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The firm has a wide range of experience in international child custody and support. It has had the fortune of having been engaged in cases involving the selective application of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspect of International Child Abduction in multi state and multi nationality situations, involving either the Philippines as the country of destination or a Filipino national as the abductor or the child involved. These cases have presented complicated conflicts of laws issues which remain to be gray areas in Philippine Family Law, especially considering the abiding refusal of the Philippines to accede to the Hague Convention.
Locally, the firm has seen to trial cases involving very complicated issues of jurisdicition and other substantive matters impinging on the application of R.A. 9262, otherwise known as the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children, the principal and anciliary remedies thereof as they interplay with the child custody provisions of the Civil Code and the circulars of the
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
* Kid's Science - Exploring Hand Bones Glove Project
So we finished up our Smart Summer Challenge
Me on the Map week,
talking about bones and how floppy we'd be without them!
I introduced the girls to an experiment
we used for "E"s Doctor-themed birthday party a few years ago.
I made two "hands" out of surgical gloves.
I filled one with flour.
That was our floppy, "boneless" hand.
Then, I filled the other glove with flour
and popsicle stick "bones"
You could also use a rubber dish washing glove.
"C" feeling the "bones" inside the glove.
This is her face when I said they were real bones inside....
she said, "Really?!"
Then mean mommy told her, no, just popsicle sticks.
Squeezing bones.
Floppy, boneless hand.
"C" decided it's good we have bones so we're not this squishy.
Checking to see if you can see the bones
on the light table.
Be careful with your squeezing,
we squeezed our bone hand a bit too hard
and got a small flour leak!
We also looked for finger and toe bones with flashlights
(we shined them through our fingers and saw little veins!)
Here's our Q-tip hand from the beginning of the week
We're planning to dig out some old x-rays to look at
on the light table this afternoon.
Happy Exploring!
This post is part of the Smart Summer Challenge.
"Like" our Smart Summer Challenge on Facebook,
find out more about the Smart Summer Challenge
and grab our free calendar of summer learning ideas.
Go visit our other hostesses,
Candace, over at Naturally Educational
My friend Amy, over at TeachMama.com.
We're posting fun ideas all week
to explore Me on the Map with your own kids!
Please come back and join us Tomorrow (Friday, July 1st)
for our weekly Smart Summer Linky,
share YOUR own Smart Summer Challenge ideas and posts
with other parents and teachers.
You'll be entered for a chance to win a $100 credit to your local book shop
or toy store of choice, thanks to one of our sponsors, Juice in the City.
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Labels: Create, Explore, Popsicle Sticks, Preschool, School Age, Science, Smart Summer Challenge
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
* "All About Me" Personalized Eye Spy Rice Bottle
The girls and I love to make our own
So, as one of our
Smart Summer Challenge Week One:
Me on the Map activities,
we decided to make personalized
All About Me Eye Spy rice bottles.
"C" loves pink and all things girly.
So we made a little batch of
pink and purple rice for her bottle.
To make the colored rice,
we mixed white rice with
liquid food coloring and a few pumps
of alcohol-based hand sanitizer
in some zip-lock bags.
To get nice strong colors, we used
A LOT of food coloring!
We let it dry on a paper towel lined dish.
We collected things that represent her personality....
lots of little kitty buttons and toys,
tiny pink flowers,
pink glittery beads and pink jewels,
a couple of tiny pink butterflies,
and her name in pink and purple letter beads
strung on a piece of pink cord.
After everything's in the bottle,
add a dab of glue to the lid and twist on.
I wish we had tiny photos of the girls to put inside
or mini shrinky-dink "portraits" of them!
How fun would that be?!
"E" went with a blue and green theme.
She had frogs, snails,
turquoise and lime green buttons,
cool beads, and bug buttons in hers
since she's my nature girl.
This post is part of the Smart Summer Challenge.
Check out our other hostesses,
Candace over at Naturally Educational
My teacher friend Amy, at TeachMama.com
Visit us throughout the week for fun ideas
to explore Me on the Map with your own kids!
Please come back and join us on Friday, July 1st
for our weekly Smart Summer Linky,
with other parents and teachers.
You'll be entered for a chance to win a $100 credit to your local book shop
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Clay, Create, Diorama, Egg Carton Fun, Explore, Homemade Toys, Play, Play Dough, Popsicle Sticks, Preschool, Printable, Sensory Box, Smart Summer Challenge, Weaving
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
* Homemade Light Table Transparencies: Human Body Layers
My old artist's light table is a favorite playroom toy in our house.
We play with seashells, glass stones, gems, and clear plastic blocks on it all the time.
I was inspired by this week's Smart Summer Challenge: Me on the Map
to create some human body transparencies for the girls to play with on the light table.
To make them, we got out our handy dandy roll of clear contact paper.
Then, "E" helped me trace the layers of our Belduc Little Girl Human Anatomy Puzzle
with a black, fine tip, Sharpie (permanent marker.)
You could also use a children's anatomy book,
or free hand it if you're feeling brave and adventurous!
# 1. The little girl with clothes layer.
#2. The naked girl with skin layer.
As you can see, after we traced each layer with permanent marker on the non-sticky side,
we peeled off the paper backing and carefully
"colored in" the pictures with bits of colored craft tissue paper.
Then, I carefully sandwiched the tissue and sticky contact paper
with another piece of sticky clear contact paper and trimmed the uneven edges.
Here's our little girl with clothes layer, "colored in" with tissue paper.
Here are the 4 little girls on our light table.
Little girl with clothes.
Naked little girl with skin.
Organs layer little girl.
Skeleton layer little girl.
Layered girl on the light table.
She's pretty cool and fun to play with!
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I think we'll make her some more "outfits" and a layered see-through cat
(with cat anatomy layers) for my little cat lover in the house!
The light table play evolved into playing with our awesome
Magnetic blocks...the girls built a really cool Rainbow Castle together.
And...."E" made this awesome Snail stained glass with tissue and contact paper.
He's going up in her window.
This post is part of the Smart Summer Challenge.
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Labels: Create, Draw, Explore, Homemade Toys, Markers, Play, Preschool, School Age, Science, Sensory Box, Smart Summer Challenge
Monday, June 27, 2011
* Life-Sized Body Map Kid's Art Project
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The girls and I kicked off
Week 1: Me on the Map of the
Smart Summer Challenge by making
Life-Sized Body Maps today!
We started out by tracing ourselves on
big pieces of brown contractor's paper.
Then, we traced over our pencil outlines
with crayola marker.
"C" chose Pink (of course)
and "E" chose black.
We collected a stack of "E"s human body and anatomy books.
Then, we got to work making
organs and bones.
"C" drew the brain first,
she knew where it goes and talked
about Daddy's brain tumor...
for more info on that one, see the post on my sidebar
Cutting out organs from construction paper
It was really neat watching "C"'s "A-Ha!" moments
as she figured out where her heart is,
that her skeleton holds her up so she's not floppy,
where her intestines are,
and that's where poop comes from! : )
White masking tape formed bones.
"C" was fascinated by the spine.
We talked about back bones while we were visiting
the Natural History Museum in Washington DC
on Saturday -- standing in the dinosaur room
she was asking about their spines,
so I bent over and had her feel all of the bumps on mine.
She remembered that today when we started making
the spine on her "body map"
We used bubble wrap for lungs since
they're full of little air chambers/pockets.
Q-tips made really good finger bones
(but they're hard to cut so mom needed to do that,
didn't want to chop off any real fingers while
making pretend fingers!)
Crepe paper streamers were used for the intestines.
Noodle teeth.
"E" is still working on hers,
she wanted to save it to finish with her friend
that is coming over for a play date tomorrow morning.
Wonder what her friend's mom will think?!
This post is part of the Smart Summer Challenge.
Candace, one of our hostesses, over at Naturally Educational and her kids
made adorable life-sized, painted, self portraits today!
My friend Amy, our other hostess, over at TeachMama.com,
has all kinds of fun up her sleeve this week too!
Visit us throughout the week for fun ideas
to explore Me on the Map with your own kids!
Please come back and join us on Friday, July 1st
for our weekly Smart Summer Linky,
with other parents and teachers.
You'll be entered for a chance to win a $100 credit to your local book shop
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Create, Explore, Mixed Media, Preschool, School Age, Science, Smart Summer Challenge
Saturday, June 25, 2011
* Pink and Green Mama Crafts: Exploring MORE Great Artists Volume 2 eBook
My all time best selling set of lesson plans is "Exploring Great Artists Volume 1",
by popular demand here is my latest ebook,
Exploring MORE Great Artists Volume 2
Now you can learn Art History with your kids
and create your own masterpieces
in the style of great artists past and present at home (or in your classroom!)
Included in this 79-page PDF formatted ebook
are 13 complete (easy to follow) art lessons
featuring the works of 10 More Great Artists
for only $10.00
Featuring all new art projects in the style of the following great artists:
Franz Marc
Wayne Thiebaud
Joan Miro
Edvard Munch
Frank Lloyd Wright
Jasper Johns
Andy Goldsworthy
Piet Mondrian
Claes Oldenberg
* An Art History Lesson and background information about each featured artist.
* Supply Lists
* Full-Color Photos of Actual Student Art Work
* Detailed Step-by-Step Photo Directions
These lessons can be done on a one-on-one basis
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with several children at once.
These lessons are a wonderful way to
supplement a home-schooling curriculum
or to add some art history to your classroom!
This collection is a great sequel to my
You can do several lessons at once, like a camp experience;
but I recommend spreading them out over a period of several days/weeks.
Use this eBook curriculum in whatever way works best for your schedule.
Many of the supplies for these projects
will come from your own art and craft supply stash,
and some will even come from your own back yard!
The PDF book is designed to be printed out
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or you can read it directly from your own home or classroom computer screen.
Packed with supply lists for each project, lesson plans,
photos of each completed project, step-by-step instructions,
photos of actual student artwork,
and background information about each artist;
this 79-page Art Lesson eBook
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This $10.00 Art Lesson Collection includes:
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VIII.87 The Committee, recognising the continued and increasing threats posed to the marine and terrestrial flora and fauna of the Islands, urged the State Party to make all efforts to finalise the specific regulations under the Special Law and enforce them as soon as possible. The Committee commended the ruling by the State Party's Constitutional Court to uphold the Galapagos Special Law. It also commended the Ecuadorian Government for supporting the "Sea Shepherd" patrols in the Galapagos Marine Reserve, as well as efforts to protect the marine ecosystem in the Reserve. The Committee also commended the Smart Voyager initiative, given the nature of tourism visitation to the Galapagos and the impacts of tourism on the fragile environment and in light of the proposed Marine Reserve. It believed that consideration should be given to promoting similar schemes in other World Heritage sites. The Committee furthermore noted that the sea lion incident demonstrates the need to enhance the capacity of the Park to reinforce patrolling and control of the Islands.
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"Aliens Cause Global Warming" is a rather interesting speech given by Michael Crichton which may have you thinking hard about your opinions on such things as global warming and the danger of secondhand smoke.
We often base our own views on controversial subjects on our understanding of what most experts think, but this sort of reasoning is fallacious, even if we don't have a real alternative.
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Oh, so now you're probably gonna beat me to the patent office too --!
Not street legal in China? Any idea why they aren't?
I suspect David means that those vehicles are not street legal in the US, not that they are not street legal in China.
Here's an interesting little tidbit related to battery power:
Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery
To quote Will Smith from Independence Day, "I gotta get me one of dese!"
Uh, those that challenge the current orthodox are refuted quite often, but it takes quite an investment of time to refute every claim when thousands are made. It would be better if every individual had the critical thinking skills and skepticism to determine who was being honest. A pipe dream, I know =(
There are many things we can agree on with respect to science. Some "consensus" science from my field related to hematopoietic neoplasia and genetic abnormalities -
t(9;22) is a recurring abnormality in CML
t(15;17) is is a recurring abnormality in APL
t(8;14) is a recurring abnormality in Burkitt lymphoma
and many others.
With respect to global warming-
Here is the problem I see with everything that I ever hear in the Global Warming debate: Everyone who wants to blame humans focus on the fact that the earth is heating up. Whenever I research where humans are NOT to blame, I see facts about how the earth is heating up, why, the history of it, how it has happened in the past before the industrial age, how CO2 levels always follow temperature change (as opposed to leading it), things of that nature.
I have a tenancy to put Climate Change and Pharmaceuticals in the same category: Whenever there is money to be made in science, you have to look at the "science" very carefully. I'm sorry, but Carbon Taxes, high gas prices and pill pushing AMA doctors that refuse to even learn the most basic things about how the body processes foods, the suppression of cancer cures because it will cost Big Pharm too much profit (look up the film Burzynski if you don't know about THIS government debocle) all make me highly suspicious of people like Al Gore pushing an agenda that will make him millions of dollars.
After all, you really have to wonder why the gas companies are reporting record profits while receiving over $70 billion (yes, that is with a "B") in subsidies (2002-2008 - thanks so much, "W") while traditional renewables only received slightly over $12 billion over that same time frame. Why is there not a push to get people in the southern half of the US to use solar power for water heating (after all, that is 20% of our energy use)? It saves energy, creates jobs, cuts those dreaded "greenhouse gases", and yet no one seems to care about that. Why? Because it's not a huge money making industry.
Bottom line is this: when there is big money to be made, you really have to pay attention to the details. Is our climate changing? Of course, you're an idiot if you think the climate always stays the same. Is man more than 2% responsible? Now THAT is the question you have to ask. To put the emphasis on the first proves that you are trying to NOT answer the second.
I would think from a scientific standpoint that any smoke that enters your lungs is certainly not a good thing or even remotely beneficial.
Well, some anti-smokers have been passing around the "information" that second-hand smoke is worse than smoking directly is. That sounds false on the face of it. I'm not saying it's false, I'm saying that a statement like that is false in my mind till proven true.
I would have to ask for the research data that supports that claim. It would be hard to imagine how all the chemicals directly inhaled into one's lungs via a cigarette on the lips could be less harmful than ingesting the smoke wafting through a room.


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Pine Creek WMA covers 10,280 acres and is located in McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties approximately 7 miles North of Valliant, Oklahoma. The WMA is adjacent to Little River and Pine Creek Lake. Habitat consists of mature stands of hardwoods in the bottom land areas to hardwood/pine tree mixes in some areas as well as large stands of mostly pine located through the area. Some of the area is old farm field habitat that is maintained through intensive management practices. The variety of trees include six species of oak as well as ash, hickory, pine, river birch, willow, as well as sand plum, holly, sumac, and a great variety of grasses and legumes. Soil types vary from deep sand to rocky and the area is part of the Kiamichi Uplift. The average annual precipitation for the area is 53 inches.
WMA Driving Directions: From Valliant: 8 miles north on Pine Creek Rd to lake.
Game Species of Interest:
Quail: Bobwhite quail are present in low numbers.
Black Bear: Same as statewide.
Deer: Whitetail deer are present in good numbers but are highly sought after.
Turkey: Eastern wild turkeys are present in fair numbers but are highly sought after.
Rabbit: Both cottontails and swamp rabbits are abundant, with cottontails being more common.
Furbearers: Coyote, bobcat, beaver, mink, and raccoon are available.
Dove: Dove are usually present in fair during the migration.
Waterfowl: Goose numbers are low but duck numbers can be fair on the open water.
River Otters: Same as statewide.
Nongame Species of Interest:
Bald eagle: Eagles winter at Pine Creek Lake and travel the Little River Basin.
Description of Fish and Wildlife Management Practices:
Approximately 250 acres of food plots are planted yearly. Management practices such as burning, plowing, and bush hogging are used to provide quality native plant food resources and to maintain habitat diversity. Pine Creek WMA has plenty of water sources for all game and non-game species.
Camping and Facilities:
Camping is allowed at primitive sites on the management area with food and lodging available in Valliant. The Corps of Engineers Pine Creek Lake project office also offers year round camping with full utilities at some very scenic campsites. The C.O.E. phone number is: 580-933-4239.
Fishing Opportunities:
Fishing opportunities exist at Pine Creek Lake both on the main water and below the dam. The C.O.E. has convenient boat ramps that allow easy access too many parts of the lake. Black bass, catfish, crappie, and smallmouth are all in abundance at Pine Creek Lake. Nearby Little River provides quality fishing for smallmouth bass and sunfish species, and is floatable via canoe during spring.
Pine Creek WMA - best general purpose map, pdf format (8.5x11)
Information on the lake and surrounding area
Area map courtesy of US Army Corp of Engineers
Regulations: Seasons on public lands section of hunting regulations
For additional information and area attractions:
Kiamichi Country Tourism
Broken Bow Chamber of Commerce
1134 W Martin Luther King Jr,
Broken Bow 74728
(580) 584-3393 or (800) 528-7337
PO Box 279, Dept KC03
Clayton 74536
(918) 569-4135
Hugo Area Chamber of Commerce
200 South Broadway
Hugo OK 74743
(580) 326-7511
Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department
Post Office Box 52002
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The Hope College Chapel Choir has released a new compact disc.
The CD, "The Heavens' Embroidered Cloths," includes 17 tracks recorded between 2011 and earlier this year at either St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church or Dimnent Memorial Chapel. Many of the selections were also featured during recent spring concert tours by the choir.
The works on the CD include "Lux Aurumque," by Eric Whitacre; "Rejoice in the Lord Alway!," by Stephen Sturk; "The Lamb," by Kenneth Mahy; "Cantate Domino," by Kirke Mechem; "The Christ Child," by Gabriel Jackson; "O Clap Your Hands," by William Mathias; "Love's Music," by Shirley McRae; "For You There Is No Song," by Joseph Byrd; "Tread Softly," by Allan Bullard; "Autumn," by Jussi Chydenius; "Loosin Yelav," arranged by Paul Carey; "The Gallant Weaver," by James McMillan; "Watane," by Mark Sirett; "Elijah Rock," by Moses Hogan; "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," arranged by Edwin Childs; "Hear de Lambs a-Cryin'," arranged by Paul Carey; and "Give Me Jesus," arranged by L.L. Fleming.
The CD's title is taken from the poem "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by William Butler Yeats. A number of the selections feature musical settings of work by poets including Yeats, Walter de la Mare, Garcilaso de la Vega, James Joyce and Edna St. Millay.
The 45-voice Chapel Choir is Hope College's premier choral ensemble. Comprised of auditioned singers, the Chapel Choir has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and has traveled abroad on eight occasions, most recently to South Africa in May 2009. Among other engagements on campus and in the area, the choir is featured along with other music ensembles in Christmas Vespers, a Hope tradition that stretches back to 1941. The choir is directed by Brad Richmond, professor of music and director of choral activities.
The CD's cover image was drawn by Richmond's son, Graeme, and the photo of the choir featured on the back cover was taken at, and provided by, the Reformed Dutch Church of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where the choir performed as part of the group's spring 2013 tour. The booklet design and layout were by Mark Cook.
The CD's producers were Richmond, John Erskine and Glenn Brown. Erskine and Ryan Wert were the principal and associate recordists respectively, and Brown and Erskine served as balance technicians. The CD was mixed at GBP Studios in East Lansing, and printing and duplication were by The Eastco Group of Orchard Park, N.Y.
Copies of "The Heavens' Embroidered Cloths" are available for $10 at the Hope-Geneva Bookstore, at the college's Hope-Geneva Bookstore, which is located on the ground level of the DeWitt Center, 141 E. 12th St., and can be called at 800-946-4673 or (616) 395-7833.


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Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Questioning is a method of noting one's reactions to a text while reading. Questioning encourages students to articulate specific issues while they read.
One way to teach questioning is to model it for students. As the teacher reads aloud with the class, he or she may stop, look up, and ask an obvious question. Then, the teacher can write his or her question on a sticky note and place it at the spot in the text where the question arose. It's important for teachers to show the students how to leave their notes sticking out a little, like bookmarks, to be found later. When the text later answers the questions, readers should write an "A" for "answered" on the note, and place it next to answer. Most importantly, teachers should explain that the text will not answer some of the most vital questions, which will be left open to explore in discussions.
This method is particularly valuable for students who need to organize their questions. They can mark texts with sticky notes, sort them according to importance, and then address those questions left unanswered by the author.
By noting different kinds of questions for example, questions about outcomes, characters, new information, and concepts students begin to recognize the underlying structure of a text. Students are then able to trace issues through a book, exploring the ways that books make complex arguments about related issues. When students begin tracking the questions that emerge during their reading, they learn to articulate the inner conversation they have with the text. Ultimately, questioning helps students to guide their own explorations of texts, because they learn to generate their own questions rather than looking to a teacher or parent.
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Italy: The sick man of Europe
Despite boasting the eighth-largest economy in the world, growth in Italy has stagnated for more than two decades. Economist Massimo Bassetti give us his six reasons for Italy's weak economic growth over the last few decades:
Italy's New Populist Government and the Eurozone: Prelude to a Crisis?
On June 1st a new populist coalition government entered office in Italy. The coalition of the 5 Star Movement (M5S) and the League represents a strong rejection of previous fiscal austerity programmes, and a more sceptical attitude to the EU and its institutions, with the League's leader Matteo Salvini having previously stated that entering the Euro was a mistake for Italy. While the new government has omitted any mentions of a Eurozone exit (Italexit) from its economic programme, its policy plans have significantly raised uncertainty in Italian financial markets. Under certain circumstances, they could lead to a debt crisis, which could cause an Italexit. While non-Italian banks have reduced their exposure to Italian debt since the Eurozone Crisis of 2011-2014, some spill-over risks to the rest of the Eurozone remain.
4 Key European Elections That Will Impact the Economy in 2017
After a year characterized by Brexit, a migrant crisis, populist movements and the election of Donald Trump, uncertainty in the European Union economy is high. While economic data has remained resilient thus far, politics will likely stay in the spotlight this year and threaten confidence as a number of high profile economies hold elections, including France, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy. In a context of waning support for the status quo and recent election polls failing to predict results, Senior Economist Angela Bouzanis takes a look at the upcoming votes we are keeping an eye on and why.
Italy referendum: 'No' vote to boost populist sentiment and lead to the demise of the Eurozone?
Italy's and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's constitutional referendum was met with a resounding 'no' on Sunday.
The referendum was aimed at greatly simplifying the currently cumbersome relationship between the two chambers of Italian parliament to ultimately create a more efficient decision-making system and boost competitiveness. However, Beppe Grillo and his populist anti-EU Five Star Movement, was critical in delivering the 'no' vote, which highlights the continent's rising tide of populism.
The outcome of the referendum marked the beginning of a very important year for the European Union and could, in the very worst case scenario, lead to the demise of the common currency bloc.
Set to breach targets again? Debt and deficit outlooks for Southern European Eurozone countries in 2016 & 2017
After dragging Greece kicking and screaming through a never-ending vicious cycle of fiscal adjustment and output decline, the European Commission seems to be softening in its attitude towards other struggling Eurozone economies. France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, among others, have all repeatedly been given extensions to reduce their debt and deficit levels after recurrent breaches of EU targets have gone unpunished, and the trend looks set to continue as our forecasts show that those economies will underperform again this year and next. Does this mark a shift in mindset within the Commission as to whether the Growth and Stability Pact is fit for purpose? Or rather just tactical maneuvering—or indeed resigned acceptance—in tough political times, as the EU faces unprecedented challenges to its legitimacy and survival?
A Look at the European Union Political Calendar
The European Union is facing an unprecedented amount of uncertainty. Brexit, a migrant crisis, elevated security concerns, a slowdown in China and unpredictable elections in the United States are all threatening the Union's economic and political outlook. On top of this, members within the Union are facing a jam-packed election cycle. In a context of waning support for the status quo, this could lead to shifts in the balance of power. Senior Economist Angela Bouzanis takes a look at the upcoming votes we are keeping an eye on and why.
Euro Area 2016 GDP (billions of Euros)
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Euro Area totaled EUR 10,404 billion in 2015 and is expected to total EUR 10,607 billion by the end of this year. Analysts expect the Eurozone economy to grow a healthy 1.5% this year and 1.6% in 2017. However, the Eurozone is still facing a number of challenges and performing below its potential. High debt levels, a fragile banking sector and a persistent lack of inflationary pressure continues to impede the recovery of many economies in the region.
See below what analysts expect the GDP of each of the Euro Area countries to be by the end of 2016 (hover over the bubbles for more information):
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50 analysts surveyed by FocusEconomics expect Eurozone unemployment rate to average 10.4% this year:
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Cyber-Crook for a Day
Just how hard is it for a hacker to remotely pwn your computer? It turns out to be ridiculously easy, as long as you're a bit gullible and don't have antivirus protection. I know; I've done it, along with several other tech journalists. It all happened as part of a recent McAfee Consumer Journalist Day at McAfee Headquarters in Santa Clara.
Bruce Snell, McAfee Director of Technical Marketing, provided each of us with a laptop already running two VMWare virtual machines, one representing the attacker and one representing the victim. For safety's sake, the two were linked through a virtual network, with no connection to the outside. Snell warned strongly that on no account should we consider connecting any removable device to these systems, as it could become infected with malware.
To start, we installed the Shark Trojan. Actually, the Shark tool bills itself as "an advanced reverse connecting, firewall bypassing remote administration tool," and opens with a warning against doing anything illegal. As if! Tools like this are readily available at prices that vary but rarely exceed two figures.
Shark makes hacking so simple it's ridiculous, especially with the script of instructions supplied by McAfee. With one click I created a server to handle command and control for my attack. Binding my Trojan attack to a legitimate (but outdated) McAfee antivirus tool was equally simple. Had the script called for it, I could have configured the Trojan to lay low if it detected certain tracking tools. Finished with setup, I copied my Trojanized antivirus into the web server's download folder.
Viewed in a browser, that server serves up a site that looks exactly like McAfee's. You have to look closely to notice that the URL says "macfee.com." I sent an official-looking email to the victim system with a link to my evil creation, then switched to the victim's virtual machine and launched the link.
Back on the attacker system, I immediately saw the victim show up in the Shark console. From that console I had virtually total control over the victim. I launched a DOS shell, viewed and changed Registry entries, tweaked files, launched programs, and manipulated services, all with simple commands from the console. I installed a keylogger, typed a little in the victim system, and verified that the keystrokes were captured.
As a final act of simulated malice, I copied a virus to the victim's system and launched it. Back on the victim system I ran the Trojanized antivirus, which functioned in detection-only mode. It found hundreds of infected files. That poor victim was completely and totally pwned.
Of course, all of this happened in virtual machines on a virtual network. Nobody was actually harmed. But I came away deeply impressed with how absurdly easy it is for any hacker-wannabe to attack a hapless victim. If you fail to protect your PC with an antivirus at minimum, and if you're not careful what links you click, you can very easily be the next victim.
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"So what do you say to the others?" I asked.
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Aretha Franklin is set to sizzle like fellow stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Eva Longoria by releasing a new cookbook.
The soul legend, who recently shed 85 pounds during a massive health overhaul, reveals she's negotiating a deal to share some of her favourite recipes with fans.
During an appearance on U.S. talk show The View on Thursday, the Queen of Soul recalled her fondest memories in the kitchen, and when prompted about the idea of creating a cookbook, she revealed, "I don't (have one yet), but I will."
The "Respect" singer recently opened up about her love for food and the sacrifices she has made to reach a healthy weight.
She said, "I used to have hamburgers coming and going, especially when I was on the road. Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder – because I love fast food – but you have to keep it to a minimum."
"I am now opting for salads and just healthier lunches."
The star even teased what she called the 'Aretha Salad', which includes radishes, olives, carrots, just a little shredded cheese, ranch dressing and a little lemon.


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Sindee Riboli has a front row seat for the best show in town.
Actually, she's got 85,000 seats. As president and co-owner of Sharp Seating Co. in Pasadena, Riboli provides the grandstand seating that lines most of the annual Rose Parade route.
Sharp Seating is a family affair that includes her father, Mike Brown, who serves as company chairman, her mother Nancy and brother Michael Brown. The business has been providing seating for the T Parade for more than 85 years.
"It never started with a written agreement, it was really just word of mouth," Riboli said. "It was like they said, 'Hey, so you're building seats over there.'"
Each year, Sharp Seating organizes, plans and assembles the bleacher seats for the event. The company also sells tickets and provides souvenir programs. Sharp also provides seating for other events, including the Long Beach Grand Prix, area school events and other events in Las Vegas.
But the Rose Parade is definitely the company's signature event. And the logistics of providing 85,000 seats along a 4 1/2-mile stretch of the 5 1/2-mile parade route are daunting, to say the least.
"We actually break ground on Nov. 7 every year at Orange Grove and Colorado boulevards." Riboli said. "That's called TV Corner because it's where the TV networks are. We also build platforms for the networks and their broadcasting equipment."
Sharp Seating currently has as many as 70 workers assembling the seating on any given day. Tickets range from $45 to $90 per seat, depending on the view, the side of the street and the position on the parade route, the company said.
The parade begins promptly at 8 a.m. on New Year's Day and Sharp Seating advises parade watchers to arrive two hours early so they can make their way through the crowds and get situated in their seats.
"My father has been building these seats for 50 years, so he pretty much has it down to a science," Robili said. "The only issue we can't control is the weather, like when it rains. But so far … so good."
Riboli said business dropped significantly in months following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks because people were afraid of being out at big public events.
"People were cancelling their tickets left and right," she said. "But we struggled and made it through, and we're here to talk about it."
Other parade memories are far happier.
"One year there were these nuns who got there at the beginning of the parade and they were standing in the aisles," she said. "They were not really in the bleachers, but they were blocking people's view. Everyone was dying to tell them to move but no one wanted to do it! But eventually, we found a place for them to sit."
Mike Brown said he cherishes the part he plays in helping fans to enjoy the annual Rose Parade.
"I love this business and I've probably forgotten more than most people know," he said with a laugh. "And I don't mean that in an egotistical way. The older I get … the greater I was."
Brown may joke about his role in the business, but few would deny that this family enterprise plays a valuable part in one of the most widely viewed parades in the world.


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Jan. 15, 2013
Greensboro, N.C. – Georgia Tech senior Juan Spir has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Week announced Tuesday. Spir totaled five wins in singles and doubles play last weekend's Illini Open in Fort Meyers, Fla.
Spir and doubles partner Virkram Hundal, the nation's third ranked double team, swept their matches at three day tournament, which included a win over the No. 45 duo of Florent Diep and Michael Alford of Florida.
In singles action, Spir, who is ranked No. 32 in the ITA singles rankings, went 2-1 in the first weekend of the spring season. After Spir defeated Illinois' Tim Kopinski (5-7, 6-4, 6-4) on the opening day of play, he rallied to beat NC State's Robbie Mudge (6-7 (4-7) 6-4, 6-3) on the second day of competition. His lone loss of the tournament was to Florida's No. 26 Diep.
Georgia Tech returns to action Friday when it opens the new Ken Byers Tennis Complex with two matches against Old Dominion (1:30 p.m.) and Lipscomb (7 p.m.).


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Chrysler has been pretty successful with its Bentley-inspired 300.
Many are expecting a similar reception for Ford's Aston-like 2013 Fusion. The poor man's ultra-luxury ride should now be even a stronger contender for top mid-size sedan going into the future.
The 240-hp Titanium version of the car offers paddle shifters and has a claimed 0-60 of 6.9 seconds. Looks like after two decades of dominance, the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry just may continue to slip.
Experts are calling Ford's new Fusion rollout "a bid to win, rather than just show up."
More from Motoramic here:
"Based on a new platform Ford will build worldwide, the 2013 Ford Fusion rides on front McPherson-strut and rear multi-link suspensions. Compared to the outgoing model, the new Fusion's rear multi-link has been revised to improve ride quality, while keeping the car's overall European-inspired handling characteristics. Much of that on-road responsiveness is thanks to Ford's electric power-assisted steering, one of the best in the industry, providing a confident weighting and progressive effort while dampening the excessive feedback from tortured roads."
Check out a full photo gallery of the 2013 Ford Fusion here.
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Windows Phone 8 brings numerous enhancements to the TellMe service aka the speech engine behind Windows Phone. One area that has improved is voice dictation for email messages (as opposed to just text) and developers can also now incorporate STT/TTS into their apps directly, which is especially useful for things like Twitter or blogging apps.
Text-to-Speech by Morphsoft is a free, straightforward app: you hit a button, bark out your prose and let the TellMe service translate it into text. You can then easily select-all and copy the text into other applications. With the enhanced multi-tasking in Windows Phone 8, you can easily switch to your other app and paste the contents, saving a lot of keystrokes.
The app is especially useful for those apps on your phone that have not yet been updated for Windows Phone 8 or do not have voice capabilities.
There's not too much else to say about the app: it's simple, well designed, and free and it helps fill a gap between old and new Windows Phone apps. You can even select the voice choice under settings and there looks to be a non-ad-supported version in the works too.
Pick Text-to-Speech up here in the Store.
Windows Phone 8 devices only. See our other Windows Phone 8 app highlights here.


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Reviewed by Caroline J (age 11)
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I liked this book because it had twists, turns and unexpected surprises. My favorite part is the surprise in the end of the book because it was very exciting. I like Emily's character because she is adventuress and stands up for herself. This book is unique because it makes you feel like you are in the same room as the author described.
I recommend this book because it will leave you on the edge of your seat, wondering what will happen next. I recommend this book to people who like surprises too. You might like this book because it has a good plot.


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Roasted Strawberry, Brie and Chocolate Grilled Cheese - Crazy Cooking Challenge
Today's post is a fun one. As part of the Crazy Cooking Challenge this month, members have to find a grilled cheese recipe from another blog, then make that recipe and post about it. The standard ol' grilled cheese sandwich, made with American cheese and white bread, would be quite boring, so I did a little (and by a little I mean a lot) intertube surfing to find something new! Exciting! Different!
Plus it had to have strawberries in it. Not because of the challenge, but because the sale at the Try-n-Save on strawberries is still going strong (check out what I made last week). I also had the big idea of using goat cheese, because I had an untouched package left over from Passover that I picked up at Costco of all places, and still hadn't yet figured out what to do with it.
Eventually I landed upon Jessica's blog how Sweet it is. Jessica had posted a lot of delicious-looking recipes, many of which I will have to make sometime in the future. But for now, her Roasted Strawberry, Brie and Chocolate Grilled Cheese sandwich was the one I selected, even though it didn't use goat cheese. Brie cheese and chocolate do sound a bit strange, but I figured I should try the recipe anyway.
Roasted strawberries was a new one for me as well. Salt on strawberries? And oil? I had barely gotten used to the idea of balsamic vinegar on strawbs, and now this. But the magic of oven-roasting did quite a fine number on those strawberries. I had a few slices by themselves and they were quite divine, once I got over the hot strawberry thang. I bet with a little ice cream under them they would be heaven in a bowl as well.
Wanting to keep as close as possible to the original, I dropped the idea of using goat cheese and only made a few minor adjustments in Jessica's recipe. I used olive oil instead of canola, woo. hoo.
|This is a dessert plate. These strawb are 2 inches long!
Since my strawberries were MASSIVE, I only used two, and sliced them rather than quarter them so that they would fit in between the bread slices. Speaking of bread slices, I didn't have thick multi-grain bread, but I did have multi-grain sandwich-y thingies. I used two whole ones in order to emulate thick bread. Finally, when I went to grab the "good" chocolate, only those of the chip persuasion were in the pantry, so they had to do.
The resulting grilled cheese turned out terrific! Ooey, gooey cheese and chocolate oozing around the lucious strawbs (I think I used up almost all the O's allotted to me here ... but I digress). I'm thinking that maybe next time I will try these sandwiches with goat cheese and see how it goes.
Roasted Strawberry, Brie and Chocolate Grilled Cheese
adapted from how Sweet it is
makes 2 sandwiches
4 humungous strawberries, rinsed, dried and sliced
a drizzle of olive oil (maybe a teaspoon or two)
1/4 tsp. kosher salt
2 Tbl. unsalted butter
4 multigrain sandwich thins (don't separate the halves)
2ish ozs. brie cheese
1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
|This is not a Google Doodle.
Preheat oven to 375F. Toss strawberries with oil and salt, then spread on an oiled baking sheet. Roast for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside.
|Easier to scrape off the pan than they look.
Heat a large skillet or grill pan over medium heat. Butter the sides of two of the sandwich thins. Place on the skillet buttered-side down.
|Cut the cheese. No, wait, I mean ...
Slice the brie thinly. Cut larger slabs in half. Place half the brie evenly on top of the bread. Cover brie with the roasted strawberries. Sprinkle on the chocolate chips. Top with remaining brie. Butter one side of the remaining bread slices, and place on top of the cheese, buttered side up. Cook for 2-3 minutes or until the cheese just starts to melt. Carefully flip the sandwiches and continue to cook until cheese and/or chocolate starts to ooze.
Serve hot. Like you could wait for something like this to cool.
Disclaimer - because this recipe is part of an online cooking group, the linked recipes below might not be kosher.


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We are moving from our furnished flat to an unfurnished home in one month. I have the task of furnishing our new home in China in a very short amount of time. I lucked out with a wonderful shop in Shanghai called Kenas. I could easily take two of everything!
We purged lots of furniture in Chicago before our move and put our collections in storage. I can see all of these pieces working beautifully in our home back in the States. I am guessing that we will have to rent an entire ship to bring everything back.


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Sequestration could shut off or delay climate and weather data
Correction appended.
For Jesslyn Brown, sequestration could not come at a worse time of the year.
Brown, a geographer with the U.S. Geological Survey in the Interior Department, heads the Remote Sensing Phenology project, an effort to track changes in vegetation. Springtime is critical for Brown and her colleagues, as plants and crops exit their winter dormancy and the landscape turns from brown to green.
The data culled and organized by the Remote Sensing Phenology staff track the timing of the growing season for vegetation. The information can be used to study invasive species, the diets of wild animals, and the extent and severity of drought, among other applications.
But this April, Brown, along with thousands of federal employees, is awaiting furloughs as the sequester triggers an automatic $1.2 trillion budget cut over 10 years across almost all federal agencies Friday. The freeze in staff and forced time off will delay the delivery of data to academic researchers, scientists and government workers who track changes in the landscape.
"What it means is we're less able to respond to a problem; it might take us a week to resolve that because staff is not here," said Brown, whose budget was cut by 8 percent last year. "Response time will go down, and data sets will be delayed for weeks or months."
Across the administration's scientific agencies, deep cuts are threatening the output of important data for weather outlooks, wildfire risks, drought forecasts and the long-term understanding of climate change. Much of the United States' climate data is generated in programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA is an agency under the Commerce Department. The sequester would delay the launch of two new satellites key to predicting hurricane paths, known as geostationary satellites because they stay over one location on the Earth and watch weather systems develop and move. Their launch would be delayed two to three years because of the sequester, according to acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank.
Storms provide a cautionary tale
The nation's polar satellite program, which includes satellites that contribute heavily to the accuracy of weather models and also collects long-term climate data, was already in trouble before the sequester. The Government Accountability Office placed it on its high-risk list in mid-February.
GAO had concerns about gaps in coverage of up to 53 months. The existing polar orbiting satellite is expected to deteriorate before the next pair of satellites, slated for launch in 2017 and 2022, get off the ground.
Blank detailed concerns in a letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Under the sequester, Blank wrote, "significant and costly impacts to NOAA's satellites and other observational programs are also certain."
In 1900, Galveston was the largest city in Texas, a boomtown with a thriving and active port. Then came the hurricane. A Category 4, it slammed into the unsuspecting city with 140-mph winds, killing nearly 8,000 people and leveling the town.
The story of Galveston provides a cautionary tale about the importance of predicting extreme weather, particularly in a warming world where such events are becoming more frequent, said J. Marshall Shepherd, president of the American Meteorological Society and director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia.
"I think we kind of take for granted that we hear warnings when tornadoes are approaching our homes ... or we get our day-to-day weather forecast and forget where it comes from. Underlying all of this is the National Weather Service, and radar, and satellites," said Shepherd.
The cuts frustrate Shepherd, who sees them as likely to cost far more money than they save. "Imagine having a hurricane season without satellites looking at the hurricanes," he said -- an extreme example, but an illustrative one.
While the agency doesn't yet know the specifics of many impending cuts, Blank also said it would "need to curtail maintenance and operations of weather systems such as NEXRAD," the national radar network, which is used to create tornado warnings, among other things.
Worries about time-sensitive data
NOAA's satellite program works in concert with NASA, which develops and launches the devices. On NASA's side, spokesman Steve Cole, of the agency's science division, said NASA expects "very little impact" to its major satellite programs. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. said the agency's science budget would be reduced by $51.1 million under the sequester.
Research commissioned by the Aerospace Industries Association, which represents a wide range of companies in that industry, including those that develop satellites for the government, projected cuts that cuts affecting the Goddard Space Center would affect more than just the government. The center is responsible for the Earth observation satellites, and its cutbacks could have a ripple effect of reducing Maryland's gross domestic product by $230 million and lead to a reduction of 1,520 contractor jobs in Maryland, the study found.
At an early February meeting in Boston, former NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco also expressed frustration with the uncertainty posed by the yo-yo effect of continuous looming sequesters.
"I think most people don't really appreciate how much is riding on good, responsible, timely budget decisions," she said.
Some information from Brown's Remote Sensing Phenology team feeds into the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly map that tracks drought conditions across the United States. The Drought Monitor is a collaborative effort among agencies in NOAA; the Agriculture Department; the Interior Department; the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; state and regional climatologists; and additional state, local and federal experts.
Last year, scientists and policymakers tracked the map intently, week after week, as the country underwent the worst drought since the 1930s Dust Bowl. This spring, there are still strong concerns about lingering drought conditions, said Brown.
"This is extremely time-sensitive data," she said. "The requirement to deliver this information is on Monday. If it's Tuesday or Wednesday, it doesn't work."
Minding the information gaps
Tom Perkins, the water and climate services team leader at the National Water and Climate Center, leads the team that collects snowpack and water availability data for USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). With eight staff members short, it has become a struggle to collect and maintain the data needed to complete the snowpack analyses and water supply forecasts that help local planners prepare for water needs. Last year, the budget for the center was slashed by 15 percent.
These gaps in information could jeopardize the research of scientists who use the numbers to track long-term trends in the environment. Some studies takes years to accumulate data.
"As soon as you miss a month's reading or a year's reading, you throw your drought or climate change assessment out the window," said Perkins.
Lisa Goddard, director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, said holes in information can be costly for scientists.
"Any gap in data is damaging for climate studies," she said. "You might misinterpret something as a trend if those data come out and come back in."
For example, said Goddard, NOAA has deployed nearly 70 buoys in the ocean to measure El Niño weather patterns. Past budget cuts have prevented technicians from traveling to the buoys to maintain or repair them. This has resulted in holes in the data map, blank spots in a set, said Goddard.
Perkins' team members, along with the administrators in the states in which they work, must prioritize which sites stay and which go, who gets water data and who doesn't. It's changed the whole dynamic of the operations in his office in Portland, Ore.
"We have a hard time even buying paper, unless we get approval from the national office," he said.
The NRCS measures snow levels in two ways: by snow courses, in which technicians manually measure snowpack, and with a system called SNOTEL, which measures levels with the help of radio signals that bounce off a meteor band in the atmosphere, without human interference.
While SNOTEL has existed only since 1980, the snow course records began in the early 20th century, said Perkins. For researchers and academics studying climate records, an interruption could be devastating.
In a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said about 350 of USGS's nearly 8,000 stream gauges could be shut down because of the sequester. These monitor water levels and flow to alert for floods and droughts, and supplement the National Weather Service's river forecast services.
The gauges cost about $16,000 per year to maintain. About one-third of the funding is directly appropriated by Congress, and about half comes from the coffers of state and local partners. The rest comes from other agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, depending on the location of the stream gauge.
Triage with gauges
"Not only does it affect our budget directly, but it also has a ripple effect," said Matthew Larsen, associate director of climate and land-use change at USGS.
States generally decide which gauges will stay and which ones will be discontinued, said Jerad Bales, the chief scientist for water at USGS. The ones used for weather forecasts are a higher priority. Sites that have a long record behind them are also more valuable than newer sites. Many researchers use the stream gauge data to track climate change through the 19th and 20th centuries, and the data allow historical comparisons to model future climate scenarios.
Some industry members find the impending, widespread cuts frustrating, saying they would cost the economy much more than they save.
Bill Gail, chief technology officer of Global Weather Corp. and president-elect of the American Meteorological Society, said his company sells highly accurate weather forecasts to a number of clients. If data collection suffers due to the sequester, so will his forecasts, and his clients will lose money.
For example, Global Weather Corp. sells wind forecasts to 10 percent of the U.S. wind industry, which makes operating decisions based on those forecasts. It also sells temperature forecasts to power companies that use them to make decisions about how much power they need to have available at any given time. If the forecast is for a long hot spell, power companies will know to prepare for increased use of air conditioners, for example.
"We basically make businesses more efficient," said Gail. "I find the sequester sort of ironic, because one of the things we do as a community, with weather information, is we give that information to people that make them more efficient, and then the economy is more productive."
Efficiency, but at a price
While Gail does incorporate data and observations from other countries' systems into the forecasts his company produces, without high-quality data from the U.S. government satellite and observation system, the forecasts would not be as accurate.
Frank Slazer, vice president for space systems at the Aerospace Industry Association, said the sequester slows the ability of these companies to hire high-quality people and manage projects.
Typically, if one government agency is cutting back, companies might move employees to a project with a different agency. But because the sequester is across the board, it's a "perfect storm," said Slazer, eliminating the company's ability to absorb government cutbacks in this way.
In October 2012, with the earlier January sequester threat looming, Slazer was at a meeting and one of his member companies said it had "300 positions companywide that they were not filling because of the sequester."
When asked whether NOAA could stand to be more efficient, Gail, a businessman as well as a scientist, said that was a hard question to answer, and while some areas may be ripe for efficiencies, the indiscriminate cuts are likely to take a toll.
"Undoubtedly, if [budget cuts] persist, people will get more efficient, but I think the cuts are deep enough that real meat is going to be cut from the bone at the same time, and we're all going to suffer from that," he said. "You get more efficient, but you also lose opportunities and reduce quality."
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the number of buoys the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has deployed to study El Niño patterns. And the budget for the National Water and Climate Center was cut by 15 percent last year.
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Ah, yes, the term conjures up some rather unpleasant thoughts. Luckily, we're talking about a completely different bedpan here. Full bellypans are a long-standing hot rod tradition generally reserved for coupes, roadsters, and sedans, and seldom seen on trucks. While the original bellypan concept was designed to cheat the wind by smoothing the bottom side of the car, today, a louvered pan is often more ornamental than instrumental.
Last fall, we decided to bring our '40 Ford pickup back to a higher standard–nothing too crazy, just clean up some rust, spray new paint, and freshen up the interior, bringing it back to driver-quality standards. While doing the bodywork, we discovered that the bottom side of the bed was an unsightly mess–just the place for some extra hot-rod flavor. An inexpensive, simple solution (the best kind!) was a louvered pan that covers the bottom of the bed, the rear crossmember, and the partially exposed gas tank. Because we'd already mounted the license plate on the rear crossmember, the plan was to retain and louver around it. When these trucks were built, Ford was not too concerned about a little bit of chassis showing between the back of the rear fender and bed. That is another area that needed a little cleaning up, so, our pan was designed to cover the rearmost portion of the side rails, too.
Attaching the new pan to the bed involved tapping holes in the crossmember and installing Nutsert threaded rivets (Fastenal.com) everywhere else, as sheet-metal screws are not our favorite way of attaching anything. Aircraft Spruce (AircraftSpruce.com) supplied the Nutsert installation tool. Special thanks go out to Larry Shoaf at Rodcrafters (Welcome, North Carolina) for allowing us to punch our own louvers with his Williams Lowbuck press (LowBuckTools.com).
Of course, like most things on old hot rods, this job got a bit more involved once it became apparent that the rear bed mounts would have to be modified and the exhaust-pipe hangers changed. For the most part, however, it was a matter of carefully fabricating, fitting, and attaching the pan. We're pleased with the results. The same basic principles will apply to many trucks and cars. After all, not all hot rod pans are bedpans.


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CD Review: Aidan Baker, "Still Life"
Aidan Baker
Still Life
Prima CD 002
Aidan Baker is probably best known for his soundscapes that involve droning guitars and ample distortion. But this time out, on his Prima full length Still Life, the Toronto native left the guitars at home altogether. Instead, he performs all of the instruments himself, focusing on piano, electronic manipulations, upright bass, and drums.
Still Life contains four compositions, each exceeding ten minutes in duration, that combine the gradual, inexorable drive of slowcore with inflections of a modern jazz rhythm section and flourishes of avant-classical. Baker doesn't shy away from crunching dissonance where required. A signature example is the opening of "Refuge from Oblivion," where cascades of punctilious piano disrupt the calm surface that pervaded the previous track.
Often, multiple layers of rhythm compete for supremacy, creating a multifaceted, but never cluttered, interplay. All the while, there is a slow-brewing underlying pulse that undergirds the whole with a supply architectural sensibility.
Artists seeking to combine experimental music and jazz should take note of Aidan's fluent amalgamations.
Labels: avant-garde, contemporary classical, experimental, free jazz, slowcore