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Young-earthers are just about the most reality-challenged folks around. But over at the RememberThyCreator.com site — you know, the one with the silly poll that got spiked recently by Pharyngulites, hopefully teaching the RTC team a thing or two about what and what not to do on the intarweebs — they have just about the silliest set of reasons why people should "not accept millions of years," but rather, presumably, 6000 years, as the proper age of the Earth. "Wow!" you must be thinking, "you mean they have actual evidence the Earth is young?" W-e-lll, no, not exactly. What they have is simply a list of indignant assertions that accepting an old Earth contradicts Biblical myths, and thus must be rejected out of hand. Here's a sample:
The Bible clearly teaches that God created in six literal 24 hour days a few thousand years ago.
The Hebrew word for day in Genesis 1 is yom. In the vast majority of its uses in the Old Testament it means a literal day and where it doesn't the context makes this clear.
Similarly, the context of Genesis 1 clearly shows that the days of creation were literal days. First, yom is defined the first time it is used in the Bible in its two literal senses: the light portion of the light/dark cycle and the whole light/dark cycle (Gen 1:4-5). Second, yom is used with "evening" and "morning". Third, yom is modified with a number: one day, second day, third day, etc., which everywhere else in the Old Testament indicates literal days. Fourth, yom is defined literally in Genesis 1:14 in relation to the heavenly bodies.
You see the unimpeachable brilliance of their scientific methodology here: if the Bible says it, it's true, full stop. Boy, and here we all were thinking that knowledge about how the world works took a lot of hard work and study. You know, decades of research, learning, field work, experimentation, trial and error, cataloguing your findings, revising them, publishing them, have them peer reviewed, going back to the drawing board when it's been shown some of your findings are wrong and need further study.
Nope! Don't have to do none o' that! As the intrepid Dr. Terry Mortenson reveals over at RTC.com, all you have to do is check what's written in a book of Bronze Age myths and legends, and voila, all you ever need to learn about anything is right there, and unquestionably true!
"But what about all that doggone pesky evidence we have that the earth is, in fact, billions of years old?" you ask? Never fear. It's denialism to the rescue. Mortenson writes:
The idea of millions of years did not come from the scientific facts.
It was developed by deistic and atheistic geologists in the late 18th and early 19th century. These men used anti-biblical philosophical and religious assumptions to interpret the geological observations in a way that plainly contradicted the Biblical account of creation, the Flood and the age of the earth. The "deep time" idea flows out of naturalistic assumptions, not scientific observations.
Radiometric dating methods do not prove millions of years.
Radiometric dating was not developed until the early 20th century, by which time the whole world had already accepted the millions of years. In recent years creationists in the "RATE project" have done experimental, theoretical and field research to uncover … evidence and to show that decay rates were orders of magnitude faster in the past, which shrinks the millions of years date to thousands of years, confirming the Bible.
Mortenson's bio tells us he has a Ph.D. in the "history of geology" from Coventry University in England. I'd very much like to know what Mortenson has published professionally. That he has retreated to the AiG stable indicates that his academic or scientific career has not been especially impressive, at least in terms of achievements as a working geologist. Mortenson's achievements as an evangelical are not in dispute, as Googling him reveals nothing but page after page of creationist, Christian, and conservative sites, and nothing from any mainstream scientific source to show that the man has done anything in the way of field work at all. And the only papers Mortenson seems to write have titles like "Boundaries on Creation and Noah's Flood: Early 19th century scriptural geologists," and are presented exclusively at religious seminars and similar forums.
Given Mortenson's lack of post-collegiate work in his field (he went to get a doctorate in "divinity," so it seems clear he's been focusing on that), it's still kind of surprising he would collapse into a life of anti-science so completely. But what's funny about the things he says regarding radiometric dating above is what immediately precedes it. He launches into a deliriously silly conspiracy theory, naming no names and citing no sources, that the notion of "deep time" was in fact concocted by "deistic and atheistic geologists in the late 18th and early 19th century" (!) with an agenda to discredit the Bible. All their scientific work was just in aid of promoting a predetermined agenda.
Can you say, "Project much?" It's a common character flaw of creos that they project all their own least commendable traits onto those of us they hate. But this takes the cake. Who is this sinister cabal of Regency-era atheists and deists? Why would deists and atheists work together anyway? And how did it come to be that they gained such control over the geological sciences? Maybe Mortenson learned all this while getting his doctorate in the history of geology, and his dissertation is a blistering exposé of these people. But we certainly can't know from reading this little article, and frankly, I have no interest in donating to AiG to get Mortenson's full "brochure" promising further details. (Another blow against peer review! Brochures! The vanity press of the evangelical anti-science movement!)
We know, on the other hand, that YEC's and other creationist "scientists" do all their work in the interests of furthering a predetermined ideology and shoring up preconceived dogmas. And if we didn't know it before, we would now. Because the Wedge Document tells us so, and this little article of Mortenson's tells us so. If it contradicts the Bible, throw it out. It's wrong. Mortenson's scientific "objectivity" could not be clearer, could it?
The RATE project itself was one of those desperate creationist "research" projects whose participants had decided in advance what results they would collect and accept. Far from debunking the validity of radiometric dating techniques, its methods were deeply flawed — not the least because, as J.G. Meert has pointed out, none of the project's members had any expertise in experimental geochronology, nor had they published anything involving radiometric dating in the mainstream scientific literature. (Oh yes, but there's that horrible Big Science cabal with their secret decoder rings and handshakes who expel these noble Christian scientists from their august pages. I forgot. Thanks, Ben.) ICR's Grand Canyon Project has been taken apart on TalkOrigins, as well.
"Science" that is done to validate an ideology, whether extreme examples like Adolf and the boys looking for "racial purity" through eugenics, or merely pathetic examples like creationists hoping against hope for a 6000-year-old Earth (which they seem to think is the only kind their omnipotent God is capable of), always crumbles into chaos and confusion. Shoehorning the supernatural into the natural never explains anything, and always muddies the waters. Lately, we've had another creationist troll pop up here flogging the usual foolish notion that any "gap" in scientific knowledge is necessarily filled only by his God. But what's at the heart of this isn't science, let alone the spirit of curiosity and pass
ion that leads to scientific inquiry and the knowledge gained thereby. It's merely the insecurity of the religious mind, seeking, in Isaac Asimov's words, "a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold." The idea that the universe might not be all about us is still deeply, existentially terrifying to most people.
But trying to cloak that insecurity in pseudoscience to validate it does no one any good. Better to admit — as so few fundamentalists can — that maybe you're wrong, an attitude indispensible to any real scientific mind. And from that point, to see where the evidence actually leads you, which can often be in surprising and fulfilling directions.
There's a gag from an old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode that I'm reminded of here. In one dreadful movie, there's a white-coated scientist working late in his lab, and one of the 'bots riffs, "Wow, what a day! I invented Gaines Burgers and I didn't even mean to!" Silly as that is, it does sum up what happens in real science, as opposed to the dogma-bound pseudoscience of the YEC's. Often unexpected results lead you down entirely new and undreamt-of paths of inquiry. How tragically sad that there are those out there who think themselves scientists, may even have a shiny Ph.D. saying they've got the training for it…and who choose to throw all that away in favor of hiding behind the skirts of religion's insecurities, and the lies that must be told continually to keep the rents in those skirts patched.


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Members of the commission included the chief justices of the Supreme and Superior Courts (Edmund W. Flynn and Charles A. Walsh), the Secretary of State (Armand H. Cote), the State Librarian (Dr. Grace M. Sherwood), the assistant in charge of Law Revision (Maurice W. Hendel - also part of the Secretary of State's Office), the Supreme Court Reporter (Charles H. Drummey), and three active members of the Rhode Island Bar Association to be appointed by the Governor. The Commission issued a report at the end of this process which outlined specifications and recommendations for consideration in the publication of the 1956 enactment.


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P:lot at Prolight & Sound 2012
The band p:lot was born in 1997. But in the beginning it was more of a studio project for the two musicians Alexander Freund and Andras Kaufmann. In 2002 Ben Argandona joined as drummer and P:lot developed into a (live) band.
A lot has happened in the meantime. The band manages itself and has founded their own label. The album, released in 2008, has the title "MEIN NAME IST". One can tell: they've fought for it! It reflects the band's attitude and their standpoint: own label, own rules.
Now P:lot is ready for take-off again: The third album from p:lot will be available soon. It is called "Zuhören" ("Listening"), and it is worth listening to, because the band produces lovely melodies about love, life and listening to the inner voice.
You can see and listen to p:lot live: At March 24, 2012 at prolight+sound / Musikmesse in Frankfurt at beyerdynamic booth (Halle 6.1 / B 80). Two times p:lot will give a taste of their skills: At 11 a.m. and at 2. p.m. And if you are lucky, you will also get an autograph.
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"Stacy called it quits. She wants to have children and a family someday. She knows where George stands on that," a source told the magazine.
"They talked and they quietly stopped being a couple several weeks ago," the insider said. "They talk every day. They were friends before they started dating and they'll be friends after. It was a friendly [breakup]."


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The Other Lawyer in Gay-Wed Case
The face of the argument against gay marriage in the Supreme Court on Tuesday will be a lawyer with a genteel Southern tone and a record of championing conservative causes, including preserving gun rights and limiting affirmative action and gay rights.
Charles J. Cooper will defend Proposition 8, the gay-marriage ban California voters passed in 2008. He is less well known than his opponent, Ted Olson, a fellow conservative who shocked both sides when he challenged Proposition 8 in 2009 on behalf of two same-sex couples, saying it violated the Constitution.
Mr. Cooper's low profile is partly by design, say people who have worked with the 61-year-old Alabama native, known as Chuck. He has avoided discussing this case in the media, and his argument is rooted in deeply conservative views of both the justice system and the historical definition of marriage, they say. Keeping with his practice since the case began, Mr. Cooper declined an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
His Proposition 8 strategy has been notable in part because he has avoided putting homosexuality—or even the policy of same-sex marriage—on trial. Instead, he argues that the high court should allow citizens to deliberate the issues through democratic processes and should let states make their own rules about marriage.
"Chuck is a traditionalist," said Kenneth Starr, who was independent counsel during the administration of Bill Clinton and is now president of Baylor University. Mr. Starr has been a friend of Mr. Cooper's since they worked together in the Ronald Reagan administration. (Mr. Olson is another veteran of the Reagan White House.)
Mr. Cooper "has great and abiding respect for traditions embodied in law—a historic position in American jurisprudence," said Mr. Starr, who defended Proposition 8 to the California Supreme Court in 2009.
In 2010, the Republican National Lawyers Association named Mr. Cooper "Republican Lawyer of the Year."
Mr. Cooper has appeared before the Supreme Court before, including in the 1996 U.S. v. Winstar case, in which he successfully argued that the federal government violated contracts with certain banks by changing accounting rules during the savings and loan crisis.
ProtectMarriage.com, the group that put Proposition 8 on the ballot, chose Mr. Cooper's Washington-based firm, Cooper & Kirk, to lead its defense in part because he has "a strong and impressive background in civil rights and constitutional litigation," said Andy Pugno, the group's general counsel.
Early in his career, Mr. Cooper clerked for Justice William Rehnquist. During the Reagan administration, Mr. Cooper joined the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the Office of Legal Counsel, where he built a reputation as a legal "originalist," who staunchly defends the letter of the law. His thinking was that "you had to obey the law, and not what you wanted the law to be," said Nelson Lund, a George Mason University law professor who worked with Mr. Cooper at the time.
Even during their time together in the Reagan administration, Messrs. Cooper and Olson embodied different flavors of conservatism. "I remember that Ted wore very flamboyant ties and Chuck wore suspenders," said Roger Clegg—president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative think tank—who worked with both.
In 1986, Mr. Cooper wrote a policy memo for the Reagan administration that argued a law prohibiting discrimination based on handicap didn't apply to employers who wanted to fire employees with AIDS, if the basis for the decision was fear of catching the disease. He later wrote a brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of several states, defending a Colorado constitutional amendment that denied gay men and lesbians equal protection. In 1997, Mr. Cooper defended Hawaii in the state's Supreme Court for not performing same-sex marriages, in one of the first major cases tied to the issue.
In the Proposition 8 case, Mr. Cooper may be best known for a 2009 moment in a San Francisco courtroom when U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker asked him what harm would come from permitting same-sex marriage. "My answer is, I don't know," said Mr. Cooper, who is married. In a recent Supreme Court brief, he said the reason he didn't know was because same-sex marriage is "a very recent innovation" whose impact "can't possibly be known now."
Kate Kendell, the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said she has appreciated that Mr. Cooper has "refused to make ad hominem attacks" against gay and lesbian people in his arguments, but adds that, "When the hard questions get asked about why we don't let same-sex couples get married, there is no longer an answer that is persuasive to most Americans."
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Thursday, 9 August 2012
"Drain The Red" - Marceline for Gallery Nucleus
I love Adventure Time and Gallery Nucleus so I was delighted to be asked to take part in their Adventure Time tribute show (in association with Cartoon Network). Being quarter goth my first choice was obviously Marceline (Vampire Queen). She will be available for sale from Gallery Nucleus soon. The show opens on August 18th. More details here.
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Judah & The Lion Win iHRMA for Best New Alternative Rock Artist of the Year
Looks like "Folk Hop n' Roll" is everyone's new favorite genre, because Judah & the Lion, who describes their music as this style (and named their second album by this term), has won the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Award for Best New Rock/Alternative Rock Artist of the Year!
The Nashville band takes home the award, and were nominated in the category along with other amazing rising rock stars including Greta Van Fleet, K.Flay, Rag'n'Bone Man, and The Revivalists.
While on tour, the band sent in their acceptance speech and said of their win:
"Just wanted to say if you're shocked out there, we are as well. Just blown away by the love and support that iHeart has shown us. And obviously big thanks to our team that's been working hard, putting in the ground work in all these years. And to our family of fans that have supported us since our first Kickstarter to now, or maybe hearing our song on the radio that are jumping on our family now, big thank you so much from us. We love you guys so much. And to all the artists that made that list, huge congratulations to a great year."
Judah & The Lion are also up for Alternative Rock Artist of the Year nominated along with Cage The Elephant, Kings of Leon, Imagine Dragons, and Portugal. The Man.
Judah & the Lion has had an amazing year. The band found tremendous success with their Gold certified, chart-topping single "Take It All Back," which appears on their second studio album Folk Hop n' Roll. The guys also went on tour with twenty one pilots, as well as their own headlining tour, and performed during the 2017 Daytime Village at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.
Fans can tune in to the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards on March 11th, live on TBS, TNT and truTV at 8pm ET/5pm PT, as well as on iHeartMedia radio stations across the country and on the iHeartRadio app. Hosted by Hailey Baldwin and DJ Khaled, the show will feature live performances from Ed Sheeran, Cardi B, Maroon 5, Camila Cabello, and Charlie Puth, with more to be announced.
Congratulations to Judah & the Lion!


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The Best Surface for Baking Pizza, Part 5: Baking Stone
Go shopping for a new pizza stone, and you'll find a huge variety of surfaces, from metal to clay to natural stone to man-made composites. If you were going solely by recommendations from respected testers, you might settle on the baking stone sold by King Arthur Flour.
The King Arthur Flour catalog quotes a review from Cook's Illustrated:
We tested 10 baking stones and came to prefer a fairly large one (16 by 14 inches is ideal) with smooth edges. The Baker's Catalogue Baking Stone's moderate weight and ample size make it our favorite.
The stone is a yellowish beige color, with a slightly mottled appearance and a smooth surface. It weighs 10 lbs. 4 3/4 ounces and stands 1 inch high. The stone itself is 1/2 inch thick, but it has feet and a thicker center section. The price is $54.95.
As with every other stone, I set the oven to 550 degrees and checked the temperature of the stone at 45 minutes into the preheat (527 degrees) and one hour (549 degrees).
Time for pizza! After 8 minutes of baking, the pizza was nicely browned on the bottom, with a very crisp crust. The top was well-cooked as well.
The results from this stone were similar to what I got with the quarry tiles. The crust was just slightly crisper, and more mottled brown with slightly darker and lighter spots.
Despite the similarity in the overall result, this stone had several advantages over the quarry tiles. First, it's made for food use, so there's no need to worry about lead and health issues.
Second, it's one piece, so there's no moving, shifting or adjusting. It goes into the oven and it stays in place. At first, I thought the legs were a little silly. Why not make it flat? But then I realized the the legs made it easier to grab the stone and get it in and out of the oven.
The downside: buying a dedicated baking stone is more expensive than buying quarry tiles. But in my mind, it's worth the expense. A well-treated stone will last a long time, and over the course of its life, you won't be cursing about the quarry tiles shifting around in the oven.
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Big or small, flat or fat, it's a fact: Feet are not our best feature.
Sure, feet are functional. But something to brag about? Not hardly.
And yet, as soon as the weather warms up, swarms of sandal-wearers appear, unabashedly displaying gnarly toes in ugly and often unsuitable footwear.
Yes, men, I'm talking to you.
"Any man who is going to be wearing any type of open-toed footwear needs to attend to his feet," declares Gregg Andrews, Nordstrom's fashion creative director.
Yet even the briefest outing to a public place will tell you that most men in sandals have never, ever given the appearance of their feet the slightest consideration.
Curled yellow toenails? Check.
Dirty feet crying out for a solid soap-and-water scrubbing. Check.
Dry, flaky, calloused, gross-out heels? Check.
The above is, of course, just a partial list of the masculine footscape of every city, town and burg as soon as the temperature goes up.
So, I've set out to change that. (I'm not optimistic.)
For starters, fellas, get a pedicure. "Anyone showing his toes should get a pedicure," says style expert Joe Lupo, creative director and co-founder of Visual Therapy.
As so many know, one of the great luxuries in life is a warm foot soak and the lotion foot massage that is all part of a pedicure. And if you think it's not manly, you're simply wrong.
I've had cops (not in uniform) and burly construction workers sitting next to me at the nail parlor with their feet in a whirling, bubbly bath. They're smiling!
Not convinced? Then at least give yourself one. Cut those toe nails, moisturize. As Lupo puts it: "Unless your feet are clean and managed, don't wear sandals."
If you're feet aren't sandal-worthy there are plenty of full coverage casual options that totally hide your flaws — including deck shoes, espadrilles (canvas, like TOMS brand) and huaraches. (I spotted some handsome closed-toe ones by Steve Madden at Macy's for $85.)
But for all you guys who are committed to sandals, I went shopping to create this guide to help you make better choices.
Don't ...
•Even think about wearing socks with sandals
•Wear rubber flip-flops anywhere but the beach, pool or other watery place
•Show your feet if they're ugly/dirty/gross
•Wear sandals to work unless you're a lifeguard
Do ...
•Get a pedicure or give yourself one
•Buy leather instead of rubber sandals for street wear
•Avoid Velcro closures except for rugged hiking sandals
•Break them in at home if long walks loom
Big or small, flat or fat, it's a fact: Feet are not our best feature.


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What is a Po'boyGenerally folks who don't live in The South have no idea what a po'boy really is - though it's often entertaining to read discussion boards where they speculate about what they think it is.
Po'boys are often compared with a sub sandwich which they most certainly are not. Not that there is anything wrong with a sub - they just aren't the same animal.
Though the origins and stories vary (as they often do), one of those stories says that po'boys originated in New Orleans back in the 1920s, when two brothers, Clovis and Benjamin Martin, opened a restaurant on St. Claude Avenue. It is also said that when streetcar drivers went under a strike in the late 20s, the brothers, former streetcar drivers themselves, helped out those on strike by making up cheap sandwiches from the shredded leftovers of roast beef which they then dipped in some gravy, and they would serve out of the back of their restaurant to the striking workers. When a kitchen cook would spot one of the workers headed to the back door, he would belt out "here comes one of those poor boys" and the name kind of stuck.
So, if you don't know what a po' boy is, it's a sandwich made by using French bread - typically a longer, more thin long type of French bread, but not the super skinny baguette bread. You can get away with the wider loaves of French Bread sold in most grocery store delis too. Then you can stuff it with virtually anything really, but down south here along the Gulf Coast, that is most often first and foremost some kind of seafood - fried shrimp, fried oysters or patties made with crabmeat. Fried soft shell crab is also particularly good especially when it's molting season for crabs and you can get them fresh. Yum.
And... y'all know I am all about making things your own in the kitchen. But ...
You will see all kinds of sandwiches across the internet these days called "po'boys" that aren't really close to what the original intent of the sandwich is. It is a simple working man's (or woman's) sandwich, not some fancied up, sauced up, "sophisticated" manner of sandwich. There is nothing sophisticated about a po'boy y'all!!
Second to seafood would probably be the alleged original ... a dripping, sloppy roast beef po'boy, dressed and pressed over here in Mississippi and loaded with plenty of debris, little pieces of roast beef and gravy, maybe with cheese and most often that's white cheese of some kind, often provolone. Mama used to say, "if it ain't dripping and sloppy, it ain't good." I made a couple of those the other day for hubs and me and man oh man, were they good! Course there's the usual standard ham and cheese, sausage, hamburger, meatball, fish, pork, turkey and just about any other kind you can drum up in the imagination too.
Now Mississippi and Louisiana, while we love one another like adoring sisters, we do our po'boys just a little bit different.
Most Mississippi po'boy purists are gonna go "dressed and pressed" no matter the kind and that's a bit different than how New Orleans does 'em. Dressed simply means to garnish it, usually with mayo, shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes and maybe an occasional pickle. Pressed means that whole sandwich is placed into a sandwich iron - sort of like a panini press - which presses the po'boy together, and creates a slightly crunchy and crusty outside while maintaining the chewy soft texture of the french bread inside. Who knew that Mississippi was in on a trend way before paninis made sandwich food fashionable.
Po'boys are an experience that you must taste for yourself, should you ever happen to make it down here to the Gulf Coast. My best friend I grew up with lives in Texas now. Every once in awhile she makes it back "home" and when she does, it's usually a must to make the po'boy rounds, having a different po'boy at a different place every day she is here. Yep. They really are that good.
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Ukiah Daily Journal
The cities of Ukiah, Willits and Fort Bragg are suing the county of Mendocino and Auditor-Controller Meredith Ford for hundreds of thousands of dollars they claim she overcharged them in fees for administering the cities" property taxes.
Ford"s office is responsible for distributing each city"s share of the property taxes collected in the county, for which it charges an annual Property Tax Administration Fee.
At issue is whether the fee was calculated correctly after the state Supreme Court ruled in November that the fees could not include as a basis additional property tax money to compensate cities and counties when the state instituted two financing mechanisms — known as the "Triple Flip" and the "VLF (vehicle license fees) Swap."
The state in 2004 made a quarter-cent cut to the Bradley-Burns Sales and Use Tax rate paid to cities and counties in order to repay state-issued economic recovery bonds, according to a summary written by Ukiah City Attorney David J. Rapport, Fort Bragg City Attorney James Lance and the Willits city attorney in a petition to recover the amounts the cities claim they were overcharged.
To replace the lost sales tax, state law temporarily instituted the Triple Flip, which provides that cities and counties get property taxes that would have otherwise gone to the county"s Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund for schools, according to the summary.
The VLF Swap has no sunset. Starting in 2004, the state reduced the amount of vehicle license fees paid to cities and counties from 2 percent to 0.65 percent, and, similar to the Triple Flip arrangement, provided that cities and counties would get "in-lieu payments of property taxes equal to the lost VLF," according to the summary.
Ford"s office also distributes the in-lieu property tax revenue to replace the revenue the cities lose in the Triple Flip and VLF Swap arrangements.
In November 2008, 47 cities in Los Angeles County sued that county, claiming it was charging a higher property tax fee than state law allows.
"The cities in that case alleged that beginning in … 2006/2007 … Los Angeles County and the other respondents charged the city petitioners more than the actual, incremental costs associated with the county"s administration of the in-lieu payments for the VLF Swap and the Triple flip," and instead charged each city a share of the Property Tax Administration Fee "based on the increased distribution of property tax proceeds due to the Triple Flip and the VLF Swap rather than each city"s proportionate share of the actual, incremental cost to administer" the two fiscal arrangements.
The California Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 19 that "counties could not charge cities for the additional cost of administering the allocation of property taxes resulting from the Legislature"s enactment" of the Triple Flip and VLF Swap.
"More specifically," according to the city attorneys" summary and allegations, "the Court held that (state law) did not authorize California counties to calculate cities" proportionate share of the counties" property tax administration fee by including in the cities" base" those funds that would have been placed in the ERAF but were not deposited as a result of the Triple Flip … and VLF Swap."
While it"s uncertain whether the state Supreme Court"s ruling applies to past fees or meant to correct the problem in the 2012-13 fiscal year, according to the city attorneys" filing, the amounts purportedly overcharged in administration fees add up to $339,630 for all four of Mendocino County"s cities, from fiscal year 2006-07 to 2011-12.
The city attorneys" petition says the cities haven"t heard from the county that it means to comply with the court"s ruling "with respect to the past overcharge of property tax administration fees or future charges," making the petition the cities only recourse. The cities are asking for a writ of mandate to "obtain a review of the Respondents" actions in violation of their duty under (state law) and he Alhambra decision," the petition says.
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It's all over for Sookie Stackhouse.
Just days before author Charlaine Harris stepped on a plane bound for a tour of New Zealand and Australia, she finished the last chapter in the tale of the telepathic Louisiana waitress.
She says she felt no sadness at saying goodbye to the heroine of the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, who propelled her to a permanent fixture on the bestseller charts.
"It's all good to me. Truly I feel like I've done my best by that world, I don't feel like I'll miss it now," she told us this morning at Wellington airport, en route to the Auckland leg of her Australasian author tour.
"I do look forward to doing something new."
Check out our live chat with Harris below:
Harris, who arrived in New Zealand yesterday, will be chatting with us live tomorrow from 12.30pm about her series, which inspired the TV show True Blood. (If you'd like to put a question to her, ask it here.)
The last book in the series, Dead Ever After, will be published in May next year. (True Blood will continue to have life on TV beyond that date, with HBO recently announcing a sixth season. The fifth season begins here on Prime next week.)
"I was delighted to finish the book and I look forward to my readers getting to tell me what they think about it," said Harris.
She revealed there will be a bit of life yet after Dead Ever After. Having struggled to wrap up the journeys of the many secondary characters in the 13 book series, she's keen to write "some kind of coda that lets my reader know what happened to all the characters".
Harris has been credited, along with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer and Kiwi paranormal romance author Nalini Singh, with igniting the current popularity of blockbuster supernatural fiction. But she thinks wider factors are at play.
"I think part of it is because of the worldwide economic situation. People traditionally turn to fantasy literature when economic times are hard."
Though she's signing off from Bon Temps, the fictional setting for the Sookie Stackhouse series, Harris has a new project on the go. It's a graphic novel trilogy called Cemetery Girl, in collaboration with dark fantasy writer Christopher Golden and illustrator Don Kramer.
The heroine is a teenage girl with amnesia who has grown up living alone in a cemetery. Harris says she's had the "bones" of the plot in her head for a couple of years. Look out for the first instalment next year.
We've just heard from Hachette, publishers of Harris's latest book Deadlocked, that her appearance at Newmarket's Rialto Cinemas tonight is sold out. Which leaves our live chat as your last chance to rub (virtual) shoulders with Harris before she flies out.


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Douglas Dynamics, Inc. (NYSE:PLOW) of the Industrial Engineering sector closed the recent session at 40.120000 with a market value of $914552.
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Football has always played a big role in Kevin Faulk's life.
At Carencro High School, Faulk led his team to a Class 5A state title in 1992 and was a high school All-American.
Football has always played a big role in Kevin Faulk's life.
At Carencro High School, Faulk led his team to a Class 5A state title in 1992 and was a high school All-American.
Faulk parlayed that success into a memorable career at LSU. He left Baton Rouge as the career leader in rushing yards (4,557), rushing touchdowns (46) and all-purpose yards (6,833).
Success didn't stop there for Faulk. He was a selected in the second round of the 1999 NFL draft by the New England Patriots. He played 13 seasons, all the Patriots, and was a three-time Super Bowl champion.
Since football has given so much to Faulk, he is giving something back to the game he loves. On Friday, he was doing just that as a camp counselor for nearly 200 high school football players at the Pro Football Combine Camp, which was presented by OrthoLA, Velocity Sports Performance and Elias Sports Management. The camp was help at Nicholls State University's John L. Guidry Stadium on Friday.
"It's always great, especially when you are doing something for kids," Faulk said. "Our goal is to try and enhance their abilities and their minds any kind of way what so ever."
Faulk is also learning to adjust as a former football player since announcing his retirement on Oct. 9, 2012. He left the Patriots as the team's career leader in all-purpose yards (12,349).
After playing the game most of his life, Faulk said it's been an adjustment being away from the game of football.
"At first, it was a little trying, but at the same time, that's life," he said. "Some of the things you were accustomed to you have to move on from. You have to find other things that excite you, and working with kids is really exciting."
The Pro Football Combine Camp is only the beginning for Faulk as a coach. Although he is no longer a player, Faulk will remain close to the game he loves as he will become an assistant football coach at his alma mater, Carencro High, for the upcoming season.
Faulk said becoming a high school football coach does have its challenges.
"The biggest difference is that you are playing the game in the player's eyes," Faulk said. "You are no longer getting physically beaten up, but you are getting mentally beaten up. That's the biggest change with it."
As a high school coach, Faulk will get an opportunity to square off against a familiar face — his cousin Trev Faulk, who is the head football coach at Northside High School. In Week 2, Carencro and Northside are scheduled to play a nondistrict game.
It's not the first time, Kevin and Trev met on the football field. They squared off in the NFL during the 2004 season when the Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams, 40-22. It was the only time they played one another during their NFL careers.
"Getting a chance to go against a relative in the NFL was a blessing in disguise," Kevin said. "It was a double-edged sword because it was family members going against one another."
Trev Faulk said it was a memorable experience for he and his family to square off against Kevin Faulk. About 30 family members made the trek from the Lafayette area to St. Louis for the game.
Since he was young, Trev said he always looked up to Kevin and was honored to follow in his footsteps as an LSU Tigers.
"I've always had a lot of love and respect for Kevin," Trev said. "He was someone I always looked up to growing up. If I ever needed someone to talk to or to get advice from, he was always there for me."
Kevin said playing against Trev ranks up there as one of the highlights of 13-year NFL career, but it pales in comparison to winning Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII and XXXIX.
"It was something that you dream about and fantasize about as a kid, and I just lucky enough and blessed to have that opportunity," Kevin Faulk said. "It was amazing to be there and to do that three times. We want to instill in these kids that hard work pays off in the long run"
After spending 13 seasons in the Foxborough, Mass., Faulk said he is glad to be back home in Carencro.
"It's always fun being back home. There's nothing better," he said.


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With half of the $4.5 million needed in hand, Friends For the Dearborn Animal Shelter hopes to break ground on a new animal shelter this year.
The nonprofit, which took over operation of the shelter from the city in 1996, has named Southfield-based Neumann/Smith Architecture and Ghafari Associates LLC in Dearborn as architects on the project.
It will need to raise another $1.5 million to start the project, said Elaine Greene, executive director of Friends For the Dearborn Animal Shelter.
The 21,000-square-foot shelter will be located at the former Amtrak station on Michigan Avenue on property donated by the city of Dearborn. The new site will give the nonprofit four times as much space as the city-owned, 30-year-old location from where it currently operates on Greenfield, Greene said.
Early plans incorporate geothermal energy for heating and cooling, energy efficiency and daylight lighting, and high-efficiency glass and building insulation materials into the design for the new building.
Friends For the Dearborn Animal Shelter had revenue of about $900,000 in 2013 and ended the year in the black, Greene said, noting it is still finalizing financials.
About 8 percent of its cash budget comes from a city subsidy; the remainder comes from fundraising and fees for dropping off animals at the shelter, animals that are picked up by owners after being picked up and boarded at the shelter, and the rental of live traps, Greene said.
The shelter last year took in 2,800 animals. Of those, it placed 71 percent and euthanized 17 percent that were not adoptable due to temperament and health issues, she said.
The remaining animals await adoption at the shelter.


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Its nose is seemingly tucked up to the Chevy dealership across the street in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. But this piston-era behemoth is in for more than an oil change. The Perna family wants to complete a DC-7-based restaurant for their northeast Florida airport.
Globe-circling DC-7Cs, the ultimate in Douglas' legendary piston airliner line, were billed (in a play on words) as "The Seven Seas." In fact, they were also "globe-topping." SAS used them beginning in 1957 for its unique polar passenger flights from Scandinavia. Developed initially for non-stop NY-LA flights in less than eight hours, the design could reliably complete the westbound trans-con non-stop after progressing to the DC-7B and DC-7C versions. A total of 338 were built in all.
Four 18-cylinder, 3,250-hp Curtis Wright R-3350 engines drove the ultimate Douglas piston-liner to a 359 mph cruise, carrying 3,565 gallons of 100/130 at max payload. Old 115/145 gas boosted engine power to 3400 hp. Turbo-compounding was responsible for some of that power. With three PRTs (power recovery turbines) in each exhaust flow, turbo-compounding contributed 450 of those horses but had a history of in-flight fires and maintenance complexity. (The original -3350 stained the initial reputation of the B-29 in World War II.)
Most DC-7 mainline passenger service ended after a brief five years, cut short by new 707 and DC-8 jets. It was the smaller DC-6s that soldiered on flying short-haul routes; big DC-7s disappeared into cargo ops. That's what N381AA was doing until hanging up its spurs in 2005 after 33,000 hours.
So how did this 112-foot fuselage, said to be the last DC-7 built, find its way to restaurant duty?
It's like this: Brother Danny Perna owns Epic Aviation at New Smyrna Beach. His brother Skip (Anthony) Perna is a chef. Danny discovered a similar effort, The DC-6 Diner, in Coventry, England, on a business trip. So why not go one better?
The brothers bought their 1957 DC-7 at Miami's Opa Locka Airport in 2012, loaded it (sans 141-foot wings and tail) on a flatbed and hauled it up I-95. The whole thing was an episode of "Shipping Wars" on the A&E cable network.
Since then wings, tail, engine nacelles and props are back on, she's up on her gear, some interior work has been done and this summer's painting completed "the look."
The flight deck is being fully restored as a conversation piece near a small bar up front. Dining for 40 will fill the cabin. (There's also proposed outdoor planeside seating for another 25.)
Among the gimmicks of airliner dining: Headsets piping in KEVB tower and flight attendant call buttons at the tables — presumably to devil the wait staff!
Sure, it's been done before. East Coasters may remember the Lockheed Connie rooftop bar above a restaurant in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, on Route 1 north of Philadelphia. There was at least one old Beech 18 on a roof out West, I remember. A DC-3 still stands beside I-4 between Orlando and Tampa to tout Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight museum. (It's now more properly upright to preclude all those plane crash calls 911 received from startled out-of-state motorists passing in the night.)
Do you know of others? Let's us known in the comments section below.
Not sure when "The DC-7 Grille" will serve its first dinner. There's still a hold awaiting local government decision after the Perna's late response to city comments on its license application. A Spring 2013 opening has already turned to "end of the year." Now, Danny and Skip are awaiting further word before proceeding.
I hope this thing comes off. If it does, I'll tell you about it. Then, drop in as you cruise down Victor 3 to your Florida vacation. Taxi on over to the Epic Aviation ramp, "change planes" and have something to eat.
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Berglund scores twice; Miller, Blues win againby John Manasso
NASHVILLE -- St. Louis Blues center Patrik Berglund had ice bags wrapped around his left shoulder, left wrist and left knee as he walked into the locker room at Bridgestone Arena for postgame interviews.
With the night Berglund had, he didn't seem to mind.
Asked if he received treatment, Berglund glanced up and down at himself and said, "Yeah, a little bit."
Berglund scored twice in a 4-1 win against the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena on Saturday to help his team remain unbeaten in regulation in eight games since acquiring goalie Ryan Miller.
"I'm playing the same way," said Berglund, who has six goals in those eight games. "I've been shooting the puck. It's finding its way in, so it's obviously nice."
Miller, who made 30 saves, is 6-0-1 since coming to St. Louis in a trade from the Buffalo Sabres. He has given up more than two goals once, in his overtime loss.
The Blues (46-14-7), who have the best record in the NHL, are 7-0-1 since March 2. (Backup goalie Brian Elliott played one game, winning in a shootout.)
"[Miller] was really good; they had a five-minute run in the second period [when] he was good," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said of a span when Nashville cut the lead to 3-1 and was pressing. "And then they had a little push on the power play in the third."
The loss ended a three-game winning streak for Nashville (29-29-10); those wins were on the road. The Predators have lost five straight at home in regulation, which is one from tying the franchise record. They have lost six straight at home four times, including last season.
The Blues cashed in on a couple of Predators turnovers. St. Louis capitalized on Nashville's inability to clear its zone to take a 1-0 lead at 11:32 of the first period.
Predators defenseman Mattias Ekholm hit teammate Rich Clune in the back of his skates with a pass along the left boards and the puck bounded to Berglund. He skated to his left to create some space, eluded two Predators checkers, and slipped a wrist shot past Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne's glove side.
Rinne started back-to-back games for the first time since returning from a hip infection that sidelined him for more than four months. He made 22 saves one night after defeating the Chicago Blackhawks, 3-2, with 31.
Berglund scored at 2:02 of the second period on a 2-on-1. Skating down the right wing with Ekholm sprawling to take away the pass, Berglund went to Rinne's glove side, ripping the shot just inside the post to put the Blues up 2-0 with his 14th of the season.
While the Predators were playing in Chicago on Friday, St. Louis was in Nashville. Predators coach Barry Trotz said he thought fatigue showed itself somewhat and did not like how his team managed the puck, but Hitchcock said the Blues had a hand in it.
"I think we caused the turnovers," Hitchcock said. "I think our positional play caused the turnovers. I think our reload on the backcheck caused three or four turnovers that put them in a tough spot. They get a lot of offense from their defense. They really activate, and if you ever get a puck turnover like we did on the 2-on-1, you're going to get a great scoring opportunity."
Vladimir Tarasenko gave St. Louis a 3-0 lead at 7:21 of the second period with his 21st goal of the season. T.J. Oshie's shot from the right side caromed off the boards behind the net, and in one motion Tarasenko slapped it in from the opposite side before Rinne could move across the crease.
Nashville scored with 3:10 left in the second period. Miller could not find the rebound of Shea Weber's point shot, and Predators center Paul Gaustad carried the rebound behind the net. He centered it, and the puck glanced off teammate Colton Sissons and came to Eric Nystrom, who converted it for his 13th.
The Blues took advantage of a 3-on-1 for their fourth goal. Nystrom's pass to Weber misfired, creating a turnover in the neutral zone. Alex Steen scored his 30th goal by one-timing the feed from Jaden Schwartz 8:05 into the third period.
Steen said reaching 30 goals for the first time did not mean much to him right now.
"It'll be nice to chat about after the season's over, and especially when my career's over and I look back on things," said Steen, whose father, Thomas, scored 30 with the Winnipeg Jets in 1984-85. "Right now it's another goal."
Nashville went on a bit of an offensive spree on the road, scoring 11 goals in three games, but its scoring woes at home continued. The Predators have four goals in five games during their home losing streak.
Trotz appeared to mix his lines on almost every shift Saturday. He said he began doing that during the winning streak, which started Monday at the Buffalo Sabres.
"I think it keeps everybody healthy in terms of their freshness," he said. "On the road it keeps [opponents] away from any matchups they might not want. It worked for us for three straight games and we tried it again today, just trying to get some rhythm to everybody's game. My rule of thumb is, if you have a good shift, I'm throwing you right back up, and if you don't, you're probably going to have to wait a little bit."


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Democrats were not feeling the love from the Republican Party this Valentine's Day…
…which obviously begs the question, what makes today different than any other day?
Well, the GOP made no effort to ease the partisan bickering, releasing a series of hilarious e-cards.
This year, the free valentines mocked prominent political figures with messages like "I wouldn't say you're better off this Valentine's Day than you were four years ago" and "If this was a successful year for you, there's a 5% tax on this card"– exactly the type of heartwarming material that you'd expect on America's favorite Hallmark holiday.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn might particularly appreciate the Attorney General Eric Holder card, which reads "Apparently I Missed Your Valentine When It Crossed My Desk."
Better yet, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor should print the Nancy Pelosi card out, hide it in John Boehner's copy of President Obama's budget and snap a picture when he cracks a smile (as I'm sure he'd chuckle at the thought of missing her).
I guess the real moral of the story is that, even for the GOP, Valentine's Day is just like any other day.


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Prince Philip attended his 500th Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award presentation at St James's Palace on Thursday.
The Duke founded the programme 57 years ago in able to support young people between the ages of 14 and 24. Over eight million people have taken part across the world and 900,000 people are currently participating in the award.
Among the 200,000 people to have a gold award is the Duchess of Cambridge who completed hers at Marlborough College. Catherine once would not have been able to get this award as originally the Duke of Edinburgh Award was just for boys. Even when girls were allowed to join, they did not participate in the physical activities.
Philip's youngest son, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, is also a gold award holder and is now a trustee of the programme. Today, the Earl praised his father saying "for all my father's modesty and self-effacement, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award is a phenomenal success. It has stood the test of time being more popular, relevant and valuable than ever before, not just in Great Britain, but all over the world".
Aged 92, Prince Philip still keeps a keen interest in the programme. Speaking in 2011 he said "they choose the things they want to do and very often they think that it might interest them but nearly always it is a new experience".
19 year old Cameron Hughes was one of the hard working young people who got his award today at St James's Palace. He told me:
"it was a brilliant experience to visit St James' Palace and receive my reward from such inspiring people, and it was a fitting conclusion for all the young people who had put lots of hard work and dedication into completing their gold award. It was an honour to meet the duke, and the fact that it was his 500th presentation made it an extra special day for everyone involved. I had a very enjoyable and memorable day and I would recommend taking part in the gold award to any young person as it is very worthwhile".
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It's British slang day! Blag means steal. Beckham means a slightly overrated, highly-paid English
footballer soccer player with the fashion sense of K-Fed. And he's married to Posh Spice. And his X5 got jacked by a gang of professional car theives in Spain.
Apparantly said X5 costs about $125,000, which includes armor plating and high-tech security features. Looks like that did a lot of good. In case you didn't know, Beckham was accused of having an affair with his personal assistant. He also brought his hairdresser with him to the 2002 World Cup. So forgive us if we don't feel too sorry for the man that brought the faux-hawk hairstyle to prominence and inflicted it on the world.
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Governor Deval Patrick proposes $1.9b tax increase to fund education, transportation plans
Shrugging off the fiscal caution of recent years, Governor Deval Patrick proposed a $1.9 billion tax increase tonight in his State of the Commonwealth address, saying it was necessary for the state to invest more in education and the state's transportation network to "accelerate growth and expand opportunity.''
Patrick called for a 1 percentage point increase, from 5.25 percent to 6.25 percent, in the state income tax. At the same time, he called for a decrease in the sales tax from 6.25 percent to 4.5 percent.
The net effect of his proposals, which included a number of other changes to the tax code, would be $1.9 billion in new revenue to fund an ambitious and expensive new agenda for 2013, according to a summary released by the Executive Office of Administration and Finance.
Patrick's speech in the House chamber, which lasted only about 25 minutes, came as he begins the second half of his second and final term and is seeking to cement his legacy. It also came after the state government has grappled for years with lackluster revenues due to the lingering impact of the Great Recession.
While Patrick, a Democrat, was surrounded by the trappings of office and spoke to an overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature, there were voices of dissent. His plan was immediately slammed by House Minority Leader Bradley Jones, a North Reading Republican, who called the tax proposal "economically devastating'' and "both reckless and irresponsible.''
The proposal, "if passed, would represent one of the largest tax increases in the history of the Commonwealth, as well as the largest expansion of the state's government we have seen,'' Jones said in a statement.
Patrick began making the case earlier this week for the tax increase, laying out a vision of the future that includes major transportation projects from the Berkshires to Cape Cod and an ambitious investment in education from preschool to college.
"There is no good time to raise taxes. I know how tough the times have been on the people and families of the Commonwealth. And though the worst of the recession is over, many, many families still face tough decisions and have deep anxiety about the future. I would not ask if I did not believe in my heart that investing meaningfully today in education and transportation will significantly improve our economic tomorrows,'' Patrick said in prepared remarks.
Patrick's speech called for dedicating the sales tax to a public works fund that will support the transportation plan that he outlined on Monday. The income tax increase will be used to pay for the education intiatives he announced Tuesday.
To "make that increase fair,'' Patrick also proposed doubling the personal exemptions for every taxpayer and eliminating a number of itemized deductions. Those changes are intended to make the tax code "simpler and fairer,'' he said.
The personal exemptions, which reduce the amount of a person's income that is subject to tax, range now from $4,400 for an individual taxpayer to $6,800 for a head of household to $8,800 for a married couple filing jointly. They would increase to $8,800, $13,600, and $17,600, respectively.
"There will be debate. I encourage it,'' Patrick acknowledged in his speech. "Every one of us here has to think twice before asking people who already feel strapped to contribute a little more. But this time, instead of sinking into the same old slogans, let's have a serious, respectful, and fact-based debate. The people we work for want the schools I have described; they want the rail and road services we have laid out; and above all they want the opportunity and growth these investments will bring us. We on their behalf have choices to make. I choose growth.''
Unleashed from the political constraints of a re-election campaign — Patrick has said he will not run for a third term — Patrick is proposing the kind of tax increases few politicians, including Democrats, have dared to push. Patrick has previously signed an increase in the state sales tax and has also closed corporate tax loopholes. But the plan he is now proposing dwarfs those in their scope.
Patrick is facing criticism from those who have pointed out that he said during his 2010 reelection campaign that he had no plans to propose a broad-based tax increase.
The tax proposal also could rally Republicans and anti-tax conservatives in the upcoming special Senate election to replace John F. Kerry and in the 2014 Massachusetts governor's race.
Senator Bruce Tarr, the Gloucester Republican who leads the minority in the Senate, said tonight that the proposals came in the context of "an uncertain economic recovery, a state budget wrestling with a gap of $540 million, and too many people that are unemployed or underemployed.''
Tarr said changing tax rates isn't the only way to increase revenue. "Building a stronger economy with more taxpayers is also important, and we need to fully understand the adverse impacts a nearly $2 billion tax increase will have on the economic growth we need,'' he said in a statement.


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We had fun with last week's post, I Saw What You Patched Last Summer, viewing the horrors that are the entries to Cisco's recent Crazy Cabling Contest Fun because, as humorist Will Rogers famously noted, everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
You obviously don't want such cabling mayhem in your Data Center. Tangled cables greatly increase the risk of accidental downtime. They also inhibit airflow, forcing a Data Center's cooling system to work harder to deliver chilled air to hardware and thereby increasing energy consumption and operational costs.
For those keeping score at home, here's the winning submission as voted by visitors to Cisco's Facebook page:
Messy cabling is also bad because it leads to more messy cabling. Have you ever walked into a Data Center with just one sloppy server cabinet? In my experience, server environments are either neat and tidy throughout or messy throughout.
So, what can be done to prevent tangled cabling in your Data Center?
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The standard definition of a ring is an abelian group that is a monoid under multiplication (with distributivity). However there are some books that have a weaker definition in that a ring only has to be closed under multiplication (no identity).
There is a problem in my algebra book asking me to prove that if a ring (defined in the second way) has $p$ elements, where $p$ is prime. If the multiplication is not trivial (i.e. sending everything to 0) then the ring is forced to have a multiplicative identity.
Its seems like a trivial proof, but I just can't see what I'm missing.
What I have so far: Given $R$ is an ring with p elements R is an abelian group of prime order, therefore it is cyclically generated, and of characteristic $p$ and isomorphic to $Z/pZ$. Essentially it boils down to showing $Z/pZ$ is forced to have a multiplicative identity, but I just can't see where this comes from (every resource I found seems to take this as fact). Since this is a requirement regardless of multiplicative structure I can't just use the fact that $Z/pZ - 0$ is a group under the typical multiplication.


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Senior members of the varsity Tiger basketball team will be honored during Senior Night Ceremonies on Friday, Feb. 10 in Tiger Gym. Games will begin at 4:30 p.m. against Paris. The Tiger team suffered losses to both Pleasant Grove and Atlanta last week. For more information, see the February 9 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Imagine creating your very own Space Show and then seeing it presented on the dome of the Hayden Planetarium. That's the thrill in store for a select group of 20 middle school students who participate in the Museum's first-ever Digital Universe Flight School this February.
Over the course of one week, 6th-, 7th-, and 8th-grade students will discover how to navigate to planets in the solar system and beyond using the Museum's Digital Universe Atlas, a three-dimensional, scientifically accurate map of the cosmos, and learn about how the atlas is built. As a final project, students will use sophisticated gaming laptops to create a digital tour to their favorite spot of the universe—Mars, a nebula, the spiral galaxies—which will be shown in a special evening program in the Hayden Planetarium on Friday, February 24.
Taught by an earth scientist and an astrophysics teacher, the course will run from 9 am to 4 pm from Monday, February 20, through Friday, February 24, a schedule that coincides with the New York City public school midwinter break. (The program will be repeated from July 9 to 13 to give the same chance to students whose break falls at a different time.)
The fee is $500, and applications are due February 1. To apply, students must submit a recent report card and an essay. "We're asking kids to really think about why they would be interested," says Siva Ramakrishnan, manager of the Museum's Adventures in Science program. Ramakrishnan says she was inspired to develop the program after learning to "fly" with the Digital Universe software herself. "I don't have an astrophysics background," she says. "And I thought, if I can learn this, then kids can learn this and, in doing so, learn about how the Museum visualizes data using amazing software."
Not that it's not a challenge. Says Ramakrishnan, from her own experience, "Landing on a planet is not easy!"
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Sibling Issues in Foster Care and Adoption
Explores research, intervention strategies, and resources to assist professionals in preserving connections among siblings when one or more are adopted or in foster care. The importance of the sibling bond is supported by Federal legislation and child welfare best practices that emphasize keeping siblings together whenever possible. Ways to maintain the sibling connections when brothers and sisters are living in different homes are also discussed.
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Defining a Sibling Relationship
Legal Framework for Protecting Sibling Connections
Importance of Siblings
Sibling Relationships in Abusive or Neglectful Families
Benefits of Placing Siblings Together
Barriers to Placing Siblings Together
Practices for Keeping Siblings Together in Placement
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Maintaining Ties Between Separated Siblings
Sibling Issues Within the Foster or Adoptive Family
Resources for Maintaining Sibling Connections
Acknowledgment(s): This bulletin was developed by Child Welfare Information Gateway, in partnership with Susan Livingston Smith, Program and Project Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. This document is made possible by the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The conclusions discussed here are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official views or policies of the funding agency.
Suggested Citation: Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2013). Sibling issues in foster care and adoption. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.
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