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Electronic Voice Phenomenon: A spiritual voice that is recorded on tape or disk. Although paranormal investigators may be able to reproduce EVP at sites of hauntings, amateur investigators have had great success in producing such recordings in graveyards. The technique involves using a recorder and microphone turned to maximum recording levels. The result is the recording of wideband noise (often called "white noise" or "pink noise"), which has within it ghostly voices that may be very clear.Donald Michael Kraig Also See: white noise, pink noise, EVP
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Max is Cookie Monster's nephew, seen in the 2001 Sesame Street storybook No Cookies?
In the book, Cookie Monster is babysitting his nephew Max and is perplexed by the discovery that he seemingly does not like cookies. As it turns out, Max doesn't dislike cookies, it's just that his parents have taught him to always eat something healthy before enjoying a treat.


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Wednesday, December 19, 2007I am the type of knitter that usually only has a couple of things on the needles. One small, and one big. I like to finish them before moving onto the next. As you can see, this is why. I made one while at the beach in August. I made the other one the other day. Somewhere down in the cables I had fewer rows on one. Damn. Years ago, I would have never given this to someone. I absolutely would have fixed this mistake.
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NOT going to be noticed, I'm sure of it!! Just say it's your "Amish" project; the Amish purposefully worked in a "mistake" to mark a handmade item. (At least, I think it was the Amish!)
Is it Classic Elite yarn? Your go-to? I swear, you need a job with them. You could be a test knitter AND a photo stylist, since both are such grand talents of yours.
How is your other job going??- Anonymous12/19/2007
They are great, no matter about the extra row or three, I'm sure they will be loved!
ReplyDelete - leslie12/19/2007
secrets are okay sometimes. i'm sure she will not notice. and if she does ... she will still love them. yep.
http://goodness.typepad.com - Beth at felt like knitting12/19/2007
That's aggrevating, but she won't notice or won't care once they're on. What a nice gift!
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Oh, I hear ya! Thing is, they never DO notice [unless they're knitters]. :)


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Video may have killed the radio star, but it doesn't have to kill the Internet.
That is if Internet service providers can figure out how to keep up with the video-driven bandwidth demand on their networks. Peer-to-peer technology provider BitTorrent says it can help.
Video consumes more network resources than any other media distributed on the Web. Even poor-quality video from YouTube eats up more bandwidth than e-mail, music downloading, and voice over IP services. And when you throw full-length high-definition video into the mix, you're talking about even more bandwidth. Depending on the compression used, a single HD video stream can eat up 20 megabits per second worth of bandwidth.
And as consumers subscribe to faster and faster broadband connections at home and sites like YouTube and Hulu come online offering all kinds of video choices, more people are watching video on the Web. According to ComScore Video Metrix, Americans are currently watching upward of 10 billion videos online a month. By the end of 2007, online viewers averaged more than one video a day.
This is just the beginning. ABI research forecasts the number of viewers who access video via the Web will nearly quadruple in the next few years, reaching at least 1 billion in 2013.
This summer's Olympic Games in Beijing marks the first real test of online video as NBC embarks upon the most ambitious online video project ever. NBC plans to offer 3,600 hours of live programming from Beijing, which translates to about 212 live hours for each of the 17 days of the Olympics. The majority of this viewing will be delivered online.
All this video is great for viewers, who are able to pick and choose what they watch and when. But for Internet service providers like the phone companies and the cable operators, it represents a massive challenge. Some providers, such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable, are testing out new ways to deal with "bandwidth hogs" or individual users who use an inordinate amount of bandwidth.
Last month, Comcast began testing a new system that will throttle back or slow down traffic during times of congestion for heavy bandwidth users. The new system was developed after Comcast faced stark criticism for singling out and slowing down peer-to-peer traffic.
Meanwhile, Time Warner Cable, which says it faces the same capacity headaches, also began testing a new billing system that charges customers who exceed their limit for uploading and downloading material.
P2P as a solution, rather than a problem
Eric Klinker, chief technology officer for BitTorrent, which has commercialized the peer-to-peer technology, says that what the cable operators are doing is a good start. But more can be done to help operators deal with the onslaught of video.
For one, peer-to-peer protocols, such as BitTorrent, which are often cited as major headaches for network operators because of the big file transfers they enable, need to be utilized rather than singled out as a source of the problem, he said.
"I think what Comcast and Time Warner Cable are doing is a great first step," Klinker said. "It gets ISPs out of the business of deciding which applications are important and which aren't. But there are enhancements to the peer-to-peer protocol, in particular, that can make it easier on all ISPs."
Peer-to-peer technology has gotten a bad rap for years. Since the days of file-sharing networks like Napster, which allowed people to exchange songs on their computer hard drives with others on the Internet, peer-to-peer technology has been demonized in the press. But the truth is that peer-to-peer technology actually allows large files like videos to be distributed more efficiently. And as more video makes it way onto the Web, it's increasingly being used. In fact, peer-to-peer traffic accounts for about 43 percent of all traffic on the Internet, according to a recent study by the network management company Sandvine.
The way peer-to-peer works is that when a user requests a video, the peer-to-peer network queries other users in the network and takes pieces of the file from different peers and sends it to the user requesting the file. This distributed architecture means that content owners don't have to assemble large and expensive data centers. It also means that a content distributor doesn't have to pay for expensive high-speed links to serve up an entire file from a single server farm.
That said, peer-to-peer protocols in the wild can eat up lots of bandwidth because peers on the network can silently and continuously upload pieces of files from their computers all day and all night, seeding dozens or hundreds of file requests. And because upload capacities are generally much slower than downloads, it can create bottlenecks and capacity crunches on the last mile of service providers' networks. For network operators that are already capacity-constrained, this phenomenon can dramatically affect performance for all users.
The enhanced version of peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer companies, such as BitTorrent and Pando Networks, have recognized this problem and have been working with service providers, such as Verizon Communications, Comcast, and others to come up with solutions. Verizon and Pando Networks have been working on a project called P4P, which advocates ISPs share information about their network topography and use an enhanced version of peer-to-peer to locate peers in close proximity to the file request. Getting files locally can help reduce the expense associated with carrying peer-to-peer files over long distances.
BitTorrent, whose founder created one of the most popular peer-to-peer protocols used today, has also been working on a solution. The company has developed its own enhancement to the peer-to-peer protocol that tells peer-to-peer applications to stop seeding the network with content when the network is congested.
For example, if a teenager starts playing an online video game at the same time his mother makes a voice over IP phone call and his little sister is downloading music from iTunes, the protocol will tell the peer-to-peer movie application that is running in the background on their family computer to stop uploading bits of the Spider-Man movie that had been ordered from an online movie rental service and is now stored on a hard drive in their home. Instead, the network will search for the content on another peer that is on a network that is less congested.
"If there is contention in the network, my application will back off," Klinker said. "And it will automatically and seamlessly find someone else in the network to complete uploading that content. The video quality is never disrupted, and the user never knows where the content is coming from."
BitTorrent has already tested the enhancement with more than 10 million users and it's currently working with the Internet standards body, the Internet Engineering Task Force, to standardize the technology so that other peer-to-peer companies can embed it in their software client.
Klinker said that new technologies, such as the one developed by his company, as well as efforts on the P4P enhancements will help ISPs manage and control their networks so that even more video can make it to the Web without crippling the infrastructure delivering it.
And once service providers learn how to harness peer-to-peer, they will be able to develop business models that reap the benefits of the technology. For example, Comcast, Verizon, or any other TV provider could add peer-to-peer software to the set-top boxes sitting in their customers' living rooms to create a distributed peer-to-peer movie network. Instead of serving up on-demand movies from their own servers sitting in expensive-to-run data centers, these TV providers could leverage the content already stored on their customers' set-top hard drives.
"The cable and phone companies are already spending capital to put set-tops in everyone's home," Klinker said. "They could use that same hardware as part of their content distribution model. Then the user pays the electrical bill. And they pay for the bandwidth. It's just much more efficient."
Klinker said a solution, such as this one, requires a slightly different business model from BitTorrent's current business model. But he said that it's something the company is investigating.
"It's interesting enough that we're in discussions and testing some scenarios with ISPs," he said. "In general, service providers move slowly. So nothing will happen overnight. But I think we'll see some interesting changes within the next three years."


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Dave (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), aka Kick-Ass, and Mindy (Chloë Grace Moretz), aka Hit Girl, are trying to live as normal teenagers and briefly form a crimefighting team. After Mindy is busted and forced to retire as Hit Girl, Dave joins a group of amateur superheroes led by Col. Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), a reformed mobster. Just as Dave and company start to make a real difference on the streets, the villain formerly known as Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) rears his head yet again.
- Genres: Action, Comedy
- Running Time: 107 minutes
- Release Date: Friday, August 16, 2013
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R [ Brief Nudity, Crude and Sexual Content, Pervasive Language, Strong Violence ]
- Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson [Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass], Christopher Mintz-Plasse [Chris D'Amico/The Mother F...ker], Chloë Moretz [Mindy Macready/Hit Girl], Clark Duke [Marty/Battle Guy], Morris Chestnut [Detective Marcus Williams], Donald Faison [Dr. Gravity], John Leguizamo [Javier], Jim Carrey [Colonel Stars and Stripes], Claudia Lee [Brooke], Augustus Prew [Todd/Ass Kicker], Lyndsy Fonseca [Katie Deauxma], Yancy Butler [Mrs. D'Amico], Sophie Wu [Erika Cho], Lindy Booth [Night Bitch], Cinna [Eisenhower], Iain Glen [Uncle Ralph]
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After watching the latest Tintin movie I've been inspired to re-read the books covered in the film, starting with The Crab With The Golden Claws. My partner has the entire collection which are now battered old hardback survivors of his childhood complete with ancient scribbles. As a child I loved reading Tintin, and today they're just as entertaining as ever. Captain Haddock was always one of my favourite characters, so I was glad the movie didn't gloss over his drunkenness.
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This week, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is showing good progress as the company's rating jumps from a B ("buy") last week to an A ("strong buy"). Johnson & Johnson manufactures health care products and provides related services for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices and diagnostics markets. In Portfolio Grader's specific subcategories of Earnings Growth, Earnings Momentum, and Equity, JNJ also gets A's. The stock's dividend yield is 2.4%. For more information, get Portfolio Grader's complete analysis of JNJ stock.
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- Jeffrey E. Barrick 17:01, 2 April 2012 (EDT):Did they replace the telomeres? With what?
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 10:11, 6 April 2012 (EDT):General note: I don't like the trend of pasting summary boxes from papers into these Wiki pages. The point of making this page is to digest information into important points and bring together different papers, not reproduce existing information. You already have much of the information in your description, anyway.
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 10:11, 6 April 2012 (EDT):Why don't you cite a paper from sequencing T7?
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 10:11, 6 April 2012 (EDT):Can you describe in more detail the method of genome construction they used for T7? They put the segment in a plasmid and changed it, or they PCRed each gene with primers that changed the endpoints like you have pictured? How do they recombine the genomes? Is it by infecting a cell carrying a plasmid with wild-type T7 and screening for recombinants?
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 10:11, 6 April 2012 (EDT):There is a 2009 book on genome refactoring that is available for online reading through the library. It describes refactoring the phage M13 genome in an undergraduate lab course at MIT, and actually has some other sections of general interest for teaching synthetic biology. Definitely a good one to cite and maybe mention M13. Are there any other efforts to refactor out there, or has interest waned in this?


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Title | Kurdish authorities arrest magazine editor to appease Islamists |
Publisher | Reporters Without Borders |
Publication Date | 16 May 2012 |
Country | Iraq |
Topics | Freedom of expression | Freedom of information | Freedom of speech | Kurd |
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We're so happy for Jamie-Lynn Sigler - the actress is the latest Latina celeb to get engaged. On Monday, the 31-year-old actress (who is of part-Cuban descent) announced her engagement to baseball player Cutter Dykstra via Twitter. In the image, Sigler shows off her impressive bling, eyebrows raised. Our eyebrows were raised as well - we absolutely love her ring!
Here are 11 other Latin celebs with huge bling!
We're so happy for Jamie-Lynn Sigler - the actress confirmed her engagement to baseball player Cutter Dykstra via Twitter. In the image, Sigler shows off her impressive bling with a surprised look on her face. Our eyebrows were raised as well - we absolutely love her ring!
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There was nothing subtle about the 10-carat diamond ring that footballer Chad Ochocinco slipped on Basketball Wives star Lozada's finger—and neither was her tweet about the gem: "I'm no rabbit but 10 carats looks good on me!!" We agree!
Christina Aguilera
Aguilera's ex, Jonathan Bratman, went mad old school when he popped the question with a 5-carat diamond encased in platinum filigree and an elaborate proposal in a hotel room filled with rose petals, balloons and gift boxes. In each box was a poem written by Bratman. But when Christina opened the last box, the ring was in it, and Bratman got down on one knee and asked, "Will you do me the honor of being my wife?" They lasted five years, one for each carat.
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When the Bennifer wedding was called off, the 6.1-carat pink diamond ring, which cost Ben Affleck $1.2 million, was reacquired by celeb jeweler Harry Winston, who designed it.
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"Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got…" Well, can we at least reserve the right to be dazzled by the $4 million engagement ring given to the former Jenny from the Block by Marc Anthony, which featured an extremely rare 8.5-carat blue diamond—and which Lopez is said to be selling.
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Tony Parker got down on bended knee at the actress' L.A. home—which he'd filled with rose petals and candles—and asked her to be his wife with a 5-carat emerald-cut diamond surrounded by 247 accent diamonds.
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Being one half of an incredibly private celeb couple, Cruz started wearing this gorgeous oval sapphire ring right around the time that she was wearing lots of layers to hide a growing baby bump, without confirming the increasingly obvious: that she was about to marry Javier Bardem and have his baby.
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Did you really think that the boho queen would go simple when it came time to design her own engagement ring before her nuptuals to Joel Madden? Perhaps simply wrap a twig around her ring finger? Not! She worked with jeweler Neil Lane on a round four-plus-carat ring surrounded by smaller diamonds forming an octagon.
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You can use this massage technique on either your male or female partner. They lie on their back while you warm some massage oil in your hands.
Kneel astride their thighs and lean forward placing both hands just below their neckline and above their breastbone.
Start a slow, smooth path with your oiled hands outwards and down either side of their ribcage just skimming the edges of their breasts. Then slowly and sensuously draw your hands in to meet at their navel.
Pause a moment before recommencing the outward sweep of the figure '8' down around their outer hips, your hands meeting over their pubis. Gently kneed their pubic zone and even allow your fingers to wander over their genitals before starting the sweeping motion back up to their navel, on onwards.
Repeat this 'erotic 8' movement for as long as you wish. You can also do the Erotic 8 on your lover's back when they're lying on their stomach. Massage around their shoulder blades, then inwards meeting at their hips and fanning back outwards around their buttocks. Enjoy!
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What Went Down on the Tarmac?
What the hell was Bill Clinton thinking in springing a "spontaneous" visit with Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix airport? He's way too smart to know that the visit wouldn't be explosive if revealed. There is reporting out this afternoon from The Observer that Clinton delayed his departure from Phoenix so that he could meet Lynch, and that he caught Lynch by surprise. The first part of this is »
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We have covered the Gold King Mine environmental disaster here, here, here and here. Briefly, the EPA and its contractor spilled three million gallons of toxic liquid contaminated with lead, arsenic, cadmium and aluminum into the Animas River. The spill turned the river orange and inflicted environmental damage for many miles downstream: In response to the spill, the EPA has been uncommunicative and unhelpful to the impacted communities. It has »
Chicago To Merge With Detroit?
The Wall Street Journal editorial page this morning explores why Chicago's debt has been downgraded to "junk" status, reviewing the unsustainable structure of its public school teacher pensions, which are only the one small aspect of Illinois's public sector pension crisis. But the precipitating event that caused Moody's to downgrade Chicago's debt to junk was the decision of the Illinois Supreme Court last week that the state may not alter »
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If you look at photos of anti-Wall Street, Occupy-type protests, it seems clear that the people doing the demonstrating have not had lots of dealings with banks–like most Americans, actually. So they are acting on hearsay, or on a theory: they have been told that "big banks" are somehow responsible for the sorry state of our economy, in particular the fact that most young people can't find good jobs. Elizabeth »
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The High Cost of High Cost
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Yes. Next question? Gallup is out with a new poll showing the number of Americans who think the government has too much power at a record high: PRINCETON, NJ — Six in 10 Americans (60%) believe the federal government has too much power, one percentage point above the previous high recorded in September 2010. At least half of Americans since 2005 have said the government has too much power. Thirty-two »
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Steamboat Springs The competitive playground closes Wednesday, but not before several close categories are decided in the 2011 Steamboat Springs Town Challenge Mountain Bike Race Series.
Wednesday's race, the Emerald Slash and Burn cross-country, is the last of the season, and most of the season standings will be decided by Wednesday's performances.
Two classifications to take note of include the men's pro/open field, in which Peter Kalmes owns a two-point lead over Brad Bingham, and the women's expert division, in which Kelly Boniface and Tammy Jacques are tied at the top.
Children's races begin at 5 p.m., with adult divisions set to go at 5:30 p.m.
All categories except the children's races, the women's novice division and the youth ages 13 to 15 division will follow the same 9.75-mile route.
"It's your classic climb up the hill and fly down the hill," race series director Gretchen Sehler said. "On the way up, I tried to use as many trails as I can."
The course starts at Howelsen Lodge and climbs up Mile Run, Blackmer Drive, Eye 2 Eye, MGM and Larry's before hitting Prayer Flag Road. There, racers will have opportunity to pass one another before descending.
"I wanted to give people time to pass before the downhill," Sehler said. "Then they can duke it out on the downhill."
Race registration opens at 4:15 p.m. at Howelsen Lodge. The cost is $20 for children and $30 for adults.
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Sewell says OCG misrepresenting JEEP issues
PERMANENT Secretary in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, Audrey Sewell, said the suggestion by the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) that her office is not being properly consulted in the design and implementation of the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) is a misrepresentation of the issues.
Responding to OCG concerns about JEEP's integrity this morning, Sewell said information being improperly circulated in the press arises from a memorandum to the minister, taken from the permanent secretary's office by the team from the OCG, which was intended to further discuss the roll out, management of information flow and other aspects of the design of JEEP.
Having received the memorandum, she said, the minister directed the persons coordinating the projects of that agency to meet with the permanent secretary and the project director to work out the details of how they are to communicate and liaise with the ministry regarding the execution of projects.
"Against the background that this is a new project, it is expected that there would be teething pains and hiccups; the memorandum was seeking to ensure that these would be minimal," she said.
"There have been meetings and the exchange of memoranda between the ministry and the OCG," she said. "All questions raised by the OCG in relation to JEEP, including those that relate to design of the programme in a pre-emptory way, have been responded to on a timely basis."
Sewell said the "dramatic" visit by the OCG and the police to the ministry implied suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of the ministry, and this is entirely without merit and foundation.
"JEEP is a policy instrument by Government in its infancy. It continues to benefit from the cut and thrust of discussion as well as the support of the full team of professionals at the ministry," she said. "We anticipate an orderly and successful implementation of the programme in a manner that ensures that the public interest, national interest and that of taxpayers are protected."
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How to Ask for What You Want
In my counseling office, I see a lot of damage done because people don't know how to ask for what they want, or don't think it's OK. Not asking for what you want means you'll eventually resent somebody, and that leads to a lot of strife. So today, I thought I'd give some hints about how to ask for what you want. To really be successful, you need to understand the difference between asking and demanding, and how to approach different people.
The Importance of Wanting
If you don't know what you want, you'll have trouble getting it and experience a life-long feeling of deprivation, disappointment, scarcity, and resentment. When you aren't able to express what you want clearly you'll have difficulty feeling generous about your partner's wants and needs.
In your relationship, asking for what you want in a helpful, non-threatening way helps both you and your partner understand each other. If you don't know what you want, you won't realize if you achieve it. If you don't know what your partner wants, you can wind up with a false or one-sided solution, that will leave one or both of you feeling unsatisfied, overpowered, or manipulated. In couple counseling, when I ask partners to state their wants they often discover to their amazement that their wants are quite similar, and the problem disappears. The conflict between them was only their lack of understanding and communication.
Being clear about what you want is like putting all the true facts on the table, just as you lay all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle out, so you can see them better, and more easily solve your puzzle.
Difference between wanting and demanding
Much of the confusion about expressing wants occurs because no distinction is made between wanting and demanding. Stating what you want is an effort to communicate clearly, so you and your partner can both be satisfied, while demanding is insisting that your partner give you what you want, without regard for his or her wants and feelings. You can tell the difference because when you are asking, you can handle getting a no answer; when you are demanding, you get upset if what you're asking for is denied. When you ask for what you want, you need to have a back_up plan in case the other person doesn't agree.
Gender Differences
Women need to know how to ask men for what they want directly, and in a rational, not emotional manner. Men respond much better to "Honey, will you take out the garbage?" than to a whiney "The garbage can is overflowing, and it smells bad." or "I have to do everything around here." The indirect request is a female style of communication that works well with other women, but doesn't work well on men, because our thought processes are different.
Men need to learn to listen to women's feelings when they want something. Women do not always respond to a direct request, they do better when feelings are talked about. Saying "Wait till the game is over, honey." will be received by a woman as disregarding her feelings. "I'm sorry it's bothering you, sweetheart, I'll take it out as soon as there's a commercial break." will let her know you care about her feelings, and she'll be happier with it, even though the result is the same.
How NOT to get what you want: (Common mistakes)
* Exaggerate your want: The fear that you may not get what you want may cause you to say you want more than you really do, ("I want you here all the time"). This is confusing to both you and your partner, and because your wants are exaggerated, makes it look much more difficult to reach a satisfactory solution than it really is.
* Overstate your need: The fear that you won't get your wants met may cause you to state what you want as if your survival depended on it ("I'll just DIE if you don't come with me"). This causes your partner to feel suspicious that he or she is being manipulated, and resist cooperating with you.
* Argue for or justify your want: Anxiety that your wants are not important enough to be satisfied may lead you to present them as a persuasive argument, with an overwhelming flood of reasons why you should want them or that the wants should be satisfied, ("I should get more of the money than you do, because ……."). This can provoke your partner to object and argue in return, rather than listen.
* Not say what you want: Belief that you won't get what you want anyway, or that differences in wants will cause a fight, may lead you to say you "don't care" or "it's not important" or just be silent, when the truth is you'll resent not getting what you want.
* Understate your want: Fear that your partner will be upset, hurt or unhappy if you say what you really want may lead you to ask for something else ("Let's ask your sister to go with us" when you really want an evening all alone together.) This confuses your partner, and makes it impossible to get what you really want because you haven't said what it is.
The Importance of Knowing What you Want
You may be wondering why being clear about what you want is getting so much emphasis here. Many people have serious trouble knowing what they want, feeling comfortable communicating it, and stating it clearly. Many people have difficulty solving problems because they do not know what they want, or, if they do know, cannot express it effectively to someone else.
We often grow up suppressing our desires __ sometimes to the extent of not even being aware of them. Most of us learn in early childhood that:
*Wanting is selfish and that we should be polite and let others wants come first ("Be polite, let Susie have the toy")
* It isn't OK to want ("Don't even ask me for a cookie just before dinner")
* We want too much ("of course you can't have a new toy, do you think I'm made of money?")
* If we get what we want, someone else will be deprived.
These internalized criticisms and restrictions make us anxious about getting what we want and even convinced that we won't.
In addition to all these other restrictions on wanting, you may have the idea that the consequences of wanting are bad (no one will like you), and so it is too scary to know what you want. Because knowing what you want sometimes means you risk being disappointed and many people have an exaggerated idea of how bad disappointment feels (if I don't get what I want I'll be miserable), they avoid wanting at all.
Steps to Getting What You Want:
If you have difficulty in knowing what you want and communicating it, try these steps:
1. Get clear about what you want: You can't express what you want effectively if you're not clear what it is, so before approaching your partner, your boss or your child with a request, think about it and make sure you can write it down in one clear sentence.
2. Create a good atmosphere: If asking for what you want is difficult for you, don't do it without preparation. Make sure you and the person you're asking both have time, and invite the other person to sit down and talk with you.
3. Simply state what you want: Don't preface your statement with a lot of disclaimers – they make the other person feel accused of something. Just ask, politely, for what you want.
4. Be prepared to accept a "no.": Remember, if you can't accept a no answer, then you're making a demand, not a request, so have a backup solution. Find a way to get what you want for yourself, even if the other person isn't cooperating. For example, if you don't get that raise you deserve, maybe it's time to begin a job search.
5. Listen politely to the other person's answer: Whether the other person says yes, no, or something in between, listen carefully to what he or she says. Don't get all caught up in a lot of worry and noise inside your head – pay attention. You need to know what the answer is.
If you follow these steps, you'll find you're successful a good percentage of the time, and when you aren't you have a backup plan – so you really can't lose.
Adapted from: Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage (Adams Media) ISBN# 978_1_59869_325_6 � Tina B.Tessina, 2007
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Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D. http://www.tinatessina.com is a licensed psychotherapist in S. California, with over 30 years experience in counseling individuals and couples and author of 11 books, including It Ends With You: Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction (New Page); How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free (New Page); The Unofficial Guide to Dating Again (Wiley) and The Real 13th Step: Discovering Self-Confidence, Self-Reliance and Independence Beyond the Twelve Step Programs (New Page.) Her newest books, out from Adams Press in 2008: Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage and Commuter Marriage. She publishes Happiness Tips from Tina, an e-mail newsletter, and the "Dr. Romance Blog" http://drromance.typepad.com/dr_romance_blog and has hosted "The Psyche Deli: delectable tidbits for the subconscious" a weekly hour long radio show. She is an online expert, answering relationship questions at http://www.CouplesCompany.com and Yahoo!Personals, as well as a Redbook Love Network expert and "Psychology Smarts" columnist for First for Women.Dr. Tessina guests frequently on radio, and on such TV shows as "Oprah", "Larry King Live" and ABC news.
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Telenav Announces "On My Way" New Mobile App Helps Drivers Keep Focused on the Road by Automatically and Safely Notifying Contacts When They Will Arrive OnMyWay from TeleNav alerts contacts of changes to drivers ETA based on GPS location Sunnyvale, Calif. March 22, 2010 TeleNav, one of the largest global wireless navigation services providers with more than 13 million subscribers, today announced a new location-based mobile application called OnMyWay. OnMyWay is a simple-to-use notification application that automatically alerts a pre-determined person or group of people of the senders trip status and estimated time of arrival (ETA). Drivers can quickly set an OnMyWay notification prior to getting on the road and the application will automatically send travel time updates based on location to designated contacts via text and/or e-mail. A recent Ford Motor Co. study concluded that manually dialing a mobile device while driving was almost 2.8 times riskier than normal driving1. More so, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) found that those who text while driving are 23 times more likely to get into an accident than that of a driver paying full attention to the road2. With increasingly busy lives and growing traffic problems, many Americans struggle to be anywhere on time. Whether youre going to an important meeting across town or having dinner with friends, things happen that cause people to run late, said HP Jin, president, CEO and co-founder of TeleNav. We want to make ETA updates safe and easy. To create an OnMyWay notification, a user inputs a destination, enters a scheduled appointment time, selects or enters one or more phone numbers or e-mail addresses to send alerts to, and then hits start. The users address book is automatically integrated into the application to simplify information input. In addition, the sender has the option to attach a personal message to each notification. The application automatically notifies recipients of the senders ETA by text or e-mail so the user can focus on driving. OnMyWay delivers an initial notification alerting the receiver when the driver has started his/her trip and includes an anticipated ETA based on GPS location. Following the initial alert, up to three additional status messages might be automatically sent based on the senders preferences. Additional alerts sent to the recipient include notification if the sender will be late for the appointment (with a new ETA), when the person is a pre-determined time (in minutes) away from the destination, and one minute from arriving. OnMyWay does not share the users specific location in any of the notifications. OnMyWay allows me to keep my wife automatically updated when Im on the road. Its especially helpful if Im running late for dinner, continued Jin. This is a product that has daily relevance for most Americans. OnMyWay is a free application and is available immediately on BlackBerry App World. The standalone application works on all four major U.S. carrier networks and supports the BlackBerry® Curve 8310, BlackBerry® Curve 8530, BlackBerry® 8800, BlackBerry® 8820, BlackBerry® Curve 8900, BlackBerry® Bold 9000, BlackBerry® Tour 9630 and BlackBerry® Bold 9700 smartphones. Standard text messaging and data usage fees apply. To download OnMyWay or other TeleNav products to your BlackBerry® smartphone, please visit BlackBerry App World (www.blackberry.com/appworld). |
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DeKALB – The American Football Coaches Association may open discussions to allow college football teams to scrimmage against other schools during the spring.
But don't expect the Northern Illinois football team to travel to Madison, Wis., or Champaign to practice with Wisconsin or Illinois any time soon.
"I think that just opens up Pandora's box into a whole lot of other issues that I don't want to deal with," NIU coach Dave Doeren said after Wednesday's practice at Huskie Stadium.
"I'd rather deal with my team right now. You've got to start talking about who you're traveling to go see and who's going to pay for it. I don't want to talk about that stuff in the spring. We've got too many things we're trying to deal with in the spring."
An Associated Press report quoted AFCA president and Harvard coach Tim Murphy as saying it would be practical to have teams run through drills together. Murphy added that teams may also scrimmage against one another. When the AFCA board meets next month in Arizona, it may propose an NCAA rule change that would allow schools to scrimmage or practice against each other during the spring.
But NIU quarterback Jordan Lynch just doesn't think competing against another team's defense would help.
Many of the 15 spring practices are used to install plays, and to get younger players used to the system. With the current timetable, Lynch doesn't think that would work.
"Spring ball is more about learning the offense and just getting the young guys out there and getting more reps for the younger guys," he said. "I think if we had more spring practices, I think that's something you could do later on."
Not every Huskie is against the idea.
Senior defensive end Sean Progar thinks that practicing against the same offense every single practice becomes monotonous. He said having a fresh look at a different team would be beneficial, especially if the Huskies played against other MAC schools.
"I think that would help a lot," Progar said. "You would compete a lot harder, even if it's just a scrimmage. I think that would be great. … It would be a good measuring stick for the young guys to see where they are."
But current proposals likely would have schools from smaller conferences visiting automatic qualifying schools. Doeren just doesn't see how that would benefit a team like NIU.
"I'm sure it's real convenient for a school that's ranked fifth in the country to have another school come see them," Doeren said. "But for a mid-major, we'd be traveling to see other people, and that's not something I'd want to do here."


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"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Graze on my lips, and if those hills are dry, Stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie"
William Shakespeare
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
Nelson Mandela
"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again."
Hal Borland
"Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire,I do wander everywhere."
"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable."
"San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth."
William Saroyan
"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."


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Be Cautious When Installing Exterior Lighting
Use a good ladder when installing your lights. Secure them with insulated holders (never use tacks or nails). Don't install your lights on trees that come in contact with power lines. Before installing your Christmas lights, plug them in to make sure all of your bulbs are working. Make sure to turn your lights off when you leave or go to bed at night.
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For starters, safety first! Your source of power should come from a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) outlet. This type of outlet will shut the circuit down if there is overcurrent. We want your lights to shine, not sparks to fly! If you don't have a GFCI outlet, a qualified electrician can permanently install one outdoors for holiday seasons to come. Or, you can buy a portable outdoor unit from your local home store for less than $20.
Keep Extension Cords Out of the Way
When using extension cords, make sure they are rated for outdoor use, and keep the connections above ground, snow and water. Try to avoid high-traffic areas. Tape cords across walkways, and use the correct length needed to travel to your lights. You don't want your cords to be too long so they pile up and create walking hazards.
Always Choose Waterproof Lights
There is a variety of lights to choose from. First and foremost, always use waterproof or water-resistant lights with a tag marked underwriters lab (UL). This means the lights meet national industry standards with the American National Standards Institute. Also, when you're buying Christmas lights to use outside, make sure they are rated for outdoor use (just like your extension cords). Never use indoor Christmas lights outdoors.
Using C7 or C9 Bulbs
For a more traditional holiday light, you will want to use a C7 or C9. These are the cone-shape lights you'll find most often in home improvement and convenience stores. The difference in these lights is size and wattage, with C9 being a little bigger and easier to see from a distance. Both come in frosted or clear color bulbs and are great for illuminating both your house and trees.
You can buy these in strands of 25 bulbs or larger strands of 100 bulbs. The 25-bulb strands can be connected together (daisy chained) up to a maximum of three strands; 100-bulb strands should be connected separately. Don't connect them together! The C7 and C9 strands use a standard screw-in candelabra base for easy bulb replacement. The strands are connected so if one bulb fails it only affects itself. Buying light strands with inner fuses is a great idea to prevent excess current on the strands.
Using Miniature Bulbs
Another option for outdoor lighting is the "miniature," which costs less and consumes less power than the classic outdoor light string. It can be used around the perimeter of your home, as well as in trees. In most cases, the miniature comes in strands of 50 or 100. The strings run in series, which means if one bulb or socket fails, you can lose a whole section.
The positive thing is that most miniature bulbs have a shunt inside of them to keep the entire string of lights lit if a bulb filament burns out. The key is to quickly replace the burned-out bulb. The shunt will allow the rest of the lights to remain lit, but it will increase the voltage in the rest of the bulbs, reducing their lifetime. With miniatures, you get what you pay for, so get a quality set of lights, and don't connect more than three sets of strings.
Using Landscape Net Lighting
To light shrubs and bushes, net lighting is a great way to go. Net lighting is a mesh of interconnected mini LED lights that can drape right over your shrubs like a blanket. No more weaving light strings in and out of branches!
Using Animated Lighting
Animated lights are great for Nativity scenes, as well as reindeer and angel displays. Animated lights are made of wire frames outlining different shapes and scenes, and they are surrounded with mini lights in different color variations and patterns.
Using Shimmer Spheres
Shimmer spheres come in shaped and circular formations, like snowballs, or stars and striped formations. They are made up of many lights in different sizes. You can even find some that twinkle. Your house will be shining with holiday cheer for the whole block to enjoy.


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There was something special about the Sun Bowl Stadium when it opened on Sept. 21, 1963. On the first play from scrimmage at the then-30,000-seat stadium, Miner running back Larry Durham bolted 54 yards for a touchdown against North Texas State University. The Miners went on to score a 34-7 victory over the Eagles. The facility was originally designed to hold 30,000 spectators. The second deck on the press box was completed in 1969, and in 1982 extra seating was added. The present seating capacity is 51,500. The stadium is not only home to the UTEP football team, but also houses the Sun Bowl game every December. Recent additions to the stadium have included a state-of-the-art video board and scoreboards and a FieldTurf Classic HD CoolPlay playing surface. Nearly seven million fans have passed through the Sun Bowl turnstiles, and the Miners set a school record for attendance in 2005 at 47,899 fans per game. UTEP has played 296 games in the Sun Bowl, and enjoyed undefeated home records in 1988 (6-0) and 2000 (5-0). The Sun Bowl was recently selected as the "Best Stadium in Conference USA" by The Sporting News magazine. Facility Quick Facts
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I have an odd obsession with wall displays of beautiful plates. I honestly don't know where it comes from. I think I like the dimension it gives to a flat wall, the ability to create a piece of art using items unique to your home. Since our home renovation is basically done now (6 months after the fatel appliance flood of 2012), I'm left to focus on getting things back up on the walls. New paint colors have caused us to rearrange some artwork and I'm left with a blank focal wall behind my dining room table (also faces my gorgeous new white kitchen).
I am LOVING this plate wall I found on Apartment Therapy. I like the shape and spanse of it, but also how they mixed a few pattern plates in neutral colors in. This may just be a place for me to incorporate the Country Estate plates from Juliska that I have been drooling over.
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text: Located in Pretoria (Hatfield), Protea Hotel Hatfield Apartments is minutes from Hatfield Plaza and University of Pretoria. This hotel is within close proximity of Loftus Versfeld Stadium and Pretoria Art Museum. Make yourself at home in one of the 28 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and microwaves. Rooms have private balconies. Satellite television is provided for your entertainment. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks. Parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.


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Concept for a Coca-Cola can celebrating video games, inspired by the art of the French street artist Space Invader. Not an actual can of the soft-drink giant, but a concept by the designer Erin McGuire. Concepts for Coke Zero and Diet Coke are at the link.
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When I was in the 10th grade - you know, before color and electricity - everyday after school my friends and I would schlep over to the local ice cream/candy/arcade shop known as Fudge Alley. We would exchange pleasantries, indulge in a fine iced cream, compare notes on the female anatomy and play so much damn Strider that Frank, Fudge Alley owner and protector, would have to instill the threat of calling our parents and informing them of our whereabouts. This would've been bad, seeing as each of our parents thought we were studying at one of the other friend's house. Oh, duplicitous youth.
Anyway, Strider was the only arcade game in existence that I could beat with a single quarter. So I had to test my mettle against the (hopefully) updated version, Strider 2 by Capcom. As it turns out, I'm not the young whippersnapper I used to be. But I'll be damned if my wrist and finger ligaments aren't as spry and loose as they were 10 years ago. Come on Strider 2, I can take ya!
Contrary to popular belief (popular belief meaning, um, me), a Strider is not a participant in a walk-a-thon. Far from it, in fact. A Strider is a member of a covert elite mercenary organization with strong ties to the ninjas. These well-trained agents specialize in the art of collecting information, subterfuge and assassination. Wow! That means Ronald Reagan was a Strider. Neat!
Most recently, the organization of Striders was destroyed and it is rumored that another Strider had a hand in its demise. Finding the truth behind this and defeating Grandmaster, the global tyrant that has been the proverbial thorn in our heroes' backside since the first Strider, are your primary concerns. Sounds easy enough.
Strider 2 ships with 2 discs, one for Strider 2 and the other for Strider 1. Two games for the price of one!
Before I dive right into the review, let me tell you how Capcom flubbed a few things up first. As it turns out, Strider 2 is yet another game that will not play on any Playstation that has been "modified." So if you have a mod-chip installed in your system, forget about it. If you happen to be one of the lucky 10 people who doesn't have a modified PSX, then you can play Strider 2. The peculiar part is that there is no block on the Strider 1 disc. Confused? So was I.
To further add to the confusion, the disc marked Strider 2 is actually Strider 1. Couple this with the modified PSX block and you have the making for 15 minutes of sheer aggravation and contempt for the blockheads who put the package together. And yes, I said blockhead, Charlie Brown.
After finally getting the darn thing to play (luckily, we have an unmolested PSX sitting in the corner), I found that both games are quite enjoyable... relatively speaking. Remember, we're talking about 10-year-old gameplay mechanics.
Strider 2 is your basic old-school side scrolling platformer (ala Ghouls & Ghosts or Shinobi). Armed with a nice hook to scale and climb nearly any surface and the Cypher (your main weapon, a light sword with a 'plasma' edge), you must run, jump and flip out of harm's way while dispatching hordes of enemy henchmen.
Points, sword power-ups and extra lives are littered throughout each level. None of these things are needed, though. From the start you are blessed with unlimited continues, and I have yet to see an enemy anywhere in the game that doesn't succumb to some simple old-fashioned, straight-forward brutality. Just stand your ground and rapidly press that Square button. Much too easy...
The enemy's artificial intelligence is non-existent. It's more like Authentic Stupidity than AI. Enemies attack in patterns, which I guess is the way it should be if Capcom is going for that true old-school experience. It just kind of sucks when you know exactly what your enemy is going to do the second time you play the game. That's old school. That's nostalgic. And that's lame.
Graphically, the game looks a lot better than its predecessor. However, there is a completely unnecessary and failed attempt to successfully meld 2D characters with half-assed 3D backgrounds. It's really silly.
Your character has been refined with a cleaner, more stylized design, although your Cypher this time around is less than impressive. In the first Strider, you could collect power-ups that allowed you to have a much longer range with your sword. This time the power-ups just increase damage. Too bad, because the former was pretty cool.
The list of unfortunate absences goes on, as the little robot probe-like friends that would orbit your character are M.I.A. Also missing is your character's loyal dog that would follow him around and aid in the slaughter of Grandmaster's charges. These omissions are probably due to Strider 2's lack of formidable opposition. You just don't need the extra help.
All griping aside, I still find myself playing for a while every time I turn the darn thing on. The sound is forgettable (which I nearly did), the graphics are sub-par, yet the gameplay is simple...and I like it.
The truth is that both Strider 1 and 2 are good no-brainer veg-out games. Of course, the thing could have come out when the Playstation first launched and I would have given it the same grade. Oh well.


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On Monday, Austin Ratner wrote about Hillel sandwiches. His first book, The Jump Artist, is the winner of the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning's Author Blog.
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sometimes ask me what's fact and what's fiction. My answer is that it's all fiction, but it's fiction that incorporates as many facts as I could uncover and reasonably include. Years of research yielded certain results that tested me as a fiction writer—and none more so than those concerning Karl Meixner. To write about him truthfully was to risk caricature or cliché. Did he really keep Max Halsmann's head in a jar? Lest anyone think I invented him and his bizarre activities with human remains, here are some of the historical facts I uncovered about him:
Meixner was a professor of pathology at the Institute for Juridical Medicine in Innsbruck and an expert witness in the Halsmann trials. Defense attorney Franz Pessler's account of the trial in Der Fall Halsmann points to Meixner as one of the most spirited advocates for Halsmann's conviction. In turn, Meixner was a focus of opprobrium from academics all over Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He published impassioned defenses of himself and of his reasons for condemning Halsmann.
He has a convincing record as a fascist and an anti-Semite. Before joining the medical faculty at the University of Innsbruck, Meixner had been an active member of Vienna's openly anti-Semitic fraternity, Burschenschaft Olympia. And in 1946, when the war was over, Meixner was recommended for forced retirement by the "investigation committee" of the University of Innsbruck because of his reputation as a "radical Nazi." (See Oberkofler, Gerhard and Peter Goller, Die Medizinische Fakultät Innsbruck: Faschistische Realität [1938] and Kontinuität unter postfaschistischen Bedingungen [1945], Eine Dokumentation, Innsbruck: Universität Innsbruck, 1999, p. 121.)


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Another simple recipe found on the back of some food ingredient packaging
I personally use the Super market prepared flour for the batter
1 Cup of Assi Vegetable Pancake Mix (Flour, Salt, MSG (optional), Baking Powder,and Garlic Powder)
1 Cup of water
a content amount of mixed seafood.
1/4 of diced scallions
shredded carrots and vegetable of choice
Mix well for the batter then drop the seafood and scallion as well as veges in to the batter, using a heated oil pan poor in the batter, Cook until yellow and then flip.
Mmm this sounds simple and yummy. :D
I wonder how this would taste cold annnnd how long it will keep...annnnd can I freeze it?
Just the new girl around here looking for some lunch ideas.
the batter can be kept for 3-4 days the finished product doesn't taste good at all when it's cold
So it's a make sure you have access to a microwave type meal if you are packing it.
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London (AP) - Oil industry executives on Tuesday sharply criticized President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling, saying the world did not have enough other sources of oil to eliminate using deepsea rigs.
The massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and the moratorium imposed by Obama dominated discussions at the World National Oil Companies Congress in the British capital, and a BP executive standing in for embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward was heckled by protesters.
Transocean Ltd. president and CEO Steven Newman, owner of the destroyed Deepwater Horizon rig that has spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, said Obama's ban, which is currently being reviewed by a U.S. federal judge, was unnecessary.
"There are things the administration could implement today that would allow the industry to go back to work tomorrow without an arbitrary six-month time limit," Newman told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting.
Obama's ban reflects growing unease about oil companies seeking to drill farther out to sea and deeper than ever before. The process is expensive, risky and largely uncharted, highlighted by the April 20 explosion at the BP-operated rig that killed 11 workers and set off worst oil spill in U.S. history.
But the U.S. moratorium has been challenged in court. Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans has said he will make a decision on it by Wednesday.
Chevron executive Jay Pryor, also at the London conference, said the U.S. government's move would "constrain supplies for world energy."
"It would also be a step back for energy security," said Pryor, global vice president for business development at the U.S. company.
BP chief of staff Steve Westwell, who was heckled during a speech in which he stood in for Hayward, said "regulators around the world will obviously want to know what happened" to cause the blown-out well in the Gulf and change their procedures accordingly.
But he said deepwater drilling is needed as supplies of land and shallow water oil diminish.
"The world does need the oil and the energy that is going to have to come from deepwater production going forward," Westwell said. "Therefore, the regulatory framework must still enable that to be a viable commercial position."
Hayward pulled out of the conference Monday after stinging criticism for spending Saturday at England's Isle of Wight to see his yacht compete in a famous race, an outing that drew outrage on the Gulf coast and an acerbic response from the White House.
Westwell was interrupted twice during his address by protesters from Greenpeace shouting "we need to end the oil age!" The hecklers were escorted out of the central London hotel by security.
Shukri Ghanem, the head of Libya's National Oil Corp. who serves as the North African nation's de facto oil minister, said he was happy for BP to continue to operate in his country's territorial waters despite the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ghanem, who said he planned to meet with Hayward while in London, said the spill is "a real tragedy, but in a way it's exaggerated."
"It is unfortunate, but it is an opportunity to be more careful in the future," he said.
BP signed an exploration and production deal with Libya's National Oil Co. -- worth at least $900 million -- in June 2007, going back into Libya for the first time in more than 30 years.
Libya's proven oil reserves are the ninth largest in the world, while vast areas remain unexplored for new deposits.
Outside the conference, one of the protesters, Emma Gibson, called on BP to end its investment in a controversial Canadian tar sands project and end deepwater drilling.
"We really need to speed up progress to end the oil age," Gibson told reporters.
Westwell declined to comment on BP's public battle with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which has a 25 percent stake in the well, over who is responsible for the catastrophic failure of the Deepwater Horizon well, which has leaked more than 120 million gallons of oil already, according to the most pessimistic U.S. government estimates.
"We will need to wait for the investigation to conclude," Westwell said.
Westwell also declined to comment on what assets BP might sell off if the cost of the cleanup and the relief effort in the Gulf takes too heavy a toll. The company, which turned a $16 billion profit last year, has spent $2 billion fighting the spill for the last two months. It has also set up a $20 billion fund to compensate victims.
Oil from the blown-out undersea well has been washing up from Louisiana to Florida, killing birds and fish and coating marshes, wetlands and beaches with tar balls and oily debris. A pair of relief wells considered the best chance at a permanent fix won't be completed until August.
Westwell said Hayward was "genuinely sorry" not to be at the conference, where he had been due to give a keynote address on about the global responsibilities of international oil companies.
"He and I both hope you understand his schedule is under incredible pressure at the moment," Westwell told delegates.
"He is the CEO," Westwell said when questioned about Hayward's position and whereabouts, adding that Hayward was in London attending to other company matters.
AP reporter Andrew Khouri contributed to this report.
Oil industry executives on Tuesday sharply criticized President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling, saying the world did not have enough other sources of oil to eliminate using deepsea rigs.


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Provide stability while transporting a motorcycle on a flat bed trailer with this tie down trailer securing system. Ride bike into the system and up to the bike chock, strap down the motorcycle and then you're done and ready to go.
Securely transport a motorcycle on a flat bed trailer with this tie down securing system. The system mounts onto the trailer to use as a motorcycle hauler and can easily be removed when done to use trailer for other uses. Designed with a front wheel chock that supports the motorcycle while built-in straps can be secured around the bike to ensure it stays in place.


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Disney XD's 'TRON: Uprising' Coming Soon!
With the debut of the official trailer this Monday, Disney XD's rollout of the striking new CG animated series TRON: Uprising has begun! The show will launch with a 30-minute uninterrupted ... Continue Reading →