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There are few things more dangerous than the things that we know and passionately believe but are not true.
As evidence we paraphrase some testimony given last week during a hearing on a measure before the Oregon Legislature to pre-empt local governments from banning biotech crops or other agriculture practices.
A man from Lancaster, in Lane County, told legislators that sometimes the "biotech fumes" in the countryside around his home are so strong that his family has to drive around in their car to get fresh air.
There are a great many smells in the country, but we have never encountered an odor attributable to biotechnology. We suggest the witness smells the application of pesticides on a field, or perhaps liquid manure or anhydrous ammonia fertilizers.
Another opponent of the measure shared with legislators how gluten in flour and baked goods is making her sick.
Some people are allergic to gluten, and other have cut it out of their diet as a matter of choice. But the gluten content of wheat is not the result of biotechnology and would not be changed by local regulation of GMOs.
Gluten is a protein that occurs naturally in wheat, rye, barley, rice and other similar cereal grains. Plant scientists have developed varieties with greater gluten content, but have used standard breeding techniques to achieve their results.
Yet another woman pleaded with legislators to allow local control of GMOs so that gylphosate herbicide won't fall on her organic lettuce.
Glyphosate — sold by GMO developer Monsanto under the Roundup tradename — is one of the most common herbicides used in agriculture, and is also popular with homeowners.
While many GMO crops are engineered to be glyphosate resistant, it's widely used in the production of non-GMO crops. A local ban on GMO crops would not stop the use of Roundup.
Though we don't agree with them, there are proponents of local control over GMOs who have legitimate and somewhat more plausible concerns. But we think the testimony last week raises serious questions about the wisdom of allowing 51 percent of voters to hold sway over their neighbors' livelihoods.
Beware the tyranny of the masses armed with their passion and their "facts." What they think they know could put you out of business.


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Eva Longoria talks politics, producing
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria is leaving Wisteria Lane for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The 37-year-old actress was named a national co-chair for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign in February, and she's bidding farewell to her sassy, model-turned-housewife character Gabrielle Solis on the ABC drama's May 13 finale.
But making the leap from the domestic affairs of the "Housewives" to a national political campaign hasn't been an easy transition.
"People go, 'Who cares about your opinion, you're just pretty,"' Longoria said. "And it's like, 'Why can't I have an intellectual argument about immigration or health care reform just because I'm pretty?"'
The Mexican-American actress is also developing a dating reality series titled, "All About Love," for NBC and is co-producing ABC's upcoming telenovela-style TV drama "Devious Maids," about the scandalous lives of the hired help.
"With any minority community, whether you're female, Latino or black, there are limited roles out there in Hollywood because we need more people behind the camera," Longoria said during a recent interview for the launch of the new low-sugar drink Pepsi Next.
"So if we women want to reflect ourselves in television or film more than we have to write the stories, we have to produce the stories, we have to direct the stories, we have to get behind the scenes to actually make that happen," she said.
Longoria, who is working on her master's degree in Mexican-American Studies at Cal State University, Northridge, said her biggest accomplishment will be making a difference at the voting booth in November.
"(I'm) doing my civic engagement by mobilizing voters and making sure they're educated on the issues and operating from the belief that if you want to change something in this country you have the power to do that as a citizen. So those are probably the things I'm most proud of."
Online: http://abc.go.com/desperatehousewives
Nicole Evatt covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/NicoleEvatt

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Prepping For National Pisco Sour Day
The following article was written by my co-worker Chiara Shannon who has a passion for pisco. As the store's head personal sommelier, she has been writing some excellent articles for the main wine blog, but I asked her if she would write something for the Spirits Journal as well. Just in time for Pisco Sour Day tomorrow, Chiara has put together an overview of a spirit many know little about:
How much do you love the Pisco Sour?
My husband Derek and I love this historic Peruvian cocktail so much, it was the signature drink served at our wedding. Derek lived in Peru for a year in his early twenties, where he needed to perfect his Pisco Sour making technique to satisfy patrons of the chic Lima bar where he worked as a bartender. The Peruvians were not quick to accept that a gringo from New York could make proper Pisco Sour, but he eventually won them over (and even scored a spot on the local news for his talents!). So naturally, he takes this Pisco Sour business seriously. The wedding was back in 2007, when Pre-Prohibition cocktails had yet to hit mainstream cool, and it took the bar manager and staff of our five star catering operation several tries, carefully and rather gleefully presided over by Derek, to get it just right.
Pisco About Town
Pisco and Pisco Sour appreciation has come a long way in San Francisco since I first wrote about this great cocktail on UnCorked back in September of 2008 and shared Derek's recipe (below). Almost concurrent with my September 08 posting, the doors to the U.S. Flagship of Peruvian Celebrity Gaston Acurio's La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, opened its doors on San Francisco's Embarcadero. In addition to a making killer Pisco Sour, La Mar offers an extensive selection of Pisco and Pisco-based cocktails. They also host Pisco tasting seminars for enthusiasts and professionals. I attended one sponsored by BarSol pisco and it was quite enlightening.
Award-winning Pisco Sours are churned out at Pisco Latin Lounge, the Pisco Bar next to Hayes Valley's cozy Peruvian resto Destino, with Union Square's Cantina as a solid runner-up for a good Pisco fix. And these days, mixologists at the Union Square speakeasy Bourbon and Branch and SOMA's Heaven's Dog and Bar Agricole not only know what you're talking about when you order the Peruvian cocktail, but they deliver the goods proper.
Even Pisco itself- the brandy that forms the base of the cocktail - has gotten a lot better too. No more kitchy bottles of below-rate Pisco in the shape of Incan statues...new producers like Campo de Encanto and Viñas de Oro are crafting artisanal, award-winning Piscos worthy of any spirit collection.
Why not give the Pisco Sour a try today? Derek's recipe is very pretty simple and straighforward:
Derek's Pisco Sour Recipe
(from the September 08 posting of "Cocktail Craze: The Pisco Sour")
2 parts Pisco
1 part lime juice
.75 part simple syrup
one egg white
Shake with very little ice or blend. Top with cinnamon. Note: Other recipes call for a garnish of bitters instead of cinnamon, but Derek says that cinnamon is what they use in Lima.
Buy Campo de Encanto and Vinas de Oro Pisco at K&L Wine Merchants !
Prefer to have the professionals make one for you? No Problem: there is a lot of Pisco being poured this weekend in San Francisco...
Sat 2/5 9pm-2am @ Cantina Special Pisco menu and $5 Pisco Sours all night long, plus DJs spinning South American jams and hip hop. Details
Sat 2/5 @ La Mar Cebicheria Peruana $5 Pisco Sours all day Details
Sat 2/5 5 pm-1 am, and Sunday, 2/6, 3-9 pm @ Pisco Latin Lounge $5 Pisco Sours all day on Saturday and Sunday, plus $3 beers for those not yet convinced of Pisco's magic. Details
Encanto Pisco Mustache Brigade Bar Crawl - Starts at La Mar at 5:30, then to 15 Romolo around 7pm, with after-party at Cantina from 9pm till closing. The party at Cantina will feature $5 Pisco Sours and shots of top shelf Pisco de Encanto offered by no other than the man himself, Encanto Co-founder Duggan McDonnell. Details
Pink Mammoth 7 Year Anniversary - Dance off all those yucca fries tonight @ Mighty for the seventh anniversary of the Pink Mammoth dance music-themed Burning Man camp. There will be an open bar of Vinas de Oro Pisco drinks, plus free food from Skool and Kitchenette. Wacky attire encouraged. $7 before 10:30 if with RSVP!


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Roger Berkley necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 412 diseños de 102 diseñadores freelance.
Commonwealth Weavers
Commonwealth Weavers is a division of a small, family owned textile weaving mill, located in Pennsylvania Dutch Country in the U.S., that creates and sells top of the line home decorating fabrics to the finest editors, wholesalers and upholstered furniture makers internationally. Cocalico Mills will actually weave a customer's fabric to order, not ship from stock. You order it, we weave it. Low minimum order of 5 yds per item. Free samples are provided upon request. Bypass the middlemen, buy from the source.
Interior designers, small furniture makers, design savvy consumers, do-it-yourselfers. These markets exist but the opportunity to buy small quantities from the actual fabric weaving mill does not exist.
Commonwealth Weavers will be an online seller, so we need a web appropriate design. We intend to use Shopify for the service, so if you have a knowledge of how Shopify works, that may help too. The design must be able to be enlarged and reduced with no loss of clarity or color.
Additionally we will be printing sample cards and will need a print friendly design that can fit on a 1.5 inch (3.8 cm) by 6 inch (15.2 cm) space. When we are successful we will want to be able to blow up the design to fit on plastic shipping bags too. We want a black and white version of the design as well.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
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TU's SCeNE welcomes 'Survivor' contestant Rupert Boneham as Fall Forum speaker
Rupert Boneham, a three-time contestant from the TV show "Survivor" will be the featured speaker during the Fall Forum presented by the Southern Center for Nonprofit Excellence (SCeNE) at Thomas University from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Thomasville Center for the Arts.
Boneham is the founder of Rupert's Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated helping youth ages 18-24 in Indianapolis. According to the organization's website, these youth have received intensive services in nearly every social service system in the region. These young men and women are often unable to achieve and sustain stable housing and employment. Rupert's Kids teaches youth valuable skills and trades, while also empowering them to discover their inner strengths, passions and interests.
"We are very fortunate to have someone like Rupert speak at our Fall Forum," said Rick Munroe, Chair of the SCeNE Advisory Board and Vice President for Advancement at Thomas University. "On 'Survivor,' he won a million dollars and used that money to invest in Rupert's Kids. He's someone who puts his money where his mouth is. His success in nonprofit sustainability with Rupert's Kids is something that we can all learn from."
Created by a consortium of nonprofit leaders with the purpose of strengthening regional charitable organizations, the Southern Center for Nonprofit Excellence (SCeNE) provides high-value professional development and networking opportunities and other resources for the regional nonprofit community. The Center directs its offerings at the intersection of community needs and the distinctive and substantial knowledge base of recognized leaders in the field of philanthropy.
The cost for attending the Fall Forum is $40 for SCeNE members and $50 for non-SCeNE members. To learn more about SCeNE or to register for the Fall Forum, visit www.sceneresources.org or call (229) 227-6903.


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HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — Brooklyn Nets coach and former Cal star Jason Kidd pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge, nearly a year after he smashed his Cadillac SUV into a utility pole on eastern Long Island.
The judge placed Kidd on interim probation. In exchange for the guilty plea, Kidd also agreed to speak to Long Island high school students about the dangers of drunken driving.
Kidd, who retired as an NBA player after last season, was recently hired to coach the Nets — the team he took to two NBA Finals as a player when the franchise played in New Jersey.
"Because of his status as a professional athlete Mr. Kidd is the perfect person to reinforce the important message we've been trying to send, which is don't drink and drive," Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said in a statement.
Police said Kidd crashed his SUV into a telephone pole in the Hamptons community of Water Mill on July 15, 2012. He was treated at a hospital for minor injuries
Defense attorney Ed Burke Jr., said Kidd was returning from a charity function before his accident. A Southampton Town Police report noted the 10-time all-star and Olympic gold medalist was unsteady on his feet, smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot and glassy eyes. While playing with Phoenix in 2001, Kidd was arrested on a domestic violence charge, acknowledging he struck his former wife.


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Indie Next Selection
It'll stick in your brain long after you've read it, this one, and you'll be glad that it's in there. -Fuse #8 blog
Hear a sample here.
Button Down
Short chapters, simple yet meticulous language, a wholesome feel and the universal story of a boy with a dream combine to give this one widespread appeal. -Kirkus
Details and a sample chapter here
The Curse of the Buttons
Ike Button, 11 and an endearing combination of credulous and cranky, is a high-energy wannabe hero who is constantly getting knocked down. And that's what makes him such fun. ... The characters charm, and the material is enhanced by the author's well-realized rendition of time and place. -Kirkus
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If I had to answer in one word the question
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SURPRISED BY DELIGHT Art Opening
Poems and Sketches
Friday May 3 / 5-9 pm
CSUMB Salinas Center for Art and Culture
1 Main Street, Salinas, California
exhibit runs through August
Ike's hometown newspaper in 1861 was the Keokuk Daily Gate City, so it's fun to have that same paper featuring an article about The Curse of the Buttons.
For their quirky celebrations feature, Kidsreads.com celebrates National Button Day with an interview about The Curse of the Buttons.
How setting inspires story, a Curse of the Buttons guest post on the blog of marvelous Elizabeth Dulemba.
Thanks to the Monterey County Weekly for this feature article, including an excerpt from Button Down.
I'm honored to be November's Star Author for Christchurch New Zealand Library's Kids Blog. Find writing tricks and treats, ideas for using pictures as story starters, and small collections any writer can start. Tiny Collections and Growing a Story: The art of doing nothing are also posted here on my website.
Just Launched is the Children's Literature Network's spot to read the behind the scenes scoop on newly released books. Here's my contribution about Button Down.
Marvelous Middle Grade Monday's Barbara Watson and I chat about the writing process in a post she calls Buttoning Down.
In the Children's Literature Network's Bookscope, I look back at how Little Klein came about. I've made some lucky mistakes in my day, and this is the story of one of them.
Novel and Nouveau is Barbara Watson's excellent blog about writing and reading middle grade lit. She generously reviewed The Luck of the Buttons recently, and asked me to write a guest post about process as well.
Bruce Black, author of Writing Yoga, interviewed me about process on his wonderful blog wordswimmer. Thanks, Bruce!
To celebrate The Luck of the Buttons release, there was a pie party on Amy Alessio's excellent Vintage Cookbooks and Crafts blog! Read and bake here: Memory Pie, It's All About the Crust, Pie Worthy, and Launch Day Pie. Then try Amy's excellent pie craft.
Children's Literature Network interviewer Tom Owens asks me, What's right with children's literature today? Libraries, that's what!
after the storm
worm explores
this new world
in our party clothes
searching for the right address
a glimpse - bobcat!
a hundred silk hammocks
hanging in the hedge
spiders take a nap
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chickadee blows in
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As Aereo Threatens to Alter TV Landscape, Major Networks Promise a Fight
WASHINGTON - For consumers who want to cut their cable cord and get all of their television from the Internet, there's been a major obstacle: It's hard to get live sports and local news.
Now a Web start-up, called Aereo, is offering to remove that last barrier with a simple method. It is using antennas to pick up programming from public airwaves and then deliver shows into homes that have a Web connection - for as little as $10 a month.
With Aereo planning to expand its service to Washington and 21 other markets this summer, CBS, ABC and other big networks have attacked the upstart company with renewed vigor.
In lawsuits, they argued Aereo is little more than a content thief. But their efforts to persuade federal courts to shut it down have failed. On Monday, Fox Television's parent company fired back, saying it might consider delivering its shows only through cable connections, no longer broadcasting them.
"We won't just sit idle and allow our content to be actively stolen," said Chase Carey, president of News Corp., which owns Fox Television.
The battle over Aereo, which was founded barely two years ago, underscores the television giants' growing fears of the disruptive force of Internet video. With Web connections fast enough to deliver high-quality picture and sound, the cable and television industries' long hold on the living room is loosening, with weighty implications for the way programming is created and distributed.
Faced with cable bills that typically reach well over $100 a month, 5 million households have abandoned cable, up from 2 million in 2007, in favor of much cheaper Web-based options, according to Nielsen. Netflix, for instance, offers an array of movies and TV shows to those with an Internet connection for a subscription of less than $10 a month. Through Apple and Amazon.com, consumers can pay a few dollars for each show they view.
As these alternatives have grown in popularity, the traditional model of television - which has long financed the creation of shows and padded the profits of cable companies that distribute programs - has trembled. But it has been able to hold its ground as the only source for the latest shows and live sports.
Aereo offers all of the programming that appears on CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC, PBS and about two dozen other channels. Customers could see NCAA tournament games live or the most recent episodes of "American Idol" or "Dancing With the Stars."
Such shows are also freely available to consumers who use antennas to get their television. About 54 million people still watch over-the-air broadcast television.
But on top of that content, Aereo also allows for pausing live TV or recording shows and saving them for later - features once exclusive to subscribers of cable or satellite services. The company eventually envisions allowing consumers to pay for only what they watch, similar to ordering food items off an a la carte menu.
"All we are doing is giving consumers an alternative to what is now an utterly irrational system where people have to pay too much for so many channels," Aereo chief executive Chet Kanojia said in an interview Monday at The Washington Post.
Backed by media mogul Barry Diller, chairman of IAC/Interactive, Aereo was expected to draw attacks from the networks, Kanojia said. (Diller is a member of The Washington Post Co.'s board of directors.)
"We were prepared for the controversy. We are disruptive and know this is far from the end" of the battle, he said.
In court, the networks banded together and argued that Aereo's service violates copyright laws. Aereo countered that it was not trying to steal content but simply allowing consumers to use its antennas to access shows on public airwaves. A lower federal court sided with Aereo last year. Last week, two out of the three judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York agreed with the lower court's decision.
After losing those battles, the television industry is expected to take its case to Capitol Hill, some analysts said. Others predicted the unique and complicated case could reach the Supreme Court.
"If Aereo's model is ultimately upheld," Stifel Nicolaus analysts Christopher King and David Kaut wrote in a recent note, it could force "the broadcast/content companies to seek Congressional relief."
At the National Association of Broadcasters' annual trade show on Monday, Carey, the News Corp. president, said, "We will continue to aggressively pursue our rights in the courts, as well as pursue all relevant political avenues, and we believe we will prevail."
Carey added: "One option could be converting the Fox broadcast network to a pay channel, which we would do in collaboration with both our content partners and affiliates."
Kanojia, emboldened by the recent court's decision, was in Washington on Monday meeting with federal officials on Capitol Hill to "explain how our service works and dispel the myths."
So far, Aereo offers its only service in the New York area. Kanojia declined to reveal how many people have signed up. He said the company plans to begin service in the Washington area by June and will be blanketing subways and newspapers with ads.
But don't expect any television commercials.
"Yeah, no one in TV will agree to take our ads," Kanojia said.


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TAMPA, Fla. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said President Barack Obama has turned the American dream into a "nightmare of dependency," slamming the president and his administration on the issue of welfare reform.
Santorum, who was at the center of the 1996 welfare overhaul debate, argued that welfare reform worked because it was built on hard work, and blasted Obama for gutting the law.
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"Under President Obama, the dream of freedom and opportunity has become a nightmare of dependency with almost half of America receiving some government benefit," Santorum said. "It is no surprise fewer and fewer Americans are achieving their dreams and more and more parents are concerned their children won't realize theirs."
Obama, Santorum said, "believes in government handouts and dependency," not the values of hard work that America was built on.
"I helped write welfare reform; we made the law crystal clear — no president can waive the work requirement," Santorum said, blasting Obama for ruling "like he is above the law."
"America, take heed. When a president can simply give a speech or write a memo and change the law to do what the law says he can't, we weaken our republic," he said.
A 2012 presidential candidate, Santorum is picking up a theme now being advanced by the Mitt Romney campaign in ads slamming Obama for easing the work requirements in welfare, which the Obama campaign disputes.
But even though he has endorsed Romney, Santorum mentioned his onetime rival three times during his prime-time Tuesday night speech.
( PHOTOS: Tuesday's RNC convention speakers)
Santorum was one of Romney's harshest critics during the GOP primary, and waged the last serious challenge to Romney before the latter clinched the GOP nod. Santorum won 11 primaries before abandoning his presidential bid in April. During the campaign, Santorum blasted Romney as the "worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama," a claim rooted in Obama's federal health care law and its similarities to Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts.
Speaking here, Santorum said that supporting the former Massachusetts governor is a "vote for life and liberty, not dependency."
"A vote for Mitt Romney and [vice presidential contender] Paul Ryan will put our country back in the hands of leaders who understand what America can and, for the sake of our children, must be to keep the dream alive," Santorum said.


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UC Santa Barbara
Ngyuyen competed in the 400m dash and the 4x400m relay throughout the
season…Went second on the 4x400m relay at big west and helped his team to a
third place finish…Recorded a best time of 48.87 in the 400m dash at the Oxy Invite.
Nguyen made an impact in the sprints, competing mainly in the 400m and the 4 x 400m relay team...He ran his personal best of 49.36 at the Cal Poly Dual meet placing third overall...He qualified for the Big West Conference Championship preliminary round with a time of 49.93...Nguyen assisted the men's 4 x 400m relay team to a first place finish at the Cal Poly Invite with a combined team time of 3:13.34.
High School
Nguyen was team MVP in his freshman through junior years of high school...Earned the Coach's Award his senior year...League Champion in the 400m with a time of 50.58 his sophomore year...League Champion in the 400m, 200m and Triple Jump his junior years...Held the fastest time in the Central Coast Section in the 400m with a time of 49.46...Scholar Athlete all four years of high school...Milpitas High School Apollo Award for US History his junior year...Earned Community Service Award his senior year...Made Honor Roll all four years of high school.
Parents are Dona Pham and Francis Nguyen...Has one older brother Webster and one younger brother Westley...Aspires to be a CPA one day... Member of the Accounting Association and CPA Law Society... Chose UCSB because of the beautiful campus, diverse student body and academic opportunities...In his free time, Nguyen enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing video games, eating, watching movies, rollerblading and playing hockey...Favorite movies are "Finding Nemo", "Three Ninjas", and "How to Train Your Dragon"...Listens to India Arie...Favorite books are "To Kill a Mocking Bird" and "Lord of the Flies"...Favorite Athletes are Allyson Felix and Jeremy Wariner.
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TORONTO, January 18, 2008 – Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund (TSX:
MPT.UN; MPT.DB – "MPT", the "Fund") today declared a cash distribution for the month of
January 2008 of $0.08750 per trust unit. The distribution will be paid on February 15, 2008 to
unitholders of record at the close of trading on January 31, 2008.
A distribution of $0.08750 per unit will also be paid on February 15, 2008 to holders of Class B
Exchangeable Units of MPT LTC Holding LP, an indirect subsidiary entity of the Fund, of
record on January 31, 2008.
About Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund
Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund invests in essential infrastructure assets in
North America with an emphasis on power infrastructure. MPT's strategy is to acquire and
actively manage a diverse, high quality portfolio of infrastructure assets to improve their
financial performance and provide growing and sustainable distributions to unitholders. MPT's
portfolio includes investments in gas cogeneration, wind, hydro and biomass power generating
facilities, representing 350 MW of installed capacity, and a 45% indirect interest in
Leisureworld Senior Care LP, a leading provider of long-term care, or social infrastructure, in
Ontario. MPT is managed by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Macquarie Group Limited. Please
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Apparently, teenage Russian Billionaire has tired of running a sports car company again. After buying TVR back out of receivership a week ago, he's now sold it to Sunshine State bidnessmen Adam Burdette and Jean Michel Santacreu. Santracreu, as his French last name may suggest, is an event planner, while Burdette runs Evolution Imports, known for bringing in gray-market vehicles. According to Paukert the Exclaimer, Ricardo's been tapped for powertrain development, while the cars will apparently be built by Bertone. England + Italy + Florida? Dear God, it's quite possible the stars have now aligned in such a way that TVR may well be capable of producing the most Eurotrash car in history.
Surrender: Smolenski sells TVR [Hemmings via Autoblog via Winding Road]
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Slovenia's government faces collapse
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia's government is facing likely collapse after Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek, whose government saved the small European Union state from an international bailout, lost her party leadership on Saturday.
Zoran Jankovic, mayor of the capital, Ljubljana, was chosen the leader of Positive Slovenia party. Bratusek said before the vote at the party congress that she cannot lead the government.
"Without the support within my own party, I can no longer be the prime minister," she said.
Jankovic, 61 appealed tn Bratusek after the party vote early Saturday to remain as premier, saying she has done a good job at the helm of the government.
Bratusek's three coalition partners in the four-party center-left government have said they would step out of the cabinet if Jankovic, who is under investigation for corruption, becomes the party leader. If the government collapses in a confidence vote in parliament, elections are likely to follow as early as June.
Bratusek, a 44-year-old financial expert, took office in March last year after the previous center-right government fell over allegations of corruption and slow reform. Her government has cut public spending and started to heal ailing banks to avoid EU bailout.
Bad bank loans are at the center of crisis in the Alpine eurozone nation, once considered a model of eastern European transition from centralized economy to free market.
Jankovic, 61, has denied corruption charges leveled against him by an anti-graft watchdog.
The Civic List, a junior partner in the coalition government, urged immediate talks on the early election date.
Jankovic, a wealthy businessman, founded Positive Slovenia in 2011. Although the party won most votes in the parliamentary election the same year, he was unable to form a coalition government after the vote. He stepped down from the party helm in 2013 to allow his successor Bratusek to form the new government.
Associated Press correspondent Dusan Stojanovic contributed to this report.
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From the Archives – Are you a Rauschenberg or a Johns?
Last Friday, the New York Times reported a decision by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to "find homes in important public collections…for nine important late-career pieces." These pieces will pass into the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. Today, in honor of this decision to share these works with the public, we bring you this essay by Catherine Wagley,[…..]


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Drawing on in-depth original research from the Barna Group, Andy Crouch shows readers that the choices we make about technology have consequences we may never have considered. He takes readers beyond the typical questions of what, where, and when and instead challenges them to answer provocative questions like, "Who do we want to be as a family? "and "How does our use of a particular technology move us closer or farther away from that goal?" Anyone who has felt their family relationships suffer or their time slip away amid technology's distractions will find in this book a path forward to reclaiming their real life in a world of devices.
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Crouch served as executive producer for the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip, as well as the multi-year project This Is Our City, which featured documentary video, reporting and essays about Christians seeking the flourishing of their cities. He also sits on the editorial board for Books & Culture and was editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly. He also spent ten years as a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University.
A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz and gospel, Crouch has led musical worship for congregations of five to twenty thousand. He lives with his family in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.


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./idsktune [-q] [-D] [-v] [-c] [-i install-path]
The idsktune command checks patch levels and kernel parameter settings for the system on which Directory Server or directory client applications run, making tuning recommendations as it performs the checks. Run the command as super user to obtain the widest range of tuning recommendations.
The idsktune command is delivered next to the dsee_deploy command with zip distribution software only.
The idsktune command suggests changes you make to the system, but does not itself make any changes. You must fix at least all ERROR conditions identified by the idsktune command.
The idsktune command reports as missing all patches recommended at the time of release and not installed on the system, even patches for packages not installed on the system.
The idsktune command supports the following options.
Display tuning recommendations only for directory client applications.
Default is to display recommendations for both directory client applications and for Directory Server.
Run in debug mode, displaying messages to showing commands the idsktune command runs internally, preceded by DEBUG.
Check the specified installation directory to ensure enough space is available.
Run in quiet mode, reporting only information about key system prerequisites and essential settings.
Display the version information about the build and exit.
The idsktune command verifies and reports on the following settings depending on the underlying system.
SolarisTM and Red Hat version numbers
Solaris kernel build date
Solaris, and HP-UX patches
Physical memory size
Swap space or swap partition size
Memory resource limits
File descriptor resource limits
Maximum threads per process for HP-UX
Maximum files for HP-UX
Many of the following are system-specific TCP tuning settings.
Listen backlog queue size
tcbhashsize, tcbhashnum and tcp_msl
sominconn and somaxconn
tcp_close_wait_interval and tcp_time_wait_interval
tcp_conn_req_max_q and tcp_conn_req_max_q0
net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst and tcp_smallest_anon_port
net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack and tcp_deferred_ack_interval
link_speed on /dev/hme
Tuning system settings, especially network stack settings, involves considering potentially not just directory applications and Directory Server, but also other applications running on the system and in the environment. In general, however, implementing the recommendations optimizes directory performance whether the system is dedicated to Directory Server or shared with other applications.
The idsktune command exits with status 0 if it completes successfully and no ERRORs are found. Otherwise, it exists with non-zero status.
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Well, someone has done. A YouTuber made a video of cats barfing set to techno music. Where can viral videos go from here? Time to close up shop, internet. There's nowhere to go from here.
But, seriously, good luck watching this video! No, seriously, good luck watching this — we aren't sure how it ends. It was too gross for us. If you're not totally disgusted by watching cats throw up, you'll probably think this video, which syncs up cats retching to house music, to be the, uh, cat's PJs. If you are totally disgusted by watching cats throw up, maybe this is not the video for you. Or maybe challenge yourself — how far can you get? (Our guess: not very.) Good luck!


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Draw Write Now, Book 6
Draw Write Now, Book 6
Compare the land homes of the speedy jackrabbit and of the sturdy mountain goat. Then, splash with frogs in freshwater wetlands. Next, explore creatures in saltwater environments from shoreline to the oceans' dark depths.
64 pages - 21 lessons - softcover - color throughout - 8-1/2" x 11"
Lessons in Book 6
On Land (land)
Land Homes/Robin (bird), Woodlands/chipmunk, Grasslands/Monarch Butterfly, Shrub Lands/Jackrabbit, Dry Lands/Lizard, Mountains/Mountain Goat, Lowlands/Crocodile
Ponds and Rivers (freshwater)
Water Homes/Beaver, Shallow Water/Frog, Deep Water/Fish, Flowing Water/Turtle, Stream to River to Ocean/Salmon, Ocean to River to Stream/Ee
Oceans (saltwater)
Ocean Homes/Sponges, Muddy Tidelands/Great Blue Heron, Sandy Tidelands/Hermit Crab, Rocky Tidelands/Sea Star, Shelves/Shark, Outer Shelves/Octopus, Sunlit Open Water/Dolphin, Deep Open Ocean/Angler Fish
Art Elements
At the end of each unit, several pages focus on a specific art element or principle. In Book 6 they are:
- The horizon line on land
- The line under water
- The artist's position affects the line
Four short sentences (manuscript style) are shown for copy work. The writing practice should be adjusted to fit the child's abilities and needs. In addition, any handwriting style may be practiced. The following is from a Book 6 lesson:
Water on land flows downhill.
It flows in streams or rivers.
Water rushes over steep land.
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**We've created an update on how to make coasters with an epoxy finish. Perfect for a no-stick finish :)**
I'm an Instagram junkie. I LOVE me some Instagram photos. What I'm not so great at is actually getting them off my phone and doing something with them!
So, Emily and I set out to the craft store last weekend, and we came up with this fun and inexpensive DIY photo coasters project!
What You'll Need:
– (6) 4×4 white ceramic tiles (we found ours at the local hardware store)
– (6) 4×4 printed photos (I used the PostalPix app)
– Mod Podge (glossy finishing spray is an alternative option recommended by one of our readers!)
– Small, 1-inch foam brush
– Self-adhesive felt pads
– Washi tape (optional)
***EDIT: we've had a few readers have problems with the coasters sticking to each other when stacked, so we've created an update on how to make coasters with an epoxy finish (there's sure to be no stick there!).***
Step 1: Apply 1 coat of Mod Podge to front of tile
Apply a thin layer of Mod Podge to the front of each tile, making sure to spread it all the way to the edges. (Note: This step is important! We made the mistake of skipping it on the first couple coasters, and the photo didn't feel like it was fully adhered to the tile in the finished product.)
Step 2: Place photo on the wet Mod Podge
Place a photo on top of the wet coat of Mod Podge from step 1, and let it dry for about 5 minutes. (Decorating your photo with washi tape is optional, but it's an easy way to add a fun & unique twist!)
Step 3: Apply 3 coats of Mod Podge to back of tile
This part is a little tricky with the washi tape. When you apply your first coat of Mod Podge to the back of the coasters, it may seem like the the tape is starting to unstick from the coaster. Just wait about 5 minutes until the first coat of Mod Podge has started to dry and become tacky, and press the washi tape down with your finger. Wait about 15 minutes in between each coat of Mod Podge.
**We've created an update on how to make coasters with an epoxy finish. Perfect for a no-stick finish :)**
Step 4: Apply 3 coats of Mod Podge to front of tile
Apply 3 coats of Mod Podge, again waiting about 15 minutes between each coat. Apply each coat as a thin layer, making sure to wrap all the way around to the sides, and smoothing out the front. It'll look very opaque until it dries, but rest assured that it will dry clear!
Step 5: Stick felt pads to the bottom of each coaster
The felt pads just help to make sure that the coasters don't scratch your table.
Step 6: Let sit for 3 days before using
It's normal for Mod Podge to feel tacky for several days after it dries. If you wait about 3 days, you'll give the coasters plenty of time to seal completely & make sure no water will seep in.
I love the way these turned out, and they make me smile whenever I see them on my coffee table. With the right photos, coasters like these are going to make great DIY Christmas gifts!


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A North Vancouver eco-terrorist wanted by the FBI for over a decade in its largest domestic terrorism case turned herself in to the American authorities at the Peace Arch border crossing Thursday.
Authorities allege Rebecca Jeannette Rubin, 39, along with 12 other members of an eco-terrorist group called the Family, was responsible for 20 arsons around the American West during the late 90s that did $40 million in damage.
Rubin and the group, a cell of the larger Earth Liberation Front Earth Liberation Front cell, were charged and indicted in 2006 for an arson at a Vail, Colo., ski resort that caused $12 million in damage, according to the FBI.
The group also set fire to a timber company office in Oregon and federal wild horse corrals in Oregon and California, according to the FBI.
Other targets included a horse slaughterhouse and U.S. Forest Service ranger stations, research facilities and an SUV dealership, all in Oregon.
The group disbanded in 2001, but a federal taskforce known as Operation Backfire turned an informant and broke open the cell in 2005. The leader, William C. Rodgers, ran a bookstore in Arizona. He killed himself in jail in 2005 following his arrest.
Ten people pleaded guilty in 2007 to conspiracy and arson and were sentenced to prison.
One of the convicted Family members, Daniel McGowan, was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front released last year.
Authorities said Rubin is to appear in Federal Court in Seattle, then will be sent to Oregon for trial.
In 2009, FBI special agent Richard Kolko told The Sun that he believed Rubin was living in Western Canada. Weve had numerous tips up there, he said.
A year earlier, the FBI announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Rubin and three other alleged members of the Family. Only two fugitives remain after Rubin turned herself in Thursday: Joseph Mahmoud Dibee and Josephine Sunshine Overaker, another Canadian.
Before Rubins alleged involvement with the Family, she was charged in Vancouver in 1998 with one count of possession of an explosive substance. She was allegedly involved with two others in mailing a parcel containing a mousetrap armed with razor blades to Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel in Toronto in April 1995. Zundel later received a pipe bomb through the mail that exploded when it was detonated by the RCMP bomb squad.
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The Specialty Collection Plank
1/2" SolidPlus™ engineered construction, you'll enjoy the preferred look of solid, sawn flooring once installed. The sawn face of Somerset's 1/2" SolidPlus™ engineered flooring is the same beautiful Appalachian hardwood as our traditional solid flooring. SolidPlus™ engineered gives you the benefit of multi‑layer, cross‑grained construction for dimensional stability and installation flexibility‑install virtually anywhere in your home, including the basement. It's also an eco‑sensible alternative to traditional solid flooring.
Brand: Somerset
Species: Hickory
Color Name: Nutmeg
Width: 3 1/4" Inches
Thickness: 1/2" Inches
Length: Random up to 6 1/2' Feet
Category: Plank
Construction: 8 ply Engineered
Wear Layer: 1/8" (3mm)
Edge Type: Eased Edge, Eased End
SqFt per Carton: 40
Cartons per Pallet: 32
SqFt per Pallet: 1280
Finish: UV-Cured Aluminum Oxide
Limited Warranty: 50-Year Finish Wear; Lifetime Structural
We recommend that installation be done by a professional flooring installer, as many critical decisions must be made at the installation site which are the sole responsibility of the installer and owner. Hardwood flooring is an investment, that if properly installed and cared for can add value to your home. It is very important to understand that INSTALLATION CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE of hardwood flooring, subfloor, substrate, the jobsite (including the ambient temperature and relative humidity), and all other variables that may affect the performance of wood flooring. Complete installation instructions are packaged with Somerset flooring cartons and are available on our website under "Customer Support."
We feel that no other hardwood flooring in the industry is manufactured to higher quality standards than a Somerset hardwood floor. Flooring in the Color Collection Strip series carries our Lifetime Structural Integrity Limited Warranty and a 50-Year Finish Wear Layer Limited Warranty. Please read the entire warranty, which we call the "Somerset Commitment" here.
We take great pride in the products we offer and want our customers to be completely satisfied with our flooring. Our warranty coverage is intended to give you peace of mind that you are purchasing a quality product from a highly reputable company. Please keep in mind that Somerset manufactures flooring, not finished floors; the flooring installer must complete the finished product. Many critical decisions must be made at the installation site, and therefore are the sole responsibility of the installer and owner. Please make sure to read our entire warranty document, so you understand the installer's, and your, responsibility to insure a successful installation. In addition, we suggest you read our care and maintenance information as proper routine and preventative maintenance is important to your continued satisfaction with your floor.


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Long-Term Acute Care: What to Expect
Long-term acute care (LTCH) hospitals provide medical and rehabilitative care for longer periods to people with complex problems. A typical stay is 25 days. Acute and chronic conditions that may require long-term care include:
- Cardiac and respiratory problems
- Complex wounds
- Spinal cord injury and brain trauma
- Acute chronic renal disease
- Long-term antibiotic administration and pain management
Who decides if long-term care is needed?
Patients are most often referred to the LTCH by their attending physician from a traditional, or acute care, hospital. Care managers and family members also can be instrumental in decision-making.
What can you expect from long-term acute care for you or your family member?
At Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital, the first long-term acute care facility in the Lehigh Valley, our staff uses a approaches treatment from every angle to provide the best individualized care for our patients.
All treatment is under the direction of a physician who orchestrates the specialists and support services necessary to treat complex conditions.
Patients and their families are part of the planning, goal-setting and decision-making for their treatment. Communication between all parties is a key to success.
Among the areas of expertise that our care teams provide are:
Respiratory Care - Chronic problems, acute disease, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury can all cause respiratory failure, often necessitating a ventilator to perform the work of breathing for an unspecified time. Our aim is to help patients achieve their optimum functional respiratory level. The ultimate goal is to wean patients off ventilators completely.
Nursing - Our nursing professionals assure complete and correct medication delivery, lab results review, cardiac monitoring, complex and specialized wound care, fluid management, daily physical assessment and progress trends. They are capable of administering some of the most specialized medicines used in the intensive care units. Plus, all nurses are ACLS-certified (Advanced Cardiac Life Support), which allows them to perform well in unforeseen rapid response situations.
Therapy - Though the Good Shepherd name means "rehabilitation" to many, the Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital is not primarily a rehabilitation center. Our patients' conditions are more serious. We do offer physical, occupational and speech therapy and provide our patients with individualized treatment based on their needs and their ability. Patients who are able typically receive an hour-and-a-half of therapy a day – half of what patients receive at Good Shepherd's Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital in Allentown.
Care Management - Our care management professionals work closely with patients and families from admission to discharge. They are adept at coordination and communication and help families navigate three main areas:
- The administrative demands of the health-care process
- The plan and purpose of treatment
- The resources and choices available to patients upon discharge (many move on to inpatient rehabilitation or skilled nursing).
At Good Shepherd, we aim to provide our patients with long-term care to meet their changing needs, not just temporary treatment. We know that patients may feel somewhat displaced when they come to our hospital, so we focus on getting them back to their previous network of care providers. Not until we've done that do we consider our effort a success.


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We have plenty of reasons to be jealous of street style stars like Miroslava Duma, Hanneli Mustaparta, Elin Kling, Olivia Palermo, and The Man Repeller. It seems anything they put on looks amazing, effortless, and uh, camera ready. But we're really trying to keep our cool about the latest notch on their sartorial belts — custom-made Tibi sneakers designed with that photog-ready fivesome in mind (Like, what!? No fair!). Yes, Tibi designer Amy Smilovic has done it again (made us swoon with envy, that is), with her five latest sneaker silhouettes crafted lovingly just for Miro, Hanneli, OP, Leandra, and Elin.
Chunky high tops with girlish prints, flamingo colored swirls, pastel florals in Chuck Taylor canvas, and initials on top (how else would you know who these belong to?), the sneakers are fit for any Fashion Week outfit, but can easily transition to punch up any lazy-day jeans and T-shirt ensemble, too. We'd be throwing our hands up at the injustice of it all, if it weren't for the simple fact that we can buy them, too. Only question is, whose design should we snag?
Click on for Amy's sketches and muses, and, of course, pics of the kicks. Then tell us which are your faves in the comments below.


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On selected international days, UNRIC, in partnership with the Good Planet Foundation, will post video clips from the 7 billion Others project to communicate the fears, dreams, ordeals and hopes of citizens from all over world.
Watch all our videos in up to 10 languages!
A visionary idea from the photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 7 billion Others is an ongoing project that started in 2003, consisting of over 6,000 interviews filmed in 84 countries to create a portrait of humanity today and show everything that unites us, links us and differentiates us. UNRIC and the 7 billion Others team have partnered to make the video portraits available in as many languages as possible.
Every day should be #HappyDay
On Friday's we're sharing video portraits to brighten up your start to the weekend. The short uplifting selection of videos come from around the world and are available in English, French and Spanish.
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
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Let $\mathcal{I}$ be an uncountable set. Let $(\Omega, \mathcal{F},\mathbb{P})$ be a probability space, and $E_i, i\in \mathcal{I}$ be a measurable set such that $\mathbb{P}(E_i)=1$. What can we say about $\mathbb{P}(\cap_{i\in \mathcal{I}} E_i)?$.
I know that an uncountable intersection of measurable sets is not necessarily measurable. But are there in general conditions that allow such infinite intersections to be measurable?
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Dear WAI Interest Group Participants, WAI is starting a WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force to develop more comprehensive guidance on evaluating web accessibility. The Evaluation Task Force will develop an internationally harmonized methodology for evaluating websites' conformance to WCAG 2.0. The methodology will provide provides a step-by-step procedure for evaluating websites, including guidance on sampling individual web pages, evaluating them according to WCAG 2.0, and aggregating the results into a conformance statement. To learn more about the scope of work and anticipated timeline, see the WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force (Eval TF) Work Statement at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/2011/eval/eval-tf The methodology is part of a wider W3C/WAI effort on web accessibility evaluation and testing, which includes the development of test suites for all WAI guidelines and specifications. For more information, see W3C/WAI Web Accessibility Evaluation and Testing Activities at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/2011/eval/ If you would like to get announcements when drafts of the methodology are available, you can subscribe to WAI's RSS feed, tweets, or other venues listed at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/about/announcements If you might be interested in actively participating in this work, please read Participating in WAI at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/participation and then contact Shadi Abou-Zahra, see http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ Please let us know if you have any questions. Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible. Regards, ~Shawn Lawton Henry & Shadi Abou-Zahra ----- Shawn Lawton Henry W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) e-mail: email@example.com phone: +1.617.395.7664 about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/Received on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:02:21 UTC
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Scoutmaster necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Special Scouts
Design a fun, innovative logo for Special Scouts, a new non profit organization.
The primary mission of Special Scouts is to assist individuals with developmental disabilities by providing opportunities for participants of Special Scouts to experience camaraderie, build self-esteem and enduring friendships through participation in regular meetings and outings with a group of Special Scouts of similar age. Our mission statement is "Special Scouts: building camaraderie, self esteem and enduring friendships".
Special Scouts have a developmental disability or have a passion for working with other scouts with developmental disabilities. Special Scouts is a non-discriminatory corporation without restriction for gender, age, race, religion and developmental disability.
Special Scouts strives to strengthen the relationship between parent/caregiver and Special Scout through active participation with each other at meetings, outings and special events. Those meetings, outings and special events are focused on scouting activities that provide challenges and exploration leading to a participant's discovery of new possibilities. After all, exploration and discovery are the stimulus of the human spirit.
While Special Scouts is starting locally, the plan is to eventually expand to be a national organization, followed by an international organization. Therefore the logo must be general enough to be used in any location world wide.
The logo will be used extensively on letterheads, on clothing and on other branding items, therefore the logo must be simple yet communicate well the primary mission of Special Scouts uniquely as not to be confused with other existing logos.
We are looking for and judging entries on their clarity in representing the mission of Special Scouts. A clarity that spans nations and languages.
Both graphics and text are allowed, but remember that the text may be translated into different languages, therfore the graphic portion must be able to stand on its own.
There you have it. Now down to work. Good luck to all participants in generating a potential logo that encapsulates these ideas into a concise emblem.
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craftproduction.com needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 14 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We are company specialized in doing OEM projects for various customers. Therefore we are producing wrist watches for our customers. In order to get more sophisticated product quality we are intending to develop watch box in pure original top grain cow nappa leather.
Product developer which are abel to make hand scribble or renderings which show possible leather watch case.
Watch case should be in pure leather material with mostly sewing parts. There could be some additional compartment for guarantee card and possible compartment or space for doing customer logo at leather via embossing.
Most watches are in open position plain. Therefore wrist watch box should plain/flat.
Main material must be leather. Other options for compartments or embossing position at case, or any metal parts is up to designer. But most likely pure leather solution is warmly welcome.
Any great idea about packing solution or any innovative watch packing would be great. All solutions are welcome.
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Figuring Out The Most Promising NCAA Football Picks.
When you start to peel back the layers of the sports betting world, you will find that many professionals bet on the college level games. If you want to make sure that you're making money with proper NCAA football picks, you will need to follow suit and look at the match ups, and make sure that you're making plans that will help you get an edge. At first glance, you may not be comfortable with making picks in this arena because there are so many different variables that you will have to consider, but if you subscribe to a system, you may end up pocketing a lot of profit for your efforts. If you're not sure how to get started or you are not sure which teams will beat the spread, and possibly win on a consistent basis, than pay attention to a few details found below.
The landscape of college football is much more volatile than that of the professional ranks. Teams get upset far more often, especially when there is a big mismatch. Larger schools have a tendency to look past a smaller opponent, and they get rocked hard and often lose by slim margins. This has been highlighted several times throughout the world of division I football, and will continue to be a contributing factor for excitement in a lot of ways. It's with that in mind that you will have a better chance of making money with sports handicapping in this area than you may have in others.
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ahb-vi-yayt • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb, transitive
Meaning: 1. To make unnecessary. 2. To eliminate or prevent.
Notes: The meaning of this Good Word is anything but obvious. In fact, it is semantically unrelated to obvious, even though the two words do share a common root. So beware: today's Good Word does not mean "to make obvious". The noun is obviation and, although there is an adjective obviative that should have a related meaning, this adjective is used only to refer to an obscure grammatical function found in a few American Indian languages.
In Play: To obviate the obvious, let's first use this word in an ordinary turn of phrase like, "Mike Raffone's introductory remarks obviated most of the visiting lecturer's speech." Unfortunately, a form of obviation in its second sense has recently become the way to do business: "The new plant in India obviated most of the jobs in his division."
Word History: Today's Good Word originated as obviatus, the past participle of Latin obviare "to meet, withstand, prevent". This verb contains the preposition ob "to, toward" and via-re "go, travel", which comes from via "road, way". Via we see in Via Appia "the Appian Way", Italy's oldest road, in Spanish va "go", and in our preposition via "by way of?. The original root also emerged in Latin as veh- which underlies our word vehicle. In Germanic languages that [v] became a [w] so we see it in German Wagen (as in Volkswagen "people's car") and English wagon, plus English way. Obvious comes from Latin obvius, an adjective built from the phrase ob viam "in the way, within reach".
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- Individual attention from admissions interview to graduation and beyond
- We want to hear your unique story. Every applicant receives an interview, setting the tone for an educational relationship with faculty mentors who take explicit interest in their students' goals and their self-expression. These mentorships continue as graduates enter the field.
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Graduates from the KSC early childhood, elementary or secondary education programs who seek certification in General Special Education (K-12) are encouraged to apply to the M.Ed. Special Education Option during their senior year. Graduates of the KSC early childhood, elementary or secondary education programs who have completed designated coursework in special education foundations have already addressed some of the fundamental certification competencies. If accepted into the M.Ed. Special Education program, these students will be required to complete fewer credits (see below).
Granite State College (GSC) students who complete an approved post-bachelor's teacher certification program may transfer up to 26 credits into the M.Ed. Special Education or Curriculum & Instruction options. See our worksheet for Granite State transfers.
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North Carolina Man Sentenced to Fifty Years in Prison for $40 Million Ponzi Scheme
A federal judge sentenced a North Carolina man to fifty years in prison for what prosecutors called "the worst financial crime in this district in memory." Keith Simmons, 47, received the sentence after being convicted of one count of securities fraud, one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering in December 2010. In delivering the sentence, which was the term sought by prosecutors, United States District Court Judge Robert Conrad labeled the case the most damaging financial crime he had presided over.
Simmons was the mastermind of a foreign currency ("forex") trading operation known as Black Diamond. Through a network of co-conspirators and feeder funds, Simmons solicited investors beginning in 2007 for the purported purpose of engaging in forex trading through a Black Diamond trading platform that had been highly successful. Potential investors were told that average returns exceeded four percent per month, and that their investment was safe as no more than 20% of invested funds would be at risk at any time. Additionally, Simmons is said to have quoted Bible verses and stressed his devout Christianity to induce people into investing with Black Diamond. In total, approximately 240 investors contributed at least $35 million to the scheme. These investors received monthly account statements that made it appear as if investors' accounts were enjoying steady growth.
However, rather than conducting any forex trading, Simmons and several co-conspirators misappropriated millions of dollars for personal and business expenses. This included funding a lavish lifestyle of money, sex, and wealth for Simmons, who prosecutors alleged paid women for sex and furnished "lavish love condominiums" with investor funds. Additionally, approximately $18 million was returned to investors in the form of fictitious monthly returns.
After monthly interest payments ceased in March 2009, Simmons was arrested by the FBI in December 2009. Several of Simmons' co-conspirators have also been arrested or pled guilty. One of his co-conspirators, Brian Coats, pled guilty in October 2011 to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and one count of money laundering conspiracy. Coats is awaiting sentencing and faces up to fifteen years in federal prison. Additionally, Deanna R. Salazar, 53, was also sentenced on Wednesday, receiving a fifty-four month sentence from Judge Conrad and ordered to pay $5,112,687 in restitution. She pled guilty in December 2010 to conspiracy to commit securities, commodities and wire fraud and tax fraud.
The case was also significant in that the bank used by Simmons to perpetuate the scheme, CommunityONE Bank, N.A., was criminally charged over its lack of an effective anti-money laundering program. The bank entered into a deferred prosecution agreement ("DPA") with the government, under which the bank, after paying $400,000 in restitution to the victims of Simmons' scheme, will be able to have the criminal charges dismissed after two years. According to U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins,
This bank's failure to detect and report a ponzi scheme cost it 16 percent of its value. Other financial institutions should heed this warning: the Bank Secrecy Act applies to more than just drug and terrorist financing."
CommunityONE Bank is not the only bank to suffer financially after failing to detect a Ponzi scheme. In January 2012, a federal jury awarded $67 million to victims of Scott Rothstein's $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme, finding that the bank ignored clear signs of Rothstein's scheme and facilitated its existence. Rothstein was also sentenced to fifty years in prison for masterminding his scheme.
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WASHINGTON - House Republicans and Democrats are meeting in the grand Statuary Hall of the Capitol to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Wednesday's ceremony was being led by House Speaker John Boehner, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
The anniversary of the historic march is Aug. 28, but Congress is supposed to be in recess then. The anniversary comes as President Barack Obama is touring the country to promote his agenda including jobs and economic growth.
The 1963 march drew approximately 250,000 people to the National Mall and Lincoln Memorial. Its purpose was to call attention to economic inequality, but is most remembered for Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have A Dream" speech.


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Audio Note AN-E Lexus Signature loudspeaker
So it goes with Audio Note's latest, the AN-E Lexus Signature, which takes the company's basic E-size loudspeaker—at just under 70 liters, the largest of Audio Note's cabinet sizes—and refines it in a number of subtle and mostly invisible ways.
Before tackling the specifics, some history is in order. Audio Note's involvement in the loudspeaker world dates to the early 1980s, when audio maven Peter Qvortrup represented the Snell Acoustics line throughout Europe. Qvortrup admired Peter Snell's design innovations—not only were their cabinets precisely sized and shaped to support a particular range of frequencies, but Snell Acoustics was among the first companies to hand-match every crossover component to its own unique set of drivers. As Snell's distributor, Qvortrup enjoyed particular success with three relatively efficient models: the Snell Type J, Type K, and Type E.
Everything went swimmingly until fall 1984, when Peter Snell dropped dead on the factory floor—and his surviving business partners hired Canadian designer Kevin Voecks, late of Mirage, to take his place. Almost immediately, Voecks began to take Snell's product line in a direction that had nothing whatsoever to do with Peter Snell's original work, as far as Peter Qvortrup was concerned. I agree.
That left Qvortrup—who would soon team up with Hiroyasu Kondo to sell products under the Audio Note name—in a bit of a jam. He bought up all the remaining stock of Snell Js, Ks, and Es, and when they were gone, he bought the remaining unfilled cabinets, too. After that, Qvortrup took the only route left: He sought and obtained permission to continue building Js, Ks, and Es on his own, crediting the original designs to Snell and selling the finished products under his own label.
Thus, more than two decades after his death, you can still acquire Peter Snell's finest "bookshelf" loudspeakers, the ensuing evolution of which may be in keeping with their designer's intentions.
The original Snell Type E was a bass-reflex design with a 1" soft-dome tweeter and an 8" paper woofer. According to a spec sheet from 1984, it had an electrical sensitivity of 90dB and a nominal impedance of 8 ohms. I suppose the Type E would have been a pretty decent mate for some of those low-power tube amps that didn't yet exist (footnote 1).
But over the years, Peter Qvortrup worked to refine the E formula, in an effort to wring even greater efficiency—among other things—from the very same box. That brings us to the AN-E Lexus Signature, whose cabinet is made entirely from Russian birch plywood (as opposed to the particleboard of its antecedents). Its rear-firing port is 5" long and 2.5" in diameter, and although I wasn't able to pry apart the review samples and see for myself, a photo supplied by Audio Note's US distributor, Triode & Co., shows the use of some strategically placed hardwood braces.
The AN-E Lexus Signature's 1" tweeter is a special high-efficiency type, with an impregnated-fabric dome and a voice-coil wound from silver wire that Audio Note supplies to the tweeter's manufacturer, Tonegen/Foster of Japan. Audio Note's silver wire is also used for the voice coil of the 8" paper woofer, manufactured in Norway by SEAS and also appearing here in a high-efficiency configuration. Some electrical padding is used in the crossover for level matching—Qvortrup suggests that the woofer's theoretical maximum sensitivity is in the neighborhood of 100dB—and the overall system sensitivity is stated as a very high 98dB.
A lot of what makes the Lexus Signature special lies outside of the box—literally. Peter Qvortrup builds this model's crossovers into individual outboard enclosures (alloy chassis and cover, acrylic front panel), not only to protect them from the microphonic effects of speaker vibrations but to accommodate the sheer physical size of Audio Note's upmarket paper-in-oil capacitors. The speakers themselves are hardwired, with separate meter-long cable pairs for the woofer and tweeter, terminated with Audio Note silver banana plugs (footnote 2). The cable itself, inside and out, is Audio Note's best copper Litz, sold separately under the model name Lexus XL ($226/meter pair, less termination). The crossover frequency is an unusual choice, not only because it's close to the tweeter's resonant frequency ("You're not supposed to do that," Qvortrup says, "but then there's a lot of things you're not supposed to do"), but also because it differs slightly from one finished loudspeaker to the next, given Audio Note's efforts to match individual drivers to individual capacitors. Thus the stated crossover range of 2.1–2.3kHz.
My review pair of AN-E Lexus Signatures was supplied with the recommended metal stands, which are 10.5" tall and exceptionally massive—they're filled with a mixture of sand and lead shot. Audio Note recommends coupling the speaker cabinets to the stands with pea-size balls of Blu-Tack plasticine (available in the US as Elmer's Poster Tack), which I duly did. I actually tried it both ways, but without the putty, the Audio Notes somewhat exaggerated the room and hall sound of certain recordings—such as the Midori-McDonald recording of Elgar's Violin Sonata (CD, Sony SK 63331), where the natural acoustic of the Snape Maltings threatened to swamp the subtleties of Midori's charming but less than passionate fiddling.
Footnote 1: I used to own a pair of Snell Type Js, which I bought brand-new from Sound by Singer in 1984. I've wished more than once that I'd been smart enough to keep them.—Art Dudley
Footnote 2: Both these banana plugs and the matching sockets on the external crossover are among the best-made I have encountered. A delight to use.—John Atkinson


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There are a lot of reasons why the Jacksonville Jaguars' passing game hasn't taken a step forward this season.
The offense is wildly conservative. Quarterback Blaine Gabbert's progress has been incremental, but he's still not a good starter. Wide receiver Laurent Robinson was a disappointment before he got hurt.
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The biggest problem to this point, however, might be with the Jaguars' top draft pick. Justin Blackmon was taken No. 7 overall to be a difference-maker. Wide receiver isn't an easy position to transition to at the pro level, but Blackmon hasn't looked like he's belonged.
"(Blackmon has) really hurt Gabbert," one scout told NFL.com and NFL Network's Albert Breer. "I'm not sure his speed, or lack thereof, translates to the pro game -- he can't beat press man coverage. He's just not explosive or quick enough."
This is an issue for a lot of physical, big-bodied receivers when they enter the NFL. They simply can't dominate the opposition with their size like they did in college. Blackmon is good at catching the ball in close quarters, but he hasn't been able to separate.
Gabbert has targeted Blackmon 54 times, resulting in 23 catches for 225 yards and one touchdown. That makes Blackmon one of the least efficient wide receivers in football.
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MSU: Catching waste energy with common materials
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Researchers at Michigan State University are working on a new low-cost approach to recapturing the heat energy that is lost in car exhaust and many other industrial processes, in search of a way to improve efficiency and decrease waste.
The team is using a material based on very common naturally occurring minerals called tetrahedrites to make thermoelectric materials that have the ability to convert heat into electricity.
Project leader professor Don Morelli says his group has managed to synthesize "highly efficient thermoelectric materials" using common materials, pointing toward lower-cost ways to catch waste energy.
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I'm sure you've heard the adage: "Don't shoot the messenger."
That old chestnut took on fresh significance for me several days before Christmas.
My husband, Dan, and I were in the Somersworth Walmart picking up a couple of last-minute items for the holidays. We only had a couple of items, so we went to the express line for those buying 20 items or less.
A woman I guessed to be in her early 30s stood in front of us in the checkout line. She had her daughter with her, a dark-haired girl who looked to be about 8 or 9 years old. I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but they were right in front of us. Mother and daughter seemed very close, talking breathlessly about the gifts they had purchased for Christmas. There was a bin of lollipops just in front of the checkout conveyor and the little girl asked her Mom if she could please have one.
"Sure, honey, you can have a pop today."
"Thanks, Mommy," the little girl smiled.
Mom moved ahead to the checkout position where there was the usual rack of celebrity gossip magazines. Among them was the latest edition of "People Magazine." The cover was devoted to the unspeakable tragedy in Newtown, Conn. There were small photographs of each one of the schoolchildren brutally gunned down by a mentally deranged 20-year-old man. Some of the children were just kindergartners. Their teachers and the school principal also died in the hail of gunfire. Some of the adults sacrificed their lives trying to save the children from the madman who had entered the school after he shot his mother to death in their home.
The mother in the checkout line took one look at the "People Magazine" cover and blew up.
She turned to Dan and me because we were the nearest adults within earshot. "How can they do this? How can they?" she cried, her voice breaking with emotion.
"If this was my child who died, I would not want her face on the cover of this magazine," she continued to rant. "They have no right, no right to do this!"
She continued to decry the use of the children's pictures on the magazine cover talking about how cruel and exploitive it was.
Several times she looked to Dan and me for a supportive comment. We did not add fuel to the fire about the magazine. Instead, we talked about how horrible the tragedy was and how sad we were for the families of the victims. They would never see their loved ones again and every Christmas would be a horrible reminder of the children they had lost forever.
Thankfully, she and her daughter eventually got through the checkout and were on their way. "Merry Christmas!" we said, as they departed.
Later, Dan and I talked about what had happened.
"I didn't agree with that woman about the magazine cover," I said.
"I know, me either," Dan agreed.
We both acknowledge there are elements within the media who exploit tragedy, but not all media is that way.
We also know that "People Magazine" did not kill those children. Gun violence did. Those precious little photos on the cover may help to spur a national conversation about such massacres that have become all too common in recent years.
But that is not the only reason I disagree with the mom at Wal-Mart. As the managing editor of a small daily newspaper, I have seen a lot of tragic news unfold and been involved in hundreds of conversations about how to present that information to readers. It is always difficult and even heartbreaking to report that kind of news, but we must.
Newspapers are supposed to reflect the communities we serve, even if the news is sometimes tragic.
When something terrible happens in our coverage area, we ask our reporters to write stories about it. If someone has died tragically in an accident or as the victim of a crime, our job is to report that. We also ask reporters to speak to the family and friends of that person to gather details about who they were in life. Those who die tragically should be remembered for more than the circumstances of their death. What kind of person were they? What can we learn from their life and untimely death?
I don't know what "People Magazine" does, but when we cover stories like that, we always ask reporters to take on the difficult task of talking to family. If the family says "no," we respect their privacy and leave them alone.
It always surprises me how often families want to talk to us about their loved ones and how generous they can be during their darkest hours.
They understand that newspapers are part of the community and we are spreading the word to all of those readers out there they may not know, but who share their grief and loss.
I am not sure what the mom at Wal-Mart wanted "People Magazine" to put on its cover after the Newtown tragedy. But, I disagree with her take on it. It would be an insult of the highest order for the media to ignore the murder of these precious children.
To her I say, "please don't shoot the messenger." Instead, let us grieve together and find solutions to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
Mary Pat Rowland is the managing editor of Foster's Daily Democrat, and reachable at firstname.lastname@example.com.