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Opinion Journal: Bubba vs. Brown
Editorial board member Matthew Kaminski and OpinionJournal.com assistant editor Allysia Finley discuss how Bill Clinton becomes an issue in the California Governor's race and analyze the ad war in the Florida Senate race.
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Jerry Brown's good old ... what really happened ... sale and the ... sale and says his assertion about his tax credit was ... just plain wrong ... about that and took it from the Fed ... California voted for proposition thirteen which lowered taxes ... which we'll post ... it ... can raise taxes ... 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I ... taxes start to decline ... and that also began when it was passed that about a year after that which cap state spending based on inflation from population growth and ... stipulated that any increases in revenue would be returned to the a ... R would be returned to tax piercing rebate so ... the real reason Macs ... taxes decline was because these tool ... these two propositions that voters passed against Jerry Brown's own Cantina zone will ... 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I don't think this is guaranteeing being wound to his campaign dredging of clinching ... because if they want me to Clinton Carlyle Meg Whitman can go and find some footage of ... her son pleads of Jerry Brown Imus radio show and ninety nine he's calling Clinton and ... basically never robber Richard Nixon another Bob Doll liberal lightweights ... in all sorts of lack the statement saying it was a lot of baggage and one revelation that the surgery Brown is facing the CENTCOM that Mike Castle things and go yesterday the of this Republican candidate for nomination ... he does have a strong track record ... and ... what I think make Whitman has done studio to neutralize the inexperienced question to play out that she has ... a long record in business she seems very competent schnoz court her Brief ... well well ... its been around for ever he hadn't have had this swinging in opinion polls in California where ... Jerry Brown came into this race as the favourite ... but now as of today Whitman's up by an average about five points ... and she seems to be the one that gets her race to lose if they were still two months away from the election ... but I think that ... the national mood is this does not portend well for perjury about what's right after of being behind a wry wit and is now a bit so was a no go for decelerates and not ... this is another place where on ... certainly the ... anti establishment the feeling is being expressed by voters has been in the primaries also where you're seeing a ... and that war are doing a TV ... clips Andre that were to look it up ... two ads from of what was for ... First from Governor Charlie Crist is threatened come senator and he is of what the Republican Party to run as an independent so ... they're so he's trying to cast that the switch or even for a mile Republican to independent this is the Charlie Crist for Senate ... how do we get results before ... putting aside our differences and putting people politicians ... Washington needs to stop all the finger pointing ... and focus on our common goals ... fixing the economy ... creating jobs ... helping the middle class ... as an independent I will take the best ideas of Democrats and Republicans ... to get things done ... because of the end of the day was only one party on ... four ... and Charlie Crest an independent and I approve this message ... son Charlie Crist message that he's rising above partisanship is the American party guy ... Republicans have responded that within that this is a very similar and in fact almost exactly the same ... of Woodville CEO of a slight difference era in the Republican ad responding to the Charlie Crist ... how do we get results for ... putting aside our differences and putting people ... politicians ... Washington needs of all the finger pointing ... and focus on our common goals ... fixing the economy ... creating jobs ... helping the middle class ... as an independent I will take the best ideas of Democrats and Republicans ... to get things done ... because the end of the day was only one party on ... four ... and Charlie Crest an independent and I approve this message ... sure Charlie Crist of ... what are opportunist but have met so far however of people in Florida making this call the Charlie Crist the most a piece of the small print in that had been said ... approved by self serving politicians and those who work for them ... to the BBDB incident YouTube ... to carry the ... club ... it's a smoothie King Charlie Crist I mean he had a on ... he has the well he is the brand name in Florida on six ... on during the ... Gulf oil spill his very visible is predicted to be handfuls ... to get as Meg Whitman in California he has ... his problems if he is the establishment politician ... Democratic added Indian Kendrick Meek is also a Obama guy voted for Obamacare foot of the stimulus ... I'm ... Marco Rubio is the one true citizen you you face here ... after being bid on the polls he is now buying ... up by an average of ten percent ... again it's not his race to win been budgets are tight crisp I was a switched on every issue ... he's now come out this week with a up a seventh position on Obamacare ... someone told me today in Florida ... it is that is very hard ... to someone in the movie can pay is very hard having to biggest target Chris to get kids involved a debate with them to sell from the ... seven positions Obamacare that's the way for BP Prudhoe Bay Some at the newly issued ... at least it was the right tomorrow never didn't Easter for opinion Journal I've thanks ...


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Financial Reform: Why Do the Credit Rating Agencies Still Live?
The big credit rating agencies pose an existential problem: Why are such hapless companies still alive when worthier financial firms are dead and buried?
After all, few businesses have performed worse in recent years than Standard & Poor's, Moody's (MCO) and Fitch Ratings. In a new paper, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York spells out just how poorly the three agencies fared in evaluating the quality of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis. Before the housing bubble, the firms infamously whiffed on Enron, maintaining investment grade ratings on that corporate Ponzi scheme until days before it collapsed. Indeed, Moody's stock price soared in the years following the debacle.
As University of San Diego law professor Frank Partnoy has written:
Credit ratings continue to present an unusual paradox: rating changes are important, yet they possess little informational value. Credit ratings do not help parties manage risk, yet parties increasingly rely on ratings. Credit rating agencies are not widely respected among sophisticated market participants, yet their franchise is increasingly valuable.That value -- or at least import -- has been on display in recent weeks. Stocks tumbled recently after Fitch downgraded Spain's credit rating. European officials also expressed frustration last month after S&P cut Greek and Portuguese debt, sending global markets reeling.
"Who is Standard & Poor's anyway?" asked EU spokesman Amadeu Altafaj Tardio, peevishly, in wake of the turmoil.A Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization, for one. That unlovely designation is no small thing. In 1975, the SEC began certifying ratings agencies as NRSROs, which meant that the financial markets could regard their ratings as credible. That special status, which Partnoy calls a "regulatory license," gave the anointed firms enormous competitive advantage and helped cement the dominance of the big three agencies.
More important, the label gave investors, bond issuers and other market players confidence -- or the appearance of it -- that a "AAA" rating meant something. And in an age when banks use securitization to pass along loans, and their underlying risks, to other parties, ratings became less a measure of asset quality than a government-endorsed stamp of approval. They became, in effect, a sales tool.
One element of financial reform being hashed out in Washington would abolish the use of NRSROs. In principle, that would open the ratings industry to new competitors and force regulators and investors to develop new ways of evaluating credit.
Another reason the ratings agencies retain their primacy is that they're almost impossible to sue. Federal regulations largely insulate the firms from criminal or civil liability. Courts also have protected the firms' market calls as expressions of free speech.
To get around the Constitution, judges have ruled, a plaintiff suing a rating agency would have to show that a firm not only made false statements, but also did so with "actual malice" -- a high legal hurdle.For perhaps the best explanation for the ratings firms' seeming invulnerability, we must turn to the work of that major social theorist and philosopher: Charles M. Schulz. Like investors and the credit raters, Charlie Brown and Lucy van Pelt, of Peanuts fame, display a deep symbiosis. Charlie needs to kick that football, even as he knows that Lucy needs to yank it away at the last second. Each plays their part in a recurring tragicomic drama that ends in a pratfall.
The market, too, is a game. The winners keep teeing up the pigskin, and the losers keep yelling "Aaaaaargh!" Will changing the rules help? Maybe. The credit rating agencies may finally have worn out their welcome, as lawmakers ponder reform. Question is, what could take their place?
Image from Wikimedia Commons, GNU license Related:
- Bad Credit: How S&P, Moody's and Fitch Helped Cause the Housing Bubble
- Congress Too Soft on Credit Rating Agencies
- Financial Reform Scorecard: Flash Points Divide House, Senate Bills
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- Crunch Time: Congress has Final Chance to Put Steel into Financial Reform
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Last week the government of Peru issued a statement saying that fourteen shamans in the country's north-eastern region have been killed in the span of twenty months. The provincial prosecutor's office alleges that these killings were ordered by Alfredo Torres, the mayor of Balsa Puerto, and carried out by his brother. Author and indigenous leader Roger Rumrrill claims these killings are part of a wider witch-hunt by the brothers, who are members of an unnamed protestant Christian sect.
"The provincial prosecutor's office said that the murders were allegedly ordered by the mayor of Balsa Puerto, Alfredo Torres, and carried out by his brother, Augusto, locally known as "the witch hunter." Only seven bodies have been found, however —either shot, stabbed or hacked with machetes. The seven other shamans have been reported missing. Rogger Rumrill, a leading researcher on Amazonian issues, said the murders are related to "protestant sects" that Torres and his brother belong to, the daily said. "For these protestant sects, the shamans are people possessed by demons, so they have to be killed," Rumrill said."
Torres denies these allegations, saying the shamans, all 14 of them, were killed by vengeful families unhappy with their services.
"For many years they have practiced the ancient custom of killing the witches, making them responsible for the death of some family member who was receiving treatment from the shaman."
The shamans, all from the Shaui community, were planning to start an association to share knowledge. The Foundation for Shamanic Studies has called for supporters to contact Peruvian authorities, asking them to act in addressing these atrocities, and to prevent further murders. Things have been tense, to say the least, between indigenous communities and the Peruvian government, but that has shifted somewhat as the South American "pink tide" sweeps through Peru, bringing center-left politician Ollanta Humala to power. While Humala is no Evo Morales, the fact that the government is making these allegations seems to be a positive sign that some sort of investigation is underway. What we don't know is how much religion, specifically these "protestant sects," are involved. While I won't rule out religiously-motivated violence, I think the political implications of the shamans forming an association could also have something to do with it.
We'll keep you posted as any further updates come our way. My thanks to Andras Corban-Arthen for bringing this to my attention.
ADDENDUM: The Guardian confirms that the Peruvian government is sending a team of investigators. Quote Gregor MacLennan at the NGO Amazon Watch: "The death of these shamans represents not just a tragic loss of life, but the loss of a huge body of knowledge about rainforest plants and the crucial role shamans play in traditional medicine and spiritual guidance in indigenous communities." Also, this blog post gives some excellent background on the killings.
"One of those who must die, however, survived. Inuma Bautista, apu shawi community of Paradise, was ambushed, but survived a machete attack that cost him an arm and left deep scars on the body. That was probably the beginning of the media scandal. After recovering from the wounds, gave a testimony Inuma which directly accuses Augusto Torres, brother of Mayor Balsapuerto as one of those who wanted to kill him. Similarly, one of the alleged gunmen, Solomon Napo, appeared in a video, confessing his involvement in the death of Mariano Apuela. Among his statements, the figure having been hired by Torres brother to commit the act in exchange for five thousand nuevos soles, which were not delivered."
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As I have mentioned several times in this blog, my main purpose here is to have an online repository of my recipes. I am doing just that except that sometimes some dishes are so simple and so common in our dining table that I've forgotten that I haven't blogged it yet. One of these is this simple roast chicken that my kids often request on weekends.
Inasmuch as I'd like to have a perfect smooth-skinned roasted chicken, my picture belies the fact that I use a rack. Having a rack tends to dry out the bottom of the pan a little. I like to have some crusted bits in there to give lots of flavour to the gravy.
There are so many ways of roasting chicken. Some recipes have the chicken positioned upright, some puts the chicken on one side then move to the other side after a period of time, for some you have to put in butter underneath the skin, some asks you to put in everything with it, and so on. What I'm recording here is the very simplest way that I know to roast a chicken while still retaining that all-important juiciness in the meat - specifically in the breast (picho) area.
To do this, you can see in my procedures that for the first half of the baking/roasting the chicken is placed breast-side down. This makes the juices to run down to the breast area and keep it moist. The downside is it will result in a little bit flattened breast in the final product. Silicone anyone? ;) But I'm sure you'd trade flat chests ... er... breasts with extra juiciness, wouldn't you?
Okay so much for breasts. Lemon is optional because recently I've been noticing that sometimes it lends some bitterness in the underside of the chicken. This comes from the lemon skin and I really have no clue how to resolve it. Though it does give a boost of a little sourness in the gravy which greatly enhances it. If I don't use lemon in the inside I just squeeze about a tablespoon of lemon juice in the gravy.
If price is no object, I would definitely suggest you use organic free-range chicken. In my experience, they consistently give the best flavour not only in the meat but results in much better gravy as well. I have heard from Stel and read from my current cookbook bible (The New Best Recipe) that brining the chicken before roasting improves the flavour by a mile. I shall try that next time and report the results here.
Roast Chicken
1 whole chicken (about 1.8 kg)
3 tbsp butter - either in room temperature or melted
salt and pepper
herbs and spices (optional)
lemon (optional)
- Preheat the oven to 190°C/fan 170°C/375°F.
- If you buy the chicken from supermarkets they are usually bound by a string around the wings, legs and feet. Remove all the strings from the chicken but keep the wings tucked under the chicken.
- Tie the chicken around the feet only.
- (Optional) You may use half or a whole lemon. Pierce it all over by a fork then put it in the breast cavity via the hole at its end.
- If using melted butter, spread it all over the chicken with a pastry brush.
- If using room temperature softened butter, use your fingers to slather the butter all over the chicken.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper all over.
- (Optional) Sprinkle all over whatever herbs or spices you want to put on it. If need be, omit the salt and pepper.
- To calculate how long to bake, give 25 minutes for every 500 g of chicken. So our 1.8 kg bird is to roast in the oven for a total of 90 minutes.
- Place the chicken breast-side down in a metal roasting pan (you may use a rack if desired). Bake in the preheated oven for half its baking time (in this case 45 minutes).
- Remove from oven and turn it so that it is now breast-side up. At this point I usually sit it on a rack but it's up to you if you want to or not.
- Immediately return back to the oven and bake for the remainder of its baking time.
- When done, remove from oven and place on a serving dish. Cover loosely with foil and let rest for about 10-15 minutes while you're making gravy.
- Serve sliced with roast potatoes, gravy and veggies.
Chicken Gravy
2 Tbsp chicken fat or butter or vegetable oil
2 heaping Tbsp flour
2-3 cups chicken stock (approximate)
salt and freshly milled black pepper
2-3 tsp lemon juice (optional)
- Remove the chicken fat or drippings from the roasting pan but retain about 2 Tbsp.
- Put the roasting tin on the cooker hob and heat up the fat.
- Once moderately hot, sprinkle the flour on it. Cook the flour (preferably with a wire whisk) with the fat for a few minutes.
- Add the stock gradually in 1/2 - 1 cup batches. For each addition, bring the mixture back to boil while continually stirring making sure to scrape the bottom for all the roasting bits left in the pan.
- Once all the stock is added, bring back to boil and then lower heat to simmer for about 2-3 minutes.
- If the stock is too thick add more water or chicken stock. If too thin then simmer it longer until the desired thickness is achieved.
- [Optional] Add a squeeze of lemon juice.
- Taste the gravy and add salt and/or pepper if necessary. Strain liquid into a serving jug. Serve hot.


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Spatial Awareness PuzzlesOne of the great things about puzzles is that different types of puzzles exercise and test different areas of the mind. Spatial awareness mind games are an interesting case in point because many people who find maths, english and logic puzzles quite straightforward can really struggle with puzzles that involve manipulating shapes and space in their head.
Mind games in the spatial awareness category will usually involve simple diagrams and ask you to notice a pattern or to perform some mental rearranging of the information presented in order to solve the puzzle.
Some people seem to be able to 'see' the solution to these puzzles straight away, whilst for others without practice even when they know the solution they struggle to be able to see it in their head.
Here is a sample spatial awareness puzzle. See if you can work out which three numbered circles must be moved in order to make the triangle point down rather than up?
If you are unsure then draw it on paper and experiment with making changes until you find the answer. With practice you can improve greatly your mental dexterity in solving this sort of puzzle and improve your spatial awareness as a result.
Please return to our Mind Games page for more examples of mind games and for information on ordering puzzles.


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US group Hearst – owner of NatMags in the UK – is to pay French media group Lagardere €651m for control of its international magazines, including UK arm Hachette Filipacchi, Press Gazette reports.
The agreement includes Elle (in the US, Russia & Ukraine, Italy, Spain, the UK, China, Japan, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Mexico, Taiwan, Canada and Germany) among 102 Lagardère print titles in 15 countries as well as 50 websites and mobile and tablet apps.
Other titles include Woman's Day, Car & Driver and Cycle World in the US, Red in the UK and Holland.
Lagardère will continue to own the Elle trademark and receive royalties. Before the deal, Lagardère was the largest magazine publisher in the world. Hearst will strengthen its international portfolio against Vogue publisher Conde Nast.
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With the dispersal of stock from the historic Ballymacoll stud farm in Ireland about to get under way at the Tattersalls October Sale, which begins in Newmarket tomorrow, Willie Carson, the rider who steered many of the Ballymacoll greats to victory as stable jockey at Major Dick Hern's West Ilsley yard during the golden period of the partnership between the stud and Hern, remembers the best of them in his own words.
b c 1976 Petingo - La Milo (Petition)
One of the best we ever had, especially on Derby Day. He won the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood and then Ela-Mana-Mou beat him in the Royal Lodge Stakes. But it was that race that won us the Derby. I stuck him up behind the leader, Lyphard's Wish, that day and used up petrol and he didn't get home. I learnt then that you had to keep building him up in his races, let him warm up and then he'd be strong at the finish.
We had a strong crop that year at West Ilsley. There was the Queen's colt Milford and Lady Beaverbrook had Niniski, who would go on to win the Irish St Leger, and I had to pick between them in the Derby. We were a long way back at Tattenham Corner but, when I pulled him out, he just powered away from them. We ended up winning by seven lengths.
Then he went to the Irish Derby, which he won easily but by not quite so far. And then he went and won the King George.
We decided then to bring him back then to 1m2f at York for the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup (now the Juddmonte International). It was a bit of a struggle - he won but we only just got there. It was him telling us he needed all of 1m4f.
Even though he was a great big horse, he liked fast ground and it was hard work for him in soft. By Arc day, the ground had gone against him, but he ran very well to be third.
He was one of those old fashioned horses, very genuine and nothing ever seemed to worry him. He never sweated. Life for him was easy.
Sadly, he didn't live very long. He left behind Helen Street, a very good looking, lightish type of filly on whom I won the Irish Oaks. Of course, she went on to breed Street Cry.
Troy wasn't one of those horses with tremendous speed, but he had so much ability. He was very strong at the finish. On Derby Day, he was the best I rode.
b f 1980 English Prince - Sunny Valley (Val De Loir)
Possibly the most brilliant filly I rode over 1m4f. She was a bolter at home - I never rode her at West Ilsley. I remember she used to go out in draw reins because she had two speeds - walk and flat out! The team at home did a tremendous job with her because she wasn't easy.
First time out, she ran in a good race, the Blue Seal Stakes, at Ascot and finished second. It was more education than anything else, trying not to get her to go flat out from A to B. We were just trying to settle her all the time.
That was her only start at two. She came out at three in a mile-and-a-quarter race at Newbury. Ski Sailing won under Steve Cauthen and I was second, again trying to get her to settle. I was in the weighing room after the race and Cauthen had a £100 bet with me that he'd finish in front again in the Oaks. Although my filly had been beaten, I knew there was still an awful lot to come from her.
She went to the Oaks still a maiden and it was that day that we really let her go. Again she pulled - six furlongs from home I felt as though my arms had been stretched six inches, and by the 5 furlong marker I couldn't hold her any longer and she took off. We ended up winning by 12 lengths.
She ran a very good race when third to Time Charter in the King George and after that won the Yorkshire Oaks and St Leger. I remember it rained and rained before the race at Doncaster and Arnold Weinstock basically didn't want to run. It was left to me after the first race to say the ground was alright. Sun Princess coped with it alright, as I thought, and won easily. Then she ran a very good race to be second in the Arc.
b c 1986 Sadler's Wells - Sun Princess (English Prince)
He was the first foal out of Sun Princess and the start of the Sadler's Wells story too.
He was one of the best horses I ever rode, and brave. He had a lot of speed but was a rare horse in that he would have also stayed well. He was first past the post in all his races at two, including the Champagne Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes, when he dead-heated with Scenic (also from the first crop of Sadler's Wells).
He was our Guineas horse. I remember he worked brilliantly at the start of his 3-year-old year, exceptionally well - it was true brilliance. Then he started to go wrong and that was when Nashwan was rushed forward. Nashwan wasn't quite ready at the time and I don't think he would have run in the Guineas if Prince Of Dance had made it.
It wasn't long after that that Prince Of Dance started to go badly wrong, he lost co-ordination and had to be put down. Turned out he had a tumour in his back.
b f 1975 Sun Princess - Rosalie II (Molvedo)
She was a brilliant filly with a lot of speed. I remember she was an early favourite for the 1000 Guineas, but the yard secretary missed the entry deadline! Quite a pill to swallow. She got me out of jail one day at Newmarket in the Child Stakes - I got boxed in and only just got there in time. She also won the Nassau Stakes and Prix de l'Opera, and had a tremendous turn of foot.


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There are conventional hustling style gaming seats, beanbag seats for reassure gaming, and even office seats on the off chance that you need something increasingly traditionalist. Presently, in fact any seat can be a "gaming seat" in case you're utilizing it right, yet these shabby gaming seats are agreeable, moderate, and alluring.
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Anyway it is entirely reasonable, and it is a standout amongst the best choices for your children, particularly in the event that you would prefer not to spend a huge amount of cash.
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William Hogue (Bill) Stewart, Jr.
Milliken Research Corporation, 1998 Millson Award winner
The Henry E. Milson Award for Invention was established in 1979 to recognize outstanding contributions to textile wet processing technology.
A native of Nichols, SC, Stewart received his BS Electrical Engineering in 1959 from the Citadel, an MS in 1961 from the University of Cincinnati and a PhD in 1964 from Clemson University. In 196, he joined the Lewis Research Center, NASA as a physicist. He joined the Deering Milliken Research Corporation as a physicist in 1966.
Wm. H. (Bill) Stewart, Jr.
1998 Millson Award
He brought computer ink jet printing to the textile industry with the introduction of advanced machinery and process innovation. The Millitron ink jet printing system can produce a vast array of patterned broadloom carpets, carpet tiles, and area rugs for commercial, hospitality and residential markets. Stewart and the Milliken team showed cross-functional expertise at high skill levels in chemistry, electronics, computing, machine design, and broad scope textile technology. He also applied his expertise to several machines that produce carpet products that have attracted many gold medal design awards including those presented by the Institute of Business Design, the NEOCON Contract Interiors Exhibition, the UK International Contract Floors Exhibition and International Facility Managers Associates as well as awards from fiber producers DuPont and Monsanto.
- William H. Stewart, Jr., Millson Award, Textile Chemist and Colorist, Vol. 30, No. 8,August 1998, p60.
- USP 3942342 (1976) with Norman E. Klein, Apparatus for Dyeing and Printing Materials.


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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:02:14PM -0700, Tom wrote: > I disagree that the gdm segfault issue is not an installation issue, but let's > focus on something more important. > […] > Huh? > […] > A possible BUG? > Maybe it's an Aunt Betty... > Or an Avuncular Frankshire Relative... The general tone of your reply is *way* out of place. Debian is a volunteer run project. We care about our users, but I won't take care of someone spitting of the huge amount of work we are all doing, usually on our spare time, usually for free. If the changes you ask for are *that* important to you, please provide patches. That's the beauty of free software, but you might have overlooked it. Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. email@example.com : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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The Marriage of Order and Wilderness: How the Earth Teaches Us the Way Forward
We and the Earth are made for each other. The technosphere and the biosphere are not fundamentally opposed; they are designed to dance together, to overcome all barriers to an impossible synergy…and now is the time to make our move.
Awakening Happens All-Ways
Everything is part of the awakening process. Not just yoga, meditation, and love-light bliss—everything. Whether it feels like it or not, every moment is sacred, every moment is ceremony.
How to Design Your Dream Life and Activate Your Highest Potential, One Ritual at a Time
Ritual dynamics is a pragmatic modality for building a lifestyle in alignment with the principles of right relation. It is a psycho-spiritual technology—an intricate interweaving of art, science, psychology, mindfulness, and spiritual practice.


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Skilled Project Management is essential if projects are to be completed on budget and on time and is the tool that enables us to pre-empt issues before they become a problem. Crest provides a package of skills that together create a total turn-key solution. These include:
- Design/ space analysis
- Costing
- Forecasting
- Programming/timelines
- Govt approvals
- Tendering
- Construction Management
- Quality Control
- Reporting
- Commissioning/Handover
We don't just focus on a single aspect of office design but combines all the skills listed to create stunning office environments anywhere in Sydney, entirely from scratch. A direct line of communication through each project phase ensures collaboration and efficiency and helps us maintain excellent performance standards. Our experienced and adaptable tradespeople demonstrate excellent attention to detail including ceilings and flooring: workstations, ergonomically designed furniture, specialist fittings and commissioned components designed to showcase your business and culture.


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* Canadian dollar slips 0.3 percent as US$ strengthens
* Bond prices rise as investors square books
TORONTO, June 13 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar slipped 0.3 percent against the U.S. dollar on Friday morning as the greenback strengthened on speculation of higher interest rates, while Canadian bond prices rose as investors squared positions ahead of the weekend.
At 9:52 a.m. (1352 GMT), the Canadian dollar was at C$1.0260 to the U.S. dollar, or 97.47 U.S. cents, down from C$1.0232 to the U.S. dollar, or 97.73 U.S. cents, at Thursday's close.
So far for the week, the Canadian currency is down 0.6 percent against the stronger greenback.
"Overnight direction in the Canadian dollar was driven by U.S. dollar strength," said Matthew Strauss, senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets.
The U.S. dollar is on course to record its best week against a basket of currencies in over three years as inflation data came in slightly above expectations, raising expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve might raise interest rates some time in the near future.
Earlier in the week, a report on U.S. retail sales in May came in stronger than expected. That prompted some to say the worst of the U.S. downturn is over. But others cautioned that it's too early to tell and that the retail sales rise may be a blip caused by the rebate checks sent to all U.S. taxpayers in May as part of the U.S. government's $50 billion stimulus package.
RBC's Strauss said he is not in camp that thinks the Fed is about to raise rates.
"We think the Fed will continue talking tough on inflation and keep their hawkish stance, which will be reflected in the (strengthening of the) U.S dollar, and that in itself is, by implication, a tightening of monetary policy," he said.
Data released Friday showed Canadian labor productivity declined 0.3 percent in the first quarter, due to a drop in manufacturing output, fewer working hours and bad weather.
Other data showed higher prices and production in the petroleum products industry helped drive up Canadian manufacturing sales by a stronger-than-expected 2 percent in April from March.
Canadian bond prices rose as investors squared positions ahead of the weekend after a week of heavy selling.
"All I see is housekeeping. The economic data really wasn't a catalyst to drive trade one way or the other," said Sheldon Dong, fixed income strategist at TD Waterhouse Private Investment.
The overnight Canadian LIBOR rate LIBOR01 was at 2.9567 percent, down from 2.9550 percent on Thursday.
Thursday's CORRA rate CORRA= was 3.0065 percent, up from 3.0036 on Wednesday. The Bank of Canada publishes the previous session's rate around 9 a.m. daily.
The two-year bond climbed 9 Canadian cents to C$100.74 to yield 3.355 percent. The 10-year bond added 4 Canadian cents to C$100.96 to yield 3.872 percent.
The yield spread between the two-year and 10-year bond was 51.7 basis points, down from 47.9 at the previous close.
The 30-year bond rose 5 Canadian cents to C$113.33 for a yield of 4.200 percent. In the United States, the 30-year Treasury yielded 4.761 percent.
The three-month when-issued T-bill yielded 2.77 percent, down from 2.80 percent at the previous close.
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Welcome to the Friday morning sitting group at InsightLA. We use simple sitting and walking forms from the Soto Zen tradition to bring cohesion to our efforts as we keep silence for an hour together.
If you are joining us for the first time, please come at 7:15am so we can show you the form and answer any questions you have before we begin together promptly at 7:30am.
We'll alternate periods of sitting and walking meditation, and end with a brief reading and discussion.


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A recently introduced search engine by the name of Scour has surfaced and I, personally, am a fan. The first thing you may notice when you enter a search are the small icons next to each result with the Google, Yahoo! and MSN logos and a number next to each. This indicates the "rank" on each search engine. So for example, below, you can see that there is a 1 next to the Google logo. The "1" indicates that if you were to search the same phrase in Google, it would turn that link up as the first result. This is a great feature that helps to weed out the poor links and give you the best results from all of the main search engines. You also have the option to show the results as they would appear in each search engine separately, leaving almost no excuse not to use this as an alternative to your current engine.
Another feature used to help weed out the poor results is a voting system. Next to each result and the footer of each clicked result you have the option to give the page a thumbs up or a thumbs down. It is also optional to leave a comment as to why it was a good/bad site. After enough votes, the listings will move down in rank, placing the relevant ones where they should be, according to the users. When using Scour, you can read comments left by other users about websites based on your keyword. This takes a lot of the guesswork out of looking for the right link.
The way that Scour encourages you to vote and comment is by using a points system. If you sign up with Scour (it's free and optional) you will receive one point for each search, two points for a vote and three points for leaving a comment. They also allow referral points where you receive 25% of the points they make. Once you achieve 6,500 points, Scour will send you a $25 Visa gift card.
They also have browser search plugins for Firefox and IE with Opera arriving soon; start page search widgets for Netvibes, Pageflakes and iGoogle (all arriving soon); and Desktop search widgets for Windows, OS X and Yahoo! Widgets (all arriving soon).
I honestly can find no good reason as to why not to use this browser as an alternative. If I don't like the "Scour" results, I can change it to Google, Yahoo! or MSN-only results while being paid. I honestly can't think of a better way of attracting users to a search engine than this.
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President Obama will be sworn in for a second term in office on Monday, January 21. Watch CNN.com Live for all your inauguration coverage.
Today's programming highlights...
10:00 am ET - NASA satellite briefing - Hear from NASA officials about this month's launch of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K.
A Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak says its cleaning contractor should share blame for an apparent mishap that left dozens dead nationwide.
The New England Compounding Center sent a letter to UniFirst Corp. demanding it share responsibility for a tainted steroid used to treat pain and inflammation, according to a filing this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company said that it "seeks to establish a fund to compensate individuals and families affected" by the outbreak, which has been linked to 39 fatalities among the 656 cases tallied in 19 states.
Patients contracted fungal meningitis after their spines were injected with a contaminated steroid called methylprednisolone acetate, health officials have said. According to health agencies, the compounding center did not follow proper sterilization procedures and distributed its products without knowing whether they had passed sterility tests.FULL STORY
Legislators in the Philippines have passed a birth-control bill that will open the door for free contraceptives and government-funded sex education.
Voting for the legislation was carried live on CNN affiliate ABS-CNN in the Philippines.
The bill was strongly opposed by the Catholic Church. It awaits the signature of President Benigno Aquino III to become law.FULL STORY
Federal inspectors found crawling insects, corroding walls and concerns about safety and quality safeguards at a drug-making facility run by the company tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak, according to a report released today.
The toll from the ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak continues to climb, with health authorities reporting 328 infections on Thursday - up 11 from the previous day.
In its latest update, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 323 cases of fungal meningitis plus five related peripheral joint infections. The agency reports 24 deaths tied to the outbreak, the same number as on Wednesday.
The illnesses, which first emerged just over a month ago, have been linked to tainted products from the New England Compounding Center. The Food and Drug Administration has since issued a warning covering medications from the compounding pharmacy that have been distributed since May 21 at more than 3,000 medical facilities nationwide.
The meningitis outbreak linked to a tainted steroid is to blame for another death - bringing the toll to 24, the CDC said today.
A total of 312 cases of fungal meningitis has now been confirmed. There are also five cases of peripheral joint infections. All are linked to steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center.
Follow CNN.com/health for more details on the outbreak.
A 67-year-old cancer patient was arrested Wednesday in connection with a fire that ripped through a hospital in Taiwan killing at least 12 people and injuring 60 others.
Lin Chi-hsiung, who was found hiding in a storage facility at the hospital, confessed to starting the fire a day earlier because he was upset over his illness, according to Tseng Chao-kai, head prosecutor for the Tainan District Prosecutor's Office.
Lin is a colon cancer patient who has been hospitalized in the facility since late 2010, Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) reported.FULL STORY
The number of people who have died from a 15-state outbreak of noncontagious fungal meningitis has risen to 19, up four from Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday.
The cases have been linked to injections of a contaminated steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center. Some 14,000 people may have received the injections, the CDC estimated last week.
The number of fungal meningitis cases associated with the injections has risen to 245 - 12 more than Tuesday, the CDC says. Two people also have contracted peripheral joint infections; neither has died, according to the CDC.
Members of Congress are involved in an investigation of the outbreak.
Meningitis is an inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. It is usually caused by an infection, frequently with bacteria or a virus, but it can also be caused by less common pathogens, such as fungi in this case, according to the CDC. Fungal meningitis is very rare and, unlike viral and bacterial meningitis, is not contagious.
Sixty-one cases have been reported in Tennessee, with 48 in Michigan, 37 in Virginia and 32 in Indiana. Cases also have been reported in Florida (13); Idaho (one); Illinois (one); Maryland (16); Minnesota (seven); New Hampshire (six); New Jersey (12); North Carolina (two); Ohio (nine); Pennsylvania (one); and Texas (one).
October 16, 2012: FDA warns patients to be vigilant about drugs from compounding center
The Centers for Disease Control has released new numbers regarding the fungal meningitis outbreak.
There are now 170 confirmed cases, up from 137. The number of deaths has increased from 12 to 14.
In light of the new numbers, we wanted to share a bit of helpful information for you about the outbreak and help explain what you need to know.
The recent outbreak is linked to injections developed at a compounding center. So, what is that, and why are we getting medications from them?
Many of our readers have had a lot of questions about the outbreak. We've answered them here and we hope they will be helpful for you.
Here's some more information on the outbreak:
Meningitis outbreak highlights failed oversight efforts
NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss the next two races in the chase for the Sprint Cup after sustaining a concussion during a massive wreck on the last lap of Sunday's Good Sam 500 at Talladega, Alabama, Earnhardt said Thursday.
Earnhardt was part of a 25-car pileup at Talladega. He told a press conference Thursday at Charlotte Motor Speedway that he was hit and spun during the wreck, apparently aggravating a concussion injury he sustained during a test run at Kansas Motor Speedway five weeks ago.
Earnhardt's doctor told him that "if you get hit again right away, it could be catastrophic," Rick Hendrick, owner of the Hendrick Motorsports team for which Earnhardt races, said Thursday.
Though Earnhardt said he felt completely recovered from the Kansas wreck by the time the green flag fell at Talladega, he said he knew immediately that the Talladega wreck had caused an injury.
"You know how your body is and you know when something's not quite right, and I knew as soon as it happened that I had re-injured myself," Earnhardt said Thursday.
"It wasn't even half of the impact I had at Kansas, but it was enough to cause me some concern," he said.
A waterborne, brain-destroying species of amoeba has killed 10 people in Karachi, Pakistan, this year, prompting local water officials to increase the amount of chlorine in the city's water supply and advise residents to use sterilized water when performing a Muslim ritual which involves cleansing the nostrils.
Misbahuddin Farid, managing director of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, said the origin of the amoebas had not been determined, according to a report in the Dawn newspaper.
The amoeba, known by the scientific name Naegleria fowleri, is virtually impossible to detect in the water and its presence in humans is determined by spinal tests, according to information on the water board's website.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Naegleria fowleri amoeba causes a severe brain infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis. The disease is usually fatal.
The amoeba most commonly enters the body through the nasal passages and usually infects people who have been swimming in warm freshwater lakes and rivers, according to the CDC.
But it can exist in improperly chlorinated swimming pool or heated tap water, the CDC says.
Only one of the 10 victims of the current outbreak in Pakistan had visited a swimming pool, according to another report from the Dawn newspaper, so authorities are focusing on the Muslim ablution ritual, or waddu.
The Centers for Disease Control said Monday that the number of people infected with meningitis related to steroid injections has gone from 91 to 105. The death toll has risen from seven to eight.
Patients in nine states contracted the deadly fungal meningitis after being injected in their spine with a preservative-free steroid called methylprednisolone acetate that was contaminated by a fungus. The steroid is used to treat pain and inflammation.
The New England Compounding Center (NECC), the Massachusetts-based pharmacy that made the contaminated injections, voluntarily recalled three lots of the injected steroid last week.
Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano has been diagnosed with leukemia, according to team owner Jim Irsay, and the coach's doctor describes it as a highly treatable form of the disease.
"I am very optimistic that he will beat this thing," Irsay said during a news conference Monday. Offensive coordinator Bruce Arians will take the team's helm during Pagano's absence, the owner said.
According to the National Cancer Institute, acute promyelocytic leukemia - the type with which Pagano was diagnosed - is an "aggressive (fast-growing) type of acute myeloid leukemia in which there are too many immature blood-forming cells in the blood and bone marrow."
Prognosis favorable for Colts coach with leukemia
Tourists Karin Bowerman, 27, of Wisconsin, and Cathy Huynh, 26, of Ontario, died mysteriously just days apart this summer in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Since then, family and friends have waited anxiously for the autopsy results.
Speculation on the women's cause of death ranged from alcohol poisoning to insecticide poisoning. But authorities are now saying there were no traces of toxins in Bowerman's blood or gastric fluids, according to the Tuoi Tre News, an English-language news site operated by Vietnam's largest newspaper.
"She died from breathing failures, circulatory collapse due to brain edema," Lt. Col. Nguyen Hong Ky, deputy head of the Nha Trang police department, told Tuoi Tre News. Brain edema is a buildup of fluid in the brain. The official autopsy report has not been publicly released.
On July 30, Bowerman and Huynh were admitted to Khanh Hoa General Hospital; both were vomiting, had difficulty breathing and showed signs of severe dehydration.
Bowerman died later that night. Huynh was released from the hospital and died two days later. Bowerman's body underwent an autopsy in Vietnam, according to her family, while Huynh's body was returned to Canada to be examined in Hamilton, Ontario.
Tuoi Tre News reported earlier that Bowerman's medical samples had not been sent to Hanoi, Vietnam, for testing as late as two weeks after her death. The director of the local forensic examination center told Tuoi Tre News that the wait period could affect the results, even if the samples were well preserved.
The autopsy results from Huynh are not expected for several weeks.
Health officials said Wednesday that they've sent warnings to Yosemite National Park visitors from 39 other countries about a potentially deadly hantavirus uncovered at some of the park's cabins this summer.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said up to 10,000 people were at risk, after estimating the number of friends and family members of those who stayed with visitors who booked reservations at the cabins.
"All guests who made reservations to stay in the 'Signature Tent Cabins' from June 10 through August 24, 2012 (approximately 2,900 persons) were emailed or mailed a health advisory urging them to seek immediate medical attention if they or other persons in their party exhibit symptoms of HPS," or hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, the CDC reported last week.FULL STORY
Editor's note: We're listening to you. Every day, we spot thought-provoking comments from readers. Here's some comments we noticed today.
As the Republican National Convention moves forward, politically charged comments flow like water. Readers called for a few tidbits of unity on the story about Arlen Specter's fight against cancer. Specter, 82, was the longest-serving senator from Pennsylvania and switched from being a longtime GOP member to the Democratic Party in 2009.
Ex-Sen. Specter plans to win fight against cancer
Readers mused about Specter's political history in the current divided climate. Several commenters thanked Specter.
Hottampa: "Thank you Arlen Spector for the service for your country. I hope you recover. If you do not, you lived a long productive life that most people envy."
iBod: "It's odd, because I was just thinking about him yesterday - wondering how he is spending his time away from the Senate; how he is doing, overall. Dearly saddened to hear this. I am sure this news is hitting all of us Pennsylvanians pretty hard. My thoughts and prayers go out to him and that he makes a full recovery."
PeteArk: "He is a man of moderate views and a love of country ... unlike many of those now in the political arena ..."
Push politics aside for a moment, this reader pleaded.
VelveteenLdy: "It is, at once, amazing and disgusting that almost everything in the news today can be turned into a political battlefield. The purpose of these posts is not to argue Sen. Specter's politics, but to comment on the article. The man is dying. His political affiliation, actions, or whether he was liked or disliked are immaterial and inconsequential to that fact. My thoughts and prayers go to Sen. Specter's family and I pray that he passes on in comfort and in peace."
Many of the readers claimed to be Pennsylvanians, and gave a local perspective. FULL POST
The brain of former National Football League star Junior Seau showed no apparent signs of damage from Seau's years in professional football, according to an autopsy report released Monday.
Seau's death on May 2 in his Oceanside, California, home was classified as a suicide the next day by the San Diego County medical examiner.
The autopsy results released Monday showed Seau shot himself in the chest with a hollow-point bullet from a .357-caliber revolver. The bullet hit Seau's heart, spleen and left lung.
He had used zolpidem, a sleep aid sold under the brand name Ambien among others, and naproxen, a pain reliever sold under the brand name Aleve among others, but there were no signs of alcohol, "common drugs of abuse," or other medications, according to the report by deputy medical examiner Craig Nelson.
Seau's suicide came on the heels of the suicides of other former NFL stars, including former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson just over a year earlier.
A British man left paralyzed by a catastrophic stroke seven years ago lost his High Court battle Thursday to gain a legal right to end his life when he chooses.
Tony Nicklinson's condition means it is impossible for him to take his own life - and he wants the legal right to have a doctor take his life without fear of prosecution.
But while expressing sympathy for his situation, the High Court ruled that such a significant change to the law - involving overturning the ban on voluntary euthanasia - would have to be decided by lawmakers.
The judges also rejected a similar challenge to the law brought by a second man suffering locked-in syndrome, named only as Martin.
"The Court recognised that the cases raise profoundly difficult ethical, social and legal issues, but it judged that any change to the law must be a matter for Parliament to decide," a statement from the court said.
The ruling upset Nicklinson, who cried as his wife, Jane, told the waiting media that the family was "bitterly disappointed" and would file an appeal.
In the meantime, her husband will have to continue living as he is, or starve himself to death, she said.FULL STORY
One of five prisoners receiving treatment for a suspected case of Ebola virus in Uganda escaped overnight Friday from the hospital at the center of the outbreak, a health official said.
"Should his results come back and he is positive, that causes us a lot of worry. So right now, we have resolved that the remaining prisoners will be cuffed on the beds for fear that they might also escape," said Dr. Jackson Amune, commissioner at the Ministry of Health.
The five inmates from Kibaale prison are among 30 people at Kagadi hospital with suspected cases of the virus. Two additional patients have confirmed cases, according to Doctors Without Borders.FULL STORY
The race to the presidency now turns toward the general election in November. CNN.com Live is your home for all the latest news and views from the campaign trail.
Today's programming highlights...
9:30 am ET - Women's health care briefing - Senate Democrats join Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to discuss new women's health care coverage that will take effect tomorrow.


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CAC's Unique Monitoring and Evaluation System
May 3rd, 2013: Coaches Across Continents works in complex, challenging, and constantly changing environments which demand a significant degree of knowledge, analysis, judgment, and flexibility in order to meet the context-specific requirements of every unique situation. Accordingly, CAC has to adapt our work in significantly varying situations. To do so, we monitor and evaluate our programs, which allows us to better understand our partners and to work together to ensure that, year after year, the training and guidance received are the most fitted to the local context and community.
CAC' specialized monitoring and evaluation system allows us to keep track of the unique issues, challenges, strengths and successes not only in our community partners but also within our own coaching team and methodology. Monitoring and evaluation begins with ongoing communication with partner leaders, even before the on-field training starts. During our training we keep records of local coaches' attendance, hours on the field, number of children reached as well as the games taught to local coaches.
To measure the learning of local coaches, we have developed a set of baseline and endline questions: "yes or no" questions that we ask to the local coaches at the beginning and end of each program. These questions allow us to measure the increase in knowledge and comprehension of football for social impact among local coaches. There are three questions for each football for social impact theme. We then compile a graph with the results : see below for an example of baseline and endline questions and results for the gender equity theme for our 2013 program with Play Soccer Ghana
Gender Equity Baseline and Endline Questions
1. Do you know how to use football to teach young people about the role and place of women and girls on the soccer field, at home and in the community?
2. Do you know how to use football to give girls confidence to "have a voice" and make personal choices through football?
3. Do you know how to teach girls about powerful female role models?
Following the on-field training, the CAC team evaluates the program based on our WISER model, designed to take account of idiosyncratic local needs, perspectives, and opportunities. The WISER evaluation is focused on not only the outcomes but also the processes and steps to reach these outcomes and is inclusive to various factors that other models might be missed. The WISER Model evaluates the following criteria :
With all this information, CAC then compiles a qualitative overview of the program with suggestions for further years. We also record the unique impacts that result each year from the training delivered by the CAC team: our impact models try to capture how CAC's tools and resources create impact within the community. The model takes into account the inputs, outputs, and outcomes from each year of the partnership and gives room for unique circumstances, or unexpected results.
In the end a global picture emerges that allows us to understand our role as a partner to many organizations and to reasses our approach with each partner program moving forward.
Watch our video to learn more about our unique Monitoring and Evaluation system !


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This is arguably one of the most important pieces of advice I can give out, if not the most important. Looking years back, I now realize that mentors have been a more important part of my technological education than I would have given credit to in the past. They include one of my best friends who first demoed his Liberty BASIC duck shooting game to me in elementary (first exposure to code, honestly thought programming was a bit gimmicky), a classmate in grade 6 who extorted money from me by fooling me into believing he hacked and stole my RAM and processor speed via the Internet (started my interest in malware removal), a father's friend's son who would try to sell me computers and to whom I'd ask about general computer stuff (taught me how to discuss technology articulately), a diabetic math professor who I got to look at my torrented PHP game site code (taught me I had to learn how to code for real, tweaking variables and being a script kiddie wasn't going to get me anywhere. Also my first exposure to Linux) and a physics professor for whom I coded for in the summer (became a fan of vim and the unix shell, also learned the importance of programming in other disciplines).
The primary benefits of mentors are obvious; they show you how to do stuff. Books also do that, but they fail in certain ways (which I'll describe shortly). The slightly less acknowledged benefit of mentors is that you can go to a mentor for pretty much anything. It's typical to ask them about programming and computer stuff, but mentors have a lot more goodies in store than that. Being somehow affiliated with the field of technology, they are bound to be connected to other people like themselves, often much more talented than they are. They have trotted the same path you have and will help you avoid all the mistakes they made initially (heh.. just ask me what NOT to do). Mentors are often also the best types of friends you can have. Your mom and your boyfriend might not relate to why you're frustrated about trying to run a loop invoking callbacks, inside a callback that returns to your node.js/express router, only to receive an nondescript 503 error on the console, but mentors certainly do, probably more than you. Some mentors will even give you cash and food, if they like you enough (think Y Combinator).
Mentors themselves seek ambitious amateurs, because 1. ambitious people get around and will one day be in a position to return the favor 2. teaching is the most efficient way to retain and perfect your knowledge 3. mentors are nice people and were once in your position. How can you pretend to be experienced in your field when you can't help people with more basic stuff?
It might be tempting to think that the internet and books have all the knowledge you need to guide you forward. The truth of the matter however, is that written and recorded knowledge represents a mere fraction of all human knowledge, past and present. Oral tradition (and physical?) still dominates as our primary method of disseminating knowledge, largely due to the lower barrier of entry (e.g. many people don't have good writing skills, initially time consuming, lack of interest, etc.) This is less evident at first, but becomes particularly important as you progress in your education. As you inch towards the pinnacle of your field, you'll realize that less and less of your answers are online (not to mention that live acquaintances are inherently more trustworthy than arbitrary answers on SO). Things you might be working on may have only been discussed sparingly by a few select people in the world. Bugs you will encounter have only been dealt with by some random soul in Colorado.
Years later (ok im not that old), I have now surpassed all of these mentors and many more in programming capacity, to the point that many of them come to me seeking programming expertise. I know that makes me sound a bit prodigious, but really, it's only natural for any aspiring programmer. Chances are, your first mentor wasn't/won't be a programmer by profession. One of Albert Einstein's preeminent mentors, Max Talmey, was an ophthalmologist, of all things. Despite Talmey's physics knowledge probably being limited to optics and elementary mechanics, he shared his passion for sciences with Einstein nearly every week for 5 years. The teenage Einstein's mastery of math and physics soon surpassed Talmey's. There's evidently a limit to how much you can be taught by your coach, else your coach would be the best programmer already and that's that. Just like Eugenie Bouchard parted ways with her childhood coach when she reached no. 5 in the WTA rankings, you too will need to drop your mentors when you reach a certain standing. The day you're no longer able to surpass your mentors, you're no longer an aspiring programmer, but just another career programmer (not to say you're not ambitious in other areas).
Finding mentors is not difficult. The worst case scenario is that you find someone on the internet because you live in an isolated area. If that's the case, look at the forums or discussions for sites like Codeacademy or Scratch. You can also try contacting the evangelism teams for companies like Microsoft or Google. Joining Facebook groups is also an extremely effective way of finding mentors. Even if you're not isolated, do pursue this! To find them, just use regular search terms in Facebook's search box. If you're under 15, the best way to find people is probably by asking your parents, siblings and the school librarian. Stay weary of strangers! If you're older (or perhaps more mature), you should try to meet as many career programmers as possible. Don't just find one or two, some of them will have bad programming habits or may be misinformed and the best way to hedge against that is to see who's different from the others (she's either really weak or really talented). The reason I mention age is because the younger you are, the more people will be afraid to work with you. It's understandable, they typically have more to lose than do to gain with younger mentees. As you're older, you'll fit in more at a university setting, where you'll be able to meet with older students who have similar ambition. A great place to meet competent mentors are hackathons and workshops. You'll get immediate experience points just for working with them. Don't be afraid to join them just because you're not as good. If you don't want to dragging down a pro team, ask if they mind taking a newbie along. You don't have to be on the BEST team, just one that is better than what you are now.
Having written all this, it begets the questions of how I'm currently managing my mentors and whether I'm currently mentoring anyone. I couldn't begin discussing this without first mentioning Rudi Chen. Rudi's the reason I'm here today talking about code, instead of talking about something like 7 Habits of Highly Effective Aspiring Med. Students. Rudi first found me on Facebook after hearing about me trying to compete in the Imagine Cup. He in turn recruited me as a mentor for Microsoft at my school and the rest is history. Whenever I have a career question I turn to him. He's also very talented in other areas, so I ask him for help on things like Image Processing/Computer Vision. Rudi's actions further introduced me to other talented individuals, such as Steve Woz reincarnate Louis St-Amour and evangelist extraordinare Sage Franch. Just in the last couple of weeks, Louis saved my ass at a hackathon via Skype and Sage helped me present a case to Microsoft for the need of two Kinect hackathons in Montreal. There's also the professors I work with at the Montreal Neurological institute, Dr. Villiers-Sidani and Dr. Voss. Although I am more proficient than them in programming, they're more experienced than me in regards to hardware and now our project is getting me up to par on circuits and electronics.
In terms of my mentoring, there is this blog where I write sometimes… 😉 A few students I recruited while I was in CEGEP (Pre-university schooling in Quebec) for the school technology club I started, work with me actively to advance their programming skills. They themselves are starting to become mentors. I also tutor a lot. I guess it's not as benevolent as just straight up helping people, but teaching semi-professionally allows you to practice your craft while being held to a higher standard. In addition to all this, there's the CS homework I help people with for the heck of it. There's a lot of this, but I don't mind at all. In fact, I encourage people to let me help them. They're really helping me. I never had a formal education in programming so it's nice to see how I would fare academically. Sometimes there are people who try to take advantage of this however, so it's important to be weary.
If you need a mentor (which you do), why not start by asking here? Every great programmer made some friends.
The next article in this series: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and the prior: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Aspiring Programmers


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Knowing you have no control in a situation can be daunting. It's not the normal way I like things to roll in my life. I like having a say so and help in making the decisions. So when mother nature decides to go on a waterworks kick and grace the Midwest with inches and inches of rain - you learn to make adjustments to your plans. One of the many lessons from this spring I can take with me is always have a backup plan. Even if that backup plan is to have no plan at all.
This past week I have been on the road a lot. Driving between Iowa to Illinois to Nebraska - yes in that order - I saw many of the crops. I have to say, the planting around the Midwest is just about as bipolar as Mother Nature. Driving through Iowa, most of the fields were planted, if not all were at least worked over. As I headed into Illinois, only a few of the fields looked like they were worked - while I had a hard time telling if they were being planted or replanted.
Not more than a few miles from the Iowa/Illinois border, fields were turned into lakes and rivers. I am surprised I didn't see farmers out there with fans and shop vacs trying to dry out the fields.
Trekking back through Iowa - storms were brewing all around me. They followed me to Southeast Nebraska where I spent a few days with family. Luckily, farmers in that area had most of their crops in the ground. Every day I was at the farm, there was a 30% chance of rain. As I looked outside at the monsoon, I thought more like 30% chance it's going to stop.
Once the rain had stop, my dad and I went for a drive to check the fields. Corn is coming through and looking good. Pastures are greening up and starting to lay down in the bottoms. And the alfalfa, one field is laying down while the other 7 acres is cut and getting rained on. The rain gauge read 2.5 inches in about a 3-4 hour span. What do you do.
Back in Iowa, farmers in the area were lucky to get their corn planted. The fields that were planted before the May 1 snowstorm are in a craps shoot. A few made it through the snow, but the fields that were planted hours before the storm hit aren't looking so good. Beans on the other hand - are yet to be touched for some. And what was planted for beans will have to be torn up and replanted.
This is where that lack of having control comes into play. Control goes out the window and patience is being challenged. Mother Nature: 1; Farmers: 0.


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Blog Signatures
There is so much you can do with My Digital Studio. Of course you can make scrapbooks and cards, but check out what I have been working on this week!!
I created more signatures for my blog using My Digital Studio. I thought I would share them with you this week.
There are more, and I will be using on this blog so keep checking back.


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READING CORNER: Our "jungle-themed" reading corner is a great place to hang out in the comfy chairs and read your favorite book. Students can also take a cushion or fuzzy rug and find their own quiet spot to sit on the floor and read.
BOOK BINS: These are the student's book baskets. They keep their reading journal in there along with 10 books (8 at their reading level and 2 that are one level below it). Students can get their baskets during center time and DEAR time, as well as anytime that they are done with their work and would like to read.
LISTENING CENTER: This is the listening center. Students can come over to listen to stories as well as take the mini tape players back to their desk or a quiet spot to listen to a story.
CLASSROOM LIBRARY:This is our classroom library. All books are organized in baskets and are leveled with DRA reading levels.
GUIDED READING AREA: This is our guided reading table. Students come over to meet with me during center time. Students are grouped by their reading level. The bookshelves behind the table contain the leveled books that are used for guided reading. Students take home their reading bag, which contains their book from reading group, to practice reading each night.
WRITING CENTER: This is our writing center. Students can come over to use references such as dictionaries and thesaurus's. They can also use decorated stationary to publish their final copies.
PROMETHEAN BOARD: This is our Promethean Board. It is a wonderful piece of technology and a great educational tool. Students come up daily to use the board for all subject areas.
COMPUTER CENTER: Students are allowed to use the computers when they are finished with their work as well as during indoor recess. I have many educational CD games that they can play. Students also are allowed to use any of the progams that we have used in the computer lab.
FILLING BUCKETS BOARD: This is our "Bucket Filling" board. Students helped brainstorm ways to fill people's buckets and I wrote them on the big poster. Students then signed a small bucket that said, "I will try my best this year to be a bucket filler". They then cut out their buckets and we put them around the big bucket poster.
READING GENRE BOARD: This is our reading genre board. We will be learning about different types of genres this year. As we read stories we will discuss which genre it is and we will then place a small colored copy of the book cover onto the genre board. After Christmas, students will start keeping track of the genres that they are reading on a graph that they will keep in their book bins.
CENTERS: While I am working with my guided reading groups, students work independently on centers. Some centers are at the tables and students go there to complete them and some centers are in baskets on the back counter and students take them back to their seats to complete.
Word Wall: Our word wall is used daily during our Daily 5 time. Children can chose to go to the word wall during "Word Work". There is a basket over there with different activities in it to do with the word wall words.


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Guide To Safe Eating
You are what you eat
We live in a world full of hazards, which can, and do seriously affect our health. This section deals with some of the common hazards we face in our everyday lives and some ways for you to protect your health and stay healthy. Your awareness of the hazards around you is your best protection against illness.
In this guide I will enlighten you about the common hazards in our food. Be careful, eat wisely and you will stay healthy. Like a car needs good fuel & additives to run well, so too our body needs the right foods to thrive, heal and maintain itself. Eating ecologically grown foods, also called organic or biological food are the best and safest way for us to maintain and improve our health and promote good health for our families.
The food we eat, builds and nourishes our bodies, gives us the energy for our daily activities and influences our health in many ways. A correct diet is the most important factor in helping us to achieve and maintain optimum health. Our bodies are capable of processing a wide variety of foods to provide us with nutrition. All foods contain many elements of nutrition in various quantities. Eating a varied and balanced diet, allows our bodies to choose from each food the nutritive elements it needs in the required quantities.
Our body requires many minerals, vitamins and trace elements for optimum functioning. Eating a variety of vegetables, herbs, nuts, sprouts, fruits, spices and a range of grains allows our body to select and absorb those nutrients which it needs. Eating only processed foods (usually processed to remove the fibre and improve the taste) predisposes to Mal (bad) nutrition. People who have a restricted diet, often develop malnutrition leading to chronic ill health as a result of shortage of minerals, vitamins, trace elements or amino acids. Correction of health can often take place just by correcting and expanding the range of foods you eat.
We need to avoid excess in our diets, adjusting our calorie intake as well as intake of protein, carbohydrate, fat, minerals, vitamin, water and fibre, so they are matched with our daily needs. Any excess eaten, has either to be stored by the body or eliminated through the liver, kidneys or skin. A balanced diet containing adequate amounts of all these elements including water and fibre promotes good health. A shortfall in any of these elements in our daily diet leads to health problems. A low protein diet leads to the body digesting itself. Low fat diets can lead to hormone abnormalities, an increased predisposition to heart attacks and nerve damage leading to tingling, numbness and loss of sensation in various areas of the body. Low carbohydrate diets lead to acidosis & ketosis which in turn lead to many health problems.
A guideline to follow is that Carbohydrates, mostly in the form of complex carbohydrates like rice, wheat, bread, other cereals and potatoes should constitute 50-60% of your daily calorie intake, 15-25 % of the daily calorie intake should be in the form of protein & the balance as fat. People doing hard manual labor need more fat in their diet as fats are a rich source of calories. Conversely people with a sedentary life style & job need to restrict their fat intake to 2 tablespoons per day.
The elimination of the waste products from our bodies is an equally important part of recovering health and staying healthy. Drinking at least 3 liters of water a day and eating foods rich in fibre help the body to remove toxins (poisons) from the body and help recover and maintain good health.
Proper chewing of the food helps to break it down, mixing it with saliva, allowing quick and easy digestion of the food.
Eating Healthy food can help you lead a long healthy life. Good health allows us to maintain our health and to utilize our lives in the way we desire. Unfortunately chronic illness now affects many people in their thirties and forties affecting their quality of life for decades. Eating junk foods will lead to you suffering poor health and chronic illnesses like cavities (holes) in your teeth, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, heart disease, depression and even Cancer.
The choice is yours!
The first and most important measure to eating safely is to wash your hands, utensils, cleaning and drying cloths, aprons, preparation and cooking surfaces, frequently with soap and water. Always wash your hands thoroughly before eating and also after using the toilet. Your nails should be cut short, or if they are long the area under the nails should be cleaned with soap and a nail brush. Food handlers should regularly be checked for worms and parasitic diseases and if present these should treated before they are allowed to handle food again.
Be aware of what you eat and the effects on your body.
Every person is different and their food requirements are also different.
What is good for person may be bad for another.
If you feel unwell after eating, try and identify which of the foods you ate made you feel unwell.
Try and find out why that food made you feel ill by going through the article below and see if you can identify the cause.
It is best to avoid those foods which cause you trouble. Your body will guide you as to what foods agree with you. Try and identify what foods agree with you at what time of day.
By identifying what is causing you trouble you can avoid it and stay healthy. Details on the list below are provided in the adjoining sections.
Pesticides - A poison for all living things including us!
Genetically modified foods (GM foods).
Preservatives - MSG, Artificial flavorings and colorings, slow poisoning.
Irradiated food - Can give you cancer.
Canned food - Metal poisoning.
Meats & Hormones - Make you fat & can cause cancer.
Antibiotics in meats - Affect your digestion and cause candidiasis.
Heavy metal residues in food - Cause mental & neurological illness; arteriosclerosis & heart disease.
Microwave ovens - Associated with colon cancer, obesity & malnutrition.
Cling wrap in contact with food - Invitation to cancer.
Bottled water in PET bottles - Don't freeze them & don't re-use them.
Refrigerators - How to use them to keep your food fresh.
Artificial sweeteners & soft drinks - (Used as pesticide too, is it safe for You?) cause osteoporosis and chronic fatigue syndrome
Stale and left over food will cause you indigestion, gas and illness!
Cooking Oils - How to use them.
Peter was an active, successful 40 year old executive, in a high pressure job. His meal times were irregular, he usually heated up his food in a microwave, and bought whatever food he could from the local supermarket. One morning, while evacuating himself he discovered that there was blood in the toilet bowl. Panicking, he went to see his doctor, who after examining and investigating him, delivered some grim news. Peter had Colon Cancer. Peter was operated for the cancer, the bleeding stopped but Peter found he was very tired. A few months later he was discovered to have Liver Cancer. Peter was given a few months to live.
Peter's cousin advised him to seek out other means of treatment. Peter saw an iridologist who advised him that his problems were due to microwave residues irritating his intestine & the build up of pesticides in the tissues of his body. Peter was placed on a detoxifying regime to remove the pesticides and microwave residues .He was advised about the importance of food in maintaining his health and advised to avoid microwaving food, to eat organic food & regular detoxification to remove the toxins and allow his body to heal. With this he recovered his health.
This section is a beginning which can help you maintain your health in the way you desire. Being aware of these hazards can make it easy to avoid the pitfalls which I have mentioned here. The world and the hazards around us are constantly changing. This web site is updated periodically and coming back here from time to time will help you to refresh your memory and help you in your search to maintain your health.


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ROME — Microsoft said it would make available on Monday parts of key data to security software firms such as Symantec and McAfee to enable their products to work smoothly with its new Vista operating system.
Microsoft has promised the additional information to comply with European Union requirements that stem from the EU executive's landmark 2004 decision that the U.S. company used its dominant Windows system to damage competitors. (MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)
The codes are important for the companies as they will allow them to suppress Microsoft's own security "pop-ups" if a PC user decides to buy alternative security software, thus keeping brands such as Norton clearly separate from that of Microsoft. But Microsoft is still developing software essential to the companies so they can block "spyware" and other malicious software.
It will give them access to the core, or "kernel" of the 64-bit version of Vista, something they have always had with past versions of Windows.
Asked when Microsoft would deliver the data, the company's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told Reuters: "Today, Seattle time, not Rome time".
He was speaking on Monday on the sidelines of a meeting with a bank in the Italian capital.
The codes are part of changes Microsoft said last week it would make after the European Commission, the EU's top antitrust authority, said it had concerns that Vista and Microsoft's behavior could push software makers out of the market.
The data in question are Application Program Interfaces, or APIs, which are in essence "levers" or "buttons" that other companies call upon so their software will run on Windows.
The APIs are expected to be made available on a Web site to which security software providers have exclusive access, a Brussels-based spokesman for Microsoft said.
Keeping close eye
Other software makers such as Adobe, maker of the fixed document format software "pdf", and Google, the search engine, were also worried about Vista because of the way Microsoft had tied in its own software with similar functions.
On Monday, the Commission said it was up to those companies to judge whether they were happy with the Vista changes by talking to Microsoft.
"The Commission will keep a close eye on how Vista develops in the marketplace, and if necessary, if we receive complaints, we will look into those complaints," Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd told a regular briefing.
But Microsoft's Ballmer said he believed the announced changes would satisfy the EU executive.
"We had to digest the feedback (from the Commission) and take action and understand if we thought that would put us in compliance with European law, which we think we are," he said.
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With just a few days left before Christmas, I am sure if you haven't bought a gift for the sportsman women on your list, you are probably looking for a little guidance.
Here are some ideas to help guide you through the shopping process, so you can spend a little more time outdoors yourself.
We have added some new items to the list this year. Items that are sure to please any body who loves the outdoors. We of course also have the list of items that can be used all year round.
A fly-tying kit. What a great way to pass the long winter days and nights for the Fly angler on your list.
A Digital Camera. If the outdoor person on your list takes pictures this is a must. They will use it everytime they go and e-mail you the photos the same day.
The World's largest Pocket knife for only $39.95. It's nearly 19 inches long when fully extended. Sure to please the hunter or collector on your list that has everything. www.montanaoutdoor.com Outdoor Store.
Hunting or fishing videos. If they can't do it they love to watch it being done. Available at most local sporting good stores.
A duck or goose call. Waterfowl season runs into the first part of January and the Canada goose hunting has been good in Western Montana.
A lucky duck or goose for the waterfowl hunter on your list. Shop around you should be able to pick one up for under a $100.
A dozen Canada goose or Mallard duck decoys
Shotshells by the case of box are always great presents or stocking stuffers. Some manufacturers also offer attractive cash rebates this time of year.
A portable blind either in the "coffin " or "hay-bale" style. The waterfowl hunter on your list will appreciate the easy set-up $200
A bucket with a nice swivel seat, good for a waterfowl blind or for ice fishing.
A membership in wildlife conservation group like Ducks Unlimited, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and Trout Unlimited. The Western Montana Fish and Game association membership comes with privileges in the Deep Creek Shooting range.
A powered augur for ice fishing. The ice angler on your list will never forget you for this present.
A fish-finder for the Ice angler on your list.
A sled for hauling game or ice fishing gear.
A stainless steel Thermos.
A Little Joe Smoker or a Turkey deep fat fryer
A cookbook from Missoulain wildlife cooking specialist Chef Vince on how to cook that wild game the hunter on your list has in the freezer. Vinces Cookbook II is only $13.95. Chef Vince also features a CD Rom with over 200 recipes ready to print off your computer when you need them. 800-597-7147 ext 9
A gift certificate from a local sporting good store or hardware store. My wife gave me one last year and I enjoyed every minute shopping with it.
A Pair of binoculars or a spotting scope or a GPS unit. Chances are they don't have them all.
A gift certificate from a local restaurant. I never met a outdoor person who didn't like to have meals cooked for them.
A gift certificate from a wild game processor or a taxidermist.
A meat or cheese slicer. Makes it easier to prepare lunches and snacks.
A long distance phone card. Always comes in handy. You never know when you might have to call and convince your better half for another day on the water or out in the field. Cards run for as little as 2.9 cents a minute, so you can talk long and cheap.
I hope this helps you out. Most of these gifts are under $100 and many are in $10 to $50 range. If you are having a hard time locating any of these just e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com or call me at 406-728-0516 ext 2. I will do my best to help you out. From all of us at the Montana Outdoor Radio Show have a Merry Christmas.
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