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Murray Hill and New Providence, New Jersey, U.S., October 4, 2013 – Linde North America today announced the publication of a white paper that explains how dry ingredient chilling can help bakery manufacturers save time, reduce waste and control the quality of dough in each batch they produce.
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The white paper addresses the needs of wholesale bakeries. It delves into the details of how the dry ingredient chilling system works, identifies the doughs that are best suited to cryogenic chilling, and describes the process of using liquid cryogenic gases with both pressure and vacuum pneumatic systems.
Linde's Dry Ingredient Chilling System is just one of Linde's several technology solutions for the bakery customer production process. Linde North America will be showcasing a range of state-of-the-art cryogenic technology for precision temperature and process-quality control before and/or after baking during the International Baking Industry Expo (IBIE), October 6-9, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth #6630.
For more details, visit www.lindefood.com.
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Linde North America is a member of The Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 62,000 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2012 financial year, Linde generated revenue of EUR 15.280 bn. The strategy of the Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
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After trading utility infielder Wilson Valdez for a minor league pitcher in January, things have gone steadily downhill since then. In an interview on 97.5 The Fanatic earlier this month, GM Ruben Amaro Jr. finally admitted that the Valdez trade was "foolish." His exact quote was, "It was foolish to trade Wilson Valdez" and Amaro then admitted if he could go back in time, he would take Valdez back.
I knew that in January. Why didn't Amaro? Obviously, he did not see the train coming before it ran him over this spring training. You cannot predict injuries, but even I knew that Chase Utley would be a big question mark this year after last year's chronic knee issues. Sure enough, he is out and no one knows when he will return.
Adding to the disaster at second base, Michael Martinez has a broken foot and will be out until at least May. To begin with, I'd have taken Valdez over Martinez anyway. But again, Valdez is gone. And first base is going to be an adventure as well with Ryan Howard out until…??? No one knows.
Now the Phillies are stuck with a rookie short stop as their starting second baseman. Don't get me wrong, Freddy Galvis is a wonderful prospect, but can he handle this type of pressure so early in his career? Switching positions makes this even harder on a very young player who may not be ready for the big leagues yet.
Galvis may be just fine. But this is certainly not the kind of uncertainty the Phillies wanted to start the season with.
Pete Orr may wind up being the back-up for Galvis, although the roster will not be set in stone until probably Sunday night. We do know outfielder Juan Pierre has made the team, but the rest of the roster is still in limbo.
You can see the Phillies are very worried though…today they signed a Nationals reject, just in case. Andres Blanco, a 27-year-old utility infielder who hit .224 with the Rangers last season, was given a minor-league deal. This is the Phillies idea of a back-up plan. Yikes.
A few other bonehead moves by Amaro this offseason include signing outfielder Laynce Nix to a 2-year deal. This guy has hit above .255 only ONE time in a nine-year career. And this spring, he is hitting .200. And how about first baseman Ty Wiggington? His career has been on a steady decline the last two seasons, hitting .248 and .242 respectively. This spring, Wiggington has hit .190.
The good news is, both guys were cheap and Wiggington was given just a one-year deal. But in case anyone is wondering, Valdez is hitting .318 in 44 at-bats this spring with the Reds. Just saying…
Ok, so maybe all these new guys will surprise us all and get some big hits? But I do not see any of them volunteering to pitch the 19th inning and risk making a total idiot out of themselves for the team. That guy is gone….Wilson! Miss you already…
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We know it's been total 'Mad Men' madness around here lately, but can you blame us? The guys on that show are top notch hotties, and Aaron Staton (aka Ken Cosgrove) is no exception.
Here's what sets Aaron Staton apart on 'Mad Men': he's just a bit more youthful and all-American looking than his older male counterparts. He's not a hippie-type like Stan, and he's not older like Don and Roger, and he's not all petulant and miserable like Pete. He's just a good dude trying to do his work and help the company flourish, and honestly, that boy does not get enough credit.
Take last week's episode, for example: Staton's character, Ken Cosgrove, takes the clients from Chevy out for a night on the town, only to be practically tortured when they shoot a gun next to his ear at a shooting range, get wildly drunk, and then force him to wreck his car, leaving him with a bum foot.
But at least he gave us a magical song and tap dance about it! (No, really — everyone was on drugs last week. It was sublime.)
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The snowy sugar surface of Pfeffernussen contrasts with the peppery flavor of these German cookies.
- 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup firmly packed light-brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup unsulfured molasses
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Graphic designer portfolios are an essential tool for anyone needing to showcase their work, list their qualifications and convince clients to hire their services. The portfolio websites of famous graphic designers are a great source of inspiration for web design.
In this article we'll take you through some inspiring examples. The designs themselves are often as innovative and inspiring as the designers' most famous work, and serve to remind visitors of their legendary careers.
1. Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser's portfolio website beautifully showcases this living legend's vast body of work with a clean, airy interface and features some of his widely-referenced quotes.
Glaser and his multi-disciplinary design studio continue to produce outstanding work to this day, and this beautiful web design alone is a compelling case to click that contact button.
2. Bob Gill
Only a founding partner of Pentagram, international lecturer, N.Y. Art Directors Hall of Famer, Lifetime Achievement Award-winner, co- designer of Beatlemania and author of twenty books on design could get away with such a simple, humorous portfolio website.
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Carson's famous "grunge" aesthetic is immediately recognizable in his portfolio website, which unlike most websites, uses horizontal scrolling. Visitors have to click on the bracket symbols or use the arrow keys to explore the website, which is has an infinite supply of striking design work for famous and no so famous clients alike.
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Formerly the head designer at Twitter, Joshua Brewer's responsive portfolio website is an impressive example of the wonders he can do for businesses' online presences without needing to showcase any other work.
5. Alan Fletcher
It doesn't get any more clean and simple than design legend Alan Fletcher's portfolio website. Also a co-founder of Pentagram, Fletcher has been named "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation" by the Daily Telegraph in his obituary in 2006.
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One of the most famous book cover designers today, Chip Kidd's portfolio website surprises and delights any visitors with a non-formulaic web design, loads of inspiring interviews and insights from the man himself in weekly blog posts.
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Ed Fella's portfolio website appears to be made of paper instead of digital pixels, which results in a refreshing and tactile website that showcases his famous hand-drawn typography and designs.
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While it's a bit unusual to use a splash/intro page on a portfolio website, it's appropriate for celebrating the life and work of the late designer Herbert Matter, whose name is known to anyone who has ever taken a design history class. This photographer and designer is known for pioneering the use of the photomontage and his iconic modernist posters for the Swiss tourist office in the 1930's.
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Designer and adman George Lois's website makes good use of the praise and accolades he's received over the years, reminding us of his legendary status in the design and advertising world.
The web design itself speaks to his advertising background with a bold design, a tag line of sorts and a prominent Don Draper-esque picture of the man himself.
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A rising star in the design world, Kate Moross is a much sought-after illustrator and designer who has done high profile work for big brands like American Express, Topshop and Nike and bands like Disclosure and Simian Mobile Disco.
She's known for her colorful illustrations, the spirit of which is reflected in her portfolio website.
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Artist, designer and TED speaker, Kelli Andersen's portfolio website uses graphics to create a sense of texture and depth.
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This illustrator, letterer and typeface designer's name has been in the news a lot lately with her widely circulated "Should I work for free?" infographic and gorgeous typeface design for the film Moonrise Kingdom. Her portfolio website showcases her enviable client work and provides lots of amazing resources for new graphic designers.
The "Thoughts" section contains a lot of helpful tips for designers and the "Resources" section contains a lot of great resources for budding letterers plus a link to her well-reviewed online skillshare class.
A lot of these portfolio websites assume that visitors already know who this famous designer is, and as a result use more innovative designs that you wouldn't see on a lot of other portfolio websites. They're probably not using Wix or WordPress to create these, and seek to create custom websites that are as distinctive as their most famous work.


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"JENNIFER!"… That sound always sends a surge of adrenaline through me, I know I need to pay attention as I may be in some type of danger! Can you remember your name being used in such a way that suddenly got your attention?
Welcome to our time of tea & reflection today dear friend…Have you got your cuppa in hand?
Names & their meaning are so interesting & the way in which they can be used just as interesting… Don't you think?
Do you know what your name means? My given names originate from two different cultures…Celtic & Hebrew…
Jennifer comes from the Gaelic word for white waves/fair haired & my middle name Mary from the Hebrew word for strength of will, so putting my given names together Jennifer Mary = a fair haired wave of strong will!
I can have a laugh at this…but…I was born with strawberry blonde hair ~ fair haired, I am now a white haired old gal ~ white waves. And yes I can be strong willed or as I like to think of it, having strength of character! In a most positive way of course…in the majority…wink, wink!
Our names & surnames are important though, as they identify us from one another & help us to know where we come from & to what family line we belong.
In days gone by before surnames, people were known as their given name & then by their father's name & occupation. An example would be John, son of James the Blacksmith.
My family roots are Celtic, my grandfather spoke Gaelic & we come from one of the old Celtic clans that originate from one of the Kings of Ireland & his sons. We had 'Mac' before our surname for centuries, which means 'son' handed down to us from around the 10th century & probably beforehand.
The 'Mac' over the centuries eventually got dropped & we were left with just our many times great grandfather's name as our surname.
Many of today's surnames have evolved in this way, either from the many × great grandparent's first name, their occupation ie. Smith was the occupation of those smithing metal or from the village they were born.
In ancient Hebrew times, names were given quite often from the events surrounding the child's birth…a good example are the twins Esau; meaning hairy (he was born with red down all over his body) & Jacob; meaning one who takes by the heel (as he was born holding onto his older twin brother Esau's heel)! Refer 2
There is One whose name & title were given to Him long before He was born, in fact He was promised to us in the time of our greats × great grandparent's, Grandpa Adam & Grandma Eve.
I find His name so interesting…it means God's salvation & His title means the Anointed One ~ the anointed One of God's salvation. We know Him as Jesus Christ, the Son of the Most High God. He completely lives His name. The promise was fulfilled!
And another exciting thing…is while we do have His Spirit with us, also known as the Holy Spirit, given to us as He promised before His ascension (another promise fulfilled).
He has also promised to return again physically one day (you may be interested in my Book Excerpt at this point). We already know He keeps His promises…that is well documented throughout history!
But the question we need to ask ourselves my dear friend is…
Are we ready & watching for His return?
Because He warned us it will come quickly! Refer 2
While we have been reflecting together, I have enjoyed the warmth of my cozy home, out of the cold, on another icy winter's day, here on the east coast of Australia…a delightful cup of Blueberry tea, & a freshly baked pineapple & coconut muffin with lashings of butter melting upon its deliciousness!
Do you know what your name means? Do you think you reflect your name in any way?
And an update on my post Concern, worry, anxiety with our Little Miss L …who is doing extremely well! Thank you to all who prayed.
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Elder statesman Kazmir embraces chance to lead
PHOENIX -- At the tender age of 30, Scott Kazmir has at least four years on any other member of the club's starting staff.
"That's new to me," a smiling Kazmir said on reporting day, "but it's something we're going to have fun with."
The left-hander, who signed a two-year, $22 million deal with the A's in December, has been in Arizona since Sunday, allowing him nearly a full week to get to know his new teammates before Saturday's first workout for pitchers and catchers commences.
Kazmir sounded like a kid readying for his first day of school, despite entering his 10th Major League season. It's that experience which more than qualifies him for veteran status, even though "I still don't feel like the veteran, the old man," he said.
"He wants to be a big part of this rotation, and if that means being a leader, with some of the experiences he's had, so be it," said manager Bob Melvin. "We don't really target any one person as a leader, but we have quite a few, and he certainly could add to that mix."
Melvin is without an ace on his staff, but that doesn't take away from its quality. The A's have a deep rotation without a No. 1 guy, but also realize this could be the year Jarrod Parker and Sonny Gray prove their worth as one.
Kazmir, less than two years removed from pitching in the Independent League, will join them at the front end of the rotation, while A.J. Griffin and Dan Straily enter camp as the leading candidates to secure the back.
Tommy Milone, Drew Pomeranz and Josh Lindblom will all be stretched out as starters and remain in the mix.
Kazmir went 10-9 for Cleveland on a one-year, $1 million deal last year, including 7-5 with a 3.06 ERA in his final 18 starts. Of his 162 strikeouts, 43 came in the final month of the season.
That's when he most resembled the All-Star pitcher who posted a 3.61 ERA in his first five years with the Rays, before injuries and mechanical issues derailed him from the big league path after just one start for the Angels in 2011.
"He started out pretty well and had some bumps in the road, and I think he's better for it," Melvin said of the former first-round Draft pick. "He'll probably tell you that too. The way he ended last season has probably been his best work, and he looks to improve upon that."
"I always feel like I'm kind of going to have a chip on my shoulder from now on, just from everything that kind of went on," Kazmir said. "I'm going to always feel like I have something to prove."
He'll have the chance to do that with an A's team he described as "a confident, laid-back group of guys that went out and got it done and had fun doing it."
"I'm very excited," he said. "I feel like the team got a lot better. I feel like the AL West has really improved all around, so it's going to be a challenge, but at the same time, from what I get so far, we're a real loose team that can go out and have fun."


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Jason Gillespie called for a ruthless display from Yorkshire if they were to turn a strong position at the halfway stage of this match into a potentially victorious one.
The players heeded the words of the first-team coach, whose hopes of saying farewell with a hat-trick of titles were boosted by a dominant performance on day three at Leeds.
After Durham had taken their overnight total of 205-4 to 227-4, they lost their last six wickets for 38 runs to the second new ball as Jack Brooks finished with 4-76.
Adam Lyth hit 114 not out and Alex Lees 88 before Yorkshire declared their second innings at 225-2, Durham reaching 39-3 in the 16 overs before stumps having been set 421 to win.
Lyth reached 1,000 Championship runs for the summer when he brought up his hundred with a six over mid-wicket off the spinner Ryan Pringle into the East Stand.
Lees, who reached 1,000 during his first innings 132, also batted superbly and narrowly failed to become the first man to score two hundreds in a first-class match at Headingley.
When you think of all the greats who have played at the ground, the likes of Geoff Boycott, Len Hutton and even Don Bradman, it makes that statistic even more staggering.
First-class cricket has been played at Headingley since 1890, when the Whitechapel Murders were at their height, and yet the wait for twin hundreds goes on.
None of which will concern Yorkshire as they seek a win that, if combined with victory today for Notts, who have leaders Middlesex 48-3 in pursuit of 235, would send the champions 15 points clear with two games to play.
"It was a great team performance," said Lyth, whose four-figure return is a timely nudge to the England selectors.
"The lads bowled fantastically well in the morning, and then me and Alex played fantastically well together and then we picked up three wickets at the end.
"It was a great day for me personally, and it was nice to go on and get a big score.
"Hopefully, we can go on now and get the win."
Although the sun beat down for most of the day, play began with the floodlights on and in light so poor that Lyth started proceedings with ball in hand in his role as part-time off-spinner.
Jack Burnham pulled his first delivery to the mid-wicket boundary, and there was a fleeting rain delay before the dark clouds dispersed to be replaced by glorious blue skies.
Burnham and Graham Clark played competently in the first 10 overs before the second new ball did the trick for Yorkshire, Brooks striking with his second delivery when he trapped Clark lbw.
Durham then lost three wickets in 16 balls as Ryan Sidebottom bowled Burnham on the back foot before Brooks had Michael Richardson caught low down at second slip by Lyth and Pringle lbw trapped on the crease.
Graham Onions swatted Sidebottom for a straight six and then took him for successive fours in an isolated act of defiance, but after Bresnan had Barry McCarthy caught behind, Sidebottom exacted revenge by bowling Onions to end the innings 20 minutes before lunch.
Despite a lead of 195, Andrew Gale opted against enforcing the follow-on, which made sense given that one of his pace bowlers, Steve Patterson, had been called away due to family reasons.
Patterson returned later in the day and seemed to receive a louder cheer than usual when he came on to bowl.
Prior to that, the old firm of Lyth and Lees dominated the afternoon as they chiselled out another century partnership.
They ticked along at around four an over without taking risks, systematically grinding down the opposition.
Lees's departure, caught behind off Pringle, ended the stand at 185, and Gale declared 40 runs later when Ballance was bowled by the off-spinner. Lyth faced 143 balls and hit eight fours and two sixes, with director of cricket Martyn Moxon's status as the last Yorkshire player to score two hundreds in a game on a Yorkshire ground remaining intact with Lees's departure.
For the record, Moxon scored 123 and 112 not out against the Indians at Scarborough 30 years ago, although the last Yorkshire player to score two centuries in a game was Ballance, against Surrey at The Oval in 2013.
Brooks had ended the Durham first innings with 49 Championship wickets for the season, and 349 in first-class cricket. The milestone wicket followed in the fourth over of the Durham second innings when Mark Stoneman miscued an attempted pull to Gale at mid-off.
Brooks struck again in his next over to have Keaton Jennings caught behind, and Durham slipped to 31-3 when Patterson had Burnham lbw.
It was as good a day's work as Yorkshire have produced all summer.
Middlesex in trouble but Somerset have hope
Somerset beat Warwickshire to boost their hopes of a first County Championship title while leaders Middlesex struggled.
Warwickshire resumed their second innings on 131-8 in a low-scoring match at Taunton, needing a further 53 for victory.
The visitors battled for 14 overs before being bowled out for 152, with left-arm spinner Jack Leach taking the final wicket to finish with figures of 6-42 as Somerset briefly climbed to second in the table.
Middlesex would have been fancied to roll over bottom side Nottinghamshire, but finished day three in trouble on 48-3 and needing another 187 runs for victory.
Jake Ball, who took five wickets in the first innings, was Middlesex's tormentor again with all three scalps after the hosts had been bowled out for 240.
Hampshire improved their chances of avoiding relegation from Division One after a dominant third-day performance put them in a position to press for victory against Surrey.
Sean Ervine made an unbeaten 158 and Ryan McLaren 100 to add to Tom Alsop's 117 as they piled up 582-9 to establish a first-innings lead of 253.
Surrey's Dom Sibley and Rory Burns survived nine overs to take their side to 23-0.


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Photo: Vano Shlamov/AFP/Getty ImagesA voter in Tbilisi, Georgia
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Florida pollster Bruce Barcelo is making a name for himself ensuring 'ballot integrity' in budding democracies.
Bruce Barcelo is well known in Florida political circles, having worked on the campaigns of everyone from former Jacksonville Mayors Ed Austin and John Delaney to the late U.S. Rep. Tillie Fowler and state Sen. John Thrasher. But after decades of toiling in the Sunshine State's political trenches, the Jacksonville pollster is gaining renown more than 6,000 miles away in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Getting His Start
Bruce Barcelo's path from Florida pollster to international election observer began in the mid-1990s, when he volunteered to do work in Ukraine for the International Republican Institute, a D.C.-based democracy building organization. He ended up traveling to the former Soviet Republic at least a dozen times over the next decade, while also doing work in Haiti and other countries. In 2007, he recruited Tom Nolan, a business associate with whom he had worked on numerous referendum campaigns in Florida, to begin doing focus groups overseas for the organization.
Three years later, Nolan, Barcelo and another IRI consultant, Brian Mefford, decided to form their own election observation group after being contacted by some former Odessa natives living abroad who were concerned about potential election rigging in an upcoming vote.
"I'm a bizarre local hero in Georgia — totally accidentally," Barcelo said via Skype from Tbilisi, where's he's spent the last month monitoring the nation's parliamentary elections under the auspices of the Committee for Open Democracy, a non-profit group that he helped found two years ago along with fellow Floridians Tom Nolan and David Wilcox.
The Bradenton-based organization's mission, Barcelo says, is working to help "ensure ballot integrity" in the voting process in emerging democracies like Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and other countries.
To do that, his group deploys teams of observers months in advance of an election to assess the country's voter registration process, monitor political campaigns and media coverage, and watch how the government uses its administrative resources and enforces, or fails to enforce, the law. On election day, the organization's trained volunteers are dispatched to polling sites to monitor voting and counting and to conduct exit polls to help validate election results. If problems are detected, the group turns its findings over to the media, which can publicize them.
In the recent parliamentary elections in Georgia, Barcelo and Nolan, a Bradenton political consultant who is president of the Committee on Open Democracy, say their teams witnessed a number of irregularities, including problematic voter lists, intimidation and vote buying.
Exit polling, meanwhile, can present unique challenges in a former Soviet republic. "When you have a country that has emerged from a totalitarian culture, people are normally reticent about giving their opinions to anyone who's official-looking. It's still a little daunting to people," says Barcelo. Rather than ask voters for whom they voted upon exiting the polling booth, his team created a second "mini-voting box" so that 30,000 voters they interviewed could maintain their anonymity. "We give the person a paper ballot, they mark the ballot, close it and put it inside an envelope and they drop the envelope into a clear plastic box, with a seal that has a slot cut in the top."
The organization has faced other challenges in its work, as well. Two months after the Committee for Open Democracy's teams arrived in Georgia, the country's Central Election Commission passed a new law requiring international observation groups to disclose their funders and the amounts of money they raise. According to the Economist magazine, the rule change was followed by claims by the governing United National Movement party that the Committee for Open Democracy "was being secretly financed by the opposition."
"It didn't stop us," Nolan says, explaining that his group did not identify its donors because it could "put people in jeopardy" in a nation where he has documented administrative abuses that have included people losing their jobs for supporting opposition parties. "We had another observer group and had them accredited under their name. The observers still worked for us, still reported back to us, still did all the things they were trained to do."
Challenges notwithstanding, Barcelo's work has made him a celebrity of sorts. When 100,000 Georgians gathered in Tbilisi's Freedom Square on Oct. 1 to find out who had won in the parliamentary elections, Barcelo's face was the one on the big screen announcing the results. "They stop me in the streets to take a photo with me," Barcelo recounts. "At midnight, I was in a little grocery store buying soda and snacks, and two men came up to me and said, 'We just saw you on TV!' "
In addition to its work in Georgia this year, the Committee for Open Democracy has teams in place to monitor elections in Moldova, Slovenia and Montenegro.
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Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators have finished an inquiry into whether coroner's employees illegally leaked or sold private information related to the investigation of Michael Jackson's death.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Friday no criminal violations occurred, though employees may have violated department policies.
Officials launched the probe after Jackson's death certificate was improperly viewed by at least a half-dozen employees who had no role in investigating the cause of his death.
Whitmore says investigators had done their due diligence and found no sign of employees illegally accessing or selling information.
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Delta Force developer NovaLogic is suing Activision for violating its trademark over the use of the Delta Force and a similar emblem in Modern Warfare 3. NovaLogic has held the trademark on Delta Force since 1998, and in its complaint states the term "Delta Force" is not in use by the US government: "The US. […]
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Kid's Carpentry: Pencil Block
My sweet seven year old
made this pencil block
from a scrap of wood
this past weekend.
Her daddy gave her a lesson
on how to use power tools.
She loved drilling holes.
Getting the drill bit
back out of the wood
was a bit of a challenge.
My sweet husband,
sat patiently with both girls
explaining safety rules for using
the cordless power drill.
I've been on the hunt for months
for a good old-fashioned
hand-crank drill,
but the big box stores here
don't carry them.
We don't seem to have a good
mom and pop antique/farm auction-type place
to find one here.
After a light sanding
(I wish I had Teacher Tom's
Mouse Sander!)
"E" got to work with
my acrylic paint
in the art studio
and came to show us her
finished masterpiece!
She said the wood "told"
her what to paint...
I love that.
She followed the grain of the wood
for things like:
and Dots.
This would be a fun
Father's Day project
for a
parent and child
to do together.
Making things together
builds connections
makes fond memories
for both of them!
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Central Corridor project accesses $155M, may aid University Ave. businesses
Businesses on University Avenue struggling in the shadow of Central Corridor light rail construction may get a financial boost thanks to the project meeting a key deadline.
The project is now 20 percent complete, triggering a clause in the builder's contract allows for the release of $155 million in contingency funds built into its $957 million budget.
Along with the purchase of big-ticket items such as more rail cars and surprise construction expenses, roughly $1.2 million may be used for a marketing campaign aimed at boosting business along University Avenue.
There's also a separate mitigation fund of $4 million that small business owners can apply to for forgivable loans of up to $20,000, to help cover lost revenue.
Some businesses along University Avenue have complained of losing customers because of construction. Central Corridor crews are racing to finish as much work as possible this season before cold weather curtails construction. That work has reduced access to business parking lots and swallowed up street parking.
Steve Bernick, one of the owners of Milbern's, a 60-year-old men's clothing store on University Avenue near Snelling Avenue, said he'll likely apply to the fund for one of the business loans. But he worries the business loan fund is too small.
"We all want to look nice and be beautiful but we have to have some businesses to survive along the avenue for it to be functional," Bernick said.
Central Corridor project manager Mark Fuhrmann said a much larger chunk of the contingency money will be tapped for additional light rail vehicles.
The current budget includes 41 cars to be used to make two-car trains. Sixteen additional cars are being purchased with contingency funds from Siemens for $53.7 million, or about $3.3 million each, he said.
The cars will be needed if light rail ridership between downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis grows as expected, allowing for three-care trains currently in use on the Hiawatha line.
Fuhrmann said the contingency money will also pay to cover the cost of a few surprises, including the discovery made by construction crews earlier this summer near where the line ends in Lowertown, east of downtown St. Paul.
"There were some 120-year-old utilities underneath 4th Street that didn't appear on anybody's sheet and so we had to remove those and relocate those with new utilities," Fuhrmann said.
Polluted soil poses another unknown expense, even if its discovery along the 11-mile rail project through two central cities is unsurprising.
Some of the contingency money will also be used to address another common urban issue: storm water runoff.
Early budget trimming substituted less expensive concrete sidewalks along the line for permeable pavers — bricks that allow storm water to pass through them. But those special pavers are a better solution, and back in the plans, he said.
"There is permeable soil below [the special pavers] that will help control the storm water, rather than have all that storm water go into the sewers and the Mississippi," Fuhrmann said.
The Metropolitan Council is expected to decide by the end of the month how to use some of the money from the contingency fund.
Meanwhile, while most of the legal challenges to Central Corridor have been settled, a lawsuit filed by Minnesota Public Radio is still pending.
MPR is suing the Metropolitan Council over concerns about noise and vibration to the company's headquarters right next to the line in downtown St. Paul.


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More and more cities are experimenting with participatory budgeting. But who really gets to decide how the money is spent?
It might be the hottest idea in democracy since the voting machine.
In an effort to cut wasteful spending and generate political support, cash-strapped municipal officials are turning to a process called participatory budgeting, which allows residents to devise and vote on small-scale infrastructure projects. Pioneered in Brazil, it's since been taken up by some 1,200 cities in just over two decades.
The American trailblazer is Joe Moore, alderman of Chicago's 49th Ward and the first elected United States official to invite his constituents to choose discretionary spending projects. In late 2007, shortly after he was nearly voted out of office, he attended a workshop on participatory budgeting during a social forum in Atlanta.
"I knew instinctively it would prove very popular with my constituents," says Moore, who credits his landslide reelection victory in early 2011 to the initiative. "I've been on the city council for 21 years, and this is by far the most popular initiative I've ever launched. I think it really struck a chord with people who felt they were not being listened to."
Moore's district is home to more than 60,000 students, artists, professionals, and immigrant families speaking some 80 languages. When he launched participatory budgeting in May 2009, he invited community leaders to join him at workshops led by the Participatory Budgeting Project, a New York-based advocacy group.
That November, Moore hosted a series of assemblies, including one in Spanish, in which he introduced the process to locals and explained his $1.3 million discretionary budget. Over the next few months, some 60 volunteer community representatives met regularly in committees on streets, public safety, parks and environment and other areas, to brainstorm, research and fine-tune possible projects. The groups ultimately put forth 36 proposals.
On April 10, 2010, more than 1,500 residents – age 16 and up and regardless of legal status – voted to implement 14 projects ranging from sidewalk repairs to bike lanes and racks, solar-powered garbage containers to street lights. Nearly 2,000 residents turned out to approve a handful of additional projects in early 2011.
Moore's favorite project so far is a series of murals local artists have painted on a dozen train underpasses. "They've brightened up the community with some really attractive art," he says, explaining that residents voted not just to approve the project, but also held an artists' competition to choose the murals.
Retired salesman Sanford Goldman, 80 and a Rogers Park resident since 1957, served on this year's arts and innovation committee. "We all have differences of opinion but we worked very well as a committee," says Goldman. "It's been a pleasant surprise."
His committee ended up proposing four projects: 22 new underpass murals, at a cost of $121,000, the planting of more than 100 trees, "You Are Here" neighborhood information boards at Metra and CTA station entrances, and a new public garden in a little-used area alongside the railroad tracks. Residents will vote on these and 18 other proposals on April 28.
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Participatory budgeting originated in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, created by The Workers' Party, a labor-friendly political force known for institutional innovations across Brazil. After taking power, the party put together a "popular administration" that sought to break away from the authoritarian tradition of public policies and hand budgeting power over to residents of the city. Months later, community members and delegates from across the city's 16 regions voted on projects that determined up to a fifth of the city budget.
The results there have been dramatic. By 1998, the number of residents served by a sewage system had nearly doubled, as had the number of children in elementary schools, and half the city's unpaved streets had been paved. As a result, The Worker's Party won elections across Brazil, and participatory budgeting spread across the country and through Latin America. The practice soon reached Europe, Africa, and Asia. The United Kingdom and Dominican Republic have since mandated the practice for local governments, and the United Nations and World Bank have named it a democratic best practice.
A recent New York Times story detailed the debut of participatory budgeting in four of the city's districts*, where residents determined nearly $6 million in public spending. Those interviewed said they had become more involved in their communities, but that skepticism of its impact lingered. Projects to be implemented in the Park Slope district include new bathrooms and technology funding for a few public schools, $80,000 for a composting group, major repairs to a pedestrian crossing and improved pedestrian paths for Prospect Park.
Some residents may question whether composting is as necessary as better school materials. Indeed, a key complaint of participatory budgeting as practiced in Brooklyn and Chicago is that it has forgotten the Brazilian concept's initial focus: giving the disadvantaged a voice in the management of their communities. An analysis by Area Chicago, an organization focused on building a socially just city, found that the process encouraged broader and deeper engagement with community issues. Yet it also found that:
Participation has been disproportionately skewed towards middle or upper-middle class and disproportionately white residents. This experience runs contrary to the reputation of participatory budgeting, known as a process often run by and for the poor and marginalized in Brazil and elsewhere. … Participation, or lack thereof, was a reflection of initial outreach efforts. ... In future years, more organizing is certainly needed.
Perhaps this helps explain the relatively low turn-out; 1,500 voters represents just 2.5 percent of the total population of the 49th Ward.
Another complaint is that implementation can be slow. Of the projects approved by 49th Ward voters in April 2011, none has begun construction (several are awaiting installation of a new gas line). Further, serious philosophical and ethical differences can divide residents, such as those in the 49th Ward who seek to move away from a car-based lifestyle and those who rely on frequent driving for their livelihoods.
Residents of several other cities, including Greensboro, North Carolina, and Vallejo, California, are clamoring for participatory budgeting in their town. Moore advises municipal officials to embrace it.
"Participatory budgeting empowers people to make real decisions about their money, and it's transparent," he says. "Not only is it good public policy but it's good politics: by surrendering a bit of their power, officials will realize that it makes them more popular."
*Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that all four New York districts using participatory budgeting were located in Brooklyn. In fact, only two of the four are in Brooklyn. The other two are in Queens and Manhattan/Bronx.
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Your Will: It's More Than Legalese
It's one of the most important legal documents you'll ever create; a will dictates how you want your assets distributed after you're gone. But beyond legalities, a will is a reflection of your life. It reveals who and what mattered most to you, and it's the final gesture by which you'll be remembered.
A well-planned will relieves family members from having to guess your final wishes during their time of grief, and it ensures they are taken care of in the manner you specify. When you provide for an organization such as the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh in your will, you also extend your legacy of caring and generosity.
A will has extraordinary potential. Consider what a will can do for you:
- Name a guardian for minor children
- Make financial arrangements for family members
- Provide for a pet
- Protect your business
- Forgive a debt
- Direct the division of your property (so the state does not)
- Choose the executor for your estate
- Reduce estate administration expenses
- Provide for a charitable organization
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There's certainly been a lot of Spielberg hitting Blu-ray in recent months. JAWS, The Indy collection, SCHINDLER'S LIST... it's been one after another of must-haves for your home entertainment collection, especially in filling out the Spielberg section. Today we get the arrival of LINCOLN, which found itself right smack in the middle of the Oscar conversation earlier this year, especially in the Best Actor category where Daniel Day-Lewis took home the recognition for his amazing portrayal of Honest Abe. You can go right ahead and buy it for yourself, or over the next few hours you can take your best shot at winning one.
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LYONS – A 49-year-old Riverside man died Tuesday evening after a possible accidental shooting at Midwest Gun Shop in Lyons that afternoon.
Michael Babinsky, 49, of the 300 block of Nuttall Road, was pronounced dead at 5:36 p.m. Tuesday at Loyola University Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
The Lyons Police Department responded to the gun shop at 1:55 p.m. Tuesday for a reported shooting and found Babinsky on the first floor of the gun range with a severe head injury, according to a department news release. Babinsky was transported to the hospital in critical condition and died less than four hours later.
Lyons Police Commander Brian Kuratko said Wednesday that there was no other shooter involved and that the shooting is being investigated as an accident or misfire.
On Tuesday, police said they were reviewing video surveillance from the store, located in the 8500 block of Plainfield Road, as well as interviewing witnesses.