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|Can the Rams go from cellar dweller to division champion? Sam Bradford and Jeff Fisher will give it a go.
The NFL proudly trumpets its playoff parity, with an average of five new teams making the postseason annually since 2000. Last season, six teams made the playoffs that didn't in 2010 -- Texans, Broncos, Bengals, 49ers, Giants and Lions. With that in mind, which five 2011 playoff teams won't be back and who will replace them?
Rams in, Niners out in the NFC West? Believe itThe Steelers and Broncos get pushed aside in the AFC, with the Bills and Chargers taking their spots. And the Lions, Saints and 49ers are out in the NFC, with the Eagles, Bears and Rams taking their places.
In the AFC, I love Pittsburgh's addition of Todd Haley and think Ben Roethlisberger takes a step forward this year, but Mike Wallace will need to acclimate, the running game will miss (a fully healthy) Rashard Mendenhall, and the defense is transitioning. With an easier schedule, the Bills edge out the Steelers for the second wild-card spot. The Broncos need a year to get right and will be nipped by a reloaded Chargers team with a determined Philip Rivers and a defense that has had Peyton Manning's number in the past.
In the ultracompetitive NFC, this year is the Lions' dip before a real championship contender emerges in 2013. A more complete team in Chicago (health permitting) will outdistance them for a wild card. The new coordinators bring new life to Atlanta, which slips past a New Orleans team that will miss Sean Payton. The rise of the Eagles in the East moves the Giants to a wild card and keeps the Saints out of the playoffs all together. And the 49ers' defense will be all it was in 2011, but the offense might lose its identity a bit with all the new toys. That will allow the reenergized Rams to sneak in as West champs at 9-7.
Jets, Chiefs will crash AFC playoff party; sorry Broncos, BengalsI've got almost all of those new playoff teams from last year taking a step back. The Broncos, Bengals, Giants, 49ers and Lions will fall short.
Taking their place: The Chiefs, Jets, Eagles, Panthers and Seahawks. Picking Seattle to win the NFC West might be even crazier than Pete Carroll picking Russell Wilson as his starter.
Eagles, Cowboys could make it a big season for the NFC EastI can't see there being five teams from last season's playoffs that don't make the postseason again this season. But if I have to rank the five most likely 2011-12 playoff participants to miss the cut this season, I rank them in this order:
N.Y. Giants
The five teams I think are the most likely to emerge as new playoff teams are:
Kansas City
I see Kansas City replacing Cincinnati in the AFC, and Philadelphia and Dallas replacing Atlanta and Detroit in the NFC.
Per usual, injuries will be the biggest factor in playoff racesPlayoff turnover is often a result of significant injuries (just ask 2011 playoff dropouts Chicago, Indianapolis, Kansas City and Philadelphia), so predicting who's in and who's out before the season is difficult.
For example, the Chargers, Raiders or Chiefs could take back the AFC West from Denver if Peyton Manning can't stay on the field. And the Ravens face one of the toughest schedules in the league without pass rusher Terrell Suggs for at least the first half of the year; if they falter, the Titans could sneak into the final wild-card spot behind a revitalized Chris Johnson.
The 49ers led the league with a plus-28 turnover differential in 2011; sliding from 13 wins to nine or 10 due to regression to the mean brings the Seahawks back into the NFC West hunt. A healthy Jay Cutler and Matt Forte, combined with new receiver Brandon Marshall, could help Chicago beat out division foe Detroit for a playoff spot. Even the Super Bowl champions could be vulnerable, as they won just nine regular season games last year (and were outscored by opponents 400 to 394). Philadelphia could make a run at the Giants if Michael Vick's health doesn't become a major issue.
Giants won't make it back to the playoffs to defend titleThis will be a year the Steelers take a step backward in the AFC North. Their defense is getting old, and the offense won't be able to run the ball, no matter how much it wants to. Denver's road to the playoffs goes through the most difficult schedule in the NFL. I think 8-8 is the ceiling. I'm picking an upset in the AFC South: The Titans will ride CJ2K to a surprise division crown. Houston is still the team to beat, but defensive defections will mount up for them.
In the NFC, the Giants lost too much offensively. Paired with an incredibly hard slate of games, the champs will miss the postseason. I'm also going to say no playoffs for the Falcons in 2012. They'll put up fireworks offensively, but the division is a heckuva lot tougher than it was a year ago.
Panthers will be the surprise team of the 2012 seasonThe Broncos, Bengals and Steelers won't make the playoffs in 2012. The Broncos will take a backseat to the Chiefs in the AFC West. The Bengals and Steelers won't be able to duplicate their previous success, and it says here the Chargers and upstart Bills grab the wild-card spots.
In the NFC, the Giants will have a better record than last season, but won't win the division, falling behind the Dallas Cowboys. The NFC South will continue to be one of the most turbulent divisions in sports, as the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons both miss the playoffs. This year's surprise team will be the Panthers. The Bears missed the playoffs last year, thanks to an injury to Jay Cutler, but will be back with a division crown this season.


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A website for speech and language therapists, language and communication teachers and others to share ideas with those working with children with communication difficulties in schools and other locations
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A website that is a searchable library of ideas and resources, organised by target, and contributed by a community of therapists
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Information for those who want to find out more about supporting all children and young people's communication and those with speech, language and communication needs. www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk
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Helps partners create optimum conditions for learning through their resources and training on how to create Communication Friendly Spaces
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We have developed a booklet for people who are training to become teachers to give advice and guidance on children's communication skills. Let's Talk About It includes information on: • The importance of communication • The impact that speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) can have for children and young people on learning and attainment, and on social, emotional development and behaviour • How teachers can better identify children with SLCN and through making communication a priority, work more affectively with all children in their classroom • Signposts trainees to a range of further information sources
This excellent resource makes this complex area of language development accessible to non-specialist staff. fAll those working in the field will appreciate the clear explanations and practical support and advice for those working and living with children at the pre-intentional and intentional stages of communication as far as beginning to use first words. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning children who have little or no means of expressing themselves verbally. Language Builders for Complex Needs provides ideas for assessment and recording progress as well as detailed advice and practical activities. It is written for speech and language therapists, teachers, teaching assistants, pre-school practitioners and parents. The book examines the characteristic communication skills, the interaction required and the thinking and play skills that need nurturing at each of the following stages: Pre-Intentional Communication. Being able to anticipate events. Intentional Communication. It also considers: The link between play and language. Total Communication – signs, symbols, Communication Passports, and briefly, Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Using first words, ideas and phrases.
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AMHERST, Mass. New studies being launched by neurobiologist Luke Remage-Healey at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will investigate how estrogens produced in the brains of young birds enhance their ability to learn songs during a critical window during development. This period has a parallel to universal language development in human children.
In a separate study, the UMass Amherst neuroscientist and colleagues will explore the idea that estrogens produced in the brain's auditory cortex enhances the representation of sounds in adults, and how these changes are transmitted to other, sensorimotor parts of the brain. This work in zebra finches is supported by two grants, one from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $640,000 over four years, another from the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for $1.7 million over five years.
Remage-Healey's recent findings are among the first to support the idea that estrogens are not exclusively reproductive hormones, but are in fact also made in the brain like neurotransmitters, where they play a powerful role in cognition, learning and memory.
He says, "There are parts of the human brain important to speech and language, and the songbird brain has analogous regions in the auditory cortex and sensorimotor cortex. We now have a great map to figure out how neural signals propagate from one area to another. Experimentally, we can record how estrogens shape these signals and their propagation. By directly manipulating these pathways we hope to identify key molecular mechanisms and behavioral consequences."
Results of this work could be helpful in understanding human neurobiology, he adds, because a number of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and epilepsy, for example, are linked to steroid synthesis in the brain. Researchers are beginning to explore whether brain estrogens might represent a new, far more targeted treatment for cognitive and memory problems related to disease and aging.
The NSF-funded work in young birds will look at how estrogen levels in the brains of juvenile birds affect their song-learning ability, which because of the parallel window of development in humans could shed light on how the hormone affects how children learn speech and language.
"What we sometimes take for granted, our ability to speak and to learn a new language is really an impressive feat," says Remage-Healey. He points out that a rat learning to navigate a maze performs better after an estrogen injection. "In a similar way," he adds, "we are finding that juvenile birds have elevated brain estrogen levels immediately and for about 60 minutes after they hear a new song." This has prompted the hypothesis that brain estrogen production enhances learning of recent experiences during development.
Remage-Healey and colleagues will set up a series of experiments using drugs to up- and down-regulate estrogen in the auditory cortex to determine whether certain treatments have an effect on the birds' ability to learn song. They will also use electrophysiology to record from neurons to assess whether memory consolidation is enhanced by estrogens. "For birds, maintaining your own song is an active, ongoing process. We'll explore whether early tutoring plus estrogen manipulations have consequences for song learning," the neuroscientist notes.
In the NIH-funded studies, the researchers will explore the idea that estradiol in the auditory cortex enhances the representation of sounds in adults, which is transmitted to sensorimotor parts of the brain. "We can modulate the auditory cortex and see downstream effects in the sensorimotor system in adults," Remage-Healey says.
"What this means is that the effects are not all local, and instead we will test how changes in estradiol in one part of the brain are connected to changes in other areas. In this case, we want to uncover the molecular mechanisms for how the changes propagate, along which pathways, and we'll identify how this shapes behavior."
The researchers hope that eventually such studies will lead to new treatment approaches for learning and memory problems that can be targeted to specific brain locations and for particular time windows. This would be an advance for patients taking oral estrogenic drugs, for example, which expose them to potentially adverse whole-body effects.
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|Oneway streets are streets where you are only allowed to drive in one direction.
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The oneway tag is used to indicate the access restriction on highways and other linear features as appropriate. This means that this tag should be used when this way can only be used in one direction. Note that a no entry sign prohibiting entry from one side or across one point of the road, does not automatically imply that the entire road is oneway (look for oneway signs along the road).
Take a look on the access=* page to add more detailed restrictions.
How to Map
Normal use
To mark a highway (or other linear feature) as oneway, simply add a oneway tag:
Note that the oneway tag is defined in relation to the direction the linear feature ("way") is drawn in OpenStreetMap. Identifying the direction of a way describes how to determine the direction of a way in the main OpenStreetMap editors.
If the oneway restriction is in the opposite direction to the drawn way, the fix in most cases is to turn the way around ("reverse way" tool in the map editors) and apply oneway=yes. If in a (very) rare case, the direction of the way cannot be changed, you can instead tag it as oneway=-1.
If the road is only a oneway road in certain parts, you'll have to split up the way in several parts.
Implied oneway restriction
Some tags (such as junction=roundabout, highway=motorway and others) imply oneway=yes and therefore the oneway tag is optional. If a tag implies a oneway value this is noted on the implying tag's wiki page.
oneway = no
oneway=no is used to confirm that (a part of) a street is NOT a oneway street. (Use only in order to avoid mapping errors in areas where e.g. oneway streets are common, or to override defaults.)
Sub keys / exceptions
Oneway can be used in conjunction with vehicle type in order to tag exceptions. I.e. oneway:moped=no for a one-way streets where mopeds are allowed to drive in the opposite direction, oneway:bicycle=no for bicycles. cycleway=opposite/opposite_lane/opposite_track may be additionally added to clarify bicycle infrastructure and to increase compatibility, see Bicycle for examples. See Key:access for other possible sub-values.
Time conditional restrictions
If a road is one-way at certain times of day, and one-way in the other direction at other times then it can be tagged with oneway=reversible. To precisely define the times, or to map more complex oneway restrictions, you can use Conditional restrictions. If the direction changes often, oneway=alternating might be more appropriate.
Data consumers
List of values
- oneway=yes (discouraged alternatives: "true", "1")
- oneway=no (discouraged alternatives: "false", "0")
- oneway=-1 (discouraged alternative: "reverse")
- oneway=reversible - Roads that alternate between different directions regularly but infrequently, do not take this route without information on schedule
- oneway=alternating - Roads that alternate between different directions regularly and often
The semantics of any other value is undefined and the use of other values is discouraged.
Note: The value -1 is only needed when the direction of oneway travel is in the opposite direction of that used when the way was drawn. One can avoid this situation by reversing the direction of the drawn way before applying the oneway tag.
Interpretation for routing
The oneway tag can be interpreted (for routing purposes) to the generic system as follows:
This assumes that oneway restrictions presumably do not apply to pedestrians. Although unusual, oneway on pedestrian highways (path, footway, track) is possible in some countries, for hiking trails for instance (during the high season crowding or for security reasons).
Therefore data consumers may decide to interpret them to apply only to vehicles on tags indicating roads and to apply them also to pedestrians on highway=path and highway=footway.
See also
- access=* - General access restriction key.
- Set of tags that imply oneway=yes according to iD editor
- Pull request to consider implied onewayness in Default Map Style


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Marilyn Manson to Headline Inaugural Alt-Fest in 2014
Marilyn Manson will get in some stage time in this summer, having just signed on as one of the headliners for the UK-based Alt-Fest. The event, which is in its first year, will run Aug. 15-17 at the Boughton Estate in Kettering of Northamptonshire.
Manson will head up the Saturday festivities, with their co-headliner for the night still yet to be named. Friday will feature VNV Nation and Fields of the Nephilm, while Sunday has Arch Enemy and a still-to-be named headliner that will close out the festivities. The event will feature more than 180 bands, with an emphasis on metal, gothic and industrial music.
Other acts of note playing the inaugural Alt-Fest include Cradle of Filth, KMFDM, Killing Joke, Collapse, Covenant, Dope Stars Inc., Front 242, Malefice, My Ruin, Peter Hook & the Light, Truck Fighters and William Control among others. To see the current list of acts performing, click here. Tickets for the event can be purchased at this location.
"We are ecstatic to have booked Marilyn Manson to headline for our 1st year; this means a lot to us and particularly our fans," says Alt-Fest organizer Dominic Void. "At Alt-Fest we like to be groundbreaking and promised our supporters a massive Christmas Day present in the form of a BIG announcement and here it is!"


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RFID Brain needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
We need a logo for a new startup company called RFID Brain.
We are in need for a logo for a new startup company called RFID Brain.
The company produces a software program that manages RFID data coming from various RFID Data sources and processes this information to a readable and manageable format.
RFID is Radio Frequency Identification
Information is stored on small chips embedded on (for example) labels.
The designer that creates the winning logo will be given more work for businesscards and stationary.
- Clean & Simplistic design, the less detail the better - with a splash of elegance
- Orang and/or Blue and/or light Gray shading color schemes are preferred however we are open to other creativity!!!!
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Upgrading my OJ skates
So I recently got another pair (the third, to be exact) of those Sure-Grip Joggers from the 80's, and just got some new toe stops and wheels for them. Nothing exciting, really, but I took a whole bunch of pictures, here:
These are the first pair I've found in my size, so I was totally psyched to get them to use as commuter skates, now that I have a job I can skate to. Or potentially could, if I get a lot better at handling obstacles.
I got Sure-Grip brand toe protectors which I then mangled to get them around a fixed toe stop. Swapped the yellow toe stops that may as well have been made of sidewalk chalk ((side note: Did I just invent something amazing? Can someone please make me bolt-on sidewalk chalk for skates?)) which were alse Sure-Grip.
Kryptonix Wheels are apparently also now made by that company, which I didn't know, and they aren't marked 78A on the front, but whatever. So thanks to the wheels, the phrase "Sure-Grip" is on each skate seven times between the plate, toe guard, toe stop, and wheels. Which is fine, but it wasn't like an intentional statement on my part, although it sure looks like one. Anyway.
Next is changing out the kingpins for allen key ones because the slotted ones are super annoying. I have an elephant wrench now, which means I can at least adjust them, but if the kingpins' threads match, I'ma try to switch them when I change out the cushions. Conveniently, I'm still deciding between blue or yellow. And then I'll probably hammer eyelets into the boot, since it is definitely stressed there.
The best word for these skates is "comfy". Even with the trucks pretty loose, turning is a fight compared to the Jogger wheels, but if all I want to do is roll more or less forward, they are down. The huge size seems to make them preserve momentum a lot longer, so I just roll and roll and roll down the asphalt bike path nearby.
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1971, Hardy Sundberg developed the world's first self-contained
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Lakers center Dwight Howard has aggravated his right shoulder injury against the Memphis Grizzlies and is out for the second half.
Howard was 0 of 4 from the floor and had two points before he flexed his right shoulder and headed to the locker room with 2:21 left in the second quarter.
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Summer camp? Not so much. Bad crafts and bad food = big bummer.
CupcakeCamp, however, is a different story. Because at this camp, everyone's a winner, because they all get cupcakes. It's a franchise which has enjoyed great success in New York and San Francisco, and now, thanks to coordinator Carrie of Bella Cupcake Couture (a CakeSpy sponsor and awesome company in general), it's coming to Seattle!
So what exactly is CupcakeCamp? Per the website, it is
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Once again, just in case you didn't catch that last part: it's free!
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Saitek and Mad Catz seem determined to literally recreate the flying experience with their line of flight simulator accessories, and who am I to argue? All that's missing from this latest crop is the armored flight deck door.
Of course, for this level of realism there's usually a price, and this gear is no exception. The throttle/pedal kit will cost you $200, and each panel is information panel is $150.
For those of you who don't dare consider flight sims mere games that might not sound too shabby a buy-in, but for me I think I'll stick to the arrow keys. [Saitek via CrunchGear]


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20 U.S. Code § 6561b - Applications
§ 6561b.
(a) In generalTo receive—
a grant under this subpart, a State educational agency or local educational agency shall submit an application and plan to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require; and
(b) Contents
(1) State educational agency and local educational agencyEach application and plan submitted under subsection (a) of this section shall—
(A) include an outline—
of the State educational agency's or local educational agency's strategy for reducing the State educational agency or local educational agency's annual school dropout rate;
for targeting secondary schools, and the middle schools that feed students into those secondary schools, that have the highest annual school dropout rates; and
contain an identification of the schools in the State or operated by the local educational agency that have annual school dropout rates that are greater than the average annual school dropout rate for the State;
describe the instructional strategies to be implemented, how the strategies will serve all students, and the effectiveness of the strategies;
provide an assurance that funds provided under this subpart will supplement, and not supplant, other State and local funds available for school dropout prevention and reentry programs; and
(2) Local educational agencyEach application and plan submitted under subsection (a) of this section by a local educational agency shall contain, in addition to the requirements of paragraph (1)—
an assurance that the local educational agency is committed to providing ongoing operational support for such schools to address the problem of school dropouts for a period of 5 years; and
(B) an assurance that the local educational agency will support the plan, including—
efforts to coordinate activities for secondary schools and the middle schools that feed students into those secondary schools; and
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1823, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1614.)
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Police are still tracking down leads and searching for suspects after more than $1,000 worth of items were stolen from a Lancaster restaurant last month.
Officers responded to Grinder's Restaurant, at 208 N. Park Square, at 8 a.m., Dec. 26, about a possible burglary, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
At the scene, officers spoke with a 44-year-old man who said sometime between 2 p.m. Christmas Day and 8 a.m. Dec. 26 someone broke a storage building lock behind his restaurant and stole several items.
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Christie slammed for special election
Democrats and Republicans alike are criticizing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's decision to call an Oct. 16 special general election to fill the seat of late Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
The Republican said his decision was dictated by state election law and sources say his office believes it would lose a court fight if he had scheduled the election a month later in November instead. But the move all but ensures criticism that he is unnecessarily spending millions of taxpayer dollars to serve his own political needs.
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The timing means that popular New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker will not be on the ballot — potentially stoking Democratic turnout — when voters decide whether to give Christie another term in November.
( PHOTOS: Frank Lautenberg's career)
The primary election for the Senate seat will be held on Aug. 13, Christie said.
"I firmly believe that the decisions that needs to be made are too great to be determined by an appointee for a period of 18 months," he said. "We must allow our citizens to have their say."
Democrats teed off on Christie after his announcement at a news conference. The governor's 2014 Democratic opponent, state Sen. Barbara Buono, called the governor's move "cynical and arrogant" and said Christie "made it clear that he does not care about wasting taxpayer money."
Christie acknowledged at the press conference that the state will bear the costs of the extra elections. The tab is expected to be about $11.9 million each for the primary and the general election, or almost $24 million total.
( PHOTOS: Jersey boys: Christie and Booker)
"The costs associated with having the special election and primary, in my mind, cannot be measured against the value of having an elected member of the U.S. Senate," he said. "I don't know what the costs are and quite frankly I don't care."
The primary concern for Christie about a November special election is the prospect of sharing the ballot with Booker, who's expected to run for the Senate seat. Booker's popularity would help drive up Democratic turnout across the state, which could have an effect on Christie's vote totals as well. At this point, Christie holds large double-digit leads over Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono in the race.
Christie said his decision to hold the special election was not motivated by political considerations. He said it's incumbent to have a replacement for Lautenberg, who died Monday at age 89, as soon as possible — especially as the Senate takes up high-stakes legislation like immigration reform.
( Also on POLITICO: Christie's special election announcement sparks tweets)
But his decision to not go over well with either party, though Republicans shied away from publicly criticizing the popular governor. Democrats had no such compunction.
The decision was "clearly a blatantly political decision on his part to try to separate the Senate general election from his own reelection," state Democratic Party chairman John Wisniewski told POLITICO.
He added that the state party is "looking at what our options are" in terms of a potential lawsuit.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, however, said Christie had made the "right" choice to hold the election this year instead of letting the appointee serve through 2014.


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Cops say rapper Too Short was too far over the legal limit to be driving around Las Vegas this morning.
According to law enforcement, Short -- real name Todd Shaw -- was arrested for DUI, possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, speeding and exhibition of power (burning rubber) by Las Vegas Metro Police at around 4:00 AM.
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Sherif Mansour, U.S. citizen who faces NGO charges in Egypt, freed until verdict is reached
Lawyers for defendants in Egypt's case against American nongovernmental organizations charged with operating illegally in the country accused the government Tuesday of delaying the release of key documents the lawyers say are needed to defend their clients.
The case against employees of the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute and other groups working to train political parties nearly ruptured U.S.-Egyptian relations last fall before Egypt agreed to allow the American defendants, including the son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, to leave the country.
The lawyers' complaints come at a time when many Egyptians suspect that the ruling military council is orchestrating recent events, including the life sentence handed out to former President Hosni Mubarak even as his aides were acquitted in the deaths of demonstrators, to give an appearance of reform while maintaining the status quo.
Sixteen Americans are among the 43 defendants who face charges that they illegally received foreign funds in the case, which a Cairo criminal court adjourned until July 4. Only two Americans, however, are in Egypt to face prosecutors.
One of those, Egyptian-American Sherif Mansour, a former employee of Washington-based Freedom House, was brought to court Tuesday in handcuffs and under heavy guard. Mansour was detained Sunday at Cairo International Airport as he returned to Egypt from the United States. The judge, Makram Awwad, ordered Mansour released until a verdict is reached. The other defendants already had been ordered released, including the other American who's still in Egypt, Robert Becker, a former employee of the National Democratic Institute.
Khaled el Shalakani, a defense lawyer for four Egyptian employees of the International Republican Institute, demanded that the court order the Foreign Ministry to produce the files it had kept on the institute's efforts to register in the country. Shalakani said the files would show that the institute had filed regularly since 2006 seeking permission to operate in the country. He said the government had made copies of such files available for all the organizations being prosecuted except for the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, which are chartered by the U.S. Congress and are affiliated with the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties.
"They were operating publicly through official channels," Shalakani told McClatchy. He said the file "proves IRI had nothing to hide."
The move against the NGOs has been a sore point with U.S. officials and average Egyptians. American officials long have complained that Egypt refused to formally grant permission for the NGOs to operate so the government could control their activities, while Egyptians have complained that allowing the Americans to leave before the case was settled showed undue U.S. influence over the government.


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Dalum Kloster - Odense, Denmark
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Dalum Nonnekloster.
posted by: Walking Boots
location: Denmark
date approved: 2/28/2013
last visited: 9/5/2013
Monasterio de Santa María de la Rábida — Palos de la Frontera (Huelva), Spain
The Monasterio de Santa María de la Rábida (Friary of La Rábida) is a Franciscan friary in the southern Spanish town of Palos de la Frontera, in the province of Huelva
posted by: prussel
location: Andalucía, Spain
date approved: 2/21/2013
last visited: 2/22/2013
Santuari de Nostra Senyora de Cura — Puig de Randa (Illes Balears), Spain
The monastery Santuari de Nostra Senyora de Cura (short: Santuari de Cura) is on the top of the Puig de Randa, at a height of 543 meters between the communities Algaida and Llucmajor.
location: Islas Baleares, Spain
last visited: 2/25/2015
Convento da Graça - Torres Vedras, Portugal
Convento da Graça is located in a central square of Torres Vedras.
posted by: Torgut
location: Lisboa, Portugal
last visited: never
Abbey of Marédret - Namur - Belgium
Abbey of Marédret near the abbey of Maredsous.
posted by: lopac44
location: Namur, Belgium
date approved: 2/19/2013
Maredsous abbey - Maredsous - Namur-Belgium
Abbey of Maredsous.
date approved: 2/18/2013
last visited: 2/14/2012
klášter paulánu, Brtnice, Czech republic
Bývalý klášter z první poloviny 17. stoltí / Baroque monastery founded in the first half of the 17th century.
posted by: Noe1
location: Kraj Vysočina, Czechia
Goshavank Monastery (Tavush province - Armenia)
Goshavank Monastery, formerly known as Nor Getik, is a 12-13th century Armenian monastery situated in the village of Gosh in the Tavush Province of Armenia.
posted by: Dorcadion Team
location: Armenia
date approved: 2/17/2013
Geghard Monastery (Kotayk province - Armenia)
Medieval Geghard Monastery, famous for its churches and halls carved in the rocks, is one of the most visited historic monuments of Armenia and also is listed in UNESCO World Heritage List...
date approved: 2/15/2013
Marmashen Monastery (Shirak province - Armenia)
The beautiful Marmashen Monastery, located on the left bank of the Akhuryan River close to Marmashen village (Shirak province of Armenia), belongs among the most important early medieval monastic complexes in the country...
Sanahin Monastery (Lori province - Armenia)
Sanahin Monastery, situated high above the Debet gorge in Lori province, is a second half of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin" comprising two important examples of the medieval ecclesiastic Armenian architecture.
Haghpat Monastery (Lori province - Armenia)
Haghpat Monastery (Lori Province, North Armenia), a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin", is one of the most beautiful examples of traditional medieval ecclesiastic Armenian architecture.
Monastery of Tatev (Syunik province - Armenia)
The Tatev Monastery, located near town Goris in South-Armenian province Syunik, is one of the masterpieces of Armenian medieval architecture and one of spiritual centres of the oldest Christian country...
date approved: 2/14/2013
Noravank Monastery (Vayots Dzor province - Armenia)
Medieval Noravank (New Monastery in Armenian), located in pictoresque Amaghu Valley near Yeghegnadzor in South Armenia, belongs among the most beautiful a architectonically valuable sacral monuments in Armenia...
New Norcia Monastery, New Norcia, Western Australia
New Norcia is a very small town to the north east of Perth, and the monastery is the primary reason for the town's existence. It's Australia's only monastic town.
posted by: R0gue
location: Western Australia, Australia
date approved: 2/7/2013
last visited: 6/1/2014
Valle Crucis Abbey, Abbey Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Valle Crucis Abbey (Valley of the Cross) is a Cistercian abbey located in Llantysilio in Denbighshire, Wales.
posted by: Ddraig Ddu
location: North Wales, United Kingdom
date approved: 2/6/2013
last visited: 4/28/2013
Mosteiro de São Martinho de Manhente - Barcelos, Portugal
[PT]O antigo Mosteiro de São Martinho de Manhente localiza-se na atual freguesia de Manhente, concelho de Barcelos. [EN]The ancient Monastery of Saint Martin of Manhente is located in in Manhente current parish, municipality of Barcelos.
posted by: razalas
location: Braga, Portugal
date approved: 1/16/2013
Great Meteoron Monastery - Meteora, Greece
The Great Meteoron is the highest, largest and oldest of the six monasteries of the Meteora. Founded in the 14th century by a monk from Mount Athos, the Great Meteoron is still impressive and important today.
posted by: denben
location: Greece
date approved: 1/14/2013
last visited: 2/10/2013
Varlaam Monastery - Meteora, Greece
Varlaam Monastery is the second largest monastery in the Meteora complex. A church, dedicated to All Saints, in the Athonite type (cross-in-square with dome and choirs), was built in 1541-42 and decorated in 1548.
Saint Martin's Abbey - Lacey, Washington
Saint Martin's Abbey is a Benedictine order founded by Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.
posted by: Eagle1977
location: Washington
date approved: 1/3/2013
Monastery of Sümela, Maçka, Trabzon Province, Turkey
The monastery on a ledge in a steep cliff.
posted by: g300td
location: Turkey
date approved: 12/28/2012
last visited: 9/18/2013
Monasterio de La Oliva, Carcastillo, Navarra, Spain
La Oliva the monasterio north of the desert Bardenas Reales.
location: Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain
date approved: 12/23/2012
last visited: 5/16/2014
Convento de Nossa Senhora da Graça - Évora, Portugal
[PT]A Igreja da Graça ou Convento de Nossa Senhora da Graça, é um importante monumento religiosa renascentista da cidade de Évora.[EN]The Grace Church and Convent of Our Lady of Grace, is an important religious monument of the Renaissance in Évora.
location: Évora, Portugal
date approved: 12/19/2012
last visited: 10/4/2014
Abbatiale de Saint-Maixent - Saint-Maixent-l'Ecole, France
A new waymark about this historical monument of saint-Maixent
There is NO sign in front of the abbey explaining its history, so just follow the signs to find it.
posted by: Ava Dahmer
location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
last visited: 8/8/2013
Kloster St. Magdalena - Speyer, Germany
Famous monastery and school near Speyer cathedral. / Berühmtes Kloster mit Schule in der Nähe des Speyerer Domes.
posted by: DieCacherGirls
location: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
date approved: 12/17/2012
last visited: 2/4/2012
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Honestly, there is nothing I hate worse than clutter. A long reformed slob, it drives me absolutely batty (shut up hubby!). Now with all our electronic gadgets, our kitchen island has become a mass charging station. Two Blackberries, 1 Samsung Galaxy, 2 digital cameras, iPods, Kindles, laptops, tablets…the list goes on and on.
I swear it looks like we are gearing up to power the next space shuttle. It's an endless collection of gadgets that sends my visual senses into overload. When I come into the kitchen in the morning greeted by the sight of oodles of metal, chords and blinking lights, I cringe. Not the way to start the day…no sirree!
There's got to be a better way!
You betcha!
Allow me to introduce you to the top of my Christmas wish list (cause it's never too late to start wishing): the grass charging station by Decorative Things.
For $28 (plus shipping), I can create a zen-like charging station in my own home! Thassss right!
In this nature-inspired oasis, the coiled wires are hidden in the bottom while all my gadgets sit pretty on the grass charging away. Genius people!
I definitely need a couple for the kitchen but hell…I might just get one for every room in the house. Ya never know when ya gotta do an emergency charge, right? Might as well look good doing it!
And…It comes in WHITE and a MINI version people!
It's gorgeous and so…calming! Now I'll actually look forward to plugging in my gear in at night.
Sleep tight Blackberry….night night iPod…rest easy Kindle…sweet dreams tablet…I hope y'all are comfy in your grass bed! I am the world's best gadget mom!!
How do you handle all the electronics clutter in your home? Do you have a dream charging station or do you just plug them in where ever you have a free outlet? How do you handle clutter? Come on…share the wealth…
It's Twisted Tuesday and that means it's time to enjoy a smile, giggle or laugh…here's hoping I've provided it in spades…enjoy!
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- Ohhhhh squeee! LOVED Janice Hardy's post on the best advice on plotting she's ever heard. I took note!
- Loved Trish Loye Elliot's post on Michael Hauge's story mastery! A definite must-read!
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Another interesting article on how Facebook is preparing for the New Year's Eve, this time from our own San Jose Mercury News By Mike Swift.
Interesting points:
- New Year is one of the busiest times for social network sites as people post pictures & exchange best wishes
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long been focused on having the digital horsepower to support unbridled growth — are a key reason behind the .. network's success
- It received > 1 B photo uploads during Haloween 2010
- Since then Facebook added 200 million more members and so New Year Eve 2012 can see more than 1.5 B uploads !
- My favorite quote from the article:
The primary reason Friendster died was because it couldn't handle the volume of usage it had. … They (Mark,Dustin and Sean) always talked about not wanting to be 'Friendstered,' and they meant not being overwhelmed by excess usage that they hadn't anticipated
- The engineers at Facebook just finished a preflight checklist and are geared up for the scale
- In terms of scale "Facebook now reaches 55 percent of the global Internet audience, according to Internet metrics firm comScore and accounts for one in every seven minutes spent online around the world."
- From a Big Data perspective, Facebook data has all the essential proprieties viz. Connected & Contextual in addition to large scale – Volume & Velocity (see my earlier blog on big data)
- Facebook has the "Emergency Parachutes" which let the site degrade gracefully (for example display smaller photos when the site is heavily loaded)
- Their infrastructure instrumentation is legendary (for example, the MySQL talk here)
To manage Facebook's data infrastructure, you kind of need to have this sense of amnesia. Nothing you learned or read about earlier in your career applies here …


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With prescription painkillers accounting for more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, the fight over the powerful new drug Zohydro escalates.
WASHINGTON – Notwithstanding a court order, Massachusetts and other states plan to restrict use of a new painkiller drug, setting up a showdown with the federal government over who gets to decide the best way to protect public health.
In the case of Zohydro, the argument pits the needs of millions of chronic pain sufferers against the urgent desire of states to combat an already catastrophic epidemic of prescription drug abuse. Although there haven't been specific cases of Zohydro abuse in Massachusetts, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick fears the powerful new drug will make the painkiller abuse crisis even worse.
In the first round earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel came down on the side of Washington, ruling that Massachusetts could not ban a drug deemed to be safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration. In thwarting Patrick's move – perhaps the first time a state has ever tried to ban a drug approved by the FDA – Zobel emphasized that federal law trumps state law.
But Patrick responded to his loss in court by slapping other restrictions on Zohydro – essentially a high-dose, time-release version of the opioid painkiller Vicodin – beyond those mandated by the federal government. Whether those steps will invite another court challenge remains to be seen.
Fall River Mayor William A. Flanagan is urging President Barack Obama to intervene in the FDA's approval of Zohydro. In a letter issued Monday, Flanagan requested that the president ask FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to either order San Diego-based drug maker Zogenix to reformulate the drug or mandate its removal from the market entirely. Flanagan also issued a letter to Zogenix CEO Roger L. Hawley.
Next door in Vermont, Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin has taken similar steps. Meanwhile, the GOP-controlled Ohio legislature is considering its own ban on Zohydro.
There also has been action in Washington, D.C. Members of Congress from Massachusetts, Kentucky and West Virginia have introduced bills to ban the drug, and 29 state attorneys general – representing both parties – have asked the FDA to reconsider its October approval of Zohydro.
In February, nearly four dozen consumer and anti-addiction groups signed a letter to the FDA's Hamburg urging her to overturn the approval of Zohydro.
"We're in the context of a very serious epidemic of opioid drug addictions and opioid deaths and that's a public health crisis that has been growing over the last decade and half," said Michael Carome, director of the Health Research Group at the consumer organization Public Citizen, which signed the letter to Hamburg. "The last thing we needed was another extended release opioid for treating chronic pain."
Zohydro is in the class of naturally occurring or synthetic chemicals containing the psychoactive chemical opioid, as are a number of legal prescription pain medications such as Vicodin, Percocet and OxyContin.
Heroin is also an opioid. The opioid painkillers not only are easily abused, but they often prompt users to try heroin, which is far cheaper.
According to a 2013 report by the Trust for America's Health, 6.1 million Americans abuse or misuse prescription drugs. Overdose deaths involving prescription painkillers have quadrupled since 1999, and now outnumber those from heroin and cocaine combined.
Zohydro is the first single-ingredient, long-acting product containing the semi-synthetic opioid hydrocodone. Until Zohydro, which is just reaching the market now, all the other painkillers on the market containing hydrocodone were combined with the anti-inflammatory analgesic acetaminophen.
The use of acetaminophen, which is not addictive, allows patients to take less potent opioids which are both addictive and can cause nausea, constipation and dangerously shallow breathing. Acetaminophen is a common ingredient in over-the-counter painkillers, such as Tylenol and Excedrin, as well as opioid medications like Percocet and Vicodin.
The problem is that in high dosages, acetaminophen is highly toxic to the liver and can cause irreparable, even fatal damage to the organ. One University of Pennsylvania study found that half of the deaths caused by acetaminophen overdose were unintentional. That explains why the FDA last year began limiting the amount of acetaminophen in painkilling medications to 325 milligrams.
On Monday, the agency saw fit to issue another warning to stop writing prescriptions for, stop dispensing prescriptions, and stop taking medications containing more than 325 milligrams of acetaminophen.
But even that amount may be too much for those with compromised livers. Until now, many of them were forced to either do without hydrocodone painkillers, risk further damage to their livers, or take other opioids that do not contain acetaminophen.
That is why Zohydro represents a welcome advance to many.
"It does have an advantage for some people in that it delivers hydrocodone without the risk of acetaminophen," said Lynn Webster, immediate past president of the American Academy of Pain Medication.
But it is the potency potential for illegal users that has opponents so worried and angry at the FDA, not only for its approval of the drug but also its failure to require the manufacturer, Zogenix, to develop a version that is more difficult to abuse.
Critics have seized on the fact that the FDA's own advisory committee voted 11-2 against approving the drug. An FDA spokesperson, Sandy Walsh, said the agency often takes the counsel of its advisory committees, but not always.
Walsh acknowledged the potential for Zohydro's misuse. But she argued that revised labeling – including a boxed warning about the serious risks of addiction, abuse, and misuse – along with other safeguards would "support its safe and appropriate use."
Unlike some other extended release opioids already on the market, Zohydro doesn't yet come in an abuse-deterrent form, which would cut its potency when crushed for the purpose of smoking, snorting or injecting. Zohydro pills can come in dosages as high as 50 milligrams, which isn't unusual for a drug released over 12 hours. But when crushed by illicit users, the entire 50 milligrams can be delivered at once.
Zogenix argues that on a per milligram basis, Zohydro is no more potent than Vicodin and equally as potent as oxycodone. It also points out that when used appropriately, Zohydro is released into the body over 12 hours rather than two or three hours as is the case with quick-release medications.
Material from The Associated Press was used in this story.
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After you've done everything you can to enhance the engine performance and handling of your favorite driving machine, what more could you want to do? Answer: Enhance your driving experience and vehicle control with great performance seats. Typically when you change over to performance seats you have to choose between functionality and comfort, which are typically on opposite ends of the scale when it comes to seat characteristics. Furthermore, can you really improve your seating position and control without going with a full-on race seat? The guys at European Auto Source (EAS) have a great option for BMWs: Recaro Sportster CS seats and Macht Schnell floor mount adaptors.
The black-anodized, aerospace aluminum Macht Schnell mounts offer a sturdy and lightweight base to ensure you have a solid and secure mounting solution—critical when you're installing aftermarket seats. Take a good look at these and you'll see not all mounts are created equal in design and function. Not only are they sturdy as hell and good-looking, they offer the versatility of multiple mounting points that not only let you dial in an ideal individual seating position and use slider brackets. Not to mention provisions for mounting race harnesses or OEM seatbelt receptacle mounts.
With the low-profile mounting base and multiple mounting points, you have the ability to use these brackets with both side-mount bucket seats and bottom-mount reclineable types as we have here. Both types benefit from a lower seating position that allows for more head clearance, handy if you find yourself wearing a helmet, while still maintaining a centered position in relation to the steering wheel.
EAS is also an authorized Recaro dealer, so not only do they have full access to the range of Recaro seat offerings, they have firsthand experience with them, having used them in their own projects. Our E46 M3 project is daily driven and sees occasional track use, so the Recaro Sportster CS was selected as the ideal seating upgrade. Given the stock M3 seats are good as far as factory seats go, they don't offer the full support and weight savings of a racing seat. On the flip side, a racing seat isn't ideal for daily use and doesn't offer the adjustability and functionality of the factory seat. The Sportster CS, Recaro's top sport seat, offers a great combination of both those things. The hybrid construction gives you the benefits of a motorsport seat while providing functionality and comfort of a factory seat.
Visually, the seats are impressive. Not just in the quality and craftsmanship you'd expect from a company like Recaro, but they're damn attractive and match the M3's interior very well. Support is noticeably improved with the more pronounced side and thigh bolsters, but ingress and egress are hardly affected. The seats have an integrated backrest adjustment lever on the top half of the backrest to enable easy forward folding for easy access to the back seats on coupe applications like the E46. And mounted on the Macht Schnell mounts, the seat placement looks OEM and allows for the retention of the factory three-point seatbelt and belt receptacle. The combination also allows you to use a four-point harness system as well.
Simply put, the setup is awesome. The seats provide added and improved support during hard driving and reduced weight, yet they're comfortable and convenient for daily use. Combined with the MS mounts, the Recaros offer a complete integration solution that provides a secure and ideal seating enhancement for any BMW. —Will Powers


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The Board of Supervisors of the County of Inyo, State of California, met in special session at the hour of 8:00 a.m., on Monday, October 30, 2006, in the Board of Supervisors Room, County Administrative Center, Independence, with the following Supervisors present: Chairperson Susan Cash presiding, Linda Arcularius, Ted Williams, and Richard Cervantes. Supervisor Bilyeu was absent. Supervisor Cervantes provided the Invocation, and Supervisor Arcularius led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Public Comment
The Chairperson announced the public comment period and there was no one from the public wishing to address the Board.
County Dept. Reports
The Chairperson announced the County Department Report period and there were no reports forthcoming.
Closed Session
The Chairperson recessed open session at 8:01 a.m., to convene in closed session with all Board Members present, except Supervisor Bilyeu to discuss Agenda Item No. 3. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL–EXISTING LITIGATION [Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(a)] Samuel L. Garcia V. County of Inyo, Inyo County Superior Court Case No. SICVCV 05-38559.
Report on Closed Session
The Chairperson recessed closed session at 8:40 a.m., to reconvene in open session to receive a report on closed session. County Counsel reported that with regard to Agenda Item No. 3. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL–EXISTING LITIGATION [Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(a)] - Samuel L. Garcia V. County of Inyo, Inyo County Superior Court Case No. SICVCV 05-38559,which is a lawsuit by Samuel Garcia and his wife against the County regarding a single vehicle rollover accident, alleging a dangerous condition of public property, i.e. skin patches on Coso Road, which allegedly caused the driver to loose control, flipping the vehicle four times, ejecting the driver and rendering him a paraplegic. With the trial having commenced on October 24, 2006, the Plaintiff's Counsel had contacted the County's Attorney on Saturday, October 28, 2006, indicating that the Plaintiffs did not want to proceed with the case and made an offer to settle with the County. Negotiations ensued and Plaintiffs made a final offer to settle this matter for $50,000 and to terminate the trial. Supervisors Arcularius, Cash, Williams and Cervantes voting yes, and with Supervisor Bilyeu absent, voted to accept the offer and directed that the County's Attorney to file the final settlement documents.
The Chairperson adjourned the special meeting at 8:40 a.m.
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Written by: Paul and Linda McCartney
Recorded: October 1970 – April 1971
Producer: Paul and Linda McCartney
Released: 21 May 1971 (UK), 17 May 1971 (US)
Paul McCartney: vocals, piano, bass guitar
Linda McCartney: backing vocals
David Spinozza/Hugh McCracken: guitar
Denny Seiwell: drums
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Inspired by his children's use of wordplay, Monkberry Moon Delight featured lyrics chosen more for their phonetic sound than their meaning.
The title was derived from an alternative word for milk that the McCartney children used. Further inspiration came from the 1959 Leiber and Stoller song Love Potion No. 9.
When my kids were young they used to call milk 'monk' for whatever reason that kids do – I think it's magical the way that kids can develop better names for things than the real ones. In fact, as a joke, Linda and I still occasionally refer to an object by that child-language name. So, monk was always milk, and monkberry moon delight was a fantasy drink, rather like Love Potion No. 9, hence the line in the song, 'sipping monkberry moon delight'. It was a fantasy milk shake.
Monkberry Moon Delight takes the surrealism a step further, defying interpretation and logic to present an Edward Lear-esque stroll through the lighter recesses of McCartney's imagination. As with The Beatles' Glass Onion, it was almost a direct challenge for those fans who looked avidly for hidden meanings in his songs to spend hours poring over his wild free-association in search of autobiographical clues.
Well I know my banana is older than the rest
And my hair is a tangled Beretta
But I leave my pyjamas to Billy Budapest
And I don't get the gist of your letter
While the music is a light canter, McCartney's vocals were strident and strained, recalling his classic rock 'n' roll performances in such songs as Long Tall Sally and Oh! Darling. Linda McCartney provided the perfect counterpoint with her backing vocals, delivered without affectation.
Monkberry Moon Delight was one of two Ram songs included in Blackbird Singing, McCartney's 2001 collection of lyrics and poetry. It featured in the section headed The Business. The other Ram song in the book was Heart Of The Country.
Monkberry Moon Delight I liked, so much so that it's in my poetry book.
Mojo magazine, July 2001
McCartney's gruff delivery clearly found favour with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, who recorded Monkberry Moon Delight for his 1979 album Screamin' The Blues. McCartney used Hawkins' version in his pre-concert tape before his 1993 concerts.


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SANFORD — York County Community College (YCCC) will offer a new associate degree program next fall in Precision Machining Technology and has chosen a site in Sanford for the program.
YCCC announced Monday that it has signed a lease agreement with Goodall Hospital for a 6,050-square-foot space at 1 Eagle Drive in South Sanford.
YCCC will accept 12 students the first year of the program and another 12 students the following year.
During the next several months, YCCC will do site renovations and install the high tech machining equipment needed for the program.
The community college is in the process of hiring a full-time instructor for the program, said Interim YCCC President Scott Knapp.
Graduates of the two-year associate degree program will enter the job market with an in-depth multidisciplinary education in mathematics, physics, engineering technology, manufacturing processes and methods, as well as a broad education in computer studies, business and liberal arts.
"It's a very lucrative field," Knapp said, adding that starting salaries in the field are $40,000 and up. "With two years of college, it's an incredible return on [a student's] investment."
There are a number of manufacturing companies in York County that employ highly skilled machinists, including Pratt & Whitney in North Berwick and General Dynamics in Saco, the two largest in the state.
YCCC's precision machining technology program was developed in partnership with Pratt & Whitney, which donated $190,000 to fund a portion of the equipment costs. General Dynamics and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard are also involved in the program.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for the people and manufacturing businesses in York County," said Steven Howe, the manager of human resources at Pratt & Whitney and a Maine Community College System trustee. "The pool of trained machinists in Maine gets shallower and shallower each year as we see our work force retire. YCCC has responded to this trend, and the graduates of this program will have the skills they need to get hired."
The Maine legislature — led by former Rep. Devin Beliveau, of Kittery, Rep. Kathy Chase, of Wells, and former Sen. Jon Courtney, of Sanford — has agreed to provide an annual appropriation of $257,000 to fund the program's operating costs.
The Sanford site where the program will be located is about 20 minutes from YCCC's main campus in Wells. The facility was formerly the home of U.S. Optical Disc, Inc. and was purchased by Goodall Hospital in 2005.
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Christmas Blues
I have a problem around this time of year. It's kind of embarrassing, but I'm hoping I'm not the only one.
It goes like this:
I'll hear it.
And I'll think, "No, it can't be. They wouldn't play THAT song. Not here! It must be some other song."
Then a few more seconds will go by, and I'll realize:
They're playing Christmas Shoes.
So I tell myself I'll just ignore it. I talk to John a little louder. I try humming It's A Small World. But it's no use:
I start listening, in spite of myself.
And ninety seconds later:
And I turn to John for support, but he's crying, too, so we're BOTH like:
And THAT is why I'm never going back to that Honey Baked Ham outlet.
Thanks to Hannah F., Kimberly S., Linda M., Anony M., Rachel S., Marissa C., Jodee R., Kizzie F., & David G. who might claim they don't cry at Christmas Shoes, but if so they're filthy, filthy liars.
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Batteries in frequently used smartphones, laptops and digital cameras need to be recharged often and can take hours to do so, and as they age, their energy storage potential diminishes. Powerful and flexible power-storage systems are a current weakness of mobile electronics and backup for the grid.
Moreover, the uses of renewable energy face a similar obstacle. Most wind, biogas and solar-power systems do not have storage capability and feed power directly into the grid, regardless of weather. Sometimes, however, the power feeds must be turned off because, otherwise, the grid would be overburdened. During such periods, valuable, clean power is lost due to the lack of storage capability.
But now, Super-Kon, an interdisciplinary research project at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Germany is working to develop a so-called "Super Capacitor" to provide a solution. This long-life energy-storage system would be able to store power within seconds and keep it available without losses for long periods of time.
"Super capacitors are hardly subject to wear, do not heat up and only require a few seconds to accept or discharge energy, a fraction of the battery-charging time currently required," said Hartmut Leipner, Super-Kon's project manager and a lecturer and a scientific manager at the Interdisciplinary Centre for materials sciences at MLU.
The reasons for this are the operation of the energy-storage system. Conventional batteries must convert electrical energy to chemical energy to store it, whereas the energy in super capacitors is stored purely electrostatically. Therefore, super capacitors cannot have a so-called "memory effect," like batteries that diminish over time.
To date, super capacitors are hardly used because they only have a very small storage density. This means, to date, only small amounts of energy can be stored efficiently.
"In the first two phases of the Super-Kon, we combined materials in new ways in extensive materials tests. In this manner, we were able to produce a flexible, nonconductive composite material, which is able to store more energy," Leipner said. "After this 'proof of concept,' we are now testing this material in the industrial environment to further improve its properties and to test durability under environmental influences."
To date, the scientists at MLU are already able to supply power to small devices that consume little energy, using the super capacitors.
"We are approaching higher energy densities step by step," Leipner said. "Although the small storage devices to date work in the milliwatt region, I am confident that the first mature models can be seen in stores within the next three to five years. Small electronic devices may then already be supplied by super capacitors."
In the parallel founders' lab, supported by the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the EU, some doctoral candidates are already working on economically using the knowledge gained here by establishing their own companies.
"In about 10 years, we want to complete the project," Leipner said. "By then, the development of storage modules will likely have advanced to the megawatt region so that the fast super capacitors may also be a fixed part of the energy transition."


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SCMWA offers two types of membership based on circumstance of wine production. A one time initiation fee of $200 is required for beginning the process of your membership. Once payment is made online you will be able to download the membership application and production report which you will send back to SCMWA for approval.
All new General Members as of September 1, 2007, and all Special Members:
- Must produce a minimum of 100 cases or 10% of production, (whichever is greater), of Santa Cruz Mountains AVA wine annually, or as allowed by the Board of Directors.
- Must pour at least one Santa Cruz Mountains AVA wine (in the bottle or barrel sample) at all SCMWA events.
All Members will pay a base fee assessment of $800 annually. This fee covers the first 10 tons or 740 cases or 1650 gallons produced by the member's winery label.
All Members producing over 10 tons per year will pay an assessment of $25 per ton for Grapes crushed starting at 11 tons thru 98 tons. The $25 per ton equals $0.34 per case or $0.15 per gallon in the production assessment. There will be a cap of $2200.00 on the production assessment.
Dues will be based on a three-year rolling average of each member's annual production based on your annual "Grape Crush and Purchase Inquiry Crop Report". This is the report that is filed with the State of California Food and Agriculture.
- Winery Member agrees to provide an annual harvest production report.
- Members will be allowed to choose a quarterly payment plan for the annual dues.
- Winery to provide upon request, a copy of certificate of insurance; with Commercial General Liability and Liquor Liability, with SCMWA listed as co-insured, (for events).
General Membership
General Membership shall be open to those who own a commercial winery or grape brandy distillery in Santa Cruz County or the Santa Cruz Mountains Appellation, and as allowed by the directors. Original members of the Association shall retain grandfathered rights unless they relocate outside Santa Cruz County or the Appellation. General Members, in good standing, shall be entitled to one vote on Association issues.
Special Membership
Special Membership shall be open to those who,(1) produce Santa Cruz Mountains AVA wines commercially at a general member's facility, or (2) ) produce Santa Cruz Mountains AVA wines commercially outside the AVA boundaries, and as allowed by the directors. This membership category is conditional upon the continued production of Santa Cruz Mountains AVA wines and shall terminate when this qualification is no longer met. Special members shall be subject to any change in requirements for membership in the association. Special Members in good standing shall have all the rights and privileges of General Members and shall be entitled to one vote on Association issues.
a. Initiation Fee
Each new member shall pay an initiation fee of two hundred ($200) dollars.
Each member shall pay annual dues as determined by the board of directors. Each member's annual dues will be determined by that member's annual production report. In order to maintain membership in good standing, all new members, as of September 1, 2007, and all Special Members must pour a Santa Cruz Mountains AVA wine (in the bottle or barrel sample) at SCMWA events.
b. Production Report
In order to effectively market the Santa Cruz Mountains and County AVAs and to be able to educate on behalf of our industry, it is essential to have accurate production figures to determine the quantity and value of our product. A statement of production quantity of Santa Cruz Mountains/County wines as well as total production of all wine from the most recent harvest is mandatory for renewing membership each year for all members and must accompany the annual dues payment. These figures are understood to be confidential. The purpose is to certify minimum production requirements of Santa Cruz Mountains AVA wine for new members and total annual production for all members.
Each member shall pay such other dues and fees and assessments as voted by a majority of a quorum of members.