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Learning to compromise was key when Dina D'Angelo and Patrick Dibre became engaged and began to plan their wedding. "I wanted a romantic, over-the-top wedding, and Patrick wanted a family-only affair," says Dina. They settled on "an intimate wedding in an extremely elegant location." Their love for the outdoors made choosing their site simple. The couple decided to hold both their ceremony and reception nearby at the Pleasantdale Château in West Orange, NJ, where the lush foliage and scenic lake provided the perfect backdrop.
On August 29, 2004, Dina and Patrick were married during a romantic ceremony completely awash in white. Everything—from the aisle runner to the chair damasks to the gazebo dripping with flowers—was in shades of white. "I wanted to make a statement by having an all-white ceremony," says Dina. "Then, we used the reception to introduce color." After the cocktail hour, guests were ushered indoors to the reception where blush tones took center stage. Each candlelit table featured a floral centerpiece that included copper calla lilies, ivory stephanotis and pale-pink roses. As the couple and their guests dined on baby greens, lobster bisque, filet mignon and pan-seared sea bass, a live band serenaded the crowd with jazz tunes. After dinner, the couple cut the cake, which was a three-tiered confection designed to mirror the centerpieces. Both Dina and Patrick agreed that their big day couldn't have been any better: "It was amazing," Dina recalls. "Walking down the aisle, looking at all the details, I felt as though I were floating in a fairy tale."
Learn From Dina and Patrick
Consider your guests and plan ahead: Dina and Patrick were married during the summer and wanted their guests to be comfortable in the heat, so they arranged for their outdoor cocktail hour to have an additional indoor area where guests could go to cool off.
Have a monochromatic ceremony: But don't forget to incorporate different shades of the color into your palette. Dina and Patrick varied the hues of whites they used, adding ivory, cream and off-white.
Relax: "I wish we had taken our time planning!" says Dina, who organized the whirlwind celebration in less than two months. Don't rush the process; have fun with every aspect of preparing for your big day. —Cristi L. Hansen


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The social media geekosphere erupted in rage this week when news of the pre-trial sales injunctions against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus hit the Web. A #boycottapple hashtag emerged as a rallying cry for Android devotees beating their proverbial drums and calling for not-so-proverbial blood.
#boycottapple is stupid.
Not because I'm an Apple fanboy (my wife and I both rock Android phones) or because I think the rarely granted pre-trial injunctions are just (they aren't), but because the #boycottapple types are hating the player, when they should be hating the game. The very patent system that was designed to encourage innovation is instead slowly choking the life out of it.
Apple isn't a unique case
As a publicly traded company, Apple has an obligation to rake in cash for its shareholders, using whatever legal means it can. That obligation manifests in the competitive realm in the form of innovative new products like the various Retina Display-packing gizmos, and in the "anti-competitive" realm in the form of intellectual property litigation. Both are entirely legitimate avenues for propelling yourself ahead of the competition — and Apple isn't the only company dabbling in either.
Patent wars have only grown bloodier in the mobile era. Companies are suing each other all over the globe; Apple's suing HTC, Apple's suing Samsung, Samsung's suing Apple, Nokia says the new Nexus 7 tablet infringes on its patents, everyone who's anyone is paying Microsoft some sort of licensing fee for using Android, and the Google-owned Motorola Mobility is under legal scrutiny as a possible patent bully in its ongoing litigation with both Apple and Microsoft.
I could keep going, but I think you get the idea. Virtually every major technology company is just as guilty as Apple when it comes to aggressive IP litigation.
Should software even be patentable?
Whether or not software and lines of code should even be patentable is up for debate; in fact, the judge that recently dismissed a major Apple lawsuit against Motorola Mobility says the government should examine that very issue, given the sheer amount of technology needed to power today's consumer technology.
"You just have this proliferation of patents," Judge Richard Posner told Reuters. "It's a problem."
Key figures in the technology world have made similar calls before. Late last year, Mark Cuban called for an abolishment of all software and business process patents. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a similar proclamation way back in 2000, saying that those types of patents should have their lifespan shortened to three to five years rather than the 17 to 20 years of protection currently granted.
Poor judgment in the past is killing technology's future
A Google lawyer summed up a major IP issue in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle last November: Before the Supreme Court told patent examiners to start using common sense in 2007, pretty much every overly broad idea submitted got slapped with a seal of approval, even if it covered something that most people would find obvious.
That's what's dragging down innovation.
For example, the design patent that earned the Galaxy Tab 10.1 a sales ban is patent D504889, which was granted to Apple in 2005. The diagram above is pretty much the extent of it: a rectangular electronic device with a screen covering most of one face, a power button, and a port. How ridiculous is that?
The same obvious, basic design is used by virtually every smartphone and tablet on the market, which means that virtually every manufacturer out there has the threat of litigation looming over its head until 2019, when the Apple patent expires. Even though Samsung was able to prove that similar tablet designs were around years before D504889 was granted, a Federal Circuit appeals court recently decided that Apple's patent is nonetheless valid — hence the sales injunction.
Then, there's patent 5960411. It's a bit more technical, but here's what it boils down to: Amazon owns the rights for one-click e-purchases. If you want to sell something online, you either have to integrate additional customer-unfriendly clicks into your interface, or pay Amazon a licensing fee for the privilege of simplicity.
The sheer number of ridiculous software patents out there and the riches that come from enforcing them has led to the creation of companies that exist solely to be patent trolls. Patent trolls don't offer actual products; instead, they hoard patents and other IP and license out "innovation" wholesale.
Patent trolls are also particularly lawsuit-happy; a recent study by the Boston University School of law says "non-practicing entities" alone launched 5,842 claims of infringement in 2011, costing the economy a whopping $29 billion in result. Most of the victims were small- to medium-sized businesses.
Actually, Apple is a kind of unique case
All that being said, Apple deserves the scorn of the masses for one crucial distinction: While most companies launch patent litigation to force lucrative licensing deals, Apple isn't looking for money. It's looking for blood.
Witness the sales injunction against the Samsung products, the failed injunction attempt against the Motorola Xoom, or the on-again, off-again injunctions of HTC's various smartphones.
By comparison, when Nokia recently claimed that the Google Nexus tablet infringed on its IP, a company spokesman told the Inquirer that "Companies who are not yet licensed under our standard essential patents should simply approach us and sign up for a license."
If Apple's crusade against Android products seems more like a vendetta than a business decision, you might be right. Consider the following passage from Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs:
Our lawsuit is saying, 'Google, you f*****g ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off.' Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death, because they know they are guilty.
It's time to overhaul the patent system
Putting aside moral issues, the patent system as it exists is killing innovation. A 2011 study (PDF) by Catherine Tucker of ETH Zurich found that companies that had been sued by a prominent patent troll then became hesitant to innovate and add new features to their products, leading to lackluster offerings and a massive drop-off in sales.
Virtually all of the major consumer technology companies are locked in similar patent litigation in courtrooms around the globe.
The very future of technological innovation is in danger if the patent system isn't overhauled. What, exactly, needs to be done is better left to smarter minds than mine, but there's no question that something has to be done.
But until it is, don't blame Apple, Samsung, Motorola or Microsoft for using all the legal tools they have at their disposal. Or, as Judge Posner put it:
"As in any jungle, the animals will use all the means at their disposal, all their teeth and claws that are permitted by the ecosystem."
Don't hate the players, folks. Hate the incredibly destructive game.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.
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This week at Top Chef Kitchen by Bravo in New York City, Top Chef alums Antonia Lofaso and Fabio Viviani are the featured chefs at the one-of-a-kind, four-course dining experience from Bravo's Emmy®- and James Beard Award-winning television series, Top Chef. Viviani has two restaurants in Los Angeles, is opening a new restaurant in Chicago, and is scouting a location for another in Miami. When he's not in one of his restaurants, he is filming his show Chow Ciao! on Yahoo! Lofaso owns Black Market in Studio City, California, and is opening a second as-yet-unnamed restaurant in March 2013 (although Viviani claims they do know the name and it is one he suggested). We caught up with them pre-service in Top Chef Kitchen, as Chef Lofaso was making ravioli for the evening's dinner.
Were you intimidated to cook for New York foodies?
FV: I've done a lot of private parties in New York, but I never cooked for a restaurant. I got kicked off Top Chef twice in New York, both seasons, so New York doesn't faze me anymore.
Fabio, what was it like working with Antonia?
FV: We were on a season of Top Chef together, so I know she can be very difficult at times.
AL: That's when I turn my head [away from him].
FV: I love her to pieces.
Were you excited to work with someone you were a little familiar with?
AL: With Fabio? For this? Yes! So many times when we do these events, it can feel like we're being more competitive *after* the actual competition versus during. After [Top Chef], it's more like, 'Oh my god! What is everyone doing? Is my food better?' Fabio is just so easy. Not easy in a sleeps-with-a-lot-of-women sort of a way.
FV: What?!
AL: I called you easy. [Pause] Actually, he may be easy in both senses of the word.
FV: I'm easy — easy to please.
AL: Yes, that's for sure. He's just sweet, and he's all about good food, There's no 'I'm so much better than you' air.
FV: It's not about bragging rights. It's about having fun! And making good food today! Even though my food is better.
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14 dead, 80 injured in Mexico oil company blast
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company in the capital Thursday killed 14 people and injured 80 as it heavily damaged three floors of the building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline.
There were also reports that as many as 30 people were trapped in the debris from the explosion, which occurred in the basement of an administrative building next to the iconic, 52-story tower of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. There was no immediate cause given for the blast.
"It was an explosion, a shock, the lights went out and suddenly there was a lot of debris," employee Cristian Obele told Milenio television, adding that he had been injured in the leg. "Co-workers helped us get out of the building."
The tower, where several thousand people work, was evacuated. The main floor and the mezzanine of the auxiliary building, where the explosion occurred, were heavily damaged, along with windows as far as three floors up.
"We were talking and all of sudden we heard an explosion with white smoke and glass falling from the windows," said Maria Concepcion Andrade, 42, who lives on the block of Pemex building. "People started running from the building covered in dust. A lot of pieces were flying."
A reporter at the scene saw rescue workers trying to free several workers trapped. Television images showed people being evacuated by office chairs, and gurneys. Most of them had injuries likely caused by falling debris.
Police landed four rescue helicopters to remove the dead or injured. About a dozen tow trucks were furiously moving cars to make more landing room for the helicopters.
In an earlier Tweet, the company said it had evacuated the building as a precautionary measure because of a problem with the electrical system in the complex that includes the skyscraper. It tweeted that several workers were injured.
Streets surrounding the building were closed as evacuees wandered around, and rescue crews loaded the injured into ambulances.
Interior Department spokesman Eduardo Sanchez confirmed that an explosion in a basement garage damaged the first and second floors of the auxiliary building, which is located in a busy commercial and residential area.


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Widows and orphans
In typesetting, widows and orphans are lines at the beginning or end of a paragraph, which are left dangling at the top or bottom of a column, separated from the rest of the paragraph. There is some disagreement about the definitions of widow and orphan; what one source calls a widow another calls an orphan.[1][2] The Chicago Manual of Style uses these definitions:[2]
- Widow
- A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text.
- Orphan
- A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text.
Remembering the terms
A common mnemonic is "An orphan has no past; a widow has no future"[3] or "An orphan is left behind, whereas a widow must go on alone".
Another way to think is that orphaned lines appear at the "birth" (start) of paragraphs; widowed lines appear at the "death" (end) of paragraphs.
Alternatively, here's one more mnemonic device: "An orphan is alone from the beginning; a widow is alone at the end," or "An orphan starts alone, a widow ends alone."
Writing guides, such as the Chicago Manual of Style, generally suggest that a manuscript should have no widows and orphans even if the result of avoiding them is additional space at the bottom of a page or column.[4] However, in its 16th edition (2011) the Chicago Manual of Style suggests a new convention in which pages may end with the first line of a new paragraph.[5]
Some techniques for eliminating widows include:
- Forcing a page break early, producing a shorter page;
- Adjusting the leading, the space between lines of text (although such carding or feathering is usually frowned upon);
- Adjusting the spacing between words to produce 'tighter' or 'looser' paragraphs;
- Adjusting the hyphenation of words or characters within the paragraph;
- Adjusting the page's margins;
- Subtle scaling of the page, though too much non-uniform scaling can visibly distort the letters;
- Rewriting a portion of the paragraph;
- Reduce the tracking of the words;
- Adding a pull quote to the text (more common for magazines); and
- Adding a figure to the text, or resizing an existing figure.
An orphan is cured more easily, by inserting a blank line or forcing a page break to push the orphan line onto the next page to be with the rest of its paragraph. Such a cure may have to be undone if editing the text repositions the automatic page or column break.
Similarly, a single orphaned word at the end of a paragraph can be cured by forcing one or more words from the preceding line into the orphan's line. In web-publishing, this is typically accomplished by concatenating the words in question with a non-breaking space and, if available, by utilizing the orphans: and widows: attributes in Cascading Style Sheets. Sometimes it can also be useful to add non-breaking spaces to the first two (or few) short words of a paragraph to avoid that a single orphaned word is placed to the left or right of a picture or table, while the remainder of the text (with longer words) would only appear after the table.
Most full-featured word processors and page layout applications include a paragraph setting (or option) to automatically prevent widows and orphans. When the option is turned on, an orphan is forced to the top of the next page or column; and the line preceding a widow is forced to the next page or column with the last line.
In technical writing where a single source may be published in multiple formats, and now in HTML5 with the expectation of viewing content at different sizes or resolutions, use the word processor settings that automatically prevent widows and orphans. Manual overrides like inserted empty lines or extra spaces can cause unexpected white space in the middle of pages.
- ↑ Carter, Rob A widowed line, highlighted in yellow. Day, Ben. Meggs, Philip. Typographic Design: Form and Communication. 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons: 1993. p. 263
- 1 2 Chicago Manual of Style
- ↑ Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style. 3rd ed. Hartley and Marks Publishers: 2004. pp. 43–44 ISBN 0-88179-206-3
- ↑ Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition, 3.11 Overall appearance: "A page should not begin with the last line of a paragraph unless it is full measure and should not end with the first line of a new paragraph."
- ↑ Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition, 2.113: "A page should not begin with the last line of a paragraph unless it is full measure. (A page can, however, end with the first line of a new paragraph.)"


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Three Readings
Our thoughts today are pretty largely on writers, philosophers and diplomats.
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The great journalist and political thinker Charles Moore had a briskly intelligent piece in yesterday's Daily Telegraph on a new biography of Edmund Burke. Everyone who to any degree read his way to conservatism—that is, people who start with experience, with an emerging understanding of the truths of the world around them and then turn to books to help order, deepen and sort through their thoughts—has a political philosopher who more than any other spoke to him. Mine is, was, Burke.
The author of "Edmund Burke," Jesse Norman, is a member of the British Parliament elected in 2010. Before that he was a writer, and still is. Moore calls him "a rising politician." His review reminds me of a central difference between British and American political figures, which is that many of the former still operate within an intellectual tradition and are capable of writing and researching books on political philosophers. As if thoughts matter and are part of a continuum. Can you imagine a Republican member of Congress writing such a book, or a Democrat? Our politicians always seem so hackishly unintellectual—anti-intellectual, actually—and ungrounded in anything but the moment.
The Burke book is available for preorder on Kindle, as is Charles Moore's first volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, awkwardly titled to American ears "Margaret Thatcher, from Grantham to the Falklands." That sounds like a book that's going to tell you more than you need to know, though Moore in his writings doesn't do that. The title over here should be "Thatcher, Volume One." Quick and definitive, like a handbag going THWACK on an erring minister's head.
The great writer and foreign-affairs thinker Robert Kaplan has a strong piece inThe Atlantic on Henry Kissinger, whom Kaplan sees as a world-class statesman in a league with Castlereagh and Palmerston. Kaplan deftly notes a great challenge to diplomats, which is understanding that whatever the strategy it will be critiqued in the end by artists. And rightly so: "Fernando Pessoa, the early-20th-century Portuguese poet and existentialist writer, observed that if the strategist 'thought of the darkness he cast on a thousand homes and the pain he caused in three thousand hearts,' he would be 'unable to act,' and then there would be no one to save civilization from its enemies. Because many artists and intellectuals cannot accept this horrible but necessary truth, their work, Pessoa said, 'serves as an outlet for the sensitivity [that] action had to leave behind.' That is ultimately why Henry Kissinger is despised in some quarters, much as Castlereagh and Palmerston were."
Kaplan notes a specific domestic political problem faced by Kissinger and Nixon during the Vietnam peace talks: "When Charles de Gaulle was negotiating a withdrawal of French troops from Algeria in the late 1950s and early 1960s (as Kissinger records in Ending the Vietnam War), the Algerians knew that if they did not strike a deal with him, his replacement would certainly be more hard-line. But the North Vietnamese probably figured the opposite—that because of the rise of McGovernism in the Democratic Party, Nixon and Kissinger were all that stood in the way of American surrender. Thus, Nixon and Kissinger's negotiating position was infinitely more difficult than de Gaulle's had been. Kissinger found himself caught between liberals who essentially wanted to capitulate rather than negotiate, and conservatives ambivalent about the war who believed that serious negotiations with China and the Soviet Union were tantamount to selling out. Both positions were fantasies that only those out of power could indulge."
At the end, Kapan attempts to steal a rather major base by characterizing Ronald Reagan's foreign policy Wilsonian, without bothering to argue why. Boo. But the rest of the piece: great.
Something I read a few weeks ago stays in my mind. Pat Buchanan gave a great speech called "Nixon at 100" at the Richard Nixon Centennial Celebration in Washington on Jan. 9, 2013. The American Conservative published an essay taken from it.
Buchanan covers Nixon as internationalist: "By the end of his first term, all US troops were out of Vietnam, our POW's were on the way home. . . . He had ended the war with honor, as he promised. He had negotiated and signed the greatest arms limitation treaty since the Washington Naval Agreement of 1922: Salt 1 and the ABM Treaty. He had ended the implacable hostility between the United States and the People's Republic of China that had endured since Mao's Revolution and the Korean War. In his second term he would order the strategic airlift that saved Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Israel never had a better friend, said Golda Meir."
But it is the end of the speech that is most ringing, and most Buchananesque: "As this centennial approached, the phone calls started coming in from the offspring of the old jackal pack, asking my thoughts on Watergate. My great regret is the Old Man is not here tonight so I can tell him my thoughts on his old tormenters. In the words of Nick Carraway to Gatsby: 'They were a rotten crowd,' sir. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.'"
The freshness of Pat's resentment, and his epic, gargantuan loyalty to a leader he both saw clearly and loved—these are something to behold.


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Kicking off earnings season in the big-media world on a positive note, Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) weighed in on Tuesday with a lighter-than-expected 6% dip in fiscal first-quarter profits as rising networks revenue helped offset one-time charges.
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Shares of the blue-chip entertainment giant and parent of ESPN were up about 1% in after-hours action. Disney has rallied 9% so far in 2013, compared with a 6% gain for the S&P 500.
Disney said it earned $1.38 billion, or 77 cents a share, last quarter, compared with a profit of $1.46 billion, or 80 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding one-time items, earnings fell to 79 cents a share, but that exceeded estimates from analysts for 76 cents.
Revenue rose 5% to $11.34 billion, topping the Street's view of $11.21 billion.
"After delivering another record year of growth in 2012, we're off to a solid start in fiscal 2013," CEO Robert Iger said in a statement. "Our ongoing success is driven by our long-term strategy, the strength of our brands and businesses, and our high quality family entertainment."
Disney's net income was hurt by litigation charges of about $321 million and expenses tied to equity redemptions at Hulu. Other items included a gain of $219 million related to a sale of a 50% stake in ESPN STAR Sports.
Overall, Disney enjoyed year-over-year growth at nearly all of its business units, highlighted by a 7% jump in media networks revenue to $5.1 billion. Inside the media networks division, cable networks operating income dipped by $15 million to $952 million due to lower ESPN profits amid higher programming and production costs.
Revenue at Disney's parks and resorts business also rose 7% to $3.39 billion, while consumer products logged a 7% increase to $1.01 billion.
While interactive revenue grew by 4% to $291 million, Disney said its studio entertainment division suffered a 5% decline in revenue to $1.55 billion. The studio division suffered a 43% tumble in operating income to $234 million amid lower home entertainment and theatrical distribution due to tough year-ago comparisons.
Shares of Burbank, Calif.-based Disney gained 0.85% to $54.60 in after-hours trading.
Disney is among the first major media companies to report quarterly results this earnings season, with FOX Business parent News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) and CNN owner Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) set to follow on Wednesday. CBS (NYSE:CBS) is scheduled to unveil quarterly results next week.
Last month, reports emerged that Disney is exploring cutting jobs at its studio and interactive units in an effort to reduce costs.
In November Disney revealed record quarterly earnings and hiked its dividend by 25%.


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With tracks recently featured in in Channel 5's hit TV series Tripping Over and two Hollywood films (a version of the 70's Ohio Express classic 'Yummi Yummi Yummi' on the soundtrack of the food-fetish-horror-thriller film Feed, and the track 'Koolest Band' in the US teen hit Drive Me Crazy), Sydney band Montana are doing something right!
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Having gigged everywhere from Austin's South By South West to LA's famous Whiskey A Go Go via Spain, France, England, New Zealand and Australia, the band aren't strangers to being on the road. The band look forward to returning to these shores in 2007.
Honey-voiced lead singer Paul Scott, describes the band's sound as "Supergrass meets Brendan Benson on holiday in Montana with jangly guitars" - and with influences that range from The Beatles to Bright Eyes, what's not to like?


text: USDA: United States Hog Inventory Down 3% March 28, 2014 10:26 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By News Release Email United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2014 was 62.9 million head. This was down 3% from March 1, 2013, and down 5% from December 1, 2013. Breeding inventory, at 5.85 million head, was up slightly from last year, and up 2% from the previous quarter. Market hog inventory, at 57.0 million head, was down 4% from last year, and down 5t from last quarter. The December 2013-February 2014 pig crop, at 27.3 million head, was down 3% from 2013. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 2.87 million head, up 3% from 2013. The sows farrowed during this quarter represented 50% of the breeding herd. The average pigs saved per litter was 9.53 for the December-February period, compared to 10.08 last year. Pigs saved per litter by size of operation ranged from 7.70 for operations with 1-99 hogs and pigs to 9.60 for operations with more than 5,000 hogs and pigs. United States hog producers intend to have 2.88 million sows farrow during the March-May 2014 quarter, up 2% from the actual farrowings during the same period in 2013, but down 2% from 2012. Intended farrowings for June-August 2014, at 2.96 million sows, are up 2% from 2013, and up 1% from 2012. The total number of hogs under contract owned by operations with over 5,000 head, but raised by contractees, accounted for 48% of the total United States hog inventory, up from 47% last year. Read the full report. Back to news


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text: Kozin, I (Igor) wrote: >Regarding Opteron performance and performance in general. > >To the Opteron users out there, would you mind sharing your >experience to date regarding Opteron performance? > >It would be particularly interesting to hear >- what the problems are (if any), > > NUMA support is maturing. Processor/memory affinity, memory layout, and other issues impact benchmarks dramatically. You want your thread running on a CPU which resides adjacent to the memory holding the application. You want to make sure you set up your memory system properly, I have seen too many benchmarks run on systems with poorly configured memory. >- kernel comparisons preferably in quantifiable terms (e.g. > RH vs Suse vs GNU 2.6, NUMA and O(1) scheduler support etc), > > Don't use a 2.4 kernel if you can avoid it. The RH kernels (even with backports) are ancient. Lots of good things are missing (IMO). SuSE ships/supports 2.6, as do some others. 2.6 knows more about NUMA. >- real benefit of hypertransport etc. >I'd suggest to leave compiler comparisons out. > >What bothers me primarily is that you have to run a benchmark >many more times than usual to get the best performance on an Opteron. >I've heard other people also mentioning "strange" Opteron behaviour. >I'd actually suggest to report a standard deviation error >with every performance figure. I've seen as large as 50% deviation >in performance from run to run. > > Reporting an SD is a wise thing generally (it is a measurement, and you expect some width to it). There are far too many "benchmarks" out there where people run their tests once, get a number, and have no sense of how repeatable their measurement is. They are happy to draw conclusions from it though. >Here is one sequence of serial performance for example >(time in seconds, Opteron244,Suse with 2.4.19 kernel): >3254, 2579, 3258, 2582, 3258, 2658. Clearly if I state that the >Opteron can do the job in 2579 sec it makes little practical sense >because in 50% cases it will do 26% slower. >I tested the same executable with GNU 2.6.8 kernel and >was pleased to observe much smaller deviation >(about twice as small but then I could not get quite the same >best performance I had before: 2632 vs 2579 previously). > > If you look carefully at the numbers, they are not uniformly distributed. You appear to have a bimodal distribution that seems to be consistent with processor affinity problems on a dual processor. I would guess that the higher numbers represent the cases when the memory for CPMD was on processor 0 and the the code itself ran on processor 1. This means an HT hop to get the data. You can force affinity using some of the affinity scheduler tools (Robert Love's http://tech9.net/rml/schedutils/ tools) >I must admit that the application is memory bandwidth hungry >and generally the more the application is memory intensive >the higher the deviation. In the case above some of the memory >had to be used off the second cpu. > > The ancient kernels (ala RH 2.4 series) all demonstrated this sort of problem for me as well. The more modern kernels do much better. >Also in a parallel application the kernel issues are more likely >to be blurred out because of the averaging across many cpus. >It is reasonable to imagine that had Opteron a better kernel >the performance could have been better too. > > Use 2.6. You will not be sorry. >The latest disappointment was to observe CPMD performance >on a quad Opteron 848 (2.2 GHz) vs a dual Opteron 246 (2 GHz): >(CPMD 3.9.1, wat32 benchmark, run 1/ run 2) >serial performance: 1963s/3395s vs 2204s/3466s - alright > Opteron 848 is quicker. >parallel: 223s/378s (4x4) vs 218s/360s (8x2) - Opteron 246 is > quicker. >How much should I expect from HT anyway? If it is not again >about proper kernel support then I'd be better off having >dual Opterons if I need to run CPMD. > > There is more opportunity for contention in a quad than a dual if the scheduler does not know about NUMA, or have processor affinity in mind for scheduling. Joe > >Kind regards, >Igor > >I. Kozin at dl.ac.uk >CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory >tel: 01925 603308 >http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/disco > >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615


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This is a fully revised edition of a well-established text for students. It offers an invaluable and up-to- date interpretation of the European policy process. Helen Wallace and William Wallace have assembled a team of internationally-renowned authors to present fourteen case studies --ranging from analyses of the CAP and environmental policy, to the politics of Economic and Monetary Union and the new World Trade Organisation. Helen Wallace also provides, in the two opening chapters, an introduction and overview of European politics, policy, and institutions. In concluding thevolume, William Wallace reflects on the future for the EU as it faces calls for ever closer political integration. Policy-Making in the European Union provides the student with a timely and provocative insight into European integration in a period of critical change.
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The Helgasons present Pepping!
Originally posted Oct 2013.
The concept behind Pepping! is pretty much the same as last years Sexual Snowboarding– it takes you through their season, trip by trip. It's just a short high tempo movie around 20 minutes so it's perfect to watch before you go snowboarding. The whole point with Pepping! is that after you watch it you will want to go snowboarding like never before.
What does the word Pepping! mean? Well the Helgasons say " It's just a Scandinavian word combo off being Pumped, a little bit horny and stoked at the same time."
Riders in the movie: Eiki Helgason, Halldór Helgason, Gulli Gudmundsson, Kareem El Rafie, Leo Crawford, Ethan Morgan, Tor Lundström, Risto Roukola, Toni Kerkela, Eero Ettala, Fredu Sirviö and the all mighty open part where the Helgasons.comfollowers got the opportunity to send in their banging shots from this season!The Helgasons claim this years 'open part' is the best thing that has ever happened. They got over 1000 e-mails with kids sending their shots!
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The month of August is credited with a number of newly arrived things, significantly, it brought about the Smartphones by the renowned the Lenovo the ZUK, a sub brand ZUK Z1 and the Huawei was honored by the release of its Smartphone named the Honor 7i. As it is being dubbed as a symbol of the newness and also carries the uniqueness. We bring into comparison the new two devices namely ZUK the Z1, and the Honor 7i on the end of the Huawei.
Building the Design:
Generally speaking the ZUK treaded on the very careful route while building the design of the said Z1, while building the Z1 the metal frame in combination with the glass at the front and the shiny plastic at the rear side which bears resemblance like that of the mishmash of a number of various flagship Smartphones. The Huawei has taken a decisive step while adopting the route with a difference pertaining to the Honor 7i and removal of the front build camera came to an end entirely and the creation of the flip-up technology for the Honor 7i with regard to its rear camera permits the device to face onward in the manner of the front seated camera. Huawei has walked on the new road if we come to the Huawei's Honor 7i, as it mounted the fingerprint sensor towards the side of the Honor's 7i, interestingly, anyone rarely ventured like that while speaking about the manufacturers so far and the ZUK Z1 emerges of the scene with the fingerprint sensor mounted on the home button. In addition to that, The ZUK Z1 comes with the feature of the fresher USB Type-C Connector system but conversely, the Honor 7i appears with the older one with the better conventional micro USB port.
The Displaying Qualities:
If we come into the comparison of both the devices namely the ZUK Z1 and the Honor 7i, both the devices carry a 1080 pixel with full HD display system, the former one's features let us glimpse with a bigger 5.5 inches displays as compare to the latter ones as it came in 5.2 inches displaying system, so the latter one is preferred over the former one as it features the higher density regarding pixel goes like 423ppi and the former one's screen display retains the pixel density, 401ppi. Now the question arises whether the screen size along with the sharpness quality carries more importance? The credit of the screen size heads towards the ZUK Z1 and speaking about the Honor 7i the credit in terms of pixel density goes to the Huawei's Honor 7i.
The Camera's Features:
Now let us come into the comparison of both the devices in terms of the cameras, the Huawei's Honor 7i picks the preference over the ZUK Z1 as the former's plus point is its camera. So both the Smartphones namely the ZUK Z1 and the Honor 7i carry the rear mounted cameras features by the Sony sensors. The Honor 7i's camera that is 13 MP with flip-up acts in both ways as it serves as the rear one as well as the front one, so this point is a very welcome feature speaking to the other cameras of the devices inclusive of the ZUK Z1 which has been built with the 13 MP back mounted camera and an 8 MP the front mounted camera combo.
The Technology Of The Processors And The Rams:
However the ZUK Z1 is considered the very first flagship Smartphone of the company, The Snapdragon 801 processing system has been installed in the ZUK Z1 as it is believed to be the best processor, if we talk about the last year's processors. Coming to the Honor 7i, it is laced with the newer one but with middle range and lower speed processor that is Snapdragon 616. The Honor 7i's processing ability is the 64 bit and appears with many cores. The only power, the 32 bit Snapdragon 801 conveniently paces it further.
Now the comparison of the two RAMS comes into the competition the ZUK Z1 is manufactured with the 3 GB RAM and on the contrary to it, the Huawei's Honor 7i will become available in 2 GB of RAM or the 3 GB variance.
The Storage And The Battery Capabilities:
The Z1 is equipped with the stronger processor means the Snapdragon 801 on the end of the ZUK while as far as the battery is concerned, it carries the big 4100 mAh battery feature and the Huawei's Honor 7i is smaller than the earlier one as it carries the feature of batter that is 3200 mAh. Now the storage capability of both the Smartphones comes into the comparison, the ZUK Z1 is equipped with the 64 GB storage capability, placed inside, coming to the Honor's 7i, it comes only with 16 GB as well as the 32 GB storage capability as the variants indicate. Getting into the comparison about both the devices, the battery standby time and the storage capability, the ZUK Z1 got the edge over the Honor's 7i.
The Pricing Compared:
The ZUK Z1 if we speak in terms of the comparison of both the devices, the Z1 comes with the hefty specifications and is carrying the price in Yuan 1,800, but the Huawei's Honor 7i can be bought at the chipper rates, at the 1,599 Yuan.
The conclusion can be inferred conveniently the Huawei's Honor 7i Smartphone which falls in the category of middle ranged Smartphones earns the edge over the ZUK Z1 as it carries the uniqueness in the camera system along with the fingerprint sensor, so the choice for the Huawei's Honor 7i sounds to be the nicest choice. If we shun the price mania, the ZUK Z1 sounds like making its mark in the market as is considered by the number of users, as it is being called the flagship slayer because of the powerful specifications and low priced device.


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Excitement had already been building after its Super Bowl commercial last month, but now director J. J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg's Super 8 has received its first full-length trailer, which gives us a much better idea of what the movie is about by unveiling the story pretty much as described in the official plot summary:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
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The saga of Katniss Everdeen will bring the masses into its arena this weekend as "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" arrives in theaters, easily unseating "Thor: The Dark World" for the top box-office spot.
Lionsgate's "Hunger Games" sequel, which will open in 4,100 theaters starting with Thursday night showings, is expected to take in as much as $180 million through Sunday, according to people who have seen pre-release audience surveys. Lower estimates for the Jennifer Lawrence-starring movie put it at between $150 million and $170 million.
The sci-fi action film, which had a budget of about $130 million and was fully financed by Lionsgate, is expected to exceed the $152-million opening weekend of the first "Hunger Games" and might even beat the $174 million made by "Iron Man 3," the biggest opener of 2013 and the second-highest opening of all time. "The Avengers" opened last year with an all-time best of $207 million.
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Based on the post-apocalyptic young-adult novels by Suzanne Collins, the "Hunger Games" films portray a totalitarian society in which children are selected to fight to the death as entertainment.
In "Catching Fire," protagonists Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are caught up in the social unrest they helped spark after surviving the latest battle royal.
The film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews. It has generated a 95% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, meaning the vast majority of critics liked it.
"Catching Fire" is drawing particularly intense interest among young women, though the broadly appealing film is also tracking well with young men.
The non-3-D film is also expected to perform better overseas than its predecessor, which made $283 million in its full run outside the U.S., far below its $408-million domestic gross.
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For the sequel, the studio brought on Francis Lawrence to direct after "Hunger Games" director Gary Ross abruptly left the franchise, citing unrealistic time constraints.
The "Hunger Games" will break the final book of the trilogy, "Mockingjay," into two parts. One will be released in 2014 and the other in 2015.
Disney's "Delivery Man," the only other movie opening in wide release this weekend, is expected to gross $12 million to $14 million, generally targeting the 25-and-older crowd. With a budget of $22 million, the comedy stars Vince Vaughn as an underachiever who discovers he's fathered hundreds of children by donating to a fertility clinic.
What is unclear is which movie will come in second place this weekend, as the strong "Best Man Holiday" enters its second week and "Thor: The Dark World" rumbles into its third. "Hunger Games" will cut into "Thor's" audience more than it will affect "Best Man Holiday," meaning the latter could end up the No. 2 movie at the box office.
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Last week, "Thor" fell 57% from its opening of nearly $86 million. If it falls by a similar percentage this weekend, the superhero action movie would bring in $15 million, adding to the more-than $150 million it has made domestically. "Best Man Holiday," entering its second weekend after an opening of $30 million, could bring in around $16 million.
Disney is also introducing its computer-animated musical "Frozen" in one location, the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. "Philomena," the Weinstein Co. drama starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, will open in four theaters.
The well-reviewed "Dallas Buyers Club," meanwhile, will expand to about 600 screens and is expected to bring in about $5 million.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to turn Medicare into a voucher system and President Barack Obama hopes that fact alone will help him win votes among senior citizens and baby boomers.
But health policy experts, including two analysts who first floated the idea of Medicare vouchers 17 years ago, say no such plan is likely to become legislation - let alone law - until after the next presidential election in 2016.
That is because the mere notion of fundamentally revamping the $590 billion-a-year healthcare program, which serves 50 million elderly and disabled Americans, raises a multitude of policy issues that no politician or policymaker has addressed publicly.
Medicare voucher plans call for converting the popular safety-net program from one that offers healthcare benefits to a system that provides a fixed amount of money that beneficiaries can use to purchase coverage from a menu of private insurance plans.
"Could we enact legislation in the next year or so and implement it two or three years from now? My simple answer to that question is 'no,'" said Robert Reischauer, a former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which reviews legislation with budgetary implications.
That may come as news to voters, particularly in battleground states like Florida, Ohio and Iowa, where the Medicare reform plan adopted by Republicans, including Romney and running mate Paul Ryan, is a main target for Democrats who say it would "end Medicare as we know it."
Reischauer and Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution proposed a voucher or "premium support" mechanism for Medicare in a 1995 article in the journal Health Affairs widely seen as the first suggestion of such a reform.
On Monday, they spoke at a Washington conference hosted by America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group. The two men agreed that the Republican plan and others like it that have been floated by independent groups in recent years were not "ready for prime time."
"I don't think any of the premium support plans on the table now has gone an inch beyond the specifications that we laid out back then. And I will tell you, we did not design legislation," Aaron said.
No experts in either the public or private sectors of the $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare system have said in detail how a voucher system might work. The task require better insurance risk-adjustment mechanisms than are available now, as well as a deeper understanding of geographic variations in medical costs.
"There are a zillion specific issues. And there's plenty of research, a lot of it unsatisfactory. There's a lot of practical experience, most of it unsatisfactory," said Joseph Antos of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, who appeared with Reischauer and Aaron.
"You can't do this in the next three years," he added. "Maybe in the next five."
Ryan, who chairs the House of Representatives Budget Committee, has proposed a version of a voucher plan that includes traditional Medicare as an option for future retirees and caps annual per- capita Medicare spending at 0.5 percent above the rate of U.S. economic growth.
Romney has proposed a similar plan, which appears on his campaign website. Republicans largely adopted the Ryan plan as part of the party platform at their national convention last month in Tampa, Florida.
Critics say Ryan's main objective is to limit Medicare's ability to widen the federal deficit by shifting costs to seniors and the disabled. He says the plan would strengthen Medicare for generations to come.
Reischauer and Aaron warned it was not clear the strategy would contain costs, saying political pressure could mount on Congress to do away with spending caps, while private insurers could have difficulty fielding plans that cost less than traditional Medicare.
They said the best route could be to combine a voucher mechanism with reforms being implemented under Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known to voters as "Obamacare," which Republicans have vowed to repeal if they win control of the White House and U.S. Senate in the November 6 election.
The law, which comes fully into effect in 2014, is supposed to move Medicare away from its current fee-for-service format that offers healthcare providers incentives to drive costs up. It also calls for state insurance exchanges that would offer consumers federally subsidized private coverage.
Reischauer said the exchanges would provide vital lessons for any future voucher system for Medicare.
Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Peter Cooney


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Arkansas' cotton acres were expected to plummet, and rice acres to shrink slightly in 2013, but winter wheat and corn would expand, according to the "Prospective Plantings" report issued Thursday (March 28) by the USDA.
The report indicated what producers' intentions for their farmland were when they were asked in early March.
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"Given the below-normal temperatures and wet conditions, actual plantings may deviate from these intentions, particularly here in Arkansas," said Scott Stiles, Extension economist for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.
Because of its timing, there's lots of room for change between the time the report and the time the acres are planted.
"The key corn-producing states like Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska will generally start planting corn in early April. Nationally, about 50 percent of corn acreage is planted by May 5, with planting near completion in early June. Commodity price fluctuations over the coming weeks may also be a factor in planting decisions."
Corn is a key player in farming decisions this year.
"Given the downward price trend of corn that started last September and the weather conditions in March, it's becoming evident that farmers will plant less corn than previously thought. A comparison of economic returns today suggests that corn's net revenue premium over soybeans, rice and cotton has declined considerably over the past few months."
A look at each commodity:
- Corn.
Corn was expected to reach 1 million acres in Arkansas in 2013, on the heels of 2012's record crop. If that estimate is realized, it would be the highest corn acreage in Arkansas since 1951. Last year, growers planted 710,000 acres.
Stiles said pre-report guesses on 2013 U.S. corn acreage ranged from 95.7 to 98.5 million with an average guess of 97.25 million. Thursday's report predicted 97.3 million acres nationwide, which would be the highest planted acreage since 1936, when 102 million acres of corn were planted.
Jason Kelley, Extension wheat and feed grains agronomist, called the estimate "on the high side," and he expected corn acres to increase by 10 percent in 2013, putting the crop in the 800,000-acre range.
- Cotton.
USDA predicted 270,000 cotton acres for Arkansas, a mere 45 percent of the 2012 crop. If that acreage does materialize, it will be a record low for the state. However, agronomists and economists warned that continued cold weather may change some farmers' minds this spring.
Around Christmas 2012, "the mood around cotton was pretty depressing," said Tom Barber, who served as cotton specialist before becoming an Extension weed scientist. "Since that time, and especially in the last 30 days, corn prices have gone down and cotton has made a rebound. If they hadn't already booked corn, beans or sorghum, we may see a slight shift in acres back to cotton."
The National Cotton Council survey taken in late last year, pegged Arkansas' 2013 acres at 221,000, which would beat the previous record low of 320,000 acres in 1983.
In addition to the markets shaping the crop, the weather will also play into farmers' decisions. "This week last year, we were planting cotton," Barber said. "The weather is going to dictate what's going to happen. If it stays wet and cold, and we get out of a corn planting window, some of those acres may go to beans, and some could be cotton."
- Rice.
The "Prospective Plantings" report put 2013 rice acres at 1.226 million, just slightly behind last year's 1.291 million acres.
"As far as a 'guesstimate' for prospective rice plantings, I'm fairly comfortable with the approximately 1.1 million acre estimate hovering around all winter," said Jarrod Hardke, Extension rice agronomist. "However, the wet March, and continued wet weather into April, combined with fluctuating future prices, has some people now switching some of their acres from corn to rice, particularly on ground that is only marginal for corn production."
USDA expected 2.61 million acres of rice to be planted nationwide.
- Sorghum.
Sorghum's expected 170,000 acres is well up from last year's 140,000.
Still, sorghum could see up to a 25 percent leap in acres in 2013, Kelley said, adding, "time will tell and weather can, and will, impact the final outcome."
- Soybeans.
Arkansas farmers were expected to grow 3.25 million acres of soybeans, up slightly from last year's 3.2 million. Nationwide, soybean acres were expected to contract slightly to 77.1 million acres, but the report added that figure was the fourth-highest on record.
Pre-report guesses on 2013 U.S. soybean acreage ranged from 77 to 79.7 million with an average guess of 78.39 million.
- Sweet potatoes.
Sweet potato growers were expected to plant 4,000 acres, same as last year. In 2012, a little over half that area -- 2,155 acres -- was grown in Cross County, said Extension staff chair Rick Wimberley, adding that, "sweet potatoes grown here are sold by Wal-Mart and are also being exported to Canada and Europe." Nationwide, 122,300 acres of sweet potatoes were expected to be planted.
- Winter wheat.
USDA's forecast of 1 million acres in winter wheat in Arkansas is well up from last year's 660,000 acres. It's just shy of the 1.07-million-acre record set in 2008.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service will provide a follow-up 2013 acreage estimate in its June 28 "Acreage" report.
"Assuming normal weather conditions and planting progress, this report will provide a better estimate of actual planted acres," Stiles said.
To learn more about crop production, visit www.uaex.edu, http://arkansascrops.com or contact your county Extension agent.


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DIGITS: Hitting new highs and lows on health care
Polls often diverge by a few points, but it's rare to see well-respected polls come to opposing conclusions about the public's take on an issue. In the last week, however, an Associated Press-GfK poll found support for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul at a new low while a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed it had hit a new high.
The seemingly contradictory findings stem more from question wording and timing than from either poll doing something wrong or even misrepresenting public opinion.
The AP-GfK poll asks those taking the poll whether they "support, oppose or neither support nor oppose" the law, while the Washington Post-ABC News poll asks if they "support or oppose" it. The inclusion or absence of that neutral category is critical, as poll takers respond to the question they're asked rather than offering opinions unprompted.
FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Polls often diverge by a few points, but it¿s rare to see well-respected polls come to opposing conclusions about the public¿s take on an issue. In the last week, however, an Associated Press-GfK poll found support for President Barack Obama¿s health care overhaul at a new low while a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed it had hit a new high. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
AP-GfK polling has found significant shares of Americans choose that middle option. In surveys such as the Washington Post-ABC News one, in which a middle category isn't explicitly offered, less than 10 percent typically say that they're unsure about the law. Poll takers are even more likely to choose a "neither" category when taking a survey online than they are when speaking with a live interviewer on the phone. But that difference existed even before the AP-GfK poll moved online in October 2013.
The difference between the two polls lies in that neutral group, which tends to be more Democratic than the overall public. About half of them in each of AP's recent polls identify as Democrats, and their demographics generally lean Democratic: mostly women, only about half white, less likely to have formal education and younger than those who explicitly support or oppose the law. Half in the latest poll said they approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president.
The March AP-GfK poll asked this group why they chose a neutral response and found the biggest subgroup to be Democrats who say they don't know enough about the law to say how they feel. The second-largest group consisted of Democrats who express mixed feelings about it. It makes sense that if that same group were asked how they felt about the law without a neutral position offered, they would tilt toward supporting a Democratic-backed law. That's consistent with the Washington Post's conclusion that the modest increase in support for the law is driven by Democrats who "somewhat" support it.
One further difference likely played a role in the divergent findings. The Post-ABC poll was conducted significantly after the Obama administration announced that the federal health insurance marketplaces had reached their revised target of signing up 6 million people on March 27. The poll launched on March 26 and wrapped up on March 30. A Quinnipiac University poll among registered voters conducted March 26-31 also found a slight uptick in support for the law, 41 percent backed it, up three points since January. The AP-GfK poll was completed before the announcement.
On Tuesday, Obama announced that a late surge in sign-ups had pushed the number of health care enrollments to 7.1 million, exceeding the original target.
Associated Press-GfK Poll: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com
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If you're lucky enough to be attending a wedding over the next little while, here's a few quick pointers for gift ideas, as well as some lovely inspiration for creative gift wrapping.
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First up, how to choose a wedding gift:
Basically, for weddings there are 4 types of gifts to choose from…
This is generally the most recommended gift for a wedding these days, and because it's something nearly all newly-wed couples are short of, you know it will be appreciated.
To make giving cash more personal you could attach your envelope to a smaller, personally chosen gift item. Or to make it seem more special you could wrap your envelope creatively.
If the couple has a gift registry then it could be a good idea to stick to a gift item from there. Although it can seem a bit impersonal, you will at least be giving them something you know they will like.
If all the items on the register are too expensive for your budget, it can be a good idea to either give a gift card from the registry store in an amount that you can afford, or chip in with other guests to purchase one of the couple's dream items together.
When there is no gift registry and you don't want to give cash, the next best thing could be a timeless wedding gift such as:
– Silver candlesticks
– Best quality bed-linen (good for posting so a good choice if you are unable to attend)
– French Champagne
– Quality cutlery
– Crystal
– Cast-iron French cookware (not so good for posting!)
These gifts are great for couples that have been living together already and don't require any of the traditional "setting up a home" type gifts.
Eclectic Silver Plated Candlesticks from Pottery Barn
Sometimes the best-loved wedding gifts can come from thoughtful, sentimental ideas such as a book filled with the family recipes, or a photo album of candid, non-staged wedding shots. An anniversary journal is another romantic, sentimental idea for the couple.
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But now you've chosen the gift, how are you going to wrap it?
Once you've settled on a gift for the wedding – why not go that little step further and make the gift something really special through lovely gift wrapping. It makes your gift stand out and gives the bride (and groom) that lovely sense of fun and anticipation that comes from unwrapping a beautiful or unique present.
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- It's always classic to use white or silver wrapping paper or ribbon
- If you're going to be putting your gift on a table or prominent position at the wedding it's a nice idea to go with the theme of the wedding – take your cue from the look of the invitation. For example these types of gift wraps would look great for a casual, outdoors, vintage-y wedding…
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- ALWAYS attach your gift tag or card securely to the gift – it's very stressful for newly-weds or their family trying to remember who gave what, or match loose cards to random gifts. It also makes it a nightmare to thank people properly if you're not quite sure what they gave you!
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- If you're planning on giving an envelope containing money or gift cards etc, transform it into a gift by using a generous length of double satin ivory or white ribbon, or other trimmings to embellish the outside.
- Going simple, especially for a summer, garden or beach wedding can be fun and classy – maybe a little bit of lace on plain white or brown paper – or even some newspaper with tulle…
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- And if you're a little bit crafty you can make a wonderful impression with embellishments
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And finally, don't forget your wedding wishes!
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Winter Storm Buries Northeast; Leaves 10 Dead, 700,000 Powerless
New Englanders were digging out from 3 feet of snow and stranded motorists were still being reached by emergency crews early Sunday after one of the biggest blizzards in a generation left at least 10 people dead and over 700,000 without electricity across the northeast.
Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts bore the brunt of the howling winter storm's fury on Saturday, with the highest snowfall of 40 inches in Hamden, Conn. Several motorists were stranded overnight on New York's Long Island, and were being reached by emergency crews.
At least five deaths were reported in Connecticut, according to Gov. Dannel Malloy and police. Those killed in storm-related incidents include an 80-year-old woman who was hit by a vehicle while clearing her driveway, a 40-year-old man who collapsed while shoveling snow, a 73-year-old man who slipped outside his home, a 53-year-old man who was found dead in the snow, and a 49-year-old man who died while shoveling snow.
Authorities in Boston, Mass., reported at least two deaths: that of an 11-year-old boy who was poisoned by carbon monoxide in a parked car, and a man in his early 20s who was also found unconscious in his car.
Local reports said a man in his 70s was struck and killed on a snowy roadway in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a 23-year-old man was killed in Germantown, N.Y., when his tractor rolled down an embankment.
Authorities in New Hampshire said a 30-year-old motorist died when his car went off the road, though his health might have contributed to the accident.
The storm dubbed as "Nemo" – the convergence of two storms, an Alberta Clipper from the west and a storm from the south – also caused coastal flooding forcing evacuations of some communities in Massachusetts. It brought wind gusts of 80 miles per hour, cutting power lines and felling trees.
For many areas, "this storm will rank in the top five of recorded snowstorms," The New York Times quoted David Stark, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in eastern Suffolk County on Long Island, as saying. "The way this evolved was a very classic winter nor'easter," he said. "The way it formed and moved is well understood, and it is the type of situation we have seen in the past – but this storm brought more moisture and therefore more snow."
Utility companies reported about 700,000 customers without electricity across nine states as the wet, heavy snow brought down tree branches and power lines, according to Reuters. More than 400,000 homes and businesses lost power in Massachusetts, over 180,000 in Rhode Island, about 10,000 in Long Island.
"To say the least, the weather conditions are prohibitive as to us being able to restore things as quickly as we'd like to," National Grid spokeswoman Charlotte McCormack told the media. "There's subfreezing temperatures, equipment freezing, downed wires, and some of the roads were and are still impassable."
About 2,200 flights had to be canceled on Saturday, for a total of more than 5,800 over the past two days, according to FlightAware. Additional cancellations are expected on Sunday as well.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a news conference Saturday morning, expressing relief that the city was able to avoid worse damage. "I think it is fair to say we were very lucky," he said. He also offered assistance to other cities.
Some churches urged their congregants to be careful before deciding to attend services during the weekend.
"In those situations where the conditions are extremely difficult or dangerous, the members of the Church are, of course, dispensed from the normal obligation," the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, R.I., said in a statement.
The archdiocese in Boston also reminded parishioners that church law says the responsibility to attend mass "does not apply where there is grave difficulty in fulfilling obligation."
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In the months leading up to our 2009 Main Stage season, we've been profiling the creative minds behind the season's productions—Romeo and Juliet, Private Lives, Happy Days, and A Midsummer Night's Dream—in our e-newsletters. For the March installment, we profiled director Aaron Posner, director of A Midsummer Night's Dream, who you may remember from this blog entry a few months back. Posner is the Artistic Director at Two River Theatre Company in New Jersey, coproducer of Midsummer. What follows is the complete Q&A for that article. To sign up for our email newsletter, click here.
You're currently in tech for Melissa Arctic at Two River; what are a few of your most recent projects before that, and one or two coming up?
My adaptation of My Name Is Asher Lev from the novel by Chaim Potok just closed at the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia (of which Posner was a cofounder -ed.). I am very proud of it and am pleased it is going on to other productions around the country, including one in this area in the fall at the Marin Theatre Company. Actually, folks in this area will be able to see both my adaptations of Chaim Potok novels, because Theatreworks in Palo Alto is doing The Chosen next year as well. I have never worked in the Bay Area before, but next year I will be represented three times, which is great. I am looking forward to seeing all of them, and spending some time out here…
In the meantime, I am starting rehearsals in a few weeks for Arcadia by Tom Stopppard at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in DC, and next season I will also be working on a fabulous new adaptation of Euripides' Orestes by Anne Washburn at the Folger and Two River, and also a new Cole Porter musical revue I am putting together. And more things on other burners as well. So lots of exciting stuff…
What has changed in your thinking and planning for the Cal Shakes' production of Midsummer since you spoke to the staff here in January?
The core ideas are the same, though they continue to evolve and percolate. The show is very much with me now, in my consciousness all the time, so I see somebody wearing something in a coffee shop and I think "Oh, that could be very Puck" or I see a piece of art in a gallery and it gives me idea for the set. Both of those things have happened recently, by the way. I am just beginning the design process, so that work is really still to come. We shall see where it leads. The other major thing that is happening is that we are getting the show cast, as with each new cast member, I have new ideas. My whole idea of the mechanicals has totally evolved based on the folks I met here at Cal Shakes for the auditions. I was excited and inspired by some of your long time Associate Artists, and I think I am finding fun and playful ways to use them.
What are you looking forward to regarding working in the Bay Area in general, or with Cal Shakes or at the Bruns in particular? This will be the third time I have worked outside, so I am looking forward to that. Though I hear there are foxes and wolves and wild beasts in the area, so I am not so sure about that. I am from the west coast originally, from Eugene, Oregon, so it is always great to be back on the west coast. A lot of folks I grew up with and went to school with and did plays with in school and at the Oregon Repertory Theatre when I was in high school actually live in the area I am finding out (mostly via Facebook and from folks who have seen your season advertised) so that will be fun, too, to re-connect with some folks. And as I said above, I am very excited by the actors I have been meeting from the area, so I am looking forward to that, too. This cast will be a great combination of long-time collaborators that I am bringing with me and a lot of folks that are new to me, so that is usually a good and dynamic combination.
And finally, if you could have directed any play in history, what (and/or where, and/or with who) would it be?
Wow. This is absolutely a question I have never been asked and never really thought about. There are great actors now I would love to work with, and a million stories to tell. I am not sure I can think back that way. I can tell you I would give anything to have been in the audience of one of Shakespeare's plays back in the day, when they were being advertised as World Premieres. It would just be so fascinating to know what they were really like and how they were viewed. I would love to really be able to see that.
The great thing is, of course, that if there are plays from the past that I love so deeply I would have wanted to do them back then, I can still do them now. That is one of the great gifts of this profession. The plays don't get used up. Particularly the really great ones. There is always more to explore, more to delve into, and new things keep happening to you and to the world, so there are always new things to inform any production. So, that pretty much entirely dodges the question, but I think it is the best that I have.
Oh, and I would like to have directed the first production of Man and Superman. And Uncle Vanya. And Arcadia. And Orestes. And The Misanthrope. And…
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A Maldives court has sentenced a 15-year-old alleged rape victim to 100 lashes and house arrest after she admitted having premarital sex in a separate incident.
During a police probe into allegations the girl had been raped by her stepfather, investigators uncovered evidence that she had had consensual sex with another man.
"Though she has been sentenced she will be lashed once she turns 18," the court official, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
"The sentence will be enforced immediately if she wants it to be carried out now."
Premarital sex is illegal under the Indian Ocean nation's strict Islamic law.
The child's stepfather faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of rape and a murder charge, after he allegedly killed a baby which resulted from his alleged rape of his stepdaughter.
The premarital sex charge against the teenager has been condemned by rights groups, and the government has urged leniency towards the girl, saying she had been traumatised by the repeated rapes by her stepfather.
Maldives president Mohamed Waheed's spokesman, Masood Imad, said the teenager should be treated as a victim rather than a perpetrator of a crime, but clarified that she should nevertheless "feel the shame" for her offence.
"She is not going to be lashed to cause her pain... rather, it is for her to feel the shame for having engaged in activity forbidden by the religion," Mr Imad said.
Mr Imad added the government was keen to engage in a dialogue with the national human rights commission and the judiciary to modernise the penal code and limit flogging punishments.
Meenakshi Ganguly, south Asia director for Human Rights Watch, criticised the decision.
"The girl is already a victim and is traumatised, the authorities should be trying to protect her, not punish her," he said.
Mr Ganguly urged the Maldives to abolish flogging, calling it "an inhuman, degrading practice... the kind of punishment that should not exist in their law books".
The nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims has been practising a liberal form of Islam for centuries, but in recent years men and women have been prosecuted for sex outside marriage.
Minors are liable for the punishment when they reach 18.
In September, a court in the Maldives ordered the public flogging of a 16-year-old who confessed to premarital sex. Her lover was jailed for 10 years.
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