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The fight card for Thursday's Bellator 27 event is set with 10 bouts, four of which are part of the night's FOX Sports Net-televised main card.
The organization recently announced a champion Joe Soto (9-0 MMA, 4-0 BFC) vs. Joe Warren (5-1 MMA, 3-0 BFC) featherweight title fight and two opening-round bantamweight-tourney bouts.
A third bantamweight-tourney bout between Bryan Goldsby (15-7 MMA, 1-0 BFC) and Ed West (13-4 MMA, 0-0 BFC) is the fourth and final addition to the televised card.
Bellator 27 takes place this Thursday, Sept. 2, at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio.
Goldsby, who's averaged nearly seven fights a year for the past three years, earned a tournament berth after a unanimous-decision upset of UFC/WEC Jeff Curran at Bellator 14 in April. West, a former IFL fighter, enters the bout with a five-fight win streak that stretches over the past three years.
That bout joins the other tourney bouts of Zach Makovsky (9-2 MMA, 1-0 BFC) vs. Nick Mamalis (10-4 MMA, 2-0 BFC) and Ulysses Gomez (6-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Travis Reddinger (14-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC).
The field of eight eventually will be down to one by season's end, and the winner will be crowned Bellator's first-ever 135-pound champion.
Featured on the untelevised preliminary card, which boasts plenty of Texas talent, are middleweights Andrew Craig (1-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Rodrigo Pinheiro (3-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC), lightweights Aaron Barringer (4-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Gilbert Jimenez (2-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC), heavyweights Dale Mitchell (0-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Richard Odoms (0-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC), welterweights Joe Christopher (10-3 MMA, 1-0 BFC) vs. Andrew Chappelle (8-6 MMA, 1-0 BFC), and light heavyweights Jon Kirk (15-8 MMA, 0-1 BFC) vs. Shane Faulkner (4-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC), and lightweights Steven Peterson (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Ernest De La Cruz (0-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC).
For additional coverage of Bellator 27, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Yikes... try heating it up on the outside and spraying some of that freeze spray on the plug to break it loose.
posted this on the saiga boards and thought someone here could help.
got a used 20 a couple of weeks ago. started stripping for a conversion. decided to update the sights to the hk. all is good so far. well not....
went to remove the gas adjustment knob and puck. here's where it gets messy. i cannot budge the gas knob. forget just moving from 1 to 2. i have it clamped in a vise right now and have tried just about everything. i even drilled out the front bead thinking it was causing a bind. my last resort is a BFH!
any suggestions?
i have tried break free down the tube for 48 hrs. still nothing.
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Yikes... try heating it up on the outside and spraying some of that freeze spray on the plug to break it loose.
You pushing the detent in? I've whoopsed like that...
Anyways, it might be tons of carbon buildup. I'd use a pipe wrench or large channellock pliers to get it moving a little bit, then move it back and forth to scrape the carbon out. You'll need a new gas plug but I'm sure you were gonna want to replace that with a fancier one anyways.
I have a hard time believing that carbon buildup alone would cause it to stick to that point where it doesn't even turn and agree it could be a "whoopsie" moment. What Saiga owner HASN'T done that? Please make ***SURE*** that the detent button is actually pushing in far enough to disengage from the cap. You can turn it down tight enough to actually engage the threads like a normal bolt or not, and that could cause it to 'stick' closed. When bottomed out like that, the detent pin may actually stick down, and that would cause excessive friction as it is normally loose and pushed out by that spring.
Let's assume you've confirmed the detent pin is loose and pushes against the spring no problem, and you can push it down far enough to disengage from the cap. If that cap is on there where it won't even turn, then IF IT WERE ME, I would mount the gun up securely in a vise with wood, aluminum or leather covers to protect the finish. Then take a plumbers wrench (yes I said it) and some sheet metal. You know, the soft kind you get from Lowe's or HD 'hardware' section. Not SS, etc. Just cheap, soft sheet metal. Something to protect against the teeth of the wrench.
Place that sheet metal between the wrench and the knob, then secure the wrench against it. When turning it should dig into the sheet metal but save the knob from getting scratched up. At worst the paint may get rubbed off, but at least it won't have deep gouges from the wrench!
Remember if you do the wrench thing, MAKE SURE that the detent pin is really disengaged. You could SERIOUSLY damage your gun if that pin is actually the problem. As in needing replacement parts and possibly a replacement gas block. So tread lightly!
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Are you turning it the right way? Looking at it from the front it turns counter-clockwise to loosen.
Something else to try, but you'll need a heper.
Have the helper push in the detent, and use something flat & blunt, like a large flat blade screwdriver or a chisel that the edge has been ground off. And you guessed right, smack it with a hammer. Don't go nuts, one or two sharp hits should get it to move.
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holy shit this was a bitch. i have let this sit for a while with some bore cleaner poured down the tube. i figured it was time to give it a shot. i used a piece of steel cut from a plane blade to fit the slots. BENT! dug around for something else and ended up with a paddle drill bit. turned and snap the shank breaks. at this point i'm pissed. the paddle part of the bit seemed to hold. i hit the gas block with a bit of heat, clamped the paddle bit in and adjustable wrench with about 2 feet of breaker bar and cranked again. the screech was like fingernails on a chalkboard, but it moved. cranked some more and voila its out!
the threads are unmarred and intact, so thats good news. there was shit in there that was unbelievable. it looked like chunks of lead. every crevice had it, even some of the threads. these pieces were .05-.07mm (used mechanical pencil leads as a size reference). best i can think, the previous owner had turned the knob as tight as he could get it and left it on #2. over time it just gummed and froze up.
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Holy shit, that thing was really on there!!!!
Glad you got it
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coils, its amazing at they way some peeps treat shit. i am NOT a saint nor an i the most proactive, but jeez this was ridiculous. the previous owner was a cop so i assumed he knew how to care for a firearm. oh well, its out now and i can go thru every nook and cranny.
oddly enough i was going to remove the gas block and look at the ports to see if they needed attention. if this beast is passing chunks of lead....
then again the ports could be fouled with god knows what.
al gore is full of carbon enriched shit
I know what you mean about the way people treat stuff, I think a lot of it is no common sense. I remember Kernel saying something about "there's people out there that can't put gas in their car without setting on fire" types.
If you want to hold off on removing the gas block, get in there with a small allen wrench and wiggle it around a little and see if that cleans the ports out.
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Bolts still in disbelief over playoff pratfall
The San Diego Chargers still don't have much of an explanation for their latest playoff pratfall, although the word ``uncharacteristic'' popped up plenty as players headed into a gloomy offseason.
The Chargers, believed by some to be Super Bowl favorites, took a face-plant in Sunday's 17-14 loss to the New York Jets.
And to think, they don't have Marty Schottenheimer to blame for this one.
``No question it was a missed opportunity,'' said LaDainian Tomlinson, who might have played his last game with the Chargers. ``I've said all along and I still believe it, this is the best team I've ever been on since I've been here with the Chargers. It's disappointing.''
The Chargers certainly didn't play like the team that won 11 straight games coming in. There was plenty of poor play spread around:
- Pro Bowler Philip Rivers had two interceptions, one that set up rookie Mark Sanchez's go-ahead TD throw for the Jets.
- All-Pro Nate Kaeding, who in six seasons has become the NFL's most accurate kicker of all time, missed three field goals.
- The Bolts had 10 penalties for 87 yards, including three personal fouls. Wide receiver Vincent Jackson was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for kicking the challenge flag that Jets coach Rex Ryan had just thrown late in the game with the Chargers trailing 17-7. Linebacker Shaun Phillips and special teams player Kris Wilson were called for unnecessary roughness.
``It was some of the most uncharacteristic things you could possibly do, and bad timing, too,'' outside linebacker Shawne Merriman said. ``We just had bad timing all the way around. Some missed field goals, offside penalties, personal fouls, things that we're not accustomed do doing, and it happened. In certain situations, I guess we have to learn to keep our composure. That's when the maturity and experience has to kick in at some point.''
This was supposed to be a more mature bunch put together by general manager A.J. Smith.
Instead, it drew comparisons to the Chargers team that melted down in a slew of boneheaded plays in a home divisional loss to New England three years ago.
Do the Chargers still have a maturity problem?
``It's tough to say because you've got guys who haven't had a penalty like that for the entire year and it happens one time, in a bad situation, and that's a deciding factor,'' Merriman said. ``If it was a thing that a guy had personal fouls all through the year, or offside penalties, whatever it is, and it happened in this game, you can kind of say, 'OK, well, he has a pattern of doing it.' But when guys get personal fouls and do some things uncharacteristic, you can't really call it maturity problem, It's more of a composure problem that we need to get better.''
Coach Norv Turner also used the word ``uncharacteristic'' about the penalties, saying he couldn't explain them.
``It's disappointing to me,'' Turner added. ``I don't care who you are, those things are tough to overcome.''
That loss to the Patriots three years ago came after the Chargers went 14-2 and earned home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Schottenheimer was fired a month later, in large part because of his icy relationship with Smith.
Once again, a Schottenheimer ended Smith's playoff run. This time it was Brian Schottenheimer, the Jets' offensive coordinator who used to the be the Chargers' quarterbacks coach.
These Chargers went 13-3 and had the first one-and-done playoff performance in three seasons under Turner, who dropped to 3-3 in the postseason with the Bolts.
Turner got the Chargers to the AFC championship game in his first season. They beat Indianapolis in overtime in a home wild-card game last year before being manhandled in the divisional round by eventual Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh.
Turner won't suffer the same fate as Marty Schottenheimer. The Chargers announced Monday evening that they've given Turner a three-year contract extension through 2013. The team didn't make Turner or Smith available for comment.
Turner doesn't think the Chargers' window of opportunity has been slammed shut.
``We have got an outstanding football team and we have got good players and great character players and people that you want to be around on a daily basis, and guys that will get this thing done,'' Turner said. ``There's no question in my mind. I think the future for this football team is outstanding.''
Asked if that means winning the Super Bowl, he said: ``That's our intention and that's our goal. I believe this team is capable of coming back and putting ourselves in position to make a run at it over the next period of time.''
If they do, it'll likely be without Tomlinson and perhaps Merriman.
Tomlinson almost became a salary-cap casualty last offseason, and there's been plenty of speculation that the Chargers will let him go this offseason.
``We all had aspirations of winning the championship. It's disappointing when it comes to a halt,'' he said.


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April 24, 2014
Every morning, the men of the oil field file out of their rooms in waves, warming up their trucks and emptying parking lots that kept their vehicles all night long.
The most common site at any hotel in Greeley these days is big, heavy duty trucks, side by side, warming up for their days and pouring out of hotel parking lots.
While the Wattenberg has boomed with the advent of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, companies have raced to be a part of it. And with them come their influx of workers, who all need a place to stay.
The rush caught Greeley a little flat-footed in terms of rental housing. There hadn't been an apartment complex built in years prior to last year. Now, hundreds are slated to go up in the coming years to meet the ever-increasing demand. Area hotels have become the safety net.
"I think there's probably enough to go around at this point," said Renee von Weiland, operations manager for Spirit Hospitality in Fort Collins, which owns two hotels in the Greeley area and one in Loveland, all with an influx of oil and gas workers keeping the numbers strong.
While builders work on putting up apartments at a breakneck pace, area hotels are filling their rooms to the brim, two workers to a room, in many cases. The mix has been the great equalizer for the seasonal hotel industry, even with new brands on the market.
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Some companies have had their rotating crews of employees room at area hotels for the last three years. Many of the workers are here from Wyoming or Oklahoma, or North Dakota, and still others have migrated here from the West Slope, where drilling has slowed with the downturn in gas drilling there.
It set off another mini-boom of hotels, with three more already planned around Greeley, and one in downtown Greeley. Spirit Hospitality, which owns the Hampton Inn and Suites in southcentral Greeley, opened its extended-stay hotel, Candlewood Suites, in west Greeley last fall, and boasts a good 50 percent to 60 percent of its business in the oil field.
The men of the oil field have become a huge set of big brothers for the workers at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Greeley.
"The guys are great, they're really intelligent, they make you feel like you're good at your job, they just treat you really well," said Courtney Froman, assistant general manager of the Clarion. "They're pretty much a regular guest, even though they live here, we take care of them just like any guest."
On any given day, workers will be in the gym working out, in the restaurant catching up with friends and eating, or taking their dogs out for a walk. Most of the time, Froman said, they're so tired from work, they don't even leave their rooms.
The companies that hire the men ensure good behavior by making good behavior a condition of employment.
"They all get along with each other; it's really nice to have them here," Froman said. "And we're all girls so they're pretty much protection for us."
The hotel, which struggled for years under a patchwork of ownerships and operations levels, seems to have found a niche with the industry, which now comprises most of their business. The Clarion is the biggest hotel in Greeley with 164 rooms.
"It is very important to us," Froman said of the oilfield business. "They're basically what pays the bills here. They are regulars. It's nice seeing the same faces all the time, just knowing them."
The influx of workers has pretty much turned the hotel business model upside down, having for years dealt with the typical lean times in the winters and the influx of tourism in the summers.
"My winter business is as good as my summer business," said Frank Brewster, co-owner of Days Inn in west Greeley. "Their business bell curve is the opposite of ours, which works out fantastic."
Brewster estimates the oil and gas field traffic has contributed 20 percent to 30 percent of his annual business; and roughly 50 percent to 60 percent in the winter.
"My guess would be if we didn't have oil and gas we'd be operating at my 2008 level, which I would take a 20 maybe 30 percent decrease in revenue. It wouldn't kill us, but oil and gas is great."
The industry has consistently kept Spirit Hospitality's Greeley occupancy at 75 percent, which dwarfs annual averages on some national brands.
Spirit Hospitality opened Hampton Inn in 2006, and now is doing an extensive remodel. They opened the 83-room Candlewood Suites last September.
"At any given time, I would say about half of the hotel is out there" involved in oil and gas, von Weiland said.
"Looking at the vehicles in our parking lot and the clientele we have and the lengths of stay, we've got people who have been in there since we opened," von Weiland said of the Candlewood, which opened the very day of a massive flood in Evans, and filled up with temporary housing for displaced residents.
"Greeley definitely has been very good to us," von Weiland said. "We're running a great occupancy and, frankly, this is usually the off season. They're usually not very viable."
More will come soon. Hotel developer David Amin has planned an 85-room Homewood Suites hotel in south Greeley. Construction is expected to begin soon, with the hotel opening in spring 2015.
On the other side of Interstate 25, developer McWhinney has planned a 104-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel on the northeast corner of the I-25 and U.S. 34 interchange.
A 110-room Fairfield Inn is planned to go into Fort Lupton, as well, on Colo. 52 across form Safeway. The city, about 20 miles south of Greeley, hasn't had a new hotel built in at least two decades, said Mayor Tommy Holton in a previous interview.
He said there is no doubt that the surge in oil and gas helped the developer pull the trigger on the hotel. Fort Lupton, which has only one large hotel now, has become the home to an expanded Halliburton facility, as well as some other oil and gas support companies that have brought new employees to the area.
"We've got some other (potential developers) kind of poking around," Holton said. "There's just no place to stay. There's no housing."
Construction will begin next year.
Though occupancies are high, there are some expectations of the oil and gas business trailing off. Brewster said companies will only go so far in giving employees housing allowances.
"What's happening is a lot of companies are saying, 'You need to move; we won't put you up anymore.' We're seeing that influx go away. Those companies won't support that forever. They're making them move or commute. There's always going to be influx of new people. At some point, it'll be almost gone. At some point, it'll be so minimal you wouldn't even count it."


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Lightning's Story: Requiem of the Goddess
Lightning's Story: Requiem of the Goddess is DLC for Final Fantasy XIII-2. It costs 400 Microsoft Points on XBL and $4.99 on the PS Network.
This DLC features the battle between Lightning and Caius, and unlocks Lightning for use in your party in the Commando role. WARNING This DLC should only be played after the main game has been completed. The cut scenes for completing the DLC is the true ending to Final Fantasy XIII-2.
Requiem of the Goddess is a short DLC where you (Lightning) fights Caius in two battles. The only way to get to the second battle is to beat Caius with five stars. After beating him in the first battle, he will transform to Chaos Bahamut. Beat him a second time to complete the DLC and see the true ending. There are six new roles with a few new abilities, but the roles are very similar to the other roles in the game, without the Medic role. Since there isn't a Medic role, you must use the five potions and one elixir in your items.
Lightning will start off at Level 1, which makes it pretty much impossible to defeat Caius. Don't worry, you will earn XP by defeating him or dying. The most XP you can earn is 100, and it all depends on how much damage you cause.
At future levels, the Conjurer and Sorcerer roles will unlock. These roles are needed to beat Caius. If you get to too high a level (Max level 10), five stars will be harder to obtain unless Caius is defeated in a quick enough time.
To defeat Caius in both battles, a simple formula must be followed. This may be the best way to defeat Caius, and the formula shouldn't be strayed from.
- The first role that should be used in the Conjurerrole. If you're at a high enough level with enough HP, Aura will be the move to use. If your level is still sort of low, use Mighty Guard.
- Attack Caius with the Paladin class to set a decent chain for the Stagger Meter.
- Switch to the Shaman role and use Galestrike and Windstorm to work up the Stagger Meter.
- Once Caius is staggered, switch to Sorcerer and use Chaos to inflict status ailments.
- Hopefully, Caius will have a few ailments to hurt him. The next thing to do is quickly switch to Conjurer once more if you're still using Mighty Guard. Switch to Aura to deal more damage.
- If this is the first fight, switch to Paldin to send Caius flying with a regular attack. If not, skip to the next step.
- With Caius in the air (or Bahamut staggered) switch to the Mage role. Use a few abilities to boost up the stagger meter. The higher the meter, the more damage will be done. Don't try to get to the max 999, you may not have enough time. 550-600 is good enough.
- Switch to Paladin and deal massive damage until he's defeated. Try using regular Attacks over Ruin. This way Smite will automatically hit when the stagger meter empties, causing massive damage. If your ATB meter is still charging while the stagger meter is almost empty, cut it short to get that Smite!
The only time you should use Knight is when Bahamut is about to use Flare. Follow these steps with a high enough level and you should be able to complete this DLC!
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I have a few days of work this week and then a long weekend in store for me. I've planned some 'making' and a trip to the sugar bush for pancakes and syrup. MMmmmm . . . Fingers crossed that no one gets sick.
Happy Monday!
I'm posting pics today of the craziness that was Friday. But I agree, it's so hard to feel upset about it when things are so much worse elsewhere.
I think the Aidez would be the end of me in all honesty. It is soooo gorgeous, but I might have to pass on it for now. The idea of all that seeming makes my head spin. I'm a simple kind of girl, you know? I like a challenge...but don't want to kill myself afterwards. :)
'Making'...can't wait. And...we are doing the sugar bush this weekend too. Might be seeing you more than just Friday. Hope you can handle it. :) xo
I hate to complain, but where is the pic of you wearing the cardigan? You tease! It looks quite beautiful flat...
The cardigan is beautiful and I think you are well deserving of a stockinette sock. We have a trip to the sugar bush planned for this week too. You really can't have pancakes and maple syrup too often.
Such a beautiful snow photo! We wish we got more snow here, but we have such a mild winter -- hardly any at all most years. We're already well into a beautiful Spring here, but soon we'll be sweltering through 100+ temp days and envying you folks who live in cooler parts of the country.
Your Aidez looks beautiful. I've got it in my faves (along with about a million other things ;), and your socks are looking very sweet.
Your sweater is awesome in person N :-) Great job!
Beautiful sweater, looks toasty! Perfect for this lovely (cold) spring weather we're having.
We went (Sean & I) with his class to the sugar shack last Friday. It was a good time! (Fattening though!)
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WASHINGTON — Social media is transforming the social scene in the nation's capital with the hottest inaugural events coming from major media venues.
The problem is, party etiquette on the social media front doesn't fare well. With so much time hooked up to their machines, guests when they finally do get together want to do nothing more than talk to each other. So when it comes time for party hosts to make their pitches, no one wants to behave.
Digital age etiquette was strictest at the Google party over the weekend, where a Stalinist approach to silence forced guests to decide what they'd rather do with their mouths: eat, drink and be merry, or zip it and listen. Cohosted by Elle on the top floors of the National Portrait Gallery — where pasty, top-down lighting made anyone over 40 look like a "before" photo in a beauty section — no one wanted to stop talking. But party host Susan Molinari, the former Republican congresswoman recently hired by Google to run its Washington office, is all about command and control. Each time a powerful woman showed up, guests were supposed to stop talking, listen up and take notes on what a girl's got to do to make it in politics. After a few hours, the drill was beginning to get old. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius arrived, took the microphone and everyone listened. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice showed up and everyone quieted down. By the time Sen. Amy Klobuchar from the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party showed up, the crowd had turned testy.
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"Sshhhh," Molinari hissed into her mic, trying to clear the air for another pep talk. No significant reduction in volume. Two more rounds of shushing and the hostess was beginning to boil. "You guys, we're going to close down the bar,'' she threatened. Still the buzz billowed around her as Klobuchar waited to speak. More shushing and finally, the hostess lost it. "I will shut the bar if you don't be quiet,'' Molinari repeated before adding another threat: "We will stop serving food if you don't be quiet.''
As guests began to flee out the door while others presented their cell phones for party organizers to check the bar code that guaranteed admission, one guest whispered, "Doesn't she know that the best way to keep people from talking is to put food in their mouths?"
When at last Molinari handed Klobuchar the mic, the senior senator from Minnesota decided to punt, softening Molinari's eating and drinking threats with her own brand of Capitol Hill-style bathroom humor. "I was featured once in Elle, and I didn't get to keep the clothes," Klobuchar plunged in before moving on to observe that 20 women now in the Senate marks the "first time in U.S. history'' for a "traffic jam in the women's bathroom." It may be time for the Minnesota farm girl to get a new schtick — back in 2006, Klobuchar's Elle profile opened with the observation that with 17 women in the Senate, she accidentally walked into the men's room in the Hart Senate Office building to find that the male version was "twice as big as ours and has a shoe-shine chair."
Google rival Microsoft had its own inaugural bash in its K Street downtown office, inviting congressmen and their families along with school kids from the Duke Ellington School to celebrate scientific achievement. But what about Apple? "The company has lots of money," said one IT executive, "but they haven't doneanything much for the community.''
All three companies have one thing in common: They've all faced and survived the threat of antitrust investigation, most recently with the Federal Trade Commission's year-end decision to drop its probe of Google.
Over at Café Milano, at the Newsweek & The Daily Beast party cosponsored by Credit Suisse, Tina Brown and Eva Longoria were both struggling to make their voices heard. No shushing here meant that no one stopped talking long enough to catch their drift. Fortunately, both kept their remarks short, leaving guests plenty of time to strut their brands.
President and chief executive officer of Politico, Fred Ryan, who served as Ronald Reagan's post-presidential chief of staff, took a break from his own company's inaugural luncheon seminar featuring issues discussed by politicians including newly elected Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.), to drop by and check out the competition. "Newsweek is a great brand and Tina is a genius to marry it with Daily Beast. It gives them an opportunity to cover a lot of different avenues with lots of different audiences," said Ryan, definitely up for running the inaugural party gamut. "Hey, after years of covering the election, this is our Super Bowl," he crowed.
So what about shedding a tear for the print version of Newsweek, killed after the Harman family decided to scale back its investment?
"Everyone is sorry in a nostalgic sense to see print media vanishing," said Daily Beast D.C. bureau chief Howard Kurtz, former media writer for the Washington Post. "We all live online now and, no doubt, that's where the future is."
As for the role of new media in the high energy, high society platform in hostess-challenged Washington, he noted, "People from both parties and a gaggle of celebrities at a Newsweek-Daily Beast bash — that's very good for business as it enters the digital age.''
Clearly old media godfather David Bradley, 59, owner of Atlantic Magazine and the National Journal, never got the memo. Hosted with his wife Katherine, his inaugural party offered enough finesse, elegance and style to warm the heart of the most diehard techie. Across the street from the Clintons' and the Italian Embassy, limos lined up waiting, while inside guests enjoyed the warm glow of luxe around a roaring fire in the kitchen.
"Let me know where you are running for election so we can send you a check," doe-eyed Beth Dozoretz told actress Ashley Judd, whose ensemble included a string of fuchsia orchid blossoms from her temple to her cheekbone.
Judd, who is considering running for national political office from her home state of Kentucky, showed up with Mark Ein, owner of the World Team Tennis League's Washington Kastles team. Ein, D.C.'s techie investment whiz, met Judd in Guatemala on an AIDS prevention trip sponsored by PSI, a global health organization, funded by USAID. PSI is known for its stable of celebrity ambassadors including tennis star Anna Kournikova, and actress Debra Messing and singer-songwriter Mandy Moore. Judd, who isn't sure just what campaign race to run in, played it coy, saying cryptically, "You have great chiropractors out there."


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Teseq Holding AG acquires IFI, further expanding its RF amplifier capabilities
Teseq Holding AG, a leading developer and provider of instrumentation and systems for EMC emission and immunity testing, has acquired New York-based Instruments for Industry (IFI), a leading designer and manufacturer of solid state and traveling wave tube (TWT) amplifiers. The acquisition expands Teseq's model range from an upper limit of 6 GHz up to an upper limit of 40 GHz and power levels from an upper limit of 1 kW to an upper limit of 10 kW.
By uniting the industry leading capabilities of IFI with those of the recently acquired MILMEGA, Teseq has broadened its product line in the RF amplifier market, offering its customers the very best solutions in a wide variety of commercial, industrial automotive, military, defense and communication applications.
Johannes Schmid, president of the Teseq Group, said, "With the acquisition of IFI, Teseq continues to build on its vision of providing the best in testing solutions on a worldwide basis. Acquiring IFI so soon after MILMEGA demonstrates our commitment to an ongoing strategy of being a forward thinking leader and dominant supplier of RF power amplifiers to the worldwide market."
Schmid continued, "As a US-based manufacturer, IFI enables Teseq to offer an increase in services to our growing customer base. IFI brings to Teseq the latest in GaN and LDMOS Class AB solid state technology and the knowledge to manufacture TWT amplifiers, as well as its strong relationships within the defense and military markets."
Established in 1953, IFI is a leading supplier of high power RF and microwave amplifiers using both solid state and TWT technologies. The company boasts a broad range of products, including low, medium and high power amplifiers that are successfully used in applications worldwide.
Mike Yantz, executive vice president of IFI, said, "Becoming part of the growing Teseq family allows us to offer our customers a complete RF product range as well as additional expertise in engineering that was not available before. We are now able to offer the best in global sales, support and EMC expertise, which will prove beneficial to our end users."
Teseq will incorporate IFI's New York location with the Teseq Group as a fourth competency center joining Luterbach, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany and Ryde, Isle of Wight, UK. IFI will work in close cooperation with MILMEGA/Teseq on the Isle of Wight. The primary focus of the combined organizations will be on TWTs, class A and AB technology and customer specific models for the general amplifier and military markets.
The IFI brand remains the same, while the company's product range will be harmonized with the ones of Teseq and MILMEGA and offered in a new price list valid as of January 1st, 2013.


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You all know my mother is from Rome, right? Una vera romana, she can swagger and gesticulate with the best of them. And she's pretty cute, if it's still alright to say that about a woman of a certain age. She's the lady who taught me how to pan-fry thin little pork chops with slices of raw lemon until crisp and juicy and totally delectable. She's the one whose Parmesan broth with tiny noodles is still the only thing I want to eat when I'm sick. And its her tomato sauce that, simmering on the stove, makes any house my home.
She is, however, not a cook. By her own admission. My career path mystifies her. She loves to eat, but cooking is not her bag. She masters the simple, but leaves the complicated to restaurants, Sicilian brother-in-laws, her strange daughter, or the hallowed halls of her childhood memories. When I called her the other night to tell her I was making gnocchi alla romana, a classic Roman dish of little semolina pucks baked in the oven and served with tomato sauce, her voice registered only disbelief.
"You're going to make them? Yourself? From scratch?" She might as well have said, "why on earth would you ever bother?"
Told you she thinks I'm strange.
The thing is, semolina gnocchi really aren't that hard. You cook semolina with milk and butter until creamy and pulling away from the sides of the pot, sort of like polenta. You mix in some cheese and egg yolks and spread this mass out onto a baking sheet. Later, using a cookie cutter, you stamp out little rounds, tuck them into a baking dish, dust them with more cheese and dot them with butter and stick them in the oven until lightly crisped around the edges and browned. Yes, that's about it.
Oh, and that tomato sauce is so easy you could practically do it with one hand tied behind your back, whistling. (Though the slices of garlic were a little unsightly.) I didn't have any cookie cutters for the semolina gnocchi, so I tried to improvise with an egg cup. That was sort of a bust. I ended up finishing the job with a sharp knife, cutting little rounds out by hand which was far less fussy than it sounds.
What's important in this recipe is one small little thing: salt. Oh, ho. Yes. The amount of salt you add can and will be the difference between insipid baby food and something rather delicious. Which is why I found it so annoying that the recipe doesn't stipulate the amount of salt needed. I put in about a teaspoon and, sadly, my gnocchi tended very much towards the insipid. So try at least two teaspoons and taste taste taste as you go. If I made these again, I'd also double the amount of Parmesan used, and I'd put most of it in the semolina batter and only a little bit on top of the gnocchi.
This recipe made an enormous amount of gnocchi, but only a rather modest amount of sauce. The sauce is so nice that it's a shame to have too little of it. So I'd double that, if I were you. Leftovers, if you've got any, are easy enough to get rid of on your spaghetti dinner the next evening. The gnocchi need that acidic, juicy kick of sauce to give them some spine.
And here's the last thing about semolina gnocchi: you must eat them when they're fresh and when they're hot. I know, I know: Italians and their food rules. But really, listen up. If you've got leftovers, too bad. Do not attempt to eat them the next day. You will regret it. Instead, invite some friends over and impress the pants off of them with dinner. Make them scrape up every last gnocco and be glad you don't have any left to throw out.
Gnocchi alla Romana
Makes 6 servings
1 quart plus 2 tablespoons whole milk
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
2 teaspoons salt, or more to taste
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups semolina flour
1 5- to 6-ounce piece Parmigiano-Reggiano, grated
3 large egg yolks, lightly beaten
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
4 cloves garlic, sliced
2 medium onions, finely chopped
2 14.5-ounce cans chopped tomatoes
Freshly ground black pepper
1. In a 3- to 4-quart saucepan, combine milk, nutmeg, salt and 4 tablespoons butter. Bring just to a boil, lower heat to medium and immediately start adding semolina in a thin stream, whisking constantly. Keep whisking to make a smooth mixture. Reduce heat to very low and cook, stirring, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in most of the cheese and the egg yolks.
2. Use some of the oil to grease a baking sheet. Spread hot batter on baking sheet to a thickness of 1/2 inch. Cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate until very cold, 4 hours or overnight.
3. Heat remaining oil in a saucepan, add garlic and onions, cook until soft and add tomatoes. Simmer gently about 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
4. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Use a little remaining butter to grease a shallow baking dish about 9 by 13 inches. Use a 2- to 3-inch round cookie cutter or a glass to cut disks of chilled dough. Keep dipping cutter in cold water to prevent sticking. Lift disks off baking sheet and arrange, slightly overlapping, in baking dish. Scraps can be kneaded briefly and smoothed out to allow for a few additional disks. Sprinkle disks in dish with remaining cheese and dot with remaining butter. Bake about 15 minutes, until lightly browned.
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(Feb 01, 1999) Secretary-General Kofi Annan of the UN met with global corporations in Davos, Switzerland and asked them to make a compact between the United Nations and the private sector, basically to treat workers and the environment with respect as they conduct business. We all know how that worked out.
The result: Corporations received the go-ahead to, in fact, put together a system of global governance by forming economic regions based on integrating nations, integrating and harmonizing sections of the economy. It will make everything that takes place in a region, any region of the world, the same. The European Union is the example that nations are following. Two examples are the African Union and the North American Community.
The Americas is an another example, initiated by George W. Bush in 2008, that is now being put together by President Obama and Hillary Clinton (Partnership for Prosperity in the Americas). It will consist of 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere that will be governed by a trade agreement. There are currently 14 nations that have agreed to this integration.
The trade agreement for this integration will have sovereignty over each nation if there is a conflict between the trade agreement and a nation's constitution. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have all agreed to join the Americas.
Corporations agreed with the United Nations in 1999 to establish a global community based on trade agreements and trading regions. These regions will have the same standards for governance and for all products made on Earth. Travel among the regions of the world would be simple. All travelers would be cleared before landing since all information would be on interconnected data bases. All international laws agreed on will be in force globally. In the United States some of our Bill of Rights will no longer be legal.
For American workers the good times are over. The question is how low can your pay rate go down? The answer is a lot lower. Corporate CEOs have said that they don't want to pay high wages when they can pay less. And with little or no benefits. One CEO said he would use all robots if he could.
This is their mindset. With robots, CEOs don't have overworked cheap labor who go on strikes. CEOs get so carried away with visions of paper money filling up large safes, they forget that no one will buy their products without workers who have money to spend. The only people making money now are the corporations. About 5 years ago American auto workers were making around $27 per hour. Now they make between $15 to $16 per hour. Mexicans now make $3.50 per hour. CEOs are now aiming to get closer to the Mexican workers wages.
The news, however, continues to go downhill for workers in nations such as the United States. Corporations can now utilize cheap, skilled workers around the world. They can export manufacturing jobs to other countries and regions for short term and long term jobs. (Foreign workers still work up to 80 hours for a 6-day week for pennies per hour and in some places companies continue to use child labor.)
They can also import foreign labor into any country without any problems. The last three presidents and Congress have been very supportive toward corporate rule since CEOs in North America planned this North American Community after the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States met in Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005 and "signed" the agreement (p. 24, link above). Yes. George W. Bush signed away his country to global corporations and international law. This and the Mexican invasion are reasons why the U.S. will no longer exist before we reach 2050.
This is the most important part of the corporate plan. Now they don't have to pay workers good pay with benefits. In many countries around the world workers will put in many hours without overtime pay or vacations, or sick leave. In some places death on the job is a real possibility.
Corporate leaders are ready for Mexico to control their outer border, with aid from USNORTHCOM. When that happens, we (U.S.) can open our common inner border with our southern neighbor and allow Mexicans to "live and work" anywhere on the continent without needing a border pass anymore (pp. 27,28 link above). Travel to Canada will also be open to all "citizens" of North America when the outer border perimeter of the continent is secure. Obama has been working on this perimeter project since he announced it on Jan 4, 2011.
NOTE: Mexican workers build expensive American cars and trucks in Mexico for top wages at $3.50 per hour and $.50 per hour for benefits. Our minimum wage is around $7.50. That gives you a clear vision of where we are going. Why would any corporate CEO hire an American when he can "grow the economy" until it all falls apart in America and the world.
But these corporate leaders are only concerned about "their" 30 or 40 years of growing the economy. American workers are not even part of the equation. This will all end, though, before we reach 2050. It will end because we have limited resources which none of the idiots running the world seem to understand. Or care. But billions of desperate people won't forget.
"In 1999 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed that business and the United Nations should- initiate a global compact of shared values and principles, which will give a human face to the global market. (UN 1999) He suggested that companies embrace nine universally accepted principles in the areas of human and labour rights and the environment…"
However, as expected, corporations ignored the parts about labor rights for workers and protection of the environment and the UN went along with the corporations. The UN still supported business and the Chamber of Commerce. Corporations are now in the process of constructing a world made up of trade agreements between nations and among regions. These regions are governed by trade agreement rules, regulations and appointed regional institutions. These trade agreements and all regional agreements are the law of the land. As in the European Union, parliaments will make law for regions and have sovereignty (shared sovereignty) with member nations. There has been a mini-parliament for the EU and United States since 1999 and currently they are putting together a permanent mini EU-US parliament for the two regions.
And all appointed trade tribunals have sovereignty over the U.S. Supreme Court in any trade disagreement.
Bill Clinton started the project for dumping American workers when he pushed NAFTA through in 1993 and corporate America was very grateful. Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have all supported the trade agreements. Now Obama and Hillary Clinton have worked hard toward integrating North America and the Americas into a trading region, but most Americans never heard of it.
NAFTA freed American corporations from the high cost of hiring American workers and now the trend is to move American companies to Mexico and other third world nations. The result is that corporations are no longer looking to hire expensive American workers. Massive unemployment will rise as our government continues to bring in foreigners at the request of our president, either a Republican or Democrat. See the cost of NAFTA. First NAFTA brought wealth to CEOs and now they ask, How much wealth can we amass?
Patrick J. Buchanan:
"The American people were had. NAFTA never was a trade deal. NAFTA was always an enabling act-to enable U.S. corporations to dump their American workers and move their factories to Mexico."
Obama has begun (Jan. 2011) working on a common outer perimeter between Canada and the United States. And Mexico has already started, together with the U.S., on an eventual integrated modern open border (2010) between Mexico and the U.S.-with no opposition. ( Yes. A lot of money has been transferred from corporate America to Congress, both Republicans and Democrats.)
"In July 1999, the Global Compact was announced officially in a joint statement made by the UN Secretary-General and the International Chamber of Commerce, Adnan Kassar. (UN/ICC) In July 2000, it was declared operational and was announced officially launched once again at a high-level event at UN headquarters in New York (UN 2001:1)
Two months earlier, though, Kassar issued a statement that "There must be no suggestion of hedging the Global Compact with formal prescriptive rules. We would resist any tendency for this to happen."
There has been no change with the global corporate stance on this. The trade agreements that Obama and Hillary Clinton supported do not have any formal legal wording in any trade agreements made by the United States that requires compliance for the decisions on the environment or labor. They both lied to the American voters.
In fact,
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supported all trade agreements made and signed by President Obama precisely because there is no guaranteed legal wording in any trade agreement that supports the environment or labor. Tom Donohue, President of the Chamber of Commerce, said "…that the labor provisions, (Peru Agreement) for example, cannot be read to require compliance with ILO (International Labor Organization) Conventions."
All trade agreements have given corporations the freedom to ignore the environment and fair dealing with labor. Government officials in all nations are working in step with corporations and they both win. Unemployment is good for business because they are no longer concerned with the cost of labor or benefits.
That is a fact for all trade agreements made anywhere on the planet. Corporations are in charge, free to loot the world of its wealth- free now to build their yachts that now cost over a billion dollars and rival ocean liners in size.
So what we have in America and have always had, are two forces at work in our nation, the government and corporations on one side and the American citizens on the other. The citizens in America and their brethren around the world are easily fooled and governed by this unholy alliance, the forces of greed- businessmen and politicians. Most of us are essentially taking orders from those without a soul, those who will lie to you and send you to your death for their gain. (9/11)
And as we stumble toward 2050, the economy will begin to collapse as billions more citizens on Earth are born just as our vital resources begin to disappear because of too many people on the planet. During all of this, huge numbers of people, 4.5 billion by 2050, who will be short of water, billions more short of food, the oceans will be polluted and empty of seafood, coral reefs will have been destroyed, no shelter from the burning atmosphere for many, pollution is climbing as methane escapes from the melting Arctic ice, there are constant floods from super saturated downpours and powerful droughts in other areas. There is no one in government who can help you now.
In what is left of the United States, what can go wrong, will. Predictions from governments, scientists, and various military organizations are generally in sync that no one can stop the road we're on without a complete global plan. And that won't happen.
From Professor Julian Cribb- The Coming Famine…:
"More, and possibly worse, could be in store. British defense analysts have predicted that rising populations, declining resources and climate change will increase the risk of food price spikes and shortages, water scarcities in volatile regions, mass displacement cause by climate or resource insurgency, pervasive criminality and widespread disorder."
What everyone is predicting is Chaos. Pervasive criminality and widespread disorder is a quiet way of saying Chaos, anarchy, a time when there is no control of the population and everyone with a brain should know it. Everyone on Earth should know it. If you don't make some plans to prepare for the possibilities and there are many, your life and that of your family will be in an untenable situation.
To make things worse, our leaders produced a population mix that is guaranteed to cause extreme and unrelenting violence as armed Mexicans, Muslims, White Americans and other assorted groups of angry people prepare for unrelenting bloodshed. It will be a time in which the goal will be to destroy as many of the others as possible. There won't be a peaceful ending. There won't be an ending of any kind.
PHOTO: Illegal Mexicans and Brown Berets clash with Neo-Nazis at Home Depot. Other clashes are with Mexicans against White Americans or Mexicans against Black Americans.
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Citrix today released XenServer 6.0 with greater disaster recovery protection that removes dependencies on Windows virtual machines, but Citrix and Microsoft were still able to bolster their virtualization partnership with increased integration between XenServer and Microsoft's management software.
Although Citrix and Microsoft have a strong virtualization partnership on both the technical and marketing fronts, several improvements listed in the XenServer 6.0 release notes include dropping requirements to use Windows to perform certain tasks.
A new Integrated Site Recovery feature replaces the previous StorageLink Gateway DR tool, offering "remote data replication between storage arrays with fast recovery and failback capabilities," Citrix says. This also "removes the Windows VM requirement." This will help improve the product's capabilities, a Citrix spokesperson explained in an email to Ars.
"Site Recovery in previous versions was dependent on the StorageLink Gateway component which was a Windows-based separate installation," Citrix says. "With XenServer 6.0 the StorageLink functionality is delivered as a native part of XenCenter and the Site Recovery functionality is done natively as well." This also allows Citrix to support replication on a greater number of storage devices.
Similarly, a Windows VM requirement was removed for access to storage features like data replication, de-duplication, snapshots and cloning, while a new workload balancing tool uses a Linux-based virtual appliance "with a smaller footprint [that] replaces the Windows-based virtual appliance and eliminates the Windows licensing dependency," Citrix said.
But that doesn't mean Microsoft and Citrix aren't still friends. The 6.0 release expands upon Citrix's technical partnership with Microsoft by integrating with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. While Citrix already offers management software for Microsoft's Hyper-V, Microsoft is now returning the favor with software that manages XenServer. Going forward, VMM will be able to manage XenServer hosts and virtual machines, while System Center Operations Manager 2012 will gain the same access, Citrix said. This integration is specific to XenServer 6.0 and will not work on previous versions.
VMM 2012, which can also manage VMware deployments, is available from Microsoft as a release candidate. XenServer 6.0 was released in a beta in July and with today's update is now generally available. While the basic XenServer is a free download, the enterprise versions with features like role-based administration, dynamic workload balancing and automatic VM protection and recovery range from $1,000 to $5,000. The Site Recovery feature is available only in the $5,000 Platinum edition, which promises "complete datacenter automation."
While VMware still dominates the virtualization market, the company angered some users with pricing changes, and both Citrix and Hyper-V have closed much of the technology gap. The analyst firm Gartner now places Microsoft and Citrix in the "leaders" section of its Magic Quadrant, along with VMware. Citrix's sales pitch is complicated by its relationship with Microsoft, with the companies competing and complementing each other. But the popularity of Citrix's XenDesktop technology "has carried XenServer into VMware-centric organizations," Gartner says.
The XenServer 6.0 release notes detail about 20 new or improved features, including greater ability to import virtual machines and appliances from VMware deployments. Also new is the ability to support up to 1TB memory in XenServer hosts and up to 16 virtual processors and 128GB virtual memory in virtual machines, as well as enhanced support for guest operating systems including Ubuntu, CentOS, Solaris and Oracle Enterprise LInux. Given Citrix's focus on desktop virtualization, there are also improvements to high-definition graphics and GPU support designed to optimize virtual desktops running on XenServer hosts.
XenServer has a few bugs in it, though. Citrix's release notes detail occasional performance problems related to disk throughput in some 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments, intermittent failure of Windows VMs to boot properly when streaming over Citrix Provisioning Services, and incorrect reports on the amount of space used by a virtual disk.


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Vitamin C is required for life. The nature of our diets leads to a serious lack of this essential nutrient. This situation may be a leading contributor to much of the sickness and chronic disease that the population of the earth suffers.
A study in the Journal of Epidemiology (May, 1992) was reported to show that people who have high blood levels of vitamin C live 6 years longer than those who have lower blood levels.
Vitamin C in high doses (up to 100 grams/day or more IV) has been shown to be very effective in the treatment of cancer. This is an extremely positive and safe course to take in that it promotes an increased state of wellness and experience shows that high levels of vitamin C act as a chemotherapy potentiator. It also protects healthy cells from radiation therapy damage.
Half of us in the United States will die from heart disease. The foundation of heart disease is atherosclerosis, the narrowing of our arteries with plaque. By why does our body do this? It must be for a reason. The presence of cholesterol is not compelling. Our bodies make several thousand milligrams of cholesterol a day (see Saturated Facts). If atherosclerosis is a healing process to patch a compromised arterial wall, as I believe, how can we make our arteries healthy and stop this process that, over time, becomes a serious problem of its own? Chronic vitamin C deficiency leads to poor to tissue integrity. Hence, chronic vitamin C deficiency is the fundamental cause of heart disease. This is discussd in depth in the Heart Disease Section.
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The last week of August brought yet another confirmation that the U.S. economy is growing slowly, and a widely followed speech from Ben Bernanke that offered no new answers to the economic doldrums.
Neither development was good news for savers.
Given how low savings account rates are, the question is no longer whether they will continue to fall, but how long they will remain at today's artificially low level.
Based on the above two late-summer developments, those low savings account rates seem likely to stick around for quite a while.
GDP stuck in low gear
On August 29, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its second estimate of U.S. Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of 2012. After inflation, the economy is now thought to have grown at a 1.7 percent rate in the second quarter. That's a slight improvement from the 1.5 percent that had originally been estimated, but still represents a deceleration from the 2.0 percent growth rate of the first quarter, and especially from the 4.1 percent growth rate at the end of last year.
The slow economy is the central cause of the extreme low rate environment for savings accounts, money market accounts and other deposits. For one thing, low demand for capital gives banks little incentive to offer higher rates to attract deposits. For another thing, the Federal Reserve has acted aggressively to drive interest rates down, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke reiterated in his August 31 speech.
The Fed remains committed to low interest rates
Speaking at a Federal Reserve symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Bernanke recapped the actions the Fed has taken to drive both short- and long-term interest rates down. Normally, the Fed would address a slowing economy by lowering short-term interest rates, which was the first thing the Fed did in response to the Great Recession. However, given the severity of that recession, the Fed then took the more unusual step of buying bonds to pull long-term rates down.
In his speech, Bernanke confirmed that the Fed remains committed to these tactics, while describing no new initiatives that might stimulate the economy. Both of those aspects of the speech signal more lean times ahead for the economy.
Naturally, a policy of lowering rates in an attempt to goose economic activity has contributed to today's super-low savings account rates. On top of that, the fact that the Fed seems to be running out of options with no results to show for their efforts suggests that a sluggish economy -- and the low rates that go with it -- might be inevitable over the next several calendar quarters.
With no macro-economic solutions on the horizon, consumers are left to take individual actions if they want to boost their savings account rates. Actively shopping for rates, and considering higher-yielding options such as online savings accounts, are examples of the ways consumers can do a little better, even as the low-rate environment lingers on.


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Autumn glory at the Toronto Music Garden
On an impossibly beautiful day in late fall, I made time to visit one of my favourite places in the city. I've posted about the Toronto Music Garden twice before under the titles
"wind + ornamental grasses = kinesis" and "Toronto Music Garden with the kids" so as you can guess this garden still intrigues and inspires me. The design is thought-provoking and the plant list, well, elicits serious hort envy!
Under a brilliant blue sky with an ever-present prevailing wind off Lake Ontario, I spent an hour admiring the fall foliage and feeling at peace with the rustling sounds from the ornamental grasses. My only regret was running out of camera battery power but the memory is ingrained. Anyone in the Toronto area should visit the space, whether one is a lover of Bach or garden design or not.
|Shimmering Miscanthus, Chasmanthium, and Panicum
|Fall common witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) foliage
and blooms
|More common witch hazel blooms with
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|Another reason to love Hakone grass
|Maiden grass seedheads ready to catch the wind
|Going up the Courante section...
|A grove of paper birches in its autumn glory
|On July 1 compared to...
|At the adjacent Spadina Quay Wetlands.
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Shane Long claims West Brom players not overly confident
WEST Brom's leading goalscorer Shane Long says the players will keep their feet firmly on the ground despite breaking into the English Premier League top three.
The Baggies have won their past four games in the top flight.
But Long, who has hit the net five times this season, says no one is getting carried away despite having winnable games against Swansea (tomorrow) and Stoke on Sunday coming up.
"Swansea are a good passing team too and that should make it a good game to watch," he told BBC WM.
"We know we'll get nothing easy.
"It's good times at West Brom. But the further we go the more respect we'll get from other teams and the harder it will be."
In other games tomorrow morning, Chelsea will host Fulham, while Tottenham plays Liverpool at White Hart Lane.
Manchester United will entertain West Ham, while Manchester City heads to Wigan.
Southampton plays Norwich, Everton hosts Arsenal and Stoke takes on Newcastle.


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Friday News Roundup!
Things have been very exciting for us here at Team Clermont as we wrap up the last full week of September!
- Simon Joyner's 12th full length release Out Into The Snow through Team Love has received some great praise from blogs like PopMatters, Fensepost, and Dusted Magazine!
- Asthmatic Kitty stars Cryptacize are currently playing shows alongside Sufjan Stevens, and they will continue to travel across the country in November alongside The Fiery Furnaces! More details can be found here.
- Speaking of Sufjan, he recently sat down with fellow Asthmatic Kitty artist Shannon Stephens to talk about her brand new record The Breadwinner. Check out the interview here.
- Arctic Monkeys continue to cruise the Late Night circuit as they performed their second single "Cornerstone" on Craig Ferguson a few days back. Check it out below!


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A new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that bustling airports could serve a vital new function, doubling as alternative energy factories.
The study findings, recently published in an Environmental Management article titled "Airports Offer Unrealized Potential for Alternative Energy Production [PDF]," indicate that airports might want to consider converting empty land into alternative fuel power plants where it is both economically and environmentally beneficial.
Right now, many U.S. airports are surrounded by acres of empty grassland. While there are federal restrictions on how this land can be used, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working with airports interested in pursuing the potential for changes in land use to support alternative energy production.
"Some available grasslands at airports have the potential to spur the type of innovation we need to build American-made, homegrown biofuels and biobased products that will help to break our dependence on foreign oil and move our nation toward a clean energy economy," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "Converting airport grasslands to biofuel, solar or wind production not only provides more environmentally-sound alternative energy sources for our country, but may also increase revenue for airports and reduce the local abundance of potentially hazardous wildlife to aircraft.
Alternative energy projects at major hubs like the Indianapolis and Denver airports, as well as smaller airports like the one in Chattanooga, Tenn., demonstrate the potential for benefits across the airport spectrum. Such efforts may be particularly beneficial for rural economic development, as many rural airport properties contain expansive grasslands that potentially could be converted to biofuel crops or other renewable energy sources.
National Wildlife Research Center researchers are currently studying wildlife use of solar arrays and adjacent airport grasslands in Arizona, Colorado and Ohio, as well as wildlife use of experimental plots containing switchgrass and mixed warm-season native grasses in Mississippi, to help airports make informed decisions about how to use their land.


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As a photographer, I find myself taking anywhere between 500-1500 photos at a given event, depending on how long I'm there, and what's going on. I usually have no reason to get prints of my work, because they would just sit around in an envelope or a box somewhere. I prefer to show my digital images on line (Facebook, Flickr, Smugmug, etc)..
However, prior to a recent shoot where I tagged along with some great muscle cars, I printed up a bunch of 8×10 prints and put them in an easy-to-carry portfolio. When I committed to the shoot, I had one client who had committed to pay me for shots of his car. When I arrived and met the other car owners, I introduced myself as a photographer.. I didn't get an overwhelming response.. however, when I showed them my portfolio of 8×10 prints of other cars (primarily shots from a car show I had recently attended and from Sacramento Raceway), they were VERY interested. I ended up getting 3 additional clients that day.
This past weekend, I went back to Sacramento Raceway to shoot the 'NorCal Invasion'. Prior to getting all my gear set up, I walked around the pit area with my portfolio and a bunch of business cards. I recognized one car from a shoot I did at Infineon Raceway last year and approached the owner. I didn't have a print of his car, but I did have my iPhone, and quick access to one of my online galleries. I showed him my print portfolio that I was carrying around, and while he was looking at that, I pulled up an image of his car from Infineon on my phone and showed it to him. He nearly fell over – he must have commented 3 or 4 times about how much he loved that shot of his car, and would want to order it. By showing him what my final print products looked like, and an iPhone-sized image of his car – he could tell that a print of his car would look great. That night at the racetrack, I made sure I got plenty of pictures of his car to add to my gallery for him… after speaking with him tonight, he's very excited to order a bunch of prints in various sizes.
It just goes to show – that while our lives are becoming more and more digital every day (and I LOVE it!), there is still something VERY compelling about the power of a printed image that has much more impact than a picture on a computer screen.
This is the image of the guys' car from Infineon that he loved so much. It was one of my favorite photos from that weekend as well.. I was really happy to be able to find the owner of the car so I could show him the image I created… and then to see his reaction – priceless. This is what being a photographer is all about!