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The Ultimate Relaxation Getaway
Wellness, Art and Culture Getaway
Join Balifornian's Maryam and Michael Doliveck on an exclusive 9 days wellness, art and culture trip to the Islands of the Gods, where "Holding this sacred space" is a way of life. Truly the trip of a lifetime. You will be immersed in an atmosphere of exotic beauty, spiritual devotion and splendid nature.
"The Ultimate Relaxation Getaway. Its shorter than our normal tours offering a more affordable and freer itinerary focusing on pampering and relaxation in a stunning private villa"
The Ylang-Ylang is a glamorous six-bedroom retreat in which to enjoy absolute calm and serenity
For nine days we will stay at the luxurious Ylang Ylang beach front Villa characterized by a central, two-storey living and dining pavilion additionally comprising the kitchen and the studio on the ground floor, and a gallery on the upper floor, as well as a rooftop meditation deck, accompanied by a rooftop massage and spa treatment area.
The pavilion opens onto the garden and swimming pool, which is flanked on either side by a pair of symmetrical wings, incorporating a total of six bedrooms.
One private swimming pool (15 m x 5 m)
Six air-conditioned bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms
Satellite TV, DVD, stereo system with CD players.
The Studio (Cinema room)
I-Pod docks in each room
Baby cot (1)
IDD, Local call, Land line telephone, fax available
Mini safes in each bedroom
Broadband internet connection
DVD and CD library
Book library
Gazebo (2)
BBQ facilities
The Ylang Ylang is fully serviced by:
- Full time Villa Manager - supervises and co-ordinates the staff and is available to assist guests during their stay.
- Trained Cook to prepare both local and international cuisines. Menu provided and the staff will do all the market shopping.
- Villa Attendants are responsible for housekeeping duties and taking care of daily laundry and dry cleaning service.
- Security Guards to guard the villa 24 hours a day to ensure the security and safety of the guests and the property.
- Gardener responsible to treat the landscape and the grounds around the villa. They also responsible for cleaning and maintaining the swimming pool.
All activities are options, and included in your cost. You can choose them, or simply make your own.
Relax, Relax, Relax...
Massages and other spa treatments
Surfing, snorkeling
Cultural performance, Balinese art/visiting art village of Ubud (painting, wood carving, silver jewellery)
Sacred temples
Cooking, art classes.
Included in your cost:
Your luxurious beach front Villa accommodation
Ground transportation
Activities, sightseeing, guide, driver
Everyday either lunches or dinners
We have very limited space. We can only accommodate ten people. There are two King size beds, two queen size beds, and two rooms with twin beds. Reserve your space early so you can choose your room. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com to reserve today!
Price: $2700 land only per person based on Double occupancy
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My work investigates and appreciates the intricate complexity of the industrialised square we inhabit. The architecture and infrastructure surrounding us have the potential to foster connections between people whose paths overlap, but paradoxically separate us in allocated spaces that become indelibly entwined with our identities. While imparting a heightened sense of insignificance, my work represents the delicate interconnectedness of the many lives that combine to keep our world ticking along. We live in close proximity to others but are more distant than ever, so I present the reality of countless lives synchronised in the orderly structure of our built environment.
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kengyin wrote:i honestly dont understand though, most maps are into gameplay by 5-6 pages then graphics by about 15 pages, this is at 14 pages and 10 versions with no current suggestions and yet it is still here. is it because this is my first map?
natty_dread wrote:kengyin wrote:oh by the way, if this thing gets quenched then i will by premium as a reward
If this thing gets quenched you won't need to
kengyin wrote:don't you get that annoying feeling when you know what you need to do and where you are going but you can't actually do it?
kengyin wrote:i think maybe i could have hanoi and saigon, could just have 2 neutrals and +1 autodeploy. because in this gameplay really apart from that autodeploy, those 2 cities aren't significant to the overall strategy, so people shouldn't really pour that much troops into that, i thought it was more just kind of a mini base of sorts where you can send some reinforcements via the autodeploy to the rest of your territories, but yeah apart from that it doesnt have much strategic value i dont think.
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text: New Longnose Gar Record Set In Georgia wfn Longnose gar are considered a challenge to catch, but for angler Gerald Kennedy, age 62, of Murrayville, Ga., the effort was well worth it! Kennedy reeled in the new state record longnose gar from the Chattahoochee River arm of Lake Lanier on Sept. 4, 2013. According to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division, this 30 lb, 13 oz, 58 3/4-inch catch beats the former state record by 9 ounces. This record was previously held by angler Chad Leonard with a 30 lb, 4 oz gar caught on the Alapaha River caught five years ago on Sept. 5, 2008."It is so exciting to hear about a state-record catch as it reminds us that Georgia is such a fantastic place for anglers with its numerous fishing opportunities and resources, from big rivers and reservoirs to small neighborhood lakes," says John Biagi, chief of fisheries for the Wildlife Resources Division.Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) are members of the gar family and are considered relics from a large group of primitive fishes. Longnose gar have an elongated body, are greenish black on top and yellow toward the belly. They have black spots along their sides and fins. A long, narrow snout contains many sharp needle-like teeth. They prefer weedy areas of deep or shallow lakes and streams. Gar feed primarily on other fish. Anglers must possess a current Georgia fishing license to fish in public waters. Where can you get a license? Buy it online, find a list of retail license vendors at www.georgiawildlife.com/licenses-permits-passes or buy it by phone at 1-800-366-2661.By purchasing a license as well as fishing equipment and related items, you and your fellow anglers help fund sport fish restoration programs, thanks to the Sport Fish Restoration Act. This Act allows funds accumulated from a federal excise tax on fishing equipment and related items to be directed to activities that benefit recreational anglers. A portion of these funds is provided to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources based on several factors, including the number of paid sporting licenses. Sport Fish funds make the following activities possible: managing sport fish populations, raising freshwater fish in hatcheries and stocking them in public waters, maintaining and operating public fishing areas and building boats and fishing piers, and much more!


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One of the frustrating aspects of asthma is that it can be induced by exercise. Therefore, if you are prone to
asthmatic attacks mild aerobic exercise, such as swimming, is best for you. However, some asthmatics are
allergic to chlorine, which means swimming in a public pool is out.
Another useful Physical Medicine technique is that of Hydrotherapy, discussed at length in the Introduction to
Modalities section. Placing a hot, wrung out towel over the chest can relax the breathing muscles and restore
normal breathing. For an acute asthma attack try a steam inhalation (draping a towel over your head and a bowl
of hot water) with a few drops of eucalyptus oil in the water. Be careful that the water is not so hot that the steam
burns your face. Some doctors recommend taking baths with a cup or so of 3% hydrogen peroxide in the water to
bring extra oxygen to the entire surface of the skin, thus making the lungs somewhat less oxygen hungry. This method
can be performed preventively. Another technique for an acute attack is to drink some hot water with the juice of
one clove of garlic.
It may be useful to assess the alignment of your spine. Often the upper thoracic vertebrae will be out of alignment
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An Otley school has been criticised as "unaccountable" after deciding to press on with a 'buy an iPad' scheme.
Prince Henry's Grammar School announced its decision, despite concerns raised by about 60 parents at a public meeting last week, on Friday, January 17.
Governors have also turned down a requested meeting with parents, deeming it unnecessary since there has already been "ample opportunity" for people to raise questions.
Concerned parents and councillors have expressed dismay, but the school insists it has consulted properly – and been given the backing of the "vast majority".
It will now implement a scheme that will see parents contributing £360 over three years so that Key Stage 3 students have the use of their 'own' – they won't own them without an additional payment – iPads.
Leonie Sharp, however, who has been co-ordinating parental opposition, said the fight would go on.
She said: "The governors say they do not believe a parental delegation is necessary – this is from governors who are supposed to be accountable to the parents.
"The school announced it was proceeding because '91 per cent of those who responded' have opted in – they have not confirmed that 91 per cent of all parents and carers have done so, which was the crucial figure given.
"In addition, because the school has failed to answer questions posed by the parents from the public meeting and to respond to our request for a delegation to see the governors, parents are angered and are either more resolutely committed to opt out, or changing their minds."
In their letter to parents headteacher Janet Sheriff and deputy headteacher with responsibility for learning infrastructure, Chris Rowbottom, said they were convinced the initiative would "result in a positive impact for the learning and progress of students".
They added: "Thank you to the vast majority of parents who have returned their preference forms. Ninety one per cent of decisions are to opt-in, and the high proportion of responses means the proposed iPad scheme is viable."
Chair of governors Paul Tranter, replying to the request to meet parents, said: "The information already made available answers many of the questions sent by 'phgsparents'.
"In addition, all KS3 parents and carers have been given ample opportunity to raise specific questions, discuss concerns and share their views. Governors do not believe, therefore, that it is necessary or appropriate to meet a delegation."
But Otley Town Councillor Carl Morris (Lab, Manor) believes that is simply wrong, and is helping parents stage a further public meeting at Otley Social Club, on Weston Drive, at 7pm on Tuesday.
He said: "This issue is so huge it affects us all. For the first time in generations, children in Otley and the surrounding area are going to be paying for equipment that the school believes is essential for the teaching curriculum.
"This is a fundamental change to how our education system works and it shouldn't be pushed through when there is so much disagreement."
Ward Councillor Ryk Downes (Lib Dem, Otley and Yeadon) added: "I am disappointed at the school's response, because it fails to adequately address the points we made in our letter about parents who have more than one child at school, and still seems to create a two-tier system.
"I am also disappointed the school appears reluctant to meet me – it is a shame it does not wish to engage with local representatives of concerned parents before making a decision."
- Parent Paul Kirk has posted a copy of the message he has sent to the school, asking to withdraw from the scheme – despite having originally opted in – due to "unanswered questions", on the Prince Henry's Parents for Democracy Facebook page.


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Right-wing media attempt to erase "bigoted statements" from the tea party movement
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Following the NAACP's resolution condemning "the Tea Party's continued tolerance for bigotry and bigoted statements," right-wing media have gone on the defense, going so far as to claim there is "no evidence of racism within the movement." But the NAACP's charge of "racist elements" within the tea party is supported by allegations of racial epithets hurled at African-American congressmen and racially charged signs and slogans from various tea party protests.
Right-wing media absurdly claim NAACP is "manufactur[ing]" existence of racism in tea parties
Michelle Malkin on NAACP: "When you can't find evil enough enemies to blame for your problems, manufacture them." In a July 14 column, Michelle Malkin accused the NAACP of "manufactur[ing]" the racist elements of the tea party that the NAACP condemned:
To compensate for squandering the proud history of the civil rights organization on innocent greeting cards, NAACP leaders introduced a much-hyped resolution at their annual convention this week attacking the nation's biggest racial bogeyman: the tea party movement. It's a tried and true tactic of worn-out grievance-mongers: When you can't find evil enough enemies to blame for your problems, manufacture them. (Just ask hate crimes huckster Al Sharpton.) This is why one of the most popular signs spotted at tea party protests across the country remains the one that reads: "It doesn't matter what this sign says. You'll call it racism, anyway!"
RedState on NAACP: "[T]here is emphatically not a racial element behind [the tea party] movement." In a July 14 RedState post, FreedomWorks' Tabitha Hale concluded that "there is emphatically not a racial element behind [the tea party] movement" [emphasis in original]:
What the NAACP is doing is inciting racial tension, and it is not an accident. Anyone who is a part of this conservative groundswell can tell you that there is emphatically not a racial element behind the movement. However, since they thrive on racial tensions, this is their comfort zone. How better to destroy the largest threat to their vision of liberal utopia? What they fail to acknowledge is that they are also diminishing the real threats to racial equality in America by spending their time destroying those that aren't truly racist.
BigGovernment: "[F]or the NAACP to condemn the tea party as racist ... isn't only wrong, it's wrongheaded." In a July 15 post, BigGovernment's editorial board defended the tea party against the NAACP's repudiation of its racist elements:
But for the NAACP to condemn the tea party as racist -- and the point of the resolution was to put the libertarian movement on the political defensive -- isn't only wrong, it's wrongheaded.
I'm no member of the group, but from what I can tell, tea party supporters aren't a bunch of absolute racists.
They're a bunch of absolute heretics.
AP noted that tea party activist Alex Poulter "has seen no evidence of racism within the movement." In a July 13 article, The Associated Press reported that tea party activist Alex Poulter "has seen no evidence of racism" within the tea party movement:
Tea party activist Alex Poulter, who co-founded a Kansas City-area group called Political Chips, also disputed the allegations. He said the movement is made up of a "diverse group of folks who are upset with what is going on with this country."
Poulter said he has seen no evidence of racism within the movement.
"It's unfounded, but people are running with these accusations like they are true," he said.
FoxNews.com reported that tea party members said "no visual evidence has been produced depicting a racist attack" against African-American Democratic lawmakers.In a July 14 article, FoxNews.com reported that tea party members have said "no visual evidence has been produced depicting a racist attack":
But Tea Party members have challenged claims that their activists accosted black lawmakers in March and no visual evidence has been produced depicting a racist attack. Dallas Tea Party founder Phillip Dennis said "there was no proof" of racist behavior at the event and that the movement welcomes minority members.
African-American congressmen were reportedly harassed at tea party protest
Washington Post reports African-American congressmen harrassed outside capitol by tea party protestors. According to a March 20Washington Post article:
Protesters outside the Capitol hurled epithets at Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and< Andre Carson(D-Ind.) as they left the building after President Obama delivered an 11th-hour speech on behalf of the health care bill. Carson told reporters that protesters yelled "kill the bill," then used a racial epithet to describe Carson and Lewis, who is a revered figure on both sides of the aisle.
Breitbart accuses congressmen of lying about incident because "the Democrats need a racist Tea Party moment." In a March 25 Big Journalism post, Andrew Breitbart accused the congressmen of lying about the incident. Breitbart wrote:
That's how much the Democrats need a racist Tea Party moment. To stop it in its tracks. That's why on Saturday they used the Congressional Black Caucus to try to manufacture the false appearance of one. And when they didn't get it, they did what they always do: they lied.
Alinsky taught them well: the ends justify the means. And that's how the Democrats play. They love using black people as symbols of oppression. They love to use them for staged rallies, staged walks and staged protests. It's why they fought so hard to keep the heavily minority ACORN alive. They were the portable army that would cry racism in front of your place of business until the company paid them off to go away.
Haven't we had enough? Are we going to allow the left to use its despicable acts of lies and intimidation to shut up legitimate dissent on a subject that has nothing to do with race?
Breitbart concluded by calling Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton "race hustlers" and offered $10,000 "to provide hard evidence that the N-word was hurled at" Lewis. Numerous other right-wing media figures have claimed that the congressmen were lying about the incident.
Racist or racially charged signs and slogans found at numerous tea party protests
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Some people view libertarians, conservatives, and economists as having "faith" in free markets. I agree with that assessment, but I should explain what I mean by faith, and what I think they mean by faith. There are two kinds of faith. One kind is the faith of the blind believer. The other kind is the faith of the scientist.
The blind believer has faith in something regardless of the evidence. For example, some people believe that the earth is only 6000 years old. When confronted with the very straightforward fact that light is arriving from stars farther than 6000 light-years away, they don't lose their faith. They explain the evidence away through circumlocations such as "Well, God created the light part-way through its travel." The trouble with that explanation is that it explains anything, with no possibility of a predictive theory. If your theory predicts something, and the evidence shows something else, then clearly God must have created the evidence since their faith is unshakable.
The faith of the scientist tells them that God exists. Nobody can prove whether God exists or not, thus, no evidence can exist which might shake their faith. Some people claim that this is the God of the gaps, saying that God can only exists in-between the gaps in our knowledge. I disagree. There are many things which we have proven we cannot know. For example, given a computer program of sufficient complexity, it is not possible to prove that it will ever halt. This is a matter for faith; science can never answer this question. Yet people can observe patterns which give them cause to have faith in something based on evidence.
I agree, then, that economists have faith in free markets. We can't prove that free markets will generate a better result. But we've observed them long enough to have faith in them. We believe, with faith and evidence, that free markets provide the most prosperity for the most people.


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Galactus is here to deal with the planetary destruction overlooked in this week's non-apocalypse. Not only that, he'll do it in festive attire, imitating a holiday nutcracker. Mike Del Mundo wishes the world a Merry Christmas with this planet-crunching nutcracker piece.
He also collaborated with fellow artist Skam Graff on this picture of the Silver Surfing airing his grievances against his boss. Del Mundo has this and other prints available at his store:
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There was no champagne in the Kings' dressing room immediately after they clinched their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup playoff berth with a comprehensive 4-0 victory Wednesday night over the Phoenix Coyotes at Staples Center.
There were no smiles or laughter, either.
"With the evolution of this team, maybe four or five years ago, this was a big deal," Kings captain Dustin Brown said. "Now, it's just part of the process. It's good to get it out of the way and get our game going. There's nothing to celebrate about making the playoffs.
"It's not a goal, it's an expectation."
An unsmiling Brown was the only Kings player who remained at his locker stall when reporters were granted access to the locker room. Everyone else was in the showers, in the training room, or simply out of sight, which isn't all that rare.
It's not every day or night that a team clinches a postseason berth, however. The Kings hadn't advanced to the playoffs for five consecutive seasons since making it in seven straight campaigns between 1987 and 1993.
"Not really," defenseman Alec Martinez said when asked if there was any sense of relief in clinching. "I think we just put our focus on playing well. Obviously, Phoenix is a desperate hockey team right now and points are big. I don't think it's good to think about stuff like that."
Tanner Pearson scored the only goal the Kings would need to secure third-place in the Pacific Division and set up a date with either the Ducks or more likely the San Jose Sharks in the first round of the playoffs, which begin April 16. The first-place Ducks lead the Sharks by three points.
Drew Doughty (power play), Jeff Carter and Anze Kopitar (power play) also scored for the Kings. Jonathan Quick needed to make only 17 saves to record his sixth shutout of the season and the 31st of his career. He is one shy of Rogie Vachon's franchise record set between 1971-78.
Quick wasn't immediately available for comment on his play, approaching Vachon's mark or on the fact the Kings set a team record with their 12th shutout of the season. Martin Jones and the now-traded Ben Scrivens had three shutouts apiece earlier in the season.
After taking an early lead, the Kings spent the rest of the game mucking up the neutral zone and playing the sort of lock-down defense that makes everyone in the Western Conference edgy about having to face them in the playoffs later this month.
Pearson's goal, in particular, took the fight out of the Coyotes, who are battling for one of the two wild-card playoff spots in the West. Phoenix had only five shots on Quick's net in the first period and there was little in the way to indicate a sense of urgency in their game.
When the Coyotes' Antoine Vermette was penalized for interference 41 seconds into the second period, it gave the Kings another opportunity to exploit. Doughty's shot from the left faceoff circle sailed past a slow-moving Thomas Greiss and the Kings had a 2-0 lead at 2:27.
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The Kings signed forward Nic Dowd of St. Cloud State to a one-season entry-level contract Tuesday. Dowd was named one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Award on Wednesday, college hockey's version of the Heisman Trophy. Dowd was joined by Greg Carey, a senior forward from St. Lawrence University, and Johnny Gaudreau, a junior forward from Boston College, are the finalists. The winner will be announced in a ceremony April 11 in Philadelphia.


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Paint the base color and allow it to dry completely before glazing.
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Dip a quality 2"-2½" wide nylon/polyester brush into the color glaze mixture from the bucket. With your brush, paint (cut in) around the perimeter of your working surface. Start at the top corner and continue along the ceiling and around the baseboards.
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Can You Guess Which Country Artist This Kid Grew Up to Be?
That smile might give it away, but the blond hair will no doubt confuse some. This future country star proved to be very photogenic at a young age. Later in life, he'd prove to be very telegenic. He's among the biggest stars in country music right now and is definitely the biggest personality.
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Sherdog's Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings
There's a new ruler atop the heavyweight division, albeit a familiar face.
Cain Velasquez closed out 2012 in style, reclaiming the UFC heavyweight title with a five-round battering of Junior dos Santos at UFC 155 and leaving no question as to who is MMA's best big man. Any notion that the Brazilian might repeat his title-winning performance from November 2011 was quickly quashed, as Velasquez used superior speed and wrestling to bring the fight where he wanted. The new champ's path won't get any easier with his next defense, likely to come against the winner of February's Alistair Overeem-Antonio Silva showdown.
Elsewhere on the scale, bantamweights Eddie Wineland and Brad Pickett swapped spots at 135 pounds after Wineland punched his way to a split decision win on Dec. 29. At middleweight, Tim Boetsch falls to the contenders list after a third-round TKO loss to Constantinos Philippou, who enters the rankings for the first time at No. 10.
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Author Notes: One evening, not long after I was married, my husband Tad and I hosted a dinner party at our apartment. I pulled one of my usual tricks back then, which was to cook five entirely new dishes rather than hedge my bets with a few known winners. This approach to a dinner party has guaranteed results, but not of the sort you wish for. You end up flubbing at least 40% of the menu. You sit with a furrowed brow throughout the meal. You nearly end your marriage before the guests arrive. And if you do this repeatedly, you are sure to live a shorter life.
This time, on top of my novelty menu "strategy," I layered another fatal tactic: I invited a chef to the dinner. Dan Barber, an owner of Blue Hill at Stone Barns, wrote for me at the Times, and since I knew that chefs' biggest complaint was that no one ever cooked for them, I thought it would be a good idea to have him over for a dinner party.
The day of the party, I thought I'd "wing" making short ribs, which I'd never cooked before. For reasons I will never understand, I floured the short ribs before browning them, which later created a horridly gooey coating once they were braising. I also failed to add enough liquid to the braising pan and did not allow enough time for the meat to get tender.
By the time the guests arrived, I looked like a nervous and harried rabbit, dashing around my kitchen, awaiting the next disaster. Unsure if dinner would ever be ready, I pulled Dan aside and confessed.
Dan hopped into the kitchen, waved his skilled hand over the short ribs -- at least, that's how I remember it -- and managed to make them edible.
A few weeks later, I asked him if he'd teach me how to properly braise a short rib. I spent a morning with him in Blue Hill's kitchen on Washington Place.
Now I know how to braise. But I'm not sure Dan will ever come to one of my parties again. —Amanda Hesser
Serves: 4 to 6
5 pounds beef short ribs, bone on
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper (I like a coarse grind)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 large onion chopped
1 carrot, peeled and chopped
1 celery rib, chopped
2 garlic cloves, skin left on
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon tamarind concentrate (comes in a jar; slightly thicker than ketchup) or paste (comes in a block)
2 fresh (or dry) bay leaves
1/2 cup Madeira
1 cup red wine
2 to 3 cups chicken broth
- Heat the oven to 225 degrees. Season the short ribs with salt and pepper. Heat a large heavy Dutch oven over medium high heat. Add the oil, then the short ribs (add them in batches, if necessary) and brown on all sides. Transfer the ribs to a plate as they finish browning. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon fat.
- Add the onion, carrot, celery, and garlic to the pot, reduce the heat to medium, and cook until the vegetables are soft and all the browned bits in the base of the pot have been loosened. Put the short ribs (and any juices that have collected on the plate) back in the pot.
- Add the light brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, tamarind paste, and bay leaves. Pour in the Madeira and red wine. Add enough chicken broth to just cover the ribs. Bring the liquid to a boil, then cover the pot and transfer to the oven.
- Braise the shortribs until they are very tender when pierced with a fork, about 4 hours (longer if the short ribs are big). Using a slotted spoon, transfer the shortribs to a plate. Let the cooking liquid settle; spoon off as much fat as possible (ideally, you'd do this over the course of two days and would, at this point, put the liquid in the fridge overnight and peel off the layer of fat in the morning). Set the pot on the stove over medium high heat. Bring the cooking liquid to a boil and reduce to a syrupy consistency.
- Lay a short rib or two in each of 4 wide shallow bowls. Spoon over a little sauce. Serve proudly.
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Dear NBC, I turned on the tv tonight to watch the Olympics, not to watch 30 minutes of a dumb police/swimmer story.
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Good times. Some days I really miss SoCal.
There are always scandals & intrigues, sure, but they usually revolve around the competition and rarely involve law enforcement.
I'm not sure what to make of it. I'm pretty sure that there is more yet to be revealed.
σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ Ἑλλὰς πάντα.
-- Flavius Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.35.2.
My guess is Lochte didn't want to tell his mom the reason he got home so late was because he went to a brothel, so he made up the robbery story.
Lyan Rochte. Way to represent your alma mater. Go Gators!
At least now the state of Washington doesn't have too claim the single most embarrassing Olympian of the games...
Legacy matters to politicians, to the IOC, to future bidding cities, to academics, and ultimately to the citizens of Rio. If Lochte made it up (and the most recent story suggests that he was shaken down by a security guard after peeing on / behind a gas station - sort of a robbery, but not quite the same thing he reported), it's pretty embarrassing for the USOC (and there might be anti-US repercussions from the IOC on, say LA's bid for 2024). If Lochte really was robbed, then it's a further stain on a slipshod and ramshackle Olympic festival.
just because you think it's uninteresting doesn't make it necessarily so.
σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ Ἑλλὰς πάντα.
-- Flavius Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.35.2.
Allison Felix's mom taught my daughter in elementary school and Allison went to high school a few blocks from us. The Felixes are a great family and it's great to see someone like Allison, who is just a fine person, become the most decorated American female Olympic athlete ever. Trivia note: She's only 5'6". If you saw her in real life you might wonder how someone that tiny could be such a powerful runner. She's awesome.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
The winter olympics is the world's largest collection of attractive athletes. All the sports are for rich people, and you have a disproportionate percentage of Sven's and whatever Scandinavian women are called.
Hockey provides some balance with a bunch of toothless guys. And curling has otherwise normal joe's who happened to be weird enough to gravitate toward ice-shuffleboard.
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I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent." Demetri Marti
Love this technology where they superimpose competitors in different races on top of each other. Especially cool in the ski and speed skating competitions.
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads. -- Harry S. Truman
"You never soar so high as when you stoop down to help a child or an animal." -- Jewish Proverb
"Three-time Pro Bowler Eric Weddle the most versatile, and maybe most intelligent, safety in the game." -- SI, 9/7/15, p. 107.


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JCC MetroWest's two facilities include the Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC, Ross Family Campus, in West Orange, NJ, and the Lautenberg Family JCC of Morris County in Whippany, NJ.
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DRC one year later: rapes continue; perpetrators differ
|Doctor Bienvenu Kayumba in Goma. Photo Credit: James Martone
He was one of the physicians I'd met in North Kivu last year at Heal Africa [1]- a hospital and health center where raped women can come for free treatment of their physical and psychological wounds.
"Frankly, it is increasing, not diminishing," said Doctor Kayumba of the raping in Goma and surrounding areas. He was speaking on his cell phone after a long day at Heal Africa.
"But it is no longer the armed groups doing the raping, it is unarmed civilians."
He said the latest rape case at Heal Africa was a ten year old girl who whispered to him she'd been raped by someone "unknown," and was treated for third degree genital wounds.
One of the biggest obstacles to preventing rape is still shame among the victims and their refusing or reluctance to inform, said Doctor Kayumba, which lead to lack of punishment for the assailants because they are not brought to justice.
"Victims sometimes come to us 72 hours after the event, and when we ask them who did it, they say they don't know."
Some good news, said Doctor Kayumba, was that with help from American laboratories, DNA taken from the "wet" clothing of victims is being used by local police to identify rapists. Sometimes.
Recently, "police identified three rapists," using DNA, said Doctor Kayumba. "But the problem is that many (raped) women come to us after washing and changing clothes" he said, so there is nothing to extract DNA from.
He said awareness campaigns were underway, but needed to expand in order remove the taboo surrounding rape and preventing mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters from openly speaking about it.
The victims "are young girls, married women and even much older women," said Doctor Kayumba. "But even if they come to us, they are afraid to tell their husbands."
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2 Ranking event wins: 2016 Indian Open and 2017 Shoot Out
McGill made a significant breakthrough at the start of the 2016/17 season, winning his first ever ranking title at the Indian Open in Hyderabad. The Scot dispatched 2015 World Champion Stuart Bingham 4-0, as well as scoring wins over the likes of Stephen Maguire and Shaun Murphy on his run to the final. He faced Kyren Wilson in a match between two of snooker's strongest up and coming talents. McGill secured the title with a 5-2 victory.
He claimed his second silverware of the campaign at the one frame Shoot Out, where he defeated Xiao Guodong in the final.
The most impressive run of McGill's 2015/16 campaign came at the World Championships in Sheffield. During qualifying he was pegged back from 9-5 up to 9-9 against Craig Steadman, but held his nerve to get over the line in the decider. In the last 32 McGill put in a memorable Crucible performance, compiling two century breaks on his way to a 10-8 win over 2005 World Champion Shaun Murphy. The Scot bowed out 13-9 at the last 16 stage against Marco Fu.
In the opening 2014/15 event, McGill enjoyed a run to the semi-finals of the Riga Open, beating Judd Trump in the last eight before a narrow 4-3 loss against Mark Allen.
He then drew the attention of the wider viewing public with a run to the quarter-finals of the UK Championship in York. He scored a 6-5 win over boyhood idol John Higgins then had chances to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan before bowing out in a 6-4 defeat.
McGill backed that run up with another fantastic performance at the 2015 World Championships. He won three matches in qualifying to reach the Crucible and beat Stephen Maguire 10-9 in the opening round. The Scot then scored a fantastic win over defending champion Mark Selby 13-9 before succumbing to a 13-8 loss against Murphy in the quarter-finals.
McGill has been a national champion at under-14, 16, 19 and 21 level. He was runner-up to Stuart Carrington in Junior Pot Black in 2006.


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Amy Gerstler & Alexis Smith recently spoke about the art of collaboration at the Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City. This installation is part of a larger exhibition, one that focuses on Portraiture. They re-mounted part of their show "Past Lives" which is a psychically charged stage set that creates the effect of a mythical classroom. There are more than a dozen children's chairs, all of them beaten up by generations of children. The text on the wall summons up the commingling of past and future—there are horoscopes and hints to the Fates of all of these children. A blackboard tilts in one corner of the room, full of cryptic writing in strong slanted penmanship.
Of their collaboration, Alexis Smith said that she and Amy summon up or create a third person – and this person is the real artist behind the work. "We make-up a third person, who is not a collage artist or a poet," Alexis said.
That idea of a persona who is a sculptor, and who comes into being because these two are collaborating, is such a fanciful idea. It's also a perfect way to think about the combined forces that these two artists generate in making this Magic Schoolroom.
ALEXIS SMITH's work has the kind of wit that undermines the status quo. Her collages always seem to use language, and to summon up great writers. Indeed "When I met Alex she was only working with dead writers—Whitman, Raymond Chandler, Borges, Longfellow, Kerouac," Amy said. Amy said that she wanted to hang out with Alexis, but the only way that could happen was if she worked with her on a project.
"She worked all the time, and I realized that I wouldn't get to hang out with her unless I collaborated with her," Amy said, revealing the foundation that I suspect is at the heart of every true collaboration—affinity. Part of that affinity probably has to do with Alexis' immersion in writers. "Over time, the images beat out the words," Alexis said. Later she said "I want to see what I can do without the words."
A thousand startling juxtapositions animate her pieces. It's an eccentric (a word that Alexis Smith used) body of work, an insistent one from what I've seen, and it makes demands on a viewer. You have to put a kind of mental pressure on the images and language for them to release their often funny, always critically sharp, punchlines. The pay off is often that feeling of consolation that someone else sees the inherent absurdity in certain manifestations of culture and capitol and the types of manipulations that we are all prone too, since we are so often in a prone position as consumers.
The audience included the MPW class on Ekphrasis that I taught….and once again the word Ekphrasis came up for discussion. It is a pretentious-sounding word, but it is an accurate one, one that means "description" in Greek. And, after all, as Wallace Stevens noted "accuracy of observation is the equivalent of thinking." Amy noted that Alexis' process is a sort of "reverse ekphrasis." This brilliant observation drew no response from the audience but bafflement, but I know what Amy meant.
Both Amy Gerstler and Alexis Smith are profoundly inspiring and startling thinkers. To see the collusion/collision of their sensibilities, you need to see it in person. And to linger—and to read the wall text which will reveal to you the whimsical darkness and levity that Amy Gerstler is so good at capturing:
Has no morals. Suffers from migraines. Refuses to bathe.
Talks all night. Broke new ground. Lost 50 pounds. Hates her
Name. Humiliates his children. Can't sit still. Published
Eighteen novels. Can't eat seafood. Lies to everyone. Gets lost
often. Finds motherhood fulfilling. Succumbed to smallpox. Sees the
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By Jennifer Dlouhy
During a tense exchange on energy policy in Tuesday's presidential debate, Barack Obama insisted that domestic oil production is up under his watch.
But the issue is far from black and white.
While the U.S. is harvesting more oil from within its own borders, much of the surge in domestic crude production is coming from private lands, not federal tracts under the government's control — a disparity Mitt Romney highlighted on the Hofstra University stage.
"The president's right in terms of the additional oil production, but none of it came on federal land," Romney said. "As a matter of fact, oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land, and gas production was down 9 percent. Why? Because the president cut in half the number of licenses and permits for drilling on federal lands, and in federal waters."
But Romney's not telling the full story either.
When it comes to domestic oil production, the issue has a lot more nuance than comes across on any debate stage.
The federal government's Energy Information Administration that the amount of oil harvested and sold from federal and Indian lands and waters climbed to 4.3 quadrillion BTU in 2010 — up from 3.3 quadrillion BTU in 2008, when Obama was elected to the White House. That also represents a climb from 2009, when 3.7 quadrillion BTU of crude oil was harvested from federal and Indian lands.
The EIA stats lend credence to Obama's assertion that "we have increased oil production to the highest levels in 16 years."
Oil industry leaders also have argued that current production reflects leasing decisions made years before Obama took office.
And even so, oil production on federal lands hasn't stayed at 2010′s high level. According to the EIA, in 2011, the number took a dive — down to 3.7 quadrillion BTU of oil produced and sold from federal and Indian lands.
The decline can at least partially be blamed on a slowdown in offshore drilling in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
After the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Obama administration imposed a five-month moratorium on most deep-water exploration. Permitting of shallow-water drilling projects also slowed for a time after offshore regulators imposed new drilling rules in the wake of the disaster.
Although Gulf drilling has essentially rebounded — with rig counts and permits near pre-moratorium levels — it took years to get to that point.
The United States with a decline that began in August 2006. The decline in foreign oil imports has been attributed to the United States' economic woes, which reduced demand, as well as fuel economy standards and more domestic production.
On the presidential campaign trail, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have vowed to break the United States free of foreign oil, offering a pledge of at least North American "energy independence."
Romney's energy plan promises "North American energy independence by 2020," largely by expanding offshore drilling, relaxing environmental regulations and putting states in control of permitting energy projects on federal land within their borders.
Romney also has pledged to approve the Keystone XL pipeline that would deliver Canadian oil sands crude from Alberta to refineries along the Gulf Coast. Obama administration officials say they are set to make a decision on the controversial pipeline proposal early next year.
"I will fight to create more energy in this country, to get America energy secure," Romney said during the debate. "And part of that is bringing in a pipeline of oil from Canada, taking advantage of the oil and coal we have here, drilling offshore in Alaska, drilling offshore in Virginia where the people want it. Those things will get us the energy we need."
Obama, meanwhile, has highlighted an "all-of-the-above" approach to energy, which would combine support for renewable fuels and alternative power with domestic oil and gas production. Obama also has broadly touted the promise of newly available natural gas supplies — a message he repeated on the debate stage Tuesday night.
"Gov. Romney will say he's got an all-of-the-above plan, but basically his plan is to let the oil companies write the energy policies. So he's got the oil and gas part, but he doesn't have the clean energy part." Obama said. "And if we are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future. Because China, Germany, they're making these investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries."


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I have been working with a C# project and mappro80 and have hit a problem.
I save a map to a bitmap file using:
I then use the file in a picture box,
pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("C:\\MyFiles\\MTP_122.bmp");
It all works fine, until I try to save a new bitmap in the same file,
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I tried disposing the image, prior to trying to save to it for the second time, i.e.,
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Revision as of 05:18, 9 March 2012
This work is developed by Obeo and sponsored by Ericsson in the context of the Polarsys
- 1 EMF Compare integration
- 2 EMF Compare usability
- 3 UML Compare / Merge Performance Enhancements
EMF Compare integration
Diff model restructuring to ease exploitation
The diff model provided as a result by EMF Compare can be quite complex to leverage for several reasons :
- The model is missing an "origin" information (remote, local, ancestor, hierarchy, with user name when possible), leading to excessive abstract types of changes in the diff model.
- "DiffGroup" have to be created/deleted on demand by the adopter modifying a diff model, this concept should be either deleted or have utility methods to make sure the diff model is valid.
- Lack of browsing and cross-referencing APIs
- DiffElements should be easily serializable for storage of DiffElement selections and reuse of these selections in order to open the comparison editors at the right place.
We are working on a new API to directly retrieve the following serializable information from each Diff:
- Description as provided by Structural differences in the Eclipse compare
- Modification type
- Element Details e.g. class name, package name, diagram, etc.
- Meta-Meta model details e.g. Eclass, EPackage
- Model Location e.g. xmi-id
- Diagram Details e.g. element name, type, etc..
- Stereotype
- Any other data needed to re-create a Model / Diagram diff
These API will specifically focus on making easier to reuse and integrate the diff model results in other tools like R4E.
It will be possible to re-create a Diff instance from the serialized information above.
UML and SysML comparison features will be updated accordingly.
EMF Compare usability
DiffElement selection
From a stored/serialized DiffElement, this feature enables the selection of the related DiffElement in the current comparison editor. If no DiffElement matches, open a new comparison editor which contains the DiffElement to select.
This feature enables to contribute your own right-click menu on the comparison editor, through extension point.
Undo/Redo support for the comparison editor
There is currently no way to undo merge operations done through EMF Compare. Support for undo/redo actions on these operations will be handled directly from the UI, with an accessible API for standalone merging.
Conflict resolving wizard
Currently, conflicts detected by EMF Compare are resolved by overriding : users either select the "local" version or the "remote" version, but cannot resolve the conflict by merging some parts of the change. This will be resolved through the addition of a new wizard accessible from the UI for conflict resolution.
Standalone comparison editor
Implementation of a standalone comparison editor that can be reused by third-party plugins to display comparison results. The current comparison editor relies on the comparison editor framework provided by the Eclipse platform. It provides the advantage of a good integration in the Eclipse platform, but can be not enough customizable in some cases. This feature includes both an editor mimicking the looks and behavior of the "standard" comparison editor, and the API to use and customize it out of the context of the team API.
UML Compare / Merge Performance Enhancements
Handling very large models
After the work done in 2011, there are still some needs for enhancements to be able to support large model comparisons and to fully support logical models. These enhancements focus on restricting the scope of a comparison, and on getting faster and using less memory when we compare and merge large models.
Scoped models comparison
EMF Compare has the concept of a "scoped" comparison to ignore changes which are not in scope, but in term of implementation the complete UML model gets loaded (two or three versions of it depending on whether we need to detect conflicts or not). Thanks to the Logical Model implementation we now have the ability to create the complete graph of files composing a model and their SCM status. From this information we will be able to implement a comparison scope which will only load the changed fragments, avoiding to load the complete UML model. It will lead to considerable cpu time and memory usage gains and will enable to handle the minimal set of model fragment during a comparison. To do so we need to implement a first analysis pass to build the minimal scope of the comparison, and then leverage this scope during the whole comparison process. In order to illustrate the expected gains, we can consider that a model is composed of F fragments (diagrams or semantic models' fragments alike) and that the size of all fragments is the same X MB. We also consider that all three versions (local, remote, ancestor) of the model have the same number F of fragments, and that all three versions' fragments share the same size X MB when loaded in memory. Currently, a comparison through EMF Compare will need to load the whole model for all three versions. It thus takes (3 * F * X) megabytes in memory for a single comparison; both for the comparison and the UI display of the comparison result. The described enhancement will allow us to determine beforehand which model fragments have changed, allowing us to only load and compare this minimal number n of fragments in memory. Such comparisons will thus be limited to (3 * n * X) megabytes in memory for the comparison process. However, displaying the result of these comparisons in the UI is dependent of the framework. Displaying these comparison results in EMF Compare's tree viewers will only show the changed fragments, thus limiting the UI occupation to (3 * n * X) megabytes; but displaying these results in graphical editors such as papyrus might necessitate loading the whole models, whatever the changed fragments are. It depends on the graphical framework: to display diagram D, papyrus might need to load more semantic model fragments that the "changed" set. In the worst case scenario, displaying graphical comparison results will take (3 * F * X) megabytes. In terms of performance, the improvement will be of a comparable level of magnitude than for memory as the use of Logical Models will result in a drastic reduction of processing from the current situation (we compare the whole model) to the comparison of the minimal set of consistent UML fragments. A performance evaluation report and a profiling report will be provided to illustrate these enhancements. A new API will be provided to resolve the minimum set of fragments for a two way compare of two different versions of a UML model / Diagram e.g. left and right related diagram and model fragments in order to enable a compare session independently of the projects loaded in the work space. Additionally to the implementation of Scoped comparisons, the two following tasks correspond to the full support and test of these scoped implementation in the Generic and UML engines.
Update the engine and UI to avoid any un-necessary proxy resolution
Once the scope is defined the comparison engine (responsible for the match and diff process) and the user interface presenting the result should never ever resolve proxies which are out of this scope. We need to update the implementation and the corresponding non regression tests in this regard.
Update the UML engine to avoid any un-necessary proxy resolution
The UML engine extends the generic engine to create higher level diffs and to manage UML specific diff dependencies. Through this extension the implementation might lead to un-necessary proxy resolutions, we would need to update the implementation to make sure that would not happen.


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There are barn finds, and then there's this, which really did come out of a barn. The barn was hidden away in a real shot-and-a-beer town. And it went under the rafters really rocked, because in that town, people raced stock cars.
We found it last weekend, being displayed for the first time in 40 years at the Motorsports 2011 expo in Oaks, Pennsylvania, presented by the staff of Area Auto Racing News. The 69 is a 1937 Chevrolet coupe, still riding on an original 1937 frame and fitted with a carbureted Chevy 283. Best as anyone can tell, it was built in the late 1950s and raced out of Julian's Auto Body in South Amboy, New Jersey, apparently by a guy named Charlie Lindmar.
Lee Allen of Old Bridge, New Jersey, now owns it with his brother, Christopher. When we spoke to Lee, he told us that the car ran at tracks including Old Bridge, Wall Stadium and Fort Dix in New Jersey, plus the tiny Weissglass Stadium on Staten Island in New York. It then went to Jim Longstreet, who raced it until crashing it on the dirt at East Windsor Speedway in New Jersey around 1968. The 69 then went into the Longstreet barn in South Amboy until Jim's widow, Lynn, sold it to the Allen brothers. Lee told us, "If you don't paint it eventually, the thing will rot out, but we're going to keep it original as long as we can."


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Every day of my life, I'm reminded of the permanent effects of the horrific poliovirus.
Stricken with polio at the age of six months in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, I underwent a series of surgeries and physical rehabilitiation after my adoption into a Canadian family, learning to walk on crutches by age four. Polio affected my lungs, and I contracted pneumonia nine times before my 11th birthday.
So to know that the country of my birth– and the very place I contracted the poliovirus 32 years ago– is now off the polio-endemic list has such poignant meaning for me.
Last month, I attend the historic 2012 Polio Summit in New Dehli, India. On the morning of 25 February, with the assistance of my crutches and leg brace, I rose to my feet, cheering, full of joy and pride as the Indian Minister of Health read a letter from the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, announcing that India had finally been removed from the polio-endemic list.
I stood as boisterous cheers and applause filled the auditorium. I cheered along with special dignitaries including Dr. Manmohan Singh, The Honourable Prime Minister of India, hundreds of fellow Rotarians from India and around the world, and partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
While in India, I also visited with other polio survivors on the street, as they shared the stories of how they also struggle with the effects of polio every day. It reminded me of the work left to be done.
As the world celebrates with India in this monumental milestone of successfully stopping the transmission of the wild poliovirus for one year, let's continue to move forward as a global community united in our efforts to ensure that every child receives the polio vaccine.
Let's continue to shine the spotlight on polio and educate everyone about the importance of working together for a polio free world. Every dollar raised is a life saved from polio. Please keep donating, because our work is not complete!
As a polio survivor, Canadian, Rotarian and member of our global community I want to thank everyone for their work in getting to this milestone. And I implore all of you to not become complacent in our fight against polio. We must continue to carry forward on our journey to ensure our world is polio free.


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Kai Ryssdal: Time now for a little Freakonomics Radio. It's that moment every couple of weeks where we talk to Stephen Dubner, the co-author of the books and blog of the same name -- it is the hidden side of everything.
Dubner, how are ya?
Stephen Dubner: I've been worse.
Ryssdal: You have? All right, OK.
Dubner: I'm doing all right.
Ryssdal: You know why you're doing all right, though? Because Super Tuesday's behind you, man. You don't have to worry about politics anymore.
Dubner: That is a big part of it. You know how I feel about the presidency.
Ryssdal: That's where I was going, because generally, you think it's overrated, right?
Dubner: I do. I believe that the office of the president of the United States, it just matters a lot less than most people think. Now I will say, when I make this argument, I get hate mail from both sides of the aisle. Conservatives accuse me of "covering" for President Obama, and liberals accuse me of kind of preempting criticism of some future Republican nominee.
Ryssdal: Well the man is the leader of the free world, so to speak. So what's the actual truth here, dude?
Dubner: Look, personally, I have no horse in any race -- I dislike both political parties about equally. But here's the thing: We're heading into a presidential campaign now that is likely to focus on the economy, and rightly so. And I'm here to tell you and your listeners that of all the areas in which the president's influence is overrated, the economy is probably No. 1.
I'd like you here to listen to Austan Goolsbee, who's a former chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Austan Goolsbee: I think the world vests too much power -- certainly in the president, probably in Washington in general -- for its influence on the economy, because most all of the economy has nothing to do with the government.
Ryssdal: I love the way he talks, by the way. Sounds like a mafia guy, doesn't he? But wait listen, you were around in the '92 election? You were paying attention, yes?
Dubner: I was a sentient being then, yes.
Ryssdal: So Clinton, "It's the economy, stupid" -- that's why the guy won.
Dubner: It's a fantastic campaign slogan -- you get to brag about how you'll raise employment and lower gas prices -- as if, Kai, there's some magical set of buttons in the Oval Office that you get to push once you're elected. A 'More Jobs' button.
But as Austan Goolsbee points out, the president's ability to actually change the shape and direction and velocity of the macroeconomy is extremely limited.
Ryssdal: Let me go back then to the actual politicians who say otherwise. You had Clinton and now you've got Mitt Romney -- former CEO, a business guy. Goes out, every stump speech he makes and says, 'I know what to do in the economy. I've been there, I've created jobs, I've fired people, blah blah blah.' You're not buying that?
Dubner: I buy that he believes that to be true. A lot of people have believed that to be true in the past; this kind of common idea of the last 10, 15 years is 'president as CEO.' But it doesn't work that way. We set it up to not work that way. When it comes to unilateral decision making, there's no comparison between what a CEO can do and what a president can try to get done. Here's another way of looking at it, with some actual data, which is what we like to do.
Ryssdal: I was waiting for the data, man.
Dubner: In the 2004 Bush-Kerry election, you may recall there was a little bit of a snafu concerning the early exit polls.
Ryssdal: Oh yeah, Kerry was the winner for like, three-something hours, four hours?
Dubner: That's exactly right. It was announced it was Kerry but it turned out to be Bush. And the economist Justin Wolfers took advantage of that mix-up for a study he did.
Justin Wolfers: 2004 was a social scientist's dream. What you have is four hours -- I'm a Democrat, so I'll say four beautiful hours -- in which we basically had a Kerry presidency. And it was random.
Dubner: So what Wolfers did is he looked at how the stock markets reacted to first the news of a Kerry presidency, and then the new -- turned out to be correct -- news of a Bush presidency.
Wolfers: You see, in fact, that stocks fell a little bit during the four hours of the Kerry presidency and then they rose a bit when it became the Bush presidency.
Dubner: Now, the difference between a new Democratic president and a new Republican president in the space of four hours was actually pretty small -- about 1.5 percent. That is just a sliver of evidence, but it does suggest that the people who pay the most attention to the working economy -- which is to say the Wall Street investors -- didn't really care all that much about which president they got. And most economists will tell you that the president's role when it comes to the economy is much closer to let's say a cheerleader than a CEO.
Ryssdal: Yeah, but you're never going to see Obama or Romney out there saying, 'I can do nothing!' Right?
Dubner: No, you won't. They've got their self interests, but just once I'd love a presidential candidate to get up there on the stump and say: 'My fellow Americans, I can't control the U.S. economy. I've got a little bit of influence but mostly it does what it does. So if it gets worse on my watch, you shouldn't blame me -- and if it happens to get better, you probably shouldn't give me too much credit either.'
Ryssdal: Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States, Stephen Dubner.
Dubner: I think not. Now you know why I'm free to be on your radio show -- nobody in Washington wants to touch me.
Ryssdal: That's exactly right. Freakonomics.com is the website. See you in a couple weeks.
Dubner: Thanks Kai.
"I think the best compliment I can give is not to say how much your programs have taught me (a ton), but how much Marketplace has motivated me to go out and teach myself." – Michael in Arlington, VABEFORE YOU GO


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Raven Starre needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 147 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
Hottest Latest Fashion is all about bringing boutique fashion at hot prices. After being in the apparel and fashion industry, we are well versed in the fashion world and aim to bring unique, sexy, trends to women at a price that's unbeatable
Our market is mainly fashionable women, age 20 - 45, worldwide.
We will also be targeting women who simply don't have time to think about what looks work for different occasions. Part of our mission is to be the 'fashionable girlfriend' delivering advice through our company. These women want to look like they are wearing a $1000 outfit but only paid $250.
The constraints of the logo are as follows:
Must be the text "HottestLatestFashion.com"
The H, L, and F must stand out such that the phrase is easy to read.
The logo will be on a website, the blank banner image is attached as a file therefore the colors must compliment.
The logo will also be used to create clothing labels on a dark background. Our idea is that the H, L, and F are in three unique colors that Pop, in a font/style that relays boutique style fashion. The remaining characters (ottest atest ashion) should come back in a color that compliments the banner image and a different font from the H, L, and F
We are also wondering about a version of the logo that is good for printed materials. For this version the words (ottest atest ashion) should be in a color that works on things like company letterhead, invoices, purchase orders etc...
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Car Hits a Building in Lower Township
A car crashed into a building in Lower Township this morning.
The accident happened this morning in Lower Township when, according to a press release, a car drove off of a road and into the newly renovated Lower Township Millman Center on Bayshore Road. The Villas Fire and Green Creek Fire Companies responded and the roof had to be cut off of the vehicle to remove the driver, who was taken to a local hospital.


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Sharp Propane Launches Customer-Centric Website ThinkAboutPropaneOnce.com
BASTROP, TEXAS – Last month a new interactive and collaborative initiative was launched by Sharp Propane, a propane service provider headquartered in Bastrop, Texas that serves customers in Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth and Bryan-College Station. With the calling to "Think About Propane. Once.," a website and awareness campaign in social media and advertising offers an innovative and engaging way for those interested in or curious about propane to ask questions and learn about propane, an ever more present form of energy.
The website ThinkAboutPropaneOnce.com incorporates user-generated questions and answers from the Sharp Propane Professional team to educate and entertain visitors. The slew of propane-related questions on the site ranges from "Is propane green?" to "How do I know when I need a refill?" The "Think About Propane. Once." campaign is an entertaining and informative way for Sharp Propane to engage and inform the company's residential and commercial customers. Sharp Propane strives to be the leading independently-owned propane service company in the region by combining the delivery of fuel with expertise and no-maintenance service.
Technology and training are key underpinnings of the Sharp Propane customer focus. A Texas-based customer service center, and the new "Think About Propane. Once." website offer quick and easy access to propane professionals, instead of a long trail of automated telephone menu options and a generic catch-all email address. For Sharp Propane, good business includes tailoring propane service to a customer's individual needs. Sharp Propane technicians seek to make using propane as simple, convenient, and hands-off as possible for customers. This emphasis on customer-service and propane expertise inspired the ThinkAboutPropaneOnce.com interactive website, which answers specific questions, and transparently places information at the customers' fingertips.
How does the "Think About Propane. Once." website work? Anyone can submit a propane-related question to the website, and a Sharp Propane expert will answer it. All questions are reviewed, and many will be added to the question-and-answer grid on the website. The site includes a search function, and once the site has a more robust question inventory it will incorporate a category search, which will add navigation and allow search by topics including safety, cost, heating, and appliances. Sharp has been using Facebook and Twitter to direct people to the website, which they hope will become a collaborative and social platform for engaging curious individuals in a dialogue about propane. The campaign uses the Twitter hashtag #SharpAnswers.
The website was developed by Sharp Propane marketing and public relations agency lookthinkmake. Lookthinkmake is a full-service brand communication agency based in Austin, Texas that offers advertising, marketing and public relations services to local, regional and national clients.
To learn more about ThinkAboutPropaneOnce.com or Sharp Propane, please visit http://www.sharppropane.com or call 1-800-932-4315.
For more than 60 years, Sharp Propane has been supplying safe, energy-efficient propane and tanks to Central Texas. Sharp Propane is a leading service provider of residential and commercial propane systems providing customers an environmentally-friendly, safe, and reliable energy source for the way they live and work. The Propane Professionals(R) at Sharp are focused on putting customers first and setting industry standards for safety and service. Founded in 1949 in Smithville, Texas, Sharp is one of the largest propane dealers in the United States and the largest independent retailer of propane in Texas. Sharp Propane is headquartered in Bastrop, Texas with operations also in Austin, Bryan, Fort Worth, and La Grange, Texas.
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Reviewed by Carson C. (age 7)
I liked this story because it was a mystery. I think other people will like this story because it is a really, really, big, big mystery. I liked this story, too, because it was a long book. My favorite part was when the mystery started. One of the characters I liked was Alongo because he was a boy and he was cool. This book is part of a series call American Girls. It is a lot like the other books in the series. I had a lot of fun reading this book.
I recommend this book because I like mysteries. I think my mom would like the book. My mom likes long mysteries like this one. I think my mom's favorite part would be where the mystery begins because she likes starting new mysteries.


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CHICAGO – For eight nervous months, while her blood pressure rose and her nails thinned, Illinois hospital executive Pamela Davis wore a tiny FBI recording device under her shirt.
She recorded conversations starting in 2003 to document a shakedown scheme that involved hospitals and a state board, kicking off an investigation that eventually reached – and brought down – the state's highest elected official.
The FBI said Davis' help was invaluable in an investigation that eventually collected enough evidence to charge and lead to the conviction of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who will report to prison today for corruption.
In a phone interview Wednesday, Davis recalled passing her tapes to FBI agents at department store makeup counters – rendezvous sites that she chose to feel a small sense of control and "have a moment I could chuckle at," she said.
Davis said she's proud of her role in the FBI's Operation Board Games investigation, despite the toll it took on her health and personal life.
She said she felt herself grow isolated and suspicious as she led her double life as an FBI informant and the CEO of Edward Hospital and Health Services in Naperville. She still can't bring herself to go back to the Eggshell Cafe, a suburban Chicago restaurant where she recorded some of the since-convicted schemers explaining how a hospital that wanted a project approved had to play the game.
Davis said she's glad Blagojevich is going to prison, although she feels sorry for his family.
"I do hold Blagojevich personally responsible for dragging Edward Hospital and me through the sludge of his corrupt administration," Davis said. "I'm glad he's going to jail, but I'm sick about all the corruption that has occurred in this state."
Davis, 63, was the first to blow the whistle on alleged kickbacks involving a state board with the power to approve and deny hospital projects. She contacted the FBI after being warned the board would deny approval of a new medical building unless her hospital used a certain contractor and investment firm.
"I was angry," she said. "I wanted to do the right thing."
Davis wore a wire during conversations with people involved in the alleged shakedown to help the FBI gather evidence. She narrowly missed being caught hooking up her recording device when one of her targets unexpectedly greeted her in a parking lot.
She grew fond of her FBI handlers and "felt bereft" when her part in the investigation ended. But five years after it began, she got involved again, albeit briefly. On a morning in December 2008, the FBI called Davis to tell her they were going to arrest Blagojevich.
"They called and said, 'Pam, we just want to give you a heads-up that very, very early this morning we'll be going to make an arrest at the governor's house,' " Davis recalled.
"I did get a ... a little bit of a thrill in hearing that," she said. "I had felt so wronged. I felt health care ... had been so toyed with, that there was a part of me that felt vindicated, that maybe people would understand something terrible had been happening."
Davis remains president and CEO of the hospital and also seems to have maintained her sense of humor.
"I didn't like wearing the wire," she said. "You can't sing in your car."


text: Muhamed; In general, one uses a computer as a license server for all the other machines. This might be on the development node of the cluster, or on a dedicated server. This way you can have all of your licenses served from one machine. As far as commecrcial software being expensive is concerned.... The basic idea behind Beowulf is to use readily available freeware to cut the operating costs. For most Beowulf projects, using payware is a great luxury and most tools are developed from existing freeware resources. However, using commecrially available compilers on an otherwise freeware Beowulf is becoming commonplace (but probably not as big an advantage as some would have you think). If you already have the personnel resources it might prove cheaper to develop much of your own software from existing freeware tools than to buy payware all along the way, and augment that with a few carefully chosen commercial compilers and maybe one or two carefully chosen commercial applications programming libraries. This approach is economical and effective, but will require some time from system admins and programmers to make it all go. If you need to have something that is turnkey, prepackaged and ready to go all the way, then perhaps Beowulf is the wrong concept for your needs and you should consider a commercially built cluster or supercomputer with prepackaged software so your people can just login and go straight to work, with little or no development time. Glen Gardner Kamran Mustafa wrote: >Hi, > >I am working as an IT Manager at NED University of Engineering & >Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, and currently managing a Linux based >Cluster of 50 nodes. I just wanted to ask you that how to manage >licensing issues on a beowulf cluster. Lets say, if you want to run an >application software on 50 nodes then will you purchase 50 licenses of >that software or if there is any other alternative to handle this >licensing issue, because purchasing such a huge number of licences >will definitely be very expensive. Actually, I also want to purchase >different software for my 50 noded cluster but purchasing 50 licences >of each software costs me alot, thats why I am in need of your >guidance and kind suggestions. > >Regards, > >Muhammad Kamran Mustafa >I.T. Manager >Centre for Simulation & Modeling, >NED University of Engineering & Technology, >Karachi, Pakistan. >Tel: (9221) 9243261-8 ext 2372 >Fax: (9221) 9243248 >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > -- Glen E. Gardner, Jr. AA8C AMSAT MEMBER 10593 http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze24qhw/index.html


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Reviews for Moon over Manifest
Publishers Weekly
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Set in 1936, this memorable coming-of-age story follows 12-year-old Abilene Tucker's unusual summer in her father's hometown of Manifest, Kans., while he's away on a railroad job. Having had an itinerant upbringing, Abilene is eager to connect to her father's childhood, a goal that proves difficult. The immigrant town has become rundown, but is populated with well-developed, idiosyncratic characters and has a dynamic past involving the KKK, an influenza scare, and a bootlegging operation. Manifest's history emerges in stories recounted by Miss Sadie (a Hungarian medium) and in news columns written in 1917 by Hattie Mae Harper, "Reporter About Town." With new friends Lettie and Ruthanne, Abilene pieces together the past, coming to understand, as Miss Sadie says, that "maybe what you're looking for is not so much the mark your daddy made on this town, but the mark the town made on your daddy." Witty, bold, and curious, Abilene is as unforgettable as the other residents of Manifest, and the variety of voices allows the town's small mysteries to bloom. Replete with historical details and surprises, Vanderpool's debut delights, while giving insight into family and community. Ages 9-12. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
School Library Journal
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Gr 5-8-History and fiction marry beautifully in this lively debut novel. It's as if readers jump off the train in Manifest, KS, in 1936 with Abilene Tucker, 12, the feisty, likable, and perceptive narrator. She is there to live with Pastor Shady Howard, her father's friend, while her father works on the railroad back in Iowa. An equally important story set during World War I is artfully intertwined. Since her mother went off on her own 10 years earlier, Abilene and Gideon have been alone. Though their life together is unsettled, their bond is strong. Shady's place is shabby, but he is welcoming. The mystery about Manifest and Gideon unfolds after Abilene finds a box filled with intriguing keepsakes. It includes a letter dated 1917 to someone named Jinx from Ned Gillen that has a warning, "THE RATTLER is watching." This starts Abilene, with the help of new friends Ruthanne and Lettie, on a search to learn the identity of the pair. The story cleverly shifts back and forth between the two eras. Abilene becomes connected to Miss Sadie, a "diviner" who slowly leads her through the story of Ned and Jinx. Though the girl is lonely, she adjusts to her new life, feeling sure that her father will come for her at summer's end. The Ku Klux Klan and its campaign against the many immigrants working in the coal mines and the deplorable conditions and exploitation of these men provide important background. This thoroughly enjoyable, unique page-turner is a definite winner.-Renee Steinberg, formerly at Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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*Starred Review* After a life of riding the rails with her father, 12-year-old Abilene can't understand why he has sent her away to stay with Pastor Shady Howard in Manifest, Missouri, a town he left years earlier; but over the summer she pieces together his story. In 1936, Manifest is a town worn down by sadness, drought, and the Depression, but it is more welcoming to newcomers than it was in 1918, when it was a conglomeration of coal-mining immigrants who were kept apart by habit, company practice, and prejudice. Abilene quickly finds friends and uncovers a local mystery. Their summerlong spy hunt reveals deep-seated secrets and helps restore residents' faith in the bright future once promised on the town's sign. Abilene's first-person narrative is intertwined with newspaper columns from 1917 to 1918 and stories told by a diviner, Miss Sadie, while letters home from a soldier fighting in WWI add yet another narrative layer. Vanderpool weaves humor and sorrow into a complex tale involving murders, orphans, bootlegging, and a mother in hiding. With believable dialogue, vocabulary and imagery appropriate to time and place, and well-developed characters, this rich and rewarding first novel is like sucking on a butterscotch. Smooth and sweet. --Isaacs, Kathleen Copyright 2010 Booklist


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It seems this caused Madsonic to crash for some reason and it won't get back up again. I've already tried rebooting as well.
The error message in my logs is:
telegate.telenet.be is an url of my internet provider.
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Heinz Launches Ore-Ida Grillers for the Barbeque
Pittsburgh-based H.J. Heinz Co. launches Ore-Ida Grillers, thick-cut, round potato slices that are crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside and specially designed to cook on the grill. They go from freezer to grill to plate in just 15 minutes, taking a fraction of the time required for a whole potato to cook on the grill or in the oven. Plus, they can be prepared alongside the main course on the grill, allowing for convenient preparation and more time to enjoy with family and friends. Or they can be prepared indoors in the broiler or in a grill pan as an alternative prep method.
Grillers are available in two varieties: Golden, which has a classic potato taste, and Seasoned, which features a zesty blend of black pepper, herbs and spices. They also can be customized to taste by brushing with a favorite sauce or adding toppings like sour cream and chives or shredded cheese for a twist on the classic loaded baked potato. Plus, the large, thick-cut potato slices with cut ridges won't slide around or fall through the grill grates easily, making them convenient to flip and move on the grill.
According to a recent survey of 1,005 adults sponsored by Ore-Ida and conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, 81 percent of U.S. adults feel that cookouts are a great opportunity to spend meaningful time with family and friends, but 72 percent would like to spend more time socializing when grilling.
"We know it can be difficult to balance all of the meal preparations with the desire to spend quality time with family and friends when cooking out," says Rachel Bradley, brand manager for Ore-Ida Potatoes. "With Ore-Ida Grillers, you can prepare a delicious side dish for your cookout that everyone will love while spending less time preparing it and more time enjoying it."
Grillers also can help to minimize the guesswork on the grill. According to the Ipsos survey, the majority of people said they find it somewhat difficult to make sure everything on the grill is ready at the same time – both proteins and sides – as cook times vary for different foods. With Grillers, you can more easily plan to have everything ready at once because the cook time is already pre-determined.
Suggested retail price is $3.59.