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Anthony's Pizza and Pasta to aid Longmont flood victims
Anthony's Pizza and Pasta is joining the effort to help victims of the devastating floods that struck along the Front Range in September.
Come Wednesday Nov. 20, the 25-store chain will donate 25 percent of all sales, including take-out and delivery, to flood victims in Longmont. The money from this all-day event will go toward helping families repair homes and replace lost items.
If you've ever bitten into Anthony's New York-style pie, you know that charity never tasted so good.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it plans to buy back as much as $3-billion (U.S.) of stock early next year after U.S. regulators authorized it to buy shares again, the latest sign the largest U.S. bank is healing after big trading losses.
The bank halted its share repurchases in May when it said it was going to suffer at least $2-billion of trading losses from bad bets on credit. Those losses ballooned to more than $6-billion. The bank now believes that most of the pain is in the past.
The company disclosed the buyback approval on Thursday in a quarterly filing in which it also revealed that it has reached "an agreement in principle" with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to resolve two previously disclosed investigations related to mortgage-backed securities.
The Federal Reserve told the bank on Nov. 5 that it had approved the plan, JPMorgan said in the SEC filing.
The company is moving past the losses from what became known as the "London Whale" trades, for the trader who entered at least some of the positions. The regulatory consequences are still lingering.
JPMorgan disclosed that it is still responding to investigations into the debacle by government authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The losing derivatives positions were disclosed by JPMorgan on May 10, more than a month after reports surfaced in the credit markets that Bruno Iksil, a London-based trader for JPMorgan known as the London Whale, had made massive bets in credit markets.
The approved plan provides for JPMorgan to continue paying its current quarterly dividend on common stock, the filing said.
JPMorgan spent $9-billion in 2011 to buy back its shares. It was on track to spend as much as $12-billion this year until the derivatives losses surfaced.
CEO Jamie Dimon told investors on May 21 the bank had suspended repurchases of its stock to rebuild its capital and meet higher requirements for financial safety.
Under restrictions imposed after the financial crisis, JPMorgan and other big banks cannot buy back stock or increase their dividends without approval from the Federal Reserve. Those restrictions came about because many banks paid out too much capital in 2007 and 2008 as the mortgage crisis widened, leaving them weaker when they were hit by big losses.
JPMorgan must submit another plan to the Federal Reserve, and get approval, to be able to continue using capital to buy back stock after next March. The newest approval suggests that JPMorgan will be allowed to spend at least $12-billion next year, analyst David George of Robert W. Baird & Co noted in a research report.
The current dividend, which is 30 cents a share, costs the company about $4.5-billion a year. If the company were to pay out that much in dividends and spend $12-billion buying its stock, the total return of capital to shareholders of $16.5-billion would amount to about 80 per cent of net income that analysts expect the company to earn in 2013.
The company did not provide an estimate of how much the settlements with the SEC over mortgage securities could cost.
One of the cases stems from disclosures by JPMorgan of delinquencies involving one mortgage-backed securitization. The other case is over multiple securitizations by Bear Stearns, the failed investment bank that JPMorgan took over in March 2008 in the financial crisis.
The company had disclosed in February that the SEC had said in January that it was considering whether to recommend taking action against the company for the two matters.
The company faces numerous other investigations and private lawsuits stemming from the financial crisis and from the Whale debacle.
In the filing Thursday, JPMorgan raised its estimate of how much litigation could cost the firm above its legal reserves to $6-billion from $5.3-billion disclosed three months ago.
The company also said it is "in the early stages" of counting the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy hitting the East Coast on Oct. 29. The bank has waived some checking account and loan fees for late payments.
The total financial cost of Sandy to the bank will depend in part on the losses its borrowers suffer after collecting insurance proceeds and government assistance, the filing said.

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Last night we had another softball game. This team was the most legit team we've played thus far simply based on their outfits. They had the nicest jerseys with their nicknames and actual NUMBERS on the back. Honestly, when I see stuff like this, I think to myself, someone has to work for a t-shirt making company or something. C'mon. Maybe that's my jealousy speaking, who knows.
Alas, we played well and WON! We won a game! Well this was the 2nd game that we won, but still, we were on a losing streak there for a while and now we are making a comeback. Though I was pretty nervous about softball when I started, it's actually really fun and I'm glad I jumped a little out of my comfort zone to try it out!
Running wise, I totally overslept this morning and am going to hit up the gym tonight after work. I am nervously anticipating my long run this weekend. I do have a fun dinner planned that night to motivate me to get it done though. Nothing like dangling a carrot in front of a horse right? I'm going for the same idea.
As for George,which I have gotten a few questions about how he is doing… He is doing great! He is adjusting well and still I am wondering when he will become a puppy and do all the horrible things they do. Knock on wood, he hasn't chewed on anything in the house, hasn't had any accidents, sleeps in his crate every night, and isn't TOO hyper. I do need to walk him a bit more, but he does have a huge backyard to run around in all day long. He now weighs 13 pounds, and to B's dismay, hasn't grown in quite some time. So it looks like he is staying this size! He is SUCH a baby though, he loves being held, which I like :) and loves to snuggle and be under blankets and close to us at all times. Him and B together, GAH. Such little goons together I swear. I always come home to them like snuggling in places where I don't let George go! We are going to get George a doghouse for Christmas. I hope he is excited for it. HAHA! But overall, super glad he is in our little family and a great addition.
Here's a text from B the other day. Yes, his name in my phone is Baby B and yes there is a bird after his name.
And yes, they both snuggle together all the time… So much for him not wanting a dog.
He sends his love! :)
So tonight I have the gym and tomorrow a 3 miler and then the daunting 8 miler maybe a 10 miler if I'm lucky on Saturday!
I also have a few reviews coming up… And you know maybe a Holiday giveaway coming up too!


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The winter storm system moving across the Carolinas today is bringing all three types of precipitation -- snow, sleet and freezing rain.
We won't have to worry much about snow, as a "nose" of warm air several thousand feet up in the atmosphere is melting the precipitation as it falls. Some of that is refreezing into sleet, and some is reaching the ground as rain -- then freezing.
Anyways, since we're seeing a little of everything this morning, here's a quick primer on how it forms. And I'm including my two cents' worth on what's worse ...
This requires cold air in all levels of the atmosphere. The only areas seeing snow today are in the northwest mountains, because the "warm nose" (I'll explain this later) isn't expected to reach as far north as the Boone area.
Power outage impact: Usually none, unless the snow is very heavy.
Road impact: Considerable, although crews usually can manage snow with plows and salt.
For sleet to fall, we need a relatively thin column of warm air in the middle levels of the atmosphere. Precipitation starts falling as snow, melts on its way down and forms rain droplets, then freezes back into ice pellets as it moves within a few thousand feet of the surface.
Power outage impact: None.
Road impact: Intense. Sleet causes big problems on the roads, as it tends to melt when reaching the surface and then freezes immediately. Also, sleet tends to fall when precipitation is heavier. The overwhelming volume of sleet causes pockets of frozen pebbles to form on roads.
For freezing rain to fall, we need cold air at the upper levels, and then relatively warmer air all the way to the ground. But the surface levels have to be at or below freezing.
Power outage impact: If ice accumulates 1/4 of an inch, tree limbs can fall onto power lines, and we have trouble. When ice accumulates to 1/2 inch or more, there can be widespread problems. Accumulations in the Charlotte area from today's system are only predicted to be 1/10 of an inch.
Road impact: Often, the main travel lanes on major roads remain in pretty good shape during freezing rain. Ice tends to form on the curbs -- and, of course, on bridges and overpasses, where the road surface is colder. Sidewalks are especially dangerous. One other thing -- downhill sections of roads tend to get ice, too. I'm sure there some explanation for this, but you'd have to ask a Physics teacher.
Friday, January 25, 2013
What's worse ... sleet or freezing rain?
The winter storm system moving across the Carolinas today is bringing all three types of precipitation -- snow, sleet and freezing rain.
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- Yes We Can..and Will Do More said...
Thank you for these definitions! Very helpful. All of these come from global warming according to Al Gore, who has selflessly dedicated his life to making us aware. He should have been president in 2000.
- January 25, 2013 at 8:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
"...it tends to melt when reaching the surface and then freezes immediately"
This doesn't make much sense. How can it melt when it hits the surface but "immediately" freeze?
- January 25, 2013 at 10:33 AM
- A. Cook said...
Remember the liberal handbook requires the use of Global Warming in warm months and Climate Change in winter. Remember, Professor Curry, a former US National Research Council Climate Research Committee member and the author of more than 190 peer-reviewed papers said we should, "communicate honestly with the public about what we know and what we don't know about climate change. Take a lesson from other scientists who acknowledge the "pause".'
In addition, the Met Office and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University now confirms on its climate blog that no significant warming has occurred recently, (the past 16 years).
So if we use the term climate change when cold, and global worming when hot, we can have a greater chance to enact some of Al Gore's ideas, like carbon credits, which will help to raise utility rates, and limit the U.S ability to use its own natural resources, while helping a group Al Gore feels greatly matches his own views. The oil rich country of Qatar's government owned and controlled Al Jazeera.
- January 25, 2013 at 10:38 AM
- Yes We Can! said...
Al Gore has done a lot of legwork in getting the news out. Perhaps no one, not even Obama, has done more to advance progress and inform the public of what is best for them in the past decade than Gore.
In an age of few great men, Al Gore should be embraced as a visionary, one who can make a difference, and make us all aware of what should really matter.
- January 25, 2013 at 11:26 AM
- Anonymous said...
You know, I think it is sad, and a little pathetic, that a simple little article about winter weather - which had NOTHING political in or about it - needed to be seen as an excuse by some people to make political commentary about climate change.
Poor Steve must be thinking, "Gee. I was just trying to be helpful and a little bit funny on a bad weather day. Now, I wish I'd never written the damn thing."
- January 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM
- Yes We Can! said...
The fate of our future is more urgent that Steve's forecast, even though he does a good job. The most important thing is that we are aware of what will soon happen to our planet due to global warming. Sleet and snow is small beans compared to the loss of millions of lives in the coming decades when the sea rises. We only need to feel a sense of urgency about it, that is all.
- January 25, 2013 at 6:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
How can it melt and then immediately refreeze? One possible explanation is that the melting point is dependent on temperature AND pressure.
For instance, when you are ice skating, the ice immediately underneath your skate blades are under high pressure, and the ice melts. Once you skate past, it refreezes. This is how you can slide easily with ice skates and you can't when you go on the rink wearing shoes.
What hapens to sleet is: at the moment of impact with the ground, the particle of sleet gets squeezed together. Thus it is under high pressure and it melts. Once the impact energy is dissipated, the water refreezes.
Now, some sleet particles "bounce". When they bounce, they don't refreeze. The term for when something bounces is called an "elastic collision"; when something hits and sticks, it is an "inelastic collision". Elastic collisions are "conservative" - all the kinetic energy remains in the particle and it bounces back with the same velocity that it had when it first hit, but in the opposite direction. So the particle is not forced to "squeeze" itself as it would if it hit and stuck - so the internal pressure doesn't get high enough to cause it to spontaneously melt.
In the real world, there are no "true" elastic collisions, they are all "partially inelastic". The difference between a sleet particle that melts and one that does not is how "inelastic" that particular collision turned out to be, and whether it raised the internal pressure enough to cause it to melt. This is dependent on many factors, so it's difficult to predict whether a particular storm will produce sleet that turns into ice on impact or sleet that bounces and doesn't. In fact, both can be happening - some sleet can bounce while others melt.
- January 25, 2013 at 6:51 PM
- The Queen of MCB said...
Bottom line: Stay Home
- January 26, 2013 at 8:26 AM
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Albin Kurti is leader of the Vetevendosje (self-determination) movement. During the 1990s he was a student activist involved in organising demonstrations against the Milosevic regime. He worked with Adem Demaci, the spokesperson of the Kosovo Liberation Army. During the NATO bombardment he was arrested and when Serb forces withdrew from Kosovo after 10 June 1999 he was one of 2,000 Kosovo Albanian prisoners who were transferred to Serbia. First sentenced to 15 years in jail he was later pardoned and released in December 2001.
Upon his return Kurti directed his anger at UNMIK, which he saw as a neo-colonial structure with unlimited powers. Organising demonstrations, Vetevendosja became more visible as the final status negotiations process began. On 10 February 2007 "Vetevendosje" organized a big rally to protest against plans for "supervised independence". 3,000 demonstrators, mostly young people, took to the street. At one moment, the crowd attempted to get to the government building and the Parliament where 500 policemen and international guards confronted them. The police fired teargas and shot rubber-bullets into the crowd. 70 people were injured, four seriously wounded and two died in hospital the next day.
Following this the Kosovo Minister of Interior Fatmir Rexhepi resigned, as did the head of the international UNMIK Police, Stephen Curtis. A special UN investigation found evidence of excessive use of force and noted the unauthorised use of rubber bullets. In the meantime, however, the Romanian special police officers suspected to be responsible had been sent back to Romania.
This incident triggered great nervousness among UNMIK as well as the Kosovo political elite, which feared that such protests would jeopardise the ongoing status negotiations. To silence Vetevendosja and Albin Kurti, police raided Vetevendosje's headquarters and arrested him. Three months later, Kurti was released from prison but remained under house arrest until February 2008.
Albin remains a strong critic of the international mission:
"All local institutions are totally subordinated to UNMIK. However, without democracy, without freedom things cannot improve. In all the nine year that they have been in Kosovo these bureaucrats - both international and national - only thought of losing what they have, not of what they might gain. They worry how bad things could be, not how the situation might improve. … UNMIK has no positive arguments for its presence, but merely negative arguments what would happen in its absence.
And then you see these bureaucrats, on lunch break from the UN headquarters, with their laptops and mobile phones, as in the film "Matrix". Why are they all in Kosovo? Double income, a fast career, no responsibility, no one has to account for his decisions and, frankly, most of them are only mediocre in their own countries."
Vetëvendosje! Demonstration
Albin Kurti has repeatedly called for public protests against UNMIK:
"I hope there will be an uprising of people of Kosovo, but a peaceful and non-violent one, because if we are going to have a kind of violent uprising then UNMIK and KFOR and police they know really well what to do, because they are violent, so they are going to smash and blame the citizens and continue their rule. But it is peaceful non-violent demonstrations and uprising that they can not really handle."
He is also critical of the EU mission. In Pristina traffic lights bear stickers of Vetevendosja reading 'No to EUMIK':
"we don't want the European Union with all its bureaucracy in Kosovo, but Kosovo in the European Union … Kosovo remains a powder keg that maladministration, unemployment and poverty has nurtured. There is big disappointment with domestic and international politicians. It needs only a spark!"
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Easter messages include prayers for Boston Marathon
Across the USA, the faithful prayed on Easter Sunday for students lost in last week's South Korean ferry disaster, for President Obama and for a safe running of Monday's Boston Marathon, ravaged last year by a deadly bombing.
In New York City, Cardinal Timothy Dolan marked Easter by praying amid massive construction scaffolding. The city's Roman Catholic archbishop celebrated Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, where restoration work surrounds the altar as part of a $175 million project to fix cracks and clean walls darkened by decades of soot and pollution.
Dolan prayed for the young people who died in the South Korean ship sinking and for two children who perished in a fire late Saturday night in Queens, N.Y.
MORE:Pope calls for world peace
In Boston, where city officials tightened security for Monday's marathon, churches commemorated the victims of last year's bombing. Old South Church held its traditional Blessing of the Athletes, The Boston Globe reported. The congregation calls it a way to "pray down God's blessings on the athletes" and keep them safe from harm.
Nearby, Trinity Church hung prayer flags made from pieces of cloth covered with handwritten prayers and "peace blessings."
In Washington, President Obama and the first family joined about 250 people at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Churchgoers rose and applauded as the Rev. Derrick Harkins announced the Obamas' presence, according to a pool report.
Harkins urged everyone to join in prayer and offered thanks to God for providing comfort to those in need, including the sick and struggling. He asked that God give Obama "every measure of encouragement" and "wisdom" and "tend to his spirit" under the weight of criticism.
Afterward, congregation members moved toward the Obamas, snapping pictures and trying to get close to the family. Obama high-fived a baby boy and hugged and kissed women. First lady Michelle Obama blew kisses.
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Bob and Melissa Marriott have been advised by the New Hampshire Attorney General's office that an indictment has been returned against Seth Mazzaglia for the murder of their daughter Lizzi. The indictment will be made public as of 8:00 a.m. today. It is the Marriott's understanding that the indictment will likely, in short order, trigger the public release of arrest warrants and affidavits generated during the investigation that primarily contain statements made by Mr. Mazzaglia.
Editor's note: The parents of slain University of New Hampshire sophomore Elizabeth Marriott issued the following statement through their attorney on Tuesday, April 23.
Bob and Melissa Marriott have been advised by the New Hampshire Attorney General's office that an indictment has been returned against Seth Mazzaglia for the murder of their daughter Lizzi. The indictment will be made public as of 8:00 a.m. today. It is the Marriott's understanding that the indictment will likely, in short order, trigger the public release of arrest warrants and affidavits generated during the investigation that primarily contain statements made by Mr. Mazzaglia.
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The Marriott family is satisfied with the indictment. The past several months have been very difficult for the Marriott family and the next several days will be very trying. The criminal case is expected to last for quite some time but the Marriott family is resolute in its demand for justice for Lizzi as well as its defense of Lizzi's life and legacy.
The Marriott family is extremely appreciative of the NH Attorney General's office, Dover Police, NH State Police, NH Marine Patrol, NH Fish and Game, FBI and numerous other organizations for the hard work they have put into this investigation. The Marriott family appreciates the ongoing prayers and best wishes for their family as they continue to mourn the loss of Lizzi. Finally, The Marriot family also appreciates the gifts of those who have perpetuated Lizzi's legacy and love for the environment by giving to the Lizzi Marriott Intrepid Explorer Trust Fund.
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It is the Marriott's understanding that the arrest warrants and affidavits may contain statements from Mr. Mazzaglia and others that are, in essence, reprehensible, salacious and intentionally designed to suggest that Lizzi's murder was the accidental consequence of a bizarre, abnormal consensual act. The statements are a complete fabrication and are more indicative of Mr. Mazzaglia's twisted sense of reality and responsibility as opposed to Lizzi's character and the life she led for 19 years. In short, the statements of Mr. Mazzaglia are at odds with many of the allegations in the indictment and should be viewed with extreme skepticism.
It is a common criminal defense tactic, as old as Mount Washington itself, to blame the victim. In the instant matter, Mr. Mazzaglia had several days from the time he murdered Lizzi to concoct a new reality tactically designed to assist him in his failed efforts to avoid an indictment for first degree murder. Not content with murdering Lizzi, Mr. Mazzaglia now seeks to assault Lizzi's reputation and legacy in order to possibly spare himself a life sentence. His effort is as predictable as it is reprehensible and should be given no serious consideration. Mr. Mazzaglia fully appreciates that Lizzi is unable to personally defend herself against the hateful fiction he has authored.
Common sense suggests that if one or two individuals accidentally injure another in a consensual act, the uninjured parties will immediately seek to assist the [injured] party or call 911. The fact that the defendants did neither in the instant matter is more indicative of a lack of consent by Lizzi concerning the circumstances of her death.
The conduct of the defendants following Lizzi's death strongly supports the conclusion that Lizzi never agreed to participate in high risk behavior with the defendants. To wit: Lizzi's body would have provided valuable forensic information to law enforcement officials. If Lizzi's death was truly accidental, it defies common sense, and the smallest speck of human decency, that Mr. Mazzaglia would then place her body in the Piscataqua River with the intent that it never be recovered. Mr. Mazzaglia's conduct is far more indicative of a first degree murder and a desire to defy law enforcement the chance to produce evidence that would have further corroborated such a charge.
Lizzi was a proud New Hampshire resident and UNH Wildcat. She was enthused by her college choice and the life of possibility before her. She was secure in her life experience with a loving family and remarkable friendships in Massachusetts and New Hampshire all of which shaped her character and truly defined her. She was an incredibly kind and caring individual. What Mr. Mazzaglia, or any other, may suggest allegedly took place for a few minutes in a Dover apartment completely defies the reality of the 19 years of Lizzi's life as best attested to by her family, friends and community. Going forward, the Marriott family refuses to further dignify Mr. Mazzaglia's fabrication and continued assault on Lizzi's legacy.


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Preparing for a birthday? If you are done with the decoration, and you still feel something is missing then maybe you to need to make it more vibrant with birthday stickers.
Well, what would you do with birthday stickers?
· You can complete the decorations with putting up the stickers up on the wall where you feel there are empty slots.
· You can seal off goody bags with the birthday stickers which are a form of return gift for your friends.
· In Classroom a teacher can use these to make them feel special.
· More important if you are planning on making a birthday card for your friend or anyone related to you, you may use these stickers as a decorative element in the card.
· One can use these stickers on invitation cards to send out invitations too.
What comes in the birthday stickers?
These birthday stickers are of varying sizes and are in the form of the party hat, balloons, cake, cupcakes, candles, party poppers, other decorative items, wrapped gifts, Happy Birthday stickers. These stickers are very colorful.
You can get it online at a minimal rate depending on the kind of sticker you want. You can get huge happy birthday stickers to stick on the wall as a decoration or little smaller once as a decoration to cover up left spaces. Small stickers are used to make cards. These stickers are in the form of a roll.
Well, Facebook has created its birthday stickers which one can use to post happy birthday on their friend`s wall or to make a birthday video for their friend. You can also download stickers to make videos.
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Although the flight manifest listed no ammunition, bombs, or rockets, and the co-pilot later told officials that no bombs were carried on Felon 22, the fears have never really gone away.
The Air Force didn't make matters any better when they arrived on scene several hours after the crash and secured it against local law enforcement and bystanders.
The Air Force didn't say anything one way or the other, so their secrecy was interpreted as validation that they were looking for nuclear weapons. It was taken as proof that danger lurked in the crash area.
Revisiting the crash story 30 years later, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Jon Ure stated that Felon 22 "was carrying four hydrogen bombs when it crashed" on January 19, 1961, but gave no source for that information.
Ure went on to write that a Pentagon report listed the crash "among 29 documented nuclear accidents that have occurred since 1950."
The subject report was prepared in 1991 for the Environmental Protection Agency and released as a draft. Skoblar and Weston, authors of the report, listed about 45,000 locations where radioactivity might be contaminating buildings, soil, water or other resources.
One category of potential contamination was accidents involving nuclear weapons carriers, such as rocket launchers, bombers, and missiles. That list included the wreck of Felon 22.
About the time that concerns over the Felon 22 accident were quieting, the Department of Energy wrote a letter to Jay Palmer, a Monticello native whose family owned a ranch in Peters Canyon on which some of the crash debris had landed.
The September 8, 1995 letter was specifically looking for scrap metal, salvaged equipment and materials, mill tailings, fencing and other items that were once located at the uranium mill in Monticello. It was a form letter sent to many property owners in the Monticello vicinity as part of the mill site remediation project.
Two coincidences converged at this time to raise Jay Palmer's level of concern over the DOE's inquiry. One was a newspaper article reporting that many workers who had helped clean up a B-52 crash on Greenland were now dying of radiation sickness.
The three hydrogen bombs on that plane had ruptured, spreading radioactivity over the debris and on the snow. The workers had not been protected against it, and now they were paying the price.
The other coincidence was an experimental process to clean up plutonium 239, the trigger in nuclear weapons.
Developed by Palmer and his colleagues at the University of South Florida, it heightened Palmer's awareness of radiation dangers, and he made several inquiries about his family's property in Peters Canyon.
In reply to letters sent by Jay Palmer, the DOE said they had no records of the B-52 crash. The Pentagon replied that the B-52 did not carry any H-bombs.
The Air Force Safety Agency supplied a redacted (censored) copy of the crash report after Palmer filed a Freedom of Information Act request. The list of witnesses who were interviewed and their statements were withheld, as were the findings of the investigators and the health reports on the victims of the crash.
The explanation for not including this information was that it "would jeopardize a significant government interest by inhibiting its ability to conduct future safety investigations of Air Force aircraft mishaps. Disclosure of this information would be contrary to the promises of confidentiality extended to witnesses and investigators."
The safety agency reiterated that Felon 22 did not carry any hydrogen bombs. In spite of such assurances, talk of a missing bomb and its radioactivity persist.
Had the Air Force been willing to explain why they excluded the county sheriff and rescue team from the crash site, perhaps the fears would have been laid to rest. But the interests of military security didn't include a democratic discussion of options.
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Some upfront planning and a handful of non-proprietary products can make disaster recovery a whole lot easier.
A while back, I found myself giving a dinner presentation on disaster recovery (DR) and data protection to an enthusiastic (and apparently quite hungry) group of IT operatives at a steakhouse in Calgary, Alberta. The event was sponsored by a vendor keen to promote its latest wares for disk/tape storage and ancillary processes like replication, mirroring, backup and archive. My presentation was the "hook" intended to pull folks in so the sponsor could follow up with a brief commercial advertisement.
Typical of these events, there was the "meet and greet" as attendees arrived before everyone was seated for dinner. Then I was introduced, the old PowerPoint machine was fired up and we were off on a journey into the world of business continuity (BC) planning -- a subject that can only be enhanced by a medium rare filet mignon and a glass of wine.
To be honest, there isn't a lot of detailed content that can be communicated in just one hour, so I tried to state a few basic ideas. A key principle I hope got through over the din of cutlery clinking on porcelain was one that seemed to be a real eye-opener for the crowd, although it strikes me as somewhat obvious.
It's much easier, I argued, to build in storage resiliency when storage is conceptualized, planned and deployed than it is to bolt on protection afterwards. The advantages reveal themselves at many layers of the continuity planning process.
Continuity planning serves two masters, I offered. First, we strive to avoid preventable disasters by doing such things as monitoring and managing infrastructure. That way, we can spot burgeoning error conditions and resolve them before we're hit by an outage.
But infrastructure management is mostly nonexistent in the majority of organizations. With respect to storage in particular, management is too often an afterthought -- certainly not a key criterion most hardware guys list when purchasing a storage rig.
Some of the attendees smiled and nodded with implied agreement at this "insight," oblivious to the impact of the overdose of rich, fat-laden, charred-flesh-of-cloven-hoofed-mammal they were forking into their mouths. Strangely, my thoughts turned to their spiking cholesterol levels, portending higher blood pressures, expanding equators and Type II diabetes down the road.
In addition to doing something about disaster prevention, I continued, continuity planning aims to develop strategies for coping with disasters we can't prevent. This is where data protection comes in. Because data can't be replaced, it must be made redundant as a safeguard against corruption or loss, whether caused by user error, application faults, malware and viruses, equipment malfunctions and so on.
This idea was washed down with gulps from wine glasses accompanied by more smiles of familiarity and agreement. I flashed momentarily on the effects the alcohol might have on them.
Moving forward, I said that a bit of consideration at the time of infrastructure planning regarding how data would be protected could make all the difference between a smooth recovery or lots of delays and disappointments and, well, disasters. Hardware lock-ins, which are created when relying on proprietary on-hardware snapshot, mirroring and replication technologies purchased with the storage rigs themselves, are problematic over time. For the functionality to work at all, you usually need to buy two copies of the rig from the vendor: one for the primary site and another for your recovery facility. These specialized pairings get in the way of coherent data protection and recovery, especially as data storage infrastructure grows more heterogeneous.
The good news, I offered, is that software-based storage virtualization can help to alleviate this problem by enabling delivery of protection services such as continuous data protection (CDP), snapshot, mirroring and replication services on a cross-platform basis -- irrespective of hardware brand. Preventing hardware lock-ins from the outset is key to making disaster recovery efficient. A good storage virtualization approach can provide a more unified way to deliver the right data protection services to the right data at the lowest possible cost.
Some confused looks came my way as the attendees slathered butter and salty sauces onto their potatoes and vegetable. After all, they spent big dollars on storage rigs precisely for the data protection benefits touted by their vendors. Was I saying that all this extra cost was unnecessary?
These concerned expressions deepened as I offered another quick caveat: Not all storage virtualization software is the same. When VMware adds a storage hypervisor microkernel to its stack later this year, in all likelihood it won't deliver the finely tuned service resiliency and platform agnosticism of more tenured storage hypervisors already in the market. Instead, for the VMware stuff to work, you would need to have all servers running the VMware hypervisor, which is essentially the same dog you get from buying single vendor lock-in hardware, but with a different set of fleas.
Citing examples, I explained that the complexity of recovery is made worse by the proliferation of data protection service lock-ins. If you think it through from the start -- when building infrastructure itself -- you can create a rich, built-in, hardware-agnostic, data protection-enabled infrastructure that will cost a lot less than bolting on various mirrors, replicators, clusters and backup processes after the fact.
My time was up, aperitifs and gooey chocolate cake was served, and the sponsor took the stage Yes, the right way to build disaster-proof infrastructure might be the approach that Toigo spelled out (the sponsor noted), but for the rest of us, the affinity for a particular vendor's gear, pre-integrated with the functionality you need, is often simply the more preferable way to buy storage gear. Rather like buying a prepared dinner at a nice restaurant instead of cooking a healthy meal yourself featuring judicious limits on fat, starch, sugar, salt and other ingredients.
We opt to exercise afterwards rather than designing a healthier diet up front. So it goes.
BIO: Jon William Toigo is a 30-year IT veteran, CEO and managing principal of Toigo Partners International, and chairman of the Data Management Institute.
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Error C00D124D occurs when you use the Zune software
Note As of November 15, 2015, the Zune service has been discontinued. This may cause errors when attempting to stream or download content or update the service. For more information, see the Zune retirement FAQ.
You see the following error code when using the Zune software with your computer and a connected device, such as a Windows Phone 7 or a Zune player:
This may mean that your computer doesn't recognize the connected device.
To resolve this problem, try the following solutions.
Solution 1: Disconnect the device and then restart
Disconnect the device from your computer, and then restart your device and your computer.
- To restart your Windows Phone 7
Press and hold the Power button until you see "Slide down to power off," and then flick down. After it's off, press the Power button to turn on your phone again.
If this restart sequence doesn't work for your phone, try the following options:
- Press and hold the Power button for 10 seconds. After it's off, press the Power button to turn on your phone again.
- If your phone has a replaceable battery, remove and reinsert the battery, which is located under your phone's back panel. Then, press the Power button to turn on your phone again.
- To restart your Zune HD player
Press and hold the power button for about 10 seconds until the player restarts.
- To restart your non-touchscreen Zune
- Set the Hold switch to the unlocked position.
Note To make sure that the Hold switch is in the unlocked position, you may have to move the switch back and forth until it's in the correct position.
- Press and hold the Back button while you press the top of the Zune Pad.
- Release the buttons when your Zune device begins to restart.
- Set the Hold switch to the unlocked position.
Reconnect your device to the computer using the USB cable that came with your device, and then try syncing your media again.
To see if your items synced, go to the Phone or Device screen. Then, click Summary or the device icon to confirm that the items were added.
Solution 2: Try the "Computer doesn't recognize your device on the Zune software" solution
To try a step-by-step solution, go to Computer doesn't recognize your device on the Zune software .
Solution 3: Reinstall the Zune software
To do this, see Download or reinstall the Zune Music + Video software and Zune player software.
Solution 4: Update the device driver for your Windows Phone 7
Connect your device to your computer using the USB cord that came with the device, and then follow these steps on your computer:
- Click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Properties.
Note If you're using Windows 8: From the Start screen, start typing "computer." When it appears on your screen, right-click or swipe the Computer icon, and then click Properties.
- Click Device Manager in the left column.
- A window will appear with the name of your computer and a list of files. If you don't see the files, click the arrow next to the name of your computer to see the list. The name of your Windows Phone should be listed under Portable Devices. If Windows Phone was incorrectly installed, it may be listed with a yellow exclamation mark. Or, it may be listed under Other Devices as a USB device or as an unknown device.
- Right-click or swipe the name of your phone, and then click Uninstall.
- Select Delete the driver software for this device, and then click OK.
- Return to the Device Manager window, click the Action menu, and then click Scan for hardware changes.
- Open Portable Devices, double-click or swipe the name of your Windows Phone, and then click the Driver tab. Or, if you don't see your phone name, click Unknown device listed under Other Devices, and then click the Driver tab.
- Click Update Driver, and then click Browse my computer for driver software.
- Click Browse, locate the Program Files/Zune/Drivers folder on your computer, and then click OK.
- Click Next, and if you're prompted, click Install. You might only be given a Close option.
- After the driver installation is complete, close the open windows until you exit the Device Manager, and then restart your computer if you're prompted.
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Adding Twitter
Website Builder v6 features a Twitter® app that lets you display tweets from your Twitter account or users you specify. You can also display tweet replies and mentions, and include hashtags and text selections in search terms.
Note: This article is for Website Builder version 6. Are you using Website Builder Version 7? If so, check out Adding apps.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- In your Products list click Website Builder, and then click Manage next to the account you want to use.
- Click Design Your Pages.
- If necessary, from the Page menu, select the page you want to modify.
- Click Social, and then drag and drop the Twitter icon over a Drop Zone. Drop Zones display on your Web pages when you hover over them.
- In the Title section, enter a name you want to display with the Twitter app.
- To display tweets from your account, select My tweets, and then do the following:
- Click Connect to Twitter.
- Enter the user name and password for your Twitter account.
- Click Authorize app.
- To display tweets directed at you, select Include @ replies.
- To display tweets forwarded to you, select Include retweets.
- To display tweets from users you follow, select Include followed users' tweets.
- To display tweets from a specific user, select Search public tweets, and then do the following
- In the Twitter usernames section, enter the names of the users whose tweets you want to display.
- To display tweets directed at the users you entered, select Include @ replies.
- To display tweets that include the names of users you entered, select Include mentions.
- To display tweets associated with particular hashtags or topics, enter those terms in the #Hashtags field.
- To display tweets associated with particular search terms, enter the search terms in the Search terms field.
- Go to the Color tab, and then select a color for your heading, the characters in your tweets, the background behind tweets, and the links your tweets display.
- Go to the Preview tab, and then review your Twitter app to make sure it displays correctly.
- Click OK.


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Baby Caravan is a Birth and Postpartum Doula group practice in NYC. Our birth doulas have experience with natural birth in hospital, birth centers, and at home. We support clients seeking epidural assistance and planned c-sections. Many of our doulas have a diverse professional background which may include massage therapy, yoga, hypnosis, RN, and more.
We offer private Childbirth Education, Newborn Care classes, and Preparing to Breastfeed classes right in the comfort of our client's homes. Additionally we specialize in daytime and overnight postpartum care, from the first few weeks through 3-4 months.


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Wasps are among the most fascinating creatures in the insect world. Their nests are incredible architectural achievements, which they often make by manufacturing their own paper out of leaves. Many of them live in vast hives, sometimes with multiple queens, while others are loner parasites who implant their eggs into other unwary insects.
In this interview, James M. Carpenter, curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, took a few minutes to tell us everything we ever wanted to know about Hymenoptera, and specifically the wasp.
This interview was conducted by Annalee Newitz, and directed and edited by Matt Toder. Many thanks to the AMNH. Be sure to watch for other videos in the ongoing Hardcore Science Interview series, and visit the AMNH to see their latest exhibitions.


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Question: What was the highlight of your summer?
Mason and Keegan Cardman
Mason Cardman, 4, and her sister, Keegan, 8, enjoyed spending time with their grandma and grandpa, Karen and Bill Cardman.
"We had tennis, golf and swimming lessons at the Longboat Key Club," Mason said.
Keegan added: "And we saw a turtle nest."
But, most of all, Mason loved, "swimming and the beach."
Jeanine Stebbins
"It was watching my 16-month-old son, Trey, continue to learn. In sign language he was always asking for 'more cookies,' and he did learn how to say 'thank you.' He attends The Learning Chest in Sarasota."
Tom Greeley
"Definitely the highlight of my summer was learning that I am going to become an uncle. My brother, Tim, and his wife, Lauren, are expecting their first baby, a girl, in January. I think they are going to name her Olivia."
Mollie Dutton
"The highlight of my summer was the same as it has been every summer since the late 1950s — spending time at our cottage on Walloon Lake in northern Michigan. It is a wonderful place to relax with family."
Alan Ackerman
"A lot of my friends went to Europe, China and world cruises, but I went to Hayes, Kansas, a little town in the middle of nowhere. I visited an old friend, Chap Rackaway, who is a professor at the university there. It was hotter than blazes and, fortunately, I only stayed three days."
Paulus Egers
"I read a few more books, relaxed a bit, but, really, my summer or vacation time is here on Longboat Key. I am an interior architect from the Netherlands, and each year I visit and stay at our family condo. I am looking forward to a month here."
Question: What was the highlight of your summer?


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With his success as a firefighter, and the large emptiness of his mansion, Samson starts feeling lonely. By coincidence, he falls for his maid, Jacklyn Ratliff, who presently moves in. (She accepted, despite Samson's insistence that he install a pole in the bedroom; good thing she waited to see what exactly he was talking about.) By becoming a playable character, she can no longer be a maid… but she does have interest in rooting through people's homes and personal lives. What better career for someone who's nosy than to be a detective?
After setting up her outfits and a quick trip to the salon for a tramp stamp, Jacklyn heads over to the police station, which now has a new "Join Investigative Career" interaction. Just like that, she's a card-carrying detective, ready to work some cases.
Being a detective is odd in that there are no work hours: Jacklyn can opt to do no cases for a week, or as many as she can cram in. She draws a weekly stipend like Samson, and also will get cash from successfully completing cases.
Accepting a Case[edit]
Jacklyn is so pumped about having her new career that she wants a case right away. She drives home, buys a computer, and uses the "Investigator… | Search for Investigator Case" interaction. This is the more proactive method: she could also just hang out at home and wait for a phone call. Like I said though, Jacklyn is eager, and wants to find something right away. She gets a popup box explaining the case, and accepts it immediately.
Above Jacklyn's moodlet display is a popup with a button explaining what to do next, sort of like when you do quests while traveling abroad (or, more accurately, like the revamped Opportunity system). I merely click the button that says "Interview," and Jacklyn automatically jumps in her car to drive over and see what the problem is with her client. Apparently, her client had his computer hacked, and lost some files. Seems like turnabout is fair play here.
Jacklyn heads home and gets back on her computer. She selects the special "Hack Paulo's Computer" command. There is no interaction here: Jacklyn pecks away at her keyboard, and after a couple hours, she manages to hack the hacker and retrieve the files. The next part of her quest is to turn in her findings back to her client.
Now, the open hours of the job really pays off here. It's late evening and she hasn't spent any time with Samson, not to mention she's hungry. There are no time limits for the next step here, so she stops working and just has a nice dinner with her boyfriend. It's the next day, while Samson runs over to the firehouse for a few hours, when Jacklyn actually goes over there to turn in her case findings.
Legalized Stalking[edit]
Jacklyn picks up some cash and job experience, and is now free to do something else. Though she could take another case, she decides to do a stakeout, which also helps add to her job experience. This one is pretty simple: she just goes to a lot, then interacts with any part of the ground on the lot. Rather than just a "Go Here" command, she, being a detective, gets a special "Stakeout" command. After selecting it, Jacklyn sets up shop and just watches.
…Oh yeah, that's not obvious at all. Anyway, she has to hold the stakeout position for several hours, doing literally nothing else. Al Guerra—our player-controlled mummy from our World Adventures guide, you may recall—comes along and actually breaks the stakeout because she's shocked to see a mummy. I don't really blame her, but I am annoyed that this resets the stakeout clock. I do the order again, and sit back to watch her make a fool of herself for a couple hours. After that, she breaks the action automatically, and I am alerted that she can now write a report about it. (Getting the wish to do doesn't hurt either.)
However, we need to point something out here: even though she has a wish to write a stakeout report, the option is nowhere to be found! The reason is because the stakeout didn't amount to anything, as told by the message center. Sometimes, stakeouts don't actually turn up anything noteworthy, and in that case, it's essentially just a giant waste of time. If there had been something to write about, Jacklyn would have gone to the computer and picked the "Investigator… | Write Stakeout Report" command. As it is, with nothing more to do, Jacklyn works on her logic a bit until a call comes in for a new case.
Complex Cases[edit]
Her next case is a bit more complicated, as she is tasked to get some dirt on another Sim that her client wants discredited. Specifically, Jacklyn is to sift through the garbage can and mailbox of the target. This time, there is no button to go to the target, so we need to find them. The target in this case is Amie Landgraab, and unfortunately, Jacklyn doesn't know her personally, so her tag location won't show up on Map View. However, I could go to Edit Town mode long enough to find her… but we all know where the Landgraab Mansion is, don't we? Especially with the "See Location" button on the quest box that pops up.
Well, geez, that's one way to do it: Jacklyn can easily break in and get some evidence. Still, she's only supposed to check out the trash and mail… but then, she's also got the Kleptomaniac trait, doesn't she? Ah, decisions, decisions… well, I'm writing the guide here, and we don't have time to waste. Your mileage, of course, might be a little different.
Anyway, Jacklyn shows up, and the game helpfully shows me that this is, indeed, the correct place: a giant magnifying glass is at the base of the mailbox, and (off-camera) at the base of the trash can as well. Can't get more obvious than this…
After searching through both the trash and mail, Jacklyn not only fins what Al Guerra wanted her to find, but she finds additional dirt that she can use to blackmail Amie for some cash. Jacklyn is a Klepto, as we know, and has no scruples, so she goes ahead and does the blackmail, and then also turns in the case. She's double-dipping into success, and making a tidy profit off it to boot!
…Or tries to anyway. Turns out, Amie isn't keen on paying up, and Jacklyn can't really force her. This has to do partly with her low career level, and partly with her low Logic level. She'll get there eventually. Right now though, it's best to just turn in the case and get some job experience!
Jacklyn collects a service award from City Hall for her efforts. After that, she notices that there are a few hours left in the day before evening falls. Jacklyn decides to get a little extra bit of boost by going to the police station. Though she is a private detective rather than a government-paid cop, she can still do low-level police work in the police station for some extra experience and cash. Doing this is like having a conventional job for her: she just goes into the building and disappears until I pull her out. In this case, I leave her in for awhile with the job strategy "Meet Cops"… might be good to have some of the boys in blue on her side later on down the road.
After a few more days and cases, she gets one where she has to question some random Sims around town. Unless the case requires a specific Sim to be interviewed, you can get through the objectives by interviewing anyone, other than people who live in the detective's lot. That means Jacklyn won't get any information out of Samson, but she just runs over to the nearest community lot and starts randomly asking everyone around her questions. The nice thing is that she doesn't even need to know the Sim she's questioning: as long as the Sim actually lives there—that is, he's not a tourist—then he'll answer Jacklyn's question. She asks her questions, and none of the Sims know anything… but it doesn't matter. She asked three different Sims, and was able to turn in the case as complete.
The next case has Jacklyn snooping around the park for clues. Again, this is a simple command: just click the lot, and "Snoop For Clues" appears. Easy enough, right? Shortly thereafter, Jacklyn needs to get information out of a guy. She's got three fun options here...
Merely ask, bribe, or… what's this… assault? Oh hell yes! Jacklyn doesn't have time to waste and decides to throw down! She is lucky to win this fight: her Athletic skill is at level zero, and won because her opponent wasn't much better. This isn't the command to use if you're weak and your opponent can bench press his house. Bribing works just as fast too, of course, but you'll be coughing up some of your hard-earned household treasury to do so. Getting friendly takes the longest but is no-risk, and who knows, you might get a new friend out of it. Not that Jacklyn cares, of course. Roughing up informants is just part of the job, or so she says.
Things don't seem to be progressing very fast for Jacklyn, at least not compared to Samson's firefighting career. Looking over things… ah, her Logic is only up to Level 3. Time to work on that, using Samson's telescope. The thing with these interactive careers is, although there is no minimum of any given skill level to gain job experience, having as much of the skill as you possibly can will lead to the fastest promotions.
Here on out, it's pretty much the same thing, just repeated forever: pick up cases, solve them, and rise through the ranks! It's not very long before Jacklyn hits level 10 (especially once I start going all-out with her Logic skill), but it's still the same system for cases from start to finish.
Detective Q&A[edit]
I forgot whose house to visit to root through their stuff… and there's no button this time to go there! What do I do?[edit]
Simply open the Opportunities Panel in the main interface. Career "quests" so to speak are listed there, and you'll get all the details you need—such as whose house you need to visit—from that screen. Note that you still won't see what house it is exactly on the map, so unless you know your target personally—and therefore they are flagged a friend and can be seen with tags in Map View—you'll need to hunt around a bit. You can always go into Edit Town mode temporarily, find your target, then get back into the game and do what you need to do.
I'm supposed to ask other Sims questions. I found a Sim, but I don't see the command to ask them about the case. Where is it?[edit]
The command will not come up if you try interviewing Sims that live in the same house as the detective, and it won't come up if you try interacting with tourists. The command should come up in the main pie menu; that is, it's not under "Friendly…" or "Romantic…" or "Special…" or anything like that.
I did a stakeout, but when I go to the computer, I can't find the command to write a report about it. Where is the command?[edit]
After a stakeout is finished, you'll need to check the message center and see if anything actually resulted. If your Sim says something like, "That stakeout didn't amount to much," then there simply isn't anything to report, and therefore the command will not appear. Also, remember the stakeout command could break, such as if a fire starts nearby or the Sim gets surprised at something. If the stakeout does complete and the message says that something interesting happened, you'll find the command at the computer under "Investigator…"
I clicked the button for my Sim to go do something. It seemed that he stopped though after I gave the command… why did this happen?[edit]
It seems that when you stop focusing on the Sim, sometimes he forgets what he's doing. For example, say you click the button to go interview someone. Your Sim may arrive there, but then forget that he's supposed to interview the target, and just instead strikes up a friendly conversation. This consistently happens when you switch Sims that you're dealing with; that is, if you select a different family member while your detective is en route to the target. Just give the original command again, and everything should be fine.


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Holt Renfrew Calgary -Vancouver Architecture Photographer
Luxury is a slight understatement. I was really stoked to shoot the interior of Holt Renfrew's new flagship store in Calgary. This masterpiece designed by Janson Goldstein is said to have a $45 Million dollar price tag, definitely not an 'every day' interior shoot.
A shoot of this scale is a whole different ball game compared to the residential interiors that I blogged about last. In the last interior I could change the whole lighting in a room by adding a single skrim to bounce or block light. (A skrim is a large piece of white/black fabric suspended by a frame. Mine are 5×7 feet, made of PVC and nylon). Lighting is less controllable in a room ten times the size; you can only minor adjustments without considerable volumes of equipment. Composition also requires a whole new bag of tricks, even a fisheye with a 180 degree view angle won't capture the amount the human eye is seeing when you step back from the eyepiece. Working with extremely wide angles will start to develop very unnatural looking perspective when looking up or down, photoshop will help correct for these oddities, but pixels can only be stretched so far.
When shooting with a model, or subject the location is a setting or story for the subject's actions or existence to take place. However when shooting an interior the location is the story and the subject.
So what is a photographer to do? The location is lit, the building is built, the subject is already styled. Simply walk in with an expensive camera hanging around your neck? Go back to the basics; you've got a camera and you have control over it's function and composition.
I drop all my equipment; skrims, tripod, even camera and walk. I close one eye; making myself avoid the way depth will change the way I perceive the room. My viewer is going to see this room on one plane, looking at it with two eyes will present it much differently. I walk back and forth pacing to see how I can rearrange solid objects without touching them, cleaning the visual chaos into simple shapes and presentable objects. Explore space using depth with perspective, repeating objects and familiar objects. Balance and offset objects of different sizes and significance to keep the eye moving and entertained.
As I stood in Holt Renfrew long before your eyes would see the images I was playing Jedi mind tricks with you. I, and any other person who has a camera holds the power to control or even distort your perceptions of anything at all.
I am in control of your mind.


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Species In-Depth
At the Aquarium
We no longer have any pademelons on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Geographic Distribution
Lowland forests in areas of Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands
These mammals inhabit open grassland areas with adjacent forest cover.
Physical Characteristics
Dusky pademelons have fur that is soft, thick, and typically gray brown to chocolate brown on the upper side of the body with a dark cheek stripe extending from behind the eye to the corner of the mouth. Above this stripe is an area of white fur. The ventral or under side of the animal including the belly, is lighter in color than the dorsal or top side. They can have prominent hip stripes. Their tail is relatively short and thick, with a sparse covering of short hair. They have dark brown, silky-feeling feet and rounded ears. Females have a fold of abdominal skin that forms a fur lined pouch.
Head and body length is between 29 and 67 cm (11 and 26 in). The tail is 25-51 cm (10-20 in) long. Males weigh 11-18 kg (24-40 lb) and females, 5-9 kg (11-20 lb).
They forage in the undergrowth of the forest, feeding during the day on grass, leaves, shoots, and fruit. Under the cover of night, they graze in clearings and at the forest's edge, usually going only a short distance from the treeline.
Dusky pademelons reach sexual maturity at 14 to 15 months. They breed throughout the year. The male clucks softly to the female he has chosen to be his mate, producing a sound similar to that made by females when calling to their young. Fertilization is internal. The gestation period lasts for 30 days after which usually only a single, helpless, blind, and furless embryo, called a joey, is born. Immediately after birth, the joey crawls from the birth canal into the mother's pouch where it attaches to one of four teats. It will continue to live and develop from its immature state inside the pouch until it is about six months old, when it ventures outside. The joey returns to the pouch to suckle until it is weaned between 8 and 12 months.
Pademelons are typically solitary animals that socialize primarily for mating and occasionally while grazing in clearings. They travel large distances in search of food, moving through the forest from dawn to dusk, resting between mid-morning and mid-afternoon. After dusk, they move into grassy areas to graze. They make runways or tunnels through the forest undergrowth and grasses as they move to and from grazing sites.
Dusky pademelons have been described as inoffensive and curious, even allowing observers to approach them before moving away. They thump the ground with their hind feet like rabbits do in what is presumed to be a warning signal.
In adapting to their environment, pademelons developed short tails and compact bodies that provide them with added mobility in the thick undergrowth. When not resting or feeding, they can move quickly, hopping on their hind legs with their tail held out stiffly behind.
Dusky pademelons live about 10 years in protected environments. They are believed to live between five and six years in the wild.
It is believed that predation by non-native red foxes was the primary reason for the extinction of the dusky pademelon on mainland Australia. Natural predators of pademelons include feral cats, dingoes, Wedge-tailed Eagles, red foxes, the Tasmanian devil, and Spotted-tailed Quolls. Human activities that have impacted pademelon populations include roadkill; loss of natural habitats from clearing and fragmentation of forests for management, agricultural purposes, and urban development. Hunting them in grasslands and pastures where they are considered to be pests has also decreased the populations.
The IUCN Red List currently lists dusky pademelons as vulnerable; however, the data has not be evaluated since 1996. The Australian government is taking measures to protect its red-bellied, red-necked, and red-legged pademelon populations. Establishment of parks and nature reserves is playing an important role in conservation efforts and hunting of pademelons is now prohibited.


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This is the second installment of characters that I will be submitting from the new anime/manga Fairy Tail. Most of you fans out there are probably having some good fun with the tutorial I just submitted on Happy. Well, it's now time that you learn "how to draw Natsu, step by step". As I mentioned in the previous lesson, Natsu is the main male character of Fairy Tail. His full name is "Natsu Dragneel" and he is what you call somewhat of a pretty boy. His personality is described as being carefree, and reckless just like a true rebel, and he is also often seen nagging at other guild members. Like most boys, and young men, Natsu feels like he has to keep a competitive advantage over his teammates Gray Fullbuster, and Ezra Scarlet. It must be hard trying to stay inline when you have a teammate that is always busting your chops. That is how Natsu feels whenever Gray insults him. These actions will often lead to scuffles which then in turn to hostility for one and other for a short period of time. I have a feeling that as time goes on with the series and manga, these two will either be enemies or best friends. It always happens like that. The ones you hate turn out to be your best buds, and the ones you like turn out to be your enemies, or vise versa. Remember when I said that Natsu gets sick when he travels? Well this is a strong weakness of his. I mean he gets sick when he travels by trains, carriages, and even when someone carries him on their backs. The only means of transportation that he can handle is when Happy holds him in the air as he fly's using his Aera ability. Well I guess that is all I have to say about this Fairy Tail character because that is all I really know about him. As time goes on and more episodes and manga are written, Natsu will be sculptured into a very interesting and entertaining person. Until then all you can do is teach yourself "how to draw Natsu, step by step", and keep watching the anime series, and reading the manga. I will be back with another lesson on something that is Fairy Tail related. Peace, and happy drawing!
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by Scott Boyle
Can a Pioneer Day celebration get any better? Near-perfect weather, an ideal parade with so much candy the grandkids couldn't pick it all up, and a busy carnival at Veterans Memorial Park with all the wonderful shade.
There were engaging games, a rousing runners race, marvelous mudbogging, spellbinding softball, trecherous tractor pull, and even nocturnal golf. That, coupled with all the familiar faces from days of yore made for a lovely weekend. For the brand "Monacello" we ride!"
The annual Blue Mountain Pioneer Day 5K race turned out to be a high school cross country event, with 11 of the first 12 finishers being teenagers.
Only semi-old guy Walter Bird was able to interrupt the high school stream. Collin Hatch, a member of last year's state champion Buckaroo cross country team, was the overall winner of the race, followed closely by Jens Brewer, another Buck harrier, and two San Juan Bronco runners, Cole and Chase Chamberlain.
Next were three more Buckaroo runners, Everett Hatch, Kyler LaRose and Tyler Bird
Bailey Goodwine, another runner for MHS, was the overall winner of the women's race, with Wendy Ramsay second, followed by Cambria Welch and Dianna Nielson.
A total of 73 runners participated in the popular annual event, run by high school xc coach, Jeff Hunt.
SAA were the winners of the Blue Mountain Fastpitch tournament, besting the Pueblo Bandits late Saturday night.
The SAA team, led by former Monticellians, Ricky and Billy Manzanares, have won the tournament before and played some awesome softball.
The most dramatic game was a semi-final game against the Bandits, a pitcher's duel that saw the game go into the last inning with the score knotted at 0-0.
Neither team had even had a runner past second base the entire game until SAA homerun derby runner-up, Mr. Barnes, stepped up to the plate and blasted a solo walk off homerun to win the game.
Page Break, a regular at the tournament finished third place, followed by the Jason Workman Memorial Team in fourth. Northern Electric won the drop down tournament.
The softball tournament brought 14 teams to the fray, more than in recent years. Tournament chairman, Greg Westfall, was pleased with the tournament, as were all the new teams, from Pueblo and Fort Collins, Colorado. While here the teams checked out the famous Hideout golf course as well.
Players were delighted with the number of fans watching the games, saying that they usually play to about 15 fans, not the hundreds that viewed the tournament under wonderful conditions.
New this year was the Pioneer Day Nighttime Golf Tournament. The players played nine holes in daylight and the back nine in the dark. Well, not totally dark, as the course was lined with glo-sticks which lit the course enough for players to even use golf carts.
Players used glow in the dark golf balls that provided some fireworks type entertainment for the golfers.
Nine four man teams entered, with Team Young (Jon Young, Billy and McKade Maloy and Brad Young) posting the best best-ball score of 57.
Second went to team Wilcox (Brad and Ethan, Kelly Pehrson and Dave Moore), who rolled in with a 60.
Team Crane (Dennis and Sam, and Corbin Black) were third shooting a fine 63. Organizers hope this inaugural event becomes an annual affair.
We would report on the mud bog games, but we couldn't identify any of the winners.
Le Tour
I was right, Bradley aWigginza won le Tour de France, as I predicted, and Ernie Els won the British Open, as no one predicted. Next up in just a few days is the 2012 London Olympics.
Speaking of the Olympics, Sportshorts caught up with 2008 Beijing Olympian and adopted Monticellian, Lindsey Anderson.
Anderson is the happy mother of nine-month-old future runner Teyton Anderson. Teyton is the apple of her parent's eyes and has been the reason Lindsey stopped running for a year. She has been teaching at Morgan High School and coaching at Weber State.
Recently, Anderson resumed her training on a small scale, aiming for next year's world championships in Russia running her speciality, the steeplechase. Of special note was the announcement that the Anderson families will switch to an every other year camping event on Blue Mountain. Anderson and her husband were in attendance last year, but hopefully will be in Russia next summer.


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Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) today on the House floor, speaking about Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), a decorated former Marine:
Yesterday I stood at Arlington National Cemetery attending the funeral of a young marine in my district. He believed in what we were doing is the right thing and had the courage to lay his life on the line to do it. A few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp, Ohio Representative from the 88th district in the House of Representatives. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do. Danny and the rest of America and the world want the assurance from this body — that we will see this through.
Schmidt was later forced to return to the House floor and have her remarks stricken from the record. Despite having said the purpose of her "coward" statement was to "send Congressman Murtha a message," Schmidt claimed:
Mr. Speaker, my remarks were not directed to any member of the House and I did not intend to suggest they applied to any member, most especially the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania.


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As you lie on an exam table, a sonographer coats your belly with a slick -- and possibly cold -- gel. Next, he moves a transducer, a hand-held device shaped like a microphone, over your belly. You can see the resulting images on a nearby computer screen.
The transducer emits inaudible sound waves, which fan out as they travel through your abdomen. When they hit dense structures like the fetus and the wall of your uterus, the sound waves bounce back to the transducer and are translated into a visual image by the computer.
Don't get your hopes up too much about this first, fleeting look at your baby. The black-and-white image you see on the computer screen is grainy, shadowy, and may look more like a test pattern than a baby-to-be. Your sonographer will walk you through what you're seeing by pointing out the fetus' developing heart, limbs, and head.


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Celebrating 20 years of community-led development "The Apache Way"
- Projects
- People
- Community
- License
- Sponsors
This document describes how to publish Maven artifacts at Apache. We use an instance of Nexus Pro at http://repository.apache.org to maintain our Maven repository. This instance is configured to ensure that artifacts meet both the Apache Release requirements (FAQ) as well as the Central Repository requirements.
Note that this document describes how to release Maven artifacts. These are optional.
All Apache releases MUST be released via the ASF mirror system.
Important: It is recommended that those using Apache Maven version 2.2.x upgrade immediately and do not try and publish using this older version. See Apache Maven 3.0.5 release notes for a list of issues fixed and then go ahead and download Apache Maven 3.0.5 or later before proceeding further into this document.
The repository enforces security by constraining who can deploy or release a project's artifacts. This is done by mapping which artifacts (usually by GroupId) are produced by an Apache project. This is particularly helpful in preventing accidental releases of a project
Before a project can use the repository to release Maven artifacts, it must be configured in Nexus. This is generally a quick and easy process. To get setup, create a JIRA ticket here with the following information:
Project URL: a link to your project page.
SVN URL: where the source is located in case we need to lookup more information and to provide feedback on your pom.
Maven Group Ids: a list of the groupIds for this project. They should all be subgroups of org.apache
Managed By This TLP Project: if this is a subproject, list the TLP that is responsible. Subprojects usually don't have their own LDAP group, so we need the TLP LDAP group for permissions. Once this JIRA is filed, the following will happen:
Setup the project in Nexus: We will configure your groupIds in Nexus and link them to the appropriate LDAP group for Authorization
Move Existing Artifacts: In order to maintain the proper maven-metadata.xml files and to prevent rsync conflicts in Central, we must move all your artifacts to the new repository. We will move your artifacts from the old repository on people to the new repository and mark the folder in people as read-only to prevent accidental deployments.
Check POMs: We will quickly check your POM (if your project is Maven based) for any obvious problems. If you have specific questions or concerns, please call them out in the issue.
Other informations can be found here http://maven.apache.org/pom/asf/
The following information pertains to projects that build with Maven.
Inherit the Apache Parent POM like this: (it's a good idea to check you are using the latest version )
<parent> <groupId>org.apache</groupId> <artifactId>apache</artifactId> <version>10</version> </parent>This parent POM sets up the defaults for your <distributionManagement> section to use the correct release and snapshot repositories. Be sure to remove those from your POM so they inherit correctly. You will need to keep the entry for deploying your site (if you use Maven to deploy your site). If you do, we suggest you use apache.website as the id to better match the settings below and to save the sanity of committers working on multiple projects.
The POM also provides a default configuration that will ensure that a correct source archive is created for your project. Note: This is separate and in addition to the typical -sources.jar that are created.
Note: It is highly recommended to use Maven's password encryption
for your passwords.
Also there should be no need to store your signing key in settings.xml (i.e. please don't!).
The gpg plugin can either prompt for the key (input is masked) or you can configure it to use an agent.
<settings> ... <servers> <!-- To publish a snapshot of some part of Maven --> <server> <id>apache.snapshots.https</id> <username> <!-- YOUR APACHE LDAP USERNAME --> </username> <password> <!-- YOUR APACHE LDAP PASSWORD (encrypted) --> </password> </server> <!-- To stage a release of some part of Maven --> <server> <id>apache.releases.https</id> <username> <!-- YOUR APACHE LDAP USERNAME --> </username> <password> <!-- YOUR APACHE LDAP PASSWORD (encrypted) --> </password> </server> ... </servers> </settings>
Try installing locally artifacts with activation apache-release profile.
mvn clean install -Papache-release (this will build artifacts, sources and sign)
Make sure there are no dependencies on snapshots in the POMs to be released. However, the project you want to stage must be a SNAPSHOT version.
Check that your POMs will not lose content when they are rewritten during the release process:
Verify that all pom.xml files have an SCM definition.
Do a dryRun release: mvn release:prepare -DdryRun=true p.s. you may also wish to pass -DautoVersionSubmodules=true as this will save you time if your project is multi-moduled.
Diff the original file pom.xml with the one called pom.xml.tag to see if the license or any other info has been removed. This has been known to happen if the starting <project> tag is not on a single line. The only things that should be different between these files are the <version> and <scm> elements. Any other changes you must backport yourself to the original pom.xml file and commit before proceeding with the release.
mvn deploy ... [INFO] [deploy:deploy] [INFO] Retrieving previous build number from apache.snapshots.https ...If you experience an error during deployment like a HTTP 401 check your settings for the required server entries as outlined in the Maven Settings section above.
Note: Be sure that the generated artifacts respect the Apache release rules : NOTICE and LICENSE files should be present in the META-INF directory within the jar. For -sources artifacts, be sure that your POM does not use the maven-source-plugin:2.0.3 which is broken.
Note: You should verify the deployment under the Maven Snapshot repository at Apache.
mvn release:clean mvn release:prepareNote: Preparing the release will create the new tag in SVN, automatically checking in on your behalf.
Note: If you're located in Europe then release:prepare may fail with 'Unable to tag SCM' and ' svn: No such revision X '. Wait 10 seconds and run mvn release:prepare again.
mvn release:performThe release will automatically be inserted into a temporary staging repository for you. See the Nexus staging documentation for full details.
Now you must close the staging repository to indicate to Nexus that the build is done and to make the artifacts available. Follow the steps in Closing the Staged Repository to close your new repository, this will allow your community to VOTE on the staged atrifacts.
[INFO] Unable to tag SCM
Provider message:
The svn tag command failed.
Command output:
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: File
already exists
Then the resolution is to use a Subversion client 1.6+ and to run svn
If you get an error message similar to:
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE [INFO]Then the resolution is to delete the tag using:
[INFO] Unable to tag SCM Provider message: The svn tag command failed. Command output: svn: Path 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/tags/maven-eclipse-plugin-2.7' already exists
svn del -m "re-releasing build" {svn path}This likely occured because you're trying to restage the release and you didn't rollback the changes that created the previous tag. Either that or you're trying to release a version that already exists, in which case you need to adjust the versions in your POM and start over.
Usually your normal build process will already create the artifacts you want to publish (typically jars) but you may need to PGP-sign them the same way you sign your normal distribution artifacts. The jars are expected to follow the naming scheme artifactId - version.jar.
In addition you will need a minimal POM for your jar. If you are already
using Ivy, you can use the
makepom task to create one from your
, otherwise see the Apache Maven project's documentation for
and the Apache Compress Antlib's
for an example. If you are publishing multiple jars you may consider adding
a parent POM to encapsulate the common information; see the Maven
documentation, an example might be
Ant's parent
used for the several jars that make up an Ant release.
Users that use your project's jars from the Maven repository rather than using your "normal" distributions will likely want additional artifacts containing the source files or javadocs matching your jars in files named artifactId - version -sources.jar and artifactId - version -javadoc.jar respectively. Don't forget to sign those jars as well if you provide them.
If you are not already using Ivy in your project you'll need to create a
ivy.xml file for your project. The syntax is described in Ivy's
Since you will only use it to publish your artifacts, all you need to
provide are the organization , module and revision definitions and an
entry for each artifact you want to publish; see Ant's
for a minimal version.
organization and module combined must match your Maven groupId.
You will need
artifact elements for your jar as well as the POM and any
PGP signature file. You don't need artifacts for your checksum files (if
you create any) since Nexus will create MD5 and SHA1 checksums on the fly
If you are publishing source or javadoc jars as well, you'll need to
provide something similar to Maven's classifier. You do so by adding an
to each artifact element that lives outside of Ivy's XML namespace and
referencing this element in your
ivysettings.xml file (see below). An
example which uses this approach is the Compress Antlib's
It contains additional information and -sources as well as -javadoc
Alternatively you can specify the -sources and -javadoc artifacts inside
publish task rather than your
ivy.xml file. If you use Ivy 2.2.0
or later you can also configure it to PGP-sign you artifacts and no longer
need to specify your signatures as artifacts. Ivy's own
configures Ivy to sign artifacts and the publish task inside the
declares the POM as well as -sources and -javadoc jars as additional
If you are already using Ivy you may need to adapt your
configuration by adding an
url resolver for Nexus and referencing that in
module matching your
In general you'll mostly need to adapt the
file used by Ant by using the same values for organization and name on
module element that you used in your
ivy.xml file (where name on
module element in
ivysettings.xml corresponds to module in
ivy.xml ).
ivysettings.xml uses Ant properties for the authentication
information and Nexus' URL which will be expanded by the
task. It also shows how to use the classifier extra attribute.
Uploading involves three Ivy tasks.
ivy:configure uses your
ivysettings.xml file to configure Ivy (what
ivy:resolve reads your
ivy.xml and doesn't do much beyond that if
you are only using Ivy to upload your artifacts.
ivy:publish publishes the artifcats to Nexus.
An example build file combining those steps that expects you to provide the
authentication information via the command line (i.e.
-Dupload.user=YOUR-ASF_ID -Dupload.password=YOUR-PASSWORD ) can be found
This section contains information about managing the results of your staged release regardless of the build tool used.
Your artifacts should now exist in a new staging repository. See Locate and Examine for instructions on how to "close" this repository to trigger the quality checks and prepare it for the vote.
Now you go call your vote and based on the results you will either promote (yay!) or drop and restage. If you are an incubating project, don't forget the IPMC vote before promoting. The actual Vote process is project specific, but if you're looking for some examples, the Maven project has thorough documentation on their voting process.
So you bungled the release or your vote failed. That's ok, just follow these instructions to drop your repo and it's like it never happened. Don't forget to rollback any SCM changes.
Congratulations, your vote was successful. The last step is to promote the artifacts to the release repository where they will get picked up by Central.


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Final Avalanche player grades, the abridged version
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Nobody really wants to linger much longer on the season just past, do you? Didn't think so. So here are some abridged versions of player grades, to close out the whole mess. (And here's a link to the full versions of each player):
Tomas Fleischmann: A – He had 21 points in the 22 games he played with the Avs. Enough said.
Erik Johnson: B-minus – Did some good things, but the real test is this coming season.
Jay McClement: D – Didn't play well after coming from the Blues. Needs to find a role with team.
Phillipe Dupuis: C-plus – Not a lot of offense, but hustled hard and had good attitude.
Ryan Wilson: C -Too many nights, he was just kind of there and not much more. Had a couple good moments though.
TJ Galiardi: D – Just a year "Gally" will want to forget. Was hurt most of year and struggled when he did play.
Matt Hunwick: C-minus – He was brutal in his first few weeks, but I thought started to settle down toward end.
Greg Mauldin: B -Played very well at times for the Avs. Surprising when he was sent back to minors.
Ryan O'Byrne: C-plus – Started taking a lot of penalties in the second half, which hurt team.
Mark Olver: A-minus – Really played hard when given the chance and put some numbers on the board.
Kyle Cumiskey: C – Injured most of year, but he did post eight points in 18 games.
Adam Foote: C – Injured half the year. Not a great way to go out, but it was a great career.
Jonas Holos: C – Started strong, but played poorly much of the second half.
Kyle Quincey: D – Had only one point and a minus-5 in the 21 games he played before getting hurt.
David Koci: C-plus – He played well as a defenseman toward the end.
Cameron Gaunce: C – One point and a minus-3 in 11 games, but has some potential.
Peter Forsberg: B-minus – I know he didn't get a point and was a minus-4 in his two games, but he could have had three or four points if teammates could have shot the puck!
Brian Elliott: C – That might be a generous grade, but he did have a couple of outstanding games. Yeah, some real bad ones too.
Coach Sacco: C – Didn't handle goalie situation all that great, didn't seem to know how to adjust team's style when injuries hit.
GM Sherman: C – Made some good trades early on (Fleischmann for Hannan), but jury is still out on the big one later with St. Louis, and the Blues clearly won the rest of the season based on the results.
Read full look-backs and grades for Avalanche players following the 2010-11 season.


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NASHVILLE, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Ryan Getzlaf scored twice in Anaheim's four-goal second period Thursday and the Ducks held on to defeat Nashville 4-3.
Nashville had a 2-0 lead heading into the middle period, but Getzlaf delivered two goals in the first 4:36 of the stanza.
The Predators regained the lead on a goal by Richard Clune, but by the end of the second period Anaheim was in front thanks to Corey Perry and Teemu Selanne. Perry's goal was his 25th of the season, tied for second most in the NHL behind the 31 scored by Alex Ovechkin.
Frederik Andersen blanked the Predators over the final period and picked up the win with 23 saves. Marek Mazanec allowed four goals on 28 shots.
Anaheim won its fifth in a row and became the first team in the NHL to reach the 70-point plateau.