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… to carry an Ugly Pen! This Retro 1951 slogan perfectly expresses the philosophy of this successful company. Kitschy finishes, both hip and historic, on hardworking and durable writing instruments are the basis of Retro's offerings. There are capless rollerballs, fountain pens and pencils in an array of designs.
Your Favorite Sports Fan's Newest Pens
Get your hands on these new Sports Edition rollerballs from Retro 51. Each pen has been acid-etched so you can feel the texture of each sport's ball. We're not kidding.
Hail Mary and Hoops have a pebbled texture. The baseball Slider has raised red stitching. Can you say, "Homerun"! Each design is complete with complimentary trim. A matching display tube furthers your love for the game.
Pickup a few of these sporty designs even if you're not currently 'in the game', you can still enjoy the rush of your favorite sport while writing. Or, make your favorite fan, really happy.
Tactile Sensation
The Tread collection uses a chain-like pattern which is acid-etched on the barrel. The tactile feel provides a nice level of grip. The Sparkle and Flare are vibrant colors and the all matte black is named appropriately, Flint. Loaded with your favorite rollerball refill and packaged in a traditional Retro display tube. The rollerball can easily convert to a ball pen with a refill change to any Standard Parker Style refill. Color and point sizes choices abound.
Limited Edition Space Race Fountain Pen!
Retro 51 proudly presents the Apollo Fountain Pen in celebration of the brave men and women who made such an achievement possible. This capped fountain pen is printed with graphics of the Saturn V rocket that launched the historic Apollo 11 flight. It's finished with rose gold accents, a limited-edition number is engraved on the top ring, and of course, a graphic moon footprint on the top disc. The edition is limited to a total of 1,151 fountain pens. It's packaged in a commemorative tube. Order yours and acquire a piece of pen history!
The fountain pen is available in extra fine, fine, medium and broad nibs. The silver colored steel nib can be filled with the included converter or standard international cartridges.
(A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Astronaut Scholarship Fund (ASF). ASF is a 501(c)3 non-profit that was created in 1984 by NASA astronauts to encourage university students to pursue scientific excellence and ensure the United States would remain the global leader in science and technology for decades to come.)
When you visit the Smithsonian, you're visiting the world's largest museum, education and research complex. There you'll find approximately 154 million artifacts and specimens held in trust for the American people. The museum is dedicated to inspiring curiosity, discovery and learning about our world through unparalleled collections, exhibitions and educational outreach programs. Retro 51 is proud to support theses efforts. A contribution is made for every pen sold in the Retro 51 Smithsonian collection.
The first design in the Smithsonian collection was the Corona twist-top rollerball pen. The deeply etched barrel is reminiscent of the ornamental bronze-colored metal lattice that covers the outside of the National Museum of African American History and Culture building in Washington D.C. Lead designer David Adjaye pays homage to the intricate ironwork crafted by enslaved African Americans in Louisiana, South Carolina, and elsewhere using this design.
This success followed with two more worthy additions; Dino which brings a smile to the face of every dinosaur lover both young and old. And, the striking colors on the Amelia Earhart commemorative Lockheed 5B Vega aircraft she piloted in her historic around the world adventures.
Now comes the new Discovery, Gene Davis and our new favorite, Pen Pal.
Each rollerball pen is uniquely numbered on the top ring. It ships in a commemorative Smithsonian display tube.
Fifteen years ago, the Retro 51 team took a trip to an old Italian fishing village where they learned of a wonderful dish called Cioppino which inspired a new collection that quickly became a fan favorite. Then, sadly, the Cioppino went away; out of production. Fortunately for all of us, Retro managed to unearth the original seashell barrels and have cooked up a fresh new batch!
The Cioppino Rose Gold Edition features heavily plated rose gold accents that bring a new level of sophistication to the Tornado collection. The barrels, made from genuine seashells, are painstakingly crafted to transform the rough shell into a perfectly fitted piece that radiates color and iridescence. This timeless capless rollerball features Retro 51's signature knurled twist top and can easily convert to a ball pen with a refill change to any Standard Parker Style refill. Color and point sizes choices abound. Catch this striking new version of the Cioppino today. Who knows how long this season will last?
The Retro 1951 Big Shot is a slightly larger diameter Tornado. The realistically reproduced Sherman Tank is quite unique and arrives in a commemorative matching tube. The Titanium and Black Titanium are serious stunners. Fit, finish and fashion; another winner from Retro 1951. This capless rollerball features Retro's signature knurled twist top. The rollerball can easily convert to a ball pen with a refill change to any Standard Parker Style refill. Color and point sizes choices abound.
Retro 51 has introduced four new designs to the Tornado Rescue Collection! These special pens benefit the nonprofit groups: Operation Kindness (OperationKindness.org) and Elephants, Rhino and People (ERP.ngo) and, the NW Honeybee Habitat Restoration. Each pen comes in a matching tube.
Retro 51 has created this special Tornado benefiting the nonprofit group Elephants, Rhino and People (ERP.ngo) with a mission to protect the wild populations of Southern Africa.
Acid-etched honeycomb texture with printed bees and antique copper accents. A donation is made to NW Honeybee Habitat Restoration.
This popular design was originally available only as 1.15mm pencil. Due to its popularity, Retro has added a rollerball in this lacquer finish. Now you can get your favorite mathematician a pencil and add this pen for a set! The capless rollerball point deploys with a twist of the knurled top. Tornado pens also fit any Parker-style refill. Create formulas with finesse in up to ten ink colors shown below.
The fine, glow in the dark details on the new Retro 1951 Deluxe Dr. Gray Tornado are amazing. Doctors, nurses, medical technicians, the list is endless, will all get a kick out of this capless rollerball pen. Be reminded of Gray's Anatomy, written and hand illustrated in 1863 by Henry Gray. Your Dr. Gray is trimmed in gunmetal and arrives in companion tube. A great gift and a fun work tool.
Customers clamor for pen accessories and Retro 1951 always responds with creative and affordable options. If you are a Retro 1951 collector, and there are a lot of you out there, you cannot pass up the new Bamboo 16-Pen Display Tray. We love the easy-to-open magnetic top that allows you to view all your pens and store them safely in one place. When on the road, carry a useful Retro 1951 Traveler for quick notes and ready access to needed cards.
Bestow only positive vibes when you give this HEX-0-MATIC ballpoint and mechanical pencil from Retro 1951. There was quite a customer clamor when the original HEX-0-MATIC disappeared. Now these popular six-sided tools are back in both the silver and matte black finishes.
Detailed Craftsmanship at Affordable Prices
Retro has continued to evolve their Metalsmith collection. Each design has become an overwhelming best seller for good reason. Fine details on these pens from etchings to lacquers is beyond what any collector would expect at these amazing prices.
Each design is a treasure. Choose from the exciting WWII P51, Roosevelt, Solid Copper and the latest, the Eiffel.
Retro rollerball pens, by design, will also accept our most common ballpoint refill, the Parker-Style. This refill is available in 11 colors and various point sizes.
Retro 51 has been the leader for decades in high-quality low-priced twist-top rollerball pens. Occasionally, they have dabbled in the fountain pen arena. Now, they've jumped in with both feet. They have upgraded nibs and brought out a sensational array of choices. From the 'look at me' frosted metallics to the stealthy all black. In between are drop dead gorgeous designs on the P51 and Lincoln. These are etched onto the surface and filled with bright colors. No detail is too small.
Retro fountain pens come with two cartridges installed in the barrel. The steel nib choices are fine and medium. Add an ink converter for using with your bottle ink. And, add some ink too!
Straight from the Fifties, these nifty Retro 1951 Lacquer Tornados may be our most popular pen under $30. Just twist the chrome knurled cap and your point extends. Any of the eleven brilliant lacquered finishes make an excellent choice for corporate logos or personalized engraving. We'll engrave from one to a thousand or more; just ask. Refill your Lacquer Tornado with the original capless rollerball refill or order any Parker-style refill in three ink types, multiple point sizes and colors.
Retro 1951 has vastly expanded their fine 1.15mm pencil offering. Pencil lovers know that these 1.15mm writers are enjoyable due in part to the strength of this thickness of graphite. Not too thick and never as breakable as typical graphite sizes.
Just as smooth as their rollerball cousins, these 1.15mm pencils operate with a simple twist of the top, plus, there is a huge eraser under the top for those who might make an occasional mistake.
The newest addition is the Sir Isaac. It joins best sellers like Crossword, Dmitri, Albert, Dr. Gray and Ice Blue.
Add some extra erasers and refills and it makes a great gift for the crossword devotee.
All Retro 1951 ballpoint pens are a click-top for point deployment. A Retro 1951 ballpoint pen will accept an extremely broad selection of ballpoint refill technologies: standard ballpoint ink, GEL ballpoint ink, Liquid ballpoint ink as well as the Easy Flow technology from Schmidt. Some ballpoint ink choices come in as many as eight colors. Click-top magic.
A distinctive gift, yet one of the most treasured rollerballs ever sold, the Retro 1951 Tornado. Retro 1951 revolutionized rollerball technology with a twist top capless rollerball which accepts a versatile ink selection. Available in many unique finishes, many of which engrave beautifully.
All Retro 1951 rollerball pens will accept an extremely broad selection of ballpoint refill technologies too: standard ballpoint ink, GEL ballpoint ink, Liquid ballpoint ink as well as the Easy Flow technology from Schmidt. Some ballpoint ink choices come in as many as eight colors.
Just as smooth as its rollerball all cousins, these 1.15 and .7mm pencils lay down a smooth line and never waste lead. The 1.15 mm models advance lead with a simple twist of the top. The .7mm Hex's are click-top advance. Known by artists, designers and engineers for their quality, Retro pencils rock.
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Traffic Problems Will Disappear by Year 2000 (1955)
The September 22, 1955 Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, ME) ran a wonderful piece titled, "Hope For the Motorist: Traffic Problems Will Disappear by Year 2000." Such unbridled optimism for the yet to be developed Interstate Highway System is downright cute. Well, cute in that condescending "bless your heart" kind of way. But cute, nonetheless.
Remember that in 1955 the Interstate Highway System was still just a twinkle in President Eisenhower's eye. The Federal Aid Highway Act, which allocated $25 billion ($195 billion in today's dollars) for the development of the Interstate Highway System, wasn't signed into law until 1956.
As a huge Disney nerd I can't help but think about short films and TV episodes from the late 50s which were clearly produced to sell the idea of the Interstate Highway System to the American public. The film The Story of Anyburg USA from 1957 and the Disneyland TV episode Magic Highway, USA from 1958 are two such glorious examples.
Predictions from the Lewiston Daily Sun piece appear below.
Automobile traffic will increase fantastically, but because of fine expressways, there will be little congestion.
On these expressways cities will be by-passed or the road will be so built that it will hardly be necessary to slow down.
There will be no traffic lights on these major roads.
Large lakes will be bridged. Mountain ranges will be tunneled.
Opposing traffic will be separated. One-way streets and highways will be the rule.
Sleet? Snow? It will melt as it hits the highway.
Headlights? Won't need them on major roads. They will be illuminated bright as day.
Disabled cars -- a major source of tieups today -- will be whisked away by helicopter.
Cities will use three-level highways. Underground parking will be common. New office buildings will have parking facilities on each floor.
On a side note, I had a good chuckle reading about the helicopter solution to disabled cars, since comedian Eugene Mirman recently tweeted about Gallagher and his absolutely insane solution for road congestion.


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Frank Barsalona
You can thank Frank Barsalona for that awesome show you went to.
He revolutionized the concertgoing experience. Frank Barsalona elevated rock to an art worthy of resources, earning artists more money, better treatment and better venues.
Frank Barsalona revolutionized the rock concert business and the very notion of a rock concert itself.
In the mid-Sixties, Barsalona founded Premier Talent—the first booking agency to work exclusively with rock artists. He started out at GAC, a New York-based talent agency. As the company's youngest agent, he booked the first U.S. appearances by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds and others.
Before Barsalona came along, rock was, in his words, "lower than the rodeo" on the entertainment totem pole. After he founded Premier Talent in 1964—starting with a small stable of acts that included the Who, Herman's Hermits and Mitch Ryder—rock moved into bigger and better venues, and musicians' compensation and treatment improved considerably. Premier was the first contemporary music agency in the U.S. Barsalona envisioned something bigger for rock music than the shoddy package tours and fifteen-minute sets that were typical of the day. He worked with some of the more farsighted promoters who were coming along, including Bill Graham, to engineer a new kind of rock concert experience.
Premier went on to represent such rock superstars as Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk, J. Geils Band, Tom Petty, Van Halen and U2, as well as continuing to represent the Who. Barsalona brought a principled ethicality to an area of the business that was not theretofore renowned for it. As a result, Premier Talent was able to amass a classy client list that numbered in the hundreds. Barsalona has received the Performance Touring Hall of Fame Award. He is also a founding member and serves on the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Frank Barsalona had a vision: acts and promoters and record companies working in coordination to build careers," wrote music journalist Dave March in 2002, when Barsalona received the Silver Clef award from the Nordoff-Robbins Foundation, a music-industry charitable organization. As a result, "Rock performers now had an economic base outside of the record companies," Marsh continued. "They had the time and money and facilities to upgrade the quality of their shows."
The ultimate beneficiary of Barsalona's vision was the concertgoer. Rock music thrives in a live setting, and one major reason it's done that so well over the last forty years is Frank Barsalona. Barsalona died on Thursday, November 22, 2012 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Inductee: Frank Barsalona (born March 31, 1938, died November 22, 2012)


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We believe that transformations are possible for everybody. Together, we inspire, we support, we reward, and we exceed our goals. We challenge you to embrace your full potential. Transform your body. Transform your life.
The IsaBody Challenge is a 16-week total body transformation challenge for Isagenix Customers. Because we believe that transformations are possible for everybody, we award all who successfully complete their IsaBody Challenge with a coupon code for up to US$200 of Isagenix products. And the best part? Everyone who completes the IsaBody Challenge also has the chance to win a share of over US$1,000,000 in money, prizes, and trips!
You're just a click away from beginning your journey to your ultimate transformation. Remember, Isagenix isn't all about weight loss and neither is the IsaBody Challenge. This is your chance to change your life for the better, so enter today!
It's easy to start an IsaBody Challenge! Register in your Isagenix Back Office or contact the person who introduced you to Isagenix.
Challenge Overview
The IsaBody Challenge is a 16-week body transformation challenge for Isagenix Customers. Participants submit four "Before" photos and use Isagenix products (at least 500BV) for 16 weeks. Participants then submit four "After" photos and a 250-500 word essay about their transformation within 2 weeks of their Challenge end date. Depending on the date the participant finishes their Challenge and uploads their materials, they may have to submit an additional four Maintenance Photos to be considered for prizes and judging.
Participants who complete all requirements of the Challenge have the chance to win their share of over $1,000,000 in money, prizes, and trips. Everyone who completes a Challenge is rewarded with an Achievement Award, which includes a $200 product coupon, t-shirt and certificate.
Review the Guide to the IsaBody Challenge for additional details.
Before and After Photos
Before and After Photos (50% of score)
In order to qualify for judging, each Participant must submit four Before and four After photos. Before photos must be taken on the Participant's start date. Before Photos must be uploaded within two weeks of the participants start date. After photos must be taken on the Participant's Challenge end date. Full-body photos must be taken in the upright position. After photos must be uploaded within two weeks of the Participant's end date. If the deadline is missed, email firstname.lastname@example.com. See the Guide to the IsaBody Challenge for tips on how to take the best photos. Please avoid 'selfies' and pictures taken in a mirror.
Photo Requirements and Information:
Before photos must be taken on the Participant's start date. Before Photos must be uploaded within two weeks of the participant's start date.
If Before pictures are not uploaded the same day the photos are taken, participants can set their start date back up to 2 weeks at the time of registration in order to match the date on their Before photos.
After photos must be taken on or before the Participant's Challenge end date. After photos and essay must be uploaded together within two weeks of the Participant's end date.
The file format for uploaded photos is JPG or PNG.
The photos must be authentic, not altered or modified. If any photo tampering is evident Participant will be immediately disqualified.
The date on the paper or time stamp must match the day the contestant begins/ends their Challenge
The same type of clothing is recommended to be worn in all photos (athletic clothing preferred – sports bras, shorts, tank tops). Unusually revealing or provocative photos will be deemed invalid.
High-quality photos (300 dpi) are recommended. Photos must be 2 MB or smaller.
Participants should take the photos using a white or light-colored solid backdrop for optimal visibility.
Because the photo with the newspaper is for verification of the date of the photo, the date or headline must be visible in the photo or a date and time stamp must be used.
Written Essay (50 percent of score)
The essay is required to be submitted with the After photos, no more than two weeks after the Participant's Challenge end date. Topics for discussion may include but are not limited to: What your Challenge goals were and how you achieved them, why you entered the Challenge, how Isagenix products benefited you, how you will motivate others to achieve success through the use of the Isagenix products and your next IsaBody Challenge goal.
Essay Requirements:
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Note: Once submitted the completed entry becomes the sole property of Isagenix to be used in any manner deemed appropriate. Contestants may also mail in additional information to Isagenix World Headquarters, care of IsaBody Challenge.
You must order a minimum of 500 BV of Isagenix products for personal consumption during your 16-week Challenge period.
Each Isagenix product for purchase has a corresponding BUSINESS VOLUME (BV).
Both wholesale and Autoship orders count toward the BV requirements.
Orders placed before your Challenge start date do not count toward your BV requirements for your Challenge.
Sales made through your Isagenix replicated website do not count toward your BV minimum.
A Challenge participant must be an active Isagenix Customer and remain active through the duration of his or her 16-week Challenge. To remain active, you must have generated a minimum of 100 personal volume (PV) in the prior 30 days. This can be accomplished by purchasing products (for personal consumption or for resale to Retail Customers) or by sales to Retail Direct Customers via your Isagenix replicated website.
The way you accumulate your personal BV for the Challenge is preference. For example, you could set your monthly Autoship to 125 or more BV, or you can one or more wholesale order(s) during your 16 weeks to meet your 500 BV minimum. You can see how much BV you have accumulated by look in the Orders section of your Back Office.
Participants who upload their After Photos/essay and finish their Challenge period three weeks or more prior to the Challenge Judging must submit four final Maintenance photos that must comply with all guidelines as set forth for the Before and After photos.
These will be used during judging to verify that the Challenge results have been maintained through the end of the judging period. To be considered in the judging process as Finalists or Honorable Mention, participants must maintain or improve their results. Not maintaining results does not disqualify you from the Achievement Award, but all participants requiring Maintenance Photos must submit them in order to complete their Challenge and receive the achievement award.
Review the CHALLENGE TIMELINE for clarification.
Maintenance Photo timelines are as follows:
The date you submit your completion materials, not your 16-week end date, determines the judging period you are placed in and if you will owe Maintenance photos.
The following dates remain the same each year.
Please see the CHALLENGE TIMELINE on the Support tab of IsaBodyChallenge.com.
Judging Period 1 (Arizona Retreat Challenge)
All completion materials must be submitted no later than February 28 in order to be eligible for judging for this event. Note: Materials submitted after this date will be included in the following judging period.
Judging Period 2 (Global Celebration Challenge)
All completion materials must be submitted no later than June 20 to be eligible for the judging for this event. Note: Materials submitted after this date will be included in the following judging period.
Judging Period 3 (New Year Kick Off Challenge)
All completion materials must be submitted no later than November 8 in order to be eligible for judging for this event. Note: Materials submitted after this date will be included in the following judging period.
Note: Isagenix will only judge Participants that submit successfully complete all requirements of their Challenge on time. All Challenge requirements must be received by Isagenix no later two weeks after the Participant's end date. If your two week submission window falls over a deadline to be eligible for a particular judging period (Feb. 28, June 20, Nov. 8), all materials must still be submitted by those deadline dates to be in that judging period. Materials submitted after that date (but before your two week submission deadline) will be included in the following judging period. Please see the Challenge Timeline on the Support tab of IsaBodyChallenge.com.
Only participants who successfully fulfill all requirements of the Challenge will be considered for judging and prizes.
A panel of unbiased judges, from the Isagenix Corporate Management Team, will select all winners. The final decisions are made by the Isagenix Executive Leadership Team and the Isagenix Co-Founders, Jim and Kathy Coover. The decision of the judges is final.
Each judge will score each contestant on a scale based on 50 percent from the essay and 50 percent from the Before and After photos.
The scores will be tabulated to give each contestant a cumulative score from each judge. The scores of these judges will then be combined to give each contestant a final score, which will be used to determine the winners
A positive weight will be given to those that have completed a previous IsaBody Challenge. The completion of a previous Challenge is not a requirement to be selected as a winner.
If selected, participants must maintain their success to the satisfaction of the judges to be eligible for consideration as a Finalist.
Participants are also encouraged to submit other materials such as body fat analyses, lifestyle photos, and home videos to further supplement their essay and demonstrate their overall transformation. Judges will be notified if a Participant has submitted additional material and will have the opportunity to evaluate them if they choose to learn more.
Men and women 18 years of age and older, as of their registration date, are eligible to participate in the IsaBody Challenge.
All Participants must be residents of the U.S. or Puerto Rico.
Participants must be an active Isagenix Customer or Member and remain active through the duration of their 16-week Challenge. Active status within Isagenix requires that you order a minimum of 100BV every 30 calendar days.
Participants must purchase at least 500 BV of Isagenix products for personal consumption during the 16-week Challenge period.
Participants can sign up for back-to-back Challenges, but may not do two Challenges simultaneously. Participants must complete or resign their previous Challenge before entering the next one. Participants can resign and restart their Challenge at any time.
Participants must use Isagenix products and cannot use similar or competitive products from any other company during the time they are participating in an IsaBody Challenge.
Participants cannot utilize any body-transforming procedures including but not limited the lap band, gastric bypass, liposuction, HCG, HGH or other similar treatments during the time they are participating in an IsaBody Challenge. Body wraps and toning creams are discouraged..
Winners and enrolling sponsors may be required to sign an affidavit attesting to their use of Isagenix products during the Challenge period. Participants may also be required to sign a waiver, and submit a validation letter written by participant's sponsor at the end of the Challenge verifying contestant followed all of the rules and regulations of the Challenge.
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A few days ago, I got access to the source code of the well-known Elite Loader for free. Yes. It was published on one of the Russian underground forums. It even had a detailed description and screenshots showing how to use the application's command and control (C&C) server.
Apart from dropping malicious files on infected machines, Elite Loader also allows malicious users to upload additional software to targeted systems to steal passwords or deploy spam or distributed denial of service (DDoS) modules that other cybercriminals can use.
The bot's size is only 8kb, making the dropping process relatively hidden. The bot works perfectly well on the Microsoft XP Service Packs 1, 2, and 3 and Vista OSs and supports multiple job instances.
The malware distribution business seems to have gone public. Elite Loader, for instance, was published by well-known Lonely Wolf—one of the moderators of the underground forum, DaMaGeLaB—with detailed instructions in the archive and even dedicated thread posts. This will make it easy even for script kiddies to create their own malicious code.
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Sarah, the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac in Genesis, is a central biblical character because of her role in the establishment of the people later called Israel. In recent years the image of Sarah has not fared well in scholarship, where she is depicted as petty, indulgent, and self-absorbed, and as the oppressor of Hagar. This study examines Sarah and her role in Genesis to understand how women function in the biblical text, how the biblical writers constructed women's roles, and how this affects a modern reading of the Hebrew Bible.
Tammi J. Schneider is Associate Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. She also co-directs the renewed excavations at Tel el-Far'ah (South) in Israel. She is the project director at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and serves on the Board of Trustees for the American Schools of Oriental Research. She recently published Judges in the Berit Olam series and is the editor for the Ancient Near East section of Religious Studies Review.
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Wissahickon 12 Hours Challenge 2013 ..Second EditionMarch 30, 2013 Wissahickon Park, Philadelphia PA Shawmont, PA 19118 View Map
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Check us out on our Facebook page PA Trails Challenge.The race is limited to 250 participant due to parking space and organisation space.This isn't a Beginne'rs or weekend warrior' s race !!! Think twice before registering, join us on the training run and be prepared to push harder than you ever had !!! Last year saw 3 of us doing it.... the record stand at 2 loops in 7 hours. Keep yourself informed regularly as I will post/add further infos as the time is approaching. As I mentionned in the PA Trails Challenge page, this is a paid event.The registration fee starts at $75 and will increase until 02/28/2013 to $120. Your registration will give you: 1 long sleeve Tshirt. 1 finisher trophy (TBD.)Prizes 1 # bib. Basic Hot food and hot beverages at start/finish station all throughout the day Mobile EMS support at strategic location on the course. Registration are on special at $75 until 10/20/2012 Registration are $85 until December 31, 2012. Registration are $95 until January 31, 2013. Registration are $120 until March 20, 2013. Registration close on March 20 at midnight. You can still contact DR for possible open spots, email@example.com Weather: Only a large snow fall or blizzard or temperature under 20 degrees will affect the race. In the case of extrem weather the race will be moved to the following date 04/13/2013. Required equipment; Whistle Head lamp (water proof) Wetsuit Hydration pack Glow stick (optional) keep watching for updates. Update 10/05/2012... Wetsuit are mandatory unless temperatures on the day of the event are greater than 55 degrees. RD will make final decision. Updates 10/08/2012 Rules and description of the race... Wissahickon 12 Hours Challenge is a race based on a 13.1 mile loop that you will run as many times as you can or decide to over a period of 12 hours. The race starts at 7 AM Saturday March 2013 and will end at 7 PM on Saturday March 2013. The first male and first female will be rewarded a free entry at the Spartan Beast in Killington Vermont 2013. ( in the case that there is only 1 female racing the prize will be rewarded to second overall) # 2 male and female will also be rewarded (TBD) as well as first in age group (TBD). Trophee and prizes will be remitted between 8.30 and 9 PM once all participant times and distances have been recorded. The exact lenght of each lap is between 12.8 to 13.3 miles depends on what GPS program you'll use to calculate. The race is on a honesty base but will, on each loop, have 3 check points ( mile 5 and 10 and start/finish) to which you have to report your # and after first loop quickly checked by EMS and after 5 PM will determine if you can pursue to the next portion of the loop due to time constraint on the race. If you are stopped because of time the rally point is at the Valley Green Inn at the center of the course where you will be driven back to the start finish line. If EMS pulls you out of the race you can not come back in the race ..THIS IS A FINAL DECISION ... that decision is made base on your health and only because of your health. Their will be multiple water crossings, up and down river beds (dry or streamed) and jumps in water hole (Devils Pool) Water crossings will have a life line to which you can use to pull, drag yourself across and a life guard for your safety. The course has no man made obstacles it is all natural use of the terrain which is always evolving based on erosion. The course will be marked with colored flag (color TBD) stay within the boundaries of the flags. If it calls for you to be in a river bed stay in the river bed. At the end of each loop you will pass through start / finish line where you will have the opportunity to access your gears for changes, food or get worm before going onto your next loop. Race is supported by:www.Roadid.comwww.trailrunnersports.comwww.simplefuel.comwww.EXPadventures.comwww.geigerrig.com


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PeaceChaser wrote:But I beat rock garden... What is the name of the location? Thanks for the quick reply!
Nandrew wrote:PeaceChaser wrote:But I beat rock garden... What is the name of the location? Thanks for the quick reply!
Hmm, only thing I can think of here is that maybe you didn't kill both bosses. Rock garden has 2.
There shouldn't be any other conditions, so I'll take this as a bug report if that's the case.
I have a hunch. This dungeon was made to root out exploits such as GG's humility and AM's infinite mana? I have a hard time believing this is beatable without breaking the game.
TigerKnee wrote:Finally got pass the brick wall that was The Indomitable. Huh, the Crypt opened up.
Are we going to get a content patch anytime soon? I have 2500 gold lying in my bank and I rather wait for more preparation options before I take on those two dungeons, I guess. Shrug.
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With all the rain in July, things are looking a little more optimistic for wheat and stocker cattle operators than in the past four years in the Rolling Plains of Texas and southern Oklahoma, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist.
"It looks like we will have some pasture once we get our wheat crop in; at least we have some moisture to plant our wheat on," said Stan Bevers, AgriLife Extension economist in Vernon.
And that leaves wheat and stocker cattle operators with some decisions to make in the next few months.
"What we are looking at now is, 'Should I try to harvest for a wheat crop next spring,or should I run cattle through the entire season?'" Bevers said.
While little to no corn is grown in the Rolling Plains region, the corn market has a big impact as it is the intersection between cattle and wheat, the two largest commodities of the region.
"Right now we have a very large corn crop growing out there, which looks like it will influence wheat prices to the lower side," he said. "So that's kind of a dark cloud hanging over wheat. And we have to ask ourselves what will prices be come spring next year. It certainly appears that it is going to be lower than the last few years."
Bevers said the Aug. 10 corn report reported the largest corn crop in history at 14 billion bushels. If the price is to start moving up, it will be after that. On July 29, the July 2015 wheat contract pricewas $6.30 a bushel. Adjust for local basis and the local price is between $5.75 to $6.
"What are your expenses per bushel – about $6 a bushel, depending on yield average," he estimated. "So there are a couple of options to look at when it comes to the wheat crop we are about to plant."
One option for the Rolling Plains is to graze stocker cattle on wheat pasture for a portion of the year. The problem with that is stocker cattle are very expensive right now, Bevers said. Cattle as a whole are in very short supply, so producers must understand they are going to have to pay very high prices.
"So one of the things we've talked about is if I don't want to own the cattle and make that investment, we can take cattle in 'on the gain,'" he said.
The next decision will be: What should the lease price on wheat pasture be?
He said the wheat producers want all they can get and the stocker operators want to pay as little as possible.
The wheat guy needs enough to make him whole again, knowing with grazing he will lose some bushels and have some increased expense, "so you as the stocker operator need to pay him enough to get him back to where he didn't graze it at all – and then some."
From the wheat producer standpoint, the things that come into the equation are 5-6 bushel loss per acre, a heavier seeding rate and added fertilizer, which averages out to about $11 per acre, he said.
The stocker operator has to determine the maximum he can pay by looking at everything except pasture costs.
"Using the numbers we have now, the average is about 62 cents per pound of gain," Bevers said. "That's what a wheat producer and stocker operator would kind of negotiate as the mid-point to start the bidding, and that number could go as low as 55 cents or as high as 64 cents."
The wheat producer has to have 54.1 cents per pound of gain to make him whole again. The stocker operator can pay up to 70 cents for him to generate zero.
"So this becomes a lease negotiation – 62.2 cents would be a meet-in-the-middle type of situation. But not everyone plays nice together. And, all this changes on a daily basis," he warned.
"There are lots of options to consider, so you have to run your own numbers," Bevers said. "But at least this year we have some moisture to think about."
Source: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
A video instructional series on aging for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 13 one-hour video programs and coordinated books
This series was discontinued on July 1, 2018.
1. Myths and Realities of Aging
The common myths surrounding aging are compared with today's realities.
Experts and elders describe how we learn about aging and how knowledge can
help us debunk myths.
2. How the Body Ages
Experts describe the universal physical changes that accompany aging and
explain how deterioration can be prevented. Researchers describe advances in
cellular studies and the search for biomarkers of aging.
3. Maximizing Physical Potential of Older Adults
Considers ways to develop the greatest physical potential in an aging individual
while compensating for the effects of aging. Elders describe how lifestyle
choices have helped them maintain an active, healthy life.
4. Love, Intimacy, and Sexuality
Examines the sources of love and affection in old age and describes how aging
may affect sexual and reproductive functioning. Older adults discuss their
continuing need for companionship, intimacy, love, and sex.
5. Learning, Memory, and Speed of Behavior
Explores what happens to our mental capacities as we age. Techniques used to
maintain and augment mental functioning are examined. Elders explain why
lifelong learning is crucial.
6. Intellect, Personality, and Mental Health
Examines intellectual function and the nature of personality. Gerontologists
describe longitudinal and cross-sectional research designs to study intellect and
personality over the lifespan. Elders discuss mental health and stress-reduction
7. Social Roles and Relationships in Old Age
Looks at how family, friendship, work, and leisure roles evolve as we age.
Elders discuss coping with role losses resulting from retirement or death of a
loved one. The pioneering of new roles is explored.
8. Family and Intergenerational Relationships
Profiles older people as spouses and grandparents and looks at how elders help
sustain family traditions and culture. Older adults describe the satisfaction and
stress of caring for spouses and frail parents.
9. Work, Retirement, and Economic Status
Explores labor force trends, early retirement, and new job opportunities for
older workers. Retirees describe community service and leisure activities. Social
Security, pensions, and other income sources are discussed.
10. Illness and Disability
Examines chronic health problems and availability of supportive services. Older
people discuss how they cope with physical and mental illness and face tough
decisions regarding institutionalization and costs of long-term care.
11. Dying, Death, and Bereavement
Discusses the services older people need to deal with dying and death. Elders
describe their views on widowhood and management of grief. Experts examine
the ethical dilemmas posed by terminal illness.
12. Societal and Political Aspects of Aging
Considers individual and governmental responsibilities for the health care and
financial support of older citizens. Experts and elders examine the political clout
of advocacy groups, older women, and minority elders.
13. The Future of Aging
Explores generational conflicts, resource needs of a growing population of
elders, and the role of technology in improving quality of life for older adults.
Experts describe how aging will be different in the twenty-first century.
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Book News Roundup: UK "Deathly Hallows" Paperback Due this Week, JKR Against Book "Age Banding" and More
Jul 07, 2008
While there has been much ado recently with the long awaited release of glorious high res new photos from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the HBP video game news, we do have updates regarding the Harry Potter books series today.
First a reminder that the UK paperback of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on Thursday, with pre-orders available from several retailers (including via our Cauldron Shop) who will ship here to the US. As the paperback release is this week, the UK publishers Bloomsbury have now 'unlocked' the seventh compartment on the Hogwarts Express train via their Swot Up on Potter mini-site. Please note: There is still no word as to when the US publishers plan to release their paperback version of Deathly Hallows, and we will of course update once that does become available.
J.K. Rowling is one of many authors now, who publicly oppose plans by UK publishers to include 'age bands' on children's books. Adding to an online petition, JKR included her name alongside authors such as Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Wilson, Anthony Horowitz, and Alan Garner in a stance against publishing age guidelines on the front of these books. The Guardian reports that publishers this fall will release books that "will bear a logo indicating they are suitable for readers aged 5+, 7+, 9+, 11+ and 13+/teen." The paper notes this scheme has attracted the interest of "Random House, Penguin and Scholastic," but states that "Rowling's publisher Bloomsbury currently has no plans to introduce the label for any of its authors, although it has not ruled out the idea." We do not know if this plan will go into effect here in the US, and will update with more on this when we can.
Finally, the Japanese edition of "Deathly Hallows" will be released later this month. To celebrate this, several days ago, Amazon held a special showing of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," the handwritten book by J.K. Rowling, which the online retailer purchased last year. Amazon also reports that there have been "more than 70,000 advance orders" for the Japanese edition of the seventh Harry Potter book.


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Fla. Gov. Scott wants Obama's help to halt possible longshoreman's strike
Florida Gov. Rick Scott appealed to President Barack Obama Thursday to use his authority to halt a potentially devastating longshoreman's work stoppage that could cripple ports along the eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast.
On a conference call from Tallahassee with most of the state's port directors, Scott asked the president to invoke the seldom-used Taft-Hartley Act to stop thousands of longshoremen — many who operate the giant gantry cranes that tower over the ports — from walking out on their jobs after midnight Saturday.
The governor said a walkout would indirectly affect 550,000 jobs statewide and would cut into more than $66 billion in economic activity at Florida's ports.
"Our message to President Obama is simple — a shutdown of Florida ports is simply not an option," said Scott.
The International Longshoreman's Association has said it will halt activity this weekend if the U.S. Maritime Alliance does not back off its demand that royalties, or bonuses paid to its 14,650 workers for every container they load, are cut or done away with. Those royalties in many instances come to about half of a longshoreman's salary, which is typically around $50,000 a year.
Taft-Hartley, which was last invoked by President George W. Bush in 2002 during a crippling West Coast strike, mandates an 80-day cooling off period, and mediation. The two sides had been negotiating a new contract since March, until talks broke off Dec. 18. At the pushing of a federal mediator, the sides agreed to resume talks this week, though little has leaked out about how the talks are going, or even if the sides have come face-to-face.
Strikes are expected at 15 ports across the nation, from New York and New Jersey, down the eastern coast through Florida, and on up into the Gulf Coast from Tampa to Houston. The cruise industry is not expected to be affected.
Thursday, with leaders from six Florida ports in tow, Scott said he had not heard back from the president since an initial request last week that the president use all his power to stop the looming strike. A port strike has become a critical issue for Scott, who campaigned on bringing down skyrocketing unemployment, and who said Thursday that statewide employment levels have reached a four-year low.
The governor said the state has invested $421 million since his inauguration into ports that primarily do trade with South and Central America.
"It's such a vital part of the job market," he said.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported that Obama Spokesman Matt Lehrich said the White House was monitoring the situation and is urging the parties to "continue their work at the negotiating table to get a deal done as quickly as possible."
Bill Johnson, who directs PortMiami, said a work stoppage could be devastating to the entire U.S. economy. His port, he noted, is the second largest generator of wealth and jobs in South Florida. He said 90 percent of the nation's consumer goods come through the nation's ports. PortMiami alone does about $18 billion a year in container business.
"You would start to see within a number of days products disappearing from shelves," said Johnson.
Port Everglades CEO Steven Cernak noted that petroleum, which has a large distribution operation at his port, would not be affected. He said he remains "cautiously optimistic."
A strike would be more harmful to PortMiami than to Port Everglades. PortMiami does almost $20 billion a year in container activity, which makes up about 40 percent of the ports business. Hundreds of longshoremen work in PortMiami for giant container transport companies like Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company. Only two container transport companies in Broward use longshoremen.
A strike, however, wouldn't completely paralyze the nation.
A memo last week from the ILA said the only items likely to be affected by a strike are some frozen goods and non-perishables like clothing. Union members are still expected to ship items such as fresh fish and flowers, military cargo, and mail.
One of the louder voices in the struggle has been the National Retail Federation. Jonathan Gold, vice president of Supply Chain and Customs Police for the federation told CNBC earlier this week that the 2002 West Coast strike cost the U.S. $1 billion a day in economic activity, and that it took more than six months to recover.
Paul Anderson, who recently left his post at chief executive at JaxPort to become chief executive of Tampa's Port Authority, noted that 34,000 containers pass through Florida's ports each week, distributed to or from more than 60 ships. He feared a strike could lead to a national tipping point.
"A strike this Saturday," said Anderson, "combined with the fiscal cliff negotiations, could be a one-two punch to our nation's economy."


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This is an international unique learning, training and coaching company. We train people in leadership, sales, public speaking and communication. We work with the executive team to identify what the goals of the company are and what the performance gaps are and then design custom training programs to fill in the performance gap. Our training programs, are interactive and actively involving the whole person, using physical activity, creativity, music, images, color, and other methods designed to get people deeply involved and excited about their own learning. We also conduct one:one performance coaching for executives and their employees. We also facilitate conversations designed to improve team work and to generate company culture.
The target audience for this company are large national or multinational firms that invest in employee training and development, that are sales and performance focused and that support their executives with individual coaching, all industries are targeted ex. insurance co., construction co. large retain chains, property management co., event management, ect. Also, professional service companies, ex. lawyers, accountants - professional individuals who have not been formally trained in sales, leadership, communication, public speaking managing teams etc. This company also offers self directed learning, an individual can visit the site and download any of the learning modules and complete them on their time (customized training on demand). Or an organization can buy a license to the site and their entire staff may have access to self directed learning or supplement the learning from a training program with the downloaded training modules
I am looking for a very cool logo and stationary design - business card, letterhead, envelope. I am looking for a logo that can be used internationally and that will be licensable. I am a 33 year old entrepreneur, fashion forward, edgy and yet corporate acceptable - my colors are silver, grey and white, please check out http://www.blog.sophieboyko.com for colors.
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Full range of traditional oil colors with good quality and good prices. All colors have excellent tinting strength, and the whites are absolutely non-yellowing. Tubes and sets.
Color Swatches created using heavy application/medium application/50% tint and were applied on acrylic primed canvas (7 oz) material.
Pigment PY74 is one of the most commercially important pigments of the Hansa Yellow group, considered superior to many others in its class based on both tinting strength and lightfastness. Several PY74 grades with different particle sizes are available. Grades with finer particle size are more brilliant and transparent. Pigment PY74 ranges from reddish yellow to greenish yellow, with temperature shifts from cool to warm hues. It has high tinting strength and average to slow drying time.
This Hansa Yellow has better lightfastness that other yellow monoazo pigments, particularly in the darker shades.
Hansa Yellow has no significant acute hazards, though its chronic hazards have not been well studied.
Hansa Yellows were first made in Germany just before WW1 from a series of synthetic dyestuffs called Pigment Yellow. They were intended to be a synthetic replacement for Cadmium Yellow.
Arylide, Arylide Yellow, Azo, Brilliant Yellow, Monoazo, Monolite Yellow, Permanent Yellow.
organic, naphthol AS
Pigment PR170 is a bright deep red with bluish undertones. It has an average drying time. It has two crystaline forms that differ significantly in opacity. The more transparent form (F5RK) tends to be more bluish and is less lightfast.
The lightfastness and weatherfastness of Pigment PR170 varies, depending on the application and the crystaline form. The opaque form (F3RK) has very good lightfastness, and is more weather resistant. The transparent form (F5RK) has lightfastness that is considered acceptable in pure applications, but it fades more in tints. Neither form is considered suitable for exterior use.
Naphthol Reds are not considered toxic. They may cause eye, skin, or respiratory irritation. Contact with dry pigment should be avoided.
Naphthol pigments are actually dyes that are "laked" to form pigments. First developed by the German chemical company Hoechst A.G. before World War I, their use in artist paints began in the 1920s. Pigment Red PR170 is a Naphthol AS pigment, chemically related to the diarylide yellow pigments. The Naphthol AS pigments comprise a range of reds. They are used in plastics, textiles, and printing inks.
Naphthal, Naphthol Bordeaux, Naphthol Carbamide, Naphthol Carmine, Permanent Carmine, Naphthol Crimson, Permanent Red, Permanent Red F3RK (more opaque), Permanent Red F5RK (more transparent).
organic, monoazo
This Naphthol Red is an intense scarlet red pigment that is heavily staining. It has an average drying time. It is semi-transparent and has relatively poor covering power.
This Naphthol Red has been rated as having excellent lightfastness under ASTM testing, but other testing methods have demonstrated some tendancy for the color to fade with exposure to strong ultraviolet light. It has been considered a replacement for less lightfast naphthol reds such as PR3. Not suitable for exterior use.
Naphthol Reds are not considered toxic. Naphthol Red AS-D may cause eye, skin, or respiratory irritation. Contact with dry pigment should be avoided.
Naphthal, Naphthol Bordeaux, Naphthol Carbamide, Naphthol Carmine, Permanent Carmine, Permanent Red, Fanchon Red.
organic, anthraquinone
Perylene Red is a moderately intense, semi-opaque, medium red pigment, appearing somewhere between a Cadmium Red and a Cadmium Deep Red hue. It has excellent brightness and tinting strength. Its partial transparency makes it useful as a glazing color.
Perylene Red has good lightfastness and permanence. Its tints may darken after extended exposure to sunlight. It is not considered suitable for exterior use.
Perylene Red has no significant acute toxicity. Its long term hazards are currently unknown.
Perylenes have been used as vat dyes since 1912, but they were not manufactured and sold as pigments until 1957. For artists, they are a replacement for historic colors that were made with berries, and are significantly more lightfast.
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iron oxides (synthetic), iron oxide, silica, alumina, lime, and magnesia or hydrated iron oxide
Fe2O2 or Fe2O3 • H2O
Red iron oxide varies in hue and transparency, depending on hydration and slight impurities. Indian Red is a slightly duller, deep brick hue with a bluish undertone. It is very dense and opaque, with excellent tinting strength and covering power. It is dependable when mixing with all other permanent pigments and yields good flesh tints when mixed with Zinc White. It is the synthetic version of PR102, which is a pigment made from earth reds, or natural red iron oxides, and the names applied to PR101 and PR102 often overlap. The synthetic red iron oxides have mostly replaced natural red iron oxides and are brighter, stronger, finer, and more permanent. Indian Red is the highest grade bluish shade. Light Red, English Red, and Venetian Red are yellowish shades. Mars Violet is a dull and subdued bluish or purplish oxide.
Red iron oxide is very lightfast with excellent permanence.
Red iron oxide has no significant hazards.
Natural red iron oxide comes from the mineral ore hematite, called bloodstone by the ancient Greeks from the word hema, meaning blood. It is one of the oldest pigments, has been used by every major civilization, and was an important mineral for medieval alchemists. It was not widely used in artists' materials until the 17th century and was not produced in large quantities until the 18th century.
Indian Red, Colcothar, English Red, Light Red, Mars Red, Mars Violet, Morelle Salt, Pompeian Red, Indian Red, Red Oxide, Sinopia, Spanish Red, Terra Rosa, Tuscan Red, Venetian Red, Venice Red.
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Saving Water and Money at the Toilet
Did You Know?
Toilets account for nearly 1/3 of the total water usage of all indoor household plumbing fixtures (5 to 7 gallons per flush).
Ensure that a toilet doesn't leak — if it does, fix it:
- Adjust your "float ball"
- Replace a leaking float ball
- Make sure your tank stopper seats properly (leak-detection dye tablets can assist you)
- Replace cracked overflow pipe (after all other options have been considered)
Please Consider:
- Incorporating water-saving devices that are available for existing toilets
- water dams
- extender plates
- restrictors
- dual handles
- toilet banks (available free of charge at Lincoln Water System; limit one per customer)
- Replacing older, inefficient toilets with the modern low-flush type:
- requires half (or less) the amount of water per flush than standard toilets.
- is the homeowner's best choice for water conservation when you need to remove a standard-flush toilet for any purpose, such as leaks around the floor seal.
- relatively inexpensive to buy (approximately $100); likely to pay for itself within two years.
Source: Saving Water in the Home and Garden by Jonathan Erickson
If you have questions regarding how you can save money by "paying attention to your toilet," please call the Lincoln Water System at 402-441-7571
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Denik, a Company Started By Huntsman Student, Gets Product Featured on Good Morning America and in The New York Times
Denik, a company founded by a Huntsman student, got some national exposure on Nov. 6 on ABC's "Good Morning America" and on Nov. 4 in the New York Times. The company makes journals that feature artwork from artists around the world. For each journal Denik sells, $1 goes to help build schools in developing countries and five percent of their profits go back to the artists. Check out its website by clicking here. Good Morning America featured a number of products that are now sold on Tom's Marketplace, a website that gives international exposure to products made by people who might not have access to such world-wide markets otherwise. (Denik is mentioned at 8:20 on the "Good Morning America" clip.)


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The U.S. stock market ended Monday with best gains in nearly a month that sent both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to record levels.
Broad-based gains on the S&P 500 were led by technology and industrial sector stocks, while deal news in the food industry boosted investor sentiment.
The S&P 500 SPX +0.97% had the best one-day percentage gain since April 16, adding 18.17 points, or 1%, to 1,896.65. The benchmark index closed at a record level for the ninth time this year.
Four consecutive days of gains sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA +0.68% to an intraday high. The blue-chip index closed near session highs, gaining 112.13 points, or 0.7%, to 16,695.47.
The Dow Jones Transportation Average DJT +1.92% also closed at record high, after adding 148.15 points, or 1.9%, to 7,867.45. According to the Dow Theory, when transports rally in tandem with the industrials, the broader markets are set for more gains.
The Nasdaq Composite COMP +1.77% gained the most in more than three months, adding 72 points, or 1.8% to 4,143.86, led by gains in momentum names.
The Russell 2000 index RUT +2.39% added 26.43 points, or 2.4%, to 1,133.65 by the close.
"The fact that markets help up well in the face of weather-related weakness, geopolitical uncertainties and tapering is a sign that markets will go higher," said Jim Paulsen, chief investment officer at Wells Capital Management.
"The underlying reason for that is economic momentum. The U.S. economy is finally exiting the 2% growth and gearing up to the 3%. We may decide that the emerging markets are done slowing and global demand is going to pick up," he added.
The economic calendar was light on news Monday. The U.S. government recorded a budget surplus of $107 billion in April, the Treasury Department reported Monday, a smaller windfall than in the same month last year. The April surplus contributes to a steady decline in the deficit for fiscal 2014. Shrinking U.S. deficit could help keep interest rates low.
Shares of Pinnacle Foods Inc. PF +13.20% surged 13% after Hillshire Brands Co. said it agreed to buy the company for about $4.3 billion in a stock-and-cash deal. Shares of Hillshire Brands Co. HSH -3.22% slid 3.2%.
Shares in Twitter Inc. TWTR +0.71% rallied 5.9% after SunTrust analysts upgraded the stock to buy from neutral and said the company could use monetization of assets to compensate for slowing user growth.
Pandora Media, Inc. P +6.01% shares also rallied 6%, after MKM Partners lifted its rating on the Internet radio company to buy from neutral.
Gogo Inc.'s GOGO +6.20% shares rose 6.2% after the communication-services provider that offers wifi on airplanes reported first-quarter results that beat expectations.
21st Century Fox Inc. FOXA +3.05% shares rallied 3.1% after British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC UK:BSY -0.35% confirmed Monday it is in preliminary discussions to buy pay-TV units from the U.S. production firm.
Chinese shares rallied in Asia on Monday, with banks posting some of the biggest advances, in what was partly a reaction to a new market-reform blueprint announced Friday by the State Council (China's cabinet). India shares rallied on hopes the election will bring in a more business-friendly government. European stocks closed higher, with the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 index closing at the highest level in 6 years.
Crude-oil futures CLM4 -0.08% rose after two sessions of declines on Monday on sanction concerns, while metals also advanced across the board, with gold futures adding 0.7%.
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Those with a taste for the old days and the old ways often ask where they can find a taste of retro Chinese food: nostalgic Chinese-American dishes like chop suey, egg foo young and paper-wrapped chicken.
The cooking so many of us grew up on, which has largely faded away in an explosion of (authentic!) regional Chinese cooking. But few ever seem to ask for retro Japanese cooking. It still exists on the edges; a fair number of sushi bars have a secondary menu of teriyaki and tempura.
It's the rare SoCal Japanese restaurant built exclusively around sukiyaki and katsu, but then, the venerable Amachi in the heart of Uptown Whittier is a rare restaurant.
It's an easy restaurant to miss, for though its address is on Greenleaf Avenue, it's actually off Greenleaf, a few steps down a brief walking street that leads to a parking area.
It's clearly a family-run restaurant — heck, it looks more like someone's home dining room than like a restaurant. It's got limited hours, and a limited menu. And for as long as I can recall, it's served the sort of Japanese dishes many of us have forgotten in a whirl of spicy tuna and hamachi topped with jalapeno slices.
This is a modest eatery with modest prices to match. There's no sushi bar — and indeed, no sushi, though there is an appetizer of sashimi. And there has been for a long time.
More than half the menu consists of combination meals — soup, pickled cucumber, salad and rice, and a choice of two (or three) entrees. Which means if you can't make up your mind, you can order the beef teriyaki with chicken teriyaki with tempura — for all of $8.95. You can get salmon teriyaki with tempura for $9.95. Or you could go wild and order the swordfish teriyaki with chicken teriyaki for just $7.95.
You could hardly eat at Mickey D's for that price. And the food wouldn't be nearly as good for you.
And how is the food? Well, it's a bit like eating a relative's much-loved recipe for meatloaf or mac 'n cheese. There aren't just few surprises there are no surprises. (Oh, OK — the swordfish teriyaki is a bit unexpected. But not that much.)
The flavor of teriyaki is always satisfying — sweet, salty and soothing and good on most everything. The tempura is properly crispy, though it could be a bit crispier — which is the case in a lot of restaurants. But mostly, the staff is warm, the service quick, the prices harmless, the meals satisfying. I hope Amachi sticks around. It doesn't just taste like yesterday — it tastes like today, on a budget.
Just three blocks away, but a world apart, is the much loved Azabu, a restaurant that's a reflection of the taste and style of owner, impresario and chef J.K. "Junior" Saito — whose love of sushi rolls is matched, and probably transcended by his obsession with soba (and udon) in broth — a dish he's spent decades perfecting. (And for which he eventually brought in a master noodle chef from Japan to get his bonito-based soup just right.
This is a madcap place, very Uptown Whittier in its vibe, with a madcap menu of house creations with names like the Armando Roll, the Adriana Roll, the Michelle Roll, and the wildly out-of-control Sashimi Roll — the best of at least two rolls. The rolls are a pleasure, an essential part of the Azabu Experience. But they're also a prelude to the noodles, which are the dominant motif of the restaurant.
For those new to the wonderful world of Japanese soup (warming on a cold night, cooling on a warm night), soba are thin buckwheat noodles with a bit of a chewy texture), while udon are chubby noodles with a softer, more yielding texture. They arrive in broth with beef, chicken, shrimp tempura, vegetable tempura, Japanese greens and "Sansai Mountain Vegetables." Or, just as they are.
The broth is sweet, intense, subtle — easy to miss, unless you stop to (as it were) smell the roses along the way.
To fill out the meal, the options are many — intensely crisp fried calamari, steaming gyoza, oyakodon (a casserole of chicken and eggs over rice), burdock root flavored with sesame oil, and broiled smelt that makes me wonder why more restaurants don't offer what's essentially a broiled sardine — and a wonderful thing it is. Also there are noodles and sushi rolls and small dishes and beer and sake — and lots of life. Azabu may not look like that from the outside. But once inside, it's infectious. Like Amachi, it's been around for a long time. And like Amachi, it should be around a lot longer.
Merrill Shindler is a Los Angeles-based freelance dining critic. Send him an email at email@example.com.


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If you're trying to snuff out a nicotine habit, a small new study suggests that meditation could help.
A U.S. study announced Sunday and published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that after a few hours of meditation, smokers puffed significantly less and showed increased activity in areas of the brain associated with self-control.
Researchers from the University of Oregon recruited 60 university students, including 27 smokers. Half of the group learned a meditation technique called integrative body-mind training, or IBMT. Subjects practiced for five hours over a two-week period. The remaining subjects followed the same schedule but practiced relaxation therapy, where they concentrated on releasing tension from different parts of the body.
At the end of their training, smokers who meditated smoked 60 percent less, while the smoking habits of those in the relaxation group didn't change.
Head researcher Michael Posner and the research team also used a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine to examine brain activity, finding a change in activity in regions associated with self-control in the smokers who meditated. Again, no change was seen in subjects who followed the relaxation program.
"We found that participants who received IBMT training also experienced a significant decrease in their craving for cigarettes," said coauthor Yi-Yuan Tang of Texas Tech University. "Because mindfulness meditation promotes personal control and has been shown to positively affect attention and an openness to internal and external experiences, we believe that meditation may be helpful for coping with symptoms of addiction."
Tang developed IBMT back in the mid-1990s based on traditional Chinese medicine, Taoism, and Confucianism. Unlike other meditation techniques, which focus on thought control and require long-term training, he says his technique focuses on body-mind awareness, such as body postures and breathing. According to Tang, with the right coach, you can learn the technique in as little as five days.
Both Tang and Posner conducted a prior study that found that 11 hours of practicing the technique (even for beginners) can have a positive physical effect on the brain, boosting connectivity and efficiency. That study was published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Family Session- Keller, TX
Keller Family photographer by Keller Family Photographer, Redeeming Love Photography. Redeeming Love Photography is anything but your average Keller, TX Family photographer. Redeeming Love Photography is Southlake Family Portraits photographer. Each Family session is treated with care and creativity not found with other Keller Family photography studios. Your Family session is carefully crafted to offer one of a kind unique photography in the Dallas Fort Worth area. This is Keller Senior portraits photography at its best. Redeeming Love Photography is a published photographer based in the Fort Worth metro area. Offering Family portrait coverage in Fort Worth, Dallas, Southlake and destinations worldwide.
Creative. Stylish. Modern. These are the words typically used to describe this Southlake Family portrait photographer. I take pride in offering clients the type of Keller, TX Family photography they are looking for. Its one thing to take pictures, its to create art for clients. Our Keller clients are typically looking for artwork for their home vs. snapshots, and that is what draws them to Fort Worth, Texas Family photographer, Redeeming Love Photography. Serving Dallas, the Fort Worth metro area, Southlake, Grapevine, Plano and Beyond, Redeeming Love Photography offers Keller Family photographer coverage in the Fort Worth metro area, including but not limited to, Grapevine TX, Colleyville TX, Texas, Austin TX, and the surrounding areas.
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Football game raises money, spirits | News
Tampa, Florida -- The East-West Shrine Game can be a lot of fun for those watching it at Tropicana Field each January.
It also comes with a big benefit, from the college all-star game itself, to the visits that players make beforehand with pediatric patients at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Tampa.
"I got to meet Zach and Chris," says seven-year-old Jessica Hendricks, a patient at Shriners. "We drew elephants."
To college football fans, "Zach and Chris" are tight end Zach Sudfeld of Nevada and running back Christine Michael from Texas A&M.
But to Jessica, they're friends.
PHOTOS: See photos of the players with the kids of Shriners
"Zach and Chris were really nice to me," she says.
"That was an awesome moment to see," adds her mother, Eileen, "Knowing they're with your daughter and they're taking moments out of their time to be with a little child and treat them like they're their best friend."
Money raised through the East-West Shrine Game benefits the hospital, which benefits kids like Jessica. She has Spina Bifida, and relies on the hospital for things like leg braces.
"If it weren't for Shriners, I don't think she'd be walking," Eileen says. "She does not like leaving this place. When she was smaller, she used to cry every time we left, so that's how much she loves coming here."
That's why it's so heartwarming for families and doctors to see the East-West Shrine Game making a difference for Shriners Hospitals.
"When these players arrive at our hospital and they're out on the dance floor with the kids and they're on the basketball courts, they're instilling a sense of hope, a sense of ambition and encouragement for these kids," says Dino Scanio, a staff pediatric orthotist who's worked with Jessica since she was just two months old.
"It's a sense of normalcy. Being here within their own home, and having players arrive and interact with them will leave lifelong memories."