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49 Social49 Temple Pl.
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 338-9600
49 Social offers refined French American cuisine with global influences. Our chef, Jason Fiset (formerly of Radius) has made a menu that is accessible to everyone. We offer anything from burgers to Filet Mignon, from truffle fries to lobster raviolis. Our concept has always been to offer good food without the big prices. On top of an extensive wine list, we also offer affordable $28 bottles of wine, which coincides with our concept that good doesn't always have to be expensive. We are committed to great service as well as a good ambience.
Abby Lane255 Tremont St.
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 451-2229
Located in the heart of Boston's Theatre District, Abby Lane is dedicated to the celebration of hand-crafted cocktails, classic American fare favorites and an approachable glamorous atmosphere. HGTV's Taniya Nayak renovated the multi-level restaurant to create an approachable first floor with an intimate upper level space. Hell's Kitchen Alum, Jason Santos designed the menu to reflect classic American comfort food with a little twist. Jarek Mountain's cocktail concoctions infuse the art and science of mixology to produce a plethora of lovely libations. Abby Lane is open 7 days a week with late night dining, gluten free options, and weekend brunch.
Back Deck2 West St.
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 670-0320
With three distinct deck spaces and a menu of grill-focused favorites, Back Deck invites everyone from couples enjoying a casual date night to colleagues kicking off the weekend to gather around tables and chairs plucked from the patio for a charcoal-cooked meal. Designed to bring a warm weather feel no matter the season, Back Deck takes the outdoors inside with floor to ceiling windows that slide open to let the breeze in as well as details like lantern and umbrella lights borrowed from the back porch, lush green planters and an evening sky-blue ceiling that evokes perfect patio bliss during the most bitter of Boston winters.
Fajitas & 'Ritas25 West Street
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 426-1222
Established in 1989, Fajitas & 'Ritas is a good-vibe restaurant and bar featuring fresh Texas and barbecue cuisine. With its colorful wall murals, "Cheap-Eats" prices and award winning margaritas, Fajitas & 'Ritas is a fun place to eat, drink and hang out. Located at 25 West Street in Boston, around the corner from the Boston Opera House and diagonally across the Boston Common from the Citi Emerson Colonial Theatre.
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar217 Stuart Street
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 292-0808
Located on the outskirts of Boston's historic Theater District, near the Financial District, Fenway Park and the State House, Fleming's of Boston offers Guests a memorable dining experience inspired by a passion for steak and wine and served with unrivaled hospitality. Discover new tastes with our award-winning wine list, featuring 100 wines by the glass, and indulge in the finest selection of USDA Prime steaks, including premium cuts such as the Dry-Aged Prime Ribeye. Visit us before the curtain goes up and try our three course Theater menu starting at $49.95.
Subscriber Discount Card holders can order off our Fleming's exclusive Pre-Theatre menu. Click here for menu details and Click Here for online reservations!
Intermission Tavern228 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 451-5997
Intermission Tavern offers a wide selection of delicious food and drinks in a theatrical-themed atmosphere. The tavern is sprinkled with posters of shows from the past.
Legal Sea Foods26 Park Plaza
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 426-4444
For over 50 years Bostonians have come to Legal Sea Foods when they want the freshest seafood possible. Our reputation is built on the fact that we are not a restaurant selling fish, but rather a fish company in the restaurant business. You can taste the difference in our food. The freshness shines through, whether ordering wood grilled fish or succulent New England lobsters. For the best atmosphere in town, stop by our new "Wine Cellar at Park Square" to enjoy our extensive wine list voted "Most Affordable" by Boston Magazine. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Children's menu available.
Maggiano's4 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617) 542-3456
From scratch-made food, to genuine Italian-American hospitality, you'll find that we do things a little differently at Maggiano's Little Italy. The passion in the food comes from the passion in the chefs. At Maggiano's, food is prepared lovingly with only the freshest of ingredients, authentic recipes and pride.
Petit Robert Central101 Arch St #200
Boston, MA 02110
Phone: (617) 737-1777
Located in the heart of Downtown Crossing, Petit Robert Central is a neighborhood bistro that brings the flavors of France to the heart of Boston. The menu features classic French bistro dishes alongside some more modern interpretations. And in true bistro tradition, the reasonably priced cuisine is served in an elegantly outfitted dining room that somehow still feels comfortable and relaxed.
Salvatore's545 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 542-5555
Salvatore's provides an unsurpassed full-service dining experience that appeals to those seeking a quick taste of genuine Italian cuisine or a memorable night out with loved ones.


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The Xbox One allows you to pin your favorite games and apps to your home screen for easy access. Here's a quick guide on how to pin a game or app on Xbox One, making it easier for you to access your favorites in one place.
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A ravishing and luxurious looking king size luxury satin summer quilt, this piece offers immense comfort to you as well as good looks to your bedroom. Reversible to use, it features 90 gsm polyester-made matte satin on one side and 70 gsm polyester-made microfiber on the other. Since polyester is resistant to mildew, shrinking and stretching; the quilt is guaranteed to last long. It comes with 180 gsm polyester filling that effectively preserves heat. Adorned with a machine-made and ornate looking stitched pattern.
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OpenID Quirks
the_willow.insanejournal.com + the-willow.insanejournal
There's a difference in openID between an underscore and a hyphen. I've now officially put an email address to both OpenID's and claimed them as mine. It's odd because the verification goes to the same journal over here on iJay but livejournal doesn't recognize them as being the same URL.
But head's up to anyone with a - or _ in their username. If you've been having wtf's over openID being consistent, this may be why.
Also, on Livejournal my accounts are
1. ext_59120 *
2. ext_60367
So if you want to reference me you may go < lj user = " ext_59120 " > or < lj user = " ext_60367 " >
*(the one with people friended)
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text: About Me: Hello my fellow food lovers, I'm a ex culinary arts student in high school and college. I love cooking ethnic cuisines, but my greatest strength is in the pastry arts. If I do have to pick my favorite cuisine to make out of the bunch, it's between Japanese, Italian, Cajun and Native American. It's hard to pick one since I'm still discovering new ethnic cuisines that's very enjoyable to make. Unfortunately, since the city I live in don't have any good entry level cooking jobs nor dish washing jobs opened, I have to jump into my loophole that is the Air Force job training program in another four months before hopefully entering into the Hattori Nutrition College in Japan. Food Career: Food business, pastry arts, banqueting and catering.


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SAN DIEGO, CA (July 21, 2010) – Douglas Wilson, owner of the Douglas Wilson Companies (DWC), has been appointed receiver for Vue, a 318-unit, 15-story luxury condominium tower on the waterfront in San Pedro, California. The recently completed Vue was billed as San Pedro's first waterfront high-rise.
A nationally known problem resolution firm specializing in distressed real estate and court-appointed receiverships, DWC has assumed complete operational responsibility for the project, including all homeowner and leasing program issues. Developer Carlyle/Galaxy San Pedro opened Vue as a for-sale project in March 2009, but the building now has an active leasing or rental program as well, due to the current distressed real estate economy. DWC is currently discussing and evaluating with the lender and developer restarting the sales program for the property.
"This is the largest waterfront development in Old Town San Pedro, so we expect this asset to be a strong performer once the market has stabilized," said Douglas Wilson, CEO of Douglas Wilson Companies (DWC). "With views of the harbor and upscale amenities like concierge service and a helicopter pad, the Vue sets a new standard for San Pedro."
Until the property is transferred to different ownership, DWC will work with the existing management team to maintain and protect the value of the property.
Based in San Diego, Calif., Douglas Wilson Companies (www.douglaswilson.com) operates six offices around the United States, including Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando and San Francisco. To date, the company has provided problem resolution for more than 600 projects involving assets valued in excess of $12 billion. View coverage of the story at Curbed LA.
Founded in 1989, Douglas Wilson Companies is one of the largest firms of its kind, providing a wide range of specialized business and real estate services to law firms, state and federal courts, corporations, partnerships, pension funds, REITS, financial institutions and property owners nationwide. Services include workout and problem resolution, forensic accounting and litigation support, joint venture investments and development, brokerage, asset management, crisis/force majeure response, entitlement and construction management.


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While at work yesterday, someone suddenly got a craving for Sprinkles cupcakes and made the mistake of bringing it up to everyone. That's when I knew what I'd be up to today…cupcakes! I remembered that I had just picked up a can of pumpkin, which I had intended to use in a pumpkin shake (I'll probably be posting about that very soon), which would make for great cupcakes. I had also recently made a trip to Costco, where I nabbed a rather large bag of pecan halves, so I've got everything I need to make a delicious cupcake. Plus, there's a little bonus if you want something extra in the form of white chocolate chips.
Before I get into the recipe I would like to cover one educational thing because I was asked this over the weekend by the cupcake hungry coworker, but on Saturday. The topic is pumpkin, she asked me what the difference was between pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie filling. Pumpkin pie filling is already spiced and is almost ready to go for a pie, whereas pumpkin puree is nothing but pumpkin. The labels are a little tricky because they may both say 100% pumpkin, but if in doubt look at the ingredients and you'll see for pumpkin puree there is just one, I'll let you guess at what that lone ingredient may be. With pumpkin pie filling you'll see a longer list of ingredients. Now you know.
Now on to the thing you care about a recipe for delicious pumpkin cupcakes with pecans and/or white chocolate chips with brown butter icing. The two recipes were adapted/lifted from Brown Eyed Baker (the cupcakes) and Martha Stewart (the icing). Here's what you need:
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Pecans
Makes approximately 32 cupcakes
- 4 cups of cake flour sifted
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon of ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
- 1 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup of buttermilk
- 1 1/2 cups of canned pumpkin puree
- 1 1/2 cups of pecan pieces
- 1 cup of white chocolate chips or regular chocolate chips (optional)
**Note that in my Kitchen Aid stand mixer everything goes nearly to the top of the beater blade. Not sure if mine is 4.5 quarts or 5 quarts, but be wary if using something smaller if something smaller exists.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cupcake liners in muffin tins.
2. Sift your flour and add baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices.
3. Cream together brown sugar and butter until fluffy.
4. Add eggs, one at a time and beat thoroughly into mixture.
5. Add flour in three parts, alternating with 1/2 of buttermilk. Mix well.
7. Add pecans and/or chocolate/white chocolate chips. Mix.
What I did was make half of my batter with only pecans and with the remaining batter I added the chocolate chips, both chocolate and white chocolate.
8. Fill liners about 3/4 to the top. I used my Oxo Medium sized cookie scoop; two scoops was perfect and made for some very uniform cupcakes.
9. Bake for 15-18 minutes at 350 degrees, rotating two tins midway through baking.
Get up close and personal with this pumpkin and pecan cupcake.
Want to top it with something a little different? How about this very simple brown butter icing?:
Brown Butter Icing
- 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter
- 1 cup of sifted powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1-2 tablespoons of milk
1. Grab a small saucepan and toss in your butter. Heat on medium high heat until you get a nutty brown color. The whole process takes about ten minutes or so. Remove from heat and pour into a bowl.
2. Add sugar, vanilla and one tablespoon of milk, stir until smooth. If your icing is too think add in remainder of milk a little bit at a time until you reach a spreadable consistency. Allow five minutes to cool
I think mine was a little too runny, but I spooned it over my cupcakes anyway. Or at least over a good portion of them. The recipe may not cover all 32 of your cupcakes, but there's always a few people who prefer them
un-iced, de-iced, without icing.
I picked this recipe mainly because of the sheer amount of cupcakes it yielded. Many of the other recipes would only net me a dozen cupcakes, which wasn't going to cut it for me. I've got to share these with friends and family. For the record, they were well received. I hope you dig these. Let me know if you do. I like the comments, they're so few and far between.
Okay, normally I write something about what I learned, but I don't really have much to share this time. They're cupcakes and they came out well, with the exception of the brown butter icing, which wasn't bad, just a little runnier than I hoped. I probably could have fixed it with more powdered sugar, but there's enough sugar in these bad boys, right? Do we really need more? I says no. Anyway, let me know what you think of these and how you might improve on them or make them differently. Until next time.


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Total Divas Season 6Eps16
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Nikki starts practicing in the performance center, meanwhile the girls start worrying about the brand extension. Paige and Lana lost it after being drafted away ...
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Follow the lives of the WWE divas in their work and relationships.
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25 February 2011
Elizabeth is Going Home
A hand with a finger pointing up indicates Elizabeth's soul has risen to Heaven.
Though not seen in the photo, here is a transcription of her entire epitaph: Elizabeth / Wife of I. F. Gossett / Born Mar 23, 1823 / Died Mar 26, 1903 / She was a member of the M. E. church 62 years. / Her last words... I am going home.
Elizabeth was laid to rest near her parents, Casey and Susan Crowe. Their stone is behind hers in the photo. All are buried in Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Posted by Stephanie Lincecum at 2:57 AM
Amateur historian, avid reader, genealogist, lover of cemeteries, scrapbooker, and stitcher. Budding photographer, baker, gardener, and DIYer.
3 comments:
- Lisa Wallen Logsdon said...
Things like this always remind me that I want to design my own stone. I want to make sure that not only is there a spiritual design, but I'd really like to have "dau. of", "wife of" and "mother of" on it too.
- February 25, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Dorene from Ohio said...
What a wonderful epitaph for Elizabeth!
- February 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- S. Lincecum said...
Me too, Lisa! I have not yet settled on a "final design," but would like to have it all laid out before it's my time.
- February 25, 2011 at 11:36 AM
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This is the first of a three part blog post on charting and analysing the number of R package submissions.
(I will update this blog post with links to the other two posts as they come available)
I'm sure most of you have heard of the R programming language. If not then perhaps it is something that you might want to go off an learn a bit about. Why? well it is one of the most popular languages for performing various types of statistics, advanced topics on statistics and machine learning and for generating lots of cool looking graphs.
If this is not something that you might be interested then it is time to go to another website/blog.
In this blog post I'm going to chart the number of packages submitted to R and are available for download and installation.
Why am I doing this? I got bored one day after coming back from my vacation and I though it would be a useful thing to do. Then after doing this I decided to use these graphs somewhere else, but you will have to wait until 2016 to find out!
The R website has a listing of all the packages and the dates that they were submitted.
There are a variety of tools available that you can use to extract the information on this webpage and there are lots of examples or R code too. I'll leave that as a little exercise for you to do.
I extracted all of this information and stored it in a table in my Oracle Database (of course I did as I work with Oracle databases day in day out). This will allow me to easily reuse this data whenever I need it plus I can update this table with new packages from time to time.
The following R code:
- Setups up and ROracle connection to my schema in my database
- Connects to the database
- Setups up a query to extract the data from the table
- Fetches this data into an R data frame called data
- Reformat the date columns to remove the time element to it
- Plot the data
library(ROracle) drv <- dbDriver("Oracle") # Create the connection string host <- "localhost" port <- 1521 service <- "pdb12c" connect.string <- paste( "(DESCRIPTION=", "(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=", host, ")(PORT=", port, "))", "(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=", service, ")))", sep = "") con <- dbConnect(drv, username = "brendan", password = "brendan",dbname=connect.string) res<-dbSendQuery(con, "select r_date, count(*) r_num from r_packages group by r_date order by 1 asc") data <- fetch(res) rdate<- data$R_DATE rdate2<-as.Date(rdate,"%d/%m/%y") plot(data$R_NUM~rdate2, data, type="l" , xaxt="n") axis(1, rdate2, format(rdate2, "%b %y"), cex.axis=.7, las=1)
After I run the above code I get the following plot.
(Yes I could have done a better job on laying out the chart with all sorts of labels and colors etc)
This chart gives us a plot of the number of new submissions by day.
There are 2 very obvious things that stand out from this graph. The easiest one to deal with is that we can see that there has been substantical growth in new submissions over the past 3 years. Perhaps we need to examine these a bit closer and when you do you will find that a lot of these are existing packages that have been resubmitted with updates.
There is a very obvious peak just over half ways along the chart. We really need to investigate this to understand what has happended. This peak occurs on the 29th October 2012. What happened on the 29th October 2012 as this is clearly an anomaly with the rest of the data. Well on this date R version 2.15.2 was release and a there was a lot of update pagackes got resubmitted.
Check out my next two blog posts were I will explore this data in a bit more detail.


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Note: The lace motif for the body of this shawl features a double yarnover – you wrap your yarn around the needle twice in a row. As you knit back over these two yarnovers on the wrong side, you will purl the first yarnover and knit the second yarnover.
The unblocked shawl measures 44" across the top and 16" down the center back. Blocked it measures 56" across and 25" down the center back. These measurements are approximate because they depend on how severely you block your piece.
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Pendulum clock 3-D pop out effect original design by Paul Ocepek quartz pendulum movement approx 8.5"W x 10.4"H x 1"D 1/8" thick laser cut Baltic birch plywood printed with non-toxic water-based inks pre-drilled hole for easy hanging made in Massachusetts, USA. Requires 1 AA battery (not included)
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Their arrival is a sure sign that summer is on the way, but 2012 is the year when a new variety of strawberry will be the hit fruit of the season.The Pineberry, a white strawberry with a distinctive tropical flavor reminiscent of pineapple, hit the shops last year but is set to dominate fruit sales this summer.More than 3,000 plants have been sent to garden centers hoping to grow the unusual fruit, which has flesh as white as the cream poured over traditional strawberries.When the fruit is sweet and juicy enough to eat, the flesh is almost totally white but studded with red seeds - the reverse of the usual variety.Experts believe this coming year will see a trend for the strawberries, as well as other unusual veg such as purple majesty potatoes.
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Pineberries are a strawberry derivative that taste like pineapple.
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looking for Calabrese
Caroline Calabrese Patete was my greatgrandmother.she arrived in USA in 1905 from Vastogirardi Italy. Husband was Alfonso Patete. They lived and died in Ohio. i think her birthdate was May 15,1876.
on 2011-08-29 10:09:04
maria50503 has been a Family Tree Circles member since Aug 2011. is researching the following names: CALABRESEPATETE, CALABRESE, PATETE and 1 other(s).
Caroline was also my great grandmother! Caroline and Alfonso's daughter Fannie was my grandmother. I have been digging for ANY information I can find on the Patete family and can find nothing more than a few dates and death announcements... but very little else on either Caroline and Alfonso.
If you have discovered any info, please feel free to share and I'll do the same.
Michael Serio
Orlando, Florida
[email protected]
hello miserio
i emailed you at your gmail address. i hope you received it. let me know please.
mary phillips-arter (percoco-patete)


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text: Hi, I just got a BEFPV41 v2, and want to setup a VPN service at home so that when I am on trip, I can use my notebook through the internet to access my home computer. The notebook has Windows XP's network connection can setup VPN client service. But the setting does not corresponding with the settings in BEFPV41, and I am not familiar with all these VPN terms. Thus I can never establish a connection. I note that the BEFPV41 firmware has not been updated since 2005. Is this the problem or am I missing something. Where can I find a guide to establish connection. Even the BEFPV41 user manual does not give any instructions for a notebook client to server connection example.


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The princess wedding dress models, which embellish the dreams of the bride's candidates with embroidered skirt, are taking place in the new season collections of bridal brands with their stylish designs. If you want to choose a bridal skirt with a ruffled skirt for your wedding with many different model options such as Strapless, chest decal, transparent, embroidered, lace, you can browse the new season princess wedding dress models of famous brands…
Strapless Princess Wedding Dress Models
Strapless cuts, the most anticipated models in princess wedding dresses. In this model which has a very romantic appearance with low arm details; The design that fits in the body and the highly flexible form of the skirt draw attention.
This strapless princess wedding dress model with an elegant look with stone treatments at the top and lacework at the skirt edge is an ideal choice for slender women with a raised skirt.
A similar model. This time there is also a transparent, embroidered collar that completes the upper part of the strapless. It has a very stylish and elegant appearance with a fluffy form of tulle.
Lace wedding dresses model
This bridal dress, which has a very romantic look with lace embroidered sleeves, is among the models of the 2017 princess wedding dress. The lace detail on the back also adds a distinct atmosphere to the dress.
Transparent tulle wedding style
The skirts of the princess brides are now on the forefront. It is a very elegant model with embroidered top with tulle skirt and waist. If you are going to do your wedding in a luxury hotel, you can choose these style of bridal gowns.
These models are not suitable for weddings in outdoor areas such as a country wedding.
Another model that is trending again in 2017. This model, which has a very modern and romantic look with its transparent detail on the top and its operations on it, is among the fashion princess wedding dress models of 2017.
It is an ambitious and remarkable model for those looking for a different design. This special design wedding dress, which reveals your thin waist with the waist part sitting on your body, is getting a special look with its bright gloves. The detail that comes out of the chest and surrounds the back adds a distinct atmosphere to the bride.
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The Governor of Louisiana signed Senate Bill 373 into law on July 2, 2008 requiring the Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) to require participation in the Electronic Liens and Titles program for all lenders by January 1, 2010. The OMV is now requiring this, but allowing a grace period through June 30, 2010.
From their site:
Louisiana Attorney General's Opinion No. 09-0250 advised that as of January 1, 2010, it is mandatory for financial institutions, lending institutions, etc., to participate in ELT.
DPS does not have the authority to delay the implementation of ELT. Act No. 689 became effective August 15, 2008, and DPS has been working on adjustments to the system to better accommodate industry since that time. However, DPS does realize the burdens to the industry associated with fully implementing ELT. While DPS cannot delay implementing the ELT program, DPS does intend to not hamper lien recordation and titling of motor vehicles in this state. It is the intention of DPS to accommodate such issues through continuing to issue paper titles until June 30, 2010 in situations where lenders are working to become compliant with the mandatory ELT program.
DDI is excited to be working with a Tag Agent in Louisiana (which is required; see here for a list of tag agents working with ELT) allowing us to offer Premier eTitleLien™ to Louisiana lenders as well as integrating LA electronic titles for our current customers.
Although the OMV has had an ELT program for a while (legislation allowing it's development was passed in 1999), it has always required participation via registered tag agents, and has never caught on with the agents or lenders. Now that the program is fully available, Louisiana banks, credit unions, dealers, and other lenders can benefit from ELT.
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Westmeath hurling manager Michael Ryan says he was delighted with the response his players showed in the second-half of Saturday's Walsh Cup defeat to Offaly.
The Lake County conceded an unanswered 1-4 in the closing five minutes of the first-half in Banagher but battled back after half-time to cut the gap to a point before eventually losing out on a final score of 2-15 to 1-16.
"We had a bad five minutes before half-time when we conceded a goal and three points. That gave us a mountain to climb but I was delighted with the response by our fellas after half-time," Ryan is quoted saying by the Irish Independent.
"We are delighted with what we got today. We got a good performance, we worked hard and never died. We fought into the game when it looked to be slipping away from us and played some nice hurling along the way.
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121 Paoli St, Verona WI 53593 Sold for $143,000 on 05/01/2018
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Longtime Longmont family business Howe Mortuary has been sold for an undisclosed amount to another family-run operation, the 130-year-old Fort Collins-based Allnutt Funeral Service.
"The decision to sell a multi-generation family business is significant," said Geoff Howe, who will stay on as funeral director at the 439 Coffman St. business, in a statement. "(Allnutt co-owner) Rick Allnutt and I have known each other for more than 30 years. Our great grandfathers and fathers knew and respected each other.
"Choosing Allnutt was the best option to protect our family name and reputation in the Longmont area, which was paramount in our decision."
Geoff Howe joined his father, George Howe Jr., in managing the business in 1977, finally buying it in 1986. But the Howe family has owned the funeral service firm for more than a century.
Albert Edward Howe first came to Boulder County in 1889, setting up a homestead ranch near Lyons. He later assisted Boulder undertaker F.J. Bucheit, and the two opened Holly and Howe Mortuary on the main floor of the Odd Fellows Lodge Building at 16th and Pearl, circa 1909.
A.E. Howe also served as Boulder County Coroner from 1914 to 1934, and the family would continuously hold the office for 74 years: A.E.'s son George from 1934 to 1954; George's brother Norman from 1954 to 1970; and Norman's nephew William "Bill" Hoew from 1970 through 1986.
George W. Howe moved to Longmont in 1942 and purchased Shaw Mortuary, renaming it to bear his family's moniker. It passed to his son, George Jr., in 1958, who then passed it to his own son, Geoff.
"(The Howe family's) approach to serving families matches ours," said Allnutt in a statement. "We are growing as a company and are seeking quality funeral, cremation and cemetery opportunities that allow us to further our mission of 'family serving families.'"
About 86 percent of the 19, 352 funeral homes in the U.S. are privately owned, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. The median age of NFDA member businesses (98 percent of which are family-owned) is 75 years.
"Most funeral homes in the eastern half of the country have been around for 100 years or more, passed down generationally," as was Howe, said Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance.
Consolidation through corporate acquisitions or private mergers really began in 2010, Slocum said, though most keep the family names on businesses that have been in communities for multiple decades.
Howe Mortuary — which was rebuilt in 2014 following an arson's blaze in May 2013 — will retain the Howe name. Geoff Howe will join Allnutt's board, and all the Howe employees will remain in their roles.
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Paralegals may receive on-the-job training at non-profits, law firms, or corporations, but are sometimes required to have some type of certification from an accredited paralegal programme. Many schools exist to train paralegals, as do online certificate programmes. It is important to research programmes carefully in each country to find ones that are reputable and reasonably-priced.
Paralegals must have a variety of skills, including legal skills such as drafting documents and taking statements; administrative skills such as record-keeping, filing, and computer skills; and "people" skills such as interviewing clients, counseling, and education.
Benin – Training paralegals to improve women's access to justice under new family code
In Benin, a new family code was adopted in 2004. Well-respected paralegals already existed in communities and they were tapped as an effective way to convey information on women's rights under the new code to illiterate, rural, and poor women. The Women's Legal Rights Initiative programme of USAID adopted these strategies to train the paralegals:
The Benin Family Code Paralegal Manual (The Women's Legal Rights Initiative, 2005). English.
For similar paralegal manuals developed under this programme, see Guatemala and Lesotho.
Source: USAID. 2007. The Women's Legal Rights Initiative.
Lesotho – Training paralegals raise rural women's awareness of legal reforms
Lesotho has enacted laws which better protect women's rights. For example, the Sexual Offences Act (2003) expanded victim's rights in important ways, such as requiring the government to pay for medical examinations after assaults, requiring the prosecutor to orient the survivor to court procedures, and allowing survivor input into decisions on bail. In 2006, the Legal Capacity of Married Persons Act was enacted, which allows married women to own and inherit property, receive loans, and hold a job without her husband's permission.
Project: The Women's Legal Rights Initiative of USAID partnered with the Lesotho affiliate of the Federación Internacional de Abogadas (FIDA) to raise awareness of these legal reforms and advocacy programmes by training paralegals in rural areas.
Strategies included:
See the paralegal manual used in Lesotho.
Source: USAID. 2007. The Women's Legal Rights Initiative.
Tools for Training Paralegals:
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Community Based Paralegals: A Practitioner's Guide (Open Society Justice Initiative, 2010). English.
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This film takes audiences on a breathtaking tour of deep space in the cinematic medium that does it best. Our universe is brought to life on the giant IMAX® screen with unprecedented clarity through mesmerizing, real images captured by Hubble and the world's most powerful telescopes. Explore spectacular galaxies and travel the terrain of Mars; witness images of distant celestial structures including stunning images of our sun; and peer deep inside vivid clouds of nebula to see previously unseen forms. Discover amazing clues that reveal the stars in the night sky are not only tiny specks of light but actual opportunities for life to exist on other planets. In an age where space tourism has become reality, the film offers an inspiring story of human endeavor from a prime seat with a magnificent point-of view.
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KALAMAZOO--Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced April 16 that he has named Dr. Anthony Vizzini, dean of Western Michigan University's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, to the State Board of Professional Engineers.
Created in 1980, the board regulated the practice of Michigan's more than 20,000 professional engineers. The Michigan board is comprised of nine voting members--five professional engineers, one architect, one surveyor and two public members. Vizzini will serve a four-year term as one of the five professional engineers on the board, and his appointment is subject to approval by the Michigan Senate.
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WMU's engineering dean since 2009, Vizzini previously led the aerospace engineering department at Mississippi State University for six years and taught for 17 years at the University of Maryland, where he founded the Composites Research Laboratory.
He earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT in 1981, 1983 and 1986, respectively. He also earned a second bachelor's degree in mathematics from MIT in 1982. Vizzini is a fellow of the American Society for Composites, and he is serving this year as president of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering. He has been repeatedly honored for his work by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, earning Goddard Space Flight Center's Exceptional Achievement and Outstanding Teamwork awards.
Michigan's Professional Board of Engineers is housed in the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, which is charged with promoting business growth and job creation in Michigan by streamlining and eliminating unnecessary or burdensome regulations.


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Boudewijn de Bruin - The Logic of Valuing
Published as "The Logic of Valuing." Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy. Ed. Thomas Boylan and Ruvin Gekker. London: Routledge, 2008.
1. Introduction
The aim of this paper is to analyse the logical form of valuing. I will argue that valuing a concept or property, such as gold, is a universal statement qua logical form, that valuing an object, such as a soccer ball, is an existential statement qua logical form, and, furthermore, that a correct analysis of the logical form of valuing contains doxastic operators. I will show that these ingredients give rise to an interesting interplay between uniform and ununiform quantification, on the one hand, and de dicto and de re beliefs, on the other.
Boudewijn de Bruin
Boudewijn de Bruin is assistant professor in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen. De Bruin did his undergraduate work in musical composition at Enschede, and in mathematics and philosophy at Amsterdam, Berkeley, and Harvard. He obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation in Amsterdam. His doctoral dissertation, under supervision of Johan van Benthem and Martin Stokhof, was on the logic of game theoretic explanations. read more
This project contrasts with two other projects traditionally referred to by the terms 'logic of value' and 'logic of valuation'. I am not concerned with logical principles governing propositions involving value modalities, logics of value. And I am not interested in the validity, or lack of validity, of arguments on the border of the fact-value dichotomy, logics of valuation.[1]
[1] Early references are Hartmann (1951) and Chisholm&Sosa (1966) for logics of value, and Perry (1957) for a logic of valuation.
Adopting a doxastic outlook on valuing, the proffered analysis remains nonetheless neutral with respect to many issues from meta-ethics. As Michael Smith has persuasively argued, to say that valuing is a form of believing is not to exclude non-cognitivism, non-relativism or irrealism.[2]
Nor is the analysis particularly narrow. Although for the sake of argument I take the bearers of value to be concepts and objects, exactly the same structural observations can be made if you attach value to events, propositions, or even to possible worlds.
[2] Smith (2002).
I will stress one area of application, the value of political freedom. The received view is that the value of freedom lies in the value of the specific things one is free to do. But Ian Carter has recently shown that freedom has irreducible, 'non-specific' value, too. I will show that underlying the debate between the proponents of the received view and their critics is a disagreement about logical form: ununiform de dicto beliefs about freedom as a concept, for the received view, and uniform half-de dicto-half-de re beliefs about freedom as an object, for its critics.[3]
Section 2 defends the analysis in terms of universal and existential quantifiers and doxastic operators. Section 3 brings it all together in a two-dimensional typology of uniform-ununiform and de dicto-de re. Section 4 is on freedom. Section 5 concludes.
2. Quantification and Beliefs
2.1 Valuing Concepts
Smith values gold. When he visited the Egyptian Museum in Cairo he was struck by the beauty of Tutankhamen's death mask, the way gold is combined, there, with lapis lazuli and turquoise to give the Pharaoh his proud yet mild and gentle look. So, Smith says, he values gold because he values Tutankhamen's death mask. But Smith does not show any particular interest in other objects of gold. He ignores, at the exhibition, the other golden masks, the bracelets, the necklaces, the emblems. He wears a silver wedding ring because he does not like the colour of gold. He has never bought any gold plates or cutlery or sculptures for himself.
Smith, I would say, is mistaken about what he really values. He does not value gold. Indeed, he values some particular object (partly) made of gold. To value gold he would have to value more golden things. The logical form of valuing gold G is
&forall x (G(x) -> Value x),
'Smith values all golden objects', rather than
&exist x (G(x) & Value x),
'There exists a golden object Smith values'.
This may seem to put excessive demands on Smith. Of course, to value gold, Smith has to think highly of more than one golden object; but can't he value gold without having to treasure all objects made of gold? As it stands, the universal reading sounds too strong. But we will see that it all depends on how to analyse 'Value x' in this context. It is appropriate to suspend criticism for a moment.
2.2 Valuing Objects
Smithies values the official soccer ball signed by 1999 US World Cup team star Brandi Chastain. Although she bought it at an auction herself, the soccer player Chastain does not matter much to her. Actually, she has not even watched the match with China in 1999. In addition, she does not like Chastain's extravagant style of playing soccer. And she finds the $195 she spent on the ball quite excessive. But she does not regret having bought it because it adds to her collection of celebrity autographs the signature of a sportswoman.
Does Smithies value the soccer ball? Shouldn't she place a value on other aspects of the ball as well? Shouldn't she appreciate everything, or almost everything, about the ball? Of course not. To value the ball it is sufficient for her that some aspect of the ball strikes her as valuable. She may not have a high opinion of Chastain, she may not like playing soccer at all, she may think the colours of the ball are awful and Chastain's handwriting childish, as long as there is one thing about the ball she delights in, it would be wrong to deny that she values the ball. It would be wrong to analyse valuing the soccer ball b as
&forall C (C(b) -> Value C),
'Every property C of the soccer ball b is valuable'. It suffices that
&exist C (C(b) & Value C),
'At least one property C of the ball b is valuable'.
2.3 Beliefs
Smithson values Vermeer's View of Delft. He really got infatuated with the canvas when he first visited the Mauritshuis in The Netherlands, and he has been interested in it ever since. He has bought numerous books on Vermeer and on Dutch seventeenth century art and culture. He has learned all kinds of oil painting techniques so as to be able to study the painting the old-fashioned way by copying it. But, when prompted, he doesn't know just how to explain what it is that makes View of Delft dear to him. Yet he knows that there is something that appeals to him, something hard or impossible, for him, to describe, but still something that somehow explains why he values it. He values the painting not for a specific characteristic, but just so. That is, the logical form of his valuing is
Believe &exist C (C(d) & Value C),
'Smithson believes that there exists a valuable concept C which is true of View of Delft'.
Now suppose Smithson learns a lot about aesthetics and theories of perception, and, thinking harder, comes to realize that what strikes him most in the oil painting is quite simply the warm red and brownish tones of the roofs of some of the houses on the left of the canvas. He values the painting for some very specific characteristics. The logical form of his valuing correspondingly changes to
&exist C Believe (C(d) & Value C),
'Of some particular C, Smithson believes that it applies to View of Delft, and that it is valuable'.
I believe that this is quite a general phenomenon. To develop a taste for French cheese, to learn to like Charles Ives's Concord Sonata, to become aware of the benefits of political freedom after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there will rather often be a moment where your state of mind or attitude is best described involving de dicto beliefs about value which are not de re. You do not know what you like about the cheese and you do not have beliefs about what you specifically value in the music or the freedom, but all the same you do value something.
[3] The received view is found in the writings of Ronald Dworkin and Will Kymlicka. See, for instance, Dworkin (1979) and Kymlicka (1988). Carter (1999), Ch. 2, is the fullest expression of the criticism. Others siding with Carter include Matthew H. Kramer (2003), Serena Olsaretti (1999), and Martin van Hees (2000). The 'half-and-half' variety will be explained below.
The same is true of the logical form of valuing concepts. Smiths values gold. She values all instances of gold without being familiar with all these instances of course. It would be presumptuous to analyse her valuing as
&forall x Believe (G(x) -> Value x),
ascribing to her precisely this kind of familiarity de re. Rather, Smiths's state of mind should be phrased as
Believe &forall x (G(x) -> Value x).[4]
[4] One may ask whether the beliefs have to be true. Can I value water for its soporific qualities? If you answer affirmatively, I may object that it does not have these qualities. If you answer negatively, I may object that I may believe that water has these qualities. The present analysis can accommodate plain and possibly false beliefs as well as true beliefs and even knowledge by adjusting the intended interpretation of the Believe-operator.
3. Typology
The logical form of valuing a concept is a universal statement about valuing objects. The logical form of valuing an object is an existential statement about valuing concepts. Combined this means that the logical form of valuing a concept is a universal statement in which somewhere an existential statement about valuing an object comes in, and that the logical form of valuing an object is a existential statement in which somewhere a universal statement about valuing a concept comes in. Where is this 'somewhere'?[5]
Ignoring for a moment the second dimension, the doxastic operator, there are two ways to combine: a uniform and an ununiform one. Plugging in existential quantification in universal quantification yields, for valuing gold G,
&forall x (G(x) -> &exist C (C(x) & Value C)),
'Every golden object has a property I value'. The verbal rendering is intentionally opaque. Does it mean that different golden objects may have different valuable properties for me? Or is there one single property that applies to all golden things? To sort things out, let us rewrite the above sentence as
&forall x &exist C ((G(x) -> C(x)) & Value C),
'For every object x there is a valuable concept C such that if x is gold it is also C'. Clearly, this says that different objects may have different valuable properties. Very different is what we get when we swap the quantifiers:
&exist C &forall x ((G(x) -> C(x)) & Value C),
'There is some valuable concept C such that all golden objects x fall under it'. It is crucial to be aware of the differences between the two kinds of valuing. Let us use the term 'uniform' for the latter variety, and the slightly artificial 'ununiform' for the former. You value the concept gold ununiformly if you find something valuable in every single instance: you take the golden ring as a traditional symbol of marriage only, you use a golden plate to show off, you dote upon a golden sculpture because of its florid kitsch, and so on, but there is nothing valuable that all golden objects share. You would value gold uniformly if, for instance, you were to value gold's resistance to corrosion or its malleability and ductility, or if you were to love it that even the tiniest pieces of gold can be exchanged on the gold market for money, or if you liked its olive-brown or yellow colour, its lustrous sheen.
Let us turn to valuing objects, and let us start with the uniform way of valuing object b taking the form
&exist C &forall x (C(b) & (C(x) -> Value x)).
You value a soccer ball signed by Brandi Chastain because you are fond of women's sports memorabilia. And you value it uniformly because you value all other women's sports memorabilia, too.
[5] Valuing a concept because of its objects, valuing the objects because of certain concepts, and so on ad inf . . . or not? Whether this regress stops, and where, and whether this happens because of a summum bonum or because of a vicious circle, is up to the individual whose valuing is analysed and not for us to decide. There is no infinite regress in my proposal itself.
Ununiformly valuing an object b is of the form &forall x &exist C (C(b) & (C(x) -> Value x)), You value the soccer ball, but you are unable to specify one single valuable concept. You would say you are fond of women's sports memorabilia. But at the same time there are women's sports memorabilia you do not value such as the hockey stick of Nadine Ernsting, Germany's 2004 olympic top scorer. You would say you like soccer not hockey. But at the same time you do not value the shirt worn by Pele in the 1958 World Cup final against Sweden. You would say Pele is a man not a woman. You value the soccer ball nonetheless, and what makes it valuable is that it has two properties which are only valued when combined, not in isolation, women's sports, and soccer.[6]
[6] The question whether ununiformity implies uniformity (for concepts as well as objects) will depend on the extent to which combining concepts by (possibly infinite) disjunction results in concepts. This may seem a bit of formal cheese-paring, because in ordinary second-order logic the biconditional &forall x&exist C &Phi(x, C) <-> &exist C&forall x &Phi(x, C) is a tautology (the union of the ununiformly obtained sets from the left hand side unproblematically serves the uniform right hand side). For concepts this is far from obvious.
Having set apart uniform and ununiform valuing, we have lost track of the doxastic dimension. So where to place the doxastic operator? Given two quantifiers, there are, in principle, three possible positions for the operator: a purely de dicto prefix and a purely de re suffix, and a half-and-half infix. Table 1 displays the resulting typology. It works for concepts and objects, for it shows the quantifiers and the doxastic modality only.[7]
4. Application to Political Freedom
If speaking of value in relation to Tutankhamen's death mask sounds hyperbolic, and attaching value to Brandi Chastain's autograph vulgar and tasteless, if differences between de dicto and de re valuing Vermeer's View of Delft seem snobbish or outre, the value of political freedom provides a more serious and significant illustration of the different kinds of valuing.
[7] The framework can also be applied to valuing other bearers of value, such as events, propositions, and even possible worlds. First, observe that as soon as the uniform-ununiform dimension is ignored, valuing a concept C is of the form &exist C (C is contained in D & Value D). To analyse valuing events, for instance, the only question to be answered is what is the analogue of the relation 'is contained in'. A possible answer is 'is caused by', which yields &exist C (C causes D & Value D) as the logic of valuing events. Prefix or suffix the existential quantifier with the Believe-operator, and you are done.
As I said in the beginning of this paper, the received view of Ronald Dworkin and Will Kymlicka reduces the value of freedom to the value of the specific things one is free to do. This view, however, has undergone vehement criticism. Its critics point to its failure to account for the fact that often a decrease of our overall freedom is experienced as showing no 'respect for [our] autonomy and discretion' or for our capacity to make responsible decisions.[8] Even if my actual desires are not frustrated at all by removing one of my liberties, say the liberty to read a novel I definitely do not want to read, I will attach less value to my overall freedom after the censor has banned the book. The value of my overall freedom, then, cannot be reduced to the value of all specific liberties from which it is made up. Or in the words of Ian Carter:
'The difference between my view and that of Dworkin and Kymlicka . . . is that their view entails denying that our freedoms have value independently of the value we attach to the specific things they leave us free to do. . . . To say that freedom is non-specifically valuable is to say that it is valuable "as such" '.[9]
I will not take a stand in this debate. But I will demonstrate that underlying the debate is a difference in logical form of valuing: proponents of the received view value freedom as an object, and they value it in an ununiform de dicto fashion; the critics value freedom as a concept, and they value it in a uniform half-and-half way.
The received view, first. The concept freedom F is valuable whenever all its instances, which I call 'liberties', are valuable:
&forall x (F(x) -> Value x).
But this is only a rough indication of how I interpret the proponents of the received view. First, all uniform ways of valuing freedom (of the form &exist C &forall x, with a Believe-operator affixed at one of three positions) can be ruled out. For it is definitely not the point of the received view to ascribe one and the same valuable property to all liberties. Freedom of speech is valuable because, say, it gives you the opportunity to write the kind of novels you want to write, whereas the value of freedom of worship has to do with what is demanded by your religion. On the other hand, purely de re ununiform valuing (that is, &forall x &exist C Believe) would ask too much of the received view. For every single liberty its champions would have to have in mind a specific property making it valuable. And, unless this case reduces to uniform valuing, more than one valuable property would have to be provided. Half-and-half (&forall x Believe &exist C) is possible, but still requires some specific de re familiarity with all liberties. Purely de dicto (Believe &forall x &exist C), then, is the most plausible phrasing op the position. The received view, then, comes down to the belief that any liberty has some valuable property.
Second, the critics of the received view. As I said, my claim is that the critics value freedom f as an object. Valuing freedom as a concept would imply valuing freedom's specific instantiations, the liberties, and this is precisely what the critics of the received view reject. So their valuing is roughly of the form
&exist C (C(f) & Value C).
Uniform, ununiform, de dicto, de re? A rendering of the critics' position in terms of the ununiform variety (&forall x &exist C) would force them to admit not to be able to identify a unique valuable property of freedom. This is a coherent position, but except in the form of the purely de re version it is a relatively weak one. Moreover, to some extent the critics do mention concrete valuable properties. Ian Carter describes a connection between freedom's value and the value of human agency. Matthew H. Kramer asserts that freedom is an indicator of respect for a person's autonomy or rationality. And Martin van Hees emphasizes human responsibility. The critics of the received view, then, value freedom uniformly, and they value it purely de re.
5. Conclusion
The purpose of this paper was to analyse the logical form of valuing concepts or properties and objects. I argued that valuing a concept is a belief about a universal statement, and that valuing an object is a belief about an existential statement. Exploiting the differences between de dicto and de re beliefs, and the differences between uniform and 'ununiform' quantification, a two-dimensional typology of six types of valuing was obtained. An application to valuing political freedom sketched an example of the use of the analysis.
Carter, Ian 1999: A Measure of Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chisholm, Roderick and Ernest Sosa 1966: 'On the Logic of "Intrinsically Better"'. American Philosophical Quarterly, 3, pp. 244-49.
Cunningham, R. L. 1979: Liberty and the Rule of Law, College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Dworkin, Ronald 1979: 'We Do Not Have a Right to Liberty' in Cunningham (1979), pp.161-81.
Hartman, Robert S. 1961: 'The Logic of Value'. Review of Metaphysics, 14, pp. 389-432.
Kramer, Matthew H. 2003: The Quality of Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kymlicka, Will 1988: 'Liberalism and Communitarianism'. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 18, pp. 181-204.
Olsaretti, Serena 1999: 'The Value of Freedom and Freedom of Choice'. Notizie di Politeia, 56, pp. 114-21.
Perry, Orval L. 1957: 'The Logic of Moral Valuation'. Mind, 66, 42-62.
Smith, Michael 2002: 'Exploring the Implications of the Dispositional Theory of Value'. Philosophical Issues: Realism and Relativism, 12, 329-47.
van Hees, Martin 2000: Legal Reductionism and Freedom. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
[8] Kramer (2003), p. 241. For responsibility, see van Hees (2000), p. 154.
[9] Carter (1999), pp. 33-34. Given the overall claim of the book, Carter should have spoken about the value of 'our freedom' rather than of 'our freedoms'. The next sentence in the quote corrects the mistake.


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|The Fox Plays With Fire.
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|Riding a Soap Farting Slug...
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Do *not* buy any of the cute little dime-sized pumpkin pies you'll find the neighborhood kids selling for the next few days...
Posted by: BillT at November 19, 2009 12:44 AM
Shoot the little bushy-tailed tree rat. Pellet gun, preferably... ;-)
Posted by: camojack at November 19, 2009 01:21 AM
Hate the little buggers: every year they strip my dwarf apple trees and eat a few bites of each apple then drop them to rot. But got the pumpkins in just in time (after your picture reminded me...)
A few years ago, a neighbor's kid shot 40 of them in his nearest neighbor's yard and left the corpses all around. Kid is a little wild, and the neighbor nearly had a heart attack at the sight of them all.
Posted by: retriever at November 19, 2009 06:42 PM
If the local Fish and Wildlife folks allow it, a squirrel pole (think of a 4-6' stick with snares along the length) should thin things out pretty quickly (and provide food for the table). Just make sure that it's ok where you live, they get a bit upset about them down here.
William sends.
Posted by: William at November 19, 2009 06:57 PM
Heh. Jonathan used to pot them with a .22 pellet rifle. Sometimes he would let Pig, the cat, get a couple for a snack.
I detest them too, but the cats love them!
We get a few dropped on the front porch every now and then. After we praise them, the cats take them away to eat.
Posted by: Cricket at November 22, 2009 09:51 PM
I always feel so much more MANLY when I kill something, especially something innocuous that does me no harm - it's a dominance thing, a power thing, an "overcoming my insecurity about being a wuss" thing, a "making myself feel burly and brawny" thing. I get in touch with my inner neanderthal, my inner reptile. And so far, I haven't graduated to killing bigger animals, except for that one time ... ah but therein lies another tale.
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* Euro hits near 3-week high, stocks fall
* Wall Street opens lower
* Asia shares-ex Japan dip, Nikkei unchanged
* China industrial output, retail sales miss forecasts (Updates with U.S. trading, changes byline, previous dateline LONDON)
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - World stocks were down for the fourth day in a row on Tuesday, but strong economic growth in Germany boosted the euro to an almost three-week high.
Wall Street was lower on weak oil prices, uncertainty about U.S. tax policy and the economy's ability to deal with more interest rate hikes. European stocks fell to a two-month low.
U.S. Treasury two-year note yields climbed to a nine-year peak while long-dated debt yields fell, flattening the yield curve flattened for a second straight day, while investors braced for a Federal Reserve December rate hike.
In Germany a 0.8-percent third-quarter growth reading beat forecasts and showed the economy expanding at annualised rates of more than 3 percent.
"It's been a euro trade today, and it's stronger against just about everything," Brad Bechtel, managing director FX at Jefferies in New York, said. "The numbers out of Germany were pretty good last night."
The dollar index fell 0.45 percent, with the euro up 0.81 percent to $1.1759.
On Wall Street the defensive utilities sector had the strongest showing while the energy sector was among the weakest.
"You're at the end of the earnings season, economic data is all distorted because of the hurricanes, I don't think there is going to be any clear picture until we get a firm yes or no for the tax bill," Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 55.29 points, or 0.24 percent, to 23,384.41, the S&P 500 lost 7.42 points, or 0.29 percent, to 2,577.42 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 19.04 points, or 0.28 percent, to 6,738.56.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index lost 0.57 percent and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.18 percent.
Monetary policy was also on traders' minds with the heads of the U.S., European, British and Japanese central banks attending a European Central Bank conference in Frankfurt.
The U.S. two-year yield hit a nine-year peak just shy of 1.7 percent, up from Monday's 1.687 percent.
Benchmark 10-year notes last rose 5/32 in price to yield 2.3842 percent, from 2.4 percent late on Monday.
The mood in Asia was gloomy after China's retail sales in industrial output data missed market expectations.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.4 percent in its third consecutive day of losses. Japan's Nikkei was unchanged after four sessions of losses.
Oil declined on Tuesday for a third day as evidence of rising U.S. output and a gloomier outlook for demand growth in a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) weighed on prices.
U.S. crude fell 2.52 percent to $55.33 per barrel and Brent was last at $61.51, down 2.61 percent on the day.
Gold inched down to $1,272.50 an ounce.
Additional reporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss in New York, Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru, Marc Jones in London, Wayne Cole in Sydney; Editing by Mark Heinrich and Nick Zieminski


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Big news! Last Thursday, at a dinner event at Black Star Farms, TART awarded the 4th annual Jim Mudgett Trail Pioneer Award. The award was presented to Tim Brick by past recipient Lois Bahle.
Tim Brick, a Traverse City native, graduated from Traverse City St. Francis in 1971 and went on to play football at University of Montana and earn a degree in recreation management. He moved back to Traverse City and started Brick Wheels in 1976. Lesser known to most, Tim also has a rich history promoting trails and outdoor recreation in Traverse City. Tim was a founding Vasa board member in 1988 and was on the Friends of TART board founded in 1990. He continued as a board member and treasurer when TART Trails merged with the Leelanau, Boardman and Vasa groups in 1998.
One of the quotes from a nomination letter said it best, "His support has been time, energy and financial resources." That is so true! Tim was integral in getting TART's successful 2002 Capital Campaign off the ground. Tim Brick has been a positive force in our area over the years by visioning trails that connect people to other communities, to nature, recreation, and transportation. "Tim has displayed the work ethic, character, integrity and dedication to this community and the TART organization that should be recognized and honored. He is an incredibly worthy recipient and I'm proud that he has won the award this year." said Bob Otwell, TART Trails Executive Director.
If you see Tim around town, please be sure to congratulate him. He deserves it!
Happy Trails,
Missy Luyk, Trail Program Specialist
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Office: 232 E. Front Street in downtown Traverse City
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text: OK, now that I sold my Jazz bass, this is a sure thing, so I can tell y'all about my next (and last, for a longgggg time) bass. A few weeks ago, my Carl Thompson needed repairs, and bassmonkeee knows Greg Curbow, so I got to take the CT up to him to have it worked on (turned out real nice, too!) While I was there, I talked to him about getting a custom bass built. It would combine elements of my two favorite basses.. a Jazz-style bass with a great-feeling neck like my Reverend, but with nice woods, like the CT. And, it would be the first bass I've ever had that was custom built to my specs. We spec'd it out, and Curbow came up with a price that was more than fair. This is gonna be one killer axe. Here's the deal: BODY: Swamp ash Jazz body with a bird's-eye maple top. I saved a good deal of money here by going with a body from a parts supplier, but the bird's-eye is from Curbow's stash. It'll have a clear finish with a slight amber tint, and a grain enhancer that brings out the wood figure. NECK: Rockwood neck and fretboard, 21 frets. This is worth the whole price of the bass to me. Rockwood, for those who don't know, is as strong and stable as graphite, but doesn't have that cold, plastic feeling. It's smoother than the best satin finish you've ever felt. PICKUPS: Two Lindy Fralin humbucking J pickups. The bridge pickup will be wired straight to the output jack, and the neck pickup will have an on-off switch. That's it. No volume or tone controls. Both pickups, or bridge pickup only.. the volume will be maxed at all times. HARDWARE: Curbow brass bridge, Sperzel locking tuners. The headstock will be the shape of Curbow's 5-string headstock, with two tuners on each side. So, there ya go! Should be done sometime near the end of October, and I will post pics! Until then, I'll have to settle for playing the CT.


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None of the SUNY colleges and universities have ever been ranked anywhere near the top 10 nationally for academics. Schools ranked this high by most publications include several Ivy League institutions, Stanford, Duke and others.
The State University of New York system of public institutions includes a total of 64 two- and four-year campuses throughout the Empire State and a total enrollment of roughly 460,000 students. According to U.S. News, Stony Brook University, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Binghamton University, SUNY at Buffalo and SUNY at Albany are the strongest SUNY schools in regards to their overall academic profile. These schools rank between 82 and 128 in their National University Rankings.


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text: The Knoxville Chamber of Commerce wants to invite all past, present and future members to their offices for coffee and discussion Thursday evening. The informal meeting is a chance for the board and staff to answer questions about becoming a member of the chamber and for current members to offer suggestions. In addition, new or members who have not yet renewed their membership for the year, a 10% discount will be offered at the event. Coffee with the Chamber takes place at the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce office at 309 East Main Street from 5 to 7pm.


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MySpace's Next Big Privacy Idea
Social networking giant MySpace plans to offer free software enabling parents to keep tabs on their children's online identities. Code named Zephyr, the software tracks the name, age and location that children are using on MySpace. It also tracks and stores any changes to the data.
The information Zephyr provides is already available to anyone online, but children often change their names and ages, making it difficult for parents to locate young users. With the software, parents can determine whether their kids have profiles and validate the age listed in it, Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer of MySpace, said in a statement. MySpace's Next Big Privacy Idea
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Brunswick Labs, a leading independent lab that specializes in testing for ORAC content of food products (the level of antioxidants in foods), tested Big Tree Farms' cold-pressed cacao powder and the results were impressive to say the least. Our raw cacao powder showed over 2x the ORAC value than their conventional cacao extract!
In the heart of transparency and in the spirit that we believe you have a right to know about your food, we have provided you with the actual lab analysis and the link to view Brunswick Lab's other ORAC results.
What does the above mean? Well, our total ORAC 5.0 results show a number of 4,056. In comparison, Brunswick Lab's analysis of standard cocoa extract shows a number of 1,588.
To view the actual Brunswick Labs results for conventionally processed cocoa, click here.
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I love coffee, and I love finding out that something I love doing can actually be helping my health. Surprisingly enough, coffee other than tasting like the nectar of the God's is also helpful. Read on, dude. Read on.
Reduced Gall Stones
The Harvard School of Public Health recently published a study indicating that drinking caffeinated coffee on a regular basis can dramatically decrease the incidence of gall bladder disease and gall stones in both women and men.
Reduced Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
Two studies, one published in the European Journal of Neurology, have shown that individuals who drank about 2 cups of caffeinated coffee per day were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than individuals who drank no coffee or a small to moderate amount.
Reduced Risk for Parkinson's Disease
Studies have shown that the amount of coffee and caffeine consumed could be inversely related to an individual's likelihood of contracting Parkinson's disease. This means the more coffee you drink, the lower your chances are for developing the disease.
Antioxidants and Cancer-Fighting Properties
Coffee is a powerful source of antioxidants - agents that combat cancer-causing free radicals. Coffee is chock full of the compound methylpyridinium, which can't be found in many other food items and not at the level available in coffee. You can get antioxidants from both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee as long as the beans are sufficiently roasted.
Increased Cognitive Ability
Studies have shown that regular coffee drinkers frequently score significantly higher on cognitive ability tests, spatial awareness exams, IQ tests, and short term memory studies. I am positive proof of this because after a couple of cups of coffee I am an absolute genius.
The effects of coffee on an individual's cognitive ability appeared to be more pronounced in elderly study participants and women.
Bowel Stimulation
Coffee is a stimulant and also a laxative. This is proven to be true by me also, my morning poop comes right after my first drink of coffee. Sometimes just smelling the coffee brewing is enough to get things moving.
However, because coffee is also a diuretic, it can cause constipation in some individuals.
Reduced Risk for Gout
A large study of over 45,000 men that was conducted over a 12-year period showed the amount of coffee consumed was inversely related to their risk or likelihood of developing gout.
Remember, everything should be practiced in moderation, and health concerns should always be discussed with a medical professional. So, while a moderate amount of coffee has its benefit, an excessive amount can also cause problems. Heavy coffee drinking can lead to irritability, anxiety, sleep deprivation, cardiovascular problems and higher cholesterol levels.


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Floods devastation: Govt says 'No' to foreign aid
The decision to this effect was taken during a federal cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The meeting decided to form committees in affected areas comprising local representatives. It was told during a meeting that ten districts of Punjab were affected due to floods. Chiniot, Jhang and Hafizabad suffered major destructions.
At least 274 people perished, 33,000 houses destroyed and 1.1 million people displaced in the of floods.
The prime minister directed that the money being spent on compensation and development of flood-hit areas should now be redirected for measures to prevent further damages by floods.
He also said steps should be taken to avoid Sindh from damages due to looming threat of floods.
The meeting also approved 37 economic agreements.


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Demi Lovato: iHeart Radio Music Festival 2012
Demi Lovato hits up the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Friday night (September 21) in Las Vegas.
The 20-year-old musician, in head-to-toe TopShop, met up with Ryan Seacrest backstage before an interview.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Demi Lovato
Demi recently told MTV about her new X Factor gig, "It's really honest and there's tons of drama that goes on backstage between the contestants. Which I think is going to be pretty fun to watch … The chemistry's amazing."
She added, "I have fun with every single person on the panel. We always joke back and forth. We feel really comfortable together and I really couldn't ask for a better panel to be sitting together with. They're just icons. All three of them."
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Originally written by By Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames
Book Reviews Dyman Associates Publishing Inc - In "The Wealth of Nations," Adam Smith wrote, "The sole use of money is to circulate consumable goods." Truer words have rarely been written, but the remarkable thing about Smith's passage was that it was a throwaway line in what remains to this day one of the most important books on economics ever written.
Smith's line about money was throwaway simply because it was a tautology. The world is round, the sun sets in the west, and yes, money's sole purpose is to facilitate exchange. Money is not wealth, it's merely what we use to measure our production so that we can exchange it for that which we don't have, not to mention place a value on investments representing the production of future wealth.
Precisely because money is a measure, much like a foot and minute are, it's essential that its value be as stable as possible. Gold has historically been used to define money not because it's nice to look at, but simply because its stability renders it "money, par excellence," in the words of Karl Marx.
In modern times, the economics profession has perverted money, and turned it into wealth itself. We've seen this most notably through the monetary machinations (quantitative easing — QE) foisted on the economy by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Money is no longer seen by economists as a low-entropy measure; now, its simple creation is viewed as the path to actual production. In light of this, it's no surprise that the economy took a dive under our former Fed chairman.
Enter Forbes editor-in-chief Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames. They've co-authored an essential new book, "Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It," which seeks a return of money to its proper place. Channeling Smith, the authors write that the money in our pockets is "fundamentally simple," and that it's singular purpose is "as an instrument of measurement."
The problem, described by the authors expertly, is that ever since 1971 when President Nixon delinked it from gold, the dollar has floated in value. Just as houses would be asymmetrical and souffles burned if the foot and minute were to constantly change in terms of length and time, so has economic growth been sadly restrained thanks to a dollar that is no longer a stable measure of value. As the authors explain it, "This ever-fluctuating system of 'fiat money,' with its gradual weakening of the dollar, has produced four decades of slow-motion wealth destruction."
Why is this? The answer is as simple as the correct conception of money is. The authors write that "when money is weakened, people seek to preserve their wealth by investing in commodities and hard assets" least vulnerable to the decline of the dollar itself. Looked at in historical terms, we didn't have "oil shocks" in the 1970s; rather, we experienced commodity shocks across the board as the dollar in which they were measured declined in value. Just the same, oil isn't currently expensive; instead, the dollar in which it is once again measured has declined substantially since 2001.
Looked at from an investment perspective, economic growth is derived from information, good and bad, entering the economy. In short, it's about experimentation with always-limited investment. However, when money is losing value, investment flows into hard assets representing wealth that already exists (think land, art, rare stamps, oil, gold) and away from the stock and bond income streams representing wealth that doesn't yet exist. Floating, cheap money signals a descent into darkness that robs the economy of the information necessary to power it forward.
Some readers will understandably point out that the U.S. economy performed well in the 1980s and '90s despite a floating dollar, but the authors know why this is. As they note, the dollar back then, "despite ups and downs, averaged around $350 an ounce," as measured in gold. With the dollar largely stable during the Reagan and Clinton presidencies, investment was reallocated from the prosaic wealth of yesterday, and back into stocks and bonds representing future wealth. The technology explosion in the '80s and '90s was no accident.
That's why the authors so confidently and correctly assert that quantitative easing "did not just fail as stimulus. It prevented recovery by causing a destructive misallocation of credit."
In their clear-eyed way of looking at the economy, the authors make plain that QE's imposition explicitly deprived the dollar of its essential role as a measure, and with the value of money once again uncertain a la the 1970s, the investment that powers growth has once again gone into hiding. The authors' solution to our economic malaise rooted in devalued money is simple: We must give the dollar a gold definition once again. As they explain, "getting the economy right requires getting money right." It's no accident that gold was used to define money for the hundreds of years leading up to 1971, and it will be no accident when the economy takes off again, assuming a return to gold.
Mr. Forbes and Ms. Ames have laid out a simple plan for returning to good money. Unknown is whether either political party is aware. What's certain is that the party that discovers the basics of money yet again will oversee an economic boom that will make the Reagan and Clinton eras seem tame by comparison.