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Back in the spring we reviewed the first of Sony's midrange Vaio E line, and we liked its combination of Core i3 processor, solid design, and an extremely comfortable keyboard and touch pad.
Sony recently updated the E series to include different screen sizes and newer features including Intel Wireless Display. The 14-inch Vaio EA 24FM/W is part of that new line, and it's a fixed retail configuration that includes a Core i3 processor, Blu-ray, and Intel Wireless Display connectivity for $799.
Stacked with ports and with a solid feel, this is a strong all-around laptop at an aggressive price, with only one Achilles heel: its midrange battery life.
Available in blue, pink, white, or black (ours was white), the EA24FM/W is an eye-catcher from the outside. A silvery white grid of dots on the glossy lid dissolves at the center and has a bit of a raised 3D effect. The clean, slightly curved lines of the EA create a smooth, even shape with no bottom or rear battery bulge. It's not the thinnest laptop around, but it's efficiently designed. If there's one drawback, it's an overly plastic feel: reminiscent a little of older-generation white MacBooks, the build materials on the Vaio EA24FM might feel a little less high-end and more budget-range.
The upper lid opens on dual hinges to a wider angle than many midsize notebooks. The silver-and-white theme continues inside, framing the all-white raised Chiclet-style keyboard that lacks a number pad, but is superlative otherwise. We waxed enthusiastic on the E series keyboard in a recent best keyboards roundup, and the quality still holds true here; writing using the large, responsive keys feels incredibly comfortable and crisp.
The touch pad, though not particularly large, is recessed and has a great texture to it, making for easy navigation. The buttons below are also somewhat perfectly sized with great click. OK, you got the idea: we love the keyboard and the touch pad.
One of the quirkier design twists on the Vaio E series is its use of colored keyboard skins, which doll up the already eye-catching laptop in odd color combinations. The $19.99 skins aren't cheap, but they're snug-fitting silicone keyboard covers that seamlessly rest on top of the keyboard. When on, they look as if the keyboard simply always came in neon green, pink, or purple. Though these skins are a clever idea for minor spill/crumb protection and for fashionistas/germophobes, the typing quality with the skin on takes a massive dive. For real writing, you have to get this keyboard naked.
Above the keyboard, a few dedicated buttons launch Vaio Care troubleshooting, Google's Chrome browser, and the Vaio media gallery app. They're not necessary. In fact, we'd have much preferred a dedicated button for Intel Wireless Display, a method of streaming video and audio to an HDTV that's a little buried in the software on the Vaio. Some users might not even be aware the technology exists in their laptop, especially since it requires an additional $99 Netgear-made plug-in box for your TV called Push2TV, which isn't included.
The glossy 16:9 ratio glossy 14-inch LED-backlit screen has a 1,366×768-pixel native resolution, which is common for laptop displays 15 inches and smaller. The screen has decent but not spectacular brightness, and looked best when playing Blu-ray movies, showing off good detail. However, the colors looked slightly more washed-out than on other recent laptops we've seen. The stereo speakers, situated above the keyboard and under plastic grilles, had good volume and clarity but didn't rise above the middle to provide real booming separation.
A 640×480-pixel Webcam took grainy video footage, and the still photos we took didn't look much better. It's fine for basic Web chatting and conferencing, but isn't professional quality.
Few ports have been left out from the Vaio EA's generous assortment: USB, eSATA, HDMI, even an ExpressCard slot. FireWire is missing–usually it's a standard on Vaios–but it's not often used anymore, honestly. We like that this Vaio at least has Bluetooth.
The Vaio EA24FM comes with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive, both decent for the $799 price. RAM can be expanded up to 8GB after purchase.
Like many sub-$1000 laptops we've seen recently, the Vaio EA24FM's CPU is an Intel Core i3 processor. The price-to-performance ratio on Core i3 processors has made us happy throughout 2010; though the Core i3 is technically the lowest rung on Intel's new Core-i series, it offers very good performance and general multimedia multitasking for most users.
The EA24FM has no dedicated Nvidia or ATI GPU, but its integrated Intel HD graphics are fine for HD video, streaming video, and even some casual and retro gaming. Plus, with streaming-gaming services such as OnLive, 3D games can be played on laptops without relying on dedicated graphics.
The included Blu-ray player/DVD burner is a nice touch, but the 720p-equivalent screen can't take advantage of the full-HD resolution of Blu-ray discs. They still look better than DVDs on the 14-inch screen, but to take advantage of the capabilities you'd really have hook up the laptop via HDMI to an HDTV. It's not that hard to do. Note: unfortunately, you can't use Intel Wireless Display to play Blu-ray discs on your HDTV (or DVDs, for that matter); the wireless video technology blocks such attempts, alas, because of licensing restrictions. Intel Wireless Display does work for streaming video such as Hulu.


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Celebrating 50 releases (and more!) by Black Lantern Music, established in 2009 by a collective of Scottish producers and emcees.
Over the years we have released a massive range of hip-hop, electronic and experimental music, taking in styles as diverse as jazz, techno, crunk, future bass, synth-pop, electro, alt.rap, math-rock, dark synth, chillwave, dubstep, ambient and doomcrunk... and that's just scratching the surface.
If you've never heard Black Lantern before, consider this an introduction - if you've been along for the ride for a while, we hope you'll find some old favourites.
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Slowly another city is revealing itself to me, a city where people are tired - not from working or from the bustle in the streets, which had impressed me so much at first, but from a harshness that's already been going on for quite some time.Zipper and his Father is the title of a book by Joseph Roth. I found a second-hand copy at a street stall tucked in between trashy crime novels and second-rate romances. I've known the author's name but have never read him before. On the back Nadine Gordimer recommends this as "his most tender book." It decribes a childhood friendship between Zipper and his father as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Although the book has nothing to do with Cairo, or even with Egypt for that matter, I recognized in the description of frau Zipper the words I was searching for to express the melancholy of downtown Cairo as I experienced it:
She lay behind a moist veil. It was as though her tears, ever ready for shedding, already lay over her eyes. She wore long blue aprons, which made her look like a second-class nurse. She moved through life in soft slippers. She never raised her voice. She often sighed and blew her nose. When she raised a handkerchief to her face one saw her hard, dry hands, the fingers of which were disproportional strong, as if artificially crafted onto a hand too weak for them. When on special occasions, she put on her black spangled dress, she looked even yellower than usual. And somehow frozen as if she had just been taken out of an icebox. She seemed stiff not out pride, but out of resignation, powerlessness, unhappiness and regret - even as she sat on her chair. She combed her thin colourless hair over her broad, high forehead, a sort of compulsive beautification, a measure taken against her own will, as if someone had done her hair while she lay in a deep trance and she hadn't looked in her mirror. Only frau Zipper's mouth now drooping and morose betrayed - on all too rare occasions when she smiled - a long since faded charm, a vanished beauty, a fullness, and, for a fraction of a second, a soft dimple, no longer a dimple but rather a ghost of one, would appear in her chin. Her smile, her rare smile, was like a faint memorial to her dead youth. Within her pale, moist eyes flickered a faint and distant light, soon extinguished again, like the blinking of a distant lighthouse.
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Al Dark - forever young
Recently I saw somebody that looked similar to an old school chum Al Dart.
Al had his own drummer. He was one of the few at Marietta High School that dressed in a black leather jacket, boots, and, of course, his hair was duck tailed style.
I think Al wore taps on his boots and he took big giant steps. You could hear him coming.
Al had his own sense of humor packaged and had good delivery. For a while his delivery was no punch line at all. He would say something like, "I got a new one. This man walks into a bar and…" (at this point, he would smile like he is ready to hit you with the punch line) "pulls a frog out of his shirt pocket!" then he would laugh and maybe say, "Get it!?" and walk away laughing shaking his head.
Another verbal delivery Al would like to pull was say something with a word dangling with for no reason, like he might say, "Rock! What are you (long pause) doing?"
"Did you see the movie at the Strand about…." And walk off.
The next day he would come up to you and say "China?" (or whatever the movie was about playing at the Strand then).
He was good as Andy Kaufman was delivering jokes, in a warped way. I think Al would plan them out – and plan a sequence to follow.
I think Al lived on Cascade Drive or one of the streets parallel to Cascade. Sometimes on Sunday morning I would drop by there to visit – a lot of times friend spent the night with him in his parents basement where he had a miniature pool table set up. He was pretty good playing pool on it.
After I got out of the Navy I worked three years for Sinclair Refining Company. I haven't Al in about 5 or 6 years.
Then one day I was walking down the loading platform of the warehouse and up walked Al Dart in a suit. He worked at the Sinclair Building on the other side of Atlanta. We recalled some of the great times we had we parted with smiles, thinking of old times.
He dropped dead shortly after that. I forgot why he died. But I do know he took his own blueprint with him when he went.
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Last summer my sister had remarked to her children "I have never had a birthday party"! She turned 75 today.
Last Saturday her daughters, our niece and I had a surprise 75 birthday party for her. It was at the church she has attended all her life. The turn out was WONDERFUL! Estimated attendance was 100 people. Nieces, nephews and cousins came for other states, many old friends and her church family attended. She was so very surprised. We were having a problem finding
I got a "Nook" tablet for Christmas. So far the only thing I have had success with is turning it on and off & working crosswords! There is SO MUCH to learn! I'm sure time will help and I will be spending entirely too much time on it. There is a way to access books from our local library but I haven't figured that one out yet. I can also surf the net and get e-mail (gotta learn that, too). Oh my, this is a not a curve this is a complete right or left turn. We will see if
This morning I went to pick up the mail from our mailbox and saw "the last rose of summer" looking beautiful but somewhat wilted. For some reason the follow came into my mind. Hope you enjoy it.
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This uncertainty isn't much talked about, but it should be considered in every single one of the tax measures on the ballot. You don't know how much in revenues anything will produce.
The Legislative Analyst's Office, the non-partisan body, took a hard look at Gov. Jerry Brown's initiative to raise, temporarily, sales taxes and income taxes on those who make $250,000 or more.
But the LAO's estimate of how much this tax increase would produce in taxes is, at $4.8 billion, more than $2 billion less than Gov. Brown's estimate of $6.9 billion.
This discrepancy isn't a product of any wishful thinking on the governor's part. It's the nature of the volatile budget and tax system.
The volatility is a significant issue with a tax hike that relies on the rich -- since so much of their income depends on volatile, hard-to-predict investment returns (as opposed to more stable wages). As the LAO explains:
The volatility described above makes it difficult to forecast this measure's state revenue gains from high-income taxpayers. As a result, the estimates from our two offices of this measure's annual revenue increases vary. Between 2013‑14 and 2015‑16 (the three years in which both the PIT and SUT increases would be in effect for the entire fiscal year), the LAO currently forecasts an average annual increase in state revenues of $5.5 billion, and [Governor Brown's Department of Finance] DOF currently forecasts an average annual increase in state revenues of $6.9 billion. For the 2012‑13 budget, the LAO forecasts this measure would generate $4.8 billion of additional revenues, and DOF forecasts $6.9 billion of additional revenues.
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Santa Monica, CA - August 7, 2012 - GSN (formerly Game Show Network) announced the lineup of competitors for its brand-new original series THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE. Jeff Foxworthy hosts this one-hour game show in which faith-filled players compete to demonstrate their superior knowledge of scripture. THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE will premiere Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 8 pm ET/PT on GSN.
The tournament starts with 18 three-person teams - three teams in each of the first six episodes. The winning teams from each of those six episodes will advance to play in two semi-final games. During the final round, one team will be named champions of THE AMERICAN BIBLE CHALLENGE.
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Hometown: Pasadena, CA
Charity: Oasis USA, an organization dedicated to ending human trafficking
Team Members: Drew Vinson (student); Sam Altis (student); Matthew Blanton (student). These buddies and neighbors may like to joke around, but when it comes to their weekly trivia events, they are serious competitors. Each grew up as a Christian, but didn't come to the full realization of his faith until adulthood.
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Charity: Shriner's Hospital for Children, a hospital that has treated Diane's son at no charge
Team Members: Andrea Goeke (self-employed); Robin Long (substitute teacher); Diana Marshall (office manager). Close friends and co-workers, these three women have each felt God working in their lives - as in Andrea's husband's battle with leukemia and Diane's 2-year-old son's treatment for infantile scoliosis, a severe curvature of the spine.
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Charity: Locks of Love, an organization that provides hairpieces to children suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis
Team Members: Crystal Evans (private caregiver); Amber Marsh (stay-at-home mom); Deborah Odehnal (student/office manager). These drama-loving women put on plays for their Sacramento church. As a missionary's daughter growing up in Papua New Guinea, Amber would stay up all night reading the Bible. Amber finds her creative outlet in the church plays. Debbie is a breast cancer survivor and mother of nine who does mission work around the world.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Charity: The Saint Baldrick's Foundation, a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers
Team Members: Eric Nagao (firefighter); Ryan Shook (firefighter); Frank Evaro (firefighter). After spending countless hours with one another, this group of firefighters has grown very close; they share a passion for competition and for their faith. Being in such a dangerous occupation, they have to rely on their faith quite often. They frequently gather after a long day of work to reflect and pray together.
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Charity: Foodlink Inc., an organization that feeds the hungry in Sacramento
Team Members: Stephen Law (student); Michael Chen (assistant industrial hygienist); Ed Law (business owner). These three call themselves "the Jeremy Lins of Bible trivia." Ed, who owns a window cleaning business, has always taught his six kids to lead a Christian life. His son Stephen is a high school sophomore who is passionate about knowing God. Michael is Stephen's youth pastor and fellow competitor in bizarre eating contests.
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Charity: Hope Center, a charity that provided Samantha with a free sonogram
Team Members: Samantha Jesse (waitress); Samantha's mom, Mae Lynn Biggs (nanny); Lesley Hill (event planner). This is a feisty group of women who love God and have each found their faith tested. Mae Lynn helped her daughter Samantha with her pregnancy in college and Mae Lynn's best friend, Lesley, provides support to the family and is a sympathetic shoulder whenever they need it.
Hometown: Charlotte, NC
Charity: Samaritan's Purse, Franklin Graham's ministry providing relief after global disasters
Team Members: Roger Tench (retired fire captain); Bill Henderson (realtor); Chris Kidd (nuclear security maintenance specialist). Each of these longtime friends has been saved for decades and has found his faith put into play in different ways. From the time Roger's wife was diagnosed with cancer to the time when Bill helped his community during the housing crisis by selling homes for no charge.
Hometown: Sleepy Hollow, IL
Charity: The American Cancer Society
Team Members: Jonathan Horn (music teacher); Blase Horn (student); Adam Horn (student). These young brothers come from a large Italian-American Catholic family, many of whom live on the same street in Chicago. Each has found his faith tested when their grandfather died of cancer, a disease that has also struck several of their aunts and uncles.
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Charity: Joshua's Place Church, the only integrated church in their county in Georgia
Team Members: Olivia Moncrief (student); Katlyn Moncrief (executive assistant); Patsy "Memaw" Burnette (writer). These two sisters and their adventure-loving grandmother love playing Bible trivia. Olivia is a modern-day hippie who wants to work with kids; Katlyn used her faith to overcome low self-esteem; and Memaw watches over her granddaughters -- when she's not planning her upcoming skydiving trip.
Hometown: Orange County, CA
Charity: Hunter's Hope, an organization that raises awareness of Krabbe Disease, an illness that Cristina's firstborn son battled
Team Members: Drake Levasheff (college administrator); Christina Levasheff (author); Dean Bobar (pastoral assistant). This highly spirited team consists of married couple Drake and Christina and their dear friend Dean who they met during a very life changing time. They have been rock solid friends ever since, and share a very unique and special bond.
Hometown: Plano, TX
Charity: Minnie's Food Pantry, a charity that provides healthy food for families in need
Team Members: Lanett Patt (stay-at-home mom); Cheryl Jackson (President, Minnie's Food Pantry); Lynette Shofner (small-business owner). Sisters Cheryl and Lynette are pastor's kids, and Minnie's Food Pantry, which provides healthy food for families in need, is named after their mother. Sister-in-law Lanett works with Lynette on Sisters of Savings (SOS), a subscription coupon list that enables people to save and donate their extra food.
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Charity: The Power Team, a group that spreads the word of God through strength and martial arts skills
Team Members: Jamie Morrison (Power Team speaker); Dallas Morrison (stay-at-home mom); Matt Dopson (Power Team speaker). Jamie, formerly a troubled kid who turned to God, and Matt, who never drank and saved himself for marriage, work with the Power Team. Jamie's wife, Dallas, is the former road manager for the Power Team, but now stays home to raise the kids.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Charity: The Black AIDS Institute, an organization which focuses on AIDS in the black community
Team Members: Daryl Vinson (business owner); Roderick Leak Sr. (biology teacher); Aaron Anderson (motivational teacher). Daryl credits God with his miraculous recovery from heart failure. Aaron found God after going to church to attract a girl's attention. Roderick grew up going to church. Now these longtime friends spread the word of God through "holy hip-hop."
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Charity: Created Treasures Performing Arts Academy, a school that uses the arts to teach and heal
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Charity: City Crossroads, a nonprofit serving the Sacramento community
Team Members: Ron Milton (deputy sheriff); Ned Schaut (health insurance broker); Ricky Borba (media production). These rambunctious young best friends are Bible-study buddies. Ron is a Purple Heart-awarded Iraq War vet who ministers to prison inmates; Ned wants to build a skate park to minister to teens; and Ricky hopes to make Christian films and TV more mainstream.
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Charity: Masters Commission Atlanta, a faith-based leadership training program for recent high school graduates
Team Members: Adam Hulme (teacher); Bethany Shay (executive assistant); Jordan Marcon (school director). These longtime friends met through their work at the non-profit Masters Commission. Both Adam and Bethany had their faith strengthened during serious health crises; Jordan found his faith after a troubled high school career, when he joined Masters Commission.
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Things didn't look good for Goolwa, a drought-stricken Australian outpost best known for yacht racing and rabble-rousing — that is, until one salty boat-rigger rallied the locals and helped bring his town back from the brink
Author RACHEL STURTZ
"IF I COULD'VE CAUGHT A FISH, I would've let it pull us," says Nigel Kies, exhausted and broiled a painful shade of fuchsia. He swallows half a can of XXXX Gold — a beer made by a brewery that could sustain itself solely on the patronage of Kies' fellow Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club members — but the brew does little to ease the ravages of a long, long day. Kies, quick to smile and, at 33, one of the younger guys on the scene, was among the crew on the Beth, a World War II-era fishing boat, for today's race: the Marina Hindmarsh Island 2012 Milang Goolwa Freshwater Classic. The Beth is owned by Randal Cooper, who's usually a man of many words (more on that in a moment), but he's through with them tonight. So into the breach steps Kies.
On a good day, sailors competing in the 158-year-old, 50-kilometer yacht race off South Australia navigate the River Murray's shallow trenches, their spinnakers pregnant with the winds whipping up from the Indian Ocean, tacking swift and knotting well into the double digits. On the rare bad day — and judging by the sun-scorched faces and halfhearted ribbing at the awards ceremony, this was a bad day — the wind's near-absence leaves 194 sailboats with sails limp as tablecloths, hulls bobbing, sailors cooking in 97-degree heat and cracking cans before 10 a.m. and, in a few solemn cases, motors grumbling surrender. Today, only a Hobie Cat filled its sails during the first leg on Lake Alexandrina, and that was because a news chopper hovered too low and delivered a 100-mile-per-hour blast of wind directly onto it.
It wasn't the ideal way to welcome back the largest freshwater sailing race in the Southern Hemisphere, one that Australia's decade of drought had put on hold since 2007, when the Goolwa Channel became a mudflat, the Murray a stream, and the soil an acidic mess. Back then, as the drought tightened its grip, one of Australia's leading hydrologists came to Goolwa to tell the community that in six months there would be no water, it would be devastating and there was nothing to be done about it. That gave Randal Cooper an idea — an idea that, in time, would transform this rowdy "bogan" (more on that in a moment, too) into the town's unlikely leader.
WHEN THE RAIN FALLS ON Victoria or Queensland or New South Wales, it makes its way to the caramel-colored River Murray. When Mother Nature cooperates, the river brims. It courses past the dry plains of the river valley, where it is, somewhat controversially, siphoned off to farmers who raise cattle and grow cotton and rice there. It continues on to Lake Alexandrina, a 250-square-mile lake just 10 feet deep, and then arrives at the Goolwa Barrage, a man-made barrier between freshwater and the Southern Ocean, 56 miles south of Adelaide. During good years, the River Murray should reach the barrage with 58 percent of its natural flow. During a drought, it can disappear altogether. In a town like Goolwa, population 6,000, losing water can mean losing everything.
Which brings us to Randal Cooper. Cooper, 54, is the man behind Goolwa Masts & Welding, and here in his shop — a pole barn ribbed with steel masts and filled with welders, tools, girlie calendars and enough grease to grow hair on your chest as soon as you step inside — he has built many things. A reputation for keeping quiet, however, is not one of them. You see, Cooper grew up as a Huck Finn type of kid: leveraging common sense and guile to confound adults, clever in a way that most book-bred kids dream about, and irreverent just because. After infuriating headmasters by questioning the system, and figuring he wouldn't get far with his dyslexia anyway, Cooper left school at 16 and began apprenticing to a builder.
Cooper considers himself a "bogan," an Australian label that roughly translates as "swamp person," "redneck" or "hick," depending on which way you want to go. He's short on teeth and his close-set eyes and beak nose almost make him an Aussie version of Robin Williams. He wears a beige collared T-shirt most days because when he tried it on, he liked it, and decided to buy 10 more. He dons a skipper hat because he'd rather waive the captain's role (safety, responsibility) in favor of the one whose sole concern is boat speed. There's also a sizable gut, but Cooper swears it's temporary — he's cutting back on beer this fall.
He'd never been a political person. But in 2009, when the drought was at its worst and the River Murray was more of a trickle, Cooper watched his town die. Mechanics, tradesmen, apprentices lost their earnings. The riverbed, exposed to air, turned into toxic acid sulfate soil that caused breathing problems and rashes. Salinity in the water jumped 50 percent. And at the yacht club's marina, the number of boats dropped from 106 to fewer than 30. Of those 30, some were simply moored in the mud, listing to starboard. "My mates and I sat around counting one day," Cooper says, "and 32 families had lost their income because of water. And that's only within the boating business." Someone had to do something. After the meeting at which the aforementioned hydrologist came to town to tell everyone it was over, the locals anointed Cooper.
At first he was hesitant to take to the soapbox. "I told them, 'You don't want me to talk, I'm just a bloody yacht-rigger,'" he says. "'I'm not a learned person, I don't have the gift for gab, I can't get up and get the audience in the palm of my hand, and then lead to some massive crescendo and applause. I just want my town back.'" Nevertheless, Cooper began doing his research. He discovered that farmers upriver used storage dams to hoard water for their fields, and that the government-regulated water allocations to farmers didn't lower along with the water level until much later in the drought. In places like Spain and America, he knew, water allocation is assigned based on the output at the river mouth. If the river runs low one month, everyone along it gets less water. This drought affected everyone along the Murray, but no one had to sacrifice like those on the lower lakes.
"It felt like one of those old movies where a town was shrouded in darkness because of a curse," says Cooper. "It felt like nothing could get done. I began working with people, and we called ourselves Goolwa Needs Water Now." Cooper's solution was simple — reduce farmers' water allocations upriver to give Goolwa more freshwater, or open the Goolwa Barrage to let in seawater. "I didn't care what kind of water it was, I just wanted them to put something back in the pond."
AUSSIES ARE A TOUGH BUNCH. They've lived off of rainwater for generations. Kangaroos delay the growth of their embryos during hard times. Plants flourish after brush fires. It's a continent bred on hardship. But while many of the old-timers in Goolwa maintained a defiant attitude to this latest drought, invoking the mantra "The land won't break us," they weren't exactly ready to stand idly by. These were men raised in the bush at a time when people were strung up for lesser crimes than political inaction. Some of them had been through wars, they told Cooper. Some knew how to blow things up. A barrage, for instance.
"You know what one of them told me? 'I'm 90 years old, what are they going to do? Put me in jail for four years?'" Cooper laughs. "I told him he'd kill himself, and he said, 'Well, put a nice plaque up in the main street, will ya?'"
Instead, Cooper grabbed a bunch of buckets and 20 people, and bucket by bucket began quenching the thirsty Murray with the Southern Ocean. Since Adelaide draws its drinking supply from the lower lakes, this show of defiance risked a $10,000 fine, even though the height of the ocean was nearly 5 feet above the Murray and saltwater had already broken through. When a cop did show up, he informed the crew that he was there only to make sure a fight didn't break out, and when asked, he ended up lending a hand. The news crews and photographers spread the story.
With the success of his bucket brigade, Cooper printed up and handed out 4,000 Goolwa Needs Water Now postcards to local businesses, which then mailed them in and brought the state government's postal system to a grinding halt. Next, the community sent two paper reams' worth of letters. Eventually, the committee rallied 5,000 people to the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide.
"Last year, I was being rowdy at a bar somewhere, and a guy came up and asked if I was Randal Cooper," says Cooper. "I said, 'Yep!' And he told me that the campaign me and my friends ran down in Goolwa was the best they'd ever seen. He used to be one of the advisers to the premier. In the end, the premier said to do whatever it takes to shut those people up."
In 2009, the government built a regulator to dam the Goolwa Channel and pump in water from Lake Alexandrina to cover the acidic soil. For all the attending controversy, it worked. Of course, a year later, floodwaters made it down from Queensland, rendering the long-awaited aid moot, but, as Cooper points out, "at least we'll be better prepared for the next drought."
AS THE SETTING SUN GLEAMS off the Murray, the happy slapping sound of the opaque water on the yacht club's dock feels ephemeral — as if at any minute, Mother Nature could change her mind and let the river dry up and the sailboats bare their underbellies and get stuck in the slop once more. But that feeling is why the men of the Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club can't help but take a long swig and a long look at that sinfully beautiful carve of river and be happier than they can remember. Because they know that even without the wind, the sailors could gather for war stories and their wives could put on pearls and mingle over white bread-wrapped sausages; they know the kids could play on the dock and their mothers could worry about them falling into water, not mud; they know Don Richardson, the yacht club's commodore, could shine his white shoes and sport his all-white uniform, chest puffed, with a smile wider than the Murray. This whole joyous feeling is summed up perfectly by Mayor Kym McHugh at the awards presentation.
After climbing the stairs of the dark green semi-trailer, McHugh stands above a folding table gleaming with trophies and addresses a crowd of 300 sunburned, exhausted and smiling people. "What a tremendous thing," he says. "Sailing is back in Goolwa."
RACHEL STURTZ, a writer living in Denver, got the distinct honor of firing the starting shotgun for one of the sailing heats at the Classic (and fired it one second too early).
What a great story on Goolwa. To check when the next Goolwa Sailing Race is happening or to learn more about South Australia, check out http://us.southaustralia.com
We are a resilient bunch of boaties at Goolwa and it just shows what people will do with a passion for our mighty Murray River so Australia will take notice! Great story Rachel, come and visit Goolwa again perhaps for the next South Australian Wooden Boat Festival on at Goolwa 23 & 24 February 2013 and yes we have water!!!!


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DRHOOK- Breathe easy: Lungs no place for foreign objects
Choke? I used to choke in golf– 100% of the time. When I competed, when I tried out for the high school golf team, when I had an amazing score going into the 18th hole.
"Wow, I'm doing great! I might break par."
Flash forward: sand trap, water hazard, out of bounds, lightning strike.
What happens if you end up with something in your lungs?
Aspiration means inhaling something into the windpipes/lungs. We cough and gag to bring up food, dust, and objects and keep them from going into our trachea and down into the lungs. However, most adults who aspirate a foreign body don't recall ever choking, gagging, or coughing when something goes down the wrong pipe.
Ron Sveden, the pea man, is a senior citizen with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, COPD. He's also a Jolly Green Giant because a surgeon found a pea plant growing in his lungs. (Is this like the Princess who couldn't sleep because of the pea 20 mattresses below?)
I suspect because of his COPD, he couldn't cough hard enough to keep a pea from going down his windpipe (must have had butter on it).
Though foreign bodies down the windpipe occur mostly in kids (80 percent of cases), adults are most likely to inhale veggies, bones, and watermelon seeds. After all, who eats watermelon that isn't seedless? You end up spitting the seeds out more than enjoying the watermelon (the greatest fruit in the world, in my opinion).
When something is stuck in the airways, a chest x-ray will often show a hyperinflated lung because the object kind of acts as a ball-valve letting air in but not out. In the case of Sveden, his lung collapsed because– well, the pea plant sprouted and totally blocked any air from coming in. Hold the Miracle Grow, Batman!
I don't know about this one, but in 2009 in Russia, a person reportedly had a tiny sprout of a fir tree growing in his lungs. I know fungus can grow in the lungs, but a pine tree to spruce things up?
Things that have been pulled up from the trachea (windpipe before it splints in two to the right and the left lung) include seeds, small particles from weeds and plants, tacks, screws, nails, pills, dental debris and prosthetics. One woman claimed she swallowed her night guard, but I think she just lost it under her bed because those are pretty darn big.
Kids put peas up their nose, and toys, and pens– well, you get the point. In an emergency for objects lodged in their breathing pipes, a rigid bronchoscope can locate and sometimes remove the object. In fact, the bronchoscope was "invented" in 1987 in Germany when Gustav Killian pulled a pork bone out of a farmer's trachea using an esophagoscope.
Getting the foreign body out should be done faster than answering an RVSP to an Oprah Winfrey dinner party. A foreign body can kill someone, although it's interesting many adults don't have breathing problems.
More common symptoms of the uninvited lung guest include coughing, chest pains, and fever. Coughing up blood to wheezing can occur.
I don't know if the surgeon extracted the pea plant from Sveden during flexible bronchoscopy. I assume he did, because Sveden isn't having the same breathing problems he did for the past two months.
So choking can be a good thing– as long as you get the sucker out. You never want to be like a pea in a pod– if the pod is your lung.
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a renowned physician with an interesting website, drjohnhong.com. Email him with your questions.


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Israel's 'Iron Dome' reportedly intercepts 13 rockets from Gaza in wake of airstrike on Hamas commander
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli military says its "Iron Dome" defense system intercepted 13 rockets fired from Gaza on Wednesday in what appears to be retaliation for Israeli airstrikes that reportedly killed 10, including the commander of the Hamas military wing.
The Israeli military said the some 20 airstrikes were part of a major offensive dubbed "Operation Pillar of Defense," Reuters reports.
"All options are on the table. If necessary, the (Israeli military) is ready to initiate a ground operation in Gaza," it said.
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel cannot tolerate continued rocket attacks against its citizens. In his first comments since Israel killed the commander of the Hamas military wing, Netanyahu said Israel is "prepared to expand the operation."
Hamas has responded with threats of retaliation.
"The occupation has opened the gates of hell," the armed wing of Hamas reportedly said.
"Israel has declared war on Gaza and they will bear the responsibility for the consequences," Islamic Jihad reportedly said.
Ahmad Jabari, the commander of military wing of Hamas, was the most senior Hamas official to be killed since the last war in Gaza ended in early 2009. He has long topped Israel's most-wanted list, blamed for a string of deadly attacks, including the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006.
The offensive followed a weekend exchange of rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israel and Israeli airstrikes. Seven Palestinians were killed and several Israelis were wounded.
The military said its aircraft targeted more than 20 facilities that served as storage or launching sites for rockets. Among the weapons destroyed were rockets that could hit as far as 25 miles into Israel.
Plumes of black smoke wafted into Gaza City's skies following at least five airstrikes there. Sirens blared as people ran in panic in the streets and militants fired angrily into the air. Hamas police cordoned off the area around a hospital where at least one body from the strike was taken. It was draped in a white sheet, with a burnt leg poking out.
Gaza Health Minister Dr. Mufeed Mkhallalati said a total of 10 people were killed, including Jabari, and 45 wounded, 10 of them in critical condition. Among the dead were three civilians, including an 11-month-old and a 6-year-old.
Hamas announced a state of emergency in the territory. It evacuated all its security buildings.
Outside the hospital where Jabari's body was taken, Hamas official Khalil al-Haya eulogized the commander and threatened Israel.
"The battle between us and the occupation is open and it will end only with the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem," he said.
Thousands of angry Gazans chanted "Retaliation" and "We want you to hit Tel Aviv tonight."
Witnesses said Jabari was traveling in a vehicle in Gaza City when the car exploded. Crowds of people and security personnel rushed to the scene of the strike, trying to put out the fire that had engulfed the car and left it a charred shell. The Israeli military released a grainy, black-and-white video of the airstrike. It shows a sedan moving slowly along a road before exploding in a powerful blast that sent a large piece of the car flying into the air.
"After a couple of days on ongoing rocket attacks toward Israeli civilians, the (Israeli military) chief of staff has authorized to open an operation against terror targets in the Gaza Strip," military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovitch said.
She said Jabari had "a lot of blood of his hands" and that the military chief "authorized different targets" as well.
Dovish Israeli lawmaker Dov Hanin condemned the killing.
"Assassinating leaders is never the solution. In place of the leaders killed, other will grow, and we will only get another cycle of fire and blood," he said.
The assassination threatened to further damage Israel's relations with Egypt, which is governed by Hamas' ideological counterpart, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt recalled its ambassador to Israel in the wake of the Israeli airstrikes.
In a statement read on state TV late Wednesday, spokesman Yasser Ali said that President Mohammed Morsi recalled the ambassador and asked the Arab League's Secretary General to convene an emergency ministerial meeting in the wake of the Gaza violence.
Israel and Egypt signed a peace accord in 1979. Relations, never warm, have deteriorated since longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising last year.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Jeff Long Introduced As Playoff Committee Chairman
Razorback athletic director meets with media, committee announced
University of Arkansas Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Jeff Long was introduced as the first ever chairman of college football's new playoff selection committee at a news conference Wednesday.
The 13 members of the committee, made up of former college football players, coaches, administrators, media and sitting athletic directors, were all announced by executive director Bill Hancock.
Long, who was hired by Arkansas in 2007 and became athletic director in 2008, has 35 years of experience in coaching and administration, and has served at eight NCAA Divison I schools. He was named one of the four recipients of the Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year award this past June.
"The management committee unanimously selected Jeff for this position because of his intellect, judgment, integrity, sheer talent and the deep that everyone in college football holds for him," Hancock said. "And he is fixing to become one of the best-known people in college football."
"I could not be more pleased and excited to be participating on this committee," Long said. "For me, personally, being named chairman of the selection committee is certainly an unparalleled honor."
The other committee members are former University of Wisconsin head football coach and current athletic director Barry Alvarez; United States Air Force Lieutenant General Mike Gould; University of Southern California athletic director Pat Haden; former NCAA director of events Tom Jernstedt; West Virginia University athletic director Oliver Luck; former All-American and NFL quarterback Archie Manning; former University of Nebraska head football coach and athletic director Tom Osborne; Clemson University athletic director Dan Radakovich; former U.S. Secretary of State and Stanford University provost Condoleezza Rice; former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese; longtime college sports writer Steve Wieberg; and Tyrone Willingham, who coached at three Division I schools.
"Today is an exciting day for all fans of college football," said Long. We already have a great game, but we're getting ready to make the postseason even better."
Hancock said each member of the committee will serve a three-year term. The end dates of each term will be staggered, but that schedule has not yet been determined.


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SKF signs agreements with Scania worth SEK 360 million
2014 October 09, 09:00 CEST
Gothenburg, Sweden, 9 October 2014: SKF has signed two agreements with Scania, totalling SEK 360 million, for the supply of wheel bearings and high pressure valve stem seals.
Tryggve Sthen, President, SKF Automotive says, "It is truly rewarding to see our solutions contributing to Scania's development of energy efficient trucks. This is a result of our long-term engineering partnership with Scania, which is built on shared values. Both companies are committed to the highest levels of sustainability, in the work we do and the solutions we provide."
These SKF bearings can be assembled quickly and cost-effectively. They also allow for longer maintenance intervals, reducing the total cost of ownership for truck owners. Deliveries will start in Q2 2015.
Part of the SKF BeyondZero portfolio, SKF's high pressure valve stem seals are designed to withstand the extreme pressure levels generated by modern down-sized and turbo-boosted engines. The solution's reliability and high performance levels help contribute to improved truck engine efficiency. This agreement is an extension of existing business.
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Developing for the iPhone in Windows...sort of
First a bit of stunning news, or maybe just news depending on your viewpoint, the number of iPhone apps has surpassed the number of MS Mobiles Apps. According to 148Apps which keeps a running count of AppStore applications sliced and diced by month of submission, price and category, the the total count today stands at 28,408, far beyond the closest competition offered by Microsoft Windows Mobile with latest estimates hovering around the 20,000 mark. in fact, the pace seems to be accelerating, the number of new apps for the first two months of this year, 10,584, has already outpaced the biggest 3 months of last year coming in at 9,901 apps. based on the numbers from 148Apps.
This data is also support by mobile analytics firm Mobclix, showing Apple's AppStore offering 29.501 mobile applications as of this writing, consisting of 6,678 free apps and 22,823 paid apps.
Also of note is a report from the web metrics firm Net Applications which issued a survey of the mobile search market showing the iPhone emerging with a commanding lead. The data shows that 63% or nearly 2/3 of all mobile Web searches for the month of March came from an iPhone.
This is exciting news for developers looking for a captive large and expanding market. But the only way to develop iPhone applications currently is on a Mac. Simulator or iPhone, using XCode and Objective C right? Well technically speaking this is only partially true and there is now an alternative for Windows programmers. ComponentOne has introduced a new product in a Community Technology Preview or CTP named Studio for iPhone. According to ComponentOne the product enables programmers to combine the power of ASP.NET with the sleek iPhone interface. So Windows programmers can create web applications that run on the iPhone, in the browser and look and feel like a native iPhone app, almost. There are some subtle issues like whole page transitions instead of partial page transitions you find in native iPhone apps. In fact overall the feel is similar to the difference between a web app and a desktop app, makes sense. I haven't looked how an an ASP.NET application will fare with the AppStore approval committee but its an interesting product.


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2 teaspoons chopped garlic
1 onion, diced
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 lbs. vegetarian ground beef
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon basil
½ teaspoon pepper
2 packages sliced mushrooms
½ cup red wine
2 jars marinara sauce
In a large pot, sauté the garlic and onion in oil over medium heat. Add the vegetarian ground beef and cook until no longer pink. Stir in spices. Add mushrooms and sauté for 3 to 5 minutes. Add the wine and let it cook down. Stir in the sauce and simmer for about 1-1/2 hours. A hearty and popular dinner.
Other vegetables can be added with the vegetarian beef – shredded carrots, peppers of any colors, eggplant – but my family are purists.


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I have a Lv1 Razorclaw Shifter, Predator Druid with +5 WIS mod.
If I'm in beast form and I attack with Grasping Claws, is it really just +5 vs Reflex?
I don't have a bonus from any implements and I'm under the impression that you drop your weapons (plus he's not Wolverine, a sword in his paw would be weird). Is there any other attack bonus that I'm missing? Am I proficient with claws?


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Pioneer's New Mixtrax Technology Puts a New Spin on the Music Experience
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. continues to innovate entertainment and audio technologies and today introduces MIXTRAX™, a proprietary technology which creates a nonstop mix of an entire music library to create a club-like atmosphere. Designed for music lovers and the club-going audience, MIXTRAX takes the music from an iPhone/iPod or USB/SD device and plays it back with added transitions and effects creating a virtual DJ inside select Pioneer products. Derived from Pioneer's experience in developing world-renowned professional DJ products, MIXTRAX is implemented in a variety of worldwide Pioneer car audio products and STEEZ products designed for the dance community.
"Music has a unique ability to affect our moods, our feelings, and even our energy levels. With MIXTRAX, the listener hears the same kind of high-energy, nonstop mix they'd hear in a club or at a party, but now created seamlessly from their own music collection," said Andy Parsons, senior vice president at Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. "Pioneer's MIXTRAX technology combines our rich DJ heritage with our passion for music and delivers a unique DJ infused listening experience to our customers."
Pioneer's MIXTRAX technology transforms a consumer's music library into customizable tracks that can be processed by select Pioneer products. Using Pioneer's free MIXTRAX music management software, the user's entire music collection is analyzed and various musical attributes including tempo and beats per minute (BPM) are identified. The software then tags each song and creates an assortment of playlists categorized in different genres and musical styles such as Beat, Chill, and Thump. The advanced analysis of the software identifies the best transition points of each song in the music library and seamlessly mixes and blends the tracks together, much like a DJ performing live.
Additionally, the Mix Style can be selected between Active, Standard and Simple, adjusting the intensity of the effects and transitions used, and the duration of each track within the mix. The custom MIXTRAX playlists can be transferred to a USB/SD memory device (not included) and played through an assortment of Pioneer in-car Audio Video products (see model list below) and STEEZ products, as well as transferred directly into STEEZ products for playback. Pioneer's in-car Audio Video receiver takes advantage of its large LCD touchscreen by animating the album art of the currently playing track in time with the mix, creating a truly unique in-vehicle music experience.
To easily and quickly enjoy nonstop mix of music, a simpler version of the technology called MIXTRAX EZ is built-in to several Pioneer in-dash products for both in-car CD receivers and in-car Audio Video receivers. Featured in new in-car CD receivers (see model chart below), three types of DJ-style transitions (Flanger, Echo and Crossfade) and six sound effects (Backspin 1 and 2, Echo, Trans, Roll and Scratch) are automatically added between songs for a nonstop, continuous listening experience.
To further enhance the "dance club in your car" atmosphere, the illumination buttons and display of the in-car CD receivers pulsates and changes color. Two modes of illumination (defeatable), each with six color patterns, create different light effects to give users a cool and fun experience.
The third in-vehicle implementation of MIXTRAX is in an iPhone App that can be used with Pioneer's revolutionary AppRadio™, the first in-vehicle product designed to utilize the smartphone's processing power, storage capacity, network connectivity and apps as the primary source for its information and entertainment capabilities. Similar to the MIXTRAX software, the MIXTRAX iPhone App compares the tracks stored in the iPhone's music library with Pioneer's list of analyzed music stored in its Internet servers to identify musical characteristics and create custom playlists with DJ style effects and transitions for a nonstop mix of songs that can be played back and controlled through the Pioneer AppRadio.
Microsite: http://www.mixtrax-global.com
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The MIXTRAX feature is available in the following car electronics products:
|United States
AppRadio (SPH-DA01)
|CD receiver
CD receiver
Audio Video receiver
iPhone receiver
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|Asia, Middle East, Africa, Oceania
SPH-DA01 (Australia)
|CD receiver
CD receiver
Audio Video receiver
iPhone receiver
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Pioneer electronics Asia Centre Pte Ltd
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Table of Contents
Frontier Kernel Project
High-performance Web content management, object database, system-level and Internet scripting environment, including source code editing and debugging.
Frontier was originally a commercial product published by Userland Software. In September 2004, it was released as open source under the GPL license. For details, see Frequently Asked Questions about releasing Frontier as open source, part of the developers joined Intellect Soft, mobile app company of UK. A group of developers have pitched in on a SourceForge project to maintain and further develop the Frontier Kernel.
Getting Started
What type of Frontier user are you?
- User: Head to the Download page and pick one of the pre-compiled Developer Preview packages for your platform. Install the software and send the developers some feedback.
- UserTalk scripter: Subscribe to the developer's mailing list and offer to help. There are plenty of new verbs that need documentation and a testing suite (fUnit) that needs maintenance.
- C programmers: The heart and soul of Frontier is the kernel. The kernel controls the Frontier experience from the user interface to running the scheduler, the UserTalk compiler and more. The core developers are advancing the kernel code rapidly toward a clean compile with modern development environments but there is always a need for the new coder and the experienced veteran. Areas with the greatest need would include a cross-platform user interface codebase.
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My favorite route from the 14th St. bridge is to ride on the sidewalk on Basin, then jump on Ohio Dr. (at the crossing where Ohio comes under 395 from East Potomac Park) and ride that to 15th up to Jefferson (which is awesome in the evening) then left on 3rd, right on Constitution, up the hill, right on 1st NE, then left on East Cap. Kinda convoluted but it's the most bike friendly route in my experience. It's also the same route I use when coming back from the CCT, but obviously the approach is different. Another option I sometimes take is to turn right from Ohio onto Maine, then left on 7th to I and then across town to New Jersey, right down to K, left to 5th SE and up from there (it's one way north with a bike lane and turns into 6th when you zig under the freeway).ReplyDelete
As far as E-W from the hill, I take East Cap to Const. to Penn, all the way into G-town. Penn west of the White House is usually pretty dead and the only real obstacle is Wash. Circle, but at 6am it's no problem. From there I hit the Custis, but it would put you right back on the route you were taking before the move.


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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) Ella Ellis scored 23 points, making all 11 of his free throws, and Kyle Wilson added 21 as Army pulled away from Holy Cross 80-66 Wednesday night.
The Black Knights (10-11, 3-3 Patriot League), who won two consecutive games for the first time since Dec. 22, trailed 20-13 when Ellis hit three free throws at the 9:20 mark. That sparked a 25-14 run to close the first half.
Larry Toomey's 3-pointer extended Army's lead to 41-34 after the break. The Crusaders closed to 44-42 on a pair of Phil Beans free throws, but Cartavious Kincade and Wilson answered with layups and Ellis hit two more foul shots.
The Crusaders climbed back within four points, the last time at 68-64, before Wilson, in his second career start, scored six straight points as part of a 10-0 spurt.
Justin Burrell's 14 points led Holy Cross (10-11, 2-4), which has lost three straight.


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People aren't very big at all. But at least we're bigger than ants, cells, the X chromosome and all the empty space between particles. On the other hand, we get tiny awfully fast. Even dinky little Rhode Island looks huge in comparison to us. At least, until you keep scrolling out...
From quantum foam and the Planck length (that's itty bitty) to the scope of the entire measurable universe itself, this amazingly cool interactive graphic has it all.
But don't ask yourself what comes after the entire universe. That way lies madness. (Unless you're a college student, and it's 3:30 in the morning, and you may have had a few particularly strong adult beverages recently. That's the perfect time to wonder what comes after the entire universe.)
And just in case you'd ever wondered how big the world of Minecraft really is? It's just about Neptune, but nowhere near Jupiter.
The Scale of the Universe 2 [HTwins.net]


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Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairs a Senate
Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee
hearing. Harkin has used his leadership
of the committee to work on improving
the lives of the disabled.
Inside the Capitol for a day with Sen. Tom
For much of his life, Ricardo Thornton lived
as one of the forgotten, the voiceless. He calls
his challenge a learning disability, but experts
deemed it more mentally profound — what Thornton,
53, says people called "retardation" when he
was younger.
He spent much of his life institutionalized.
"I didn't get to think for myself," Thornton
testifies before a U.S. Senate committee. "The
staff thought for me and made all of my decisions.
For a long time, no one expected anything of
But here is Thornton, on a sweltering day in
late June, one in which witnesses before the
Senate panel need not one, but two or three
bottles of water. Thornton reveals a voice,
and a strong one, as he answers questions from
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
"Anyone can become disabled at any time," Thornton
says. "We are people just like everyone else.
The time needs to be over for people to be sent
to institutions because there aren't options
in the community or because people think it's
cheaper or more protected. It wastes people's
lives and, in the long run, keeps them from
For the past 35 years, Thornton has worked in
collections at the Washington, D.C. public library's
Martin Luther King branch. He and wife, Donna,
who also has an intellectual disability, live
in the community. They raised a son, Ricky,
now 24. They want Harkin to help others escape
the institutionalized life.
After the hearing, as Harkin makes his way out
of a crowded committee room to meet with Senate
Democrats, he stops to chat with his star witness
and gives him a celebratory fist bump.
"I'm just happy somebody is hearing us," an
excited Thornton says in an interview with Cityview.
"I got that he really cared for us."
Thornton is now moving on to the business of
being a grandfather.
"I'm going to have to call Sen. Harkin and ask
him what you do about being a grandparent,"
Thornton jokes.
For his part, Harkin, who has served in Congress
since 1975, lists his authorship of the Americans
With Disabilities Act as a signature accomplishment.
The legislation served as a civil rights bill,
an "Emancipation Proclamation," for the disabled
— Americans Harkin says he thinks about every
day in the Senate.
In addition to the hearing and follow-up work
on moving more disabled Americans into mainstream
living, Harkin has traveled Iowa in recent weeks,
seeking to break down employment barriers for
Americans with mental and physical challenges.
It's June 21, a Thursday on Capitol Hill with
a jammed Senate calendar. Before chairing the
committee hearing, Harkin hits his old stomping
grounds, the Longworth House Office Building,
with its more than 250 congressional suites,
for a Populist Caucus meeting. Iowa Democratic
Congressmen Bruce Braley and Leonard Boswell
join other House members for the session, largely
led by Harkin — an unabashed progressive who
came to this city during the Watergate era with
eyes on reform, an upending of the power structure
he still believes shuts out the middle class.
It's 8 a.m. sharp, and fueled by one donut,
and possibly a second, Harkin starts the conversation.
The topic: the middle class. President Barack
Obama and Democrats need to more clearly make
the case that they are the representatives of
that vast but threatened American demographic,
Harkin implores.
"We are the middle-class party, and just keep
saying it," Harkin says.
There's talk of getting to Harkin's former colleague
in the U.S. Senate, Vice President Joe Biden.
Harkin thinks Biden can press the case to the
Democrats have to connect with ideas about the
future, says veteran U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro,
the Connecticut liberal.
"It's not about we went off the cliff; we were
in the ditch," DeLauro says. "Nobody is listening
to that."
Fast forward three weeks. President Barack Obama
is speaking in Cedar Rapids. His focus: the
middle class.
The president leads with anecdotes about his
background, an early biography molded in the
working and middle classes. This informs his
economic policy decisions today, Obama says.
"I want to hold taxes steady for 98 percent
of Americans," Obama says. "Republicans say
they want to do the same thing. We disagree
on the other 2 percent. Well, what do you usually
do if you agree on 98 percent and you disagree
on 2 percent? Why don't you compromise to help
the middle class? Go ahead and do the 98 percent,
and we can keep arguing about the 2 percent.
Let's agree when we can agree. Let's not hold
the vast majority of Americans hostage while
we debate the merits of another tax cut for
the other 2 percent."
Harkin, 72, a native of Cumming, where he owns
the home in which he grew up, moves quickly
after the meeting. At one point he is nearly
running aside the subway system that shuttles
elected officials and staff between their offices
and the Senate floor. He smiles and slows down
for a moment so the photographer can catch a
shot — but just one. He chairs the hearing,
and then leaves for the Capitol where the Senate
will this day pass the farm bill, a legislative
whale that will cost about $1 trillion over
the next decade. A former chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee, Harkin is a key player
in what Senate staff members are calling a vote-a-rama.
Senators vote on a series of amendments to what
will emerge as a 1,091-page bill.
Harkin chats with U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass,
the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
From the Senate press gallery balcony you can
hear the distinctive laugh of U.S. Sen. Al Franken,
D-Minn., climbing in the chambers. The former
"Saturday Night Live" star riffed on something,
and his colleagues seem to be enjoying the moment
of levity, too.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., enters the Senate
chambers. A rising star in his party and the
subject of vice presidential speculation, Rubio
offers an amendment to the farm bill. It would
amend the National Labor Relations Act to permit
certain employers to pay higher wages to their
employees outside of a collective bargaining
"I can't think of anything that would be more
disruptive to a workplace," Harkin says on the
Senate floor.
Rubio strikes back, "I disagree. We all know
we're going to vote on this."
The amendment fails 45 to 54. Harkin later says
he sees a lot of former U.S. Sen. Dan Quayle,
R-Ind., in Rubio.
The farm bill passes the Senate 65-34. It's
the eighth farm bill Harkin has seen during
his time on The Hill.
"We have enhanced crop insurance in the bill,"
Harkin says in an interview with Cityview. "We
have good strong conservation programs which
is important in a lot of the hilly areas in
western Iowa. We have strong support for our
export program which is important for our beef
and pork producers."
In the time between early votes this Thursday
Harkin talks with Cityview outside the Senate
chambers — under a portrait of Henry Clay, the
Kentuckian who served as Speaker of the U.S.
House in his mid-30s and as a U.S. senator.
Clay twice was nominated for the presidency
in the early 1800s.
It's a major day in the Senate, and Harkin's
mind easily moves to history, reflecting on
past leaders. He started as a congressman nearly
40 years ago, serving with President Gerald
Ford's short tenure didn't leave much impression
on Harkin, who supported his successor, President
Jimmy Carter.
"He was an interesting guy although very aloof,"
Harkin says of Carter. "Here's a guy that I
had campaigned with all over western Iowa but
he got in the White House, and he just kind
of became aloof. He didn't associate much with
us any longer, and I didn't think he had very
capable people around him when he was in the
White House. His staff was people who just dismissed
All of the ideological positioning considered,
Harkin says he had a fondness for President
Ronald Reagan.
"Reagan was a nice guy," Harkin says. "Quite
frankly, I liked Ronald Reagan. Every time I
saw him we always talked about WHO-radio, of
course, his time in Iowa. He was a great raconteur,
storyteller. He was nice to be around."
However, Harkin believes policies instituted
after Reagan's election in 1980 continue to
plague the nation.
"I think a lot of things that happened then
set us back a long ways in terms of our tax
policies and governmental policies that really
helped the middle class," Harkin says. "We began
to re-trench."
He says the erosion of the pension system started
under Reagan who also ushered in a means of
business that gave more to capital and less
to labor.
As for President George H.W. Bush?
"I liked him a lot, very smart guy," Harkin
Harkin said he owes Bush a debt of gratitude
for signing Americans With Disabilities Act.
"He was very helpful in getting it passed,"
Harkin says.
The 1990s were the Clinton years, full of surprises
from the White House, Harkin says. Not all were
"That was sort of a roller coaster ride," Harkin
says. Democrats lost the Congress to the GOP
in the 1994 election, red-carpeting what Harkin
terms the "era of Newt Gingrich."
"Clinton, for a variety of reasons, never really
reached his full potential as president," Harkin
President George W. Bush?
"Total disaster," Harkin says.
"I just can't begin to describe how he and Cheney
ran things, ramming things through a Republican
Congress, the wars, the tax skewing," Harkin
Harkin served with then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama,
D-Ill., whose office was near his. Obama made
a big splash at a Harkin steak fry before announcing
his campaign for the White House.
"He's had a tough slog as president," Harkin
says. "What do you do when you become president
and the minority leader of the Senate says their
goal is to make Obama a one-term president —
not that their goal is to reduce unemployment,
create jobs, work with Democrats to reach consensus.
But their goal is to stop Obama."
Harkin then reflects on his own failed bid for
the White House in 1992.
"I think it was the right time for me to run,"
Harkin says. "I just made some big mistakes
and made some stumbles. It was my own fault
more than anything else."
But Harkin says he spied an opening early for
Democrats that year, when others were prepared
to wait.
"I was the first person out there that said
George Bush can be beaten," Harkin says. "And
he was riding at 70 percent approval ratings
in the polls."
Harkin adds, "Truth be known, Bill Clinton ran
that year thinking that he could not beat Bush
but that he would do well enough that he would
be in position to be the nominee the next time
around when Bush's term was up. I know that's
why he jumped into that race."
As the farm bill votes proceed, Harkin shifts
his attention for a time to Iowa's second-largest
city. Harkin and his staff meet with the head
of the flood recovery efforts in Cedar Rapids
and several members of the city council to discuss
two main issues of concern: appeals to initial
rulings by FEMA concerning specific recovery
projects and the Corps of Engineers construction
of an improved levee system for the city.
More votes and private meetings round out the
day — which ends on a high note, the annual
ice cream social on the U.S. Senate grounds.
Harkin has his daughter Jenny's dog, Ollie,
on the leash, part of his canine babysitting
duties. Harkin chats with staff members, has
a little ice cream himself and then focuses
on Ollie.
"I got him just a little more ice cream," Harkin
says. "I don't want to make him sick."
The day turns to night with ice cream and Harkin
heads to the Virginia home he and wife, Ruth,
have owned since they came to represent in the
nation's capital.
The next morning, around 8 a.m., Harkin prepares
for a media call with Iowa newspaper and radio
reporters. The Capitol and the associated House
and Senate office buildings are largely empty
on this sweaty Friday. It's a lonely walk with
Harkin through the corridors of power today.
You hear not voices of hurried 20-something
staffers and self-important congressmen but
the echoes of your own footsteps. Each week
when he does this call, Harkin issues an opening
statement to the media and then, sitting in
the Senate recording studios in the U.S. Capitol,
fields questions, sometimes from eight or nine
reporters, other times from dozens. Much of
the talk this Friday is on the farm bill.
Next up, National Public Radio is on the line
for the nationally broadcast program "All Things
Considered." The topic is the minimum wage.
Harkin has introduced what he calls the Rebuild
America Act, which increases the federal minimum
wage in three steps, to $9.80 per hour, up from
the current $7.25, and then indexes it to inflation
so it will keep up with cost of living. It also
increases the minimum wage for tipped workers
to 70 percent of the federal minimum wage.
Before going to Harkin, "All Things Considered"
leads with a quote from President Franklin Roosevelt
about the importance of the launching of the
minimum wage in 1938 at 25 cents an hour.
"Except perhaps for the Social Security Act
it is the most far-reaching, the most far-sighted
program for workers that has ever been adopted,"
Roosevelt says, his confident voice unmistakably
booming from history into the NPR show.
Harkin gets straight to the numbers. In today's
dollars, the minimum wage stood at $10.34 in
1968. People making the minimum wage spend most
of their money which will boost the economy,
Harkin says. Increasing it to the level he proposes
will turn a $15,000-a-year job into a $20,000
one. Sure, it's an election year. Harkin gets
this. Will his bill pass? He's not bullish on
it, but the senator wants an accounting of the
Senate's priorities.
A day earlier, Harkin had talked fondly of his
late friend, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
his compatriot with the Americans With Disabilities
Act and so much else. He'd also chastised a
reporter for loading a question with too much
White House influence, diminishing the role
of the Senate with the wording. To do this,
Harkin quoted another late liberal, U.S. Sen.
Robert Byrd, D-W.V., by sharing, "Senators don't
serve under any president. We are co-equal branches."
New progressives like Franken and Braley have
arrived — but they come without Harkin's archive
of battles waged and memories of the fights
of 40 years.
It's quiet in the Senate this morning. Still
in the Capitol.
But not in this recording studio. The last lion
is at work amid the echoes of Roosevelt, with
the memories of Kennedy.
"Quite frankly, I don't believe anyone should
live in poverty if they have a job," Harkin
says. CV
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Most BDS's Have some Special B in them. I am not sure you will get the color you desire with just candy sugar. As for your second runnings I would use the same yeast and have a Belgian Dark Single. Good luck!
If I were to do a second running beer with the same yeast, then I think I'd add some CaraMunich or CaraVienne for the 2nd runnings and do a Belgian Amber.
Here's my recipe....no Special B, but I used 2 lb. of D180 syrup.http://www.candisyrup.com/uploads/6/0/3/5/6035776/dennys_400th_-_variation_001.pdf
Quote from: denny on November 20, 2012, 05:41:58 PMHere's my recipe....no Special B, but I used 2 lb. of D180 syrup.http://www.candisyrup.com/uploads/6/0/3/5/6035776/dennys_400th_-_variation_001.pdfThanks Denny! What do you think the Caramunich provided? Also, why the turbinado sugar in addition to the D-180? Thanks for the link.


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Heyward on a hot streak after back injury
SEATTLE -- Braves right fielder Jason Heyward doesn't appear to be suffering from any rust after missing four games last week with a strained back.
Heyward went 2-for-4 on Wednesday afternoon to raise his batting average to .271, and he is 9-for-15 with two doubles, a triple and an RBI in four games since returning to the lineup Saturday.
Heyward also has recorded at least two hits in 12 of his last 20 games, a span in which he's batted .411.
"It's the second half of the season. I've had plenty of AB's now to feel out where I need to be," Heyward said on Tuesday. "I did pay attention to the games and tried to stay focused."
Heyward said he's continued to undergo treatment, but he no longer feels any pain or stiffness in his back. He unsuccessfully lobbied manager Fredi Gonzalez to put him in the lineup the series for last week's finale against the Dodgers.
"It was frustrating in L.A. trying to get back on the field," Heyward said. "I tried to convince [Gonzalez] that I wanted to play the last day there, and he said, 'No, you need to rest.'"


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I was wondering if you would be willing to help me out with some info. I see that your son has gone through MME. I have a medical issue myself and I am considering treatment with MME.
I am hoping you would be willing to talk to me sometime about your experience. I have been in a lot of pain and I am curious wether or not MME would work for me. If you are willing, I would like to talk to you on the phone if possible. Please feel free to call me anytime!
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Hold Hands: PDA On Lunch Date With Pals
Cute couple alert! K-Stew and R-Patz stepped out hand-in-hand while on a lunch date with friends on April 3, and HollywoodLife.com has all the exclusive details!
Kristen Stewart, 22, and Robert Pattinson, 26, are so in love! The happy couple met up with friends for lunch at Casbah Cafe in LA, and they couldn't keep their hands off each other!
"Yes, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were here," an eyewitness tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. "They came in with some friends, two other girls and a guy. They all seemed very happy. They were laughing and joking with each other."
The source adds that Rob and Kristen's date was filled with PDA! "Rob and Kristen were holding hands while they were ordering and then they all say down to eat. They talked about go karting. They were really all down to earth. Rob and Kristen looked especially cute together. He had his arm around her when they were sitting down."
Rob & Kristen's PDA Lunch Date: 'Really Happy & Lovey-Dovey'
Another eyewitness tells PopSugar that Rob and Kristen were "really happy and lovey-dovey" during their sushi lunch. "Kristen grabbed his arm, and they were walking and joking. She took some pictures of the friends they were with on her phone," the source reveals. "They seemed really together. Really relaxed."
We're so happy Rob and Kristen are getting to spend so much quality time together lately!
HollywoodLifers, do YOU think Rob and Kristen are the cutest couple ever? Vote below!
WATCH: Kristen Stewart's Birthday Gift From Robert Pattinson
— Reporting by Sandra Clark, Written by Jenny Pickard
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