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First look: 'Christmas Carol' weak, 'Precious' soars
Audiences said a surprising "humbug" to big-budget family fare this weekend while embracing one of the most grim and serious movies of the year.
Walt Disney Studios' nearly $200-million investment in producing its animated 3-D version of "A Christmas Carol" opened to a weak $31 million this weekend, according to studio estimates, while Lionsgate's "Precious" broke records by selling $1.8 million worth of tickets at just 18 theaters.
The "Christmas Carol" launch was particularly disappointing for Disney given the hype generated by its marketing and publicity machine, star Jim Carrey and the benefit of 55% of its theaters playing the movie on 3-D screens, which carry a ticket price surcharge. (Nearly three-quarters of ticket sales came from theaters playing "A Christmas Carol" in 3-D.)
The opening weekend number is just $400,000 more than what director Robert Zemeckis' last 3-D motion-capture animated movie, "The Polar Express," grossed in its first five days after opening on a Wednesday in 2004, when ticket prices were substantially lower.
Last year on the same weekend, DreamWorks Animation's "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" debuted to $63.1 million, demonstrating that it is possible to launch a family movie to significantly better business in early November.
The news for "A Christmas Carol" was somewhat better overseas, where the debut grossed $18 million in 12 markets, led by Mexico and British. Disney reported that the total is 50% more than what "The Polar Express" opened to in the same countries. The studio is now left to hope that future foreign openings will be strong and that it will decline slowly domestically, although turning it into a financial success after such a weak start will be tough.
Meanwhile, Lionsgate's "Precious" broke records by generating a per-theater opening average of $100,000, one of the highest of all time and the highest ever for any movie playing more than six theaters. It opened this weekend in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Atlanta.
Many in Hollywood and even at Lionsgate, which acquired the movie for $5.5 million after it won three top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival this year, wondered whether it would be too grim for audiences in a year when many serious dramas have struggled at the box office. But the independent studio's strategy of marketing to upscale audiences and a broad swath of African Americans through critical raves and endorsements from Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry clearly paid off.
Sony's Michael Jackson movie, "This Is It," held very well for a concert film, dropping 40% on its second weekend to $14 million domestically, good enough for second place at the box office. Most concert movies trail off quickly after a big opening, but "This Is It" appears to be generating strong word of mouth and repeat viewings, validating Sony's decision to extend the movie's run beyond the initially planned two weeks.
Thus far, the picture, for which Sony paid $60 million, has sold $57.9 million worth of tickets domestically and $128.6 million internationally.
Among the weekend's other new films, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and "The Fourth Kind" had decent starts while "The Box" did not.
"Goats" collected a studio-estimated $13.3 million. Distributor Overture Films paid close to $5 million for domestic rights to the political comedy starring George Clooney, which cost $20 million to produce.
"The Fourth Kind," which Universal distributed for financier Gold Circle Films, opened to $12.5 million, a good start for the low-cost horror film.
But Warner Bros.' thriller "The Box," which it co-financed with Radar Pictures and Media Rights Capital at a cost of $25 million, debuted to just $7.9 million.
-- Ben Fritz
Photo: A scene from "A Christmas Carol." Credit: ImageMovers Digital


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What would happen if every single library in the US bought a porsche and allowed it to be checked out 3 weeks at a time for free. Well the first thing would be that many systems would probably have to buy a couple extras because of the demand to check out the car. The second is that over time they would be worn out and the libraries would have to buy more porsches to replace them. I am pretty sure that this system would actually result in a net increase in the number of porsches sold in the US, and porsche would love it.
If littering hundreds of sheets of paper on my private property that I then have to dispose of is protected speech then shouldn't spray painting a message on the side of my house be as well. In fact shouldn't I be required to allow companies to paint a billboard on the side of my house as long as they also include a map of the area around their business? This is asinine, they aren't being prevented from printing or distributing their "product" only from dumping it on people's property against their will. Before I got on a do not distribute list I was receiving nearly a foot tall stack of 10-12 different yellow pages per year. I hope the ordinance will be rewritten more narrowly and rather than creating a list simply ban the dumping of paper on private property entirely.
It is unbelievable to me that in his note he acts like having to go to 2 separate websites and rate each movie 2 times is somehow an advantage over the current system. Part of what makes netflix good is that it is quick and easy to use, the new method guarantees it will take twice as long to rate a movie.
Portland Oregon has taken the opposite approach opening up all their bus gps data etc and it has had some great results including mobile apps.
Here in Oregon Comcast advertises like crazy that it's crappy on demand service has movies right away, 28 days before netflix/redbox, so it seems like the only one benefiting from this is comcast's marketing department.
I wish he would put it on netflix, so I could watch it and he could get some money from it. Maybe he is trying I don't know exactly how the netflix royalties work, and I can work a bittorrent as well as the next guy but don't mind tossing it in the netflix queue especially since I think that does help the makers get paid...
as someone who was laid off at the same time that hurd was using company funds to pay former porn stars to "escort" him around I think the main mistake here was paying him off, rather than trying to have him prosecuted for stealing company funds and firing him outright. However I am surprised to learn that 40 million dollars worth of severance can not make a non compete clause enforceable, seems like a contract with compensation to me.
Regardless he should be prosecuted for insider trading as he dumped millions in stock just days before the news of his tryst/resignation became public.
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The ink cartridges that come with your printer generally come with far less ink than the replacement cartridge you buy at the store. This lets people startup without having to buy additional ink. Always buy the largest size supply you can get for your printer, they are a much better deal cost of ownership wise.


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Taranaki's unique mountain to surf landscape is best explored with the help of a local tour guide – this way, you'll learn more about the culture and heritage that this region is known for. Venture into Egmont National Park, be guided through a pristine rainforest, or choose to take a voyage up the Mokau River. There's also a jewellery manufacturing tour on offer, where you can take a look behind the scenes of a local studio.


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Michael Lawrence Turner
October 1, 1963- April 15, 2014
Michael Lawrence Turner passed away Tues. April 15th 2014 with his family and friends by his side. Mike was born on Oct. 1st., 1963 in Walnut Creek, Ca. to Jerrold and Janet Turner. He spent his younger years vacationing in Tahoma at the family home. When he was 17 Mike decided to make Tahoe his permanent home. He loved the outdoors and became a Rubicon Trail regular. Dirtbiking, snowmobiling and rockcrawling were all mikes passions.He built his own buggy and drove it in one of the Snowfest parades. Starting from a small firewood business, Mike built"Turner Tree Service" from the ground up. He was successful locally for 30 years. Expanding his business to assist in the Hurricane Katrina clean-up as well as efforts in the Lake Arrowhead fire. He was a master of his craft and had many loyal customers. The proudest moments of Mike's life were being a father to his son, Sean. They shared many amazing times together and Sean will miss him greatly. Also remembering Mike are his parents Jerrold and Janet, brother Jim, sister Julie, nieces Natalie and Jamie and countless friends. Be at peace Mike, we love you! A memorial will be held May 31st at 3:00pm in the South Lodge of Homewood Mountain Resort. Donations can be made to Sean Turner at Plumas Bank, Tahoe City


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Name: Mary-Stuart Carruthers
Age: Older than I hope people think.
Occupation/profession: Financial adviser
In Rockford area since: Moved to Rockford in 1972. Previously lived in Oklahoma, Virginia, New York, Chicago, Evanston and Wilmette.
Transform Rockford involvement: I believe in and support all the values. I'll discuss inclusion, which is to cultivate and support an environment that fully engages our communities' differences and diversities. Long-term we need to bond with every segment of the community.
What's new at Transform Rockford: We're finalizing the Vision Statement and will present it to the community this summer. We will ask for feedback and do more fine-tuning.
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Come and machine quilt with Jill for three days and sleep in your own bed. Don't be left out of this wonderful opportunity to learn, improve and perfect your machine quilting skills so that you too, will be able to create beautiful heirloom quilts like the experts. Jill will take you on an adventure in machine quilting and teach you everything that you will need to know in order to do successful machine quilting. You don't have to have machine quilting skills to participate in this great class. All skill levels are welcome. Pick and choose what you'd like to work on as there will be many options available for each student. Limited to 8 students.
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IRS knew of tea party targeting
Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew employees were singling out conservative groups for extra scrutiny as early as 2011, according to a watchdog agency's report set to be released next week, POLITICO has confirmed from a congressional source.
The disclosure that senior officials knew agents were flagging applications containing the words "patriot" or "tea party" contradicts public statements by former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. He repeatedly denied that his agency was targeting conservative groups when asked by Congress last year.
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"There's absolutely no targeting. This is the kind of back and forth that happens to people" who apply for tax-exempt status, Shulman told a House Ways and Means subcommittee in March 2012.
( Also on POLITICO: Where does IRS look for cheats?)
The Internal Revenue Service is in the process of confirming when its leadership was informed, according an IRS statement released Saturday.
"IRS senior leadership was not aware of this level of specific details at the time of the March 2012 hearing. The timeline does not contradict the Commissioner's testimony. While Exempt Organizations officials knew of the situation earlier, the timeline reflects that IRS senior leadership did not have this level of detail," the statement reads.
The revelation about senior leadership adds fuel to the agency's admission Friday that at least 75 conservative groups were flagged for extra review because their tax documents contained the words "tea party" or "patriot."
( Also on POLITICO: Immigration's new ally: Tea partiers)
The disclosures are guaranteed to heighten Republican fears that the agency is targeting the administration's political enemies and hands the GOP a fresh issue to use in attacking President Barack Obama's administration.
House Ways and Means Oversight Committee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-La.) has already sent a letter to acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller demanding that the agency turn over all communications that contain the words "tea party" "patriot" or "conservative."
Boustany also asked Miller for the names and titles of all "individuals involved in this discrimination."
The congressional source, who was briefed on the report, said the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that senior Washington officials were informed in 2011. The agency is not disputing the timeline included in the report.


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techsupport necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
Online ordering system for restaurants
Restaurant Owners
We are an online ordering services for restaurants looking for a design to the Promo/Presentation page for prospect restaurant owners. No programming is needed; we only want to have the design and elements for the page. The template must use our current layout (background, logo and color scheme) but will consider suggestions. Our main goal is to captivate/attract restaurant owners on enrolling mainly to our Deluxe package by promoting the benefits of the service and convert them into clients. You can go to (links) and see what we currently have for the page and use the information we have on display.
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The second part of our project is a banner ad with the same purpose, preferable as a flash banner. We would like the size to be:
120 x 90 pixels (Button 1)
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No. 93,377
K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512 is construed and applied.
Appeal from Cowley District Court; JACK L. LIVELY, judge. Opinion filed December 23, 2005. Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.
Janine Cox, capital appellate defender, for appellant.
James R. Spring, deputy county attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., GREENE, J., and BRAZIL, S.J.
RULON, C.J.: Jack L. Goldsmith appeals the district court's summary dismissal of the motion for DNA testing, contending the district court erred in applying the 1-year limitation of K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 60-1507(f) to motions brought under K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
Underlying Facts
The long and sordid history of this case does not need to be recounted here. However, a brief overview of the procedural history of this case may prove illuminating.
In October 1997, Goldsmith was charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, rape, and aggravated criminal sodomy. In the course of the investigation of these alleged crimes, the State obtained a substantial amount of physical evidence, including blood and saliva samples and bodily fluid swabs from Goldsmith and the victim. Subsequent testing of selected items revealed no seminal fluid or blood which connected Goldsmith to the crime or the victim to items discovered in Goldsmith's residence. A stipulation to this effect was read to the jury. Nevertheless, the jury convicted Goldsmith of all charged crimes.
Following sentencing, Goldsmith filed a motion for DNA testing. In the motion, Goldsmith alleged that physical evidence was seized which the laboratories of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation were unable to analyze but which the Federal Bureau of Investigation could analyze. Goldsmith alleged such physical evidence, when analyzed, would prove exculpatory. The district court summarily denied Goldsmith's request for DNA testing without explanation.
In his direct appeal to this court, Goldsmith raised the issue of DNA testing. This court did not grant any relief because Goldsmith had not identified the district court's ruling with respect to the DNA testing in his notice of appeal. See State v. Goldsmith, No. 82,065, unpublished opinion filed April 28, 2000, slip op. at 6. Our Supreme Court denied review on July 13, 2000.
On August 21, 2000, Goldsmith filed another 1507 motion. In this motion a claim for DNA testing was again made. In addition, a motion for DNA testing was filed. The district court denied Goldsmith's requested relief for DNA testing, citing Mebane v. State, 21 Kan. App. 2d 533, 902 P.2d 494, rev. denied 258 Kan. 859 (1995), and finding the State's evidence of guilt was not weak. Goldsmith again appealed this decision to this court. Affirming the summary dismissal of Goldsmith's claims, this court said of the DNA testing issue:
"In his direct appeal, this court addressed Goldsmith's claim that there was insufficient evidence for his conviction, as well as his claim for ineffective assistance of counsel and his request for DNA testing. This court affirmed Goldsmith's convictions, finding that the evidence in support of the convictions was overwhelming and that Goldsmith's trial counsel was effective. In affirming the trial court's denial of Goldsmith's motion for DNA testing, this court found that Goldsmith had acquiesced in his trial counsel's strategy to emphasize the State's lack of physical evidence connecting him to the crime.
"Supreme Court Rule 183(d) (2001 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 210) provides that the court 'shall not entertain a second or successive motion for relief on behalf of the same prisoner' when the same ground(s) for relief was determined adversely to the applicant in a prior application, the prior determination was on the merits, and the ends of justice would not be served by reaching the merits on subsequent application.
"The trial court and this court have already considered and rejected Goldsmith's motion for DNA testing. The prior determination was made on the merits, and the ends of justice would not be served by reaching the merits again. Goldsmith raises several issues in his analysis of the trial court's denial of his current motion for DNA testing. However, Goldsmith fails to address the fundamental issue of why the appellate court should consider the issue again in light of Supreme Court Rule 183(d).
"Goldsmith's argument for DNA testing relies on Mebane v. State, 21 Kan. App. 2d 533, 902 P.2d 494 (1995). This case was published nearly 3 years before Goldsmith's crimes were committed. Thus, he could have argued Mebane before now. Accordingly, the trial court properly denied Goldsmith's motion for DNA testing." Goldsmith v. State, No. 86,692, unpublished opinion filed November 27, 2002, slip op. at 2-4.
Once again, our Supreme Court denied Goldsmith's petition for review of this court's decision.
Finally, Goldsmith filed the current action requesting DNA testing under K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512, on June 23, 2004. Treating the request as a motion brought under K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 60-1507, the district court summarily denied the motion, finding it was not timely filed within 1 year of the Kansas Supreme Court's denial of Goldsmith's petition for review in his last 1507 proceeding as required in K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 60-1507(f).
Right to DNA Testing
The sole issue raised in this appeal concerns the district court's dismissal of Goldsmith's request for DNA testing under 21-2512 as untimely under 60-1507. This issue presents a question of statutory interpretation, which is subject to unlimited review. See State v. Maass, 275 Kan. 328, 330, 64 P.3d 382 (2003).
"(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person in state custody, at any time after conviction for murder as defined by K.S.A. 21-3401, and amendments thereto, or for rape as defined by K.S.A. 21-3502, and amendments thereto, may petition the court that entered the judgment for forensic DNA testing (deoxyribonucleic acid testing) of any biological material that:
(1) Is related to the investigation or prosecution that resulted in the conviction;
(2) is in the actual or constructive possession of the state; and
(3) was not previously subjected to DNA testing, or can be subjected to retesting with new DNA techniques that provide a reasonable likelihood of more accurate and probative results.
"(b)(1) The court shall notify the prosecuting attorney of a petition made under subsection (a) and shall afford the prosecuting attorney an opportunity to respond.
(2) Upon receiving notice of a petition made under subsection (a), the prosecuting attorney shall take such steps as are necessary to ensure that any remaining biological material that was secured in connection with the case is preserved pending the completion of proceedings under this section.
"(c) The court shall order DNA testing pursuant to a petition made under subsection (a) upon a determination that testing may produce noncumulative, exculpatory evidence relevant to the claim of the petitioner that the petitioner was wrongfully convicted or sentenced.
"(d) The cost of DNA testing ordered under subsection (c) shall be borne by the state or the petitioner, as the court may order in the interests of justice, if it is shown that the petitioner is not indigent and possesses the means to pay.
"(e) The court may at any time appoint counsel for an indigent applicant under this section.
"(f)(1) If the results of DNA testing conducted under this section are unfavorable to the petitioner, the court:
(A) Shall dismiss the petition; and
(B) in the case of a petitioner who is not indigent, may assess the petitioner for the cost of such testing.
(2) If the results of DNA testing conducted under this section are favorable to the petitioner, the court shall:
(A) order a hearing, notwithstanding any provision of law that would bar such a hearing; and
(B) enter any order that serves the interests of justice, including, but not limited to, an order:
(i) Vacating and setting aside the judgment;
(ii) discharging the petitioner if the petitioner is in custody;
(iii) resentencing the petitioner; or
(iv) granting a new trial.
(3) If the results of DNA testing conducted under this section are inconclusive, the court may order a hearing to determine whether there is a substantial question of innocence. If the petitioner proves by a preponderance of the evidence that there is a substantial question of innocence, the court shall proceed as provided in subsection (f)(2).
"(g) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the circumstances under which a person may obtain DNA testing or other postconviction relief under any other provision of law." K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512.
The scope of this statute has already been addressed on two separate occasions by our Supreme Court. See State v. Denney, 278 Kan. 643, Syl. ¶ 2, 101 P.3d 1257 (2004) (extending the scope of the statute to include aggravated criminal sodomy); Bruner v. State, 277 Kan. 603, 605, 88 P.3d 214 (2004). In Bruner, the movant had been convicted of first-degree murder and filed a 1507 motion, seeking DNA testing as well as alleging a number of trial errors. The Bruner court broadly construed Bruner's request for DNA testing as a claim brought under K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512. See Bruner, 277 Kan. at 605.
Under the plain language of K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512(a), an individual who has been convicted of first-degree murder or rape may seek DNA testing as provided by the statute at any time following the conviction. The Bruner court reasoned that the exceptional circumstance requirement imposed by Rule 183(c)(3) (2005 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 228) for motions brought under 60-1507 was not applicable.
Following similar reasoning, nothing within K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512 imposes a one-year limitation on claims for DNA testing. Therefore, the district court erred in dismissing Goldsmith's request for DNA testing under K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 60-1507(f). The State acknowledges that, under Bruner, the district court should not have dismissed Goldsmith's request for DNA testing because of the 1-year limitations period in K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 60-1507(f). Nevertheless, the State argues the district court properly dismissed the request for DNA testing because the physical evidence seized in the investigation of the crime revealed no biological materials which connected Goldsmith in any manner to the crime. As a result, the State contends the defendant cannot establish that the physical evidence seized during the criminal investigation will produce any biological materials, which, in turn, prevents the defendant from establishing the existence of noncumulative, exculpatory evidence, warranting DNA testing. See K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512(c).
If a trial court reached a right and just result, the mere fact that it based its decision on erroneous reasoning does not mandate reversal for further proceedings. Rather, the reason given by the district court for its ruling is immaterial if the correct result was obtained by the ruling. See State v. Graham, 277 Kan. 121, 133, 83 P.3d 143 (2004). Nevertheless, from a review of the record on appeal, it is impossible for this court to conclude the district court reached the correct result in this case.
In Bruner, our Supreme Court noted that Bruner's conviction had not rested on physical evidence obtained from biological material but on circumstantial evidence. Yet, the court noted that law enforcement had collected biological samples of the victim, even though the evidence was not used against the defendant at trial. The court then opined:
"K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 21-2512 does not require the prisoner to make specific allegations regarding how the DNA testing would produce noncumulative, exculpatory evidence. The statute merely requires the prisoner to allege that the evidence is related to the investigation or prosecution of his or her conviction, that the State has possession or constructive possession of the evidence, and that the evidence was not previously subjected to DNA testing or that it could be tested using new DNA testing techniques. K.S.A. 2003 Supp. 21-2512(a)." Bruner, 277 Kan. at 606.
The Bruner court then determined that Bruner's allegations merited a hearing and the appointment of counsel. The danger of Bruner's allegations leading to a mere "fishing expedition" was limited by the requirements of the statute. 277 Kan. at 606.
Here, the State articulates no basis for a different result in this case. Admittedly, on the few biological items tested by the State, evidence was admitted indicating that no seminal fluid or blood tied the defendant to the crime, and the jury subsequently convicted the defendant from circumstantial evidence of guilt. However, a vast amount of physical evidence was seized by the police in the underlying criminal investigation. The statute clearly provides the right to DNA testing of biological material that was not previously subjected to DNA testing, was related to the criminal investigation, and is currently in actual or constructive possession of the State. K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-2512(a).
As in Bruner, Goldsmith has alleged throughout the course of his postconviction proceedings that further DNA testing of the hair samples, the victim's underwear, and many other pieces of physical evidence would produce exculpatory evidence. As in Bruner, these allegations at least warranted a hearing and the appointment of counsel. The district court's summary dismissal of Goldsmith's request cannot be deemed correct for the wrong reason.
Reversed and remanded for appointment of counsel and an evidentiary hearing.


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I was planning a new herb profile for today (valerian), but I think I'll settle for sharing a few odds and ends that I've been tracking lately:
Hot pepper wars -- According to The Wall Street Journal, the race to develop the hottest pepper is heating up for real. If you've ever tried a Scotch bonnet pepper (habanero) you know it's a scorcher, but it pales in comparison to the capsaicin busting varieties being developed today. Here's an example: The newest (hottest) pepper on record is the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T. It rates a 1.464 million on the Scoville heat scale (concentrations of capsaicins). Compare that to the habanero -- which can be plenty hot. It rates a mere 100,000 to 300,000 on the Scoville scale. Yikes. For a rundown on the latest and hottest in peppers, you can find the article here: The Arms Race to Grow World's Hottest Pepper Goes Nuclear
Here's another goodie you may want to track over the course of the year:
|Example of an Indoor Vertical Garden
The idea of making cityscapes a little greener with vertical gardening is catching on, too. In Milan, Italy, they're embarking on a pilot project that will add exterior plant landscaping to a couple of skyscrapers. Actually, the idea began back in 2008. You can see some of the spectacular artist depictions of what they want to achieve here: Vertical forest' Skyscrapers Coming to Milan.
The project is slated for completion this year, so you'll probably be hearing more about it as the drama unfolds. Now, wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall as they're installing all those hundreds of trees, shrubs and plants?
Before I sign off to baste the ham and start preparing deviled eggs, I wanted to thank you all for being regular visitors to The Herb Gardener. You make writing a pleasure.
Last minute tip: Don't toss that decorative parsley. Chop it up and place it in ice cube trays. Fill the trays with water and freeze. When frozen, remove the parsley cubes to a freezer bag and use them in your recipes. No waste.
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September 11, 2007
Contact: Gene Fadness 208-334-0339, 890-2712
Website: www.puc.idaho.gov
PUC allows daily adjustment to prices paid generators
State regulators have granted a request by utilities to adjust rates paid small-power producers so they more closely match the actual value of energy at the point of time it is delivered.
The value of energy increases during peak demand times and decreases during light-load hours, yet utilities maintain they must pay the same price to the small-power generator during light load hours as it pays when the energy is delivered during heavy load hours.
In a related matter, the Idaho Public Utilities Commission denied a request by utilities to place further restrictions on the distance allowed between wind projects, or other small-power generation projects, which are owned by the same entity.
Under the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA), regulated utilities must buy power from generators of renewable energy a rate that is published by state utility commissions. That rate, currently about $62.40 per megawatt-hour, is called the avoided-cost rate and is typically more attractive than market rates. The rate is to be based on the cost the utility avoids when it buys from a PURPA project and thus does not have to generate the power itself or buy it from another source.
Utilities are already allowed a seasonable adjustment to account for the changing value of energy between the various seasons of the year. But because the value of energy fluctuates hourly, Idaho Power Company and Rocky Mountain Power (formerly Utah Power) petitioned the commission for a daily load shape adjustment, similar to one recently granted Avista Utilities in northern Idaho. The revision does not change the computation of the avoided-cost rate but could change the revenues received by small-power producers depending on the times during the day they deliver their energy.
Idaho Power proposed a daily load shape adjustment of $11.63, as the weighted difference between light-load hours and heavy-load hours. However, commission staff proposed and the commission adopted an adjustment of $7.28. For Rocky Mountain Power, the difference, on average, is $7.18.
Idaho Power and Avista also asked commission to adopt a rule, similar to one approved in Oregon, which prevents utilities from having to pay the published avoided-cost rate when the same owner/developer has small-power projects located within five miles of each other. Current federal regulations state that projects must be at least one mile apart.
The utilities allege some wind developers build their projects at or near the size limit to qualify for the published PURPA rate and then locate another similar-sized project close by and still qualify for the published rate simply by creating a separate legal entity, although ownership does not change.
But the commission said the public interest would not be served by the more restrictive rule. "It is a change that we find would encourage and might actually promote gamesmanship," the commission said.
A full text of the commission's orders in these cases, along with other documents, are available on the commission's Web site at www.puc.idaho.gov. Click on "File Room" and then on "Electric Cases" and scroll down to any of the above case numbers.
Interested parties may petition the commission for reconsideration by no later than Sept. 28. Petitions for reconsideration must set forth specifically why the petitioner contends that the order is unreasonable, unlawful or erroneous. Petitions should include a statement of the nature and quantity of evidence the petitioner will offer if reconsideration is granted.
Petitions can be delivered to the commission at 472 W. Washington St. in Boise, mailed to P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID, 83720-0074, or faxed to 208-334-3762.


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Frosted Titles for Your Scrapbook Layouts
To give your scrapbook layout the chilly look of winter, create a frosted title. Here are several techniques you can use to create this look, using a variety of supplies. Discover which one works best for you!
Florida Winter by Mou Saha. Supplies: Cardstock: Die Cuts with a View; Patterned paper: Ann Griffin; Stamp: Studio Calico; Ink: Tsukineko; Pen: Newell Rubbermaid; Adhesive: 3M.
Partially ink your stamp and then stamp your title onto a white background, as Mou Saha did on the layout above. The background will show through and resemble frost.
Playing with Snow by Suzy Plantamura, as seen on page 116 of the December 2009 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Sand Cardstock
Create your title letters from whitewashed cardstock. Sand the letters so that some of the color beneath shows through, creating the frosted look, as Suzy Plantamura did in the layout above.
Winter by Shaunte Wadley, as seen in the January 2009 issue, p. 25.
Sanding Letter Stickers
Sand chipboard letter stickers, as Shaunte Wadley did on the layout above, so that some of the top coloring comes off, revealing the chipboard below.
More Ideas
To create a frosted look, try adding any of the following to a colored title:
White chalk
White embossing
White flock
White glitter
White paint or spray ink
Download a free, cold-weather title for your scrapbook layout, and give it a frosty look using one of the techniques mentioned in this article.
To see layouts that spotlight January in different places around the globe, read "January Where You Are" in the January 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
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You can begin or end your hike at hundreds of places between the Appalachian Trail's northern and southern ends. Here's what to expect in Connecticut.
A three-quarters of a mile section of the A.T. in Falls Village is wheelchair accessible.This flat section passes through the small village, which used to be the site of a large ironworks.
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SKYLAB : SPACE STATION I - 1970's NASA Space Station Educational Documentary
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On The Road To Sustainability: The South's Sustainable Snack Maker
EP Editorial Staff | July 16, 2012
Frito-Lay's award-winning facility in Fayetteville, TN, is turning out America's favorite snacks with low environmental impact.
The Frito-Lay snack plant in Fayetteville, TN, is no run-of-the-mill food processor. Not only did its Engineering and Maintenance team win the prestigious North American Maintenance Excellence (NAME) Award in 2011, the plant's focus on sustainability makes it a standout. That focus isn't new: It developed soon after Frito-Lay acquired the 10-year-old plant from Eagle Snacks in 1996, and decided to lay the groundwork for a world-class operation.
The Dallas-based parent company saw the value of going green as a way to reduce the extraordinary appetite snack-food manufacturing has for water (to prepare key food ingredients and wash down equipment) and energy (to heat ovens and fryers). Today, the Fayetteville operation's seven snack-food product lines are produced and packaged far more efficiently than they were just a few years ago, thanks to an experienced, motivated plant team and a parent company that supports sustainability investment as strongly as it does productivity improvement.
The NAME Award-winning Fayetteville, TN, Maintenance crew includes (left to right): Roy Smithson, Jason Elliott, Elaine McGarry, Bruce Morehead, Mike Thomas, Chris Fowler, Jason Gower, John Loyd, Tim Towry and Richard Cole.
The mission of the 350,000-sq.-ft. Fayetteville facility and its 400 employees is to produce Frito-Lay's familiar line of snack products—Lay's Potato Chips, Fritos, Cheetos, Doritos, Tostitos, Munchos—and a new product, Tostitos Artisan Recipe, for customers in five southern states. Sales and distribution of the plant's 110 million pounds of annual snack-food output are handled entirely by company salesmen/drivers who work from an on-site 110,000-sq.-ft warehouse and operate part of the nation's fourth-largest truck fleet. Fayetteville's rural location, near Tennessee's southern border with Alabama, serves the facility's unending demand for corn (with potatoes coming from out of state) and plays a role in its quest for self-sufficiency through sustainability.
Ensuring Production Of Your Favorite Snacks
The recipes for America's favorite snack foods are deceptively simple: Take potatoes or corn, shape as desired, fry or bake, add seasoning, and voila, you have a salty or spicy treat. But, of course, there's much more to consistently producing these foods on a large scale and in unique shapes, textures and flavors. At Frito-Lay, for example, "seasoning" plays a big role in product distinction. This general term describes various proprietary mixes of salt, seasonings and other flavors—including cheese—that contribute to the unique taste of each product. Also, the "dwell time" each product spends in a fryer or oven has been carefully established (and kept secret) to create specific levels of product crunch. All of these elements receive constant scrutiny to ensure uniform quality, package content and, importantly, the flavor customers recognize and expect each time they open a bag.
The Fayetteville Frito-Lay facility uses the latest high-tech equipment to make its products–in all of their iterations—quickly and efficiently. This equipment simplifies manufacturing and packaging, and out-produces even slightly older counterparts. It also uses less energy and requires less operator involvement. But all of these factors ask more of Fayetteville's NAME-award-winning maintenance team. They don't just keep the plant's sophisticated equipment online, they do so amidst the withering effects of regular washdowns and salt-infused plant air. It's safe to say that without this talented group, you wouldn't have your chips, something that could be a big disappointment any time, but especially during football season. That, according to the Fayetteville, TN, team, is their busiest time of year.
Managing water, energy and reliability
The Fayetteville plant's close proximity to open land, for example, provides an elegant way to dispose of some of its wastewater. "We send our potato wash water to two different treatment facilities here on site," says Richard Cole, Director of Engineering and Maintenance. "Then it's pumped to our land application, which is a 1000-acre farm with a hay crop" (that's operated by a farmer on contract with Frito-Lay). Before delivery to the farm, the water is also cleaned of dirt particles, potato scraps and the starch that comes off potatoes in their initial washing and the washdowns of the peeler units. The scraps are sold to a dog-food manufacturer, and the starch—some 3 million pounds of it annually—is dried with the facility's stack heat and sold for use in paper production.
Finished Doritos head to packaging.
"We use what we call a tsunami system to recover all our water," says Jason Gower, Maintenance Manager. "Before we installed this system, we were running about 580,000 gallons of water daily. Now we average about 400,000 gallons of water a day." The system relies on a chemical to break down bacteria in the water "so we can recycle that water and still be in compliance with the food environment," says Cole. The chemical, created specifically for use with potato water, raised questions with regard to its sustainability, but the team deemed its use worthwhile because it opened the door to a huge reduction in water use. Cole adds that use of the tsunami system doesn't enhance company profits, but its use "is the green thing to do."
"The green thing to do" takes the Fayetteville team in interesting directions. In the hopes of finding a less-expensive, more sustainable water source, for example, the plant had several test wells drilled on-site. It also looked into running a pipe to a nearby river. While these tactics have proven impractical so far, and thus kept the plant a customer of the local utility, they may be revisited.
The flood of water coursing through the Fayetteville plant each day is matched only by its consumption of natural gas—which heats ovens and/or fryers for each product line. With its three-shift operation, the plant consumes tens of millions of BTUs of natural gas per day, but keeps this amount in check with several high-tech investments.
"One of our big wins here is the use of recovered heat," says Gower, adding that the natural-gas-fired Fayetteville plant is one of Frito-Lay's top performers in this regard. "Heat-recovery equipment we've installed includes our potato-chip line where we use stack-recovered heat. We also heat the building hot water with this, and use it for our corn cook system, for starch, for boiler makeup water and for pre-heat. We also have a zero-gas heat exchanger, which was developed by Frito-Lay, where we use all of our recovered heat from our Artisan-product ovens to preheat all of our oil." On the starch-recovery line, says Gower, natural-gas usage "went from 1.5 million BTUs per hour to zero by pulling heat off our potato-chip heat exchanger. Each year for the last seven or eight years," he adds, "we've installed some type of heat-recovery system."
The team at Fayetteville both tracks and guides energy use with its "run right wall"—a dashboard that tracks energy performance across all plant sectors, including production equipment and the building-management system. "We review all of our natural gas and water performance at every shift, every day," says Gower, "so if something gets out of line, it's caught immediately, versus a month down the road."
At Fayetteville, equipment reliability is also considered part of the plant's overall sustainability initiative. "Our definition of sustainability includes maintenance and maximizing our equipment," says Cole. "This is reliability and uptime or what we call 'true efficiency.' From my standpoint, I see sustainability driven if we can ensure that our equipment is running when it's supposed to, and that we're running the throughputs we want to run. When we produce more pounds of output in a shorter period, our energy usage goes down. And that's what we've done."
In the last decade, the plant increased its hourly output by an average of 20%, says Cole, due to new equipment and superior maintenance techniques. "And as we have improved our reliability, we've cut downtime, from 7 to 8% of the time to only 4% on Fritos, Doritos and some of our other big products."
Reliability efforts are guided by Packaging Mechanic Roy Smithson, who makes regular use of ultrasonic and ultrasound inspections to detect air and water leaks and electrical problems, as well as monitor bearings and gearboxes throughout the plant. Smithson also relies on a weekly program that requires a mechanic to search for leaks in the compressed air system. Responsible for 25% of the plant's energy costs, compressed air would comprise a major energy drain if leaks were not addressed in a timely fashion. The program has helped the plant shift from using its 500-hp compressed air unit for day-to-day operation to its 300-hp unit for the same purpose. A plan is also in place that allows for quick switches to the most efficient compressor as loads change.
The Fayetteville team further reduced its energy use when it invited a team from motor manufacturer Baldor to make recommendations regarding installation of high-efficiency motors. This approach is typical of Fayetteville's pursuit of energy-savings and sustainability. "We like to partner with experts like our vendors, and leverage their expertise," says Cole. "They come into our facility, identify opportunities and provide a package of how they can help us save money and be more sustainable." Visitors also include the utilities that operate in the Fayetteville area and the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) energy conglomerate.
"We're always driving the big items and the small items," says Cole of the plant's wide-reaching sustainability efforts. "Smaller" issues might include the plastic bottles and alu-minum cans it recycles from the cafeteria, as well as a plan being considered to compost cafeteria waste. These efforts contribute to Fayetteville's goal to reach zero-landfill status. The plant's participation in local Adopt-a-Highway and Adopt-a River programs contributes to its status as a good neighbor, as does the fact it donates both equipment and mechanics' time to local recycling centers.
Other issues—like those involving packaging waste—are clearly not small, but might have been considered outside the plant's sustainability efforts under different management. With 110 million pounds of snack food leaving the plant each year, its post-production footprint is significant. This massive output not only requires a significant amount of plastic-based packaging, but thousands of cardboard boxes per week to transport packaged foods to retail.
The packaging that Frito-Lay uses for its products is a thin plastic material (referred to as "film") that arrives on pre-printed rolls. Favored for its ability to extend product shelf life, it can present a recycling challenge for consumers. The plant, however, is working to both ensure its own film waste is recycled and that at least some post-consumer bags are, too. Film waste from the plant, for example, is made into pellets for repurposing. New uses (manufactured offsite) include backpacks, which the company uses for promotional purposes, as well as handbags and other products. The plant also sponsors a program at local schools where students are encouraged to place their empty Frito-Lay snack packages into boxes provided by the plant. The plant collects and recycles the used bags, and hosts an end-of-year party for the school that turns in the most bags. Party snacks, of course, are provided free by Fayetteville.
Cardboard also presents a challenge for the plant—but more because of its high volume than its recyclability. Each of the hundreds of thousands of boxes the plant handles yearly is tracked, says Cole, "so we know how many trips each makes, and when we send them to the distributor or [retail] location. We want to make sure these boxes come back. And because we're our own distribution center and our drivers are our salesforce," he says, "they're with the program. They stock the shelves and are sure to bring the boxes back." After seven or eight round trips from factory to retailer, he says, a box is removed from service and becomes part of the more than 3 million pounds of cardboard the plant recycles annually.
Even the recycling process itself receives close scrutiny. "We keep the cardboard in straight bales and make sure it goes right to the mill that processes it so it's not double-handled," notes Jonathan Sumner, Third-Shift Maintenance Resource. Additionally, a horizontal baler was recently installed at Fayetteville to ensure the operation is making it to a 40,000-pound trailer load each time, which saves fuel. Sumner points to other improvement efforts as well, including switching the fleet to synthetic oil (which lasts a lot longer) and installing curtains under the trailers to improve fuel efficiency. The company also monitors drivers' fuel con-sumption. Says Sumner, "They have a goal to hit with their trucks, and if they don't hit that, they have a coaching session."
What's next?
"From a sustainability standpoint, our next goal is simply continuous improvement," says Cole. "It's similar to what we did with NAME: We wanted a measuring stick to know where we stand, and if we're not at world-class level, what do we have to do to get there?" According to him, the next specific focus will be to ensure the plant's equipment runs at the standard it's designed for. "So if it's set to run at 5000 pounds per hour," he says, "it will always run at this standard."
Packaging, of course, must match this level of output, and thanks to the recent installation of several automated packaging lines, this department is prepared to do so. The significantly faster, fully automated equipment in Fayetteville requires no operators and allows any bag size to run on any machine, without a set-up in between. Before, specific bag sizes required their own lines, which meant operator involvement and careful scheduling to minimize set-up times.
With no foreseeable slack in snack-food demand, Frito-Lay's investment in its high-performing Fayetteville facility is expected to continue. Next up is a warehouse expansion that will enlarge and enhance the current facility to "rival any UPS or FedEx type of operation," says Cole of the project, details of which the company had not officially announced when this article went to press. Ground was broken in May, with start-up scheduled for 2014.
As automation reduces the need for operators, the company's plan is to shift those displaced by automation to the expanded warehouse. It will also continue its investment in training to ensure that everyone has ample opportunity to improve and move up. It currently provides some 36 different training programs throughout the year for the engineering and maintenance team alone, most of which are two-week classes held off-site. The plant also holds regular "lunch and learn" programs where vendors and other experts are invited in to educate workers in short sessions.
Of the many world-class efforts underway in Fayetteville, Cole regards this level of commitment to its workers a top reason for the plant's successes. "If you don't provide that development and education," he explains, "you can't improve your sustainability and reliability. You cannot grow. The technology will outgrow you faster than you can keep up with." And while he knows Fayetteville doesn't need additional awards to underscore its successes, he says that if the decision is made to pursue another "and if we put it before this group, I know we'd get there." MT
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Killing of al Qaida figure in Syria deepens division among extremist rebels
The battle among extremist Syrian rebels appeared likely to intensify after two radical Islamist groups Tuesday threatened a third over the assassination earlier this week of a key al Qaida figure.
Al Qaida's official affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front, and another large extremist rebel group, Ahrar al Sham, told the third group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, that it has five days to submit to arbitration by Islamic clerics or it will be attacked in response to Sunday's suicide bombing assassination of Abu Khaled al Suri, a close associate of al Qaida leader Ayman al Zawahiri and a key commander in Ahrar al Sham. The threat was made in an Internet posting by Nusra's leader, Abu Mohammed al Jolani.
The falling out among the radical opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad comes as moderate rebels also appear to be in turmoil, deeply divided over who should lead their armed wing. Last week, the Supreme Military Command ousted its U.S.-backed chief of staff, Gen. Salim Idriss, and replaced him with a less well known figure from the country's south, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Ilah al Bashir. Days later, rebel commanders supporting Idriss said they would not answer to al Bashir.
ISIS has been battling with moderate rebels for the past two months over its strict interpretation of Islam after the other rebel groups wearied of ISIS' encroaching control over northern and eastern Syria. But while Nusra and Ahrar al Sham have sometimes joined the battle against ISIS during that time, both groups had restrained their forces in hopes that al Suri and other al Qaida leaders could broker an agreement to bring ISIS back into the rebel fold.
Al Suri's killing, however, ended such ideas of rapprochement and sent a clear signal that jihadis working with ISIS no longer cared about their relationship with even their closest ideological allies.
"ISIS doesn't seem to care about public opinion in general or al Qaida opinion in particular," said analyst Will McCants of the Brookings Institution in Washington. McCants said the killing of al Suri showed that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was unbowed by his fellow extremists or Zawahiri, who denounced ISIS earlier this month.
"Baghdadi already gave the finger to Zawahiri, so he's not going to lose sleep over killing Zawahiri's henchman. A polarizing event like killing Suri is just what ISIS needs to force the global jihadi community to take sides, a process well underway over the last few months."
Al Suri had condemned ISIS in a Jan. 16 Internet posting, where he argued that ISIS was not al Qaida's representative in Syria and was not doing the work of founder Osama bin Laden, current leader Zawahiri, or ISIS founder Abu Musab Zarqawi, who was killed by an American missile in 2006.
"He was a target from the moment he criticized (ISIS)," said Abu Hussein, an Aleppo-based activist with close ties to both Ahrar al Sham and the Nusra Front. "He had been asked by Dr. (Zawahiri) to negotiate an end to the (unrest) between ISIS and the other factions. But they refused to listen. And now they have killed him."
"Ahrar had done its best to stay out of the fighting as had Nusra," Abu Hussein said of the clashes that began after ISIS killed another Ahrar al Sham interlocutor and began fighting with other rebel groups. "But now they have made a terrible mistake, for any true Muslim cannot imagine why they would kill such a man."
"Now, many Muslims who did not want to see rebels fight each other will have no alibi when it comes to (ISIS)," he said. "They are not true Muslims and will have to leave Syria or face God's law."
Although Internet accounts associated with ISIS denied targeting al Suri, the group's willingness to attack rival groups and commanders with such tactics – ISIS has used suicide bombings against fellow rebels more than two dozen times since fighting between rival rebel factions broke out in late December – as well as al Suri's previous criticism of the group left little doubt about ISIS' responsibility to most rebels and activists.
For its part, the official Twitter feed of the Ahrar al Sham leadership posted a photo of the dead al Suri and described ISIS as "Khawarji," an Arabic pejorative used to describe radical Muslims incapable of working with the rest of Muslim society. The same term is often used by mainstream Muslims to describe al Qaida and its adherents.
Al Suri had a long history as a personal friend and courier to bin Laden and was said to have close relationships with both Zawahiri and Zarqawi, the Jordan-born founder of Al Qaida in Iraq, which changed its name to ISIS as it entered the Syrian civil war.
Al Suri was widely respected as a scholar in radical Islamic circles and was said by multiple observers of the group to be the architect of Ahrar al Sham's decision to focus on toppling Syrian President Bashar Assad rather than ISIS' goal of establishing an Islamic state.
"He is essentially a core al Qaida veteran who almost certainly . . . had extensive, close relations with (Osama) bin Laden," said Charles Lister, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's center in Doha, Qatar. "The fact that he had such a high position in Ahrar al Sham, and confirmed it himself, his al Qaida history – it made elements in the U.S. administration potentially consider Ahrar al Sham as a terrorist organization."
Al Suri was also named in American court documents indicting other al Qaida members as an official courier and representative of bin Laden.


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Link4Coffee with Intent (Link4Coffee-i)
Link4Coffee-i events are informal and relaxed sessions that provide an opportunity to start looking at ways we can improve our local communities.
There are lots of local initiatives and projects already started, one of the biggest challenges is that unless you're directly involved in them it is difficult to find them, engage, or join in.
Link4Coffee-i events enable us to :-
Share our knowledge about what is already happening in our community, these are valuable community resources just not enough of us know about them. We can then support and help these initiatives so they are more visible and can grow.
Discuss ideas for community improvement and how these might take shape
Make introductions, connect people and discover the amazing talent that resides in our local communities.
Many community groups could benefit from utilising online technologies much more effectively. For the new projects they can be set up that way from the start, but for existing groups there is so much that could be done. These sessions can serve to advise, guide, signpost even just help make the leap to being far effective.
Link4Growth is a not for profit organisation helping to rebuild communities and is open to anyone who wishes to come along and meet, talk, listen, learn and connect with others in your local community. Everything starts with a conversation, so come along and be part of the conversation!
There are no attendance fees or barriers, please just book in to attend, come along and join us. Why not bring a neighbour along too?
Use Link4Coffee-i events to connect with other 'like minded' local people who want to take action and do things in your local community. There is no shortage of things that can be improved, but often we end up saying to ourselves, "I'm just one person what can I possibly do?".
That's exactly why the Link4Coffee-i events exist. To bring people together so that we can meet others who feel like we do and want to take some kind of action.
Link4Coffee-i events can connect you with existing community projects and groups, but equally provide the inspiration to start your own project with others that share the vision.
Nationally we run a variety of events both online and offline, all to support connecting and empowering people and.. to replicate great initiatives where we are.
Do ask about our training & education opportunities too through Link4Skills - the people's university!
How does it work?
All Link4Coffee-i events are regular (mostly monthly or every 4 weeks) unscripted events hosted by a Community Coach (or one who is in practice).
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These events are hosted with adherence to the 7 principles of Link4Growth. (1) everyone is important (2) everyone should be respected (3) everyone should be heard (4) everyone should be able to contribute (5) everyone is equal (6) everyone has value (7) everyone is on their own journey.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 182 diseños de 54 diseñadores freelance.
Australian Association for Hydrogen Energy (AAHE)
Hydrogen is an ideal energy carrier which will play an important role in the clean energy infrastructure of the future. The Australian Association for Hydrogen Energy is a new non-profit organisation that will launch in late 2009.
Initial membership of the association will be include some of the largest corporations in Australia.
The principal objective of the organisation is to advance the knowledge and understanding of production, storage, transport, safety, distribution and use of hydrogen energy, for the benefit of the Australian public.
More contextual information can be found at http://www.iahe.org.
Membership of the association is open to both individuals and corporate bodies (incorporated or otherwise) which includes government agencies, industry members, small-medium-enterprises and universities.
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4.The association is not targeted at tree-huggers. We are not looking for a design that is excessively 'green and leafy'.
5.We require standard file formats; jpg, SVG, Photoshop or Illustrator files.
6.The successful designer may be privately engaged after the competition for other design tasks (stationary, website, brochures).
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Bridgeport police arrested a 55-year-old Trumbull man accused of stabbing his coworker with a pen in a dispute over potato chips.
Officer Darryl Wilson responded to the Food Bazaar on Sylvan Avenue on Thursday after receiving a report of an assault.
The victim said that he was working in the receiving area when employees knocked over bags of chips, so he told Sang Park, of Trumbull, to have the employees who knocked over the chips pick them up, police said.
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Disaster in Love
by Liz Bower
Is he the man of her dreams…or a half-baked fantasy?
Kimberly Hardwick has always taken the bitter with the sweet. As she white-knuckles her way through her disastrous first-ever flight, she figures that if she's going to die, at least the last face she sees will be the handsome hunk in the neighboring seat.
Dark-haired "Beck", with eyes as rich and deep as her favorite baking chocolate, holds her hand until they're safely on the ground…and then holds her through a night that dreams are made of. But in the morning, she wakes up alone, more convinced than ever that the only dreams worth investing in are her own.
But that takes money, and the only way to earn enough to start her own cake company is to work a dry, bland agency temping job. One in an accounting firm where her new boss, Kyle Robinson, isn't the only unpleasant surprise.
Even though Kyle's eyes follow her everywhere, he's all business…until Kimberly discovers a discrepancy in the books. Leaving her wondering if Kyle is a man she can trust, or if she's set herself up for a heartbreaking fall.
Warning: Contains a strong woman with a vulnerable heart, a tough man with a tender touch, decadent brownies, and even-more-decadent sex. Preheated oven not necessary…the contents are already hot!
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Statistically, I was more likely to die in a car crash. I knew because I'd researched it when I decided to take my first flight. In fact, I was more likely to die of food poisoning than the plane crashing. Just my luck, it would be the food on the plane that killed me. The same research told me take-off and landing were the most dangerous and likely times for a crash to happen. And it was that little nugget of information that had my stomach churning like it was on the high-speed setting of my Magimix. Had me grasping the boarding pass between my shaky fingers, holding onto it like a life preserver, the ink smudging from my sweaty palms.
Our entwined hands rested against his thigh and his thumb traced across my wrist.
"I fly a lot. And I'm no stranger to high-risk situations."
Well, that was…intriguing. "Really? Are you a paratrooper or something?" I licked my lips and he looked away from me. The muscle in his cheek twitched like he was stopping himself from confessing some deep, dark secret.
He glanced out of the window and said, "Or something."
Huh. Vague much? But then he had every right to be. If we weren't in this situation, we would probably have spent the duration of the flight ignoring each other. Polite chitchat as we manoeuvred around sharing the same cramped space for so long. I was saved from trying to come up with a reply by the crackle of the announcement system.
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Ricciardo has earned 2015 drive - Horner
Christian Horner says Daniel Ricciardo has already done enough to ensure he will stay at Red Bull next season.
Though he signed a three-year deal it is not uncommon for teams to add break clauses to deals, allowing them to change driver after one season if necessary. Red Bull Junior Team member Alex Lynn won the opening GP3 race of the season in Barcelona, prompting questions about the team's line-up for next season.
But Horner is adamant Ricciardo has done more than enough in the first five races of 2014 to ensure he will be alongside Sebastian Vettel in 2015.
"I cannot speak highly enough of what Daniel has done in the first five races," Horner said. "He has done a great job this year and he is so calm in the car. He continues to impress us with his speed and his approach.
"He is enjoying what he is doing, and you never see him not smiling. It is a pleasure to have him in the team, and the two guys are working extremely well together."
Horner is adamant Ricciardo will be at Red Bull for the long haul, though he used the opportunity to poke fun at Ferrari's reported pursuit of Adrian Newey.
"We have always believed in stability and continuity. Daniel is on a long-term contract with the team and it will be highly unlikely he will be anywhere else next year - unless of course Ferrari are chasing him as well."
Horner also admits life is easier with Ricciardo at Red Bull after the tension between his predecessor Mark Webber and Vettel in their five seasons together.
"It is a walk in the park compared to previous years. But that is part of the challenge of being a team boss."


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Marijuana laws put Holly in 'awkward' state, village officials say
Well Greens, a medical marijuana dispensary poised to open its doors in Holly's Hamilton Plaza, 15190 N. Holly Road, won't be able to do it just yet after Holly's Village Council failed to approve its business license during a Nov. 20 council meeting.
Deemed to be non-controversial, the matter had originally been placed on the meeting's consent agenda for council's approval. However, the matter was discussed after Councilwoman Jackie Campbell asked that the issue be added to the agenda.
While the village of Holly created an ordinance for medical marijuana dispensaries following the passage of the law in 2010, Campbell had more questions for Mike Gildner, the village's acting attorney.
"Since (the passage of the law), there has been some controversy with the state because the federal government, which supersedes all of us, said they're not changing the law -- that marijuana is still illegal -- or dispensing or whatever," she said. "Where does this put us now?"
All the village of Holly has done to this point is to create an ordinance for medical marijuana dispensaries, defining "certain operations and not others," Gildner said.
"There was and there is a state statute which authorizes medical marijuana," Gildner said. "The federal government has made it clear that it is still unlawful under federal law. However, it has made it equally clear that it doesn't intend to prosecute those violations in states where it is authorized by law ... so we are in this very awkward state where the state says it's allowed, and the federal government says it isn't allowed."
Village Manager Jerry Walker agreed.
"It will be the responsibility of the proprietors that run the establishment to make sure they comply with all applicable law," he said. "And they understand that -- we've spoken with them and their attorney with regard to that -- it's strictly up to them to comply."
A motion to approve Well Green's business license was made and it was seconded. The motion died in a 3-3- vote.
The matter will most likely be revisited with a full board during the Dec. 4 meeting.


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Molecular motors cooperate in moving cellular cargo, study shows
Researchers using an extremely fast and accurate imaging technique have shed light on the tiny movements of molecular motors that shuttle material within living cells. The motors cooperate in a delicate choreography of steps, rather than engaging in the brute-force tug of war many scientists had imagined.
"We discovered that two molecular motors -- dynein and kinesin -- do not compete for control, even though they want to move the same cargo in opposite directions," said Paul Selvin, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and corresponding author of a paper to appear in the journal Science, as part of the Science Express Web site, on April 7. "We also found that multiple motors can work in concert, producing more than 10 times the speed of individual motors measured outside the cell."
Dynein and kinesin are biomolecular motors that haul cargo from one part of a cell to another. Dynein moves material from the cell membrane to the nucleus; kinesin moves material from the cell nucleus to the cell membrane. The little cargo transporters accomplish their task by stepping along filaments called microtubules.
To measure such minuscule motion, Selvin and colleagues at Illinois developed a technique called Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer Accuracy. The technique can locate a fluorescent dye to within 1.5 nanometers (one nanometer is a billionth of a meter, or about 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair). Recent improvements to FIONA now allow scientists to detect motion with millisecond time resolution.
Selvin's team used FIONA to track fluorescently labeled peroxisomes (organelles that break down toxic substances) inside specially cultured fruit fly cells. This was the first time the imaging technique had been used inside a living cell.
"Our measurements show that both dynein and kinesin carry the peroxisomes in a step-by-step fashion, moving about 8 nanometers per step," said Selvin, who also is a researcher at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory on the Illinois campus.
"Because we see a fairly constant step size, we don't believe a tug of war is occurring," Selvin said. "If the dynein was fighting the kinesin, we would expect to see a lot of smaller steps as well."
The researchers also noted that faster movements occurred with the same step size, but with greater rapidity. When measured outside the cell, kinesin moved about 0.5 microns per second. Inside the cell, the speed increased to 12 microns per second.
"There must be a mechanism that allows the peroxisomes to move by multiple motors much faster than independent, uncoupled kinesins and dyneins," Selvin said. "It appears that motors are somehow regulated, being turned on or off in a fashion that prevents them from simultaneously dragging the peroxisome."
In the future, Selvin wants to combine FIONA and an optical trap technique to monitor the speed and direction of a peroxisome, and the force acting upon it.
"By measuring force we can determine how many molecular motors are working together," Selvin said. "This will help us further understand these marvelous little machines."
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Cat is just a bizarre bird to me. Just read about her date with Prince Harry, made me want to puke a little. She is a bit old, but the pics they show of her are from way back when or very photo-shopped b/c she clearly has wrinkles in Real Life. Her divorce must be a bummer for all who believe in true love and romantic love stories, LOL. What an epic FAIL.


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Please see the existing website: http://www.gdtfilms.co.uk/
Gerard de Thame continues to make commercials for blue chip clients at home and abroad. A re-vamped website should reflect the status of the clients and be sympathetic to the current showreel.
The site is essentially an online portfolio and "Calling Card" for Gerard de Thame. There is limited textual information and the site needs to stand up using the Commercials themselves.
Images on the current website can be accessed here: http://www.gdtfilms.co.uk/assets/images/
You might also want to use screenshots from any of the videos. Most are available to download as mp4's from here: http://www.gdtfilms.co.uk/showreel.php
Additional work can be seen here: http://www.gdtfilms.co.uk/archive.php
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Open or free learner response software (i.e. BYOD clickers)
Excellent thread in the LinkedIn Higher Education Teaching and Learning discussion group:
Open or free learner response software (i.e. BYOD clickers)?
Dominik SeifertPh.D. Student, Experienced Software Engineer & Education Enthusiast
I am currently preparing for next semester. A learner response system allows the instructor (or presenting students) to easily interact with a large audience by posing questions or problem statements, and then collecting all responses which can be shown in real-time on the projection screen. In particular, a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) system is one that only needs software (such as Learning Catalytics) and runs on any smartphone or tablet with internet access, which the students already have.
So far, I have not found a free learner response system (or "clicker"). I like the features of Learning Catalytics, but it's difficult to convince students or the department to spend that much money (12$ per student). Also, the professor (and I also) categorically dislike any non-free solutions (many of us in Computer-Science are big fans of open-source, especially when it comes to the essentials, such as education).
Please note: This might not seem much to American education, but it is in most other countries, especially when that's the price of a text book and even enrollment. After all, education should ideally be free (feel free to argue with me privately if you disagree).


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Here is a video/audio mash up up submissions that was shown at the Designing the 21st Century School event held at the end of 2012 at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. The event had over 200 high students, who were asked to respond to what they saw and heard in the video. Check out the Schoolin the Schools Media category page for more related content.


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