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It's that time of year when ice cream parties are a great way to celebrate many different occasions. Ice cream parties are great for an end of school year party, a welcome to summer party and of course a birthday party. Here are some great things to incorporate into an ice cream party.
* Everyone always love a fun pinata and these would be great for decoration, party favors or breaking for fun. Find the tutorial for this at Oh Happy Day.
* Entertain in style with these mini wood ice cream spoons from The TomKat Studio.
* Instead of a plain vase of flowers, use carnations to make an ice cream arrangement like this from The Kitchn.
* Grab some tissue and make these fun centerpieces from These are the Days.
* It's always nice to have a nice collection of ice cream bowls for those hot summer days like these.
Now of course if you are hosting an ice cream party then you have to serve great ice cream.
I was lucky enough to get to try the new black cherry chocolate chip ice cream from Graeter's and it was WONDERFUL. I didn't know how much I would like it because I usually don't eat a lot of flavored ice cream but this was delicious and everyone in my family liked it just as much as I did. This flavor was creamy and full of cherry's and dark chocolate. I had not tried Graeter's ice cream before but now I can't wait to try some of the other flavors. If you are planning an ice cream party soon or if you just need a late night tasty treat then I would definitely recommend trying some of Graeter's ice cream!
Disclaimer: I received complimentary ice cream from Graeter's for the purpose of this review. No further compensation was received. All opinions are mine.


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No Delays is the NHS Institute priority programme focused on helping NHS trusts in England achieve the Department of Health's objective of reducing delays in the health service – the 18 week patient pathway.
The NHS Institute believes that the only effective way to achieve and sustain 18 weeks is through service improvement and redesign. As such, the No Delays team has developed a suite of products to support commissioners and providers in achieving and sustaining 18 weeks and therefore improving patient flow.
The flagship product – available free to all NHS organisations in England – is the No Delays Achiever, a web-based statistical analysis package and library of service improvement tools.
The No Delays Achiever and suite of supporting products provide NHS organisations with practical advice on how to get to the root cause of delays and realistic solutions to tackling waiting list backlogs.
Why is it important?
Patients who wait unnecessarily for services are prone to higher levels of anxiety and stress. They may be in pain, feel unwell and unable to carry on with normal life while they wait for diagnosis and treatment.
In some instances, the quality of the final outcome of treatment may be adversely affected.
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The No Delays suite of products will be of use to any NHS organisation wishing to adopt a holistic approach to healthcare that puts the patient experience at the heart of service design and delivery.
Help and support in using the No Delays Achiever is available both online and offline in the form of workshops, guides, web conferences, case studies and more.
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Are you as sad as our pooch?
From 35 emails, 18 texts, 9 calls, 5 voicemails and daily visits to NOTHING? Is that what we're asking you to do – cut off all contact with your ex? It's actually not sad, because the thought of not seeing or speaking to your ex is so painful that it almost seems like a joke. Yet, no one is laughing. You know what else isn't funny? Refreshing your email 100 times a day and checking every other man made mobile device waiting for a beacon of hope. It's exhausting. Well, it's time to make a change. You can stop contacting your ex and start healing. You can. You will. We will help.
First, let's look at the problem. You can last a few days with no contact riding off some anger and the encouragement of friends, but then it happens. You are alone with your blackberry, watching tv and you see a commercial you both loved…
You stare at your phone and the most urgent reason to call him manifests: I still have his favorite socks. I wouldn't want him going to the gym and run on the treadmill without socks. I think I heard on Good Morning America that running sockless is linked to a toe infection epidemic. Yes, that's right, that's what they said. This is definitely an emergency. I should definitely call him.
Others decide it's time to will the phone to ring or vibe with a new text. Yes, I will stare at the phone and use my telepathic powers to make her contact me. Wait! Maybe there is something wrong with the phone. I should make an outgoing call to make sure. Oh, okay, it works. Wait! In the three seconds I was dialing, maybe she called and got thrown into voicemail and thought I ignored her call. Okay, I should definitely call her.
If you want to contact your ex, you will find a reason. Likewise, if they want to contact you, no reason in the world would keep it from happening. It is up to you to cut the contact. Does it make you feel better to get a message from your ex? Sure. Does it get you through the night to send a little text and hear something back? Perhaps. However, in the end, you don't get what you want from them and the contact makes you feel worse. Your greater goal is to get over this heartache and contact is not moving you towards this goal. Every contact is just delaying the healing process.
Here are 8 Ways to Help you go Cold Turkey!
1. Take Care of Business – Get a box and pack up keys, clothes, kids (ok, not the kids), but all other items he or she will want back. Ship them to your ex.
2. Identify your Weak Points – When do you want to call or contact the person most? Think about it. Ready? Ok, write it down. Now be conscious of your weak points and when you hit one, use #3 to combat your temptation to make contact.
3. Create an Arsenal of Distractions – Make a list of things that you can do instead of contacting your ex. (i.e. Calling a friend, going outside, taking a shower etc.) Use these when something in #2 creeps up.
4. Find your 3 Doosies – Write down your three biggest reasons for not contacting your ex. One might be because I always feel worse after I hang up the phone. Put them on post-its and stick them next to every electronic device you have.
5. Quit Online Stalking – Make it stop. Delete your ex from Facebook, Twitter, Gchat etc. Develop new online habits.
6. Fancy Not Meeting You Here – Don't frequent the places you used to frequent together. This one is kind of a Duh! If you are intentionally going to places you think you will run into your ex, stick one of the post-its from #4 on your head.
7. Back away from the Blackberry – Put the phone in another room at night. When you are out having a drink, hand the phone to your friends to reduce temptation. Vow to only check it 1-2x per day.
8. At a Minimum, Try This – If this is too much to bear, we get it. This is the slower route, but it will eventually get you into the fast track. Try cutting out one form of communication per week. First calls, then emails, then texts, you get the picture.


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Hi! My name is Frances and I'm a food and fashion lover. I always thought that these were conflicting passions (psh! models don't eat!) so I blogged about food for years, avoiding other things that were happening in my life. I know that people often lump together food, fashion and art but the realization that I could draw inspiration from each of these arts to benefit one another didn't hit me until recently. Join me as I weave together the lettuce-and-diet-coke world of modeling with the butter-flour-and-sugar world of pastry arts. Bring it on, world!
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When Pigs Fly
We Protestants tend to have something of a love/hate relationship with Thomas Aquinas. On the one hand, as Protestants, at least we who are Reformed, we value theological brilliance. We admire deeply the mind of Thomas, perhaps even dreaming …Read More
Love by Submission
Ephesians 5:21 poses a conundrum: Paul commends Spirit-filled Christians for "submitting to one another." Isolate the verse from its context, and it almost sounds as if the Apostle teaches a kind of mutual, universal submission, without regard to any …Read More
The Power of the Broken Body
Mention the word church and a vast array of images enter the mind. A steepled building housing a congregation; a movement of God across the centuries and the world; "one, holy, catholic, and Apostolic"; "visible and invisible"; "militant and triumphant …Read More
The Judgment of Charity
Every time I read the Gospels, I am struck by how Jesus seems to have found Himself in the middle of controversy wherever He went. I am also struck by how Jesus handled each controversy differently. He did not follow …Read More
Consider the Glory of God
John Newton (1725–1807) is best known today for his great hymns (including "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken"). But in his own day, he was perhaps more highly prized as a letter writer — "the great director …Read More
Consider Yourself
Controversy exists because God's truth exists in a world of lies. Controversy is the plight of sinners in a fallen world, who were originally created by God to know the truth, love the truth, and proclaim the truth. We cannot …Read More
Someone is Wrong on the Internet
It takes two to tango, and that doesn't even include the band. Our choices, our behaviors, are rarely as discreet as we think they are. Not only do our decisions bleed into our other decisions, they touch on other people's …Read More
Godly Boasting
God loves it when man boasts in God, and God hates it when man boasts in man. "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord" (2 Cor. 10:17). "Far be it from me to boast except in the …Read More
Listening Before Answering
"If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame" (Prov. 18:13). It is arrogant to answer before you hear. Humility does not presume that it knows precisely what a person is asking until the …Read More
False Humility
Dearest Uglúk, Delightful. Utterly delightful. You have made wonderful progress with your subject. Not only has he come to embody a humility most false, he has begun to run with a crowd that will do naught but reinforce it. You …Read More
It's All About Me
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True Greatness
As Jesus approached His final week leading up to His crucifixion, He spoke plainly to His disciples about the events that were about to unfold in Jerusalem. He wanted them to know that the horrific things that would happen to Him …Read More
In All Humility
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Pride & Humility
Pride is the idolatry of the self. It is the nature of pride as competition with God — the displacing of God by the self at the center — that has led many Christian thinkers through the ages to regard …Read More
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TEL AVIV – President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.
"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.
"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.
"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.
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Continued Dunn: "Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying."
Video of Dunn's remarks at the conference can be seen below:
Dunn was speaking at a Jan. 12, 2009, event focusing on Obama's media tactics and hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, which seeks to promote collaboration between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic. The event was held in Santo Domingo and was attended by the country's president.
Dunn has been facing some criticism since she led a White House campaign last week against Fox News, slamming the top-rated network as an "arm of the Republican Party" and "opinion journalism masquerading as news."
Fox hit back this past Friday, releasing a video of Dunn speaking to high-school students last June in which she lists her two "favorite political philosophers," including Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong, whose draconian policies are blamed for the deaths of tens of millions of people.
Video of Dunn's speech, broadcast during a segment of Glenn Beck's evening show on the Fox News Channel, can be seen below:
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Hurricane Sandy and two other combining weather systems spared Cleveland County heavy rains, widespread damaging winds and a blanket of snow. But before Sandy�s effects are complete, there is a chance the county makes a bit of its own history, according to meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Greer.
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Millions along the East Coast states will experience flood waters, heavy snow and power outages due to a massive storm meteorologists are calling historic.
Hurricane Sandy and two other combining weather systems spared Cleveland County heavy rains, widespread damaging winds and a blanket of snow. But before Sandy�s effects are complete, there is a chance the county makes a bit of its own history, according to meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Greer.
There�s a chance for snow flurries throughout the county Tuesday morning, which would mark a record, said meteorologist Doug Outlaw.
Outlaw said the weather service has no record of measurable snow in October in the Shelby area, dating back to 1893.
�It would be an extremely rare occurrence,� he said. �Even Asheville has only one or two records of any snow in October going back to the 1800s. It is possible with this storm that some snow may make its way across the mountains, through the foothills and into portions of the North Carolina piedmont. But no accumulation is expected.�
The last trace of snow fell in Cleveland County in February 2011.
Matthew Tessnear can be reached at 704-669-3331, at email@example.com or on Twitter @MatthewTessnear. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Why is Sandy impacting so many people?
The storm extends hundreds of miles, with tropical storm-force winds extending nearly 500 miles from its center. The hurricane is merging with two other weather systems � a wintry storm from the west and cold air from the Arctic.
�It�s becoming one big storm,� said National Weather Service meteorologist Doug Outlaw. �It�s unusual to have a hurricane merging over a heavily populated part of the United States, and this storm is so broad and covering so much area. It�s going to go down as one of the big impact historic storms, especially so early in the season.�
How is Sandy leaving its mark?
* The U.S. Coast Guard rescued at least 14 members of a crew from its ship off the coast of the Outer Banks and searched for other crew members. Some businesses and homes were inaccessible.
* On the North Carolina coast, Sandy stranded some without transportation and power, due to flood waters.
* Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney called off campaign rallies as the storm hit the East Coast. Obama shifted his focus to meeting with emergency officials to prepare for the storm�s impact.
* Dover Air Force Base in Delaware relocated aircraft in anticipation of the storm, and FEMA requested the base be used as a staging area for disaster relief support and supplies.
* Heavy snowfall was expected in parts of the North Carolina mountains, as well as Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia and other states.
* Subways and schools were closed to millions in the Northeast.
* The N.Y. Stock Exchange was deserted Monday morning.
* Many thousands were without power Monday afternoon.
* Taxis that originate in Washington, D.C. were authorized to add an emergency flat rate of $15 per trip because of Hurricane Sandy , starting Monday. The price is supposed to expire at noon today, but can be extended if considered necessary. The capital area's transit system shut down rail service for the first time since 2003.
How is Cleveland County helping those who are impacted?
Three county volunteers � Rodger and Sharon Moore of Kings Mountain, and Nan Perrigan of the Shelby area � left early Sunday morning for West Virginia to help residents there deal with an expected snowstorm. They are part of a special-trained shelter team, said Craig Morehead of the Cleveland County Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Morehead said a handful of other Cleveland County residents are on standby for relief services.
The county also has trained emergency management workers who can travel to areas impacted by storms to organize and coordinate relief efforts, but there were no requests for service as of midday Monday, said Dewey Cook, the county�s emergency management director.
�We�re not expecting any (impact) here, but we�re closely monitoring the weather forecast,� Cook said. �These hurricanes have a mind of their own, so you never know.�
How are Cleveland County residents� families impacted?
The Star asked its Facebook fans how Hurricane Sandy is impacting them. To join the conversation, find The Shelby Star on Facebook and click �like.�
�My husband�s niece and aunt live in Queens, N.Y., and West Orange, N.J. They are no strangers to crazy weather.�
-- Brandi Torres
�Have family and friends in the path. Mom in Williamsburg, Va. says she has just rain. Friend in Boston says wind, rain, but they still have power. Haven�t heard from any family or friends in Delaware or Maryland.�
-- Stephanie Talcott White
�All of my family lives in New York. Hope they stay safe! Especially, my dad since he works mainly outdoors. Hope he stays indoors today.�
-- Amber Lyn Toney
�I have family in West Virginia. Hope they stay safe.�
-- Faye Bowles Messick
Is it going to snow in Cleveland County?
The National Weather Service said flurries or a trace of snow are possible, but an accumulation and long-lasting precipitation is not likely. Accumulations are possible as nearby as Lake Lure and Marion. The mountains may receive as much as a foot of snow.
Tuesday is forecast to be the coldest day of the week, according to the weather service, with a forecast high of 47. Winds are expected to gust to 35 mph during the day.
�The circulation around the storm system is giving us the gusty winds,� Outlaw said.
Temperatures are forecast to increase to about 60 degrees later this week.
Will the storm affect local schools?
Cleveland County Schools director of public information Donna Carpenter said Monday afternoon it is too early to predict if students will miss school Tuesday due to the weather. Students and faculty will be alerted no later than 6 a.m. Tuesday of any possible closures or delays.
�The weather has already affected us somewhat,� she said. �We had a presenter for a math workshop on our mandatory teacher work day, and his flight back home in Boston was canceled.�
Cleveland County Schools has five snow make-up days from December to May, Carpenter said.
Will the storm affect falling local gas prices?
�Here in the Carolinas, we wouldn�t expect to be affected,� said Angela Vogel Daley, spokeswoman for AAA Carolinas. �We�ve known a hurricane was coming for a while, and the price has continued to fall � about two cents a day.�
She said a pipeline that delivers oil travels from the Gulf of Mexico up the East Coast into the Northeast.
�If their refineries are offline for several days, it could create a gas shortage there, which could possibly affect us, since we are on the same pipeline.�


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Is that in doubt? The Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday night that Barack Obama doesn't think we have a spending problem, or at least that's what John Boehner told Stephen Moore about Obama's response to the fiscal cliff:
What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation: "At one point several weeks ago," Mr. Boehner says, "the president said to me, 'We don't have a spending problem.' " …
The president's insistence that Washington doesn't have a spending problem, Mr. Boehner says, is predicated on the belief that massive federal deficits stem from what Mr. Obama called "a health-care problem." Mr. Boehner says that after he recovered from his astonishment—"They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system"—he replied: "Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with ObamaCare. But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem." He repeated this message so often, he says, that toward the end of the negotiations, the president became irritated and said: "I'm getting tired of hearing you say that."
Investors Business Daily reminds the President today that math is hard, but pretty accurate … and that his own commission on deficits and debt told him the same thing:
That would be news to Obama's debt commission, which in its final report made clear that spending is the driving force behind the nation's debt crisis.
Here's what the report said: "Even after the economy recovers, federal spending is projected to increase faster than revenues, so the government will have to continue borrowing money to spend."
The panel added, "Over the long run, as the baby boomers retire and health care costs continue to grow, the situation will become far worse."
And it recommended: "We should cut all excess spending — including defense, domestic programs, entitlement spending, and spending in the tax code."
The commission was hardly breaking new ground here. Indeed, anyone who has looked at the federal budget can quickly see that out-of-control spending, not insufficient revenues, is the problem.
As the chart shows, even with the $620 billion in tax hikes Obama won during the fiscal cliff fight, plus the $500 billion in new ObamaCare taxes, spending will continue to outstrip revenues as far as the eye can see.
By 2022, federal revenues will top 19% of GDP, which is significantly higher than the post-World War II average. But spending will exceed 22%, and keep climbing.
Even if, as Obama apparently believes, the issue is entirely a health-care cost problem, it's still spending. And supposedly, ObamaCare was supposed to deal with the problem. Instead, as Boehner notes in his interview, it makes the problem worse by creating even more spending on subsidies for premiums and more federal intervention in the market while aggravating the third-party-payer structure that is the fundamental problem.
The US has increased its spending from a historical level of 20% of GDP to 25% of GDP during the Obama presidency. That's a spending problem, and that plus the massive amount of unfunded liabilities soon approaching will make the current fiscal cliff look like late payments on a Sears card. Michael Ramirez puts it into his Pulitzer-winning perspective today:
Also, be sure to check out Ramirez' terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez' career, and it gives fascinating look at political history. Read my review here, and watch my interviews with Ramirez here and here. And don't forget to check out the entire Investors.com site, which has now incorporated all of the former IBD Editorials, while individual investors still exist.


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Climbing into a tractor cab at a farm sale, you discover corn yield counts for the past 20 years. The crop rotations on the back 80, the river bottom and "John's place" are laid out in barely legible layers on the vinyl interior. To an outsider, this "chicken scratch" is useless information, but to the farmer who owned that tractor, it was priceless. He might have used it to pick different seed varieties or to change his weed and pest control from year to year.
What about the rancher who gets a new pair of gloves every calving season so he has a new place record each calf's birth date? After a 2 a.m. calving check reveals a baby on the ground, he writes about it on his glove. In the morning, that impromptu notepad still provides individual identification (ID).
In today's world of lightening-fast technology and computerized gadgets of every sort, some would have you believe that the only way to keep records is by computerized spreadsheets, electronic ear tags and chute-side scanners. Maybe you think someday you'll learn about all of those thingamajigs and start keeping records.
You don't have to wait for someday to start keeping detailed records on each and every head. Delaying your record keeping until you've learned every inch of a new technology might take years. Perhaps the mere thought of working all the kinks out keeps you from even trying individual ID. Some producers find that computers and digital files make them more efficient and organized, but if that's not your knack, don't let the lack of computer deter you.
It doesn't matter if you keep it by cow number or cow name; the important part is keeping those records. When you get back to the house, transfer that information from hatband, glove or hand into a more permanent form of documentation. You can get spreadsheets from Extension Web sites, use an accounting record book or make your own columns and rows with a ruler and pencil. You can develop a category for everything you want to track, from cow and sire numbers to calving ease and weaning weight.
Then you have a wealth of information to analyze and learn from. That notebook in your shirt pocket may be the ticket for keeping track of any details. But if you never open it again, there's not much point in entering the details in the first place. As a cattleman, you're also an animal scientist. Your herd data could just provide the next big breakthrough on your operation.
Let the records help you hone management strategies or genetic decisions.
Comparing years of information to each other can provide you a clear picture of the effects your changes have actually made. Perhaps the records will reveal a trend towards increasing birth weights. A few extra pounds each year didn't seem like much, but seeing a 5% increase in calving interval could become a problem in no time. Perhaps you'll be able to trace longevity and efficiency back to heifers retained out of one or two cow families. The list of discoveries could go on and on.
Connecting this type of data to carcass information can give you an even better idea of where your herd's headed, and let you take the wheel. Whether you're retaining ownership or cooperating with a feedlot or cattle buyer, tracing harvest information back to the dam and sire is one of the most important steps you can take to add value. You can identify the calves that will make you the most money and then produce more of them.
Keeping detailed, individualized records can provide a great return on investment in the long run. If you use that information, payout is the same regardless of whether the data storage is in a hard drive in your office or those old boot boxes in the basement—whichever is easiest for you to use.


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The U.S. ethanol industry will continue to grow in 2009, creating a substantial increase in the supply of distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of ethanol, according to Ken Hobbie, president and CEO of the U.S. Grains Council.
Ethanol production increased in 2008 by approximately 3 billion gallons to 9.3 billion gallons compared to last year, Hobbie told more than 500 attendees at the USGC's International Distillers Grains Conference in Indianapolis, Ind. Even more critically, production is projected by Informa Economics to reach 11.9 billion gallons in 2009.
According to Hobbie, roughly 33 percent of the grain going into U.S. ethanol production will come out as DDGS.
"The reason we're holding this conference is that we are confident the U.S. ethanol industry will continue to grow due to efforts undertaken by the National Corn Growers Association and state producer organizations over the last several years," said Hobbie.
"Due to the efforts of U.S. growers to establish the ethanol industry, we made DDGS our top priority in 2006 and since then have seen DDGS exports exceed 2 million metric tons annually."
Bruce Rastetter, CEO of Hawkeye Renewables, told more than 140 international participants to expect growth in ethanol production and a substantial increase in a high quality feed ingredient.
"Who would have believed five years ago that the ethanol industry would be the largest supplier of energy in this country? That will happen by the conclusion of 2009," Rastetter said.
Scott Richman, senior vice president of Informa Economics, said as a result of the growth in the U.S. ethanol industry seen this year, 22.8 million tons of DDGS were available for global use in 2007-08 marketing year, nearly a 50 percent increase from the 2006-07 marketing year.
He said the 2008-09 marketing year, which began Oct. 1, will likely experience an additional 50 percent increase in the availability of DDGS, reaching 31.3 million tons.
"There will be a substantial amount of DDGS available for global livestock industries," said Richman. "It looks like we are going to be pushing more DDGS into export markets. The U.S. Grains Council's efforts promoting U.S. DDGS and opening several new markets across the globe is helping the U.S. ethanol industry in a big way. As production increases, the Council will have more opportunities to expand markets for this co-product."
The IDGC is a cooperative effort between the USGC and BBI International. The event's sponsors include Council agribusiness members Agri Alpha, Hawkeye Gold, Furst-McNess Company, Renewable Products Marketing Group, Gavilon, and Quality Technology International.
Council producer checkoff members sponsoring the conference are Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Indiana Corn, and Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board.


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Science on Tap Lafayette meets once a month at the Lafayette Brewing Company upstairs. The free event is informal and open to everyone (21 and over) - no science background is needed. See Facebook page for details.
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In the follow-up to the record-breaking hit comedy The Hangover, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu's wedding.
With the memory of Doug's nearly disastrous bachelor party in Las Vegas still fresh—or at least well-documented—Stu is taking no chances.
He has opted for a safe, subdued, pre-wedding trip brunch, with pancakes, coffee...and no alcohol. However, things don't always go as planned.
Two nights before the big day, at a fabulous resort in Thailand, Stu relents. One beer each. In sealed bottles. What could go wrong?
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Uptown Staunton
Uptown Staunton is the area north of Staunton Island, composed of four neighbourhoods, based on Uptown Manhattan. Staunton Island's more 'uptownish' area is comprised of mostly apartments.
Uptown Staunton is an area consisting of green areas on the banks, which aims to be the area with more districts in the island. In the area you can find the neighborhood that shows how Aspatria benchmarks a stadium and a waterfront park on the west bank of the district. Neighborhood east of Rockford is the smallest district with a hospital and an area that in 1998 a Ferry station and in 2001 a military base, located in front of Liberty Campus the only school in the city area, west of Fort Staunton in 1998 is a residential area but also of some businesses and attractions such as museums and restaurants called Little Italy, in 2001 is only the construction of the famous Staunton Plaza. Staunton Uptown residential area is not a financial or general, as their districts show different qualities. But the green areas of Aspatria, Rockford and part of Fort Staunton indicate that the area is mostly green.
Aspatria: The location of the Liberty City Memorial Stadium, some shops and buildings, and a scenic path along the shoreline, Aspatria is located north of the Shoreside Lift Bridge. It is home to Phil's Army Surplus, a weapons shop that sells army-type weapons.
Rockford: Based in northern Manhattan neighborhood Inwood, is Home to Carson General Hospital, the entrance to the Porter Tunnel and the Staunton Ferry Terminal (LC Stories), Rockford is the northernmost district in Staunton Island and home to some shops and buildings.
Liberty Campus: Stuck inside a 2 by 1 street grid, Liberty Campus is only composed of Liberty City Community College based at Columbia University. Donald Love resides here.
Fort Staunton: Location of more of a residential area and a small park, Fort Staunton gets mostly blown up in Liberty City Stories. In GTA III, it has numerous construction sites all over the district, which are backed by the Panlantic Construction Company. It is also home to the Columbian Cartel that refuge in Staunton Island.
See Also
- Midtown Staunton, Area located south of this.
- Downtown Staunton, Financial area.


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Michael H.
Back in June of 2011 I had a stroke and an accident (in that order) while driving in Staten Island, New York. I never made it to the funeral we planned to attend and I surely won't be making it to mine anytime soon.
My life took a turn but not necessarily for the worse. Every now and again it is good to go through changes, so, I've been told. Sometimes we do it because we want to and other times it is forced upon us. In this case it was forced upon me. In many ways my life had been comfortably stagnate from my own perspective in the months preceding "The Event" of June 18th but that all changed.
What a long, strange trip it has been. More than a touch of gray but I will survive. Thanks, Grateful Dead for those lyrics that inspire me so much these days.
So I'll start at the begging and later on skip around like flashbacks on TV. On Friday, June 17th Susan, Mike, Mulan and me traveled from our home in Maryland to New York to attend a family funeral on Sunday. Susan was my girlfriend, Mike is her son and Mulan is our pet Shiatsu. The funeral was for Gert, Susan's x-Mother-in-Law and Mike's Grandma as he called her.
Saturday morning I rose early to take in a morning of yard sailing while Susan and her mom hit the malls. The weather was wonderful and I was feeling great and loving doing what I enjoyed most. With Susan's routing and my GPS I was hitting the sales and grabbing up some great stuff for Ebay and for my own selfish self.
Suddenly I felt confused and disoriented and although I had never had a stroke before I knew I was having one now. I tried to get off the road so I could continue to have my stroke with some degree of privacy but I ran into a moving car instead. Nobody got hurt but there was a little body damage to both cars. There, is of course, no such thing as "a little" body damage. I called Susan confessing the accident with the excuse that I had had a stroke. I needed my wallet because it had my driver's permit in it; the police were sure to be on the way. Susan rushed to the scene. I fussed around for my cigarettes but my coordination was way off and they must have fallen to the ground. Maybe Susan took them away. She hated my smoking. Instead of the police coming an ambulance arrived. I tried to explain that I couldn't go to the hospital because the police were on the way but Susan and the medics would hear nothing of it. Just another cigarette would surely make everything all right.
Sirens blaring and I was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital where a team of nurses and doctors continued to save my life. They succeeded because I spent a few days confined to a bed with side rails so I could not escape. I felt captive. I was told that I could not walk yet because I had a stroke. I protested, insisting that I could in fact walk. I could not help but to wonder if I could in fact walk. Calls were coming in from all over the country from relatives and friends. I wanted Susan to come back but strangely she never did. It was too much for her. Sue's brother Jeff and wife Beverly did come. Bev brought pastries or me. I wanted her to come back. I complained to Jeff that I was being held against my will. He said it was for my own good and I have yet to forgive him. I just hated that remark. He's a really nice guy and all but I don't care.
I was in that hospital for several days. Pneumonia had come and gone and my near death experience, if I had had one was unremarkable. I took a special liking to a young nurse named Samantha. She wanted five children, 3 girls and 2 boys and already had the names picked out. She was adorable. No, she didn't have a husband or even a boyfriend. All the good-looking guys (like me) were taken or too lame (unlike me) to bother with. I only saw her that one time but I met her sister who said she was off work for a few shifts and most likely partying somewhere. I wanted to save her from that lifestyle. She was not a Jersey Shores kind of girl. What a nice girl she was and I didn't know many nice girls. I miss Samantha and always will.
I complained of my sore back and wanted out of my soft bed just to sleep on the floor. It was against hospital protocol I was told. I really didn't give a f**k about hospital protocol and the damn doctors. Yes, the doctors had saved my life and all. I freaked out a poor nurse by saying that the doctors had done me no favors. Well, the doctors knew best so I was given morphine and I liked it. All was forgiven.
My stay at that hospital was short because I wanted to go home, a 200 mile trip.
Travel arraignments were made by my sister, Kathy, my logistician. Home to me was not really my home but was St. Mary's Nursing Center. I was whisked away first class and the travel back to Maryland was uneventful save for making a pit stop to gas up and an opportunity to pee first class in the parking lot. I hated peeing in a bottle. We did not have an on-board urinal. I hated using the bottle because it had spilled onto me and made me look incontinent and that was a first impression I did not want to make. Along the route there were communications between Kathy and me. Upon arrival Kathy put out the bulletin message to all concerned "the Eagle has landed."
I really don't remember my first day at St. Mary's. I do remember my new friends Ella and Doreen. I especially remember their promises to "sign me out" for road trips. Maybe to one of their homes, I fantasized. The promises were never kept but those promises meant possibilities.
I also remember Denise bringing me back special treats from McDonalds. I had no cash but promised to pay her back as soon as I did have money. The Big Mac I ordered was complimented by supersized fries and a coke. When I did have money Denise refused it.
I was constantly hungry. We got five meals a day: breakfast, brunch, lunch, an afternoon snack, dinner. It was not enough. I figured that upon release I'd be ready for the fat farm and joked that was how St Mary's really made money.
I was upset that my wallet was still not with me. I really missed it. Susan had turned it over to my niece Genie for safekeeping. I was told that I didn't need it, my ID, and money was unnecessary. I was obsessing, so I was told. Still I wanted it. This is America and who doesn't need money? I was not reunited with my wallet again until early August.
Brian, my son, flew in from Miami just to see me. I had not seen him in years. He was strikingly handsome and the staff took such notice of his GQ good looks, dress and manner that was a real plus for me.
Brian's visit was too short and mine was short too. The time had come for me to move on. Again. The doctors thought I would benefit from more intense therapy. I took that as bad news thinking I was really in a bad state and beyond their rehab capabilities. One of my activities was to stack small cones one on top of the other without knocking them over any in the process. A monkey could have done it. I could not. I was so discouraged. Another activity was to stack colorful plastic rings on round wooden pegs and then remove them one by one. I was too clumsy. A kindergartener could do it. No way could a dog. Dogs are colorblind I reasoned. Speaking of dogs, we got weekly visits from Pets on Wheels and I bonded with xxxxxxxxxx. With help, I was mobile with a wheelchair. I chased after that dog for hugs and sloppy wet kisses. I had been kissed by worse. Pets on Wheels visits were anticipated like a kid waiting for the ice cream truck. We also got a visit from an Elvis impersonator. The old ladies were quite excited. I was not. He was not Elvis. It was a onetime event. I didn't care.
When my wallet got delivered it was kept in St. Mary's safe for safekeeping. Safekeeping? I wanted my wallet and its' contents. I felt naked without it. But the staff insisted on keeping it from me anyway. I was regarded as too irresponsible to have it, I figured. I was told that things got stolen from the facility. That was the least of my concerns.
So I was readied for transport to the internationally acclaimed Washington National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. It took a long time for my entourage to arrive. My entrance was a grand event. I had been greeted by doctors and nurses, hospital administrators and others. The only thing missing was the flashing lights of media cameras..
I made myself at home surrounded by a wonderful, caring, loving staff from all over the globe. Food was excellent if not abundant. My main complaint was that I didn't get enough of it. I pulled one of the dietary staff aside and complained that I wasn't getting enough food. Yes, I was going to give the facility a five star rating in the "Washingtonian" magazine because the food was outstanding but I also planned on complaining about the meager servings. I was always hungry and remarked that they were trying to starve me to death. I begged for more and more food and my demands were often met. I was given extra servings by a kind kitchen worker. I also got cash money delivered Fed Ex from my sister. I spent it very wisely in the vending machines and at the Starbucks in the lobby but the money ran out fast. I got graham crackers from sympathetic nurses, if not for me at least for my pet mouse. I told the story of how I wanted graham crackers for my pet mouse. "You have a mouse?" a nurse screeched! "You have a mouse in your room?" I explained that I did not have a mouse in my room. It was in my drawer." I thought it was pretty amusing but the nurses did not share my humor.
I made a friend for life at the Starbucks. Kathy was a hospital administrator in a wheelchair who rolled forward to say "The coffee is on me." I was flattered to have such a gorgeous lady pick-up my tab.
At the vending machines I met a sixteen-year old boy in a wheelchair. I engaged him in conversation wondering, as I put it, 'What is wrong with you?" He replied simply saying that his legs just stopped working one day. I confessed to him that I felt sorry for myself sometimes and he comforted me saying "That's alright. It's okay. I understand."
I now had my own wheelchair. It was just a loaner but I took full advantage of my wheels and traveled everywhere, earning the nickname Cruiser from Dr. Paul Rao, an administrator and author of the book Managing Stroke: A Guide to Living Well After Stroke. Our friendship was immediate. More is being written
National Stroke Association's mission is to reduce the incidence and impact of stroke by developing compelling education and programs focused on prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and support for all impacted by stroke.


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The Productive Community Hospital
The Productive Community Hospital: Releasing time to care™ builds on the success of the Productive Ward. Around 80% of trusts have already signed up to the Productive Ward programme. Against this background, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has been working with nurses and therapists to develop ways to increase the amount of direct care time given to patients in community hospitals.
The Productive Community Hospital programme is designed to help achieve this by improving the effectiveness, safety and reliability of inpatients, day hospitals and minor injuries units.
Sites that have helped develop and test the programme report that their expectations have been exceeded and that their staff have been empowered and enthused to make challenging changes to the way they work.
Adopting The Productive Community Hospital will enable local providers and commissioners to compare the performance of their local community facilities with that of others, learn from the best and make positive improvements for patients.
Following a successful preview in June 2008, the complete set of modules is now available. Three successful national launch events co-sponsored by the Nursing Times have already taken place.
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Like a well-wrought memoir, this medley of free- and fixed-verse poems combines vivid personal narrative with probing self-reflection.
"So, I did the thing / I would never do," confesses a young dancer upon landing an art-smothering, body-pulverizing contract job in "Paid to Dance," one of many seemingly autobiographical poems in Augustine's debut collection. One can easily imagine the same confession from the older narrator sleeping with her friend's husband in "Wine and Cheese Villanelle" or the jaded lover of "Sestina," who "learned to play double, just like him." Compromise and disillusionment are frequent themes here but so are resilience and learning, although the narrators are often too busy navigating their lives to recognize their growing wisdom. Augustine often layers the perspectives of the narrator, author and reader to bolster the poems' realism and emotional sincerity, and it's a technique she hones to near perfection. On rare occasions, the poet usurps the narrator and lapses into bathos: "As we sit at this café table / in Montmartre, sheltered / from the downpour, I see our future. / I will write it down on torn paper, / using a sapphire pen," seemingly taking seriously Billy Collins' satirical advice in his poem "The Student" that poets should, "[w]hen at a loss for an ending, / have some brown hens standing in the rain." On the whole, however, Augustine demonstrates much greater control and precision as she works through multiple iterations of love and loss, employing to great effect forms as varied as the prose poem, the concrete poem, the villanelle, the sestina, the sonnet and the ballad. She reimagines fairy tales, evokes foreign lands through bodily sensation, valorizes women's perseverance, and revels in the rollicking pleasures of sex, even when they come with risk. As her narrators age, she tightens the circle, mourning and celebrating with equal intensity. One narrator contemplates the "Three Things That Did Not Happen": "I almost saw Nessie," "I almost won the jackpot," and "I almost had a child. / She was there in my womb / until chromosomes killed her. / My God, that would have been something." Among the losses, though, it "appears gone for good are dramas and bothers, / threats and therapists, drunk, needy lovers. / And…lovely, lovely, lovely is my cat's furry belly."
Poetry that often transcends its own bounds, spilling over into readers' lives and forcing them to confront their own narratives.


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Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness (map) in 1993 and it now has a total of 219,899 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Colorado and is managed by the Forest Service and the National Park Service. The Sangre de Cristo Wilderness is bordered by the Great Sand Dunes Wilderness to the west.
DescriptionSangre de Cristo is Spanish for "Blood of Christ," but no one is quite sure why the region was given this name. Was it because of the bloody hues washing the slopes at sunset, or the cry of the dying priest, "sangre de Cristo," as his martyred blood flowed onto the ground near here? Of the long and colorful Spanish influence in these mountains and in the San Luis Valley below there is no doubt. Two four-wheel-drive roads over Medano Pass and Hayden Pass, as well as access to Lily Lake, were slim exclusions from Wilderness designation and split the area into four distinct sections. Unlike most of Colorado's mountains, the high and magnificently rugged Sangres were uplifted suddenly in massive blocks, creating a range of dramatic vertical proportions. Four fourteeners are clumped together in the midsection of the Wilderness, including Crestone Needle (14,197 feet). Many climbers, consider the Needle to be Colorado's most challenging 14,000-foot peak. Three more fourteeners stand together just south of the boundary. Melting snow feeds many creeks and small lakes, and nourishes a forest of oak, aspen, and spruce. Black bears and a few mountain lions live here, along with elk, deer, and bighorn sheep. Long (about 70 miles) and narrow describes the area, the state's third largest, and the going is rough for the hiker. Most of the 180 miles of trails end at alpine lakes set against virtually unclimbable walls. Great Sand Dunes National Preserve in now part of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness.
Planning to Visit the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations, Permits
- Contact the Forest Service or the National Park Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Reading day for Dan and Murray
When I made my annual plea for staffers to write about their reading days, Dan jumped forward to volunteer. Which is excellent, because Dan has an adorable dog, and reading days are always enhanced by the company of an adorable dog. Here's how things went last week for Dan and Murray.
There are lots of nice things about a day at home reading applications. Sleeping in a bit on a Wednesday is a treat. I also find it easier to focus on reading closely without the intrusion of various other projects. And when the weather reports in New England break out the phrase "bitter cold," you know it's a day made for staying in. Bring it on, applicants!
Now about that "sleeping in." I live farther from Fletcher than some, so getting going at 7:30 feels almost like a weekend to me, though even our dog Murray isn't awake yet.
Without fail, my first thought upon surveying a stack of applications is "this shouldn't take too long." Doesn't look like so much, right?
A few things to keep in mind: 1. Note that my application pile is considerably larger than the ones in back, which are my wife's high school English portfolios, still to be graded. To be fair, she's been working through hers for the past several days, and each represents a semester's worth of work. But still, my pile is bigger, so I win. 2. You may have heard elsewhere that we read every part of the application. Seriously. We really do. Some files go more quickly than others; while a decision is sometimes pretty easy to determine, many times I find myself picking through an application several times, and sitting and thinking about it for a few minutes before deciding. The point is that this stuff takes a while.
Reading Fletcher applications is fascinating and humbling. In the first few hours of my day, I've "met" World Food Programme staffers, Marines with multiple overseas deployments, fair trade researchers, clean energy specialists, a couple of Peace Corps volunteers, and an engineer focusing on post-Fukushima safety regimes, and I'm sitting here in sweats and a hoodie trying to avoid paper cuts. Time for some breakfast, I think.
Reading days are all about pacing. I like to make a bit of a dent in the day's task before my first reward. On a sub-zero January day, the menu choice is a no-brainer – an egg white, veggie bacon and cheese breakfast sandwich, and a coffee refill. (Coffee isn't part of the pacing/reward paradigm, if you were wondering. It's considered a reading day staple food, and therefore is available at all times. This is cup #2). Applicants, I apologize for any errant grease stains I may or may not get on your files.
After another couple hours, it's time for another break. On these frigid days, poor Murray doesn't get to go outside as much as he'd like (which, in a perfect world, would be always), but he still needs a stretch every now and then, and so do I. It's nice to take a breather, and having me energized and alert is to your benefit as an applicant.
Remember that cold I mentioned? I wasn't kidding. Hard not to feel on your toes after a few minutes in this kind of weather – it's a cold day out when even ice cream freezes.
Back at my reading station, I'm making progress. While I read about the experiences of Supreme Court clerks, gender-based violence researchers, and youth NGO founders, Murray is hard at work on his own project: sunbathing.
I find it's easy to lose track of time on reading days. I can get into a groove and not realize that several hours have passed. I don't really notice that my pile is dwindling, until it hits me that I'm on my last application of the day. Maybe it's yours?
I feel a nice sense of accomplishment, and in serious awe of our pool of candidates. Murray, on the other hand, is harder to impress. Looks like it's time to suit up for another jaunt into the frozen outdoors.


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I hope you reconsider and come back. With all my respects. ~Ali
That's what I was expecting and afraid of; patience doesn't run forever.
It won't be long before the other admins quit, too. ¬_¬ Meh. I still have deviantart to occupy me and maybe I'll end up spending more time drawing this way.
See ya around, I guess. Maybe not, though.
Granted, I can't read your mind (or anticipate how big a can of worms I'm opening right now), but for what it's worth, I don't think you should've quit adminning because of what you did (unless it's something personal, of course).
How are you good sir?
Howdy sir,
I'm doing pretty good. Got married in Sept of 07, moved down to California so my wife can go to med school, and am telecommuting fulltime from my home office here.
How is life with you, GUA, and so on?
lol, how so?. were you checking on your mods?
Thanks for the add.
I see now .. very cool!
Well nice to convo with you and thanks for the explanation of name color!!
why is your name in orange? lol!
hey .. we share the same birthday!
Aries rule!!!
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The developer of a financially troubled film studio in Elmwood pledged today to pay back the New Orleans Saints players and coaches for the money they are due from the project but said a deal still is not completed with potential investors that would make those repayments possible.
Wayne Read, chief executive of Louisiana Film Studios, said he spent the Saints' money on studio rent and development and hopes that talks with interested investors will result in an agreement soon in which new managers and owners will take over the studio.
"I hope to begin making payments to the players before the end of 2009," Read said. "Hopefully I will reach agreements with one of the potential funding groups shortly. Their investment will give me the funds needed to satisfy our debt and provide a firm foundation for the further development of the studio."
He did not identify the potential investors.
Read said he got help last year from former Saints long snapper Kevin Houser to promote the studio. Houser was a point man in getting 26 other current and former Saints players and coaches to give Read nearly $2 million, which was supposed to be repaid in the form of state tax credits by the end of March.
The Saints members are still waiting to get the credits or their money back. Houser, whose wife is a partner in a construction firm that also is seeking money owed by the studio, was released from the team last week.
Read has not qualified or sought final authorization for the tax credits, which are granted to film studio projects that meet the requirements of the state program. He said Friday that the money was spent to pay for an option to buy the property, which he still has not acquired, as well as other expenses for renting the studio, architectural planning and renovation.
When Houser had inquired about the players' money this spring, Read had told him that it was in an escrow account.
Local businessman John Georges, whose family trust is a part owner of the old Winn-Dixie warehouse facility that Read is leasing for the studio, said he tried to help resolve the problems among the various parties involved. But the ongoing legal dispute between Read and lawyers representing the Housers has made it difficult to intervene, Georges said.
The family trust does not wish to take an active role in the project, Georges said.
"However, there are many parties interested in taking Mr. Read's position if things don't work out," Georges said.


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Movable Type Fun DayJuly 25, 2003
It's Movable Type Fun Day!
First start with Paul's account of switching from .html file extensions to .php, and how gracefully MT handled the transition. Even existing off-site bookmarks don't break!
Then head over to Scott's place to read up on how he managed to wrangle Movable Type into producing human-friendly, meaningful URLs instead of the arbitrary sequential URLs that MT ships with. Fun!
Then take a look at the URL attached to this post (click the title), and rejoice for I too have switched to more meaningful URLs. Except… oh wait. Look at that. No I haven't.
The intent is there, but instead of something nice and tidy like http://www.mezzoblue.com/2003/07/25/movable_type_fun_day/ my server spits out a bunch of extra crud and delivers the far worse http://www.mezzoblue.com/cgi-bin/mt/mezzo/ (pause for breath) archives/2003/07/25/movable_type_fun_day/default.asp. Sigh. I know how to fix this: migrate to PHP. Guess what the chances are of that happening soon? It's back to the drawing board for me. Apologies to those who are reading my RSS feed, it'll get worse before it gets better.
The bright side though is that I finally put together a swanky 'recent comments' page so that I (and you) can keep track of who's saying what where on this site. It'll step out of beta as soon as I can figure out how to link it in on the right sidebar.
update: comments also available as a validating RSS feed!
further update: Damn it all anyway. Instead of break anyone's new bookmarks over the weekend, I went ahead and reverted to the old filename system, so the above is no longer relevant. I'll leave it up as an explanation of my file system, mainly for my own reference.
Reader Comments
If your host allows custom 404 pages and the Server.Transfer method, you can hack around that reasonably easily. It's slow, and it shows up as a load of 404s in your access logs, but it's the only workable solution for a lot of IIS hosting plans.
No such luck, Sean. My host is pretty particular about server-side access. I don't have custom 404s much to my chagrin.
I want to make the switch to Apache & PHP so I can start playing with those wonderful things. But it involves a lot of conversion at this point… Too much of a make-work project right now.
Dave, actually you can more your archives directory from your current /cgi-bin/mt/mezzo/archives to just /archives/ without having PHP installed.
Furthermore, you can use PHP without actually changing your file extensions from .html to .php. I use PHP includes with .html extensions and it works just fine.
Scott — I tried that when I initially set up this site. My host doesn't allow CGI scripts running in /cgi-bin/ to write data outside of the directory, so /archives/ just isn't possible given my current setup.
One day I'll move over to PHP, and all my problems will be solved.
…after re-writing my image gallery script, re-doing my directory structure, re-linking my includes, and making sure all my MT templates still function, that is.
Ah, gotcha. One more comment from Paul's site regarding the use of PHP with .html files, you'll have to add this line to httpd.conf or a local .htaccess file to get it to work:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html
Movable Type is an awesome tool…
I "dirify"-ed my archives just right now. Ok their were only 5 posts, but it is really cool.
can anybody point me to a good article on how to rewrite files with .htaccess?
A Users Guide to URL Rewriting with the Apache Webserver
Module mod_rewrite URL Rewriting Engine
A List Apart: URLs! URLs! URLs!
Search Engine Friendly URLs with mod_rewrite
res — yeah and no. Theoretically, I could start linking up each post as /cgi-bin/mt/mezzo/archives/<$MTEntryTitle$>.asp, which provides a bit more meaning than /same path/000197.asp; I went for the all-or-nothing approach though, and lost, when I got stuck with the big long path plus the extra path for the date (/2003/07/24/) plus the filename.
Ideally I'd like to see:
But I think the best I could possibly do, considering the wrangling I'd have to do inside MT and the aesthetics, is:
I just don't see that as being worth the effort, compared to:
Purely aesthetically, I find six-digit indentifiers more pleasing than titles with an arbitrary number of words and underscores. Underscores in URLs really bug me.
And honestly, how much usefulness does it add to blog entries to have that kind of info in the URL? It's not like anyone's going to be typing in the URL, because they'd have to type through /YYYY/MM/DD/ anyway. When people link to it, the text they link with is much MUCH more likely to be helpful (and paid attention to) than the entry's title. When people bookmark it, the entry title will appear in the browser's bookmark menu.
Perhaps it's not Zen, but practically speaking, numerical URLs win out in my opinion.
However, I don't use the arbitrary sequential IDs, either; I use a timestamp. My URLs are all /archives/YYYY/MM/DD/HHMMSS/. That keeps the URLs consistent if for any reason you have to export / reimport all your entries from / to MT. Otherwise the numbers will get totally screwed up.
Google weights keywords in the URL heavier, so I'd imagine that's one major benefit to using titles as filenames…
Dave, you tried the following in the weblog config->archiving->archive file templates? I know this is covered in the comments for the article to which you link above, but just in case:
For example, I used the following to generate the urls for my gallery pages (which are determined by an entry's category):
Just about all the pages in my photo section are generated with php, as they were with my last version. If you want your individual archives to have the entry's title with a php extension, try the following archive file template for your individual archives:
(I can't remember whether it's EntryTitle or ArchiveTitle, but one of them will work…in developing the new version of my site, I had titles in the urls, but found that I'm prone to long titles, and I'm not so enamored with very long URLs.)
Be sure to check the weblog config to make sure the url path to your archives is correct.
I'm probably totally misunderstanding your dilemma…?
damn. forgot to encode my tags.
The first one is: gallery_ <$MTArchiveCategory dirify="1"$>.php
the second: <$MTEntryTitle$>.php
Thanks a bunch for the reesources. I really appreciate your help.
Dave, just for future reference, Elizabeth Lane Lawley just went through this pain. Seems that with the help of Mark Pilgrim they have a solution but I believe it requires the Apache server with mod_rewrite as well. See: http://mamamusings.net/archives/2003/07/24/redirection_solution.php . I'm going to try this when I get time.


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A noticeable size difference proved to set up a �David versus Goliath� showdown in the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference game against the best team in the league (Southwest) and a Lejeune team trying to improve.
A noticeable size difference proved to set up a �David versus Goliath� showdown in the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference game against the best team in the league (Southwest) and a Lejeune team trying to improve.
The Stallions looked like a team that couldn�t be stopped Friday night in an 84-49 win over the Devilpups.
Southwest moves to 12-2 overall (4-0 CPC) while Lejeune, fell to 1-16, 0-4.
Earlier, the Lejeune girls� defeated Southwest 61-36.
�Even though we missed some shots, the big boys were able to go over top to get some rebounds and putbacks and that�s what made us successful tonight,� Southwest coach Tommy Barnes said. �We picked up defensively too and were able to force turnovers, which we were able to capitalize on.�
Southwest came out with a full-court press that startled the young Devilpups right out of the gate. Even when the Devilpups were able to break the press, they were met by two trees in the Stallions� Malique Judd and Corey Wohlever, who combined for twelve blocks.
Southwest led 22-12 after the first quarter.
Coach Barnes maintained a steady flow of changing up defenses in an effort to confuse Lejeune, and the Devilpups were never able to get into a rhythm.
�Overall it was just a solid performance by the whole team and we did some good things tonight,� Barnes added. �We are big, but we aren�t slow either and my main concern was defense and how to keep Lejeune�s offense down. They have been scoring high numbers and I�m pleasantly surprised at the outcome.�
The Stallions used a 12-4 run to start the third quarter. With 2:15 remaining in the third, Southwest pushed its lead to thirty points at 56-26 when Wohlever made a layup.
Southwest then came out in the fourth quarter with a 10-0 run and never looked back.
�At the end of the game we had a talk about what we can do to get better. We asked each player what they thought they could do to get better and how we could get better as a team,� Lejeune coach said Joey Malott said. �I always go back to the end of every game and see what I can do better, too. We have senior night coming up. So we are just going to have to stick with the basics and get ready for Dixon.�
Judd led the Stallions with 19 points while Wohlever added 17. Lejeune was led by Ryan Evans with 19 and Chuckie Murdock had 14.
Lejeune 61 Southwest 36
Lejeune only allowed four fourth-quarter points to pull away from Southwest and remain undefeated.
Lejeune is now 14-0 (4-0 CPC) while Southwest fell to 5-11, 2-2.
The Devilpups finished the first quarter only up by 5, but turned their defense up and walked into the locker room at halftime with a 29-13 cushion.
Chatori Major led the Devilpups with 21 points to lead all scorers.
�After that third quarter, I told my team that all five of us on the floor has to hit the boards hard if we were going to win this,� Lejeune coach Kevin Popadines said. �We knew they were going to put pressure on us and I�m proud of the girls because we were able to over come that.�
Southwest coach Bev Marley was unavailable for comment.
Southwest 6 7 19 4 � 36
Lejeune 11 18 16 16 � 61
Dugan 12, Marley 10, Burney 7, Botzenhart 2. Totals� 13 7-14 36.
Major 21, Wallace 14, Overton 12, Tatum 8, Wright 2, Lee 2, Wallace 2. Totals� 25 7-12 61.
3-Point Goals� SW 3 (Marley 2). L 4 (Major 3). Rebounds� SW xx (Leaders xx). L 23 (Tatum 10). RECORDS� SW: 5-11, 2-2, at Pamlico on Friday. L: 14-0, 4-0, hosts Dixon on Friday.
Southwest 22 20 20 22 � 84
Lejeune 12 10 6 21 � 49
Judd 19, Wohleves 17, Je Williams, Jo Williams, Jordan 8, Taylor 7. Totals� 35 14-20 84.
Evans 19, Murdock 15, Richardson 6, Stone 6. Totals� 15 11-17 49.
3-Point Goals� SW 0 . L 6 (Evans 3, Murdock 3). Rebounds� SW xx (Leaders xx). L xx (Leaders xx). RECORDS� SW: 12-2, 4-0, at Pamlico on Friday. L: 1-16, 0-4, hosts Dixon on Friday.


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The publisher and developer announced the game's release date today and added to the title's growing track list. Def Jam Rapstar will drop for the PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, and Xbox 360 on October 5.
"Hip-hop is a global phenomenon that has permeated pop culture to become the most important youth movement of our generation," Kevin Liles, Def Jam's president and CEO, said in a statement. "We are proud to deliver the first authentic hip-hop music experience to gamers that will undoubtedly change the way music games are played."
Previously, Konami announced the first tracks slated to appear in the game:
50 Cent - "I Get Money"Today, the publisher added six new tracks to that list:
Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg - "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang"
Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx - "Gold Digger"
Lil' Wayne - "A Milli"
Notorius B.I.G. - "Juicy"
Slick Rick - "Children's Story"
T.I. featuring Rihanna - "Live Your Life"
Wu Tang Clan - "C.R.E.A.M."
Young Jeezy featuring Kanye West - "Put On"
Biz Markie - "Just A Friend"In addition, Konami announced that DJ Premier and Just Blaze have agreed to provide exclusive new instrumental beats for the game's Freestyle Mode, which allows players to record their own rhymes and post those tracks (optional video included) to Def Jam Rapstar's community web site.
Drake - "Best I Ever Had"
Outkast - "So Fresh, So Clean"
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"
Salt-N-Pepa - "Push It"
Tinchy Stryder feat. N-Dubz - "Number 1" *UK exclusive
The game is slated to hit Europe on November 5.
Sharkey says: The track list thus far is fantastic, but I still think it's too late for a hip-hop music game. Two or three years ago, this game would have exploded, along with all the other titles in the music-game genre. Now? Not so sure. The Freestyle Mode is a big addition though, and that itself will likely draw in many a wannabe rapper.


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:meta rule (a hand-written simplifier)
Major Section: RULE-CLASSES
See rule-classes for a general discussion of rule classes and
how they are used to build rules from formulas. Meta rules extend
the ACL2 simplifier with hand-written code to transform certain
terms to equivalent ones. To add a meta rule, the
formula must establish that the hand-written ``metafunction''
preserves the meaning of the transformed term.
corollary formulas from which
:meta rules might be
built are:
Examples: (equal (evl x a) ; Modify the rewriter to use fn to (evl (fn x) a)) ; transform terms. The :trigger-fns ; of the :meta rule-class specify ; the top-most function symbols of ; those x that are candidates for ; this transformation.A non-
(implies (and (pseudo-termp x) ; As above, but this illustrates (alistp a)) ; that without loss of generality we (equal (evl x a) ; may restrict x to be shaped like a (evl (fn x) a))) ; term and a to be an alist.
(implies (and (pseudo-termp x) ; As above (with or without the (alistp a) ; hypotheses on x and a) with the (evl (hyp-fn x) a)) ; additional restriction that the (equal (evl x a) ; meaning of (hyp-fn x) is true in (evl (fn x) a))) ; the current context. That is, the ; applicability of the transforma- ; tion may be dependent upon some ; computed hypotheses.
nil list of function symbols must be supplied as the value
of the
:trigger-fns field in a
:meta rule class object.
General Forms: (implies (and (pseudo-termp x) ; this hyp is optional (alistp a) ; this hyp is optional (ev (hyp-fn x ...) a)) ; this hyp is optional (equiv (ev x a) (ev (fn x ...) a)))where
equiv is a known equivalence relation,
x and
a are distinct variable names, and
ev is an evaluator
function (see below), and
fn is a function symbol, as is
hyp-fn when provided. The arguments to
fn and
should be identical. In the most common case, both take a single
x, which denotes the term to be simplified. If
hyp-fn are guarded, their guards should be
(implied by)
pseudo-termp. See pseudo-termp. We say the
theorem above is a ``metatheorem'' or ``metalemma'' and
fn is a
``metafunction'', and
hyp-fn is a ``hypothesis metafunction''.
If ``
...'' is empty, i.e., the metafunctions take just one argument,
we say they are ``vanilla flavored.'' If ``
...'' is non-empty,
we say the metafunctions are ``extended.'' Extended
metafunctions can access
state and context sensitive information
to compute their results, within certain limits. We discuss vanilla
metafunctions here and recommend a thorough understanding of them
before proceeding (at which time
see extended-metafunctions).
We defer discussion of the case in which there is a hypothesis metafunction and for now address the case in which the other two hypotheses are present.
In the discussion below, we refer to the argument,
x, of
hyp-fn as a ``term.'' When these metafunctions are executed
by the simplifier, they will be applied to (the quotations of)
terms. But during the proof of the metatheorem itself,
x may not
be the quotation of a term. If the
pseudo-termp hypothesis is
x may be any object. Even with the
x may merely ``look like a term'' but use
non-function symbols or function symbols of incorrect arity. In any
case, the metatheorem is stronger than necessary to allow us to
apply the metafunctions to terms, as we do in the discussion below.
We return later to the question of proving the metatheorem.
Suppose the general form of the metatheorem above is proved with the
pseudo-termp and
alistp hypotheses. Then when the simplifier
encounters a term,
(h t1 ... tn), that begins with a function
h, listed in
:trigger-fns, it applies the
fn, to the quotation of the term, i.e., it
(fn '(h t1 ... tn)) to obtain some result, which can be
written as
'val. If
'val is different from
'(h t1 ... tn)
val is a term, then
(h t1 ... tn) is replaced by
which is then passed along for further rewriting. Because the
metatheorem establishes the correctness of
fn for all terms (even
non-terms!), there is no restriction on which function symbols are
listed in the
:trigger-fns. Generally, of course, they should be
the symbols that head up the terms simplified by the metafunction
fn. See term-table for how one obtains some assistance
towards guaranteeing that
val is indeed a term.
The ``evaluator'' function,
ev, is a function that can evaluate a
certain class of expressions, namely, all of those composed of
variables, constants, and applications of a fixed, finite set of
function symbols,
g1, ...,
gk. Generally speaking, the set of
function symbols handled by
ev is chosen to be exactly the
function symbols recognized and manipulated by the metafunctions
being introduced. For example, if
fn manipulates expressions in
equal and
binary-append occur as function
symbols, then
ev is generally specified to handle
equal and
binary-append. The actual requirements on
ev become clear
when the metatheorem is proved. The standard way to introduce an
evaluator is to use the ACL2 macro
defevaluator, though this is
not strictly necessary. See defevaluator for details.
Why are we justified in using metafunctions this way? Suppose
(fn 'term1) is
'term2. What justifies replacing
term1 by
term2? The first step is to assert that
term1 is
(ev 'term1 a), where
a is an alist that maps
'var to
var, for each variable
var in
term1. This step is
incorrect, because
'term1 may contain function symbols other than
the ones,
g1, ...,
gk, that
ev knows how to handle. But we
can grow
ev to a ``larger'' evaluator,
ev*, an evaluator for
all of the symbols that occur in
term1 or
term2. We can prove
ev* satisfies the constraints on
ev. Hence, the
metatheorem holds for
ev* in place of
ev, by functional
instantiation. We can then carry out the proof of the
equivalence of
term1 and
term2 as follows: Fix
a to be
an alist that maps the quotations of the variables of
term1 and
term2 to themselves. Then,
term1 = (ev* 'term1 a) ; (1) by construction of ev* and a = (ev* (fn 'term1) a) ; (2) by the metatheorem for ev* = (ev* 'term2 a) ; (3) by evaluation of fn = term2 ; (4) by construction of ev* and aNote that in line (2) above, where we appeal to the (functional instantiation of the) metatheorem, we can relieve its (optional)
pseudo-termp and
alistp hypotheses by appealing to the facts
term1 is a term and
a is an alist by construction.
Finally, we turn to the second case, in which there is a hypothesis
metafunction. In that case, consider as before what happens when
the simplifier encounters a term,
(h t1 ... tn), where
h is
listed in
:trigger-fns. This time, after it applies
fn to
'(h t1 ... tn) to obtain the quotation of some new term,
it then applies the hypothesis metafunction,
hyp-fn. That is, it
(hyp-fn '(h t1 ... tn)) to obtain some result, which
can be written as
'hyp-val. If
hyp-val is not in fact a term,
the metafunction is not used. Provided
hyp-val is a term, the
simplifier attempts to establish (by conventional backchaining) that
this term is non-
nil in the current context. If this attempt
fails, then the meta rule is not applied. Otherwise,
(h t1...tn)
is replaced by
val as in the previous case (where there was no
hypothesis metafunction).
Why is it justified to make this extension to the case of hypothesis metafunctions? First, note that the rule
(implies (and (pseudo-termp x) (alistp a) (ev (hyp-fn x) a)) (equal (ev x a) (ev (fn x) a)))is logically equivalent to the rule
(implies (and (pseudo-termp x) (alistp a)) (equal (ev x a) (ev (new-fn x) a)))where
(new-fn x) is defined to be
(list 'if (hyp-fn x) (fn x) x). (If we're careful, we realize
that this argument depends on making an extension of
ev to an
ev* that handles
if and the functions manipulated by
hyp-fn.) If we write
'term for the quotation of the present
term, and if
(hyp-fn 'term) and
(fn 'term) are both terms, say
hyp1 and
term1, then by the previous argument we know it is
sound to rewrite term to
(if hyp1 term1 term). But since we have
established in the current context that
hyp1 is non-
nil, we
may simplify
(if hyp1 term1 term) to
term1, as desired.
We now discuss the role of the
pseudo-termp hypothesis.
(Pseudo-termp x) checks that
x has the shape of a term.
Roughly speaking, it ensures that
x is a symbol, a quoted
constant, or a true list consisting of a
lambda expression or
symbol followed by some pseudo-terms. Among the properties of terms
not checked by
pseudo-termp are that variable symbols never begin
with ampersand,
lambda expressions are closed, and function
symbols are applied to the correct number of arguments.
See pseudo-termp.
There are two possible roles for
pseudo-termp in the development
of a metatheorem: it may be used as the guard of the
metafunction and/or hypothesis metafunction and it may be used as a
hypothesis of the metatheorem. Generally speaking, the
pseudo-termp hypothesis is included in a metatheorem only if it
makes it easier to prove. The choice is yours. (An extreme example
of this is when the metatheorem is invalid without the hypothesis!)
We therefore address ourselves the question: should a metafunction
have a
pseudo-termp guard? A
pseudo-termp guard for
a metafunction, in connection with other considerations described
below, improves the efficiency with which the metafunction is used
by the simplifier.
To make a metafunction maximally efficient you should (a) provide it
with a
pseudo-termp guard and exploit the guard when
possible in coding the body of the function
(see guards-and-evaluation, especially the section on
efficiency issues), (b) verify the guards of the metafunction
(see verify-guards), and (c) compile the metafunction
(see comp). When these three steps have been taken the simplifier
can evaluate
(fn 'term1) by running the compiled ``primary code''
(see guards-and-evaluation) for
fn directly in Common Lisp.
Before discussing efficiency issues further, let us review for a
moment the general case in which we wish to evaluate
(fn `obj)
for some
logic function. We must first ask whether the
guards of
fn have been verified. If not, we must evaluate
fn by executing its logic definition. This effectively checks
the guards of every subroutine and so can be slow. If, on the
other hand, the guards of
fn have been verified, then we can
run the primary code for
fn, provided
'obj satisfies the
guard of
fn. So we must next evaluate the guard of
fn on
'obj. If the guard is met, then we run the primary
code for
fn, otherwise we run the logic code.
Now in the case of a metafunction for which the three steps above
have been followed, we know the guard is (implied by)
pseudo-termp and that it has been verified. Furthermore, we know
without checking that the guard is met (because
term1 is a
term and hence
'term1 is a
pseudo-termp). Hence, we can use
the compiled primary code directly.
We strongly recommend that you compile your metafunctions, as well
as all their subroutines. Guard verification is also recommended.


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