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Thai food is widely known for being hot and spicy since almost all Thai food is cooked with basic ingredients such as garlic, chillies, limejuice, lemon grass and fresh coriander leaf and fermented fish sauce (nam pia) or shrimp paste (kapi) to make it salty. Thai foods are now possible to devour here in Los Angeles, California.
Emporium Thai Cuisine
Ocha Classic
Ayara Thai Cuisine
Thai Boom
Toi On Sunset
Palms Thai Restaurant
Torung Restaurant
Thai Deli
Ruen Pair
Amazing Thai Cuisine
Sanamluang Cafe
Thai Daily BBQ
Jitlada Restaurant
Bulan Thai Vegetarian Kitchen
Vim Thai Restaurant
Natalee Thai Cuisine
Saladang Song
Wat Dong Moon Lek Noodle
Krua Thai Restaurant
Jade Siam Restaurants
Dome Pochana
Pa Ord Noodle
Kinnara Thai
Talay Thai Restaurant
Season Thai Cuisine
Three Spice
Red Corner Asia Restaurant
Thai Pepper Restaurant
House of Thai Taste
My Thai
Pimai Restaurant
Patakan Thai Restaurant
It's Thai Hometaurant
Thai Talay
Bangkok West Thai
Khun Khao Thai Restaurant
Thai Patio
Original Thai Restaurant
Thai Original BBQ and Restaurant
Melanee Thai
The Original Hoy Ka Hollywood
Siam Chan Thai - Chinese Cuisine
Sunset Thai Cuisine
Ekkamai Thai Restaurant
Jasmine Thai Cuisine
Pailin Thai Cuisine
Galanga Thai Fusion
Pot Thai Cafe
Spicy B.B.Q.
Bulan Thai Vegetarian Kitchen
Salathai Restaurant
Thai Dishes Restaurant
Sweet Chili Thai Restaurant West Hollywood
Chan Dara Pico Restaurant
Inthanon Thai Cuisine
Jasmine Thai Cuisine
Hollywood Thai Restaurant
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Thai food varies from region to region, for example, glutinous or sticky rice is more popular in the North and Northeast than steamed rice. Moreover, in some rural areas, certain insects are also eaten e.g. crickets, silk worm larvae, red ant larvae. At the same time, Thai desserts are often made from sticky rice or coconut milk, flour, egg and coconut sugar while a variety of fruit is available all the year round.


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Why Bundling Your Home Services is the Best Option in Tennessee
Many major telecom providers offer bundled services in Tennessee today. This means you get phone, Internet, cable and other services all through the same company. These packages can make a large difference over dividing your services between multiple providers. You should understand why bundling your home services is the best option in Tennessee.
Lower Costs
The main advantage of bundling your home services is that you can save money. Providers who are offering bundled packages will provide you with a discount that makes the cost of the individual services lower. Bundles are almost always less expensive than getting telephone, Internet and cable services through three different providers. These savings last for the life of the contract and not just for a promotional period. You might also be able to get further discounts on services you add to the bundle later.
Integrated Services
If you choose a bundled package in Tennessee, then all the services will be coming through the same lines into your home from the same provider. This allows the provider to offer your integrated services. These are made possible because your cable, Internet and phone can all communicate with each other. You cable can include interactive Internet features. Caller ID for your phone can show up on your television. These integrated services add a new level of convenience to your home.
Simplified Billing and Account Management
If you do not use bundled services, then you are going to receive multiple bills at different points during the month. This can make it hard to track what is happening with each account. You might even miss or confuse a payment. Bundled services from a provider like AT&T U-verse in Tennessee offer customers simplified billing and account management. You get just one bill for everything at the end of the month. Additionally, managing everything can be done through your one central account. Bundled services allow you to simplify your life and your finances.
Better Customer Service
A final reason bundling your home services is the best option in Tennessee is that you will get better customer service and support. You will not have to call three or more companies just to figure out where a problem is occurring. One customer service representative can troubleshoot everything at once. This makes it much easier to quickly determine whether the problem is with an Internet line, an outside line or a device in your home. You can get problems resolved faster and easier with bundled services.


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A former police officer sentenced to nine months in jail will only spend one month there.
Harry "Shane" Mosley, a Pendleton resident and former Oldham County Police officer, was sentenced in early December after being convicted of one count of official misconduct and taking an Alford plea on a second count of the same charge.
He was sentenced to serve nine months jail time for each count, to be served concurrently, in addition to more than $1,200 in fines and court costs.
La Grange Police Arrests
Jan. 5 -- Corey R. Steinbach, 22, La Grange, was cited for failure to or improper signal, operating on suspended or revoked operator's license.
Jan. 8 -- Christopher L. Rahm, 43, La Grange, was cited for operating vehicle with expired operator's license.
Jan. 9 -- Margaret E. Gibson, 26, Lexington, was arrested for speeding seven mph over, operating motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/drugs first offense, careless driving.
Local police are looking for a man they say made off with more than $6,000 in Apple electronics.
The first meeting of the year for the Oldham County Local Emergency Planning Committee included an introduction of two new chiefs to the county.
La Grange Police Chief Frank Conway was appointed in early January and he spoke to the committee about the plans for a better department.
"I would like to make this a more progressive department," Conway said.
First, Conway said he would like to add more officers to the staff.
Courtney Baxter, Commonwealth's Attorney for the 12th Judicial Circuit has hired the Hon. Matt Hudson (right) as a part-time Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney. Hudson was sworn in by the Hon. Judge Karen Conrad (left) on Jan. 6
An attorney for Harry "Shane" Mosley is petitioning Oldham Circuit Judge Karen Conrad to suspend the remainder of his nine month sentence, even though he has served less than one month of it.
Attorney Steve Schroering made the motion before Conrad last Thursday, acknowledging he was early on the usual 30-day window to request such a motion, but said he wanted to get it considered before Februrary.
The former county road superintendent and his father have pleaded not guilty to several charges against them, including abuse of public trust and theft by unlawful taking.
Lance Eric Lashley, the former superintendent, and his father, Jack Eric Lashley, were both indicted in December on multiple charges. Lance Lashley was indicted on one count of abuse of public trust (less than $10,000) and theft by unlawful taking, more than $500 but less than $10,000. Both are felony charges.
The former county road superintendent and his father have plead not guilty to several charges against them, including abuse of public trust and theft by unlawful taking.
Dec. 30 -- Larry D. Cox, 42, La Grange, was cited for shoplifting under $500.
Dec. 30 -- Jerica L. Armstrong, 24, Frankfort, was cited for possession of a controlled substance first degree, first offense.
Dec. 30 -- Gargia Osorio Celso, 31, La Grange, was cited for disregarding traffic control device-traffic light, no operator's license.
The former county road superintendent and his father have been indicted on a handful of charges, relating to an investigation into the misappropriation of county materials that started in April.
Lance Eric Lashley, the former superintendent, and his father Jack Eric Lashley, were indicted by an Oldham County grand jury in December. The two were directly indicted by the grand jury and have not been arrested or appeared in court on the charges.
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Built for speed.
We love the steady sound of dual discs rolling on the track. Apparently, Zipp loves it even more than us. After all, Zipp's first products were disc wheels. And when you look at the technology and palmares of the Zipp 900 Track Tubular Wheel, it's easy to see that Zipp still holds its passion for the speed of discs.
For sheer rigidity, the 900 features a pure carbon fiber construction with a 21mm maximum width. Couple that with the added strength at the rim's edge from Zipp's Kevlar-stitched, Carbon Bridge technology, and you have a rim that's 50% stronger and ridiculously stiff in the lateral direction. And don't fear, these attributes didn't come at the pain of added weight. In fact, the rear 900 weighs in at roughly 1,130 grams, not only making it one of the lightest disc wheel in the Zipp arsenal, but also one of the lightest discs that we know of.
A number of Zipp technologies went into making the 900 the fastest and most powerful wheels in the Zipp arsenal. First, the Multi-Material Co-Molding process permanently fuses a sub-200-gram aluminum hoop to a dimpled carbon structure that acts as a leaf spring for vibration and impact. Spokes laced directly to the carbon body give you the benefit of a carbon feel and aluminum braking. Next, visco-elastic material is inserted between carbon laminate in the rim to reduce vibration by ten percent. Lastly, the dimples of the Aerodynamic Boundary Layer Control (ABLC) on the curved rim section work to create a slight turbulence directly above the rim surface. This creates an artificial boundary layer that forces the laminar boundary layer towards the forward part of the rim to become turbulent. This process enables airflow to remain attached over more of the rim for a longer period of time, providing a lower level of integrated drag. The drag that ABLC creates is called skin friction drag; although it's greatly increased, pressure drag (which is ten times higher than skin friction) is decreased to make the 900 wheels faster than the competition on the wood, not just the wind tunnel.
The Zipp 900 Track Tubular Wheel is available as an individual wheel. The front is 100mm spaced with a 15mm axle, and the rear is 120mm spaced with a 15mm axle. Please note that these are track wheels and are not road convertible. The rear wheel accepts a standard cog and lockring (1.37x24tpi).
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Prep basketball stays undefeated with late rally over Career Magnet
Not only did Career Magnet hold a five-point lead over Fairfield Prep after three quarters Sunday, but it also had the Jesuits' two biggest weapons into foul trouble.
But, staring at its greatest challenge of the season, the state's top-ranked team found a way to stay perfect.
Fueled by a 17-6 run at the start of the fourth, Prep rallied past Career 63-58 in a matchup of unbeatens Sunday at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven.
Point guard Keith Pettway scored 20 points and Thomas Nolan added 19 to move the Jesuits to 11-0. Career, the state's sixth-ranked team, dropped to 8-1.
With Nolan saddled with four fouls and 7-foot center Paschal Chukwu with three, the Jesuits tweaked their halfcourt offense. Down 47-42 to open the fourth, they regained a two-point lead with a 9-2 spurt.
"I think if we stayed doing what we were doing, we were going to lose," Prep coach Leo Redgate said. "We made a very good adjustment.
"We moved Paschal to the free-throw line and we gave them a little 2-1-2 look."
The adjustment allowed for more movement and enabled Pettway, one of the team's top ball-handlers, to attack. The senior went 8-for-8 from the free-throw line and accounted for 10 of the Jesuits' 21 points in the quarter.
At the other end of the court, Pettway drew a key charge in the final minute.
"Career was just playing aggressive defense, like any other team's going to play against us," Pettway said. "We just had to find the open guy, get off screens and go back door."
Career knotted it 53-53 midway through the fourth, but Prep used a 6-0 spurt -- keyed by four free throws from Pettway -- to go ahead for good.
"A couple plays here and there. That's it," Career coach Larry Kelley said.
With star guard Ryan Murphy out with an ankle injury and Chukwu limited to 10 points, the Jesuits benefitted from their depth. Guard Dave Zielinski contributed 10 points.
Chukwu fouled out with 1:04 left and his team up 61-56.
"We don't run things through Paschal," Redgate said. "We don't have special plays for special players. We like to think, together, our team is very well-balanced. Other guys step up."
Career got balanced scoring as well, with 20 points from forward Jordan Lomax and 11 from Justin Campbell. Seven different players scored for the Panthers.
The Panthers trailed 14-9 after one quarter, but rallied to take a 29-28 lead at halftime behind their attacking guards. They led 38-33 in the third quarter before Nolan evened it with five straight points.
The up-tempo attack helped send Prep into foul trouble, but ultimately the Jesuits kept pace.
"We're going to take a lot of teams out of their element with their quickness," Kelley said. "A lot of times, teams don't see how quick we are. These guys are quick, maybe not quick enough tonight."
Keith Pettway 6 8-9 20 Thomas Nolan 5 8-10 19 Ray Featherston 0 0-0 0 Dave Zielinski 3 4-4 10 Ryan Foley 3 1-2 4 Joseph DiGennaro 0 0-0 0 Van de Berghe Richard 0 0-0 0 Paschal Chukwu 4 2-4 10. Totals 21 23-29 63.
Amos Ford 2 0-0 4 Matt Hamilton 2 3-6 7 Jordan Lomax 4 10-11 20 Tyrell Eaddy 1 3-4 5 Tyreek Perkins 2 0-0 4 Justin Campbell 4 3-3 11 Justice Phifer 3 1-2 7 Aaron Eaddy 0 0-2 0 Ralph Bidon 0 0-0 0 Daniel Ampofo 0 0-0 0 Kayvon McCoy 0 0-0 0 Alden Singley 0 0-0 0 Ed Saunders 0 0-0 0 Kevin Smith 0 0-0 0 Earnest Harold 0 0-0 0 Justin Gordneer 0 0-0 0. Totals 18 20-26 58.
Fouled out: Chukwu.
Technical fouls: FP -- Chukwu, bench. CM --Larry Kelley.


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Gore Verbinski directed the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise. The special effects expertise of Industrial Light and Magic were a key to his success. Their pedigree goes all the way back to the "Star Wars" series. Their skills were sharpened on the "Indian Jones," "Jurassic Park" and "Harry Potter" films, just to name a few.
These two major forces team up for a full-length animated feature in the rollicking and boisterous "Rango." You already know the visuals will be first-rate in every respect. Johnny Depp eagerly voices the title character, a pet green lizard with a big ego and delusions of acting glory.
Rango escapes from his humans and lands in a thirsty desert town called Dirt. He becomes the unlikely sheriff of the local armadillos, moles, rats, and assorted reptiles. They are all desperate to get more water.
The plot offers many clever references to past Hollywood hits. Elements from "Chinatown," "Apocalypse Now" and Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns are all on display.
The complex and surreal screenplay will amuse and delight older kids and adults. But much of the humor will sail right over the heads of young children. It's very well done for the grown-ups, but may baffle the younger half of its target audience.
Whose life is it, anyway?
Are we truly masters of our own fate? Do we have free will, or is it merely part of a predestined plan yet (or perhaps never) to be revealed?
These questions are the themes behind "The Adjustment Bureau," an above-average fantasy based upon a short story by Philip K. Dick. While it has all the hallmarks of a surreal thriller (think "Inception" lite), there's a great romance at its core.
"GQ Congressman" David Morris (Matt Damon) and ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) form an instant, irresistible connection upon their first encounter.
But who are the strange men in fedoras lurking in the background? Why are they so determined for these two never to meet again?
The easy charms of Damon and Blunt warm our hearts against a coolly stunning New York City. John Slattery, Terrence Stamp, and especially Anthony Mackie are suitably mysterious as the "adjusters" who can't let folks stray from the life path laid out for them.
Can a love that can't be denied conquer all? Check it out and see.
JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator.
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Yesterday, hundreds of Hillers and their children convened at Ardleigh Street and Hartwell Lane for the 95th Annual 4th of July bike parade. The parade and kids activities were again sponsored by the Bocce Club of Chestnut Hill.
All photos by Steve Ladner.
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This is a guest post by Shawn Graham.
Blogging. When it comes to ecommerce, it's one inbound marketing strategy you can't afford to ignore.
It's the primary place on your website where you can share fresh content, initiate conversations, and connect with current and prospective customers.
Smart online retailers also understand that a blog can be a powerful attraction strategy for any website. Not only will creating high quality blog content help you rank for important keywords in search, it will also give you something valuable to share on social media.
But to get the most bang for your ecommerce blogging buck, you've got to make it as easy as possible for people to find exactly what they're looking for (and hopefully even more). And for that to actually happen, you've got to have the right mix of navigation, calls to action, and social sharing.
Let's take a look at the 5 features your ecommerce blog just can't live without:
Calls to Action
You can write the best blog post in the history of blog posts, but if you don't entice your visitors to actually do something while they're on your site—you're missing a huge opportunity. Whether it's an email sign up, rss feed, or link to a featured product or upcoming sale, you've got to incorporate targeted calls to action that are tied directly to your content marketing goals.
Where should they go? Start with the top of your sidebar.That's prime real estate and the perfect spot for an email signup. By building your list, you'll have a way to follow up with current and prospective customers over time and that's totally invaluable. Shopify pulled together a great post on why ecommerce sites need to build a mailing list. You also want to take full advantage of the space at the bottom of each post. If they've made it all the way through your content, there's a pretty good chance they enjoyed what you had to say and are ready to take action.
Clearpath Robotics does a great job of defining what you can expect when you sign up for their e-newsletter (ex. robotics news, ideas, and more) and managing expectations on the frequency of their outreach (ex. sent quarterly).
Content Categories
Having clearly defined content categories not only increases the likelihood that your blog posts will stay on message, if you include them in your blog navigation it will also make your posts a whole lot easier to navigate for your audience. And that means they're more likely to spend more time on your site, read more of your posts, and make a purchase.
Typically, they'll be 5-7 broad buckets within which all of your content will fall. Pure Fix comes in just under the wire at 6 total.Whatever you do, just make sure you don't go over the top. Otherwise, you'll wind up with too many categories and a cluttered mess.
Recent and/or Popular Posts
One of the best ways to pull folks in and get them to check out some of your other blog posts is by including a "Recent Articles" or "Recent Posts" section in your secondary blog navigation. There's just something about "new" that has a way of piquing our interest.
Isn't your eye just automatically drawn to that area on the Moorea Seal site?
And while recent posts are great for showing what's fresh - they don't necessarily display your best content. An alternative to displaying your recent blog posts is to showcase your most popular posts. Popular posts can be effective because you already know these posts resonate with your target audience and you get to take advantage of the power of social proof.
In other words, people will place a higher value on content they believe to be popular among their peers and will be more likely to click on it. Copyblogger does this well:
Social Sharing
Whether you want to grow your social media following for your ecommerce site, share your posts with their friends, or both—always be sure to include social sharing buttons on your blog. Just make sure any and all social sites make sense for your specific business and your target audience.
In most cases, you're probably looking at Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and possibly Instagram. Below, DENY Designs also decided to incorporate their Twitter feed into their right sidebar.
Often overlooked, incorporating something as simple as a search box (yes, a search box!) can give visitors to your blog a way to look for a specific word or phrase without having to waste time or get frustrated skimming through dozens of posts.
Here, Rare Device includes a search box at the top of their blog so people won't have to scroll to find it.
Building a successful ecommerce blog requires more than just having the right content. Once someone clicks on one of your posts, you want to keep them there so they start to form a connection and affinity towards your business.
As you think about your audience and your blog, what features might you add to your sidebar to help make your content easier to navigate or encourage prospective customers to engage?
About the Author: Shawn Graham helps small businesses create and implement performance-driven marketing strategies. Learn more about how to improve your ecommerce blog by checking out Shawn's new ebook Blogging for Badass Small Businesses.


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By STEVEN HERBERT
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The CBS drama "Extant," starring Halle Berry, drew the largest audience for a series premiere this summer and was last week's most-watched prime-time program.
"Extant," which averaged 9.58 million viewers, was also the summer's most-watched premiere among viewers between the ages of 18-49, according tolive-plus-same-day figures released by Nielsen today.
The show, whose executive producers include Steven Spielberg, was helped to the top of the overall ratings by the absence of an original Tuesday episode of NBC's "America's Got Talent." Each of the summer's five original Tuesday episodes of "Talent" has averaged 11.14 million viewers.
NBC's two comedy premieres received a lackluster response from viewers. "Welcome to Sweden" averaged 3.51 million viewers, finishing fourth in its Thursday 9-9:30 p.m. time slot and 67th among prime-time broadcast and cable programs airing between July 7 and Sunday.
"Working the Engels," which followed, averaged 2.73 million viewers, finishing fifth in its Thursday 9:30-10 p.m. time slot and 95th for the week.
CBS had five of the six prime-time programs to average more than 7 million viewers and was the most-watched network for the fourth consecutive week, averaging 5.61 million viewers, followed by NBC (4.6 million) and ABC (4.25 million).
Fox averaged 2.74 million viewers, putting it fourth among the English-language networks and fifth overall behind the Spanish-language Univision network, which averaged 2.78 million viewers.
CBS was first among coveted viewers ages 18-49, averaging 1.36 million, with the NBC and Univision tying for second, each averaging 1.35 million.
CBS had the week's two most-watched broadcast programs in the category — the Sunday and Thursday episodes of "Big Brother." Fox's "MasterChef" was third in the category, followed by the Wednesday episode of "Big Brother" and ABC's "The Bachelorette."
The TNT crime drama "Rizzoli & Isles" was the most-watched prime-time cable program for the second consecutive week, averaging 5.13 million viewers, putting it 28th among the week's prime-time broadcast and cable programs.
TNT was the week's most-watched cable network for the third consecutive week, averaging 2.01 million viewers. It also had the week's second- and third-most-watched prime-time cable programs, the drama "Major Crimes" and "The Last Ship," respectively.
The week's most-watched Spanish-language prime-time program was the Wednesday episode of the Univision telenovela "Lo Que La Vida Me Robo," which averaged 3.98 million viewers — 49th among all prime-time broadcast and cable programs.
As usual, Univision was the most-watched Spanish-language network, averaging 2.78 million viewers. Telemundo was second (1.48 million), followed by UniMas (570,000), Estrella TV (180,000), MundoFox (120,000) and Azteca America (60,000).
The "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" was the most-watched network nightly newscast for the 252nd consecutive week and 299th of the past 300, averaging 7.75 million viewers, followed by ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer"' (7.24 million) and the "CBS Evening News" anchored by Scott Pelley (6.08 million).
The week's 10 most-watched prime-time programs were "Extant," "60 Minutes" and "NCIS"; the 8 p.m. Tuesday rerun of NBC's "America's Got Talent"; CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" and "Under the Dome"; ABC's "The Bachelorette"; and CBS' Sunday edition of "Big Brother," "NCIS: Los Angeles" and "Blue Bloods."


text: This one-volume collection documents the life of an early New England textile factory in Worcester, Massachusetts, that existed between 1789 and 1791. The mill contained looms, a spinning jenny, and spinning wheels. Although it is not entirely clear from the records, there seems to have been a gender-based division of labor in which the men served as weavers, pickers, and carders, and the women as spinners. The volume records the wages of the employees and the cost of boarding them in the town.


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text: Virus Killing 8 Million Pigs Means Pricey Barbecues: Commodities June 6, 2014 05:47 AM Tweet The virus, which can be 100 percent fatal to young piglets, has trimmed the U.S. hog herd by about 10 percent. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email This summer, U.S. consumers can look forward to opening a cold beer, firing up the grill and throwing on the most expensive pork chop they have ever purchased. A deadly disease has spread to more than 4,700 U.S. hog operations and that number is growing by as much as 200 every week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said yesterday at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa. The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PED, has killed about 8 million pigs since the outbreak began in May 2013, according to Paragon Economics. The spreading virus sent retail pork-chops to an all-time high of $4.044 a pound in April, the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show, and the American Farm Bureau Federation has said that meat expenses are going to keep climbing. Costs are rising before the start of the seasonal peak in U.S. meat demand, as a shrinking cattle herd sent ground beef to a record, while whole chickens are near the highest ever. "People are going to have to pay up for this summer's barbecues, because of the current supply issues," said Donald Selkin, who helps manage about $3 billion of assets as chief market strategist at National Securities Corp. in New York. "People are going to eat more meat during the summer grilling season, so it's fair to say that they are going to pay higher prices." Hog futures for July delivery gained 44 percent this year to $1.22675 a pound on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 commodities gained 2.4 percent. The MSCI All-Country World Index of equities rose 4 percent. The Bloomberg Treasury Bond Index gained 2.9 percent. 100% Fatal The virus, which can be 100 percent fatal to young piglets, has trimmed the U.S. hog herd by about 10 percent, according to Vilsack. The speed of its spread is of "deep concern," and some farms are seeing incidences of reinfection, he said during a presentation at the expo, which draws about 20,000 pork producers and industry participants. For Dale Norton, a hog producer in Branch County, Michigan, a PED outbreak on his farm in March caused him to lose about 1,500 pigs. To defend his herd, Norton, who also serves as the president of the National Pork Board, disinfected everything that touched the barn floor, including workers' boots and feed- cart wheels. And while he considers himself "fortunate" that he was able to contain the disease within about three weeks, he's "watching closely" for reinfection, he said in an interview at the expo in Des Moines. $26.2 Million This year's rally for hog futures may just be a "temporary" reaction to the disease, and prices could fall from here, said Selkin of National Securities. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is pledging $26.2 million to help producers combat the disease. The number of weekly cases of the virus peaked in mid- February at 315, according to data from the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, which tracks voluntary reports from veterinary diagnostic laboratories. New outbreaks have since dropped by more than 50 percent, with 142 cases reported in the week ended May 31. Higher animal weights are also helping to buoy pork supplies. Hog carcasses averaged 219.95 pounds (99.8 kilograms) on June 4, more than 14 pounds heavier than a year earlier, government data show. Falling Slaughter The industry does not yet have the virus "under control," and cases of infection may start to climb at a faster pace later this year as temperatures cool, Steve Meyer, the president of Paragon Economics, said yesterday in Des Moines. The virus is believed to survive better in the winter. Hog slaughter may drop as much as 10 percent in the third quarter, he estimates. Consumers will pay as much as 4 percent more for pork this year, and costs for beef and veal will rise as much as 6.5 percent, the most of any food group, the USDA forecasts. There's "no relief" for protein eaters, and record prices for beef probably won't let up for the next 18 months, Ricky Volpe, an economist with the USDA's Economic Research Service in Washington, said May 23. The USDA has yet to identify the cause of PED in the U.S., making it harder to eradicate, Karen Richter, who has been in the business for 28 years, said in Des Moines. On her farm in Montgomery, Minnesota, the hog barns are only about one-third full after her supplier of young pigs saw its animals struck by the disease. "We're looking at much lighter pig numbers," said Richter, 48. "It's a challenging family of viruses. The question in my mind is still, how did it get here? That means so much more for dealing with these in the future." Back to news


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Tally needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
We aim to promote Ducati enthusiasm. We are a brand new, officially chartered, Denver (Colorado) based Ducati Desmo Owners Club (D.O.C.) chapter. There are about 50-60 in the United States and another 100 or so in the world. The official name of our DOC club is "Ducati Motor Club" and we own the domain http://www.ducatimotorclub.com. Ducati Desmo Owners Clubs sole purpose is to invite Ducati owners and fans to share in the passion of Italian made Ducati motorcycles. We hope to discover a logo that expresses the Italian heritage, passion, speed, and local area (Denver) that we live in.
Ducati Motor Club- Denver
The world of DOCs (Desmo Owners Clubs) is the most fulfilling way in which owners share the excitement they get from their Ducati motorcycles. Through our official club they will meet people who share their Ducati passion. DOC members get special treatment (VIP) at all Ducati worldwide events and can benefit from exclusive viewings during company and museum tours. As a Ducati club member they can also take part in all the club's organised events, such as bike meetings, track days, trips and lots more.
There are many clubs with very creative logos that do not share any resemblance to the Ducati brand image, although still effectively promote the heritage. You can find some examples on the Ducati.com website (in club section) here:
We want to have a logo our members and general public would be excited to wear- that will identify with Ducati and with our specific regional club. Branded items may also be sold at Ducati events and used in bike images in order to support our non-profit club. This logo will be used in many forms from a simple logo to web banners, splash pages, forum avatars, etc...
- The web address: http://www.ducatimotorclub.com
- Have considered the official Ducati branding message and existing branded images
- A "denver" (mile-high, high plains) association- although keeping Ducati and Italian heritage foremost
- Italian colors (red, white, green) incorporated into logo
- Urban/illustration style design? (reference Ducati Streetfighter or Ducati monster branding directions) and possibly the old Denver Nuggets basketball "skyline"-type approach (ie: not rivers and trees).
- think URBAN
- think corporate
- think RACE
- the official Ducati logo (or previous offical logos)
- any Ducati trademark or copyright infringement (although we have rights to use the name "Ducati" and "Ducati Motor Club")
- no "biker club" 3-piece style logos similar to that of "Hells Angels", etc..(usually written in an OUTLAW style).I am able to provide official Ducati fonts and font usage guidelines if needed or desired, as our official charter club enjoys the privlege and rights to do so.
Feel free to message me with questions or needs.
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The Philadelphia Eagles might be forced to go without right tackle Todd Herremans the rest of way.
Two people familiar with his test results told CSNPhilly.com on Tuesday that the foot injury suffered by Herremans in Monday night's 28-13 loss to the New Orleans Saints could end his season.
"It's not good," one team official said. "It doesn't look good at all. We're still waiting for (more test results), but it looks bad."
Eagles coach Andy Reid said after Monday's game that Herremans suffered a tendon strain in his foot-ankle area. Reid said Herremans underwent an MRI and saw a foot specialist on Tuesday morning. He is scheduled to have a CT scan on Wednesday morning.
If Herremans is done, the Eagles' offensive-line situation goes from bad to worse. The team is already playing without All-Pro left tackle Jason Peters and center Jason Kelce, who are both out for the season. Right guard Danny Watkins has missed the past two games with what Reid has called a chronic ankle issue.
It's a minor miracle Michael Vick has lasted this long considering the number of wicked hits he's taken on a weekly basis. The situation won't improve if Herremans exits the picture.
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I've never owned an Emag till now.:-) I know I sorta cheated and didn't build it myself but it was just calling my name.(you know you want me,I'm sooo sexy,the wife won't be too mad,I'll mow down your competition, always be there for you,buy me Dodge just buy me Dodge)lol yeah I spent my paintball money on it and now have a monstrous honey-do list.I'm talking repainting rooms and building a new deck sort of list.:-)
This was put together by Xmt and its the finest marker I've ever owned hands down. my wife is now jealous of it and she has said once already that I give the shockwave more attention than her lol.My hat is off to you Xmt ,totally worth every penny.


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Social Interest Graph: Pinterest launches interest-focused 'Explore' UI
By Rachel Ullstrom / Social Account Director, Rio SEO Pinterest has launched a new and fascinating personalization and search functionality called "explore". With one click, users can access a personalized dashboard based on frequent pins, tags and searches. Rather than a focus on recent or "followed" boards and pins, this enables users to surface content


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Hate Speech Chalking Found in Worth Courtyard
Editor's note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore's online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.
The wall at the entrance to Worth Courtyard on the Willets side was defaced with a chalking containing homophobic hate speech and a threat on Thursday afternoon. The chalking stated: "Queer Dorms," with an arrow pointing to Worth Hall and the Lodges, "Tits," and, underneath, "Kill em all." The culprits are unknown, and the chalking has been since washed off by the College. Both students and the administration have expressed concern about the hate speech, especially in the light of a similar incident in March, when homophobic slurs were sprayed on David Kemp Hall.
Ben Hattem '12 noticed the chalkings and immediately contacted Dean of Students Liz Braun. According to Hattem, Braun said it was "the worst graffiti yet" and expressed the need for a strong response from the school.
Will Lawrence '13, who also saw the chalking said that "considering that this seems to be becoming a pattern, we really need to develop an immediate response mechanism among the students that will allow the community to denounce hate speech and express support for those who were targeted."
Update: While Dean of Students Liz Braun was not available for comment, she sent out an email to the community Thursday afternoon in which she outlined the events of the day, shared the administrations' concerns and writing that "[w]e want to encourage you to in whatever ways you can to demonstrate your active support for our LGBT community and to continue to let everyone know that Swarthmore is not a community that will tolerate hate or threats against any member of our community." Braun also wrote that "there is more work to be done," and that there will be a Collection Friday at 12:30 p.m., location to be determined.
Update: Dean Braun told The Daily Gazette that in addition to Friday's event "there are more proactive things in the works," and that Public Safety will continue to investigate. She added that if more information should come to light, she will keep the campus community informed.
Correction: the article initially stated that the chalkings were found on Wednesday afternoon, while they were actually found Thursday afternoon.


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BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Carlos Berlocq and Juan Monaco overcame German players and extreme Argentine heat Friday in building a 2-0 lead in a best-of-five Davis Cup first-round series.
Temperatures reached 95 degrees at the clay court in Buenos Aires where Germany and Argentina are playing their matches.
Berlocq, even though behind on the scoreboard, won when Philipp Kohlschreiber pulled his left hamstring and couldn't continue after playing more than 4 hours and leading in the fifth set.
Each player won 155 points and Kohlschreiber had more breaks -- 5-3 -- over 4 hours, 6 minutes and the German was ahead 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 5-4. But with Kohlschreiber unable to continue at that point because of the injury, Berlocq was awarded the series point.
Monaco was in control most of his 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 win over Florian Mayer. He piled up at least two breaks in each set, offsetting the five times he dropped serve.
Argentina, which has been at least a Davis Cup semifinalist each of the last three years, can wrap up the series in Saturday's doubles match when David Nalbandian and Horacio Zeballos team to play Kohlschreiber and Christopher Kas. It was unclear who German captain Carsten Arriens would turn to if Kohlschreiber can't play Saturday.
Kohlschreiber is also slated to take on Monaco in the first singles match Sunday, followed by Berlocq versus Mayer.
The winner of the Argentina-Germany series is to face either France or Israel in the quarterfinals in April. France was up 2-0 on the Israelis after Friday's play.


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Based on an idea in Martha Stewart's "Handmade Holiday Crafts: 225 Inspired Projects for Year-Round Celebrations." *Paper napkins with a floral design. *Mod Podge (matte or gloss) *small paper or plastic bowl *small foam brush *white eggs 1. Choose a napkin with a floral pattern that isn't too big. 2. Cut out parts of the floral pattern: leaves, stems, blooms. You can leave a white border as the egg is white so it will blend in. 3. Apply Mod Podge to egg where you want to put your napkin's floral element. 4. Press nature design lightly onto egg's surface and then immediately and carefully paint over the egg's surface with more Mod Podge. 5. Dry by placing in an empty egg container with as few parts as possible of the egg's surface touching the container. Keep rotating eggs as they dry.
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According to research from the Everest Group, market activity was higher in Q3 2011 with 46 new service delivery centers set up across both captives and service providers, as compared to 38 new delivery centers set up in Q2 2011. While Asia continued to account for more than half of location activity, there was significant activity in Eastern Europe. Africa, too, witnessed traction with five delivery centers set up in the location. Activity in Latin America marginally increased compared to the previous quarter although it was still lower than the quarterly average for 2010.
India dominated the landscape with 16 new delivery centers. Other leading countries that reported significant offshore activity were China and Ghana with six and three delivery centers, respectively.
Among emerging destinations, there were three delivery centers reported by leading buyers and service providers in Ghana. Despite political turmoil in recent months in Northern Africa, players have continued to demonstrate interest from sub-Saharan Africa.
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Retail Changes Continue at The Empire Mall – Victoria's Secret Moving, Verizon Wireless Remodeling
The year-long renovation of The Empire Mall is still going on with some stores closing, relocating, or opening!
Relocating will be Victoria's Secret. They will move to a temporary location in the Sears wing.
Kitchen Collection and Inland Shoes in the J.C. Penney wing have closed. Inland Shoes will be moving to a strip center at 41st Street and Kiwanis Avenue.
Verizon Wireless also plans to start remodeling its location near the food court.
So with all of the changes going on at the empire mall some spaces are left open - what retail stores would you like to see come to the Empire Mall?


text: Brand MarketingY&R Legend Ed Ney DiesDescribed integrated marketing as 'the whole egg'By Andrew McMains|January 8, 2014ShareBy Andrew McMains|January 8, 2014Share Ed Ney, the man at the center of expanding Young & Rubicam beyond traditional advertising and into a broad range of specialized marketing services, died today at the age of 88. In the 1970s, when he was CEO of Y&R, Ney led a drive to acquire specialist shops that collectively became known as Young & Rubicam Group. The goal was to provide clients with every conceivable form of marketing—from advertising and public relations to direct marketing, branding and health care communications. To Ney, those services represented "the whole egg" of integrated marketing and many global companies embraced the concept, hiring multiple units of the group. Colgate-Palmolive is classic example, employing several units of Y&R Group, including Y&R and VML. In a statement, Martin Sorrell, global CEO of Y&R parent company WPP Group, said that Ney "understood, probably more than anyone else, both the power of agency brands and, at the same time, the paradoxical need to bring them together … He understood it all and saw it sooner than most." Ney also was a respected leader who in recent years, as chairman emeritus at Y&R, was a warm and visible presence at conferences and events honoring industry luminaries. Y&R global CEO David Sable, who first met Ney upon joining Y&R in 1976, said: "His charm was magnetic, his generosity, magnanimous. Ed was known to walk the building, where he talked to everyone he passed, knew everyone's name and always had a question or kind observation to share." Ney joined Y&R in 1951 and served as CEO and later chairman between 1970 and 1989, when he left to become U.S. ambassador to Canada under President George Bush. In 1995, he returned to the Y&R Group fold as chairman of Marsteller Advertising. He had been chairman emeritus of Y&R since 1999. It was Ney's efforts as CEO, however, that stood out most, as he helped create a formidable agency group that pulled off a successful public offering in 1998 and sold to WPP for more than $4 billion in 2000. Ney is survived by his wife, Patricia Murray Wood; a son, Nicholas Ney; two daughters, Hilary Ney and Michelle Kilduff; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Sharehttp://adweek.it/1krp5Ay copy Adweek Adweek


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Today i'm gonna give you guys a couple of my favourite tech/techno gems, i'll try to keep to keep posting soundcloud clips in the future, but it seems like some of the biggest producers out there are trying not to put them out there for some reason. Anyways, enjoy and please write down a comment. […]
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Food Processors to Present at 2012 CAGNY Meeting
A Nutty Evolution: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Nuts
Nuts, once shunned as a high-fat ingredient, are concentrated sources of phytochemicals.08/02/2012
Editor's Plate: Breaking Up Is Not So Hard To Do
The current frenzy of split-up activity is just the circle of life in the food & beverage industry.08/02/2012
Abbott and University of Illinois establish Center for Nutrition, Learning and Memory
Abbott Laboratories' Nutrition unit and the University of Illinois established the first multi-disciplinary nutrition and cognition research center.01/24/2012
Is Algae DHA As Healthy as Fish Oil DHA?
A review of research in 2012 found mostly good news in this vegetarian source.05/22/2012
New Food and Beverage Rollout: April 2012
New food and beverage products on the store shelves this month.04/04/2012
Editor's Plate: Colorado's Cottage Foods Act
Is it an incubator for entrepreneurship or a recipe for disaster?04/24/2012
Ms. Brown Comes Out Of Her Shell
Chief Chocolate Officer at Mars has a passion for details and milk chocolate.03/19/2012
New Food and Beverage Rollout: August 2012
New food and beverage products on the store shelves this month.08/24/2012
Editor's Plate: Green, Sustainable, Good
Take the time to assess your company's sustainability efforts.08/02/2012
IFT 2012 Prototypes Make Visitors Hungry For More
Our News and Trends Editor offers a list of her favorite food and beverage prototypes from this year's annual meeting and food expo.08/29/2012
Survey Finds Trends Among Technology, Social Media and Older Consumers
According to Pew Research, Baby Boomers and older folks using social media has increased enormously in the past two years.01/12/2012
Bakeries Strive for Clean and Green
Clean labels, increased hygiene and greener operations driving bakery operations.07/10/2012
Bakery Trends Show Balance Between Delight and Lite
Convenience, premium products, wellness, nostalgia/comfort and global flavors are driving trends in the U.S. bakery industry.01/26/2012
What's the Best Way to Dehydrate Fruits and Vegetables?
Whether you're dehydrating your own raw material fruits and vegetables or buying them dried, it's worth considering how they got that way.08/20/2012
Case Study: Better Malt Makes Better Beer
And better malt results from a breakdown-free process at Malteurop North America, thanks to triple-sealed bearings.11/14/2012
Beverage and Flavor Innovations Witness Return to Simpler Time
Innovations in beverage flavors give consumers the chance to savor updated fruit- and cocktail-based drinks.10/24/2012
Beverage Manufacturers Face a Number Of Challenges When Using Botanicals
Manufacturers are finding increasing demand for botanical remedies is both a national and international trend.06/05/2012
Box-Free Cereal Packaging Yields Green Payoffs
Food processors find less packaging good for the environment and delivers business benefits by reducing packaging costs.11/02/2012
California's Proposition 65 Applies to All Food Processors
Any food and beverage manufacturer who sells products in California can be sued.04/09/2012


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I don't know about this conference since I live far away but maybe some Canadians can be interested in this oppurtunity ?
Source: add from "CSICONdotNET".
Announcing the first annual Canadian Security & Intelligence
Conference (CSICON) August 19-21 at the Hyatt Regency, Calgary,
Alberta Canada. This is a technical security conference aimed at IT
Professionals, and IT Security Managers. Enjoy three days filled with
presentations and discussions around IT Security issues free of vendor
pitches. You will leave this conference having learned something
new. Registration is limited so take advantage of early registration
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Owing to increased vulnerability and climatic extremes, we are faced with the rapidly growing impact of disasters worldwide. There is an urgent need to incorporate the concepts of disaster risk management into planning, sustainable development and environmental impact assessment. Disaster risk management requires the assessment of risk, which is a multidisciplinary endeavour.
The course explains how to conduct a risk assessment using spatial information on hazards, elements at risk and vulnerability with the aid of GIS and remote sensing, and how this information can be used in risk management, with a focus on urban areas.
For whom is the course relevant?
This course is designed for all those who have to carry out risk assessment and require knowledge and skills in using a GIS to handle the necessary the procedures, such as professionals working in governmental and non-governmental organizations, planners, engineers, architects, geographers, environmental specialists and university teachers. Some basic background in GIS is desirable, although not strictly necessary as the course follows a step-by-step approach that enables participants to rapidly acquire the basic skills in handling GIS software.
What will be achieved?
The course will guide participants through the entire process of risk assessment, on the basis of a case study of a city exposed to multiple hazards. At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- understand the concepts of hazard assessment, elements-at-risk mapping, vulnerability assessment and risk assessment
- formulate the spatial data requirements for risk assessment
- use GIS to generate an elements-at-risk database
- apply various methods for vulnerability assessment
- generate risk maps using qualitative and quantitative methods
- understand how risk assessment is used in risk reduction and disaster preparedness.
What is the course content?
The course is composed of a number of sessions. Each session has a PowerPoint presentation and a document introducing the session topic. Each session also has exercises and assignments, including maps or materials to be handed in. The course is based on a study load of one module of three weeks (5 ECTs), which is offered in online form over a period of six weeks. Below is a summary of the sessions and detailed content.
00: Getting started
Set up Blackboard account; install ILWIS software; get to know the tutors and fellow students
01: Introduction to risk assessment
Introduction to disaster risk management and risk assessment
Generation of a hazard profile using disaster databases; introduction to ILWIS and the RiskCity dataset; learn the various hazard problems by evaluating high-resolution images
02: Obtaining spatial data for risk assessment
Presentation of data requirements for the various types of hazards; sources of spatial data
Defining spatial data requirements for risk assessment; iInternet search for information on risk assessment; acquiring free and low-cost data; generating 3D image data using Google Earth; stereo image interpretation
03: Hazard Assessment
Hazard types; main concepts of hazard assessment; frequency-magnitude relationships
Frequency assessment; selection of hazard assessment example (flooding, landslides, earthquakes, technological hazards, volcanic hazards, etc.)
04: Elements-at-risk assessment
Types of elements at risk; classification of buildings, infrastructure, lifelines, critical facilities; population information; collection of elements-at-risk information
Generating an elements-at-risk database from scratch; generating an elements-at-risk database using available data (building footprint map, census data and LiDAR)
05: Vulnerability assessment
Types of vulnerability; social vulnerability; physical vulnerability; methods of vulnerability assessment; participatory GIS; spatial multi criteria evaluation
Defining vulnerability curves; spatial multicriteria evaluation for vulnerability assessment
06: Risk assessment
Loss estimation models; HAZUS; qualitative risk assessment; QRA; basics of flood risk, seismic risk, landslide and technological risk assessment
Creating risk curves; selection of risk assessment method: flooding, earthquakes, landslides, technological hazards.
07: Risk management
Risk evaluation; risk governance; risk communication; cost-benefit analysis; using risk information for emergency planning; spatial planning, and environmental impact assessment
Multi-hazard risk assessment for buildings; assessing economic losses; cost-benefit analysis
08: Final project and examination
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Why choose this course?
The course has been designed over a long period of time and has been tested many times in different countries. It is based on a course book with assignments and an exercise book with GIS exercises. Active interaction with lecturers and fellow students takes place via internet. The general approach of the course is task-based learning that blends theory and practice. The study load is 20 to 24 hours per week. All materials including (most of) the software will be provided online in ITC's digital learning environment Blackboard. Most materials will be sent on a DVD to enable convenient offline study.
Online learning, what is it like?
The general approach of the course is task-based learning which blends theory and practice. The study load is 20 to 24 hours per week. All materials including (most of) the software will be provided online in ITC's digital learning environment Blackboard. For convenient offline study most materials will be sent on a CD-Rom. We will use email for individual communication and a discussion board in Blackboard for group communication.
About your diploma
Upon successful completion of this course you will receive a Certificate which will include the name of the course.
Along with your Certificate you will receive a Course Record providing all the subjects studied as part of the course. It states: the course code, subject, ECTS credits, exam date, location and the mark awarded.
If you decide to follow a full Postgraduate or Master's course at ITC, and after approval of the Examination Board, you will be exempted from the course(s) you followed successfully as an online course.
Admission requirements
Academic level and background
Applicants for an online course should have a Bachelor degree or equivalent from a recognised university in a discipline related to the course, preferably combined with working experience in a relevant field.
The faculty accepts transcripts, degrees and diplomas in the following languages: Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish. It is at the discretion of the faculty to require additional English translations of all documents in other languages as well.
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As all courses are given in English, proficiency in the English language is a prerequisite.
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There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.
- Is the Religious Right finished? Damon Linker argues the case that it is. Quote: "Its decline since 2005 can be traced to numerous causes: The right's widespread disappointment with the legacy of the Bush years across a range of areas, including fiscal, foreign, and social policy; the shift of the national GOP toward economic libertarianism in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the election of Barack Obama, the rise of the Tea Party, and the passage of health care reform; and finally, a dramatic and rapid shift in the culture, especially among the young, away from politicized religion and toward the acceptance of gay marriage." Meanwhile, Forbes says "not so fast" on the end of the Religious Right stuff.
- Religion News Service reports on the rise of green burials, and how the move makes different religious believers feel more in tune with their faith. "The Green Burial Council has certified nearly 400 providers in 46 states. Some of them have religious orientations. And even some that are not certified consider themselves already green because their faiths have for millennia taken an ecologically friendly approach to death." It should be noted that there are several Pagans involved in the green burial movement, including Circle Sanctuary's Circle Cemetery.
- A mask an American Indian curandero prescribed to a client was seized at the Arizona border due to it being marked with chicken blood and feathers. Quote: "Officers say the mask was deemed suspicious and seized because of the blood and feathers. They say the mask contained materials of a prohibitive nature that have the potential to transmit avian diseases. The mask was turned over to officials in Customs and Border Protection's agriculture division. It ultimately was incinerated." The statue looks pretty familiar, don't you think?
- The bad news is you might not be psychic, the good news is that your brain might be smarter than you think. Here's a link to the study the video references.
- The Guardian is up to bat reviewing Ronald Hutton's "Pagan Britain." Quote: "One of the austere pleasures of Pagan Britain lies in its frequent reminders that every age invents its own past, and that 'it is impossible to determine with any precision the nature of the religious beliefs and rites of the prehistoric British'." The reviewer, sadly, takes some petty rhetorical swipes at Pagan religions, something Hutton himself would never do.
- PRI's The World spotlights Haitian artist Erol Josué, who works to preserve his Vodou faith. Quote: "Last year, he took a government job as head of Haiti's National Ethnology Office. He's on a mission to get Haitians to realize that they need to embrace their vodou heritage — whether they agree or not. […] 'Vodou has never been a religion of conquest," he says. "We don't raise awareness to convert people to vodou, but to educate them about the importance of the national identity, the importance of respecting the sites, of respecting the patrimony.'"
- There were/are plenty of pious pagans, and Christians can learn a lot from them. Quote: "Paganism tends to have a bad name, and surely there is reason for this. At the same time, there is a tradition, especially among Christians, of honoring and imitating the greatness of pagans. For one thing, many pagans were profoundly religious, even pious people. We seriously misjudge at least some of our ancient forebears if we do not see the extent to which their life centered on the divine."
- In the UK, sometimes your neighbors will call emergency services if you're too noisy about the Witchcraft. Quote: "A second call came from Holsworthy in July 2012 from a woman who was 'convinced that her neighbours are in a witches coven type set up as she sees them night and day running around outside screaming in tongues.' A third Holsworthy caller rang police in August 2012 accusing a man in Southampton of using witchcraft." So be cool on the screaming folks, it scares people.
- Civil rights activist Eliyahu Federman calls the resurgence of exorcisms in the Catholic Church "alarming." Quote: "The Catholic Church attributes the rise in demonic cases to people dabbling in paganism, Ouija boards and black magic, but my sneaking suspicion is that mental health issues, along with the rise of fiction horror movie fantasies, are a more likely cause. […] Legitimizing exorcisms makes a mockery of religion and poses a threat to society."
- OnFaith, once part of The Washington Post, has left the paper, and is now part of FaithStreet. Quote: "We will continue to publish some daily news and opinion pieces from top writers and other folks whose perspectives need to be heard. But we have lots of other ideas, and we hope to get to do all of them in time. Our first new initiative is to publish Weekly Issues—to have one topic per week and publish a mixture of stories, essays, videos, illustrations and more on that topic." Another competitor in the religion portal world? Will there be Pagans?
- An international group of Dharma teachers have issued a statement on climate change. Quote: "When we come together to celebrate our love for the natural world and all of the beings that inhabit it, and when we take a stand to counter the forces of craving, aversion, and delusion, we reclaim our own inner stability and strength and live closer to the truth, closer to the Dharma. Together, we can seek to ensure that our descendants and fellow species inherit a livable planet. Individually and collectively, we will be honoring the great legacy of the Dharma and fulfill our heart's deepest wish to serve and protect all life."
- How do you get the "nones" to vote for you? Quote: "The other side of religious nonaffiliation, and what politicians often neglect, is that for spiritual voters the sacred strongly persists. Reading them narrowly as atheists or secularists misses out on the political rewards that come from constituents feeling seen and understood. This sacred is various, but it coheres for many in its resistance to religious enclosure and its support of certain progressive values. Politicians fire up religious blocs through careful attunement to religious values. Better attunement to spiritual values will help inspire spiritual voters."
That's it for now! Feel free to discuss any of these links in the comments, some of these I may expand into longer posts as needed.


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If someone had told me as a kid in Louisiana that my husband and I would have a combined income of $250,000 a year in our late twenties, I would have been pie-eyed. It sounds like a crazy amount of money. But after taking into account taxes, debt and living expenses in New York City, we're actually finding it difficult to meet our financial goals.
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Why Our Taxes Are Nearly Unmanageable
Last year, we paid $100,000 in taxes, which is almost exactly 40% of what we make. Even though we also paid $22,000 in student loan payments (we have about $145,000 in combined loans for my husband's law school and my grad school), we don't qualify for deductions–if you make more than $150,000 filing jointly, you can't deduct student loan interest.
We also don't get a deduction for home ownership–because we can't afford to buy one. We've been saving for three years, and after another three years of diligent budgeting, we hope to have about $100,000, which would be enough for a 20% down payment on a home in a New York suburb with decent schools–the average "starter" home in these areas is about $500,000–plus an extra $20,000 for closing costs and incidentals.
We're in a weird place: We don't have enough money to invest in a house or the stock market, which would get us tax exemptions. So we pay the full 40% of our salary in city**, state and federal taxes. People who are much wealthier can take advantage of tax loopholes, capital gains preferential tax rates and a larger mortgage deduction, so they end up paying only about 20% in taxes. For instance, in 2011, Barack Obama paid 20.5% in taxes. Mitt Romney paid 14% in taxes.
We find it ironic that we'd have to make more . . . in order to pay less.
If we're being honest, it's not only taxes that are killing us. Living in Manhattan is expensive—up to three times the cost of living in other cities—but I work for a private equities firm and my husband is in securities litigation. This city is the industry hub for both of our careers.
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We've discussed moving, but it's unlikely that we would both be able to get jobs elsewhere. We rent a one-bedroom apartment near our offices in a neighborhood where they go for $3,000 a month. We could move to a slightly cheaper outer borough, but we're both called into our offices at odd hours and we also work long days. So we pay for the convenience of living near work.
How Things Could Get Harder for Us
We budget constantly. As an accountant, I'm always reviewing our spending, and trying to find ways to cut back. We take the subway. We don't buy name-brand clothes, and we don't buy anything unless it's on sale. We take only one fun trip a year and the most we've ever spent on that is $1,600.
My husband isn't even putting money in his 401(k), so we can save more for a house. (I contribute to mine, but we have diverted all of our emergency fund to our house savings.) It's something we argue about, but these are the choices we have to make.
Don't get me wrong–our lives are good. We work very hard, and enjoy what we do, but I'm tired of people saying that we're not paying our fair share. How much more are we supposed to pay?
Why the Tax Code Needs to Change
We both come from middle-class families and were taught that if you go to school and work hard, you can live the American dream: own a house, have a family. It's really all we want. We don't live—or long for—an extravagant lifestyle.
Look, I know it's relative. I realize there are families raising three kids on $50,000 that are just trying to put food on the table. My husband and I are very thankful for what we have. And we don't begrudge paying taxes. We even understand why people think we're rich. Compared to many people, we are.
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We just can't figure out how we're supposed to make the American dream work for us while giving away half of our income in taxes.
The tax code needs to change, and if it were up to me, I'd like to see the following:
Adding a cost of living factor. The tax code should have a "factor" that takes into account location-specific costs, like average home price, the price of an equivalent bag of groceries, the average price of a car and the average cost of gas in a region. Once taxes are calculated, the factor would be applied to achieve greater geographic tax parity.
Phasing out deductions and loopholes. If we lowered tax rates across the board, and cut the deductions and loopholes in the system (there are plenty of them to pick from!), we would put everyone on a more level playing field. I know it's a touchy subject, but capital gains rates probably also need to be increased from the current 15%–even if it's just a bump to 20%.
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Broadening the tax base. Right now, deductions and loopholes mean that many people don't pay certain federal taxes. If we eliminated them as described above, more people would pay taxes that they owe. By no means do I think that families in dire circumstances should be asked to dole out money to the government. But if more families could help chip in a small portion of their earnings, it would work toward generating more revenue–and a little bit, spread across a large number of people, could go a long way.
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Lowering the tax rates. I'd be fine paying in the 30% range. And if my husband and I did make it to a point where we were making above $500,000, reasonable tax increases (35%-39%) for this income would be acceptable.
There's something really wrong with a system that considers us "rich" and not paying our fair share at 40%–but billionaires are only paying 20% or less.
Something is obviously broken.
We just hope it gets fixed soon.
*The author's name has been changed to protect her privacy. Money isn't always easy to talk about, and the author has shared details about her finances and her life. When commenting, please give her the respect due to a member of the LearnVest community.
** New York City is one of the few cities in the United States with city taxes.
In our "Money Mic" series, we hand over the podium to someone with a strong opinion on a financial topic. Today, one woman shares what it's like to be disproportionately taxed based on her income–and how it's holding her back.


text: Hello everyone, I'll try to keep this short and condensed. I'm essentially looking for _your_ favorite app / procedure when faced with making sequence/context switching graphs and would like to use the one that will be the most "appropriate" for my situation: The "gists" of it: I need to generate graphics of execution sequences to explain how a process (ie: sGA, sMOGA) runs sequentially and then show where and how this process can be split up. The graphics I am thinking of are traditionally horizontal bars which are usually split up into multiple parallel sub-portions as the process gets dissected by the author...me ;) . These bars can be commented with either time ticks, variable names, zoomed portions, etc. The usage context: The intent of these graphics are for inclusion in a Latex document and (hopefully) for publishing. The document itself intends to be a little "HOWTO" for parallelisation of simple Multi Objective real coded Genetic Algorithms into Master/Slave and/or Island topology in the context of a Beowulf cluster. The environment context: I work only under linux, so no windows alternative ( like I'd get any :P ). Some of the tools that come in mind: xfig inkscape oodraw (OpenOffice) odipodi Any comments about subjects mentioned above are more than welcommed! Eric Thibodeau


text: Joe Landman wrote: > > Guy Coates wrote: > >> At what node count does the nfs-root model start to break down? Does anyone >> have any rough numbers with the number of clients you can support with a generic >> linux NFS server vs a dedicated NAS filer? > > If you use warewulf or the new perceus variant, it creates a ram disk > which is populated upon boot. Thats one of the larger transients. Then > you nfs mount applications, and home directories. I haven't looked at > Scyld for a while, but I seem to remember them doing something like this. > I've booted up and run a 130 node cluster in ramdisk mode, with applications shared over NFS. I ran HPL benchmarks for the client across all nodes in the cluster in this configuration. That's 130 Sun galaxy 4200s, the head node being a Galaxy 4200 also in this case. I agree with what Joe says about a few hundred nodes being the time you would start to look closer at this approach. > > Even better if you can load balance your NFS servers and set them up to > mirror each other, or use a hardware unit like Panasas, and so on. Second that. -- John Hearns Senior HPC Engineer Streamline Computing, The Innovation Centre, Warwick Technology Park, Gallows Hill, Warwick CV34 6UW Office: 01926 623130 Mobile: 07841 231235


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After a nearly 10-year impasse between two unlikeable corporate conglomerates utterly indifferent to the pleas of a consumer populace just begging to give them both money, the NFL Network finally arrived on Time Warner Cable this weekend.
I have lived in New York City for 13 years. Now, paying eight times the average American's mortgage to rent an apartment the size of a fourth closet, with rats in the ceiling and muggers in the hallway, with the profound dread that comes with being surrounded by millions of people yet never feeling anything but paralyzingly alone … that's all obviously wonderful. But the downside is that, until this weekend, I had never once watched the NFL Network.
More to the point: I'd never watched NFL RedZone. I have friends who swear by RedZone, rhapsodizing about its brilliance with religious, almost cultish fervor. For those who don't know -- that's to say, people who have lived in New York City for the last nine years -- RedZone is a commercial-free, seven-hour block of every exciting play in every NFL game all day. (There is also the Red Zone Channel, which is the DirecTV version hosted by Andrew Siciliano.) You see every scoring opportunity, you see every two-minute drill, you see every moment of fantasy relevance. The general consensus: You'll never watch football the same way again.
So on Sunday, at 1 p.m. ET, like millions of Americans, I welded my arse to my couch -- my arse is made of a weldable aluminum alloy -- and watched RedZone, all day. (Well, most of the day. We'll get to that.) This fan favorite, this consumer-friendly bucket of joy. I had to see what the fuss was about. I can confirm, now that it's over, that it's definitely football how I've never watched it before. This is both good and bad.
Because the Internet loves lists, and because writers love making lists (it saves us the trouble of having to construct a propulsive narrative with thematic unity), here are seven observations from the day I lost my RedZone Channel virginity.
1. Scott Hanson is going to be a superstar someday. Because I don't have the NFL Network (see: profound dread, above), I'd never seen Hanson's work before, but now that I've heard him talk to me for more cumulative hours than my father ever has, I'm pretty sure that the 41-year-old is the future of broadcasting. He somehow manages to hop around the country from game to game every six seconds -- there were nine 1 p.m. games on Sunday, an unusually heavy load -- yet he keeps his cool throughout, weaving in some fun, wry, understated commentary. (Company line or no, Hanson gets his point across on the incompetence of the scab refs.) He's basically hosting a whirling dervish crapfest, and there wasn't a moment that I didn't feel he was completely in charge and calm. I have to think that's the toughest studio job in sports, and he's just perfect. I think I want him to broadcast my class reunion. ("There's Amy Garrett still looking fantastic … Betsy Schultz-Stein, on the other hand … moving on to Melanie Price …")
2. The best part about the channel is the lack of commercials. Good Lord. I didn't see anyone hit in the groin. I didn't see some "young" guy choose a beer over a beautiful woman. I didn't see any promos for shows with quirky pretty people being best friends in increasingly eccentric ways. I didn't see a talking baby. I was able to spend several consecutive hours without someone trying to sell me something that's not good for me by trying to appeal to my latent insecurities, envy and/or vanity. Honestly, I don't remember the last time I went longer than two hours without some sort of advertising shoved in my face. (Other than, of course, the banners surrounding every NFL stadium.) Hours and hours without commercials? In this way, RedZone is like going through detox, some sort of juice cleanse or something. I honestly felt about five pounds lighter at the end of the day; sports advertising does a number on one's soul.
3. The channel discourages institutional memory. So there was this play in the Bears-Rams game in which Jay Cutler was intercepted, and then the guy who intercepted the pass fumbled, and then the guy who recovered the fumble fumbled, and it was just all sorts of crazy. It of course took the scab refs about three minutes to sort it out. Anyway, I watched the play, and then RedZone moved on to another play and then to another and then Hanson said, "Remember that crazy play in the Rams-Bears game" to let us know what the scab refs' ruling was. I'd certainly hope we remembered it: It was three minutes ago. Hanson said "remember" the way I say "remember" when I say things like, "Hey, remember when Tom Cruise and Goose had that cool high-five in 'Top Gun'?" and that movie came out 26 years ago.
On RedZone, events happen and are then forgotten in the chaos. Something that happened three minutes ago is distant history. And I totally get it. Had they not returned to that play, in 10 minutes, after about 50 highlights, I would absolutely have forgotten it. I might have forgotten that the Bears and Rams were playing. I might have forgotten where the cities of Chicago and St. Louis were. There's a lot to take in on RedZone.
4. Every play is important, and none are. This is an inherent issue in all highlight packages, let alone those that are happening live: When everything is exciting -- as every second of RedZone is, by design -- then nothing is. It's just touchdown after touchdown after turnover after touchdown after turnover, all day. When I watch a regular football game, a touchdown is noteworthy, a reason either to celebrate or to throw something at the television. On RedZone, a touchdown is just something that happens a few seconds before another touchdown. It drains football of all context; it turns the sport into incessant, almost droning sensation. This is still sorta fun -- not all touchdowns are created equal, after all, and besides, it makes it a lot easier to track fantasy matchups -- but I still couldn't help but think that this should be a supplement to your regular football watching rather than a replacement. This channel tells you almost nothing about football itself; it's like an NBA channel with nothing but dunks.
5. It makes the act of not scoring almost pointless. This is not a channel for defensive junkies. It took 22 minutes for either the Bears or Rams to reach the RedZone, so we never saw a second of the game; I didn't even know they were playing until Robbie Gould hit a 54-yard field goal. Otherwise, in the world of RedZonel, it might as well not have been going on. It was strange, almost existential: If a Rams-Bears game goes scoreless in a forest, does anyone hear it?
6. It's absolutely exhausting. There wasn't a second that I wasn't completely riveted by RedZone. When you take out all the boring parts of watching a football telecast -- which is to say, about 89 percent of it -- and just mush all the games together, you lose touch with all the natural dull rhythms of football and the way we watch it. This is not entirely a bad thing. There was so much excitement happening on RedZone that I found myself afraid to go to the bathroom. (Needless to say, this is not a problem when watching a football game from beginning to end.) I stared at the screen with an intensity with which I never watch actual games. The three hours of the early games passed by with almost frightening speed. It's probably the fastest three hours of sports-watching I've ever experienced.
7. This is best consumed in small doses. That it went so quickly was a problem. Three 1 p.m. games went into overtime, and it was all happening at once, and it was all so exciting, and Hanson's voice was rising, and Mikel LeShoure of my fantasy team was nearing the magical 100-yard plateau, and holy cow holy crap holy yikes … it was so all-encompassing that I hadn't even noticed that the Arizona Cardinals game had started. This was a huge game for my beloved Cardinals, a chance to go to 3-0 for the first time since the year before I was born, and I'd been looking forward to it all week. But RedZone distracted me so much that it didn't even occur to me that game time had arrived until the game was already midway through the first quarter. This, at long last, broke the spell. I took a break, stood up and stretched … and turned the channel to the Cardinals-Eagles game. It was a relief. Watching just one game was a respite. Watching one game felt like taking the afternoon off.
So, what have we learned? I think NFL RedZone is undeniably a revolutionary way to experience football, and television, and I'm furious that it has taken this long to make its way to my television. But it is not, at its core, football. It is whippets, a hashtag instead of a long read. I love it, and I'm going to watch it every Sunday.
But only when my Cardinals aren't playing. That's my compromise: three hours of short-attention-span football, three hours of the real thing. You can't have one without the other. When I'm watching RedZonel, I want to have my "regular" football chaser, to remind me of the importance, of the context, of what I'm watching. Otherwise, it's basically taking whippets for three hours. It feels fantastic, but you've just lost a ton of brain cells and can no longer stand.
I'm so glad that I finally have this channel. Now I have to make sure that I consume it with the moderation that's probably necessary.
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I dunno who I'm trying to kid here: I'm fairly certain that I'll be a junkie within a month. Thoughts, concerns, grousing, future column ideas? Remember, this column is meant as a valve, a release, for when you're yelling at your television during games, or, after reading a particular column, you're pounding your fists into your computer. Obviously, I'll need your help to do that. Anything you want me to write about, let me know, through email or Twitter. I am at your beck and call.