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The hot new trade seems to be the Mexican peso.
The chart below shows long and short positions in the peso over the past year, via the CFTC's weekly Commitment of Traders report.
Long positions have been surging recently while short positions have stagnated. And as the green line at the bottom shows, the net position on the peso just went positive – i.e., there are now more longs than shorts:
And the peso has been strengthening in tandem with the build in long positions. This chart shows the dollar weakening against the peso.
Nomura currency strategist Jens Nordvig was on Bloomberg Surveillance yesterday talking about why he likes the Mexican peso.
When asked what his single best buy in the foreign exchange market right now was, Nordvig said, "Euro-Mex is a play that we like," and that the peso is "one of the most attractively valued" currencies. In other words, Nordvig likes a trade selling the euro and buying the peso.
Why? It's pretty simple. Nordvig said, "For example, if you look at growth – growth has been declining all over the world. The only country that is holding up? Mexico."
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But Nordvig isn't the only one loving the peso trade right now.
Another big proponent is Jim O'Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and the emerging markets guru who coined the term "BRIC."
In his latest Viewpoints letter, O'Neill recommended a long-peso, short-Australian dollar trade. Buying the Australian dollar is a good way to bet on China growth, and O'Neill sees a lot of people turning bearish on this theme.
Once again, the best currency to buy with the currency you want to get rid of, according to Jim O'Neill, is the peso.
Gluskin-Sheff economist David Rosenberg explained that Mexico is the one country that seems to be decoupling from the global slowdown:
If there is a country out there that does appear to have "decoupled" and we have discussed this before, it is Mexico, where industrial production managed to turn in a hefty 1.3% gain in June, the best performance since September of last year and higher than market expectations. Fiesta yes; siesta no.
Mexican industrial production has been roaring since recovering from the global downturn of 2008 and 2009. The pace of expansion slowed a bit in 2012, but it's turning back up again:
The chart at the top showing the build in long positions may suggest the trade is getting crowded. On the other hand, there are plenty who remain short.
Morgan Stanley believes there's still some steam left to the trade, but cautions that it should slow down:
Though we see room for further appreciation, the pace may be reduced going forward, as uncertainty over the US elections is liable to weigh on the currency. Chinese growth/transition and Europe weakness could also add some noise, impacting risk sentiment in broad terms. Likewise, current (heavy) positioning may also weigh on performance going forward.
For now, it's clear that Wall Street is really liking the peso trade.


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With the Winter Games in Sochi just getting underway, Olympics fans will have an easier time than ever following the event, thanks to new technologies being embraced by NBC and pay TV providers.
Consumers will have access to more video than ever before from an Olympics, and will be able to watch some of the less popular events on their televisions more easily. Fans interested in only the most exciting moments — and who can do without the overwrought profiles of athletes and other emotional "fillers" — will be able to cut straight to the action.
And some Comcast subscribers will find it much easier to watch their favorite athletes perform, will be able to get updated scores and medal counts directly on their televisions and be able to tune into particular events as they're happening by clicking on a link from Twitter.
"The Olympics are a big moment for NBC and Comcast," said Sam Schwartz, chief business development officer for Comcast. He added that the Games are where the companies "push our technological capabilities."
In the past, NBC, which has carried the Olympics for many years, has limited the amount of video available or constrained where consumers could watch it. The Sochi Games mark the first time that every event will be streamed live online. That will total some 1,000 hours worth of coverage, more than double what was available for live streaming at the last Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
But NBC isn't just offering more video. It's working with its partners, particular corporate parent Comcast, to make it easier for viewers to find and watch it.
One new feature involves a service called SEEiT, which Comcast announced in December. It allows the company's customers to click on a link in a Twitter post to instantly either tune in a show on their televisions or mobile devices or set their DVR to record it. The company plans to use SEEiT extensively during the Games to promote events on Twitter.
However, many of Comcast's new Olympics-related features are available only to customers who have its recently released X1 set-top box. That box provides advanced capabilities, such as the ability to run apps and to access menus and program guides that are stored in the cloud rather than on the device.
Comcast hasn't said yet how many of its customers have the X1, other than that they number in the millions. But it's safe to say that the number of customers who have them is a fraction of its total subscriber base.
One new feature coming to the X1 for the Olympics is the ability to run a version of the same NBC app previously available only for smartphones and tablets that provides streaming video from the Games. That app, dubbed NBC Sports Live Extra, will offer the bulk of the video available from the Games and offer the only coverage of some less popular events.
It marks the first time the app has been available on a set-top box and the first time that Olympics coverage streamed over the Internet has been easily available on a TV. In the past, if you wanted such streaming video on your TV, you either had to plug your computer into your television or use a program to wirelessly stream video from your computer to it.
The app could prove popular with Comcast customers, said Brett Sappington, a director of research at Parks Associates, a consulting firm.
Consumers "want the video they can get on their phone (and) see it on the biggest screen they can," he said. "It's not really the app itself that consumers care about, it's the content that it provides."
Comcast is offering other new features for X1 users. Those subscribers will find areas on their set-top box that allow them to quickly access coverage of particular athletes or events. Fans of Shaun White, for example, can click on a link to coverage just about him, and set their DVRs to record his upcoming events.
Comcast is also revamping the X1's Sports app for the Olympics. Users who run the app will find medal counts, up-to-date scores and information from ongoing events and the ability to immediate tune in to coverage of those sports.
AT&T U-verse customers will find a similar application available on their cable boxes. Subscribers who open the U-verse Olympic TV App can see updated medal counts, view prerecorded videos from the Games and even see a "multi-cast" view, where they can watch up to four video streams at once from the various NBC networks that are covering the event.
As with the sports apps, some Olympics-related features will be available more broadly than just to certain Comcast or AT&T customers. One notable feature is a service called Gold Zone, which will be available through NBC's website.
The feature is inspired by the NFL's RedZone channel, which jumps from game to game, tuning into particular contests only when a team nears the end zone. Gold Zone will similarly jump from event to event within the Sochi Games, but will focus on the finish lines of particular contests and of winning moments within them.
The new features that Comcast and other pay TV operators are making available come as Comcast in particular has been losing subscribers, noted Jeff Kagan, an independent industry analyst. The company is trying to use technology to better retain existing customers and to lure new ones, he said.
"Comcast has been trying their hardest in last several quarters to turn ship around," Kagan said.
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NBC, Comcast and other companies are offering new features to help consumers more easily view and keep track of the games. Here are some of the new offerings:
Lots of streaming: You've been able to watch streaming video from the Olympics for years. But the Sochi Games marks the first time that all events will be available via live streaming.
Streaming to the TV: Comcast will offer a new app for users of its X1 set-top box that will allow them to view all the streaming video from the Olympics directly on their TVs.
App: Both Comcast and AT&T's U-verse service will offer apps on their set-top boxes that will allow users to see updated medal counts and easily tune in live events as they are happening. The U-verse app also will show viewers up to four streams of Olympics video from NBC's networks.
Going for the Gold: A new online channel from NBC, dubbed the Gold Zone, will jump from event to event showcasing finish lines and "winning moments."
Believe it, you can SEEiT: With a new feature called SEEiT, Comcast users can click on links in Twitter posts to tune in live Olympics events or set their DVRs to record upcoming ones.
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FindAssurance.com is a site that helps users request quotes for different types of insurance.
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Career Ladders for U.S. Workers (Century Foundation Book)
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Publication Date: January 3, 2006
"The United States used to be a country where ordinary people could expect to improve their economic condition as they moved through life. For millions of us, this is no longer the case. Many Americans today have a lower standard of living as adults than they had in their parents' homes as children.... This book is about restoring the upward mobility of U.S. workers. Specifically, it addresses the workforce-development strategy of creating not just jobs, but career ladders."--from Moving Up in the New Economy
Career-ladder strategies create opportunities for low-wage workers to learn new skills and advance through a progression of higher-skilled and better-paid jobs. For example, nurses' aides can become licensed practical nurses, administrative assistants can become information technology workers, and bank tellers can become loan officers.
Career-ladder programs could provide opportunities for upward mobility and also stave off impending national shortages of skilled workers. But there are a variety of obstacles that must be faced candidly if career-ladder programs are to succeed. In Moving Up in the New Economy, Joan Fitzgerald explores specific programs in different sectors of the economy--health care, child care, education, manufacturing, and biotechnology--to offer a comprehensive analysis of this innovative approach to job training. Addressing the successes achieved--and the problems faced--by career-ladder programs, this timely book will be of interest to anyone interested in career development, workforce training, and employment issues, especially those that affect low-wage workers.


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DOUGLASS (Berks) - An argument between a Delaware man and a woman from the Boyertown area turned physical during the early hours of June 27.
Between 3 and 5:30 a.m., according to the state police from Reading, Quinton Lowman, 34, of Doer, Del., and a 26-year-old woman became 'engaged (in) a verbal argument.'
'During the arguments, a physical alteraction ensued and (Lowman) struck the victim in the head and grabbed her by the throat,' a police release said.
Where the incident took place exactly is unknown, but police said it was somewhere along Colebrookdale Road.
Lowman was arrested by police and taken for arraignment. He was charged with simple assault, according to police.
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Around 4:40 a.m., a 57-year-old woman heard someone pulling on her garage door and woke up, state police out of Reading said.
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We knew Harold Evensky has been a proponent of the fiduciary standard for advice givers for some time and that he was a leading light of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard. So we asked the Institute's co-founder, Knut Rostad, to comment on Evensky's contributions.—Ed.
We first collaborated to advocate for fiduciary advice some 10 years ago through a predecessor initiative (to the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard and the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard). Among our activities, we created an ad to explain the differences between advisors and brokers. Its headline was, "Would you expect your butcher to recommend a veggie plate?" Harold's counsel was on point, and the ad hit the mark and got attention. (In fact, the "Butcher versus Nutritionist" messaging was recently brought back in updated form by HighTower's Elliot Weissbluth in person and in a YouTube video). At the time I thought that for a guy trained as an engineer, Harold was OK.
Fast forward to 2009. The country was reeling from the financial crisis and financial reform was in the offing. In June, the Obama administration called for such reform that included requiring that brokers rendering investment advice do so as fiduciaries. Several well-respected practitioners and fiduciary experts—including Harold—came together to form The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard. Within a month, the Committee was invited to meet with SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter. We met with then-Chairman Schapiro in September; meetings with Commissioners Paredes, Aguilar and Casey, and SIFMA and FINRA, followed.
Harold's "leading from behind" style was immediately felt at the Committee, a diverse group of accomplished industry professionals. His vision was clear and concise. Humanize fiduciary. Speak in few words and in plain English (the five fiduciary principles comprise 52 words). Speak about the fiduciary standard in terms of grandmother and apple pie, then repeat as needed. Speak from experience about how brokers can and many already do meet the higher fiduciary standard (Harold used to be a broker).
Harold's plain-spoken advocacy befits his fiduciary persona and has undoubtedly persuaded thousands of practitioners, reporters and clients over many years. For that we can all be grateful. The next Evensky objective: to get tens of thousands or more investors to ask their broker to sign the Evensky Fiduciary Oath.


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Molière's The Miser Runs Through Saturdayby Jim Amidon • April 17, 2012 Share:
The first time an actor in the Wabash College Theater Department's production of Molière's rollicking farce The Miser grabs a doorknob and it falls off in his hand, the audience is left to wonder if it was scripted or if it was an accident.
By the time banisters drop to the floor and mantelpieces fall off the wall, you realize that this laugh-out-loud comedy has all the makings of a great French farce.
Guest Director Rob Johansen has pulled out all the stops for this production, which runs through Saturday with 8 p.m. performances each night in Ball Theater of the Fine Arts Center. Tickets are free and can be reserved by phoning 361-6411.
A veteran cast, led by Wabash senior Jordan Plohr, stops at nothing to eek out every bit of humor from the nearly 400-year-old story.
Plohr plays Harpagon, an old miser who pinches pennies and pounds as tightly as he can. His mansion is falling to pieces and there are a dozen buckets catching rain in every part of the house. His horses are so malnourished they die while being hitched to the carriage. He waters down his wine — a few drops of wine and a full bottle of water suffices.
Harpagon wishes to marry, but more important he seeks to quickly marry off his daughter Elise, played by Abby Gillan, because the suitor (Seigneur Anselme played by Chris McCloskey) requires Harpagon to pay no dowry. "No dowry," Plohr repeats over and over to tear-producing laughs.
Johansen says he's urged the actors to stop at nothing in this no-holds-barred production.
"We are trying to find a style with this piece that honors both the time period of the 1600's and still has a contemporary air to it," said Johansen, who is a veteran at the Indiana Repertory Theatre and regional playhouses all over the country.
"I have been urging the actors to lean toward an honest investment to very heightened stakes. If you are in love, you are desperately in love — to the point where you could almost break into song about your feelings. I think that is a fun way to approach farce."
Harpagon is led to believe that the lovely Mariane, played by Crawfordsville's Jennifer Peacock, is willing to marry him in spite of the 40-year age difference. Meanwhile, Mariane is secretly in love with Harpagon's son, Cléante (played by Brad Hopper). Orchestrating at least part of the madness is the sneaky, stealing woman of intrigue, Frosine, a part played by Wabash rhetoric professor Sara Drury.
Because Molière could never stop at one mad-cap story line, there are others. As he plots to marry off his daughter to an old man who wants no dowry, Harpagon seeks advice from his faithful servant, Valère (played brilliantly by Joe Mount). Valère is in love with Elise and hopes to marry her, but the thought of Harpagon being able to marry off his daughter without a dowry gives him pause… and another pause… and still another.
James Gross has again done remarkable work designing and building a large-scale set — a mansion that literally falls apart as the show progresses. Laura Glover's lighting adds starkness to the miser's mansion, while at once heats up the action as the play progresses.
Andrea Bear showcases her skills as a costumer with period frocks that are simply gorgeous in color and style. Of course, for the miser himself, the word "rags" better describes Harpagon's clothes.
Crawfordsville's Joe Reese keeps all the action moving as the production's very busy stage manager.
The cast of Molière's The Miser includes: Jordan Plohr as Harpagon; Brad Hopper as Cléante; Abby Gillan as Elise; Joe Mount as Valère; Jennifer Peacock as Mariane; Chris McCloskey as Seigneur Anselme; Sara Drury as Frosine; Han Nie as Maître Simon; Devan Young as Master Jacques; Reed Hepburn as La Flèche; Taylor Zartman as Dame Claude; Nikolas Jones as Brindavoine; Leo Helfer as La Merluche; and Raynor Mendoza as the Commissioner.
For tickets, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 765-361-6411.
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The Ambion® MessageAmp™ Premier RNA Amplification Kit employs magnetic bead-based purification technology to remove unwanted reaction components from amplified labeled antisense RNA (aRNA). The protocol was developed using the Barnstead Lab-Line Titer Plate Shaker Model 4625, and we recommend using this shaker whenever possible. In this article we outline tips for improving recovery of MessageAmp Premier reaction products when using other (non-preferred) laboratory shakers.
High Speed and Tight Orbit Diameter Provide Optimal Magnetic Bead Agitation
The Barnstead Lab-Line Titer Plate Shaker Model 4625 is specifically recommended for the aRNA purification at the end of the MessageAmp Premier Kit protocol. This particular shaker was chosen for its high speed and tight orbit diameter which provide a more rigorous shaking motion than other models, ensuring that samples are mixed to homogeneity for consistent, optimal sample recovery. In response to customer inquiries about using other laboratory shakers for the purification and concerns about inconsistent results, Applied Biosystems Research and Development scientists evaluated two other laboratory shakers. This article outlines tips for improving recovery of MessageAmp Premier Kit reaction products when the Barnstead Lab-Line shaker is not available.
Recommended Speed Settings
Figure 1 shows a comparison of specifications for laboratory shakers used by some MessageAmp Premier customers who have reported problems with inconsistent recovery of reaction products. The comparison illustrates that these non-preferred shakers differ considerably from the recommended Lab-Line shaker in terms of maximum speed and shaker motion diameter. It also shows the settings recommended for use in the aRNA purification protocol with the MessageAmp Premier Kit. These guidelines can serve as a basis for optimizing recovery of MessageAmp Premier Kit reaction products using other laboratory shakers with similar suboptimal speed and motion specifications.
Recommended Protocol Modifications
The VWR DS-500 and IKA KS 260 shakers do not match the maximum rpm setting of the Barnstead Lab-Line 4625 shaker. Therefore, we recommend adding manual pipetting steps prior to agitation on the VWR and IKA shakers during the binding, washing, and elution steps of the aRNA purification to improve mixing and aRNA recovery.
For Good Recovery of aRNA, Follow the Protocol Precisely
Regardless of which shaker is used, one of the most important tips for efficient reliable aRNA recovery from the MessageAmp™ Premier aRNA purification is to add reagents in the recommended order and make sure that the sample is mixed to homogeneity with the aRNA Binding Beads at each step. For example, in steps II.F.2–3 on pages 12–13 of the manual, the protocol specifies "2. Add 60 μL aRNA Binding Mix and transfer sample to U-bottom plate." then "3. Add 120 μL ethanol to each sample…" The transfer step not only moves samples to a container that facilitates the aRNA purification process, but also serves to mix the samples with the aRNA Binding Beads before adding the ethanol in the subsequent step. This prevents clumping of the beads to allow for maximum aRNA recovery.
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Charmaine San Jose, Kelli Bramlett, Natalie S. Hernandez, Mangkey Bounpheng, Chris Willis, Quoc Hoang • Applied Biosystems
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Charmaine San Jose, Kelli Bramlett, Natalie S. Hernandez, Mangkey Bounpheng, Chris Willis, Quoc Hoang • Applied Biosystems


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Jacob Danieley has always had an ear for country and gospel music. He was part of the Elon University music scene during his years there and at age 25, has already played guitar or piano for other artists on about 25 albums. He has produced 15 albums through his Burlington company, Danieley Music.
And this month, Danieley took his company to the Netherlands and recorded tracks for an up-and-coming Dutch group�s debut CD � the first international recording Danieley will have produced.
Originally from Burlington, Danieley graduated early from Elon in 2010 with a degree in music technology, and took to the road, touring with The Hoppers, a Southern gospel group.
�I toured with them for a while and then jumped ship and toured around with a few other groups,� Danieley said.
He said he found his way in Nashville performing country and bluegrass gigs with other artists, until a friend approached him in 2011 about co-producing an album.
�It was a gospel record for a group called The Sneed Family,� Danieley said. �They were kind of just getting started.�
Danieley and his friend worked on it in Nashville, which launched in 2012 and enjoyed instant success.
�We actually had a number four single off of it, which is great for a debut record,� he said.
Danieley and his friend also produced a Christmas recording for The Sneed Family, after which Danieley branched off on his own and established Danieley Music, through which he�s recorded sessions for country and gospel artists in Nashville and closer to home in North Carolina and Virginia.
�I started getting calls from a lot of the guys I�d always looked up to,� Danieley said. �I finally started making a name for myself as a player and as a producer.�
Danieley �tracks,� or records, anywhere and mixes and masters the tunes in his home studio, the New Haven Room. For local clients, Danieley generally goes to The Farm Studios in Madison to record tracks, before mixing at his home studio.
�I�m still doing a ton of touring � as a player and as an engineer, running front of house for different people,� Danieley said.
That�s how he landed the opportunity to produce an album internationally.
In June, Danieley was touring with The Hoppers again, this time overseas in Ireland and the Netherlands. While there, he got to talking with Dutch groups, and Men For Christ asked him to produce their first country gospel CD.
�There is a big market over there for this kind of thing. It�s just the majority of European engineers � are going for the techno, the kind of progressive rock (sound).�
Danieley said the �European-style country� has �more throwbacks to the Django Reinhardt gypsy jazz,� versus American country�s throwbacks to Johnny Cash and Hank Williams.
So Danieley is hoping to help satisfy a �strangely high demand� for the country and gospel sound by taking his Nashville know-how into the European market, starting with Men For Christ.
Not only was it Danieley�s first international production job, it was his largest, since the 16-voice men�s ensemble performs with an equally large number of musicians.
�A lot of music these days � even live � they�re using three, or four or five musicians and the rest is on track,� said Danieley. �But these guys legitimately have everyone on stage.�
�Standard tracking sessions over here, we may deal with a drummer, bass player, two guitars and a keyboard � maybe five or six guys at a time playing,� he said. �They�ve got a full band, a full string orchestra section, a full brass and woodwinds section, which is very uncommon these days,� said Danieley.
Even though the tracking was split up over about a week, Danieley was at any given time working with 18 individual artists at the same time. He said the process was like music recording was in the earlier days, before dubbing over tracks was an option.
�It�s more traditional folk country,� Danieley said. �But it�s different having the full orchestra. It�s just a totally different sound.�
Now that he�s back home in Burlington, Danieley has to mix and master the songs � which will take longer than usual given the number of musicians adding to each track�s complexity.
�The mix is going to take a day or two days per song,� he said. �And they tracked 12 songs.�
But Danieley is looking forward to the challenge, and hopes to work with the band again in the future.
�They want me to do their second record,� Danieley said, adding that Men For Christ has also approached him about traveling with them on tour to track live performances.
�This opportunity opened a ton of new doors,� he said. �It looks like I�m going to be working in Europe a lot more.�
For more information, check out the �Danieley Music� page on Facebook.
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It's spring cleaning time, folks! We're clearing out some of our storage space to make room for new stuff, so we're offering up some great kits for dirt cheap. Here are some recent additions to the Trossen Robotics Garage Sale:
|Superdroid Tri-Wheel Omni-Directional Vectoring Robot Kit
Vectoring omni-directional bots are really cool, and you know you've always wanted one. Buy this kit, give it a brain, and then come post about it in our forums. The platform is 12" on each side, so there's plenty of room for a small single-board computer.
Included: All the nuts and bolts, 2 platforms, battery packs, dual-layer omni-wheels, hubs, motors, and wires. Basically a complete hardware package. All it needs is motor controllers, a brain, and… you.
Sale Price: $200
|24V 3.6Ah NiMH Intercooled battery pack
The cells are spaced for air flow, and and the pack is equipped with two built-in fans. Active cooling allows for longer high-current operation and faster charging.
Sale Price: $40
|BattleKits Feather Weight Kit
16 inches wide by 16 inches long, this is the baby of the BattleKits family. Despite (or perhaps because of) it's small size and simple design, this is a bad ass battle bot platform. It has great mobility thanks to its two 3-horsepower 24V motors, and the slotted top panel allows the wheels to be in contact with the ground even if the bot gets flipped.
Included: Chassis, motors, wheels, battery pack, Ampflow Mini motor controller… all you need is an R/C receiver or other control signal source, and of course some flame throwers and pneumatic rams and spinning blades and whatnot.
Sale Price: $700
|BattleKits Light Weight Kit
16 inches by 18 inches, four wheel drive. Chassis only. No motors, batteries, or controller.
Included: Chassis, wheels, and drive mechanism.
Sale Price: $400
|BattleKits Middle Weight Kit
21 inches by 22 inches, four wheel drive. Comes with two S28-400 dc motors, each churning out a hefty 4.5 horsepower. The motors themselves are worth the price of this kit.
Included: Chassis, wheels, drive mechanism, motors.
Sale Price: $600
|BattleKits Heavy Weight Kit
This is the granddaddy of the BattleKits line. The chassis itself (which, coincidentally enough, is all we're selling here) is 30 inches by 24 inches and weighs 87 lbs. This thing is solid as a rock.
Included: Chassis, wheels, and drive mechanism.
Sale Price: $500
|BattleKits Drive Modules
Module A, Module B
Don't want a whole BattleKits chassis? Bolt these onto your own design. We only have one of each (form A and form B) left in stock, so it's perfect if you only need two wheels. Motors not included.
Included: Chassis, wheels, and drive mechanism.
Sale Price: $80 per module
That's it for now, but keep your eye on the Garage Sale. You never know what you'll find.


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Often it is necessary or desirable to balance the light intensity in one part of a scene with another. This is especially true in situations where you don't have total light control, as in bright contrasty landscapes. Exposing for the foreground will produce a washed-out, over-exposed sky while exposing for the sky will leave the foreground dark and under-exposed. Hitech Grad ND filters are part clear, part neutral density (available in grades of .3 (1 stop) to .9 (3 stops)). They allow the transition to be blended into the scene, often imperceptibly.
Hitech combination filters are like two filters in one. This filter is a Hitech Sunset filter combined with a graduated grey neutral density filter.
Hitech graduated resin filters are 4 x 5" (100 x 125mm) x 1.5mm thick. The 5" length allows for adjustment of the filter within the holder.
Neutral Density factors:
ND.3 (exposure adjustment = 1 stop)
ND.6 (exposure adjustment = 2 stops)
ND.9 (exposure adjustment = 3 stops)


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I had a question about asana and was hoping someone could help me with it.
I've been using half-lotus, generally for a maximum time of 30 minutes. Tonight, at around the 30 minute mark, I decided to power through to see what an hour was like. I remember hearing (or reading) that there is a type of "wall" one must hit and overcome in order to reach a state of painless bliss.
Anyway, I hit no such state. 30 minutes produced numbness, and by the 35 minute mark things were starting to hurt... The pain grew very intense around the 40 minute mark and continued until the hour was up. It's hard to rate pain, but I'd say it was almost unbearable (sweating from the pain, uncontrolled grimacing, nausea, etc.).
So, what of this wall? I was hoping the pain would go away, but it didn't. Would I have needed to go longer than 60 minutes? Or was I doing something wrong? Could someone describe what it's like to go from asana pain to no pain? Gradual, sudden, etc.? The pain was very bad in my left thigh and buttocks. Any insight would be much appreciated!


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Brian traveled the world and embedded himself with different groups of airline employees for his photo book Flight Attendants. This image of a training exercise (I'm guessing) was shot with 3 speedlights and 2 overhead, reading lights.
Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II with 35mm f.1.4 lens, set on a tripod 8 feet from model. Shot at 1/60, f5.6, ISO 400.
Lighting: Knowing that Brian shot much of this series while on real flights, I think he used smaller speedlights instead of packs and heads. The key light is coming from a speedlight at f5.6 held high by an assistant out of frame and to camera right of the flight attendant (it catches the back of her head as well as the smoke-filled cabin). Another speedlight at f2.8 is held by an assistant high and just to the right of the camera. This helps light the smoke near the top of the frame. The last speedlight is on-camera at f2.8 and slightly fills the model and the area under the overhead compartments. The two reading lights are airline issue.
Comments: Lunch during the shoot was served in Saran Wrapped plates and drinks were poured into plastic cups. If you asked nicely, you were allowed to keep the whole can of soda. Cocktails and wine were an additional $6. Brian also tried to avoid any turbulence with the model by making a moratorium on mile high club jokes.


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Zenprise on Wednesday announced that the new version of its MobileManager mobile device management (MDM) suite will include a component that lets iPad and iPhone users access Microsoft SharePoint project files and transfer them from their iOS device into a secure container. The module will honor the access policies set in SharePoint, both the on-premise and Office 365 versions, thus files can be set as read-only or uncopyable via email or transfer to other iOS apps. An Android version is planned for early 2012.
The company calls this module a data loss prevention (DLP) capability. However, unlike traditional DLP tools, it does not scan outgoing information from the corporate network to see if the sender and recipient have permission to access that data. Instead it extends the existing SharePoint controls to iOS.
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Microsoft does not support iOS or other mobile operating systems except its own Windows Phone, causing many SharePoint users working on mobile devices to copy project files outside the SharePoint environment so they can be used when traveling. Zenprise spokesman Ahmed Datoo says the DLP module is meant to address that gap in SharePoint's reach outside Microsoft enviroments.
Zenprise expects the updated MobileManager product to be available by December; pricing has not been set.
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Have you got any experience at all, such as any private or individual teaching?
I live in the Los Angeles area and would like to remain here and teach ESL to international students. However, all of the local language schools request at least 6 months experience. I am in a catch-22 because they will not hire me without experience but I can't figure out how to get actual ESL teaching experience unless I am willing to go abroad for several months (which I certainly cannot afford to do right now).
I'm beginning to wonder if I should add a section to my resume stating that I taught English to Mexican children in Tijuana through a church group. I don't want to lie on my resume but I'm beginning to believe it's the only way I can teach a subject I am so passionate about.
I'm frustrated
Have you got any experience at all, such as any private or individual teaching?
If you're interested in working as a volunteer, check with Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) in your area. LVA has an active ESOL program in just about every major city in the country. You can choose to teach one-on-one or in a class setting (I've found the class setting much easier). You set your own schedule, so the amount of teaching experience you get is up to you. I should think that if you taught 3 or 4 evenings per week @ 2 hours per class, prospective employers would be impressed that you want to teach so much that you would do it for nothing. Good luck.
JCrawf's suggestion is an excellent one. Another option you might investigate is checking out the local Adult Education programs that various high schools run at night. (The public library can probably help you get started in finding out which schools offer what night classes.) I had zero teaching experience at the time, but I happened to inquire about a position teaching calligraphy through a local Adult Ed program (I found their brochure at the library), and ended up doing it for eight years!
Just remember that any time you stretch the truth on a resume, it will usually come back to haunt you. Good luck!


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Making sense of death is the life of this 'Working Stiff'
It can be tough trying to explain why you've made a career out of death.
But it can be engaging if you bring to it the sensibilities of a medical examiner who literally has had a hand in examining hundreds of people who died in sometimes gruesome, often sad circumstances. For Judy Melinek, author of the new book Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner, that included being a rookie examiner doing autopsies of some of the 9/11 victims in New York.
Most of the book is devoted to her two years in the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. She started in July 2001, two months before the Sept. 11 attacks. She tries not to focus too much on the headline grabbers like that or the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York. The book looks at routine and oddball cases alike, as well as the big ones. Consider:
• The cable guy: A young man fond of crystal meth locks himself out of his nine-story apartment building, goes to the roof and unspools a coaxial cable to rappel to his open eighth-floor window to get in. Cable snaps. "When the body reached me the next morning, it was a mess," she writes.
• KIlled by egg roll machine: This was no joke, she writes. An egg roll factory had its combination shredder/mixer blow apart, sending its huge central drum and blade flying. The blade injured several workers. The drum pinned another worker to the floor, crushing his upper chest. He died of suffocation.
• A firefighter: With all the bodies coming in from the 9/11 attack, her office decided on a naming convention: Disaster Manhattan (DM) followed by the number of the body or body part being examined. DM-01-00123 was a firefighter, "head bashed in, badly burned but easy to identify because his name was embroidered on his shirt. ... I made a mental note to give the next living firefighter I encountered a big hug, whether he wanted it or not."
The book is equal parts sober, clinical science (not for the squeamish, by the way) and heartfelt stories of victims and their families.
She has a quick answer for friends who keep telling her, "I don't understand how you can do it."
All training in medicine to some extent involves "a slow desensitization process," she says.
"In some ways, it's easier for me, because a dead body really is an object, no longer a person at all. More important, that dead body is not my only patient. The survivors are the ones who really matter. I work for them, too."
She's also particularly empathetic to those losing loved ones to suicide. Her own father took his life when she was just 13. "My dad's suicide led me to embrace life — to celebrate it and cling to it."
Mostly, she wrote the book with her husband, T.J. Mitchell, a stay-at-home dad for their three kids, to focus on the training that pathologists undergo and to inject reality into the public notions of a pathologist's life based on all those TV cop shows, though even her book has been optioned for possible TV development. (Mitchell and Melinek are also working on a forensic detective novel together.)
"The assumption is that pathology is perfect, and pathologists spring from the womb all-knowing and solve cases in 45 minutes. The reality is much different," Melinek says from California, where she now works for the Alameda County Coroner office and as an associate clinical professor at the University of California-San Francisco.
Melinek also points out that the nation's pathologists are a relatively small family — about 500 for the whole country. Indeed, there's a shortage that needs to be addressed, says Gregory Davis, chief coroner/medical examiner for Jefferson County, Ala., and president of the National Association of Medical Examiners.
Not everyone has the personality for this kind of work, Davis acknowledges, but another issue is pay: Pathologists who work in all those hospital labs going over blood, urine and tissue samples from patients make better money — perhaps twice the pay of the forensic pathologists who work for government agencies, he says. His organization is trying to work with federal agencies to seek loan forgiveness for all that medical school debt weighing on those who enter forensic pathology.
Melinek and her husband worried that the ghoulish things she saw in her work would change them, make them paranoid about the ways she or her family might die.
But her experience had the opposite effect, making her realize that nearly every fatality she examined was the result of something "dangerously mundane or something predictably hazardous."
So, she says, avoid jaywalking, wear your seatbelt, get exercise, watch your weight, stop smoking. "You know that yellow line on the subway platform? It's there for a reason," she writes. "Staying alive, as it turns out, is mostly common sense."
Her most "heartbreaking" autopsy came in her first week on the job in New York, a woman killed by a white minivan while she was jaywalking. Turns out the woman was pregnant.
"When I saw that perfect fetus, when I took it in my hands, my vision clouded over with tears and my professional reserve fell away. It was a boy, with 10 fingers and 10 toes ... I returned him to his mother's body, to be buried with her."
That message of compassion carries through the book.
"Every doctor has to cultivate compassion, to learn it, and then practice it," she writes. "To confront death every day, to see it for yourself, you have to love the living."


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The Wright State University Payroll Department is a dedicated team of professionals committed to paying University employees on-time and accurately; to providing University employees with excellence in customer service and to supporting University efforts to achieve its mission.
Vision Statement
The Payroll Department will always support Wright State University as it works to achieve its mission. We will provide leadership in respect to our professionalism and knowledge of payroll practices making sure that Wright State University stays in compliance with payroll and taxation issues. We will be receptive and responsive to employees' and other departments' needs.
Our vision will be accomplished by:
- Fulfilling the Payroll Department's mission statement
- Providing university-wide communication and training in usage and interpretation of systems and university payroll policies while enhancing employee developmental opportunities
- Continuing the departmental education in regards to technology
- Exploring every available avenue to convey information to our customers and developing a newsletter and website to facilitate communication with the campus community
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- Confidentiality - We will always respect your privacy and the privacy of your personal information. In those situations where we are legally bound to divulge your personal information, we will limit the release of your data to that which is covered by the rules of compliance.
- Individuality/empathy - We understand that each employee is unique and makes a distinct contribution to the University. We will always begin by first trying to understand your concerns from your point of view.
- Teamwork - We will always work together to support the needs of the employee, the department, the division and each other. Our efforts will always support the University's initiatives to achieve its mission and goals.
- Honesty - We are truthful in all we say and all we do. And we are consistent in our application of policies and procedures for individual employees.
- Accuracy/Timeliness - We pay all employees the amount they are due on the schedule they are due to be paid. If a mistake occurs, regardless of the source of the problem, we will make the employee whole forthwith or within a reasonable time under the circumstances of the case.
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When you picture a tractor you're picturing the classic John Deere 4020 in iconic green-and-yellow. To celebrate the famous piece of farm equipment John Deere commissioned Chip Foose to customize a 1970 model. According to Wojdyla, he Foosed it up.
Honestly, it looks like every other Foose design to me and the design of the rollover protection is an interesting take on a key feature of the original. Wojdyla, though, freaked out when he saw it. He's still mad. Here are various comments he made when I showed him a picture:
"What a terrible design."
"Now you can only get on from one side."
"And you have to take the exhaust pipes off to service the left side battery."
"AND there's no place for nose weights."
"A tractor is a tool, its primary purpose is to be functional."
What do you think, awesome or lame? For comparison here's a factory original 4020, which is undeniably awesome. The tractor will be on display across America and then given away.
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Vine, Twitter's new video-sharing app, briefly showed a hardcore pornographic video as an "Editor's Pick" this morning.
The video appeared at the top of many users' feeds, but was quickly removed.
The video appeared with Vine's warning prompting people to tap the image to start playing. It's the same warning users see when a video has been reported for displaying inappropriate content.
It is unclear how a video that was reported for having inappropriate content became featured as an editor's pick. The user name on the video was "nsfwvine" and had the caption, "Dildoplay #nsfw #porn." Those are two common hashtags Vine users tag pornographic videos as to make them easier to find. The video showed a woman using a sex toy on a six-second loop.
This comes a day after Vine was widely criticized for making it easy to find pornographic content uploaded by users. Apple has a record of pulling such apps in the past.
Just last week Apple pulled a photo-sharing app called 500px, saying the app made it easy for users to find nude photos. Apple also pulled Viddy, another video-sharing app that's very similar to Vine, about a year ago because users were posting pornographic content.
As of this writing, Vine is a featured "Editor's Choice" app in Apple's App Store for iPhone.
Twitter released Vine last week. The app lets you cut six-second video clips and share them with your friends. It became very popular very quickly and was praised for its ease of use and clever design.
UPDATE: Twitter has responded to the incident and says the pornographic video was featured as an Editor's Pick due to human error:
A human error resulted in a video with adult content becoming one of the videos in Editor's Picks, and upon realizing this mistake we removed the video immediately. We apologize to our users for the error.
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Games By Design announces plans for A Valley Without Wind 2, a sequel to their procedurally generated side-scrolling action game. This was spotted on VG247 after being posted on Friday, but the site clarifies why this has not been formally announced (apologies to them for whatever undesired hype mentioning this provides): "We're now reversing that stance, however. We actually don't particularly want major news coverage about this in advance of it being playable, we decided. Why? We don't want it to be over-hyped, and we don't want to run up against potential skepticism for people who didn't like the first game. We're still in the process of getting the art assets together to where we could really do a true announcement, and so we haven't even contacted any of the press just yet about it." Word is the sequel will be free to owners of the first game, and here's word on what it will involve:
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The Winding Glass: With China Gaining Bigger Seafood Footprint, US Market Losing Control of Pricing
ANALYSIS: Stone Crab Season Kicks-off on October 15
Ocean Acidification Updates for Alaska Board of Fisheries
Danish Land-based Salmon Farm Nominated for "Star of Innovation" Award 2019
FishServe Welcome Kerry Prendergast to the Board
New York Sues U.S. Dept. of Commerce Over Fluke Allocation
The Road to New COMTELL: Development Blog #2
Listen: Bering Sea Crab Quotas; NPFMC Observer Program; Invasive Green Crabs and More
EPA Settles Clean Air Violations Charges with Starkist at Tuna Plant in Samoa
Dungeness Catches Double at Kodiak
Coast Guard Offering Marine Safety Classes for Commercial Fishermen
SeafoodNews.com Summary Monday, October 14
Opinion: Math Just Doesn't Add Up in Gulf of Alaska Trawl Fisheries
24th Annual China Fisheries & Seafood Expo Sells Out Venue
VIDEO: Groups Sue Over Pebble Mine; NMFS Humpback Protections; Invasive Crabs; Alaska Crab Quotas
China's National Day Stimulates Sales of Some Seafood But Not All
New Tool Developed to Assist Canadian Lobster Fishery with Impacts of Climate Change
Russia Plans to Increase its Seafood Imports from Latin America in Wake of EU Embargoes
Republic of Marshall Islands' Bigeye and Yellowfin Tuna Fishery Achieves MSC Certification
USCG Sets New Record for Illegal Fishing Vessel Interdictions in Gulf of Mexico
SeafoodNews.com Summary Friday, October 11
North Pacific Council Votes To Contain Costs in Complex Observer Program
NMFS Publishes Proposed Habitat Designation for Pacific Humpback Whales
Fourteen More Groups Sue EPA for Gutting Protections and Clearing Path for Pebble
ANALYSIS: Pangasius Imports Lowest in 11 Years
Fat Bear Week is Over but Pebble Mine Threat Continues
MSC Releases Annual Report, Highlights Strong Consumer Demand
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Seasonally, January brings in the highest volume of product from China, however, this was not the case for the start of 2019. January imports fell way below average with importers rushing product into the country in December 2018 to get ahead of the 25% tariff originally set for a January 1st, 2019 start date. With a 90-day window to prepare after the 10% tariffs were set in place, the industry was able to evaluate their current inventory levels and make a necessary plan of action for how they will proceed accordingly...
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ANALYSIS: Tariffs High, Inventory Holdings Low
Seasonally, January brings in the highest volume of product from China, however, this was not the case for the start of 2019. January imports fell way below average with importers rushing product into the country in December 2018 to get ahead of the 25% tariff originally set for a January 1st, 2019 start date. With a 90-day window to prepare after the 10% tariffs were set in place, the industry was able to evaluate their current inventory levels and make a necessary plan of action for how they will proceed accordingly...
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From the desk of Rich Carson
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Dear ME/CFS Patient and Loved Ones,
Courtney Miller had her question ready to go for President Obama during a 2011 presidential visit to Reno, Nevada. On that fateful afternoon, the President picked her out of a large audience and was moved by her question: "Mr. President…I'm asking you for my husband and my kids, who want their father to be able to go to their baseball games… if there's a way to make improvements on the meager funding by the National Institutes of Health into ME/CFS research."
Their two-and-a-half-minute exchange marked the first time a president of the United States ever publicly uttered the words "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"; and it was the first glimmer of hope that government may someday treat ME/CFS with the same respect it reserves for other serious diseases.
To the joy of patients and researchers alike, President Obama responded to Courtney's plea in a two-page letter urging the nation's top federal health officials to elevate ME/CFS on their list of priorities.
This breathtaking development suggests the government will finally take responsibility for the devastating disease that affects one million Americans and causes total disability in up to 25% of its sufferers. Up to now, the government has avoided facing "CFS" like the plague and funding has been woefully inadequate. This dearth of funding is partly related to the trivializing name that CDC officials gave to the disease 25 years ago, for which patients have had to pay dearly in lost respect and dignity. How could a disease called "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" be taken seriously enough to garner funding anyway?
Calling this disease 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' is like calling Alzheimer's 'Chronic Forgetfulness Syndrome.' As silly and un-serious as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sounds, it is a deadly serious disease that devastates its victims and renders their immune systems and nervous systems dysfunctional. Sufferers are at an increased risk for developing cancer, heart disease and a myriad of other serious diseases. And these maladies hit earlier in life than in the general population. Labeled malingerers, patients are stigmatized, ignored, and left to suffer on their own. They disappear and become invisible. Many commit suicide.
Economic Costs of ME/CFS
Government studies have shown that the economic loss caused by ME/CFS is staggering, amounting to $17 billion a year in lost productivity alone. One government study concluded that the government itself loses nearly $5 billion per year due to lost taxes, Medicare costs, and disability payments. This is particularly interesting because the government spends only $6 million per year to research the disease. Spending $6 million to research a disease that costs American taxpayers billions of dollars is fiscal irresponsibility at its worst. And $6 million is chump change for such an important disease; it's "go away" money.
Let's compare ME/CFS funding to another disease that is similar to ME/CFS in many ways -Multiple Sclerosis. MS affects approximately 400,000 Americans and garners $120 million in government funding. That's $300 per patient per year – compared to $6 dollars per patient for ME/CFS. That means that Multiple Sclerosis gets 5000% – 50 times – more research funding than ME/CFS! The government has ignored ME/CFS forever. Now that President Obama is involved in the ME/CFS research debacle, I believe that will change.
The Door to Change is Wide Open
Courtney Miller's emotional plea to the president opened the door to change and resulted in two things that ME/CFS patients have never had: respect and validation. President Obama not only took the time to study ME/CFS thoroughly, he proved it by referring to the disease as both Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, showing that the highest official in the nation knows that CFS and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis are indeed the same disease.
The President responded by asking the nation's top health officials to look carefully at ME/CFS to see if the government can do more. And he still wants more feedback. Because of this, patients have the opportunity to be heard by the President of the United States about the disease that has cost us so dearly. We are finally looking at a golden opportunity to right two monstrous wrongs at the same time: to get fair funding, and to change the trivializing, degrading name Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to the medical name that has been used for 60 years in more than 50 countries – Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. It is time for the hurtful, humiliating 'fatigue' label disappeared forever.
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Patients need to seize this opportunity to make this happen. The first thing we should do is write to President Obama to thank him for his interest in ME/CFS – and for his sensitivity and correctness in calling this disease Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Let him know that you or a loved one has been devastated by ME, and that you appreciate his personal involvement in the disease. Tell him we need funding that is commensurate with the seriousness of the disease, and that the name 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' degrades its sufferers and must be changed. It's important that the President realizes that ME affects lots of people – and lots of voters.
If you prefer, copy and paste the letter below into your e-mail browser and send it to the President at email@example.com . Please cc a copy to Courtney Miller, too, at the email address provided below. If you can, tell the President how ME/CFS changed your life, and what your life might have looked like if you had not succumbed to this disease.
I've been a patient since 1981 and an activist since I became a support group leader in the mid '80s. I've seen lots of exciting things come and go. But I've never seen an opportunity as good as this for patients to see the two most important things we need-research that will lead to a cure, and a new disease name that will help us regain our dignity and the respect of anyone who learns that we have a serious disease that is not a "fatigue syndrome." They go hand in hand.
There has never been a better time for patients to make a difference than right now, and the ball is in your court and mine. I hope you'll join with me by writing to President Obama to thank him for his interest and to let him know that he's on the right track.
Wishing you new-found hope and respect,
Rich Carson
ProHealth Founder; former support group leader
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Subject: Thank You for Elevating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Mr. President:
Thank you for your kind attention into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I am a patient with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ('CFS') and I have suffered hardships at the hands of this disease that most people will never know. I have seen my government disrespect me and other patients by calling our horrific disease by the very un-serious, un-medical name, 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.' I have seen my government turn its back on a million victims by failing to sincerely try to understand and treat my disease; and I have seen my government ignore common sense economics by spending only a paltry $6 million to fund research for a disease that costs the United States billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, Medicare payments, disability payments, and lost productivity.
Thank you for elevating the priority of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and thank you for encouraging HHS, NIH, and CDC to treat this disease as fairly as they would any serious disease – by appropriating necessary funding that is commensurate with the seriousness of this disease. I also ask that you encourage health officials to change the disrespectful, disparaging name 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' to the medical name it has been called in most of the world for over 60 years, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
I am certain your leadership will be a turning point in the ME/CFS health crisis affecting a million Americans, and I and my family and friends are deeply grateful for your efforts to give me hope of a life without chronic suffering and pain.
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Sarkozy's party making mess of French politics.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party led one of the world's biggest economies for a decade and now, in the space of a week, has melted down into something that may never be put back together again.
A mediation effort Sunday failed to reconcile the Union for a Popular Movement party or figure out who's in charge, seven days after a disputed election for a new party leader. The conflict looks headed now for the courts. The outcome could reshape France's political landscape and eventually weigh on Europe's direction too.
Central to the dispute is debate among French conservatives over immigration and Islam in the country with Western Europe's largest Muslim population. The election a week ago split party members into those leaning toward the anti-immigrant far right, represented by Jean-Francois Cope, and those hewing to more centrist views, supporting Francois Fillon.
Cope, who led France's push to ban face-covering Islamic veils and talks of anti-white racism, was initially declared winner of the Nov. 19 election.
Then uncounted votes were discovered that could swing the vote in Fillon's favor.
Accusations of fraud swirled. Insults flew. The week wore on, and the party still had no clear leader.
Hope turned to former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, who said the dispute has been "irresponsible and disastrous" and convened both candidates Sunday night to try to mediate and keep the party he founded in one piece.
After the meeting, he tweeted, "The conditions for mediation are lacking. My mission is over." Cope said the party commission should examine the complaints and declare a winner.
Fillon, whose supporters say that commission is too Cope-friendly, said he'd go to court instead to uncover "the truth of the results and return the voice to the party members." In a statement, he said Cope rejected the mediation effort and called him responsible for the party's "failure." Cope and Fillon want to lead opposition to Socialist President Francois Hollande -- and run for president themselves in 2017. Since Sarkozy lost elections in May in a wave of anti-austerity sentiment in May, France's presidency, parliament and most regional governments have all been under Socialist control.
The UMP fiasco has worried officials beyond France's borders as well. Sweden's ambassador, Gunnar Lund, tweeted, "I'm trying to explain to my government what's happening at the heart of the UMP. Not easy!" In the European Union, Hollande's Socialists have pushed against public spending cuts for indebted countries that use the shared euro currency, and battled Britain over cutbacks in the EU budget.
A UMP collapse would benefit the Socialists in the short term. But some French commentators have expressed concern that the Socialists -- who long suffered their own divisions and who still lack cohesion -- need a robust opposition to focus their energies at a time when they need to be making tough decisions. Hollande's popularity is weak six months into his term, as the economy struggles and one in 10 workers is looking for a job.
Meanwhile, France's far right National Front is hoping to capitalize on the UMP's troubles and bring in new support from the more hard-right members of the conservative party. And a new centrist party, UDI, says it has already reaped benefits, winning new members over the past week amid increasing disillusion with the UMP.
All this means nostalgia for the charismatic but divisive Sarkozy is on the rise, with many conservatives hoping he returns to politics. In a sign of how low things have sunk in French politics, support for Sarkozy resurfaced even as he was named special witness in an investigation involving alleged illegal campaign cash that could see him face charges.
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Marscrumbs wrote:And why should your camp torment be different than everyone elses?cfilson wrote: You know, I'm actually kind of glad Out of Africa didn't pan out this year, because the weather/dust storms would have obliterated everything I would have brought or built.
The idea I had required a lot of hand props and big, open tents. That would have lasted about ten minutes before being eaten/erased by the desert. I knew the weather would be harsh, but that was an eye-opener. Lesson learned.
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It seems people just can't get enough of Herbalife and the controversy surrounding this stock.
On Friday the company was at the center of a spirited exchange between top hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
The two Wall Street titans locked horns over the future prospects of the company.


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The Hopland Research and Extension Center is one of nine field research facilities throughout the state operated by the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources unit. In 1951, the university purchased the acreage from the Roy L. Pratt Ranch in Hopland to use as a site for long-term, controlled research on native rangelands, watersheds and wildlife. Today it encompasses 5,358 acres.?
Gregory Giusti, University of California Cooperative Extension director for Lake and Mendocino counties, explains that the university gets money from the USDA to support the field station, and the county provides the facilities and staff to run it, making it a cooperative.?
In addition to a large flock of grazing sheep, the native vegetation at the field station supports more than 180 species of wild birds, 40 mammals, 15 reptiles and 12 amphibians. Facilities include a laboratory/office complex, library, office space for staff and researchers, a bunkhouse, a greenhouse, weather stations and ongoing research projects, field trips and workshops for undergraduate and graduate students.
Giusti says, "The field station is providing outreach programs highlighting the variety of our research projects to show the public what we are doing. This piece of land is a jewel in our backyard. There are opportunities for animal science research. We have sheep, goats and cattle. Over time the most numerous types of research are conducted around our natural resource: frogs, grasses, turkey birds, trees, wildlife and plants.
"Much of what we do relates to running a ranch: moving sheep from pasture to pasture, road upgrades, taking care of the facilities, day to day ranch stuff. We also have as many as 40 to 50 active projects at any one time. The staff provides assistance to researchers collecting data, making observations, maintaining and installing hardware, daily monitoring of weather and seismographic activity."
Of the many items of interest on the land is the turkey vulture, an avian inhabitant of the oak woodlands that makes its nest in hollowed-out trunks of old, benighted and sometimes diseased oaks.
Giusti has been researching these scavenger birds for many years and is currently in the middle of a three-year study at the field station. His is the first to survey their nest sites to better understand their behavior.
"There are only two existing studies of turkey vultures; it is a completely unexplored topic. They have been ignored or overlooked. They are part of the California landscape and no one has asked the question of what makes them tick. They aren"t warm and cuddly so people aren"t drawn to them; my academic curiosity drew me in. ?
"We have discovered, astoundingly, that they nest in tree cavities, in old grove oak trees, those that are considered dilapidated from old age, disease and the fires that create the cavities. Consider the size of a hole you need to accommodate the nest of a bird as big as a vulture. You need a big tree and a big cavity.
"Think of the tree as a tube, a culvert standing upright. We have seen the vultures jump inside the hollow, the middle of the tree, some 8 to 10 feet down; we have seen the nest at the bottom with its eggs, two; and we have seen them fly away from the top of the tree. Since there is not sufficient diameter for them to fly up from the inside, we surmise that they shimmy up to the top. When the hatchlings are about a month old and able to fly, almost full size, they, too, must shimmy up to get out."??
"There is a potentially limiting factor in their reproductive cycle: usually people consider old oaks unattractive and unsightly and take them down; some of our current fire suppressant activities could be inhibiting the recruitment of trees with these needed characteristics; absence of fire eliminates the necessary features for nesting habitation.
"We are looking into the role oak woodlands, under enormous stress factors, play in relation to the vulture. These trees as old as 200 years are limited in distribution and numbers. We are focusing on the characteristics of tree the birds select and giving advice to landowners as to the value of these at-risk trees for future vulture reproduction."
They have identified 12 trees at the field station that are used year after year by the vultures. They have seen other animals visiting the tree nests?foxes and raccoons going into the hollow and coming up? empty-pawed.
There are many interesting aspects of the turkey vulture. The babies are born snow white and turn black as they mature ready to leave the nest, almost full grown, and ready to fly.
Their featherless heads allow them to feed intimately on putrid carrion and fish, decaying plants, insects, grass and leaves, sterilizing as they go. Their gut has a high percentage of acids to deal with the bacteria of the carrion. They can smell a meal from 1,000 feet or more from overhead and their six -foot, V-shaped wing span makes them masters at soaring.
If threatened they may roll over and play dead or vomit when under stress. They urinate on their legs to keep cool.
Seeing them on a post or tree in their spread-winged stance known as the horaltic pose is grandeur to behold. While taking on the semblance of prayer, they do this for functionality: to dry their wings, warm their bodies and bake off bacteria.
Even though they are principally migratory, some do overwinter in the county. Most, however, fly to Southern California, Mexico and Central America for the warmer climate. Giusti says, "Are they common or just obvious? They are birds you cannot help but notice; your eyes are drawn to them because they are so big. They are very secretive and wary; when we approach them the adults show no aggressive behavior but the babies hiss. They themselves don"t smell and neither do their nests."
The public is invited to attend a free, monthly research-related, public seminar at the Rod Shippey Hall at 4700 University Road, Hopland, on Aug. 26 from 7 to 8 p.m.: "Turkey Vultures in the Oaks ? A Lovely Yet Maligned Bird." Speakers will be Bob Keiffer, superintendent at the center, and Greg Giusti, forest & wildland ecology advisor for UC Cooperative Extension in Mendocino and Lake counties. Following the seminar will be an opportunity for questions and answers; light refreshments will be served.