, and nowhere else did either. With no roots to secure them, they were free but without any meaning. I wonder, are we Millennials any different now?
We didn't grow up during a World War, but September 11th had a similar effect on us. Terrorism destroyed our sense of security, of protection, and left us with a pervading feeling of uneasiness and instability. For those of us that were young when the attacks happened, we subconsciously realized that tomorrow was not a given.
And that's how watching a plane hit a building on the TV is like being part of a generation that suffered 37 million casualties in brutal industrial warfare.
Also sometimes Netflix doesn't load very fast these days.
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A charter is granted by the state legislature to the Tuscumbia Railroad Company. Tracks were built approximately two miles to Sheffield and were completed in 1832. Though the rail cars were horse drawn and never powered by steam locomotives, it is still considered the first railroad in Alabama.
Other Events this Week
The Alabama Secession Convention passes an Ordinance of Secession, declaring Alabama a "Sovereign and Independent State." By a vote of 61-39, Alabama becomes the fourth state to secede from the Union.
Annie Lola Price of Cullman becomes the first woman to serve on the Alabama Court of Appeals when she is appointed to the court by Gov. Jim Folsom. The appointment was especially significant because state law at the time prevented women from serving on juries. In 1952 Price was elected to the three-person court and served the state as an appeals judge until her death in 1972.
The State Bar Association holds its organizational meeting in the State Capitol with former Gov. Thomas H. Watts presiding. During its first year eighty-one lawyers were admitted for membership. The Alabama State Bar Association listed 12,761 members in the year 2000.
Lurleen Wallace is inaugurated as Alabama's first female governor--and only the third nationwide--as an estimated 150,000 look on. Wallace succeeded her husband George C. Wallace, who was barred by law at the time from serving consecutive terms. She died in office of cancer on May 7, 1968.
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Jerry Manuel said after the Opening Day victory he planned on making no changes with the line-up, which would mean another start for Alex Cora at shortstop and Mike Jacobs hitting clean-up.
Of course, that means changes across the board.
Said Jacobs of going 0-for-4: "My first day hitting in this stadium, obviously in a game, I didn't pick up the ball real well. As the game went on, it got a little better. But you just chalk it up to just first day and hopefully a lot more days left.''
Still, I'd rather they go David Wright-Jason Bay in the 3-4 slots, with Jacobs fifth and Jeff Francoeur sixth.
I also don't have a problem with Cora playing. He usually does the right thing.
Manuel did say he'd try to get all the position players in games during this homestand to make sure everybody gets involved. If you're selling the concept of "team,'' then everybody should play.
REYES UPDATE: The news continues to be positive for shortstop Jose Reyes, who reached base four times with two hits and two walks last night in an extended spring training game in Port St. Lucie. Reyes played nine innings of defense.
The Mets believe he will return as scheduled from the disabled list Saturday against Washington.
Reyes started the season on the DL due to a thyroid condition. He missed most of last season with a hamstring injury.
TONIGHT'S STARTER: John Maine, 1-3 with a 7.88 ERA during spring training, will start tonight. I'll have something on Maine later today.
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Community health literacy impacts personal health status, study showsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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In some communities in Hawaiʻi, 35.99% of residents report low health literacy, which means that they may struggle to understand basic health information. In other communities, only 5.37% report low health literacy. According to a recent study at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa' s Office of Public Health Studies, led by Dr. Tetine Sentell, these percentages matter for individual health. Those who live in communities where many people report low health literacy have, on average, worse health than people who live in communities where few residents report low health literacy.
The study of 11,779 individuals within 37 communities in Hawaiʻi found that each percentage increase of average low health literacy within a community was associated with an approximately 2% increase in poor self-reported health for individuals in that community. This was regardless of individual health literacy, age, gender or access to health insurance. "From previous work, we already knew that almost 20% of adults in Hawaiʻi reported low health literacy and that low individual health literacy was associated with poorer personal health status," said Sentell. "What our new study found is that community health literacy also matters to your personal health status. Health literacy is an important factor at both the individual and community level."
Primary-care providers, community health centers and public health facilities should, therefore, consider and address health literacy at both community and individual levels. Said Dr. Sentell, "We were surprised at the community variation in low health literacy and how important it was to individual health. We know in Hawaiʻi that the community context is important to health in many ways. This study shows that a large increase in health literacy across enough individual members of a community could provide community-wide health benefits. There is increasing funding with relevance for social health factors, including efforts supported by the Affordable Care Act."
This study was a product of an interdisciplinary collaboration between UHM's Department of Public Health Sciences, Dr. Wei Zhang of the Department of Sociology and Kay Baker of the Hawaiʻi Department of Health.
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"On the last day of January 1915, under the Sign of the Water Bearer, in a year of a great war, and down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into the world..."When people learn of my interest in Thomas Merton, they frequently ask what they should read to get acquainted with his thought. I've been asked this question even more frequently in recent months in the run-up to 2015, the centenary of his birth (on a related note, his birthday is this Saturday, and there are events planned all over the world on that day and throughout the year to celebrate his life & writings. Check here to see if there are events planned near you).
It is difficult to know where to start with Merton. Merton published prodigiously during his life, and the list of posthumous publications continues to grow. In this post, I want to provide some guidance about where to begin reading Merton. I should stress that I am not a Merton scholar, but am simply someone who found in Merton a spiritual companion whose writings continue to speak to me. Some familiar with Merton may disagree with my advice, and they are quite welcome to provide their own suggestions in the comment box below.
There are two approaches to reading Merton. You may want to get a broad view of Merton's writings quickly, and if so, you should start with one of a number of good readers. I highly recommend Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master, The Essential Writings, edited by Lawrence Cunningham. Cunningham's collection is particularly good as it contains significant passages from both Merton's autobiographical work - The Seven Storey Mountain and his journals - and texts from Merton's writings on spirituality as well as on ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. However, those looking for his writings on peace and justice issues will not find them in this collection.
Thomas Merton: Essential Writings, edited by Christine Bochen, is a smaller collection that provides a nice cross-section of his writings on prayer and spirituality as well as his writings on peace and justice issues. You won't find much of his autobiographical stuff here, though.
For the more adventurous who want to start with reading books by Merton, I recommend that you start with his autobiographical writings for he is, in my opinion, at his best when he writes autobiographically. You have two options here. Some may want to start with The Seven Storey Mountain, the autobiography that made him famous. This was my introduction to Merton, and for reasons I've explained elsewhere, I've been hooked ever since. But this is a wordy book and one written by a monk enthusiastic (to a fault) about his conversion to Roman Catholicism and his identity as a monk. Those expecting to find the writer who later focuses his attention on the world and on dialogue with those of other traditions and religions may be disappointed. But despite its faults, The Seven Storey Mountain is a classic of spiritual autobiography, and many continue to find solace in it.
If you'd like to get to know about the man, but want not to start with The Seven Storey Mountain, I recommend reading an edited collection of his journals. The full collection of Merton's private journals are seven volumes in length, but you can read many of the best bits in The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals. Merton's journal entries are raw and penetrating. Highly recommended.
Once you've read something autobiographical, I suggest you proceed to New Seeds of Contemplation. Here you'll encounter Merton's thoughts on the life of prayer, and specifically his pivotal insights into what it could mean to recognize one's true self in relation to God.
From here, you're ready to tackle Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. Conjectures is the theological equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting. For this book, Merton took excerpts from his journals and notebooks, revised them, and threw them together into a collection that seems haphazard, but which make sense as you immerse yourself into the book. Not one with which to begin, but one you should read at some point. This book is a favourite of mine.
In Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, as well as in New Seeds of Contemplation, Merton does deal with issues of peace and justice. But if you want to delve into some of Merton's most famous essays on these issues, I recommend Passion for Peace: Reflections on War and Nonviolence. This collection doesn't have everything he wrote on the subject, but it is an excellent place to start.
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