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Taste of Honey by Marie Simmons
I'm not usually into single subject cookbooks, so I was surprised and delighted to find myself enjoying this new title devoted exclusively to honey. Taste of Honey: The Definitive Guide to Tasting and Cooking with 40 Varietals by Marie Simmons is an informative and delightful book, with a broad scope of recipes that go from breakfast to savory to dessert. I suspect this will be a truly useful addition to my bookshelf.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Marie Simmons
• Who published it: Andrews McMeel
• Number of recipes: Over 60.
• Recipes for right now: Dried Sour Cherry Honey Sauce; Flatbread with Melted Manchego, Rosemary, and Honey; Iced Honey Lemon Tea; Salmon with Honey, Miso, and Ginger Glaze; Stir-Fried Honey and Tamari Chicken Thighs with Green Beans and Short-Grain Rice; Shredded Cabbage with Creamy Roasted Cumin, Honey, Lime, and Jalapeño Dressing; Honey and Cardamom Oven-Baked Chunky Rhubarb; Honey and Almond Butter Ice Cream
• Other highlights: This small book (184 pages) is packed from cover to cover with useful information and recipes. Beginning with an excellent Honey 101 section, we learn about bees, beekeeping, the many types of honey, and how honey is used in medicine. In the tasting section, we get a close up look at 40 varietals, and excellent guidelines for tasting and cooking with honey.
The recipe section is divided into Breakfasts and Snacks, Main Dishes, Salads and Vegetable Side Dishes, and Sweets. The book concludes with a bibliography, sources and an index. Throughout there are beautiful color photographs of many of the finished dishes, as well as delightful photographs of bees, hives, honey, honeycombs and simple line drawings of the many flowers bees visit for their nectar.
• Who would enjoy this book? Any honey or beekeeping aficionado, obviously. But also people like me who are interested in learning more about bees, honey, and the many ways they can make our lives sweet (and savory!).
→ Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Taste of Honey by Marie Simmons
• Visit the author's website: Marie Simmons
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"Get into a push-up position, but instead of resting on your hands, rest on your forearms, while holding your abdominals in and keeping your hips up from the ground," explains Emma Phillips."Start by holding your body up for 30 seconds and work your way up to 2-3 minutes."
Fit tip: While in the push-up position, lift your left foot off the floor and hold for 2-5 seconds. Repeat with your right foot.
Weight Issue: Muffin Top
Oh, the dreaded muffin – banish it with the Burpee, suggests Jean Schutte."Begin in a standing position, then drop into a squat with your hands on the ground. Kick your feet back while lowering yourself with a push up, then return your feet to the squat position while straightening your arms." Do 10 reps.
Fit tip: Try to hold your push-up for five seconds before returning to the squat position.
Weight Issue: Bingo Wings
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Fit tip: Lift your knees off of the ground as you gain strength over time.
Weight Issue: Flabby Knees
"Muscle tone can be improved through weightbearing exercises, such as the plie squat," says Yvonne Morgan. "Stand up straight with your shoulders relaxed and abdominals gently pulled in. With your heels together and your toes apart, bend your knees by 10cms out over your toes – without letting your feet roll inwards and keeping your whole foot on the floor – then straighten your legs to the start position."
Fit tip: When you can do three sets of 15 comfortably, add more resistance with a 2-4 kilo dumbbell in each hand.
Weight Issue: Saddle Bags
"Circuit training keeps you moving from one exercise to the next at a quick pace, keeping your heart rate up, burning fat and increasing lean muscle mass. Try a circuit class at Dubai Marina Yacht Club with Regime Fitness," suggests Brian Coones. Can't get to a class? "Go for a brisk walk – not a run," says Coones. "Running won't move your legs in the right way."
Fit tip: Stride out and really lengthen those legs.
Weight Issue: Outer Thighs
"Lie on your back on a mat, placing the backs of your lower legs and heels on the top of a Swiss ball," says Adam Fox- McGregor. "Lift your hips off the floor so the backs of your lower legs and heels are pressing into the ball, then press up until your torso and legs form a straight line. Squeeze your butt for one second and return to floor. Do three sets of 15-20 reps, resting for 30 seconds between sets."
Top top: Increase the length of your squeeze. Go from one second, eventually up to 10.
Weight Issue: Back Fat
Says Arash Mohammadi, "Sit on the edge of a chair holding a 0.5kg–1.5kg weight (or two cans of baked beans). Bend forward from your hips and stick your chin to your chest, making your back fl at. With your hands at your calves slowly bring them up your body, bending your elbows until your shoulder blades squeeze together. Pause, then slowly lower." Go for three sets of ten reps.
Fit tip: Eliminating 500 calories per day, combined with three 40 minute sessions of exercise, will enable you to lose about 1kg a week.
Weight Issue: Baggy Bottom
As you age, your skin loses elasticity and muscle tone decreases, which can cause sagginess. Step forward, squats. "Keep your feet hip-width apart with your toes slightly turned out," says Dan Gill. "Bend deep into your knees sending your hips down below the knee joint, whilst keeping your back straight and your heels fl at on the floor. With your arms out in front of you complete three sets of 20 reps."
Fit tip: Perform the movement with dumbbells or hand weights.
Weight Issue: Inner Thighs
"Lie on your back and bend your knees with your feet on the floor holding a cushion between them," says Tom Driver. "Squeeze your thighs together as tight as you can for two seconds then gently release." Do 20 reps.
Fit tip: Add in some 'pulses' to work your muscles harder. Start with five and work up to 10, doing 20 reps in all.

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BaconFest will also feature a bacon costume contest, a pig oinking contest, and a bacon eating contest where the first one to finish 2 lbs. of bacon or person who eats the most bacon after 5 minutes will be crowned the winner. ($10 entry fee)
Sample awesome bacon dishes from around the Sioux Empire and vote on your favorite dish in the People's Choice Awards.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Studio Tour
23 comments:
Thanks for the tour! Looks like a wonderful space!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the photoreportReplyDelete
I very much love these colors, as at you in a workroom
I wish good luck and inspiration
I, too, share a kitchen table right now! Your space is pure inspiration!! I'm new to your blog and just love it!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration. I'm sewing in the dining room with hopes of having my own space one day! Great Studio!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the tour. We are moving soon and I too will finally have my own crafting/sewing room... yay! I have been looking for ideas for my new room, and you've given me some good ones.. thanks again! :)ReplyDelete
It looks so functional and pretty! Can I hire you to come do my sewing room? I love your blue jars on the window sill, and your quilts look lovely on the rack - I need one of them, too!ReplyDelete
Love your new area...I plan to paint my sewing room grey also...if you like the chair so much and it works for you, why don't you paint it? A little primer and a couple of coats of paint and it will look beautiful...ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing! Can't wait to see the video.ReplyDelete
I'm still sharing the kitchen table and I took over a bookshelf in the "diningroom/living room" (we have a 1 bedroom apartment) for my supplies. Def. jealous of your space but so glad for you that you have it! Thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
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You are SOOO organized! I love your sewing machine cover too! =) Wow...beautiful space.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the studio tour. It looks great...so organized! That took some work. I love the quilt on your design board.ReplyDelete
You made my heart skip a little beat by having the pillow I made for you sitting out. <3 Your space is wonderful and clean - something I aspire to. I also love the Dream On quilt on your wall - it looks fabulous!ReplyDelete
Nice job! Great organization...I need to work on my bin situation.ReplyDelete
Totally different subject: I MUST know the solid you're using in te Dream On quilt on the design wall! So perfect and pretty!!!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your space Terri. I keep my rulers in their rack on the windowsill, too! Unfortunately, the chaos that reigns in my sewing room doesn't look very nice in photos, so you'll never see that :)ReplyDelete
You have such an awesome space! I love the colors and that everything has it's own place!ReplyDelete
I think I've convinced Michael to let me use one of the bedrooms as a sewing space when we move this summer! I am so excited to organize and decorate! You found some really great items to get yourself organized, I'll definitely be checking back here when I'm looking for pieces! :)
Great tour!! You have so many good organizing ideas. I've been meaning to get my fabric organized, especially the scraps. Inspired. : )ReplyDelete
What a fabulous space! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Hey, nice digs Terri!ReplyDelete
The gray looks great on the walls! And I am totally envious of your fabric storage.ReplyDelete
What a dream sewing room!ReplyDelete
Love your room and I am sure you are going to enjoy it tremendously. I, too, love Law and Order. I am so addicted that I look forward to the marathons and I watch the reruns over and over. My husband thinks I am crazy.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the studio tour! It's a lovely space.ReplyDelete
On another note - I noticed you have an extension table for your machine. Did it come with the machine? Is it made by the same people? Or did you buy it separately from a different company? I'm exploring my options!
A beautiful room for beautiful creations! I like how you have framed artwork appropriate to the room (it looks like stacks of fabric on a suitcase? ) It adds a nice touch.ReplyDelete
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CARSON >> Just think, before this season St. John Bosco High had not even won a CIF Southern Section championship in football. Now, the Braves are state champions.
On Saturday, two weeks after it won its first section title, St. John Bosco took on perennial state power Concord De La Salle in the state Open Division championship game. The Spartans had won four consecutive state titles, so beating them figured to be a quite a task.
Thanks to just enough offense from quarterback Josh Rosen, receiver Jaleel Wadood, running back Sean McGrew and kicker Reid Budrovich and another fine performance by the defense, the Braves defeated the Spartans 20-14 before 16,791 at StubHub Center.
It got a bit scary for the Braves (16-0) late. The Spartans (14-1) pulled within 20-14 on a 49-yard touchdown pass from Chris Williams to Marquis Morris with 6:27 to play in the game.
St. John Bosco gave the ball right back after it could not move it, and De La Salle was in business at the St. John Bosco 44-yard line after a punt. But the game was won for all intents and purposes when the Braves' Gavin Windes batted a Williams fourth-and-8 pass into the air and intercepted it with 2:15 to play.
When the final gun sounded, the Braves ran around the field in celebration as their fans went wild in the stands. After St. John Bosco received its trophy, a few Braves did their own version of the Lambeau Leap into the stands, where they were mobbed.
Among them was Windes.
"Oh, definitely, no matter what," said Windes, a junior, when asked if it was the play of his life. "All I could think of was my dad (Gary) — I don't know how many years ago — he lost in the CIF championship (while playing for St. John Bosco). So to come out here and do that, it just means the world to me."
His coach, Jason Negro, had a different way of describing Windes' play.
"That was our season right there," Negro said. "I told the guys on the sideline, I was like, 'All right, boys, this is the ballgame right here.' Gavin made a tremendous play."
Rosen (12 of 17, 200 yards) threw touchdown passes of 60 and 7 yards to Wadood, McGrew rushed for 148 yards and Budrovich kicked field goals of 35 and 25 yards.
The Braves scored just three points in the second half, largely because of a multitude of holding penalties. McGrew had a 51-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter called back because of a hold.
"Some of them were legit penalties, some we felt we just overpowered people," Rosen said. "We shot ourselves in the foot a few times. But we knew this was our game to lose and thankfully those penalties didn't happen in the first half."
On that St. John Bosco possession following De La Salle's final score, Rosen was sacked on third-and-12 from his 37. Only after he dropped the snap, picked it back up and dropped it again. He fumbled, but one of his teammates recovered.
"Yeah, I would not be able to live with myself if that game ended on my hands like that," said Rosen, a junior. "I picked up a soaking wet ball and … I don't know. But thank God our defense held out."
Thanks, in particular, to Windes.
"Yeah, Gavin's a beast," Rosen said.
Among all the hoopla was sophomore McGrew. He took a beating out there, but he couldn't care less.
"This is an amazing feeling," he said. "I mean, that was for the seniors right there. I gave it my all on the field. De La Salle beat me up pretty good, but I just had to come back and just be physical.
Wadood had five receptions for 113 yards.
"That man is amazing," Rosen said of Wadood, a UCLA commit. "UCLA is getting a hell of a player."
St. John Bosco got on the scoreboard on its first possession. The Braves took the ball at their 23-yard line after holding De La Salle to just a first down on its initial drive.
On second-and-9, McGrew broke off a 27-yard run for a first down to the Spartans' 49. On second-and-3 from the De La Salle 43, Rosen hit Shay Fields for a 13-yard pass completion for a first down at the 30. McGrew ran for 16 yards down to the 14. Then, on third down at the 11, Rosen ran for what for a second appeared to be an 11-yard touchdown.
It was called back on a holding penalty, however, forcing the Braves to eventually settle for a 35-yard field goal from Budrovich for a 3-0 lead at 5:33 of the first quarter.
St. John Bosco didn't do anything the second time it had the ball, but it did plenty on its next trip thanks in part to a short field. The Spartans were facing a third-and-15 at their 40. Williams dropped back to pass. As he was about to be sacked, he unleashed a pass on which the Braves' Chandler Leniu made a spectacular diving interception at the SJB 47.
St. John Bosco went in reverse, getting called for illegal procedure and then Fields lost 2 yards on what appeared to be a busted reverse play. On second-and-17 from the 40, Rosen found Wadood all alone about 30 yards downfield. Rosen made a perfect pass that Wadood caught in stride and seconds later he was in the end zone for a 60-yard touchdown and a 10-0 lead at 9:01 of the second quarter.
Undaunted, De La Salle came right back. Starting from their 20-yard line, the Spartans ran 11 running plays — they were also aided by a 5-yard sideline penalty on the Braves — the final rush one of 10 yards by John Velasco for a touchdown that cut St. John Bosco's lead to 10-7.
There was still 4:21 to play in the half, and St. John Bosco took advantage. Rosen took his team from its 27 and guided it downfield with a combination of passing and running plays. The 12th play of the drive was another touchdown pass to Wadood, this one from 7 yards over the middle for a 17-7 lead with 29 seconds left to play before intermission.
McGrew, who had 92 yards on 12 carries in the half, ran the ball seven times on the drive.


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Anti-superstition campaigner Dabholkar shot dead in Pune
Activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was trying to get an anti-superstition and black magic bill passed, was shot dead in Pune today morning. The bill was opposed by hardline Hindu groups. Yogesh Joshi reports. Read: About Dr Narendra Dabholkarindia Updated: Dec 10, 2013 15:12 IST
Activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was running a successful anti-superstition movement in Maharashtra, was shot dead in Pune on Tuesday morning.
Dabholkar was alone on a morning walk near Omkareshwar temple when unidentified persons on a motorbike fired at him and fled. Four bullets were fired at Dabholkar in the neck and he died on the spot, said Pune police commissioner Gulabrao Pol. Police have managed to get the registration number of the bike used by the assailants.
The activist was campaigning to persuade the state government to pass an anti-superstition and black magic bill. But the bill was opposed by hardline Hindu groups like Warakari Sanghatana and Sanatan Prabhat on the ground that it hurt their religious sentiments.
He headed the Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (committee for eradication of blind faith), an organisation with the aim to promote rational thought and scientific temper.
Dabholkar had authored several books and was the editor of progressive magazine Sadhana.
"He believed in non-violence," said Dabholkar's daughter Mukta Patwardhan. "He had not sought any security."
Maharashtra home minister RR Patil condemned the killing of Dabholkar.
"Dabholkar represented a progressive movement in the state," said Patil.
"Our priority right now is to catch and punish the murderers."
Dabholkar is survived by his wife, daughter and son Hamid.
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Cape-based brand design agency expands footprint to Gauteng
Twelve-year-old, independently-owned Just Design has opened shop in Johannesburg prompted by growing demand for their strategic-led approach to design and a solid understanding of blue-chip client needs. Their extended footprint offers the FMCG, financial services, mining and manufacturing industries the opportunity to take advantage of an owner-managed, hands-on service. Just Design has expertise and a proven brand design track record in big brand tobacco, plus the alcoholic beverage and FMCG sectors.
24 Feb 2012
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Arômes De La Motte joins the La Motte family
Situated in the picturesque town of Franschoek, La Motte Wine Estate, a world renowned producer of exceptional cultivars and cut flowers, is named after the French village La Motte d'Aigues. La Motte recently expanded their farming division to produce ethereal oils from the flowers within their nursery. These oils are used to produce the
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18 Jan 2012
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The design agency logo offering under the spotlight
Paying too much for a great design? You might be. An image is worth a thousand words but needn't be at a cost of thousands of rands. Yet in the same breath, few people appreciate the importance of a solid company logo or corporate image. As with all public communications, it needs to be well thought out, relevant and true to the company's ethos.
14 Dec 2011
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A fresh look at FMCG creative thinking
Over the past ten years, Just Design has established its strategic and design credibility in the big brand beverage and tobacco industries; a decade of invaluable experience that this dynamic group of thinkers now applies to brands throughout Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
23 May 2011
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Just Design and the Hunters rebrand - refreshing the refresher
The call to repackage Hunter's and its brand extensions went out to Just Design last year. An updated, contemporary look with clear emphasis on the premium nature of the brand had to be achieved in an effort to generate new consumers. The familiar brand iconography and the sociability of the product, as well as its comfortable resonance in both male and female consumers had to be maintained in order to retain the current consumer base.
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We are pleased to announce 3 Trainz packages to be released in the following 6 weeks. These packages are now available for Pre-Order.
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The Trainz team have been busy for the many weeks preparing Service Pack 1 for your enjoyment. SP1 is a small 15MB update that includes numerous improvements, enhancements and bug fixes. Highlights include some significant performance improvements in 2009 mode with frame rates often double those achieved in the old compatibility mode.
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Trainz 2009 has gone Gold!
Posted: 27th November 2008
The Gold Master disk has been created, tested and shipped off to the replicators. The build has also been uploaded to the digital download servers and so all systems are go.
Congratulations to the Trainz team for their efforts in making this the best ever release of Trainz. Whilst much of the focus is on the big new features, what will set TS2009 apart from other versions is the huge number of little things that will make your Trainz experience more enjoyable.
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The world's most flexible rail simulation just became even more powerful. The Trainz team have been busy making sure the next major release of Trainz will be the best ever. Trainz Simulator 2009 is the culmination of 8 years of ongoing development and brings together a unified set of content and features that will provide a single stable platform that can be built upon for many more years to come.
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New York mom, 3 kids die in house fire tragedy
A Long Island mother was overcome by smoke as she tried to save her three young children from a fast-moving fire, and everyone in the house died, authorities said Saturday.
The blaze, at a small home in Shirley, about 60 miles east of New York City, was reported by startled neighbors at about 10:15 p.m. Friday. Some mounted a rescue effort but were beaten back by heat and smoke.
Suffolk County police identified the victims as Jennifer McCusker, 41, her son Aidan Tarbell, 7, and her 2-year-old twins, Brendan and Ava Jane Mistretta.
McCusker was found holding one of the twins in a bedroom, police said. She appeared to have been trying to grab the children and carry them from the house when she was incapacitated, said police detective Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick. The other twin lay in a crib nearby.
The 7-year-old died in his bed, police said.
Authorities said at a news conference Saturday that the fire appeared to have started in the living room of the single-story home. The cause, though, wasn't immediately clear.
One neighbor told authorities the house seemed fine one minute, then was suddenly engulfed in flame 15 minutes later.
"The front door of the house was open, the screen door was open and the front of the house was on fire," Fitzpatrick said.
Two men on the block, one an emergency medical technician and the other a volunteer firefighter, tried to enter the house but couldn't get inside because of the smoke and heat, authorities said.
The children had different fathers. One lived in the house but wasn't home at the time of the fire, police said.
Autopsies on the victims were being performed by the county medical examiner.
"We're devastated. The whole block is devastated. They are 2 and 7 years old. They didn't even get a chance at life yet," said neighbor Sharon Browning.


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Thanks to MSF's good friend Jimmy Traina and today's Hot Clicks we stumbled upon a rather ambitiously coiffed Cubs fan, as highlighted by the fine folks at the sublimely named The Friendly Blogfines.
As you know, I could probably type for days and days making derogatory comments about this North Sider, but I think in this case I'll just let the visual evidence speak for itself.
Behold, one lovable loser and is lovably lame haircut:
Allow me, if you will, to direct your attention to a post from earlier this week that included a grading scale I believe is appropriate for this post.
10 Mariottis.
Actually, all kidding and Cubs hate aside, I do have to echo what was said over at Blogfines:
I can't decide how I feel about this still, but I at least salute the boy for having the cojones to sport this hairdo.
I certainly have decided how I feel about it – the kid looks like an absolute fool – but that doesn't mean I don't admire him for it.
I'm sure that if some young White Sox fanatic carved a Sox logo into his head I would be trumpeting his greatness to all six of you who are reading this. So I must at least be somewhat consistent and give this Cubs fan some props for making a pretty definitive statement about his favorite team.
I just hope he shows up on the South Side during the Interleague series before his hair grows out…


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LAS VEGAS — To show children that fitness can be fun, 1,400 YMCAs offered a free day of activities designed to promote healthy kids and communities.
The Bill and Lillie Heinrich YMCA staff invited cheerleaders, break dancers and Tae Kwan Do experts to perform for the 15th annual Healthy Kids Day April 12. The Las Vegas Y promoted its children's programming such as Kids' Hip Hop, teen strength training and Tae Kwan Do. As part of its $3 million renovation, the Y is building a rock climbing wall as well as a kids' gym.
"We want the children to be able to exercise while their parents are working out," said Michelle Campbell, Y fitness coordinator.
The Y of Pittsburgh celebrated the day at the University of Pittsburgh's Petersen Events Center. The national event was part of the Y's Activate America initiative, which strives to develop community-based solutions to improve Americans' health and wellness.


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From 6 May to 18 June 2015, Galerie m is featuring paintings and installations by
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(b. 1936 in Kyongnam, Korea). The artist, who splits his time between France and Japan, is the author of numerous philosophical texts and is today well-known internationally. At the latest since a retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2011, Ufan is regarded as one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. His ties with Bochum are diverse – he already had his first show at Galerie m in 1976; in addition to the works in the gallery, several of his sculptures are permanently installed in the gardens of Haus Weitmar and are on view at Situation Kunst.
The current exhibition presents a concentrated installation of four pieces from Lee Ufan's major work complexes: two sculptures from his series of three-dimensional works, for which Ufan chose the title "Relatum" in 1970, and two large-format paintings typical of his work since the early 2000s, in which the artist applies oil mixed with crushed stone pigments on the primed canvas in isolated brushstrokes.
All of Ufan's works juxtapose natural elements – boulders, stones, stone pigments – with unfinished industrial materials – steel plates, light bulbs, canvases. An important role is played by blank areas and empty space. The objects strike up intriguing dialogues with the space around them and with each other that go beyond the associations inherent in the individual works.
Galerie m is showing a very early work from 1978 from the group "Relatum" alongside a more recent installation, from 2000. In "Relatum" from 1978 a light bulb hangs from a plain black cord over a white canvas that seems to float just above the ground. A circle of small stones are arranged in a circle around the cone of light. The installation "Relatum" from 2000 consists of a reddish boulder resting on a steel plate. In both works, natural elements and industrially produced material are left in their natural or raw manufactured state, without being artistically processed. Ufan limits his artistic act to selecting the items and composing them in a thought-provoking manner.
These simple constellations are capable of summoning questions about existence, time and transience: lightness and heaviness, strength and balance, volatility and duration, dynamics and silence. The works of Lee Ufan put the contemplative viewer into an almost meditative state, which consists not least in a reflection of his own presence in the space and his relation to the works.


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Home Depot Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly results and raised its sales and profit outlook for the year on Tuesday as the world's largest home improvement chain benefited from a nascent recovery in the U.S. housing market.
The news pushed the retailer's shares up as much as 3.4 percent to an all-time high and gave fresh evidence that the U.S. housing market was improving after years of weakness.
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For the first time since 2008, sales to contractors and professional customers grew at a faster pace than those to regular homeowners and other shoppers, Chief Executive Officer Frank Blake said on a conference call.
"This quarter's outperformance from the pro segment is a positive sign" of a housing recovery, Blake said.
A bubble in the U.S. housing market was at the core of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. During the downturn, Home Depot's sales at established stores fell more than 20 percent in such markets as Florida and California. In recent quarters, the company has gotten a boost as housing markets have rebounded in regions where it has a heavy presence.
"In the first quarter, we saw less favorable weather compared to last year, but we continue to see benefit from a recovering housing market that drove a stronger-than-expected start to the year for our business," Blake said.
Recent government data showed permits for single-family homes rose 3 percent to 617,000 in April, the highest since May 2008, while newly issued building permits, a gauge of future construction, rose 14.3 percent.
Despite cooler-than-usual weather in many parts of the United States at the start of the spring selling season, Home Depot's sales rose 7.4 percent to $19.12 billion in the first quarter ended on May 5. That topped the analysts' average estimate of $18.68 billion.
Better pricing and customer service have helped Home Depot take market share from smaller rival Lowe's Cos . The industry leader has also gained from tailoring its marketing to local areas, centralizing distribution centers and shifting more workers to jobs where they serve customers directly.
Sales at Home Depot stores open at least a year rose 4.3 percent, including a 4.8 percent increase in the United States. Many on Wall Street expect same-store sales at Lowe's to be weaker than Home Depot's for the 16th straight quarter when the smaller chain reports results on Wednesday.
Credit Suisse analyst Gary Balter said he expected Home Depot's sales to accelerate this year "given the company's strong internal momentum and a developing external tailwind in housing." He has an "outperform" rating on the stock.
At the end of 2012, Home Depot had 19 percent of the U.S. home improvement retail market and Lowe's had 16.7 percent, data from Euromonitor International showed. (Related graphic: http://link.reuters.com/teh38t)
Under Blake, Home Depot was quicker than Lowe's to cut costs in the years after the housing collapse.
Net income in the first quarter rose to $1.2 billion, or 83 cents a share, from $1 billion, or 68 cents a share, a year earlier. Analysts on average had forecast a profit of 77 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
For the year, the company now expects earnings of $3.52 a share, up from its prior outlook of $3.37. It forecast a sales increase of about 2.8 percent, up from previous expectations of a 2 percent rise.
Shares of Home Depot were up 2.8 percent at $78.89 in morning trading after rising as high as $79.40 earlier in the session.
(Reporting by Dhanya Skariachan; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)


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Mother Theresa. The Dalai Lama. Nelson Mandela. Gandhi. Some admire such figures from afar and think, "How special they are; I could never be like that." But, as John Makransky has learned, the power of real and enduring love lies within every one of us. Awakening Through Love is his guide to finding it.
In Awakening Through Love, he pioneers new ways of making Tibetan meditations of compassion and wisdom accessible to people of all backgrounds and faiths. Drawing from Tibetan teachings of compassion and the Dzogchen teachings of innate wisdom, and using plain, practical instruction, he helps readers uncover the unity of wisdom and love in the very nature of their minds. Then Lama John describes how to actualize those qualities in every aspect of family life, work, service and social action.
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US official says Colombian guerrilla 'Simon Trinidad' to remain in US prison
BOGOTA, Colombia – A prominent Colombian guerrilla will remain in prison in the United States, a U.S. official said Monday, dismissing rebel appeals for the man to be freed for peace talks in Cuba.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, recently appealed to President Barack Obama to release Ricardo Palmera, who is better known by the nom de guerre Simon Trinidad.
Ricardo Zuniga, a special assistant to Obama and the lead official for Latin America policy on the National Security Council, noted that the U.S. government isn't part of the negotiations in Havana.
"This person is in prison for very serious crimes and is going to remain imprisoned," Zuniga told The Associated Press in a phone interview. He first made similar remarks to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo an interview published Monday.
Zuniga declined to discuss whether the U.S. government would be willing to consider changing its posture under certain circumstances.
The FARC had said the rebel's presence at the talks with the Colombian government in Havana would help the negotiations.
The rebels named Palmera to their negotiating team in September, even though the 62-year-old is held at a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado. The rebels recently brought a life-sized cardboard cutout of him to a negotiating session.
But American officials have previously said it's unlikely any FARC rebels imprisoned in the US would be freed.
Palmera was captured in 2004 while trying to negotiate freedom for imprisoned rebels in exchange for three American contractors held hostage in jungle gulags by the FARC. The Americans were rescued four years later, along with former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.
Palmera was extradited to the U.S., then a jury in Washington convicted him and he was sentenced to the maximum of 60 years in prison for hostage-taking conspiracy.
The formal peace talks in Havana began last week. On Sunday, the Colombian government and the leftist rebels announced that as part their dialogue they will hold a forum in Bogota in December to discuss agrarian development, which has been an issue in the class-based conflict.
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I guess this moron is white, otherwise this would be " breaking news " on all forms of main stream media.
Anyone familiar with the story of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin knows that the drug-abusing, gun-trafficking thug Martin came at Zimmerman from behind as Zimmerman was walking to his truck. Martin sucker-punched Zimmerman, mounted him, and attempted to murder Zimmerman before the neighborhood watch volunteer finally shot the thug Martin in self-defense.
Were now getting word of a similar shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. An elderly man was doing yard work when was attacked by a drunken stranger. The attacked citizen was a law-abiding concealed carrier. He was sucker punched, knocked down, and was mounted by allegedly drunken stranger Lance Claunch, and eventually had to shoot Claunch to stop the attack.
Police responded to a call where a woman told them someone was acting oddly on her property rolling around in the yard and pounding on her door. Another 911 caller said a man, who appeared to be very intoxicated, was hiding in one persons bushes and knocking on anothers door.Lance Claunch clearly deserved his bullet, as Trayvon Martin did before him. You do not get to attack law-abiding citizens and attempt to beat them to death without facing the very-real risk that they might have a concealed handgun and ruin your attempted murder by putting one or more bullets into you.
While driving around the neighborhood after that call, officers said they found another person who told them he was looking for his very intoxicated friend who was causing problems.
Police said thats when they heard gun shots.
When police got to the home they saw the homeowner applying pressure to a gunshot to Claunchs neck. The homeowner, who is in his 70s, told police the man approached while he was doing yard work and punched him in the back of the head.
The homeowner said the man continued to beat him and even mounted him to hit him.
Officers said the homeowner was carrying a gun and fired a warning shot then fired another shot in the mans neck. Doctors performed emergency surgery on Claunch, and at last check, its not clear if he is going to survive.
Frankly, the gentleman who was attacked went well beyond what he should have done in attempting to save Claunch after this unprovoked attack. Many defensive firearms experts recommend keeping your distance from someone who just attempted to kill you, as they may either be feigning the extent of their injuries, may simply not care about their injuries and attempt to re-launch their attack once youre in range.
Its worth noting that this is not the first time weve covered an attack on someone who was minding their business and doing work on their own property when attacked by an opportunistic violent criminal.
Always carry your concealed weapon, folks. Bad guys arent going to be nice enough to tell you in advance that theyre coming.
When guns are outlawed - I'll be an outlaw!
I guess this moron is white, otherwise this would be " breaking news " on all forms of main stream media.
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A starter for the Watterson High School field hockey team the last two seasons, Abby Marshall has earned the respect of her coaches and teammates by hustling to the ball and making momentum-changing plays.
A starter for the Watterson High School field hockey team the last two seasons, Abby Marshall has earned the respect of her coaches and teammates by hustling to the ball and making momentum-changing plays.
Through eight games, the sophomore midfielder had two goals, two assists and more than 100 pass interceptions to help lead the Eagles, who were 5-2-1 overall and 4-0 in the Central Ohio Field Hockey League-East Division before playing New Albany on Sept. 23 and Bexley on Sept. 24.
"Abby's an unbelievable athlete who has tremendous speed on the ball and great stick work," coach Janet Baird said. "She provides a major spark for us. When we need someone to make a big offensive or defensive play, Abby is often the one who makes it happen.
"Abby can beat people one-on-one and she's good at setting her teammates up with assists. We use her as a striker on offensive penalty corners because of her stick skills. And she plays defense on corners, too, because she has the speed and desire to hustle to the ball."
Marshall is motivated to give her best effort every game after receiving a health scare that brought her freshman season to a premature end and had her on crutches for six months, leaving her to wonder if she would play the sport again.
"I remind myself before every game that it could be my last one, and I try to do my best and live my life to its fullest because I know what it feels like to have everything suddenly taken away," she said.
Marshall might best be described as a tomboy, given that she has grown up on a five-acre farm in Galena, where she has done strenuous chores alongside her brothers, Caleb and Joseph, and has played sports with them.
She has never been one to shy away from competing against boys. She played baseball for two years and played ice hockey for six years before switching to field hockey four years ago.
"I started off in figure skating, but I wanted to play ice hockey because I wanted to check people instead of prancing around on the ice," she said. "My dad (Jeff) made me quit ice hockey because the boys were getting to be a lot bigger than me and he didn't want me to get hurt, so I started playing field hockey in sixth grade because it uses a lot of the same stick-handling skills.
"Field hockey can get pretty rough, though, and I was nicknamed 'Blood' by my teammates because I injured a lot of people at first."
Marshall not only was the lone freshman on varsity last season, but she earned a starting position. Watterson finished 19-2 a year ago, including a 16-1 record with her in the lineup.
However, Marshall began feeling pain in her left hip in August 2012 and opted not to tell her parents until last October, at which time the pain had intensified to the point where she was having trouble sleeping.
"I didn't tell anyone because I was afraid that they wouldn't let me keep playing, so I just tried to hide my pain," she said. "But the pain got so bad that I was able to sleep only one hour over a two-week period and it started to affect my grades, and that's when I knew I needed to have it checked out."
Initially diagnosed with a fractured left femur, Marshall had to sit out Watterson's final four postseason games, including its 2-1 double-overtime loss to Columbus Academy in the state final.
"That was absolutely devastating for me because I went from having this amazing experience of being an important part of our team to feeling like I had let everyone down," she said. "I came to every event and cheered my teammates on the best I could, but I was extremely upset that I couldn't be out there helping out on the field and I spent the entire month of November crying my eyes out."
Still in pain last December, Marshall went to see a second doctor, who diagnosed her as having a hip impingement and recommended a surgical procedure to repair her hip joint. It wasn't until she visited a third doctor and underwent a second MRI that a tumor was discovered in her left femur.
Two days later, the tumor was found to be benign and she underwent surgery to have it removed in early March.
"It was so scary when we found out she had a tumor in her bone," said her mother, Beverly. "When you hear the word tumor, a lot of bad thoughts such as cancer go through your mind and you fear for the worst. If it turned out to be malignant, we didn't know if she was ever going to be able to walk again, much less get back to playing field hockey."
Once off crutches in April, Marshall joined the girls track and field team to help rebuild the strength in her left leg. She also played field hockey this summer for a club team to prepare for this season.
"The whole experience was frustrating and extremely scary, but I'm so grateful that my prayers came true and the tumor wasn't cancerous," she said. "I feel like God has given me another chance, so I've been pushing myself to be my best ever since I've been able to play again."
When Marshall wasn't able to compete in field hockey, she devoted more time to helping out on her family's farm, caring for goats, rabbits, cattle and horses.
She also competed for the Delaware County Senior Equine team in Ohio 4-H events during the spring and summer, winning titles in the Ohio State Fair Horse Skillathon, the Ohio 4-H Hippology, the Ohio State Fair Senior Goat Showcase and the Ohio State Fair 15-and-under Goat Skillathon.
She helped the equine team win state titles in Ohio 4-H's Horse Bowl, Horse Judging and Hippology competitions and qualify for the All-American Quarter Horse Congress Horse Bowl and Hippology national events Oct. 15 and 16 in Columbus as well as the U.S. National Arabian Horse Judging Contest on Oct. 25 in Tulsa, Okla., and the Eastern National 4-H Horse Roundup Horse Bowl on Nov. 9 in Louisville, Ky.
"Spending time with my animals and being part of the equine team was definitely a light in those dark times for me," Marshall said. "Since I wasn't able to do field hockey, I spent an hour studying for the equine competitions each day and I spent a lot more time raising and milking our dairy goats. That's what kept me going while I was going through all of the pain and frustration of my injury."Boys golf teamplaces 4th in CCL
The boys golf team shot a 330 to finish fourth in the CCL postseason tournament Sept. 21 at Cooks Creek, behind St. Charles (304), DeSales (318) and Hartley (328) and ahead of and Ready (448).
David Shepherd led the Eagles with an 81, followed by Seth Cones (82), Nick Naderhoff (83), Nick DiCello (84), Brian Sapp (86) and Phil Campisi (87).
Watterson was seeded eighth of 22 teams in the district and competed in the 11-team Division II sectional Sept. 30 at The Players Club at Foxfire. The top three teams and top three individuals not on a qualifying team qualified for the district Monday, Sept. 30, at River Greens.
The top three teams and top three individuals not on a qualifying team at district advance to state Oct. 11 and 12 at NorthStar.
Last year, Watterson placed third at district when only the top two teams advanced to state.Football team getsset to face LaSalle
The football team will be looking to end its three-game losing streak when it travels to Cincinnati LaSalle on Friday, Sept. 27.
Watterson was held to 71 total yards in a 17-0 loss to Cincinnati Winton Woods on Sept. 20, as it fell to 1-3.
The Eagles lost to LaSalle 35-16 last season and 28-3 in 2011. The Lancers, who lost their final five games after playing Watterson last year to finish 4-6, lost to Fort Wayne (Ind.) Dwenger 31-24 on Sept. 20 to drop to 3-1.
LaSalle, which is averaging 44.2 points, is led by sophomore quarterback Nick Watson (43-for-66 passing, 478 yards, 10 TDs), senior running back LeRon Brock (33 carries, 232 yards, 1 TD), junior wide receiver Kevin Ferguson (19 receptions, 300 yards, 3 TDs) and 6-foot-5, 200-pound senior wide receiver Derek Kief (14 receptions, 147 yards, 3 TDs).
Kief has verbally committed to the University of Alabama.
The Eagles have been led by junior quarterback Sam Maglicic (15-for-55 passing for 165 yards, 1 TD and 96 yards rushing), senior wide receiver Ryan Urquhart (5 receptions, 95 yards, 1 TD) and senior running back Walter Green (125 yards rushing).
Seniors Cody Calhoun (DB), Kyle Fada (DL), Eli Kirk (LB) and Patrick Pirrman (DB) have been leading the defense.Girls soccer teamearns tie with Lions
The girls soccer team was 5-0-4 overall and 2-0 in the CCL before playing Columbus School for Girls on Sept. 23.
The Eagles tied Gahanna at 1 on Sept. 21 on a goal by midfielder Emily Ganz and four saves by goalkeeper Marissa Wierzbicki.


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December 15, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 22
Auto makers contest passive restraint rule, calling it "impracticable"
Class action suit filed against Ford for defective lower control arms
NHSB proposes 95 mph speed control plan, ignoring own study
DOT's bumper rule would leave room for state laws
Nader pushes to toughen NHSB consumer information program
NHSB staff use of "test cars" prompts Senate query
Manufacturers' warranty cuts may undercut defect notifications
Study shows roadside obstacles responsible for a third or more Vermont highway fatalities
Oral surgeons' survey shows children suffer preventable injuries due to lack of safety belts and other simple safety measures
Bus operators association wants exemption from tire spray protectors rule
NHSB alcohol campaign to combat drinking and driving available
December 1, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 21
NHSB bumper standard would result in minimal safety protection and no significant reduction in property damage
Law student group SMASH calls NHSB proposal "totally inadequate"
Researchers see need for improved hospital care of crash victims
Germany and Japan to develop prototype safety vehicles under DOT agreement
Toughened brake criteria proposed by NHSB
Nader urges Senate to restore House cuts in NHSB budget
NHSB requires manufacturers to maintain purchase records on tire sales in case of recall
November 17, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 20
Passive restraint requirement extended, protection due July 1, 1973
New minimum side door strength rule issued
DOT authority power puts bumper bill in doubt
NHSB seeks court penalty against GM in wheel case
Federal ruling against GM marks turning point in auto safety
GM school bus operators warned of brake hazard
EG&G to conduct Institute crash tests
NHSB publishes comparison guides for consumers
Uniform code subcommittee approves stiffer alcohol laws
Institute film "...In the crash" now available for rent
NHSB proposes broadened steering column rule
October 30, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 19
Expansive interview with NHSB Director Toms: no 'magic' in 1973 passive restraint deadline, also covers the following:
Ford lower control arms
Consumer complaints
Reducing property damage
Governors' representatives
Highway safety standards
Resignation reports
The Bureau's role
IIHS chairman named to NHSB advisory committee
October 15, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 18
NHSB steps backward on occupant protection standards, airbags not a must
Rules proposed for seats, accelerators, brake fluid
DOT alerts Ford owners of control arm hazard but does not fully inform them
Consumer group first to petition NHSB, requests "zero-burn rate" standard for vehicles
Volkswagen developing experimental car designed to prevent injury in a 50mph head-on collision
GM to be investigated for "black book" policy, offering reduced cost for auto repairs to insistent customers. Critics feel policy could be in lieu of disclosure of safety issues.
October 1, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 17
Far reaching House bill to use Highway Trust Fund for state and local demonstration projects and more
New Chairman for public works may bring aggressive highway safety measures
Interview: AK and GA state highway safety reps discuss funding, standards, NHSB policies, and other issues
Nader urges DOT to reopen Ford control arm case, Sec. Volpe requests analysis
NHSB investigation shows higher number of Ford control arm contacts than reported earlier
GM denies NHSB claim and says truck wheels safe but offers no new data
NHSB mobile inspection van ready for rural car inspections
September 15, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 16
DOT broadens scope on 'passive restraint' rule, air bags are not the only answer
Passive restraint paper submissions at NATO-sponsored conference available
Bill seeks low speed crash-cost rating of cars
Without federal rules or laws Detroit automakers will not improve bumper performance
California bumper legislation efforts die
Ford lower control arm recall stirs questions about why only for police cars, not all
NTSB chairman discusses agency role and issues
DOT probing Nader's rollover and heating charges against GM
A 'Status Report' editorial: Consumer information requirement needs improvement
September 1, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 15
Ford control arm recall for police cars only
NHSB docket case: citizen reports control arm failure
Pennsylvania bus crash spurs federal action
NTSB warning: school buses badly built
Four bills authorize trust fund money for highway safety
August 17, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 14
'Air bags': state of the argument
An 18-year chronology
DOT officials
State officials
Third parties
Hartman's slot emerges as number two at NHSB
DOT makes $67.1 million available for State safety
Small cars found not so 'economical' in crashes
NHSB proposes trailer hitch standards
A new film: '1970 low speed crash costs'
DOT insurance study--'a shift in focus and priorities'
August 3, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 13
NHSB drafts four year plan for vehicle safety standards on:
crash loss reduction
tires, wheels
crash causation
used vehicles
Florida 'bumper law' lacks penalty provisions
NHSB now requires power windows be unusable when vehicles are not running
NHSB proposes tire industry keep records to aid defect notifications
Board urges safety feature rating system
Washington Post Op-ed on slow NHSB response to safety issues
July 21, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 12
DOT agency says $820 million needed to remove interstate hazards
Bumper bill becomes bumper law in FL
Court tells NHSB to reopen truck tire defect case
BMCS passes safety belts law for truck and bus drivers
Greyhound takes court decision to Supreme Court
Texas gets emergency medical assistance from US Army helicopters
Probe on effects of truck weight and size limits urged
Alcohol testing bills have trouble in Michigan
"Professionals for Auto Safety" pushing air bag requirements
July 7, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 11
DOT signs contracts to build safety vehicles
Toms to leave NHSB
ESV: how much to repair?
NHSB launches drunk driving countermeasures
Government asked to buy cars with air bags
Truckers against safety belts for their drivers
NHSB budget cut by House
California safety group questions auto quality control standards
Excerpt from Science Magazine on priorities of social policy
June 16, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 10
Insurance industry studies crash-cost reduction strategies
IIHS 1970 crash tests made public
Bumper bills introduced in the House and Senate
Low-speed safety hazards
IIHS previews crash tests on ''Today" show
IIHS identifies severe failures in probe of Ford lower control arms
Legal action urged against unsafe automobiles
Recommendations on auto safety and improvement for industry insurers
May 20, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 9
Proposed 1970 highway act calls for fund changes
NSAC urges alcohol pre-arrest test demonstration project
Auto manufacturers and DOT at odds on passive restraint (air bag) availability deadline
California joins Florida in considering better bumper bills
May 4, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 8
National Safety Council urging better bumpers
Florida may legislate bumper standards
Regional safety R & T centers proposed
Passive restraint conference set
DOT balks at Nader suit, says exemption position "unreviewable"
Broadcasters' code acts on 16 TV ads
Associations launch "Booby Trapped Highways" campaign to identify roadside hazards
NHSB proposes standard to strengthen side doors
Dr. Robert Kaye named BMCS director
Study says systems upgrade needed to keep suspended drivers off the road
April 17, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 7
House-Senate conference comes to NHSB funding bill and changes in Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966
Michigan considering U.K. "breath test" alcohol law
Chrysler endorses bumper standardization at NHSB meeting
Nader fights standard compliance exemptions
Child seats required beginning Jan. 1, 1971
April 2, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 6
Crash-related loss data showing heavy cars are much safer than small cars passed to Senate
Volpe signs NHSB transfer order, NHSB to be independent
INSERT: On-the-Spot Drunk Driving Tests
NTSB urges minimum safety standards for all interstates
Conference set on H.R. 10105, bill granting NHSB authorizations
Police officials denounce "Dodge Safety Sheriff" commercials
Speno to chair National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory Council
Program guides focusing on highway loss reduction measures scheduled for publication
NHSB proposing safety belt standard changes
"60 Minutes" bumper film available
March 16, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 5
National Highway Advisory urges safety conferences and issues 'priorities' report
NHSB to hear comments on proposed bumper standards
NHSB completes dealer info survey, results show improvement
Mini-cars might face NHSB standards
Standards for retread tires to be effective mid-1971
Road loss films realized
Smoking on buses "hazardous"
Do government requirements "hamper competition and increase prices"?
Engineer Jackson Wong joins IIHS
Rail-highway deaths at 1,505
March 3, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 4
State safety reps forecast gloomy prospects with feds 'new money' spending plan
"Hot cars" cooling off? Muscle cars on the way out
Nader's 'Face the Nation' comments about the insurance industry
NHSB sets meeting on bumper effectiveness
Transportation Secretary OK with R&T facility funding limit
NHSB releases manual to assist local governments in grant qualification
DOT to investigate Ford frame complaints
February 17, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 3
NHSB reorganization delayed
Senator Kennedy questions DOT on school bus safety
NH turnpike crash hearing records to be made available
New DOT test facility won't be for safety
MI Senator sends DOT 2000 more repair complaints, requests analysis
For nation's capital, no implied consent rule
New DOT appointee
Newly proposed hazardous materials regulations
February 2, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 2
House committees disagree on DOT funding formulas
DOT checks auto dealers for consumer info compliance
Evaluation of safety programs needed to save more lives
Nader questions DOT policies
Nat'l Association of Motor Bus Owners challenges tire regrooving, other rules
Nixon appoints NHSAC members
DOT considers new vehicle safety standards
Low-speed VW crash costs described
NTSB against size-weight bill
New DOT officials announced
January 15, 1970 |Volume 5, Number 1
Auto dealers spot checked on new consumer info rule
Highway safety funds for fiscal '70 finalized
State role in vehicle safety regulation upheld
All state safety programs ok'd by DOT
NTSB to hold first hearing on NJ Turnpike highway crash
O'Neill joins IIHS
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VATICAN CITY — At the formal start of his papacy, Pope Francis offered a passionate pledge Tuesday to serve ''the poorest, the weakest, the least important,'' striking the same tones of humility that have marked the days since he was elected last week.
On a raised and canopied throne on a platform looking out from St. Peter's Basilica to the piazza in front of it, the pope enjoined those in temporal power to protect the world and ''not allow omens of destruction and death to accompany the advance of this world.''
"Today, too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others,'' he added to frequent applause from some among the tens of thousands of people cramming the square and the broad avenue leading to it from the River Tiber. The Vatican estimated the number at 150,000 to 200,000.
Clearly defining his vision of his own role, he quoted from scriptural texts to say that as bishop of Rome, he was endowed with ''a certain power.''
But he went on: ''Let us never forget that authentic power is service and that the pope, too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the cross.''
His words, for some, found an echo.
"This is why we are all here, his warmth,'' said Andreina Baldi, 58, a housewife from Rome, at the end of Francis's homily.
"He just said that we should all open our arms to welcome God's people, anybody, the poor, the youngest, those in jail. And he is already doing so. He wouldn't stop kissing a baby in his tour on the pope-mobile earlier, right here, in front of me,'' she said.
Francis, 76, was elected last Wednesday as the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church to replace the far more formal and reserved Benedict XVI, 85, the first pope in 600 years to resign. Francis is the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from Latin America. But the main clue to his likely approach to a troubled office beset by scandals over governance, sexual abuse, and financial mismanagement lay in his decision to take his papal name from St. Francis of Assisi, who embraced the poor. Until last Wednesday he was Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires.
The installation Mass on Tuesday, before crowds of well-wishers, pilgrims, and sightseers, drew heads of state from his native Argentina to Zimbabwe.
For most of those assembled in St. Peter's Square, the first glimpse of Francis on Tuesday came when he arrived among them below the soaring facade of St. Peter's, standing in the rear of a white open-air vehicle rather than a covered version of the traditional pope-mobile protected by bulletproof glass.
He wore simple white robes, halted to kiss a baby in the crowd, and walked among the faithful. At one point, he gave supporters a thumbs-up sign, drawing laughter. He stopped to kiss a disabled man on the forehead, and people in the square said he seemed relaxed.
Security officers flanked his vehicle and a strong contingent of Italian police mingled with the crowd around Francis, who is the son of Italian immigrants.
Earlier, Francis entered St. Peter's Basilica to prepare for the two-hour installation Mass in the square outside, praying at the tomb of St. Peter flanked by prelates of the Eastern churches and then walking along the vast marble interior to appear again before the throngs waiting for the service.
Offering a clear signal of his own ambitions for his papacy, Francis asked: ''How does Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly, and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand,'' the pope said.
''Please, I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political, and social life, and all men and women of good will: Let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.''


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Fees vary from one Chamber of Commerce to the next. The fee structure is usually a sliding scale based on the member organization's number of employees or annual revenues. The joining business is considered the member of the Chamber of Commerce, so all employees of that business effectively become members.Should complaints about businesses be filed with the Chamber of Commerce?
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WILLIAMSBURG —— The holidays are coming fast and Smokey is growing and getting his winter coat. I saddled up mom and took her out for a ride and him while the weather was nice. Along the way, he got to feeling frisky and tried to get off the lead rope several times. He did get it wrapped around him and turned until he managed to sit down on the ground. I bailed off of Lightning and grabbed him.
He pushed me with his nose and and held up one hind leg so I picked it up to see if he was OK. It was a short ride today. When I made the mistake of taking the lead rope off of him, he turned and started home at a trot. I couldn't get old mom to stand still long enough to get back on so around we went several times while Smokey headed home. I found a big rock and got on it and jumped on her. She took off. I told her, "whoa girl, let me get my feet into the stirrups."
This was funny. I was hanging on while she was on the run. When Smokey ran down the hill and over a ditch. While jumping at several cars driving by on the road, he watched the cars, which were honking at him by this time. Smokey was in a full run and old mom just couldn't catch him. Head and tail in air, she and I were racing behind him. Just as we got to the top, I reached over to grab the halter and he jumped the ridge and ran down the gravel road. This was more than a mile from home. A jeep stopped on the road then moved when he saw us coming.
"Hey Dot, you'll never catch him," the driver said. "I think he's got race horse in him."
The driver was laughing and I was racing on his mother. Smokey turned down the road to go home. When he saw some kids, he slammed on the brakes and I caught up to him. I bailed off Lightning and grabbed Smokey and put the rope back on.
The kids came over to the fence and petted him. And Lightning's boy is fast. They asked, "how old is he?"
I said, "not quite 4 months.'" They laughed then said, "what a runner he is." They asked his name.
"Lil' Smokey," I answered.
They just loved him and old mom stepped in between them and Smokey. I said, "she is still very protective of him."
The weather got bad and I took off the halter and told Smokey, "no more, Buddy. We can't catch you. You're too fast for us."
It snowed for a few days, and then on Thanksgiving morning when I opened the door, I saw both of them waiting for me to feed them. The picture was perfect so I took it. What a touching moment for mother and son.


text: Hello, It seemed that you had got a very good example for GPGPU. As I said before, it's not the time for GPGPU to do the DP calculation at the moment. If you can bear SP computation, you will find more about it. NVidia just sent me some special offer about their Tesla platforms, which said that the workstation equipped with two GTX280 level professional cards costs about $5000, not bad. But my intention is still to lower the core frequency of a gaming card, and use it for computation. Regards, Li, Bo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikhail Kuzminsky" <kus at free.net> To: "Kozin, I (Igor)" <i.kozin at dl.ac.uk> Cc: <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:34 AM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] gpgpu >I performed some simplest estimation for possible performance > improvements using "dgemm on FirerStream 9250". > It's extremally good for GPGPU example. > > The source data for 9250: peak DP performance 200 GFLOPS, GDDR3 RAM 1 > Gbyte. > > 1 Gbyte can hold 3 DP(64 bit) matrixes (n x n) for n=6000 - they > require 864 Mbytes. > Let me suppose that real performance of FireStream will be 90% of peak > value (I'm afraid, that reality will be more bad), i.e. 180 GFLOPS. > > dgemm requires 2*n^3 FP operations (I neglect n^2 operations for > matrix addition and scaling), i.e. 432 GFLOP > The calculation time will be 432/180 = 2.4 sec > > We'll need for dgemm calculation also 4 matrix transmissions: 3 to > GPGPU, 1 - from GPGPU to main memory of server. > It's 1152 Gbytes of data. > > For PCI-e x16 v.2 peak throughput value is 8 GB/s, therefore > transmission time will be about 0.144 sec (I don't know what may be > real throughput for PCIe). > > The total calc. time is therefore about 2.54 sec. > > On dual socket quad core Xeon server w/3 Ghz E5472 (8 cores) the peak > performance is 96 GFLOPS. Parallelized dgemm will give, I believe, > about 80% of peak - i.e. 77 GFLOPS; therefore calcualtion time is > 432/77= 5.6 sec. > > Speedup is 2.2 times. Price increase - I don't know, for example from > $4500 to $6500 (if Firestream costs $2000, but may be $1000 as Igor > Kozin wrote here), it's about 1.4 times. > > But I think there will be not too many job which require matrix > multiplication for *dense* matrixes w/such large (6000 x 6000) sizes; > for sparse matrixes the dimensions, I beleive, will be lower. > > Mikhail > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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For more results of Senior Care in Los Angeles,California click here: http://us.wowcity.com/losangeles/?what=Senior%20Care
Sometimes senior citizens are able to live normal lives and care for themselves, but as most people age, they need care takers at some point.Care taking an aging parent, while trying to handle your other responsibilities is often as difficult as the parent who raises the child alone and struggles to provide proper care and attention. Life moves in these cycles, through time.No one wants to live with, and take care of an old person who is ill and generally difficult deal with due to physical and emotional problems, that often require more care than they can provide. It is hard to see someone you love slip away. With the aid of a good home care provider, the burden is eased, yet some of these people leave a lot to be desired.


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Sometimes, the best bits of data analysis are the simplest ones. Like this gem, uncovered by The Economist yesterday, which shows the average number of minutes you need to work in order to afford a beer.
The data was actually put together by researchers from the bank UBS, so I reckon we can trust the figures. Clearly, there's reason to be cheerful: the data shows that an average American has to work for about six minutes to earn a beer. Compare that to the UK where it's more like 15 minutes, or India where it's upwards of 50, and you can deservedly feel smug. [Economist]
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LOWELL -- Watching the 3-foot-long rover inching up Mount Cosmo, the hill in a sandpit at NASA's training center in Houston under the glittering sun last Thursday, Eric McCann could only bite his nails.
The big fan mounted onto the rover was blowing as it should to cool down the computer on the vehicle in the 100-degree weather. The 12 external devices were securely plugged into the main body, helping the rover seamlessly function as a robot. But one wrong move by the "driver" controlling the rover from 3,000 miles away at UMass Lowell could ruin McCann's and fellow engineering students' chances at winning the robotic competition.
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"Poor robot," McCann remembers telling himself as the rover began shoveling a big rock.
In the end, though, their efforts to minimize the amount of data to be transmitted succeeded when weak cellular signals brought other teams' robots to a screeching halt.
"We were the only team whose robot didn't actually break down," said James Dalphond, computer science Ph.D. student from Dracut, who served as the team leader.
The experience of winning a NASA challenge to build a Mars rover-style robot is leaving McCann wanting to use his computer skills to help planetary missions more.
"It's hard not to enjoy this sort of things," said McCann, an Acton resident who is wrapping up his master's program in computer science.
Rover Hawks, a team of 24 UMass Lowell engineering students, is celebrating its success after winning first place in the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Exploration Robo-ops Competition on Thursday. Hosted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the competition allowed only eight teams selected by the agency to enter. The Lowell team will receive $6,000 in cash as a prize, which it plans to use to buy a machine to make metal parts for future robot competitions, according to professor Holly Yanco at the Computer Science Department.
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Taking second place was University of Maryland, followed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
The competition required each team to remotely control its rover for demonstrations in Houston from June 4 through June 6. Three of the UMass Lowell team members were at the testing ground but had to stay at least 20 feet away from the rover during the demonstrations, said McCann, who was one of the three.
The local team comprised four graduate students and 20 undergraduate students, with Yanco acting as faculty adviser for the team. One of the graduate students heard about the competition in November and the group decided to take on the challenge together as part of a class, Dalphond said. NASA selected their proposal, contributing $10,000 in funding to help build the robot.
The team built a rigid, stable chassis to enable the rover to roam around all types of terrain, from sand and gravel pits to rocky hills. NASA also required all the rovers to be able to pick up a rock and store it within the robots.
NASA won't be using the winning team's robot for its mission on Mars, but the agency wants engineering students to think about such uses of technologies and developing expertise, Dalphond said.
Dalphond said it was challenging to take the project from the designing/drawing phase to the completion in several months. That is because there are so many factors to think about and expertise to use. The team mounted many cameras onto the rover but gave the controllers the ability to select only one at a time to limit the amount of data to be transmitted. That way, they could minimize the chance of losing cellular connections, Dalphond said.
The team also had to consider how much energy the rover should pull from its battery to avoid an electrical fire.
"Finding the balance between being safe and being able to move was another difficult thing that we didn't get straightened out until the 11th hour," McCann said.
The team's success comes four months after the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center at UMass Lowell opened at 1001 Pawtucket Blvd. in February.
Complete with sand and gravel pits and rock yards, the facility allows students and research teams to test their robots designed for various purposes from disaster rescue work to aiding the disabled, according to Yanco.
Yanco said the team participating in the RASC-AL competition practiced "quite a bit" at the facility to tweak the rover. They also controlled the rover from the center for the demonstrations. But she believes it was the team spirit of the 24 students that helped them win first place in the end.