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To Elsie
The pure products of America
go crazy–
mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of
with its isolate lakes and
valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves
old names
and promiscuity between
devil-may-care men who have taken
to railroading
out of sheer lust of adventure–
and young slatterns, bathed
in filth
from Monday to Saturday
to be tricked out that night
with gauds
from imaginations which have no
peasant traditions to give them
but flutter and flaunt
sheer rags succumbing without
save numbed terror
under some hedge of choke-cherry
or viburnum–
which they cannot express–
Unless it be that marriage
with a dash of Indian blood
will throw up a girl so desolate
so hemmed round
with disease or murder
that she'll be rescued by an
reared by the state and
sent out at fifteen to work in
some hard-pressed
house in the suburbs–
some doctor's family, some Elsie
voluptuous water
expressing with broken
brain the truth about us–
her great
ungainly hips and flopping breasts
addressed to cheap
and rich young men with fine eyes
as if the earth under our feet
an excrement of some sky
and we degraded prisoners
to hunger until we eat filth
while the imagination strains
after deer
going by fields of goldenrod in
the stifling heat of September
it seems to destroy us
It is only in isolate flecks that
is given off
No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
Spring and all (1923),
William Carlos Williams
Sunday, September 15, 2008
In the odd dance which is America Wall Street holds its breath for tomorrow's opening, as yet another major bank goes belly up, and one of the largest insurers, AIG, goes hat in hand to Washington begging for a bail-out, yet another bit of Pure Market Economy Capitalism converting to that old time socialism when the pinch is on. No "good for the gander is good for the goose" stuff here, when a bank folds all the rules of the game are off, and a public hand-out is in order. Wall Street Welfare arrives as the golden parachutes leap from Lehman Brothers, Fannie May, Freddie Mac and soon to follow Merrill Lynch (whose bronze bull seems to have pulled in his horns) and a host of others, snookered finally with their own con game. Not that they didn't clean up handsomely while the going was good. But, sorry, no million dollar bonuses this year for the downtown flim-flam artists, and, naturally to follow their monied layoffs will come those of the waiters, baristas of $5 lattes, car washers, personal trainers and a cascade of empty Manhattan condos as the house of cards collapses, stage at a time.
As if this were the least of our worries, we're in the final slogs of a Presidential election of a schizophrenic kind, with the old culture war cranked up to highest pitch. In one corner a history-making shift, verily a black man (half black, but in the old American manner, a drop of black blood will do), and an intelligent street-smart one to boot, and an unthreatening charmer. He's a shuffle in the deck, though paired with a long-time DC pro. In the other corner is "Maverick" McCain, trailing a reputation of dubious qualities but hyped as a war-hero; and paired with him in an amazing act of cynical politicking is a plucky mother of 5 from Alaska, having approximately zero qualification for the VP job for which she's running. De Tocqueville honed in on this over a century and a half ago.
Meantime we are assured by the aids of a President-in-waiting that the economy is fine, quit whining, while other prognosticators bluntly suggest the imminence of a full-blown 30's style depression. Get out the economic Prozac. And, naturally, the other kind, for minds wallowing in bad thoughts.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
After the swift swoon and deliria of Sarah Palin mania, whose brief tenure as sweetheart of America has confirmed Warhol's 15 minute maxim, we march onward to harsher realities than Alaskan caribou hunting, namely the US economy, which staggers from one imploding delusion to the next.
A.I.G. Seeks $40 Billion in Fed Aid to Survive
A.I.G.'s collapse seemed so likely on Tuesday that the company hired the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges — which is also handling the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy — to draw up bankruptcy papers. Many of A.I.G.'s subsidiaries have drawn down on their credit lines, people briefed on the matter said.
Shares in A.I.G. rebounded sharply after speculation arose that the Fed had changed its mind, closing at $3.75 on Tuesday, down 17 percent. They had fallen more than 60 percent earlier in the day, and have plummeted nearly 94 percent over the past 12 months.
Fed to Give A.I.G. $85 Billion Loan and Take 80% Stake
As if to give away too much, we note the AIG sought a loan (never to be repaid, of course, but these days who is to quibble about such things if it is in fact public money) of a mere 40 billion but after a few days of haggling was given only a modest $85 billion. Of course compared to the cumulative debt load of Uncle Sam 9.7 trillion, so what's a little more debt piled on your grandchildren's backs. For a tid-bit more of what this means, here's a paragraph from Wikipedia:
As of September 2008, the total U.S. federal debt was approximately $9.7 trillion[2], about $31,700 per capita (that is, per U.S. resident). Of this amount, debt held by the public was roughly $5.3 trillion.[3] If, in addition, unfunded Medicaid, Social Security, Medicare, etc. promises are added, this figure rises to a total of $59.1 trillion.[4] In 2007, the public debt was 36.9 percent of GDP [5], with a total debt of 65.5 percent of GDP.[6] The CIA ranked the total percentage as 26th in the world.[7]
Below is perhaps a metaphor of your particular sweet hereafter, though one might want, in cartoon style, to place a little label on the water, saying "debt."
Bailout Fails to Stem Global Stock Slump
September 18th, 2008. But three days later, as the stockmarket continues to nose-dive, in New York as well as globally, it seems Mr Bush's government is as good a poker player in the casino of Wall Street as it's been on the fields of warfare. While the ideologues have issued forth the usual mumbo-jumbo of the sanctity of the Market Economy in which Mill's hidden hands take care of everything, the practioners at the Fed and other governmental agencies have leaped in to assist their revolving-door friends with a little socialist-looking grease. Their bluffs called, they've upped the ante (and the national debt), their hands nervously dealing out fresh-minted chips to keep the game afloat. Bailed out or bought, in swift order have been Freddie and Fanny and Lehman, and now AIG, each buy meant to stanch the flow of capital but instead signalling the hollow faith of the Market Economy wizards, who like that of Oz, know that behind the curtains there's little but more hot air. Like the "housing bubble" which is the alleged cause of all this fiscal mayhem, behind it all is simple fraud. One lie lathered on another, packaged in complex lingo, wrapped in legalistic jujitsu, presented by elegant men in pin-stripes who emerge from the colonnaded temples of money, and, like the politicians who are their kissing-kin, announce all is OK as they fleece you one final time. Today, as others fumble to find the money to pay the interest on the mortgages they cannot cover, and contemplate new roles as "homeless", we see a flock of golden chutes descending from the skies above lower Manhattan, as those who conned the nation into this fix depart, surely chastened a bit, but nevertheless safe from the impending storm about to level the playing field no less than hurricane Ike did the Bolivar peninsula across from Galveston. Though as public resentment over this stealth debacle expands, perhaps the rural retreats that have bloomed across the nation – the gated Valhalla's of Sun Valley or the Grand Tetons, or the retreats of Upstate NY – perhaps even these will require the hiring of Blackwater guards as the local meth-heads, driven to desperation, sense just who is getting screwed by whom, and decide to play vigilante. Perhaps indeed Our Great Leader will find Crawford too risky a ranch and will find it convenient to head on down to Paraguay after all.
Above, Mr Bush surveys the Nation as it has devolved under his astute guidance.
Go shop !
LONDON — Against a backdrop of reeling financial markets and nervous investors, Sotheby's and the British artist Damien Hirst forged ahead with "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever," a highly publicized auction of 223 works, all by Mr. Hirst and all made within the last two years.
And there were signs that the bet was paying off: the first session's total was $127.2 million, above the high estimate for the entire sale, $112 million.
In the above item, it was said that Mr. Hirst was busy playing snooker while his "work" was auctioned off. As a businessman it must be said he's an astute player, selling junk for classy prices to the gullible overly rich, who somehow find his spin paintings, dot paintings, butterfly paintings, and formaldehyded animals, not to mention diamond-studded skulls, to be just their fancy.
Certainly Hirst, along with Jeff Koons, is the Warhol of the day, though lacking in Warhol's smarter graphic sensibilities. However, together Hirst and Koons underline the blown-out decadence which is the signature of the times, a decadence symbolized by the horrible houses which were the alleged cause of the sub-prime housing bust.
These houses were selling for a million, 1.5 million, and more, and could be seen littering the American landscape from California to Maine, Washington to Florida. Their signatures were bloated square footage, to go with the SUV in the 3 car garage, a commute distance to some city center 30-50 miles away, unserved by mass transit, a veneer of the symbols of class: Mansard roofs, colonial porticos, Greek columns, whatever could be tacked on however tackily, to assert "value" and "prestige." That all of this was made from the cheapest materials possible – a concrete slab, 2 x 4's, plywood and particle board – and won't stand the test of 10 seasons of real weather, all went to show that not only the buyers of Hirst spin paintings, or derivative hedge-fund funny money stocks, or the US government, are the only of Barnum's once-a-minute suckers lurking in the US (and elsewhere in the world). Not only were the mortgage loans sub-prime, but the actual houses too: piles of sugar-coated architectural garbage built like the stocks and like Hirst's "art" with one simple motive. Money.
Soon enough, battered by a collapsing economy, the US will be full of bloated, costly to cool and heat, popcorn housing, rapidly deteriorating away while the streets are crammed with the homeless, the unemployed who can't afford rent or perhaps even food. The refuge of Wal-Mart will turn costly as well, the deflated prices bought on cheap labor and oil, no longer cheap, all fueling the long-deferred real price of things. Caught up in a 3 decade long delusion in which reality receded from the horizon in incremental steps begetting a nation of fools, most of whom know little, want to know less, and will be most surly when their ignorance comes to hoist them by their own petards, to use a despised slice of French, though here in the mouth of the mother English's most revered author:
There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,They bear the mandate; they must sweep my wayAnd marshal me to knavery. Let it work;For 'tis the sport to have the enginerHoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hardBut I will delve one yard below their minesAnd blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,When in one line two crafts directly meet.
Or, to put it in the Biblical terms quite popular amongst the American public,
as you reap, so shall you sow.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 450 points on Wednesday as one of the most stunning government bailouts in American history failed to stem the runaway fears engulfing the global financial system.16,356.48–1,280.71–7.26%
Worry not, of course. Sarah and her pal will save us with some black and white simple solution. Armageddon perhaps? Or, more likely and realistic, poor Mr. Obama will be handed a very empty bag which even the most good-hearted soul in the world could not really sort out and given the fickle ahistorical nature of the grand American public, failure to produce a magic wand and cure all ills in 2 years will beget a drumbeat of discontent and political blame falling upon him.
Investors, Hungry for Hope,
Send Dow Up 410
Sept. 19 2008
In predictable manner, with rumors that the US government, and others – to say European central banks acting on behalf of their governments – will intervene to save the faltering American financial system to which all are deeply tied, the markets today yo-yo'd bouyantly back up 400+ DOW points. Whether tomorrow, faced with other news, good or bad, it drops or rises seems less and less predicated on any tangible logic, but rather on the desperate need of those in the game to see that the system keeps going, at least until they can unload their stocks for a break-even or profit. That these preachers of the disciplines of the market abandon such principles at the drop of the DOW, shows how false their beliefs really are – convenient for whipping others while dining at the public trough whenever necessary or possible. In point of fact this is ordinary everyday stuff to our sacred capitalists, whose biggest money-makers include weaponry, the only real customer for which is the government, and whose second biggest buck turner is agriculture which is heavily subsidized in a 100 ways, from cheap publicly developed water, to the US highway system, to the long ago railroad scam, each of which was paid for with public funding, and is used on the cheap by those who so readily mouth platitudes about welfare Moms and self-reliance, ad nauseum. Now they cheer a sequence of the biggest bailouts ever, done of course by a Republican administration out to salvage their chums.
For the first time since Lehman collapsed and the American International Group was rescued, President Bush made a brief statement in Washington, saying the government would "act to strengthen and stabilize our financial markets and improve investor confidence."
Earlier, the Federal Reserve said it would extend an effort that allows central banks around the world to lend dollars in foreign economies. The Fed will provide an extra $180 billion under the program to grease the wheels of finance.
Grease the palms of their buddies would be a more accurate description of this little bundle of help. So much for the vaunted "discipline of the market."
The newly-minted Socialists, Ben Bernanke, George W. Bush and Henry Paulson
Sept 20 2008
Congressional Leaders Stunned by Warnings
Yep, they were stunned, indeed. Informed that the bail-out of the dysfunctional American economic system, previously known as "capitalism" would require a trillion dollar billing (and keep in mind this is government speak, particularly Bush guvspeak, so if they say "1" it probably means "2" or "4" or….) to the already deeply indebted US government, the Congressional members stood and began to sing in unison The International. In one quick move former uber capitalists, Bush, Bernanke and Paulson announced a coup, and that the United States of America was henceforth to be a Socialist State, in which the government oversees and guides the economy from a centralized agency under the full control of the executive.
The stock-market responded immediately, jumping 370 points upward on the DOW, as the same brokers and traders showed their allegiance to the fundamental principles of their capitalist system: me, me and me. They stood to rake in the one trillion, continuing on with their bonuses, CEO earnings in the 10's and 100's of millions, with only the quibble that now the paymaster was the US Government issuing out freshly printed Greenbacks (admittedly of diminishing purchasing power, but among millions what's a house or two?).
OK, enough of easy satire. In making their announcement these wizards of the financial world essentially ended their bluff, and admitted that their entire system is a fraud, a dysfunctional mess the principles of which are inherently flawed and can only lead to the situation in which it is now mired. And in turn they looked to the government to take over, shell out the money to "keep the system going." Of course it is in their interest to keep the system going, as they are the primary winners in this shell game, walking away with their millions. And, should they let it collapse they know only too well that the ire of the public which would be the primary victims would turn white-hot politically and the gated communities, the golf courses and yacht clubs would be surrounded in short order by angry mobs. Better to pacify everyone and prop up "the system" with a trillion bucks the grandkids can cover 50 years up the road. Imagine the interest on this bill – oh are the bankers happy about this deal! Not only do they get bailed out from their own squalor, but then they can bill JQ Public for it, just like they do with credit card squeezes.
[See this for a taste of Wall Street stuff.] [And this from NYT.]
Life's function, as a simple nanomachine, is just to use energy to marshal chemicals into making more copies of itself.
"You need to organize yourself in a specific way to be useful," Ziock said. "You take energy from one place and move it to a place where it usually doesn't want to go, so you can actually organize things."
The pure products of America
go crazy–
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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Mark Gongloff
Huffington Post
March 7, 2013
When the Attorney General of the United States admits some banks are simply too big to prosecute, it might be time to admit we have a problem — and that goes for both the financial and justice systems.
Eric Holder made this rather startling confession in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, The Hill reports. It could be a key moment in the debate over whether to do something about the size and complexity of our biggest banks, which have only gotten bigger and more systemically important since the financial crisis.
"I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy," Holder said, according to The Hill. "And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large."
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Ted Cruz
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By Jean-Claude Bystryn, M.D.
Professor of Dermatology
Director of Immunofluorescence Laboratory
The Ronald O. Perelman
Department of Dermatology
New York University Medical Center
Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) can enter into remissions in which all manifestations of the disease disappear and all therapy can be discontinued. How often, and when this occurs is unclear. Review of all major studies of PV conducted during the past four decades describes remissions as occurring in less than one-third of patients.1 However, a problem with these studies is that the incidence of remissions is usually provided at only a single time point. Thus, it is unclear how long it takes for remissions to appear, how long they last and what happens when therapy is discontinued. Further complicating interpretations of the results is that the meaning of remission is often unclear. The criteria used by different investigators to define this event differ and/or are not provided. The practical outcome of this incomplete information is uncertainty about the management of pemphigus. It is unclear whether treatment simply suppresses the manifestations of the disease and must be continued permanently, or whether complete and durable remissions can be induced that permit therapy to be safely discontinued.
To answer these questions we examined the induction of remissions in 40 patients with pemphigus vulgaris who were followed for a prolonged period (on the average of 7.7 years) by the same investigator. The results of the study have recently been published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.2
A strict set of entry criteria was used to include patients in the study, to minimize the effects of patient selection bias on the results. These included: a) diagnosis of PV confirmed by clinical, histologic and immunofluorescence criteria; b) first seen shortly (<3 months) after the diagnosis of pemphigus, to exclude bias from early death; c) seen continuously by the same investigator during the course of their illness; and d) a minimum of two years of follow-up information from onset of disease. All patients were treated conventionally with steroids, with or without adjuvants, using guidelines that have previously been published.3 All patients were followed and evaluated using defined criteria for disease activity and remissions, to ensure a consistent evaluation of clinical outcome. Scores were recorded for the most severe phase of the disease during the first year of treatment, yearly on the anniversary of diagnosis, and at last follow-up. Complete remission was defined as a period greater than one month during which the patient was on no systemic therapy and lesion-free. Partial remission was defined as a period greater than one month during which the patient was lesion-free and on no more than 15 mg./day of prednisone or its equivalent; or on only 100 mg./day or less of cyclophosphamide or azathioprine; or only on gold or dapsone. Duration of remission was classified as short if at least one month but less than 6 months, and as long if 6 months or longer. Time to partial or complete remission was calculated from date of diagnosis to onset of partial or complete remission. The results show that pemphigus improved with time in almost all patients. Improvement was particularly rapid during the first two years of therapy, with the severity score declining 64% from an average of 5.3 during the most severe phase of the illness to 1.9 two years after diagnosis (see Figure 1). Severity continued to decline, albeit more slowly, during the ensuing years. Five years after diagnosis the average severity score was only 1.4, indicating the disease was inactive or treated with <15 mg./day of Prednisone in most patients.
Remissions were found to be much more common than previously reported. This is probably because the incidence of remissions increases with time, and we studied patients for prolonged periods. Remissions that were complete and long-lasting (no evidence of disease and no systemic therapy for at least 6 months) occurred in 25%, 50% and 75% of patients 2, 5 and 10 years after diagnosis. These remissions were durable, lasting on the average over 4 years. Actual duration is probably longer, since most patients in remission were still in remission at last follow-up. The bulk of the remaining patients were in partial remissions or had mild disease controlled on 15 mg./day or less of Prednisone or with only an adjuvant (see Fig 1).3
The course of pemphigus in different patients as evidenced by induction of remissions and flare in disease activity was variable, but followed one of 4 patterns. In pattern 1, the disease responded rapidly to treatment and went into a remission that was complete and long lasting. This occurred in 17% of the patients. There was no flare in disease activity when treatment was stopped. The average time to complete remission was 15 months and the remissions were maintained to last follow-up for an average of over 4 years. In pattern 2, seen in 37% of patients, response to therapy was slower and intermittent but complete and long-lasting remissions were also eventually induced in all patients. Pemphigus in these patients fluctuated between periods of partial or complete remissions of various length, which were punctuated by flares in disease activity as the intensity of therapy was decreased. Relapses were usually less severe than initial disease activity. With continued therapy, all patients eventually had long-lasting, complete remissions that persisted for longer than 6 months following termination of all systemic therapy. The average time to the first complete long-lasting remission was 35 months. In the third pattern, seen in 35% of patients, disease activity also fluctuated but no long-lasting complete remissions were induced during the course of this study. This may be because these patients were on the average followed for a shorter period of time.
However, disease activity in most of these patients eventually became mild and could be controlled by low doses of Prednisone (15mg/day or less), or with only an adjuvant. There was no mortality in patients whose disease followed these three patterns. In pattern 4, seen in 10% of patients, the disease was resistant to therapy and never went into a remission of any type. Mortality in this small group was high, occurring in two of four patients.
Two factors were identified as predictive of the course of pemphigus. One was initial severity and extent of disease. Patients with mild or moderate disease at diagnosis were twice as likely to enter a long-lasting complete remission as those with severe disease. The other was early response to treatment. Patients who responded rapidly to treatment were over twice as likely to enter a long and complete remission as those with a slower response.
These results indicate that the outlook of pemphigus is more favorable than currently believed. The disease can be converted into an inactive state in the majority of patients. Most patients will eventually enter a complete and durable remission that permits systemic therapy to be safely discontinued without an exacerbation in disease severity. The remaining patients will usually have only mild disease controllable with low doses of Prednisone or an adjuvant. The practical implication of these observations is that the ultimate goal of treatment in pemphigus vulgaris is to discontinue all treatment.
1. Bystryn J-C, Steinman NM. The adjuvant therapy of pemphigus – an update. Arch Dermatol 1996; 1 32:203-212.
2. Herbst A, Bystryn JC. Patterns of remission in pemphigus vulgarism. J Am Acad Dermatol 2000; 42:422-7.
3. Bystryn J-C. Therapy of pemphigus. Semin Dermatol 1988;7:186-194.


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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Former Miami Dolphins linebacker John Offerdahl has become the 26th person ever selected for the team's Honor Roll.
Offerdahl was selected in the second round of the 1986 NFL Draft out of Western Michigan University. Offerdahl immediately became a linchpin in the Dolphins defense and was a five-time Pro Bowl linebacker between 1986 and 1990.
He was also named NFL Rookie of the Year in 1986.
The former WMU Bronco also was selected for inductions into the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame earlier this year. Offerdahl was a two-time Associated Press All-American while in college and has conference career records for tackles with 694 and school records for recovered fumbles and is second in forced fumbles.
Offerdahl has also been a very successful restaurant entrepreneur opening several highly profitable eating establishments in the Sunshine State.
The Dolphins will officially honor Offerdahl during halftime of the primetime October 31 game between the Fins and the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Honey Whole-Wheat Pretzel Sticks
1 1/2 cups warm water
3 tablespoons honey
2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus additional if necessary
2 1/4 cups whole-wheat flour
1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons salt, divided
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 large egg
1 teaspoon water
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
In a large bowl, stir together water, honey and yeast - let sit for 5 to 10 minutes.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flours with 2 teaspoons salt. Pour oil into the yeast mixture - stir in the dry ingredients by the cupful until the dough until it starts to come together. Scoop the mixture out onto a lightly floured surface and knead, adding the rest of the flour mixture, until the dough is smooth and pliable. You may or may not need to add additional flour - you want the dough to be tacky, but not so much that it sticks to your hands.
Preheat oven to 425.
Cover the dough and set aside to rest for 10 minutes.
Divide the dough into 16 pieces and roll each piece into a 10" by 1" long stick. Place the sticks, twisting them a couple times if desired, onto two baking sheets coated with nonstick spray - 8 per sheet.
In a small bowl, whisk together egg and water. In another small bowl, mix together the sesame seeds and remaining 1 tablespoon salt. Brush the pieces of dough with the egg wash and immediately scatter the sesame mixture evenly across the top. Bake until the pretzels are a rich golden brown, but are still soft on the inside - about 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes 16 pretzel sticks.
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Honey Whole-Wheat Pretzel Sticks
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- Anonymous11/11/2007 11:25:00 PM
What kind of salt did you use? Pretzel salt, kosher, table, sea salt?
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I pretty much only user Kosher salt unless otherwise indicated.
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We haven't cut any stainless yet, mostly mild steel. I did cut some aluminum for a couple of small projects and didn't experience any problems. A light spray of PAM cooking spray on the blades when cutting the aluminum helps keep the blade clean. After normal preparation the aluminum pieces TIG welded fine. Saw blades remain quite clean when compared to grinding disks. With grinding disks you get metal chips embedded into the disk, and they can easily get transferred and mixed into the surface of other metals. This doesn't happen with saw blades, drill bits, milling cutters, or lathe tooling.
If you don't guide these metal cutting saws and you try to free-hand cuts as you would a sheet of plywood you will tear up a metal cutting saw blade in a very short time. These blades will last for hundreds of cuts if you don't bind the blade in the cut or stop in the middle of the cut and then try to resume. The metal will work harden and dull the blade when you try to resume the cut. It only takes one bind or hardened metal spot to ruin a blade. Avoid cutting rebar or hardened metal with these saws. Use abrasive blades for this type of work.
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That 30 percent jump in single-vehicle claims includes a 76 percent increase in single-vehicle rollovers and a 59 percent increase in single vehicles running off the road and striking an object, according to data from Progressive Insurance.
Other claims showing increases for New Year's include single vehicles that swerved to avoid something and then hit an object (29 percent) and single vehicles striking an object in the road (1 percent).
"We've all heard the phrase, 'I'm my own worst enemy,' and that phrase rings as true as ever on New Year's Day," said Maria Cashy, the claims customer-service process leader at Progressive. "The large increase in single-vehicle claims could be attributed to a variety of factors, such as icy streets, more people out on the roads or late-night driving. Regardless, the best thing you can do to keep yourself safe is stay off the road."
While Progressive's data doesn't cover how many accidents involved motorists driving while under the influence, impaired driving and New Year's Day are inextricably linked, statistically.
New Year's Day consistently ranks as the year's deadliest day for alcohol-related fatalities, according to the American Automobile Association. Half the fatal crashes on the holiday involve a driver who could be considered drunk, according to an analysis by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.Analysts have also officially identified New Year's Day as the worst day for drunk driving accidents.
For those who do plan to be out on New Year's, Cashy recommends getting a cab or naming a designated driver. But if you find yourself in an accident this New Year's Eve or Day, Progressive recommends you take the following steps:
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Sunday, January 6, 2013
How does one shame the shameless????
17 comments:
- RAJ47 said...
How can you awaken the dead?
Stones have no shame.
- January 6, 2013 at 5:32 PM
- Andrew said...
You are unreasonably and unfairly being critical of the government. The police acted quickly, arrested the culprits and brought them to justice. Now, the trial is being held in camera. In a country teeming with a population of over 1.2 billion (and counting), the government did very well to protect the identity of the victim. Had some of the accused enjoyed political patronage on account of which the police had not acted, there would have been some sense in the so-called outpouring of nation-wide anguish and anger. Let the protesters act as responsible citizens, and act to prevent recurrence of such cases in future, instead of hogging the limelight-that too at the expense of the of a crime victim!
- January 6, 2013 at 8:36 PM
- Andrew said...
After the recent Delhi crime, leaders of political parties of every hue have been advocating castration or death penalty for the rapists. While so, the suggestion of the nearly-90 DMK leader, M. Karunanidhi, that the rapists be confined to solitary life-terms is arguably the sanest and the most practical, as any student of criminology and penology would readily agree, for the following reasons:
• The culprits and the other inmates are isolated from one another, thus preventing mutual evil influence;
• The culprits are given a chance to repent for their sins in absolute solitude, which may reform their lives, with passage of time.
No doubt, the Tamil leader's most invaluable suggestion at this hour of crisis, springs from his 70-plus years' experience in political and social life, and thus deserves all praise
- January 6, 2013 at 8:39 PM
- Andrew said...
Rape is an age-old crime perpetrated against women, and it has to be condemned in the severest terms. Again, the crime may be premeditated or circumstantial. Whatever the nature, the crime does not merit death or severing of the male organ, as fit and proper punishment. Are be going back to barbarism? What about the crime committed by comfort women - professional prostitutes, models , actors and all other celebrities included - who systematically ruin the institution of marriage? What's the penalty suggested for such culprits? Which part to dismember?
- January 6, 2013 at 8:47 PM
- Andrew said...
Please read the third line in my last blog as "Are we going back to barbarism?". It was a typographical error. Certainly, I am not a Bengali to confuse 'v' and 'b'!.
- January 6, 2013 at 8:54 PM
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- January 6, 2013 at 10:20 PM
- Pooja Rathore said...
Its true that start of the year was not hearty ....still there is a gloom...true post yet with an optimistic attitude that things should change and will change if we dont forget what happened and continue to stick to our stand.
I finished reading sethji- i liked the novel,i loved the end eventually amrita chose the man she could count on..few moments in the book were hilarious,the political game was very well portrayed in your novel(was shocked and surprised by few events in the novel,but from what we read in newspaper....its true such things happen actually worse things happen).I did not like sethji(the character in the novel)intially but in the end i felt atleast he was honest about what he wanted a better person than other characters in the novel, a winner.
iam not much of a novel person i prefer non-fiction but iam huge fan of yours i will buy anything you write you have earned me through your good work( i absolutely love most of your non-fiction work,sometimes when my mood is off i re read the chapters(selective memory- Feeling great is my favourite) i feel so good absolute mood lifters) and yes you can count on me as your fan.
Happy New year De!
- January 6, 2013 at 10:28 PM
- Meg said...
Comfort women ? Only a misogynist would call actors and models comfort women. Only a misogynist would suggest that they ruin the "institution of marriage." What about the men who seek this so called "comfort." Adultery is mutual. Rape is brute force and never involved the consent of the victim. How could anyone mix the two ?
- January 7, 2013 at 4:25 AM
- Meg said...
They raped AND killed. Double homicide. I don't know what the punishment for such barbarism should be.
- January 7, 2013 at 4:32 AM
- Madhu said...
Swaminathan, either I am grossly mistaken or you are. The news so far is that congress had "recommended" life sentence and not castration or death sentence.
Ms De, according to me, the only way to combat any crime is to make sure that the circumstances encouraging these crimes be controlled. We all know that India suffers from unemployment. We all know we need more police on the roads. So why not recruit more police to patrol? Of course if the existing police do their work properly, this mess wouldn't be here at all. Recruiting more police would take care of the in employment and
- January 7, 2013 at 8:20 AM
- Madhu said...
Sorry, posted the above too soon.
I simply don't understand the 181 number concept. When a rape is being attempted, do you think that the rapist will give a chance to the victim to dial 181? They pin the victim down; she is lucky if she is left alive; in most cases she will end up dead. Isn't it?
Is this the governments way of passing the buck... "You should have called 181. Why didn't you?" Is that the governments way of escaping? It's good to have emergency dialing numbers but in case of rape, it's totally pointless.
Hope you have a wonderful year ahead ms De.
- January 7, 2013 at 8:27 AM
- Pooja Rathore said...
Dear shobhaa DE...Happy birthday to you....HAppy Birthday to you...God bless you with whatever you feel you need or that which makes you content ,peaceful,healthy and joyous...Have fun!
- January 7, 2013 at 10:40 AM
- Jogeshwar said...
Happy Birthday! Mam, wish you many happy returns of the day.
- January 7, 2013 at 1:32 PM
- skeptic owl said...
Many many happy returns of the day mam!!
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It was announced last June that AD's Editor in Chief since 1975, Paige Rense Noland, was retiring. And, I think we all waited with baited breath to see who would replace her. After all, the one-time prestigious leader of the glossy shelter magazines had lost it's luster. I think you'll agree with me when I say that the pages of Architectural Digest appeared stuffy and distant in comparison to those of trendy Domino Magazine and cheerful House Beautiful. Flipping through the pages, I never felt like the homes in AD were actually occupied by real people. It all felt like a weird dream, every space seemed cold and unattainable.
But thankfully, that's all about the change.
A living room designed by Michael Smith graces the cover, along with the title "Age Of Elegance"... in bright pink no less. Looks good already!
So, have you seen the new issue yet? What did you think?
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I tried to configure the QuickExport parameters by examining the log file after I used the QuickExport tool itself. The only things I changed from the log file are the parameters as I want the user to be able to input the parameters to connect to a postgres database after they create it and pass in a layer. Any suggestions on debugging this? I didn't get any syntax errors, but if the tool didn't work I made it throw an exception.
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Exhibition The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
from April 4, 2012 to June 25, 2012
Detail from The Annunciation to the Shepherds (Tierce),
© New York, The Metropolitan museum of Art
One of the most celebrated manuscripts, the Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry is the focus of an exhibition featuring 47 individual leaves. This will be the last chance to admire them before they return to The Cloisters collection, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, for rebinding.
This exceptional book of hours was illuminated at the turn of the 15th century by the Limbourg brothers, who combined beautiful "picture book" cycles, inventive composition, and an innovative conception of space and narration.
The book of hours for private devotional prayer was the most popular devotional book in the late Middle Ages. Like many of the great bibliophiles of his time, Jean de Berry had a penchant for this type of manuscript. His name is linked to a prestigious series of books of hours he commissioned for his personal use between the last quarter of the 14th century and his death in 1416. Those that have survived to our day are considered masterpieces of book illumination in France, and all of Europe for that matter, in the late Middle Ages.
Organized by:
Hélène Grollemund, exhibition organizer, and Pascal Torres, curator of the Edmond de Rothshild collection, Department of Prints and Drawings, Musée du Louvre.
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From April 4 to June 25, 2012
Sully wing, 1st floor, Salle de la Chapelle
Opening hours:
Open everyday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Tuesday.
Night opening until 9:45 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Included in the museum ticket: €10
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Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park battened down the hatches yesterday as the early October snow turned their tents into igloos, but the close quarters also made easy pickings for one predator. A sex fiend barged into a woman's tent and sexually assaulted her at around 6 a.m., said protesters, who chased him from the park.
"Pervert! Pervert! Get the f--k out!" said vigilante Occupiers, who never bothered to call the cops. "They were shining flashlights in his face and yelling at him to leave," said a woman who called herself Leslie, but refused to give her real name.
She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped. "We don't tell anyone," she said. "We handle it internally. I said too much already."
With all the free loaders, free lovers, free Mumia's, free lunchers and free thinkers populating the OccupyAnarchy movement, which many on the Left hope to be the anti-Tea Party, one gets the impression that one thing the ReOccupyTheWhiteHouse movement doesn't need is more bad press, so there seems to be a conscious effort to keep these kinds of attacks quiet and sweep them under a rug.
Granted, the Occupy movement has spawned a "volunteer" security force of dubious origin and efficacy: part mob, part vigilante justice. But they have neither police powers or training. And, rather than pursuing a sexual predator until he is caught and deterred from repeating his offense, he is merely chased off to continue his perverse felonies again, either at another "occupied" area of the park or in society at large.
First, I think this sends a bad message about the OccupyAnarchy view of women. "Ladies: Lay back and enjoy it. Women who are assaulted or raped should be seen and not heard." In a rational world (not the protesters' strong suit), how would it not benefit everyone for every woman raped or assaulted to give a statement to the police and a description of the perpetrator so that the criminal can be apprehended? Is the movement so inured and enamored of breaking whatever laws they choose, that they empathize with other lawbreakers, no matter how odious?
We have seen the Occupy Anarchists disrespect the police, one man infamously defecating on a patrol car, and attacking the police and even rioting in some places. Compare and contrast with the Tea Party rallies. There was a police presence there, but the only incidents I observed or am aware of, involving the police at a Tea Party rally, was when a small element of miscreants from the Left showed up to protest against the Tea Partiers, to shout them down, or damage property.
There were no tents, no soup lines and above all, no rapes, sexual assaults, refusals to obey police orders or assaults on police officers.
Is OccupyAnarchy the Left's version of the Tea Party? It's looking like it. Will OccupyAnarchy motivate anyone to vote Democrat next Fall? Well, I think they can count on the rapist and sexual predator vote!
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Elegant tartlets combining the luscious tastes of chocolate, fresh strawberries and nonfat meringue - an alternative to high-fat shortcake.
Preparation Time: 35 mins
Cooking Time: 1 hr
Extra Time: 8 hrs
(for setting)
Yield: 8 x tartlets
Preheat oven to 250ºF. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a bowl, mix the strawberries with 1 tablespoon of the sugar. Refrigerate the strawberries until ready to use.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt, and beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for about 1 minute, until the eggs are frothy. With the mixer at high speed, add the remaining 1/4 cup sugar 1 tablespoon at a time, beating for 5 to 7 minutes, until stiff, glossy peaks form.
Drop the meringue onto the prepared baking sheet in eight 3-to 4-inch-diameter rounds, smoothing the edges. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour. Turn the oven off, but leave the meringues in the oven overnight or about 12 hours. Do not open the oven door. Then, if the meringues will not be served immediately, remove them from the oven and store in a tightly covered dry container until ready to serve.
When ready to serve, gently peel the meringues off the parchment paper. Top each meringue with 1/4 cup strawberries and garnish with 1 teaspoon shaved chocolate, and serve.
* For year round enjoyment, substitute equal amount of fresh or frozen blueberries or sliced peaches for the strawberries.
Serving suggestion is not included in the nutritional analysis.
Note: After baking, turn oven off, do not open door. Allow an extra 12 hours or overnight for meringues to set.
To make successful meringues, be sure to start with clean, dry, grease-free equipment.
** Please carefully check the ingredients of this product to ensure it contains no gluten, if a gluten-free recipe is required.


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Companies on the botched Renewable Heat Incentive scheme can be publicly named by a Stormont department, a High Court judge ruled today.
Mr Justice Deeny held there is an overriding public interest in Economy Minister Simon Hamilton releasing the details of corporate bodies signed up to a green energy initiative set to cost the taxpayer up to £490m.
But he banned Mr Hamilton from disclosing the names of individuals claiming under the scheme until any objections they have to being identified are properly considered.
It was also revealed that one company with seven boilers has received more than £300,000 since July 2015.
The verdict was delivered on the eve of Assembly elections called after the RHI scandal led to the collapse of the power-sharing institutions.
The judge confirmed that Mr Hamilton is now legally entitled to reveal the names of corporate recipients before he goes out of office.
More than 500 RHI non-domestic operators took legal action in a bid to stop disclosure of their details.
Members of the Renewable Heat Association of Northern Ireland claimed the move breaches privacy and data protection laws.
Disclosure would also create a media "feeding frenzy" and lead to a "witch-hunt" of individuals who have done nothing wrong, they argued.
However, Mr Justice Deeny found that the minister was not bound by any legal contract and could take the unilateral step of releasing details.
He also decided publication was justified under the stated aims of ensuring transparency about all beneficiaries.
"It seems clear that the economic well-being of the country is being damaged by excessive payments well beyond that contemplated by the European Union being made because of the way the scheme was operated in Northern Ireland," he said.
The judge stressed that the planned disclosure was about recipients of grant aid.
Backing freedom of expression over privacy rights, he said: "It is not that one suffers from a disease or one's marriage is in difficulties or one is carrying on an illicit relationship of a sexual kind.
"It is not disclosure of some piece of criminal folly from one's youth."
The RHI initiative was set up to encourage businesses to move from using fossil fuels to renewable heating systems.
But it has been engulfed in controversy and dubbed the 'cash for ash scandal' since it emerged that users could legitimately earn more cash the more fuel they burned.
A public inquiry into the whole process is to be chaired by retired appeal court judge Sir Patrick Coghlin.
Mr Hamilton was set to publish the names of RHI operators last month, but his plans were put on hold after the association launched judicial review proceedings.
Counsel for the group claimed in court they were being used as a political football.
He alleged that the minister wanted to release the list to embarrass others and divert attention from any ministerial and departmental responsibility.
Amid suggestions that DUP "cronies" benefited from the scheme, he contended that the intention was to have everybody else "tarred with the same brush".
But the judge rejected his assessment of Mr Hamilton's motives when he referred in the Assembly to supporters of other parties being revealed as RHI recipients.
"That does not permit the court to draw a conclusion that the minister was acting in bad faith or that he he did not desire transparency," he pointed out.
Lawyers representing the department had argued that releasing details of those on the scheme was necessary due to its "seismic" impact on Nothern Ireland's political arrangements.
Mr Justice Deeny agreed with their assessment of the potential fall-out.
"The respondent has established the test of reasonable necessity with ease," he said.
"This matter is one of acute public interest."
The judge noted a wide range of benefits among those on the scheme.
One well-known company with seven of the 99 kilowatt capacity boilers attracting the higher rate of subsidy have received £302,000 in funds since July 13, 2015.
Another firm has 10 of the 99kw boilers all at one postal code area.
"There may be reasons why some operators are content to have a large capacity boiler which then attracts a quite modest subsidy whereas others choose to have multiple 99kw boilers, but this can be explained to any inquiring journalist or member of the public," Mr Justice Deeny continued.
Acknowledging submissions that "shining a light" on the scheme will ensure high standards, he cited an added potential benefit from the minister's decision.
"Taxpayers' money will be saved if abuses are discouraged by the disclosure of the identity of recipients of support payments," he said.
"I find that the respondents have made out the case both in law and on the strikingly unusual facts of this case, by a wide margin, that there is, if required, an overriding public interest for achieving transparency here by disclosing the names of beneficiaries along with the other information which they had all agreed would be published under the privacy policy.
"The applicants therefore fail on the contract and legitimate expectation grounds."
However, he held that the department had failed to properly consider any objections from individual recipients who felt disclosing their details was unwarranted.
He ordered that a proper process complying with the Data Protection Act must be carried out before these people can be named.


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Roger D. Launius - The Right Stuff Revisited: Project Mercury 50 Years On
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a brief suborbital mission that marked the first manned launch of Project Mercury.
Roger D. Launius, a senior curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, reconsiders NASA's pioneering program, examining the origins of these first attempts to reach into space, the Cold War "space race," and Project Mercury's meaning a half-century later.
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Despite oil boost, U.S. not in clear yet
I want my Hummer back.
That might be the reaction to a report Monday from the International Energy Agency that predicts in eight years the U.S. will surpass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer.
The prediction is a stunning testament to energy companies' success in extracting oil that was previously unrecoverable, but it's the one bright spot in a report that otherwise requires highly selective reading to be called good news.
One paragraph above the prediction about the U.S. and Saudi, the IEA lays out a far more disturbing scenario, highlighted in boldface type: "The world is still failing to put the global energy system onto a more sustainable path."
It goes on to outline a future in which consumer demand continues to rise faster than production as nations fight for ever bigger pieces of the same pie.
Even its projection of U.S. oil dominance has an important qualifier. The IEA estimates the switch would happen "around 2020" but noted that the U.S. would remain the biggest oil producer only "until the mid-2020s." Our reign as the world's oil king, if it ever happens, probably won't last more than five years.
Some energy company executives already are questioning the forecast. David Roberts, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Marathon Oil, which has extensive domestic drilling operations, told investors on a webcast Tuesday that IEA's findings might be too optimistic.
"I don't see it, in terms of this country matching Saudi Arabia," he said.
What's more, being the biggest producer would mean little to U.S. consumers. We won't be paying less at the pump because, as the IEA notes, "no country is an energy 'island' and prices for all fuel sources are increasingly global."
"Policy makers looking for simultaneous progress toward energy security, economic and environmental objectives are facing increasingly complex — and sometimes contradictory — choices," the IEA wrote.
Taken as a whole, the report outlines a world in which we face a shrinking supply of oil, rising prices and a growing toll on the environment.
While U.S. production has been rising, topping 2004 levels, it remains well below our peak production of the early 1970s. Much of the increase is coming from hydraulic fracturing, an expensive technique that results in wells from which initial production declines more quickly than conventional ones.
"It is critically important to understand that the overall rate of decline in oil production from existing U.S. wellbores is going up, as an increasing percentage of U.S. crude oil production comes from shale oil plays, which have a very high decline rate," said Jeffrey Brown, an independent petroleum geologist who studies and writes about production data.
The result is that oil producers have to drill more and more wells just to stay in place.
So far, we've been able to drill more domestically in part because higher oil prices have made shale plays profitable. Even if we assume that we can maintain and accelerate the pace, even if we are miraculously exporting oil by 2030, it probably won't make gasoline any cheaper.
That's because the world's available net exports will remain little changed, Brown said.
We might reorder the ranks of the producers, but it will do little to change the results in the global market.
While conservation and efficiency in the U.S. is expected to reduce oil consumption, it will be offset by increases from emerging economies such as China and India, which in 2005 imported 1 barrel of oil for every 8.9 barrels of total exports available. By last year, that number had fallen to 5.3 barrels. If that trend continues, in 18 years, those two countries alone will consume all oil available for export in the world, Brown said.
"We're not out of the woods," said Art Berman, a Sugar Land energy economist. "We have a very real problem with world supply, world price and the environment. None of this makes that go away. This shouldn't give people a license to squander fuel."
We'd all like to believe in the promise of energy abundance, but the global patterns of consumption and production are a reminder that the Hummers need to stay on history's junk heap.
Loren Steffy is the Houston Chronicle's business columnist.
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Correction: Dave Roberts is Marathon Oil's executive vice president and chief operating officer. His title was incorrectly reported in a story on Wednesday's page C1 and on mySA.com.


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The Connected Room Oscar Gifting Suite helped kick off Oscar weekend in Los Angeles with a list of celebrities that included; Oscar Nunez, Delanie Walker and Matthew Fahey just to name a few ate, drank and were pampered with services and gifts at this amazing event.
Iron Horse Jeans was gifting certificates so that guests could go online and pick out some of their stylish jeans. From great jeans for little kids to the hip and trendy jeans that adults want to be noticed in, Iron Horse Jeans creates some of the best jeans in the United States while selling them at an amazingly low price compared to what you might imagine.
Dare to Care was on site providing information on their school lunch program. The Dare to Care program helps feed children-in-need who chronically go to school hungry and without food or money to purchase a school lunch. Many of the children who benefit are abused and neglected. Dare to Care also goes into schools and facilitate anti-bullying assemblies, teaching tolerance and the importance in not judging others.
Michele's Sweet Shoppe was gifting a bag stuffed with their gourmet goodies. Everyone in attendance was treated to Michele's gourmet popcorn, treats and chocolate covered cookies.
Steps 4 Paws had an adorable puppy to help promote their cute t-shirts that they were gifting. Not only are these shirts the perfect thing to be seen walking your dog in, but you can also write the name of your dog on your shirt to personalize it. By purchasing a Steps 4 Paws t-shirt you are donating to the Steps 4 Paws cause to help save dogs, and by wearing the t-shirt you are helping to spread awareness and promote education on pet overpopulation.
Designer Lisa DiMaggio was gifting her Rock N The Trend rock n' roll inspired jewelry pieces. Lisa designed necklaces, earrings and even belts from guitar picks. A huge hit with everyone in attendance, it did not take long to see Rock N The Trend earrings dangling from ears by the end of the day.
Slim Chillers had the blenders fired up as they were providing samples of their low-cal frozen cocktails. Slim Chillers also sent everyone away with a wide assortment of their frozen drinks and the perfect for summertime alcohol infused popsicle.
The San Diego Zoo has some amazing animals including a kangaroo for guests to take a picture with. The San Diego Zoo was also gift assorted gifts from the zoo and were having people sign-up to attend the zoo at a future date.
BYOU (Be Your Own You) was spreading the word about self-esteem for girls. BYOU is an online magazine dedicated to helping promote self-esteem in young girls and provides a number of great tools.
Life Long Dreams was introducing their amazing program that brings the arts to special needs and underprivileged children.
Smarty Pants was gifting an assortment of their vitamins including their tasty and good for you Smarty Pants Weight Management vitamins that have fiber, no added sugar, is a multivitamin with Omega 3s and Vitamin D. Smarty Pants not only will provide you with all of your vitamins, but they also match 1-for-1 for each bottle sold, giving bottles to needy children.
Its A Jar Life was gifting jars of their Kiss Mix Doggie Biscuit Mix. Its A Jar Life is a great way to make sure what you are feeding your dog is natural and it is a great feeling to be able to give your pup a treat that came right from your hands. Very simple to make and the ingredients are so healthy the owners of Its A Jar Life even have tried the biscuits themselves.
Ms. California was helping spread the word about the Ms. America Pagent.
Cakes by Tricia Faye was gifting an assortment of their beautiful and tasty cake pops.
Energy drinks are everywhere these days but a new alternative to those calorie high and expensive cans is Fighter Energy. Fighter Energy comes in a container of 10 effervescent tablets that taste great and still give you all the punch of any energy drink. Just drop the tablet in a bottle of water and you are ready to go at a cost of only 5 calories.
Simbi Hair Bracelets were gifting their bracelets as well as spreading the word on their company whose goal is to create jobs in Haiti and improve the quality of life.
A big hit with the kids on this day was Galaxy Shooters. These easy to toys will make any kid feel as if they are launching a rocket into space.


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Schools in Montezuma Creek are anticipating a large number of new students, as Utah students from the Red Mesa area will no longer be able to attend school at the Red Mesa schools in Arizona.
The Arizona schools have been sending buses into Utah for years, and more than 100 Utah students attended the Arizona schools. Several months ago, Arizona announced that Utah students could no longer attend the schools.
Since that time, the Red Mesa School District has tried and failed, to date, to find a way to welcome the Utah students.
Red Mesa Superintendent Dr. Tommy Yazzie and Red Mesa Chapter President Herman Farley met with the San Juan School Board on August 7 to discuss the issue. However, since Arizona will not pay to educate the Utah students and Utah will not pay Arizona to educate Utah students, it appears as if the Utah students will attend school in Montezuma Creek.
Several parents of Red Mesa students asked the group to find a solution. They are concerned that their students, many of whom live very close to the Red Mesa schools, will spend too much time riding the bus to Montezuma Creek.
School board members expressed concern for the situation but explained that they cannot use funds set aside for students in Utah to educate students in Arizona.
Whitehorse High School and Montezuma Creek Elementary School held an open house on August 13 to welcome the new students and address community concerns.
The San Juan schools plan is to show evidence of the success at the schools. Schools in the San Juan School District have done better on No Child Left Behind measures than other schools on the reservation.
Ron Nielson, the district's elementary school supervisor, asked the Utah students to visit the schools in Montezuma Creek. "If you haven't been in our buildings recently, come and see what is really happening there. We are very involved tracking performance and can show how we are doing," said Nielson. "We want to focus on the positive things that are happening, rather than the negative things."
District official stressed that busses will run through the area, and that the district is committed to providing transportation to every student.
There will be many new faces to greet the students throughout the district. A total of 32 new professional staff have been hired in the 12 schools of the district. This is twice as many new employees as are usually hired.
In addition to new employees, there are new principals at five of the district schools, including Julie Holt at Monticello Elementary, Mark Burge at Blanding Elementary, Boyd Silversmith at Montezuma Creek Elementary, Sheryl Soderstrom at Tse'bii'nidzisgai Elementary, and Kim Bailey at Albert R. Lyman Middle School. In addition, there are four new assistant principals in the district.
Full time art teachers will greet students in high schools in Monticello, Montezuma Creek and Monument Valley. Funding for the positions came from the state legislature in an attempt to increase opportunities for students in small schools.
Monticello High School students will return to a newly remodeled school. Crews have been working day and night to complete the $2.5 million project, which includes a new roof, windows, plumbing and wiring. Several classrooms were remodeled, including the technology and distance education instructional areas. Hallways were spruced up, locker rooms remodeled and a new shine will greet students.
The project to build a new Monticello Elementary School moved forward at the August 7 meeting of the San Juan School Board. Plans were approved with a $10 million budget and Hughes Construction was hired as the construction management firm for the project.
School District Business Manager Clayton Holt said that extensive excavation work at the site will begin this fall. "The goal in timing this is to have Mother Nature work with us rather than against us," said Holt.
Dirt will be moved this fall with the intent to begin construction as soon as the snow melts in the spring. "We want to get everything out of the ground before the snow flies next fall," explained Holt.
The new school will open for students in August, 2014.
The new school will be built immediately west of the current school. The gymnasium, which will not be rebuilt, will be separate from the new building.
Holt explained that separating the buildings helps save nearly $1 million because it allows the current building to be used during the construction phase, rather than using temporary buildings for instruction.
When the old building is torn down, the area in front of the new school will be used for parking.
Other new changes for the school year include 300 new computers at Blanding Elementary School, new paint throughout Montezuma Creek Elementary School, and a newly paved parking lot at the district office in Blanding.


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The challengeThe Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT), in Shenzhen, China, is one of the biggest container terminals in the world. With 74 large cranes lining five deep water berths and 10 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers a year coming in and out of the terminal, keeping everything running smoothly and safely is a daunting challenge.
The solutionAs part of an ongoing YICT initiative to incorporate condition-based maintenance (CBM) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), SKF recently completed a three-year pilot program to provide continuous online monitoring on workhouse gearboxes on two cranes. The gearboxes power the roll drums that lower the heavy-duty wire cable used to transport heavy containers on and off ships and transport trucks.
The SKF online system uses vibration sensors placed outside the gearbox housing. Vibration data is sent to and stored on a server in the Engineering Control Center for later analysis. By constantly monitoring the vibration signals, YICT can analyze the health of the bearings and the likelihood of excessive bearing wear and gearbox failure. SKF also trained YICT engineers to interpret the vibration signals correctly.


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Researchers discover blood biomarker for Lou Gehrig's disease, could lead to new treatments
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) are the first to discover that changes in monocytes (a type of white blood cell) are a biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. This finding also brings the medical community a step closer toward a new treatment for the debilitating neurological disease that affects approximately 30,000 Americans.
The study will be published online in The Journal of Clinical Investigation on August 6, 2012.
In pre-clinical studies involving mice with an ALS gene mutation, the researchers saw that two months prior to ALS onset, monocytes in the spleen began exhibiting proinflammatory qualities. As disease onset loomed, there was an increase in cell-signaling molecules that directed monocytes to flood the spinal cord. Influx of these inflamed white blood cells was associated with nerve cell death in the spinal cord.
When the researchers treated the mice with antibodies to modulate the inflammatory monocytes, they found that it led to fewer monocytes entering the spinal cord, diminished nerve cell loss and extended survival.
After having observed these activities in mice, the BWH researchers, working with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) ALS Clinic and research team, found that there were similar monocytes in humans with ALS that also exhibited a disease-specific inflammatory signature.
"People have wondered if the immune system plays a role in neurological diseases like ALS," said Howard Weiner, MD, director of the BWH Multiple Sclerosis Program and senior study author. "The immune system is complicated, and previous immunotherapy trials have not been successful. But now we know what is wrong in the blood, and this opens up new therapeutic targets for ALS and perhaps other diseases in the near future."
Study co-author Merit Cudkowicz, MD, who heads the ALS program at MGH adds, "These findings identify a potential new target for developing treatments for people with ALS."
Oleg Butovsky, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology is first study author and lead scientist on the study.
Each year, approximately 5,600 people in the United States are diagnosed with ALS, a disease that affects nerve and muscle functioning, eventually leading to paralysis. The average age at diagnosis is 55 years old and half of those affected live at least three or more years after being diagnosed. Twenty percent live five years or more, and up to 10 percent will live more than ten years.
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DENVER Gov. John Hickenlooper endorsed some of his partys gun bills Thursday, in advance of whats expected to be a marathon debate today.
The House has reserved all day and night, if necessary for debate about four guns bills. They would require background checks for gun sales between private parties, ban concealed weapons at colleges, outlaw new high-capacity ammunition magazines and require gun buyers to pay for their own background checks.
Hickenlooper already has endorsed universal background checks. On Thursday, he said people should pay for their own background checks, as long as the government charges only the cost of the check and doesnt use the fee to raise money for other purposes.
The governor also said he is OK with a limit on ammunition magazines, although he is waiting to see a final bill. The current version limits magazines to 15 rounds.
Fifteen or 20 a number in there might make sense, Hickenlooper said.
He reserved judgment on the campus concealed-weapons bill.
House leaders said they are prepared to work past midnight to get the bills passed. If they stay on schedule, final passage in the House could come Monday.
I think the loyal opposition has a lot to say about this, and were going to allow them to say what they need to say, said House Majority Leader Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Boulder.


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"I'm excited for my free show for my hometown of Atlanta," B.o.B. told AllHipHop.com. "Not only will people be tuning in from MySpace Music but it will be syndicated on AllHipHop via Ustream, the first time this has ever been done before on two massive music sites. MySpace is just huge and I've been down with AllHipHop since the Breeding Ground, this is great."
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