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While safety and eye-protection is important, sometimes you want a little style with your welding helmet on top of the basic features. At Harbor Freight, we have a few cool options that will add some style and flair to any garage or welding shop. If you're looking to pick out a welding helmet that stands out from the rest, take a look at the Auto Darkening Welding Helmet with Blue Flame Design (Item #: 91214)!
For just $54.99, you get all the great features you'd expect with any top-of-the-line welding helmet, plus more. As soon as you start welding, the lens on this helmet darkens in just 1/25,000th of a second for optimal protection and safety while welding. Also, you can work in comfort with an adjustable head strap and padded interior. This helmet works so well, you might forget you have it on! That is, until you hear all the compliments you're getting about how awesome it looks on you.
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This report is a review of surface water quality in Broward County from 1972-1997. Over time, the changes in Broward County's hydrology, ecology, and environmental regulations have had significant impacts on the quality of our waters. This report presents historical trends and discusses factors affecting water quality such as stormwater, land use, wastewater, saltwater intrusion, and soil types.
A comparison of the County's drainage basins is given, with separate discussions focusing on each individual basin. This historical analysis of water quality will provide a technical foundation for effective planning and policymaking, development and enforcement of environmental regulations, and design and coordination of research programs for the improvement of the environment in Broward County. This document is planned to be released in December of 2000.
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Nordic conference for Chemistry teachersActivity by Vivi-Ann Långvik | added on Dec 09, 2010 | Sweden
Sponsor(s): Bengt Lundqvists minne, Vetenskap & Skola
Chemistry teachers from all the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) will meet to seek information and inspiration in order to improve our pupils interest and learning in chemistry.
A conference for chemistry teachers from all the Nordic countries will be held in Stockholm on October 28-29, 2011
From the program:
"State of the art" - school authorities from all countries will give a short presentation on the sitation in each country regarding chemistry education.
The Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2011 will be presented by a member of the Nobel committe
Lecures on Energy and materials from Biomass (Prof. C. Feldby, Denmark) and on the Role of Research and Development in Paper and Pulp industry (Prof. N. von Weymarn, Finland) will be held
Sir Harold Kroto will participate via a video link, with a presentation on GooYouWikiWorld and a discussion through Skype or similar program
Chemistry history in 12 parts (theater)
Work-shops, will be given by participants from the different countries
A buffé dinner will be included in the program
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"Lost Weekend" at Boreas Inn & the Implications of Legalized Marijuana at B&B's!
March 3, 2013 by: Susan Goldsmith
The State of Washington has legalized marijuana and is working on administrative guidelines for distribution and sales. The legalization of marijuana has marketing implications for the Bed and Breakfast industry, of that we're sure. B&B's certainly are known for "Winemaker's Weekends" and wine-tasting afternoons…but wait a minute! The rules have changed!
Nobody we know of has had the nerve yet to market a "lost weekend" theme for pot smokers and "green butter" eaters. Our fantasies have left us giggling and wondering about what could, in reality, be a huge marketing advantage in the B&B business. Cooking with "green butter" could leave willing participants wondering what happened to their weekend. Having pot sampling reminiscent of the cafes in Amsterdam has many of us wondering how that might be done. Smoking is not allowed inside commercial buildings, but 25 feet from the inn, it is legal. But foods made with "green butter" certainly do not pollute the air!
In our "Lost Weekend at Boreas" fantasy, we can imagine guests ruminating, "We do remember checking into Boreas Inn, having a blissful nights' sleep in their amazing beds, eating their legendary breakfasts, dining out at The Depot, Pelicano, the 42nd Street Cafe, all on Saturday night, but more than that, we can't remember a thing!" Well–that's probably not going to happen, but then again, it could. Would that be different than guests being intoxicated with alcohol? Yes, it would be very different. We do not have experience with super intoxicated guests so we don't imagine that our pot-smoking, "green butter eating" guests would have inappropriate behavior. Stoned guests would be peaceful and definitely more food-oriented and we certainly can cater to that! Would we have to transport guests to and from their culinary adventures if they are high? Yes, we would! Is there potential for B&B's to attract more guests? Yes, there is. So the question is raised since we have a complimentary beer and wine license, meaning we can buy wine and beer and serve it to our guests at no extra charge, would that translate to marijuana too? I suppose we will soon have answers! Until then, we can continue to dream up our "Lost Weekend at Boreas" themes. And giggle.


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Each week I come across so much online each week that I can't wait to to share... so I'm not! (waiting, that is...)
Here are some online goodies that made me happy as I stumbled across them this week... hope they make you happy too!
* Crafty Gift Guide. 'Cause we all know you can never have enough projects going on at once
* Beautiful Gift Wrapping closet... who has room for this?! Ah, we can dream...
* Loving these holiday ideas: 2D Tree of Lights (amazing how something simple can be so pretty!) and the trend in Potted Christmas Trees (found via Little Green Notebook)
* DIY Foot Balm - great gift idea, even if just for yourself
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Marriages, new jobs, new children, new grandchildren — find out what fellow alums have been up to since the last Class Note Corner.
Dorothy Nurre Broad '46 of Carmel, Calif., has children in New Jersey, Texas, Idaho, and California but the whole family is able to meet every January and July at the Grand Valley Manor.
Harriet Fealy Foley '57 of Franklin, Ohio, had a Foley Family Reunion in Kilkee, Ireland in July with 35 relatives from the United States and over 45 relatives from Ireland.
Jeanine Evers Radler '59 of Ann Arbor, Mich., is happy to report that she has a new daughter-in-law named Kelsey.
Mary Block Bay '61 of New Canaan, Conn., celebrated the birth of her first grandchild, a girl, on April 10.
Elaine Meyers Reardon '65 of Cincinnati, celebrated the birth of her grandchild, Jack Martin Reardon, born July 22, 2012.
Elizabeth Glaser Frye '66 of Beavercreek, Ohio, is enjoying retirement and doing volunteer work.
Kathleen Sheridan '69 of Manassas, Va., is currently training to be a Master Gardener.
Susan Schehl Schiller '71 of Cincinnati has been named the executive director of the Bethany House Services, an organization that helps over 2000 adults and children each year with many different programs.
Caroline Metzger Malsbary '82 of Cincinnati, is looking forward to full retirement so that she can travel more and spend more time with her grandchildren.
Jean Taylor Aclin '84 of Elkton, Fla., is working at UF Health Trauma Center in Jacksonville, FL. In addition to her work, she is also very involved with the church, participates in ballroom dancing, and enjoys photography.
Paul Silva '87 of Cincinnati, has just been named President of the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky division of the First Financial Bancorp.
Lori Kreimer Schaefer '89 of Cincinnati, obtained her Certified Trust and Financial Advisor Certification in July. She also celebrated her 24th anniversary at US Bank.
Anne Milam '94 of Charlotte, N.C., recently completed her book entitled, "Bloom Where You're Planted." The book discusses Anne's life as a children's ministry director, community member, and pastor's wife. In April 2014, Anne plans to attend a planning conference called Exponential West, where she will have the opportunity to market her book.
John Hutcheson '00 of St. Augustine, Fla., is now the campus pastor for Parkview St. Augustine. After graduating from the Mount, John moved to Louisville where he received his master of divinity from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Sarah Seitz Geil '05 of Cincinnati, just celebrated 5 years of marriage to her husband Joe Geil. They have a son, Jamison, who is 3 and just welcomed their second son, Lucas, on August 29.
Amanda Knisely Sharp '09 of Grove City, Ohio, is recently married at the Ohio State University Medical Center.
Lisa Davis Kelly '10 of Cincinnati, married her husband, Patrick Kelly on April 20. Timothy Meiner '10 of Claremont, Fla., is recently married to fellow graduate, Katie Playko, at the Mount on August 13, 2013.
Melyssa Hoff Donnellon '12 of Cincinnati, married Jordan Donnellon on October 12.
Joseph Grothe '12 of Bellaire, Texas, is living and working in San Francisco as a full-time boarding faculty member at Archbishop Riordan High School.
Elise Jesse '12 of Cincinnati, has joined Channel 5 as a reporter from KFBB-TV in Great Falls, Montana.
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HEATH SPRINGS – There was a different activity going on in each corner of the Heath Springs Community Center on Thursday.
In one area, a group of children worked on math equations. And nearby, another group played the board game Scrabble.
Everywhere you looked, youngsters were either working on projects, playing games or receiving help with academics – and all appeared to be having fun in the process.
A collection of Silly Bandz was the hot topic among a group of youngsters at the Hi-Kee summer camp Wednesday.
Although those participants were excited about the popular rubber bands, you'd soon see that was just one of several things discussed during the day. Enrichment exercises took up a big part of their time.
The Hi-Kee camp, held at Steele Hill AME Zion Church on Charlotte Highway, began June 7 and runs through July.
Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues was told his entire life that he was too short to play basketball.
Some people believed he was placed on teams out of pity or to draw large crowds for amusement. Not many people thought he could make a career out of the sport.
Bogues, standing at 5 feet, 3 inches, proved a lot of people wrong through the years and now shares his story of will and determination with others.
Local educators are gearing up for the annual program that helps make a child's first year of public school a little more comfortable for all involved.
Countdown to K, the state's school transition program for rising kindergartners, kicks off this month and runs into August. Eleven kindergarten teachers in Lancaster County are participating this year.
Career-building resources, networking and leadership training are just some of the advantages of membership in the National Society of Leadership and Success.
The organization – also known as Sigma Alpha Pi – has members all across the nation.
Fifteen USCL students were inducted Thursday into the school's chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success.
The ceremony was held at the Carole Ray Dowling Center.
A local educator is half a world away learning about another culture while sharing classroom strategies with fellow teachers.
Crystal Fields, the lead ESOL (English as a Second or Other Language) teacher for the Lancaster County School District, has traveled to Azerbaijan in Eurasia to complete a two-week fellowship funded through the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) U.S. teacher-exchange program.
About 400 teachers throughout the United States applied for the fellowship and 40 were selected to participate.
Oftentimes, a student's personality and attitude mean a whole lot more than the grades they make in class.
While high expectations are placed on schools and students to meet certain standards, there are moments where principals can take a step back and recognize students for their unmeasurable qualities.
And that's where the Principals' Choice Awards come in.
INDIAN LAND – Almost every seat was full as Robin Estrada dimmed the lights and began her presentation in a small classroom at Indian Land Middle School on March 9.
But the scene was a little different from the typical English class filled with 12-year-old students. Instead, almost 20 parents crammed into the classroom to hear one of five presentations at the Real Talk with Parents for Parents seminar hosted by the school.
Seven was the magic number for Devin Lowery.
The Buford Middle School student wore No. 7 in this year's district spelling bee and captured the championship in the seventh round.
But Lowery believes his win is due to experience more than luck.
Lowery, an eighth-grader, was one of 15 students who participated in the annual Lancaster County School District spelling bee, held Feb. 9 at Bundy Auditorium inside the Bradley Arts and Sciences Building at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.
How similar are the fingers of people who are related? Are the fingerprints of identical twins exactly the same?
Lisa Krause's curiosity on the subject motivated her to undertake a project in hopes of discovering the answers. And now, she's been honored in a big way for her efforts.
Krause, a fifth-grader at Indian Land Elementary, was among the students who placed first in this year's Lancaster County School District science fair.
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The Bruins, who have their hands full with the Red Wings in Round 1 of the playoffs, have to deal with something else: The potential distraction of knowing they'll face the Canadiens in Round 2.
The Bruins are in pretty good shape in their first-round series against the Red Wings. They have a 2-1 lead in the best-of-7 entering Game 4 on Thursday night (8:05 p.m., NESN, WBZ-FM 98.5), after bouncing back from a 1-0 loss in Game 1. They've re-established home ice advantage, restored the defensive alignment they used for much of the 15-0-1 run in March that pushed them to the best record in the league, and are surviving the absence of wingers Chris Kelly (back) and Daniel Paille (suspected concussion).
They haven't necessarily overpowered the Wings, so the B's don't seem to presume they're going to advance. It might be a little harder to focus than in past years, though, since the next opponent for the winner of this series has already been determined.
Because a bracket-based formula has replaced the previous system of re-seeding teams after each round, a division winner like the B's knows it will face a division opponent in Round 2. And that opponent is the Montreal Canadiens, who swept their first-round series against Tampa Bay.
Bruins coach Claude Julien was asked about that on Wednesday in Detroit, and said:
"I don't know that we're going to play Montreal.That's the biggest thing you could ever do -- expect. We've got a series we're in right now. The last time I looked, I think we're just up by one game. Before we start thinking and talking about (facing Montreal), we've got to start doing our jobs here. Our minds are a long ways away from that."
There's no doubt that's how Julien is handling the situation, and the way he's telling his players to handle it – if he even mentions it at all.
It's hard to think it's not at least a potential distraction for the players, though.
First of all, there's the human nature factor: They know who'll they play if they make it to the next round, and they genuinely hate that opponent.
There's bound to be a more concrete factor, as well: With Montreal the only Canadian team to even qualify for the playoffs, and with reporters who cover the Habs also knowing what could lie ahead, the media contingent covering the B's-Wings series is bound to swell – but not to talk about the B's-Wings series.
The Bruins pride themselves on their ability to remain focused, no matter what situations arise. They may soon have to rely on that skill a little bit more than usual.


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Did you see a negative review about Jerry?
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Hi there, this is Jerry Norton
And I want to talk specifically to you about negative reviews you may have seen about me. Perhaps you've seen something about me posted online.
Well, I put this video together to be completely transparent with you about this. You see, I got started investing in real estate in 2004 and have been a full-time investor since 2005. A few years ago when I start mentoring, I made a conscious decision to be different then all the other trainers. I decided that I was going to do deals with my students. So I developed finder fee programs. In essence, find me a good deal and I'll pay you for it.
From Commercial Backflip™, Residential Backflip™, Quick Flip Money Machine™, Power Flipper 3x™ and others, these programs not only train you step by step how to do specific investing strategies all on your own but if you find deals that qualify for what I'm looking for, you can earn a substantial finder's fee from $8700 to $10,000 or more.
This seemed like a great idea because I was, and still am, actively doing deals. So in the past few years, I've created these different finder fee programs even though my friends and advisors said I was crazy for putting myself out there like that.
Now, here's why everyone thinks I'm crazy for offering finder's fees. I'm using my money and my very close and personal private investor's money to buy these deals. They have to be good deals. Not an average deal. Not an ok deal. It has to be a really good deal (you would do the same if it was your money too).
Now, I do my very best to provide the criteria and expectations for what a good deal needs to be to qualify. When someone joins my finder fee program, I give a trial period and a generous refund policy so that someone has plenty of time to make sure they understand the expectations.
So here's what happens sometimes… Someone comes in the program and submits a deal. My team and I spend time, money, energy and resources to review that deal, just to find out it doesn't meet our guidelines for a good deal.
Now when this is the case, we try to give a detailed explanation as to why the deal didn't fit. At this point someone has options. 1). They can learn from it and go back out there and try again, which is what the majority of people do. Or 2), they can get upset at me for not accepting their deal and post something negative online.
By the way, anyone can post anything they want online and it's there forever. I will admit, I'm not perfect. I do make mistakes but I've also done hundreds of deals and am really good at recognizing good deals and can show you how to do the same.
Because of some of the negative reviews online, I've thought about completely discontinuing to do finder fee programs and maybe I will stop doing them. The only reason why I haven't is for those that have done deals and earned finders fees.
Sandra Butler from Philadelphia
Eve Flood, from Arizona having never done a deal before found a deal in Pittsburg
Mark Huffman found a deal in Glen Ellyn near Chicago
Kesean Brown from Florida found a deal in Sammamish, WA
Lauren Hill found a deal in Georgetown, TX
Daniel Granquest found 2 deals in Fountain Hills AZ
And others like Angelito Santos,who did his first 3 deals with us and now does deals successfully all on his own.
Now, here's why I'm sharing this with you. If you're considering joining one of my finder fee programs, all of them have a trial period. During this time, go through the modules and the guidelines so that you know exactly what is expected of you and understand that you will have to find a good deal that meets my criteria in order for me to buy it and pay you a finder's fee. At that point, you decide if it's worth the time and effort.
But please, don't get mad at me if your deal isn't approved. You may disagree with me about it not being a good deal. I do make mistakes and I'm not perfect. But I've also done hundreds of deals and have learned the hard way how to avoid a lot of mistakes and will do my very best to help you avoid the same mistakes.
This is Doug Kiehn from Seattle WA.
Doug is one of my most successful students. We've done several deals together but I've rejected twice as many deals as we've done and each time, he finds out why, learns from it and goes out and finds another deal.
Look I get it, you have a right to be skeptical. Will it work? Will I make money? Then you see something negative online and get concerned. I get that.
Realize that I'm not going to please everyone. Most successful companies have negative reviews. For example, Apple is one of the best companies in the world and has thousands of negative reviews online and their fair share of unhappy customers. You need to realize that there is no way for me not to have some people unhappy when I'm offering to pay finders fees for deals. It just comes with the territory.
One final thought. In all my programs, I not only provide practical and extensive training and show you everything you need to do to go out there and do deals all on your own but in some programs, I even provide the funding to do the deals yourself and keep all the profits. And as far as deals you bring me for a finder's fee, I realize that occasionally you may get a good deal that just doesn't fit my criteria. In those cases, we also help you wholesale your deals to other investors, which can be just as profitable or even more profitable then getting a finder's fee from me.
My goal is to provide you the support you need to be successful. If you're in any of my programs and need help, remember to get on a coaching call to talk to one of my expert coaches, or you can submit a ticket at clientsupportnow.com or you can call 800-952-9585.
In closing here, I just want to wish you all the success and below this video is a "quick check deal guide" for one of my finder programs as well as a free gift for you.
Thank you,
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You can find a lot of attractive vacation house options for $1 million—from a chateau in the Hamptons to a cabin in Wyoming. But which are the best investments?
Though U.S. home prices continue their double-digit rise compared with a year ago, the story varies from state to state, neighborhood to neighborhood. In addition to location, prices are playing an even greater role. Fewer homes under $100,000 are selling, while the higher-priced market is taking off.
That's why CNBC's "$1 Million Home Challenge" took a closer look at the million-dollar market—this time with a summertime twist, venturing into the vacation-home sector.
Reporters went across the country to document interiors and exteriors, as well as unique features each home offer. Then a panel of experts, headed by real estate maven Dolly Lenz, decided on which house gives buyers the best bang for the buck.
Click ahead to see $1 million vacation homes.
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Its fame emanates from its role in housing the most notorious prisoners of an era, yet Alcatraz boasts a long and eclectic history. KQED explores it all in a walking tour of the island, beautifully taped in high-definition format. Host Greg Sherwood joins National Park Service ranger John Cantwell and other experts as they explore the ruins where Civil War soldiers protected California's gold from Confederate plots, see where Native Americans made a thrilling statement for self-determination and uncover much more of the island's surprising past.
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On the main star command website, it would be nice if they had a link from the site to its forums. Also, if it could put in a link to the official game walkthrough, that would be nice, too. And what IS the official game walkthrough? I've wNted to contribute but there's multiple ones I'm seeing... lol
I retract my earlier statement about how there is no link to the forums on the website, I found it but it would be helpful if it was one of the main buttons at the top of the page with the other buttons and not next to twitter and facebook.
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The Forum link makes sense where it is... Grouped with other 'social media' links.
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Lions cornerback Drayton Florence made the tackle on Detroit's first defensive snap in Sunday's loss to the Packers, and he immediately looked like he might have suffered a concussion: He and Packers receiver Randall Cobb had a helmet-to-helmet collision, and Florence fell down face-first and struggled to get back up.
So it was surprising when Florence returned to the game after briefly being checked on the sideline, but return he did: Florence played the rest of the game and made six tackles.
And now it turns out that Florence did, in fact, have a concussion.
Lions coach Jim Schwartz confirmed that Florence woke up Monday morning with a headache, and doctors diagnosed him with a concussion. So what happened? Schwartz said the proper procedures were followed.
"The official removed him from the game," Schwartz said. "Our guys checked him. He passed all the tests on the sideline. He returned to play. He played pretty well. Didn't have any signs as we went forward. Didn't seek any treatments, wasn't having any symptoms after the game. This morning woke up with a headache. Can't say mild or severe or anything else, but our guys did diagnose him this morning with a concussion, so he's listed today with a concussion."
If a concussed player can pass all the tests on the sideline, that suggests that the sideline tests are insufficient. Mark this down as yet another example of the NFL's concussion protocols proving to be insufficient.


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Mairead O'Donnell needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
POD Financial Services
POD Financial Services is a family and business friendly financial services company offering insurance that protects you and your family and can be rely upon. Over the past number of years the CEO of the company has won several awards for her customer service and her ability to communicate to clients and her value for money.
We have a cross section of clients from the business sector and large investors to the individual household owners. The business must emanate the service of accessibility and customer friendly service that have earned us much praise to date. We need to appeal to customers that have lots of money to invest as well as those who only have a small bit to save.
We are looking for a logo to represent our financial services business - POD Financial.
We would like the logo to be friendly but not frivolous but not something that is too corporate also.
The logo must represent a company that is reliable, accessible, non-jargon, innovative, customer centered and value for money
The type-face should be clear and simple and can incorporate the letters P-O-D but does not have to.
Our website is http://www.podfinancial.ie It is a new site but is missing a decent logo to put at the top.
Feel free to experiment with colours, a deep yellow combined with a royal blue is out of the question as the company is a tied-agent with Acorn Life and these are the colours of this company.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
Designers are free to use other colours than those on the website and it would be nice to have the logo a little more friendly.
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We start right off with the encore -- Sabrina and Louis' quickstep.
To all of you who thought the "caught unaware backstage" opening was real last night -- they do it again, so, no. They go for the dramatic drop at the end again and Louis looks like he's going to drop her, again.
Bruno yelled at Joey during his routine, "Keep your frame!" Drew's little girl clapped and laughed after her routine and is just adorable. They show Helio and Apolo reacting to Emmitt's comments about the "race car driver and the speed skater."
Sabrina & Louis: safe.
Emmitt & Cheryl: safe.
Drew & Anna: safe.
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The project came in 40 percent under original cost estimates, and the savings are being used to advance other transportation projects.
"Caltrans plans to invest more than $1 billion into the I-80 corridor from the Bay Area to the Nevada state line. This investment will not only improve this vital transportation link, but will also support job creation throughout Northern California," said Caltrans Director Cindy McKim.
In 2009, Caltrans made nearly $130 million in improvements to I-80 in Solano County, including nine miles of new bus/carpool lanes and twenty-seven miles of new pavement. Upcoming projects on I-80 in Solano County include the installation of ramp meters between Fairfield and Cordelia and relocating and upgrading truck scales in Cordelia.
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- Here are luxury and penury, abundance and the most extreme deprivation, piety and atheism, … and an unbelievable frivolity—warring elements which, out of their constant conflicts, create this marvelous, outrageous, gigantic whole which we know by its collective name: Moscow.
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Let $M$ be a non--compact, connected manifold of dimension $\geq 1$. Let $D(sheaves/M)$ be the unbounded derived category of chain complexes of sheaves of abelian groups on $M$. We prove that $D(sheaves/M)$ is not a compactly generated triangulated category, but is well generated.
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At the risk of overstatement, I think Valentino — in its new location — is one of the most important restaurants to open in Fort Lauderdale in years.
I don't know where to start. But how about its unmarked location in the former Tunnel Tire building just south of Las Olas Boulevard? Or its comfortably chic interior by Fort Lauderdale designer Eric Dyer? What about those top-notch servers in white chef's jackets?
Then, there's Giovanni Rocchio, Valentino's chef and owner, who is creating cutting-edge Italian food at a level not easily found in South Florida.
To start at the beginning is to start with Rocchio's father, Tony, who opened a Valentino in Plantation back in 1974, after moving south from New York. He named it after Rudolph Valentino, the actor who Rocchio says every Italian guy of his father's generation aspired to be. The younger Rocchio grew up in the business and then headed back to the Big Apple for a few years to cook and learn. A few years after his dad retired, Giovanni opened his updated version of Valentino a few blocks south of its current location.
It was an instant hit, but not big enough for the chef's ambitions or his affluent customer base, who longed for a bar to wait for their tables instead of out front next to the gas station. With financial backing from two of those customers — Mike Maroone, president and CEO of AutoNation, and Jose Zambrano, a banker — the current version of Valentino opened in August. Seating has doubled to just more than 100. Staff also doubled.
At dinner the other night, Fort Lauderdale never felt more like a big city, with the whirl of traffic outside the big windows and a glamorous, white-washed dining room that has an open kitchen at its center. The six seats looking directly in are the most coveted for the Food Network generation. The room is a cross between Capri and one of the showstopping homes in the nearby Rio Vista neighborhood. Valentino now has a full-liquor license and a cocktail menu worthy of the Rocchios' creativity. The wine list is a work in progress, but we settled on a meritaggio with the help of a friendly sommelier.
Menus are housed in Hermes-orange covers the size of a woman's evening bag. You'll want to order everything.
We started with calamari artichoke tart ($18), which really isn't a tart at all but a fresh salad of bitter greens, roasted calamari, artichokes, garlic, pepper flakes and balsamic dressing. It's tart-shaped. Scallops ($18), roasted on a plancha, were an appetizer special. They're served with butternut puree, Brussels sprouts, leek fondue and roasted chestnuts.
At our waiter's suggestion, we shared a transcendent order of the twisted-pasta shape known as trofie ($28) in a sauce of ground cuttlefish, scallops and shrimp with white wine, baby leeks and peas. It's like a seafood Bolognese to which a few drops of coloratura, an Italian fish sauce, have been added.
Rocchio's commitment to the core of Italian cuisine starts with the best ingredients he can buy or make in his own kitchen. He rolls his own pasta and has the tendinitis to prove it. Langostino ravioli ($24) is filled with house-made uni butter and langostino. The sauce is a combination of pork jus and shellfish broth, lemongrass and ginger. It's served with foie-gras butter and a squirt of lemon juice to lessen the richness of the dish.
Grilled veal chop ($48) is accompanied by house-made potato gnocchi and morel-mushroom sauce. Grouper ($36) gets braised artichokes, jumbo lump crab meat and fregola, Italy's version of couscous.
While every dish was brilliantly conceived, I was most impressed with a rabbit special ($38). Two loin portions are stuffed with spinach, sundried tomatoes, pistachio and liver and then wrapped in speck. The leg meat is diced for a kind of cacciatore with fried porcini mushrooms. Those two preparations are served alongside crispy polenta and pickled red onion.
He also has a star in pastry chef Max Santiago, who most recently taught at Miami Culinary Institute. His menu ($10 each) might include the spiced-pumpkin panna cotta parfait, layers of cranberry-strawberry compote, marshmallow sorbet and graham streusel. Order Santiago's bomboloni: doughnuts, filled with blueberry jam and served alongside lemon-honey ricotta sauce. How does brown-butter-and-sage-apple-filled fried ravioli sound? They get a touch of pecorino as well as Marsala toffee sauce and cinnamon-truffle foam. These are Italian desserts reimagined by one of South Florida's best.
Rocchio is busy. He wants to do a lower-priced, small-plates spot next door, and turned his old spot down the street into a pizzeria called Osteria Acqua and Farina.
In the meantime, to anyone who's ever badmouthed Fort Lauderdale for its shortage of sophisticated restaurants, welcome to Valentino.
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Considering the warm LA weather, even they were overdressed.
Photographing the stars under a canopy of SolarWorld solar panels
I spent a few minutes photographing Maria Menounos, a host for the TV show "Extra." She was super-nice, signing autographs for people in the stands. Menounos said her Emmys jewelry was delivered this morning, and it's worth a cool $1.6 million. She said her mom tried them on at home and attempted to make a run for it. I think Maria said her dress was by somebody named Ungaro, but I could be wrong. I just know she was hot. Hot, as in sweaty, because I don't think the Ungaro is very breathable.
Extra's Maria Menounos signing autographs for excited fans
Then I saw the E! girls sitting in the shade on a contraption called Glamcam 360. To stay cool, they were texting and sitting in front of huge fan. I was attracted to their hair blowing sideways (and the 50 or so Nikon SLRs that make up the Glamcam). Thanks to the giant wind machine, it looked like a fashion shoot. After I told them I worked for the company that powered their fan, they graciously let me take their picture.
E! cast cooling off by fans powered by SolarWorld solar canopy
Did I mention it was hot?
Everbody was dressed in elegant black, had a sheen of sweat on their foreheads and was standing in the shadow of anything that could provide some shade.
The more than 200 Solarworld solar panels high above made a lot of nice shade –- and electricity to offset the power for all the lights, cameras and fans that brought us the Emmys for another year.
Soon the panels will come down and go as a donation to Habitat for Humanity for use on top of client homes where they will help cut electricity bills of low-income families.
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This page illustrates the observed Michelle PSF structure in good seeing conditions, using as an example an image of a standard star taken in the 12.5 micron Si-6 filter. This is a reasonable guide to the expected PSF now that the chop tail problem has been fixed thanks to work by Chris Carter and Matt Rippa along with others of the engineering staff. This image was taken in better than average seeing conditions, but should be representative of images taken in the better part of IQ=70% conditions in the optical.
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- a screen shot of the radial profile as determined in IRAF, scaled to show the faint PSF structure
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The image has a full width at half maximum of 3.58 pixels = 0.36 arc-seconds according to IRAF. The core is slightly elongated. Fitting a two-dimensional gaussian to the core gives a size of 0.40 by 0.36 arc-seconds with a ellipticity of 0.09 and a position angle of 2 degrees east of north. These values are slightly different than what is given by IRAF; in particular the ellipticity from the 2-D gaussian fit to the core is smaller than what is reported in IRAF and the net FWHM, taken to be the square root of the product of the FWHM values along the two axes, is 0.388 arc-seconds. The estimated strehl of this image is 0.6. Under the best seeing conditions Michelle sometimes produces strehls of over 0.75 in this filter.
Outside the core one has several diffraction rings. The first of these is not an actual ring, but appears to be trefoil and possibly some coma. Outside this first ring there are three more rings as shown in the images and plots above.
The outer structure can be seen a bit better in the residual image obtained by subtracting the best fit 2-D gaussian from the original image. That is shown just below.
There is usually trefoil in the Michelle images. Low-level astigmatism and possibly coma may be seen in some instances.
Now that the chop tails are gone our goal is to have ellipticities 1 - b/a of less than 0.1. Larger ellipticities than this are grounds for an image to be set to "Usable" rather than "Pass", unless the program is only concerned with photometry and not image structure. In some instances, as in the example above, it appears that the IRAF ellipticity value is inaccurate.
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Herpes ... Again ... Overit.com!! Day 43! Count Down to 50!
By Rae Lewis-Thornton
April 10, 2012
This piece originally appeared in Rae's blog, Diva Living With AIDS.
I was hoping and even praying that I would get through this 50 day count down to my 50th birthday without being sick; without herpes. But I guess that prayer didn't get answered because I'm only on day 43 and I have 3 herpes lesions right there on my clit. Yep, Yep and it hurts like hell, if this is what hell feels like.
I keep telling you that AIDS has no compassion. It don't give a fuck about your life and yet some of you are still out there having unprotected sex like all you have to do is pop a pill if you become infected. For you new comers to my blog, I have an on-going issue with herpes.
In a nutshell, I have drug resistant herpes. I was infected with herpes before HIV and in those early years I almost never had a herpes outbreak. But for some reason, in the last 4 years herpes has wreaked havoc on my life. The short of it, the doctors think that there is a part of my immune system that was so damaged from my early days of AIDS that now I just can't fight herpes off. They consider this an AIDS related infection because if I didn't have AIDS, I wouldn't have such aggressive herpes. While AIDS and herpes are two separate illnesses, one has made the other one worse. And by the way, if you have herpes, it's easier to become infected with HIV.
For me, NOTHING but an IV form of anti-viral medication has worked against my herpes. I've tried everything under the sun and the moon . Trying to come up with an answer, I've had more biopsies and cultures on my vulva that I care to remember. In the end, nothing works but Foscarnet and Cidofovir IV medications. I just finished 49 days of the medication back in February, 2 times a day 2 hours each and the side-effects are not cute.
I knew I was headed in that direction, but praying that it wasn't so. About 3 weeks ago I started to have nerve pain again in my back and legs and had to start taking medication to help the pain, yet again.
In a nutshell, I have peripheral neuropathy that comes and goes. We also think it is caused by herpes attacking my nervous system. There's no real way to nail all the causes down, but we understand the core problem. It feels like someone is sticking pins and needles in my back, feet and legs.
Any who, here I am again. The doctor is trying to figure out what course of action for me to take this time around. She is trying to get me in a drug study that is an oral form of one of the IV medications. Lord knows I don't want to go back on IV medication so if they let me in the study I'll do it. This is big for me because I have never been in a drug study in all the years of my infection, but when you are at the end of the road like I am, you don't have a lot of choices. I don't want to seem ungrateful, cause I truly am grateful that there is something else to try, but I'm not excited about this one bit.
I will keep you updated but I am not happy. I'm trying not to allow this to affect my overall attitude as I continue to count down to 50. I feel kinda all messed up. I'm happy to be alive but I wish it was under different circumstances.
Like why couldn't my health stay good just until my birthday was over. WHY? But in the real world there are sometimes no answers to the why.
I keep trying to get it through to you, that there are choices you make that will alter your life forever and the best you can do is try to keep it all together, as you fight for your life. I'm going to do whatever I must to keep me happy during this period. But honestly, this new outbreak and the possibility of a drug study has knocked the freaking joy out of me. Pray for my health and my spirit.... Maybe after prayer and a few days to digest it all I will regain my spunk. I hate AIDS.... For Real! For Real!
I hope that you get it! Some things cannot be undone! If not for the Love and Grace of God and my will to live, I think I would lose my freaking mind with this never ending disease that zaps everything from you that it can; And now it's working on my birthday joy and the miracle of my life. Overit.com
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Democratic leaders in the Illinois Legislature said Friday that they would try again to pass a pension-reform plan backed by House Speaker Michael Madigan, rejecting a request from Gov. Pat Quinn to form a bipartisan conference committee to solve the state's worst-in-the-nation $97 billion crisis.
Quinn met on Friday with Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, who are locked in a stalemate over how to address the shortfall. Quinn wants an agreement before a special legislative session scheduled for Wednesday.
The governor's request would have been a tactic that hasn't been tried in Illinois in more than a decade. His spokeswoman, Brooke Anderson, said "on a really tricky issue, this is a way for an agreement to be forged."
But leaders emerged from the meeting in Chicago to say they wouldn't form a conference committee and instead would try to give Madigan's bill another try in the Senate. The measure received 16 'yes' votes during the regular legislative session, but it would need 36 such votes next week.
Illinois' five public employee retirement systems are $97 billion short of what's needed to pay benefits that were promised to workers and retirees. The shortfall is due largely to years of the Legislature voting to skip or short the state's payments.
Republican leaders, as well as the governor, have blasted Cullerton and Madigan for failing to come to an agreement during the legislative session that ended last month.
Madigan and Cullerton each had competing pension bills during the regular legislative session. Cullerton said Friday that he's not optimistic Madigan's bill would get the needed votes during the special session.
Earlier this week, Quinn asked Cullerton and Madigan to pass a measure that combines the two approaches. Days later, Madigan filed an amendment that gutted Cullerton's bill and replaced it with his own.
Madigan's plan would unilaterally impose pension changes on state workers and raise the retirement age, by most accounts saving the state the most money of any proposal. Cullerton's plan would give state workers choices over what benefits to receive in retirement, which he contends would give it a better chance of surviving a court challenge.
Quinn proposed passing both in a single bill with room for modifications, essentially making Cullerton's proposal a backup plan in case Madigan's solution is thrown out in court. But Madigan suggested it was too complicated and called on Quinn to persuade the Senate to approve the House-supported option.
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During our 10-day adventure on the Dalmatian Coast, we decide to take a break from the hordes of tourists and sun-drenched beaches of Croatia and Montenegro and head to Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Our three-hour bus journey from Dubrovnik is filled with majestic views of the Adriatic Sea and, at one rest stop, the first taste of many burek, a mouth-watering savoury phyllo pastry stuffed with cheese. When we get there, our guide, Ivan, is waiting for us in front of the Catholic Church and Franciscan Monastery. Church steeples and mosque minarets dominate the skyline in Mostar and the tower on the Catholic Church is no exception. "It's like they're in competition with each other," jokes Ivan.
Located on the Neretva river, Mostar is the largest city in Herzegovina and is known for its Old Bridge (Stari Most), built by the Ottomans in the 16th century. The bridge was an architectural feat for its time, the longest arch in the world. Sadly, in 1993, the Old Bridge was destroyed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mostar is a city still reeling from the impact of the war, a big part of what makes it so hauntingly beautiful.
We continue down the main street lined with bombed-out buildings and are approached by a small Roma girl. She holds out her hand as her mother hangs back holding a baby, and two young boys follow closely behind. "Don't give her anything," Ivan says. "It perpetuates the problem."
We continue into the Old City. The two main streets are reminiscent of a Turkish bazaar. Then we head to an old Hammam, where Ivan explains the history of the region. The Ottomans reigned for 400 years until the 19th century when the Austro-Hungarian Empire took over. "We were always ruled over by other nations," says Ivan. The country then became part of Yugoslavia until it proclaimed independence in 1992 and the Bosnian War erupted, with Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks pitted against each other. "People remember why one building or another got destroyed but on a larger scale, why the whole city got destroyed? There is no answer for this. We did it to ourselves," Ivan says.
City-owned buildings in Mostar are being repaired and people are becoming less divided. "People are starting to mix now," says Ivan. "Whether we are Muslim, Catholic or Christian Orthodox, you cannot tell us apart. There is no difference in the colour of our skin."
We descend a flight of steps down to the riverbank and look up at the Old Bridge, which was rebuilt after the war and inaugurated in 2004. A boy in white swim trunks stretches as if he's getting ready to dive in. The young men on the bridge are divers, waiting to collect their 30 euros from tourists, before taking the plunge into the frigid waters. The river is only four meters deep and is a cool 10C.
As we near the end of our tour, Ivan admits he has been living in Italy for 15 years. With 44 per cent unemployment and an average wage of 300 to 400 euros per month in Bosnia and Herzegovina (roughly $400 to $550 Cdn), many people have left the country. "The young people who moved away, they're not coming back," says Ivan. When asked why he decided to return to Mostar, Ivan responds, "Because it's my home."


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"The current fight for the soul of America is so very intense because for the first time since the Civil War some of the issues dividing Americans are truly about life and death.
The deepest point in the chasm that separates liberals and conservatives today is defined by each group's beliefs on when it's okay to kill your neighbor.
Your neighbor is, as Jesus said, everyone. America has always hewed to the Christian belief that we can only kill our neighbor in self-defense. Liberals believe that they can kill those who burden them.
Liberals believe that it's okay to cause their mom to die of thirst if she's confused and a burden to them. Conservatives believe that we have a debt to our mother and that executing her to avoid our responsibilities is wrong.
Liberals believe that killing their daughter is okay so long as she's young enough. Conservatives believe that killing our children is always wrong.
Liberals believe it's wrong to kill terrorists without a trial while conservatives don't believe that everyone who is trying to commit mass murder should be allowed to continue until their public defender loses in court.
Liberals believe it's wrong to even try to kill terrorists if they surround themselves with human shields while conservatives believe that you can't let evil run amok at any cost.
The liberal philosophy would seem to be straightforward:; it's okay to kill your neighbor if they are a burden to you. But the reality is much more complex, and more sinister.
Americans believe in the rule of law not the rule of men; all men are subject to the same law irrespective of their wealth or power. The reality is that those with power have always been given more leeway than the average Joe or Jane but that reality did not change the ideal that most Americans endorsed.
Liberals however have clearly taken a stand in defense of the rule of men; different laws for different people.
Mild versions of that were seen when liberals declared that perjury wasn't that big a deal so long as the perpetrator was one of their own -- Bill Clinton -- and in the concept of hate crimes where a black killing a white is not as serious as a white killing a black. Conservatives believe that murder is murder irrespective of who the killer or victim happens to be.
Liberals love for the rule of men can be seen in cases involving self-defense. Compare how liberals treated George Zimmerman and Carl Rowan. Most people are unfamiliar with the Rowan case because of the liberal rule of men.
Rowan was a very liberal columnist for the Washington Post. He fervently advocated gun control and went so far as to advocate "a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period.".
Yet on the night of June 14, 1988 Rowan used an unlicensed handgun to shoot an unarmed teenager who was trespassing in Rowan's backyard.
Liberals attacked Zimmerman because they thought he was white based on his name -- hence the frantic discovery of the new White-Hispanic race when liberals learned that Zimmerman was Hispanic -- even though the evidence indicated that Zimmerman was, in fear for his life. Liberals initiated no crusade against Rowan because Rowan was a liberal. Liberals believe a liberal with an illegal gun shooting an assailant is okay but a conservative with a legal gun shooting an assailant is not; according to liberals right and wrong depend on who you are.
Compare how liberals treat the use of drone strikes by Obama to drone strikes by Bush; silence vs. frantic protests. It is apparently okay for liberals to kill terrorists but illegal and immoral for conservatives to do so.Once again the rule of men rather than the rule of law on a matter of life and death.
Liberals often condemn conservatives as being "uncaring" because conservatives don't believe that the government should pay everyone's medical bills.
But it's liberals who believe that killing people to save money is a perfectly reasonable philosophy. Liberals advocate aborting the differently abled in order to avoid the expense of caring for them. Liberals tell the elderly to die rather than cost America money for their health care. Liberals encourage the sick, or even just the depressed, to kill themselves to avoid burdening others.
The lliberal utilitarian approach to deciding who lives and who dies is extremely frightening in light of liberal views on how health care should be run in America.
Liberals believe in the government being in charge of all medical care, and ObamaCare is a major step in that direction. Liberals also believe that the government, which in their mind is run by liberals, is empowered to decide who should live or die based on economic considerations -- the death panels. To see how deeply the liberal double standard is compare how liberals treat people with lung cancer due to the lifestyle choice of smoking compared to how liberals treat people with AIDS due to the lifestyle choice of homosexual promiscuity. While disproportionate amounts of money are constantly directed towards AIDS little is done to help smokers survive.
Liberals adhere to a dual track system of morality to define when killing one's neighbor is acceptable in foreign affairs. Let Hamas fire a missile at a school bus full of Israeli children and nothing is said except to bemoan the occupation of Palestine by Jews. But when Israel retaliates and accidentally kills civilians, civilians amid whom the terrorists purposely hide, liberals cry to the high heavens.
To summarize; conservatives believe that we can kill our neighbors only when our neighbors are trying to kill us, while liberals believe that they, and in some cases like self defense only they, can kill their neighbors whenever those neighbors become a burden to them.
The fight for America's future then is between "compassionate" liberals who believe they have the right to kill people who "burden" them and "hard hearted" conservatives who believe that all human life is sacred and can only be taken to protect one's own life.
Because all aspects of a society reflect how society treats the least among us, the two possible future Americas are drastically different. In the liberal future the value of a person's life is measured by her utility or political power while in the conservative future everyone has, as the Declaration of Independence says, a right to life.
Without an inalienable right to life no one has any rights. If we can be killed because we are "burdens" then what rights do we have that cannot be cast aside for the "right" reason?
While in the past the stakes were what sort of life we would live as Americans, our current fight is about who will live and who will die. Conservatives can either defend the most defenseless or we can sit back and watch liberals remold America into a centrally controlled state where everyone is judged based on their utility to the liberal establishment and their political power." -- Tom Trinko
You can read more of tom's rants at his blog
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I disagree. I think the pants are just a smidge too short. I don't want to see sock! Nice shoes, though :)
- Martini said...
Hey Gretchen. Good point. There are many school of thoughts on the appropriate length of pant legs for men. I subscribe to the Italian style in which men's trousers are the length here in this picture. In the end it comes down to how the pants are tailored. I now wish I had taken a picture of this gentleman in his suit.
- said...
At least they're tailored, right Martini? One of my biggest pet peeves is trousers that aren't tailored and dragging all over the ground!
- Stylista said...
I need need NEED those salmon pink peeptoes! wonderful photos!
- SK said...
i'm a fan of that tailoring as well!!
great pictures :)
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text: British born Ian Gillett started his dance career at the young age of 7. He was a very sucessful competitor, holding many titles and competed extensivley throughout England and Europe. Ian is a Fellow of the ISTD and is certified in International and American styles with the NDCA. Ian is a highly respected teacher, coach, and choreographer. His couples have been successful at National Championship level. He also lectures, is a licensed Championship adjudicator and is available for professional examination training. Ian brings with him a wealth of technical knowledge gained over a career spanning 29 years. In 2009 he will be celebrating 20 years as a professional. On the 5th May 2002, Ian was honored to receive the ICADC Professional of the Year. This unanimous decision by the awards committee was "in recognition of an outstanding dance professional, for his years of unselfish devoted and loyal services to the dance profession". For more information, please visit www.iankgillett.com


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JayFleischman needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
The Inspired Solo
The Inspired Solo is a blog dedicated to helping busy lawyers be more productive, manage their time and conquer the chaos in their professional and personal life.
We're trying to get across a sense of soothing calm, relaxation and freedom from clutter.
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Busy lawyers who are working with little or no support staff. They are constantly overwhelmed. Audience is United States based.
We are looking for a logo as well as a header for our website. The header should incorporate the logo as well as the tag line, which is:
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By Gary Robertson
RICHMOND, Va., Oct 23 (Reuters) - Democratic Virginia
gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe holds a narrowing lead
over Republican rival Ken Cuccinelli, with a strong showing by
the race's Libertarian entrant possibly affecting the outcome, a
poll released on Wednesday found.
A Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters showed former
Democratic National Committee chairman McAuliffe holding the
support of 46 percent of likely voters, with 39 percent favoring
state Attorney General Cuccinelli. The spread has slightly
narrowed from McAuliffe's 47-39 lead two weeks ago.
Libertarian Party candidate Robert Sarvis has gained ground
and now has the support of 10 percent of likely voters, up from
8 percent in the prior poll.
The question of whether Sarvis' voters stick with him or opt
to vote for one of the other candidates could prove a wildcard
in the Nov. 5 election, said Peter Brown, assistant director of
Quinnipiac's Polling Institute.
"One reason McAuliffe is ahead is that he wins 92 percent of
Democrats while Cuccinelli has only 81 percent of Republicans,"
Brown said, noting that 11 percent of Republicans favor Sarvis.
"If Cuccinelli can't bring more Republicans home, he is likely
to be toast."
Two percent of Democrats polled said they favored Sarvis.
The hotly contested gubernatorial race has drawn intense
national attention and stars from both parties to Virginia.
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who in 2008
sought the Republican presidential nomination, appeared at a
rally for Cuccinelli on Saturday at Liberty University in
Lynchburg, a conservative, Christian college founded by the late
Jerry Falwell.
McAuliffe, meanwhile, has called on the potent, Democratic,
husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton, formerly
president and secretary of State. McAuliffe has raised millions
for each of them, during various elections.
Making her first campaign appearance in more than four
years, possible 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
endorsed McAuliffe at a rally in voter-rich northern Virginia
last weekend.
The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 1,085 likely voters on Oct.
15-21 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
(Editing by Scott Malone and Leslie Gevirtz)


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This thread is for sharing love on all new projects shared here. If you don't do a lot of challenges, this is a great thread for getting your wonderful work seen and even if you do a lot of challenges...well one can never have too much love!!
It's a challenge of sorts though.... keeping up on giving love can be a real challenge!! We all JCI (Just Check(ing) In) often and try so hard to be ACU (All Caught Up) and MMS (Mark My Spot)... but let a day go by and you'll be VFB (Very Far Behind). We've also been known to toss about and create some new acronyms!!
The rules for this thread are simple: Post a newly uploaded layout, card or project, get comments and give comments on everyone's pages. No "drop and runs" please. If you get love be kind enough to give love back. There are NO challenges and NO Requirements on the TYPE of comments you leave, just be sincere but if you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all. But I'm sure you can think of something nice to say!
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While this is a laid back community of artists and crafts people sharing their work and support, it's not a place to just drop off work and not visit the galleries of others in the thread. We encourage you to enjoy all the marvelous talent and leave comments! Should you encounter a problem with another poster in this thread, please PM them directly to ask your question or resolve your issue. The hostesses are not referees and can't step in the middle for you.
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Selenium: Important New Review of Health Findings
July 28, 2000
A note from TheBody.com: The field of medicine is constantly evolving. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!
Selenium is a mineral which is essential in human nutrition in very small amounts (larger amounts are toxic). New research, much in the last five years, is finding that selenium deficiency may be involved in many important diseases, including HIV. The fact that this mineral has been the subject of irresponsible promotion as a cure-all must not blind us to the real possibilities that proper supplementation may have value in disease prevention and treatment.
A major literature review (1) published this month in the Lancet offers a credible overview of what is known and not known at this time on selenium and human health. We were surprised by the strength of the case for more attention to supplementation as a possible treatment -- a medical intervention which would cost essentially nothing, so it could be available anywhere in the world.
Here are some quotes from the review (we did not include the references from the original). Note that all measurements are in micrograms, because of the very small amounts of selenium used in human nutrition -- about a thousand times less than the dose of most AIDS drugs.
Other research has found effects of correcting selenium deficiency on mental status, tiredness, and mood -- and possibly on cardiovascular disease, although findings here have been mixed, perhaps because some of the trials included very few people with selenium deficiency.
Persons considering supplementation should note that the multivitamins they are taking may already include selenium -- in addition to their dietary intake, which tends to be higher in the U.S. than in many countries.
CommentThere is no clear agreement on how to supplement with selenium -- exactly who should use it, how much, or in what form. (In the research, selenium has been supplied both as inorganic forms such as selenate or selenite, and organic forms such as selenomethionine, or as selenium yeast.) Trials are ongoing, including at least two in HIV. But major uncertainties will remain.
We need more attention on rational ways to make decisions based on the incomplete information available now. Most professionals like to have definite proof, and are reluctant to prepare guidelines or recommendations based in part on reasonable guess. The frequent result is recommendations which are much too conservative, or none at all -- leaving the field to self-medication and a few self-taught experts, or to medical promoters or cultists. There should be widely discussed nutritional guidelines for persons with HIV, updated at least once a year -- as with guidelines for antiretroviral drug therapy.
Selenium levels in diet vary greatly by geography, because of the different amounts of the mineral in the soil where crops are grown. For example, diets are deficient in many areas of Western Europe, and of Africa. (Finland was especially deficient, and supplemented its food supply by adding selenium to fertilizer starting in 1984). It seems possible that region-specific, sophisticated recommendations on nutritional and other low-cost interventions could make major, cost-effective contributions both to treatment and prevention, benefiting those already infected and slowing the spread of the epidemic.
Copyright 2000 by John S. James. Permission granted for noncommercial reproduction, provided that our address and phone number are included if more than short quotations are used.
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This article was provided by AIDS Treatment News. It is a part of the publication AIDS Treatment News.
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LOS ANGELES – There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Tuesday night's drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Friday's drawing will grow to $41 million.
One ticket each with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, were sold in Massachusetts and North Carolina. They are each worth $1 million, the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, announced.
The numbers drawn were 4, 23, 26, 62, 69 and the Mega number was 13. The estimated jackpot was $30 million.
The drawing was the third since the last time a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Mega number is 1 in 258,890,850, according to the Mega Millions website. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 14.71.
The Mega Millions game is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands.


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Ahoy, and welcome to a preseason hurricane!
Good friend, airline captain and fellow Lake Arrowhead Yacht Club member Jeff Diercksmeier begins his article in the yacht club's newsletter with "from the flight deck."
Very appropriate, since I am sure he writes his article at 30,000 feet while on autopilot, but I will not tell the FAA. However, Diercksmeier can share in the importance that hurricane season starts Saturday, because the season's storms will affect his navigational plans in the air as well as my navigational plans on the water.
However, Mother Nature did not look at the calendar, because we had the first hurricane of the season, or preseason, on Wednesday. Tropical Storm Barbara developed into a hurricane with wind speeds up to 75 mph.
Barbara is moving toward southern Mexico, and rains have caused flooding in the small towns. This hurricane will lose strength when it hits the coast, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's predicted path shows the storm may pop out in the Gulf of Mexico.
I am noticing that many familiar yachts have returned from their wintertime playgrounds in Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta and other foreign harbors to our south. Luckily, these boats are home just in time to miss the preseason hurricane.
Insurance companies mark the beginning and the end of the hurricane season, and vessels remaining in a hurricane zone during the season may push up the boats' insurance rates. However, boat owners are usually worried about potential damage to their yachts.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released this year's hurricane predication. I purposely spelled out NOAA because recently I asked boaters on the dock, "What does NOAA abbreviate?" Almost everyone's answer was incorrect, and I was surprised. So next week I am thinking about asking people, "What do the letters in NASA reference?"
I digress.
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is predicting an active or extremely active season in the Atlantic. Remember, most hurricanes form in the Atlantic and travel across the ocean to the Eastern Seaboard, through the Gulf of Mexico and over land into the Pacific. Furthermore, the tropical cyclones are low-pressure systems that spin counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
The center is predicting 13 to 20 named storms. Not all named storms are hurricanes, since some are tropical storms with wind speeds below hurricane force. However, seven to 11 of the named storms are predicted to build into hurricanes, with three to six major storms expected to develop. Keep in mind that not every tropical storm or hurricane will reach land, but circular winds reach miles out from the storm's eye.
The winds, rains and lightning do affect airline travel, ship movements, oil derrick operations and building structures in coastal areas. Luckily, we are protected from hurricanes coming north up our coast, unlike on the East Coast, because our water temperatures are too low for the storms to maintain the energy derived from warmer waters.
Southern California's summertime ocean temperature is usually in the high 60s to low 70s, and hurricanes need water temperatures greater than 80 to form and maintain strength. The strength of the hurricane will quickly weaken in the colder waters or when it goes over land lacking the warm waters from the ocean.
We still feel the side effects in Southern California from some hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico or the ones that have crossed over southern Mexico or Central America or formed into the Pacific. The storms bring us humidity, clouds and a chance of rain with thunderstorms.
If you see lightning developing while boating, cancel your voyage if possible by returning to your mooring or trailer; even those cruising inside the harbor should take heed. Boats have been hit by lightning, sustaining major damage.
Of course, sailboats are extremely dangerous, with the mast, rigging and bonding system resembling a lightning rod. The boat's electronics are very susceptible to the increased flow of ions in the atmosphere, and the components will be turned into paperweights if a strike hits nearby.
So turn off all your electronics if safe and feasible until the storm has passed and the sound of thunder is fading in the distance.
Tip of the week: Download a weather app on your smart phone, and check the weather, sea conditions and tidal data before you leave the dock. This applies to harbors and lakes as well, because we have all seen what can happen when a good day of boating turns ugly because of weather.
Please be boat smart and boat safe. Lastly, please boat responsively and look behind you before the turn the wheel at the helm.
Tune in to the No. 1 boating radio talk show in the nation, "Boathouse Radio Show," broadcasting live coast-to-coast on the CRN Digital Talk Radio syndicated network. See times at http://www.BoathouseTV.com, http://www.facebook.com/boathouseradio and http://www.twitter.com/BoathouseRadio.
Safe voyages!
MIKE WHITEHEAD is a boating columnist for the Daily Pilot. Send marine-related thoughts and story suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com or go to http://www.boathousetv.com.