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- Goldman Sachs granted $65 million in stock to execs before new tax rates began
- Susan Antilla says the firm's CEO had endorsed higher rates, called for entitlement cuts
- She says Goldman benefits from the implicit promise that U.S. will bail it out
- Antilla: It was unseemly for Goldman to rush the payments to shield execs from new rates
Editor's note: Susan Antilla is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a contributor to TheStreet.com. She has written about finance for more than 30 years. She is author of "Tales From the Boom-Boom Room: The Landmark Legal Battles That Exposed Wall Street's Shocking Culture of Sexual Harassment." Follow her on Twitter @antillaview.
(CNN) -- Nobody likes to pay taxes, so can you blame the good folks at Goldman Sachs & Co. for doing what they could to avoid the higher rates that kicked in on January 1?
While the rest of us were donning our party clothes on New Year's Eve, the legal worker bees at Goldman were pushing the send button on 10 regulatory filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By the time the ball dropped in Times Square, regulators had been notified that $65 million in Goldman stock had been granted a month early, helping a cluster of powerful multimillionaire executives trim their tax tab.
Among the 10 who shared that $65 million, Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn and Chief Financial Officer David Viniar wound up with $8.4 million apiece in Goldman stock.
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Blankfein's compensation in 2011 was $16.2 million. Cohn and Viniar that year made $15.8 million. Even Gordon Gekko would be impressed to see that bosses making that much money were able to catch a tax break for a couple hundred thousand.
The 10 executives who skirted 2013's higher rates were not the only Goldmanites who benefited from the "accelerated" vesting. Michael DuVally, a Goldman spokesman, acknowledged there was "a group larger than" the 10 but declined to say how many. DuVally would not comment on who made the decision to grant the shares early.
The shrewd Goldman move is hardly unique among rich business executives or even 99 percenters of more modest means. It was no secret that higher taxes were coming this year, and taxpayers of all shapes and sizes did what they could to ensure that "tax events" would occur in 2012.
Even environmental activist and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore tried, albeit without success, to unload his Current TV to Al Jazeera before the new year dawned.
What makes the Goldman move distasteful is that it wasn't even two months ago that CEO Blankfein was mouthing off in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he endorsed tax increases "especially for the wealthiest" -- along with a plug to cut entitlements to all you freeloaders out there.
If you're pushing the position that the rich should pay more to help fix the deficit, it doesn't quite follow to employ a tax dodge, says Dennis Kelleher, president of the Washington-based public interest group Better Markets Inc.
"Goldman's quickie year-end tax shenanigans deprived the government of what it otherwise would get," he says. "So they either cause the debt to go up, or cause others to pay more by the taxes they are avoiding."
DuVally, the Goldman spokesman, declined to comment when I asked whether it was inconsistent for Goldman to make a move for its executives to avoid taxes after Blankfein endorsed increases for the wealthy.
I've got to hand it to Goldman. The firm is a master of the "have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too" brand of politics and public relations. One minute, Goldman is cranking out press releases about its devotion to women entrepreneurs in its philanthropic "10,000 women" program. The next, it is announcing its annual list of new partners that includes a paltry 10 women but 60 men.
Goldman was a victim on the defensive when Greg Smith, a former employee, wrote a New York Times op-ed on March 14, blasting the firm for having "morally bankrupt people" who needed to be weeded out. You could almost feel sorry for poor Goldman, which shipped out a memo reminding employees that their estimable employer had been named one of the best places to work in the United Kingdom only weeks before the London-based Smith's "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" essay.
By the time Smith published a book seven months later, the firm had turned ruthless revenge-seeker, even sharing parts of Smith's self-evaluations with the media. A "best place to work?" Really? Careful what you say in the press -- and in your HR file -- if you get your paycheck from a Goldman-style operation.
The brouhaha over Smith's op-ed and book stirred up debate of the "What did you expect of an investment bank operating in capitalistic society?" type.
Fair enough. Banks are not in the philanthropy business -- even if they spend as much time as Goldman does talking about its good deeds and famous "business principles." ("Our clients always come first" is famously No. 1 on the list.)
At Goldman and other "too big to fail" banks, though, employees walk through the doors each morning knowing that the rest of us will be forced to bail them out again should another crisis ensue. We taxpayers provide the insurance policy that they enjoy without ever sending us premiums. In October of 2008, Goldman got $10 billion in taxpayer money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which it ultimately paid back.
Blankfein, like other bank CEOs, would later make the case that Goldman wasn't "relying on" that government help.
But leaf through the tomes of some of the regulators who lived through the crisis, and you start to wonder whether our tax-dodging heroes might be out of jobs today if the public hadn't fronted a bailout.
From "Bull by the Horns," by former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman Sheila Bair: Goldman and Morgan Stanley were "teetering on the edge" in the fall of 2008.
From "Bailout: An Inside Account of how Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street," by Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke "confided that he believed that Goldman Sachs would have been the next to go" after Morgan Stanley.
We need to change the conversation here.
Goldman and its too-big-to-fail brethren are banks that accepted welfare and are in debt to U.S. taxpayers for averting disaster. This hasn't been about hard-nosed capitalism since those first TARP wire transfers made their way into Goldman Sachs' coffers.
As for the bank's recent tax-reduction maneuver, it's another reminder that Goldman's management is either clueless about how bad it looks or doesn't care. Sometimes bad PR is a just a cost of doing business.
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Is there anything better than sweet corn? Here in Massachusetts the season is toward the end of July to August, but back home in Kansas City sweet corn is perfectly timed (most years...) for the 4th of July.
For years, my sister and I would sell sweet corn from our front yard that we had picked and shucked ourselves... similar to a lemonade stand, but people would actually stop. We spent many summer days under a tree in our backyard with my Mom, Nancy and Granny while we shucked corn to "put up." Pops (my grandpa) talks about eating 10-12 ears in one sitting when he was a boy.
At home, it seems that there is a fondness surrounding sweet corn- maybe it is the simplicity of being able to grow something that is perfect in its most basic form? Or maybe that it always feels like the official start of Summer, just as "mushroom season" (morels) is the official start of Spring?
I'll admit, this "Grilled Sweet Corn" is not how we prepare corn at home, but it is a great shortcut for me to throw it on the grill with the rest of dinner instead of heating up a big pot of boiling water on a hot day. And it is delicious.
Sweet Corn
Sweet Corn on the Cob with Husks
Melted Butter
Sea Salt
Begin by pulling back the husks, but do not remove them. Remove all of the silk from the corn and husk. Soak them in water for 10 minutes. Remove from the water then brush the melted butter on the corn and then sprinkle with salt. Pull the husks back over the corn.
Place them on a grill for 15 minutes to 25 minutes, depending on the corn and the heat of the grill.
If you need a little inspiration, here is a great summer meal with Sliced Flank Steak with a Chimichurri Sauce, slice heirloom tomatoes and avocados.


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John Rysavy, candidate for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, speaks Thursday, April 15 during a tea party rally at CommunityAmerica ballpark in Wyandotte County.
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mainsail necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web codificada y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 28 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
This contest includes two parts, which can be entered seperately or together.
Part one consists of developing a website template for a local fitness center.
Part two consists of updating a pre-existing map feature for the website.
Ask me privately....
Desired Color Scheme:
flexible but consistant wtih bamboo and jungle theme
Desired Style:
Must correlate with the bamboo and jungle theme of the logo. Logo can be reproduced using a bamboo font, must still maintain company name. Tagline can be split and placed in a seperate location depending on design. Company resized or layered to accomodat
Accepted File Formats:
Photo Shop, HTML, CSS, etc.
Part One: $300
We are looking for a layout design for a local fitness center website. The design should be coded and in CSS format.
We are looking for a new design concept that is based around and incorporates the existing bamboo and "jungle" theme.
The page should be in center orientation with a fixed width.
Temporary logo provided for design purposes, color and background of logo are flexible. http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/16…ogocn3.gif
The page must have the following features:
- Banner including company logo (temporary logo provided for design purposes, color and background of logo are flexible.)
- Menu with the following tabs: Home - About Us- The Club - Wellness Center - Promotions - Events - Employment - Sponsors - Our Staff
- Footer with the following links: Home - Contact Us
Part Two: $150
We are looking to update the website's current map feature to an image map.
The exisiting map and key are provided for reference, http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/…opyrt8.jpg
Exact design specifications, such as 2D or 3D, are flexible.
Must be programmed with mouse-over links that connect the diagram with the correlating labels on the map key and vice-versa, using a glowing indication feature.
Click events should navigate to a hyperlink. Image map must fit within and correlate with the template.
Must provide source code.
Loose reference material, including logo, can be found at http://www.ectestsite.com
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Jay Bruce could have an MVP year. He really could. He'll be 27 next month. This will be his seventh big-league season. He's at the epicenter of his prime. It's time.
Bruce has had MVP stretches, weeks and months when the Reds rode him like Secretariat. He has had full seasons of MVP-quality defense. His arm is a game changer. The potential to be a special player is there, and up to now just out of reach.
It's strange to expect more from a player whose traditional power numbers have become as pleasantly consistent as the sunrise: Thirty-plus homers and doubles, 90-plus RBI. It's odd to suggest we're still waiting on Jay Bruce. Bruce has gotten a little better each year.
It's not just fans and media. Bruce says the same thing. "I'm still learning to get out of my own way, staying more even-keeled with my mind. Understanding there are going to be ups and downs, not letting those ups and downs take me any lower or get me too high."
For three years, Bruce and I have started March with the same discussion. For three years, it has gone like this:
Me: What do you have to do to make the jump from very good to elite?
Bruce: Stop getting myself out. Maintain a consistent approach, in my game and in my head.
Here's Bruce, from March 2013:
"I can't swing at stuff they want me to swing at. I'm still chasing pitches sometimes. When I take those pitches and they throw strikes, I'm in pretty good shape."
Here's Bruce on Tuesday:
"I'm home runs and doubles. I'm not sitting here saying I'm going to go up there and walk. But if I swing at less pitchers' pitches, there are going to be better counts, and more times I'll have the opportunity to get on base. I just need to take a level-headed approach every day."
He has made a few important changes. In thinking, not swinging. Bruce says he will no longer worry about his batting average. "At the end of the day, there are different ways to be great," he says.
In the past, usually in the midst of a slump, Bruce would say, "I'm not a .230 hitter. I'm a .280 hitter. I've hit .300 in my career."
"That's a big mistake," says Joey Votto. "A lot of guys focus on that. They forget about Mike Schmidt, (Willie) McCovey, (Reggie) Jackson, (Harmon) Killebrew. Hall of Famers who have had major impacts on the game.
"Hitting for a higher average may not be one of (Bruce's) best attributes, but he does so many other things well, if he focuses on a high average that's going to get in the way of the things that make him an All-Star."
Bruce had a similar talk after last season, with Schmidt, whose message was: Be the best Jay Bruce you can be. Load up on what you do well, which is hit homers and drive balls into the gaps.
He has embraced sabermetrics, to the extent they help him understand which numbers are important and which aren't worth the anxiety. "Sabermetrics value every facet of the game," he says. "They're more about being a total baseball player than a gaudy, counting-stats guy. I get caught in the middle of that a little bit, because gaudy stats define me in a way. But I believe I can still do that and maximize every other part of my game."
To Bruce, that means working pitching counts to his advantage, and not getting himself out swinging at pitches he wouldn't feed his dog. Actually, Bruce has done better with that as well. Reds statistics guru Sam Grossman offers this in Bruce's defense:
In the last three seasons, Bruce's "chase percentage" of pitches outside the strike zone has declined from 29 percent to 26 percent.
The league average is between 28 and 29 percent. Bruce "has pretty low chase numbers for a power hitter," Grossman says.
Another telling number: When Bruce fell behind in the count 0-2 or 1-2, and with the count even at 2-2, he batted .146 the previous two years, with a .250 slugging percentage. Both are abysmal. The league averages were .173 and .256, respectively. Plus, Bruce struck out 60 percent of the time in those situations. The league fanned 44 percent.
Meaning: More than most hitters, Bruce needs to work favorable counts.
But we knew that already. So did Bruce.
It's a matter of applying it.
"It's a process," Bruce decides. He's gaining on it. The MVP suit awaits. Now is the time. ■


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After we settled down the food started appearing everywhere and we started digging in. The other cool thing about my neighbors is ALL of the wives can cook.. I mean cook with a capital "C". We were indulging in some home made Spanish-based cooking including burritos. I fill up my plate with all sorts of delights and I ask "where's the hot sauce?". Steve now de-boobittized agrees and we looked around. A bottle was placed in front of us by our friend Dick who happens to be quite the expert on home growing chilies and making of hot sauces.
"Do you like heat?", he says with a slight smile.
"Sure the hotter the better", echo Steve and myself.
"You sure?", repeats Dick. Now any normal person would have caught on right away and questioned the situation, but after a couple of cold ones and all the testosterone being tossed around we were ripe for catastrophe. "Try that" as he points to the small bottle before us.
It was called Black Mamba. The bottle was so tiny and the coloring of the sauce was not scary in appearance. Sure it had the words "Venomous Hot Sauce" and "Extreme Heat" on the label but that was just clever marketing.... Right?
Before I go any further let me tell you right off the bat that when the words "Extreme Heat" are on the label take heed. I mean seriously, take fricken heed. So being all macho and stuff, Steve and I pour this stuff on top of our burritos, give a salute to each other and dig in..... Nothing. Bit of smokey flavor and 30 more seconds later... nada.
We look at each other and then to Dick who is completely at a loss of words. Another 30 seconds go by and we take a few more bites. Not a dang, wait a minute... a slight tingle in the back of my throat starts ups. Kind of a feeling like you just swallowed smoke from a nearby campfire. More of an annoyance really, Hold on. A small ember of heat begins to form on the back of my tongue and it's hot like you tasted some fresh Wasabi at your nearby Sushi Bar. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would say it was at a solid 6 with just enough heat to.... Holy Cow! Somebody just fanned that little red ember into a white hot charcoal and it brought twelve of it's briquette buddies with him.
RED ALERT!!! In one swoop I apparently turned seven different shades of red, my eyes started popping out of my head, I involuntarily started tearing and my hands clenched so hard that it had bent the fork in my hand without realizing it. The experience can only be described as extreme searing white hot pain followed by a demanding that someone put me out of my misery before my tongue completely flame broils my Medula Umblingada!!!
That has been without a doubt the most unbearable pain I have ever had in my mouth without being physically set on fire. I could only imagine what was going through Steve's mind but since he no longer could talk and had tuned white as ghost I figured that he was fighting his own demons right now and apparently they were winning...
It took me about an hour before the "heat" settled down enough for me to actually go back and enjoy the rest of the party. It took a bit longer for Steve but at least he didn't go into antiphalactic shock through the process. I will not even go into the fun I had the day later but the intestinal distress among other flaming orifice was enough to remind me that I will never again partake in such searing activities... at least until next time.


text: This Wednesday marks the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show featuring a cast of sexy Angels and special guests Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Bruno Mars. We already got the scoop from Alessandra Ambrosio on wearing the famed Victoria's Secret Fantasy Bra, and now we're exclusively premiering this behind-the-scenes video of the model casting process. See the models strut their stuff and learn what it takes to be an Angel.


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Service Provider DescriptionThe USAP-DCC is funded by the NSF Office of Polar Programs to coordinate the management of data collected by U.S. funded scientists in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. The USAP-DCC also operates as the U.S.'s National Antarctic Data Center in the SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management.
The goals of the USAP-DCC are to help scientists find Antarctic scientific data of interest and to submit their data for curation and long term preservation in accordance with their obligations under the NSF Office of Polar Programs Guidelines and Award Conditions for Scientific Data
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This article will go through the basic steps required to have a working Wiimote in Linux for general use. It will not go into much detail for some steps as there are many guides already written for some parts already.
- Bluetooth
- cwiidAUR
- Wiimote
The most important piece required is Bluetooth, this must already be configured and running without the help of this guide. This should be simple enough with any guide found on the internet. The 'cwiid' package is in community. This package contains all libraries and programs required for basic use of the Wiimote. Lastly you will need a Wiimote, this can include (although are not required) the Nunchuk and Classic Control attachments.
Connect the Wiimote
First you need to make sure to load the
uinput module:
# modprobe uinput
You should have a device in
/dev/uinput now. For permanent use you can add it to the modules section in your mkinitcpio.conf.
Thanks to cwiid you can scan for your Wiimote now:
(press the 1 and 2 buttons on your Wiimote) $ bluetoothctl scan on Scanning ... <MAC address> Nintendo RVL-CNT-01
Once your Wiimote has been detected you can test if it is working by running the command
wmgui and testing out various buttons and sensors through that interface.
Input device
The Wiimote can act as a regular input device like a mouse using
wminput. If you have no infrared source simply run:
$ wminput -w
You can control your pointer now by tilting your Wiimote forward, backward or to the sides.
If you have an infrared source run:
$ wminput -c ir_ptr -w
Infrared sources
Possible infrared sources are bulbs
- Nintendo Wii Sensor Bar
- Wireless sensor bar - check eBay!
- Normal light bulbs
- Small candles (should have about 30cm distance)
- Home made sensor bar ([1])
The default configuration files are in
/etc/cwiid/wminput/. They are a good starting point for your customized settings in
~/.cwiid/wminput or
/usr/local/etc/cwiid/wminput. The general syntax is:
Wiimote.Button = KEY_ON_KEYBOARD
All possible values for Wiimote.Buttons can be found here: [2], the possible values for KEY_ON_KEYBOARD in
Unable to open uinput
If wminput gives this error, leaving you unable to use the wiimote, try the following:
- Create a new file in
/etc/udev/rules.d/(It does not matter what the name of the file is, so long as the extension is .rules)
- Add the following to the file:
KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="wheel", MODE="0660"
- Reboot.
This should solve the problem. Solution was found in the forums here.
Solution 2:
- Edit the
/etc/mkinitcpio.confadd "uinput" in MODULES:
MODULES="uinput ...."as needed.
- Re-generate the initramfs image with:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
- Reboot.


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ASP Round Table
Round table: Is green industry the next engine of growth for Asia and the Pacific?
The roundtable highlighted the opportunities and challenges in creating green businesses and green jobs in Asia and the Pacific, as well as the associated implications for the economic recovery path of the countries in the region.
The discussion helped formulating policy recommendations on the requirements and prerequisites for building sustainable productive capacities and establishing an enabling policy framework for developing green businesses and jobs.
The round table was held on Tuesday, 8 December.
For more information, please contact:
Chin Pen Chua, Chief, Asia and Pacific Programme
Phone: +43 1 26026 3680
Related documents:
Briefing note: Is green industry the next engine of growth for Asia and the Pacific
Background paper - S. Chung, C. Yoon (1,5 MB)


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Clemson's Steve Klaine to speak at this year's Ed Cape Seminar
Posted by Jayme Blaschke
University News Service
January 21, 2014
Steve Klaine
The 2014 Ed Cape Seminar keynote speaker will be Steve Klaine, professor of environmental toxicology and director of the Institute of Environmental Toxicology at Clemson University.
This year's seminar will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24 in the Alkek Teaching Theatre at Texas State University.
The topic of Klaine's presentation is "Emerging contaminants: Water quality challenges in the midst of a technological revolution."
The Ed Cape Seminar is sponsored by the Thornton family and the Aquatic Resources Program at Texas State.
Klaine earned his B.S. in biology from the University in Cincinnati in 1974, and followed that with a master's and Ph.D. in environmental science, both from Rice University, in 1981 and 1982. His research focuses on the fate and effects of contaminants in the environment. Specifically, he is interested in contaminants that migrate from various land uses into aquatic ecosystems and their effects on aquatic plants and animals. His laboratory studies contaminant effects on fish, aquatic invertebrates, plants and algae. His is collaborating with social scientists to develop strategies that facilitate the coexistence of economically sound land use with good environmental quality.
The annual Ed Cape Seminar honors the late Edward Matthew Cape of San Marcos, a pioneer in the development of water resources in Central Texas. Cape became formally involved with water resource management by providing the necessary leadership for the legislative creation of the Guadalupe River Authority in 1933, which was expanded in 1935 to include the Blanco River and a 10-country region, and renamed the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA). He also deserves recognition for his pivotal role in the construction of Canyon Lake, in cooperation with the then-congressman Lyndon B. Johnson and other area leaders.
The Ed Cape Seminar Series was implemented as a continuing seminar series designed to provide a major forum for discussing major water issues relevant to Central Texas, the state and the nation.
For additional information, contact Glenn Longley at (512) 245-3581.


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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
Roy E. BuckAnnual to perennial herb, generally tapered-hairy on leaves and lower stem
Stem generally ascending to erect, ± glaucous
Leaves ± entire to deeply cut; basal generally rosetted, withering, generally oblanceolate to obovate; cauline generally linear to obovate, clasping, reduced
Inflorescence becoming more open; bracts generally 0
Flower biradial to ± bilateral; calyx ± urn-shaped, sepals often ± pouched below, generally not green, generally not darker in bud, generally erect after flower; petal (and sepal) margins often scarious, wavy or not; filaments generally in 3 pairs, generally free (or longest 12 pairs ± fused below); style < 4 mm, stigma generally 2-lobed
Fruit ascending to reflexed, generally cylindric
Seed generally ± oblong, generally compressed, generally ± brown
Species in genus: ± 14 species: ± sw North America
Etymology: (Greek: stem flower, from use of some as cauliflower-like vegetable)
C. major (M.E. Jones) PaysonPerennial from woody caudex, ± glabrous
Stem erect, generally not inflated, hollow, sometimes branched
Leaves: rosette persistent; basal and lower cauline blades 19 cm, oblanceolate or elliptic, entire to deeply cut, tapered to long petiole; upper leaves much reduced, ± linear, entire
Flower: sepals sometimes sparsely hairy at tips; petals 916 mm, darker on veins, margins scarious, not wavy; style < 0.5 mm, stigma lobes < 0.5 mm
Fruit erect to ascending, 413 cm
Ecology: Dryish, often rocky slopes, sometimes in shade
Elevation: 15002500 m.
Bioregional distribution: n High Sierra Nevada (Alpine Co.), San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, s Modoc Plateau, e Desert Mountains (Providence, New York mtns)
Distribution outside California: se Oregon, n&w Nevada, also in e Utah
Possibly not distinct from C. crassicaulis.
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OCEAN CITY – City Council members will determine what they consider a "perk" and what is an absolute necessity in reference to city employees' take-home vehicles, and that decision might change the way some town employees get to and from work.
A $2.5 million trimming of the Ocean City budget over the past few months has led to a proposed reduction of the town's take-home vehicle fleet, according to City Manager Dennis Dare, but if the council gets its way, more vehicles may be cut than what Dare proposed at Tuesday's work session at City Hall.
Dare brought forward a proposal outlining a six-vehicle trim of the town's 71-vehicle current fleet, outlining public safety employees use 44 vehicles and 21 cars are used by general employees.
The six vehicles that Dare claims to have sliced weren't true cuts, according to Councilwoman Margaret Pillas, who noted that two of the vehicles are used by Beach Patrol Captain Butch Arbin and Lt. Ward Kovac during the summer season, but not in the winter, and the other four were purchased by the town's volunteer firefighters allegedly using a fund paid for by town money.
Dare said he hoped to eventually cut more of the town's vehicle fleet through attrition.
"During the process of reviewing this, we were hoping to drive down some of the operating costs," said Dare. "The question becomes who needs the take-home vehicles, and after many hours of pondering the numbers, it became apparent to me that it's only the critical responders who can respond in a critical amount of time."
In hopes to weed out those vehicles used by "non-critical responders," Dare proposed a 15-mile radius around Ocean City as the border in which employees of the town must live in order to be granted use of a take-home city vehicle.
With that said, he noted that 65 percent of the current employees who have take-home vehicles live within the 15-mile radius and a larger percentage live within 25 miles.
Hypothetically, if the 15-mile radius were put into effect once council brings the issue back in the near future, 17 vehicles would be snatched away from their drivers, all of who live outside the 15-mile perimeter.
Three additional take-home vehicles are used by three police officers who live outside of the 15-mile perimeter, but their vehicles can't be taken away because they drive K-9 squad cars protected under union contract, according to Dare.
Notable names that would lose their vehicle if the rule were instilled include Ocean City Airport Manager George Goodrow, who lives 28 miles from Ocean City; Fire Marshal Sam Villani, who lives 17 miles away; Department of Transportation Director George Thornes, who lives 29 miles away: and Wastewater Superintendent Charlie Felin, who lives 24 miles away. In addition, six police officers live outside the 15-mile radius and could lose their car if the rule is instilled, including one captain, one lieutenant, one corporal, and three detectives.
With concerns to Pillas' claims that the six cars were not true cuts, Dare said those vehicles were essentially "asterisks" or interchangeable cars to the fleet, citing the two seasonal cars, and said that the four vehicles bought by the volunteer firefighters were with "donated money and not taxpayer money."
In addition, Dare clarified on Wednesday, that over the course of the past year, five cars were removed from the take-home vehicle fleet, all in the public works department, either through "retirement or change of assignment."
"It was 70 cars plus six 'asterisks' and now it is 65 plus six 'asterisks'," said Dare, citing that the town still covers the fuel and repairs on the four vehicles that were purchased by the volunteer firefighters.
Dare refused to speculate if he thought any of the employees that lived outside the 15-mile radius were "critical responders", simply saying, "that is going to be a decision that the council is going to have to make."
Additional provisions were set in place for the town vehicles in Dare's presentation including rules that clearly state that town vehicles are to be used for town business only, including banning employees from taking their kids to and from school in the vehicles, as well as not allowing passengers who aren't "authorized persons on city business."
There was some discussion what Dare meant by eliminating the vehicles by attrition, and he clarified it to council saying that vehicles wouldn't be replaced if the person retired and wouldn't be replaced when the vehicle comes to the end of its lifespan.
Dare said the 15-mile radius would ensure that there would be a critical response time of a half hour or less, but Council President Joe Mitrecic seemed to think that the perimeter was just the beginning.
"The 15-mile radius is just a good place to start, but we really need to determine what is totally necessary, and what is a perk," said Mitrecic. "What it's going to come down to is (council) has to make a decision, and there are going to be some unhappy people no matter what we decide."
Pillas suggested the more extreme idea of departmental "carpooling" and essentially having all town vehicles left in town at the end of the day.
"I want to right-size this," said Pillas. "Maybe it's just an illusion that taking these away would be a problem, because it worked with the trash pickup when we cut that back and no one thought that would work."
Pillas argued her point that many town vehicles were a perk by noting that 35 of the town vehicles are driven by employees who make over $100,000 per year.
"It's not like we are trying to take cars away from people who can't afford a vehicle," she said.
In the end, council members decided to reconvene at a later date to decide on which parts of Dare's recommendation they agree with and potentially which things they would like to take further. Either way, Dare said that the employees would still get the job done.
"Our employees are dedicated, and they are going to respond whether it's in a take-home vehicle or not," said Dare.


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On August 16th at the Berkshire Museum they'll be showing a double header of sorts. Earlier in the afternoon at 2:00pm is a presentation of my program on how to attract butterflies and pollinators to your garden, titled "The Pollinator Garden," followed by a showing of my film Life Story of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly, followed by a Q & A. The event is part of the "Butterflies" exhibit currently on display at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. I hope you can come join me!
In the above photo, the orange horn-like structure at the top of the caterpillar's head is called an osmeterium. When the caterpillar is distressed, it everts the osmeterium. The osmeterium is thought to be a mimic of a snake's tongue and is a defense against would-be predators such as birds. Additionally, a horrible smelly odor is released from the osmeterium, which can be smelled from a distance of up to ten feet away, and is yet another defense mechanism!
See previous GMG posts about the "Butterflies" exhibit here.
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This is my first post on here so first of all - hi everyone. I've been a long-time reader of this forum and found it to be very useful. Thanks to all the contributors and especially the people who help to run the forum - I think you are doing a great thing.
A bit of background on my situation for anyone interested - I had a spinal stroke 11 years ago (aged 17, I am now 28). The initial symptoms were paralysis of the lower body (if you draw a line across the nipples, that was where it paralysis and loss of sensation started), along with loss of pain & temperature sensation and loss of proper bladder & bowel function.
I and thankful to say that I was truly blessed (by the NHS staff who cared for me) to have had a good recovery over the following months - I still can't feel pain or temperature very well but I am no longer paralysed and have regained enough of my original mobility that it does not affect me day-to-day, I even go climbing 2-3 times a week and don't feel hugely held back by my injury.
I still suffer from an over-active/neurogenic bladder (lots of sudden urgency and the inability to fully void), however I have recently had botox treatment for the over-active bladder which has worked excellently and given me a lot of control over my life back. I also intermittently catheterise, this is something that I have no issue with.
So all in all, despite being unlucky in having the injury in the first place, I am very happy with my recovery and current health.
However, something that is nagging me more and more is joint pain I suffer from in my knees and ankles.
Basically I get pain in my knees and ankles and they also feel quite weak and unstable. The pain is dull because I can't sense pain very well any more but I know it's there (in fact not knowing exactly how painful it is can do strange things to my mind sometimes).
My suspicion for the reason behind this is because, without really realising, I am constantly fidgeting with my legs in weird ways as well as getting spasms. Because I can't feel pain very well I think I manipulate these joints in ways that over the past 11 years has started to take its toll on them.
By fidgeting I mean twisting my legs around each other (crossing them and even double crossing), tensing muscles, wiggling my toes and applying pressure to my ankles when I'm sat down. It's hard to describe really.
I was wondering if anyone else has this issue and how they deal with it. I find it very hard not to fidget. When I realise I am doing it, I try to stop but then often slip back into it without thinking.
I'm just worried what I will be like in another 10 years time.
I plan on seeing my GP about this but since my condition is seemingly so rare, I sometimes find that I seem to be more knowledgeable about my health problems than they are! Even the specialist consultant I saw when first injured had only seen one case before in someone as young as me, and they did not recover. So it feels to me that there aren't many of people with this issue walking around. Hopefully there are a few on here though...
Edit: I should add that it is suspected my spinal stroke was caused by a blood clot but they never found the actual cause as far as I know.


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A Renewed Rush To Boycott Limbaugh
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is facing a renewed push to have local advertisers and stations sever their ties with him.
This new campaign is being mounted by the National Organization for Women (NOW) and it has evolved from the backlash precipitated by Limbaugh a few months ago when he publicly called Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute". Limbaugh also said that Fluke was having so much sex she couldn't walk to Capitol Hill to testify before Congress. He also said, "So, if we're gonna sit here, and if we're gonna have a part in this, then we want something in return, Ms. Fluke: And that would be the videos of all this sex posted online so we can see what we are getting for our money." This is peculiar stuff coming from a man who was detained by drug enforcement agents ata Florida airport after returning from an all-male excursion to the Dominican Republic when they discovered he had a bottle of Viagra in his luggage which was prescribed to another person.
In any event, following the Sandra Fluke remarks, some 168 sponsors stopped advertising on Limbaugh's radio program and at least 2 stations dropped his show. Indeed, for a lengthy period on his flagship station WABC, his commercial time consisted only of free public service announcements and his online feed featured dead air. The Stop Rush Project provides a detailed listing of all national advertisers who have dropped or are avoiding placing ads on Limbaugh's program.
Despite the loss of so many national advertisers however, local businesses continue to advertise on his show. Politicususa.com reports, "This is who the National Organization for Women will be targeting. Limbaugh can survive the loss of some national advertisers, but his empire is built on local stations paying big bucks to carry his show. If local advertisers bail, Rush Limbaugh's show will be become financial loser for the local stations who carry him." NOW is organizing a series of protests at local radio affiliates who carry the Limbaugh program in an effort to convince those stations and local advertisers to sever ties with Limbaugh. Some of the cities where the protests will be held include, Washington, D.C., New York City, Phoenix, AZ, Indianapolis, IN, Columbia, MO, Toledo, OH, Grand Rapids, MI, and West Palm Beach, FL. The message that the National Organization for Women is sending is that the pressure is not going to stop. Any advertiser who supports, or radio station that carries Rush Limbaugh will be held accountable.
NOW President Terry O'Neill said, "For more than two decades, Rush Limbaugh has degraded women, people of color and anyone who doesn't look or think like him. Like bullies everywhere, Limbaugh uses the age-old tactic of savaging one woman for the purpose of intimidating all women away from the public square. Rush's hostile, hateful speech is destructive to our public discourse, our communities and our democracy…NOW is proud to stand with Sandra Fluke and everyone Limbaugh has degraded and insulted over the years. We hope that women's rights and social justice supporters around the country will join us in this campaign."
Here's hoping NOW's campaign is a resounding success. It would be wonderful to see the perfect mesh of the First Amendment right to free speech and free market capitalism drive this uneducated (flunked out of college after only 2 semesters), racist (he told an African American female caller to his show to, "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."), drug addict (he has admitted an addiction to pain killers) off the airwaves for good.
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(sung to the Ringo Starr song "The No No Song")
A doctor that I know just came from the pharmacy
He smiled at Rush and opened up his hand
Then he held out some Oxycontin tablets
He said they were the finest in the land
And Rush said, "Ho ho ho ho"
Do you have any more
My back is feeling really damn sore
If I say please
Can I have more of these
My habit has become really hardcore
A friend of Rush Limbo who wears a hat made of tin
Came on the show and opened up his hand
When he revealed twelve tablets of Vicodin
Rush was so happy he performed handstands
And Rush said, "Ho ho ho ho"
Do you have any more
I always come to you for a score
Without more of these
I'm in a cold-turkey freeze
And ditto-heads need someone to adore
(racist rant break)
A ditto-head I know said he could make organs grow
He smiled and said Rush would not need his hand
Then he gave him some blue Viagra pills, Oh
And said that things will rise upon command
And Rush said, "Ho ho ho ho"
Do you have any more
My love life has become such a chore
Please, pretty please
I'm flying overseas
The boys there like it when it hits the floor
Yes, Rush said, "Ho ho ho ho"
I just love the drug store
Painkillers, Viagra and much more
It's such a tease
All of those varieties
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Tall, dark tree trunks, the crunch of pine cones beneath your feet, wet, spongy mosses and the cool green light of a pine needle canopy come together to form a typical pine woodland scene. But did you know that native pine woodlands are, in fact, relict forests? They are important examples of the European boreal forests that stretch through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia and are home to brown bears and wolves.
Native pine woodlands are dominated by self-sown Scots pine. They occur throughout the central and north-eastern Grampians and in the northern and western Highlands of Scotland. Unfortunately, our native pine woodlands no longer harbour such charismatic species as those of Europe. They occur on infertile soils, so they do not support a large diversity of plants and animals. However, characteristic species can be found here and many rare species do make these forests their home.
Where are they found?
About 4,000 years ago, native pine woodlands may have covered more than 1.5 million hectares in the Scottish Highlands. Today, they occupy just 1% of this former range, some 16,000 hectares, spread over 77 separate areas across the Highlands.
Why are they important?
The main tree species of native pine woodlands is Scots pine, although birches, rowan, alder, willow and bird cherry are also found. Scots pine plays host to a whole range of species, from stump lichens and Scottish wood ants that live on and under the bark, to majestic ospreys and golden eagles that nest in its level branches.
If deer browsing levels are low, the shrub understorey may include common juniper, holly, aspen and hazel. Old or dead trees and rotting wood supports significant beetle and bryophyte communities. On the forest floor bell heather, billberry and crowberry grow, adding some seasonal colour to the darkened stands.
Many uncommon and rare species are found in this habitat including twinflower and one-flowered wintergreen, the specialist hoverfly, Callicera rufa, and the distinctive capercaillie. The UK's only endemic bird species, the Scottish crossbill, can also be found here. So-named for its bizarre cross-tipped bill which it uses to prise out the seeds from pine cones, the crossbill can often be seen in large flocks near the treetops. It is resident all year-round, but may be joined by continental birds during 'irruption' years when numbers soar.
Another rare and threatened species which relies on native pine woodlands is the red squirrel – the seeds of the pine cones are one of its favourite foods.
Are they threatened?
During the medieval ages, a great pine forest stretched across most of the Highlands; but by the 17th century, it was disappearing as timber was used for ship-building and charcoal. Although just a fraction of this original forest now stands, regeneration has started to occur, especially in areas fenced off from browsing deer.
How are The Wildlife Trusts helping?
The Wildlife Trusts manage many woodland nature reserves sympathetically for all kinds of species. A mix of coppicing, scrub-cutting, ride maintenance and non-intervention all help woodland wildlife to thrive.
We are also working closely with other landowners to promote wildlife-friendly and traditional practices in these areas. We have a vision of A Living Landscape: a network of habitats and wildlife corridors across town and country, which are good for both wildlife and people.
What can I do to help?
- Take part in conservation measures on your land – in Scotland ask the Scottish Wildlife Trust for advice on the management of native pine woodlands.
- Support the work of The Wildlife Trusts across the UK creating, protecting and restoring woodlands and their wildlife – become a member of your local Wildlife Trust.
- Volunteer with The Wildlife Trusts and help your local woodland wildlife; depending on where you live you could be involved in everything from traditional forest crafts to raising awareness about woodland animals.


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Trip: The Pineapple Express
Friday February 1 2008 01:37:39 AM
Date: from Feb 1, 2008 to Feb 1, 2008
Surf trip description:
First waves in week! Small but super clean and CHILLY. Northside Seal Pier, yesterday and this mornng, waist to chest with the occasional shoulder high peaks on the sets. Clear blue sky with light offshore Santa Ana's. MDJ (Mitchell) got a sick "Harvey Wallbanger" off the breakwall push, tucked under the lip, then a cheater five across the wall, all the way down the line. I got the next set wave, tookoff outside in the bowl, drove down and out off the bottom, a couple of speed pumps through the suckup and blasted out onto the green shoulder!
Pouring rain for 7 straight days ... a record for sunny Southern California. The Pinapple Express sucking moisture from the Hawaiian Islands north to the Gulf of Alaska then sending it spinning down the entire West Coast. Four feet of fresh powder over a two foot base in the local mountains ... snow level down to 3,000 feet with snow covered cactus in the high desert after last years record drought!
"California Highway Patrol officials said about 40 miles of the Interstate 5 Freeway north of Los Angeles was closed in both directions from the Grapevine off-ramp to the Parker Road exit out trapping 1,000 vehicles at one point. CHP officers began escorting cars and trucks through the mountain pass, officials said. This week's fierce winter storms have stranded commuters and truckers in the Grapevine area. The area is subject to frequent closures because of high winds and bad weather. About 70,000 motorists travel through the serpentine Grapevine each day, and closure of the state's major north-south artery cause major traffic headaches."
"The Pineapple Express is a meteorological phenomenon which is characterized by a strong and persistent flow of atmospheric moisture and associated heavy rainfall from the waters adjacent to the Hawaiian Islands and extending to any location along the Pacific coast of North America. The Pineapple Express is driven by a strong, southern branch of the Polar jetstream and is usually marked by the presence of a surface frontal boundary which is typically either slow or stationary, with waves of low pressure traveling along its axis. Each of these low pressure systems brings enhanced rainfall.
The conditions are often created by the Madden-Julian oscillation, an equatorial rainfall pattern which feeds its moisture into this pattern. They are also present during an El Niño episode.
The combination of moisture-laden air, atmospheric dynamics, and orographic enhancement resulting from the passage of this air over the mountain ranges of the West Coast causes some of the most torrential rains to occur in the region. Many Pineapple Express events follow or occur simultaneously with major arctic troughs in the Northwestern United States, often leading to major snowmelt flooding with warm, tropical rains falling on frozen, snow laden ground. Examples of this are the December 1964 Pacific Northwest flood and the Willamette Valley Flood of 1996.
A Pineapple Express battered Southern California from January 7 through January 11, 2005. This storm was the biggest to hit Southern California since the El Niño of 1998.[1] The storm caused mud slides and flooding, with one desert location just north of Morongo Valley receiving about 9 inches of rain, and some locations on south and southwest-facing mountain slopes receiving spectacular totals: San Marcos Pass, in Santa Barbara County, received 24.57 inches (624 mm), and Opid's Camp in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County was deluged with 31.61 inches (803 mm) of rain in the five day period.
The unusually intense rain storms that hit south-central Alaska in August of 2006 were termed "Pineapple Express" rains locally.
The Puget Sound region from Olympia, Washington to Vancouver, BC received several inches of rain per day in November 2006 from a series of successive Pineapple Express storms that caused massive flooding in all major regional rivers and mudslides which closed the mountain passes. These storms included heavy winds which are not usually associated with the phenomenon. Regional dams opened their spillways to 100% as they had reached full capacity due to rain and snowmelt. Officials referred to the storm system as "the worst in a decade" on November 8, 2006. Portions of Oregon were also affected, including over 14 inches (350 mm) in one day at Lee's Camp in the Coast Range, while the normally arid and sheltered Interior of British Columbia received heavy coastal-style rains.
In British Columbia especially, Pineapple Express systems typically generate heavy snowfall in the mountains and Interior Plateau, which often melts rapidly because of the warming effect of the system. After being drained of their moisture, the tropical air masses reach the Canadian Prairies as a Chinook wind or simply "a Chinook", a term which is also synonymous on the Coast with the Pineapple Express.
The San Francisco Bay Area is another locale along the Pacific Coast which is occasionally affected by a Pineapple Express. When it visits, the heavy, persistent rainfall typically causes flooding of local streams as well as urban flooding. In the decades before about 1980, the local term for a Pineapple Express was "Hawaiian Storm". [2] During the second week of January, 1952, a series of "Hawaiian" storms swept into Central California, causing widespread flooding around the Bay Area. The same storms brought a blizzard of heavy, wet snow to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, notoriously stranding the streamliner City of San Francisco on January 13. The greatest flooding in Northern California since the 1800s occurred in 1955 as a result of a series of Hawaiian storms, with the greatest damage in the Sacramento Valley around Yuba City."
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This question/problem really comes from a fact in algebraic geometry, where it says that given an irreducible variety $V$ ($\dim V \geq 2$) then for any given pair of points $x,y\in V$ there is an irreducible curve $C$ connecting them.
This can proved by invoking Bertini's theorem [See Lazarsfeld R. - Positivity in Algebraic Geometry 1, example 3.3.5].
Translating this back to coordinate rings we get something like: Given a finitely generated $k$-algebra $R$ which is a domain, $k=\bar{k}$ (alg.closed) then for any pair of maximal ideals $m_1,m_2\subset R$ there is a prime ideal $p\subset m_1\cap m_2 $ with $\dim R/p =1$.
So my question is therefore: Is there a purely ring theoretical argument for this fact? In what generality does it hold?
The reason why i emphasize on purely is because, and i am no expert on this, but apparently the Bertini type argument can be (re-)formulated algebraically, however this, I have been informed, will not be pretty...


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text: TECHNOLOGY: Digital + Social Media First Impressions: Google Plus – What You Need to Know And What I've Learned So Far By Nathan Bonillia-Warford, OD, FAAO Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4:30 PM By Nathan Bonillia-Warford, OD, FAAO TAMPA, Fla.— Facebook is ubiquitous these days. With almost 700 million users, it is the undisputed king of the social networks. Many eye care providers include Facebook in their marketing strategy and it is so dominate that Facebook makes news almost every day with change, modifications and rollouts. However, for the past week, a major source of discussion on the internet has been about its competitor Google + or Google Plus the new social-networking platform from Google. The Google Plus release is noteworthy for several reasons. The past social applications from the search giant, Wave and Buzz, were considered major missteps. The recent roll-out of the "Plus One" button was seen as Google's copy of Facebook's "Like Button" that would have little impact on the social web. This time, however, Google Plus is receiving major attention as a potential force to alter internet ecosystem for both individuals and businesses. At first glance Google Plus looks and feels very much like Facebook. This is clearly no accident. This is the first serious attempt by any company to challenge Facebook in the social networking space and Google has learned much from Facebook. In some ways Google Plus is almost exactly like Facebook: Users have profiles that can be filled out with relevant information they want to share such as where they work and went to school, their interests and hobbies, and links to other profiles online. Each person has a "stream" that they can update with comments, web links, pictures, videos, or location. Each item can be voted up and commented on by friends. At the top of the page, there is a discrete notifications area that alerts the user when one someone comments or posts something. However, there are some key distinctions: Circles – Facebook receives frequent criticism for the way it handles privacy. Circles puts privacy front and center for Google Plus. Instead of simply being friends with someone or following them, with Google plus you add them to your circles. The distinction is not purely one of nomenclature. With circles from the very beginning you determine how to classify people based on much information you would like to share with them. This is essential for people like doctors who want to maintain a separation between public and private interaction online. Hangouts – With video becoming more utilized online, Hangouts make it very easy to set up group video chatrooms. Using Circles to control who is allowed to participate, these chats could be one on one, a small group planning session, or with anyone who is interested. Sparks – Much of the new web is about "assisted serendipity" or ways to help people do things they want to do, but just didn't know exactly what that was. Sparks tries to help in this area by listing webpages, videos, and more based on interested listed by the user. But there is one very large distinction that makes distinctly different from Facebook. While Facebook is loosely integrated with millions of website via the Like Button, Google Plus is very tightly integrated with Google applications like Gmail, Google Reader, and Picasa. Since people are heavily invested in these applications, there will be a natural incentive to extend to Google Plus. Additionally, also Google Plus has notification at the top of other applications Google Documents and Google Maps so people will have constant social reminders. All over this will lead to not only more use, but more frequent and richer use of Google Plus. Finally, Google has smart phone operating system Android and use it to extend the Google Plus reach further than the Facebook mobile can go. None of these things is a guarantee that Google Plus will beat or even equal Facebook, but taken together it does give Google a fighting chance. Want to learn more? Watch this short video series about Google+: A Quick Look on YouTube. The last few years have been challenging, yet filled with unprecedented opportunities for eye care providers. While I have found that traditional marketing strategies to be increasingly useless in promoting my practice, Bright Eyes Family Vision Care, it has steadily grown through online marketing. We use email, blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and Google daily to reach both current and potential patients. It has been interesting to learn about these tools as they have grown. After receiving an early invitation to check out Google Plus, I've spent a few hours each day learning how it works and discovering how I can use it to promote Bright Eyes. I've been exploring the service and getting it set up. I filled out my profile, with the same basic information from my Facebook profile. I've learned how to post and comment on items in the news stream. These actions will be completely familiar to anyone who uses social networking applications. However, it has taken a little longer to get used to the Circles. Their strength is that a user can choose how to set them up based on their needs for privacy and different social segments, but because they are not pre-defined, each person must think about how they want to use them. I have created circles and realized that they were too broad and had to break them into smaller circles. Slightly more confusing is trying to figure out how I fit into other people's circles and what that means for overall flow of conversation. There remains some mystery about this among the people that I have talked, but figuring it out is part of the fun. Overall, I do like Google Plus more than Facebook for sharing information with friends. However, I continue to use Facebook on a daily basis because it remains the dominant social media platform and it offer features that Google Plus doesn't, such as pages for business. However, that hasn't stopped me from switching my Facebook profile picture to an image that I saw popping up around the web that says, "I've moved...G+." While it is definitely a bit of an overstatement, a recent survey shows that a 2/3 of Google Plus users share my enthusiasm for the new service. Demand to try out Google Plus is very high. Right now there are more people seeking invitations, than actually on the site. Hopefully, Google will release more invitations soon. In the meantime, feel free to ask me or anyone else you know on Google Plus for an invite, you'll get one soon enough and can try it out for yourself! Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD, FAAO, Bright Eyes Family Vision Care, Tampa, Fla., is an optometrist specializing in the vision of infants and children. A social media evangelist, he helped create "Peripheral Vision" which educates eyecare professionals about social media. Dr. Warford was a speaker at the first CLICK Conference last year. He is the chair of the social media committee of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and is chair of the Florida Optometric Association's Children's Vision Committee. He is a graduate of the Illinois College of Optometry and is an active volunteer in many charitable organizations. He founded Foursquare Day in March 2010.


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Better a little late than never, right?
I noticed something. Last month, the month that I found so disappointing, my box came very early, before I noticed anybody saying they'd gotten it on Pinterest or Twitter. This month was much better, and it was also one of the last ones – it shipped on the 10th, the last day of shipping. I wonder if that's relevant, or just coincidence.
Oh, speaking of last month, remember that Dr Jart's BB cream? IT IS AMAZING. I actually got like 5 uses out of that tiny bottle, and very seriously considered purchasing full size. I decided to try some other brands before I committed to that brand, so now I've got a tube of the Garnier offering. Love it too.
So… what did I get this month, you ask?
This is an Eyeko London Skinny Liquid Eyeliner. It actually seems to be full-size, which is straight-up awesome. I am usually a gel-pencil eyeliner girl, personally. I tried liquid liner back when I was a teenager and didn't like it much – I don't have very steady hands. I really like this one though! I like the look of the liquid liner, and the style of the tip of this one is easy to control. It's got a paintbrushy feel to it (but it's not a brush, it's a tapered foam tip). Mine is black, but the Shop only seems to have it in Olive and Turquoise right now (both of which look pretty cool too). Definitely will consider buying this.
Apparently there's a scented product every month, and this time it's Melvita Floral Water in Rose. I really love the scent – it really does smell exactly like a rose. However, the scent is very light when you put it on; it doesn't seem to linger at all like a perfume does. I suppose this is meant to be more of a "body spray"? Those are nice too, but I don't buy body sprays in this price range. It's lovely, just more than I'd spend on the product. It's also available in Lavender and Orange Blossom (I'd really like to try that one).
The lifestyle extra this month is "fancy bandaids" (as my daughter is calling them). This is a box of 20 Band-Aids designed by Cynthia Rowley. They've all got cool designs on them. I've not injured myself since receiving the box, so I haven't been able to test them out, but I'm sure they're of good quality. The Shop is selling a package of 40 (20 of these and 20 in a sport pack) for 11$, which seems pretty much like what the plain old beige bandages sell for, so this is a pretty good deal. I'd purchase these.
I'll admit I was a little dubious about this one – Stainiac by theBalm. It's a stain designed to be used as lip or cheek color, which seems just a bit weird to me. I got the Beauty Queen color; they have two other color choices. I never ever use cheek color (my cheeks have plenty of natural color – too much, in fact), so I haven't tried it that way. It was pretty nice on my lips though. I was expecting a dark red color, but it was actually quite pink. It went on smoothly and was not sticky. I don't think it lasted very long though. I'm a big fan of Cover Girl Outlast lip stain and I don't think that this measured up to that. I liked the product, but it's not for me.
Yu-Be moisturizing skin cream has been a top-selling product in Japan for over half a century, so it must be awesome, right? Right. It has no added fragrances or colors and no petrolatum – just a light moisturizing cream. It rubs completely into the skin and doesn't leave a greasy residue like some creams. I tried it on a patch of dry skin on my hand and saw instant results. The price is excellent as well – I may give this a try the next time I'm in the market for lotion.
Last but not least, I've got a cologne sample from the new Birchbox Men service! John Varvatos Star USA is (at this writing) sold out on the Birchbox shop, so I guess we weren't the only ones that liked it! As a woman, I loved this smell for my husband, and he liked it a lot as well. It's expensive, like all perfumes and colognes, but not exorbitantly so. We'll enjoy this sample for date nights and maybe get some in the future.
If you like what you see here, consider trying out a Birchbox subscription of your own! They're only ten dollars a month, and it's always fun to see what surprises are in store. I've not been compensated in any way for this post, although the link earlier in this paragraph is a referrer link that will earn me some points if you subscribe using it. All opinions are my own. Check out my Health and Beauty category here on the blog to see more Birchbox reviews and other similar things.
Do you have a Birchbox subscription? How did you like it this month? If you've tried any of these products, what did you think of them? Did you find any amazing new products this month?


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Today however I knew I needed something more in depth. Our database server lost its local network connection, but still was available over the public IP, which is what I test against. Once we re-directed the SQL requests to the public IP address of the server everything started working again, until we ran across "Too Many Connections". The database server kept all of the "local" connections open and thus we ate up the rest.
So, how to test for this scenario? After reading through the man pages of check_http I saw this little gem "--invert-regex Return CRITICAL if found, OK if not". This I knew was exactly what I was looking for! If it sees our error codes it will go Critical! Now to put this gem into practice. Here is where the man pages fall short. There is no explanation on HOW to use this, just that it exists. I tried the obvious to me "check_http -H hostname.com -w 3 -c 5 --invert-regex 'Some string'", but that didn't work. OK, lets try "check_http -H hostname.com -w 3 -c 5 --invert-regex='Some string'" nope that errored out with " option `--invert-regex' doesn't allow an argument".
Third times the charm right?
"check_http -H hostname.com -w 3 -c 5 -r 'Some string' --invert-regex '"
# HTTP OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 0.355 second response time |time=0.354966s;3.000000;5.000000;0.000000 size=12975B;;;0
Yes, as it turns out third time is the charm. So that got me thinking some more. How can I ensure that the page is rendering correctly, and if it isn't fail but in a specific way?
"check_http -H hostname.com -w 3 -c 5 -r 'Some string I want in my page' -r 'Some string I don't want to see' --invert-regex '"
You can add more than one -r to the check_http command and it will require all of them to be present for the test to pass, and if one of them fails then it will go critical! Perfect!
If you have any more insight into using the check_http command in Nagios I want to hear about it. We are always running into new failure scenarios that we didn't anticipate and I want to know about them before one of my users tells me about it.


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Getting Started with Chemistry[edit]
Saint is now an elder, and he's getting too old to deal with all these kids running around. Plus, he and Nikita want some alone time in their twilight years. Felix selflessly volunteers not only to move out, but to take Disco (now a teenager) with him as well, leaving Saint and Nikita on their own in the house. KF Fighting comes with them automatically in Disco's inventory, and they move to a small lot nearby.
After a quick remodel of the house, Felix cures his Vampirism and enters the Criminal career track to match his lifetime wish. Work alone will obviously make him crazy, but luckily, Generations offers a new hobby in Chemistry, which is based entirely off the Logic skill! You might remember that Felix already has the Genius trait and maxed out his Logic as a teenager, so this will fit really well for him.
The chemistry table can be found in Buy Mode in the Entertainment sort and Hobbies & Skills subsort. At only $1000, Felix figures it's a worthy investment, but he'll soon see that there are some hidden costs. He sets it up in the workshop in their custom-built house and gets to work.
As you can see in the screenshot above, even with high Logic, Sims do not automatically know how to make potions. Felix's only command at the moment is "Discover Potion." Unlike many skill-based commands, there is no progress bar here: Felix continues working with the chemistry table until his first potion is discovered, which takes several hours. Each subsequent potion takes longer to discover, so it'll take several days to find all ten potion types.
Each time your Sim discovers a new potion type, you'll get a one-time free dose of the potion in that Sim's inventory. Having high Logic reduces the amount of time it takes to discover potions and reduces the chance of mistakes, but working on the chemistry table improves your Logic as you use it. If you fail, just try again and you'll have a better shot. Luckily, the act of discovering potions is free, so you can work on it as often as you wish.
Creating Potions[edit]
We finally receive a push notification that Felix has discovered his first potion type! It's called Radical Reparum, and the command auto-cancels as he celebrates his success.
The chemistry table can now be used to create as many Radical Reparums that he wants, but each potion will cost him $50 to create. Potions don't require any other ingredients of any kind, but due to the potion cost, it might be tough for an early-generation family to afford too many potions. Luckily, Felix received a bunch of money from Nikita and Saint when he moved out, so he has enough disposable cash to make a few.
When creating potions, unlike when discovering them, you'll get a progress bar in the command icon in the top-left corner of the screen. Also, making a potion always takes less time than discovering them, and further modified by your Sim's Logic skill. Felix is able to create them pretty quickly.
Sims with low Logic stand a chance to fail making potions, which results in a fun little explosion. There are no negatives other than the "charred" state Sims get when they get a little too close to fire or lightning. A quick shower will get a Sim back to normal. Felix doesn't have this problem at all due to his 10 points in Logic.
After Felix makes a couple Radical Reparums, Felix gets back to discovering more potions from the table. The order you'll find the potions is randomized. For Felix, his sixth potion is the very interesting Imaginary Friend Metamorphium!
All potions, including the free ones given when first discovered, are added to the Sim's personal inventory. When Disco gets home from school, Felix gives her the new orange-colored potion as a gift. With the potion in her inventory, Disco uses the special "Offer To Make Real" social command to KF Fighting. After he quaffs the potion, KF Fighting becomes a real member of the family!
Full Potions Table[edit]
While Disco and the flesh-and-blood KF Fighting get to know each other, Felix (who is letting the two teens sleep in the same room, which probably isn't the best idea in world) goes all-out with discovering potions. It's not long before he knows all ten.
The following table lists all ten types, their effects, and their costs to make. Remember that the first potion is always free, and that the order of their discovery is random among different Sims.
|Base Cost
|Bladder Flow
|Empties the drinker's Bladder meter, forcing them to pee themselves immediately
|Ghost Potion
|Turns the drinker into a ghost for several in-game hours.
| Imaginary Friend
|Allows a Sim to convert their Imaginary Friend into a human Sim
|Liquid Horror
|Applies a strong debuff to the drinker
|Mood Enhancer
|Applies a very minor buff to the drinker
|Ninja Vanish
|Instantly teleports the user back to their home lot
|Radical Reparum
|Sharply increases the drinker's Handiness skill for a short time
|Sleeping Elixir
|Sharply increases the Energy recovery rate from sleeping, allowing the drinker to recharge in a lot less time
|Stink Juice
|Empties the Hygiene meter of the drinker
|Young Again
|Resets the drinker's age back to Young Adult


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Edifier @ CES 2013
One of our last stops at CES was at the Edifier booth. This Chinese company makes some interesting products that offer really unique designs but still manage to pull off some pretty decent performance and quality. Traditional speaker purists will tell you that the speaker cabinet must be made from wood and have a lot of specifications to enable good sound, but Edifier continues to break the mold and offer products with very unique designs that still sound rather nice.
One of the products of CES 2012 that we picked as our "Best of Show" was the Edifier Spinnaker speakers, and even though these are more than a year old, these speakers still catch your eye and your ear in terms of looks and performance. The original red ones looked like the horns from some beast and they've expanded their lineup to include a lot more different colors. These speakers are still some of my favorite products at the show again, and with the large color selection you can even snag a set that is a bit more muted if you don't want to scare away small children.
The other speakers that looked really interesting and sounded very good as well was the Eclipse. These speakers have a very unique dual radiator design at the rear that helps project the sound to fill the room. These really aren't that large, but even in a horrible venue like the LVCC, we noted that the sound was very good. These speakers are quite directional as well and this will work great for PC speakers - and that's what Edifier has in mind.
We have lots more pictures from our last day at the show. Go check them out here, and our full list of coverage here.


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2012 June New York International Begins With Upsets
|New York International Begins With Upsets
|June 21, 2012
|The fifth New York International (June 20-24), held at Saint John's University and sponsored by the Marshall Chess Club, kicked off with over 70 participating players, including seven GMs and many talented juniors. First round upsets abounded. Christopher Gu defeated last year's champ IM Robert Hungaski and Kevin Wang beat veteran GM Hecht. Alena Kats won against IM Bonin & WFM Amanda Mateer beat FM Aleksander Ostrovskiy. See full information on the Marshall Chess Club website and look for US Chess Scoop videos from the scene.


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Manchester City have decided not to appeal against Samir Nasri's controversial sending-off at Norwich at the weekend.
The France forward was dismissed in the first half of the champions' 4-3 Premier League win at Carrow Road for an alleged headbutt at Sebastien Bassong.
Manager Roberto Mancini indicated after the game on Saturday that an appeal would be lodged but, after further thought, the club have now announced there will not be a challenge.


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Can I enjoy my plants indoors for the cooler months? Josh – Speed, KS
With winter on the way, you are probably starting to wonder how to go about protecting your plants through the colder months. Just as each plant is unique in looks and application, different types of plants require different means of protection to survive winter. You will want to properly identify which types of plants are present in your pond and proceed accordingly. If you are willing to go the extra mile and care for your plants indoors you will be able to enjoy them all season long and dodge the expense of re-buying plants to garnish your pond next Spring.
Plants are typically categorized by hardiness which gauges their survivability in specific temperature ranges. Some plants, like Bog Bean are rated from zones 3 to 10 which means they can withstand very cold temperatures but can also thrive in warm weather. Tropical plants like the Antares Lily are hardy only in zones 10 and 11. For help, see our Plant Hardiness Zone Map which breaks down temperature lows in each zone. With this being said you will now understand that some plants may need to be stored earlier and longer than others and may require a little more attention depending on their warmth and light requirements and if you maintaining the entire plant or only storing tubers.
Hardy Lilies and Lotus can be trimmed back to about an inch` away from the top of the planter as they brown. To over winter these plants you simply sink the baskets to a depth in your pond that will not freeze solid, normally at least 12" in water depth. As the temperatures warm back up you can move the basket closer to the surface and let nature take its course. If your lilies aren't potted, they are more than likely planted into lily pockets that are already 12-18" in depth and simply trimming them back will suffice. Any tropical plant, however, will have to come inside for the winter. These plants can be maintained if placed in a warm and sunny area or under a full spectrum light and the root of the plant is kept submerged.
Submerged Plants that are hardy in colder climates can just be sunk to deeper regions of your pond that will not freeze solid in the winter. If they require warmer temperatures you can bring them in and store them in an aquarium with full spectrum lighting.
Floating Plants like Water Hyacinths and Water Lettuce are sensitive to colder weather and are a little more difficult to over winter. If you choose to bring them in for the winter, they require a warm sunny location or under full spectrum lighting. You will also want to add some liquid fertilizer like Microbe-Lift® Bloom & Grow™ to keep them healthy.
POND TALK: Tell us how you over winter your aquatic plants.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Three Penn State scientists have received national honors for their pioneering research, begun more than 40 years ago, that led to the development of implant materials widely used today in human bone and joint repairs. Della Roy, Eugene W. White and the late Jon N. Weber are among eight researchers nationwide who have been recognized with the newly created Golden Goose award, sponsored by American Association of Universities and other educational and scientific organizations.
The Golden Goose Award demonstrates the human and economic benefits of federally funded research by highlighting examples of seemingly obscure studies that have led to major breakthroughs and benefited society in significant ways. The name of the award is based on the fable about the goose that laid golden eggs.
"Penn State conducts more than $800 million in annual research, providing thousands of jobs across the Commonwealth," said Henry C. "Hank" Foley, vice president for research and dean of the graduate school. "Seeing this recognition for the positive impact on countless lives that a handful of those faculty have had over decades is exciting. This kind of impact is occurring every day through the work of our world-class faculty and researchers."
In the early 1970s, White and Weber discovered that certain types of South Pacific coral had the same porous, interconnected microstructure as human bone. The discovery's importance was based on the fact that the human body often detects the foreign origin of implants, sometimes rejecting them outright, but never fully integrating them. A material was needed that encouraged natural tissue to grow into it, locking it in place and forming a protective layer.
Weber, a marine geologist, had a piece of coral scanned at Penn State's Materials Research Laboratory. Materials scientist White happened to see it and noticed its mazelike pore structure -- the same kind of extremely small, interconnected pore structure that might encourage natural tissue growth.
Since natural corals themselves are too brittle to implant, White, Weber and Rodney White, then a medical student at the State University of New York at Syracuse, used them as molds to make replicas. The coral was machined to the desired shape and impregnated with wax. The coral was then dissolved, yielding a wax "negative," which was then infused with ceramic material -- which materials scientist Roy helped to develop -- yielding a prosthetic that had the intricate porosity of natural bone.
Meanwhile, in related research, Roy perfected a process for "pressure-cooking" coral in a vessel containing a phosphate solution. Phosphate replaced the carbonate in the coral, giving it many of the chemical and mechanical properties of human bone and almost eliminating the probability of rejection. While not as strong as metal implants made via the wax method, the processed coral could be machined to the desired shape and worked well as a material for pins, screws and other hardware in low-stress bone and joint repairs.
These methods of producing bone replacement materials were patented and licensed, and have since been widely adopted. The federally funded research conducted by Roy, White and Weber enabled major advances in implant surgery and dramatically improved the quality of life for countless thousands of people.
Roy is currently professor emerita of materials science. Eugene White left the University in 1977. Weber died in 1976.
Visit goldengooseaward.org for more information about the award, its sponsors, selection criteria and a video about the inaugural group of honorees.


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I have a 3rd generation Apple TV. Will it be possible to use it to watch the US presidential debates live? I would prefer to do so without using AirPlay, if possible.
I know that today's (Oct 3, 2012) debate will be streamed live via YouTube. Is the Apple TV's YouTube app capable of showing this? If so, how would I navigate to it?
If AirPlay is my only choice, how can I best go about it? I have:
an iPhone 4S running iOS 5 (capable of both AirPlay for videos and AirPlay Mirroring)
a Mac running OS X 10.7 (capable of AirPlay for videos, but not AirPlay mirroring)


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- WinPatrol 2012 Update 1
- Delayed Start
While not everyone had the same experience some folks reported that Delayed Start was no longer working with WinPatrol 2012
This update will resolve this error and give back one of your favorite features.
- Hidden Files 64 bit
This update also helps fix a bug in the display of hidden files on 64 bit versions of Windows. It doesn't affect any other versions and has no impact unless you're using Windows 64 bit version. You'll know you have Windows 64 bit if you notice the you have both a Program Files folder and one called Program Files (x86).
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|HastedCastTime = BaseCastTime /(1 + (% SpellHaste / 100))
1.5s /(1 + (10 / 100)) = 1.3636s
GCD or 1.5 second cast with the full GotEM3.3 will become:
- A Nature's Grace proc will move the GCD from here to 1.14 seconds
- Wrath of Air totem alone will make it 1.30 seconds
- Improved Moonkin or Imp. Ret auras alone will make it 1.32 seconds
- Bloodlust alone will take it to 1.15 seconds
- WoA totem + Imp. aura will make it 1.26 seconds
- A Nature's Grace Proc on top of the totem+aura stack will make it 1.05 seconds, pretty much the minimum GCD limit... 166.34 haste rating from there will cover that 0.05 seconds. This also applies to nourish (and glyphed but untalented HT), as the GotEM3.3 10% haste applies to ALL spells!
What this does mean, though, is that it will take 1192 spell haste rating to get yourself down to a 1.0 second GCD, sans any raid buffs (including the auras and totem and NG procs). 1193 will push you just over the minimum GCD to 0.9998... which will effectively cap at 1.0 seconds.
WoA + Aura Buff
With a stack of WoA totem + improved aura from moonkin or ret pally, you will "only" need 855.4 haste rating from gear to reach a 1.0 sec GCD/Nourish cast. Such numbers may be achievable around the time of T11 gear (without overly gimping other stats, including crit)... though of course, any bloodlust will send you straight to the GCD cap, as will NG procs.
WoA + Aura buff + NG
Adding in a reliance on Nature's Grace procs (which themselves rely on crit rating), you can lower this all the way down to 166.34 haste rating. Most raiding druids already have this amount of haste rating, but fewer can rely on NG procs due to being purely raid healers. This will be more useful to druids who focus on MT-healing through Nourish or HT (though do note that this only requires the HT glyph, and not the Naturalist talent, as a combination of both will automatically put you at the minimum 1-second GCD with or without both GotEM and haste gear), assuming they can gear up in appropriate crit gear and cast frequently enough to keep NG active. Any lull in spell crits will push their GCD back to 1.2 seconds.
Fun times. Will post up graphs of the haste ratings to GCD, once I double-check them and make them pretty :) Edit: graphs are here.
~~If there are any flaws in my math, please feel free to point them out... I spreadsheeted it out kinda quick in free time between pulls during a raid tonight!~~