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IGNORANCE about energy-saving tactics and appliances is no longer an excuse, we are constantly being reminded via television ads, newspaper articles and radio announcements about the importance of conserving energy when and however we can — starting in your home.
To begin with — let's start with one of the most basic energies which exist in our homes — the light bulb — something which if chosen carefully, could save you energy and a lot of money on your next bill.
"With normal (incandescent) light bulbs, consumers pay more because normal bulbs waste a lot of energy to create light.
"If the consumer opts for energy-saver light, or LED light, it can help reduce your electricity bills," explained Consumer Council of Fiji CEO Premila Kumar.
"The council's findings show that if a consumer replaces 10 normal bulbs (75w) with energy-saver bulbs (14w), they save around $24.60 in their monthly electricity bill."
Mrs Kumar said with numerous bulb options out there, choosing the most energy-efficient one is important.
"Those who opt for them should check the labels for the lumens, which indicate brightness of the bulb. This information can be found on the fact label on the package.
"Understand that you need to purchase a bulb based on the needs of your home — so a lot of people prefer duller lights in the bedroom, so get LED ones with lower lumens (800 lumens) and for the kitchen area or a reading area, get LED lights with higher lumens (1100 lumens for instance)."
She said to complement the lumen number, it was wise to check Kelvin numbers also to determine the colour of your bulbs.
"The light colour of a bulb affects how you perceive the colour of your walls and furniture. The higher the number of Kelvin, the cooler the light will appear.
"So to choose the right colour for your bulbs, it is best to compare the degrees of Kelvin in a bulb."
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In the elegant surroundings of the newly restored Camellia House at London's Chiswick Gardens, the first Gardening Against the Odds awards presentation took place last Tuesday.
It was a day to celebrate the achievements of extraordinary gardeners who had fought against difficult circumstances. And it was a moving occasion in which those gathered remembered the Sunday Telegraph gardening writer Elspeth Thompson, who inspired the awards.
The winner, Andrew Barnett, collected his award from the botanist and television presenter David Bellamy and the actress Susan Hampshire. The former primary school headteacher from Wilsden near Bradford received a driftwood-and-glass trophy and garden kneeler embroidered with the Gardening Against the Odds logo. Andrew, who suffers from bipolar disorder and had a breakdown 10 years ago, said that transforming his bleak and boggy back garden had "saved his life".
Doreen King, who revived a derelict north London alley, and the Growing Together group of blind and partially sighted gardeners in Bingley, West Yorkshire collected the runners-up prizes. A further seven gardeners collected awards of merit certificates.
The Sunday Telegraph and the Conservation Foundation launched the awards last year with the support of Green & Black's Organic. We hope to continue the awards this year, inviting nominations in May. The Tanner Trust is supporting the 2011 competition, but help from other trusts and organisations is needed.
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What's the difference between true humility and false humility, as the desert Fathers saw it? Today we refer to ourselves as "The Most Unworthy Servant of Christ." But some of the desert Fathers would have identified such language as an example of counterfeit humility. True humility doesn't call attention to our unworthiness, but to God's greatness. It functions as a powerful influence in the lives of others, not ourselves. In one of the Saying of the Desert Fathers, we're told that St. John the Dwarf was so humble that he had his entire community "hanging from his little finger!" Hear why this was so.
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Dr Aberg: After following your advice and getting a 6 month negative test for hiv1/2 I was diagnosed with thrush, have mouth ulcers and burning tongue. Would you recommend further testing in this case. Went to private doctor she said it sounds like hiv. Had a dna at 17 weeks and rna at 10 weeks. What should I do. Thank you
Response from Dr. Aberg
Please see my other responses dealing with thrush. If you have not had any potential HIV exposures in the interim from the time you first got tested, I would not get another test for HIV. You have had testing for six months including looking for detectable virus and all have been negative. You can have thrush without having HIV. Also, other conditions may mimic thrush. If you are still having oral symptoms, your doctor may want to look for other conditions.
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appearance of a strange star in the heavens and were guided by it to the
stable in Bethlehem where the Savior had been born.
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with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they
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Colorado Rockies Pitcher Jorge De La Rosa Exercises His 2013 OptionNovember 1, 2012
Jorge de la Rosa had a player option on his contract he signed with the Colorado Rockies at the end of the 2010 season. Today, according to the Associated Press, he exercised that option and will remain a member of the Rockies for the 2013 season.
The 32 year old left-hander has only pitched 69 2/3 innings over 13 starts since signing that deal. Last year, while tearing his elbow ligament and being sidelined for all but three starts in 2012.
On the open market, he probably would have to accept a spring training invitation. But with his contract, he will have an eight figure payday.
Since being traded from the Kansas City Royals to the Rockies in April of 2008, he was one of the few pitchers who had some success in Denver.
He posted double digits in victories in 2008 and 2009, going 16-9 and an acceptable for Coors 4.38 ERA over 185 innings in the latter season. He was a key pitcher in the Rockies 2009 playoff season.
He had some velocity in his pitches when he returned at the end of the 2012 season. And the Rockies will need him to rediscover his ability if they want to turn around one of the worst pitching staffs in all of baseball.
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801 Ocean is a spectacular ocean front venue located in Oak Island, NC. In this 6,000 square foot space, a wall of elegant palladium windows overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, letting in ambient light and an inviting view of the North Carolina coastline. 801 Ocean is a premier place to host the...more about 801 Ocean Drive
Southport, NC Wedding Planning
In Southport, NC you can literally sail off into the sunset with your honey after a romantic sailboat wedding. Captain Carolyn Pryor of Sea/Side Ceremonies is an ordained minister who also captains her own sailboat. She can coordinate all the details for you as well. She does not only perform ceremonies aboard the sailboat - she will perform your ceremony on the dock or on the beach or at any other location you like. She customizes the services to fit you and your partner and offers a unique keepsake created by the bride and groom as they tie a True Lover's Knot.
You can stage your wedding and your reception in the community building which is situated on a hill next to Fort Johnston on Davis Street and overlooks the water. It is located at likely the loveliest spot in Southport, with gorgeous views of the Cape Fear River. The interior offers an elegant setting with ambient light reflecting onto the polished hardwood floors and large windows on three sides which provide the panoramic view. Just as lovely is the wooden deck outdoors under the shading live oak trees with breezes wafting off of the water. This can be an exquisite spot for the reception dance floor with lanterns twinkling above the dancers.
You may prefer to hold your ceremony in an historic church or at one of the lovely and historic bed and breakfast inns scattered throughout Southport. Whatever choice you make, you will find everything you need to plan your wedding right here in town. Two excellent choices for catering are Coastal Catering and Events in Boiling Spring Lakes and Taylor Cuisine Cafe & Catering, Inc. on N. Howe Street. Both offer onsite and offsite catering as well as scrumptious food. The folks at Wine & Roses on N. Howe Street have more than 40 years of experience with floral decorations for the church, reception hall and flowers for the members of the wedding party. They also offer a variety of invitations. Brunswick Town Florist in the Live Oak Shopping Center offers bridal consultations by appointment as well as unique and organic custom floral designs. Seaside Wedding Connection at 4396 Frying Pan Road , a full service wedding planner, in addition to planning your beautifully unique event, will provide a photographer with more than 10 years of experience to capture all of your special moments. For videos of your wedding and reception, you can contact USC Web & Video Productions on River Road.
Oak Island, NC Wedding Planning
Weddings on the beach are quite popular on Oak Island, NC and there is a local minister here who specializes in these. Betty Jo Blackmon of Wonderful Weddings at the Barefoot Beach Chapel on E. Oak Island Drive has been a minister for more than 30 years. Her two special touches include a Sands of Time Ceremony and the sounding of the conch horn, an old Hawaiian custom.
You will find caterers, photographers and a bakery for your wedding cake. Turtle Island Restaurant and Catering on E. Oak Island Drive will help you with planning your menu and will cater your event in their restaurant or at another location of your choice. Photographers Mike Boswell and Phyllis Allen both have their studios on Oak Island. Boswell Photography II is located on Dolphin Drive and Mike has been a photographer since 1976. He employs classical poses, candid photos and photojournalism to put together his wedding albums. Phyllis specializes in wedding photos on the beach with a background of ocean or dunes, however, she is experienced in taking all kinds of photos.
Why not tie the knot at your favorite vacation location? On Oak Island there are miles of beaches with numerous lovely locations for your wedding. Coastal Vacation Resorts Oak Island also has some stunning rental homes available for weddings. They will be happy to offer a group of rental houses for all your guests as well.
Florists and musicians are mostly found off island and you can find excellent choices as near as Southport, NC. The marriage license bureau is located at the office of the Brunswick County Register of Deeds in Bolivia, NC.
Bald Head Island, NC Wedding Planning
There are many very fine venues for your wedding and reception on Bald Head Island, NC which include the beach. Indoors, outdoors, in a church or in a club - you can find the perfect place here. The Village Chapel of Bald Head Island located at 105 Lighthouse Wynd is an exquisite little chapel that is available for weddings of up to 110 guests. The chapel is interdenominational and you can provide your own minister if you like, but it requires advance reservations of one year if you are not a resident of Bald Head Island, NC. For an intimate wedding reception (up to 30 guests) you might consider the lovely Marsh Harbour Inn. This inn is located on Keelson Row next to the harbor. Rental homes, rooms or suites at the inn can be reserved for your attendants and guests. The Bald Head Island Club offers a variety of settings for your wedding and wedding reception including an outdoor tent site. The attentive staff can skillfully handle an intimate event or an extravagant one for 300 guests.
You will need to go off island to find such things as florists, photographers, music and other necessary items. Both Jim Minett of Key Productions in Southport, NC and Tommy Robbins of Shoresound Productions, LLC in Bolivia, NC are happy to travel in Brunswick County as well as outside of it to bring their music to your special event.


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3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, sleeps 6, with harbor-view
infinity pool.
Mrs. Russel's House is an artistic blend of the historic and
contemporary. This lovely house dates from the first half of
the1800's. During the recent restoration, the original historic
architecture was preserved while accommodating the needs of modern
luxury living, including state-of-the-art fixtures, appliances, and
electronics, and with harbor-view infinity pool. Mixing original
furnishings with a unique blend of creatively researched pieces,
Mrs. Russel's reknowned Italian architect created a sense of
Colonial nostalgia that is unique and delightful.
Mrs. Russel's House has three full-size bedrooms. Two feature
king-sized beds and the third has two double beds. The house has a
large formal living room, elegant formal dining room with seating
for six, and a fully equipped island kitchen with gas cooktop and
state-of-the-art Smeg appliances. There are 2 luxurious modern
bathrooms, one with shower and one with shower/tub combination.
A large terrace overlooks with harbor-view infinity pool.
Amenities include flat-screen cable TV, air conditioning,
wireless internet, hi-fi stereo, complimentary toiletries, and
off-street parking.
Mrs. Russel's House is part of the Squires Estate collection of
beautifully restored 19th century homes on the hill above Governors
Harbour, furnished with antiques from around the world. The décor
and level of finish will delight the most discriminating world
traveler. Our manager will greet you upon arrival and be available
to assist you as needed. She can arrange for daily housekeeping, a
private chef, or a car rental (extra charges apply), and provide
advice about island activities. Other staff at Squires Estate
include a fulltime gardener and housekeepers. Laundry and ironing
services are provided on the premises.
Mrs. Russel's House can be combined with other historic homes
and cottages in the Squires Estate collection for larger
Mrs. Russel's estate is surrounded by a lush garden which is
home to many fruit trees, bougainvillea, hibiscus, aloe and coconut
palms. Those are just a few of the plants that grace this serene
property. The infinity pool serves both Mrs. Russel's House and
Toad's Hall. The pool deck is dramatic with its views of the
harbour and adds to the delight of the well-manicured grounds.
The town of Governors Harbour, a one-minute walk down the hill,
has a charming collection of 19th century homes and churches
overlooking its historic harbor. Buy fresh fish and lobster every
afternoon from fisherman at the town dock, or visit the recently
restored Haynes Library, which dates from 1897, for the weekly
coffee hour for foreign residents and tourists. Governors Harbour
has grocery stores, restaurants, liquor stores, two banks with
ATMs, a bakery, gift shops, and a medical clinic. Friday Night Fish
Fry in Governors Harbour, a street/beach party that brings together
all the tourists and locals with food, drink, and dancing in the
street, is not to be missed.
Walking over the hill in the other direction takes you to French
Leave Beach, the finest beach on the island and one of the great
beaches of the Caribbean. By foot, it's about 10 minutes to French
Leave, a mile-long crescent of pink sand which is literally
deserted most of the time. Most visitors to Eleuthera rent a car,
because the island is rural and spread out, and a car is the only
practical way to get around. By car, Mrs. Russel's is just a minute
from French Leave Beach.
Eleuthera is famous for its 100 miles of spectacular, deserted
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you go. The snorkeling, diving, and fishing on the island are world
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You can rent power boats, sailboats, sea kayaks, bikes. You can
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Giovanni Hernandez, a senior at Bishop Ireton High school, was presented with the Student Community Service Award by the Rotary Club of Alexandria at its Jan. 28 meeting at Belle Haven Country Club.
Known as Gio to his family and friends, Hernandez has participated in the school's student government organization since his freshman year serving as class rep, class president and a member of the executive board. A standout athlete in cross country, football and lacrosse, Hernandez writes for the school literary magazine and is active in the Campus Ministry Program.
Joined by his father Vince Hernandez, Bishop Ireton Director of Campus Ministry Brian Dunn and teacher Matt Hendricks, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes Head of School Joan Holden and Rotary Club president Peter Knetemann presented the award to Hernandez, who was recently accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy.
A member of the National Honor Society, Hernandez is also a participant in the Beta Club and Haitian Alliance Club, both of which work towards helping those less fortunate in the local and international communities.
"I am excited to be here today," Hernandez said. "Thank you to my teachers at Bishop Ireton and to the Rotary Club for this honor."


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A regular at the GameStop on Nolensville Road was arrested Wednesday after police say she keyed an employee's car after not receiving a demo game.
According to an affidavit, Vicki Manning got mad at the employee for giving other people a demo product that she wanted.
Manning was also upset the employee did not acknowledge her friendly advances.
She is accused of causing a scene inside the store before leaving.
Police said she then called the store, told the employee to look at his car and hung up.
The victim, who reportedly recognized Manning's voice over the phone, went outside find that his car had been keyed.
As officer's were taking her custody, Manning reportedly told them her 7-year-old son was at home alone. Police stated they believe her child was recklessly placed in danger since she kept returning to the business to vandalize the victim's car.
Manning was charged with one count of child neglect and one count of vandalism and booked into the Metro jail on $12,500 bond.


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MLB Draft 2014: Latest Predictions and Assessments for ProspectsJune 3, 2014
Just days from now, some of the top amateur baseball players in the country will see their dreams come true as they become professional prospects. Where they'll fall, nobody truly knows.
Names like Carlos Rodon, Michael Conforto and Alex Jackson have been on the radar for years. Meanwhile, players such as Brady Aiken, Jeff Hoffman and Touki Toussaint have shot up to the top of the class recently.
While some like Hoffman and Erick Fedde have injury questions coming into the draft, both are still projected to go in the first round. For teams at the bottom of the first round that already have talent at the MLB level, taking a risk on a player might pay off in the long run.
As the draft nears, let's take a look at some of the top players and where they might fall on Thursday night.
Carlos Rodon, LHP, N.C. State: No. 1 Overall; Houston Astros
Maybe it's just stubborn, but the notion that Rodon is going anywhere other than the Houston Astros doesn't seem right.
The 6'3", 234-pound left-hander has been solid throughout his college career and was simply on a team that performed poorly on offense all season. Rodon finished with a 6-7 record but did so with a 2.01 ERA, three complete games and a 117-31 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com provides his reasoning for the N.C. State ace as the No. 1 pick: "A slow start left Rodon's status as the top pick in question. One of the big high school pitchers below could still be Houston's choice, but here's saying the N.C. State lefty has done enough to reclaim the spot."
Rodon is still the strongest pitching prospect in this year's class despite the perceived struggles he experienced this season. While the Wolfpack fell short of their hopes of returning to the College World Series, the lefty will still thrive and join Mark Appel as potential future aces for Houston's staff.
Alex Jackson, C/OF, Rancho Bernardo HS: No. 2 Overall; Miami Marlins
Will he be an outfielder or will he slot behind the plate? With a bat like Jackson's, it really doesn't matter.
One of the highest risers in the last year thanks to his monstrous production at the plate, Jackson will go as the top overall position player in the draft. As the Miami Marlins mull over who they should take, the versatility of Jackson will give them a massive amount of upside at either position moving forward.
While there is a plethora of talented bats and dynamic all-around players in the draft, Jim Callis of MLB.com believes Jackson is the best:
Jackson offers exciting bat speed from the right side of the plate. He has natural loft in his swing, plenty of strength in his 6-foot-2, 215-pound frame and the capability to hit monster blasts to any part of the ballpark. Jackson's swing can get a bit long at times, but he generally does a fine job of covering the plate and barreling balls, boding well for his ability to hit for average.
Jackson profiles as a middle-of-the-order hitter, though at what position he'll do his damage at remains to be seen. He certainly has the tools necessary to remain behind the plate, with above-average arm strength and good agility. As with most high school catchers, Jackson's receiving requires some work to bring it up to Major League standards.
Unlike some of the other teams near the top of the draft, the Marlins already have a wealth of pitching slowly developing in the minors. And with the likes of Jose Fernandez eventually returning after Tommy John surgery, adding another power bat would provide a boost to the lineup for the future.
Jeff Hoffman, RHP, East Carolina: No. 14; San Francisco Giants
A young man with all the talent to compete to be an ace at the MLB level, Hoffman simply had one setback that hurt his draft stock.
When healthy, Hoffman has the makings of a supremely talented pitcher at the next level. Clint Longenecker of Baseball America provides one National League scout's thoughts on the right-hander before the injury:
If the guys were swinging with wood today, he would have broken about four or five bats. A few of us were talking about whether he or (ECU righthander) David Lucroy, who is also a groundball pitcher, will have a higher groundball rate this year. It will probably be Lucroy because at this level, guys are going to swing over the top of Hoffman's fastball because of how much sink he gets. But at the next level, it will be Hoffman.
While most baseball fans will be wowed by strikeout pitchers, Hoffman provides consistency that projects better as a professional pitcher. If he can remain healthy over the next few years, the righty will thrive at the minor and major league level.
For a team like the San Francisco Giants that already have a wealth of pitching at the MLB level, developing Hoffman to take over for Tim Hudson or Tim Lincecum looks like a smart move.
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Novartis and Medicines for Malaria Venture launch Coartem® Dispersible, the first ACT* developed for children suffering from malaria
* More children die from malaria than any other patient group - every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria
* Approved by Swissmedic, sweet-tasting Coartem® Dispersible is an easy-to-administer medicine that promotes effective treatment for children with malaria
* Recent study published in The Lancet shows Coartem Dispersible is well-tolerated and provides children with high cure rates comparable to Coartem
* Novartis will provide Coartem Dispersible without profit for public sector use in malaria-endemic regions
Basel - Novartis and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) announced today the launch of Coartem® Dispersible, a new pediatric formulation of Coartem® (artemether/lumefantrine 20 mg/120 mg), for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in infants and children.
Coartem Dispersible contains the same amounts of artemether and lumefantrine as Coartem, the leading artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in Africa, and is the first dispersible fixed-dose ACT developed especially for children.
Each year there are more than one million malaria-related deaths around the world[1]. Nine out of ten malaria deaths occur in sub Saharan Africa, and the vast majority of malaria-related deaths occur in children. In Africa alone, a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria[2].
This new Coartem Dispersible tablet can help improve treatment and compliance saving many of the more than 700,000 children under five who die each year from malaria, said Dr. Daniel Vasella, chairman and CEO of Novartis. I am pleased that we can provide a clearly better formulation to help ensure children with malaria receive and can take an effective therapy.
Until now, many parents crushed bitter-tasting antimalarial tablets for their children to swallow. The new sweet-tasting Coartem Dispersible tablets disperse quickly in small amounts of water, easing administration and ensuring effective dosing for children.
The launch of Coartem Dispersible is an important milestone in the fight against malaria and marks the culmination of several years of successful collaboration with Novartis, said Dr. Chris Hentschel, President and CEO of Medicines for Malaria Venture. As malaria is essentially a pediatric disease, we are hopeful that this child-friendly formulation will contribute to a reduction in child mortality in Africa, and give children back their future.
A phase III study recently published in The Lancet showed that Coartem Dispersible provides a high cure rate** of 97.8%, which is comparable to that of Coartem (98.5%). Investigators also reported that it had a good safety profile[3].
As part of its ongoing commitment to patients and health workers, Novartis and MMV also provide malaria case management educational programs, which include hands-on training for local healthcare workers, customized training manuals, and user-friendly packaging to ensure that Coartem Dispersible is properly used and to improve patient compliance. Like Coartem, Coartem Dispersible will be provided to the public sector without profit to benefit those people most in need in the developing world. In addition to Swissmedic, Coartem Dispersible is approved by several regulatory authorities in Africa. These countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, and Zambia.
About Coartem
In a unique collaboration with international organizations, Novartis has provided more than 215 million Coartem treatment courses to the public sector in Africa without profit since 2001. These treatments have helped to save approximately 550,000 lives.
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[3] Abdulla S. et al. Efficacy and safety of arthemeter-lumefantrine dispersible tablets compared with crushed commercial tablets in African infants and children with uncomplicated malaria: a randomised, single blind, multicentre trial. Lancet . Published on line.
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The movie had good potential that it never really achieved. It had a few different storylines that were not really done well. They opted to feed you constant, and violent, battle scenes instead. I was disappointed in the movie as between being about the Corps and the Codetalkers they used in WWII, it could have been a great USMC flick.
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- sb on Jun 17, 2002, 9:50 AM
Meant to say Dave D'Arche...
- sb on Jun 17, 2002, 9:55 AM
No, I Wasn't There sb
- Dave D'Arche on Jun 17, 2002, 6:56 PM
Dave remembers the Corps when muskets were the basic infantry weapon.....NM
- Stimer on Jun 17, 2002, 7:48 PM
It's even worse than that!
- JITB on Jun 18, 2002, 3:23 AM
How True !
- Dave D'Arche on Jun 18, 2002, 6:31 AM
Don't blame it just on Nam Vets!
- JITB on Jun 18, 2002, 11:12 AM
I even know some Korean War Vets that have some unkind words about Truman!...NM
- JITB on Jun 18, 2002, 11:14 AM
You Missed A Few Democratic Presidents
- Dave D'Arche on Jun 18, 2002, 6:30 PM
Actually, I don't think the Troops favored Nixon anymore than the Dems!
- JITB on Jun 18, 2002, 7:24 PM
Strange How You Failed To Mention
- Dave D'Arche on Jun 18, 2002, 8:52 PM
The only reason I didn't mention Ike and Nixon was the subject was Democrats....
- JITB on Jun 19, 2002, 3:29 AM
I probably shouldn't have included JFK!
- JITB on Jun 19, 2002, 3:37 AM
The Washington Post and The Washington Times both gave it a negative review. The Post...
- Stimer on Jun 17, 2002, 7:46 PM
Yesterday, I ran into a Saipan Vet!
- JITB on Jun 18, 2002, 3:20 AM
presidents... pro and con
- jim stockton on Jun 19, 2002, 8:03 PM
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JAMDAT has teamed with developer Iron Monkey to produce a mobile companion to Sony's upcoming SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs. According to JAMDAT, who gave us a good little preview of the game last week at BREW 2005, Sony will have its eye on the project during the dev cycle. Considering the success Sony's had with the series and the quality that comes with the JAMDAT name, prospects are already good for the game.
SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Mobile Recon puts you in charge of a two man team, each soldier capable of taking orders. You must actually control each man separately to get tasks done, kind of like Mario & Luigi on steroids. And with big guns. To issue orders, you select a SEAL and then place a cursor on their next task. Using a context-sensitive system of commands, the game will somewhat take care of the rest. You just need to keep in mind that you must use the men in conjunction to get things done -- and done right. For example, one man may lay down a thick hail of suppression fire while the other approaches a doorway.
Being based on the console edition of SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Mobile Recon, there will be no shortage of action. Guard dogs under the control of terrorists will roam environments, nasty agents will search the alleys for you, as well as a number of other enemies. Engaging in direct combat is not always the best approach. Sometimes you are better off living to fight another day, and you can use shadows and cover for hiding.
Having played the first two SOCOM games and seeing the third in action, it's impressive to see how JAMDAT's take fits alongside the console games. While not a direct replacement, it looks like the game will be a good companion piece -- not unlike the mobile maker's Tony Hawk series of games. The wireless version includes a lot of tactics and situations found in the console games, so the link is definitely there, though.
JAMDAT showed us SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Mobile Recon on a sweet Sony handset that really emphasized the visual flair in the game. Environmental objects reacted to real-world influences, such as trees that bowed with the wind. The starring SEAL sprites were also quite good and seemed to feature some solid animation. The detail is astounding, but not overwhelming when you also consider the amount of info that game also offers the player. With real estate in short supply, you risk overloading the screen with HUD widgets, but SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Mobile Recon looks remarkably clean, even in such an early state. Environmental objects reacted to real-world influences, such as trees that bowed with the wind.
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I don't know... if you leave it out in winter with water in it, expanding ice will break the metal nozzle more easily than a plastic one, I think.
I had this setup, or whatever the Dramm equivalent was back in the 1990's, for years. It is indeed wonderful and I miss it every spring and summer. But we sold our house in Iowa and some things didn't make the cut. Now I finally am gardening again and think it's time to get a new set. Thanks for the reminder! I would rather have one copy of this head/valve setup than 100 assorted cheapies. I left it outdoors in Iowa winters and never had an issue with freezing. I think the rose itself is the only part that would be vulnerable that way, and that's replaceable.
I've left my plastic watering nozzles outside winter after winter and they still work just fine. $33 for a watering nozzle setup is silly.
My issue UV light takes it toll though and after three or four years the plastic starts crumbling into pieces :-/
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Weird - I've had no issues with plastic Gardena fittings, but the sprayers seem to wear faster. (The cheap knockoffs are much weaker, though.)
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Quentin and Philip
by Andrew Barrow
Macmillan £18.99, pp572
Oscar Wilde pretended that he had misallocated his resources: he expended his genius - he claimed - on living, and had only his talent left over for his work. Of course, as he well knew, the opposite was the case. The work retains its glazed perfection, but Wilde's life was a tragic mess. The twinned subjects of Andrew Barrow's 'double portrait' both, in their different ways, made the mistake Wilde avoided. They lived like geniuses or, perhaps, like freaky genii, parading or rampaging through the world as living works of art. But the histrionics of daily life left them little time for work. What remains of them now, apart from Barrow's almost canine fidelity to their memories?
Quentin was the self-invented Quentin Crisp, more drably christened Denis Pratt. Having changed his name, he invented a persona to go with it, and swished through Soho 'blind with mascara and dumb with lipstick'. When yobs beat him up, he offered no resistance: he relished martyrdom. He excluded himself from society and even from the philoprogenitive human species. Sex sickened him. Anal intercourse, he remembered with a wince, felt like having a colostomy without an anaesthetic. Gay liberationists considered him a traitor. All the same, this 'stately homo' expected the reverence due to the shaman. To laze in bed, where he spent much of his time, 'made me feel sacred', he said.
Dandyism usually involves a faddish preoccupation with appearances. Crisp, however, was an aesthete who nurtured a nostalgia for the gutter, and occupied a succession of small, rancid lodging-house rooms where grime and grease settled in a thick counterpane on his few possessions. It is a life that would have ended wretchedly if he had not been impersonated by John Hurt in a television film of his memoir The Naked Civil Servant. After this, Crisp cashed in on Hurt's mimicry of him, got an agent, began dictating books to ghostwriters, and took to marketing himself in a one-man show; he died in 1999 in Manchester, just before another of these wearily repetitious gigs.
Philip was Philip O'Connor, a drunkard, sponger and certifiable madman, who worked intermittently for the BBC but preferred the Chaplinesque vocation of tramp, puffing noxious pipes as he stomped along open roads, in self-imposed exile from middle-class respectability. By contrast with Crisp's lonely, onanistic autonomy, O'Connor scattered his seed with reckless generosity, and fathered nine or more children, whom he promptly forgot about. Crisp remained within an ever seedier bohemia, and spent his last years in the East Village of Manhattan. O'Connor's bohemianism developed into something more like haughty existential alienation: during the Fifties - when Colin Wilson was encamped on Hampstead Heath, reading Sartre and Camus - O'Connor proposed a programme on 'Outsiderism' to the Third Programme.
He too had a spot of good fortune which enabled him, like Crisp, to live both outside and snugly inside society. O'Connor was taken up by Panna Grady, an American heiress with Rockefeller connections, who seems to have single-handedly bankrolled the Beat movement. Nicknamed Pan of Gravy, she doled out blank cheques to mendicant poets, and smiled benignly when guests who gatecrashed her parties in the Dakota hotel filched jewels or furs: their need, she reckoned, was greater than hers. O'Connor, whom she married, became her principal charity. She indulged his manias, absorbed his psychotic rages, built studios for him in France (in which he, naturally, never worked), carted his empty bottles out to the bins, and nursed him through the cancer that killed him in 1998.
Crisp and O'Connor had a glancing, mutually wary acquaintance. It is Barrow who has brought them together, with much dialectical juggling and the help of a few supposedly prophetic coincidences; his 'double portrait' is actually a triptych, because between the queen and the loon the biographer's own face - emotionally needy, abjectly worshipful - keeps on peeping into view. In Barrow's tortuous family romance, both Crisp and O'Connor were incongruous adoptive dads, substitutes for a father who kept young Andrew at a chilly distance. Crisp treated his acolyte with the abstract, almost royal, politeness he bestowed on everyone. O'Connor, more violent and volatile, enjoyed his drinking binges with Barrow, but pointed out that his name rhymed with marrow, sallow, tallow and fallow, and shrewdly defined him as 'a collection of fragments stuck together by the glue of Must Get On'.
Barrow's book depends on persuading us to share his dogged, baffled reverence for these impossible men. I can only admire his courage in volunteering to suffer O'Connor's mood swings and his tolerance for the semi-coherent rodomontades of his conversation. (No doubt it helped to be drunk.) And his quotations from O'Connor's tetchy postcards and from his book, Memoirs of a Public Baby , reveal a writer with his own schizoid style, skilled at whipping up storms of wild, whirling words.
With Crisp, Barrow's advocacy is more successful. Embedded in filth, stoically surveying the decomposition of his body but determined to be gay, the old boy comes to remind me of Beckett's indomitable heroine in Happy Days who, though buried up to her neck in an ash heap, greets each morning with radiant gratitude for her existence. As a young man, Crisp paraphrased Beckett by commenting that life was 'a mad dash between the cradle and the grave'. (Possessing bourgeois scruples that O'Connor lacked, he usually added that it was imperative not to get into debt en route.) In old age, he recited a mantra about days spent contentedly confined to that foul hole on East 3rd Street: 'I breathe and I blink. I am never bored, never restless.' Have you ever heard anything wiser? It is a formulation worthy of the Buddha. But now - stir-crazily attracted to O'Connor's option - I am going out for a walk.


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[Justin Bieber Sorry]
My Mahal (Love) is mahal (expensive)…
It's the 15th and I know someone's getting her salary
I try to run and say "Baby, you know I have allergies"
there's no excuse to escape her favorite activity
she wants to shop all day long, 'cause she loves it
I can say bye to my plans for that day, I'm her only ride
to buy nice things 'cause she says
she works hard to get what she likes
cancel my rest, need my best Nike shoes for this marathon
as we go run around spending money
My baby's addicted to shopping
even flew to Guam for mall-hopping
my baby's addicted to shopping
and we run around to find stuff all day
it's like we are in Amazing Race!
We're shopping
And I'm driving
She's shopping
Oh, I tried to wait for her in the car
Became a sauna in half an hour!
My feet are hurting but she is still sorting through piles of clothes
She sees new outfits, but all that I see is more laundry loads
Seems she is buying the entire store and they treat her well
she's like the Queen of Shopping, they're her servants
My baby's addicted to shopping
And I
wish this mall had places for napping
'Cause she takes forever when shopping
she will shop until her wallet runs out
then says "It's time to use plastic now!"
She says "Baby, let's buy this bag please?"
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Oh and why did we have to park so far?
she stays behind while I get the car
She's still shopping
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Wanna know something?
fills my heart with love when she's shopping
'cause I know everything will go inside
a balikbayan box to P.I.
That's why I love her
and I don't mind doing it every time
as long as she's happy
I'm happy.
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Author Notes: Warm and gooey bittersweet chocolate espresso brownie cookies sprinkled with sea salt. —Riley Wofford
Makes 3 dozen cookies
- 10 ounces bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons instant espresso powder
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Sea salt, for sprinkling
- Melt 8 ounces of chocolate, the butter, and espresso powder in the top of a double boiler placed over simmering water, stirring until smooth and melted. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl to combine.
- Whisk together the eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract in a medium bowl to combine. Add the melted chocolate mixture and whisk until fully incorporated. Fold in the flour mixture and remaining 2 ounces of chocolate and mix until just combined. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour, or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 325°F and line a few baking sheets with parchment paper. Using a small ice cream scoop, drop the dough onto the baking sheets, spacing the cookies 1-inch apart. Bake for about 10 minutes, until the tops are dry and cracked. Remove from the oven and top each cookie with a pinch of sea salt. Let cool for 5 minutes, then transfer the cookies to a wire rack and let cool completely.


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DM – It is often said that money can't buy love. But trying telling that to a wealthy Indian man who splashed out £14,000 on a solid gold shirt in the hope it will attract female attention. Money-lender Datta Phuge 32, from Pimpri-Chinchwad, commissioned the shirt which took a team of 15 goldsmiths two weeks to make working 16 hours a day creating and weaving the gold threads. It comes complete with its own matching cuffs and a set of rings crafted from left-over gold. 'I know I am not the best looking man in the world but surely no woman could fail to be dazzled by this shirt?' he explained 'The gold shirt has been one of my dreams,' Mr Phuge told Indian newspaper the Pune Mirror. 'It will be an embellishment to my reputation as the 'Gold man of Pimpri"' Mr Phuge said. The gaudy shirt was assembled on a fabric base of imported white velvet, and comes with six Swarovski crystal buttons and an intricate belt, also made of gold.
Awwwww shit! This man Datta Phuge been pimpin since been pimpin since been pimpin since been pimpin! Don't think I've ever seen a more sure-fire way to get sluts on your dick than wearing a solid gold shirt around town. It's like fishing with dynamite. And I love his quote there: 'I know I am not the best looking man in the world but surely no woman could fail to be dazzled by this shirt?' Now that's a man who understands the female mind. Gonna have a ho train following him everywhere he goes. Fucking conga line of skanks looking to cash in. Well played sir, well played.
But seriously you gotta love Indian dudes. Maybe the most awkward race of people when it comes to dealing with women. Has an Indian bro ever fucked a white girl in the history of the universe? I think that might be the rarest interracial hookup in the game. Indian dudes are so awkward with girls that even a super rich one can't rely on just telling girls he's rich. He has to visually display it in the form of a shirt to make sure they get the message loud and clear. No way a solid gold shirt could ever be misinterpreted. I'm single, I'm wealthy, and I'm looking for pussy. Loud and fucking clear.
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I think that disliking Justine is kind of like disliking Roger ... it's not only becoming justified, but expected! Besides, any woman who can't get along with Kim Clijsters cannot be that nice of a person.
I feel somewhat sorry for Lindsay, and the way she's being hounded non-stop about whether or not this is her last Open. I don't think she KNOWS if it's her last Open. I don't think she's the kind of player who would map out a retirement like that. But even if she has decided, and it is her last Open, she couldn't really say so. If she does, then it looks like she's trying to get in on Andre's parade. So she has to continue to be hounded and hounded. It'd be even worse if she has every intent of coming back next year, and has these constant reminders that everyone thinks she's washed up!


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Two months after former Best Buy Co. Chairman Richard Schulze exited the board amid scandal, he offered to buy the struggling electronics giant for as much as $8.84 billion, a deal that would make it the largest buyout ever of a U.S. retailer.
But the offer of $24 to $26 a share was met with considerable skepticism Monday among analysts and investors, who nudged the stock price up $2.35, or 13.3%, to $19.99 but nowhere close to the proposed takeover offer price. Standard & Poor's cut Best Buy's credit rating to junk since such a buyout would add debt to its books.
Schulze said he would take the company private by putting in $1 billion of his own money and securing debt financing as well as investments from private equity firms. He made the offer in a letter sent to the board that he made public Monday
The proposed buyout — which could top the $8.4-billion buyout of Toys R Us in 2005 — represents a premium of 36% to 47% over Best Buy's closing stock price Friday.


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Developer BiographyAs founding member and Vice President of Graphics at Big Huge Games, David Inscore guides the artistic vision of the team, and keeps the company on the cutting edge of visual technology. In 2009, David's title is Studio Art Director.
David attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, the oldest accredited art school in the nation, graduating with a major in Illustration. Dave currently serves as adjunct professor as well as advisor for the institute as they explore an undergraduate program in Game Art Development.
He began his career at Microprose where he cut his teeth on titles like European Air War, Virtual Karts, Deion Sanders Prime Time Football, and Magic: The Gathering. At Microprose, David established himself as a determined and talented artist, and found that his technical skills gave him the ability to work effectively with programmers.
Moving on to Firaxis, David had a hand in virtually every major artistic element of Sid Meier's Gettysburg and Alpha Centauri, where he distinguished himself as a 3D animator, terrain artist, and interface designer.
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Libel lawyers descend on Usenet
My name is mud
When a character posting under the name "Guy Fawkes" felt himself to have been slandered, he reported the offence to the ISP of the person attacking him. The ISP's response was precisely nothing; it ignored repeated complaints, quite possibly taking the (reasonable) view that since they weren't publishing the libel in the traditional sense, it was none of their business. That's the way the newsgroups have operated ever since they started.
However, when the writs rolled in, they took legal advice, and as a result, rapidly changed their posture, identified the poster, and a case is currently rolling through the UK High Court as a result. How a court is supposed to resolve these things is really not obvious. For a start, online arguments quickly polarise; people take positions on one side of the dispute or the other, and then start reacting personally to arguments.
Suddenly, you find several previously uninvolved participants taking views which simply can't be based on personal knowledge of the main antagonists. And, as time goes by, they seem to radicalise each other, until they are apparently prepared to appear in court to support anybody who is sued. But it gets worse.
The anonymity of Usenet means that you can find several people arguing, strongly, that the libels are factual, with evidence... and yet, discover later that all of them are in fact the same person, using different nommes de guerre - the person who posted the original libel! But how do you prove that? And if you can't, should the Court assume that they are legitimate witnesses, reflecting widespread opinion? or assume they are bots, mindlessly repeating what the ringmaster decrees?
The good thing about the current libel case is that at least it has been established - by The Hon. Mr Justice Eady, who declared, quite firmly, that the ISPs are not guilty by association - that the laws of UK libel which involve third parties to the libel, don't apply online. He ruled that ISPs are not Publishers in the meaning of the original understanding of the law.
That was based on a long-established precedent which saw many book-shops refuse to carry, for example, copies of Private Eye, in case they got named in libel actions: "In all the circumstances, I am quite prepared to hold that there is no realistic prospect of the Claimant being able to establish that any of the corporate Defendants, in any meaningful sense, knowingly participated in the relevant publications," the judge ruled.
But what about Google?
The problem is: Google is rich. And the case currently before the Court may have ruled that ISPs are not de facto "publishers" - but it also pointed to another landmark case of internet libel where the ISPs in a case were told that the statements were libellous, and were asked to remove them. In that case, since they refused, they were judged complicit in the libel.
Google however has a problem; it wants to store the entire internet. Take legal action against an ISP, and it may withdraw a slanderous post; but Google's cache will continue to repeat the story. And (any lawyer will tell you) there's no point in suing a cranky nerd whose total assets are probably an antique Pentium 3 computer and a modem... but if you can drag a wealthy corporation like Google into the story, then damages can be tempting.
Cases will increase. You can be sued in Canada for a libel you posted when you lived in Hong Kong or Venezuela. The libellous reach of the internet means you could find yourself arraigned under the repressive laws of a country you have never heard of, for saying something you thought was "fair comment" in the UK, or covered by the free speech amendment in the US.
Do you run a blog? You might like to take out libel insurance... ®
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Despite Eliot Spitzer's recent fall and the partial exposure of his hypocrisy in strong-arming businesses and business leaders under investigation, one of Spitzer's chief enablers – the New York Times – apparently still has never seen a corporate prosecution it hasn't liked. On its front page today, the NYT takes the Justice Department to task for supposedly letting corporations "off easy." Nothing could be further from the truth.
The NYT alleges that instead of prosecuting corporations like it did in the good old days, Justice has been giving corporations sweetheart deals called deferred prosecution agreements. This is just another NYT dog-bites-man story impugning the integrity and effectiveness of the Bush Justice Department (and everything else about this administration). The story also has the analysis exactly wrong.
By almost any measure, this Justice Department has been more aggressive than any of its predecessors in pursuing allegations of corporate crime. As Department officials regularly point out, they have obtained over 1,200 convictions and guilty pleas of white-collar employees. This is a huge number given the enormous resources consumed by any large white-collar investigation and prosecution.
The Enron and WorldCom scandals super-heated the environment for white-collar investigations and prosecutions. The Department has fashioned and put into practice some hyper-aggressive policies for investigating and prosecuting white-collar crime. (See, for example, this op-ed here.) Entering into deferred prosecution agreements rather than indicting and prosecuting every time there is some evidence of criminal conduct is one of the more prudent and measured white-collar policies the Department has pursued the last few years.
Crowing that the Justice Department was "once known for taking down corporations" (as if every corporation is essentially a Mafia family), the NYT article casually mentions the Department's destruction of "big five" accounting firm Arthur Andersen. The short story is that Justice indicted Andersen, the indictment killed the firm, and it no longer existed by the time the Supreme Court reversed the Department's hard-won conviction. The firm's 28,000 employees – at least 99% of whom were not even implicated in the alleged wrongdoing – had to find new careers. The firm's partners lost everything they had built over the years and had to start over from scratch.
Not only can indictment alone destroy a business well before it gets a chance to defend itself in court, it isn't clear that justice is accomplished by prosecuting a business. All that is needed to prosecute a business is some evidence that one employee engaged in criminal conduct. Even if that employee was violating every single company policy, the company can still be indicted.
Deferred prosecution agreements do not preclude Justice from indicting and prosecuting any individuals – employees or not – who engaged in criminal conduct. On the contrary, companies almost uniformly agree to cooperate fully with Justice in investigating alleged wrongdoing. As part of almost all deferred prosecution agreements, companies conduct additional internal investigations and turn all of the information and evidence they find over to the Department to use against any employee who might have engaged in wrongdoing. Some companies pay enormous fines, including almost a half-billion dollars paid by accounting firm KPMG alone. Many allow the Justice Department to appoint a so-called corporate monitor who oversees much or all of the company's business and effectively dictates business decisions and practices.
The NYT's pathological cynicism toward American business and the Bush Justice Department is evident in today's article. Apparently making the most of every opportunity it has to slap around either or both, the NYT completely distorts the reality of current federal practices for enforcing the law on white-collar crime.


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In the VocabularySpellingCity offices, we have some exciting discussions. For instance, must the word "school" always be a noun?
I was in strong disagreement with an experienced English teacher (note, I have no such credentials). She argued "school" could only be used as a noun.
I spoke with some confidence: "What about school days, school bus, school boy, school books? What sorts of books would these be? They are school books. See, school can also be an adjective. Lets open up Merriam Webster and I'll show you…."
Then, to my amazement: "Wow!….Merriam Webster lists school as a noun and a verb but not as an adjective! OK, lets try another dictionary…" The same thing! I was stupified, stumped, flummoxed, and dumbfounded.
The first two dictionaries that I pulled up online both listed school only as a noun or a verb, (ie "Would you like to be schooled in the use of dictionaries?"). Neither of these first two dictionaries acknowledged the use of school as an adjective.
Finally, I found Dictionary.com which mentions three uses of the word "school": noun, verb, and adjective! While this seemed obvious to me, I was now aware that there was room for disagreement.
What to make of Merriam Webster? What do they think about the school bus?Merriam lists school bus as a noun. It seem that they consider these words – school days, school bus, school boy, school books – to be all open form compound word. An open form compound word? Mostly, people think of compound words as being two words joined together with no spaces or hyphens between which makes them "closed form". Examples include butterfly, shoehorn, and windmill.
Open form compound words are compound words that are not joined together like "closed form" compound words but have a space in them. Some examples of compound words with a space in them: post office, real estate, fire engine, and light bulb.
Numbers, by the way, are a really arbitrary combination of compound word types. There's seventeen (closed form). And twenty-three (hyphenated). And three hundred (open form) but that is not my topic for today, let's return to the question of:
When is a word a compound word and when is it just an adjective with a noun?
I like this definition of a compound word: When two words form a new word with a new meaning. I think the functional part of this is the idea of a new meaning. For instance, a business office is to me, just a type of office. Adjective. Noun.
But a post office is not really a type of office at all, it's a type of retail outlet so it's clearly a compound word and not an adjective noun combination.
Real estate. I would agree that real when used with estate forms a new meaning that is different than thinking of real as an adjective. So it too is a compound word, not just an adjective in front of a noun.
But there are gray areas. Is a green box just a box that is green? Yes. What about a weak box? A mail box? A strong box?
So, back to school:
Is a school bus just a type of bus? IMHO yes. So adjective noun.
Is a school book just a type of book? IMHO yes. So adjective noun.
What about a school desk, is it a type of desk? IMHO yes. So adjective noun.
Is school work just a type of work? IMHO maybe.
Is a school house just a type of house? IMHO NO, it's not a house at all. It's a compound word definitely.
School day? A type of day? Maybe.
So there's some clear cases of school being used as an adjective such as with bus or book. There's some compound words made with the word school such as school house. And there are some gray areas where I'm not sure and I'd have to consult greater authorities. But, if Merriam Webster is unwilling to acknowledge that school could ever be used as an adjective then I (the Mayor of VocabularySpellingCity) am getting a little unsure of who this greater authority will be. Maybe my mom or brothers, all of whom seem to know grammar so much better than me. I mean I.
Now, does any of this matter? Obviously, progressive education has de-emphasized naming parts of speech. But in our gut, we all know that this sort of linguistic question being given its due is really the height of education and civilization.