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This is a great way to save money and time in the kitchen especially on a Sunday when you really want to enjoy your family and friends instead of constantly being in the kitchen preparing Supper. I call it stretching my meals. Set a side a day when you can do this. You can make three meals for a family of 4 to 5 from a 5 to 5-1/2 pound chuck roast. That's right, 6 juicy cheeseburgers, 12 moist light meatballs in a delicious tomato sauce and a tender bursting with flavor meat loaf all from a single roast. Ask your butcher to grind the chuck roast for hamburger. Divide up the meat, put the hamburger in the fridge for dinner that evening. I highly recommend you prepare and eat the hamburger the same day. Cooking it the same day that it has been ground makes a HUGE difference in the flavor of the beef.
Prepare the meatloaf and meat balls with sauce and freeze. When Sundays roll around you already have two meals ready to go! The meatballs with sauce and meatloaf will last in the freezer for up to 2 months!
For the Cheeseburgers you will need I-1/2 pounds of beef. For the Meatballs 2 pounds, for the Meatloaf 1-1/2 to 2 pounds
1-1/2 pounds ground chuck roast
Kosher salt
Cracked pepper
6 slices sharp cheddar cheese (I like extra sharp)
6 hamburger buns, white or whole wheat
2 tablespoon canola oil or vegetable oil
Bread-and-butter pickles
1 red onion, thinly sliced, lettuce, tomato, (optional)
Shape 6 (4 ounce) hamburger patties, each 1/2 inch thick. Be careful not to pack the meat tightly. You will have dry burgers if the meat is packed too tightly. Sprinkle a healthy pinch of kosher salt over the top each burger. Crack some pepper over the top as well.
The secret to great burgers is to get the grill or cast iron skillet super hot.
Heat the grill pan or cast-iron skillet over high heat for 3 minutes. Place the seasoned side of the burgers on the grill pan. Sprinkle salt and pepper over the top of the burgers. Grill for 2 minutes, then flip the burgers over. Grill for 2 minutes, flip the burgers over again, and grill for 1 minute. Flip the burgers again, and add the cheese on top. Grill for 1 minutes more. The burgers will be medium rare. Grill longer if you want your burgers cooked more (medium to well done) Using an instant meat thermometer, test your burgers. Rare beef should be 140 degrees F. well-done beef should be 170 degrees F.
Remove the burgers to a warm plate by the stove (do not cover) Place the hamburger buns on the grill, and toast (on one side only). On a clean plate, assemble the burgers and buns. Use any condiment you like, but I can tell you, these are so tasty that you don't need anything. You are now ready to bite into the tastiest, juiciest hamburger so simple, no fuss, just the pure taste of the beef!
My dad would always make his famous (in our family anyway) meatballs every Sunday while listening to Tony Bennett songs. The house would fill up with the sounds of music and the aroma of the meatballs cooking making everyone excited about the meal to come. I remember it as if it were yesterday all of these happy times gathering family and friends around the dinner table. I've continued that tradition to this day, even the Tony Bennett songs! I modified the original method slightly by having the butcher grind a chuck roast fresh instead of purchasing ground meat already packaged, this way the meatballs cook up moist, tender and light. I have also reduced the cook time down from 3 to 4 hours (that is how long Sunday sauce would simmer back then) to 30 minutes. You can freeze these meatballs for up to a month, or it will stay 3 days in the refrigerator.
Start by making the sauce first!
1/2 cup olive oil
2 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed
(28-ounce) can chopped canned tomatoes, pureed in a blender for 5 seconds
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup water
2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes, plus additional for sprinkling
8 ounces of your favorite pasta
Freshly grated Romano cheese
Have all the ingredients lines up and ready to go before you start cooking.
Heat saucepan on medium-high heat. Add olive oil and garlic, saute the garlic turning gently until it starts to turn golden on all sides. Be careful not to burn the garlic or the sauce will taste bitter. If this happens discard and start again. Add the tomatoes, salt, water, sugar, butter, and red pepper flakes. Lower the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. If the sauce looks to thick or gets too thick while simmering add water 1/4 cup at a time. You don't want it watery, but you do want it to have a silky consistency. Turn off heat and set aside while you make the meatballs.
2 (3-ounce) sweet Italian sausages, casings removed
2 pounds freshly ground chuck roast
1/2 white onion, cut into pieces
1 celery stalk, cut into pieces
1 small carrot, cut into pieces
1/4 cup fresh Italian parsley
1 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup Romano cheese
2 pieces of white bread, crusts removed, torn into shreds
1/2 cup whole milk
1 garlic clove, crushed through a garlic press
1/2 teaspoon table salt
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup olive oil
Place the sausages along with the ground chuck in a large bowl. In a food processor, pulse to chop the onion, celery, carrot, and parsley until finely chopped. Add the vegetable mixture to the meat. Add the bread crumbs, Parmesan and Romano cheese, white bread , milk, garlic, salt, egg, and ketchup.
Using your hands, mix gently until all of the ingredients are incorporated. Form twelve 4-ounce meatballs (to help you gauge the size, you can use a 1/4? inch dry measuring cup) Roll them in your hands to make smooth, round balls. Do not pack them too tightly.
Bring the marinara sauce to a low simmer.
Heat a frying pan until hot, add the olive oil, and swirl the oil to cover the bottom of the pan. Add the meatballs and brown on all sides; they brown quickly, so watch them to be sure they don't burn. DO NOT cook them all the way through; they will finish cooking in the sauce. Carefully lift and place them in the marinara sauce you have prepared, and gently simmer for 30 minutes. Serve with your favorite pasta.
Take what is left over from the meatballs and shape it into a loaf. Place in a 9-by 5 inch loaf pan.
Pre-heat the oven to 350 F.
Spread 1/4 cup ketchup over the top of the loaf. Take a baking pan with a two and 1/2 rim large enough to hold the meat loaf pan and fill the baking pan half way up with water. Place the meatloaf pan in the water and slid it in the oven to bake for 60 minutes in a water bath. Remove from the oven and let cool. Cover and freeze for next Sunday Supper!
Remove from freezer and let sit for at least 1 hour at room temperature. Bake at 350 to warm for 30 minutes or until warm on the inside.
Makes great meatloaf sandwich's!
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In this lesson, students will explain CRaTER's purpose and how it works. They will also design (using paper and pencil) a cosmic ray detector to answer their own questions. CRaTER's purpose is to identify safe landing sites for future human missions... (View More) to the moon; discover potential resources on the Moon; and characterize the radiation environment of the Moon. The lesson includes background information for the teacher, questions, and information about student preconceptions. This is lesson 4 of 4 from "The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation." (View Less)
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A huge trove of tax-haven data uncovered by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is the result of a three-year investigation by its director, Gerard Ryle, into one of Australia's biggest frauds.
That fraud involved a Hong Kong-based firm called Firepower International and offshore havens. Through connections with Australian officials, the governments of Britain, Russia, Romania and other nations were persuaded to believe Firepower had solutions to global warming and the energy crisis. After the fraud was discovered, Firepower's Australian operations were liquidated in 2008.
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The Australian investigation yielded one of the biggest collections of leaked data gathered by journalists, the ICIJ said. The offshore information totalled more than 260 gigabytes of data and more than two million e-mails. The data originated in 10 offshore jurisdictions, including the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cook Islands and Singapore. It included details of more than 122,000 offshore companies or trusts, and 130,000 records on the people and agents who run, own, benefit from or hide behind offshore companies.
A large number of positions are held by "nominee directors", people who, for a fee, lend their names as office holders of companies they know little about. It is a legal device widely used in the offshore world.
To analyse such a trove of information, ICIJ investigators used text retrieval software able to handle vast volumes of data.
"I'm surprised they got the information, because it is really quite protected," said John Bruce, director of operations at Hill & Associates, a Hong Kong risk consultancy.
Beyond the nominees, who were often not the real owners of an offshore company, offshore company records did not divulge the actual shareholders, Bruce said. "It is very hard to track BVI companies."
It was probable that some Western governments were supporting the ICIJ probe, said Hugo Williamson, managing director of the Risk Resolution Group, a British risk consultancy. "There is a wider story here. There is a concerted effort by Western governments to chase high-net-worth individuals who avoid taxes through offshore havens."
The euro-zone debt crisis has compelled some Western governments to try to alleviate their debt with the hidden wealth of the rich who had avoided taxes through offshore havens, Williamson said. "The British government is forcing offshore jurisdictions to make visible the holdings of UK-based individuals."
Hong Kong corporate governance activist David Webb said: "Since the global financial crisis in 2008, Western governments have been more interested in cracking down on people who are avoiding tax in offshore havens. There is more international co-operation than before."
However, Bruce was sceptical that governments were behind the ICIJ investigation. It was likely to expose people close to some governments, he said, "so it's not government-driven".
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Assuming you have a TV, a radio or just eyes, you have no doubt heard about the iPad. And if you have been following the iPad, you have probably heard about the line of competitors, all looking to take their share of the sexy tablet market and knock Apple off the top spot. Microsoft, HP, Nokia and Google have all announced upcoming tablets, and the newest entrant into the tablet sweepstakes is the German WePad– and it might have a chance at being the first true Apple rival in the tablet market.
Packing some impressive technology, the WePad features an 11.6-inch screen (compared to the iPad's 9.7-inch display), a webcam, a SIM card slot, multitasking and USB ports. Perhaps more importantly the WePad is operating on a Linux-based platform that supports Flash, Java, and allows the user access to the Android Marketplace as well as other apps through the WePad "meta-store." The tablet uses an Intel Atom Pineview-M chip with 1.66 Gigahertz chip and promises to ship with an open source office package. Neofonie is planning a late July release, which should give it a decent head start over future entrants, such as the HP Slate which is due in fall.
Neofonie is hoping to entice publishers to its cause, some of whom are unhappy with Apple's pricing and restrictions. European publishing giant Gruner + Jahr has already announced a partnership with Nefonie and will have launch day materials ready. Negotiations are underway with several others as well, including Europe's biggest newspaper publisher, Axel Springer.
Neofonie founder and managing director Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen told reporters that the WePad is not an "iPad killer" but an alternative to Apple's tablet, according to an AP report.
The WePad's entry level 16GB model will cost $600, while the bigger 32GB version will cost around $775. Ankershoffen commented that due to the tech in the WePad and its greater openness, "that's a bargain compared with the iPad."
On paper it sounds great, but there are a few catches. To begin with, no one outside of Nefonie has actually used a WePad or even seen it in action. A recently held press conference debuted the WePad, but used a mock up running a video of the interface. Demos are supposed to hit reporters in April or May. To add to that, units are set to begin shipping in July and August in Europe, but no word yet on when- or possibly if- we will be able to buy the units Stateside. The manufacturer also remains a mystery. Ankershoffen refused to say who would be producing the WePad, just that it was an Asian manufacturer with the ability to quickly ramp up production based on demand- how that demand is calculated could lead to serious backorder and delays if the WePad catches on.
Even so, the WePad is managing to generate some buzz. The Berlin based Nefonie- that employs around 180 people total- claims that it has received over 20,000 requests on how to pre-order, although the company won't begin to accept pre-orders until April 27.


text: Hello im new in building mail server but my Postfix/Dovecot solution was working well until i add an MailScanner/Spamassassin/ClamAV programs and i got stuck exactly my mails got stuck. Here i will try sketch my configuration MailScanner version - 4.79.11 Postfix version - 2.7.1 ClamAV version - 0.97 OS - Debian 6.0.2 (squeeze) Installation step was i add server to /etc/apt/sources.list because i didnt have MailScanner in my repository deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib aptitude update aptitude install mailscanner spamassassin clamav /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf (edited values) Code: %org-name% = orgname %org-long-name% = longname %web-site% = www.site.tld Run As User = postfix Run As Group = postfix Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming Incoming Work User = postfix Incoming Work Group = clamav Incoming Work Permissions = 0640 MTA = postfix Virus Scanners = clamd Clamd Socket = /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl Use SpamAssassin = yes SpamAssassin User State Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin #include /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/* cd /etc/var/spool/MailScanner mkdir spamassassin chown postfix:clamav incoming quarantine spamassassin chmod 0755 -R incoming quarantine spamassassin in /etc/default/mailscanner i uncommented Code: run_mailscanner=1 in /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf i commented Code: #use_auto_whitelist 0 in /etc/postfix/main.cf i add Code: header_checks=regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks in /etc/postfix/header_checks i add Code: /^Received:/ HOLD output from commands spamassassin -D spamassassin --lint -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf MailScanner -lint seems to be OK i was unable to get working ClamAV in MailScanner/incoming directory so i changed 'User root' in clamd.conf and its seems to be ok now but in future i will change clamav group to postfix maybe PROBLEM STARTED: if i had installed only postfix and dovecot it was working properly when i installed mailscanner,clamav,spamassassin problems started LOGS: /var/log/mail.err is empty /var/log/mail.log contains repeatly Code: Sep 29 02:55:46 mailsrv MailScanner[1080]: Connected to Processing Attempts Database Sep 29 02:55:46 mailsrv MailScanner[1080]: Found 0 messages in the Processing Attempts Database Sep 29 02:55:46 mailsrv MailScanner[1080]: Using locktype = flock Sep 29 02:55:48 mailsrv MailScanner[1081]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.79.11 starting... Sep 29 02:55:48 mailsrv MailScanner[1081]: Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf Sep 29 02:55:48 mailsrv MailScanner[1081]: Read 858 hostnames from the phishing whitelist Sep 29 02:55:48 mailsrv MailScanner[1081]: Read 5497 hostnames from the phishing blacklists Sep 29 02:55:49 mailsrv MailScanner[1081]: Using SpamAssassin results cache Sep 29 02:55:49 mailsrv MailScanner[1081]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache database Sep 29 02:55:49 mailsrv MailScanner[1081]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality... PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: my mails are stuck in /var/spool/postfix/hold where is the mistake ? please help. thank you


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In this guideline you will learn evidence-based recommendations related to the assessment and management of people with colostomies, ileostomies and urostomies, including the assessment and management of the peristomal skin.
This guideline will focus on three areas of care: pre-operative, post-operative, and follow-up. All individuals with ostomies, across the continuum of care, including the needs of the family and caregiver, will be addressed. It is intended that this guideline will be applicable to all domains of nursing including clinical, administration and education.


text: Soybeans Slide After 14% Advance as China Seen Canceling Cargoes March 12, 2014 03:58 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Soybeans fell for a third day on speculation a rally since the beginning of February may curb demand and prompt China, the world's biggest buyer, to cancel more purchases. Wheat rose. China imported 4.81 million metric tons last month, up from 2.9 million tons a year earlier, customs data show. The country canceled 245,000 tons of U.S. soybeans for delivery by Aug. 31, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said March 5. "When you have beans at $14 a bushel, it is very hard to continue to be bullish on it," Ole Houe, director of advisory services at Ikon Commodities Pty Ltd., said by phone from Sydney. "The quantity of cancellations is rising by the day and that's got everybody running scared off beans." Soybeans for May delivery dropped 2.8 percent to $13.7375 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade by 7:12 a.m., and reached $13.725, the lowest since Feb. 25. Prices surged 14 percent through March 7, when they touched $14.60, since the start of February. As of Feb. 27, China imported 25.5 million tons of U.S. beans since Sept. 1, about 69 percent of total shipments by the country, according to USDA data. The U.S. is the world's biggest soybean exporter after Brazil, USDA data show. "There has been more talk of China rolling or canceling soybean contracts out of Brazil and U.S.," Paul Georgy, the president of Allendale Inc., wrote in a market comment. "Crush margins in China continue to deteriorate." There's speculation China buyers may have canceled about 1 million tons of Brazilian soybeans, John Kennedy, a senior market strategist at RJO Futures in Chicago, said in an online market comment today. Corn for delivery in May slipped 0.9 percent to $4.79 a bushel after climbing 1 percent yesterday. Wheat for delivery the same month dropped 0.3 percent to $6.5675 a bushel. Milling wheat for November delivery traded on NYSE Liffe in Paris fell 0.1 percent to 200.75 euros ($278.80) a ton. Back to news


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US Copyright Group Says ISPs Who Don't Cough Up User Names May Be Guilty Of Inducing Copyright Infringement
from the uh,-good-luck-with-that-one... dept
I can't see how anyone could possibly find Time Warner guilty of inducement for not handing over subscriber info -- especially not under the standards in the Grokster ruling. Those include that the company had to promote that its service could be used for infringement, that they failed to filter out those infringing uses when possible and that the business plan depended on a high volume of infringement. I don't see any of those three things applying to Time Warner and not handing over customer info on subpoenas. This seems like more bluster from Dunlap to try to get Time Warner Cable to just given in and hand over the names, so he can send out letters demanding payment.


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I plan to remember this year's vacation season with just two words: Never again.
Never again, that is, will I take all my technology along. The Internet has ruined summer vacations.
When I first visited my in-laws' cabin in Ontario's north woods 35 years ago, there was no such thing as broadband Internet. The nearest telephone was a one-mile canoe paddle down the lake, and we were beyond the reach of television. Our media diet consisted of a battery-powered radio. I know I risk sounding like an aging crank, but it was paradise.
Now we're cursed with all the riches of modern civilization. The cabin is just close enough to civilization to get a strong cellphone signal, and that goes for data too, via a mobile Wi-Fi hot spot. Our little bit of isolation is no more.
Instead of browsing dog-eared summer-house mystery novels and bodice rippers, this year we browsed the Internet. Instead of long evenings of
And that, of course, is the problem with the Internet: It's so easy that, unless you're equipped with massive self-control, you use it if it's there.
What did we lose?
For a news junkie like me, being cut off for a few weeks used to be a good thing. It forced me to stop following what politicians were saying and allowed me to read novels, histories, even old magazine articles carefully set aside all year in a vacation reading box.
When anyone got bored with reading, we had other pre-modern forms of entertainment: hiking, swimming, canoeing, competitive baking, stargazing and card games. My daughters would never have learned the rules of Texas Hold 'Em if not for their father's tutelage on summer vacations.
The path to paradise lost has been gradual. For several years, I kept my Internet addiction under control by using inconvenient technology: a creaky laptop and a slow dial-up connection. But this year, the combination of a new
The demon iPad beckoned silently from the picnic table: What harm could it be to give the email a quick check? But once that alluring touchscreen lights up, who can resist lingering?
I'm not the first to stumble across this problem, of course. I'm a late adopter, even when it comes to vices.
As early as 2008, Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," was warning that broadband Internet was reducing our attention spans and making us stupid. The Web, he said, encourages us to lapse into our "natural state of distractedness."
Even before that, in the pre-broadband Ice Age of 2000, Harvard's Robert Putnam warned that television — and, more broadly, staring into any kind of screen — had reduced the amount of time families spent in social interactions like, well, penny-ante poker at a picnic table.
And last year, researchers at UC Irvine reported that employees who were unplugged from their email got more work done — and experienced far less stress.
Now, I'm not bemoaning the loss of total isolation or advocating unplugging from the Internet entirely. Access to the Web is unquestionably a wonderful thing. I love having a bottomless library at my fingertips; I love having the world's newspapers on my electronic doorstep. I love being able to pay bills and make airplane reservations online. And, thanks to those ugly cellphone towers in the woods, we now have a way to call for help if we need an ambulance or a fire truck.
It's also nice to have an app that identifies the constellations when you hold the iPad up to the night sky. But then, you have to remember to put the screen down and simply drink in the stars — the original, uncut version.
And that's the point: It's important not to let the convenience of the Internet get in the way of simpler beauties.
That's not the Internet's fault. It's ours, for failing to curb the urge to browse.
I grew to envy our neighbor down the lake who opted to go without Internet access. He didn't cut himself off entirely; whenever he made a trip to town, he sat on the park bench in front of the public library to use the Wi-Fi. But the rest of the time, he stayed unplugged.
In retrospect, that sounds pretty good. I don't think I'm desperate enough to need a term in the Internet rescue camps of South Korea. And I'm too cheap to shell out 10 bucks for the software that turns your Internet connection off for as many hours as you want. (Bonus tech tip: You can turn it off yourself, for free. Go to "Settings.")
The first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem. My problem isn't the Internet, it's learning how to limit the time I spend on it.
So now I have one more thing to look forward to next summer: More time reading old novels; more time playing Scrabble and chasing frogs.
Next year, I promise to unplug. Except, of course, when we need to find a new bike trail, or
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text: I recently purchase a RAdeon HD6570 , and notice that my pc is recognizing the video card as a different one? Has anyone encounter this situation before. I loaded the most recent catalyst software for the card and still windows 8 gives me information for a different video card, the information Im being given is for a more upgraded graphic card. I also noted that when I upgraded to this new card and went from 1 gig onboard to 2 gig , the different was not even significant as far as performance. I used to have a radeon HD4000 series with 1 gig on ram onboard. I was wondering if posible is my system, I just dont understand why i would go down on performance if I upgraded to a card with better specs, I do have to say this card came with a huge heat sink , no fan and the older one I had had a fan. Any comments will be appreciated .


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A 4-month-old pit and shepherd mix puppy was found living in a tree on the west side of Detroit.
The puppy, named Maple, was using the inside of a hollowed-out tree as shelter from the harsh winter weather. The dog was attempting to survive by staying out of the wind and snow.
She was found by the Michigan Humane Society's rescue team after someone alerted them to the dog's situation.
Maple likely would have frozen to death if someone hadn't called, said the organization.
"The weather is getting a little bit colder and basically the dog turned the tree into a dog house," said rescue driver Chris Ouwerkerk in a MHS video. "Dogs are pretty smart."
MHS video: Dog was living in tree
Ouwerkerk says when the rescue team approached the puppy she was friendly and happy to see someone.
Maple was checked out at the Detroit Center for Animal Care where it was discovered she had an upper respiratory infection.
She is currently in foster care, and will be up for adoption in the next week or two.


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On March 27, 2008, after much speculation, Nine Inch Nails announced a series of North American tour dates. A statement from Trent Reznor accompanied the announcement:
On April 4, 2008, the newest line-up was listed on their official Youtube page, with Rich Fownes listed. On June 5th, 2008, nin.com was updated with the updated band members, and a promotional release and note about the tour:
Nasty Little Man, NIN's Public-relations firm, has confirmed that the Lights In The Sky Tour will be a world tour. Currently only North American and South American dates have been announced.
On 20th November, a trailer for the tour was posted on nin.com.
On December 1st Nine Inch Nails announced the first leg of the 2009 tour, beginning in New Zealand and Australia. These dates included the first show in Aukland since 2000, and several dates headlining the Soundwave Festival across Australia.
During the Las Vegas show on December 13, 2008, Reznor announced Alessandro Cortini, like Josh Freese, would be leaving the line-up at the end of the tour, making the show the last for both Freese and Cortini. It was also announced that after the Australian leg of 2009 dates there would be a selection of US Amphitheater dates and some European shows later in the year in the same format as Australia, following festivals. Reznor also stated that 2009 would see Nine Inch Nails performing as a four-piece act, opting to not replace Cortini, suggesting the shows would not be of the same aesthetic visually or musically during the 2009 dates.
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With the development of nin.com v7.0 and the discontinuation of The Spiral, ticket pre-sales were no longer limited to fan club members, resulting in a new method of ticket pre-sales being developed, explained on nin.com as thus:
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During his second inaugural address, Lincoln looked back four years and reflected, "All thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it … . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."
Though the tragedy on which he mused was greater than anything we now confront, the origins of our current crisis — an ongoing shutdown of the federal government and an impending default on its financial obligations — are the same. As a nation, our latest wounds are entirely self-inflicted, their consequences foreseeable and preventable. The worst may be yet to come. Just as the Civil War's ultimate death toll and economic cost exceeded anything even the pessimists envisioned as the conflict approached, so the fallout of a long shutdown and a failure to increase the debt ceiling may inflict human and economic costs more damaging than any now imagine.
Shutting down the federal government has the economic impact of a great natural disaster, but we recover from those.
Undermining confidence in the United States government's full faith and credit — as even a credible threat that Congress will balk at raising the debt ceiling would do — could and almost surely would unhinge the global financial system. There's a reason U.S. treasury bonds and the dollar are the world's ultimate safe haven. Raise doubts about their continued security, and the credit markets will freeze as markets will tumble into freefall. The value of the dollar will plunge and domestic interest rates will skyrocket. There easily could be a run on treasuries by the foreign investors who finance our national debt. The nation's cost of borrowing would rise to unforeseeable levels, threatening the stability of essential programs, like Social Security and Medicare. That's just for a start.
The consequences of a government default on its obligations are so unthinkable that uber-investor Warren Buffett dismissed the prospect of such event: "We will go right up to the point of extreme idiocy, but we won't cross it," he told an interviewer Thursday. Let's hope he's right, but he may be discounting too steeply the peculiar origins of this crisis.
What's going on in Washington is neither normal legislative give-and-take nor even an extreme example of the parties playing procedural hardball. Essentially, what's occurring is an attempted putsch by a minority of extremists within the House Republican caucus. This minority is gripped by what only can be called an hysterical antipathy to the healthcare reforms enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act. To halt the law's implementation, this minority — many of whose members are affiliated with various tea party factions — has undertaken what amounts to subversion of the entire constitutional process of lawmaking.
Consider these basic facts: The Affordable Care Act was passed by both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. It was signed into law by the president of the United States. Subsequently, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the law constitutional. Now a group of lawmakers that plainly doesn't want to admit that its side lost is saying that none of that matters. They say if you don't give us what we want — defunding and ultimately repealing healthcare reform — we're going to put thousands of government employees out of work, depriving the people of their services. If that doesn't work, we're going to wreck the global economy.
This is the logic of gangsters expressed in the language of hostage-taking and extortion.
If their putsch is allowed to succeed, what will be left of constitutional lawmaking? What issue ever will be settled? What's to keep any disgruntled and ideologically inflexible minority of lawmakers from doing the same in the future? Majority rule and constitutional lawmaking will become dead letters, and we will be consigned to government by tantrum.
The paradoxical aspect in all this is that our version of the foreseeable civil war is not really between the parties, but within the Republican caucus, a faction of which is at war with its own leaders. A CBS poll last week found that, while 57 percent of the GOP's self-described tea party supporters said they support shutting down the government to defund the Affordable Care Act, Republicans as a whole narrowly disapprove of such a tactic, 49 percent to 48 percent. (The same survey found that 86 percent of Democrats were opposed to the shutdown.)
The House tea party faction — most of whose seats are in the South and lower Midwest — lives in a right-wing bubble created by a congressional redistricting process that handed them gerrymandered districts that are far whiter, more evangelical and conservative than the nation as a whole. Only 17 of the GOP's 232 House members represent a constituency Obama carried during the last general election, despite his commanding national majority. No matter how irresponsibly they behave, the only thing they have to fear politically is that taking a serious attitude toward their responsibility to govern will open them to a primary challenge from somebody even more dogmatically conservative.
The House tea party faction's bubble also is an echo chamber in which extreme views constantly are reinforced because they never are contradicted or challenged. A Public Policy Polling survey released last week, for example, found that 62 percent of Republicans now believe that President Obama is "secretly trying to take everyone's guns away"; 42 percent believe that Muslims are plotting to put the U.S. under Sharia law, while an astonishing one in five members of the GOP think the U.S. government actually carries out terrorist attacks and then blames them on groups like al Qaeda. Given such fantasies, it's not hard to believe that a survey last May by the same organization found that 44 percent of Republicans say they think armed rebellion "might be necessary."
The simple fact is that there is no reasoning with people who hold such views. That's why President Obama and the Democratic leaders in Congress are right not to negotiate with the tea party hostage-takers.
Tim Rutten is a columnist for the Los Angeles News Group. email@example.com.


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Could wearing a cross become a crime in Canada? Or a firing offense? In late August, a Montreal newspaper leaked details of a proposed secularist charter for the Canadian province of Quebec. Officially unveiled Sept. 10, the Charter of Quebec Values claims an "obligation to remain independent of religious authority."
Proposed by the Parti Québécois, which is the province's governing party, it would ban the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols in public places. Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms would then be amended to limit claims for accommodation of religious beliefs and practices.
Included is a ban on public sector employees — civil servants, teachers, doctors, nurses, judges, police, day care staff, municipal and university staff — wearing a hijab, turban, kippa, large visible crucifix or any other "ostentatious" religious symbols at work.
Elected members of the Quebec legislature would be exempt from the regulations. Also, crucifixes that are of mere historic significance could remain, even in political venues. The multitude of locations named for religious significance would not be changed under the proposed charter.
But Quebec's secularist lawmakers nonetheless are serious about driving religion out of the public square and mind. The Parti Québécois' federal counterpart, the Bloc Québécois of Canada's Parliament, has expelled its only female and ethnic member for dissent, leaving only four seated members.
Maria Mourani, a Catholic of Lebanese origin who now sits as an Independent, wears a crucifix.
"Firing women from day care centers because they're wearing a cross or a scarf, or a man from a hospital because he's wearing a kippa or a turban — I can't adhere to such a policy," Mourani told reporters Sept. 13. Yet Lucie Martineau, president of a large Quebec civil service union, supports the charter.
"We're obliged to keep our political opinions to ourselves," she said. "We want that extended to our religious opinions." And former Supreme Court of Canada judge Claire L'Heureux-Dubé also supports the ban, claiming that she sees more veiled women in Quebec than in Muslim countries.
Polls show that most Canadians don't object to civil servants wearing religious gear, but they strongly oppose the niqab, the Islamic veil over the face.
In a Sept. 11 piece, National Post columnist Jonathan Kay wrote, "Face-covering is what this is really about. Turbans, crosses and Stars of David are all just collateral damage stuck in for the sake of ostensible religious neutrality. It simply wouldn't do for [Quebec Premier and Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois] to single out one religious faith for censure. So she created a policy that goes after everyone."
Others, however, believe there is more to the Parti Québécois strategy than that. The Quebec separatist party thrives on conflict with the federal government, McGill University historian John Zucchi said. "The ideologues want Quebec to be distinguished from Canada," he told the Canadian Catholic News. Part of that, he added, is asserting there's "a Quebec way of thinking which no one ever defines carefully."
An instant conflict will, of course, be created if the Supreme Court strikes down the Quebec charter as unworkable, which most observers expect. If the top court overrules a provincial charter, it provides a ready-made grievance that the party, which advocates the separation of Quebec from Canada, can market to its loyal constituents.
The Catholic Church has responded cautiously, aware of the risk of triggering counterproductive hostility from secularists. Church authorities have pointed out, however, that the proposed charter would enable social injustices.
For example, Muslim men would have no problem fulfilling its requirements because they would be permitted beards; but Muslim women might be forced out of the work force if head scarves are forbidden, contributing to their isolation and victimization.
Also, there is a transparency issue: As Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine put it, if nuns who run a kindergarten funded by the government are not permitted to wear habits, "Why not? That's who they are. They're nuns. Why hide the fact they are nuns?"
If the Parti Québécois' stances sound like the politics of desperation, there is an explanation: From the 1960s onward, Quebec declined from a fervently Catholic jurisdiction, whose high birth rate inevitably sustained French language and culture rights, to one of the lowest-ranking for faith or birth rate in the Western world.
Politics in Quebec are now dominated by secularists who, in the absence of children to pass the heritage on to, seek to enforce it by legislation. The resulting harsh measures have spurred an exodus of professionals and entrepreneurs, and the Quebec birth rate remains low despite generous government subsidies.
Rightly or wrongly, Quebec has also been seen as less welcoming to minority groups than other provinces of Canada. Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau described the Parti Québécois' "distinct society" concept as "frankly racist."
The official reaction by the Canadian government, currently in the hands of the Conservative Party, has been strong. Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney provided a profile picture on Twitter that shows him wearing a forbidden Sikh head scarf, although Kenney is known to be a devout Roman Catholic.
Kenney promised that the government of Canada would challenge Quebec in court if the charter ended up violating the rights of Canadians. And one cannot currently become a Canadian citizen without unveiling one's face.
But opposition to the proposed charter crosses party and ideology lines. The NDP (socialist) Opposition party leader Thomas Mulcair, his party's only member from Quebec, said that, from his experience in Quebec's justice department, the proposal is "patently illegal," and he has threatened that the party will fund legal challenges.
Leader of the minority Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau, has denounced the proposed charter as well.
Even as politicians decried the charter, Zucchi wondered whether it is a diversion from the real economic and political issues created by the radical secularist trend, including the Quebec government's current euthanasia bill. He has suggested that the tactic might be to "get people riled up over the charter but quietly go ahead with euthanasia."
Charles Taylor, a Montreal-based Catholic philosopher who toured the province in 2007 and co-authored a report asking the Quebec government to define what it means by "secular," said that the values proclaimed by the new charter "aren't really Quebec values," as the government insists. "Quebec values, as it turns out, are very much in line with the universal values about this, which include things like no discrimination," Taylor told CBC News.
Denyse O'Leary writes from Canada.
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There's no better place to learn photography than in the Lowcountry - a place with many different landscapes and nature settings to capture.
For Sun City, the Photography Club is where people begin to learn the basics of how to use a digital camera and evolve into more experienced photographers.
Club president Richard de Asla said there are many opportunities for residents to capture the beauty in the Lowcountry. Residents signed up for classes at the Photography Club's studio this month. The club offers a wide range of 44 different fall classes that start at the most basic beginner classes taught by former club president, Stan Abrahamson.
"I teach residents who just got a new camera about how to turn it on and other little settings the camera has," Abrahamson said.
Other classes offered include information about Photoshop, studio lighting and the newest addition is about framing and matting. The studio the club was given by the community has been a great help in providing a place to conduct photo shoots. The club is very involved with Sun City and has even captured the headshots for the Sun City Community Association.
"We have many members who take photos for the SunSations magazine," de Asla said. "I've had photos on the cover with different nature shots about seven times."
De Asla said he really enjoys capturing birds around the Lowcountry. Being from New York, he didn't see the many different types of birds until he came to Sun City and it has been his favorite to photograph.
A rare opportunity the club provides is a Digi S.I.G. The Digi special interest group is the combination of the Photography Club and the Computer Club, which offers members the chance to see how computers are a vital role to photography.
Another talent that the Photography Club prides itself in is the restoration of photos. Abrahamson has had many residents who have old photos and wished they could have better images of loved ones who have died. Abrahamson and other photography club members have restored photos for people whose photos have been destroyed in a fire or have lost a loved one and only have one photo left of them.
"We get a benefit from helping others with their photos," Abrahamson said.
While the club has monthly contests for members and participate in other contests with the Hilton Head and Beaufort photography clubs, it also is involved with the Bluffton Boys & Girls Club. During the summer, the club participates with children in an eight-week program that teaches the children how to take and upload photos to a computer. This program returns again this fall, but will focus more on developing people's photography skills.
"We plan to take it to the next level," Abrahamson said. "The children will have a chance to participate in local contests and move to regional contests, depending on their skills."
De Asla said photography is all about having an artistic eye and it is a wonderful art everyone can use.
"We are always searching for new subjects to teach in our classes," de Asla said.
Not only does the Photography Club get residents involved with the Boys & Girls Clubs as mentors but also provides photo shoots for unwed mothers and their children to provide for their families, and are some of the main photographers for the Beaufort-Jasper Active Adult Challenge.
To get involved with the Photography Club, visit pcschh.org or contact Richard de Asla at 843-705-3071.


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Rated: PG-13 for adventure action and violence.
Release Date: 2008-08-01
Starring: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
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Make no bones about it, The Mummy franchise is and always has been a blatant attempt to recreate the Indiana Jones lore. In this third installment, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the similarities are even more apparent. Rick 'Ricochet' O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) is Indy of course; Maria Bello (who replaces Rachel Weisz as Evelyn) is their version of 'Marion'; and their son Alex O'Connell (Luke Ford) matches up with Indiana's heir apparent, Mutt Williams (as played by Shia LaBeouf).
Unfortunately, the similarities also extend to the campiness, predictability, and unintelligent plot lines of 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'. Come to think of it, even their titles are both ridiculously long.
This time around, the O'Connells travel to Asia to battle the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li), awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse that a chinese sorceress (Michelle Yeoh) cast on him. The film, to its credit, moves along rather quickly with one battle scene following another, and its a good thing because the acting is often unbearable. At times, I couldn't shake the feeling that newcomer Luke Ford, was doing his best Matt Damon impression. Just a terrible pick altogether to play Brendan Fraser's son, since they look only a couple of years apart. An army of mummies, yetis in the himalayas and witchery I can believe, but Luke Ford playing Rick's son, not a chance.
Of the three films, this one seems like the most poorly thought out as it strives to become more of a family adventure, than the thrilling archeological escapades in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' that most likely inspired the filmmakers in the first place. I assure you that years from now, these films will be no relic.


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Treatment for substance abuse in Massachusetts has long been inadequate.
For years, experts and officials have warned of an alarming increase in the abuse of prescription drugs. The worst of these are opioid-based painkillers like Oxycodone. Those drugs are highly addictive and relatively expensive, and many who get hooked on them gravitate to a cheaper substitute: heroin.
Now there's a new heroin epidemic, and this one isn't limited to big cities. Heroin use has shot up in small cities in the Midwest and rural areas such as upstate New York. There are no big cities in Vermont, but Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his recent State of the State address to the "full-blown heroin crisis" in his state.
That the wave of heroin addiction has hit Massachusetts is reflected in a grim statistic:
According to Trust for America's Health, the number of drug overdose deaths in the Bay State has increased by 47 percent since 1999.
State Senate President Therese Murray responded this month to the heroin crisis in her South Shore district and across the state by creating a special Senate committee to study addiction and treatment.
The problems are already well-known. Treatment for substance abuse in Massachusetts has long been inadequate. While opiate addiction requires sustained treatment, cutbacks in what the state offers have created what Murray called a "revolving door" for addicts.
"What we're finding is that as soon as people are detoxed, which has a physical component to it, they're then released to go back to the communities from which they came," said Sen. Jennifer Flanagan, D-Leominster, who chairs the new committee. Back home, they find the same triggers that got them addicted in the first place, and detox alone doesn't give them the tools to resist.
The committee's specific focus will be Section 35 of the state code, which allows addicts and their relatives to petition the courts to place them in 90-day treatment programs. But there aren't nearly enough beds at licensed treatment facilities, which means many addicts are sent to prison instead: men to a prison in Bridgewater and women to MCI-Framingham. There, they are treated like prisoners, not like patients trying to escape a serious, chronic illness.
What's refreshing about Murray's initiative, and Shumlin's in Vermont, is that neither is looking to police and prisons and ever-tougher laws to stop the heroin epidemic. Harsh drug laws didn't keep these young addicts out of their parents' medicine cabinets or from buying heroin on the streets, and it won't cure their addictions.
Heroin addiction is not a criminal conspiracy; it's a public health emergency. With the right resources, addiction can be beaten and lives saved. For Murray, who is required to step down from the Senate presidency at the end of this year, a more effective treatment system would be a proud legacy.


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Large U.S. and foreign crops, lower prices for grains, oilseeds and cotton, and increased foreign competition have combined to reduce the forecast for agricultural exports in 2005.
The latest USDA forecast pegs U.S. agricultural exports at $56 billion, down from the record $62.3 billion exported in 2004 and $1.5 billion below earlier forecasts. Meanwhile, continued strong domestic economic growth and consumer demand have boosted agricultural imports to a projected $56 billion, the same as the export forecast.
Expected U.S. agricultural trade last hovered between a deficit and a surplus in the late 1950s, according to USDA.
Lower prices have sharply reduced the expected value of 2005 wheat, corn, soybeans and cotton exports from 2004. Bulk export volume, however, is expected to rise by 2.3 million tons over this past year, as both corn and soybean shipments increase.
Beef exports continue to be limited, while pork and dairy remain strong and poultry rises slightly, according to USDA. Since this past August, anticipated corn and soybean export value has been reduced by an additional $900 million each, and bulk export volume has fallen by 1.3 million tons.
The value of forecast 2005 U.S. agricultural exports is led by wine, beer, fruits and vegetables. Beef continues to expand, although at a slower pace than in recent years. A weaker dollar and rising U.S. household incomes have raised the import value.
There are signs, states the latest USDA report, that global economic growth, although still substantial, will slow in 2005 due to strong and rising commodity prices. However, growth still is projected at above-trend rates of 3.4 percent in the United States and 3.5 percent globally.
Gross domestic product (GDP) in both the United States and the world grew in excess of 4 percent in 2004, making this the fastest growth year of the past five for the United States. Strong 2004 growth has put upward pressure on industrial commodity prices. The inflation-adjusted price of oil has risen but still is lower than the peak in the early 1980s. Higher industrial commodity prices and probable higher interest rates pose a risk to robust global growth.
China's economic growth is critical to world economic growth, according to the report. China's roaring economy prompted a surge in demand in late 2003 and 2004, and it bid up the price of raw materials such as crude oil and intermediate goods such as steel and cement.
To curtail inflation, the Chinese government has rationed credit. Nevertheless, major forecasters predict that China's total imports will be comparable to those of the United States in 2004 and 2005. This import growth picture makes prospects for world growth very good for 2005 despite some drag from high industrial commodity prices. China's GDP growth is expected to exceed 9 percent in 2004, for the second consecutive year.
The forecast for fiscal 2005 wheat and flour exports is unchanged at $4.1 billion, states the USDA projection. A slight decrease in average unit prices for wheat offsets some increase in wheat export volume. Since last August, a downward revision in the forecast for Canadian wheat exports has improved prospects for U.S. shipments.
Regarding year to year changes, wheat export volume is down 5.3 million tons to 25.8 million tons. Projected at 58.7 tons, the 2004-05 U.S. wheat crop is estimated to be 8 percent smaller than last year's crop, and U.S. suppliers face much stiffer foreign competition.
The forecast for U.S. coarse grain exports has been lowered by 1.6 million tons from the August estimate to 57.5 million tons due to a somewhat weaker outlook for corn and sorghum shipments. The export value of total coarse grains is more sharply reduced, down $1.1 billion to $5.5 billion, largely the result of a lower estimate for corn export unit value that is now forecast at $96 per metric ton.
Large global feed grain supplies and an upward revision in the record U.S. corn crop are expected to pressure prices lower. U.S. corn shipments have been lowered by 1 million tons due largely to higher Canadian feed wheat supplies, which reduce Canadian demand for U.S. corn and compete with U.S. corn exports to South Korea.
The export forecast for oilseeds and products has been lowered slightly to 35.8 million tons due to lower soybean volume. Broad declines in export unit value has lowered total value by $1.1 billion to $8.8 billion. Conditions for the U.S. soybean crop have improved, and the production forecast for the 2004-05 crop increased by 7.45 million tons since August to a record 85.7 million tons. This revised production estimate is the reason for lower prices, as there has been little change in the expected size of the South American crop.
China's total soybean import demand is expected to rebound from last year but is expected to surpass the fiscal 2003 level only slightly to a record 22 million tons. European demand for soybeans remains soft this year with abundant local supplies of feed stuffs and an improved rapeseed crop.
The fiscal 2005 forecast for U.S. cotton exports has been increased by 100,000 tons for the August estimate, but lower prices leave value unchanged at $3.1 billion. Favorable weather conditions late in the year has led to an upward revision in world production and downward pressure on prices.
Forecast at 112 million 480-pound bales in 2005-05, world cotton production is up 5 percent from the August estimate and 18 percent above the current estimate for 2003-04. Lower prices are expected to lead to increased cotton use and trade throughout the world.
Livestock, poultry and dairy product exports are forecast to reach $10.8 billion, up $400 million from the August forecast. Red meats and dairy products account for the overall gain. Continued weakness in the U.S. dollar is likely to make U.S. products more price competitive.
The export forecast for U.S. horticultural products remains unchanged at a record $13.8 billion, up $500 million from the previous year. A weaker U.S. dollar against several currencies and continued strength in the global economy support this outlook. Since August, some gain in the value of tree nut exports has offset a decline in fruit exports.


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E5071C-TDR Enhanced Time Domain Analysis
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E5071C ENA Series Network analyzer
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- Real time measurements simultaneously in time domain (TDR/TDT) and frequency domain (S-parameters)
- Simple operations with intuitive user interface
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- Excellent ESD Robustness for reduction of maintenance cost
- Stressed eye diagram analysis of interconnects with emphasis, equalization and jitter insertion features
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- Method of Implementation (MOI) for High Speed Digital Applications are available: USB, HDMI, SATA, DisplayPort, MIPI and more
The E5071C-TDR is application software embedded in the ENA network analyzer that provides a one-box solution for high-speed serial interconnect analysis. For signal integrity design and verification, it brings three breakthroughs; simple and intuitive operation, fast and accurate measurements, and ESD robustness.
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Harper's Room — Take Two
Name: Harper
Location: Tacoma, Washington
We wanted to redo Harper's nursery to reflect her growing up and changing. We wanted something more colorful, a place for her to play and learn and let her imagination run wild. We also wanted to do it on the cheap!
Luckily, I love thrifting and did most of the re-do with things I found second hand. The result was the perfect space for a three year old to have fun during the day and sleep cozily at night. She loves it and we couldn't be happier!
Thanks Mandy!
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• Harper's big girl room on Harper's Happenings
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The CMRP Program has three components:
- Eligibility requirements that are a blend of education and healthcare-specific experience, and profile the individual who is likely to be successful on the Certification Examination
- A 110-item multiple-choice Certification Examination that tests tasks that are performed regularly in practice and are considered important to competent practice. 100 items are scored; 10 are pretest items used to collect data
- A renewal requirement. Certification is valid for three years at which time it must be renewed through retaking and passing the Certification Examination or documenting 45 contact hours of continuing professional education
As the industry and job responsibilities evolve, test questions need to be revised to keep the exam current and relevant. These revisions are based on a job analysis survey completed by a large number of AHRMM members.
Candidate Handbook and Application The CMRP Candidate Handbook and Application contains eligibility requirements, a complete content outline for the Examination, sample test items, instructions on applying for the Examination, and an application. Download the pdf file of the CMRP Candidate Handbook and Application (24 pages), or request a copy from AMP at 888/519-9901.
The CMRP Self-Assessment Examination is an online study tool that parallels the CMRP Certification Examination in format, content and cognitive levels.
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Pleasantville Police Seek Carjacking Suspect
Police in Pleasantville are looking for the man who carjacked a woman on Monday night.
The suspect knocked the woman to the ground at the Pleasantville Shopping Center as she was getting out of her car according to NBC 40. He tried to take her purse and when she pulled it towards her he pushed her, took the key to her red 2013 Honda CRV and drove off.
Police describe the suspect as a 6-foot tall black male with a thin build. The car has the New Jersey license plate A83-DRB.
Anyone with information about the incident should call Pleasantville Police at 609-641-6100.


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Price on long bow stock and shroud?
How much for all the x-mag stuff? Also, apart from missing the valve does it all work?
@ Syko - was thinking of ~140
@ Karavandar - it is currently not for sale, only the items listed in the first post
payment sent, thank you
ill take that classic rail off your hands, pming
Thread updated, sold items removed.
I am currently on vacation - so if you want to buy anything, drop me a PN (might take some days until I get back to you).
got the stuff, thank you, made at least 30 kills yesterday with the barrel tip, superb
PM sent.
Need you to clear out some PM inbox space, please.
Inbox cleared and Xmag Barrel sold
Red grips & Ceramic barrel sold
Added CCM Macro fittings & trade items & prices reduced
Pm'd ya
Prices lowered & ULE Body sold
To the top.
Would also consider a e-mag/x-mag or custom battery housing as trade
Still have the longbow parts?
Yes I do - but I am asking 130 for it
Longbow sold
Let me know when you want to part with a certain tac1 body
Prices and rules update
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Accurately monitor fuel levels with these reproduction sending units from OPGI. Each new sender is manufactured to the highest quality standards using durable stainless steel. A new neoprene gasket is included with each sending unit. Sold per each.


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Back in the Saddle
The Zoo
It's still hard to believe that Sasha is no longer here. Our other cat Mia seems to be adjusting. I think it was hard for him at first. He's actually roaming around the house more. Trixie is actually learning not to chase him. It's probably because Mia's hiss is pretty potent. Let's put it this way, poor Mia doesn't have the best oral hygiene; his breath stinks. So a few hisses and air swats later was enough to teach Trixie to keep her distance. Maybe I can bottle his saliva and sell it as an alternative to mace.Knitting Project
The socks are coming along slowly. I'm still on the first one. I finished the leg, "turned" the heel and am getting close to the toe. I would include an in progress picture but the camera is temporarily M.I.A.Exotic Trips
David and I have decided to take a 2-week vacation to Japan in November. This is a trip we've been wanting to do for a long time. We love everything Japanese; the culture, food, architecture, art and of course David loves Godzilla. We'll be meeting our friend Greg from NY and his Japanese girlfriend Koziko (sorry guys if I spelled her name wrong). We're reading up on places to go and sites to see. Greg, like David, is a Godzilla collector. I've been promised that the trip will not be all about Godzilla. Although an idea to visit some of the places that Godzilla has destroyed has been thrown around. I guess it could be interesting. I mean I did go on the "Sound of Music" tour when I was in Austria.House Projects
The 2nd bedroom is pretty much done!!!! The only details left to do are to hang the shades (once they arrive) and install the ceiling light. A 2-year long project will finally be over in about a week. You're probably asking yourself, 'What the hell finally got their asses moving?' Okay, well maybe your not asking but I wanted to add some level of suspense. The reason we finally cranked it out was because my Mother and Step-Father are arriving from NJ on July 31st for 1-week. This will be the first time they are visiting us since we moved Out West in '97. There is still a lot of other projects to do but at least the guest bedroom will be done. I'll post a picture once the shades and light are installed.Work
We were going to begin a kitchen remodel but have decided to put it on hold until next year since the trip to Japan will put a bit of a dent in our savings. We'll probably continue to finalize the plans so that we can hit the ground running after the winter rains stop next year. (I didn't just say winter rains did I?)
So the next project we have embarked on is the backyard. We want to make it presentable as an interim step to a 'renovation'. We're aiming to have it cleaned up and plants in the ground before my Mother and Step-Father arrive.
My job is still taking up a good portion of my time and energy. The big project I'm working on won't be officially completed until October. Managing it, the other smaller projects, recruiting for the open positions, and the daily overhead has been challenging. Plus our organization recently went through a reorg which has been a bit of a bumpy ride. I'm hoping that I'll hire the 2 additional producers I need soon and that we'll hit a stride before we are in "Holiday Mode". You read correctly, Holiday Mode. In the Etailer world holiday planning is already underway and will begin graphic production in the next few months!That's all for now.
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March 6, 2008
Equinix to Present at Citi 2008 Small and Mid-Cap Conference
Foster City, CA — March 06, 2008 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that company executives will present at the Citi 2008 Small and Mid-Cap Conference being held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, March 17-19, 2008. Margie Backaus, chief business officer, and Jason Starr, director of investor relations, of Equinix, will present on Monday, March 17th at 1:45 PM Pacific Time.
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be made available on the Investor Relations section of the Equinix Web site at http://invest.equinix.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of IXEurope into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; the results of any litigation relating to past stock option grants and practices; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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My Wedding - Jericho Terrace 9/7/08
My BIG Day took place on 9/7/08 at Jericho Terrace. Anything that could possibly go wrong went wrong. I was so glad Autumn warned me about this ahead of time so I was prepared for it. At the end, I guess all it matters is We had a lot of FUN on this very special day !! Thanks everyone who attended our wedding to make it special and memoriable for us !!Read More
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Erik Lutz, AiG–US, explains why the Bible records both a statement that the earth is immovably set on pillars and that it is hanging on nothing.
Have you ever heard of the phrase, "Money is the root of all evil"? This expression is derived from a passage of Scripture, but is it accurate? Erik Lutz, AiG–U.S., explains.
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Shairport Sync
Shairport is a utility for emulating the functionality of an AirPort Express on a linux box. However, since it has been created by reverse-engineering Apple's key used in its AirPort Express, be advised that the functionality may be removed at Apple's discretion.
Shairport is available in the AUR through three different packages:
The third package provides ready made systemd scripts and hence comes recommended. It is also recommended to install the package perl-io-socket-inet6 in order to prevent the daemon from giving warnings about the unavailability of inet6 and compatibility with iTunes.
The configuration is managed by the perl script /usr/bin/shairport.pl. For novice users, the defaults should be left as is, unless they wish to set a password for the AirPlay server. In this case, they should change line 56 from
my $password = ''; to
my $password = '<yourpassword>'; where <yourpassword> is to be replaced by the password of your choice.
If you have not used the shairport-git-sysdcompat package, then you will need to create the systemd service file on your own. The one used by the sysdcompat package is:
[Unit] Description=Shairport Airtunes emulator Requires=avahi-daemon.service [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/shairport.pid ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/shairport.pl -d --writepid=/var/run/shairport.pid -a %i [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
For starting the service, simply issue the command:
#systemctl start shairport@<nameofserver>.service
where <nameofserver> can be any name of your choice. While it has not been tested, it would be good if the name avoided any special characters. For automatically starting the service at launch, issue the command:
#systemctl enable shairport@<nameofserver>.service
The result should be an AirPort station by the name <nameofserver> which should be able to accept output from any Apple product.


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As a pet lover, I'm more than annoyed. As a follower of professional sports, I'm not surprised by NIKE's decision to get back together with dog-killer quarterback Michael Vick.
At the time, when Vick's dog fighting hobby came to the surface and he was sent to prison and the National Football League suspended him, NIKE fell itself in a splash of self-righteousness, calling cruelty to animals, "inhumane, abhorrent and unacceptable.''
The release of Vick's shoe was stopped.
However, Vick's return to the NFL has been met with hardly a whimper, with perhaps most people distracted by the economy. Whatever the reason, there has been no outcry against Vick and the Eagles.
The barometer has been no backlash from the Eagles' sponsors. NIKE, seeing this, figured it was safe to get back into bed with Vick.
I know this is wishful thinking on my part, but it would have been nice to see Vick donating a portion of his salary, and NIKE making contributions, to animal shelters.
But, we won't see any of that until there's some kind of protest against Vick and NIKE. Until then, they will continue on in arrogant bliss.


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recommended by Dan Clark, School Orchestra Specialist
Not off the press yet, but coming soon from Alfred publishing, here are some of the standouts in our perusal of scores and listening to Fall 2015 titles. It is likely that these titles will be on Stanton's Summer Reading Sessions at the Ohio State University String Teacher Workshop, July 5 – July 11.
Impact by Bob Phillips (43851)……………………………….$56.00
A truly powerful concert piece that honors the impact teachers have on the lives of others, this original work is a perfect centerpiece for concert and festival programming. Rhythmically exciting, with great parts for all sections, this is a must-have. (4:30)
Pi Tunes by Richard Meyer (43825)……………………………………………………..$62.00
Try assigning the first 32 digits of Pi to a scale degree to create five melodies that flow together, and you'll have a start to this awesome composition. With a light jazzy feel, driving accompaniments, and features of all sections, here's another creative hit from the master. (4:20)
River Rhapsody by Richard Meyer (43843)……………….$49.00
A great way to introduce students to tone painting, this unique and fun-to-play selection traces the path of an imaginary river, which begins as a tiny spring and gradually grows. Themes from three famous "river pieces" are included: "The Beautiful Blue Danube," "Water Music," and "The Moldau." (4:00)
City of Steel by Doug Spata (43827)………………………………………………………$56.00
Brooding melodies that rise like mist over dark, churning chords, give way to a warm, yearning section, returning for a rousing finish. The lush, romantic sound and the dramatic expressiveness thrill while technical development includes 16th notes, chromatics, and shifting. (4:30)
Mystere by Shirl Jae Atwell (43840)………………………………………………………………………$49.00
"Arousing wonder and inquisitiveness"—that is mystère. And this piece exemplifies, through music, the wonder and incomprehension of a mystery with melodies and counter melodies throughout. (3:15)
Matador by Susan H. Day (43829)…………………………………………………………$49.00
Picture the matador as he waves his red cape and the crowd cheers him on! Distinguished by its Spanish influenced melodies and harmonies, this piece in 4/4 is written in D minor and E minor. Great to develop expressive playing! (3:30)
Pre-order your copies today on our website or by calling us at 1-800-42-MUSIC, extension 2. Questions? Email firstname.lastname@example.com!
Dan Clark has worked at Stanton's since 1979, primarily with orchestra music and print promotions. A "working" musician, he's a classical cellist, a rock & jazz bassist and a folk & country guitarist/singer. His free time is spent with family or reading, gardening, cycling and working puzzles. His series of musical puzzles (RP3 Rebus Puzzle Picture People) can be found on the Stanton's Facebook page each Sunday. He also has a reputation as a pretty good joke teller. Seriously.
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