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(NEW YORK, NY)�Christina Norman, CEO of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, today offered a first glimpse of both the network's programming in development and digital strategy to members of the advertising and media communities at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center. OWN's programming is built around three big ideas: Best Life All Stars, Best Life Experiences, and Best Life Inspiration. The full network launch schedule, to be announced later this year, will be a mix of original and acquired programs, with plans underway for strips, specials, and acquired movies.
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, the first network about living your best life, will launch throughout the U.S. in early 2010 on what is currently Discovery Health Channel. The digital component, MyOwn.com, begins today with an interactive experience for audiences to play with and create their own version of the network's logo. Oprah Winfrey is the network's inspiration and Chief Creative Officer.
"This is just the beginning for OWN and what we envision will be a new entertainment experience for our audiences," said Ms. Winfrey, Chairman of OWN. "One of the things I love about my work is getting to meet extraordinary people who have done amazing things in life. So, for OWN, I will be hand-picking some of the most engaging and intriguing people of our time and giving them a stage all their own to share their stories and best life lessons with all of us. The unique series is called Master Class, and it will be a truly one-of-a-kind look at the world's most remarkable people."
"Our goal is to create an innovative experience for that broad audience of people who are living their lives with purpose," said Ms. Norman in making the announcement. "Over the coming months, we will unveil our schedule and opportunities for our audience to connect with us and shape OWN."
Among the projects in development announced today:
THE PETER WALSH PROJECT (working title), the de-clutter expert and popular guest of The Oprah Winfrey Show, will be joined by a team of experts in helping people uncover what is really going on in their lives behind the mess. This show is from Harpo Productions.
DR. LAURA BERMAN (working title), sex therapist, relationship expert, bestselling author, and Sirius XM radio show host - will lead a one-hour talk show based in Chicago. This show is from Harpo Productions.
EXCELLENT ADVENTURE follows a celebrity and their best friend as they embark on the adventure they have always dreamt of taking together. Whether the adventure is large or small, viewers will get to see the power of friends sharing unforgettable moments together. The show is produced by Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films.
INSIDE: LISA LING INVESTIGATES (working title) is a one-hour program featuring reporting with Lisa Ling. Lisa's reports take the viewers to the frontlines, as we have already seen with her in-depth news pieces including a look into a family addicted to heroin, a peek into the FLDS compound one year later, and an expose on America's "tent cities." In this show, from Harpo Productions, viewers will join Lisa in exploring worlds and aspects of a story they would never in their wildest dreams imagine.
MASTER CLASS (working title) is a unique series produced by Harpo Productions featuring the most extraordinary people of our time, hand-picked by Oprah Winfrey. Here they will share with us who they really are � their stories, their passions, and their best life lessons. Viewers will get an in-depth look at those who have impressed Oprah with their vision, fortitude, and creativity.
SURFER'S HEALING is a docusoap produced by Snackaholic about former competitive surfer Izzy Paskowitz, his wife Danielle, their three children -- one of whom is autistic � and their surf school business. We will watch them, their highs and lows, as they manage a business and a foundation for autistic children.
OWN is also in discussions with other regulars from The Oprah Winfrey Show.
About OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network
A joint venture between Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is a multi-platform media company designed to entertain, inform, and inspire people to live their best lives. OWN will debut in more than 70 million homes, on what is currently the Discovery Health Channel. The venture also will include the award-winning digital platform, Oprah.com.
About Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world's number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries. Discovery empowers people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity through 100-plus worldwide networks, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Planet Green, Investigation Discovery and HD Theater, as well as leading consumer and educational products and services, and a diversified portfolio of digital media services including HowStuffWorks.com. For more information, please visit www.discoverycommunications.com.
About Harpo
Harpo Productions, Inc. produces the number-one-rated, award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show; creates and develops original TV programming for primetime, syndication and cable television; and operates Oprah.com (www.oprah.com), a premier lifestyle website. Harpo Print, LLC and Hearst Magazines publish the monthly O, The Oprah Magazine publication. Harpo Films is dedicated to high-quality scripted dramatic programming, and recently announced an exclusive television deal with HBO. Harpo Radio, Inc. produces Oprah Radio (XM channel 156, Sirius channel 195 as part of its "Best of XM" package) on Sirius XM Radio. A joint venture between Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a multi-platform company, will debut in early 2010 in more than 70 million homes, on what is currently the Discovery Health Channel.


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Are abortions on the rise worldwide? Some folks might guess "yes" as a sign of the changing times, but a new study in the Jan. 19 issue of The Lancet found the opposite. Analyzing global data from 1995 to 2008, researchers found abortion rates have remained relatively stable since 2003. Still, abortion rates vary greatly across the world - and in some cases are higher in countries where abortion is illegal. Where in the world are abortion rates highest? Keep clicking to see the regions - as defined by the United Nations - in order of lowest to highest abortion rates among women ages 15-44 years...
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Countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Liechtenstein, France (pictured), Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Switzerland
Abortion rate: 12 per 1,000 women
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Countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa (pictured), Swaziland
Abortion rate: 15 per 1,000 women
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Countries: Aland Islands, Channel Islands, Denmark, Estonia, Faeroe Islands, Finland, Guernsey, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sark, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain (pictured) and Northern Ireland
Abortion rate: 17 per 1,000 women
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Countries: Australia (pictured), New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
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Countries: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara
Abortion rate: 18 per 1,000 women
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Countries: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Gibraltar, Greece (pictured), Holy See, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
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Countries: Canada and the United States
Abortion rate: 19 per 1,000 women
Countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India (pictured), Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Abortion rate: 26 per 1,000 women
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel (pictured), Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal (pictured), Sierra Leone, Togo
Abortion rate: 28 per 1,000 women
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Countries: China (pictured), Hong Kong, Macao, Korea, Japan, Mongolia
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Countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (pictured), Nicaragua, Panama
Abortion rate: 29 per 1,000 women
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Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (pictured), Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
Abortion rate: 32 per 1,000 women
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Countries: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon (pictured), Sao Tome and Principe.
Abortion rate: 36 per 1,000 women
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Countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore (pictured), Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam
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Countries: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, R
Countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Saint Eustatius, Saba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint-Barth
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Countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic (pictured), Hungary, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Ukraine
This region has the highest abortion rate in the world, at 43 abortions per 1,000 women.
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Feast. Fiesta. Festival. In any language, it's a celebration that includes music, dance, art, food and drink. Make your summer special by feasting your senses at one – or several – of these fantastic festivals.
Feast. Fiesta. Festival. In any language, it's a celebration that includes music, dance, art, food and drink. Make your summer special by feasting your senses at one – or several – of these fantastic festivals.
1. Hoping to become the newest cultural fixture, the Boston Calling Music Festival will bring 18 top indie performers and bands to City Hall Plaza on May 25-26. Nationally known acts like The Shins, Of Monsters and Men and Bad Rabbits will be playing on two stages within easy reach of two beer gardens and food carts for visitors 21 and over. For info, visit www.bostoncalling.org.
2. On Saturday, June 1, Cambridge River Festival 2013 will provide free fun and varied arts activities along the bank of the Charles. Starting with a procession from Harvard Square to the river, the festival runs from noon to 6 p.m. It offers jazz, folk, Latin and world music performances, family art-making activities and more than 100 specialty food purveyors along a mile-long stretch of Memorial Drive. Visit www.cambridgema.gov.
3. Continuing to grow since its inception in 2002, stART on the Street will bring more than 200 artists and crafters to Worcester's Canal District on Sunday, June 2. Live bands will play everything from rock 'n' roll to alt country and more. With attendance expected to exceed 20,000, local street parking will be limited with Union Station offering all-day parking for $1. Visit www.startonthestreet.org.
4. Craft lovers will find plenty to enjoy on Saturday, June 8, when the Coolidge Corner Arts Festival in Brookline celebrates its 35th anniversary. More than 70 craft workers and fine artists will show and sell an eclectic selection of goods from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Devotion School grounds at 345 Harvard St. The 6th annual Brookline Food Festival will be running concurrently at the Devotion School from noon to 3 p.m. and serving tasty treats from local restaurants. Visit www.coolidgecornerartsfestival.com.
5. Landlubbers and boaters will find plenty to enjoy at Waltham Riverfest 2013 June 14-15. On both days, visitors can rent canoes and kayaks for a leisurely paddle along the Charles River or take a Friday evening Moonlight Tour that includes a picnic dinner from 7 to 10 p.m. Starting at 6 p.m., Friday, there will be an Open Air Evening Concert at Cronin's Landing. On shore Saturday, visitors can check out a farmers market, enjoy musicians, artists and performers or join the Pet Parade. Visit www.walthamriverfest.com.
6. Boston Harborfest 2013 showcases the city's past as the cradle of the American Revolution over six days July 2-7. It offers more than 200 events concentrated around Boston's historic downtown and waterfront with special attractions in City Hall Plaza. With Opening Ceremonies scheduled for July 2 at Faneuil Hall, visitors can enjoy concerts, tours, reenactments and the popular Chowderfest on July 7. Visit www.Bostonharborfest.com.
7. Entering its 27th year, the Lowell Folk Festival will bring a down-home mix of more 20 musical acts to the city on the weekend of July 26-28. Fans can enjoy performers as varied as the Marshall Ford Swing Band to Portuguese fado singer Nathalie Pires. Or they can listen to Joaquim Diaz play Dominican meringue or hear Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice play foot stomping bluegrass. Phil Lupsiewicz, spokesman for National Park Service said, "With six stages throughout Lowell, the city becomes a big part of the performances. It's a great, inexpensive weekend of music and fun in a relaxed atmosphere.'' There are no fees for the music but parking fees may apply. Visit www.lowellfolkfestival.org.
8. One of the historic musical events in America, the Newport Folk Festival brings nearly 50 top singers and groups to Fort Adams State Park July 26, 27 and 28. Over three days, the Rhode Island venues will welcome a fantastic slate of performers include Iris Dement, Hurray for the Riff Raff and Beck. There's limited on-site parking so organizers suggest using the Water Shuttle that leaves from Old Port Dock ($10 for a round trip) or arriving by bike. Visit www.newportfolkfest.net.
9. The first annual jazz festival in America, the Newport Jazz Festival will bring more than 30 top performers to the park Aug. 2-4. Natalie Cole and the Bill Charlap Trio with Freddie Cole kick off the festivities Friday, Aug. 2, at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Over the next two days, musicians as diverse as Esperanza Spalding and Gregory Porter, Chick Corea and the Dirty Dozen Brass will take the stage. Visit www.newportjazzfest.net.
10. As summer wanes, oenophiles and gourmands will enjoy taking a little trip to the Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival Sept. 20-22. It features treats by more than 100 of the world's finest winemakers and some of the region's finest restaurants and caterers served in the spectacular settings of the historic Newport Mansions. Festival highlights include a two-day Grand Tasting at Marble House, the Wine & Rosecliffe Gala, a Collectible Wine Dinner at The Elms and seminars, auctions, free demonstrations by celebrity chefs and more. Visit www.NewportMansionsWineandFood.org.


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State Apiculturalist Steve Parise has confirmed that Zombie Fly Apocephalus borealis has been detected here in Vermont. This fly is native to North America. This fly attacks its host by injecting eggs into the abdomen; the emerging fly larva eats the insides of its host. This results in "Zombie" like behavior of the host.
The honey bee sampling was taken from an observant beekeeper in Burlngton. The affected honey bees were sent to San Francisco State University for testing. John Hafernik, a researcher and professor of biology at San Francisco State University has started a website tracking the discovery of infected honey bees in the United Stated. "Zombee Watch"
A Burlington Free Press article was recently published about the Vermont beekeeper and his experience in detecting the Zombie Fly. Killer 'zombie fly' maggots found in Vermont honeybees
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Homeopathy indicated for Congested ears, Headache, Hoarseness. Kali Muriaticum is a homeopathic remedy often used for affections of the ear as well as sore throats with hoarseness. It is also sometimes called for when there is pain and swelling around the joints. This homeopathic remedy is a mineral remedy. Active Ingredient: Kali muriaticum [HPUS]. All of our single homeopathic remedies are packaged in glass - never in plastic. -Manufacturer's suggested use.
This is human grade and may be used internally for humans and animals.
*We recommend, for acute issues** one bead under the tongue*** and allow to dissolve naturally for humans; one bead dropped in a bowl of 5 to 7 ounces of drinking water for parrots up to 525 grams, two beads for parrots up to 1025 grams and 3 beads for parrots weighing more than 1025 grams. Small dogs and cats up to 10 pounds we recommend one bead in 5-7 oz of drinking water. Dogs and cats up to 30 pounds two beads in 5-7 oz drinking water. Dogs and cats up to 55 pounds 3 beads in 5-7 ounces drinking water. Dogs up to 75 pounds 4 beads in drinking water. *These recommendations are suggested by us and not the manufacturer. Can be taken daily. **Chronic issues usually require use and dosing in a different manner. Please join our Facebook group linked below to learn more about dosing for parrots, dogs, and cats. ***Tinctures can be made using beads. This may be an easier way in which to administer. Tinctures require less per dose causing a bottle of beads to last longer. Please join our Facebook linked below to learn more about the dilution of beads into tincture form.
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During the 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush, thousands of wealth-seekers stampeded through the Yukon—over the brutal Chilkoot Trail from Alaska; through treacherous rapids where the capital, Whitehorse, now stands; and down the Yukon River to Dawson City and its goldfields. Today visitors can hike the raw, mountain moonscapes of the Chilkoot; walk Dawson's dusty, historic streets; and enjoy the charms of Whitehorse, a small city built around a love of the vast outdoors that still surrounds it all these years later.
When to Go: Most visitors aim for the short, glorious summer: June, July, and August, when there are festivals, sports events, and outdoor adventures every weekend. Pedal to Alaska in the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay in June, or rock out at the Dawson City Music Festival in July. The mountains bloom with fall color in late August and early September, and the northern lights peak around the fall and spring equinoxes. For those who want to brave the winter, February offers an array of festivals and a thousand-mile dogsled race, the Yukon Quest.
How to Get Around: Public transit is limited; a rental car is the best bet. There are package tour options for visitors arriving off cruise ships via nearby Skagway, Alaska. The Millennium Trail is a scenic, car-free, three-mile riverside loop on the edge of downtown. Local outfit Boréale Explorers offers a cycling tour of the city, and sister company Boréale Mountain Biking can help you navigate a 186-mile network of mountain biking trails.
Where to Stay: In Dawson City, Bombay Peggy's is a one-time brothel turned cozy Victorian-style inn and pub. For visitors to Kluane National Park, there's a government campground at Kathleen Lake with bearproof storage lockers. In Whitehorse, the Best Western Gold Rush Inn is on Main Street, right in the heart of things.
Where to Eat or Drink: In Haines Junction, the gateway to glacier-rich Kluane National Park, try the Village Bakery for coffee and goodies; Frosty Freeze has ice cream and burgers. In Whitehorse, born-and-raised Yukoner Marsha Cameron, co-owner of mountain biking tour operator Boréale Biking, recommends the Airport Chalet for a quiet drink. "It's cozy, it's unpretentious, they have a fire going in the winter," she says. "It's filled with locals, all old-timers." For visitors equipped to self-cater, Cameron recommends a visit to Staceys Butcher Block for local bison or elk steaks. And for a quick bite? "I love Pickapeppa," billed as the best Caribbean food in the North. Adds Cameron: "My go-to is the chickpea roti."
What to Read or Watch Before You Go: Start with the classics: Jack London's The Call of the Wild or his chilling short story, "To Build a Fire," and Robert Service's Yukon ballads: "The Cremation of Sam McGee," "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," or "The Spell of the Yukon."
Helpful Links: Travel Yukon, Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site
Fun Fact: The Yukon Territory is an area slightly larger than California—but with a thousandth the population. That's one big, wild playground.
Eva Holland is a freelance writer and editor based in Canada's Yukon Territory. She is a frequent contributor to Canadian magazines Up Here and Up Here Business.
Staff Tip: If you're lucky enough to be in Whitehorse in mid-June, check out the Yukon International Storytelling Festival: An event where participants are encouraged to provide their tales in native tongues. –Caroline Hickey, project manager, National Geographic Travel Books


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Justice Louis Brandeis
1856–1941, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.Brandeis was born in Louisville, KY, graduated from Harvard law school in 1877, and served on the Supreme Court from 1916-1939. A successful Boston lawyer (1879-1916), Brandeis distinguished himself by investigating insurance practices and by establishing (1907) Massachusetts savings-bank insurance. After defending (1900-07) the public interest in Boston utility cases, he served (1907-14) as counsel for the people in proceedings involving the constitutionality of wages and hours laws in Oregon, Illinois, Ohio, and California. In Muller v. Oregon (1908) he persuaded the U.S.Supreme Court that minimum-hours legislation for women was reasonable-and not unconstitutional-with a brief primarily consisting of statistical, sociological, economic, and physiological information. This "Brandeis brief," as it came to be called, revolutionized the practice of law. He opposed (1907-13) the monopoly of transportation in New England and successfully argued (1910-14) before the Interstate Commerce Commission against railroad-rate increases. In 1910 as one of the counsel in the congressional investigation of Richard A. Ballinger, he exposed the anticonservationist views of President Taft's Secretary of the Interior. As an arbitrator (1910) of a strike of New York garment workers (mostly Jewish), he became acutely aware of Jewish problems and afterward was a leader of the Zionist movement. An enemy of industrial and financial monopoly, he formulated the economic doctrine of the New Freedom that Woodrow Wilson adopted in his 1912 presidential campaign. Over the protests of the vested interests that Brandeis had alienated as "people's attorney," Wilson appointed (1916) him to the U.S. Supreme Court although opposition was voiced by anti-Semites and certain business interests. Long an advocate of social and economic reforms, he maintained a position of judicial liberalism on the bench. With Oliver Wendell Holmes, he often dissented from the majority. After Franklin Delano Roosevelt became (1933) President, Brandeis was one of the few justices who voted to uphold most of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation. He retired from the bench in 1939. Brandeis Univ. is named after him. He wrote Other People's Money (1914) and Business, a Profession (1914). For selections of his writings, see Alfred Lief, ed., The Social and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Brandeis (1930); O. K. Fraenkel, ed., The Curse of Bigness (1935); Solomon Goldman, ed., The Words of Justice Brandeis (1953).
Bibliography:See his letters, ed. by M. I. Urofsky and D. W. Levy (1971); biography by A. T. Mason (1946, repr. 1956); studies by Melvin I. Urofsky (1971, repr. 1981), Phillippa Strum (1984), and Nelson L. Dawson, ed. (1989); A. M. Bickel, The Unpublished Opinions of Mr. Justice Brandeis (1957).
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So I've managed to do it again...
take such a LONG break from my blog that friends are wondering if I'm okay.
That's nice!
To answer that question, I'm totally okay.
Busy, tired...but okay.
And still remembering to find a bit of HAPPY in each day.
I actually thought a lot about my blog.
It isn't that I don't have time or ideas...
too many sometimes.
But I get sidetracked and feel bad about posting something new on my blog
when I have yet to answer comments and emails.
So I don't blog...and then wish I did.
On that note, guess what I am doing?
Turning off comments to my blog.
Just for a week or so...
and during that time I want to post...and go back to visit/answer those sweet comments.
Moving on...
have you heard of "Blogging without Obligation?
Tiffini came up with this because she saw people apologizing all over the place when they hadn't blogged. (haven't read her site...just this post)
Her philosophy:
- Because you shouldn't have to look at your blog like it is a treadmill.
- Because its okay to just say what you have to say. If that makes for a long post, fine. Short post, fine. Frequent post, fine. Infrequent post, fine.
- Because its okay to not always be enthralled with the sound of your own typing.
- Because sometimes less is more.
- Because only blogging when you feel truly inspired keeps up the integrity of your blog.
- Because they are probably not going to inscribe your stat, link and comment numbers on your tombstone.
- Because for most of us blogging is just a hobby. A way to express yourself and connect with others. You should not have to apologize for lapses in posts. Just take a step back and enjoy life, not everything you do has to be "bloggable".
- Because if you blog without obligation you will naturally keep your blog around longer, because it won't be a chore. Plus, just think you will be doing your part to eradicate post pollution. One post at a time. . .
I would say "what do you think"...
but my comments are off.
Now that's a bummer:)
But I think I like this blogging without obligation!
Here's what else I like...
Notice my new look?
Very white, soft...peaceful.
at least I hope:)
This is one of my favorite cookies...
whether in cookie or bar form...
WHITE Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoons baking soda
10 ounces white chocolate (chips or bars cut in chunks)
1 cup macadamia nuts, chopped into chunks
Heat oven to 375 F. In large bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, and salt with electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, beat well. Stir together flour, and the baking soda; gradually add to butter mixture,beating until well blended. Stir in white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until set. (Edges are golden brown and center is set.) Cool slightly, remove from cookie sheet to wire rack to cool completely.
These would SCORE big at a Superbowl party!
And lastly..
this is NOT what it looks like outside my window...
but I wish it did.
Crazy, I know.
But isn't it so pretty?
Okay, so remember, comments are off for a few days.
Not because I don't want to hear from you
(I do have an email link you know...hahaha)
But because I want to get off to a fresh start with my blog...
new habits,,,old and new friends...
and tons of HAPPY thoughts!


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Updates to the News Forum Section, January 1, 2012
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ST. LOUIS -- The Milwaukee Brewers had a message to send to the rest of baseball.
Consider it done.
These guys are good.
It's something the Brewers felt from the start of Spring Training, but given the missteps of the last two seasons, nobody really wanted to listen to them talk about what their message might be.
They can start talking now.
Yes, there are five months remaining in the regular season, and no, teams do not get sized for championship rings at the end of April.
But a statement can be made, and the Brewers are making themselves heard, loud and clear.
Not even a series-closing 9-3 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday afternoon can obscure what's transpired since Opening Day. The Brewers have equaled the best start in franchise history (20-8), and they enter May with a 5 1/2-game lead on the second-place Cardinals in the National League Central.
They have spent 27 of the first 31 days of the season in first place, moving into the top spot by themselves to stay on April 9, and they're a startling 11-2 on the road. It wasn't until June 12 and their 29th road game of the season last year that they claimed their 11th win outside of Miller Park.
This week, the Brewers won a series in St. Louis the hard way. They rallied from 3-0 deficits on both Monday and Tuesday, winning in extra innings against a team that had won 25 of the previous 37 games the two teams had played. And they did it without their Nos. 2-4 hitters -- shortstop Jean Segura, right fielder Ryan Braun and third baseman Aramis Ramirez.
"Any time you compete with these guys like we have, where it's a battle, where you have to grind it out, where you come from behind and are winning in extra innings, it gives you confidence you can beat anybody," said catcher Jonathan Lucroy, who was given the night off Tuesday. "These guys have had our number since 2011. We came in here and had to earn those wins.
"When you have your two best power hitters and an All-Star shortstop out of the lineup, and the other guys step up, it is important. They know they can get the job done. They know there are no excuses. We beat the guys over there without those three guys and myself. It shows how talented we are. We showed tenacity. That's important down the stretch. Now it's May. It is important for us not to let up."
The Brewers learned that lesson a year ago. They had a decent April, finishing the month 14-11, but they lost 22 of their first 27 games in May and never recovered in a division race that not only ended with the Cardinals on top but also saw Cincinnati and Pittsburgh claim the two NL Wild Card berths.
"The last couple years, we dug a hole with a bad start," said Braun. "We made it an emphasis from the start of Spring Training to make sure we were ready to grind it out. We challenged ourselves to move forward. [Last year] we had a nine-game winning streak, but it was not against good teams, and we were terrible in May. That's not the case this year. This month, almost every team we played was a playoff team."
This season didn't start particularly well. The Brewers opened the regular-season slate with a win at home over Atlanta but lost the next two games. Then, they took off. The Brewers went to Boston for the home opener of the defending World Series champions and completed a three-game sweep, followed by a sweep of the Phillies in Philadelphia.
"Those are two of the hardest places in baseball to win," said Braun. "That gave us a lot of confidence in what we can do."
And the Brewers haven't slowed down since. Oh, they did lose two of three to St. Louis at Miller Park from April 14-16, but they went into Busch Stadium this week and repaid the Cardinals, who have advanced to the postseason each of the last three years, even winning a World Series championship in 2011 for Tony La Russa's managerial farewell, and the NL pennant last year.
"We've been that team like they are right now, that team that gets off to the good start that sets that level of expectation that this is how it's supposed to look the rest of the year," said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, whose team led the NL Central at the end of April each of the past five seasons. "That's what Milwaukee has the benefit of right now. They've got a lot of players that are going to say, 'We're not going to settle for anything less than this.'"
And that's what the Brewers were hoping they could do when they arrived in St. Louis.
They weren't physically at full strength. Braun (rib cage) and Segura (facial contusions) had already sat out Sunday's game against the Cubs in Milwaukee, and Ramirez was removed from Monday's game after being hit on the left forearm for a second time.
They were, however, mentally focused.
It paid off.
"This gives us the confidence of knowing we have the talent and ability to compete," said Lucroy.
And now the rest of baseball has been put on notice.


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Cyber pros from across the military honed their skills against a realistic adversary on a closed network in an 11-day U.S. Cyber Command exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., last month.
The Cyber Flag exercise, first conducted in 2011, combines operational command and control (C2) and tactically focused training in a virtual environment. Cyber Flag sets the conditions for force-on-force maneuvers against a realistic enemy — fusing attack and defense across the full spectrum of operations, according to the Defense Information Systems Agency.
The exercises are nearly year-round as determined by Cybercom, and take place throughout the United States and around the world.
In the third annual Cyber Flag exercise, joint, combined and interagency forces merged cyber defense and offense skills across a full spectrum of operations, Cybercom officials said. These forces applied new and developing tactics, techniques and procedures for cyber mission force and coalition teams, which officials said will ultimately enable cyberspace operators to rapidly detect, assess, mitigate and respond in real time to cyberthreats to DOD networks.
Cyber Flag also challenged C2 mechanisms to use and support simulated capabilities from air and maritime domains.
A team from Defense Information Systems Agency integrated the Enterprise Operations Center (EOC) into the recent Cyber Flag 14 exercises with the goal of advancing tactical, individual and collective skills through realistic and relevant training. The EOC played a significant role in the exercise.
"Cyber Flag 14 provided an opportunity for DISA to demonstrate capabilities as an enterprise service provider and a leader in operating and defending DOD Information Networks within a Joint Information Environment (JIE)," said Marine Maj. Leonard J. Le Vine, chief of the Exercises Branch at DISA Europe.
The DISA team also used the exercise to validate tactics, techniques and procedures for the JIE, cyber C2, operational processes, coordination and reporting.
This year's Cyber Flag marks the first time all components of the cyber mission force — C2 through Joint Force Cyber Headquarters elements and tactical teams — exercised as a cohesive force. The cyber mission force, which is being built over a period of three years, is designed to accomplish three separate missions, according to Cybercom:
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Despite being a bestseller with more than 7 million copies in print, and having been hailed repeatedly—if not quite accurately—as the second-most influential book in America, it has taken more than 50 years for "Atlas Shrugged" to reach the big screen. That's probably because the novel and its espousal of author Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy is even more reviled than it is loved.
Rand's tale is told in three sections, with this new film appropriately titled "Atlas Shrugged Part 1" (there are plans to make the other two), in which steel magnate Henry Reardon (Grant Bowler) and rail executive Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling) join forces to create a cutting-edge rail line, fighting greedy/lazy/stupid relatives and government regulators every step of the way.
Throughout their journey together, some of their colleagues and other leading lights of industry begin to disappear mysteriously, many leaving behind nothing more than a simple question "Who is John Galt?" Unless the producers are prepared to throw good money after bad, that question may remain unanswered, as this first installment just isn't very good. This story is tough enough to adapt, but with a brutal script, it's got no chance.
For all Rand's gifts as a thinker--and regardless of how you feel about her conclusions, she remains a thinker of prodigious importance--only her most ardent fans would call her a gifted writer. And so the film's script, adapted by Brian Patrick O'Toole and John Aglioloro, is riddled with simplistic polemics that are painfully pedantic and often condescending. Rand's capitalist heroes are never challenged by someone of equal intellect, but differing views. You're either with Taggart and Reardon, or you're a moron—an approach which makes for passable op-ed copy, but gets tiresome as dialogue in a feature film. Whether O'Toole and Aglioloro lack the skill or the courage to massage Rand's word and philosophy into natural dialogue is unclear.
Bowler and Schilling, along with co-stars Michael Lerner, Jon Polito, Edi Gathegi, Patrick Fischler and Christina Pickles, are powerless to make the dialogue work, and so can only dutifully recite their lines without wincing at how stilted they sound. The bulk of director Paul Johansson's experience is directing episode of "One Tree Hill," and it shows. He fails to coax his actors into properly emoting and lacks an eye for the epic scope of something like "Atlas Shrugged." The whole affair looks like a TV movie.
With the country only just beginning to climb out of a recession that many blame on Rand acolytes like Alan Greenspan (who was also a close personal friend), politicians trying to demonize the unions that Rand hated so, and the Tea Party wailing against government intervention into our lives, now would be a great time for a thoughtful and well made version of "Atlas Shrugged" to hit the big screen. Oh well…
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Conductivity measurements were performed on bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes with the aid of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Semimetallic current-voltage (I-V) characteristics generally indicated the bundles to be electronically similar to graphite. However, by moving the STM tip along the length of the nanotubes, sharp deviations in the I-V characteristics could also be observed. Well-defined positions were found at which the nanotube transport current changed abruptly from a graphitic response to one that is highly nonlinear and asymmetric, including near-perfect rectification. This abrupt change in the nanotube transport suggests that the STM tip had passed a region of the nanotube which acts less like a wire than it does a Schottky barrier or other heterojunction. These observations are consistent with the existence of localized, on-tube nanodevices as theoretically predicted for point defects in individual carbon nanotubes.
Carbon nanotubes (Iijima 1991) are a fascinating new class of materials from both theoretical and applied standpoints. Electronically, theoretical models have predicted that nanotubes could behave as ideal one-dimensional "quantum wires" with either semiconducting or metallic behaviors (Hamada et al. 1992; Mintmire et al. 1992; Dresselhaus et al. 1996). Careful study of transmission electron micrograph (TEM) images, however, has indicated that the nanotubes also incorporate kinks and defects into their walls. Recent theoretical attention to defect-containing nanotubes suggests a rich variety of heterojunction behaviors (Charlier et al. 1996; Chico et al. 1996a; Chico et al. 1996b; Saito et al. 1996) may be possible in these one-dimensional wires. Such junctions could provide electronic elements with sizes inaccessible by lithographic manufacturing.
Experimental work with multiwalled carbon nanotubes has not identified these quantum wire or heterojunction behaviors. Room temperature measurements generally reported metallic characteristics (Langer 1994; Song et al. 1994; Langer et al. 1996; Fischer et al. 1997) for nanotubes, and in a sliding contact measurement (Dai et al. 1996) a nanotube was found to have uniform resistivity throughout its length. These findings are partly understood as a result of the nanotube morphology, since the large diameter, multiwalled nanotubes are structurally and electronically quite similar to graphite and so exhibit a two-dimensional metallic or semimetallic characteristic rather than the quantization of a true one-dimensional material.
Progress in nanotube synthesis has now yielded single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) with well-defined diameters (Thess et al. 1996; Journet et al. 1997), bringing the experimental situation much closer to that of the theoretical models. Recent measurements indicate that these materials do behave like one-dimensional wires (Bockrath et al. 1997; Rao et al. 1997; Tans et al. 1997). The SWNTs should also be more sensitive to defects, to the extent that defects may dominate the transport characteristics. In this work, an STM tip was used as a sliding electrical contact to probe the length-dependence of SWNT conductance. Although atomic defects were not directly imaged, sharp conductance transitions and heterojunction behaviors in the nanotube conductances are suggestive of the signatures of nanotube defects.
The SWNTs synthesized using both a laser-assisted process as previously reported (Thess et al. 1996), and an arc-plasma method similar to that reported by (Journet et al. 1997). The samples were subsequently then burned in oxygen at 750° C to remove the bulk of the amorphous and graphitic material. The resulting material was observed under TEM to be made up of no less than 90% nanotubes. A large proportion of the nanotubes have 1.3 nm diameters and zero chirality (so-called "armchair" tubes) as indicated by Xray and TEM studies, and have uniform diameters over micrometer lengths.
The individual SWNTs typically align and close pack into crystalline "ropes" which can have diameters as large as 30 nm (Thess et al. 1996; Fischer et al. 1997). Presumably, the small volume-to-surface area ratio of the nanotubes allows for strong van der Waals bonding among each other and to flat surfaces. The same forces which bind the SWNTs together into ropes allow the ropes to loosely adhere to a clean metal probe, a fact exploited in the following experiments.
We produced a thick film of randomly aligned nanotubes by pressing the purified nanotube material onto a gold-coated glass substrate. Using a specially constructed STM, a sharpened platinum wire was then brought within tunneling distance of the disordered surface. With certainty the sample was not suitable for normal STM imaging, but in this case the STM was merely used as a precise local-probe micromanipulator. After a controlled movement of the STM tip directly into the nanotube film, nanotube material could be lifted up from the surface by the tip without losing electrical contact to the substrate.
Figure 1 depicts possible nanotube orientations during different stages of this procedure. From a position of stable tunneling (Fig. 1A), the STM tip was driven forward into the nanotube film approximately 100 nm, or until a metallic contact was formed (Fig. 1B). After retraction of the tip well beyond the normal tunneling range, continuous electrical contact indicated that nanotube material now spanned the gap between tip and sample (Fig 1C). Evenseveral hundred nm above the original tunneling position, material stuck to the tip for nearly 5% of the trials. This success rate could not be achieved with nanotubes which do not have the tendency to form ropes, namely multiwalled nanotubes or contaminated nanotubes. This fact indicates that adhesion between a SWNT rope and the tip, as opposed to nanotube entanglement, is the source of the physical connection. Conductivity measurements were begun only on SWNT ropes which remained electrically connected after retracting the STM tip by its full range of 300 nm. With the feedback disabled, a fine stepper motor withdrew the tip further from the surface in steps averaging 2 nm. Current-voltage (I-V) characteristics were obtained between each motor step until electrical contact was irreparably broken, at which time currents could only be obtained by returning the STM tip to approximately the original surface height. The continuous increase of the tip-to-sample distance allowed measurement of different lengths of nanotube material. For some samples, retraction of more than 2 µm occurred before electrical contact was lost, in agreement with the observed free length of SWNTs. Although repeating the experiment on the exact same nanotube was impossible after losing contact, further measurements by the same technique showed qualitatively similar behaviors.
The precise nature of the electrical contacts between tip, SWNT rope, and surface are experimentally difficult to determine. Only measurements with 500 nm or more of retraction are reported here, since in these cases electrical transport is unambiguously from the STM tip to the surface through a SWNT rope. Based on the morphology of the starting material, the nanotube rope is most likely entangled at the surface, resulting in a number of good physical as well as electrical contacts at that end. The connection at the STM tip, on the other hand, is a presumably a weakly bound one. Based on the continuous electrical connection even 2 µm from the sample surface, it is clear that the adhesion between the nanotube rope and the STM tip is strong. Even so, the lateral forces, or friction, between the two may be quite weak. This intuitive picture of the physical contact is in accord with a sliding electrical contact. We argue that as the tip pulls a nanotube rope away from the surface, the STM tip-to-nanotube connection forms a sliding contact, providing for a length-dependent measurement of electrical transport through the nanotube rope.
Figure 2 depicts several I-V curves obtained at varying positions along a nanotube rope. Each curve was found to be highly reproducible for a given tip position. As the tip moved, however, the overall magnitude of each I-V curve varied non-monotonically over as much as an order of magnitude, even for tip displacements of merely a few nm. This variation in magnitude, but not shape, of the I-V characteristics is a primary indicator of the sliding contact between the tip and a SWNT rope: after each successive tip movement, the slightly altered electronic coupling at the interface merely rescales the dominant I-V characteristic. In fact, the curves displayed in Fig. 2 are exactly identical if each is normalized to its current magnitude at V = 1 Volt.
Thousands of I-V characteristics were obtained from different samples, many of which showed the same general, non-linear, symmetric shape. This dominant characteristic can be understood as related to graphitic properties (Collins et al. 1997), as expected for a large rope of nanotubes at room temperature. Slight asymmetries were also generally observed and are apparent in Fig. 2, but could be due either to the tubes themselves or to the STM tip-to-nanotube contact and will not be analyzed further.
In Figure 3 we display pairs of curves from three different samples indicating departures from the dominant transport characteristics. For each sample, the first I-V characteristic was stable andreproducible over hundreds of nm of tip motion (Figs. 3A, 3B, and 3C). After a particular tip movement, however, a significantly changed I-V characteristic was recorded (Figs. 3A*, 3B*, 3C*). The transition from one type to the other occurred over mere nm of tip motion near tip heights of 500 nm, 1950 nm, and 400 nm for samples A, B, and C, respectively. After these transitions, the new characteristics were equally stable and reproducible, again over hundreds of nm or until a rope broke free from the STM tip. Small scaling changes attributed to the sliding contact were evident both before and after the transition point. Based on these observations, it is credible that the measured changes in conductivity arise from the nanotube rope itself and not the nature of the contact.
Although sample A showed an interesting transition from an asymmetric to a more symmetric I-V characteristic, samples B and C show a much more dramatic change. In these two samples, the I-V characteristic has the familiar shape for positive tip biases but is then rectified for negative tip biases. Similar rectification was never observed in the opposite direction for positive biases, but this missing effect may be an artifact of the experimental procedure. After each original movement of the tip into the gross nanotube film we checked for a connecting rope only under positive tip bias conditions, when in fact a rope may have been physically connected but conductive only for negative biases.
Due to the observed nonlinear I-V characteristic, there exists no true linear resistivity for the nanotube rope. Most transport measurements in the literature, however, quote resistance values for various measurement configurations. Calculation of a nominal resistance is therefore instructive, since a comparison with other measurements can indicate how many ropes span the micron-scale gap between the STM tip and the surface in the present experiment. In Fig. 2, the dominant I-V characteristics for our samples give a low-bias resistance of 100 kohm. For a single rope with a typical diameter of 10 to 30 nm, this implies a nanotube resistivity of 10-2 ohm-cm. This value is consistent with others reported in the literature (Langer et al. 1996; Thess et al. 1996; Fischer et al. 1997), supporting the suggestion that only a single rope electrically connects the STM tip to the surface. But the electrical contact area is, by the nature of the experiment, poorly defined. This precludes a quantitative comparison of the data with specific theories, since the tip-to-tube junction may form a tunneling barrier, a point contact, or a large area contact.
We argue that the distinct changes in conductivity are due to the incorporation of a nanotube defect at the transition contact point. The random spacing and infrequent occurrences of the observed transitions are in accord with a low density of defects on the nanotube ropes. Such defects could be expected to cause extreme changes in the transport behavior as the tip passes through a nm-sized region. After passing the region, the transport should not relax but should remain in its altered state, exactly as we have observed.
Qualitatively our observations of rectification by the nanotube rope are in excellent agreement with recent theoretical treatments of defects in carbon nanotubes (Charlier et al. 1996; Chico et al. 1996a; Chico et al. 1996b; Saito et al. 1996). A nanotube defect alters the local electronic density of states N(E), both on the nanotube and possibly for a local area of the rope. For example, the existence of pentagon-heptagon pairs in the otherwise perfectly hexagonal carbon lattice introduces sharp discontinuities in N(E) which have been theoretically shown to completely block transport currents (Chico et al. 1996b). Nanotube defects essentially behave as seamless junctions between otherwise disparate materials, joining for example a metallic nanotube to a semiconducting one to produce a Schottky barrier. Depending on the exact geometry of the nanotubes on each side of the defect, a variety of pure-carbon nanoscale junctions have been proposed, including the Schottky barrier example given.
Fig. 4 depicts a schematic network for the observed behavior based on this interpretation. A defect on a nanotube rope, modeled as a non-linear element, might produce unusual transport properties as we have measured. Before the STM tip reaches the defect, the nanotube rope exhibits a graphitic response, as modeled by a purely resistive network. As the contact slides further along the nanotube rope, the non-linear element is incorporated into the current path, rectifying all further responses. In this way, the local graphitic response of the rope is dominated by a defect which, at least physically, can be hundreds of nm from the contact point. A second defect, as shown in the figure, will simulate the loss of physical contact to the nanotube rope. With our present apparatus, we are unable to distinguish between an insulating rope and the loss of physical contact.
It is important to consider other tip-related artifacts which could be causing the abrupt transitions between a symmetric I-V characteristic and a rectifying one. TEM studies of the SWNT ropes indicate that the ropes tend to twist, suggesting that the contact area may actually jump from nanotube to adjacent nanotube within the same rope. However, this type of slippage of the tip contact point should produce conductivity changes as frequent as the overall twisting. Experimentally, we observe no such periodic jumps, but rather a smooth and continuous variation in the I-V characteristic leading up to a transition. Similar effects could be caused by contamination or disconnected material interfering with the tip-to-nanotube contact. However under TEM observation the outer walls of the SWNT ropes are completely free of such materials after the purification treatment.
The nonlinear nanotube I-V characteristics presented here hint at a viable source of nanosized electronic components for future applications. Because of their size, nanotube devices can be expected to operate with unusually high speed, high element density, and excellent thermal dissipation characteristics. If indeed the nonlinear characteristics are the effects of single point defects, then the question at hand is how to incorporate defects and their electronic effects into useful electronic devices. Two possible paths towards this goal are currently under investigation (Louie et al).
In one scenario, defects are created in pristine, defect-free nanotubes in predetermined positions. After positioning a nanotube on metallic contacts or in a network of other nanotubes, one employs the local action of an STM tip to damage or chemically functionalize a section of the tube. With the development of proper techniques, it may become possible to choose from the variety of nanotube-based devices which are theoretically possible.
In a second, less determinate model, the equilibrium thermodynamic density of defects is employed. The as-grown sample of entangled tubes will inevitably contain a high density of randomly arranged device elements, perhaps orders of magnitude higher than in state-of-the-art Si technology. In this approach, multiple connections are made to a sample and characterized, ultimately determining algorithms which can exploit the functions already existing within the sample. Such a sample might form the basis of a useful machine, perhaps a computer (Louie et al), with high speed characteristics.
In conclusion, reproducible electronic conductivities have been measured on a number of different single-walled nanotube bundles. We have measured distinct changes in the conductivity as the active length of the nanotube was increased, suggesting that different segments of the nanotube exhibit different electronic properties. The changes occur over very short lengths, suggestive of point defects in the tube wall itself. As such, the nanotubes constitute molecular-scale nonlinear electronic devices. The controlled production or manipulation of nanotubes with these characteristics could allow for the utilization of these features in ultraminiature electronic devices and circuits.
We thank R. E. Smalley for providing some of the SWNT samples used in these studies. We also thank M.L Cohen, S.G. Louie, and V.H. Crespi for beneficial discussions, and N.G. Chopra and D. Bernaerts for performing TEM studies on our samples. This work was supported in part by a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Initiative Grant, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Office of Naval Research, and the Japan Agency of Industrial Science and Technology. PGC acknowledges support from a Helmholz Fellowship, and AZ received support from the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science.
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Bow-Tie Criterion Cinemas at Greenwich Plaza
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Originally opened as a 800s eat single screen movie theatre in 1970. Later tripled, it was taken over by Bow-Tie Cinemas on November 17, 2006. It was closed on March 16, 2020 fue to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Bow Tie Cinemas assumed operation of the Plaza on 11/17/06.
The Crown sign is still up on the far left, but there is a big lighted sign near the entrance which has big black letters saying "Bow Tie Cinemas."
The Plaza was opened in 1970 by the Brandt organization as a single screen, 1000 seat house. Over the years, it was triplexed by walling off the former stadium area in the back of the theater, then splitting that area. There are 450 seats and a huge screen on the orchestra level, and two stadium seated theaters with 120 seats each. The seats were new about 4 years ago.
After its stint as a Brandt house, it became a Trans-Lux operation (new name for Brandt), followed by Cinamerica, Crown, and now, Bow Tie Cinemas (www.bowtiecinemas.com). Name should be changed to Plaza 3.
Harry Brandt booked the Trans-Lux Theatres.
Went to this theatre for the first time today. I don't know about the smaller auditoriums but theatre #1 was very nice. Curtains! When do we have curtains anymore? Very nice size screen too. Not much info on the site about the current quality of the theatre but I was impressed.
A new modern luxury theater is being planned https://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/45M-train-station-project-planned-for-Greenwich-14082055.php
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Melding Tastes Of The Past And Present In Morocco
Thanksgiving can be about many things: spending time with friends and family, watching football and, of course, eating.
Today, reporter Jake Warga is far from home in Morocco. So instead of turkey and the trimmings, he spent the past week diving into local fare and sent us this culinary postcard.
JAKE WARGA, BYLINE: Like any good tourist, I hunger for culture and food. Luckily, culinary tours are an increasingly popular way to travel. So I joined a tour with six other Americans to learn the tastes of Morocco, a country where culture and food are inseparable.
Our first taste comes from the past. In the Ourika Valley, in the shade of the Atlas Mountains live the Berbers, Morocco's indigenous group.
KAREEM AIT ALI: And now we are in the weekly market. It's called the Monday.
WARGA: At the Monday Market, we're gathering everything we need to make Berber couscous, including beef cut manually with a hand saw in an open air butchers area.
ALI: Yeah, I told them just we need four kilos, about eight pounds of meat for couscous.
WARGA: This is Kareem.
ALI: Yeah, Kareem Ait Ali from the Kasbah of Omar.
WARGA: Kareem is working with Access Trips in the States, which has seen a 90 percent jump in bookings for culinary tours in the past year alone.
WARGA: My cooking class at Kasbah Omar, a hotel nestled in a Berber community. Cooking in a tajine, the classic clay pot with a cone top, over charcoal fire, I'm experiencing the same tastes and smells that numerous generations before have enjoyed. It's time travel through cooking.
I see similar fires peppered throughout the valley.
WARGA: But by far, my favorite dish is a meaty pastry called pastilla. It's typically made with pigeon meat - but, yeah, we're using chicken and almonds instead. With cinnamon, nutmeg, turmeric and so many spices, it's salty and sweet at the same time like history itself and the dish is history.
MINA: (Foreign language spoken)
WARGA: Mina, chef of Moroccan cuisine, specializes in pastries.
MINA: (Foreign language spoken)
WARGA: She explains that pastilla came from the Moors, Muslims who lived in (unintelligible) what is now Spain and Portugal.
RASHIDA HEDAMIN: For me the past is always sweet like honey. No bad taste.
WARGA: Just on the coast is Essaouira. It's where I talked Rashida Hedamin(ph), a local historian. I wanted to ask her what the past tastes like, what flavors from history remain in the food, the culture.
HEDAMIN: Every time I think about the past, I think about a very special dish, (unintelligible) have different flavors. It's called Scrinath(ph). It's a Moroccan-Jewish dish with chickpeas. Every time I eat it, for me, it's history. It's full of the history of the city.
WARGA: Historically, Essaouira is well known as a city where Jews and Muslims live side-by-side.
We end our tour in Marrakesh. And feeling a little homesick, I sneak off from the group and eat some French fries from a McDonald's. I was transported instantly across an ocean into a time to my own past. It tasted like my childhood but a bit bland and suburban, so I sprinkled on a little Ras el Hanout I bought earlier from a spice seller. It's a popular blend of 35 spices that I'm told will make anything taste like Morocco.
It's true. My past and present came together in the next bite.
For NPR, I'm Jake Warga in Morocco. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Letting the DNC Rewrite History
Former President Bill Clinton's scheduled speech tonight at the DNC convention reminds me of just how often we, as conservatives, have allowed the Democrats and the liberal media (redundancy!) to dictate the narrative and rewrite history.
Seriously, I have been hoping for a long time to see this trend change, but even with social media taking a large chunk out of the dinosaur news networks, we are still allowing the liberals to get away with an insane amount of propaganda.
Maybe it is because I am old enough to remember how things were when they actually happened. Our newest set of voters was still in diapers during Clinton's last term. The Democrats work to take full advantage of the naiveté of youth, which is why they target younger voters and deceive them. What disturbs me most is that all too often conservatives go right along with the deception unwittingly.
But I fully remember Bill Clinton's first election. This is because I actually supported Clinton. Don't hate me!
It was a definite year of discovery for me. It was the year that I discovered first-hand how blatantly deceptive the liberals can be.
I was young. The 1992 election wasn't my first, but it was close to it. I was angry at George H. W. Bush for his myopic "family values" platform. Ross Perot had some good sound bites, but I thought the guy was a bit of a lunatic (and it turns out that I was right). Bill Clinton was the "cool" candidate, much like Barack Obama was portrayed in 2008. Hell, he could play the saxophone! He went on popular shows like Arsenio to prove it. Even most conservatives will still say that Clinton is a likable guy on a personal level.
But, in reality, Bill Clinton was Barack Obama 1.0.
Clinton's first campaign was very much like Obama's. The Democrats pilloried Bush for going back on his pledge to not raise any taxes, even though it was the Democrats in Congress that placed that poison pill into an unrelated bill that Bush felt he could not veto. Clinton promised to lower taxes and bring us all together as a nation. He gave us empty platitudes.
What we got instead was almost IDENTICAL to Obama's first two years in office.
As soon as Clinton got in, he and his Democrat allies in Congress passed one of the largest tax increases in the history of the country. Then Bill and Hillary went to work to push a universal health care plan, dubbed "Hillarycare". The only difference was that they did not have a super-majority in Congress, like Obama. The nation recoiled at Clinton's actions. They were so incredibly unpopular that Republicans swept the House and Senate races to gain control for the first time in 54 years. The sweep was nearly identical to the one in 2010.
Citizens of the United States had developed a clear case of buyer's remorse.
At that point, there were only two differences between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Without the presence of Ross Perot in the elections, Clinton would never have come close to winning, either time. He never managed a majority of the popular vote. But Clinton did something else that Obama failed to do; after he got his clock cleaned in the mid-term elections, Bill Clinton decided to portray himself as a centrist.
Today, we have liberals like Barack Obama going around telling the country that his ideas are the same as Clinton's, and that those ideas worked. And he is allowed to get away with it.
Not even conservatives will call him on it.
But the truth is that the ideas that brought us prosperity in the 1990's were not so popular with Clinton. He fought against them tooth and nail, and went so far as to wage a war with the Gingrich-led Congress that would shut down the government. If Clinton had gotten his way, and had retained control of the House or Senate, we likely would not have seen so much prosperity, even with the technological boom. Clinton went kicking and screaming against ideas like welfare reform (vetoed three times), until he was forced into a political position where he had to sign such ideas into law. He then turned around and portrayed ideas like welfare reform and a balanced budget as hallmarks of his administration, with the liberal media in full cooperation.
But those ideas did not originate from Clinton, he opposed them at the outset, and he only came to get on board when it became politically expedient for him to do so.
The boom in technology was enough to spur our economy to great heights, not because of Clinton's policies, but despite them. In fact, Clinton ignored several pitfalls that caused our economy to take a large downturn near the end of his administration. Several companies were cooking the books. Many of the prosperous internet corporations had no physical inventory of which to speak. When the bubbles burst, Clinton didn't care. He was on his way out.
The media blamed George W. Bush for Tyco, Enron, WorldCom, and the like, but those crimes were all committed under Clinton's watch. Apart from that, Clinton's administration had more high level corrupt scandals than even Obama's. They made Nixon look like a choir boy. But the dinosaur media covered for him, and portrayed him as an enigmatic superstar.
And we let them.
And now we are letting them tell everyone how successful Clinton was as a President.
Because we allowed them to create that narrative and let it become ingrained as common knowledge.
We even went along with it to a degree, and we're paying the price now. Obama is able to fool much of the populace with this narrative.
We've got to stop letting this happen.


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WASHINGTON — Debbie Jackson, an Easton parent of a child with behavioral challenges, shared her story on Capitol Hill Thursday morning during a hearing on how schools can handle such children without using seclusion or physical restraint.
Jackson was joined by Dr. Michael George, the director of Bethlehem's Centennial School of Lehigh University, where her now 9-year-old son, Elijah, was enrolled for more than two years.
In prepared remarks, Jackson told the U.S. Senatepanel responsible education policy that her son, who she adopted as a baby, was diagnosed with a long list of conditions ranging from "intermittent explosive disorder" to "bipolar disorder" to "asperger's disorder." She said he was thrown out of 10 daycares for aggression. He turned over desks and chairs, ripped pictures off the walls and threw tantrums.
"Over the next several years Elijah and I experienced many challenges with harsh discipline on bus rides, being placed in "seclusion" rooms scores of times, being restrained in basket holds, being restrained by his arms, wrists and legs by multiple staff at the same time, countless bruises from school staff, and coming home in someone else's clothes due to sweating from physically fighting the teachers to stop them from holding him down," she recalled in her written testimony.
After two and a half years at Centennial, which has a "hands off" policy and promotes positive behavioral interventions, Jackson's son transitioned back to normal public school in March. She described him as healthy and active and a bright student.
George, in his prepared testimony, said in the past 14 years the school has converted to what he described as "Positive Behavior Support Plans" for each student and the children are given reinforcements and encouragement for good behavior.
Iowa Democrat U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, who chaired the hearing and crafted the landmark 1989 Americans with Disabilities Act, has legislation pending that would limit the use of restraint or seclusion of children and create a grant program for states to train schools how to use positive techniques like Centennial has employed.
"Schools that educate students with the most significant behavorial and emotional challenges and disorders can choose from an array of preventative, positive interventions...Even in the case of students with the most challenging behaviors, seclusion and restraint is not necessary except in emergency situations," Harkin said in opening the hearing.


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{mosimage} Thank you Waitsfield for the privilege of a seat on the town select board for the last seven years. On Town Meeting Day, 2008, I will be on the ballot seeking a further term on this board. With your support, once again, I will continue to work diligently on the issues, large and small, of this town and The Valley.
Waitsfield is a special place. No one, especially those whose names are linked to the deeper history of this Valley, needs to have this explained. But this special place has equally special challenges in its future. For years your numerous public officials have researched, studied, debated, consulted, planned and drawn on public input to attempt to resolve many of these challenges. Some issues have been resolved, at least for the time being; others continue to receive attention; and still others will require work for some time yet.
While on the select board over the years I have devoted a great deal of concentrated time and effort to many issues which range from the more ordinary to the profoundly serious. As a board member it has also been essential that I become involved in additional subcommittee work and other special projects. Below is a list of my most significant extra commitments; those that were initiated within the last two years are identified as "new."
• Invited into the Route 100 Transportation/Path project, culminating
recently in approval of its final design;
• Instrumental in managing the town's litigation and associated costs;
• The select board's rep on the Solid Waste Alliance, the six-town collaborative designed to manage issues of solid and hazardous waste, recycling and other waste-related issues;
• The select board's rep on the three town Mad River Valley Planning
• (new) chair of the Waitsfield Energy Committee, which seeks to achieve energy efficiency and cost savings in town facilities and operations;
• (new) member of the committee assigned to select an engineering firm to prepare the design of the town's new gravel pit and monitor operational progress.
I believe it is important to explain that my involvement in these, and many other, demanding activities is not unique. Devoting time to the many extra town obligations simply comes with the "job." In every instance, however, whether pursuing basic obligations or extra functions, I do so for the central purpose of assisting the Select Board as a whole in its effort to provide an informed and fair approach to all matters of concern to the Town.
I believe the dominant challenge for Waitsfield will be to use all available and legitimate regulatory and other means to manage a measure of growth which accommodates reasonable commercial, residential and public needs without substantially undermining Waitsfield's small-town character and quality of life. I believe that, in the end, sound progress will require that the proposed gains of growth be carefully weighed against the quality and extent of any potential historic, cultural, environmental or public sacrifice. Waitsfield remains at a critical crossroads and we probably continue to have only one chance to get it right. I am committed to this and all other challenges we will face.
I respect and appreciate the support I have received in past elections. I hope you find that I deserve your continued support.
I have lived in Waitsfield for 14 years. I am a practicing attorney with the Agency of Natural Resources where I direct the operation of the enforcement division. I live with my wife, Debi, and two rescued greyhounds. I am active at the Valley Players, play baseball in the Vermont senior baseball league and hike the local ridgelines when I can.


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Toyota has given SEMA 2011 visitors a glimpse at a pre-production version of the company's Tacoma TRD T/X Limited Edition. The newest addition to the Tacoma line is set to begin production in late spring of next year and will offer buyers a 4.0-liter V6 engine mated to a six-speed manual transmission or a five-speed automatic. An electronically controlled locking rear differential provides extra grip over uncertain terrain while active traction control, hill-descent control and hill-start assist control should help make things easier on the driver. The whole thing should breathe a bit easier and sound a bit better thanks to the standard TRD exhaust, too.
BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO tires are mounted on bead-lock style wheels, and 60 mm Bilstein race shocks paired with TRD springs up front help give the pickup a little more flex. The Tacoma TRD TX Limited Edition is fitted with 50 mm shocks in the rear with a remote reservoir and the front end rides two inches higher than its stablemates.
Lest we forget, there are also those rather loud bodyside graphics…
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