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Dear Sgt. Shaft:
My husband received DD256 when he was discharged from active duty in 1954. It is our understanding that the DD256 form is only for discharge from inactive reserves. He should have a DD214 from active duty according to our information. Could you please clarify? If he sends a copy his DD256 to the proper place, can he obtain the correct DD214?
Thank you, Rosemary C. Via the Internet
Dear Rosemary:
My sources tell me that a DD Form 256 is an honorable discharge certificate and counts as an authorized separation document. You didn't state your intended use for the form. But if the form clearly states the dates of periods of active duty service, the document is valid for determining eligibility for veteran benefits. If you do need to request service documents, you can request them online at http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records or fax 314/801-9195, or write to: National Personnel Records Center, 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138.
You should request documents using a Standard Form 180 (which can be obtained from the website address above). If you write a letter you will need to include:
* The veteran's complete name used while in service.
* Service number or social security number.
* Branch of service.
* Dates of service.
* Date and place of birth may also be helpful, especially if the service number is not known.
If the request pertains to a record that may have been involved in the 1973 fire, also include:
* Place of discharge.
* Last unit of assignment.
* Place of entry into the service, if known.
Shaft notes
• The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the availability of the new online funeral directors resource kit. Funeral directors nationwide may use the kit when helping veterans and their families make burial arrangements in VA national cemeteries.
"We recognize that veterans and their families need compassion when they approach funeral directors for help," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. "We want to assist directors by giving them the information and tools they need to aid these families."
The website — http://www.cem.va.gov/cem/funeraldirector.asp — was created to enable funeral directors to find the most pertinent information to help families plan burials and apply for VA memorial benefits quickly. It has links about eligibility, benefits and services plus videos and information regarding services offered with and without military funeral honors. The videos are available in English and Spanish.
VA maintains 3.2 million gravesites in 131 VA national cemeteries and has interred more than 118,000 veterans and family members in fiscal year 2012. Information on VA burial benefits can be obtained from national cemetery offices, from the Internet at www.cem.va.gov or by calling VA regional offices toll-free at 800/827-1000. To make burial arrangements at the time of need at a VA national cemetery, call the National Cemetery Scheduling Office at 800/535-1117.
• Kudos to Rep. Mike Michaud, Maine Democrat and ranking member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, who has joined with Rep. Tim Walz, Minnesota Democrat, to introduce the CHAMPVA Children's Protection Act, which would allow children eligible for medical care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) program to continue coverage up to age 26.
"This bill would bring CHAMPVA in line with the insurance requirements created by the Affordable Care Act," Mr. Michaud said. "It will help close the coverage gap that currently exists for the children of veterans who gave up so much for our country."
CHAMPVA is a comprehensive health care program in which the VA shares the cost of covered health care services and supplies with eligible beneficiaries, such as the spouse or child of a veteran who is disabled or died from a service-connected disability. Legislation has already been passed allowing TRICARE to cover children on their parents' plan up to age 26.
• The American Legion announced the call for entries in its annual Fourth Estate Award program for excellence in journalism.
"The American Legion awards multiple prizes to recognize the outstanding achievements being made in print, broadcast and new media, or online (Internet-based) media," said Robert L. Morrill, national chairman of the organization's public relations commission. "The winner in each category will receive a $2,000 stipend to cover expenses and travel to accept the awards at the 2013 American Legion National Convention to be held in Houston, Texas, in August." The deadline for 2013 submissions in all categories is Feb. 18.
An entry form and updated rules and information have been posted on the American Legion website at http://www.legion.org/presscenter/fourthestate. Send questions to firstname.lastname@example.com anytime.
Submissions are judged on the quality of reporting that the journalist believes produced a positive effect on society.
"We invite journalists who have made a difference for the better in their community, state or nation to send us their entry," Mr. Morrill said. "There is no entry fee, and no single medium is limited as to the number of entries."
Some past winners have included Newsweek Magazine, ABC News, Dateline NBC, USA Today and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The complete list can be found on the American Legion website.
• U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a senior member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, attended a hearing titled "Assessing the State of America's Mental Health System" where she questioned Pamela Hyde, J.D., administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), about the implementation of her mental health parity and access initiatives. The hearing also examined the most pressing problems in our mental health system, including a need to focus on prevention and early intervention, and discuss ways to improve access to services for those who need assistance.
As outgoing chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Sen. Murray questioned Ms. Hyde on best practices and progress in implementing her Mental Health ACCESS Act, which will make improvements to ensure those who served have access to consistent, quality behavioral health care.
• Send letters to Sgt. Shaft, c/o John Fales, P.O. Box 65900, Washington, D.C. 20035-5900; fax 301/622-3330, call 202/257-5446 or email email@example.com.


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Season 2 Episode 9 | 26m 59s
Unexpected moments can lead to a "breakthrough." A simple truth guides Jen to a new career; after being diagnosed with HIV, Bruce finds new hope and a constant reminder that he is still alive; and a new generation of young women scientists inspire Abel to make the field more inclusive. Three storytellers, three interpretations of BREAKTHROUGH, hosted by Wes Hazard.
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A toxicology report has surfaced that says two dolphins who died last year after a zoo rave in Switzerland that says heroin was found in the mammals' urine.
About a year ago, dolphins Shadow and Chelmers died agonizing deaths in Connyland, Switzerland, after the zoo allowed a rave (attended by thousands) to be held near their training pool. For animals with sonar hearing, a possibly dubstep-heavy event was already considered a strain.
Now a toxicology report has emerged that shows a heroin substitute was found in the animal's urine. This would seem to confirm initial suspicions that whacked-out ravers fed the dolphins drugs while possibly on some kind of weird acid trip.
AOL UK reports that it was originally believed that the techno music pumping out from the club just yards from the dolphins' pool had caused their deaths:
But toxicology tests carried out by the forensics institute in St Gallen show that the heroin substitute Buprenorphin was present in the dolphins' urine.
According to The Sun, Dutch marine biologist and dolphin expert Cornelis van Elk said: "Opiates are extremely dangerous for underwater mammals and would never be used in any legitimate treatment.


text: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2013 National Physical Therapy Month Resources Available Now Check out APTA's National Physical Therapy Month webpage at www.apta.org/NPTM, where you can see a video announcement by President Paul Rockar Jr, PT, DPT, MS, about this year's exciting media initiative, the "Top 10 Fittest Baby Boomer Cities in America." Download the members-only 2013 NPTM Event Planning Guide for all the ideas, tools, and resources you will need to promote healthy lifestyles for boomers in your city! Comments Can't find anywhere else to ask this questions so I am just going to try here. I have heard from somewhere in the near future, the Total Knee Joint replacement DRG will be eleminiated from Medicare and replaced with OBS day surgery payment. Any idea where I can find if this is true. Thanks for any help, Karen Posted by Karen L Ross, PT on 8/29/2013 4:21 PM What is up with the poor selection and design of PT Month merchandise? Posted by Mary Mantooth -> =IT]@G on 8/30/2013 12:52 PM Again, pediatric physical therapists are ignored in national physical therapy month merchandise and activities! The sign is boring, and who care about bookmarks! I cannot believe I have to pay annual dues to an organization that consistently concentrates on geriatric areas! Posted by Carol Richardson -> >ITcD on 9/4/2013 11:06 AM Too bad component staff can't order PT month merchandise and get the membership discount. I can't even find a phone number to call the order in and request the discount. Jill Cooper, Executive Director, Idaho PT Assn. Posted by Jill Cooper -> =FWZAK on 9/4/2013 4:21 PM Do you know where I can find a calendar of activities throughout the US that are being held to celebrate National PT Month, especially those sponsored by the various state physical therapy associations? I'd like to encourage more support of National PT Month on my blog, but I'm running low on information. Thanks, Richard Posted by Richard Robbins on 9/30/2013 3:22 PM


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Everybody Eats Numbers Short of Expectations
COLUMBIA - Although the annual Everybody Eats Thanksgiving dinner saw fewer guests than expected Thursday, organizers said a high volunteer turnout made it possible. The program saw more than one hundred volunteers helping with tasks like cooking and cleaning tables.
The Thanksgiving dinner served nearly 400 guests by 12:30 p.m. Volunteers expected to see about 500 by 2 p.m. Crayton said there was still plenty of food left Thursday afternoon because she expected 600 to 800 guests.
Chris Gadsden brought his family to help serve food and clean tables. "I feel like we've really been blessed, and it's our job to help as many people as we can." Gadsden said. "I want the kids to think of somebody bedsides themselves during the holidays." Gadsden's son William also said he enjoyed volunteering, "I think everyone's happy that they're able to come here and have a great time."
Founder Almeta Crayton said, if guests keep coming to the event, the kitchen could stay open until 5 p.m. "We are blessed today to be able to feed those folks who have no place to go," Crayton said. "This is just a big family reunion."
Crayton said she was still very happy with the turnout, but hopes to have volunteer drivers to pick up potential guests in coming years. She said a pick-up service could bring more people in, but drivers would need to have chauffeur's licenses.


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Sunken Gardens
Sunken Gardens features an annual floral display that consists of over 30,000 individual annual plants which are redesigned to a different theme each year. The theme for this year is "Sun Salutations". Our colors this year are in the order of fire colors, reds, oranges, and yellows combined together to welcome the sunshine into our lives.
As the only Nebraska garden listed in the "300 Best Gardens to Visit in the United States and Canada" by National Geographic Guide to Public Gardens, this is a special place to many. Located at 27th and Capital Parkway, this 1.5 acre lot was first developed in 1930 and most recently renovated in 2004. Visitors can tiptoe through the tulips every spring and watch the thousands of annuals bloom all summer long and then enjoy the peaceful winter interest of the varied trees and shrubs.
If you would like to reserve the gardens for a wedding or other special event, please contact the reservation staff at 402-441-7847, opt 0. You can see if you would like to see if a specific date is available, check out the online reservation system.
Sunken Gardens continues to grow thanks to generous donations from people inspired by its beauty. There are several ways to support Sunken Gardens including purchasing a Paving the Path brick or One Flower Forever. For information on other ways to contribute to the Sunken Gardens endowment fund, call 402-441-8258.
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Healing GardenThe Healing Garden (or White Garden) is located in the upper level on the west side. The design was inspired by the famous White Garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, England created in the 1930's by Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicholson. The gathering of white blossoms inspires calm, serenity and meditation. Visitors are encouraged to experience the ethereal quality of the garden on moonlit summer evenings.
Perennial Garden
Perennials are located throughout Sunken Gardens but are featured in the upper level on the north side. There you will find varieties of shade loving plants including hostas, viburnum and hydrangeas.
Annual Garden
Thousands of annuals are planted, many by volunteers, corresponding to a different theme each spring. Primarily serving as design inspiration, garden themes have included Tropicalismo, Van Gogh's "Starry Night", Hachimaki – a stylized Japanese headband, "Power of the Peacock", "Purple Haze" and "Solar Flair."
Volunteer EventsFor information regarding, the Hamann Garden Spring Clean up, the Garden Gab program and Put the Beds to Bed, please contact the Public Garden Section Volunteer Coordinator Zac Halley, email- firstname.lastname@example.com
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Garden Gab
Starts in May and ends at the end of November
Garden Gab meets at the Sunken Gardens Pavilion, 27th and Capital Parkway every Tuesday and Thursday, May through October, from 9a-noon. These are weekly "Learn and Do" sessions with the Public Gardens staff which cover different weekly topics on the growing culture of plants used in our gardens. Following the sessions, the newly learned skills are then put to use at Sunken Gardens, Hamann Rose Garden and the Rotary Strolling Garden. Visit the Public Gardens Volunteer page for a list of monthly topics.
Rose Garden Spring Clean-Up
Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 1:00pm
Volunteers are encouraged to participate in "Learn and Do" rose garden spring maintenance program. This program will show volunteers:
- Proper spring pruning of Hybrid Tea Roses as well as shrub rose and miniature rose spring clean-up.
- Proper maintenance techniques will be shown for general rose care during the summer growing season.
- Tools of the trade and their maintenance techniques.
Wake-Up the Beds
Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 8:30am-12pm
Wake Up the Beds is an annual event that invites the public to help our gardeners plant annuals in the Sunken Gardens. This event takes place mid May. Good for individuals or groups. Registration preferred: Email email@example.com or phone 402-441-7847, press 0.
Put the Beds to Bed
Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 8:30am-12pm
The Put the Beds to Bed event is an annual event that invites the public to help our gardeners prepare the Sunken Gardens for winter. We pull annual flowers and spade the garden for winter resting of the soil allowing it to mellow with the newly added compost. This event takes place on the first Saturday of November. Registration preferred: Email firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 402-441-7847, press 0. Good for individuals or groups.


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Hunter Education Importance
Hunter education is important because it helps to:
- Prevent hunting and shooting accidents.
- Improve hunter behavior to maintain public acceptance of hunting.
- Ensure the future of hunting in Montana by educating the next generation of hunters.
The responsible and respectful hunter understands and respects the views of non-hunters. Many people have never hunted and don't understand what it's all about. Others simply disagree with hunting and killing animals. But in some instances, people who have nothing against hunting may have seen hunters doing things they don't like. For instance, wearing blood-stained clothing in public. The irresponsible and disrespectful behavior of a few hunters can affect the public's attitude toward all hunters. Those who are against hunting, for whatever reason, may close their land, vote for laws that limit hunting opportunities, or try to ban hunting altogether.
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Since the 7 day trial period is over for many who started playing soon after the Steam Early Access release, it would be nice if you have a supporter pack, you get some guest passes that you can share with other players so that they can keep playing, but also to invite friends, since this game has a heavy social element. Then you have the element of social connection upfront, which is important for this game.
Perhaps these guest passes range from 7 days to up to 1 month (so they can experience a whole 1 month season). Nomad supporter packs get some, Seeker supporter packs get more, Vanguard supporter packs get a lot. Depending on how the developers want to control server numbers and free-playing vs. paying, these guest passes could be refreshed over time (perhaps you get more guest passes every 3 months?).
I know this comes across as begging for free stuff, but I thought it would be a nice idea to be able to share the game with others for those with supporter packs, especially with the lower player numbers at the moment.
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Nigella Lawson is the viewers' favourite to replace Mary Berry in the Great British Bake Off, according to a new survey.
The 56-year-old celebrity chef beat last year's GBBO winner Nadiya Hussain and Delia Smith, who tied for second place.
Jamie Oliver was fourth choice, ahead of James Martin, Gino D'Acampo, the Hairy Bikers, Lorraine Pascal, Ainsley Harriott and Gordon Ramsay.
The survey of 1,000 GBBO viewers was conducted by online market researchers OnePoll.
Amazingly, EastEnders star Danny Dyer - the 20th most popular choice - scored higher than established chefs Raymond Blanc and Rick Stein.
A OnePoll spokesman said: "Nigella was the clear winner, with almost 20 per cent of the vote.
"It's a very good shout - and if Paul Hollywood stays on the double entendre count could be off the scale.
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Over 7,000 Guitarists Pay Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Break World Record
The annual Thanks Jimi Festival in Poland has set a world record for the largest guitar ensemble. Over 7,000 pickers showed up to follow Jimi Hendrix's brother Leon and a talented group of bandleaders in playing 'Hey Joe.'
Acoustics, electrics and bass guitars were all approved for use at the event. The first video below gives one an idea of what the collaboration was like, standing at ground level. If God enjoyed the psychedelic '60s than this is what thunder would sound like.
Other videos show that some players brought battery powered amplifiers to the event, but most seemed to rely on the hollow body of an acoustic. Festival founder Leszek Cichonski put together the first celebration in 2003. In 2009 over 6,300 people set the Guinness World Record, a total that was topped with an astounding 7,273 Hendrix fans at this year's event.
Watch the second video — first posted at Blabbermouth — to get an idea of what the song sounded like in front of the on-stage amplifiers.


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Some physical copies of BBC2 are now available from Where Frost Reign (Norway) and Scream & Writhe (Canada).
For digital go to BBC Bandcamp.
Some physical copies of BBC2 are now available from Where Frost Reign (Norway) and Scream & Writhe (Canada).
For digital go to BBC Bandcamp.
BBC3 JEO - Jerusalem
The Emanation of The Giant Albion
"Awake, Albion awake!"
Pro-dubbed black cassette in clear plastic case with hand numbered cover.
Edition of 50.
All tracks recorded by J.E.O on locations accross Great Britain, 1995 - 2012.
Mastered by Sam at Mornington Crescent.
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Partial Objects - Guy Andre
Nokuit - Shapeless Self
JEO - Prince of Space
Nokuit - Suspended
Tottenham Ayatollah - Never Be Safe
Nokuit - Structures
JEO - The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Side A
Nokuit - Restless Legs
The Soulless Party - Tales from the Black Meadow (Main Theme)
Partial Objects - Physical Education
Nokuit - Deep Breathing
Tottenham Ayatollah - Jihaddi John's Drug Binge
Imperial Leather - Death to Traitors Freedom for Britain
Nokuit - Screwed Angels - Moments of Ecstasy
Imperial Leather - So Long [Project Fear is Over]
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Release Date: 27th October 2017
NKT presents 'Patterns of Instability', a work of freeform experimental electronic music that moves through dense noise textures, visceral sound design and time-stopping ambient suites. Unfolding over 45 minutes, the new Nokuit album is an absorbing soundtrack probing the pervasive bewilderment of society. Its a relentless journey where blurred melodies and abrasive soundscapes unsettle our most buried dissatisfactions and inner rebellions.
Swirling drones become a sonic lens which drifts and roams through the currents and threads within the contemporary landscape. Mingling amongst the town square demonstration, flipped upside down through the cameras into the news media rooms and editing suites, dragged up into helicopters looking down into streets and homes, then bounced across the globe by satellites floating in the atmosphere. Spam bots and malware, encryption data, analysis of YouTube uploads and text messages. Rather than focusing in on any specific geographical event, Patterns of Instability takes a widescreen approach to our contemporary age of discontent and digs deep into timeless feelings of frustration.
Expanding the peculiar set of expressive tools built over precursor works Analysis Paralysis and Reality Disappears After Waking, here Nokuits music reaches its most defined and highly evolved form yet. This is an observation on how we deal with and perceive our reality - whether or not we are in control of it - and our level of acceptance of the constant brainwashing that affects our lives. Each time Nokuits music faces the struggle from different angles and in Patterns of Instability it zooms in on collective, political and individual battlefields.
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"..Swirling drones become a sonic lens which drifts and roams through the currents and threads within the contemporary landscape. Mingling amongst the town square demonstration, flipped upside down through the cameras into the news media rooms and editing suites, dragged up into helicopters looking down into streets and homes, then bounced across the globe by satellites floating in the atmosphere. Spam bots and malware, encryption data, analysis of YouTube uploads and text messages.."
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In Memoriam is an elegy for those lost to the great wars of the past as well as present day victims of increasingly obscured and convoluted conflict.
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Popol Vuh - On The Way (Spalax)
Deathprod - Treetop Drive 3 (Smalltown Supersound)
Saturn and the Sun - The Central, Sick and Forbidden (iDEAL Recordings)
Non - Fire In The Organism (Mute)
Boëthius - Marble Floors (Unreleased)
Verge - Transient (Avian)
Marcus Fjellström - Something Comes From Nothing (Miasmah)
Phurpa - Puja Offering and Praises (Ideologic Organ)
Robert Turman & Aaron Dilloway - Untitled (Fabrica)
Radiante Pourpre - II (Antinote)
Coil - The Golden Section (Threshold House)
Ravenmaster - Poppy Appeal (Broken Britain Cassettes)
Drew McDowall - Convulse (Dais)
Black Zone Myth Chant - Orbit Slut (Editions Gravats)
SHALT - Hypermalthusian (Astral Plane Recordings)
Psychic TV - Part IV (Cold Spring)
Mike Cooper - The Ordeal (Sacred Summits)
Evan Albam - Begotten (Worthless Recordings)
Angel Dust - Excavatum (Dinzu Artefacts)
Michael Abels - Surgery Prep (Back Lot Music)
Nokuit - Patterns Of Instability (NKT)
Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Standing Dead (Death Waltz Recording Company)
Dead Can Dance - Dawn Of The Iconoclast (4AD)
Scuba Death - Mortality Salience (Further Records)
Arca - Immortal (Not on label)
British Murder Boys - First (Downwards)
Ron Morelli - Cross Waters (Hospital Productions)
Ray Harman - Vision (Not on label)
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Vatican Shadow - Desert Storm (Waco) (Hospital Productions)
The Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings (Astral Industries)
Oliver Coates - Memorial to Hitchens (Prah Recordings)
Ataraxia - Sorcerer (RCA)
Rollo Smallcombe - Inferno (unreleased)
Electric Sewer Age - Moons Milk (Waning) (Soleilmoon Recordings)
Rabit - Possessed (Halcyon Veil)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Requiem (Milan)
Dao De Noize - Droning Voices From the Past (Lamour)
Death In June - Death of a Man (NER)
Nokuit - Patterns of Instability I (NKT)
Frans Zwartjes - Living (Not on label)
J.G. Biberkopf - Spirit (Knives)
Memotone - Ritual (Black Acre)
Abel Korzeniowski - Exhibition (Back Lot Music)
Fis - Sub Larynx (Loopy)
Jed Kurzel - The Med Bay (Milan)
3.14 - Ironas (Autumn Equinox Edition)
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Many Texas lawmakers routinely dip into their campaign funds to pay for Austin-related living expenses, such as apartment rent and associated costs.
Dave Palmer, who calls himself "The Watchdawg," filed a complaint last week with the Travis County district attorney and others, contending it's wrong for legislators to take the $168 a day per diem from taxpayers designed to cover Austin living expenses while actually paying their apartment rent with campaign money.
Veteran state Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, doesn't want to be painted with the same broad brush. Ellis says his accountants take a conservative approach and allow him only to use his campaign funds to pay his Austin apartment rent when the Legislature is not in session.
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Other lawmakers take a different approach. Rep. Beverly Woolley, R-Houston, for example, used campaign funds last year to pay her $2,200-a-month Austin apartment – whether the Legislature was in session or not.
Lawmakers draw automatic per diem (about $4,700 a month) only when they are in session. At other times, legislators have to file for per diem pay to which they are entitled when they return to the Capitol for interim committee hearings or related state business.
Ellis has claimed 21 days of per diem for the first seven months of 2010, according to Secretary of the Senate Patsy Spaw. As a committee chair, Ellis was entitled to 112 days. He never comes close to maxing out his per diem pay when the Legislature is not in session. He could have received up to $16,128 in per diem last year during the six months the Legislature was not in session. He received $2,033, according to Senate records.
In 2008, he could have received up to $26,688 – but he only collected $834.
Throughout his 20 years in the Legislature, Ellis has never filed for per diem unless he spent the night in Austin. Legislators are entitled to per diem if they come in for a day meeting and leave town the same day. Taxes, however, are withheld if the Austin trip involves any state business other than a committee hearing, the secretary of the Senate says.
"I was too dumb to know," Ellis sheepishly says about not applying for per diem unless he spent the night in Austin. "I thought you only get the per diem if you spent the night."
Spaw set him straight this week.
But Ellis emphasizes that he does not spend campaign money for his Austin apartment when the Legislature is in session. A check of his campaign fund records indicates that is largely correct – except for two stray payments over the years.
Ellis says the per diem doesn't totally cover his Austin living expenses.
"I assure you, I don't live as comfortable in Austin as I live at home," Ellis says, adding that legislators have to keep computers and buy internet service for both their home residence and their Austin place.
"I have art in (the apartment). I have furniture in there. I've got sheets. I've got pillows," he says. "I guess if I was a Spartan, I wouldn't need all of that. I have some pretty nice art that reminds me of my ancestors in my apartment.
"You really are living in two cities for a job that pays $600 a month that we all love," Ellis says. "But I don't want to be miserable being away from my family."
Palmer's initial complaint involves most of the 49 legislators who represent Houston or San Antonio. He plans to expand the list in coming weeks to include members from other parts of Texas.
Palmer is a disabled army veteran who has spent much of the past 18 years examining financial records of public officials in California, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, New York and Louisiana and several other states.
"The whole intent here is to put a stop to this," said Palmer, 66, who lives in Folsom, Calif.
In the past, he has filed complaints against Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, for using campaign money to buy season tickets for the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets. Palmer also has filed a complaint in the past against Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, for using campaign funds to pay for his Bohemian Grove get-aways.
Palmer says he spends up to 10 hours a day looking at public records.
"It's David v. Goliath, so to speak," he says.
But Ellis thinks the California-based watchdog is more about "dogging people than watching them."


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DETROIT - Add another near miss in this 2013 baseball season — this time it was Detroit's Anibal Sanchez falling just short of a no-hitter.
Sanchez's bid was broken up with one out in the ninth inning Friday night when Minnesota's Joe Mauer hit a clean single up the middle. That was the only hit the right-hander allowed in the Tigers' 6-0 victory over the Twins. It was the fourth one-hitter of Sanchez's career, to go along a no-hitter he threw as a rookie back in 2006.
"It's not that I go to the mound and want to do something special, it's just that I want to go nine innings, go deeper, get a good command, get a good game," Sanchez said. "When I come to the eighth inning, I think about it. But when I come to the ninth inning, it's really tough with those guys."
After seven no-hitters in 2012, baseball is without one so far this season. There have been plenty of close calls. Before Sanchez, four other pitchers had already thrown one-hitters in 2013, according to STATS. And that doesn't include Yu Darvish of Texas, Clay Buchholz of Boston and Adam Wainwright of St. Louis, all of whom had no-hitters in the eighth inning or later but couldn't finish the job.
Darvish came within an out of a perfect game at Houston on April 2. He allowed a hit and didn't finish the game.
Mauer, meanwhile, is making a habit of playing spoiler. It's the third time in his career he's broken up a no-hitter in the ninth inning, according to STATS.
"He's nasty, and he had everything working tonight," Mauer said. "Obviously, you know exactly what is happening, and you don't want to get no-hit. I'm just up there trying to put the bat on the ball. He threw me a really good cutter and I was just able to square it up."
It was Sanchez's second gem in about a month — he set a franchise record with 17 strikeouts in eight marvelous innings against Atlanta on April 26.
Sanchez (5-4) struck out 12 on Friday and allowed three walks — staying remarkably calm on the mound all the while.
"He called me out to the mound. In the middle of a no-hitter," Tigers catcher Alex Avila said. "I've been in the middle of a no-hitter a few times, in the sixth, seventh inning, I don't think a pitcher's ever called me out to the mound. ... He just forgot what signs we were using when there's a guy on second base."
The home crowd gave Sanchez a standing ovation when he came out to start the ninth, and he immediately struck out Jamey Carroll. Mauer followed with a line drive up the middle — to almost the same spot where Pittsburgh's Josh Harrison's hit landed last year when he broke up a no-hit bid by Detroit's Justin Verlander, also with two outs to go.
Sanchez instinctively reached up for Mauer's hit, but there was no chance for anyone — least of all the pitcher — to catch it. Sanchez then jerked his head back and spun in frustration, but with a bit of a smile on his face.
"We got the hit, but that doesn't change anything," Mauer said. "He still blew us away."
After Sanchez struck out the next two hitters to end the game, he shared a hug with Avila. Sanchez threw 130 pitches.
"In the end, it's the result of my work. I try to figure out, to put my ball in the strike zone," Sanchez said. "It's a nice result, and I take it."
Jordan Zimmermann of Washington, Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox, Shelby Miller of St. Louis and Jon Lester of Boston have also thrown one-hitters this season. Matt Harvey of the New York Mets allowed one hit in nine innings against the White Sox on May 7, but that game went 10 innings and he didn't finish it.
The last-place Twins have lost 10 straight, and their starting lineup against Sanchez included four players hitting .212 or worse. Carroll drew a walk to lead off the game, and Sanchez issued another to Chris Parmelee in the second. Then the 29-year-old Sanchez, acquired by the Tigers from the Miami Marlins at midseason last year, settled into quite a groove.
He fanned Mauer for the third out of the third, then struck out the side the fourth.
Parmelee led off the fifth with a hard grounder up the middle that Sanchez was able to field himself. The following inning, Brian Dozier nearly broke up the no-hit bid when he hit a slow roller to shortstop Jhonny Peralta and almost beat the throw the first.
Sanchez then struck out Carroll and Mauer to end the Minnesota sixth.
With one out in the eighth, the Twins finally got another runner on base when Eduardo Escobar walked. That snapped a streak of 18 straight hitters retired by Sanchez, but he bounced back to retire pinch-hitter Ryan Doumit on a grounder to first. Pinch-hitter Chris Colabello followed, and with the crowd on its feet, he was called out on strikes.
Miguel Cabrera hit a two-run single in the second, upping his RBI total to 57. Don Kelly added a two-run homer the following inning.
Minnesota's Samuel Deduno (0-1) allowed six runs and nine hits in 5 1-3 innings.
The most recent no-hitter thrown by a Tiger was in 2011, when Verlander tossed the second of his career. The Twins were no-hit last year by Jered Weaver of the Los Angeles Angels.
NOTES: Sanchez's no-hitter as a rookie came Sept. 6, 2006, against Arizona. He was pitching for the Marlins then. ... Sanchez threw 121 pitches before being taken out of his 17-strikeout game against the Braves, but there was no way manager Jim Leyland was pulling him Friday while the no-hit bid was in progress.


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|by HB of CJ » Sat Oct 03, 2015 1:55 pm
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I for one have a hard time trying to understand what happens when writing for pleasure becomes writing for dead line or for contract obligations. What was once fun becomes just work? I hope this is not happening with the great authors providing us with great storylines.
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|by Louis R » Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:13 pm
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Can't speak directly for the authors concerned - I can't recall seeing either of them discuss this - but as a rule, writers for whom fun turns into just work don't turn pro, or at least don't stay pro.
There are pros for whom writing is and always was just work, but they tend not to be story-tellers. Look for them under 'business' or 'general interest' [or don't bother, as their own names aren't the ones on the book anyway]
There are many authors who will readily admit that writing for publication is _also_ work, but when they're not having fun they go do something else. They're story-tellers, and you can't tell stories well when you don't enjoy the telling.
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|by Dauntless » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:08 am
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Long considered Napa Valley's sleepy cousin, Sonoma is ripe with vineyards and rugged valleys that are now just tame enough to conquer.
Author Sarah Horne
WANDER THE STREETS OF AFFLUENT HEALDSBURG, the symbolic heart of Northern California's Sonoma County, and there's little doubt that these valleys and rolling green hills—once unkown—are now a world-class destination for oenophiles and food lovers. Among the winemakers and rugged fourth-generation locals, there are more and more glitzy types clad in linen or draped in cashmere, and they feel right at home. Sonoma has arrived.
To its detractors, hippie-dippy Sonoma is a cultural no-man's land where oddball characters cavort in the hills. Of course, that's exactly how the locals like it. After all, only the scrappiest of pioneers made their way to this stretch of the remote West, digging in and adapting to its dramatically varied microclimates. In the generations that followed, hardworking farmers, largely Italian-American immigrants, worked the land for lumber and produce. Importing their family winemaking traditions from the old country, they discovered something vital: The local wine was pretty darn good. Visitors soon began to understand all the fuss over the region's soil and air, and all the care that's put into everything produced here, from lettuce to cheese and wine.
Though Sonoma is quickly becoming the next big thing, it still contains many hidden corners you'll feel as if you discovered on your own. And the locals, finding you off the beaten path, will welcome you with a wink, and let you imagine that you have.
It is truly a wonderful place to visit (and live) and there is more to Sonoma than simply wine tasting, which you captured here perfectly! Great description of the area.
Headsburg is my favorite town in Sonoma County. Two other completely different regions (45 minutes from Healdsburg) is Kenwood (Kunde Winery is there) and Sonoma, the town. The town of Sonoma has been called "the island" by the locals, it's the place with the quirky characters. Healdsburg is full of friendly, fun types.
I'm from Iowa but when I visit Northern California, Healdsburg is my favorite place to visit! I can't recommend it and the Dry Creek Valley area enough! I've made so many great friends and visited so many beautiful places. Michel-Schlumberger is awesome! I was just there last Summer and hiked their vineyards! Just spectacular!
If you would like to live the dream why not doing perched above the Alexander Valley on Chalk Hill Road on 17.5 secluded acres at the end of a country lane.
Great article. Good picks on wineries. So many more gems not mentioned though, make sure you come spend 2-3 days and explore fully!
Healdsburg is definately the best of the best of Sonoma County-You got it right with Lime Stone the perfect shop to take home special one of a kind items like the wine label tray made from local somoma wineries and right next door is the best restaurant Dry Creek Kitchen-food is exceptional and service was top notch!


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Editor's note: Many people do not realize that most of the trout that are so important to anglers fishing in Connecticut's rivers, streams and lakes were imported to this country years ago. America's only true native trout was almost wiped out by industrialization and the damming of rivers for power. In the following piece, adapted from the December newsletter of Nutmeg Chapter Trout Unlimited, former president Ron Merly talks about an ambitious effort to restore those native trout in Connecticut and other states.
Before brown and rainbow trout were introduced into American waters in the 1860s and '70s, the only trout naturally found in Connecticut waters were brook trout (actually a species of char). Brook trout inhabited most of the streams in our state as well as throughout the Eastern section of the country. Sea-run, or salter brook trout, were brook trout that were caught in the salt estuaries of streams emptying into the saltwater throughout New England and on Long Island. The fish were plentiful and were prized by anglers for their size as well as being delicious table fare. It was common to catch salter brook trout between 6 and 10 pounds and more than one.
As the rivers were dammed and polluted from the Industrial Revolution, salter brook trout, like their cousin the Atlantic salmon, were unable to reach their traditional spawning grounds. As a result, populations of those fish all but disappeared except in a few little-known streams scattered throughout New England.
Cape Cod has always been a place where anglers sought and caught those fish. In the mid 1970s, restoration began on remnant populations in Red Brook and afterward, several other streams on Cape Cod. The restoration work proved to be a huge success and continues on streams throughout the Cape. The Massachusetts government is now behind the restoration project and works with Trout Unlimited and the Sea-Run Brook Trout Coalition on these efforts.
Because of the success of these restoration projects on the Cape, Trout Unlimited and the coalition are interested in the restoration of salter brook trout in other New England states. Not every stream is a candidate. The criteria for restoration is pretty simple, although the research to discover this simple criteria took years of study. In order for a stream to be a candidate for restoration, it must have:
• A wild population of brook trout in its waters. Stocked brook trout do not survive, only wild fish seem to be able to adapt to the saltwater environment.
• The stream must not have barriers such as dams that prevent the fish from freely traveling from the river to the saltwater.
• If the stream to be restored is currently being stocked with trout, the stocking must stop. Brook trout will not climb steep fish ladders so natural passage is preferred.
There is a general misconception that trout wind up downstream in the salt because they get washed downstream during heavy flows. Actually, trout do not get washed downstream, they instinctively know where to hold during heavy river flows. Food competition is the reason that fish move downstream and into a salt estuary. As a stream becomes more and more populated with fish, there becomes competition for the food source. When the dominant fish chase other fish out of their feeding holds, it causes those fish forced out to seek out a place to eat, which is how they eventually wind up in the saltwater. Ironically, those fish that were displaced due to food competition are the ones that will grow large because of the rich saltwater environment.
The first steps toward restoration in Connecticut were recently taken. DEEP biologists; Michael Hopper, president of Sea-Run Brook Trout Coalition; and myself sat down at DEEP headquarters in Old Lyme to establish a program for restoration of these fish in Connecticut waters. During that meeting, it was decided to begin with Anguilla Brook in North Stonington as it meets the general criteria for restoration. The plan is to begin to electronically monitor the brook trout starting in the spring.


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We had booked tickets for the sneak preview but we needn't have – there were not a lot of people there. But then again, it was cold, it was a Friday night and we were there to watch a documentary on climate change. Anyway, we were excited. We purchased our choc tops, which seemed to be melting faster than when I was a kid, and settled in to enjoy – if that's the right word – An Inconvenient Truth.
Ninety minutes later, our reactions were mixed. I found it pretty riveting, but of course I'm very interested in climate change and - more importantly - I'm a sucker for diagrams, charts and graphs. My girlfriend, Cat, found the presentation staid and she almost nodded off a couple of times. The presentation was unusual, even for a documentary. It really is a talk by Al Gore on climate change, albeit mixed with some spectacular footage and some very convincing and illuminating visual explanations of the science. No-one else gets interviewed or really speaks in the movie. That does give it a kind of one-sided feeling, even though the facts that Gore is presenting are mostly indisputable.
Gore is engaging though and he lays out a convincing argument. He explains the link between carbon dioxide concentrations and global temperatures, shows that current carbon dioxide concentrations are unprecedented and tells us the impacts that that will have. He gives the opponents' arguments short shrift and I sometimes think this is a problem.
For example, I watched the ABC's At the Movies show (for those of you unfamiliar with it, it's a chatty film review show usually in the form of a discussion between the two engaging hosts, and they had this to say after watching the film:
MARGARET: David, it's done very lucidly, the graphics are great, you know, if this is fact, then it's pretty scary. But what I want to know is, you know, if there is doubt about what Gore is claiming...
DAVID: Well, some people have attacked the film.
MARGARET: Right, well, I mean surely it's possible to set up a body that doesn't have any vested interest in either outcome, you know, that just wants to know the truth and finding out what the truth is. I mean, it can't be a scientific stretch to discover whether we're losing the polar ice caps…
I actually think we owe it to our kids and our grandkids to find out the truth, and, you know, I mean a lot of money ought to be put into finding out the truth of this situation. I mean, it's very easy to get people's gander up with a documentary like this, and I think it's been very well done, but, the truth of the situation is significant, and that's what this documentary ought to do. It ought to galvanise people in power to discovering the truth.
That discussion riled me when I saw it because, of course, exactly such a body does exist – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – and it has answered most of the big questions. But after seeing the movie, I can understand why Margaret said this.
I think the problem is this. The science behind climate change is not highly disputed. There's a lot of uncertainty at the margins about exactly what's likely to occur, what the impacts will be, etc, but the basic concept has essentially unanimous support among serious climate scientists. (If I can attempt to summarise that basic concept, it's that we are substantially increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere above historical levels and that this will result in a rise in average global temperatures and a massive range of impacts on climate (that will vary from place to place) including higher temperatures in some places, lower temperatures in others, more rainfall in some places, lower rainfall in others and an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events – droughts, floods, fires – pretty much everywhere.)
The science behind climate change is not highly disputed, so Gore doesn't present a dispute, but climate change is highly disputed in the popular media. So when Al Gore presents one version of a debate which rages in the media, the natural question is 'Well, what's the other side of the story?'. That question is asked, I think, because people are used to social documentaries that concentrate on conflict – where people from two very different viewpoints are interviewed and their opposing views and stories presented. Documentaries do this because they want to appear to be balanced (though they rarely are) and perhaps more so because playing up the conflict creates drama and interest.
When that format is absent from a movie, I think people naturally ask whether they're being told the whole truth. I guess it's also because climate change science is presented popularly as much more controversial than it truly is. I would have liked to see Gore engage some of the main opposing arguments a little more - even if they don't truly deserve airtime.
Anyway, I think this is an important and compelling film. I'd recommend you see it – and take any sceptical friends with you. It certainly gets people thinking and talking about the issues. Our Saturday night was spent talking climate change, Kyoto and politics until the early hours of Sunday morning – not the usual Saturday night fare.
By the way, Al Gore is being interviewed tonight (Monday) on Enough Rope on ABC.


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Answer: In simplest terms, a cell phone upgrade fee means that at some point within that billing cycle you received a new phone from the company at a discount, and the company has charged you a fee to help offset those upgrading costs. Here's the tricky part… even if your phone is NOT technically an upgrade (for instance if you had an Iphone 4S and you got a new Iphone 4S) or even a "downgrade" (for instance, going from a Samsung Galaxy S3 to a Samsung Rugby basic phone), you will still be charged an "upgrade" fee if you were given a discount on your phone.
"What are the rules for an upgrade?"
This varies from provider to provider, except for the required commitment. In order to get the best deal, all four of the major providers do require you to start a new 2-year commitment. But here's the breakdown of the time requirements and fees. AT&T, Verizon and Sprint all require you to be 20 months into your 24 month contract (with Sprint having dropped that requirement from 22 months in 2011, and AT&T raising theirs from 18 months in 2012), and T-Mobile requiring 22 months. As far as the fees go, AT&T and Sprint each charge $36, Verizon $30 and T-Mobile $18.
"Why won't they refund the fee?"
This is something that I've seen a lot of on the provider's message boards, and on tech message boards in general, especially in the last few months as the providers have cracked down on refunding these fees. "The retail clerk in the store told me that if I called, they would refund my fee, but they refused and I'm mad!" This complaint breaks down into three parts. The first part is that, regardless of what you were told by the retail clerk, the upgrade fee is part of your contract. I know that no one reads the entire contract… Zod knows that I don't… but that doesn't change the fact that it is part of an enforceable contract. The next part, and the part that kind of sucks, is that the more that a retail clerk can sell you, the more money they make, whether they can actually follow through on that promise or not. So my advice would be that, even if a retail clerk promises a waiver of the upgrade fee, don't be surprised or upset when you see it on your next bill. The third and final part is logic… if the retail clerk promised you that there WOULD be an upgrade fee, and then a later clerk said that they would waive it, would you insist that the company honor the promise of the first clerk?
Hope that this clears this up for folks.
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In line with our commitment to biodiversity conservation, the group launched Sanctuary, Shangri-La's Care for Nature Project.
At Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa, Sultanate of Oman, we have the Turtle Care Project which aims to protect the endangered hawksbill and green turtles species native to the beaches of Oman. A dedicated turtle ranger has been appointed to ensure the nests are sheltered from any threats and to raise awareness amongst guests and local communities alike on the plight of turtles through educational activities such as talks and viewings.
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SUNW.SCTelemetry, SCTelemetry - resource type for collecting data on system resource usage
SUNW.SCTelemetry is the resource type that enables you to collect data on the usage of system resources. SUNW.SCTelemetry stores system resource usage data in a Java DB database for seven days. The resource of type SUNW.SCTelemetry has a dependency on the resource of type SUNW.derby. For more information, see the SUNW.derby(7) man page.
The extension properties associated with the SUNW.SCTelemetry resource type are as follows:
Specifies whether the extended accounting log file is cleaned up, that is whether historical data is deleted. Possible values for Extended_accounting_cleanup are TRUE and FALSE.
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Controls fault-monitor restarts. The property indicates the number of times that the process monitor facility restarts the fault monitor. The property corresponds to the –n option passed to the pmfadm(8) command. The Resource Group Manager (RGM) counts the number of restarts in a specified time window. See the Monitor_retry_interval property for more information. Note that Monitor_retry_count refers to the restarts of the fault monitor itself, not to the resource of type SUNW.SCTelemetry .
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Indicates the time window in minutes during which the RGM counts fault-monitor failures. The property corresponds to the –t option passed to the pmfadm(8) command. If the number of times the fault monitor fails exceeds the value of the Monitor_retry_count property, the process monitor facility does not restart the fault monitor.
2 minutes
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Specifies the timeout value, in seconds, for the probe.
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My web application is currently written in JSP/Java, using an Oracle DB. I develop on Windows, and I use JDeveloper (Oracle's eclipse clone) and I use JDev's integrated WebLogic Server.
I want to go live using a respectable Web hosting company. LAMP devs get all the girls, I'm stuck using WWOJ (Windows Weblogic Oracle Java). I can't find any hosts that use Oracle, and ones that run Tomcat are few and far between (short of a custom box on RackSpace).
I'm switching to MySQL this week. I'm running Tomcat on my Windows box now, and using NetBeans. I can compile a .war now. I'm finally up to WTMJ :)
Does anyone have experience with getting a Java project hosted? Or something with an Oracle backend? I feel like I'm lost out here.


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But of course, you'll make a point of finding out anyways. I've been thinking about (i.e. putting off) writing this post for at least a month now, or however long it's been since I finished reading Alcoholica Esoterica. This book is a great tongue-in-cheek read that covers all the miscellaneous trivia you could ever possibly want to know about alcohol. And at least a few things you just don't want to know. Like British admiral Nelson being preserved in a giant giant keg of rum after he was killed in a battle at sea. And the ship hands continuing to drink said rum. (Now you know, and there's no amount of scrubbing, showering and gargling that'll clean that tidbit from your gray matter. You're welcome. 😈 )
Here, in no particular order, are the promised facts about booze you can live a happy life not knowing. (Warning: bringing these items up at parties will not make you popular.)
Yeast poop. When you get right down to it, the happy juice that makes you such a fun guy in your 20's and makes you a fat irritable bastard by your 30's is yeast poop. Yeast eat sugar and drop a big, steaming loads of booze wherever they go. And they fart a lot too. Ever wonder what gives your bubbly its sparkly magic? About a million little guys with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, that's what. Kinda reminds you of that Futurama Slurm episode, doesn't it? (Sorry, couldn't find the clip I'm thinking about on YouTube. You have been spared! 😉 )
[UPDATE: Eternal thanks to Dana for finding this awesome flash video of the process on the BBC website! (Read article it came from here.)]
Beer, our debt to ancient Sumerians. We owe beer to a lazy Sumerian with a bad sense of hygiene, an iron stomach and a bunch of equally shiftless friends. Rumor has it that the first beer was a loaf of bread that was left on the sill too long. With ample time, the airborne paradise-poopers previously discussed collected on it and started doing what they do best. So when our lazy ancient brother took a mouthful (you know he didn't bother to slice it), it knocked him on his ass. When he woke up he went to all his friends and said "you gotta try this". Proving that nature rewards people for being slobs. Or makes them blind.
The bride's ale. We got the word "Bridal" from drunk, slurring 19th century Englishmen. Looking for any excuse to drink, those lushes from across the pond determined it was important to have a "Bride Ale" to celebrate his fellow man's loss of independence. (Any excuse would do in the 19th century, there were also "foot ales", "walking stick ales", and "cuckoo ales". Cuckoo ales, because there's 24 reasons to drink in a day!) Of course the drinking made the lads hungry and thus the "Bride Ale" evolved into the modern day wedding reception. And before long the word "Bridal" came to refer to everything involved with getting hitched.
Beauty in the naughtiness of fishes. Prolific alcoholic W.C. Fields had a concise reason for not drinking water. And I quote: "Fish f*ck in it." The irony of course is that yeast poops in his beverage of choice, which is arguably more disagreeable to the palate, theoretically. Thus proving that whatever you choose to consume, something nasty happened in it on its long journey to you mouth.
The magic of yeast flatulence. We already covered the source of bubbly, but I don't think you yet realize the full, other-worldly potency of this gas. Did you know that a raisin dropped in a glass of fresh flute of champagne will continuously circulate from the bottom to the top and back again until the end of time? (Or until the yeast farts are all spent, whichever happens first.) Try it. And do me a favor, let me know how it works. I haven't had a chance to try it yet.
Bonus Fact: Toasting the declaration. Did you know the founding fathers of the U.S. toasted the signing of the declaration of independence? They did. Care to hazard a guess what they toasted with? I can guarantee you got it wrong. It wasn't Sam Adams! It was Madeira wine. Never heard of it? I'm not surprised. Neither had I before we went to Portugal. It's the indestructible cousin of port wine that comes from Portuguese islands 360 miles off the coast of Morocco. And it was precisely this beverage's ability to withstand years of exposure to the open air, unscathed, that allowed it to make the long sea journey to the colonial United States.
If these tasty tidbits have your mouth watering for more, go grab a brew, and consider picking up the book. (But not at the same time, I think that's illegal in most states.) Anyways, I really enjoyed the book, and I think you will too. (You know you need a new book for the restroom, you've already read that September issue of Reader's Digest cover to cover twice, and it wasn't all that great of an issue anyway.) And because I'm such a nice guy, I'll tell you that you may be able to find it in on of those outlet mall book stores for around four bucks. I did. (Sorry Sony Reader aficionados, it's not listed in the Sony eBook store. 😦 Hey, I tried.)
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Extradition Denied Uganda Presidential Aide
There has been no official comment on Tumukunde's arrest and previously Uganda's high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Joan Rwabyomere, declined to comment.
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The U.K. has denied Uganda's request to extradite an advisor to president Yoweri Museveni and have him face charges of money laundering and related felonies in the East African country instead of in London, The Black Star News has learned.
Despite close relations with the U.K., this is the second major embarrassing arrest involving a Uganda official holding a diplomatic passport over the past several months.
The authorities turned down the request to send back to Uganda, Ananias Tumukunde, Secretary to President Yoweri Museveni on Science and Technology, who was arrested April 2 by British security forces with more than $200,000 concealed in his possession. His case is being handled by the fraud unit of the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service, sources tell The Black Star.
Negotiations for bail or extradition continues.
U.K. authorities have clamped down on money laundering since the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The U.K. authorities were tipped off by an organization comprised of Ugandan citizens who say they are determined to stamp out rampant corruption. The group says it has several files detailing embezzlement by other Uganda officials and that it will forward the information to relevant authorities.
"This case is sensitive and there are still some serious issues to be settled," a top Ugandan advisor in London tells The Black Star News, on condition of anonymity.
There has been no official comment on Tumukunde's arrest and previously Uganda's high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Joan Rwabyomere, declined to comment. Tumukunde is said to have critical information and demanded that he be extradited.
If convicted on the four separate money laundering charges and his sentences do not run concurrently, Tumukunde could face 56 years behind bars; otherwise he would face 12 years.
The presidential advisor was traveling on Uganda diplomatic passport. Earlier this year, Rose Rosalind Birungi, an aide to Gen. Salim Saleh, a brother to President Museveni and minister for micro finance was sentenced to 12 years after her conviction in a U.K. court on drug smuggling charges. She too had traveled on diplomatic passport.
Tumukunde was ordered jailed at HM Prison Harmonsworth until his next scheduled hearing on June 4, 2008.
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A day of fog...we woke early, filled with anticipation fo a beautiful day at the Gulf Coast. But, there was fog...heavy dense fog and we almost stayed home. Look through the pictures and see the beauty of a foggy morning, and wathc the transformation as the fog lifts and the day clears...Read More
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The Disciplined Disciple Compiler (DDC)
An outline of the project is at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/DDC.
Our end goal is to have a light-weight functional language based on Haskell's syntax but with direct support for strict evaluation and arbitrary destructive update. These two features give the programmer better control over runtime performance than most other functional languages can offer. Our target applications are the ones that you always find yourself writing C programs for, because existing functional languages are too slow, use too much memory, or don't let you update the data that you need to.
State of Play
This section records what the DDC developers are actively working on. If you're hacking on something DDC related then by all means add yourself here. Records are dropped off if they haven't been updated for more than a month.
Ben (benl23) -- updated 11th June 2010
- I'm cleaning up the core language and rewriting the core type checker. We currently have Core.Reconstruct that reconstructs some type annotations as well as checks the type information, but we want to split this into two separate phases. We only have to do the real reconstruction during conversion between the desugared and core language, but we want to run the checker after every stage (during debugging).
- After doing this we should be able to use the TConstrain form of type expressions in the core language, ditch the TFetters version, then finish work on the new interface file format.
Erik de Castro Lopo (m3ga) -- updated 25th May 2010
- Above all, I'm doing bug fixing. However there are still large chunks of the compiler I don't understand. These bits need Ben's attention.
- The top of my list are bugs (in numeric order) #7 (waiting on #168), #102 and anything marked with a milestone of 0.1.3. These bugs are all deeper than the ones I've worked on previously and I'm not sure if I can make progress on these or not.
- Working on finding examples of of code (currently concentrating on list comprehensions) which compiles with GHC but fails with DDC. We'd like to make DDC as Haskell compatible as possible.
- Working on making the library more usable.
- Looking into doing an LLVM backend.
Syntactic differences to Haskell?
The Language Definition is still evolving, but the wiki should be in sync with the development branch.
- Compiler commentary?
- Development Builds
- Build bots and servers
- Haddock Code Documentation
- Syntax Highlighting?
- Coding Conventions
- Using Darcs?
- Debugging Help
- Memory and CPU Usage Profiling?
- Making Patches
How you can help
- Download out the compiler, write programs, and file bug reports!
- Write more test programs.
- Fix the bugs on the 0.1.3 Buglist
- Write more quick check tests.
How to get help
- Send mail to disciple-cafe at Google Groups.
- Ask in the #disciplined channel on the freenode IRC network.
Further Reading
- Type Inference and Optimisation for an Impure World, ANU 2010 (PhD thesis)
- Witnessing Purity, Constancy and Mutability, slides, APLAS 2009


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CHICO — Ed McLaughlin had been a zany personality in the community and vocal advocate for cyclists' rights before he passed away in May, following a brief illness.
As the director of Chico Velo Cycling Club, he was instrumental in the growth of the Wildflower Century and was later revered for his role in creating a bicycle-friendly community and creating city facilities.
"Anybody who rides on any given day and uses a bike facility and experiences the courtesy of the motorists [can thank him]," said Steve O'Bryan, owner of Pullins Cyclery.
After McLaughlin suffered a life-altering injury from a 2007 bicycle accident in Bidwell Park, the cycling community reciprocated his longtime support with the "Tour de Ed" fundraiser, which aimed to help with medical bills stemming from the severe neck injury that left him a quadriplegic.
"Our first event seven years ago was to help him, and then the support was so great for Ed that we decided to set up this nonprofit so we could help other people," said Sandy Fisher, the event's coordinator.
The nonprofit, Chico Cyclist Care Fund, has helped four people with medical expenses from bike accidents and has garnered around $25,000 in the last few years. "Tour de Ed" is a yearly event and is the only fundraiser for this fund, which also puts money into educating and preventing accidents.
McLaughlin was an integral supporter of the run and was often seen in outrageous get-ups, from The Pope to Lady Gaga.
"He always led a sing-along when he was here; we continued that with words he had modified to the old western song 'Don't Fence Me In'; that was our memorial for him," said David Welch, a board member for the nonprofit.
Despite overcast weather, numbers for the ride, the first one without McLaughlin, were on par with last year. Participants were dressed mostly in neon and began to line up for the ride's 20 mile flat loop at the Chico City Hall parking lot as sparse sprinkles of rain began to fall.
"We benefit every day we cycle from Ed's work to make this a cycling town," O'Bryan said.
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Essentially, we let folks mod our games like Morrowind or Oblivion, but we dont allow for folks to take content from another game and put it into a new game even if they own both copies, and even if it's one of our own games.
The situation is unfortunate, as Morroblivion was a great tool I'm sure made with the best of intentions, but the rights to this content belong to Bethesda Softworks and they are perfectly within their rights to make such requests. While I'm pretty liberal when it comes to the content allowed on the site (nudity, violence, etc. etc.) when it comes to copyrights and content ownership I have to draw the line.
Hopefully you can all appreciate the situation. If you believe a file you're looking at is in breach of copyright or takes content from Morrowind, or any other game, please use the "Report this file" feature to inform the staff on the site so it does not potentially affect myself and the site itself.
Thank you.
Before locking a topic on the official forums about Morroblivion, moderator Dogsbody has provided further clarification on the matter:
There are many reasons why this is so; among others, it is important to protect the original licensor's rights when Bethsoft has licensed a resource to use in a game. That license may allow use of the resource in that game alone, and Bethsoft is duty-bound to prevent the resource from being used in any other game, including their own.
It is evident many users are upset by the decision and many of us, myself included, were wondering why exactly this had to be done. Hopefully this helps patch things up. I stand by the comment that providing this information from the offset, rather than it being weeded out of different people gradually, can only bring good things. Communication communication communication.


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barter(redirected from barterers)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Financial, Encyclopedia.
The exchange of goods or services without the use of money as currency.
Barter is a contract wherein parties trade goods or commodities for other goods, as opposed to sale or exchange of goods for money. Barter is not applicable to contracts involving land, but solely to contracts relating to goods and services. For example, when a tenant exchanges the performance of various maintenance tasks around a house for free room and board, a barter has taken place.
barterverb bargain, buy and sell, deal, dicker, give and take, give in exchange, haggle, interchange, make exchanges, market, merces mutare, merchandise, peddle, rem pro re pacisci, rem re mutare, strike a bargain, swap, switch, trade, trade by exchange, trade off, traffic by exxhange, vend
See also: alienate, business, commerce, deal, dealings, dicker, exchange, handle, interchange, sell, trade
barterexchanging one thing for another. If there is money involved (a part exchange) then the transaction is probably one of sale. The position in the UK is that barter is now governed by the same kind of implied terms as a sale. See QUALITY, DESCRIPTION, TITLE.
BARTER. A contract by which the parties exchange goods for goods. To
complete the contract the goods must be delivered, for without a delivery,
the right of property is not changed.
2. This contract differs from a sale in this, that barter is always of goods for goods, whereas a sale is an exchange of goods for money. In the former there never is a price fixed, in the latter a price is indispensable. All the differences which may be pointed out between these two contracts, are comprised in this; it is its necessary consequence. When the contract is an exchange of goods on one side, and on the other side the consideration is partly goods and partly money, the contract is not a barter, but a sale. See Price; Sale.
3. If an insurance be made upon returns from a country where trade is carried on by barter, the valuation of the goods in return shall be made on the cost of those given in barter, adding all charges. Wesk. on Ins. 42. See 3 Camp. 351 Cowp. 818; 1 Dougl. 24, n.; 1 N. R. 151 Tropl. de l'Echange.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Oscar Cahén, Part 2: Cahén and the War
By Jaleen Grove
When Cahén began illustrating in Canada in 1941, conditions favoured innovation because not only was the Second World War upsetting norms and creating new opportunities in poster design, animation and other communication arts, it was giving Canada a new sense of itself as a nation, rather than as a British colony.
We don't know where either of these images appeared. If you do, contact The Cahén Archives.
One of Cahén's first art directors, Ben Turner of the Standard, gave Cahén many depressing subjects. Crayoned staring figures appear in a series by Cahén soliciting aid for Greece, dated 1943. Cahén executed these after his release from Sherbrooke internment camp in 1943, while in the employ of Rapid, Grip and Batten. This long-time art studio in Toronto is best known for having employed Canada's Group of Seven members some twenty-five years earlier
In his scrapbook of samples, under some caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini, and Heinrich Himmler, Cahén penciled the words, "Based on Szik [sic]."
We don't know where these images appeared. If you do, contact The Cahén Archives.
Arthur Szyk was a Jewish American whose highly polished caricatures of the enemy were frequently seen on the cover of Colliers magazine. Szyk's influence on Cahén also came out in a later illustration that reflects the bias of the Cold War years against Russians: "The Bolshevik and the Wicked Witch," of slovenly Communists carousing. The orange and brown palette is very similar to Szyk's and quite unlike most of Cahén's other colour work, while the caricatured features, fine if loosely rendered detail, and reference to a medieval banquet depicted flatly with a lack of perspective has an affinity to Szyk's predilection for illuminated manuscripts and rapier graphic wit.
In another approach Cahén developed for war subjects, scenes and figures are described with a calligraphic use of brush and ink that owes something to Rico Lebrun and Milton Caniff (both of whom he admired), a technique that recurs throughout his advertising and painting careers. Particularly impressive was a series for John Hersey's famous book Hiroshima.
In a relief drive ad for China captioned "Objective $1,000,000 Objectif," an important motif for Cahén appears: a broken tree. The tree trunk shattered by the violence of war was a common sight in war-torn Europe.
We don't know where this image appeared. If you do, contact The Cahén Archives.
The broken tree recurs throughout Cahén's later illustrations and fine art work, in connection with violence and tragedy.
* Continued tomorrow...
* The first exhibition of Oscar Cahén's illustration since his lifetime will be shown in New York at Illustration House in October 2011 (opening night Oct. 1). With Roger Reed, I have written a full colour catalogue with an essay and over 60 images. In this series of posts about Cahén, I will introduce him and feature some artwork that will not appear in the show, catalogue, or websites. The tearsheets and originals here are from Oscar Cahén's estate, courtesy of his son Michael Cahén at The CahénArchives ~ Jaleen Grove
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Great work and a big inspiration Leif.I believe Oscar died in an automobile accident on Yonge Street in Toronto while driving his Austin Healey..I could be mistaken.. but I remember talking to Will Davies about this years ago.ReplyDelete
At any rate,.. a tremendous talent that was cut far too short after surviving WWII.
wow, what a spectacular piece of art Cahen created in the room full of drunken soldiers and the bar maid. Truly an inspiration for today. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
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