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Susana Matos 5/30/2004 1:24:11 PM
yes, indeed!!! THe poet´s dream! And mine´s also!Beverley Lu Steeves 5/30/2004 1:59:22 PM
Excellent!!! #567706Dale Ann Cubbage 5/30/2004 2:25:38 PM
What a gorgeous place! Reminds me of an enchanted forest in fairytales! Too perfect! #567724Dottie Shepherd 5/30/2004 4:41:26 PM
What a Great Image..!!! #567849Erin L. Perkins-Watry 5/30/2004 7:25:47 PM
Thank you all so much for your kind comments - it was indeed a wonderful place. #568051Gianna Stadelmyer 6/15/2004 1:23:27 PM
BEAUTIFUL, Erin! Congrats and good luck!!! #595727Cathy Barrows 6/15/2004 2:23:35 PM
Congrats!...beautiful #596062Beverley Lu Steeves 6/15/2004 3:27:30 PM
Congrats!!! #596353Ellen L. Zaslaw 6/15/2004 3:48:56 PM
Very beautiful Erin. Good luck. #596409Diane Dupuis 6/15/2004 5:02:28 PM
Just gorgeous! Congrats on both your finalists and good luck! #596806Debra Booth 6/15/2004 6:42:53 PM
Congratulations, Erin, on this beautiful image! #597261Erin L. Perkins-Watry 6/16/2004 6:17:11 AM
Thank you all so much for commenting - you've made my day!Erin #598316
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wow beautiful landscape. congrats and good luck. #599271Susana Matos 6/16/2004 11:15:26 PM
i very well remember the Poet´s dream, I liked very much this photo! Congratulations!Erin L. Perkins-Watry 6/17/2004 5:48:15 AM
Thank you Isabel and Susana! You're very sweet. #601025Katrina McMeans 9/11/2005 8:00:46 AM
Erin, you've captured poetry in a picture with this image! Very evocative place...Lewis P. Church 10/11/2005 7:21:03 PM
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The current version of iPhoto has an impressive array of tools to help you arrive at the perfect image. The Adjust feature of the Edit pane lets you tweak a selection of parameters including Exposure, Contrast and Saturation, not to mention Temperature, Tint and Definition. It's the Effects tab, however, that lets you instantly transform your shots into something rather special at the mere click of a button.
Editing in iPhoto is non-destructive, meaning that you can always revert to your image's original, unedited state. This gives you the freedom to play around with various settings and try out different combinations and degrees of each effect. There are eight different types of effect available in iPhoto's Edit palette, but for the purposes of this tutorial, we're going to show you how to apply a combination of Vignette and Edge Blur to give your photos an antique look.
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Open thread: Obama's first press conference in five months
posted at 12:51 pm on November 14, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Just when was Barack Obama's last open press conference, anyway? You have to go all the way back to June of this year, nearly five months ago, to find the last time that the Leader of the Free World planned an event where the media could question him. Obama ducked into a press briefing in August unannounced in order to take a couple of shots at Todd Akin and actually deigned to take a couple of questions, which prompted this legendary riposte from ABC's Jake Tapper:
"Don't be a stranger!"
Today, the stranger returns at 1:30 ET (or so), and Politico thinks that Obama will face "tough questions":
This is not what the White House wanted for President Barack Obama's first news conference of his second term.
He won't be able to dwell much on his stronger-than-expected victory or even press his agenda for the next four years. Instead, he'll be diverted by a Washington sex scandal.
The fallout from former CIA Director David Petraeus's extramarital affair has spawned the type of sensational media feeding frenzy that Obama detests. But when he holds his first full-scale news conference in eight months Wednesday, Obama will have to explain how he plans to re-create his national security team, what he knows about the burgeoning scandal and why he didn't get wind of it sooner.
That may well be what the press will ask, but those won't be "tough" questions; they'll be easily parried by claiming that he can't comment on investigations into personal matters. A tough question would focus on what happened in Benghazi before, during, and after the terrorist attack that sacked our consulate. Politico's list of seven questions only has one on that topic, the same number as they offer on marijuana. No, I am not kidding. Nor do I think Politico is off the mark here; we're probably going to hear more about Petraeus than J. Christopher Stevens, the first Ambassador to die in the line of duty in 33 years, or the other three Americans who died trying to protect him and others in the terrorist attack.
We'll see soon enough. What questions would you like answered? Feel free to offer them in the comments section. If I can find a live embed code for the presser, I'll update the post.
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December 8, 2011
FAUSTO GIL-MORENO,PLAINTIFF,v.DEFENDANTS.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Hon. Anthony J. Battaglia U.S. District Judge
ORDER DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION TO VACATE UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2255 [Doc. No. 1]
Fausto Gil-Moreno ("Petitioner") moves this Court to reduce his time in federal custody pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, arguing that the 1995 United States Attorney General Memorandum offers up to two levels downward departure from the applicable guideline sentencing range in return for an alien's concession of deportability and agreement to accept a final order of deportation, and that based on his alien status, he cannot be housed in a minimum security facility or community corrections center, which should be taken in to consideration, and a downward departure granted. For the following reasons, the Court DENIES the motion.
On September 22, 2011, pursuant to a written plea agreement, Petitioner pled guilty to an Information charging a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (a) and (b). See Plea Agreement, Doc. No. 15.
This Court sentenced Petitioner on October 31, 2011, to one year and one day imprisonment and two years of supervised release. See Judgment, Doc. No. 22.
Title 28 of the United States Code, Section 2255 provides that if a petitioner's motion, file, and records "conclusively show that the movant is entitled to no relief" the Court summarily may dismiss the motion without sending it to the United States Attorney for response. See 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b). The rules regarding Section 2255 proceedings similarly state that the Court summarily may order dismissal of a 2255 motion without service upon the United States Attorney only "[i]f it plainly appears from the face of the motion, any attached exhibits, and the record of prior proceedings that the moving party is not entitled to relief . . .". Rule 4(a), Rules-section 2255 Proceedings (West 2009). Thus, when a movant fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, or when the motion is incredible or patently frivolous, the district court may summarily dismiss the motion. Cf. United States v. Burrows, 872 F.2d 915, 917 (9th Cir. 1989); Marrow v. United States, 772 F.2d 525, 526 (9th Cir. 1985).
A defendant may waive his right to file a § 2255 motion to challenge his sentence, but such a waiver must state so expressly. United States v. Nunez, 223 F.3d 956, 959 (9th Cir. 2000). However, a defendant may not waive an ineffective assistance of counsel claim challenging the knowing and voluntary nature of the plea agreement or the voluntariness of the waiver itself. United States v. Rahman, 642 F.3d 1257, 1259 (9th Cir. 2011); United States v. Jeronimo, 398 F.3d 1149, 1156 n. 4 (9th Cir. 2005). Petitioner's plea agreement states in part:
In exchange for the Government's concessions in this plea agreement, defendant waives, to the full extent of the law, any right to appeal or to collaterally attack the conviction and any lawful restitution order, except a post-conviction collateral attack based on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. The defendant also waives, to the full extent of the law, any right to appeal or to collaterally attack his sentence, except a post-conviction collateral attack based on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, unless the Court imposes a custodial sentence above the high end of the guideline range recommended by the Government pursuant to this agreement at the time of sentencing. If the custodial sentence is greater than the high end of that range, defendant may appeal, but the Government will be free to support on appeal the sentence actually imposed. If defendant believes the Government's recommendation is not in accord with this plea agreement, defendant will object at the time of sentencing; otherwise the objection will be deemed waived. ( 3:11-cr-03084-AJB, Doc. No. 15 at 11.) The Ninth Circuit approves of such waivers on public policy grounds, reasoning that finality is "perhaps the most important benefit of plea bargaining." United States v. Navarro-Botello, 912 F.2d 318, 322 (9th Cir. 1990). Courts will generally enforce a defendant's waiver of his right to appeal if: (1) "the language of the waiver encompasses the defendant's right to appeal on the grounds claimed on appeal," and (2) "the waiver is knowingly and voluntarily made." United States v. Martinez, 143 F.3d 1266, 1270-71 (9th Cir. 1998). The Court concludes that both of these requirements are met in this case. Accordingly, Petitioner's motion is barred and must be dismissed because of his plea agreement waiver.
Even if Petitioner had not waived his right to attack his conviction and sentence, Petitioner's motion would fail on the merits. Petitioner lacks any support for his arguments that the Court should make a further departure because (1) the United States Attorney did not offer up to two points downward departure for accepting a final order of deportation and (2) he is a deportable alien and not eligible for housing in a minimum security prison or community corrections placement.
What the United States Attorney chooses to offer as part of any plea agreement is within the province of the United States Attorney. The Court is prohibited from participating in the plea bargaining process. Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1).
At sentencing, and by statute, the Court may depart downward only if there are "aggravating or mitigating circumstances . . . not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission." In sentencing Petitioner, this Court considered all of the potential departures available in determining advisory guidelines applicable in this case. The Ninth Circuit has held that the threat of deportation is not a factor that the district court may consider for sentencing purposes. United States v. Alvarez-Cardenas, 902 F.2d 734, 737 (9th Cir. 1990).
In addition, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b) and by law, the Court can depart outside the Advisory Guideline System for reasons set forth in the factors of and policy reasons behind the Federal Sentencing Statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). All relevant factors were taken in to consideration at the time of Mr. Gil-Moreno' sentence, including his pending alien status, pending deportation and placement, and other options regarding his custodial sentence.
Based on the foregoing reasons, the Court DENIES Petitioner's Motion to Vacate Under 28 U.S.C. ...
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International Food Assistance:
Improved Targeting Would Help Enable USAID to Reach Vulnerable Groups
GAO-12-862: Published: Sep 24, 2012. Publicly Released: Sep 24, 2012.
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In-country, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its implementing partners face a range of factors that, to varying degrees, affect their ability to target food assistance effectively to vulnerable groups. These factors include (1) the quality of data used to identify and reach recipients, (2) host government policies, and (3) sharing of rations among recipients and community members. Targeting effectiveness is reduced when data quality is poor, host government policies cause distortions in program design and implementation, and sharing prevents food rations from being consumed by the intended recipients in the intended amounts. USAID and its implementing partners try to mitigate such challenges by, for example, employing technology to improve data quality, coordinating closely with government officials to foster better relationships, and educating recipients about proper food usage to reduce sharing. In some cases, host governments have facilitated targeting efforts by, for example, establishing national targeting guidelines that set a common standard, or national statistical offices that assist in collecting data. Nevertheless, ensuring that food assistance reaches intended recipients remains difficult.
Weaknesses in the design, monitoring, and evaluation phases of USAID's targeting process hinder targeting effectiveness, although the agency is taking actions to make improvements. In the design phase of the targeting process, USAID does not provide sufficient guidance on whether and how to target specialized food products. Specifically, USAID's guidance on design currently is neither up-to-date nor complete, and does not adequately address key benefits and risks that inform decisions on whether and how to target specialized food products. In USAID's monitoring and evaluation phases, weaknesses limit targeting effectiveness and hinder decision making. USAID currently does not require monitoring of key indicators needed to determine the level of targeting effectiveness. For example, during implementation USAID does not monitor actual recipients in its emergency programs. Furthermore, its evaluations do not systematically address targeting effectiveness. Without adequate guidance, monitoring, and evaluations, USAID cannot ensure targeting effectiveness in its food assistance programs. USAID is taking some steps to improve both guidance and monitoring. For example, USAID is updating guidance and plans to track indicators such as detailed age breakdowns that are key to better understanding targeting effectiveness. However, these steps do not fully address the weaknesses in USAID's targeting process. GAO recommends that the Administrator of USAID improve USAID's targeting of specialized food products to vulnerable groups by (1) issuing, as appropriate, improved interim guidance to assist implementing partners in deciding whether and how to target specialized food products; and (2) establishing and reporting program-specific indicators related to targeted vulnerable groups, to assess effectiveness in reaching such groups. USAID agreed with the recommendations and provided examples of recent efforts to address them.
Why GAO Did This Study
In fiscal year 2011, USAID spent approximately $1.7 billion on food assistance reaching over 46 million people in 48 countries. USAID targets food assistance so that benefits accrue selectively to only a portion of the overall population, typically the most vulnerable. Effective targeting is important to maximize the impact of limited resources, especially as USAID begins to use more nutritious but more costly specialized food products to address hunger and malnutrition among vulnerable groups. GAO was asked to (1) describe in-country factors that USAID and its implementing partners face in targeting vulnerable groups, and (2) examine the extent to which USAID's targeting process supports effective targeting. GAO analyzed program data and documents; interviewed relevant officials; convened a roundtable of food assistance experts and practitioners; and conducted fieldwork in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: USAID agreed with the recommendation. In response to the GAO recommendation, USAID provided updated guidance to assist implementing partners in deciding whether and how to target specialized food products. For example, in 2013, USAID posted decision trees that help implementing partners make choices about targeting based on circumstances. In addition, for example, in 2013, USAID updated fact sheets that that provide programming guidance as well as nutrition information for specialized food products such as corn soy blend plus and ready-to-use therapeutic food.
Recommendation: To improve USAID's targeting of specialized food products to vulnerable groups, such as children under 2 and pregnant women, and as USAID continues to purchase new specialized food products without updated guidance, the Administrator of USAID should should issue, as appropriate, improved interim guidance to assist implementing partners in deciding whether and how to target specialized food products.
Agency Affected: United States Agency for International Development
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: USAID agreed with the recommendation. In response, in fiscal year 2013, USAID strengthened reporting requirements to include reporting on number of pregnant and lactating women, children from 0-23 months of age (male and female), children from 24-59 months of age (male and female), and children from 5 to 17.9 years of age (male and female) receiving food assistance, including specialized food products. USAID's Annual Results Report Guidance, revised September 27, 2013, states that the following must be tracked: the number of beneficiaries in the following categories: male; female; pregnant and lactating women; children 0 to 23 months; children 24 to 59 months; children 5 to 17.9 years.
Recommendation: When USAID chooses to provide specialized food products to targeted vulnerable groups, the Administrator of USAID should establish and report program-specific indicators related to each targeted group to allow USAID to assess its programs' effectiveness in reaching these groups.
Agency Affected: United States Agency for International Development
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Joe Sheehan notes the lack of excitement in the postseason this year, in today's Premium article. I coudn't agree more. There hasn't been a game, or a series yet that's had any of that special flair of competitive, edge of your seat intensity, and with the Giants content to move ther chess pieces around instead of doing anything, I haven't had much to say, or even think about baseball-wise.
The Yankees are saying they will not participate in the A-Rod circus, which means nothing. They still might anyway, but it does bear mentioning that, if Sabean really thinks he has the pitching all lined up, a bat like A-Rod's could make all the difference in the world to a team in need of some offense, (if, by need, you mean, wandering in a desert looking for a home run).
Without the Yanks, common sense suggests the A-Rod express will struggle to get that $300 million deal, so maybe the Giants could get in for a 5 or 6 year offer. It's hard to know, since, as you'll recall, no one expected A-Rod to get that 10-year $252 million dollar deal from Texas back in the olden days of yore. Of course, everyone also should remember that that deal ended up being a huge albatross that only two teams could really afford to take on, and things are no different today. $30 million dollars a year for one player means that there are only a handful of teams that could bid on A-Rod, I'd say, the Cubs, the Red Sox, the Yanks, and possibly the LA Angels. Any others that I'm missing?


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Obama Paints Wider Role for Government in Middle Class
Margaret Talev and Mike DorningPresident Barack Obama began campaigning today for the activist second-term agenda he laid out in his State of the Union address, flying to North Carolina to build support for programs including a raise in the minimum wage and a plan to encourage new manufacturing jobs.
Before a joint session of Congress last night, the president prodded lawmakers to pass bills he said would help middle-income Americans and make the country more competitive.
Along with raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour, he appealed for votes on immigration and gun control, proposed making preschool available to all 4-year-olds, said he'd negotiate a new trade agreement with the European Union, and asked for $50 billion in infrastructure spending. He also lauded steps by companies such as Apple Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Ford Motor Co. to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
House Speaker John Boehner this morning dismissed the idea of raising the minimum wage at a time when jobs are scarce.
"When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it," the Ohio Republican told reporters in Washington.
The president today visited Asheville, North Carolina for a speech promoting investment in manufacturing and the rest of his second-term agenda. He appeared at a Linamar Corp. facility that produces heavy-duty engine and driveline components in a former Volvo Construction Equipment site in the city. The car parts company plans to employ 200 workers at the factory by the end of the year.
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"What's happening here is happening all around the country," Obama said. "Because just as it's becoming more and more expensive to do business in places like China, America is getting more competitive and more productive."
Obama will travel to Georgia and Illinois later this week.
In his speech last night, Obama said government actions should be guided by three questions: "How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip people with the skills they need to get those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?"
The address signaled Obama's plans to move quickly to leverage his political strength from last November's re-election by challenging the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives to schedule votes on his agenda. He also outlined his willingness to test the limits of his executive powers to implement his priorities if Congress fails to act.
The president asked Congress to "pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change" in its current term.
Impasse Lingers
In the absence of legislative action, Obama said he was prepared to "direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy."
Obama spoke as he and congressional Republicans are at an impasse in negotiations to head off $1.2 trillion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to begin taking effect on March 1.
Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said today those budget reductions, known as sequestration, must take place for both sides to eventually forge a broader compromise.
"Sequestration will be some very bitter medicine that will draw people to their senses," Coburn said in an interview on MSNBC. "The fact is, we're going to have a sequestration and there's going to be some pain."
'Go-It-Alone Approach'
Obama is also in a struggle over the government's role in addressing economic inequality, a central theme of his re-election campaign and his inaugural address.
On budget and economic matters, Republicans showed no sign they were ready to accede to the president's proposals.
Boehner last night criticized Obama for promoting "a go-it-alone approach to pursue his liberal agenda."
Obama's call for a minimum wage increase is his first as president. While it last rose in 2009, under his presidency, the increase came out of a 2007 law signed by President George W. Bush. Raising the hourly federal minimum wage to $9 from $7.25 by the end of 2015 would return it to its highest inflation-adjusted value since 1981, under President Ronald Reagan, according to a White House fact sheet.
15 Million
An increase would affect an estimated 15 million people and require approval by Congress. Boehner signaled it had little prospect of passing the Republican-controlled House.
Obama began with a warning about the "sudden, harsh, arbitrary" spending cuts that hit if Congress fails to act to avert the sequester. The across-the-board cuts would slow the economy, "jeopardize our military readiness" and "devastate priorities like education, energy, and medical research," he said.
He said he stood by an offer he had previously made to cut spending on the Medicare health insurance plan for the elderly by cutting payments to drug companies, raising premiums for the wealthy and changing medical reimbursement procedures.
He repeated his demand that Republicans accept raising tax revenue along with spending cuts as part of any "balanced" approach to his goal of $1.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction over a decade. He said the balance could be achieved by "getting rid of tax loopholes and deductions for the well-off and well-connected."
Republican Response
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said in the official Republican response that more tax increases on the wealthy would slow economic growth and ultimately harm the economic prospects for all Americans.
"The tax increases and the deficit spending you propose will hurt middle class families," Rubio said. "It will cost them their raises. It will cost them their benefits. It may even cost some of them their jobs."
While there is no settled definition of middle class, the middle 60 percent of households nationwide in 2010 earned between $20,000 and $100,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Obama said that while the automatic cuts are "a really bad idea," it would be "even worse" if he accepted Republican proposals to prevent the defense cuts by cutting deeper into other programs.
"We can't ask senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthiest and most powerful," Obama said. "How is that fair?"
Deficit Impact
He didn't lay out the cost of his proposals, including universal pre-school, saying only that they wouldn't add "a single dime" to the deficit.
While most of the speech was about the budget, taxes and spending, Obama also highlighted two of the most politically contentious parts of his agenda: immigration and gun control.
The president invoked the suffering of the families of shooting victims to make the case against opponents' efforts to obstruct gun control legislation.
More than two dozen relatives of victims of gun violence were in the chamber to view the address. They included families from Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school and the parents of Hadiya Pendleton, a high school band majorette who marched in his inauguration parade last month and a week later was fatally shot in a Chicago park about a mile from the Obama family home.
"She was 15 years old," he said of the Chicago teenager. "She loved Fig Newtons and lip gloss."
Vote Call
Obama listed the sites of recent mass shootings -- Newtown, Tucson, Aurora, Colorado, Oak Creek, Wisconsin -- and implored the lawmakers on behalf of the families to allow a vote on universal background checks and bans on military-style rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
"If you want to vote no, that's your choice," he said. "They deserve a vote."
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina dismissed Obama's appeal as "more political theater than anything else" for a proposal that won't pass.
On foreign policy, the president described closing more than a decade of war with the withdrawal of 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year, cutting the American force there by about half.
He also defended his targeted approach to fighting terrorists and extremism. "We don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad, or occupy other nations," Obama said. "Instead, we will need to help countries like Yemen, Libya, and Somalia provide for their own security, and help allies who take the fight to terrorists."
While Obama didn't mention the use of drone aircraft, he said he will continue a policy of "direct action" to kill terrorists, including U.S. citizens, when warranted.
The president also pledged that the U.S. will continue to "stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and lasting peace," he said. Obama plans to make his first trip to Israel as president next month.


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I have early memories of Saturday morning breakfasts of SPAM. Salty, meaty, fried and curled up around the edges. I liked it then, but years later, out in the wilderness, I tried again and almost choked at the salt content. It drowned out any flavor the meat particles once had and made me thirsty for an entire day. Still, I couldn't help but appreciate the survivalist capacity of SPAM and that iconic can-well traveled, dust covered, nostalgic, and dinged in ways that suggest a storied past.
Years later, I was in a gas station in Hawaii and very hungry. Under the heat lamp were the usual choices-hot dogs, burritos, and then SPAM, served over sushi rice and with a sliver of seaweed holding it together. I had heard about this this East- -meets-tinned-meat staple known as masubi. It seemed like the safest choice of the light bulb- cooked buffet. It had a sweet teriyaki sauce that balanced out the salt, and despite my biases, I enjoyed it. SPAM utilizes pork trim that normally goes to waste, so it was an early adaptor in our growing awareness about food waste. I set out to make my own SPAM, with less salt, but still using parts of the animal that are normally wasted. So I made one out of pig trotters, and a salmon SPAM from collars, bellies and tails.
This is not as easy as one might think. Using trotters for SPAM was first suggested to me by a butcher at the Ferry Plaza Market. However, the butcher told me they were out, as all the chefs wanted them. I felt a little smug. I was out there sourcing alongside top chefs in San Francisco. When I was finally able to get some, the butcher advised me: "Just cook them for a good, long time until the meat falls from the two bones going through the hooves."


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The agricultural companies have been facing the problem of uncertainties associated with issue of no objection certificates (NOC) by state governments for carrying out field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops. During the entire season, the companies were unable to able to get permissions from the state governments in time. As a result, field trials for these GM crops have come to a standstill. However, things might improve in the coming months because of which timely testing of new technologies can bring benefits to farmers.
The companies which are seeing competition in the market saw an increase in the Bt cotton seed prices. In 2010-11, the prices for Bt cotton seeds varied from $150 per packet of 450 gram for bollgard I (BGI) to $185 for bollgard II (BGII). In Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, the prices of Bt cotton seeds containing BG I and BG II traits were $150 per packet and $190 per packet respectively. In other states, the prices of BGI and BG II cotton are $130 per packet and $150 per packet, respectively. The state governments have increased the MRP to meet the challenges of seed producers' increased costs. The increase in the central and south zones was $35 for both BGI and BGII while in North Zone the increment was of $15 for BG I and $35 for BG II.
Although Indian government has approved six Bt cotton events for commercialization in the last 10 years, the most popular among these are MON 531 (BGI) and MON 15985 (BG II) developed by Mahyco with licensed technologies from Monsanto. The other events that got the approval include Event I developed by J K Agri Genetics with technology sourced from IIT Kharagpur; Event GFM, developed by Nath Seeds, the technology of which was sourced from a Chinese company; Event BNLA-601 jointly developed by Central Institute of Cotton Research, Nagapur and University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad and finally Event MLS-9124 developed by Metahelix Life Sciences.
There has been an increase in the number of farmers cultivating cotton in 2002-03 from five million to eight million in 2011-12. Notably, the number of cotton farmers who have adopted Bt cotton has increased from 50,000 in 2002-03 to seven million in 2011-12, representing about 88 percent of the cotton growing farmers.
India has reaped the benefits of Bt cotton. Now it is time to move to newer technologies which will improve yields.
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T-Rex, located in Downtown Disney can be found in the Marketplace section, near shopping and the LEGO Imagination Center. T-REX is a dinosaur-themed restaurant touted as a "Prehistoric Family Adventure". The restaurant is divided into different Prehistoric themes such as Meteor and Ice Age with decor to match. You are surrounded by animatronic dinosaurs, meteor showers and the Kitchen of Fire! The Paleo zone features a Dinosaur Dig and Dinosaur Creek to pan for treasures.
- On the menu, you might find dinosaur themed food-such as Wooly Mammoth Chicke, Age of Salmon, as well as other fun, themed dishes. You can view their full menu HERE.
- This restaurant is family friendly, but keep in mind the dinosaurs make noise and the meteor shower can be a little scary for small children. The menu is extensive, with choices to please everyone in your party. There is also a Dino-Store which includes a Build-a-Dino Station, by Build-a-Bear Workshop.
- Even though your child may enjoy dinosaurs, this restaurant can be a bit scary for young children. It is very loud, and the dinosaurs are huge.
- There are no characters here, but it is a fun and unique dining experience.
- All the rooms are themed, with the Ice Age room being the most surreal. Take some time to look through some of the other areas of T-REX. There are a lot of great photo opportunities!
T-Rex is part of the Disney Dining Plan, and will cost you one table service credit per member of your party. For a fun, unique, very well themed dining at experience at Downtown Disney, you will want dine at T-Rex. It's a fun step back into time, and eating amongst dinosaurs can be a once in a lifetime experience!
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By Sonny Scott
Sometimes a work of genius is anonymous. Such was the case last month when some known-only-to-the-one-who-cashed-his-check advertiser had three billboards erected in Colorado. Picturing three Plains Indians in traditional garb with Winchesters cradled in their arms, the caption advised: "Turn in your arms"; followed by the ironic "comforting" line: "The government will take care of you."
If you don't think that has gotten a lot of attention nationwide, then you don't fully appreciate the infantile, self-absorbed nature of Americans as a people. Ironically, the left-leaning news magazines whose sites I visit daily have ignored the episode – likely because the logic of making American Indians "poster boys" for anti-government and pro-gun sentiment is not lost on editors. I discovered the billboards when an email from a friend had an attached photo. I did a Web search to see if it existed (as opposed to an NRA member's erotic dream) and found that it has generated quite the buzz. Most of the adverse comment is along the lines of it being unconscionable to use the image of Native Americans to advance a political argument. No explanation of why this was never mentioned when the iconic "Crying Indian" ads for Keep America Beautiful were ubiquitous in the '70s, but we are a more sensitive people now, 'tis true.
Aside from the pro-NRA message implicit in the non-too subtle billboard, I was struck by the timeliness of the message for my generation, the infamous Baby Boomers. Ours is the first generation to accept getting more from government than we put into it as normality. After having post-war social policy largely shaped to cater to us and our parents, we have assumed that the promises of government could be accepted in lieu of cash. We attended schools financed by bonds on the credit of future land owners and taxpayers, went to college on an alphabet soup of aid to education entitlement programs, and worked in jobs servicing the military-industrial complex directly or indirectly. We finagled legislation allowing us to protect the income of the more successful from FICA taxes, and subsidized our forays into the stock market through 401(k) deferments on income so that we might have some stock market butter for our Social Security bread in retirement. Now that our vanguard is easing into its sunset years, we are hit in the face with the wet sock of reality – the dance is over, and the fiddler is demanding his hire. The likelihood of outright default on obligations by Uncle Sam and the outright certainty of the scaling back of promised benefits have left many Boomers feeling betrayed by "the government."
Poor dears. Though it's fashionable to decry the quality of the education that this privileged generation received, the most glaring deficiency has been the deplorable content of the "history" courses they were exposed to. When someone has carefully and objectively reviewed the transactions of Ben Franklin's republican successors toward the Indians, the Republic of Mexico, women, blacks, landless farmers, coal miners, garment workers, Chinese immigrants, and ___________ (Fill the blank with your favorite patsy who took the word of 'The Government' at face value), how can he be surprised when truth becomes a perishable commodity?
Don't get me wrong. For all its faults, government is necessary for civilization, so I do not advocate violent revolution – though like Jefferson, I recognize that sometimes it may be justified – even if Mr. Jefferson's may not have been. No sir. As Jeff himself noted, "Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." Like a cuckold who realizes that while his missus is not all he hoped for, she is probably better than he deserves, and it is in his best interest to get along with her, I realize that Uncle Sam ain't perfect, but he's mine, and I'd be well served to make the best of it. If my generation had spent enough time exploring the history of western civilization (as opposed to those "Civic Pride" courses masquerading as "history"), we'd be less judgmental, and better equipped to deal with reality.
Oh, why don't we really study history?
Are you kidding? With our sensitive natures and crap-load of axes to grind, you think we'd sit still for the real deal?
SONNY SCOTT is a Chickasaw County resident and a community columnist. Contact him at email@example.com.


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Writing - Different types of poetry
Different types of poetry
There are many different types of poems expressed using a variety of
Understanding some of the techniques used in poetry may help you not only
to better understand poetry, but may help you in your own poetry writing.
Some poets like to write in a very formal and structured way. They may use
a specific rhyme scheme, words that sound similar or lines that have the
same number of beats.
"How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!"
Man: sweaty, tall, tired, old, worn out; singing praises to his machines
bold no longer
Man: lost, man.
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Keziban Celiker Cyprus I was just noting the techniques and I found the examples for alliteration confusing. Isn't the continuous use of the 's' sound known as sibilance? Alliteration is a literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning sound for example The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew
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Laureano Navarro Torres Colombia this type of writing is subjetive, people use to write it as well as they feel .
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Enemchukwu Edeh Nigeria there are different types of poems, people write poems based on their emotions, feelings and experiences .And some of the poems are entertaining.
2016-10-16 17:10:10
Luis Manhique Mozambique poems which aren't very rigid are utterly entertaining for me.
2016-08-04 10:08:20
Yaw Nam Myitung Myanmar There are many different types of poems so, some are very difficult to understand clearly. Some people can write poems that comes from their feelings and experiences.
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Ja Zin Nhkum Myanmar One of my favorite poems is "ADVICE TO THE YOUNG" , written by Frederick Douglas Harper.
2016-07-01 06:07:16
Ja Zin Nhkum Myanmar Different types of poems expressed using a variety of techniques.
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Zarni Maung Myanmar I think the poetry writing style of rhyme is rare to see in modern age.
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Arvin A/L Thurairaj Malaysia Of the mountains ages past, of the hills ages gone, so sweet their looks, nooks and crooks. But Now they stand in fields of sand, with the wind of time, whistling so fine, have they ever thought of the damage they have wrought, But the apes have left the forest, the tigers are leaping away, when will we ever see them, if not over yonder's away?
2015-10-16 06:10:55
Chung John Bailak Cameroon Why they may use specific rhyme scheme,words,that sound similar?
2015-06-09 08:06:19
Chung John Bailak Cameroon There are many different types of poems expressed using a variety of techniques.
2015-06-09 08:06:33
Leslyn Mckenzie Barbados Emotions, fear, anger,thrilled, these are different types of poetry
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Goodness David Nigeria personification and imagery explains more of the writers mind in a peom
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Jaskiran Singh United States of America I find that similes and metaphors are essential to good poetry, and in order to be a good poet, you have to make the most use of whatever you experienced using visual and sensory imagery.
2015-02-16 20:02:32
Neyoka Ebanks Antigua and Barbuda There are meny different type of poetry some poets may use a specific rhyme scheme, words that sound similar or lines that have the the same number of beast
2015-01-27 23:01:39
Elina Apostolatova United States of America Different types of poetry and different techniques.
2015-01-24 05:01:20
Melissa Jean Pierre Haiti The different types of poetry are:Acrostic,ballad,coat of arms,bouts-rimes,anthem,idyll,epistle,ode,eclogue.
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In the last few days, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed lawsuits against the wireless company T-Mobile over cramming of "hundreds of millions of dollars" in junk charges on phone bills and the web seller Amazon over "millions of dollars in unauthorized in-app charges incurred by children." What's interesting is not that the companies are alleged to have broken the law, it's that they've refused to settle and forced the FTC into court.
In January, Apple settled similar charges to the Amazon case (New York Times January story). According to the Times story today, which was based on a press conference call with a senior FTC official, Jessica Rich, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection:
"In the conference call, agency officials said they could not comment on private negotiations with Amazon and why no settlement had been reached. But Ms. Rich said the F.T.C.'s goals in both the Apple and Amazon cases had been to seek full refunds and require informed consent. In the Amazon case, the agency is striving for an outcome "similar to the settlement with Apple," Ms. Rich said.
The FTC explained the violations alleged in the Amazon lawsuit this way:
"Amazon.com, Inc. has billed parents and other account holders for millions of dollars in unauthorized in-app charges incurred by children, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed today in federal court. The FTC's lawsuit (pdf) seeks a court order requiring refunds to consumers for the unauthorized charges and permanently banning the company from billing parents and other account holders for in-app charges without their consent. According to the complaint, Amazon keeps 30 percent of all in-app charges. Amazon offers many children's apps in its appstore for download to mobile devices such as the Kindle Fire. In its complaint, the FTC alleges that Amazon violated the FTC Act by billing parents and other Amazon account holders for charges incurred by their children without the permission of the parent or other account holder. Amazon's setup allowed children playing these kids' games to spend unlimited amounts of money to pay for virtual items within the apps such as "coins," "stars," and "acorns" without parental involvement."
Meanwhile, last week the FTC filed a case against T-Mobile over the alleged cramming of junk charges for horoscope and other subscription products onto wireless bills. In its release, the FTC also explained that T-Mobile disguised the charges or lumped them into generic categories such as "premium services"" so they would not be obvious.
"The FTC alleges (pdf of complaint) that T-Mobile received anywhere from 35 to 40 percent of the total amount charged to consumers for subscriptions for content such as flirting tips, horoscope information or celebrity gossip that typically cost $9.99 per month. According to the FTC's complaint, T-Mobile in some cases continued to bill its customers for these services offered by scammers years after becoming aware of signs that the charges were fraudulent."
Not only did T-Mobile refuse to settle, but John LeGere, the CEO of the company that likes to call itself the "Un-Carrier," penned a blog post attacking the agency's action:
"T-Mobile is fighting harder than any of the carriers to change the way the wireless industry operates, and we are disappointed that the FTC has chosen to file this action against the most pro-consumer company in the industry—rather than the real bad actors."
I've read the complaints and I think both companies have losing hands.
Increasingly, on Capitol Hill and in the courts, companies are relentlessly challenging the ability of government agencies to police markets and challenge corporate wrongdoing. In fact, the FTC is in the middle of a major lawsuit (it won the first round a few months ago (Adweek)) where a hotelier known as Wyndham is fighting the agency's authority to hold companies accountable for sloppy data security practices at all. Another firm, LabMD, has sued the FTC over that same issue: whether the agency can police corporate cybersecurity allegedly absent specific direction from Congress.
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Widely and unjustly dismissed as a self-hating misogynist screed, Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 "The Women" has found a director who prizes women and appreciates the play's specific satirical aims.
Widely and unjustly dismissed as a self-hating misogynist screed, Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 "The Women" has found a director who prizes women and appreciates the play's specific satirical aims. Darko Tresnjak, the Old Globe's resident artistic director, has helmed an elegant, emotionally precise revival of a minor gem among American comedies of manners. And the clothes are as dazzling as the banter.
Luce intended not an indictment of her whole sex but "a clinical study of a more or less isolated group" — the super-idle matrons of Park Avenue (or Rodeo Drive) — "projected perhaps in bad temper, but in good faith." On this research project Tresnjak is Luce's able lab assistant, pegging all the bitchery and backbiting to recognizable psychology. Contrary to the current movie remake's conception of "Sex and the City" best buds, Luce pinpoints the makeshift nature of "friendships" built on society functions and bridge games, with a thin line separating air-kissing BFFs from mortal enemies. Animating the production is their fundamental flaw: They're perilously inattentive to their own situation while far too attentive to everyone else's. By not minding the chaos in her own house, each of Luce's distinctively conceived principals risks everything that matters — love, security, fulfillment. None is more careless than Mary Haines (Kate Baldwin), who's dreamily content in her fool's paradise until financier husband Stephen runs off with scheming salesclerk Crystal (Kathleen McElfresh, with enough va va voom to render Stephen the envy of assembled audience males). Though Luce called Mary "so stupid you hardly give a hoot," Baldwin's fresh and intelligent reading becomes Tresnjak's anchor in a clear and empathetic progression from despair to Reno to resignation, thence to the climactic play for her ex — nails painted Jungle Red. A superb troupe of representative society types drop by, notably Amy Hohn as endlessly fertile Edith, dropping a cigarette ash on her nursing newborn while dishing dirt; Amanda Kramer as tremulous newlywed Peggy; and a hilarious Ruth Williamson as the much-wed Countess who sees every dud hubby through rose-colored glasses: "Ah, l'amour!" Brief but splendid turns come from the moral compasses: Linda Gehringer, all wry gravity as Mary's mother; Amanda Naughton as a sociologist of female folly; and Nancy Anderson's wisecracking divorcee. (Anderson also excels as a chanteuse of interstitial love songs in the course of the evening.) But any "Women" will rise or fall on its Sylvia, the waspish confidante who makes her circle a coven while ignoring her own man's roving eye. The peerless Heather Ayers possesses a crackling tongue (with an amusing hint of Katharine Hepburn) and studied grace, equally believable when defending a friend or inserting a stiletto. Tresnjak's direction isn't impeccable. The minor characters' vulgar caricature and cartoon voices evoke hints of class snobbery. Blair Ross is effective as a nurse telling off the complaining Edith (she of the errant ash), but she'd be stronger still if her reading were simpler and less cluttered. But who can quibble when a rediscovered play moves along so briskly on point? David P. Gordon's rotating Art Deco palace (transformed into Reno with only Navajo drapes and log furniture) brilliantly sets off Anna R. Oliver's thrilling clothes, so perfectly chosen and worn they can't be called costumes. And though Matt Richards' lights properly illuminate Luce's public spaces — a fitting room, powder room, hair salon — they tighten at each scene's end to a special on a significant character or group, always reminding us of the needy human beings beneath all that fabric and facade.The Women
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An Old Globe presentation of a play in two acts by Clare Boothe Luce. Directed by Darko Tresnjak.
Sets, David Gordon; costumes, Anna Oliver; lighting, Matt Richards; sound, Paul Peterson; stage manager, Bret Torbek. Opened Sept. 21, 2008. Reviewed Sept. 27. Runs through Oct. 26. Running time: 2 HOURS, 30 MIN.
Mary Haines - Kate Baldwin
Sylvia Fowler - Heather Ayers
Edith Potter - Amy Hohn
Crystal Allen - Kathleen McElfresh
Miriam Aarons/Princess Tamara - Nancy Anderson
Countess de Lage - Ruth Williamson
Mrs. Morehead - Linda Gehringer
Peggy Day - Amanda Kramer
Nancy Blake - Amanda Naughton
Little Mary - Kayla Solsbak
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My first run in with the foibles of the OEP was the day that I arrived in London, in 1972.
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Spotlight / Find / can't find??HI all, iMac osx 10.7.5 - when I use either Spotlight or command-F (find) it finds a bunch of junk except the one file I KNOW exists on my computer - no matter what search criteria I use "this mac" "all my files" it will not find it 90% of the time. My old G5 and earlier Macs always found the file - - I'm doing something wrong, yes? Thanks -
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Depends on where the file is. Spotlight will not find things in the System Library, for example.
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Spotlight is not very robust at finding files that may be hidden in sub folders or several levels down. Download and install the free "Find Any File app" from here and use it instead.
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An alternative thought is that perhaps you need to rethink your organizational system so that files you need to access aren't so obscurely hidden that you need a find utility to get to them.
This can take several different approaches. I happen to like the "General to specific" folder hierarchy (as an example, my 2009 tax returns are in Documents -> Taxes -> 2009) or for example adding a short name to certain kinds of files so that they turn up quickly in searches (adding -work to work files, for example).
Broadly speaking, everything you might want to create should be easily findable in your Home folder, under either Documents or other media types (folders already provided by Apple) and then in a few sub-folders below that. For example, I have folders in Documents such as Travel, (Creative) Writing, Invoices and so forth. My needs are certainly different from yours, but so far I've only needed to create maybe a dozen broad-category folders (Kids, Medical, Legal -- that sort of thing) and use sub-folders within those broad categories to get more specific. This helps me feel (and has been proven in practice) that I can lay my mouse on any document I want within a very few clicks.
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Original Creator (light novel) : Jō Taketsuki Original Character-Design : Sikorsky Plot summary : Godô Kusanagi, a 16 year old boy who played in the senior league as catcher and fourth hitter - that is, the cleanup - when he was in Junior High. However, an injury put an end to baseball. Though that was not the end for him. During the spring break of his third, and last year in Junior High, he got involved in an adventure at Rome and ended up slaying one of the Heretic Gods, Verethragna. Thus, he became the youngest - and seventh - Campione. Now that he is a Campione, a godslayer, the young Godô must defeat the troublemaking gods, with the help of his followers ! Note : The light novel began publishing in 2008 at Shueisha's Super Dash Bunko. Currently, 10 volumes are published. Jirō Sakamoto launched a manga adaptation in the inaugural issue of Super Dash & Go! in October. I guess that Seven Arcs would animate this.
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So the Moonphase guy was right afterall.
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For a LN series, that really isn't that impressive. I personally find it very average, and as I've said in my previous post, I was only quoting people.
*Coincidentally, this is the only picture I find good among all the covers. Last edited by Kunagisa; 2011-12-06 at 20:28. Reason: woops |
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Other than MC being surrounded by girls just how is this like IS?
Here is hoping they don't mess this up. It seems companies have talent of destroying good pieces of work. Having said that I'm looking forward to this all the same. |
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Oh please don't compare Godo to Ichika's legendary denseness.
The downside for me on this one but maybe they will tell that part in the later volumes or later part of the volume but in volume one. In the beginning Spoiler:
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I think the LN artwork looks okay (I see some anatomy issues here and there, but it's nothing overabundant), but not interesting enough to not be forgettable. The plot sounds like something I've already seen in some shape or form 10 times before... making it about as forgettable as the artwork is. Bleh.
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I'd say the plot of IS was a roller coaster, up and down then up and down again. Like a couple of mountains. Sometimes the slopes are steeper, sometimes the ride is pretty smooth. And at the top of each mountain, there's a pudding.
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