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Inspiration and Process in Architecture 22 August 2012 Download PDF (Englisch) Moleskine introduces "Inspiration and Process in Architecture", a collection of cloth-bound monographs, curated and edited by Francesca Serrazanetti e Matteo Schubert, exploring the design process of architects. The first four books of the series have been released in December 2011 and feature interviews, writings, drawings and notes from four international architects: Zaha Hadid, Giancarlo De Carlo, BOLLES+WILSON, and Alberto Kalach. Now, two new architects join the collection: Wiel Arets and Cino Zucchi. "Inspiration and Process in Architecture" is a series of monographs on key figures in modern and contemporary architecture. It offers a reading of the practice of design which emphasizes the value of freehand drawing as part of the creative process. Each volume provides a different perspective, revealing secrets and insights and showing the various observation techniques languages, characters, forms and means of communication. The "Inspiration and Process in Architecture " allows an intimate look into the creative process of the architect, and a celebration of the everlasting power of free hand sketching even in the AutoCAD era. With this series Moleskine introduces a new clothbound format inspired by a classic clothbound style first used by typographer Giambattista Bodoni at the end of the 18th century to protect unbound books. The spine of each book is covered in cloth and front and back cover in raw grey cardboard while maintaining distinctive Moleskine features such as the elastic band, round corners, and inner pocket. Each book is designed to allow a 180 degrees flat opening so the reader can enjoy high-quality images on a warm matt paper. The "Inspiration and Process in Architecture " series follows the successful publication of the Moleskine "The Hand of…," series, currently including "The Hand of the Designer", "The Hand of the Architect" and "The Hand of the Graphic Designer". Like its predecessor, the "Inspiration and Process in Architecture " features beautiful photography and takes a close look at the process of design as practices across the world. Download the Full Media Kit here. Please credits photos: Moleskine-Inspiration and Process in Architecture For updates contact: Silvia Trenta (Europe) [email protected] - T.+39 0200680530 Consuelo Romeo (Asia+Australia) [email protected] - T.+852 39752408 Sadé Hooks (Americas) [email protected] - T.+1 646.461.3022 Series and Book Editors Francesca Serrazanetti, Matteo Schubert Zaha Hadid, the founding partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. She is an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts, intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban-scale works through to products, interiors and furniture. Best known for her seminal built works such as Vitra Fire Station, Land Formation-One, Bergisel Ski- Jump, Strasbourg Tram Station, the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, the Ordrupgaard Museum Extension in Copenhagen, and the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg, her central concerns involve a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research. Giancarlo de Carlo Giancarlo de Carlo (1919-2005) was an Italian architect, planner, writer and educator. He was one of the founding members (along with Alison and Peter Smithson, Aldo van Eyck, and Jacob Bakema, among others) of Team X, a group of architects challenging the modernist doctrines as set out by CIAM and was a key figure in the discourse on participation in architecture. Much of de Carlo's built work is located in Urbino, where he proposed a master plan between 1958-64, which has slowly been implemented over the past forty years. Combined with his social housing at Terni, the built work has provided a foundation for his views on the involvement of users and inhabitants in the design process. De Carlo's writings supported this architectural approach; he was editor of the bi-lingual journal, Spazio e Società published beetween1978-2001, An inspiring educator, he also founded the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urbanism (ILAUD). In 1993 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal. He has received a multitude of international awards, honorary degree and the Italian Republic's Gold Medal for Culture. His work has been featured in many solo exhibitions (among these: Triennale di Milano, 1995; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004; MAXXI, Rome, 2005). In 1980, Julia Bolles-Wilson and Peter Wilson set up their architecture practice, the Wilson Partnership, in London, and in 1987 the renamed BOLLES+WILSON transferred its base once and for all to Munster. The practice's main works include: the Suzuki House in Tokyo (the recipient in 1994 of the Gold Medal award from the Institute of Japanese Architects); the Public Library in Munster; the Bridge Watcher's House and the landscaping of the Kop van Zuid harbour in Rotterdam; the Luxor Theatre in Kop van Zuid; the European Library in Milan; the Bibliotheque Nationale of Luxembourg; and the masterplan for Monteluce, Perugia. The practice is currently working on numerous urban-scale projects in the Netherlands. Peter Wilson has lectured in Tokyo, Barcelona,Venice, Amsterdam and Milan. From 1994 to 1996, he served as a professor at the Kunsthochschule fur Gestaltung in Berlin-Weissensee. Since1998, he has been an External Diploma Examiner at the London Architectural Association and at Cambridge University. Born in Mexico, in 1960, Alberto Kalach studied architecture there at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at Cornell University, New York. He lives and works in Mexico City, and his concern about the emerging problems of that immense metropolis is reflected very often in his work. Indeed, it is an integral part of everything he has done, from his $5,000 minimal house, through his housing developments, to the largest project ever conceived for Mexico City, called Mexico Ciudad Futura (Return to the City of Lakes), which embraces the city as a geographical whole. His designs have appeared in numerous specialist journals. Born in Milano in 1955, he graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) in 1978 and at the Politecnico di Milano in 1979, where he is currently Chair Professor of Architectural and Urban Design. He has been visiting professor at the Syracuse University in Florence in 1989 and 1990 and at the ETH in Zurich in 1997 and 1998. His essays and writings appeared in many international magazines and books. He is in the Forum of the architectural magazine "Lotus international" since 1996. He is the author of the books L'architettura dei cortili milanesi 1535-1706 published by Electa in 1989, Asnago e Vender. L'astrazione quotidiana - architetture e progetti 1925-1970 (with F. Cadeo e M. Lattuada), published by Skira in 1999, and is editor of the book Bau-Kunst-Bau published by Clean in 1994. He participated to the organization and exposition design of the XV, XVI, XVIII and XIX Triennale of Milano and his work has been shown in several editions of the Biennale in Venice. He has designed many industrial, residential and public buildings, a number of projects for public spaces, renewal of agricultural, industrial and historical areas, master plans and submissions to many national and international competitions. Major recent works include the large master plan for the Keski Pasila area, Helsinki, residential and office buildings for the former Alfa Romeo-Portello area, Milano, the U15 office building in Assago (Milano), the Salewa Headquarters in Bozen, the new Lavazza headquarters in Turin and the extension and renovation of the Turin National Car Museum. His works have been selected for or awarded prizes in the Premio nazionale di architettura "Luigi Cosenza"1992 and 1994, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture 2001, Piranesi Award 2001, Medaglia d'oro all'architettura italiana 1995-2003, 2004-2006 and 2009, Brick Award 2004, "Comune di Venezia" Architecture Award 2005, ECOLA Award 2008 in the category "Black Bread Architecture", the International Award Architecture in Stone 2009, the InArch/Ance Award 2011 and the US Award 2011. Born in Heerlen, the Netherlands, in 1955. His father was a printer, his mother a fashion designer. From them he learned the love of books and reading, as well as a deep respect for craft, materials, and making. One of Arets' grandfathers was a farmer, from whom he learned a respect for the landscape, while his other grandfather was a mining engineer, from whom he gained an interest in technology. Arets decided to focus on architecture after his grandfather gave him a book on the history of the Dutch house. Among the writers who most inspired Arets were Paul Valéry, whose Cahiers Arets read in the original French, and Giorgio Grassi, whose La costruzione logica dell'architettura Arets translated into Dutch while a student. In addition, Arets has always been inspired by the works and thinking of the filmmaker Jean- Luc Godard. Upon graduating from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1983, Arets went on a six-week research trip to Japan, where he met and wrote articles for the Dutch magazine "de Architect" on the work of Ando, Maki, Shinohara, Hasegawa, Yamamoto. He soon opened his own office in Heerlen. Among his early works, the Academy of Art and Architecture in Maastricht (1989–93) and the AZL Pension Fund Headquarters in Heerlen (1990–95), both of which received international awards. His work also received the Rotterdam Maaskant Award of 1989, the Mies van der Rohe Award "Emerging Architect" in 1994. Starting in 1986, Arets taught at the Architecture Academies of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, at the Architectural Association (AA) in London (1988–92) at Columbia University in NYC (1991–94) and at the Cooper Union, also in NYC. From 1995–2002, Arets was the Dean of the Berlage Institute School of Architecture. Since 2004, Arets has been a tenured Professor at the UdK, Berlin. He is also on the Advisory Council for the Princeton University School of Architecture. Starting from 2001 he has designed almost 100 products for the Italian company Alessi. In 2005 he received the Rietveld Prize for designing the Utrecht University Library and the BNA Kubus Award for his entire oeuvre. In 2009 he received the Good Design Award for his Alessi designs. Over the last 18 years, Arets has designed and built a series of innovative urban multi-family housing projects, including the Four Towers Osdorp project in Amsterdam, for which Arets received the Amsterdam Architecture Prize in 2010. In 2011 Arets recieved the Contract- World Award for the V Tower in Eindhoven.

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While we’ve been told all of our lives Wiis and trains just don’t mix, they never said anything about Wii Nunchuks. One terribly abused joke later, [Ken] tipped us off about his Wii Nunchuk controlled train set. By utilizing Digital Command Control (think pulse-width modulation) with an Arduino, he is able to have full control over the trains direction and speed. The other part of the equation is a Wii Nunchuk and adapter. The setup should be pretty self explanatory, but there is an Instructable for those that need more help.

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Get News & Views Updates The press releases posted here have been submitted by For further information or to comment on this press release, please contact the organization directly. Most Popular This Week Today's Top News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Iraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions of Dollars Later Time for Truth and Reconciliation WASHINGTON - October 2 - Ten years ago today the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush Administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eight Americans were killed. More than 33,000 were injured. As many as 1,000,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were killed. The monetary cost of the war to Iraq is incalculable. A sectarian civil war has ravaged Iraq for nearly a decade. Iraq has become home to Al Qaeda. The war in Iraq was sold to Congress and the American people with easily disproved lies. We must learn from this dark period in American history to ensure that we do not repeat the same mistakes. And we must hold accountable those who misled the American public. On October 2, 2002, the day the legislation to authorize war in Iraq was introduced, I sent and personally distributed a memo to my colleagues in Congress refuting point-by-point every reason given by the Bush Administration to go to war. On October 3, 2002, I held a press conference with 25 Members of Congress and then presented an hour long explanation to Congress on the House Floor, refuting the lies upon which the cause of war was predicated. It was clear from information publicly available at the time that Iraq did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), that Iraq had no connection to 9/11, and that Iraq was not a threat to the United States. Anyone who wanted to look could have seen the same information that I did. Yet some of America's top political leaders bought into the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld drumbeat of war. Two leading Democrats were among those taken in by the White House hype and the WMD argument: “I believe the facts that have brought us to this fateful vote are not in doubt. Saddam Hussein is a tyrant who has tortured and killed his own people ... [I]ntelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort and sanctuary to terrorists including Al Qaeda members.” Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), October 10, 2002. “September 11 was the ultimate wake-up call. We must now do everything in our power to prevent further terrorist attacks and ensure that an attack with a weapon of mass destruction cannot happen. … the first candidate we must worry about is Iraq… [Saddam Hussein] continues to develop weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear devices.” Leader of the Democratic Caucus in the House, Richard Gephardt (D-MO), October 10, 2002. Even the most trusted newspapers around the country blindly repeated as fact grossly incorrect assertions by leaders of both parties. “No further debate is needed to establish that Saddam Hussein is an evil dictator whose continued effort to build unconventional weapons in defiance of clear United Nations prohibitions threatens the Middle East and beyond.” The New York Times, Editorial Board, October 3, 2002. Notwithstanding the blizzard of disinformation, one hundred thirty three Members of Congress voted against the resolution that authorized the use of military force in Iraq, including nearly two-thirds of the Democratic Caucus in the House. Seven Republicans, including Ron Paul (R-TX), also voted against the resolution. In the Senate, the vote was 77 to 23 in favor of a war of choice. Ten years ago Congress voted to wage war on a nation that did not attack us. That decision undermined our fiscal and national security. To this day we are suffering from the blowback. While most of the troops are home, the United States maintains a significant presence in Iraq through the State Department and its thousands of private security contractors. The war against Iraq was based on lies. Thousands of Americans and perhaps a million Iraqis were sacrificed for those lies. The war in Afghanistan continues. New wars have been propagated in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia pursuant to the never-ending "War on Terror". This mindset puts us at the edge of war against Iran. Ten years and trillions of dollars later, the American people by and large still do not know the truth. It is time to usher in a new period of truth and reconciliation.

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January 12, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Nearly four months after the New England Compounding Center (NECC) issued a recall on three lots of its Methylprednisolone Acetate injections, new cases of fungal meningitis and other infections caused by the tainted drug are still surfacing. Methylprednisolone Acetate is an injectable steroid that is used primarily to treat patients with chronic lower back pain. The predominant contaminant in the outbreak is believed to be a black mold called Exserohilum. The pathogens were allowed to contaminate the recalled lots of steroid injections sometime during the compounding process, causing fungal meningitis and other types of infections in some patients who received the shots. Throughout the country, as many as 14,000 patients were exposed to the contaminated steroid injections Latest update: affected patients in Minnesota and nationwide As of January 9, 2013, there have been 664 reported cases of infections linked to the contaminated steroid injections. At least 40 of these infections have been fatal. While fungal meningitis is receiving the most media attention, spinal and peripheral joint infections near the injection site have also been widely observed. What's more, while reported meningitis cases are beginning to wane, spinal infections linked to the tainted steroids are actually on the rise since they can take longer to detect. In Minnesota, 10 patients have contracted meningitis since the beginning of the outbreak in late September. There have been two additional reports of spinal infections connected to the tainted steroids. Six different Minnesota medical facilities received Methylprednisolone Acetate from the three recalled lots: the MAPS Medical Pain Clinics in Minneapolis, Fridley, Shakopee and Maple Grove, and the Minnesota Surgery Centers in Edina and Maple Grove. However, in the wake of the devastation caused by the meningitis outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it cannot verify the safety of other drugs made at the New England Compounding Center. At least 111 Minnesota hospitals and clinics received other drugs from the NECC, including prominent health care providers like Allina Medical Clinics and the Mayo Clinic Health Systems. Should there be additional oversight for compounding pharmacies? Over the last few months, the FDA has been scrambling to address major systematic concerns raised by the fungal meningitis outbreak. In late December, the agency held a hearing to help establish a framework for how the federal government and states should regulate compounding pharmacies in the future. Currently, it is up to state pharmacy boards to oversee compounding pharmacies, but many compounding pharmacies are evolving from local operations into large-scale distributors with clients in several states. While some states are already tightening regulatory oversight on compounders operating with their borders, the recent outbreak has the FDA asking if additional federal supervision may be required. Feds call for MRIs for any patient who received steroid shots but did not improve On the individual level, government agencies have been struggling to keep up with the rising tide of patient complaints. On December 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged doctors to consider MRI scans for patients whose existing pain simply did not get better following injection; previous recommendations had only called for MRIs if patients exhibited new or worsening symptoms. "We know we're not out of the woods," Dr. Tom Chiller, the deputy chief of the mycotic disease branch of the CDC told The New York Times. "People could still be harboring or developing infections in their spines now." Contact a lawyer if you've been notified that you received a tainted shot If you've been notified that you received a contaminated injection, you may be entitled to compensation even if you did not develop meningitis. Additional treatment and testing expenses, as well as personal anxiety, are real costs even to those who did not develop a more serious illness. One way to help prevent similar outbreaks in the future is to hold those who caused the string of meningitis and spinal infections accountable for their actions. If you received a tainted steroid shot, it is important to learn more about your rights by contacting a steroid injection lawyer in your area. Article provided by GoldenbergLaw, PLLC Visit us at www.goldenberglaw.com--- Press release service and press release distribution provided by http://www.24-7pressrelease.com # # #Read more Press Releases from FL Web Advantage:

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Some rocks have a rough-and-tumble life. But that's not such a bad thing. A tumbled rock loses its rough exterior and gains a smooth and shiny appearance. If you're ready to unleash your inner geologist, read our selection of informative articles about what to look for when buying a rock tumbler, rock-tumbling tips, and other topics to help you turn rocks into lovely, polished treasures. At RockTumblers.com, we want you to have all the supplies and information you need to help you make the most of this fascinating and fun activity. As with most new hobbies, you might have a bit of a rocky start at first. But with time and practice, you're bound to become a bona fide rock tumbling star. It takes more than a little spit-shine to get rocks looking their best. Learn some of the basics of rock polishing here to find out if this rewarding, educational hobby is a good fit for you or your children. You can buy all the stones you need for rock tumbling, but if you're looking to enhance the fun, consider scouring the great outdoors for your own rocks to tumble. Collecting rocks is an equally interesting activity. Who knows, you might just end up with two new favorite hobbies. You're interested in rock tumbling, but you haven't a clue where to begin. Don't worry. We've got you covered. To help you get started in rock tumbling, read our guide below. In the world of rock tumblers, one size doesn't fit all. Not all rock tumblers are made for everyone, so it's important to choose the right tumbler to suit your needs and skill level. Doing so will help ensure that your new hobby is fun instead of frustrating.

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Obama is holding his first prime time news conference. (Getty Images) (CNN) - President Obama made the points he needs to make to the American public: If we don’t act now, this economic crisis will become a catastrophe. He also made the philosophical point that tax cuts alone cannot solve this problem, as some Republicans suggest. He conceded that we can't depend on government alone to solve the problems, but made the point that only government is large enough to solve the problems of this size.

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Many of us, and our children, have become so used to white bread that we don’t like the flavor of natural, whole wheat bread. Switching from white bread to whole wheat bread is easy if you if you bake your own bread. The trick to switching to whole wheat bread is to make the change slow. Begin with a basic white bread recipe. Replace 1/4 cup bread flour with 1/4 cup whole wheat flour. Serve this bread to your family for a month or two. Children probably won’t even notice that there is whole wheat flour in the bread they are eating. Gradually increase the amount of whole wheat flour, a quarter cup at a time. In a few months, you will be able to make and serve light wheat breads to your family without shocking their taste buds.

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All new articles are now appearing in the new blog entitled 2012-13 and there will be no further updates here although all the older content from previous posts is still right here and has not been deleted. | || | In this second article on team tactics I take a look at some of the principles behind corner taking. From how to take a corner for its best affect to attacking a corner, defending a corner and corners at desperate times in a game. The article also covers the importance of the goalkeeper in these set plays and lays down what a goalkeeper should and should not be in these situations and in fact all others through the course of a game. A golden rule from a corner is for the corner taker - keep it in play, get in the danger area, make the keeper work for it and make sure it gets past the near post. For defence it is knowing that the keeper is #1, be aware of ALL threats and mix and match zonal and man-marking. | || | This is the first in a set of articles I am writing covering tactics within the game. This particular article deals with formations and the possible conception that the game is basically simple and that there are only a handful of possible formations. This article is written in mind for those who do not necessarily have a grasp on the game that they may think or may want to learn more about some of the basics. This article does start with the basics of formations but does prove in just six pages how many branches from each main formation that there is enabling the reader to realise that there might be a lot more to it than they first thought! | || | Times have changed in recent years with the rules of regulations of the game being constantly updated and more complicated in some areas. More than anybody, these seem to affect the local teams club linesman who probably has not received the benefits of any training and apart from a couple of minutes with the referee prior to kick-off in his local park has no further information available to him. Long gone are the days when an offside decision was made purely by looking across the park and if a player was goal side of the last defender. This article looks at the different type of linesmen there are at local levels and how the latest offside laws in particular have probably made running the line at any level a much more difficult task. | || | Each year that seems to pass, the FA Cup loses a little bit more of its old traditions. This year was no exception with the kick-off time being moved to 5.15pm on the Saturday afternoon. In this article I talk about some of my old memories of Cup Final Day as it was back in the day and how the modern game and the Premier League would seemingly love to kill this competition stone dead if they were given half the chance. As it is, it has already diminished beyond recognition from its golden days - a period that basically lasted from when the cup began in the 19th century right up to when the Premier League started and the lust for cash from our clubs took over for good. | || | This week has proved to be a fantastic week for Chelsea football club - on a magnitude that they have never reached before. This article was written the day after their success in knocking Barcelona out of the Champions League and forces me to state that in my opinion that this is not just Chelsea's greatest night in Europe - but the greatest night of any English team in Europe ever - and I explain my reasons why I have said this inside. In this article - I take a good, long look at those grass roots teams that I will classify as pot-hunters. These are the clubs that fill their team full of players more than capable of playing at a much higher level and are only playing at this level for cups and medals. It personally infuriated me so much at one point then when we came to play one of them I came close to forfeiting the game, taking the fine and handing them the points rather than actually taking to the field. I did not follow through with my threat although I do think about it every now and again as the damage it caused us shook any possible form that we had going into our next game. On top of that - if every team followed suit then the pot hunters would still win the league but with every team refusing to play them then surely it would be a waste of their time and a complete embarrassment to the league. If clubs stand together, only then will a distinct message finally get across to the powers that be. This article covers some of the history of crowd disorder at Millwall football club but also poses the question are they solely responsible either as a football problem or one of society.Video relating to this post can be found here which is a post in the brutal/violent blog. Just for a bit of fun, this article takes our imagination from a reality show on TV, I have switched it to a hand-picked bunch of football campers ready to go into the gruesome jungle. The fireworks would fly with this lot but it would also be riveting TV! In this article I write about some of the current problems in the game with racism and try and track to where they are all coming from in reality.

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LAS VEGAS, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With over 7 billion mouths to feed globally, the demand for protein continues to rise. Hardly surprising then, that the hunt for protein alternatives is gathering pace. Intellectual property development and patent activity is on the rise, according to new data to be presented by Innova Market Insights at this year's IFT Food Expo in Las Vegas (26-28 June, 2012). The market researcher found that the US accounted for over 40% of recent alternative protein patent activity [1980-2011]. The race to find alternative protein solutions is well underway. Traditional areas like soy wheat, lupin and chickpeas are being examined again as healthy and sustainable solutions. While soy continues to dominate in terms of vegetable proteins, a range of new products is starting to appear, based on other beans, as well as nuts, seeds, grains and vegetables. New techniques are also being developed to enhance the texture, juiciness and flavor of meat analogs and proteins. Consumers are changing too, perhaps in an attempt to be part of a sustainable future. "We see the emergence of a flexible vegetarian or 'flexetarian,'" says Lu Ann Williams, Director of Innovation at Innova Market Insights. "These consumers enjoy meat, but occasionally opt out due to their concerns about health and the environmental impact of heavy meat consumption." New US launch examples include Bolthouse Farms' addition of a Blended Coffee variant to its Protein Plus range of all-natural shakes. This contains a proprietary blend of whey and soy proteins for improved performance. Coca-Cola subsidiary Odwalla has extended its Super Protein and Protein Monster soy and dairy protein drinks ranges with Strawberry and Vanilla variants in the Protein Monster series and Mango and Pumpkin variants in Super Protein. Other recent US activity has included an extension of the Atkins Advantage low carb meal replacement bar range with Chocolate Orange and Chocolate Brownie variants. Balance Bar has introduced a Cookie Dough variant to its Original sub-range. All featured soy protein as the key protein ingredient, although the products tend to be marketed on a more general health and everyday performance positioning. Proteins, such as soy, are also being marketed on a health platform, functioning as part of the solution to tackle the obesity epidemic. Innova Market Insights report that over one-third of the tracked launches marketed on an "added protein" platform in the 12 month period to the end of March 2012 contained soy. Taste the Trend 2012 (Las Vegas) Innova Market Insights' Taste the Trend Pavilion, now in its 8th edition, is always a top draw at the IFT Food Expo. Taste the Trend 2012 will include six giant presentations [including "Alternative Proteins"], with key data on ingredient technology, new product trends and consumer insights. Taste the Trend 2012 will be further boosted by 27 smaller presentations broken down into the "Packaging & Technology," "Ingredients & Flavors" and "Consumer Insights" categories. The market researcher will also demonstrate over 200 innovative products from around the world to showcase top innovation at this year's IFT Food Expo. Contact: Lu Ann Williams For more information about Innova Market Insights, please visit: SOURCE Innova Market Insights

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When news happens, text AND and your photos or videos to 80360. Or contact us by email and phone. Jubilee sundial unveiled at almshouses A SUNDIAL and bird bath were unveiled at an historic row of houses in Basingstoke to commemorate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Councillor Martin Biermann, Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane, revealed the new feature in the gardens of the almshouses, by pulling away a Union flag. The £200 sundial, which is surrounded by water, was paid for by Basingstoke Charities, which manages the almshouses, in London Street. The eight houses have been at Top of The Town for around 400 years, and are given to people to live in for a minimal rent. David Ball, treasurer of Basingstoke Charities, said: “The trustees decided that they wanted to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee so put in a sundial in the gardens of the almshouses. “The mayor came along and unveiled it. The almshouses are an important historical feature of the town and we do try to commemorate events such as this.” The 52-year-old, from Tadley, added: “The sundial looks great. The residents like having the birds visiting in the garden.”

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In many cases corticosteroids (often a drug called Prednisolone) can help the red cell production in DBA patients, though even when effective there can be adverse side-effects to treatment in both the short and long term, especially at higher doses. Often treatment starts with a high dose to trigger a response with this dose then being reduced to see if the response can be maintained. So, even for patients where there is an initial response it may not be possible to continue long term treatment. Some DBA patients show no response at all. It is not clear why some patients respond to corticosteroids and some do not. Some patients do continue on long term steroid treatment without the need for blood transfusions as determined by their consultant in their individual case. For further information a full guide on Steroid Treatment in DBA prepared by the CDC (a US organisation) is available. DBA UK is not a medical charity and is not qualified to give medical advice on DBA. Please talk with your doctor or health care provider if you are worried about corticosteroid treatment. However, if you would like to talk to other DBA patients and families who may have been in the same position as you then please contact us.

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Matthews Residence - Will Bruder Architect - Adobe 107th Ave and Montecito Architecture: will bruder + partners ltd The Matthews Residence was designed by architect Will Bruder and was constructed between 1979-1980. it was the recipient of the 1983 Environmental Excellence Award. A curvilinear adaptation of a Southwestern courtyard home, it features stabilized Adobe construction & curved walls to minimize sun exposure. Spanning a double cul-de-sac lot it is located in a suburban setting on the west part of Phoenix. An interesting play of both large and intimate spaces that interact with geometry of pure curves heightened by the great sense of light, compression and release found in the design. A strip skylight flows from the entry and adds a wonderful element to the space, this light-play also brings to the forefront the interaction of the rather rough material elements of the Adobe and Concrete floors, against the rather refined Oak and Galvanized steel details. this is the only Bruder home we know of that was ever constructed from Adobe. The way it was handled is extremely interesting, making this quite a unique home and one of our favorite Bruder designs.

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Mumbai Under Siege by Yoginder Sikand “O ye who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.” (The Quran, Surah Al-Maida: 8) Numerous theories are doing the rounds about the dastardly terrorist assault on Mumbai. The dominant view, based on what is being suggested by the media, is that this is the handiwork of the dreaded Pakistan-based self-styled Islamist and terrorist outfit Lashkar-e Tayyeba, which, ever since it was ostensibly proscribed by the Government of Pakistan some years ago, has adopted the name of Jamaat ud-Dawah. This might well be the case, for the Lashkar has been responsible for numerous such terrorist attacks in recent years, particularly in Kashmir. The Lashkar is the military wing of the Markaz Dawat wal Irshad, an outfit floated by a section of the Pakistani Ahl-e Hadith, a group with close affiliations to the Saudi Wahhabis. It has its headquarters at the town of Muridke in the Gujranwala district in Pakistani Punjab. The Markaz was established in 1986 by two Pakistani university professors, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Zafar Iqbal. They were assisted by Abdullah Azam, a close aide of Osama bin Laden, who was then associated with the International Islamic University in Islamabad. Funds for setting up the organization are said to have come from Pakistan’s dreaded official secret services agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). From its inception, it is thus clear, the Lashkar had the support of the Pakistani establishment. The Lashkar started out as a paramilitary organisation to train warriors to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Soon it spawned dozens of camps across Pakistan and Afghanistan for this purpose. Militants produced at these centres have played a major role in armed struggles, first in Afghanistan, and then in Bosnia, Chechenya, Kosovo, the southern Philippines and Kashmir. Like other radical Islamist groups, the Lashkar sees Islam as an all-embracing system. It regards Islam as governing all aspects of personal as well as collective life, in the form of the shariah. For the establishing of an Islamic system, it insists, an ‘Islamic state’ is necessary, which will impose the shariah as the law of the land. If, the official website of the Lashkar announces, such a state were to be set up and all Muslims were to live strictly according to ‘the laws that Allah has laid down’, then, it is believed, ‘they would be able to control the whole world and exercise their supremacy’. And for this, as well as to respond to the oppression that it claims that Muslims in large parts of the world are suffering, it insists that all Muslims must take to armed jihad. Armed jihad must continue, its website announces, ‘until Islam, as a way of life, dominates the whole world and until Allah’s law is enforced everywhere in the world’. The subject of armed jihad runs right through the writings and pronouncements of the Lashkar and is, in fact, the most prominent theme in its discourse. Indeed, its understanding of Islam may be seen as determined almost wholly by this preoccupation, so much so that its reading of Islam seems to be a product of its own political project, thus effectively ending up equating Islam with terror. Being born as a result of war in Afghanistan, war has become the very raison d’être of the Lashkar, and its subsequent development has been almost entirely determined by this concern. The contours of its ideological framework are constructed in such a way that the theme of armed jihad appears as the central element of its project. In the writings and speeches of Lashkar spokesmen jihad appears as violent conflict (qital) waged against ‘unbelievers’ who are said to be responsible for the oppression of the Muslims. Indeed, the Lashkar projects it as the one of the most central tenets of Islam, although it has traditionally not been included as one of the ‘five pillars’ of the faith. Thus, its website claims that ‘There is so much emphasis on this subject that some commentators and scholars of the Quran have remarked that the topic of the Quran is jihad’. Further, a Lashkar statement declares, ‘There is consensus of opinion among researchers of the Qur’an that no other action has been explained in such great detail as jihad’. In Lashkar discourse, jihad against non-Muslims is projected as a religious duty binding on all Muslims today. Thus the Lashkar’s website claims that a Muslim who has ‘never intended to fight against the disbelievers […] is not without traces of hypocrisy’. Muslims who have the capacity to participate or assist in the jihad but do not do so are said to ‘be living a sinful life’. Not surprisingly, therefore, the Lashkar denounces all Muslims who do not agree with its pernicious and grossly distorted version of Islam and its hideous misinterpretation of jihad—Sufis, Shias, Barelvis and so on—as being ‘deviants’ or outside the pale of Islam or even in league with ‘anti-Islamic forces’. The Lashkar promises its activists that they would receive great rewards, both in this world and in the Hereafter, if they were to actively struggle in the path of jihad. Not only would they be guaranteed a place in Heaven, but they would also ‘be honoured in this world’, for jihad, it claims, is also ‘the way that solves financial and political problems’. Astoundingly bizarre though it is, the Markaz sees itself as engaged in a global jihad against the forces of ‘disbelief’, stopping at nothing short of aiming at the conquest of the entire world. As Nazir Ahmed, in-charge of the public relations department of the Lashkar, once declared, through the so-called jihad that the Lashkar has launched, ‘Islam will be dominant all over the world’. This global war is seen as a solution to all the ills and oppression afflicting all Muslims, and it is claimed that ‘if we want to live with honour and dignity, then we have to return back to jihad’. Through jihad, the Lashkar website says, ‘Islam will be supreme throughout the world’. In Lashkar discourse, its self-styled jihad against India is regarded as nothing less than a war between two different and mutually opposed ideologies: Islam, on the one hand, and Hinduism, on the other. It tars all Hindus with the same brush, as supposed ‘enemies of Islam’. Thus, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Lashkar chief, declares: ‘In fact, the Hindu is a mean enemy and the proper way to deal with him is the one adopted by our forefathers, who crushed them by force. We need to do the same’. India is a major target for the Lashkar’s terrorists. According to Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, ‘The jihad is not about Kashmir only. It encompasses all of India’. Thus, the Lashkar sees its self-styled jihad as going far beyond the borders of Kashmir and spreading through all of India. Its final goal, it says, is to extend Muslim control over what is seen as having once been Muslim land, and, hence, to be brought back under Muslim domination, creating what the Lashkar terms as ‘the Greater Pakistan by dint of jihad’. Thus, at a mammoth congregation of Lashkar supporters in November 1999, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed thundered, ‘Today I announce the break-up of India, Inshallah. We will not rest until the whole of India is dissolved into Pakistan’. The Lashkar, so say media reports, has been trying to drum up support among India’s Muslims, and it may well be that it has managed to find a few recruits to its cause among them. If this is the case, it has probably been prompted by the fact of mounting murderous Hindutva-inspired anti-Muslim pogroms across the country, often abetted by agencies of the state, which has taken a toll of several thousand innocent lives. The fact that no semblance of justice has been delivered in these cases and that the state has not taken any measure to reign in Hindutva terrorism adds further to the deep-seated despondency and despair among many Indian Muslims. This might well be used by self-styled Islamist terror groups, such as the Lashkar, to promote their own agenda. Obviously, therefore, in order to counter the grave threat posed by terror groups such as the Lashkar, the Indian state needs to tackle the menace of Hindutva terror as well, which has now assumed the form of full-blown fascism. Both forms of terrorism feed on each other, and one cannot be tackled without taking on the other as well. Mercifully, and despite the denial of justice to them, the vast majority of the Indian Muslims have refused to fall into the Lashkar’s trap. The flurry of anti-terrorism conferences that have recently been organised by important Indian Islamic groups is evidence of the fact that they regard the Lashkar’s perverse understanding of Islam as being wholly anti-Islamic and as a perversion of their faith. These voices urgently need to be promoted, for they might well be the most effective antidote to Lashkar propaganda. Numerous Indian Islamic scholars I know and have spoken to insist that the Lashkar’s denunciation of all non-Muslims as ‘enemies of Islam’, its fomenting of hatred towards Hindus and India and its understanding of jihad are a complete misrepresentation of Islamic teachings. They bitterly critique its call for a universal Caliphate as foolish wishful thinking. And they are unanimous that, far from serving the cause of the faith they claim to espouse, groups like the Lashkar have done the most heinous damage to the name of Islam, and are to blame, to a very large extent, for mounting Islamophobia globally. At the same time as fingers of suspicion are being pointed at the Lashkar for being behind the recent Mumbai blasts, other questions are being raised in some circles. The significant fact that Hemant Karkare, the brave ATS chief who was killed in the terrorist assault, had been investigating the role of Hindutva terrorist groups in blasts in Malegoan and elsewhere and had received threats for this has not gone un-noticed. Nor has the related fact that the assault on Mumbai happened soon after disturbing revelations began pouring in of the role of Hindutva activists in terror attacks in different parts of India. That the attack on Mumbai has led to the issue of Hindutva-inspired terrorism now being totally sidelined is also significant. And then there is a possible Israeli angle that some are raising. Thus, the widely-read Mumbai-based tabloid Mid-Day, in an article about a building where numerous militants were holed up titled ‘Mumbai Attack: Was Nariman House the Terror Hub?’, states: “The role that Nariman House is coming to play in this entire attack drama is puzzling. Last night, residents ordered close to 100 kilograms of meat and other food, enough to feed an army or a bunch of people for twenty days. Shortly thereafter, the ten odd militants moved in, obviously, indicating that the food and meat was ordered, keeping their visit in mind, another cop added. “One of the militants called up a television news channel and voiced his demands today, but, interestingly, when he was asked where are they all holed up, he said at the Israeli owned Nariman House and they are six of them here”, one of the investigating cops said. Since morning, there has been exchange of gun fire has been going on and the militants seem well equipped to counter the cops fire. To top it, they have food and shelter. One wonders [if] they have the support of the residents, a local Ramrao Shanker said.” A Mossad/Israeli hand in the affair might seem far-fetched to some, but not so to others, who point to the role of Israeli agents in destabilizing a large number of countries as well as possibly operating within some radical Islamist movements, such as a group in Yemen styling itself ‘Islamic Jihad’, said to be responsible for the bombing of the American Embassy in Sanaa, and which is said to have close links with the Israeli intelligence. Some have raised the question if the Mossad or even the CIA might not be directly or otherwise instigating some disillusioned Muslim youth in India, Pakistan or elsewhere to take to terror by playing on Muslim grievances, operating through existing Islamist groups or spawning new ones for this purpose. If this charge is true—although this remains to be conclusively established—the aim might be to further radicalize Muslims so as to provide further pretext for American and Israeli assaults on Islam and Muslim countries. The fact that the CIA had for years been in very close contact with the Pakistani ISI and radical Islamist groups in Pakistan is also being raised in this connection. The possible role of such foreign agencies of being behind some terror attacks that India has witnessed in recent years to further fan anti-Muslim hatred and also to weaken India is also being speculated on in some circles. Whether all this is indeed true needs to be properly investigated. But the fact remains that it appears to be entirely in the interest of the Israeli establishment and powerful forces in America to create instability in India, fan Hindu-Muslim strife, even to the point of driving India and Pakistan to war with each other, and thereby drag India further into the deadly embrace of Zionists and American imperialists. In other words, irrespective of who is behind the deadly attacks on Mumbai, it appears to suit the political interests and agendas of multiple and equally pernicious political forces—Islamist and Hindu radicals, fired by a hate-driven Manichaean vision of the world, but also global imperialist powers that seem to be using the attacks as a means to push India even deeper into their suicidal axis. Sukhia Sab Sansar Khaye Aur Soye Dukhia Sahib Kabir Jagey Aur Roye The world is ‘happy’, eating and sleeping The forlorn Kabir Sahib is awake and weeping

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Bahamas Public Services Union is a very unique Trade Union which looks after the interest of just under 5,ooo members of all categories of workers employed in the various government Ministries, Boards and Corporations throughout The Bahamas. It is the second largest Trade Union in the country. Because it represents the interest of so many people in many wide range occupations, it requires a complex organization to carry out it's functions. We are not white or blue collar union, our membership encompasses workers from the very top to the public service professional ladder to men and women who keep our surroundings clean and keep the vital public services functioning. Are we not unique? The Bahamas Public Services Union like most of the unions in The Bahamas would most likely not be here today were it not for the events of 1942, 1958 and 1988. The Government of that era (1942-1958) refused to recognize the difference between progress and regress, their way of progress was contained and divisiveness among workers. Is history repeating itself?

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What's so amazing about the Bible, and why should we be grateful for it? Twelve arguments from the New Testament for why God became flesh. Suggestions on how to parent rebellious sons and daughters. By looking to God's faithfulness in the past we can have hope for the future. Two birthdays give reason to be thankful because of what they signify about the truth of God’s word. John Piper talks about what he might work on during his current writing leave. John Piper reflects on the insights and errors of Ayn Rand's writings on the 50th anniversary of her best-selling novel. Five suggestions for what dads can do to prevent more abortions. It is not a crime or sin to trespass in order to save a human life. Galatians is the preservation of the gospel for Bethlehem Baptist Church. It is for you. Marry it! The hardships in Lincoln's life drove him toward God, not away from him. 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Can we be a people who embrace with gratitude both the scholarly enterprise and the simple joy of breaking bread together? How does a church become and remain fertile ground for moblizing and supporting missionaries? A church's nerve system needs the divine stimuli that comes through its fingers and toes. Submission to God's authority implies these six beliefs about sexuality. Neither resignation nor triumphalism is a safe place to live and minister. An invitation to a lecture on the importance of higher education. Thirty-two evidences from Scripture that God loves his own glory most. How to pray huge, general prayers without them sounding vague or stale. Through his writings, Bill Piper holds out a timely word to us saints who are still in the world. Pastor John meditates and prays about his oldest son and their future. Be inspired by Mary, but don't venerate her more than the New Testament does. What might a church's ministry become if its members served for years on end? 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Bidders buy Bonnie and Clyde memorabilia at gangster auction NASHUA, N.H. (WHDH) -- At a gangster-themed auction, one collector spent more than half a million dollars for the guns Bonnie and Clyde were carrying when they were ambushed and killed by police in 1934. “I think the fact the guns are staying together is profound and speaks to the relationship of bonnie and Clyde,” said Bobby Livington, who attended the auction. An anonymous bidder spent $264,000 for Bonnie Parker's .38 revolver and $240,000 for Clyde Barrow's colt .45, the two prized pieces in Sunday’s auction in Nashua, New Hampshire. Bonnie and Clyde memorabilia made up most of the 135 items up for bid in the auction. “They’ve come to represent more than historical figures. Any time a man and woman commit a crime, they're always called the modern day Bonnie and Clyde, so they're really synonymous with inter-gender outlawry nowadays,” said historian, Jonathon Davis. These guns and other items went for so much money even Clyde Barrow's own family seemed surprised. “I’m amazed. I never dreamed that this stuff would sell, and that much interest believe me, because when I was growing up, it was taboo subject,” said Buddy Barrow, Clyde’s nephew. Buddy made the trip up from Dallas where the entire Barrow family still lives. For him, many of these pieces are priceless, like a letter sent by Clyde. Beyond Bonnie and Clyde, also on the auction block were guns from Al Capone, Lucky Luciano's humidor and John Dillinger memorabilia. It all sold for $1.1 million.

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According to a Kaiser Health News report: Wal-Mart — the nation’s largest retailer and biggest private employer — now wants to dominate a growing part of the health care market, offering a range of medical services from basic prevention to management of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, according to a document obtained by NPR and Kaiser Health News. But then the next day, according to Kaiser, the company started backtracking: The only thing the company would say for certain is: “we are not building a national, integrated, low-cost primary care health care platform,” according to the statement from to John Agwunobi, senior vice president and president of Wal-Mart U.S. Health & Wellness. I’ll get to what Wal-Mart might be thinking in a minute. First questions first: Can Wal-Mart provide care that is of higher quality and lower cost than conventional provision? If so, how? My answer: Wal-Mart can indeed improve on the current system. But here’s the catch. It can do so only if it continues doing what it and other retail medical outlets are already doing: ignore the third-party payers. Almost everything that’s wrong with our health care system is the direct result of third-party payment; and some of the most striking examples of efficient care are emerging in those parts of the market where third-party payment is either nonexistent or of marginal importance. So as not to be misunderstood, I am not saying that our problems are being created by health insurance. There is nothing in principle wrong with insurance. The source of our problems is using insurance companies to pay medical bills. It’s insurance companies acting pro emptore — in place of the buyer. Life insurance, for example, plays a useful social function. But we don’t use life insurance to pay for coffins, caskets and funeral services. There is a lot wrong with the funeral industry. But none of it is caused by life insurance. As I previously wrote in response to a comment by Uwe Reinhardt: I have life insurance. But when I die, the insurer is not going to pay for my autopsy, my cremation, the urn that will hold my ashes, or the cost of the plane needed to sprinkle my ashes over the Princeton University football field (or some other suitable place). Instead, my wife will get a check. When insurers become buyers of care instead of insurers of care a number of things begin to change, all of them bad: - The provider becomes the agent of the third-party payer, rather than the agent of the patient — even shaping the practice of medicine to the third-party’s view of how it should be practiced. - The provider no longer competes for patients based on price. - Absent price competition, the provider no longer competes for patients based on quality. - Overall, the provider’s incentive is to maximize against reimbursement formulas rather than provide low-cost, high-quality care. Most people (even most health policy experts) have no idea the extent to which third-party payment makes efficient provision of medical care impossible. Here is an excerpt from one of my previous posts: Misa and his team thought they had the solution: a “concept clinic” that uses doctors for only the most complex cases, and steers most patients to nurse practitioners and physician assistants… Then they did the calculations: What if Park Nicollet had used this model in 2009, when it had about a million total patient visits to primary care; and if everyone had paid Medicare rates? They discovered that the concept clinic would have run at a 40 percent loss; about the same as the current model… The problem, in part, is that Medicare payments also drop under this kind of model; it pays less for visits with nurse practitioners than doctors. That ate up any savings. The perverse incentives work both ways. They not only discourage conventional sources of care from becoming efficient, they discourage efficient care givers from accepting patients who rely on third parties to pay their medical bills. As Tom Saving and I wrote in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year, most walk-in clinics won’t accept Medicare enrollees and almost none accept Medicaid enrollees because of their low payment rates. (Yet if Medicare and Medicaid would pay the market price — or allow the patient to pay a “balanced bill” to reach the market price — care would be more accessible for the elderly, the poor and the disabled and the government would save a lot of money in the process!) Fortunately (at least for efficiency’s sake) a lot of people are paying for a lot of care out of their own pockets or out of medical savings accounts of one sort or another. As a result, there are about 1,300 walk-in clinics nationwide (see the graph below via Sarah Kliff at Ezra Klein’s blog). These include about 140 Wal-Mart clinics, CVS Caremark’s nearly 550 Minute Clinics and Walgreen’s 355 Take Care clinics. All of these clinics post prices; they keep records electronically; most can prescribe electronically; and, according to one study, they provide more reliable care than conventional primary care physician’s offices. [See our previous reports here, here and here.] So what is Wal-Mart up to? I previously reported that a lot has been going on at Sam’s Club — generally below the health media radar screen. For example, in June they offered the following screenings to male customers at no charge: - BMI Index measurements, - Blood pressure tests, - Cholesterol readings, - PSA (prostate cancer) tests, and - TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) tests. And, here’s the schedule they have been following since then: - July: Kids Health Screenings - August: Vision Health Screenings - September: Diabetes Screenings - October: Women’s Health Screenings - November: Digestive Health Screenings Wal-Mart is clearly testing the waters. John C. Goodman, PhD, is president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis. He is also the Kellye Wright Fellow in health care. His Health Policy Blog is considered among the top conservative health care blogs where health care problems are discussed by top health policy experts from all sides of the political spectrum.

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Motorists in Stratford are increasingly getting ticketed for illegally passing school buses since a new program launched last October designed to deter such action. From November 2012 through January 2013, Stratford police issued 46 illegal passing citations, compared to just five during the 10-month span January 2012 through October 2012, police tell the Stratford Star. Stratford entered into a contract with SmartBus during a Town Council meeting in October after a company representative outlined the program to town officials. SmartBus pays for the installation of the cameras (three per bus), and monitors the video live, explained Alfred Cardi. The program comes at no cost to the town, save for the time it takes police officers to review video complaints on SmartBus's website before issuing a citation, if they feel one is warranted. Violators are slapped with a $465 fine (set by Connecticut state statutes, according to a school official), with $125 going to the town, Cardi said. "We're trying to change the behavior [of offending motorists] by creating a deterrent," he said. "This is not about traffic, this is about keeping kids safe." The program started as a pilot and is now operating on five public school buses in the district, according to the Star. At the October meeting, Cardi said the buses already outfitted with the equipment were averaging at least one violation per day. Twenty to 50 percent of the district's buses could be rigged, depending on what studies and analysis reveal about traffic patterns, the SmartBus representative said.

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The Snowpatch Route on Spowpatch Spire in the Bugaboos is a classic if for no other reason in that it is one of the most prominent and visible routes from the Kain Hut. It runs up the left side of the eastern face of Snowpatch Spire and descends the western face. Most of Snowpatch’s viable “free” routes are on its western face. Therefore, the Snowpatch Route offers one of the more easily accessible alpine moderate routes in all of the Bugaboos. A competent team can run up the route fairly fast by simul-climbing much of the middle portion of the route which angles past the left side of Snowpatch’s namesake, a large patch of ice and snow hung on the left side of the east face. This route was part of a planned attempt by my partner and I to traverse up and over Snowpatch Spire, Pigeon Spire and the South Howser Tower stashing gear along the way. Snowpatch Route is one of the more historical routes in Bugaboo Glacier Provincial Park, established in 1940 by Jack Arnold and Raffi Bedayn. The access to this route was snow and ice free in 2009 and even though we carried our crampons to the summit, we actually never put them on the entire climb or descent, instead groveling down the Pigeon Fork-Bugaboo Glacier, moving off the ice and onto the moraine as soon as possible. We did not carry alpine axes at all. We soloed the first three short pitches of the Snowpatch Route as laid out in the guidebook, “The Bugaboos, One of the World’s Great Alpine Rockclimbing Centres.” Then follow two mid 5th class pitches that run up dihedrals, the granite vastly improving from the 4th pitch to the 5th pitch. The 6th pitch offers a fantastic mid 5th class hand rail on granite slab. The next seven pitches can be simul-climbed and offer little in the way of resistance up the granite slabs, past the “snowpatch” and up to what is referred to as the “inverted pear”. The next pitch sets up the more difficult climbing of the route which follows with three pitches offering a variety of 5.8 cruxes. The final couple of pitches can be simul-climbed or soled to the summit notch where the Kraus-McCarthy rap chains, your eventual descent down the west face, are in clear view as you top out at the summit saddle. In 2009 there was quite the controversy as to how safe or not, the Snowpatch-Bugaboo col was in terms of accessing the west face routes on Snowpatch Spire. Considerable recession of the glacial ice revealed unstable rock and a huge rock slide did occur in August. Therefore, the Snowpatch Route was quite popular as you can just as easily descend the raps at the Snowpatch-Pigeon icefall col versus down climbing or rapping the Snowpatch-Bugaboo col (after the Kraus-McCarthy rap descent down the west face). And there is no other moderate free route worth doing on the east side of Snowpatch Spire. From the Kain Hut, hike south up the hill between the hut and Snowpatch Spire. Descend down do the Pigeon Fork-Bugaboo glacier as you would if heading for Pigeon Spire. Instead of putting crampons on and ascending the ice, scramble up right, mostly 4th class, until you hit a faint trail that circumvents Son of Snowpatch to the southeast. Hike to the base of the col between Son of Snowpatch and Snowpatch Spire on the east side. Pitch one ascends up to the col. Route Description19 Pitches, 5.8 1st-3rd Pitches- 90m- 5th/ We soled these three short pitches. Basically ascend to the col, seemed like 4th class at most. Move left on the west side of the col, up and over a bulge with nice hand cracks (couple of 5th class moves). Then traverse via small ledges on the east side until you are below an obvious dihedral. 4th-5th Pitches- 100m- 5.7/ I was willing to solo these pitches as well to give you an idea how laid back they are. They are real comfortable corners/cracks on good rock that run up two separate dihedrals. The first one is the easiest. Just run up the corner to the top and move left to the base of the 2nd one and set up belay. The 2nd one is much more interesting following a crack off the ground as it widens and takes you to the top of this second dihedral. 6th Pitch- 20m- 5.7/ Traverse right along a great hand crack for a short distance until you have cleared the overhang above (Weissner Overhang) and belay on a small ledge below easy angled cracks that lead up the spire. 7th -13th Pitches- 300m- 5th/ I have no idea how long this section really is, but we will call it a 1000’+/- gain. It did not take us seven pitches to reach the “inverted pear”. A combination of running the rope out a full 60m and simul-climbing found us behind the easy to identify landmark (inverted pear) in short order. Start straight up from pitch six and stay just left of the “snowpatch” and then angle back right once above it to find the inverted pear (photo). Towards the end of this section, stay more left versus too far right to find the better rock. Most of this mid section of the route is just solid mid 5th class slab climbing. 14th Pitch- 30m- 5th/ Move the belay by traversing out right from behind the “pear”. You will come to a ramped up corner. 15th Pitch- 40m- 5.8/ The crux pitches start here. Take the steeper option left versus right. It is easier to protect the corner on the left and it is the correct original part of this route although a variation goes out right. Move up to a horn that you can sling with a double length runner. Then slab climb out left (5.8) past pitons and up to a small ledge below an off-width crack to the right. There were pitons here to assist with a belay in 2009. 16th Pitch- 50m- 5.8/ You have two options on this pitch. We ran it a little long and it could be considered the crux of the day for us. Take the off width or climb the run out face out right (not the bolts or pitons the guide book reflects) to the upper roof and traverse back left to the top of the short off width crack. Then continue up a short steep corner/flakes to a hard (for the grade) finger traverse out left (pitons). By doing this, you have extended into the 17th pitch. 17th Pitch- 30m- 5.7/ Move left over a huge flake and climb back right via 5.7 cracks up a steep wall to a ramp that eases up into a corner. Avoid going too far left after you mount the large flake. 18th- 19th Pitches- 60m+/-/ 5th/ You can easily cover this mellow ground in one pitch to the summit saddle if you simul-climb or solo a bit.

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The 'r' is not normally silent. It's not that uncommon to hear people skip it, when they speak fast, or when the next word begins with a consonant. Or just because of a local accent. Still, it seems almost everyone skip the 'r' when they count sequentially, 1-2-3-4-5. My guess is it dates back to kindergarten, when you learn to count, but don't know how to spell 'quatre' yet. Funny the title page doesn't mention it includes useful lol cat phrases. Duh! Should have thought about that one myself ;-) "Tony, I love that clip! "Wolf Gets Blitzed"...tee-hee. Did anyone read the comments below the You Tube version? they were almost all like, "Yeah, thank the lard for sending a ghastly tornado to kill more than 50…" "And then, just to confuse things, there's polymath, which is from the Greek poly = much and manthanein = to learn. So, someone who knows a lot. Or at least enough to know that you can get a second crop from that field! Sorry, couldn't…"

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Recreation - Powder Creek Use Area The Powder Creek Project was built primarily for flood control benefits but will feature recreation as well. The site drains 7,636 acres which has 12 flood and gully control dams in place to help reduce sediment erosion and runoff. Powder Creek Lake is the largest structure in the Aowa Watershed Project. The wildlife management area covers 467 acres, of which 107 acres is the lake. Game & Parks Commission is presently maintaining the area as a Wildlife Management Area Powder Creek Lake is located 2 miles east of Newcastle on Highway 12 and 2 1/2 miles south on 585 Avenue. The address is 88082 585 Road, Ponca NE 68770 Motorboats limited to 5 mph (no wake) For the hunter there is excellent habitat with pheasant quail, deer, waterfowl and dove.

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|Joined:||Sat, Apr 4th 1998, 00:00||Total Topics:||0||Roles:||Super Moderator| |Last Login:||Never||Total Posts:||0||Moderates:||N/A| |Sea/Spece Buoy Project||May 30th 2012, 19:08||6||1,127||on 6/6/12| |Remote Sensing Balloon/Water Buoy||May 27th 2012, 14:16||1||633||on 27/5/12| |Running A High School Amateur Radio Club; What to do and what not to do?||N8ERF||on 28/3/13| The majority of your questions need to be answered at the local level of the school because the answers depend on the culture of the school and the community, the proclivity and talent of the lead teacher, and the support of the school administration. Gather ideas that others are doing, but there is no easy cookie-cutter approach that can be copied and be effective in your particular school setting. There are going to be some local policies on the procedures and expectations of extra-curricular activities and clubs; if the ham content is done during the school day, you have to deal with state standards and mandates. On culture, what do the parents expect of the school's after school programs? Do they expect them to be an extension of the school day that supports regular in-class learning or is the expectation to keep the kids out of trouble and off the streets and entertained until the parents come home from work? How does the community feel about athletic participation? Are athletic programs very competitive or are they all inclusive? Will your program provide an alternative for those students that are not athletically inclined? The bottom line is it all depends on the local situation. On the topic of volunteers in the school, make sure you check with the administration and are aware of local school board policies. Unfortunately in today's environment, many schools have significant restrictions on outsiders being in contact with students. Many schools are required to do background checks on volunteers who will be interacting with students on less than a casual basis (this even goes for parents too). Some volunteers might find this requirement offensive and obtrusive of their privacy. It is what it is. Many schools require that volunteers are shadowed by faculty or school staff. So it is very important that you are aware of and follow the school board policies on volunteer access to schools to the letter. Even if given access, choose your volunteer help wisely. Students look at all adults in the schools as teachers, so the volunteers need to conduct themselves as teachers, dress, mannerisms, preparation, content knowledge…a well intentioned and hoped to be humorous off-color comment can quickly be misconstrued and turn into an ugly sexually charged situation that you don’t want to taint your whole program. I gave volunteers this advice in dealing with students, “you need to be friendly with the students, but you can never be their friend.” That sounds harsh and cold, but remember, students expect the adults to conduct themselves as teachers. Classrooms are serious business, during and after school. Too much fraternization with the students in the classroom often sends mixed messages and can lead to disciplinarily and behavior problems at the drop of a hat. The best advice I can give any volunteer in a school is to never, ever, be alone with a student…NEVER, especially a student of the opposite sex. That is asking for trouble. Even when I was a school principal, I never violated that rule even when I had to deal with confidential and sensitive situations. There was always another qualified adult stationed such that they could at least visually see and monitor the interaction I had with individual students. This is not paranoia, as I said, this is the sign of the times…tragically. Take the above for what it is worth. |Running A High School Amateur Radio Club; What to do and what not to do?||N8ERF||on 22/3/13| My first recommendation is to get the lead teacher to attent a teachers institute this summer, the applications are being accepted right now. During the TI the teacher will receive a number of resources and lesson ideas to "do ham radio" in the classroom. There are a number of resources and lesson ideas listed on the education tab of this web site, that is the first place to look for what is avaialble. There are many ideas that may not be directily applicable to the school or teacher, but they may stimulate the most important ideas, those generated by the teacher and the students. The majority of the resources are avaialbe via the grant program, which sounds intimidating, but in reallity we have made it as easy and simple as possible to access those resources through the grants. If you have any questions, ask. I am at [email protected], or you can contact Nathan at [email protected]. The initital e-mail will start the dialog. |PIC Programming for Beginners||K0IQE||on 24/10/12| |Can you give a little more specifics? Do you get the message when you are trying to program or during some other time during the process. If you are getting the error during programming with a Canakit programmer, there might be a timing issue. |Mini USB Programmer||w2wo||on 5/10/12| The book was authored with the assumption that the reader would be using the Microchip PICKit2. It sounds like you are using the kit offered by the League which is using a clone of the Microchip PICKit2. (I believe the metal plate you mention is for mounting the prototyping board as you mention.) It also sounds like your computer didn't automatically install the drivers for the USB interface. On the Canakit site: http://www.canakit.com/Media/Manuals/UK1301.pdf the manual for the programmer mentions a procedure for loading in the PICKit2 software for stand alone operation (don't confuse the use of PICKit2 software for PICKit 2 hardware). It is a good idea to load that program anyway incase there are future troubles with dumping the OSCCAL value when programming a PIC. Perhaps when you install the PICKit2 software the installation will update the required driver. |Mini USB Programmer||w2wo||on 4/10/12| From my experience, the ZIF handle coincides with pin 1 of the PIC. On the second question, can you give some specifics on the board you are referring to?

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I have always been an avid gardener, and no matter where I live or how little space I have, I will find a spot to make a garden. Right now I have lots of tomatoes growing in my small city garden, and this year I was hoping to start growing heirloom tomatoes. Unfortunately, my local garden centers did not have a good variety of heirloom seeds, so I turned to the Internet. This is when I discovered Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and they impressed with their large selection and variety. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds offers around 1300 different heirloom seeds, and there are many rare seeds in the collection. To keep the heirloom seeds from being contaminated, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds grows the plants in cages, and they are very careful with isolating the different plants from each other plants. Last weekend I started planting my first heirloom tomato seeds, and I am very excited to see how the tomatoes turn out. I have carefully labeled everything, so that I can see how each plant will grow, and growing heirloom tomatoes will take a little more planning and organization than I usually use when I am gardening. Still, I am excited, because these heirloom tomato varieties look fantastic. A week later, the heirloom tomatoes have slowly begun to sprout, and I am very excited to see the first seedlings appear. I only planted 2 – 3 seeds in every soil pellet, because it is a bit late in the season to start planting here in South Florida. I will start up a new batch in August, and thankfully there are a minimum of 20 – 25 heirloom seeds in each package of heirloom tomato seeds from Baker Creek. I have started planting eight different varieties of heirloom seeds including the Great White Tomato, the Ozark Pink Tomato, the Carbon Tomato, the Spear’s Tennessee Green Tomato, the Marmande Tomato, the Dad’s Sunset Tomato, the Yellow Riesentraube Tomato and and the Hawaiian Pineapple Tomato. About the Heirloom Tomatoes In My Garden: - The Great White Tomato produces large, 1-lb giant, creamy white fruits. - The Ozark Pink Tomato Fruits are medium to large in size and are produced in abundance on very productive, disease resistant plants. This is the perfect tomato for all hot, humid areas. - The Carbon Tomato, is the winner of the 2005 “Heirloom Garden Show” best tasting tomato award. - The Spear’s Tennessee Green Tomato has been grown by the Spear family of Tennessee since the 1950′s, and it was brought to Baker Creek by a local customer who had been preserving it in his garden. - The Marmande Tomato is a popular old French variety developed by the Vilmorin Seed Co, it produces medium-large sized fruits even in cool weather. - The Dad’s Sunset Tomato is the perfect orange tomato with large 10 oz. fruits. - The Yellow Riesentraube Tomato produces clusters of golden grape tomatoes. - The Hawaiian Pineapple Tomato produces 1-lb fruits with yellow-and-red mottled flesh, and it has a sweet, fruity and somewhat pineapple-like taste. I am very surprised at the fair price of the heirloom seeds, because regular seeds usually cost between $1 – $3 per bag at our local garden stores, and the heirloom seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds only cost around $2-3 for a pack containing a minimum of 20 – 25 seeds. About Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Baker Creek Heirloom Seed was started by Jere Gettle at the age of 17, when he printed the first Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Catalog. Since then the company has grown to include more than 1300 varieties of heirloom seeds from more than 70 countries. All of the heirloom seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds are non-hybrid, non-GMO, non-treated and non-patented. The company and farm is located 45 miles east of Springfield, Missouri, and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds has retail stores in Mansfield, MO, Petaluma,CA & Wethersfield ,CT. If you want to know more about heirloom gardening, you can also read The Heirloom Life Gardener, a book written by Baker Creek owners Jere and Emilee Gettle. You can order a free copy of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog, or you can order directly from the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds website. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds has generously offered a giveaway prize of an assortment of heirloom seeds to one of Frugality Is Free’s readers. This giveaway will end Wednesday May 9th at Midnight EST. Disclaimer: I received complimentary heirloom seeds samples for the purpose of writing a review and hosting a giveaway, no monetary compensation was received. Any opinions expressed above are based solely on my experience with the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds products.

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In order to make data submission to Dryad as easy as possible for authors, the system piggybacks in an innovative way on the journal submission process. The key is that most authors will be submitting their data to Dryad immediately after they learn that their final manuscript has been accepted by the journal. Through behind-the-scenes communication with the journal, Dryad will already know the “vital information” about that paper before the author comes to Dryad to submit data. This saves them from the laborious and error-prone task of filling in the paper details at Dryad. We call this process “submission integration”, and it is one of the fundamental services provided to partner journals. Most journals employ one of a small number of manuscript management software systems to interact with authors, editors and reviewers. These software systems regularly employ customizable email form letters to communicate among the various parties. Through emails that are automatically sent, and automatically processed upon receipt, Dryad can ensure that authors need not re-enter data that is already available to the journal, that the journal knows the web address that authors can use to access the submission page for that specific article, and – once data has been submitted – that the journal and the author receive notice about the record identifier to include in print. We’re happy to report that after several months of testing, this system is ready to roll out. The first guinea pig for testing was The American Naturalist, which publishes a relatively small number of data papers. Then Molecular Ecology, which publishes a whole lot more. We are now in the process of setting up submission integration with a long list of partner journals, thanks to Tim Vines of Molecular Ecology, who has written an easy-to-follow instructions for the many journals that use the popular Manuscript Central software. As a teaser for things to come, we are working to make data archiving even more like falling off of a log, by implementing one-stop data deposition, through Dryad, to one or more specialized repositories required by our partner journals. Techniques like submission integration and handshaking should greatly facilitate submission to the repository and the usefulness of the data records. For the curious, here’s a little more detail on how submission integration works. First, the journal automatically sends an email to Dryad upon acceptance of a manuscript. Dryad parses the incoming email and creates an (empty) record for each new article, with a unique identifier based upon the manuscript number. Second, the author receives the link to the submission page for that article. Since the bibliographic information about the paper is already stored in Dryad, all the author needs to do is follow the link, log in, and upload their datafiles. Not only does this save the author needless time re-entering author names, paper title and so on, but it also helps to ensure the information is accurate and properly formatted. Ideally, the author also provides a ReadMe document to promote reusability, and optional metadata to make the data more easily discoverable. Third, upon submission, unique identifiers such as Handles or Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are assigned to the data. These identifiers can be resolved to web addresses. The identifier for the whole record, or what we call the “data package”, is then included in the article according to the conventions of each journal, so that readers of the article can easily find the record in Dryad. Most data packages will become available as soon as the issue comes out, although some may have an embargo of up to one year. For more gory details, see our wiki pages.

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Developing your green credentials 'Our aim is to impact on communities not to affect the environment!' As one of the leading specialist external wall insulation applicators we can effectively help you design, develop, perfect and help apply for Green Deal for your project whilst meeting your legal obligations with minimal disruption. We can offer architects and developers a winning combination of performance through energy efficiency, noise, fire and aesthetics. External wall insulation has been in the market place for 50 years but has been developed over the last 15 years to meet 'decent homes standard' and part 'L' of the Building Regulations, increasing thermal performance and the reduction of carbon emmissions into the atmosphere. Through achieving higher insulation values, external wall insulation is one of the key measures to maximise the impact of Building Regulations on climate change. Insulated render is a non-invasive insulation solution that allows old and new buildings to operate effectively and sustainably. The insulated render industry is in a strong position to help the Government meet its sustainability of buildings target and continues to lead the field in delivering high environmental standards within the building industry for both domestic and non-domestic sectors. The Governments backing for green housing development and, on a wider scale, the global need to address climate change, has meant that the UK construction industry has already had to make fundamental changes with regard to building design. In order to meet the necessary criteria, and indeed the future more stringent requirements, it is evident that external wall insulation reflects the latest trends in building design and is now recognised as a cost effective, modern method of construction.

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A year after funeral, Savile myth in ruins - From: AAP - November 09, 2012 AT Jimmy Savile's funeral a year ago, the priest delivering the homily was emphatic: the DJ and television host "can face eternal life with confidence". Hundreds of people packed a cathedral for Savile's funeral Mass, thousands paid their respects at his coffin, and people from Prince Charles to the Bee Gees sent condolences. He was a cultural fixture, even an icon, and his BBC television shows had been part of childhood for two generations of Britons. But a year on, Savile's reputation is in ruins. Police have branded him one of Britain's worst sex offenders, accused of assaulting underage girls over half a century. Like those who feted and praised him on that November day, millions are wondering: How could he have duped so many for so long? "His life story was an epic of giving - giving of time, giving of talent, giving of treasure," Monsignor Kieran Heskin told hundreds of mourners at the funeral. "Sir Jimmy Savile can face eternal life with confidence." Savile's death, like his life, was full of self-spun mythology. He cast himself as a colourful entertainer who worked tirelessly for charity - and he choreographed his exit as carefully as an Egyptian pharaoh, leaving instructions for an elaborate three-day commemoration in his home city of Leeds, in northern England. Thousands of people turned out to pay tribute at the Queen's Hotel, where the entertainer's coffin sat surrounded by flowers, photos and the last cigar he ever smoked. Inside lay Savile, dressed in a tracksuit and clutching a string of rosary beads. Others lined the street as Savile was carried into St Anne's Cathedral by Royal Marine pallbearers for a richly ceremonial requiem Mass. Later he was buried in a golden coffin, in a tree-shaded cemetery - and on a 45-degree angle so he could overlook the sea. "He had gold, jewellery and diamonds, but wealth meant nothing to him," Alistair Hall, a cardiologist at one of the hospitals Savile supported, said in his eulogy. Savile, he said, "was as he appeared - a caring man". Savile cultivated the persona of an eccentric, curmudgeonly but generous uncle. He wore brightly coloured tracksuits and chunky gold chains and drove a Rolls-Royce. On the long-running TV show Jim'll Fix It, he made children's wishes come true. Off-screen, he ran marathons for charity and frequently visited schools and hospitals. What now seems clear - what so many missed - is that both roles brought him into contact with potential victims: star-struck teenagers, vulnerable patients, inmates of a secure psychiatric hospital. Cary Cooper, a professor of psychology at England's Lancaster University, said that probably nobody will ever know whether Savile used his charity work deliberately to meet victims, or simply to burnish his saintly image. "Either way," Cooper said, "it protected him more, being seen as a philanthropic individual. It served his purpose." At the funeral, Hall said Saville's charitable legacy would live on. Last month, the trustees of two charities that bear his name announced that they were closing down. When Savile died, Prince Charles' office said the heir to the throne and his wife "were saddened to hear of Jimmy Savile's death". The late DJ boasted of his ties to powerful people, including Prince Charles, the late Princess Diana and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom he visited at her country retreat. His connections may have helped shield him from criticism. Several young people accused Savile of abuse while he was alive, and he was questioned by police, but no charges were laid - and no newspaper ever printed the allegations. Now, police are investigating claims of abuse from about 300 people who have come forward since the scandal exploded when allegations about Savile were broadcast in a TV documentary in early October. And police are facing investigation themselves for their failure to act sooner. Charles' Clarence House office says the prince's relationship with Savile was solely a result of their shared charity work. "If there's a heaven, he'll be laughing now if he's got time," fellow DJ Tony Prince said at the funeral. "Because if there is a heaven, he'll be introducing Elvis on the clouds." Younger DJs mentored by Savile were out in force at the memorial, and remembered the flamboyant star fondly. One, Dave Eager, wore a bright yellow sweat shirt saying "Jimmy's Eager Helper". "Everyone who knew Jimmy knows it was a life-changing experience," he said. Last month, Eager told The Sun newspaper that he was "completely and utterly gobsmacked" by the allegations against Savile, and felt guilty about failing to stop the abuse. "You feel traumatised and sorry for the people abused by Jimmy, but equally you think, 'Why the bloody hell didn't we see something?'" he said. Savile's carefully crafted myth didn't outlive him by long, and he has not rested in peace. His family has had the star's gravestone destroyed in response to public outrage. This week his nephew backed calls to exhume and cremate Savile's body out of respect to other bereaved families. Of all the words spoken at the funeral a year ago, one comment now sounds prophetic. "None of us really knew the real Jimmy," fellow DJ Mike Read said. "Maybe he didn't even know himself." SENIOR legal figures, police and victims of crime advocates gathered today at St Ignatius Church to farewell a lawyer who inspired unusally fierce loyalty and respect, Paul Rofe QC. UPDATE: Robert Craddock has responded to David Warner's Twitter rant after his critique of the IPL infuriated the Test batsman this morning. SOPHIE Ann Schulz would have been five-and-a-half now. A MASSIVE explosion from a meteor which crashed into the Moon was visible to the naked eye on Earth, NASA says.

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We see it all around us every time we go out the door. People using smartphones to do all kinds of things other than taking and making calls. But have you thought about how that behavior affects retail sales? Cathy Halligan, SVP, Marketing & Sales at PowerReview, has. The rise in mobile Internet access via smartphones has changed the pattern for research and shopping she writes in Mobile Access Rules for Weekend Retail Shoppers (ClickZ). Instead of doing their research at home, then going to the one store they've preselected and probably making a purchase, "shoppers will be checking product availability, price, and reading online reviews while at the mall, standing in your store, or standing in your competitor's store." So it's important that you take steps to ensure you're reaching shoppers who are doing product research on their mobiles. Cathy Halligan recommends: - Publishing customer reviews daily; - updating your product pages frequently; - reminding customers, through email, on your website and through in-store notices that they can access information about your products and services 24/7 on their mobile devices. Taking it one step further, there's no real need for Christmas shoppers to even come to your store. How shoppers with smartphones are changing the retail landscape (CBC News) describes how consumers shopping at Future Shop's Boxing Day Sale will be able to see and buy bargains that night "without doing anything more than tapping out an order on their smartphone or tablet". Now, so far the numbers of Canadian consumers using mobile apps to Christmas shop are small (20% according to consulting firm Deloitte in its 2011 holiday outlook survey), but that doesn't mean that the trend is insignificant. Research by Deloitte suggests that customer research, on their devices, about the products they might like to buy is driving spending in stores, and that the "multiplier effect" of that trend will double between 2010 and 2015. "So if you're a retailer now and you don't have a mobile strategy, I think it's time to get up to speed," says Alain Michaud, a Canadian retailing analyst at PwC in Montreal (CBC News). Image (c) Peter Cade / Getty Images More on Mobile Devices and Business - 8 Mobile Marketing Strategies for Small Business - Where You Got to Be: Mobile Marketing - Mobile Marketing - Getting a Grasp on the Basics (About.com Marketing)

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BATON ROUGE — Louisiana’s medical education system will shift some of its residents from the public hospital system to clinics and other community-based health care operations, the head of Louisiana State University’s health-care division said Monday. The move is characterized as part of a trend in both health-care services and medical training but also is aimed at grappling with significant cuts to public hospital programs in recent months, said Dr. Frank Opelka, the university system’s executive vice president for health care and medical education redesign. Those cuts, the result of a reduction in the federal reimbursement rate for state Medicaid expenditures, are expected to deepen with a plan that Opelka said he will unveil to the LSU system Board of Supervisors next week. “Once upon a time the overwhelming majority (of medical students) were in the public hospital system, but over the years that has moved with the contraction of patients and beds in the public facilities,” Opelka said. Opelka outlined the changes Monday in an effort to blunt criticisms made last week by Dr. Fred Cerise, who had been in charge of LSU’s health services and medical education before being removed earlier this summer. Cerise, who was essentially replaced by Opelka, said at a forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Baton Rouge that he worried there would not be enough patients and resources left at state hospitals to train new doctors. Opelka said the changes in medical education could cut costs and help those in training become more comfortable with nonhospital settings that are seeing an increase in use, and provide better services. Opelka said Cerise’s comments “represent an old-world view about health-care delivery.” State hospitals were told to cut about $329 million from their budgets this year when the health-care reductions were announced earlier this summer, but officials, led by Cerise, developed a stop-gap plan that used other pots of money to reduce the amount of the cuts to about $50 million. Still, some hospitals, including Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center in Independence and Walter O. Moss Regional Medical Center in Lake Charles, saw their budgets drastically reduced. The plans Opelka will present next week are expected to involve deeper cuts to prepare for future reductions. “We’re still deliberating through those cuts as we’re trying to walk through all the information that we’ve been planning and considering,” he said. Jeff Adelson can be reached at [email protected] or 225.342.5207.

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Sierra Leone elections ‘turning point’ for country: UN envoy India Blooms News Service New York, Nov 17 (IBNS): As Sierra Leone heads towards its third national elections since the end of its civil war, the top United Nations envoy in the West African country Friday urged voters to refrain from election-related violence, noting that the vote was a turning point in the country’s post-conflict history. “These elections are extremely important,” the Secretary-General’s Executive Representative in Sierra Leone, Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, said in an interview with the UN News Centre. “I think the whole world is looking at Sierra Leone at the moment.” Toyberg-Frandzen added that while Sierra Leone was observing its third election cycle since the end of hostilities, the present election cycle – which includes four elections, namely presidential, parliamentary, local council and mayoral, to be held on Nov 17 – would be the first one run entirely by the Government. “They have full ownership and they will also be held fully accountable for this,” the UN envoy continued, stating that the vote would be “a turning point in manifesting that Sierra Leone has graduated from a post-conflict country to one that is now on a path to development.” For 11 years, Sierra Leone was torn by a vicious civil war after the rebel Revolutionary United Front intervened in an attempt to overthrow the country’s then-President Joseph Momoh. The conflict, which lasted from 1991 to 2002, was often punctuated by acts of extreme brutality as marauding bands of armed youths terrorized the countryside, conscripting child soldiers and used the amputation of limbs as an intimidation method against civilians. Asked if he had any concerns about whether tomorrow’s vote could degenerate into violence, Toyberg-Frandzen noted that there had been “very few incidences of anything” throughout the country and that all the political parties were rallying peacefully. Nevertheless, he suggested that one would be “naïve” not to assume that the risk did not exist. “When you have elections in a country like Sierra Leone, with the history that Sierra Leone has had, there are always areas that you keep an eye on,” Toyberg-Frandzen stated. “There are areas that are more prone to discontent than others. But I think that the preparations made so far by the national stakeholders are very good and pretty robust.” In a statement issued by his spokesperson yesterday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also encouraged the Sierra Leone electorate to ensure that the vote transpired peacefully. Describing the vote as a momentous occasion, Toyberg-Frandzen echoed Ban Ki-moon’s words and called on Sierra Leoneans “to feel free to vote for what you believe in and enjoy the day.” “I wish the people of Sierra Leone a wonderful election. This is something that we’ve been talking about for so long that I really hope this translates into a joyous day with clear results and that the country moves on into a new era of development,” he said. Saturday’s elections will be the country’s third since the end of its civil war, and the second since the withdrawal of the peacekeeping operation known as UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) in December 2005 – that mission was replaced by various other UN offices, most recently the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office (UNIPSIL), which focuses on political and development activities.

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Welcome to The Parkinson's Appeal for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) The Parkinson's Appeal was set up in 2001 by Lyn Rothman when her husband Mo was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. After learning about the life-changing operation called Deep Brain Stimulation performed on journalist Michael Holman by Professor Benabid in Grenoble, a pioneer of the procedure, Lyn was determined to help the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK secure the services of the world-renowned Neurosurgeon Professor Marwan Hariz so others could benefit from the operation. Professor Hariz arrived to lead the new unit in October 2002, having accepted the Edmond J. Safra Chair in Functional Neurosurgery. The team performed its first operation a month later. Since then the team has achieved: - 296+ Deep Brain Stimulation Operations - Very high rate of success - No major complications - Research of worldwide significance After ten magnificent years it was with enormous gratitude that the Chair was formally renamed the Simon Sainsbury Chair of Functional Neurosurgery in memory of the late Hon Simon Sainsbury. This site can help visitors find out more about Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease and other neurological disorders such as Dystonia; Tremor; Epilepsy; Multiple Sclerosis; Tourette Syndrome and Depression. In addition, information can be found on available treatments and the latest research. You're not alone - there are others out there like you - read our patients', friends and relatives stories. I do hope you can help us provide financial support for Professor Hariz and his team of nine experts to meet the increasing demand for DBS services. Your donation will ensure that the operation will become more widely available through the NHS, for as long as it is needed to restore the lives of these sick patients. It will also support the ongoing training of surgeons, neurologists and other health care professionals to provide the best holistic care possible for the patients. Finally, your donation will help the development of the research that is a prerequisite for providing better and more efficient help for patients with brain disorders. Lyn Rothman Hon Fellow UCL Chairman and Founder Parkinson's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disease usually affecting large numbers of people in middle to old age. However, in some cases it starts before the age of 40. This is known as young onset Parkinson's disease. In the UK, there are 10,000 new cases of Parkinson's disease every year, and an estimated 120, 000 sufferers in all. The rate is one per cent in those aged above 65; 1 in 20 of patients diagnosed will be under 40 years old. Telephone: 020 7233 6034 Donations to placed in a restricted fund for Deep Brain Stimulation to be managed by the Brain Research Trust. A Registered Charity No: 263064

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Teacher, Civil Servant, Management Consultant, Philanthropist, Patron of the Arts 1923- Jacqueline “Jacqui” Fanchette Clotilde Clay Shumiatcher has had a tremendous impact on the Regina arts community. Together with her husband Dr. Morris Shumiatcher, Jacqui Shumiatcher has served Regina as a businesswoman, a philanthropist and a patron of the arts. Jacqueline Shumiatcher was born in Vendin-le-Viel, Pas de Calais France in 1923. She emigrated to Canada in 1927. Jacqui worked as a teacher at Sacred Heart Academy, among other places, before she married Morris Shumiatcher, well-known Saskatchewan lawyer, in 1955 while he was counsel to T.C. Douglas. She founded her own management business in Regina, Managerial Services Ltd., to support her husband’s law practice. Jacqui Shumiatcher has been a tireless community volunteer and donated her time to organizations like the Canadian Club, Dominion Drama Festival, Regina Council of Women, France-Canada Association, Women’s Business and Professional Association, Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts, Saskatchewan Veterinary College and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards. Jacquie and Dr. Morris Shumiatcher have also donated generously to a number of organizations throughout the city during their time in Regina: - The Shumiatcher Sculpture Gallery at the Mackenzie Art Gallery boasts an impressive array of Inuit sculpture. - The Shu-Box Theatre at the Riddell Centre at the University of Regina is also named for their generous donation. - The Dr. Morris and Jacquie Shumiatcher Scholarship at the University of Saskatchewan provides funding for a law student. Other Regina organizations that have benefited from the Shumiatchers’ philanthropy include the Regina Symphony Orchestra, Globe Theatre, New Dance Horizons, Opera Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Science Centre, Regina Little Theatre, Regina Lyric Light Opera and the Juventus Choir. Jacqui Shumiatcher has, in turn, been repeatedly honoured by the community: - Named YWCA Woman of Distinction in 1996 - B’nai Brith named her Citizen of the Year in 1999 - Awarded Canadian Woman Mentor Award as well as a Mayor’s Community Volunteer Award for the Arts in 2000 - Recipient of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2001 - Named Citizen of the Year for Regina in 2004 - Given an honourary degree from the University of Regina Jacqueline Shumiatcher was widowed in 2004 when her husband, Dr. Morris Shumiatcher, lost a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. She continues to work tirelessly in the community.

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View Full Version : Educational Psychologist How do you find an Educational Psychologist to assess your child for giftedness? I imagine if your child is in school you can ask at your school, but what about pre-school aged children? And what should I expect from a visit to an Educational Psychologist? Do you get time at the same time as an assessment to discuss your child and questions about strategies to manage issues? Or do you need to set up a separate time? And what costs are typically involved? Waiting time for appointments? Is it something you could maybe book a few weeks in advance or is it usually months in advance? Finally, if you have a specific Educational Psychologist you've been happy with can you let us know? I'm in Melbourne, but let's share for all states so that it can help others with the same questions :). You can use the search engine at the Australian Psychological Society to find an Educational Psychologist. It's not a comprehensive search engine (ie only members of the APS are on there, and you don't have to be a member of the APS to be a psychologist), but it will probably be useful for your purposes. So enter the values that it's for a pre-schooler and that you're looking for an intellectual assessment (under the heading of 'EDUCATIONAL' and put in your postcode and an acceptable radius. When your results come up if you click on the psychologist's name and scroll to the bottom of their profile, if it says they're a member of the College of Education and Development, that means they're an Educational and Developmental psychologist. Each psychologist sets their own fee structure, so I can't answer that question - you'd just need to call a few and ask abut what their fees would be. Most assessments would be structured so that there would be a pre-assessment interview to discuss reasons for the referral, information about the child etc, in which you'd be able to discuss any concerns. Generally an assessment would be run over several sessions (not necessarily the assessment itself, but the information gathering is an extremely important part of the process too). Waiting times vary hugely between psychologists and aren't always indicative of their talent, either - ie some of the best psychologists don't 'do' waiting lists for ethical reasons. For something that's not clinically urgent, you might be able to see somebody relatively quickly or you might not. Again, you'd just have to call a few psychologists to see. We used Dr Gayle Byrne of Exceptional Children, who is based in Camberwell. She has a website with quite a lot of good information. The CHIP centre is affiliated with one of the Unis (possibly Monash) and also have a testing programme alongside a number of support services - they test in Richmond from what I can tell. Google "children of high intellectual potential" - lot of info on their site also. I would stress that it's important to find an ed psych with a speciality in gifted children - they tend to do more indepth tests (not just the standard tests but subtests as well) which identify a profile (ie specific breakdown of skills) rather than simply produce a number. Cost wise it can vary, most seem to be between $500 and $600. You can get some back on private health insurance (extras) if you claim as simply psychological services and do not specify IQ testing. My daughter was tested by 'Gifted Minds'. They are based in NSW but travel to other states to do testing. They have a good website you could check out. The testing process was fun and not stressful. We got a 20+ page report which included in addition to the results of all subtests and fullscale IQ, recommendations, strengths and weaknesses and information on sensitivites. Our school has found the report very helpful. Maybe call the Gifted Association in your state? Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.1.9 Copyright © 2013 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Municipal leaders from towns of all sizes presented a unified legislative agenda at the Capitol. They want lawmakers to keep state funding flat and greater flexibility to raise their own money. Elizabeth Paterson is mayor of Mansfield and the president of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. She summed up the group's primary message to lawmakers: "Hometown Connecticut is not a special interest group." Cuts to local aid, the groups says, will only shift the fiscal crisis to towns and cities, where budgets are already stretched. The mayors of New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport say they've already cut their spending and laid off staff, and their fiscal outlook is still bleak - even without possible state cuts. Bill Finch is the mayor of Bridgeport. "Bridgeport is a couple blizzards away from bankruptcy, and we've got to make sure that doesn't happen." At the same time, smaller cities and towns are facing local resistance to property tax hikes, their only other primary source of revenue besides state aid. So, the towns and cities want lawmakers to allow them to raise more of their own money - through regional sales taxes, user fees, municipal fines, and hotel and motel taxes. They also want to be able to unilaterally reopen labor contracts during a budget crisis. On their end, municipal leaders say they're ready to pursue more regional services and revenue-sharing. Mary Glassman is Simsbury's First Selectman. "We know we can't come up here and ask the state for more money, but we can't go home, and ask our taxpayers to pay more in taxes either. So we need to think creatively. We need to look differently and nothing is sacred in our communities, and nothing is sacred at the state level. We need our legislature to ask now. " The leaders pressed the governor and legislators to settle on a budget quickly, because some towns have to pass their own budgets as early as March.

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Facing national criticism about his decision to appoint an anti-gay rights activist as a legal adviser, the president of the NAACP’s Cincinnati chapter issued a warning on his radio show this weekend. Christopher Smitherman, the local NAACP president, talked about unspecified consequences if the gay and lesbian community continues pushing for the ouster of Chris Finney, who Smitherman recently appointed as the group’s “chair of legal redress.” He made the remarks on Smitherman on the Mic, a show he hosts Saturdays on WDBZ (AM 1230.) Violence begets violence; it certainly doesn’t have the effect of bringing about effective communication that ultimately leads people to understand and embrace positive actions. So why would Ohio schools – institutions of learning and thought – allow hitting kids as punishment? Murder sucks. Rape sucks. In fact, all violent crime sucks. Eradicating it sure would make the world a nicer place to live. I don’t know anyone who would argue with any of that. But after all that agreement, unity breaks down. Emotional outrage and grief take hold and rational thought evaporates. What then? Muntazer al-Zaidi, an Iraqi TV news reporter, was sentenced this week to three years in prison for throwing his shoe at then-President George W. Bush during a visit to Baghdad in December. The Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (IJPC) along with many other abolitionist groups say it does. Over time the public in Ohio has voted to eliminate one round of death penalty case appeals and the inadequate funding of defense in these cases has been eating away at the “super” due-process required by the U.S. Supreme Court. The intent was to put safeguard in place to make sure a fallible system implemented by fallible people wouldn’t result in the death of innocent people. But those same fallible people are destroying that system little-by-little. No matter what a politician says, coal has never been and can’t be “clean” or serve as an “alternative” fuel that’s good for the environment. On position held by many groups is that limiting the use of coal is necessary to create the incentive to come up with energy alternatives that truly don’t harm the environment. The League of Women Voters is one of those groups. "Darfur and the Southern Sudan are among the most devastated areas on the planet," according to a press release from Xavier University. "Join us for a conversation with Simon Deng, a former Sudanese slave, and Omer Ismail, a native of Darfur, to discuss what we can and should be doing to address this inhuman situation." Referred to as the "Stir the Pot" series, a film/discussion series at Grace Episcopal Church in College Hill (5501 Hamilton Ave. 45224) will show The Freedom Files on Feb. 22 at 4:30 p.m. According to the ACLU, producers of the video series, the Freedom Files focuses on issues on some of the most volatile issues of our day including surveillance, sex education, freedom from abuse of power, school to prison pipeline and lesbian/gay families.

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Software managers have benefited from the availability of computers since the very beginning of computing. The reason is simple: project management is all about: These are all things that computers do exceptionally well, and that paper does exceptionally badly. The same applies to accounting software, which is also another early beneficiary of the computing era. In the last decade, there has been a shift on several levels in terms of computing which affected greatly the way project managers work: So, what has changed, in terms of project managers? They still have to manage people and keep track of tasks. They still use computers. However, there is a different expectation in terms of the software used to manage these projects. Since user expectations have changed, the project management software's expectations have also changed. Here is what software is expected to do today: The project manager is historically the gatekeeper in terms of what each person needs to do, and when by. Today, users expect to be able to login onto some kind of web interface, and see exactly what they should do. They also expect to be able to "interact" with this software, and -- for example -- change a tasks deadline. Once that happens, the software might respond in different ways: in collaboration software, it will tend to simply update the deadline; in more traditional systems, it will be implied that the change needs to be authorized by the project manager. Workers don't want to just see what tasks they have to complete: they now want to be able to talk about those tasks, starting a discussion, and maybe even bounce a task off each other. Discussion can happen just amongst users, or even amongst clients who are the ones who will be able to add their input to the discussion. Communication is the key to successful projects, and software today needs to reflect that. Users are used to having a very interconnected life: they want to see their appointments in their phone's calendar application; want to be able to add a contact to their cell phone and find it nicely synchronized to onto their desktop computers. These expectations have grown in terms of software project management as well. Users want to be able to import the project's calendar onto their own application using the iCal format. They want to be able to reply to an email and add to the task's discussion that way; they want to be able to mark a task as done without even leaving their email client's screen. All these things require integration, and -- more importantly -- require some predefined and well-established standards so that applications can communicate. When the available tools were still limited, a worker was given a list of things to do and a deadline. He or she was expected to complete them in order. This often created frustration amongst workers, who might grow bored of a task. Today, users are expected to have a list of tasks to pick from, and have the freedom to complete them -- as long as they are done within the given timeframe. Historically, the project manager was the main referrer for the customer, who would call and ask how the project was going, how far it was from completion, which milestones had been completed, and so on. Today, customers expect to be able to login onto a software system, and simply check online what the project status is. This is exactly what software project management is about: it empowers players who would be historically "passive", allowing them to interact actively with the project and see exactly how it's progressing. Workers are more and more on the go. So, they expect to be able to access their task lists, and project information, straight from their cell phones. This means that project management software will often need to provide native applications for iPhones and Android systems, or offer a "mobile version" which will work fine on small Internet devices. This access should be available to all players: project managers, workers, and clients. Making mobile versions of existing software can be pretty hard: sometimes, it requires rewrites. However, the importance of mobile versions of project management software is impossible to overlook. It's always hard to predict what how technology will evolve, and how it will affect the way people work. Nobody, 20 years ago, would have predicted that the world would be fully interconnected and that a project manager's job would change so much, in terms of what they do and what they are require to know. Looking at the direction technology is taking, we can expect: This is obviously speculation. However, we are seeing very interesting times: even though project managers have been using computers for a very long time (possibly only coming second to accountants), they still have had to adapt dramatically to the way the world changed.

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Note: To protect the privacy of our members, e-mail addresses have been removed from the archived messages. As a result, some links may be broken. More technical questions: My district is in the process of equipping each building with a wireless system to access the internet. If anyone is familiar with how this please help me understand it. In my school the wireless system is installed except for (get this) the electrical hook ups. Some company came in and ran the wires and transmitters but left power cords hanging. I was told district electricians need to come out and run the electrical lines and outlets so it can be plugged in. Who knows when that will be ????? I suspect something must be added to each computer (software, circuit board or additional hardware) no one seems to know. At the same time, another group (e-rate funds I think) is going to wire every building and put five drops in each classroom. I know this sounds redundant but the left hand seldom knows what the right hand is doing anyway. We are also suppose to get a phone line in each classroom too. I'll believe that when I see it. Let's just hope there is a button to turn the phone off. I don't answer it at home, and I know I won't answer it while I'm teaching. They say it a voice mail backup, but the district pays for my voice mail now and it hasn't worked all summer. Last week I was in the building when a new computer was put in every classroom (except art and music). Well, we relocated some new computers quickly so the error has been corrected. I will now have three computers in my classroom. But I have only one internet drop, a modified T-line I'm told. What I'd like to find out is: 1. What needs to be added to each of my PC's to make them ready to internet via a wireless system ? Is it something I can add ? 2. If the wireless system is delayed, what do I get to split the one drop I've got so all three computers can be on the internet at the same time ? Can I do that myself ? I'd like to hit the ground running this year and not have to wait on the district to get around to setting things up. I'm used to my i-Mac at home. If I had Macs at school, I'd just hook them all together off a USB hub. If you can give me some hints I would appreciate it, Woody in KC -- I'm from Kansas, where evolution is outlawed and the monkeys are in charge of the schools To respond to me privately via E-mail click on wduncan put Hey Woody on the subject line so I'll read it first You are welcome to visit my Web Site at http://www.taospaint.com This E-mail message is from Artist/Teacher Woody Duncan Rosedale Middle School in Kansas City, Kansas the new URL for school is http://kancrn.kckps.k12.ks.us/rosedale to see the newest photos of my beautiful grandkids Tim, Tess and Tiff click on http://www.taospaint.com/SlideShow.html to see a virtual field trip of KC go to http://taospaint.com/VirtualTour.html to see Rosedale's best go to http://www.taospaint.com/BestArtist.html to visit our community garden go to http://www.taospaint.com/garden.html This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Aug 06 2000 - 14:03:21 PDT

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In future, before the government decides on a single penny of expenditure on vital services, it will have to take out more than €5 billion to pay the interest on the IMF / ECB loan at the penal interest rate of 6.7%. That’s €5 billion less to spend on health and education, so that the banks can be sheltered from their criminal mistakes, and so that the speculators who invested in them can be spared the pain of an investment gone wrong. Free market economics, Lenihan-style. Five billion every year in interest on a loan that would not be needed but for the decision to guarantee banks that failed due to mismanagement. Every sane commentator in the world is saying this is a mistake. Even the Financial Times, hardly a bastion of left-wing dissent, is advising against it. The alternative? Force the creditors to take ownership of the banks, so that they have no option but to recapitalise them if they want their money back. After five or ten years, the banks will be back in profit and perfectly capable of repaying the investment. Instead, in the most extreme example of moral hazard ever seen, the Irish government has taken upon the Irish people responsibility for mistakes they did not commit. The argument that we all borrowed too much is utterly spurious because, for the most part, we all still continue to pay our debts, and are therefore not part of the problem. It doesn’t matter what you or I borrowed if we make the repayments. In fact, we’re a major asset to the banks, so let nobody lecture you about how you lost the run of yourself. It’s nonsense. This punitive deal is being forced through over the weekend so that it can be completed before the markets open on Monday. Ireland is being sacrificed to appease the spivs and money-dealers because the EU and the IMF are worried about Spain. Let me repeat: the Irish people did not cause this problem. What caused this problem was the greed, dishonesty and incompetence of the bankers. What brought the catastrophe on Ireland was the decision by Lenihan to guarantee the. whole lot of them. You might have heard Peter Bacon on the radio recently saying that he advised Lenihan the banks were in hock to the tune of about €158 billion. A week later, Lenihan told the Dáil the figure was about €75 billion. A lie. One lie among many, from a liar By such lies, the Irish people have been led gently through a maze of deception to the point where we are now to be sacrificed for something we did not do. The world is baffled. Nobody can believe that an Irish government would willingly allow its country to be destroyed, and yet that’s precisely what Cowen and Lenihan are doing. Why? Because they’re serfs. Forelock-tugging peasants lacking the courage to face up to those who are attempting to force this disaster on the country.

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Bio & Incident Details Tour: 15 years Badge # Not available Location: District of Columbia Incident Date: 11/1/1950 Weapon: Handgun; 9 mm Suspect: One killed; One Apprehended Officer Leslie Coffelt was shot and killed when two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to shoot their way into Blair House, the temporary residence of President Harry S. Truman, in Washington, DC. One of the suspects was shot and killed by Officer Coffelt and the other was caught and sentenced to prison. The suspect who was arrested was pardoned after serving only 25 years and was deported to Puerto Rico, where he died in 1994. Officer Coffelt was a WWII veteran and had served with the White House Police Force for 15 years. He had previously served with the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department from 1929 to 1936 and from 1941 to 1942 . He was survived by his wife and daughter and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

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Kelly: Ryder Hesjedal’s Giro D’Italia victory is truly one for the ages Explore This Story As he mounted the podium in Milan’s Piazza Duomo on Sunday, Canadian cyclist Ryder Hesjedal resembled a fish yanked from its bowl. His eyes bulged. He appeared to be hyperventilating, swallowing huge gulps of air. The angular rider from Victoria, B.C., seemed more stunned than thrilled. That’s the way the rest of us should be feeling as well. Hesjedal’s come-from-behind victory at the Giro d’Italia — one of cycling’s three Grand Tours — ranks among the most impressive individual accomplishments by a professional Canadian athlete. Ever. Cycling is a heritage sport, excelled at by men who’ve been raised with it. Almost always by men born in Europe, where the sport enjoys a cultish devotion. And unlike a Masters, say, you can’t win a Grand Tour by having a great weekend. The Giro is not won by the best man, but rather lost by dozens of others who had one bad day, one moment of inattention over three weeks of racing. It is also not won by former mountain bikers like Hesjedal, who’ve taken up the sport as adults only to improve their fitness. Facing down history and patrimony, Hesjedal becomes the first Canadian man not only to win a Grand Tour, but the first to ever stand on a podium. It is nothing less than a generational achievement, and worthy of national celebration. After nearly 92 hours of racing, Hesjedal came into Sunday trailing leader Joaquim Rodriguez by 31 seconds, with only a 28.2-kilometre time trial left to complete the Giro. The Spaniard, a climbing specialist unsuited to the straight-speed game of the time trial, had already conceded the race beforehand. A “miracle” was required, Rodriguez said. And yet Hesjedal raced through the treacherous medieval streets of Milan like a man bent on either winning or crashing. Several times he brushed barriers or sent roadside bystanders leaping backward as he searched for the tightest angle in every turn. Coming in behind Hesjedal, Rodriguez was left rocking side-to-side with effort in the final kilometres. He did make the race uncomfortably close. He crossed 47 seconds behind Hesjedal. The 16-second margin of victory makes this the second-closest Giro over nearly a century. It was also only the second time that the race was won on the final day. From the native point of view, the best part of all was watching the confusion of the Milanese crowd when they began playing “O Canada.” The collective expression at the end conveyed one thought: “I never want to hear that again.” They were clearly ticked that for the first time in two decades, no Italian featured on the podium. It is difficult to convey the grip with which cycling holds its fans in western Europe. I spent a summer in Belgium — cycling’s Ground Zero — and was there during a Tour de France. One day, I was being driven somewhere by a friend. He was listening to the race on the radio in Flemish. Without warning, he hammered the brakes and skidded on to gravel in the middle of bland stretch of country road. We pulled up inches short of a ditch. “What the hell’s going on?” I said. “Quiet!” he shrieked. “It is now very exciting.” So we sat there for 20 minutes while he listened to a bicycle race. Hesjedal has waded into the middle of that continental legacy. Only one other non-European has ever won the Giro — American Andy Hampsten in 1988. Lance Armstrong did not race the Giro until a failed 2009 comeback, choosing instead to concentrate on the Tour de France that follows. It is for this reason — and a few unproven others — that racing purists refuse to consider Armstrong amongst the three or four greatest ever. For Europeans, you can’t be truly great if you haven’t won the Giro. One more Armstrong comparison is apt here. Hesjedal is 31, which sounds ancient in sporting terms, but cyclists bloom late. Armstrong didn’t win his first Tour until he was 27. Then he won six more. By all accounts, Hesjedal passed through a personal performance barrier this week. He didn’t win the race on Sunday. He refused to lose it in the mountains on Friday and Saturday, as Rodriguez and just about everyone else in the sport expected him to. Now that he stands astride the cycling world, with his confidence soaring and the Tour in the offing in less than a month, who knows what else Ryder Hesjedal is capable of? - Hockey Canada bans bodychecking at peewee level - The Rolling Stones - Doug Ford’s response to published drug allegations breaks with brother’s silent strategy - French soldier stabbed in throat, link to London attack unconfirmed - Conrad Black writes a kind of love letter to the America that had him incarcerated - Blue Jays, Dickey fall to Orioles - Battling the lethal H7N9 virus: a look inside the lab where vaccine is being developed - Police seek man after woman sexually assaulted in elevator

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Our website estimates shipping at 18% of the cost of the item. With jewelry, the amount that shows on the invoice is quite high. Please be assured that these wonderful pieces of jewelry generally will be shipped at a cost of around $10.00-20.00. At Kachina House we carry a vast selection of Native American handmade jewelry, including earrings, rings, bracelets, coral jewelry and turquoise jewelry, bolo ties, belt buckles and many other Native American pieces of wearable art. Kachina House is Arizona’s largest distributor of Native American art, pottery, Hopi Katsinam and so much more. Whatever you are looking for in Native American arts and crafts, look no further than Arizona’s Kachina House. Jewelry styles differ in every American Indian tribe, but the differences were less marked than with other arts and crafts because jewelry and the materials used for making it (beads, shells, copper and silver, ivory, amber, turquoise and other stones) were major trade items long before European arrival in America. There are two very general categories of Native American jewelry; metalwork and beadwork. Before the Europeans arrived, Native metalwork was fairly simple, consisting primarily of hammering and etching copper into pendants or earrings and fashioning copper and silver into beads. After colonization, Native American jewelry-making traditions remained strong, incorporating new materials and techniques such as glass beads and more advanced metalworking techniques. After the Navajo and Pueblo artists learned silversmithing from the Spanish in the 1800s, metal jewelry arts blossomed in the Southwest, and distinctive Native jewelry, like Hopi silver overlay bracelets and Navajo turquoise inlay became available. The squash blossom necklace came into being and was fashioned after the beautiful horse bridles the Spanish used. Native beadwork was extremely advanced from pre-Columbian times, including the fine grinding of turquoise, coral, and shell beads into smooth heishi necklaces and the delicate carving of individual wood and bone beads. Older Native American jewelry is often hard to find because the pieces have been lost or are kept in the family. At Kachina House we carry old Native American jewelry that is reasonably priced, handmade and, in some cases, the stones are quite rare. Thank you for visiting our website. While you’re here we invite you to look around at our vast array of products. If you’re in the Sedona, Arizona area, please visit our showroom. We offer a vast selection of Native American products including Native American art, pottery, jewelry, artifacts, rugs, sandpaintings, Kachina and Katsina dolls and Hopi and Apache baskets. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us at 866-587-0547; we’ll be happy to help and we look forward to hearing from you.

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I just read the strangest article (in print, in Hebrew, no online link). What is even stranger was that when I mentioned it to Jameel, he already knew about it, and of course had even more details. The Jewish community is familiar with Crypto-Jews, such as those from Spain, also known as Marranos or Conversos. These are Jews who were forced to hide their religion, but continue to practice it (or parts of it) in secret, passing down bits and pieces to their descendents. But it seems their might very well be Crypto-Jews living in the Land of Israel – looking and acting like Muslim-Arabs! The article describes an Arab Hamula (clan) which lives near Hebron and who claim to be Jewish. It all began years ago when a local Jewish resident saw an old Arab on the road that looked exactly like a well-known Sephardic rabbi. He approached the Arab and asked him who he was, and that old Arab guy started to tell him his family's story. He claimed to be descendants of Moroccan Jews who arrived in Israel in the 1600s. Their original family name was Amsallem. After nearly the entire family was wiped out by Arab raiders, the survivors adopted the external appearance of Muslim Arabs to save their lives. They have certain Jewish traditions/rituals they follow in secret, and of course they pass down the knowledge they are Jews to their children. True or not true? Who knows. But the stories gets even weirder. In 1948, 35 Jews were massacred in Gush Etzion. They become known as the “Lamed-Hey”. They were killed by Arabs from the town of Tzurif. What is interesting is that Arabs from this town apparently have a tradition that they are descended from Jews going back to the Second Temple period, and at some point they were forced to convert to Islam. Supposedly in their homes they have various unusual customs that point to remnants of Judaism (such as a pseudo mezuzah, and brit mila at 8 days). And more interesting is that supposedly other Arabs also consider them to be descendants of Jews. Apparently the legend of Jewish descent is linked to some of the most violent, terrorist laden, religiously strict clans in the Gush Etzion/Hebron region. And the alleged reason why they are so extreme in their religion and violence? To prove to their fellow Muslim Arabs that they really aren’t Jews. Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד

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A local peer support program for veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder is weeks away from starting, as Jefferson County officials arrange the details for its launch. As part of the program, veterans will counsel other veterans diagnosed with PTSD and their families and direct them to professional services. This is one level of intervention that has not been used formally anywhere, said Roger J. Ambrose, executive director of Jefferson County Community Services. The Pfc. Joseph Dwyer Peer Support Program for Veterans is expected to begin in early December, supported by a $200,000 state grant. The grant, cosponsored by state Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, also opened potential grant funding to Rensselaer, Saratoga and Suffolk counties. The program is named for a soldier who died in 2008 of an accidental drug overdose after reportedly struggling with the disorder. The combat medic rose to prominence in 2003 after the release of a photo showing him carrying an injured Iraqi boy. Jefferson County Community Services selected the Mental Health Association in Jefferson County to facilitate the program. The organization already staffs a full-time and a part-time physician through a Resiliency and Recovery Initiative grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Theodore R. Stiles Jr., the associations executive director, said the organization will pair the two grants to open a new space in the Marcy Building, 167 Polk St. Veterans are being recruited to volunteer for the program. They will learn about resources available locally so they can provide referrals to their peers. Peter J. Fazio, director of the Jefferson County Veterans Service Agency, which has helped in the development of the program, said there are many veterans who are interested in receiving assistance but dont want to enter a clinical setting immediately. This could be another outlet where they could get the information they need, he said. He said that the program would not replace any other service, and that ideally the program would lead to more referrals to other agencies. Mr. Stiles said that speaking to counselors who are veterans themselves can help allay some concerns that soldiers and their family members have about seeking help. Its a huge help, just being able to talk to them, speak their language, know what theyre going through, he said. Mr. Stiles, who did logistics work in the Army and served for five years at Fort Drum, noted that several members of his agencys staff had served in the military, which opens the gate to conversations with clients about the problems they face. They start talking, and next thing you know their whole story is out, he said. The program is scheduled to start Dec. 3, with a grand opening for its new space set for Dec. 7 to coincide with Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Those with questions about the program and its services can call the Mental Health Association in Jefferson County at 788-0970.

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Feeling the need to approach our relationship with nature with respect and a new ethos, not simply wanting to receive from her but to provide an atmosphere where we give back or at least create the ground where nature can replenish and heal herself, we began to create our organic farm. We proceeded with this in mind during the design period, we wanted to create a dialogue between the plants themselves as well as the humans working there and visiting. Our wish was to cultivate our farm and create products in a way that it was both beneficial to our human needs as well as the needs of the soil and the plants. Having knowledge of the medical approach of homeopathy, I felt it was necessary to create a farm that was a complex organism just as the human body is and to view the needs of the farm from a holistic point of view. We planted almond trees along with olives trees in order to create a communication that was beneficial to both of them, and we strengthened this dialogue by introducing pine and cypress trees as well as grape vines. Each type brings a positive element that alleviates the stress on a monoculture by introducing organisms beneficial to each other as well as minimizing the risk on a single type from an attack. The herb fields where also designed in a similar way by including plant walls with mixed herbs that brought positive forces as well as introduced the necessary pluralism. In order to support our plants and trees we use homeopathic products created for the use in homeodynamic agriculture a method based on the principals of biodynamic agriculture.

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The Aging Program at the Johnson County Mental Health Center has provided services specialized to meet the mental health needs of older adults for over twenty years. This program serves Johnson County residents, age 60 or older. Older adults residing in the community may access individual and group therapy services of the Aging Specialists at the two Outpatient Clinics. In addition, the Aging Specialists provide outreach mental health services to the frail elderly residing in a long term care setting and to Johnson County homebound seniors through a contract with the Johnson County Area Agency on Aging. Community education is provided to older adults, their families, and aging service providers to increase understanding of mental illness in older persons and reduce stigma. The following are statements made by older adults after receiving treatment through the Older Adult Program at Johnson County Mental Health: - “The Aging Specialist helps me deal with my health problems”. - “I know I’m not alone”. - “The services helped me with my grief after my daughter died”. - “The Aging Specialist helped me see that I have options”. - “The services helped pull me back from despair and suicide”. Full-time professionals provide specialized aging services as part of the overall outpatient program.

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OS X: There are numerous distractions on your computer and none of them make it easy to write. Like many distraction-free writing apps, Grandview takes over the entire screen to block them all out. The difference is that in addition to being able to see all the text you write, it can also show you one word at a time so you're simply writing in free-form and not worrying about anything you said before. This idea might seem a little strange to some. It feels awkward at first but you'll start to see the appeal after typing. Basically, if you have a tendency to edit while you write you'll find this feature very useful because it will prevent you from stopping in the middle of a sentence and considering if it's any good. Instead, you'll keep writing because you can't look back and see what you put down on paper. When you finish a sentence you'll get a chance to look at the entire thing and make sure there are no typos, but once you hit the space bar you'll move back into single-word mode for fewer distractions. Of course, if you completely hate this idea and just want a free full screen, distraction-free writing app, Grandview can do that as well. You can also use both features together, toggling out of single-word mode to see your entire document at any time. When you're finished, you can copy the text you've written and move it into any other app. Alternatively, you can open text files and work on those directly in Grandview. While the app has its leanings about how it wants you to work, it's very flexible so you can use it the way you want. Grandview (Free) | iTunes App Store

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The Leadership Washington County program was established in 1987 under the name Leadership Hagerstown, in cooperation with the Hagerstown-Washington County Chamber of Commerce. In 2006, the organization became a separate 501 (c) 3 non-profit. The organization began as a response to a need for a common meeting ground of shared concern among leaders in all sectors of the community. A community’s greatest assets are its people and that is certainly true in Washington County, MD. Graduate of Leadership Hagerstown and Leadership Washington County can be found as board members of non-profits, running for office, mentoring area youth, chairing events, managing projects, and helping their own organizations develop and prosper. The objective of Leadership Washington County is to develop and enhance community leadership by offering participants from diverse backgrounds a unique opportunity to explore, up close and personal, the challenges and issues facing the Washington County community. The Leadership program takes a select group of individuals from diverse backgrounds through an intense nine-month program during which they develop or strengthen their network of contacts and actively engage in issues around topics such as economic development, history, art and culture, education, religion, politics, and social service needs. Leadership Washington County exists to develop and inspire excellent leaders dedicated to serving the community and shaping its future. Leadership Washington County connects and develops extraordinary leaders deeply committed to fulfilling individual and corporate social responsibility in our community and in the lives of fellow citizens. Promote excellence through collaboration and partnerships Realize relevant positive change through forward thinking and dynamic action Inspire and equip leaders to make our community a great place to live, work and play Demonstrate integrity, stewardship and accountability in all organizational practices Embrace diversity, ingenuity and creativity

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Let's look at some scenarios I mentioned in last week's blog. I picked, at random, from a real estate googleizaton, a place that is listed for sale in Texas. It is not, of course, representative of agriculture overall. But then, which piece of land is? A generation ago, about the time I would have bought that place, it would probably have been worth $600 per acre. It probably didn’t have the improvements. It certainly, at that time, didn’t have the “recreation value” that now drives real estate prices in that part of Texas. I still couldn’t have bought it and expected it to pay for itself without bringing something major to the table—capital, extremely good market timing or extraordinary management of some sort. I suppose there are times in history when you could buy land and expect a plain old commercial cow herd to pay for it, but I missed them. So, somebody bought it anyhow. I have no idea who or why, and didn’t want to call to find out. It doesn’t matter, because there are only a few scenarios likely: Scenario 1: It was a place for some Dallas lawyer-type, W. Robert, we’ll call him, to spend the weekends, impress his drinking buddies and clients, and manage some taxes. So let’s say W. Robert passes to the court room in the sky The place is now worth—you can see it plain as day in the ad--$13 million. So the tax bill, at the 55% we’ll see next year, would be over $7 million. More than $1600 per acre. That is almost $12,000 per (advertised, of course) animal unit. Scenario 1A: His kid, J. Robert, II, is a lawyer as well. There is other money out there, so he can afford the $7 million if he wants to pay it. But does he? Did he also inherit his dad’s affection for slaying deers and managing hired help from his Dallas office? If not, that place goes on the market. Scenario 1B: His kid teaches school. The old man tied up most of his cash in the family ranch. Sure, there’s a couple million in bonds and stocks and cd’s, enough to provide the cash flow for a comfy retirement. But the IRS wants 55% of that, too. So, the son has a million in cash, but there’s still that $7 million bill to pay. That place is going on the market. Now, scenario 2. It’s a family ranch. Old Jim Bob is out there scratching a living out of 600 cows and a deer lease. His boy, Junior, teaches ag in town and helps out on the weekends. All he really wants to do is ranch. So, Jim Bob falls over dead on Jan. 2, 2011. Where is Junior going to find $7 million? That’s real money outside of D.C. Jim Bob might have had enough stocks, bonds, cash, cattle and marketable old clothes to cover his production note at the bank. More likely, he had refinanced at some point. There aren’t many bankers out there anxious to write a note for $12,000 per animal unit, and even if Junior found one, 600 cows aren’t going to make the payments. Now, here’s my guess. J. Robert probably has a nice estate plan that protects his kids. They may not be able to derive a lot of income from the place. It may be locked away like the Kennedys’ trust funds, or grandma’s wedding ring, but they won’t have to come up with $7 million. If they do, Daddy probably had an insurance policy to cover it. Lawyers and rich guys have the resources to do things like that. So, that place might stay in the same hands. If the kids want their money, they’ll put it on the market. But, assuming they don’t need the cash and they enjoy owning the land, they’ll figure there are worse places to leave your $13 million than in real estate. But what about Jim Bob’s kids? Jim Bob’s estate management options were much more limited. He needed every penny those cows could generate. He probably couldn’t afford the premiums on a 70-year-old cowboy’s $7 million life insurance program. At least half of that country is going on the market pronto. Junior will have to try to make a living with 300 aum’s or keep his job. Now, let’s all make a value judgment here. What should we wish for? I don’t mean us, actually. We’d be inclined to vote for keeping our places in the family, of course. But if we really, really, believe there should be more opportunity for young people. The typical argument from the Willy Nelson lobby is that higher prices for cattle and corn and cotton would fix that. That’s bunk. How are higher prices for cattle going to help a kid with no cattle compete with a guy with thousands of them? We’ve all spent our lives in an agriculture where land ownership is the only retirement program we know. Real estate inflation has always been agriculture’s greatest economic return. Take that away and where’s the reward? We’re all agreed that we need more opportunity for young people in agriculture, aren’t we? How are we going to do that if J. Robert II keeps it, living like some feudal landlord? Is it ok to rely on absentee landowners? Let the rest of us rent or work for wages? Is that the opportunity we want for young people? Or do we want them to share the old American farm dream of land ownership? We all agree that Junior should be able to keep the family ranch. But do we all—including Willy Nelson--agree that the heirs of the Ted Turners of the world should be able to own unlimited amounts of land, and own it in perpetuity? Under which of these scenarios are we best served? - Keep the 55% rate, so that only the lawyer’s rich lawyer son gets to keep owning the place? He’s probably going to hire a local—maybe the local ag teacher--to manage the outfit. Or he’ll rent it out. Either provides a way for the local, under-capitalized, boy to get a start in agriculture. If it’s really agriculture he wants, and not land ownership. - What if we stay where we are now, with a 0% estate tax? Jim Bob’s boy can just move in and start ranching. The lawyer’s teacher kid can either keep the place (and hire the local ag teacher to manage it or rent it out). In either case, you’ve giving a young person a more realistic entry. But only if his daddy has something to pass down, so it’s not going to reverse the concentration if that’s you big concern. Where, along the bell curve with the Kennedys and the Ted Turners on one end and the Jim Bobs and Juniors on the other, should we ask Congress to draw the line? That’s the question Congress has to decide in the near future. You should consider that before you choose your candidate this fall. Just how big a Willy Nelson fan are you?

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