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The Baroque Piarist Church of Maria Treu is a parish church and the church of the Order of the Piarists (Patres Scholarum Piarum) in Vienna. It is located in Vienna's 8th district (Josefstadt). The Piaristenkirche has been elevated to the rank of Basilica Minor in 1949.
Click here for an amazing, 360-degree "stitched" interior shot of the Church by Photoart Kalmar.
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Partial Corn Stover Removal Reduces Management Challenges
As corn residue increases with grain yields, partial stover removal offers an option for growers
DES MOINES, Iowa Nov. 27, 2012 - Corn residue increases proportionally with corn yields, creating management challenges for growers. To help address those, agronomists and scientists from DuPont Pioneer and DuPont Industrial Biosciences teamed up to conduct research on the impact of residue removal on the long-term agronomic and environmental integrity of fields. Stover is also evaluated for cellulosic ethanol production, which has benefits for both farmers and biofuel producers.
"In fields where partial stover removal is an option, a sustainable stover harvest program provides value to the grower without negatively impacting the health and productivity of the soil," says Andy Heggenstaller, DuPont Pioneer agronomy research manager for cellulosic ethanol. "There are three primary factors we examine with growers considering stover harvest, including field productivity level, crop management practices and erosion potential."
Individual field evaluation is necessary as stover removal is not an option for every field. In some highly productive systems, residue may even be excessive as a result of increased yields, improved stalk quality and reduced tillage practices. Highly productive, relatively flat, continuous corn fields are best suited for stover removal and tend to see the greatest agronomic benefits. In these fields, corn stover production generally exceeds the minimum amount needed to maintain soil health and productivity, making sustainable stover harvest a viable option.
In high yielding areas of the Corn Belt, many growers are chopping stalks, increasing tillage or using a combination of these two methods to further stalk decomposition. In areas where residue management is a critical factor in production decisions, partial stover harvest could expand rotation and farming options. For example, reducing excess residue could allow increased flexibility in managing corn following corn, particularly in the northern Corn Belt where residue decomposition tends to be slower. Stover removal also may eliminate tillage operations and other practices used primarily for residue management, resulting in substantial production cost savings.
Agronomic advantages of partial stover removal include accelerated spring soil warming and drying, improved stand establishment, reduced nitrogen immobilization, reduced disease pressure, expanded rotation options and reduced tillage. Studies also have shown yield advantages for corn when excess stover is removed. The remaining residue in a sustainable stover harvest program ensures soil erosion prevention, soil organic carbon maintenance and soil fertility management.
"Concern with removal of organic matter and nutrients with the stover harvest tends to be the primary limiting factor on the minds of growers," reports Heggenstaller.
As fields are evaluated for stover harvest, the estimated productivity level guides the amount of residue left on the field. Typically, corn grain and stover are produced in a roughly one-to-one ratio. If a field yields 150 bushels per acre, which equals 3.6 tons of grain at 0 percent moisture, it should produce approximately 3.6 tons of stover. In general, every field under continuous corn with no-till or conservation tillage needs about 2.3 tons of residue per acre to keep organic matter constant. As corn yields grow, stover increases, resulting in greater potential for stover removal in highly productive fields.
Soil erosion is another major consideration. A sustainable stover harvest program must leave enough residue on the soil to mitigate water and wind erosion. The amount of residue needed to manage erosion varies greatly depending on field characteristics and management practices, but it is often significantly less than the total produced. Tools such as RUSLE2 (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation, version 2) and WEPS (Wind Erosion Prediction System) are available to develop a soil conservation plan.
From a soil fertility standpoint, the impact of a stover harvest is complex. A partial stover harvest will increase the removal of plant nutrients; however, short- and long-term effects will vary for different nutrients. Nutrient removal tables provide estimates of pounds of nutrients per ton of dry stover. The tables are useful as a general guide, but they tend to overestimate the amount of nutrients actually removed by a stover harvest. In general, growers should monitor fertility and account for nutrient removal in fertility programs, particularly with phosphorus and potassium.
"When considering stover harvest, growers should be thinking where they want to go with crop production, not where they are today," says Heggenstaller. "As grain yields and residue levels increase, it becomes more sustainable and economical to harvest a portion of stover and use it to produce other products than to till it into the soil."
For more information about partial corn stover harvest, talk to your local DuPont Pioneer agronomist, or visit www.pioneer.com.
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Its official I am addicted to Pinterest! I could look at it for hours for wonderful inspiration for AURA and for Ellis House, our soon to be country retreat in Kyneton! I love this shot above, it's sophisticated, classically modern and well slightly European. Will this be my country look? Mixed shades of wood, beautiful mottled greys and stunning chandeliers - hmm I could think of worse looks :)
And below I found this great idea for a bathroom window treatment of using a linen table runner as a curtain - from a cool 50s house for sale.
I have found such gorgeous shots of bathroom renovations, but I am instantly relaxed looking at this shot above, I love the soft sage walls with vintage white trim, the wooden furniture and the rust curtains. Oh how I dream of lying in a Bath with a view!


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SOURCE: NEAH Power Systems, Inc.
January 23, 2013 03:00 ET
BOTHELL, WA--(Marketwire - Jan 23, 2013) - Neah Power Systems, Inc., (OTCBB: NPWZ) http://www.neahpower.com, a developer of power solutions using proprietary, award winning technology for the military, transportation, and portable electronic devices, is interviewed discussing the recent company developments as part of its ongoing communication plan. This interview can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/57685921
Neah Power continues its aggressive efforts to commercialize proprietary and patented fuel cell technology. The Powerchip™ product and the PowerPlay™ product have the potential to revolutionize the energy storage marketplace.
"Over $50 million has gone into the Company, and we are starting to see the benefits," said Dr. Chris D'Couto, CEO. He continued to say, "The company recently introduced PowerPlay™ technology that leverages some key components of the Powerchip™ technology to build a low-cost, consumer-oriented product." Some of the key recent developments giving rise to an optimistic future include:
Please visit http://www.neahpower.com to view the detailed Letter to Shareholders and view the corporate video 'About Neah Power Systems' which is a very informative overview of the Company and the Powerchip™ and PowerPlay™ technologies. The company continues to be optimistic about opportunities, and advise readers to review publically available information on annual report 10-K recently filed.
About Neah Power
Neah Power Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: NPWZ) is a developer of long-lasting, efficient and safe power solutions for the military, transportation, and portable electronics applications. Neah uses a unique, patented and award winning, silicon-based design for its Powerchip™ and PowerPlay™ micro fuel cells that enable higher power densities, lower cost and compact form-factors. Previous awards include the 2012 ZINO Green finalist, the 2010 WTIA finalist, and 2010 Best of What's New™ Popular Science and other awards. The Company's micro fuel cell system can run in aerobic and anaerobic modes.
Further Company information can be found at http://www.neahpower.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the statements contained herein may be, within the meaning of the federal securities laws, "forward-looking statements," which are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. See Neah Power System's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC during fiscal 2012 for a discussion of such risks, uncertainties and other factors. These forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations as of the date hereof, and the Company does not undertake any responsibility to update any of these statements in the future.
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Captain's ReportVectra 2042 I/O with Fish PackageBy Capt. Rob SmithFrom the sternTypical of a sportboat, this one has an integrated platform on the stern along with an optional bolt on swim platform that really lends itself to enjoying water sports. The swim ladder is a telescoping 4-step ladder. I like that, as I am seeing some companies switch to a less expensive 3-step ladder. As part of the fish package, the stern also has a seat base to set up a casting chair on a pedestal allowing someone to fish off the stern. The sunpad doubles as the cover for the engine. The top is wide enough to relax while you strap on a board or your skis.The engine hatch tips back easily and it has a tether to keep it from going too far. Do be careful when you are putting it back down though, as the weight of the hatch can get away from you. If you have little fingers in the way, you will do some damage. This boat was powered with a MerCruiser 4.3 MPI sterndrive. The port side walkthrough is good, but with the tower, you need to duck to get in and make a tight turn toward the center once in the cockpit. The bimini is standard and the tower optional. My test boat had dual bucket seats with bolsters and slide and swivel adjustments. The helmAt the helm, you have a typical sport boat dash with a Seaworthy stereo AM/FM and an auxiliary jack for an iPod or MP3 player. I felt like there was plenty of leg room at the helm. Gauge visibility was good. The throttle position was a bit high for me, but not too uncomfortable. The sole locker is large enough to stow boards or canvas, and the opening is large enough to make it easy. The windshield has a wide walkthrough section that seemed larger than most I've seen. This certainly will make it easier to get quickly from the bow to the stern and back again.Up frontThe bow area is much like a bowrider with bench seats and storage. These seat bottoms are hinged which I prefer over the removable ones that always seem to get in the way while you rummage around. The builder had the table top stowed up front with the post in the back. I think they should be together, but that is a personal preference. The bow has a beach boarding ladder so you can nudge up to the beach, put the bow on a sand bar and enjoy. There is a fishing chair base up front to allow another casting chair to be installed here. For the fishing package, there is a trolling motor socket up front.SpecificationsThis model is 20'4" length overall with a beam of 8'6". She weighs in at 2325 lbs. and has a fuel capacity of 43 gallons. This model is rated for engines up to 260 hp. She is rated for a maximum of 12 people aboard, and her total weight capacity is 1890 lbs.Test resultsThe 2042 handled well without the tendency to over steer at low speeds. She got on plane smoothly and made turns at 35 mph without cavitation. There was some porpoising at 4500 rpm up, but trimming smoothed that out. I felt that 3000 rpm seemed to provide a comfortable ride for cruising. Coming out of the hole, she seemed to struggle, but I believe an adjustment in the props will fix this and the underway bounce at top end. She was a very dry ride and stayed stuck to the water in turns.ConclusionsIf your family enjoys water sports along with some fishing, this is a good model to check out. Smoker Craft builds the hull with 24-ounce woven roving fiberglass which has a 5-year blister warranty. The reverse chine hull delivers a dry ride.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Vectra 2042 IO with Fish Package (2009-) is 47.4 mph (76.3 kph), burning 15.8 gallons per hour (gph) or 59.8 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Vectra 2042 IO with Fish Package (2009-) is 25.3 mph (40.7 kph), and the boat gets 3.99 miles per gallon (mpg) or 1.7 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 154 miles (247.84 kilometers).
- Tested power is 1 x 220-hp MerCruiser 4.3L MPI.
Standard and Optional Features
|CD Stereo
Exterior Features
|Carpet: Cockpit
|Outlet: 12-Volt Acc
|Swim Platform
|Tower: Watersports
|Wet bar
|Bimini Top
|Cockpit Cover
Hull Warranty
Lifetime Hull Warranty
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Cavaliere under cabinet range hoods are crafted from 19 gauge stainless steel in satin finish.
Aiken, SC (PRWEB) January 30, 2013
Cavaliere range hoods are designed to remove smoke, cooking vapors, and odors from the cook top area. For best results, it is advisable to start the range hood before cooking and allow it to operate several minutes after the cooking is completed to clear all smoke and odors from the kitchen.
Cavaliere under cabinet range hoods are crafted from 19 gauge stainless steel in satin finish. The three range hood models can only vent air through ducts that lead outside. It needs to be noted that they are not capable of recycling the air within the room. The range hoods are equipped with two 35W dimmable halogen lights; they are electronically controlled with multiple functions such as 4 motor speeds, power-off delay and auto function. Functions are executed either by pressing touch sensitive buttons on the LCD display or with a (credit card size) remote control. The auto function is worthy of a more detailed explanation here – this function once activated regulates the speed of the blower fan when the ambient temperature rises and decreases the speed when the temperature drops down. The auto function relies on readings fed from built in heat sensor. The user has a choice to set the temperature, for the auto function to engage, between 93⁰ F and 118⁰ F.
The motor used in Cavaliere range hoods is ultra-quiet and capable of moving up to 1000 cubic feet of air per minute. The noise levels produced by the blower range from 46 dB to 70 dB; this can be compared to a noise ranging from a quiet conversation (40 dB) to a normal conversation (65 dB). The range hoods are equipped with an 8" round duct vent.
The model AP238-PS83-30 is 30" wide by 25" deep and 18" tall; it has two 35W dimmable halogen lights mounted in the front end of the fixture. Cavaliere recommends the distance between the cooktop and the canopy bottom to be in the range from 27" to 30" in order to achieve optimal venting conditions.
The model AP238-PS83-36 is 36" wide by 25" deep and 18" tall; it has two 35W dimmable halogen lights mounted in the front end of the fixture. The installation recommendations are the same as of the aforementioned model AP238-PS83-30
The last Cavaliere range hood model added recently to Warehouse USA's inventory is AP238-PS83-42, which is 42" wide by 22" deep and 18" tall. The hood's characteristics and installation recommendations are the same as for two previous models.
All Cavaliere kitchen range hoods are available at Warehouse USA – http://warehouse-usa.com; they are on sale with free shipping throughout 48 contiguous states. For more technical information or if in doubt please don't hesitate to call 888-693-8066.


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Choosing A Tennis Racquet:
Unless you're a seasoned professional, choosing the right tennis racquet to maximize your game can be quite intimidating. This guide will help you discover what you should be looking for in a racquet that will perfectly complement your particular style. For a more precise evaluation we recommend you call or come in store to discuss it with our knowledgeable staff.
You can get an idea of how a racquet will perform based on the following attributes, which appear on all of our racquet product pages under "racquet specifications".
|Larger Headsize
|Smaller Headsize
|Thicker Beam Width
|Thinner Beam Width
|Lighter Weight
|Heavier Weight
|Standard 27" Length
|Stretch Length
|Open String Pattern
|Closed String Pattern
|Head Heavy Balance
|Head Light Balance
The headsize of a racquet is a measurement of the area of the stringbed in square inches. Racquets come in headsizes ranging from 85-135 sq. inches, and are are classified into four sizes: Midsize (85-92 sq. in.), Midplus (93-105 sq. in.), Oversize or OS for short (106-115 sq. in.), and Super Oversize (116-135 sq. in.). Often the category is appended to the racquet's name for clarification.
Headsize is directly proportional to the power level of a racquet. That is, the larger the headsize, the more power you'll get. It also creates a larger sweetspot, making the racquet very forgiving on mishits. Beginner to intermediate players with slower, shorter strokes often choose an oversize racquet. The smaller the headsize, the more control you'll get. More advanced players tend to prefer midsize or midplus racquets when they learn how to generate their own power form their swings, but want greater control over their shots.
Beam Width
The beam width is a measurement of the thickness of the racquet's cross section. The thicker the beam is, the more power, comfort, and spin the racquet will provide. The thinner it is, the more stability and control you'll get. Many power-oriented oversized racquets designed for shorter swings have a thicker beam width.
Weight (Static)
Weight is measured by a still racquet. The rule of thumb is to use the heaviest racquet you can handle as the racquet gives more benefit as an insttrument. The problem is that when you get a racquet that is heavier than you can handle, you not only lose all the benefits but you incurr several disadvantages..
The length of a racquet is a measurement of the racquet from the butt of the handle to the tip of the bumper guard. Racquets come in lengths ranging from 27-29 inches, but the standard length is 27 inches. "Stretch" or "Extra Long" Racquets, sometimes denoted with an "X" at the end of the name are 27.25" or longer. This increase in length results in an increase in racquet head speed which comes at the expense of maneuverability. It can also improve serving results if used appropriately. This feature is not recommended for young junior players.
The balance of a racquet is a measure of the racquet's center of mass along the length of the racquet. This can be denoted as a measurement from the butt of the handle to the center in inches. It's also commonly denoted in points, with each point equallying 1/8 of an inch from the center. For example, a standard length 27" racquet with a balance point at 13-7/8 inches would be 3 points head heavy because it's 3/8 of an inch past the center (13-1/2 inches). If the balance point were at 13-1/8 inches, it would be 3 points head light. Be careful when using this measure because there is no uniform way of measuring it so numerous variances occur between manufacturers.
A racquet which is very head heavy allows for mass through the ball on groundstrokes. A racquet which is very head light creates enhanced feel and stability in the handle of the racquet for enhaced net performance. Keep in mind some racquets are limited in their balance by the other racquet specs. For example: very light oversize and junior racquets much be head heavy or hitting a tennis ball would be nearly impossible.
Swing Weight
The swing weight is the most important measurement of a racquet. This is because its the most relevant measure of a racquet during its use. Taking into account its length, stationary weight, and balance point, swing weight is measured in kg-cm2. Players often pick up a racquet and immediately misgage the weight because they are sensing the swing weight and not the statis weight.
String Pattern
String patterns are either "open" or "closed". An open string pattern is one in which the stringbed is less dense because there're fewer mains and/or crosses. This increases the distance between strings. This pattern offers greater spin and power potential but lower string durability. A closed string pattern is one in which the stringbed is very dense. Closed string patterns offer greater control (but less spin) and longer string durability. Headsize can also affect the size of the holes in the string pattern, because larger headsizes will result in the strings being spaced further apart, making the pattern more open.
A racquet's stiffness is a measure of how much the racquet bends on impact, and is assigned a number rating. Stiffer racquets have a higher number, and more flexible racquets have a lower number. This has a direct affect on the racquet's power or control levels. A flexible racquet does not offer as much power as a stiff racquet because it abosrbs more energy (rather than deflecting it back) as it bends on impact. Stiffness also affects the racquet's comfort and feel. A stiffer racquet can result in more shock on the arm and shoulders than a more flexible racquet.
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Get back to the table...you're shift doesn't end until 8.
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Geezer wrote:I don't know if any of you experince any of this.
My job is to de-stress my wife who used to get upset if our married kids &grandkids don't show up at a given time. She's finally relaxed some the last few years. Our 2 married sons and married daughter , spouses and kids end up going to both sets of parents. I've finally convinced my wife to set a time to eat and they can eat whenever they show up.
The other trauma event involves "eating at the kids table". When they're all here everyone won't fit at the dining room table even if it's extended. So we always have a second "kids"table in the living room. Once they're 12 or 13 they get really irked abd rebel at being relegated to the kids table.
penny lane wrote:happy thanksgiving to all. This was a difficult year for my family, but it is the love of family and memories that sustain you through sadness.
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The Dallas Cowboys have a full coaching staff again with the addition of running backs coach Gary Brown.
Brown's hiring was formally announced Monday. He spent the past five seasons in the same role at Cleveland, and replaces Skip Peete, who was let go with a year remaining on his Dallas contract.
Brown is the sixth new coach hired for coach Jason Garrett's staff since Dallas missed the playoffs for the third consecutive season. The Cowboys were 8-8 for the second year in a row.
The new coaches include defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, defensive line coach Rod Marinelli and special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia. Derek Dooley is the new receivers coach and Frank Pollard was named an assistant offensive line coach.
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Love My Lady Cloth Has 5 Sizes!
Mini Liner, Liner, Regular, Heavy And Overnight or Postpartum
The postpartum pad is a bit special it has an optional pocket
~ Great for holding an ice pack for those 1st few days postpartum~
If you have never used lady cloth - I strongly suggest you try it!
Many women who use lady cloth say that they experience short cycles (Yay!) and Less cramping (Double Yay!) I personally have experienced this! When I first started I eased myself into it... I used one pad once in one cycle and slowly got up to using them full time per cycle.
But how to I wash them? You ask....
What I do is I have a zipper pouch that is my bathroom and I just pop them in there and when my cycle is finished I soak them for a day in some oxy nappy stuff, then rince them in cold water pop them in the washing machine on a normal cycle and then either hang them on the clothes horse or in to the dryer they go.
What to make them out of...
I used flannel for next to skin fabric for the first ones I made and I have just discovered velour - Now that's bliss for the Lady Parts ;)
I use one layer Zorb2 or 2 layers of Zorb or Microfiber for the absorbent layer, For Liners I use two layers of flannel.
Then to back them I either use PUL or Anti-Pill Polar Fleece.
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It's time to put it all together for Asuncion to Torino and see what the implications are for Dewcember 2 flights arriving December 3 in Europe.First, the only team that can possibly make the 0405 flight out of Asuncion is Art/JJ with my projected release time of 0230, so they will reach Sao Paulo at 0712. However, now they are stuck waiting for the next flight. The Madrid route is useless because the late arrival time from MAD into TRN of 1845 guarantees that teams will not use it unless they have no alternatives. Next, the choice is via Frankfurt or via Rome. Rome is quicker for the following schedule reason:GRU FRA LH507 2000 1057+1 connecting to LH300 FRA TRN 1241+1 1355+1GRU FCO AZ675 1715 0713+1 connecting with AZ140 FCO TRN 0935+1 1135+1The first flight ASU EZE arrives after the only connection which would be superior, so it's out of the running.For the next 7 teams, I believe they finished before sunset (1927 on December 1 in Asuncion) and would be released sometime after the 0230 that I expect Art/JJ have earned but before 0730. These teams will have to make a choice of Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires and then Madrid, Rome or Frankfurt.The applicable flights for the first leg are:ASU GRU PZ712 1810 2117ASU EZE G37470 1205 1355The next flight segment is:GRU FCO 0233+1 1641+1 (Note: this departs after midnight on Dec. 3)EZE MAD LH511 1820 1142+1GRU FRA JJ8070 2325 1519+1The third flight segment is:FCO TRN AZ1427 1825+1 2036+1MAD TRN IB8818 1635+1 1845+1FRA TRN LH304 2120+1 2245+1 The final situation is for Vanessa/Ralph, who I expect to be released after 0725 since they finished in the dark. I think they will catch up at Asuncion airport and the issue will be seats available on the most desirable flight combinations.
It would be nice if we could ID this airport: (click to enlarge)"The Country Boys' mission...get out of Argentina"
Could the CBS web monkeys have confused Paraguay with Argentina?
Crossing borders shouldn't be an issue within the European Customs Union area, right?
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2013 MLB longest home runs in GIFs
The Home Run Derby showcases the best sluggers in the game. But who has hit the longest home run this season? Take a look at the 15 longest home runs of the 2013 MLB season so far.
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Blue Angels perform.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will return to Baltimore for the end of the Star-Spangled Spectacular commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812.
The Blue Angels said Tuesday the group will perform at an air show in September 2014. The Navy flight demonstration squad had performed at the Star-Spangled Air Show in June.
The commemoration's festivities have brought more than 1.5 million people to the area.
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This Week's Best Tweets: Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert + More on 'The Voice' Finale and Loss of a Music Icon
Miranda Lambert settled an old score at the Kentucky Derby last weekend. She makes the week's best tweets list twice actually, also including her celebration of Team Blake Shelton's win on 'The Voice' on Tuesday night. Other stars like Brad Paisley and the Eli Young Band shared their thoughts on the passing of a music legend, and a few more talked about the insanity from the road with followers on Twitter.
Each week we compile a list of the best tweets and string them together for you to catch up on your favorite artists' lives in one place. Isn't that handy? Click the big orange button below to read the funny, the strange and the sad from the first full week of May.


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Packers Beat Vikings 23-14
The Vikings led 14-10 at halftime but lost in Green Bay 23-14 to fall to 6-6 Sunday. Adrian Peterson ran for 210 yards on 21 carries including an 82-yard touchdown run for the Vikings. Christian Ponder struggled again throwing for 119 yards and a touchdown with 2 interceptions for Minnesota. Ponder's first interception came with the Vikings driving early in the 2nd half. The pass was picked off in the back of the end zone.
Kyle Rudolph led the Vikings with 6 catches for 51 yards and a touchdown. No wide receivers had a catch until the 4th quarter for Minnesota. Aaron Rodgers threw for 286 yards and a touchdown with 1 interception for Green Bay. James Starks ran for 66 yards and a touchdown to lead the Packers ground game.
Minnesota is 6-6 and will host Chicago Sunday at noon, pregame on WJON at 11am. Hear more about the Vikings with the Leslie Frazier Press Conference at 12:35 today on AM 1390-the Fan. Green Bay is 8-4 and tied with the Bears atop the NFC North.


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Tides & Bisons tilt tonight
The first four games of the season were played against the Tides but like the Bisons, many changes to the roster have occured since the season's first series. Norfolk does boast the teams best offensive attack (.271) in the International League without hitting a lot of HR's (55) but has the League's highest staff ERA (4.56).
Clearing skies in downtown have hopes high for baseball tonight.
TONIGHT'S GAME: This evening, the Buffalo Bisons host the Norfolk Tides in the first game of a four-game series at Dunn Tire Park (7:05 p.m.). The Herd is coming off a 3-1 series win over Richmond to begin the second half of the season. On the hill for the Bisons will be LHP Zach Jackson. The lefty has allowed only one run in his first 6.2 innings of work. Taking the ball for the Tides will be LHP Craig Anderson.
ZACH ATTACK: LHP Zach Jackson will be making his first start as a Bisons this evening. In four relief appearance, Jackson has allowed only one run with six strikeouts in 6.2 innings. This is a familiar role for the lefty as he led the Triple-A Nashville Sound (PCL) in starts (28) and innings pitched (169.2) a season ago.
TONIGHT'S STARTER: Zach Jackson
-Last Game: 7/18 vRIC: (ND, 1.0IP, 2H, 2K), Bisons' 16-3 Win.
-2008 w/Bisons: (1-0, 1.35)(4G, 6.2IP, 5H, R, ER, BB, 6K).
-2008 w/ Nashville: (1-5, 7.85)(22G, 6GS 57.1IP, 61H, 54R, 50ER, 18BB, 34K).
-2007 w/ Nashville: (11-10, 4.46)(29G, 28GS, 169.2IP, 184H, 95R, 84ER, 64BB, 123K)
-2007 w/ Nashville: 1st in starts (28), innings (169.2), strikeouts (123).
-Originally a first round draft pick by Toronto in 2004.
-Acquired in trade with Milwaukee on July 7, 2008.
LINDEN'S WAY: OF Todd Linden is settling into the four spot for the Herd. The outfielder has gone 8-16 with three doubles and five RBI since the break. Linden has now hit in 12 straight, with a .404 (19-47) batting average since July 7. He has also reached base in 31 of his last 33 games since June 15, averaging .308 (37-120).
ROSTER MOVE: RHP Brendan Donnelly has been promoted from Single-A Kingston. The veteran righty made two rehab appearances with Kingston (2.0IP, H, 2K) as he recovers from Tommy John Surgery in August. To make room for Donnelly, the Herd transferred RHP J.D. Martin to Double-A Akron.
HOT HITTERS: INF Michael Aubrey and OF Jason Cooper each have 6-game hit streaks. Aubrey has hit .480 (12-25) while Coop has hit .437 (7-16) during their streaks.


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Participant Voices
Each year hundreds of organizations and civil society activists attend the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). They come from across the world to share and exchange ideas, make connections and push for change. Here are some of their voices on what they hope to achieve.
Aristide Jean Francois Zongo, Burkina Faso
Aristide Jean Francois Zongo is the Executive Director of the Burkinabes Association for Child Survival. Created in 1991, the non-governmental organization advocates for the development of women and children in Burkina Faso, with a specific emphasis on gender equality. "One of our strategies is to promote women's rights to enable women, who constitute 52 percent of the national population, to have certificates delivered by the registry of births, deaths and marriages, explains Zongo. To reach its goals, the association campaigns for the better delivery of public services to villages and rural populations. It also works on the political participation of rural women in order to increase the number of women mayors and councillors in various rural areas. Zongo is hopeful that by participating in the CSW, he can help link his association with others working for rural women in Burkina Faso. He is attending the Commission as an Yvonne Hebert scholar, a scholarship programme facilitated by UN Women.
Honorata Francis Mvungi, Tanzania
Honorata Francis Mvungi has been actively involved with The Grail, an international women's movement, for more than 30 years and has represented Tanzania at the Grail International Council meetings. She has helped to lift rural women in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya from poverty by training them in the skills related to permaculture and micro-economic projects. Ms. Mvungi is currently working on family planning, health and education programmes with Maasai and rural women, including on HIV/AIDS. She reports seeing a shift in the mentality of both young men and women towards Female Genital Mutilation.
Lilly Be'Soer, Papua New Guinea
Lilly Be'Soer Kolts is the founder of the women's human rights NGO, Voice for Change, in Papua New Guinea. She has been a victim of tribal conflict and also a survivor of polygamous marriage. She is currently raising six children alone. She defines herself as "a women's human rights defender and has taken a lead in facilitating mediation tribal conflicts and wars in Papua New Guinea. In 2010, she was awarded a Pacific Human Rights Defenders Award. This year, she successfully coordinated a peace reconciliation to resettle 500 internally displaced families and is also facilitating a drug surrender programme for youths in her local district. Be'Soer is currently the General-Secretary of the newly established regional network Highlands Regional Human Rights Defenders Network.
Margarita Quintanilla, Nicaragua
Margarita Quintanilla has extensively worked in the field of gender-based violence, with both governmental institutions and non-governmental organizations. She is currently the country representative of the international organization PATH, in Nicaragua, which works, among others, to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls, through community-based approaches and by strengthening the health services' responses to victims/survivors. She is also the coordinator of InterCambios Alliance, a regional network of organisations, created to coordinate different efforts that address violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the author of numerous publications on gender-based violence and she carried out monitoring and evaluation of several interventions addressing violence against women in the region, which resulted in compilation of good practices and lessons learnt.
Marie Saidi, Zambia
Marie Saidi is a community leader of the Katuba Women's Association promoting access to land for rural women in Zambia. "We have carried out a mapping exercise that indicated that grassroots women found it difficult to acquire land because of the patriarchal setup, legal illiteracy, corrupt tendencies by local land administrators, lack of information to secure land and lack of resources to secure and develop land, she explains. The organization is also working on climate change issues encouraging women to diversify their farming activities, which improve communities' capacity to survive when a disaster occurs. Saidi hopes to meet decision-makers who are advocating for women's rights during the CSW. She is attending the Commission as an Yvonne Hebert scholar, a scholarship programme facilitated by UN Women.
Marai Larasi, United Kingdom
Marai Larasi is the Director of Imkaan which is an UK-based national organization dedicated to challenging violence against black, minorities and refugee women and girls. She is also the Co-Chair of the country-wide End Violence against Women Coalition. Her work focuses on strategic advocacy and policy development, and her organization also works on the challenges associated with the prevention of violence against women and girls.
Dr. Mishkat Al Moumin, Iraq
Mishkat Al Moumin was Minister of the Environment in Iraq and founded a non-governmental organization called Women and the Environment. The NGO uses education on resource management to empower rural women in Iraq, and it has trained nearly 8,000 people to manage water, sanitation and hygiene in 50 villages in the Basra, Maysan and Thi Qar provinces. This has included training women to participate in the design of their village environments, and educating village leaders on the critical role of women as users of environmental resources. "During CSW, I will emphasize the connection linking women, security, and the environment, and the fact that women are the primary users of environmental resources. It is essential to enact international and national policies that facilitate the participation of women in managing environmental resources in general and water in particular, she says. Al Moumin will participate in a CSW side event that explores ways to support the engagement of rural women with sustainable natural resource management in conflict and fragile settings.
Nduku Kilonzo, Kenya
PhD, graduate of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, is the Executive Director of Liverpool VCT, an indigenous Kenyan organization, which provides HIV prevention and treatment services, including to women survivors of violence. The work of the organization and Dr. Kilonzo's research have informed policy reforms in these areas and contributed to strengthening services' provision to women survivors. She has been a technical advisor to World Health Organisation (WHO) Committees examining HIV/AIDS and violence against women, and post-rape care and support to survivors. She contributes to international fora that address gender-based violence, such as the Coordinating Group of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), and the Gender and Rights Advisory Panel of the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research.
Ibrahim Ceesay, Gambia
Ibrahim Ceesay is the Coordinator of the National Children for Children Organization (CFCO) in Gambia, which promotes gender equality and campaigns to end gender-based violence. It also advocates for laws and public policies that promote sustainable agriculture and biodiversity, especially with the participation of young women. "We work with rural women farmers and refugees, empowering them through training and capacity building programs on climate change adaptation and community-based disaster risk reduction, explains Ceesay. By attending CSW, Ceesay hopes to gain a broader knowledge of the field, and share best practices for implementing efficient projects. He is attending the Commission as an Yvonne Hebert scholar, a scholarship programme facilitated by UN Women.
Rosy Singh, Nepal
Rosy Singh is a Communication and Planning Officer for Women for Human Rights (WHR), which advocates on issues relating to widowhood in Nepal. Created in 1994, the non-governmental organization advocates for an equitable society, in which widows can live with freedom, respect and dignity. In Nepal, the death of a husband has widespread impact on families. Children, particularly girls, often drop out of school and take on activities to help sustain the family, which can lose much of its access to basic needs, from food and clothing, to shelter and health care. "Rural widows are often excluded from income-generating activities due to a lack of skills and funds, as well as the pressures of household duties, and restrictions on mobility, she says. "We advocate on their rights to property, inheritance and land; and access to resources, services and loans that can protect them, for example, from extreme poverty, property-grabbing, violence, abuse, and harmful cultural and traditional practices. Thanks to advocacy by WHR and civil society there have been recent changes, says Singh, such as improved inheritance rights for widows. By attending CSW, Singh hopes to learn more about effectively implementing human rights instruments relevant to widows, and advocating at the national level. Singh is attending the Commission as an Yvonne Hebert scholar, a scholarship programme facilitated by UN Women.
Aminata Sidibé, Mali
Aminata Sidibé represents the Federation of Business and Professional Women Bamako, and is also the Secretary of the Youth Action Association for Women's Development. "We work on awareness campaigns for women in our community on fundamental issues such as development, education, health, income-generating action, citizenship education and vocational training, she says. Since farming is one the most important sources of income for rural women in Mali, Sidibé also focuses on activities to improve their access to micro-finance and income-generating activities. By attending CSW, Sidibé hopes to learn more about others' efforts to improve women's civil rights elsewhere. She is attending the Commission as an Yvonne Hebert scholar, a scholarship programme facilitated by UN Women.
Mohamed Chafiki, Morocco
As the head of the Financial Studies and Forecasting Section in Morocco's Ministry of Economy and Finance, Mohamed Chafiki has initiated a gender budgeting report and chaired a committee on gender-responsive budgeting. As a human rights activist he has also contributed to and supported women's movements in the country. By attending CSW he hopes to focus on "the financial crisis and its consequences, in terms of inequalities, and to find innovative development projects and equality-based budgeting ideas to empower women. Chafiki will be attending CSW to participate in an event that focuses on national experiences in implementing the agreed conclusions of CSW 2008: Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
Quazi Baby, Bangladesh
Quazi Baby is the Executive Director of the Participatory Development Action Program, promoting women's land rights. "Through workshops, seminars, training and local dialogue and awareness-raising, the organization is working for gender equality and women's rights in both Dhaka and rural areas, she says. The organization works on disaster preparedness and response, housing and infrastructure. Their projects focus on working with local women who are given livelihood training and loans for income-generating activities and regular group meetings highlighting women's rights. By attending the CSW, Baby would like to share experiences on climate change and disaster preparedness issues. She is attending the Commission as an Yvonne Hebert scholar, a scholarship programme administered by UN Women.


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TUM Rosie and PR2 James make pancakes together
It probably happens hundreds if not thousands of times every day; two college roommates get together to make some pancakes for dinner. The only difference this time is that the parties involved were robots. In this case, two robots from the Munich-based cluster of excellence CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) starred as chefs, demonstrating their capabilities in the world of robotics -- and in the kitchen.
In the video below, you can see James, a PR2 Beta Program robot, opening and closing cupboards and drawers, removing the pancake mix from the refrigerator, and handing it over to Rosie. Rosie is another robot at TUM that is deployed in the Assistive Kitchen environment of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group. Rosie cooks and flips the pancakes, and then delivers them back to James.
Behind this domestic tableau is a demonstration of the capabilities of service bots. This includes characteristics such as learning, probabilistic inference, and action planning.
James uses the Web for problem solving, just like we would. To retrieve the correct bottle of pancake mix from the fridge, it looks up a picture on the Web and then goes online to find the cooking instructions.
Rosie makes use of gravity compensation when pouring the batter, with the angle and the time for pouring the pancake mix adjusted depending on the weight of the mix. The manipulation of the spatula comes in to play when Rosie's initially inaccurate depth estimation is resolved by sensors detecting contact with the pancake maker.
In the course of the demonstration, both robots cope with mechanical inaccuracies, shifting furniture, obstacles, and execution errors. Failures in the task execution are dealt with using learned knowledge about the processes involved, the tools and their usage. If the spatula has not been grasped correctly, for example, the robot will notice this and adjust its grasp.
Rosie and James are not ready yet for haute cuisine, but the video provides an excellent sense of the future capabilities of service robots.
Much of the software used in this demonstration within the CoTeSys cluster will soon be made available to robot researchers in the TUM ROS repository.
As a reminder, it's just a few more days until the first CoTeSys-ROS Fall School on Cognition-Enabled Mobile Manipulation. It's being held from November 1-6, 2010 at Technische Universität München (TUM) in Munich, Germany.
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Noelle Pikus-Pace won't be competing at the annual bobsled and skeleton World Cup event Friday and Saturday at the Utah Olympic Park.
But not because she's, you know … not competing.
Nearly three years after retiring from one of the most harrowing sports in the world, the almost 30-year-old Orem native is making a surprise comeback in skeleton with her eyes on the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia following the birth of two children and the agonizing miscarriage of a third.
"I feel like this is what we're supposed to do," she said.
While defending world and Olympic champion bobsled pilot Steve Holcomb of Park City and other top athletes from around the world are racing near Kimball Junction, though, Pikus-Pace will be competing at a lower-level America's Cup competition in Calgary in order to qualify for a return to the World Cup tour.
When she does, Pikus-Pace almost certainly will rejoin the list of top contenders for gold in Sochi, after finishing fourth at the Vancouver Olympics and retiring to raise her family in Eagle Mountain.
"When I retired, I was serious about retiring," she said. "I saw our future without skeleton, and I made plans for my future without skeleton." That included selling almost all of her equipment, except what she used in Vancouver, which she kept for nostalgia's sake.
But her husband sensed she might not really be finished.
Janson Pace kept urging his wife to try the sport again, after their second child son Traycen was born in March 2011. Pikus-Pace resisted, even as friends, relatives and neighbors began to join in the nagging, pushing her to take just one more crack at speeding head-first and on her belly down an icy culvert, her chin just inches from the rock-hard track.
She was just 0.1 seconds away from a medal in Vancouver, after all.
Finally, several months later, Pikus-Pace agreed to take a single run down the track at the UOP, just to "humor" her husband.
"If you don't like it, great," he said. "We'll be done."
Of course, she arrived at the finish line with a huge smile on her face.
"Oh, great," she said, jokingly.
Even then, though, she wasn't committed to returning. Pikus-Pace was committed to her family. She had envisioned her future in her head, and being a wife and mother not a world-class athlete, traveling the world was what she saw. That feeling only intensified when she learned almost a year ago that she was pregnant with a third child.
"That was direction we were planning on going," she said.
But Pikus-Pace miscarried last April, 18 weeks along. The baby's heart just stopped, she said.
Almost unbearable.
"That was really when we started reassessing what direction we wanted to take our lives," Pikus-Pace said. "Where we needed to be in life. … It just came down to prayer. That was the only thing that got us through that. It was really difficult."
"We just felt really at peace when we thought about going on for skeleton," she added.
By June, the former multisport star at Mountain View High School and Utah Valley University committed to returning to her sport, and began getting back into shape and raising money to finance the operation.
It costs a lot to race all over the world, and even more when your husband and two kids are tagging along.
"My one stipulation was we would do it as a family," Pikus-Pace said. "I said, 'There's no way I'm leaving you guys for long periods of time anymore. I'm done.' I never stopped loving the sport of skeleton, I just couldn't be away from my family anymore."
So it really has become a family thing for the Paces.
Janson Pace built and maintains the sled that Pikus-Pace uses in competition. Noelle does the training and the racing. And soon-to-be-5-year-old Lacee Lynn plays a starring role in a video on Pikus-Pace's website, urging fans to donate money to help them all travel the world and make it to Sochi.
"I really want my mommy to go to the Olympics," Lacee says. "But she needs your help."
Pikus-Pace figures she needs at least $130,000 to go the distance, and won't continue if the money runs out.
Barring that, however, she plans to compete in a handful of World Cup races this season in Canada, Germany, France and Austria the family won't be home until almost March and hopefully reach the world championships in Switzerland before really gearing up for the Olympic season.
"She really wants a gold medal," Lacee whispers theatrically into the camera during the video.
Of course, that's nothing Pikus-Pace will talk about directly, just yet.
She knows better than that, having missed the 2006 Turin Olympics in Italy after a runaway bobsled shattered her leg, ruining her shot at gold as the reigning world silver medalist. She did win all four national trials races last month, though, as well as her first two America's Cup races last weekend in Park City.
She's in tremendous shape, too. Best of her career, she said.
"I will be competing to win" if she reaches the Olympics again, Pikus-Pace acknowledged. "At the same time, though, you have to get there."
For Pikus-Pace and her family, that could really be the fun part.
World Cup bobsled and skeleton
At the Utah Olympic Park
9 a.m. • Women's skeleton
1 p.m. • Two-man bobsled
5 p.m. • Women's bobsled
9 a.m. • Men's skeleton
1 p.m. • Four-man bobsled
Comeback trail
Follow Noelle Pikus-Pace as she aims to reach the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia, on her website, NoellePikusPace.com. Fans can track her progress, watch videos of her training and donate money to her endeavor.


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Will you have more time this summer to join in the layout and designer challenges? Any special ideas or projects you're trying to get done?
Summer Challenges? What would you like to see?
I hope that you guys will be doing more page/element a day challenges. I joined the site too late to join in, but it seems like a really fun way to work on honing my design skills. I used to be pretty good at that sort of thing, but then I took a break from digi scrapping for the past 5+ years so I've got to relearn it all.
I'd love to see technique based challenges based on a tutorial. For example, I know there's a washi tape tutorial around here somewhere. So we all watch that video and then give our interpretation of the project. It would be almost like a mini workshop every time we did one of those challenges, which I think would be really cool.
Turns out the daily or weekly challenges are best for me. I need the discipline of a short timeline. The monthly blog trains give me too much leeway and I never get organized in time to actually participate. Challenges based on tutorials sounds like a good idea. Also like the idea of using a specific technique, i.e. stamping, spray paint, cutouts. Could be either paper or element or layout.
I love the paper a day and element a day type challenges. How about a cluster a day? Or a word art a day? I can see how topics are more difficult for this type of challenge, but I love doing them.
I agree with the "a day" challenges. I hope to have time this summer to join in.
Really wanna join the next challenge, I skip last month and this month "a day challenge"
I wanna try to make my own kit, I think this challenge will encourage me, since it feels like we're all doing it together *excited, excited*
frames decorated or not to picture size 10 x 15
I think that the "a day" challenges are good ideas. I would love to see one for each digital scrapbooking area as the others said. Not just papers and elements, but clusters, cluster frames, journal cards, and you get the idea. And having the same "summer" theme for each of them would be great so that by the end of the month everyone will have matching items to form their own kits.
I also love template challenges where a template is provided and each participant uses it and gives it their own style with a layout. Those are always fun.
I also love template challenges where the participants make templates. You could give a small number of requirements and then leave the rest up to the participants. I bet everyone could come up with amazing templates!
I liked the idea mentioned at the beginning of the thread about "workshops" too. It's a good way to learn some new skills and show off what you can do with what you already know. Fun for everyone!
I like the weekly challenges, and I really like the recipe challenges.
What about a color challenge? You could provide us a color pallete and we would post layouts with that color scheme or try to a mini kit too
First, I want to say I love the "a day" designer challenges!
I think that there are people that might not join because they are not sure if they can complete that much, even though they don't actually have to complete each one, only the ones they want/have time for. So I was thinking, in addition to the "a day" challenge, do a mini type challenge. They could have the whole month (the time frame could be changed, as long as it gives longer than 1 element per day) to complete a list of items, like 5 papers and 10 elements (broken down though, like 1. stripes, 2. plaids, 3. flowers, 4. fasteners, etc).
I was also thinking about maybe a weekly (or bi-weekly) challenge like just a paper pack 1 week, maybe on another week doing an alpha challenge or just an element pack, etc. This would also maybe give a chance for people to join in if they are afraid of a longer challenge (or just don't have the time), or maybe they want to get their feet wet or feel that they have a strength for one type of design element over others. I know for the longest time I only did things that were paper related, because I was completely afraid of anything else, but I really loved taking part when I could.
Edit: @Cintia - It looks like we had the same idea about a mini-kit challenge (it took me a bit to write out what I wanted to say so you posted while I was typing) Great minds think alike
@Dawn West: Yes, definitely!
But what I like about being given a comon color palette is that in the end we could have mini kits that worked together. Could be done on the weekly or bi-weekly basis as you said one element/ paper a day or as it is done in other sites, for the month
Here are some ideas I just thought of for layout challenges:
different shapes - triangles, circles, hearts, arrows... the list can go on (I know we did circles before in like February - I think - but it would hurt to do it again )
colors - one color, two colors, specific colors
black and white photos only or multiple photos and the main one black and white or multiple photos and only the main one in color
current events - something happening in the world around you and your thoughts


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Jerusalem shooter near Israeli police HQ leaves two dead, gets killed, officials say
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian motorist launched a shooting spree near the Israeli police headquarters in Jerusalem Sunday, killing two people and wounding five others before being shot dead, Israeli police and emergency services said.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attacker sped toward a busy stop of the city's light rail and opened fire, seriously wounding a 60-year-old woman waiting there. He then continued driving and shot another woman who was seated in her car before speeding off toward an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem. Samri said police officers on motorcycles chased the assailant, who eventually stepped out of his vehicle and opened fire at them. A 30-year-old police officer was critically wounded in the shootout.
A separate police force ultimately shot and killed the attacker, Samri said. She identified him as a 39-year-old man from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical service said it treated seven wounded people, two of whom later died of their wounds. Police cordoned off the area of the shooting and briefly shut down traffic on the light rail.
The attack was an unusual one in the yearlong spate of Palestinian assaults since most have been stabbings rather than live fire. Sunday's was the deadliest attack on Israelis since June 8, when a pair of Palestinians opened fire and killed four people at a popular Tel Aviv food market.
The Palestinian attacks began around last year's Jewish high holidays and have since killed 36 Israelis and two visiting Americans. About 219 Palestinians have been killed during that period, with Israel saying the vast majority of them are attackers.
Israel has warned that the potential for violence could rise as the Jewish high holidays approach again and has beefed up its security presence as a result. There has been a recent surge in Palestinian attacks that shattered weeks of relative calm and raised fears of a return to the near-daily attacks often seen throughout the wave.
Israel has blamed the violence on incitement by Palestinian political and religious leaders compounded on social media sites. The Palestinians say it is rooted in nearly 50 years of military occupation and dwindling hopes for independence.
Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Gaza's Islamic Hamas leaders, welcomed the attack in a statement saying it was "a natural response."
Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said there were no specific warnings of an attack ahead of time and the quick response of security forces on the scene prevented a deadlier result. He repeated his previous criticism of social media sites that allow militants to spread their hateful messages of incitement.
"It has an impact. It pushes people out to the streets to commits acts of murder and terror," he said.


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As at 28th July 2014
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I own a property at 144 Uppingham Road, Leicester, which is used as my constituency office.
Flat in London, from which rental income is received.
I own a house in Leicester which is part rented.
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A bidding war has erupted for The Quiet Man bar in County Mayo – with one prospective bar emerging from as far away as Florida.
Four serious bidders have emerged after Pat Cohan's bar, straight from the set of the iconic movie, went to market last month.
The asking price of $400,000 for the bar, made famous by the movie starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, may now be surpassed.
The Irish Independent reports that the decision to put the pub on the market has caused worldwide interest.
Auctioneer Vincent Walsh told the paper: "There was huge interest. We're now down to about four serious bidders and we are confident of the sale going through in the next couple of months."
Walsh revealed that the top bidders include three individuals from the UK and one potential buyer from Florida.
He added: "The gentleman from Florida has been over twice now to view the place and the UK interest is just as strong. There is one individual from London who has also shown a lot of interest.
"All buyers are eager to continue running the rural pub."
The bar was originally a shop but Quiet Man director John Ford turned into a typical Irish pub for the 1952 movie.
It only gained a bar licence in 2008 after many years as a family-run shop in an area which attracts thousands of tourists from both sides of the Atlantic every year.
A right-of-way issue will have to be resolved before the sale goes through however.
Walsh added: "I could see it taking eight weeks to correct. There is no dispute involved but it has to be legally corrected."


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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: Fisher's Garage, located on Mt. Sugarloaf Road at the center of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, was built in 1912. Owned by George Fisher, it sold Ford automobiles. The picture was probably taken before 1924, when the Connecticut Valley Street Railway (a rural trolley) was forced by a bankruptcy court to end its operations. It ran cars from Northampton to Greenfield on the line that is visible on the street in front of the garage. In front of the house to the left of the garage is a horse carriage. This nicely captures a turning point in time: as the automobile grew in popularity after World War I, alternative forms of transportation began to fade. The horse-drawn carriage was already in steep decline, and as rural roads were rebuilt and cars became more reliable the rural trolleys lost out. This building burned in 1935, but was rebuilt and as of 2006 is still in operation.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - concept cars Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Digital Art Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "concept cars" GRIDmemberMember #Joined: 14 Jan 2001Posts: 70Location: Uppsala Sweden Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 11:46 pm Hi i´m wondering if anyone here have some really nice conceptcars/cardesign site url´s to post here? or maybe some book´s to recomend /GRID Back to top quaterniusmemberMember #Joined: 20 Nov 2000Posts: 220Location: Albany, CA Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2001 7:47 pm Have you done a search on the archives yet? There's lots of stuff there on this subject. Good book: "How to draw cars like a pro" by Thom Taylor and Lisa Hallett Watch-out though, there's lots' of cube and cylinder exercises in there too... hehe Q Back to top GRIDmemberMember #Joined: 14 Jan 2001Posts: 70Location: Uppsala Sweden Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2001 12:14 am ah i have to search there...i´m quite new in this forum. And "How to draw cars like a pro" i just bouth some month agoe but thx anyway /GRID Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Digital Art Discussion All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Wednesday, July 04, 2012
A Country of Free Men or Free Things
Co-Dependence Day is the new Independence Day. "I love you, you tolerate me and we all live together in a happy planned economy." Free riders are people who, like the Colonists, are perceived to have benefited from the gargantuan investment of government without paying their proper share.
All that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their "fair share", a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All that the colonists wanted was the rights of Englishmen that they believed they were entitled to. After a great deal of bloodshed, the colonists won the right to be Americans instead—an odd series of consonants and vowels having to do with an Italian explorer but meaning free and limited government.
The "Free Riders" who didn't want to pay into the empire won the day, but hardly anyone in the crowds heading toward the Hudson remembers what the day is about. The denizens of public housing, who are the true "Free Riders", certainly don't. They are getting a free ride on everything from food to housing, but the free ride comes from the taxpayers that Pelosi and Obama damn as "Free Riders". And the only way to keep their free ride going is by ending everyone else's freedom.
The fireworks are just one more free thing in the sea of free things that they swim in. The Fourth to them is Fireworks Day. Every country has its fireworks days and this is the day that this one chooses to light up the night sky. The day means nothing to them because though they are surrounded by free things, they aren't free. The difference between freedom and free things has been progressively erased so that many think that the American Revolution was fought because the British weren't providing affordable health coverage to the colonies. If only they knew about the NHS, they would vote to go back.
There is a big difference between a free country and a country of free things. You can have one or the other, but you can't have both. A free country isn't obsessed with free riders, only a country of free things obsesses with making everyone pay their fair share for the benefit of the people who want the free things. The rugged individualism of Colonial America has given way to stifling crowds, co-dependent on each other, lined shoulder to shoulder, clutching at each other's wallets, crying, "Take from him and give to me."
We are a nation overflowing with the right to things paid for with other people's money. A nation where the government gives you food, housing and education; while Walmart gives you cheap products made in China, that used to be made in America, back when people were able to afford health care, housing and food without having to pick each other's pockets.
The fireworks that shoot up in a wonderland of blue and red, silver and gold, are a faint echo of the real thing, the gunpowder that blasted back and forth between the lines of government troops, their Hessian mercenaries and the rebel colonists who chose to ride free, rather than bend their necks to the plans of an expanding empire. The faint smell of gunpowder and the dark shapes of the barges only mime the war that was fought here. A play of light and shadow whose meaning reaches fewer and fewer people each year.
The expected speeches will celebrate some notion of American Exceptionalism and Independence, but what substance is there to either one? Did so many men risk their lives just to end up with a system that made the one they escaped seem positively libertarian by comparison? If they had known that they were going to end up with the NHS, death panels that will eventually adopt some version of the Liverpool Care Pathway's euthanasia protocol, and a co-dependent system where everyone is looted for the greater good of the looters—they might have stayed home on their farms, sadly watching the fighting from a distance.
JFK's famous line, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" was always a hollow lie. Half the country is expected to ask what their country can do for them, while the other half is expected to ask what they can do for their country. This simmering civil war is often pegged as a class war, but it isn't about class. There are billionaires and paupers on both sides, and the divide cuts across the Middle Class, dividing those who derive their income from private business from those who receive it from government and government-subsidized employment.
The Tea Party, both of them, began when an out of touch government and its monarch levied taxes on a subject population that the cloistered capital considered mere savages, clinging to backward beliefs and living without the benefit of the civilization to be found in the inner cities of the realm. The Gadsen flag with its twining serpent is not a symbol to be found on the split river that flows around a narrow island. But the island was a Loyalist government enclave even then, that Washington was forced to flee, putting the torch to half of Brooklyn to aid his escape. Now the new empire operates out of a city named after him and buildings with more bureaucrats than the entire deployment of British forces in the colonies govern what is still described as a "Free Nation."
The American Revolution was not a struggle for another nation, one of many, but for a free nation. It was not split off to accommodate the national strivings of an ethnic group or their historical destiny. Its guiding idea, like its national holiday, was independence, but independence means very little unless it reaches the individual.
A nation where everyone is part of one great co-dependent community, a centrally planned marketplace that can only be balanced if everyone is forced to buy what they are told to buy, is not a free nation. It will not even be independent for long. The logic of co-dependence is to expand that dependency beyond the borders and make the region and then every part the world dependent on one another to balance out the numbers.
Co-dependence required an end to states rights. It will eventually require an end to the rights of nations. The Eurozone is a spectacle of co-dependent economic implosion with bailouts for all in the name of a regional stability that cannot be sustained. America, like Spain and Greece, is also passing along its debt to more vibrant economies. We are no longer co-dependent with the Mother Country, instead we are co-dependent with the People's Republic of China, buying their products, while their buy our debt.
As Britain gives way to the European Union and America gives way to NAFTA and nations give way to the United Nations, the burden of dependency is passed on to greater and greater systems until its weight is more than that of the entire world. That burden of co-dependency is like a rock rolling downhill; it gathers more and more mass to itself, increasing its momentum, until it crashes.
The system attempts to stay ahead of the inevitable crash by making sure that every productive person pays his "fair share". It hunts for "Free Riders", both individuals and nations, who still aren't rolling downhill, tips them over and pushes them off the mountain. All in the name of the greater good.
The "Free Rider" principle is that the benefits of a policy must be forcibly extended to everyone in order to mandate that they help fund the entitlement. There is no natural limit to such an expansion. If your wages can be said to have risen because unions negotiated a new contract, then you can be compelled to pay the union. If you aren't buying health insurance, then you must be getting it for free. If you aren't part of the system, then there will be a mandate that will make you part of it.
As the last wave of fireworks die out, the shooting stars sinking to earth and vanishing into the darkness, the light of Independence Day fades and the crowds slowly trudge away from the brief spectacle, past the lines of police barricades, through narrow streets, past government buildings, back to their co-dependent lives in a co-dependent nation where the will of the people and the rights of the individual matter less than the latest proposal to solve the problems of their independence by making the country a more dependent place.
A few hundred years ago in these streets, men and women celebrated the end of tyranny, and in its darkest hour, lines of grim men marched along the waterfront up to the highest point on the island to mount a final defense. Sometimes the older buildings still wear their shadows on their brick walls and by the golden light of the fireworks you can almost see them, shadows moving in the darkness, their footsteps taking them north, a faint song on their lips, muskets in their hands, their lives lost and gained in defense of their freedom.
13 comments:
- LemonLimeMoon said...
The last several admins in Washington have pulled this nation down.
As for Nancy Pelosi, she is the personification of nonsense.
- 5/7/12
- Keliata said...
The Declaration wasn't read until the 5th. Perhaps we should reconsider when to have the fireworks displays. Maybe shoot them off before dawn rather than at dusk.
Dawn of Independence works for me.
Dusk...why do people continue to schedule the fireworks to begin at dusk? Who uses the word dusk anymore? We don't have clocks or the Weather Channel to let us know when late evening becomes pitch darkness in the summer?
- 5/7/12
- Edward Cline said...
What an eloquently brutal characterization of the current state of affairs. Not inspiring, not another empty pep talk about America's greatness, but a frank appraisal of its continuing demise. Daniel, you should be someone's speechwriter, but I can't offhand think of anyone you could write a speech for. If he could be found, you'd be terrific.
- 5/7/12
- Leah said...
How spot on yo are, Daniel. is there a way to send this to Obama and Pelosi? Yes, I know- they don't care. Yet, so many Americans do and we want to see real change in Nov of this year, yet they really need to read this.
- 5/7/12
- Art Lister said...
Terrific article. And of course, when the last ham sandwich is eaten, the nations of enslaved will find that between free people and free things, it is not either/or. Choose free things and you wind up with nothing. Free people is the only possible choice not ending in destruction and poverty.
- 5/7/12
- Rick Darby said...
I discovered your blog only a few weeks ago and it has become regular reading. Depressing, but it has the ring of truth, elegantly stated. You're already on my blogroll.
- 5/7/12
- 4theboys said...
I agree with Mr. Cline; awesome piece. Your blog is wonderful, thank you!
- 5/7/12
- 4theboys said...
I agree with Mr. Cline; awesome piece. Your blog is wonderful, thank you!
- 5/7/12
- Bilejones said...
Clearly, the holiday needs to revert to what it initially celebrated:
"Overthrow the Government Day"
- 5/7/12
- CowboyDan said...
Bile jones, I think you've got it!
- 6/7/12
- civil westman said...
I was thinking along the same lines. My FB post:
One day each year, July 4, we celebrate Independence. The other 364 we are, it seems, committed to increasing dependence on our new sovereign, the administrative state. That ratio seems about right. The extra day in leap year is still up for grabs, but there will likely be more 'progress.' It is ironic that Washington, a name which once stood for liberation of a new nation from royal tyranny, has become the locus of an omnipresent and diffuse, "arrogant, intrusive sovereign" - the colonists' description of King George III. Perhaps I will receive holiday greetings from Janet Napolitano. At minimum, my musings will be memorialized in electronic perpetuity somewhere in the bowels of the NSA. Such is the state of what now passes as liberty. Sad. Now, back to bread and circuses.
- 6/7/12
- Zikalasa said...
Thank you for your heartbreaking appraisal of the state of the union.
- 6/7/12
- fsy said...
If Obama wins another term (G-d forbid), I think the sane people of the country should have a crown made for him and have a very highly publicized ceremony presenting it to him, complete with bowing and "All hail the King!".
Who knows, maybe someone will get it.
- 8/7/12