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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz asks the CIA to look over the 2000 book, Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America by Laurie Mylroie, which argued that Iraq was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (see October 2000). Wolfowitz will mention shortly after 9/11 how he asked the CIA to do this, but it is unknown what their response is. Presumably it is not one Wolfowitz liked. (9/11 Commission 7/24/2004, pp. 559) Wolfowitz also asks Thomas Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), to have his analysts look at the book. The DIA is unable to find any evidence that support the theory. (Isikoff and Corn 2006, pp. 76) Around late July, the US reopens the files on WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef, presumably in response to these requests (see Late July or Early August 2001). But no evidence will be found to support Mylroie's theory that Yousef was an Iraqi agent. The 9/11 Commission will conclude in 2004, "We have found no credible evidence to support theories of Iraqi government involvement in the 1993 WTC bombing." (9/11 Commission 7/24/2004, pp. 559)
Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, submits a written testimony, titled Global Threats and Challenges, to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He says that the agency's "near-term concerns" include another terrorist attack, a major war between India and Pakistan; the worsening of civil unrest within Pakistan; and violence against US interests in Colombia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Notably, he does not include Iraq as a near-term concern. Rather, in the section devoted to Iraq, he writes: "The on-going UN sanctions and US military presence continue to be the keys to restraining Saddam's ambitions. Indeed, years of UN sanctions, embargoes, and inspections, combined with US and Coalition military actions, have significantly degraded Iraq's military capabilities. Saddam's military forces are much smaller and weaker than those he had in 1991. Manpower and equipment shortages, a problematic logistics system, and fragile military morale remain major shortcomings. Saddam's paranoia and lack of trust—and related oppression and mistreatment—extend to the military, and are a drain on military effectiveness. Nevertheless, Iraq's ground forces continue to be one of the most formidable within the region. They can move rapidly and pose a threat to Iraq's neighbors. Baghdad's air and air defense forces retain only a marginal defensive capability. The Air Force cannot effectively project air power outside Iraq's borders. Still, Saddam continues to threaten Coalition forces in the No Fly Zones, and remains committed to interfering with Coalition military operations monitoring his military activities." (US Congress 2/6/2001)
Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, submits a written testimony, titled Global Threats and Challenges, to the Senate Armed Services Committee. It is the same testimony that he submitted to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence six weeks earlier describing Saddam Hussein's military ambitions as being effectively contained by UN sanctions (see February 6, 2002 for a fuller description of this testimony). (US Congress 3/19/2002 )
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Modern software systems are getting more and more complex. On the on hand, software is continuously enhanced over time, adding new features and possibilities, creating new versions. On the other hand, the demand for customizable software leads to different variants of the same product offering diverse features to the customer. Still, quality of these systems has to be ensured by testing them. Due to the potentially high amount of both versions and variants, it is not feasible to test everything thoroughly. Instead, efficient testing techniques have to be developed to focus on the most important test cases for each version or variant. In this talk, I present different approaches for efficiently testing variants and versions based on intelligent test case selection and prioritization as well as on delta-oriented regression testing techniques for reducing the testing effort.


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- Veritas Mk.II Sharpening System
- Brand: Veritas | Category: Sharpening Accessories
Though i thought it was a little expensive when I bought it from woodcrafters I think this honing jig is awesome. I use the scary sharp system and it works great for it. the best part about this jig is that the guide you attach let's you set a consistent square bevel every time. when you try it you'll be surprised how far some of your chisels have gotten from spec.
I found a few things about the jig confusing (the manual wasn't very clear) so i'll give you guys some tips first of all there is an adjustment on the brass roller for a micro bevel. I love this feature but I was confused about which position to start in. If you hold the jig upright and look from the side 0deg is where you should start if you need to shape the bevel then for 1 deg microbevel go one stop right or left 90 or 270 deg. they seem to be the same. if you want to go 2 deg turn 2 stops to 180 deg for the maximum. What is happening is that the brass roller in on an eccentric bearing meaning the axis of rotation is not in the center of the bearing and when you rotate the center axel you are giving the device just a little more height. I found when using this feature I liked to microbevel in the 180 deg pos.
Second if you got some really crappy chisels like i do always check to make sure the factory ground bevel is square to the side of the chisel. Mine were not, and I couldn't figure out why i was only sharpening the left or right side of the bevel. At first I thought it was a problem with the jig but fear not. It was actually squaring up the bevel. If you find yourself in this position I would recommend a 120-150 grit sandpaper and hit it dry in the jig. Grind it until you can see the "new" scratch marks all the way across the bevel i personally didn't see the need to regrind the whole bevel i just went till i saw about an 1/8" of new bevel then I went up the grits as usual.
Just one last thing, when you tighten up the clamp on the chisel try and tighten both thumb screws equally as possible I wasn't careful about this and it allowed the chisel to rotate. This was because I was essentially grabbing it at one small point when i had tightened up the clamp unevenly. This cause the jig to grab at an angle to the flat of the chisel. I found that occasionally looking at the thread in the top when you are tightening and trying to get them to look the same works very well in getting things balanced. Once i figured out that trick I was golden.
The only little caveat i noticed that was not user related (me screwing it up), was that the dovetail where the angle setting part attaches doesn't always slide smooth and after sharpening about 5 chisels it has started to scratch the paint there. This really doesn't bother me a whole lot but it is kind of noticeable when compared to the smooth precise action of the rest of the jig. I almost wish they had left it unpainted and or used a bearing surface different than the zinc alum alloy the body of the fixture is made from so that the angle setter would slide on smoothly. I mean for ~$70 i think it should be perfect lol :)
UPDATE: So I figured out how to edit my review YEA!!!! Anyway i spritzed the dovetail with some of this magical yellow lubricating juice i got and now it slides smooth as a baby's butt
-- "Think harder, Homer."
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#1 posted 06-02-2009 07:55 PM
I purchased the same sharpening jig sever months ago and my chisels and handplane blades have never been sharpened as easily and accurately. Foe me it was an excellent choice!
#2 posted 06-02-2009 07:55 PM
ugg sorry for the couple of spelling errors. should have been more careful with the automatic spell check. I wish we could edit our posts after we make them lol oh well….
-- "Think harder, Homer."
#3 posted 06-02-2009 08:12 PM
Hi Smeric you can edit before you post friend just use the preview button just in the right hand corner
we look forward to viewing your projects soon
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#4 posted 06-02-2009 10:02 PM
I have the same jig and find it fantastic – I do not have any issues with the angle setting fixture though not sliding easily – are you releasing the thumb screw enough? mine slides out like hot butter.
Edit: one small suggestion though: this is a terrific review, but after 2 lines into it- I found it hard for me to keep my place as I got lost in the text – recommendation = break this text into paragraphs. it'll make it easier to read, and will group different parts separate from one another.
-- ㊍ When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.
#5 posted 06-02-2009 10:07 PM
yea i am, since the sliding is kinda rough usually i loosen it enough to pull it straight off, which annoys me because i have to tighten it up again to get it on for the next one. Maybe i'll try a little oil on it. i got this stuff that works like a champ also from woodcrafters maybe i should post a review on that one next :)
Yea i'll proof my next review a little better, this one was basically a steam of consciousness i cranked out straight through.
-- "Think harder, Homer."
#6 posted 06-02-2009 10:29 PM
I bought this jig too. It is an excellent jig, but after learning how to hone by hand I only use it for my plane irons. I have also found that you don't really need the gauge attachment. I just insert the blade in the jig while in the working position on the stone and move it forward until the bevel lays flat on the stone. Then I tighten the locking screw, turn the micro bevel nob a notch and bingo I'm ready to go. This same technique could also be used on chisels. I use my chisels a lot and found it too time consuming to hone them in the jig as often as I should. I learned the hand honing technique from a video on a tool sales website. I can't remember the website name. They sell only hand tools. I don't mean to take away the joy you have of owning this jig and I do like mine too, but thought after using the jig awhile you might come to the same conclusion as me, and I thought maybe this tip would be helpful at that time.
-- Mike, an American living in Norway.
#7 posted 06-02-2009 10:34 PM
stefang – I think it comes with experience and with the amount of honing that you do – for someone that hones chisels on a daily basis – or on a weekly basis – after a while it becomes second nature – but to start with ,and for those of us that don't get that much shop time to train out muscles to keep the blade at the proper angle- this jig is a life saver ,and transforms the disappointment of sharpening a chisel for 30 min only to get a dull blade – into a 1 minute miracle. PS – are you hollow grinding your chisels for freehand honing? that helps a lot (if you have a grinder that is – which I don't :) ).
-- ㊍ When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.
#8 posted 06-02-2009 10:58 PM
I can't specifically comment on this as I don't have one as I dont need one however , in general I think there stuff is highly overpriced sorry but I got a couple of veritas implements and find it basically way overpriced for example I got the veritas direct reading caliper selling here in the uk for around $80 us its a piece of cheap metal knocked together probably for about $2 each in China way overpriced light and nasty.Alistair
-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease
#9 posted 06-03-2009 03:27 AM
Stefang – actually can hone things by hand but simply matching the current angle on your chisel to the paper does not let you change the angle if you decided you want to regrind them high or low angle and 98% of us would have no hope of regrinding a straight bevel freehand. Although if i wanted to just touch them up i might not bother with the jig. on a completely different topic have you every tried to grind a twist drill by hand. i know a couple of guys at work who can freehand them sharper than they come from the factory now that's a challenge lol
Scotsman – Why did you bother to comment just to hate on veritas? I think it would be far more productive if you were to write a review about those calipers.
-- "Think harder, Homer."
#10 posted 06-03-2009 12:08 PM
Smeric, Yes I do freehand my twist drills with good results. I use the side of the grinder. Not normally a safe procedure but ok with drills using a light touch.
I use a Veritas grinding jig for the main bevel, usually 25 degrees, and then do a micro bevel at about 30 degrees by hand. It really isn't difficult.
I did mention that when I use the honing jig for plane irons I just lay the main bevel flat and then turn the micro bevel knob to raise the blade for a micro bevel. I tried honing by hand for years with only mediocre results. That's why I bought the honing jig.
I just happened to be cruising the web a couple of years ago and found this website that showed how to sharpen by hand. It was a revelation and so simple. The reason I like it better than the jig is because it's so much quicker and easier. I'm not trying to say that it is for everybody. If you like the jig and you don't mind spending the extra time to use it you will get an equally good result. For many, this will be the way to go. I just wanted to offer a good alternative to those who, like me are a little impatient.
I move a lot slower nowadays than I used to and I want to maximize my productive time. I realize that to be of value, a tutorial is necessary. I will try it in this forum. I'm not sure how good it will be, as I'm probably not a very good teacher. I hope I haven't offended anyone. I'm not a hand tool or handwork fanatic.
-- Mike, an American living in Norway.
#11 posted 06-03-2009 02:14 PM
I own this jig and find it to be outstanding. I love the bevel gauge and the build quality is great. It makes sharpening quick and easy for me, with repeatable results.
#12 posted 06-03-2009 06:39 PM
It's a nice jig, well designed but I think needs more work….
-The bridge that holds the blades becomes bent when holding narrow chisels. It's a weak piece of aluminum.
It's highly accurate, well designed, the camber roller is a plus!
-- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain" Frank Lloyd Wright
#13 posted 06-04-2009 02:29 PM
Ditto on the camber roller. It works great. This is a great jig. There is just no way that the average "do it by hand" person is going to get such an even, accurate, and repeatable edge.
-- "non illegitimis carborundum"
#14 posted 06-04-2009 05:35 PM
Thanks for the review! I had been looking at one of these as a "bridge" until I can fork over the dough for a Tormek. Picked it up yesterday and am looking forward to working with it this weekend on some of my old, beat-up chisels before taking it to my brand new Sorby chisel.
-- Woodworking is easy as 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510...
#15 posted 06-11-2009 05:19 PM
After almost 4 years of use and abuse, I sold my MARK II yesterday at ebay for $52!! more what I originaly paid for it…..it's not amazing the way FINE handtools retain the value???
-- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain" Frank Lloyd Wright
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Totham Lodge care home is a local care home in Great Totham, Essex. We've been working with the company purely on a hosting basis initially but then were delighted to be asked to help re-design their website. Their old website was looking dated and wasn't performing well in search engines. So for the new site, we went for a clean responsive design that was optimised for Google search.
It was great to work with Dan on this project and we look forward to monitoring the site traffic to witness the positive change in search results and ultimately enquiries.


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Why red dwarf stars may be great places to look for life18 Feb 2013, 13:30 UTC
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - Red dwarfs are smaller, dimmer and cooler than our sun. There are more than a dozen of these stars within a few light years of our Earth, yet not one of them is visible to the naked eye. For years it was thought that they were a poor place to look for alien lifeforms. However, recent computer models contradict this supposition. This is excellent news for xenobiologists since four out of every five stars is a red dwarf. See article.g Abodes - A new study rebuts the hypothesis that an impact event 13,000 years ago brought about dramatic climate change in North America and led to the end of the Clovis culture. See article.g Intelligence - For the first time, researchers have been able to see a thought "swim" through the brain of a living fish. The new technology is a useful tool for studies of perception. It might even find use in psychiatric drug discovery, according to authors of the study See article.Get your SF book manuscript edited Amazon.com Widgets


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Having a positive and productive season regardless of the win-loss record includes having a solid plan for communicating with parents. As with any plan, we like to keep it simple, clear and concise. We list our dos and don'ts for parents, plainly identifying what things we are willing to discuss and what we are not willing to discuss. Because of the nature of some issues, I have always felt it best to include an athletic administrator. This way, if for some reason, the problem escalates or is not resolved, the administrator was involved from the beginning.
Most issues never get past the point of the player-coach level. When the players understand they are expected to conduct themselves appropriately, including taking responsibility for their own problems, many issues are resolved without parent involvement. I'm always sure to ask if the player discussed the issue with mom or dad. If he did, then I usually follow-up with the parent to make sure the player communicated our resolution to the issue. When I plan to call, I let the player know as well so he feels that he is included and I didn't go around him. The entire process promotes trust and honesty…read more


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"Key Factors Influencing Autonomous Vehicles' Energy and Environmental Outcome." Road Vehicle Automation. 2014. 127-135..
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"The 80% Solution: Radical Carbon Emission Cuts for California." Issues in Science and Technology (2012) 61-66..
"Assessment of household appliance surveys collected with Amazon Mechanical Turk." Energy Efficiency (2015). LBNL-180004..
"Assessment of the climate commitments and additional mitigation policies of the United States." Nature Climate Change (2016). LBNL-1006368..
"Autonomous taxis could greatly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions of US light-duty vehicles." Nature Climate Change 5.9 (2015) 860 - 863. LBNL-1006310..
"Comparison of Low-Carbon Pathways for California." Climatic Change 131.4 (2015) 545-557..
"Deep carbon reductions in California require electrification and integration across economic sectors." Environmental Research Letters 8.1 (2013)..
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"Energy use of U.S. residential refrigerators and freezers: function derivation based on household and climate characteristics." Energy Efficiency 6.1 (2013) 135-162. LBNL-6026E..
"Joint Optimization Scheme for the Planning and Operations of Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicle Fleets Serving Mobility on Demand." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2019) 036119811983827..
"Life-cycle net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical water splitting." Energy Environ. Sci. 7.10 (2014) 3264 - 3278..
"Modeling California policy impacts on greenhouse gas emissions." Energy Policy 78 (2015) 158 - 172. LBNL-7008E..
"On-Demand Mobility, Autonomous Vehicles and Environmental Impacts." Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports 2.3 (2015) 74 - 81. LBNL-1006312..
"Spatially-explicit water balance implications of carbon capture and sequestration." Environmental Modelling & Software 75 (2016) 153 - 162. LBNL-1003871..
"United States energy and CO2 savings potential from deployment of near-infrared electrochromic window glazings." Building and Environment 89 (2015) 107 - 117..
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"A wedge-based approach to estimating health co-benefits of climate change mitigation activities in the United States." Climatic Change 127.2 (2014) 199 - 210..
California's Carbon Challenge: Scenarios for Achieving 80% Emissions Reduction in 2050. 2012. LBNL-5448E..
California's Energy Future: Electricity from Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture and Sequestration. 2012..
California's Energy Future: The View to 2050. California Council on Science and Technology, 2011..
Computer usage and national energy consumption: Results from a field-metering study. 2014. LBNL-6876E..
Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Refrigerators, Refrigerator-Freezers, and Freezers, Final Rule. U.S. Department of Energy, 2011..
Estimating Policy-Driven Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trajectories in California: The California Greenhouse Gas Inventory Spreadsheet (GHGIS) Model. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2013. LBNL-6541E..
Field data collection of miscellaneous electrical loads in Northern California: Initial results, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 2013. LBNL-6115E..
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The SEEP Network's 2015 Annual Conference will serve as a platform to highlight this progress and the innovations at the frontiers of inclusive market development. More than 500 development professionals from over 70 countries are expected to join the SEEP conference in 2015. Over 300 conference participants joined our online conference community, to create a space for exchange before, during, and after the conference. We look forward to seeing you at the conference this year!
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ICRD 2017 is the fourth in the conference series. Its umbrella theme this year is "Evidence. Engagement. Policies.". ICRD 2017 will be co-hosted by the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d programme) and by the University of Bern's Centre for Development and Environment (CDE).
The r4d programme is a joint funding initiative by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Swiss National Science Foundation. It supports research addressing global problems with a particular focus on least-developed, low-, and middle-income countries.
CDE is an interdisciplinary research centre of the University of Bern. CDE envisions science as engaged and transformative – as having the power to spark substantial changes towards sustainable development. For this purpose, CDE supports social learning and co-production of knowledge in several world regions, invests in long-term partnerships, and seeks to connect local realities to global debates.
The ICRD series was originally launched in 2004 by the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South; the ICRD 2017 builds on the achievements of these earlier conferences and on the r4d programme – a unique partnership to tackle global challenges.
A hallmark of the ICRD series is the space it provides for international research collaborations with a strong representation of partners from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
The conference offers a platform for researchers, policymakers, civil society, and others to come together and engage in creative dialogue and concerted action. ICRD 2017 will focus on research for sustainable development, in particular on improving our understanding of how evidence can support policies for transformation in countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This includes considering how the scientific community responds to knowledge needs, how decision-makers involve researchers, how evidence-based policymaking can be realized, and how alternative, non-linear science–policy–practice interactions might look. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary, and interactive contributions offering visionary, transformative pathways to sustainable development worldwide.
ICRD 2017 has the following specific goals:
- to stimulate scientific debate on current research topics of global sustainable development;
- to establish and intensify dialogue between science, policy, and practice for enhancing research for development and promotion of more evidence-based development cooperation;
- to strengthen networks of transnational, inter- and transdisciplinary research partnerships for global sustainable development;
- to provide space for efforts to begin synthesizing the five thematic areas of the r4d programme (social conflicts, employment, food security, ecosystems, and public health), which reflect the priority areas of Swiss international development cooperation.
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Created in 2002, the Design department has imposed itself in a highly dynamic and competitive sector, 20th century and millennial creators of domestic landscapes and exceptional furniture are brought to attention.
Currently leader in the Design international market, the department has acquired expertise and recognised proficiency thanks to thematic sales such as Light is more: a historic sale devoted to Ingo Maurer luminaires - Black, the black in domestic landscapes: first cross-sectional sale highlighting design, contemporary art and photography -Chandigarh project: unique Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier furniture sale created for the legendary Punjabi capital - Al Dente! : a sale comprising design, contemporary art, photography and Italians jewellery - Modern Design For Living, around Jean Prové, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret - Artcurial organises Swiss Made in 2009 around Swiss graphics and furniture. Recently, collectors extolled the sale dedicated to Ron Arad, or Heavy Metal, exceptional pieces gathered around a metal theme in 2016.
Since 2014, the department brilliantly reasserts its leading position and continues to establish numerous world records at auction, of which the world record for a piece of Jean Prouvé furniture reached at auction, in May2014, the trapeze Table earning €1.2 M including fees, or the world record for a Marc Newson work at the auction, Pod of drawers, sold 1 M€ in October 2016.
Since May 2015, Artcurial has also created an auction exclusively dedicated to Scandinavian design history, supporting this market development, the increasing number of collectors having expressly demonstrated a growing enthusiasm for this specialty. Under the leadership of consultant Aldric Speer, passionate and avid collector, this latest offering suggests a complete spectrum of this field. The success was instantaneous. As early as the first auction, a Mode, FJ49 aka chieftain seat by Finn Juhl, reaches a record price of €262,000 including fees.
Today the department hosts four annual sales, alternating prestigious and mid-season auctions, offering an initiation to the field to all types of collectors, and including special collection auctions.
Artcurial conducted its first auction after the reopening. The Interiors sale which kept its promises totaled €1,033,034 (incl. buyer's premiums), exceeding its overall estimate. 87% of the lots were sold and 92% in sales volume. More than 400 bidders registered on the Live bid system to participate, and nearly 1,000 lines and absentee bids were left.
In 2019, Artcurial, leading French auction house, has confirmed its position of major international player in the art market and totaled €203.1 m, +4% compared to 2018.
Look back at the Collection of Joseph Altounian auction and its scenography in collaboration with Lecoadic Scotto
The auction dedicated to Ettore Sottsass, which exhibition was curated by Charles Zana, is a great success. The sale totals 1 367 760 € exceeding its estimation.
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The Hardy Plant Society, Kent
Hellebore extravaganza, Feb 15, 11am to 4pm, Goodnestone Park Gardens, Wingham. Talk on hellebores at 12.30pm by Tim Ingram (ticket only). Specialist nursery displays and sales of winter-flowering plants. Adults £5, seniors £4.50, under-16s £1 www.hpskent.co.uk).
Bosvigo, Cornwall
Special hellebore day, Feb 14, 10am-4pm, Bosvigo House, Truro, in aid of Shelterbox. Newly created woodland walk through drifts of snowdrops, hellebores, wood anemones, epimediums, erythroniums and scented narcissus. Refreshments available (01872 275774; www.bosvigo.com).
Ashwood Nurseries, West Midlands
Hellebore weekends, Jan 31 & Feb 1, Feb 14 & 15, 10.15am to 3.30pm, Ashwood nursery, Kingswinford. Guided tours (1h 30m), no need to book, go ''behind the scenes'' and learn about the hellebore breeding programme. Entry £2, proceeds to charity (01384 401996; www.ashwood-nurseries.co.uk).
Harveys Garden Plants, Suffolk
Hellebore open days, Feb 20 & 21, 9.30am to 4.30pm, Harveys Garden Plants, Bury St Edmunds. More than 1,000 hellebores for sale each day, advice and practical demonstrations, guided tours at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Free. (01359 233363; www.harveysgardenplants.co.uk).
Coton Manor Garden, Northamptonshire
Open for snowdrops and hellebores, Feb 14 to March 1, 11am to 4pm, Coton Manor Gardens, Coton. Entry £3 (01604 740219; www.cotonmanor.co.uk).
RHS Wisley Plant Centre, Surrey
Hellebore heaven, Feb 14 & 15, 10.30am to 4.30pm, Wisley Plant Centre. Demonstrations at 11am, 1.30pm and 3pm by expert grower Hugh Nunn and Chelsea gold medal winner Richard Bramley. Hellebores on sale. No booking required, free entry (01483 211113; www.rhs.org.uk ).
Broadview Gardens, Kent
National collection of hellebores, Feb 15, 21, 22, 28, March 1, Broadview Gardens and Hadlow College, tours at 11am and 2pm, flowers on sale at Broadview Garden Centre. Entry £3 (0500 551434; www.hadlow.ac.uk).
Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire
Fanfare for spring, Feb 22, 11am to 3pm, Renishaw Hall, near Sheffield. Gardens and woodlands full of hellebores, snowdrops, bulbs and more. Specialist nurseries, refreshments. Entry £3 (01246 432310; www.renishaw-hall.co.uk).
Coolings, Kent
Hellebore weekend, today, 9am-5pm, tomorrow 10am-4.30pm, Coolings Garden Centre, Rushmore Hill. Hellebore display and sale. Free (01959 532269; www.coolings.co.uk).
National Collection, Staffordshire
National collection of species hellebores, open Saturdays in Feb/March, 10am-2pm, Hazles Cross Farm, Kingsley. Entry £2, plants for sale (01538 752669; www.nccpg.com).
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The death of George Blanda Monday brings back another one of those sports memories that I've always cherished.
Perhaps the old AFL's greatest rivalry (a rivalry which remained heated long after the upstart league merged with the older NFL in 1970) was that between the Kansas City Chiefs and Blanda's Oakland Raiders.
And likely their most hard-fought meeting ever was a contest which occurred during that first season after the merger in the fall of 1970.
Late in the game, Kansas City had a 17-14 lead and the ball somewhere near the middle of the field. It was third down, and all they needed was one more first down to run out the clock and seal the victory.
Chief Quarterback Len Dawson dropped back to pass and finding everyone covered scrambled for an apparent first down. After he was brought down, Raider defensive lineman Ben Davidson (probably best remembered for his handlebar mustache) piled on Dawson with a late hit.
That meant a fifteen yard penalty against Oakland, but the Chiefs took umbrage at Davidson's cheap shot, a big brawl ensued, and Kansas City was called for unsportsmanlike conduct. That was also fifteen yards, the penalties therefore off-set, and the down had to be played over again.
This time the Raiders stopped them, and they got the ball back with just enough time for a couple of plays to get close enough to try a long distance field goal to tie it.
With 3 seconds left, on the field comes Oakland's 43 year-old George Blanda (the oldest man in the NFL, the Raider's field goal kicker and also back-up quarterback for starter Daryle Lamonica).
Back then the goal posts were at the front of the end zone, i.e., right at the goal line. The Raiders had made it to the Chief's forty-one yard line. Add seven yards to that for the distance between center and placement and that gives you a 48-yard attempt.
Knowing this was a pretty long attempt for old Blanda, and probably at the extremity of his range, Chief Coach Hank Stram had a big, lanky 6-foot-9-inch receiver standing right at the goal line should an opportunity present itself to swat the ball away.
Blanda's kick wasn't particularly pretty but was nonetheless true and just barely cleared that tall Chief's outstretched hand as he leapt high in the air to try and knock the ball down. The game ended in a 17-17 tie — no overtimes back then.
And that was the second game of what NBC Sports called Monday
an insane five-week run where he [Blanda] either replaced Raiders quarterback Daryle Lamonica to lead the Raiders to a comeback victory or kicked a winning or tying field goal. Every single week.
The book America's Game describes how Blanda's story in 1970 broke normal boundaries. He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Time, and Newsweek. He was joked about by Johnny Carson. He symbolized a new kind of life after 40.
I was only eleven then, but as you can see it's all still very vivid in my memory. George Blanda's streak in 1970 was truly one for the ages.
Here's another article from the Associated Press on Blanda's passing.
And if you'd like to revisit some of your football memories or just read more about this great American sport, try a subject keyword search in our catalog for "football." You'll find literally hundreds of titles on football at Greensboro Public Library.
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LOS ANGELES — Soon enough, the Republican Party's seven-year crusade to slay the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) will come to an end. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled yet another revision of the GOP's fraught repeal-and-replace legislation, and the controversial bill will either find the 50 Republican votes it needs to pass the upper chamber of Congress in the next few days — or it will perish once and for all.
That's the challenge facing Republicans right now. The challenge facing Democrats is how to respond.
Going beyond attacking Republicans over a plan that would take insurance away from tens of millions of Americans — and galvanized by a progressive "resistance" that has yanked the party to the left since Donald Trump was elected president — an increasing number of Democratic elected officials are coalescing around a new health care message in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections: It's time for single-payer insurance.
The shift has been dramatic. A majority of voters (53 percent) now back the idea of all Americans receiving coverage through a single government plan, up from 40 percent in 1998-2000, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll. In the House, Rep. John Conyers Jr.'s "Medicare for All" bill has already attracted 113 co-sponsors — nearly twice as many as in the last congressional session, and more than half of the entire Democratic caucus. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is urging Democrats to run on single-payer in 2018 and 2020, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent bid for the party's presidential nomination thrust the issue into the national spotlight, is set to introduce his own single-payer plan after the Obamacare debate concludes.
"Where we should be going is to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people as a right," Sanders said in March.
But could campaigning under the banner of government-run health insurance really propel Democrats back to power in Washington, D.C.? And if so, could they really transform America into a single-payer country like Canada?
For a preview of the road ahead — and the potential pitfalls — there's no better place to look than California.
The Golden State has been on the front lines of the single-payer fight for decades now. In Sacramento, Democrats have introduced at least seven single-payer bills since 1992. Two of them passed the legislature — one in 2006 and one in 2008. Both were vetoed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican. "Socialized medicine is not the solution to our state's health care problems," Schwarzenegger said at the time, invoking his predecessor Ronald Reagan.
This time, however, was supposed to be different. In 2011, Democrat Jerry Brown, who argued for a single-payer system during his 1992 presidential campaign, succeeded Schwarzenegger as governor. Five years later, Democrats won supermajorities in both houses of the California legislature. And earlier this year, two state senators introduced another bill (SB 562) designed to wipe out California's private insurance market and create a single-payer system.
The old barriers had finally broken down. The stars were aligned. And yet, after SB 562 passed the more progressive state Senate, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (who insists he supports single-payer) abruptly intervened in late June and shelved the bill for the remainder of the 2017 session.
"SB 562 was sent to the Assembly woefully incomplete," Rendon snapped. "Even senators who voted for SB 562 noted there are potentially fatal flaws in the bill, including the fact it does not address many serious issues, such as financing, delivery of care, cost controls, or the realities of needed action by the Trump Administration and voters to make SB 562 a genuine piece of legislation."
Gov. Brown, meanwhile, piled on.
"Where do you get the extra money?" Brown told reporters. "You take a problem and say I'm going to solve it by something that's even a bigger problem, which makes no sense."
Progressive activists were furious. Rendon and his family received death threats. Outside the speaker's Capitol office, one protester pretended to stab a bear in the back with a fake knife; the blade had "Rendon" written on it. With public opinion turning, Republicans floundering in Washington, and Democrats firmly in control of both the governor's mansion and the legislature, activists wondered why squander a perfect opportunity to make the left's single-payer dream a reality? Why chicken out now?
It's an important question — and a revealing one for progressives who hope that single-payer will finally go national in the wake of the GOP's war against Obamacare.
Among single-payer proponents here in California, two competing explanations for SB 562's implosion have emerged. If you agree with Rendon's decision, you're likely to believe that the bill itself, and the activists behind it, are to blame. And if you disagree with Rendon's decision, you probably think cash is the real culprit.
Both rationales should trouble Democrats who want their party to run on — and eventually implement — a nationwide single-payer system.
The "blame the bill" explanation is complicated, having to do in part with the peculiarities of California's legislative process, which is constrained in complex ways by ballot initiatives such as one requiring that a set percentage of the budget be devoted to education. But the basic gist is that SB 562 was a mere "shell" of a bill that failed to address many of the major challenges facing such a massive insurance overhaul — see Rendon, above — and that this was a strategic misstep by its major union backer, the California Nurses Association.
"Last decade's single payer bill … included measures for cost control, patient advocacy, regional planning, quality of care, global budgeting, delivery system improvements, build-out of service networks, incentive payments to recruit health personnel, transition costs, statewide databasing, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, a formulary for prescription drugs, and a lot more," writes the Intercept's David Dayen. "It was a serious bill that set real guidelines. … It thought of almost everything. SB 562 kicks nearly all of these questions" down the road.
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As a result, Democrats disinclined to shoulder the political risks of transforming California's entire health insurance system — such as the state's most powerful Democrat, Gov. Brown — could easily dismiss SB 562 as an unfunded, underbaked pipe dream (even though studies have suggested it would be financially viable.)
The "blame the money" explanation is a lot easier to understand. As Lydia O'Neal and David Sirota report in International Business Times, "Health insurers and pharmaceutical companies [have] substantially boosted their donations to California Democratic candidates in gubernatorial election years," giving "more than $16 million to Democratic candidates and the California Democratic Party in the 2014 election cycle — almost double what donors from those industries gave in the 2006 election" — and collectively donating more than $3 million to Brown and Rendon since 2010. In short, opponents of Rendon's decision are claiming that corporations have bought him (and other like-minded Democrats) off.
So why should both of these competing explanations unsettle national single-payer proponents?
Because both of them vividly illustrate how much intraparty resistance single-payer would generate even if Democrats were to win back Congress in 2018 and the presidency in 2020 (which is a big if). National Democrats — especially those from swing districts — are even more risk-averse than their counterparts in deep-blue California, and many of them would be similarly inclined to avoid voting on a measure that opponents could caricature as a budget-busting foray into "socialized medicine." National Democrats also receive a lot of money from the health industry — $69 million in 2016 alone. If Democrats can't pass single-payer in Sacramento, there's little chance they could pass it in Washington, D.C.
Not that this will prevent more and more Dems from running on single-payer in the coming elections. After all, that's what Democrats have been doing in California for decades now. In fact, if the party does win back Congress in 2018, legislators may even send a single-payer bill to Donald Trump's desk, just as California Democrats did with Schwarzenegger. What the state's latest single-payer skirmish shows, however, is that the calculus changes when it's a Democrat who would have to sign such a bill into law. Single-payer proponents might dream of what's possible under a unified Democratic government. But so far, at least, California has provided a disappointing answer: not much.
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Digital Spy Lauds Daryl; Steven Ogg Talks Simon With CinemaBlend
This week, Digital Spy honors Daryl as one of the best characters who never appeared in the comic source material, while CinemaBlend interviews Steven Ogg. Plus, ComicBook.com announces Season 7 will be available Sept. 8 on Netflix. Read on for more:
• One of Digital Spy's all-time favorite TV characters is Daryl, who didn't appear in the comics but has "gone on to be the most popular character on the show, with #IfDarylDiesWeRiot trending on Twitter basically every time a new season airs."
• CinemaBlend interviews Steven Ogg, who says he likes that Simon isn't in the comic book because "the fun and the freedom for both the writers and me personally, as an actor, is that there's no blueprint for him, so I think they can mold him into whatever void needs to be filled."
• Steven Ogg describes Season 8 to ComicBook.com, saying, "Yeah, let's thin the herd, man, let's thin the herd."
• ComicBook.com announces that Season 7 will be available for streaming on Netflix on Sept. 8.
• A Season 8 preview special — featuring Scott Gimple, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lennie James — will air Sept. 10, ahead of the premiere of the second half of Fear the Walking Dead's Season 3, ComicBook.com reports.
• ComicBookMovie.com speaks with Michael Cudlitz, who says he would have liked to see Abraham "operate as a full fledged soldier in a military operation attacking other humans because we never really saw that."
• According to ComicBook.com, Michael Cudlitz discusses Abraham's future with Sasha in a Season 7 dream sequence: "We see him see himself having a child with her, but in the end, in an alternate universe, they do. They continue to move forward in the world and create life, and it's a new beginning. But that's not the reality."
• Asked by CinemaBlend if he'd return to the show again in a flashback, Michael Cudlitz says "that is definitely a possibility. There's another character that I think would be back before me. But who knows?"
• Michael Rooker points out to WGN Radio that Merle was better than Negan because he was "never a killer, a psychopath. Merle was a tough guy, and you don't want to mess with him, especially not in the zombie apocalypse."
• ComingSoon.net looks back at the highlights of Season 5, which includes "some of the most shocking and plot-propelling moments to date."
• FanFest lists 19 Easter eggs that only "a true Walking Dead fan has caught."
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[HONG KONG] Japanese stocks rallied on a weaker yen but other Asian markets retreated Monday after Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen hinted at a US interest rate hike by the end of the year.
In a much-anticipated speech Friday Yellen said a pick-up in the world's top economy and an improvement in the jobs market meant "the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months".
While there is speculation rates could rise as early as next month, most experts had said that is unlikely and that December or February would be safer bets.
Yellen did not give a timeframe during her speech at the annual Jackson Hole symposium of global central bankers, but Fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer later said September was a possibility.
"After a week of guessing, Dr Yellen left little to the imagination when she stated that the case of a Fed rate hike had strengthened, but remains very much data dependent," Stephen Innes, senior trader, Oanda, said in a note.
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"Given the proximity of the granddaddy of all Fed data, the non-farm payroll, it is without question that this week's print will take on more importance than usual."
The labour department is due to release jobs figures on Friday.
Expectations for a rise sent the dollar soaring in New York, and it extended its gains on Monday.
It bought 102.11 yen, up from 101.77 yen in US trade and well up from the 100.45 yen in Asia earlier Friday, while the euro was down more than a US cent at US$1.1190.
Higher-yielding, or riskier, currencies were also hit, with South Korea's won losing 0.8 per cent and the Indonesian rupiah off 0.5 per cent, while Malaysia's ringgit shed 0.7 per cent.
The weaker yen boosted Japan's exporters, sending the Nikkei stock index surging 2.2 per cent by the break.
But while the the greenback and Japanese traders took heart from the comments, other regional markets turned negative on the prospect of borrowing costs rising.
Shares in Hong Kong, where monetary policy is linked to that of the United States, fell 0.4 per cent, while Sydney shed 1.1 per cent and Shanghai shed 0.1 per cent. Seoul and Singapore were each down 0.5 per cent.
The stronger dollar also weighed on oil prices as it makes the commodity more expensive for those using weaker currencies.
West Texas Intermediate fell 1.2 per cent to US$47.05 and Brent shed 1.1 per cent to US$49.37.
Analysts said prices were also being weighed by worries over the outcome of a meeting next month between Opec and Russia aimed at addressing a global supply glut.
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40 acres of naturally lush, undulating greens with a home designed as an enclave; a retreat of sorts situated away from the maddening traffic of the city. How does one best position this proposition to prospective homeowners to capture their imagination and create a vision of what life could be like? These could have possibly some of the questions that crossed the minds of the team in Paramount Property as they searched for the right interior designer for their Astonia II bungalow offering within the Sejati Residences development in Cyberjaya.
The responsibility of developing the vision and creating the finished show unit was awarded to the DesignStream team and the results have been nothing short of amazing. The interior makes use of some classy materials to achieve the desired look of subtle luxury while softer elements infuse its spaces with a greater sense of comfort. This is evident throughout the different spaces as each is meticulously created to provide a sense of comforting luxury.
The living area is one beautiful example of this. Wood grain wall panels combined with window blinds and sheers deliver an ambiance that softens the interior while allowing in a greater amount of sunlight. Matched with beautiful furniture pieces and an intricate yet perfectly stylish flooring to complete the overall styling of the space. The flooring design element is then extended to the dining area to achieve a similar design tone. The clean design of the dining table and chairs complement the more contemporary styling contributed by the Vibia Wireflow chandelier hanging above while highlighting the space of the double volume ceiling.
To further define its more luxurious styling, Volakas marble is used for the kitchen island, lending it a looks of stunning simplicity while contributing to the overall ambiance. The appeal of subtle luxury combined with the sleek design cues and elements used create an interior that would greatly appeal to homeowners considering making Cyberjaya home.
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Thrilled to bits with my cheeky chap Capitano, he has had all winter off. He has been turned out in the 25 acres with his brother Chief. They have had so much fun together and also been in trouble, on one occasion almost getting into our neighbours chicken pens!!
So his 2019 debut outing was to the prestigious Hartpury Arena, he hadn't been anywhere schooling other than at home so we planned on just nice schooling round.
Once he had done a super clear in the first round I couldn't help myself and pushed him on a little bit on a few corners and he responded brilliantly, he was on springs. He finished with the fastest clear round to win the class.
My other pocket rocket Ruby Tuesday then went in the next class and finished in 3rd place. I was so pleased with them both, we came home with almost £50 prize money, clever ponies.
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Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast. Some of you will require no further information, and in fact have already clicked over to iTunes (or another podcast downloading application of your choice), desperate to download the first episode. Allow me to inform those cooler heads who remain that Revisionist History won't begin its ten-week run, with one episode out per week, until June 16th. (Update: The first episode is now live and you can stream it below.) But you can subscribe right now (iTunes - Stitcher - RSS), and while you wait over the next few days, you can listen to the preview that Gladwell has already posted.
You can also get a little a taste of Gladwell's new project by watching the trailer at the top of the post. "Every week, I'm going to take you back into the past," Gladwell promises in the video's narration, "to examine something that I think has been overlooked and misunderstood."
He gets into more detail on the Brian Lehrer Show segment below, in which he describes the first episode of Revisionist History as about the question of what it means to be "the first outsider to enter a closed world," starting from the career of British painter Elizabeth Thompson, whose 1874 canvas The Roll Call became, for a time, the most famous image in the country. It broke its female artist into the male-dominated world of painting, and seemed, for an even shorter time, to herald a new era rich with high-profile female painters. "Everyone waits and waits for the revolution to happen," Gladwell says, already into his characteristic storytelling mode, "and it never happens."
Lehrer reacts to Gladwell's choice of the story of "the first woman to break through in a male-dominated field" with the obvious question: "Is that a coincidence?" It is absolutely not a coincidence, Gladwell replies, going on to connect the phenomenon in question to not just modern figures like Hillary Clinton but Barack Obama, Julia Gillard, and Margaret Thatcher as well, and in the podcast itself surely many others besides. He also hints at an episode later in the season that begins with an obscure Elvis Costello song — and a "terrible" one at that, he adds — and uses it "as a way of finding out how creativity works, and how an awful lot of what we consider works of genius had an incredibly circuitous path to greatness," ending up at a gallery looking at Cézannes.
You can sign up for episode updates at the official Revisionist History site. The show comes as a product of Panoply, the podcast network of The Slate Group, and its first season promises slick production in addition to the kind of compelling stories and memorable social-science insights with which Gladwell has made himself famous. And we shouldn't ignore his talent for marketing, either, fully in evidence from nothing more than the tagline he speaks in the trailer: "Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance." All this together sounds like more than a good reason to give his podcast a first one.
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PhiladelphiaPosted by Ann at 9:30 AM
We are a bit out of order chronologically, but we spent a couple days in Philadelphia recently and loved it! Sadly our friends the Nuttalls who live there are in Mexico City, but they are letting us borrow their car and apartment (which is one of the coolest apartments I have ever seen!)
In the above photo, we were impressed by the masonry at the Masonic Temple.
Brian and Colin reenacting some fighting behind Independence Hall. We told Colin the story of naughty King George who was mean to the people here so they had to fight for their own country. We were also able to see some old friends from Indiana but sadly did not get any photos. Good times.
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One-fourth of the college students surveyed said they owned a tablet, compared with just 7 percent last year. Sixty-three percent of college students believe tablets will replace textbooks in the next five years—a 15 percent increase over last year's survey. More than a third said they intended to buy a tablet sometime in the next six months.Also, I read with inerest yesterday that the start-up company SalesCrunch had made an unsolicited bid for Cisco's WebEx. SalesCrunch's plan, if successful would be to "grab Cisco's WebEx assets, including its engineering teams, and put them to work on building out SalesCrunch."
This year's poll also found that the respondents preferred digital books over printed ones. It's a reversal of last year's results and goes against findings of other recent studies, which concluded that students tend to choose printed textbooks. The new survey found that nearly six in 10 students preferred digital books when reading for class, compared with one-third who said they preferred printed textbooks.
This is not as crazy as it might sound really, as SalesCrunch is really a more modern and social conferencing solution than WebEx. Think of it as WebEx meets Web 2.0, with critical social networking tools and feedback analytics. By acquiring WebEx engineering and its user base, SalesCrunch could transform itself overnight into a worldwide social business solution.
Now, while I use WebEx for company presentations and therefore have a bit at stake in such an acquisition, what really interests me is how this pattern -- newer, more modern versions of workforce platforms acquiring the legacy versions to help them scale -- might play out in education. Take the LMS market, for example. It would be exciting if a LoudCloud or Instructure were to acquire BlackBoard's LMS platform business Or, what about the publishing industry. How might the market change if a digital-first start-up publisher like Flat World Knowledge acquired Cengage or at least its core Higher Education list?
This is likely a ways off, but no one should be surprised if and when it happens. Legacy LMS and publishing platforms were designed and constructed on old notions of pedagogy, the Web, and business. Eventually, one of the next-generation solutions is more than likely to make a legacy acquisition to grow its user base and to scale its growth.
Speaking of legacy products, did you catch the new yesterday that Encyclopaedia Britannica has dropped its print products and will now be digital only? Check out the infographic below for more Britannica information. And no, going digital only does not mean that it will be free (like Wikipedia).
One of the areas where the premium Britannica reference hopes to differentiate itself is in the mobile space. The entire Encyclopaedia Britannica package is also accessible through an app for the iPad and iPhone, which is a great platform choice considering comScore's latest stats on mobile platform usage. According to that company's latest chart, Apple iOS is still controlling more than 60% of mobile Web traffic.
This may seem a little surprising, what with all the buzz about Android and its domination in mobile device activations. comScore spokesperson Andrew Lipsman explains it this way. "I think there are two main explanations: 1) iOS includes iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.. iPad in particular provides a big advantage vs. Android; 2). iOS users tend to be heavier media consumers on average."
This is an interesting trend to keep an eye on in education. Another such trend is the surging tablet adoption in the enterprise market, although the news here is better for Android and Microsoft.
Tablet adoption is increasing among corporate tech buyers. ChangeWave Research recently polled a group of 1,604 business IT buyers and found that 22 percent of them planned to purchase tablets for their employees sometime in the second quarter of 2012. Of those, 84 percent say they're likely to buy Apple iPads — an increase of 7 percentage points from ChangeWave's November 2011 survey.Finally, I don't know how I missed this but the Chronicle of Higher Education has delivered a great set of data on graduation rates for 3,800 colleges. I'll have to admit that the stats made me fairly proud of my alma mater, The University of Texas.
Suggested Reading
Tablet Ownership Triples Among College Students - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Start-Up SalesCrunch Makes Unsolicited Bid for Cisco Unit WebEx - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD
Encyclopaedia Britannica drops print and goes digital only | Digital Media - CNET News
CHART OF THE DAY: This Chart Tells The Real Story Of Android Versus iOS
iPad and Kindle Fire both strong in recent quarter, says IDC | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News
Tablet Adoption Surging in Enterprise - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD
College Completion: Graduation Rates and Data for 3,800 Colleges
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5 bratwurst sausages, each punched eight times with a fork
2 cups water
2 cups brown rice
14.5-ounce can of diced tomatoes with garlic onion, and liquid
14.5-ounce can of tomatoes with okra and corn, with liquid
To keep from having a greasy meal I always punch my bratwursts 8 times with a fork, place them on a foil-lined baking dish and bake them at 360 degrees for 45 minutes.
Place the water, brown rice, diced tomatoes and tomatoes, okra and corn with liquids into a large pot. Bring to a simmer and stir occasionally to keep the rice from sticking to the bottom of the pot. If the rice starts to stick, turn down the heat and stir more often.
After the bratwursts have baked 45 minutes slice them into bite-size pieces and stir them into the pot of veggies and rice. Continue simmering and stir occasionally.
Youll need to taste a few grains of rice occasionally to be sure the rice is cooked and soft to the bite. Youll also see the rice has swelled and absorbed the liquids. Thats how you tell when its ready to serve.
Since the liquids have mostly been absorbed, you can serve this on a flat plate instead of using a soup bowl. If you dont have enough liquid to suit you, just add some tomato juice or water while simmering for a more soup-like consistency.
The amount of ingredients listed will make enough for a family meal. You can multiply the ingredients and make enough to feed an army or a football team. The leftovers can be frozen successfully and used at a later date.
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