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GSA Presents Evergreen Award to Four Innovative Environmentally Friendly Businesses
March 10, 2011
GSA honors Steelcase Inc., Shaw Industries Group Inc., SimplexGrinnell and Play Mart Inc. for their commitment to the environment.
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. General Services Administration recently presented the Evergreen Award to Steelcase Inc., Shaw Industries Group Inc., SimplexGrinnell and Play Mart Inc.
The annual Evergreen Award Program was developed in 1998 by GSA's Integrated Workplace Acquisition Center to recognize the efforts of partners who do business in an environmentally friendly way.
Twenty-five businesses were considered for the 2010 Evergreen Award. The award was presented to one business in each of the following categories: furniture, furnishings and floor coverings, technologies and electronics, and sports and recreation.
"These companies have done an outstanding job of making environmentally friendly options available to our federal customers and are committed to helping us reduce waste and save taxpayer dollars," said Regional Administrator David H. Ehrenwerth. "We are honored to partner with companies that help us to green the government's supply chain while creating a more sustainable environment and building a greener future."
Steelcase Inc., a global furniture manufacturer in Grand Rapids, Mich., received the 2010 Evergreen Award under the furniture category. The company has made reductions in waste-to-landfill by more than 2,000 tons, reductions in waste-to-incineration by nearly 300 tons, reductions in scrap veneer by 200 tons, and reused sawdust by 252 tons. Steelcase has also composted nearly 173 tons and diverted more than 3,500 furniture items from landfills.
Shaw Industries Group Inc., a full-service flooring company in Dalton, Ga., received the 2010 Evergreen Award under the furnishings and floor coverings category. Shaw continues to take industry-leading strides toward sustainability, which include delivering the one-billionth square foot of EcoWorx, a PVC- free carpet backing and saving its 150,000th barrel of oil by recycling 250 million pounds of carpet back into the company's Evergreen facility. This prevented its 400 millionth pound of carpet that reached the end of its useful life from entering landfills.
SimplexGrinnell, a fire- and life-safety company in Boca Raton, Fla., received the 2010 Evergreen Award under the technologies and electronics category. SimplexGrinnell has instituted new approaches to packaging and shipping its flagship Simplex® fire alarm panel. Steel bracing had been used to protect the panel bays during shipping. The steel bracing ultimately made the packages heavy and required more fuel to transport, contributing about 48 tons of steel into the waste stream, as the bracings were typically thrown away upon receipt. SimplexGrinnell has since changed the bracing to a lighter yet sturdy and biodegradable fiberboard product to protect the panel bays. The company has reduced the amount of packaging materials by one-third. In 2010, SimplexGrinnell added 200 hybrid vehicles to its service fleet, working toward a goal of having hybrid vehicles make up 25 percent of its fleet.
Play Mart Inc., a manufacturer of recycled plastic commercial playground equipment in Somerset, Ky., received the 2010 Evergreen Award in the sports and recreation category. Play Mart manufactures 100 percent recycled plastic playground equipment and site amenities, diverting millions of jugs and bottles from landfills annually. Almost all of the company's manufacturing waste and more than 75 percent of the company's operation waste is recycled. The Take Back Program ensures that the company's products don't go to landfills but are reused and recycled. In 2010, Play Mart also eliminated its standard shop lighting and replaced it with an energy-efficient system of zoned and motion-detected fluorescent lighting. This change has provided an energy savings of nearly 7,000 kilowatt-hours per month, which is equivalent to providing energy for 20 three-bedroom houses annually.
The Evergreen Award itself closes the recycling loop in that it is made from recycled glass, said Ehrenwerth. The award sets a high standard for other business partners to follow and is a wonderful example of how the federal government and businesses can work together. GSA remains committed to building partnerships with businesses that provide services and products that are environmentally sensitive and demonstrate its leadership in sustainability, he said.
About GSA. As the federal government's workplace solutions provider, the U.S. General Services Administration works to foster an effective, sustainable and transparent government for the American people. GSA's expertise in government workplace solutions include:
• Effective management of government assets including more than 9,600 government-owned or -leased buildings, 215,000 vehicles in the federal fleet, and preservation of historic federal properties.
• Leveraging the government's buying power through responsible acquisition of products and services making up approximately 14 percent of the government's total procurement dollars.
• Providing innovative technology solutions to enhance government efficiency and increase citizen engagement.
• Promoting responsible use of federal resources through development of government-wide policies ranging from federal travel to property and management practices.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
A video library for grade 5-8 math teachers; 6 fifteen-minute video programs and guide
This series was discontinued on December 31, 2018.
1. Fraction Tracks
Using a board game, a fifth-grade class studies and practices fractions and equivalent fractions.
2. Hexominoes
A fifth-grade class studies geometry by creating hexominoes, figures made up of six squares.
3. The Location
A sixth-grade teacher uses a secret location game to teach the class about statistics, connections, and reasoning.
4. Building Viewpoints
Seventh-graders learn about spatial sense and geometry from a blueprint of ancient buildings. They then create their own three-dimensional models and draw them from different viewpoints.
5. The Largest Container
Seventh- and eighth-grade students work on geometry and measurement as they attempt to create the largest container from a single sheet of paper.
6. Building Rafts With Rods
Groups of students learn about patterns, functions, and problem-solving as they calculate the surface area and volume of various-sized rafts, then graph their data.
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ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M announced today that Zirkonzahn GmbH has become the latest dental company to license 3M's patented technology that enables the coloring of zirconia-based dental restorations. This technology improves esthetics for patients by enabling the color matching of dental restorations to the natural color of the patients' teeth. Since 3M's development and launch of this game-changing technology, much of the industry colors dental zirconia using this process.
The license agreement resolves a nearly two-year patent infringement lawsuit between 3M and Zirkonzahn in Düsseldorf, Germany. 3M is open to licensing this technology to other dental manufactures and interested parties.
As the next step in protecting 3M's patented technology, 3M has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Düsseldorf against Ivoclar Vivadent regarding its non-shaded zirconia CAD/CAM blocks and coloring liquids sold under the IPS e.max ZirCAD brand.
3M is committed to improving oral care through continuous R&D investments. The company's dental division, 3M ESPE, has been recognized as the most innovative dental company for the past seven years by the Anaheim Group. This distinction is awarded based on the number of patent filings, 510k clearances and new product introductions.
About 3M, 3M Health Care and 3M ESPE
3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing. 3M ESPE Dental is part of 3M Health Care which offers solutions in the medical, oral care, drug delivery, food safety and health information markets. 3M ESPE markets more than 2,000 dental products and services. 3M ESPE products are designed to help make dentistry easier, faster and better for dental professionals and their patients. For more information on 3M ESPE, visit www.3MESPE.com. To learn more about 3M, visit www.3M.com or follow @3MNews on Twitter.
3M and ESPE are trademarks of 3M or 3M Deutschland GmbH. Used under license in Canada. © 3M 2012. All rights reserved.


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Fat cat persists through plateau, ends year slimmer
Animal hospital staffers have worked for past year to help fat feline lose weight
Despite some midnight raids on the food pantry, Tiny Tim has probably done better than most of us with his 2012 resolution to take off pounds.
A gray tabby with a personality as big as his back side, Tiny Tim has been working on his diet-and-exercise regimen since New Year's, when he topped 35 pounds.
Now, with loving care and veterinary expertise at Southside Place Animal Hospital, the still-fat cat has made it to 27.6 pounds on the long way down to his goal weight.
"I think in an ideal world, he'd be like a 12-to-14-pound cat," said Dr. Jessica Reyna, one of four veterinarians caring for the big guy who's now a permanent resident at the clinic, where staffers call him Tiny.
Because rapid weight loss can be fatal in cats, Tiny's diet is closely monitored by the dozen clinic staff members.
He's allotted 300 calories a day, divided into two portions.
For the first five or six months of the year, his weight loss was slow but steady until he hit a puzzling plateau.
"We just couldn't get him below the 30-pound mark," Reyna said.
Midnight snacking
A staff member solved the mystery when she went to the storage closet that had become Tiny's bedroom. As she picked up an unopened, 28-pound bag of dog food for a client, food trickled out the bottom.
"We realized he had very surreptitiously chewed a hole in the bag, so at night when we would put him up, he would be having midnight snacks," Reyna said.
"He wouldn't do it in front of us during the day, and there would never be a scrap or a kibble left on the floor," she said.
Still quite food-driven, Tiny gets exercise walking back and forth to his food bowl at the front of the clinic. To make sure he keeps moving, staffers carry him to the front several times a day, releasing him to make his way to his bed in the back.
"He is still very stiff, but he is moving so much better and so much more than he did when we first got him," Reyna said.
Picked up by city animal control workers shortly before Christmas last year in far southwest Houston, Tim was so obese he could barely walk when he arrived at BARC Animal Shelter & Adoptions, 3200 Carr St.
Members of the Friends of BARC volunteer group who brought dinner to the city shelter staff last Christmas Eve met the fat cat and quickly bestowed his ironic nickname.
The volunteers decided to take on his recovery as a project, starting with removal from the shelter.
The day after Christmas, Friends volunteer Tim Hebert delivered the stunningly large cat to the Southside Place clinic owned by Dr. Alice Frei. After fruitless attempts to find Tiny's previous owner and several months of treatment, Frei and the clinic staff decided to keep him.
"As heavy as he is, he's predisposed to become diabetic," Reyna said. "He's got some special needs, and of course now we've all fallen in love with him."
Friended by Tiny Tim
It's a natural response to a loving cat said Hebert, who still visits Tiny.
"I'll frequently go in there and lay down right beside him, because he can't jump in your lap," Hebert said. "He looks at you with such love and devotion."
Next up for the celebrity cat who has his own Facebook page, Tiny Tim at Spah, is fatty acid treatments for flaky skin.
"They can really help with skin problems, but they're caloric so we want to wait until he gets below 25 pounds before we add that on," Reyna said.


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| Aspects of Leadership Applicable to This Course
If you want to get to "yes" efficiently and effectively, this course is exactly what you need. We teach participants a method for defining and analyzing an idea as well as how to successfully create, communicate, and gain support for initiatives through the application of an efficient, effective analytical approach. Mike Figliuolo's book The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved is based on this highly-rated program.
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- Create and define a "core idea" they want to get support for
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The course consists of instructor-introduced concepts, practical application exercises, and culminates in a case study where participants apply the entire method to a business problem.
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|2007-11-24, 06:01
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One Piece - Requests for new threads
Since the One Piece forum is limited (only Mods and Admin can create new threads), this thread serves as a way to request a new thread to be created.
Please post here if you wish to request a new One Piece thread. Please bear in mind that we will only accept reasonable requests, we wish to maintain the focus within the forum and cut down on the noise (so no pointless threads cluttering up the place).
Don't forget that you may still post in existing threads as usual, the only restriction is that you may not create new threads within this particular forum.
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Brook's real ability (hone no shihai?!?)
I really think that Oda should give Brook a cool ability like Kimimaro Kaguya's Shikostumyaki where he can regrow any bone instantly and even grow new ones and do awsome moves
Hone no Shihai means bone control, it's where Brook would utilize bones to do stuff like make a bone sword, put his hand in the ground and make bone spikes grow and attack enemies, turn into some freaky bone monster form and other stuff that might not have appeared in Naruto
I mean, really, what kind of abilities does he have other than mediocre swordsmanship and musical talent. I would love to see a nice discussion here.
Thank you,
|2007-11-29, 16:19
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Make your own Devil Fruit or one similar.
|2007-11-29, 18:24
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xris, can we start a general Blackbeard discussion thread?
I searched the forum but couldn't find a general one.
There are a few scattered threads that deals with a single aspect of him (his power, his dreams, how to defeat him, etc.), we can combine them into a single thread. It would be more organized and focused, as, soon enough, the discussions on him is expected to increase and we will need such a rather general thread.
|2007-11-30, 04:05
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|2007-11-30, 10:52
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I've merged the previous Blackbeard threads together.
Blackbeard discussion thread
Does it need a [Manga] tag as part of the title? I also didn't add any thread guidelines either (the type you get with other Character discussion threads). Let me know if you think these should be added.
Let me know if there are other Blackbeard related threads that could be merged with the existing one. And likewise, let me know if there are other appropriate discussion threads that need creating or merged (as I did with the Blackbeard thread).
|2007-11-30, 13:29
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Well, we have threads for...
One Piece Movie 1
One Piece Movie 2
One Piece Movie 3
One Piece Movie 3 Special
One Piece Movie 4
One Piece Movie 5
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One Piece Movie 7
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Movie 9 isn't due for release until March 2008 but I'm sure someone else will request a discussion thread before then.
|2008-01-30, 00:48
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I was wondering if we could start a general yonkou thread? Now that the strawhats are about to set sail into the new world, the area in the grandline where the four emperors reside, I figure that more information pertaining to the four emperors is going to be unraveled and that these characters are going to be of great interest in future discussions.
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The Turducken Of Desserts!
The Cherpumple is the desert version of the Turducken. It's a three-layer cake with a pie stuffed in each layer. YUM! Cherpumple is short for CHERry, PUMpkin and apPLE pie. The apple pie is baked in spice cake, the pumpkin in yellow and the cherry in white. I DARE YOU TO TRY IT AT HOME!
The inspiration for the Cherpumple came from the typical desert table selection you would find at one of my family's holiday celebrations. Seems there's always cherry, pumpkin, and apple pie and a cake that's a family tradition. It has a layer of spice and a layer of yellow. Since I always want to have a piece of each of the pies and the cake I figured why not make that waaaaaaaay more convenient. So I baked them all together as one and the Cherpumple was born.
1 8″ frozen pumpkin pie
1 box spice cake mix
1 8″ frozen apple pie –
1 box yellow cake mix
1 8″ frozen cherry pie
1 box white cake mix
eggs and oil according to the cake mix
3 tall tubs of cream cheese frosting
3 8.5″ round cake pans
Bake pies according to instructions and cool to room temperature overnight. Mix cake batter according to instructions. For each layer pour about 1 1/3 cup of batter in the cake pan. Carefully de-tin the baked pie and place it face up on top of the batter in the cake pan. Push down lightly to release any trapped air. Pour enough batter on top to cover the pie. Bake according to box instructions. Cool and remove from pans the frost it like you mean it.
Since it's the most wonderful time of the year …perhaps the cream cheese frosting should be dyed mint green! And, yes, you can serve your Cherpumple FLAMING! Then you can call it CHERPUMPLE PIE CAKE FLAMBE! Why, oh why didn't think of that sooner? Well actually I did but I was afraid that I would burn the vintage stove shop down where we filmed the video. I've heard those old stoves have a lot of trapped gas!
…BTW, to serve your "monster" pie cake FLAMING …its easy… just make a little puddle of lemon extract in the frosting on the top of your cake. Just before you light it gather friends and family around, turn out the lights and watch it burn. Make sure to have 911 on speed dial just in case. Just how would you explain to your nosy neighbors that the desert version of the turducken burned your house down and singed theirs? Be fully prepared for gasps and ahhhhs as your guests see pie inside cake for the first time. Cherpumple ala mode anyone? Pie cake and ice cream go SO well together.
Here's to my Cherpumple, your Cherpumple and YOU!!!


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Sneak Bobblehead
"The safest distance between two points is a shadowy line." -- Sneak +10
Traversing the Yao Guai Tunnels on the western edge of the Capital Wasteland is no easy feat, but if you want to add +10 to your Sneak by grabbing the Bobblehead there, you'll have no choice. The Yao Guai Tunnels, populated (obviously) by Yao Guai, is a nondescript location northwest of Smith Casey's Garage. Since you have to visit Smith Casey's Garage during the main quest, simply go there and then head northwest to find the tunnels. They are hard to spot, since the entrance is located in a vertical crevasse along a rockface, but once you're in the general vicinity, the game will spot the location for you, and you can begin your search from there.
The Yao Guai Tunnels are dark and dreary, so make sure your Pip-Boy light is on. Also make sure to have an awesome weapon handy, because the fast-moving and aggressive Yao Guai in their namesake tunnel will make short work out of you if you're not prepared to deal with them (unless you grabed the animal friend perk in that case you´ll be alright). Head forward through the linear beginning section of the tunnel. When you arrive at a four-way intersection, head left, and begin following the path beyond where the Yao Guai destroyed a wall for you. This will ultimately lead, if you head to the far right section, another area of the tunnels. This large chamber is called the Den, and is populated with even more Yao Guai. However, this is also where the Bobblehead is located. To find it, head towards the middle of the chamber and spot it sitting atop a metal box, like so many other metal boxes you've seen in the game.
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Washington Post Column Incredulous That Congress Is Considering Censoring The Internet
from the mainstream-america-is-waking-up deptIt appears that more and more in mainstream America are waking up to the horrors of SOPA and PROTECT IP. Dominic Basulto, writing in the Washington Post notes that the debate over SOPA sends an "ugly message" to the rest of the world about the US:
Imagine a country where the government is able to shut down Web sites at the slightest provocation, where elected representatives invoke fears of "overseas pirates" to defend the interests of domestic industries, and where Internet companies like Google must cave in to the demands of government censors or risk being shut down.Basulto also makes the point clearly. Supporters are "[confusing] 'piracy protection' and 'censorship.'"
No, we are not talking about China, North Korea or Iran — we are talking about the United States, where legislators in both the House and Senate are attempting to push through new anti-piracy legislation by year-end that would benefit Hollywood at the expense of Silicon Valley.
He goes on to point out that this also shows "the failure on the part of lawmakers to understand how the Internet works."
This new legislation, if enacted, would strike at the very core of the way the Internet has been structured. Sharing, openness, and participation are at the core of what the Internet represents. When it comes to a choice between an open Internet and an Internet of walled gardens patrolled by government censors, there is no doubt which is preferable. As Booz & Co. pointed out in a recent study, the SOPA legislation could lead to a decline in Internet innovation.A really strong piece in a very mainstream source. This isn't just about a few "pirates" complaining -- as SOPA defenders would have you believe. This is a widespread recognition that censorship and massive regulation of the internet, just because Hollywood refuses to adapt, is not in anyone's best interest.
The Chinese government attempts to portray dissidents as "pirates" and "rogues" outside the system. Entertainment interests are taking a similar approach, and have found what they consider to be the perfect bogeymen: the "rogue" sites and "overseas pirates" who steal content and make it available elsewhere on the Internet at a cheaper price. Under the cover of protecting intellectual property and making the Internet safe again for users, they risk destroying what makes the Internet so special and attractive to innovators and investors alike.
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Innovation is in our DNA – it means making things better than before. It means driving the right solutions to deliver the energy that our customers need to power and sustain their lives. But we know we cannot solve the world's energy challenges on our own.
To meet the rising energy demand in the most socially, environmentally, and economically responsible way, we need to unlock the full power of innovation: the capacity to do things differently and better than before.
Discover our innovation programmes below, and which of them could best meet your needs.
Shell GameChanger
Shell founded its GameChanger programme in 1996 to provide innovators with the financial and technical support and space they need to demonstrate the technical and commercial viability of their ideas. GameChanger helps them to prove their concept works, quickly and cost-efficiently.
GameChanger has worked with more than 1,700 innovators around the world, helping them turn more than 100 ideas into reality. These include the revolutionary idea of producing and cooling natural gas to liquid at sea. Boosted by early funding from the GameChanger programme, the idea is coming to life with the Prelude FLNG project


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Surfboarding has acquired new maneuvers and new names as it crossed the Pacific Ocean from Polynesia to the Animas River.
The evolution changed a Polynesian sport into a stand-up tool of physical fitness in Durango.
Paddleboarding as its called now offers an all-around workout, says personal trainer Ingrid Foutz, who uses a paddleboard in her instruction.
The boards, generally 9 to 12 feet long, can be solid or inflatable and are propelled by a paddle. The boards are stable enough, however, to allow exercises.
Stand-up paddleboarding works all muscles and improves balance, Foutz said. It is particularly good for strengthening the core.
Mary Ann Erickson, who had a year of paddleboard experience when she joined a Foutz level-3 class on the Animas River north of the 32nd Street bridge last week, agrees its a workout.
I run, do spinning and lift weights, but I knew Id used other muscles when I got off the board, Erickson said. I felt it, but it felt good.
Erickson, 56, said maintaining balance on a paddleboard to reduce the risk of falling requires core strength.
She said going against the river current with Foutz is slightly more challenging than paddling on Lemon Reservoir where she and husband, Joe, exercised two or three times a week last summer.
Paddleboarding downstream is level-4, Foutz said. She leaves that instruction to Jon Krueger at 4Corners Riversports, which refers all basic classes to her.
Krueger, in his second year as instructor with Four Corners, is certified by the American Canoe Association.
Paddleboarding is in an explosive growth stage now, Krueger said. Its big enough to provide certification.
He mentioned that during the recent Animas River Days celebration there were four events featuring paddleboards.
Trey Knight, education and outreach coordinator at the American Canoe Association, said stand-up paddleboarding went mainstream in the U.S. about six years ago.
The association has been certifying instructors for about 2½ years, Knight said. The association, which was founded in 1880, has 5,600 certified instructors in canoeing, kayaking, rafting, paddleboarding and swift-water rescue.
If a novice is intimidated by the thought of getting on the water, Foutz starts the student on a paddleboard resting on a pair of bosu balls (a half-sphere used to learn balance).
Its the same sensation as being on the water, Foutz said. When students feel comfortable they can progress to a body of flat water such as Turtle Lake.
Foutz spent her formative years in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a California beach community in northern San Diego County, where she learned to surf.
There were tons of surfing races there, Foutz said. Now theres paddleboard races up and down the coast.
Foutz began a 22-year career in fitness training at age 16 when she taught aerobics at the YMCA in Encinitas, Calif. She later trained fitness instructors for several months in the Cayman Islands.
Paddleboarding is growing worldwide, Foutz said.
There is wide interest because anyone can do it, Foutz said. Little kids and people in their 70s are doing it.
Paddling or exercising on a board is a full-body workout, Foutz said. Maintaining ones balance requires core strength, she said.
Breezy Hinojosa is new to paddleboarding, but as a personal fitness trainer and Zumba instructor she recognizes the value of the discipline.
Paddleboarding is incredibly effective, said Hinojosa, 28. On the water you work not only the larger muscles but also the smaller interior stabilizers.
This is beneficial in daily life, Hinojosa said. By strengthening those stabilizing muscles you help keep your balance and prevent falls.


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Welcome to our hostel
Located in a wonderful 15th century villa, Villa Camerata hostel is surrounded by a huge park and botanical garden, away from the noise of the city but close enough to reach the city centre by bus. It is close to a swimming pool, football stadium and the Nelson Mandela forum that hosts important concerts, theatre performances and cultural events.
The hostel offers a range of accommodation options including dormitories and private rooms, and a wide range of facilities are available including free Wi-Fi, Internet access, satellite TV, cinema and table tennis. Meals are also available and there's a bar where you can chill-out and chat to other travellers.
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City's healthcare costs soar
Officials with the City of Beaumont are moving quickly to curb a massive, seemingly unforeseen increase in the city's healthcare spending.
According to Chief Financial Officer Laura Clark, this year's city healthcare spending jumped some $3 million since last year.
Although the city's stop loss insurance has covered a large portion of the cost overrun, Clark said officials are moving to curb the increase.
"Although we didn't experience a full $3 million swing — we have stop loss (insurance) because we're self insured," Clark said of the cost overrun. "While for many years, we enjoyed things being pretty steady, there is an incline, an increase in cost, so it's time to take some steps to mitigate that."
To help mitigate the increase, the city has enlisted the help of healthcare consultant Preston Pomykal of Holmes Murphy & Associates who gave a presentation to City Council on Tuesday, May 27.
"We have to figure out how to make the masses of this population care," Pomykal said to council. "That's the challenge and from 2007, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, when you're just moving flat, flat, flat, flat, it's difficult to go to you and say, 'Boys, I want you to do this.' But you jump 3 million bucks, and now it's time for someone to pay attention because you can't afford to do that forever."
According to Pomykal, a majority of the city's 20 most expensive employees typically don't cost more than $100,000 per year to insure. That number has changed this year, with the 20 most expensive city employees costing much more than previous years.
"In 2011, our top 20 claimants went from $282,000 down to $66,000 for a total of $2.2 million. That was our 20 most expensive people. 2012, we started at $283,000, a pretty similar year. Went down to $63,000, for $2,099,000 total cost," Pomykal told city council members. "(In) 2013, I had 20 claimants over $100,000. These two years ... I went from seven to five to my entire top 20 at least $100,000. And my total was $4.34 million compared to my total over here of $2,099,000. Now you have stop loss in there. These are net claims. So, the net net to you is about $1.5 million because you have reinsurance that you're purchasing, so you didn't feel the full brunt of all $3 million swing. But my point is, when you look at your plan, it's not that day-to-day operation of the plan. It's not the utilization of the 1,700 people or 1,400 people. It's the 20 most ill people that have cost this significantly."
Pomykal said one sure way to bring costs down in the short term is to incentivize employees to voluntarily give blood samples at free, in-house annual wellness exams. Pomykal said currently only 30 percent of the city's employees take advantage of the free annual exam.
"What you're after is blood samples," he said. "If you can get somebody's triglycerides, cholesterol, blood pressure, fasting glucose level and their waist circumference, you can get a pretty accurate reading in the insurance world of what their future liabilities are."
Clark said employees at numerous focus groups she's attended are wary about allowing companies like Holmes Murphy & Associates or any other third party to have such data for fear they may be targeted by the city for having health problems.
But Pomykal was sure to assuage those employees by saying disclosure of such data would prompt a very expensive lawsuit against the city.
"That's one of the stepping stones we have to get over with employees as we talk about this. Because everybody feels that it's Big Brother. 'You're going to look at it. You're going to come after me because I'm ill,'" Pomykal said. "Well, first off we all know that wouldn't happen ... because the repercussions from that are terrible. So from our standpoint, we don't even release that to management. We keep all of that in house."
The city's short-term strategy seems to be early detection of health issues.
"Having someone do something as simple as an exam will start making them understand their own health and things will fall off and be caught," Pomykal said. "That's what you're after. It's not really preventative in nature; it's just early detection."
But in the long term, Clark said the city could raise premiums, change their healthcare plan's overall design and/or incentivize healthy lifestyles by offering better healthcare for those who "care" and are actively engaged in a healthy lifestyle. Specifically, Pomykal said the city could offer a different, better plan for those who choose to give a blood sample.
"Most of your cities that are doing your (plan) variations are doing cost: $50 a month more if you don't care and $50 less a month if you do care," he said.
Clark said diabetes and cardiac issues caused most of the cost overrun, but other factors exist which many times are uncontrollable.
"A premi baby (premature baby) can be very expensive," Clark said.
Clark added that she and Pomykal held a focus group with the city's upper management April 9 and plans to hold many more focus groups for other city employees this week.
"By the time we have our budget presentation in August, we'll have everything more finalized," she said.
Clay Thorp can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 222, or by e-mail at clay [at] theexaminer [dot] com.


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I know, shocking isn't it? Playing football in the street seems to have been quite a problem in Clarendon Park in the 19th century. There were plenty of young lads up before the police court, charged with this heinous crime. Bearing in mind that there was much less road traffic than today, and that children and young people in particular would have been very much more in evidence in the street than they are today, I can't see the harm. And when you consider the overcrowding of the small terraced housing, it makes sense that teenage boys indulged in a game or two. Take this example from the Leicester Chronicle (November 1896) :
Walter Green (17), Edward Bostock (17), Arthur White (16), all of Avenue-road Extension, and shoe hands, and Frank Wilson (15), Knighton Fields-road East, were summoned for playing football in the Wigston-road on the 2nd inst. PC Broome proved the case, and the boys were cautioned and discharged.
Edward Bostock came from a family of at least 8, and both Walter Green and Arthur White lived with eight other people in their 2 bedroomed houses. There just was not space for everyone to sit around in the evenings reading improving books, especially when the children were strapping teenagers taking up huge amounts of leg room.
The courts didn't seem to have a very standardised approach to dealing with the menace of street football. In April of the same year the Chronicle reported two other youths who had been fined:
Albert Austin (16), Salisbury Cottages Lorne Road, and Edgar Stapleton (15), youths, were summoned for playing football in Avenue-road Extension on the 22nd inst. Fined 2s. 6d or three days.
Given that many other Clarendon Park lads were summoned for the much more unpleasant crimes of throwing stones at cats, swearing, drinking and brawling – you'd think that the local constables would have better things to do. Especially at Victoria Park, where I have been reading of some VERY fruity goings-on. But more about that some other time…regards, Elizabeth.


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Should YouTube Allow Artful Nudity?
from the but-think-of-the-commenters... deptThe EFF and the National Coalition Against Censorship are apparently asking YouTube to consider changing its policy with regards to nudity. Apparently, it will allow nudity if the video is from a film or TV show -- but not if it's user generated videos made for YouTube. Separately, YouTube suggests it will allow nudity with "some educational, documentary and scientific content, but only if that is the sole purpose of the video and it is not gratuitously graphic." The problem, according to the EFF and NCAC, is that there is no exception for work that is artistic in nature, and apparently YouTube recently removed the videos of a well-known artist, Amy Greenfield, for violating the "no nudity" policy. Now, this isn't actually a "censorship" issue, since YouTube is a private site, and not the government. So, honestly, I don't see any problem with YouTube deciding that it doesn't want that particular content on its site, but there is a separate issue raised here -- which is that, once again, the real issue is Google's lack of customer service -- something we've seen a lot of lately. One of the complaints is that Greenfield's videos were taken down with no recourse and no method for her to communicate with folks at YouTube to talk about getting them back online.
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Editor's note: Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today's offering:
We were four frugal young teachers. But once a year we treated ourselves to the best Manhattan had to offer.
As we approached the famous restaurant Lutece, we questioned whether we were dressed perfectly. Could we pass as urban sophisticates?
The maitre d' met us at the door, all smiles and bows.
When he took my coat, I began to look over the cozy little bar and anticipate the charming basket of pastry that was our appetizer.
Then the maitre d' returned to our group, gingerly holding a fabric softener sheet that had fallen from my sleeve.
"Madam," he said, "Your Bounce."
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Janessa Bowring, a senior at Monticello High School, was named the 2010 Sterling Scholar for Trade and Technical Education. Bowring, the daughter of Sherrill and Brian Bowring, plans to attend Utah Valley University, where she will study dental hygiene. Bowring has extensive experience in 4H and livestock, in addition to elk farming, woodworking and advanced automobile.
Kara Redd, a senior at San Juan High School, is the 2010 Sterling Scholar in Family and Consumer Science. Redd, the daughter of Jolin and Kedric Redd, plans to attend Southern Utah University, where she has already earned a Presidential scholarship.
A number of area students were included in the list of runners-up in each category. They include Natasha Bleak of San Juan High School in the English category, Michelle Fahey of San Juan High School in the Social Science category, Curtis Black from San Juan High School in the Music category, Drew Nielson from San Juan High School in the Business and Marketing category, Spencer Bradford of San Juan High School in the Mathematics category, and Heather Palmer of San Juan High School in the Foreign Language category.
Hope Johnson, of Monument Valley High School, was named a runner up in the Family and Consumer category.
Students from throughout southeastern Utah participate in the annual Sterling Scholar competition, with students competing in twelve categories. Winners and runners up are eligible for a host of scholarships are colleges throughout the region.
A total of 31 students from the San Juan School District participated this year, the largest total ever. The competitors include Deidra Jensen, the first Sterling Scholar candidate from Navajo Mountain High School.
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STAGE TUBE: MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL's New Commercial - 'Here It Comes'!
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL, based on the life of legendary Motown founder Berry Gordy, will open on Broadway at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46 Street) on April 14, 2013. Preview performances will begin March 11, 2013. Get a first look at MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL's knockout cast in the show's new TV commercial below!
Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL will feature a book by Berry Gordy and music and lyrics from the Motown legendary catalogue. MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL is the real story of the one-of-a-kind sound that hit the airwaves in 1959 and changed America forever. This exhilarating show charts Motown Founder Berry Gordy's incredible journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross and The Supremes, Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Marvin Gaye and many more.
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL tells the gripping story behind the hits as Smokey finds his unique voice, Diana skyrockets to stardom and Berry fights against the odds to turn his improbable dream into a triumphant reality. The music that shattered barriers and shaped our lives finally comes to the Broadway stage in the season's most highly anticipated world-premiere event.
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL's creative team will also feature scenic design by David Korins (Bring It On: The Musical, Annie), costume design by Tony Award nominee ESosa (The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess, Topdog/Underdog), lighting design by Tony Award winner Natasha Katz (Once, Sister Act), sound design by Tony Award nominee Peter Hylenski (Rock of Ages, The Scottsboro Boys) and choreography by Patricia Wilcox (Blues in the Night) and Warren Adams (Toy Story). The 18 piece orchestra will be supervised by Ethan Popp (Rock of Ages) who will reproduce the classic "Sound of Young America" for the Broadway stage.


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Mo Ostin
A record exec who knows music is more than a business.
Mo Ostin's immense success in the music business can be attributed to the fact that he never lost sight of music as art. He encourages creativity and risk-taking and knows a future star when he hears one.
Mo Ostin is known as the artist's friend and one of a very small cadre of music executives who were trusted by recording artists in developing and encouraging creativity, and who put credence into risk-taking.
Ostin signed the likes of Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, the Sex Pistols and Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was at Warner Bros. Records for thirty-two years, twenty-five of them as chief executive officer. He later signed on to head the music arm of the entertainment conglomerate DreamWorks SKG.
After graduating as an economics major at UCLA, Ostin took a job at Clef Records, which later became Verve. Owned and run by jazz impresario Norman Granz, the artist lineup included jazz greats Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz and Louis Armstrong.
In the late 1950s, Frank Sinatra tried to buy Verve Records. Verve was eventually sold to MGM Records, but Sinatra was so impressed by the company's artists and management style that when he decided to form his own company in 1960, he hired Ostin to head it.
Reprise faltered despite good work, possibly due to Sinatra's edict that the label was not to sign rock and roll acts. Reprise was sold to Warner Bros. Records in 1963. Ostin knew he had to jump on the rock revolution. His first significant rock signing was the Kinks. The group promptly had six top 40 U.S. singles by the end of 1965. Ostin learned to trust his instincts, which led to him signing artists such as Jimi Hendrix.
After seven years heading Warner's Reprise division, Ostin was named president of the combined Warner Bros./Reprise operation. Two years later, he was appointed chairman/CEO, a position he held until December 31, 1994.
By the mid-1970s, the Warner group, including Atlantic and Elektra, was number one in the record industry. The label kept up with music, moving over the years from pop and rock, to country, dance, punk, R&B, and heavy metal.
In Ostin's time, many notable acts were signed by Warner Bros. or its affiliated labels, including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, Paul Simon, the Beach Boys, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Who, Emmylou Harris, Madonna, Prince, Talking Heads, U2, Bob Marley, Eagles, John Lennon, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, ZZ Top, Rod Stewart, George Benson, Van Halen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Quincy Jones, REM, Green Day and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Influential comedians Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Steve Martin were also signed.
Ostin also signed label deals with such record companies as Chrysalis, Capricorn, Island, Sire, Geffen, Giant, Tommy Boy and Sire, to name a few.
On October 5, 1995, Ostin, along with former president of Warner Bros. Records Lenny Waronker, and former senior vice president of Artists and Repertoire at Warner Bros. and Ostin's son, Michael Ostin, signed on as the new management team for DreamWorks SKG Records.
During that time, Ostin signed such artists as Nelly Furtado, Papa Roach, Rufus Wainwright, Elliott Smith, The All-American Rejects, The Isley Brothers, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Eat World, Toby Keith, Lifehouse and comedians Chris Rock and Jimmy Fallon.
In 2003, Ostin was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. At the 2006 Grammys, Ostin received the Icon Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Mo Ostin is currently Chairman Emeritus of Warner Bros. Records and a consultant.
Inductee: Mo Ostin (born March 27, 1927)


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I am looking for good introductory papers and/or books on the principles of lasers. In particular, I am interested in pulsed laser technology.
I understand that
Gould, R. Gordon (1959). "The LASER, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"
was one of the principal papers published by the disputed inventor himself. What are other good sources?


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Aggressive styling and advanced performance are at the core of the Kawasaki Ninja® 400 sportbike. With an all-new engine and a lightweight chassis, this approachable sportbike offers the perfect balance of everyday street riding and sport riding. The 399cc twin cylinder engine delivers smooth and broad power that is easy to use for a range of riders. Featuring game-changing power and legendary Ninja performance, the all-new Ninja 400 has set the bar higher.
- Class Leading 399cc Twin-Cylinder Engine: The largest displacement engine in its class delivers smooth, easy-to-use power for maximum rider confidence while also offering outstanding fuel efficiency
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This is tip #44 of 101 digital imaging tips that I plan to post here over the next few months. Stay tuned.
Today's tip: Keep it level.
Today's tip: Keep it level.
When it comes to shooting landscapes, and when it comes to shooting most videos, you want to keep your camera level.
Sure, you can try to eyeball it. But why not get it right in camera?
To level my camera, I use two devices:
When shooting with my Canon 7D, I use the built in level - which I think is a really cool feature.
Explore the light - and keep it level,
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A ring of silver enchanted such that if any in the wearer's presence intend to harm them it would grow warm. Unfortunately it's properties are wasted if in place of politics where it is consistently warm.
To become a warrior in a tribe. -no food, drink, or sleep for 4 days and nights. -change into special clothes and painted enter hut -slices of skin carved from their chest and shoulders -wooden skewers through the bleeding flesh behind the chest muscles -stout thongs, secured to rafters were tied to skewers -hoisted from floor by these and weights were attached to their feet -twirled around till fell unconscious -when recovered from this, given a hatchet to cut off their little finger -ropes then tied to wrists and force to run in circle like a horse until he passed out -if survive all this he can return to his family in honor knowing he is now a warrior.


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Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2017
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Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2017 will return again to Aspen, and conference sessions will take place on the grounds of The Aspen Institute, located in the beautiful natural surroundings of Aspen. Aspen sits at the upper end of the Roaring Fork Valley, at the base of Aspen Mountain, one of four ski areas surrounding Aspen. The town has long been recognized as one of the most vibrant cultural capitals in the world—where exceptional cultural events, activities, and foundations come together. Nothing compares to Aspen in the summertime, when the area comes alive with outdoor adventure, wildflower blossoms and endless sunshine. There are activities for every taste, age, and ability, including rafting, fishing, horseback riding, alpine hiking, mountain biking, and of course, world class shopping and dining.


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Relating to space or a space.
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Relating to space or a space.
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drama tagged posts
Moping Strategy (TW: depression, suicide, molestation)
With a title like that, I wouldn't put it past you to think this post is going to be all negative-nelly whining and teenage angst. Unfortunately for you, that's only partly correct. Oh, don't worry, I know why you came. To get the skinny on another person's woes, their thought process. Did you know that there is an actual word for that? Well, there is, and the three hours I spent scouring google to try and find it, should tell you something about my state of mind right now. But honestly, I wouldn't blame you if you skip this particular entry in my lovely slice of wordery here.more
Gushing about Good Omens
So what are we going to talk about today?
This hot mess of satirical genius, written by two men I highly admire. Neil Gaiman, author of such renowned books as Coraline, Anansi Boys, and Stardust, who captured millions of imaginations with his comic book series, The Sandman. A personal favorite of mine from western graphic novel literature. Terry Pratchett is even more famous, I believe, for his amazing Discworld Series, rightfully so.
These two authors have come together in an amazing tribute to not only christian religion, but also humanity in general. Taking the bible and the end of times and turning it into a spectacle I would gladly read again and again, is no mean feat, ladies and gents. And the characters, they thrill me so!
The two main characters (arguably) are Aziraphale and Crowley.
As described by the book itself, Crowley is "An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards." This is to say, he is not your average demon. He is the Serpent in the Garden, the Tempter. And he's not bad looking in a suit and sunglasses, either. He is on a pet name basis with his counterpart, Aziraphale. Specifically, "Angel". It's ironic, and the fangirls (read: me.) have run with it.
Aziraphale, however, gets this lovely description: "Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide." Oddly enough, though, Crowley is the one that strikes me as gay. I don't know why that is.
Anyway, these two are the driving force behind the story. Literally. Crowley drives a Bentley the entire time in the book, and by the end it is literally held together only by his will. It's amazing. From losing the baby Antichrist, to saving the world, these two are your ticket through the enchanting world these two men have created for us.
We get to watch these two characters grow and learn and generally fall out of their tired, uninspired existences, into something akin to human-hood, and it is beauteous. Not only do they become greater friends, but they learn that even if something is ineffable, that doesn't mean it's written in stone.
The entire plot revolves around Adam, the Antichrist. To quote our esteemed writers, "Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness." But really he looks like an Adam.
It's time for Adam to bring about the Apocalypse. Daddy Evilest says so. However, not only are Crowley and Aziraphale hot on his heels to stop him, but so are several other motley crews. The hilarity never stops.
But all in all, the story isn't even about the apocalypse or about god versus Satan, or about ineffability versus free will. It all comes down to this one quote:
"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
Because that's what Gaiman and Pratchett have given us in this book. A book about humanity, and not just in humans, but in angels and demons and cars and witches. Humanity, the gift of being able to say, "I don't like this." and choosing to do something about it.
All in all, I've read this book three times. And I plan to sit down and read it again, very soon. Please, please, do the same.


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With fall right around the corner, farmers are gearing up to harvest one of the largest crops in history. Corn production for 2014/15 is forecast 172 million bushels higher at a record 14 billion bushels. USDA's first survey-based corn yield forecast, at a record 167.4 bushels per acre, is up 2.1 bushels from last month's trend-based projection.
In Mid-June, more than 581 farmers across the country took part in AgWeb's 2014 Equipment and Machinery Research survey. Participants were surveyed on product questions across eight categories, including: tractors combines, sprayers, irrigation, grain storage, implements, tillage and financial sectors.
With a bumper crop on the way, commodity prices are predicted to continue falling. As a result, according to the survey, agriculture industries could see the affects, including the machinery sector.
More than 70% of the participants answered that the recent decline in commodity prices would affect their willingness to buy machinery in 2014. More than 17% remained unchanged and more than 10% answered that prices will not affect their purchase decisions.
Even with the forecast bumper crop and low prices, participants said if they were to purchase equipment before the end of the year, a planter would be at the top of their lists, with a corn head following in close second.
Here are other highlights from the survey:
- 82% do not own irrigation equipment, 17% do own irrigation equipment
- 83% are not likely to purchase irrigation equipment, 10% plan to purchase new irrigation equipment within the next 3-5 years
- 44% own or lease one pull-behind, 23% own or lease one self-propelled
- 31% are likely to buy a self-propelled in 2016 or beyond, 29% are likely to buy a pull-behind in 2016 or beyond
- 36% conventional tillage, 34% partial no-till, 17% no-till


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2013 Was A Breakthrough Year For Nuclear Diplomacy
In November, an agreement was reached to suspend much of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiators for Iran and six world powers will be back at the table working on a comprehensive deal to limit Iran's nuclear activity and bring an end to punitive economic sanctions. Analysts say those talks will be exponentially harder than the ones concluded this year.
2013 Was A Breakthrough Year For Nuclear Diplomacy
And as the hours are counted down towards the end of 2013, we're looking back at some of the stories that helped define the year that was. And one of the most significant moments this year - after years of resisting, Iran reached an agreement with the U.S. and other world powers to suspend much of its nuclear activity.
There were plenty of doubts about the agreement early on, but now experts expect it to be implemented over the next six months. More difficult talks still lie ahead as international leaders press for tangible assurance that Iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon
NPR's Peter Kenyon has this report.
PETER KENYON, BYLINE: This was the year journalists covering the Iran nuclear issue got to write that rarest of all sentences: They have a deal.
More of a time-out than a finished agreement, really, but a breakthrough for nuclear diplomacy nonetheless. It sets the stage for the real test - hammering out a comprehensive accord intended to confirm the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program and to return Iran to the global economy with the lifting of international sanctions. There have been snags - Iran cut off expert level talks briefly after Washington announced new enforcement actions based on existing sanctions. But even so, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have visited Iran's heavy water reactor at Arak, and the agency has its own agreement with Iran for more visits to the country's three main nuclear facilities, and to other sites such as uranium mines. Tariq Rauf, former head of verification and security for the IAEA, says an important step should be completed within 90 days - the so-called downblending of Iran's 20 percent enriched uranium, the closest it has to weapons grade fuel. It will be diluted to below 5 percent purity, which is suitable for nuclear power generation.
TARIQ RAUF: So the downblending has to be accomplished within three months of the start of the clock on the Geneva deal. The visit to Iraq and the heavy water plant has already taken place. And then the daily visits to the three facilities, plus the normal safeguards activities that the IAEA has been carrying out in any case.
KENYON: These early steps, plus some easing of sanctions, are crucial, says analyst Ali Vaez with the International Crisis Group. These small successes will help keep positive momentum going during what he expects to be extremely difficult talks on a comprehensive nuclear agreement.
ALI VAEZ: The two sides are as far apart as one can imagine. There's a huge gulf between the two sides on every single element of the final deal. You know, what to do with Iran's heavy water reactor, what to do with Iran's Fordow facility, it's a bunker facility. And on the Iranian side, I would add, what are the sanctions that are going to be lifted, not only suspended but permanently lifted?
KENYON: Longtime arms control expert Robert Einhorn, speaking at an event organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, agreed that talks on a comprehensive deal will be thorny. For instance, the plan agreed to in Geneva speaks of a mutually agreed enrichment program for Iran, consistent with its practical needs. But Einhorn says Tehran will be dismayed at just how minimal a program the international side, known as the P5+1, is likely to propose.
ROBERT EINHORN: Now, the way the P5+1 governments view those practical needs is very limited. They have a research reactor in Tehran that already has enough fuel for a few decades. And they have a power reactor at Bushehr that the Russians provide fuel for - they don't need any fuel for that. On the drawing board they have some other research reactors planned, but they haven't broken ground on them. For the foreseeable future they have very little practical need.
KENYON: That's not how Iranian officials see it. They regularly tout plans for new reactors and new power plants, and insist that enriching their own uranium is a right that they will never abandon. Verification will be one of many crucial and difficult aspects of a final agreement. Tehran will need to agree to even more intrusive verification measures if it wants oil and banking sanctions lifted, which will underscore the uncomfortable fact that of all the signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran is the most inspected country on earth. Geneva-based Iranian analyst Shahram Chubin suggests that any tough new inspection regime should be pitched as the new state of the art in non-proliferation.
SHAHRAM CHUBIN: Any inspections that are intrusive should be dressed up as a model for everybody else. In other words, the Iranians have always argued, you know, that you can't single us out. This should then be a model for everybody else.
KENYON: Waiting in the wings will be hardliners in Iran, in Israel, and in Congress, where a push for new sanctions is already underway. Peter Kenyon, NPR News, Istanbul.
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By DAVID PESCOVITZ
I don't live in a geodesic dome. There's no Dymaxion car in my garage (unfortunately, on both counts). And no Dymaxion map is likely to strengthen my embarrassingly poor grasp of geography. From a purely commercial perspective, the man behind all of those creations, Buckminster Fuller, was a failed inventor. And yet, at the same time, he was one of the most influential, protean innovators of the 20th century.
See, the curious inventions that Bucky is best known for were often mere incidental offshoots of his real genius. They were artifacts that embodied not a specific solution to a particular problem, but rather an entirely new way of thinking about the problem at its most fundamental levels. "I did not set out to design a geodesic dome," he once said. "I set out to discover the principles operative in Universe. For all I knew, this could have led to a pair of flying slippers."
Bucky Fuller reads mail during a boat ride near his summer home in Maine, 1970. (John Loengard—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Bucky Fuller (b. July 12, 1895, in Massachusetts; d. July 1, 1983, in Los Angeles) was a practical philosopher who made his ideas tangible. His mediagenic inventions were vectors that spread his big ideas through popular consciousness, spurring conversations about poverty, transportation, ecology, housing, energy and other transformational topics of the day (and of future days). At the Institute for the Future, where I'm a researcher, we call this methodology "human-futures interaction." And it works. A good "artifact from the future" will provoke the person who sees it, and touches it, to think about the future and hopefully make better decisions in the present. It's not easy, but Bucky was a deep thinker who learned to become a great maker. He was driven by curiosity and optimism that was infectious. His dozens of books laid out plans to fix, manage or design around the world's problems. Whether you agreed with his solutions didn't matter much. In fact, it still doesn't.
The real lesson in his books is in the beauty (and joy) of whole-systems thinking. Playing connect-the-dots — with science, technology, art, music, people — is one of my favorite pastimes. Re-encountering Bucky, I'm constantly reminded of how much I don't know, the importance of unintended consequences and that the most interesting experiences, insights and breakthroughs are often found at the intersection of disciplines and, sometimes, at the very fringes of reason.
David Pescovitz is co-editor/partner at Boing Boing and a research director at Institute for the Future. He is also editor-at-large of MAKE. (Photo: Bart Nagel)


text: 38 Studios' financial apocalypse has been well-documented. Ultimately, no amount of auctioning and memorabilia sales could redeem all-star pitcher Curt Schilling's game development legacy. Still, you have to wonder who's behind the pricing of the downloadable version being offered on Xbox Live Games on Demand in Australia. Maybe 38 Studios' only release is a collector's item now?


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Pass the Salt — and the Classical Ideal
One of the great pleasures of watching the Tour de France (a current nightly addiction) is seeing modern cycling in a setting of great classical architecture. The most vivid backdrop so far was last week's ninth-stage start at the famous
late 18th century salt works at Arc-et-Senans, Besançon (photo courtesy estrepublicain.fr). This remarkable complex of buildings (the one above was a theater) arose as part of an early utopian idea for a factory town, when salt was a precious commodity as an agent for food preservation and to improve taste, and a royal monopoly. Though these three riders are understandably oblivious to the robust Doric order behind them, they are chatting, ironically, beside an early example of what scholars call "architecture parlante" or "talking architecture,"
designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, and completed in 1778. The aerial view shows the semi-circular layout and the architect's interest in geometric order (photo courtesy salineroyale.com). In his excellent book European Architecture 1750-1890, architectural historian Barry Bergdoll explains that architecture parlante was about expressing the identity and profession of the client "through the manipulation of architectural symbolism." Here that meant using a rustic Doric order (because Doric signified a utilitarian function at that time) and an orderly — i.e. geometric — layout with "an arc of residential and service buildings facing the salt production sheds and the director's house along the diameter."
Among the most expressive, or loquacious aspects of the Salt Works are the ornamental sculptures of saline water just before crystallization, as shown in this image, courtesy Miami.edu — which could also represent the occasional cramping that cyclists experience…Hydrate! Hydrate! Classical architecture has always embodied large ideas and associations — order, knowledge, Greece and Rome — so it's easy to see how an architect like Ledoux would take imagery to an
extreme, as in his design for the keeper of a river dam's power source as a giant sluice gate (never built; image courtesy Arch 672: Smart Surfaces Studio). It could be a progenitor of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater at Bear Run, Pennsylvania for Edgar Kaufmann — only River Keeper Kaufmann actually ran a department store.
As it happens, Thomas Jefferson arrived in France in 1784, not long after the salt works and other buildings by Ledoux had been completed, and soaked up the classical vibe (if not the salt) from daily walks in Paris, as an insightful and
beautifully printed new book by historian Diana Ketcham and photographer Michael Kenna — Thomas Jefferson's Paris Walks (Arion Press, 2012) — demonstrates. According to Ketcham, Jefferson was most attracted to
Neoclassical buildings like the new palace for the Prince de Salm, from 1787, with its monumental portico and long rows of columns along a court of honor (photo courtesy Arion Press). Upon his return from Paris in 1796, Jefferson
redesigned Monticello, no doubt prompted by what he saw in France. Monticello's high blocky entablature and balustrade wrapping the brick wall above the windows like a tightly cinched cummerbund may have derived from the grand double entablature at de Salm. You can see echoes of the colonnade arrangement in his much later plan for The Lawn (central quad) at the University of Virginia.
The classical portico idea remains popular to this day. A recent, much
simplified version, is Plan 492-8, by architect-sculptor Michael Curtis (part of our Signature Studio Collection), with its pedimented front porch. Inside of course, the layout is very contemporary, with the kitchen-dining room
and master suite opening to a spacious deck. Such a design would suit a site in neighborhoods where the language of classical architecture is still spoken. And in New Urbanist communities like Seaside, Florida or Stapleton, Colorado, which are classically inspired and where garages are usually on rear alleys, the main streets would be safer for cyclists!


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A Game Show for Cats!
We cats are super smart with minds of our own. You already know that we won't just play on demand like our canine pals. So Friskies created a new Game Show for Cats called Will Kitty Play With It? Here is an episode from the show with our cousin Rosie. She is being put to the test with a plastic bottlecap ringlet thingy. What do you think? Will Rosie Play with it?


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Recently, one can barely carry on a conversation with anyone at Concordia University Wisconsin without being asked if they have been to a men's hockey game yet. The excitement on campus is contagious.
With a new coach, an unseasoned team and seemingly altered attitude of the players, why this sudden excitement?
What is it about this "brand new" hockey team that has the students of CUW so animated?
This year's class of incoming freshmen on the men's hockey team was astounding, but not as overwhelming as one might think. With a new coach, there is an entirely new outlook. Head coach Jasen Wise, hired in March, indicates that each player is starting with a clean slate; no one on this team has ever played for him before.
With this unique view on the hockey program, Wise says that there is not any stigma of 'being a freshman' because to him everyone is new.
"...freshmen don't really matter here...these guys are 20-21 year old freshmen. Good communication with defense is important. They still have to work together. They do a good job putting aside what year they are and working hard as a unit with good communication and taking responsibility when something goes wrong, all of them, not just pointing a finger at one player."
This means that letting the new players adjust to college hockey during the first half of the semester is not an option. It also warrants a shift in leadership. As a new team, with so many different personalities, it is interesting to note freshmen captain, Buster Hebda (Firestone, Colo.), believes that coming into this year any number of his teammates could have been the captain because of the amount of exemplary leadership that each player displays on the ice.
The team's first three games were losses to St. Norbert College and MSOE, both of whom are ranked in the top 15 of the nation. Wise says that as a newer team, they know what standards they now have to reach for.
Leading scorer, Devin Stuermer (Milwaukee, Wis.), feels that after putting several games under their belts, as a team, communication has gotten better and the team is more comfortable with each other.
"It's an adjustment," Stuermer said. "Everybody has a role and it's just putting the pieces of the puzzle together."
Going into this year, he was not sure what to expect, but now the team is going to try to win as many games as possible.
In the season's first seven games alone, the team has given up 20 fewer goals than last year's team, which is almost three goals a game less. The games against Lawrence University and Lake Forest College are proof that hard work is paying off, and the team is gaining confidence and starting to find their pace as a unit.
Wise says that at the beginning of the season he had the good-will and excitement from everyone for the new season, but the support was quiet. Now after four-consecutive wins, the crowd can't be stilled or silenced. "It's good having that 'extra body' on the ice," he said.
He's not the only one who appreciates the clamorous crowd. Freshman goalie Jake Hebda (Firestone, Colo.) acknowledges that the student section helps.
"During warm-ups it looks like a bleacher night, but halfway through the first, everybody is out," he said. "It's awesome".
His brother on the team, Buster, said that it's great to have a chance to perform and see that people are enjoying themselves, especially with the chance to play with his brother.
This team's performance only proves the importance of banding together for a common cause. Here can be seen the importance of communication, hard work, and coming together as a team. The Falcons hold high hopes for this season, and look forward to having great turnouts at the rest of their games.


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As the US and Asian neighbors of North Korea mull a united response to block the communist nation's nuclear program following a recent test, Israel is bracing for the fallout.
The chief concern is that Pyongyang's defiance of the international community will serve as a case-study for how Iran also might side-step diplomacy, acquire nuclear weapons, and fuel a regional arms race. If North Korea can get away with becoming a nuclear nation with little punishment and despite US diplomatic efforts, Israeli analysts say that may embolden Iran to flout international pressure, too.
"If the Americans can't show credibility on North Korea, then they won't be able to go far. It's a thermometer," says Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar Ilan University. "The US has been threatening to take action against North Korea since the 1990s and the North Korea has been able to buy time. The Israeli concern is that's exactly what will happen with Iran."
Israeli experts believe that it should have been easier to apply a mix of diplomatic and military pressure on North Korea than Iran because of its comparative geographic, economic, and political isolation.
"This is open season for nukes," says Uzi Rubin, a former military Israeli intelligence officer who served as head of Israel's Missile Defense Organization from 1991-99. The North Korea test last week was a "watershed event. It means that even if you have minimal technology and are isolated, if you really concentrate on it, you can get nuclear technology."
Israel pushes for strong international response
Mr. Rubin adds that international diplomacy is useless if not backed up by a credible threat of force.
"Here we have a country [North Korea] that has reneged on all of its international commitements and gone nuclear against the advice of all the international community. Other countries considering to do the same will now be watching and drawing conclusions," says Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the foreign ministry.
In the wake of North Korea's test last week, a foreign ministry statement called on the international community to "respond decisively ... so as to transmit an unambiguous message," Haaretz reported.
Addressing an Asian security conference in Singapore this weekend, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US would not tolerate a nuclear North Korea, and warned that if diplomacy failed, tougher measures would be considered.
"The United States and our allies are open to dialogue, but we will not bend to pressure or provocation," said Mr. Gates. "We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia – or on us."
N. Korean ties to Iran
North Korea's history of supplying missile equipment to Iran, Syria, and Egypt stretches back at least a decade.
According to a technical report published earlier this month by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Theodore Postol, Iran's ballistic missile program "relies very heavily" on North Korean components, which it began importing as early as the 1980s. Three of its four known missile systems have flight characteristics "essentially identical" to those of North Korean missiles, the report says.
US intelligence officials believe North Korea and Syria, which have a longstanding military relationship, began cooperating on nuclear issues as early as 1997.
After Israel destroyed an alleged nuclear reactor in Syria in September 2007, the US accused North Korea of providing the nuclear know-how for the plant. Any transfer of technology from Pyongyang to Damascus is prohibited under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, which was adopted in response to North Korea's 2006 nuclear test.
Where the US, Israel go from here
Despite international consensus that Israel is a nuclear power, the country has never confirmed or denied its non-conventional abilities and has refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which would require it open up its nuclear program to international inspectors.
North Korea withdrew from the NPT in 2003. That year, former president George W. Bush launched the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), an alliance of US allies to blockade and monitor transfer of non-conventional weapons between states.
The PSI is being mentioned as a possibility for stepping up pressure against North Korea, but Professor Steinberg was skeptical as to whether US allies in Europe would reach a consensus to apply it.
The degree to which the Obama administration succeeds or fails on North Korea will impact its ability to coax Israel to go along with its effort to engage Iran in political talks to abandon its nuclear program, says Steinberg. With Israel worried that Iran is about to make the jump to becoming a nuclear power, President Obama said that the US should be able to tell by the end of the year whether its diplomatic efforts are making headway.


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Having a caustic, sharp, or disagreeable taste. It is one of the five taste senses (bitter, salty, savory, sour, and sweet).
1. an austere and unpalatable taste like that of quinine.
2. a medicinal and culinary agent used as a tonic, alterative or appetizer.
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a variety of Prunus amygdalus, the almond tree. Grown for the production of almond oil. The kernel of its seed contains sufficient cyanogenetic glycoside to be a possible cause of cyanide poisoning. The smell of bitter almonds is often quoted as being a characteristic finding in cases of cyanide poisoning in animals.
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Leadership Academy for Boys
Must have completed 6th grade and turn 12 by June 1st
The ocean is the largest unexplored place on Earth – less than 5% of it has been explored. The next generation of explorers and researchers will find great opportunities for discovery, innovation, and investigation. You can begin your journey to become one of these explorers with Sea LAB. Review the achievements of early explorers and learn how they changed the way we explore the marine environment. Investigate the fields of marine technology and engineering during a research cruise. Study morphological adaptations of the marine specimens you collect. Use technology to visualize the ocean floor and analyze the water column. Learn the importance of ocean monitoring by deploying a small working buoy to collect data. From SCUBA to AUVs, ocean exploration has challenged men for decades. You can meet this challenge by spending a day with Discover Scuba Diving (no prior experience necessary) and learning how to handle an ROV. Who knows, you might become the next Jacques Cousteau?
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- Ocean research cruise with an emphasis on marine technology; coastal habitat exploration by kayak; field trips to the beach, marsh, discover scuba pool session, Center for Marine Science, and other marine facilities.
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- Get real hands-on experience with some of the latest research tools such as GPS hand-held units, Vernier probeware and data collectors. Participate in a research cruise while learning how to map the ocean floor and analyze side scan sonar data. Work in teams to build your own energy machine. Learn about buoy designs from coastal ocean professionals. Try out diving by participating in a Discover SCUBA diving course where you will learn about basic scuba skills and safety in a pool environment.. Develop skills and confidence in leadership roles. Meet, interact with, and learn from inspirational UNCW research scientists and professional divers. Complete a meaningful service learning project.
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I have just done some tests on electronic kit on which I used the 100mA earth bond test. I had a load of failures. On a couple of items I was not able to get the test within spec (0.1 + lead resistance). On these I "risked" a 25A test and the resistance was 0.04 so WELL within spec for a 3 metre cable. Re test at 100mA - fail at 4.30 at best.
I have not had this type of problem before.
Any clues as to why?? Machine only just passed cal - this month. Do I take it back to the cal lab??