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FARMINGTON — For the United States to remain competitive in the coming decades, the students of today will have to be the scientists, inventors and engineers of tomorrow. Farmington High School teacher Stephen Pascucci is playing an important role, at local level, in making this happen.
Pascucci, now in his fifth year teaching science at FHS, has an enthusiasm for his field that is infectious, as measured by the growing participation of Farmington students in both the local science fair and the New Hampshire Science and Engineering Expo, which was held in Concord on March 14.
"We have five teams from the school going this year," said Pascucci, speaking the day before the event. Two years ago only one Farmington team took part, and last year, there were two teams.
This year, in the FHS gymnasium, there were 160 projects on display, and not a single one involved volcanoes or planetary systems. Most involved fieldwork and experimentation, resulting in charts and leading to conclusions.
The team comprising Rachel Landry and Brittany Murphy, for instance, wished to find which of several well-known energy drinks was most effective, and so they recruited four volunteers to swig a potion on consecutive days and then run a timed mile. After their charts were filled in and the numbers totted up, they were able to conclude that 5-Hour Energy produced the fastest times for the runners.
"They are a couple of smart kids," said Pascucci.
Three other students, Zack Maynard, Kevin Radcliffe and Jared Gorton, archers all, did experiments to find out which homemade (and free) materials produced the most satisfactory target for arrows. They constructed wooden boxes tightly packed with cardboard, Styrofoam and sheets of paper, and fired arrows into them using bows of varying poundage and shooting from several distances. Packed paper proved quite feasible as a target, but Styrofoam mashed up too easily.
"This project is Concord-worthy," said Pascucci, looking over the experiment, and the way in which it was presented.
One of the five teams that did travel to Concord consisted of a trio of seniors displaying their project: Reinventing the Wheel. The blurb on a display sheet read "Purpose: To examplify the use of spheres as an alternative to the common cylindrical tire."
Tamlin Soucy, Greg Brannan and Lars Bolduc, between them, have constructed a miniature vehicle, the golf ball wheels of which are rotated by means of electrically powered rubber tracks. On a larger scale, they demonstrate, by way of a belt-driven basketball, the concept of forward movement that can rapidly be converted to sideways motion for such useful tricks as parking a car in a tight space. Soucy is going on to college to study business, Brannan to study mechanical engineering and Bolduc to study electrical engineering.
Last Thursday evening, Pascucci shared happy news from the state expo.
"It was a great day," he said. "Every group gets interviewed by a judge four times, and then the challenge groups — the egg drop and the mousetrap cars — have the competition part of the evaluation.
"Our engineering group, Greg, Lars and Tamlin, with An Alternative to Tires, tied with two other groups for first place. Our egg drop teams beat out two other teams to take first place — Mike Cook and Zach Lessard — and second place— Bridgett Bonar. Our mousetrap teams were the only contestants with Garrett Wedge and Shane Hill taking first place and second place going to Aaron Johnson and Matt Bowden."
"Everyone came home with hardware! It was a very nice time out, indeed!" said a delighted Pascucci.


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Does Citadel have a /usr/sbin/sendmail replacement, so that I can send mail out from shell scripts?
Yes.(Unsure which of the folloing you're running? seeHowto determine between the both)
- EasyInstall: All you really need to do is replace your existing
/usr/sbin/sendmailwith a symbolic link to
/usr/local/citadel/citmail. see detailed description below.
- Debs: this will replace your existing MTA (exim, postfix… ) with citadel, Run
apt-get install citadel-mta
and your'e done.
Easy Install
Using 'alternatives'
If you are using Linux and have support for
/etc/alternatives you may wish to install
/usr/local/citadel/citmail as a "sendmail alternative". Here is an example of how to do this:
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/sbin/sendmail mta /usr/local/citadel/citmail 30 \ --slave /usr/lib/sendmail mta-sendmail /usr/local/citadel/citmail /usr/sbin/alternatives --config mta
(and select Citadel from the menu)
do it on any system
This way is the reliable way to do it everywhere:
cd /usr/local/citadel cd /usr/sbin mv sendmail sendmail.OLD ln -s /usr/local/citadel/citmail ./sendmail
That's all there is to it! All mail sent by shell scripts will now be deposited into the Citadel mail spool and delivered as usual.
Sample shellscript using citmail
Just put in the right path and recipient, and this shellscript will create a valid mail for you:
#!/bin/bash CITMAIL=/usr/sbin/citmail email@example.com cat <<EOF | $CITMAIL -t ${RECIPIENT} From: email@example.com To: ${RECIPIENT} Subject: testmail some test text. EOF
Using MSMTP
There also is a more versatile 3rd party tool around with more features etc.; its MSMTP. Here's a sample configuration file how to use it with citadel:
account default host yourcitadel.org auto_from on maildomain email@example.com domain yourcitadel.org auth plain user sender password OpenSesame
In doubt, you can also make it use TLS.
A very generic name, but possibly a viable alternative for MSMTP also able to 'compose' messages out of parts: Email; There also is a nice LXR article on using Email.
Generating Testmessages
For testing your local citadel or other mailservers in general you can use NetCat in this tiny shellscript to send you a faximile of an email you previously saved from Thunderbird using CTRL + u:
#!/bin/bash ( echo ehlo yourcitadel.org sleep 1 echo MAIL FROM: email@example.com sleep 1 echo RCPT TO: email@example.com sleep 1 echo DATA sleep 1 cat $1 sleep 1 echo . sleep 1 echo quit ) |nc 127.0.0.1 25
edit to your needs, change yourcitadel.org to your hostname and email@example.com to the recipient that should receive the testmessage.
Call it like that:
./send_test_mail.sh mailtemplate_from_thunderbird.txt
You now will find that mail in the inbox of firstname.lastname@example.com

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The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced today that Valvoline has signed on to become a National Partner with NTRA Advantage, the NTRA's group purchasing program. As part of the deal, Valvoline—a brand of Ashland Consumer Markets which is a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH)—will offer discounts in 2013 on a wide array of products and services to NTRA-member tracks, farms, organizations and individual members in the U.S. and Canada.
"With its longstanding reputation as a leader in oil and lubricants, Valvoline is a perfect fit for our members who rely on NTRA Advantage to deliver significant discounts on quality products for their farm and track operations," said Bryan Pettigrew, Senior Vice President of NTRA Advantage. "Whether they are interested in bulk purchases or individual oil changes, NTRA members will have special access to savings next year from a highly respected company committed to the success of the horse industry."
"Valvoline is very excited to become a national partner with NTRA," said John Noal, Vice President of Commercial & Industrial, Ashland Consumer Markets. "We look forward to sharing Valvoline's more than 140 years of helping vehicle owners achieve maximum performance and prolonged engine life with motor oils specifically designed to meet the needs of different engine types and driving conditions. Farm vehicles and equipment engines oftentimes handle extreme temperatures and intense operation length which require different motor oil, and we're excited to share our Valvoline family of products with NTRA members."
NTRA members that can realize savings through NTRA Advantage include racetracks, owners, breeders and trainers. Equine organizations utilizing the Advantage program extend well beyond the realm of Thoroughbred racing. These include the American Quarter Horse Association, the U.S. Equestrian Federation, the U.S. Trotting Association, Harness Tracks of America and the U.S. Polo Association.
NTRA Advantage delivers substantial cost savings—through local dealers—on products and services from such nationally known vendors as Valvoline, John Deere, UPS, Sherwin-Williams, OfficeMax and Hagyard Pharmacy.
Earlier, this year, the NTRA Advantage program topped the $100 million mark in savings to the horse industry since the inception of the NTRA's group purchasing arm in 2002. In all, NTRA Advantage sales of goods and services since 2002 exceed $600 million
Valvoline, a brand of Ashland Consumer Markets which is a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), has been serving American motorists longer than any other motor oil. In addition to commercial and industrial lubricants, the Valvoline family of products includes Eagle One™ appearance products, Car Brite™ car restoration products, Zerex™ antifreeze, SynPower™ performance products, MaxLife products created for higher-mileage engines, and NextGen motor oil created with 50 percent recycled, re-refined oil. With more than 860 locations throughout the United States, Valvoline Instant Oil Change™ is a leader in serving the quick lube market.
The NTRA is a broad-based coalition of horse racing interests consisting of leading Thoroughbred racetracks, owners, breeders, trainers, horseplayers and affiliated horse racing associations, charged with increasing the popularity of horse racing and improving economic conditions for industry participants. The NTRA has offices in Lexington, Ky., and New York City. NTRA press releases appear on the NTRA web site, NTRA.com.


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It's not that Erlangen, which together with Nuremberg and Fürth forms a kind of Franconian triumvirate, makes any claims of being in the same league as the big boys when it comes to art, culture and history. But the town's design is of special interest in terms of urban planning and the influx of Huguenot settlers centuries ago has left a lasting legacy.
Multiculturalism in days gone by: Erlangen and the Huguenots
A brief historical note: after the Thirty Years' War Erlangen was virtually uninhabited. This only changed in 1685, when King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes which had granted freedom of religion to the Calvinist Huguenots. That caused a wave of Huguenot refugees which Margrave Christian Ernst turned to his advantage. He granted the Huguenots leave to stay in Erlangen in the hope of boosting the local economy. The first of several waves of Huguenots arrived in Erlangen on 17 May 1686. Mai 1686, mehrere Wellen folgten. It quickly became clear that the town was too small for all of them and that a new settlement was required. The location chosen was an area to the south of the original town. Designed by Johann Moritz Richter to be the ideal baroque town, it would offer plenty of light and space for 7,500 families, as well as factories, a church and two large squares. Everything was at right angles and in strict symmetry to the main street.
Der Bau begann am 14. Construction began on 14 July 1686 with the Huguenot church, still one of the town's leading attractions. In 1700 a decision was made to add a palace with a large park for the Margrave. When a fire destroyed almost all of the original town in 1706, this presented the perfect opportunity to extend the baroque designs of the 'new town' to the rest of Erlangen, creating an early masterpiece of integrated urban planning.
Of baroque beauties and beautiful surprises.
There is much more to Erlangen's baroque heritage, however, such as the Margravial Theatre dating from 1718, the oldest baroque theatre still in use in southern Germany. Or the Kunstpalais art collection, on display in baroque Stutterheim Palace on the market square. Erlangen's other art museum is housed at Loewenich Palais, right next to the newly built Erlangen Arcaden shopping centre. The municipal museum in the Altstädter Rathaus on Martin Luther square is in itself worth a visit to the town, not least for its collections from pre- and early history and antiquity. Looking at it like that, Erlangen has a surprising amount to offer – including plenty of surprises. And we haven't even mentioned the film festivals, the dance events, the comics festival, the poetry festival and many more besides.
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Drawing Louisiana's New Map: Addressing Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana (2006)Ocean Studies Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
During the past 50 years, coastal Louisiana has suffered catastrophic land loss due to both natural and human causes, and this loss has increased storm vulnerability and amplified risks to lives, property, and economies--a fact underscored by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This report reviews a restoration plan proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Louisiana, finding that, although the individual projects in the study are scientifically sound, there should be more larger-scale projects that provide a comprehensive approach to addressing land loss over such a large area. The report states that restoration efforts should be part of a comprehensive effort to rebuild New Orleans and coastal Louisiana in response to the recent hurricanes. It also recommends that restoration should be guided by a detailed map of the expected future landscape of coastal Louisiana that is developed from agreed upon goals for the region and the nation.
Key Messages
- A robust regional sediment budget to use deterministic models effectively.
- At foreseeable rates of land loss, the level of effort described by the LCA Study will likely decrease land loss only in areas adjacent to the specific proposed projects.
- Coastal Louisiana lies at the nexus between the Gulf of Mexico and the nation's largest watershed (the Mississippi River Basin). The current loss of lands and other environmental problems on and along the delta have many causes, but several of them are the result of the current management of the Mississippi River Basin.
- Effective management of the efforts proposed in the LCA Study will be a critical factor leading to the overall success of the restoration effort in Louisiana.
- Efforts to restore significant portions of coastal Louisiana would entail changing the current geographic distribution of land, water, and wetland.
- Full restoration of past Louisiana wetland cover and function will not be possible.
- Future efforts must focus more realistically on the location patterns of human settlements relative to project locations, including the option of infrastructure depreciation and abandonment.
- In addition to lacking fundamental transparency, the project selection process as documented in the LCA Study creates a somewhat inaccurate appearance of legitimacy and rigor. There is insufficient attention to the large knowledge gaps surrounding project benefits measurement, including the somewhat arbitrary weighting of various ecological and physical endpoints of projects.
- Keeping pace with the relative subsidence rate over the entire delta would require the delivery of sediment-laden waters over long distances, would be extremely costly, and would have an adverse impact on a significant subset of stakeholders.
- Most of the individual projects proposed in the LCA Study are based on commonly accepted, sound scientific and engineering analyses. However, it is not clear that, in the aggregate, if these projects represent a scientifically sound strategy for addressing coastal erosion at the scale of the affected area.
- One way to deal efficiently with the change is through comprehensive land-use planning that is coordinated with the planned restoration projects.
- Since there is a finite availability of water flow and sediment and most of the restoration activities will take decades to provide maximum results, care should be taken to ensure that implementation of an individual project will not preclude other strategies or elements in the future.
- Stakeholders' near- and long-term responses to gauge their acceptance of the restoration activities.
- The LCA Study presents sufficient information about the importance of some components of the natural and built environment in coastal Louisiana (e.g., system of deep water ports, oil and gas receiving and transmission facilities, complex and extensive urban landscape, robust commercial fishery) to suggest that substantial economic interests are at stake in coastal Louisiana and that these interests have national significance.
- The LCA Study proposes the development of process-based models for prediction of coastal response as a central feature of current and future restoration efforts. Modeling will be a key component of the design, operation, and maintenance of the restoration and management of coastal Louisiana.
- The adaptive management program will play a major role in collecting and synthesizing data and charting new directions as appropriate.
- The causes of loss and changes in the rate of loss to determine the long-term prospects of maintaining the coastal Louisiana ecosystem and the activities it supports.
- The economic and societal toll of land loss to frame restoration of coastal Louisiana in terms of national relevance.
- The geographic variability in the relative role played by natural and anthropogenic causes of land loss to more effectively target the appropriate solutions.
- The limited understanding of the feasibility of engineered methods of sediment delivery over long distances (such as those employed by the dredging industry) to evaluate the cost and feasibility of projects that do not rely on natural processes to distribute sediment.
- The natural and anthropogenic processes contributing to net land loss in coastal Louisiana are significant and pervasive, and they have been operating for decades. Achieving no net loss is not a feasible objective because the social, political, and economic impediments are extensive; the sediment supply is limited; and the affected area is large.
- The relationship between bedload, suspended, and washload transport to understand the factors affecting the vertical sediment concentration profile.
- The role of growth fault reactivation in land loss to interpret past land loss patterns, to predict future land loss rates and locations, and to design strategies for land creation on the delta.


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IBM high-end disk outsold HDS and HP combined
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This week, Hitachi Ltd. announced their next generation disk storage virtualization array, the Virtual Storage Platform, following on the success of its USP V line. It didn't take long for fellow blogger Chuck Hollis (EMC) to comment on this in his blog post [Hitachi's New VSP: Separating The Wheat From The Chaff]. Here are some excerpts:
Chuck implies that neither Hewlett-Packard (HP) nor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) as vendors provide any value-add from the box manufactured by Hitachi Ltd. so combines them into a single category. I suspect the HP and HDS folks might disagree with that opinion.
When I reminded Chuck that IBM was also a major player in the high-end disk space, his response included the following gem:
"Many of us in the storage industry believe that IBM currently does not field a competitive high-end storage platform. IDC market share numbers bear out this assertion, as you probably know."
While Chuck is certainly entitled to his own beliefs and opinions, believing the world is flat does not make it so. Certainly, I doubt IDC or any other market research firm has put out a survey asking "Do you think IBM offers a competitive high-end disk storage platform?" Of course, if Chuck is basing his opinion on anecdotal conversations with existing EMC customers, I can certainly see how he might have formed this misperception. However, IDC market share numbers don't support Chuck's assertion at all.
There is no industry-standard definition of what is a "high-end" or "enterprise-class" disk system. Some define high-end as having the option for mainframe attachment via ESCON and/or FICON protocol. Others might focus on features, functionality, scalability and high 99.999+ percent availability. Others insist high-end requires block-oriented protocols like FC and iSCSI, rather than file-based protocols like NAS and CIFS.
For the most demanding mission-critical mix of random and sequential workloads, IBM offers the [IBM System Storage DS8000 series] high-end disk system which connects to mainframes and distributed servers, via FCP and FICON attachment, and supports a variety of drive types and RAID levels. The features that HP and HDS are touting today for the VSP are already available on the IBM DS8000, including sub-LUN automatic tiering between Solid-State drives and spinning disk, called [Easy Tier], thin provisioning, wide striping, point-in-time copies, and long distance synchronous and asynchronous replication.
There are lots of analysts that track market share for the IT storage industry, but since Chuck mentions [IDC] specifically, I reviewed the most recent IDC data, published a few weeks ago in their "IDC Worldwide Quarter Disk Storage Tracker" for 2Q 2010, representing April 1 to June 30, 2010 sales. Just in case any of the rankings have changed over time, I also looked at the previous four quarters: 2Q 2009, 3Q 2009, 4Q 2009 and 1Q 2010.
(Note: IDC considers its analysis proprietary, out of respect for their business model I will not publish any of the actual facts and figures they have collected. If you would like to get any of the IDC data to form your own opinion, contact them directly.)
In the case of IDC, they divide the disk systems into three storage classes: entry-level, midrange and high-end. Their definition of "high-end" is external RAID-protected disk storage that sells for $250,000 USD or more, representing roughly 25 to 30 percent of the external disk storage market overall. Here are IDC's rankings of the four major players for high-end disk systems:
By either measure of market share, units (disk systems) or revenue (US dollars), IDC reports that IBM high-end disk outsold both HDS and HP combined. This has been true for the past five quarters. If a smaller start-up vendor has single digit percent market share, I could accept it being counted as part of Chuck's "occasional sideshow from other vendors trying to claim relevance", but IBM high-end disk has consistently had 20 to 30 percent market share over the past five quarters!
Not all of these high-end disk systems are connected to mainframes. According to IDC data, only about 15 to 25 percent of these boxes are counted under their "Mainframe" topology.
Chuck further writes:
"It's reasonable to expect IBM to sell a respectable amount of storage with their mainframes using a protocol of their own design -- although IBM's two competitors in this rather proprietary space (notably EMC and Hitachi) sell more together than does IBM."
The IDC data doesn't support that claim either, Chuck. By either measure of market share, units (disk systems) or revenue (US dollars), IDC reports that IBM disk for mainframes outsold all other vendors (including EMC, HDS, and HP) combined. And again, this has been true for the past five quarters. Here is the IDC ranking for mainframe disk storage:
IBM has over 50 percent market share in this case, primarily because IBM System Storage DS8000 is the industry leader in mainframe-related features and functions, and offers synergy with the rest of the z/Architecture stack.
So Chuck, I am not picking a fight with you or asking you to retract or correct your blog post. Your main theme, that the new VSP presents serious competition to EMC's VMAX high-end disk arrays, is certainly something I can agree with. Congratulations to HDS and HP for putting forth what looks like a viable alternative to EMC's VMAX.
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IBM Achieves Highest Growth Among Top Three Storage Vendors
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The marketshare data for external disk systems has been released by IDC for 4Q09. Overall, the market dropped 0.7 percent, comparing 4Q09 versus 4Q08. While EMC was quick to remind everyone that they were able to [maintain their #1 position] in the storage subset of "external disk systems", with the same 23.7 percent marketshare they had back in 4Q08 and revenues that were essentially flat, the real story concerns the shifts in the marketplace for the other major players. IBM grew revenue 9 percent, putting it nearly 5 points of marketshare ahead of HP. HP revenues dropped 7 percent, moving it further behind. Not mentioned in the [IBM Press Release] were NetApp and Dell, neck and neck for fourth place, with NetApp gaining 16.8 percent in revenues, while Dell dropped 13.5 percent. Both NetApp and Dell now have about 8 percent marketshare each. These top five storage vendors represent nearly 70 percent of the marketshare.
Given that HP is IBM's number one competitor, not just in storage but all things IT, this was a major win. Bob Evans from InformationWeek interviews my fifth-line manager, IBM executive Rod Adkins [IBM Claims Hardware Supremacy] where he shares his views and opinions about HP, Oracle-Sun, Cisco and Dell. I'll add my two cents on what's going on:
To learn more about IBM results 4Q09 and full-year 2009, see [Quarterly Earnings].
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Actor Greg Kinnear arrives at the premiere of "Little Miss Sunshine" at the Eccles Theatre during the 2006 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2006 in Park City, Utah.
An Oscar nominee for the film "As Good As It Gets," who has appeared in such films as "Little Miss Sunshine," "Auto Focus" and "Green Zone," Kinnear now stars in the TV series "Rake" and in the film "Heaven Is for Real."
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan
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Kinnear stars in the new movie "Heaven Is for Real," based on the bestselling account of Todd Burpo, a pastor whose young boy (Connor Corum) claims to have seen visions of the afterlife.
"The title is not ambiguous," Kinnear told CBS News correspondent Mo Rocca. "So how do you tell that story without it feeling like a church sermon for two hours?"
For Kinnear, a family man with a wife and three children, part of how he accepted the film was the father-son connection.
"I probably come out somewhere where Todd at the end of the movie says, 'I believe he saw something.' And you know, I think that's okay for me.
"I have three young daughters, and they have fertile imaginations. But at the same time, some of the most honest observations I've ever received is from my kids. So I think Todd's journey of trying to discern what it was he was hearing was part of what made it interesting."
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Kinnear was asked to an audition at Jack Nicholson's house for "As Good As It Gets," and then, he told Mo Rocca, "He asked me afterwards if I wanted to stick around and have some spaghetti and meatballs. So I figured it had gone okay, and either way I was going to get a nice meal out of it. And a couple of days later I found out I got the role."
His performance in "As Good As It Gets" earned Kinnear an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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In the remake of "The Bad News Bears," Greg Kinnear played the coach of the opposing team who was sure - not without justification - that the Bears would never amount to anything.
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Actor Greg Kinnear, an avid golfer, lines up his putt on the St. Andrews Old Course, in St Andrews, Scotland, on the second day of the Alfred Dunhill Links championship, October 2, 2009.
"I've played in hundred and hundreds of Pro-Am golf tournaments," he told Mo Rocca, "and I think you'll find this an interesting statistic: I've won zero times!"
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Thanks Chris for allowing me to join in on Sewing 101! I'm Becky from Liberate Creativity, a site that features crafters, artists and designers project tutorials and Question &; Answer sessions and encourages everyone to unleash their creativity within. It's neat to be able to turn the tables and be able to offer a tutorial with all of you today!
I'm tall. My mom and sisters are not. They have always had issues with their pants being too long. Hemming khakis and dress pants to look good isn't too terribly tricky, but when it comes to jeans - forget it! It's hard to get the jeans to look good and keep that stylish hem at the bottom. Well have no fear, I have the solution for you! For tall people, this is a great solution to make jeans into capris as well!
I wish I could remember where in the world I learned this technique so I could give due credit, but unfortunately I can't. My apologies.
Step 1: Find your jeans. For this tutorial I used a khaki type jean material, and truth be told the end result doesn't look as stellar as it does on regular denim - the reason being is that demin has the trademark hem line that you usually lose in hemming - this project will teach you how to keep it! At any rate, imagine they're denim jeans while reading!
Step 2: Measure where you would like your jeans to be hemmed and fold the BOTTOM of the pantline to that mark. Don't consider the bottom fold line as the "hem" line, because it's not (see photo below).
Step 3: If it makes you feel more comfortable, pin before sewing. This is a durable fabric so pinning isn't essential. Fold down the 1/2" "cuff" of the pant. Match the thread as close to the current thread on the seam line as possible. Sew along the existing seam line.
Step 4: Try on the jeans to be sure they are hemmed to the correct length before STEP 4!!!! Cut the excess of the folded over jean when you're sure of the length. Be sure not to cut the pretty cuff!
Step 5: Voila! Pressing with hot iron doesn't hurt either!
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Thanks so much, Becky! I'm so excited for you and your new blogging adventure. Please be sure to visit Becky's blog and all the guests she's featuring!


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|Four Ways Your Resume Should Show Off a Career Progression
by Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC
Whether you've worked for the same employer your entire career or lost count of the number of resignation letters you've signed, demonstrating how you evolved as a professional is key to a winning resume presentation.
Prospective employers find career progression very important. What better way to showcase your potential for future professional growth than exhibiting your capability of successfully doing so in the past? It also proves you have possessed ambition and drive throughout your career. Even more significantly, it can clearly convey the depth and breadth of your experience to lend you a valuable edge in today's highly competitive job market.
That's why exemplary format is imperative to maximize career progression on your resume presentation. Maybe you've worked 20 years in 20 different companies, or you may have invested 20 years with the same company. In either scenario, your career progression is easily demonstrated on your resume using the following four strategies:
1. Emphasize Titles. If you've spent considerable time at one company but held multiple titles, do not make the mistake of lumping everything under one heading for that company. Unfortunately, by mixing and matching duties of different titles in one master description, the progression gets muddled.
Be sure to let those promotions work for you! After all, you worked hard to get them, so they certainly deserve to draw attention. Instead of organizing your experience by company, do so by title. In this manner, you will be able to approach each role by giving it its own identity and importance on your resume.
2. Focus on New Responsibilities. Even if you leave a company for another in what would be considered a lateral move, you can demonstrate the progression in your career by showing how you increased task ownership in the subsequent capacity.
Rather than repeating duties used to describe your previous role, be sure your resume description for each progressive role clearly shows new tasks taken on when you advanced. No matter how similar responsibilities may seem, your experience for each time period is sure to be unique.
3. Recount Accomplishments. No matter what your title was, reach back into your memory and pull out at least three of your most valuable achievements for each role. It's great to have old performance evaluations handy, but even if you don't, a little brainstorming can help jog even the worst memory. Consider the following:
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Urethral bulking to treat urinary incontinence involves injecting material (such as collagen) around the urethra. This may be done to:
Most bulking materials are injected around the urethra just outside the muscle of the urethra at the bladder outlet. Injecting the bulking material may be done through the skin, through the urethra or, in women, through the vagina. Needle placement is guided by the use of a cystoscope inserted into the urethra.
Urethral bulking procedures are usually done under local anesthesia in women, but men may require a general or regional anesthesia. A local anesthetic allows the person to stand up after an injection to find out if continence has been achieved. If continence has not been restored, another injection may be done immediately.
This treatment may help, but the effect wears off over time. It is common to need more treatments.
The surgery is used mostly for women and sometimes for men.
Most urethral bulking injections can be done in a doctor's office or surgery center. They rarely require a hospital stay. You may need to take it easy for a few days afterward.
Urethral bulking may be done to treat:
Urethral bulking may work for some women. But fewer than 4 out of 10 women have long-term benefits.footnote 1
The main risks related to urethral bulking are pain at the injection site, injury to the urethra, and migration of the bulking material.
This surgery is used mostly for women and sometimes for men.
This treatment method avoids the risks associated with abdominal surgery.
Before having urethral bulking treatment, ask your doctor about the following:
American Urological Association (2009). Guideline for the surgical management of female stress urinary incontinence: Update (2009). Available online: http://www.auanet.org/content/guidelines-and-quality-care/clinical-guidelines.cfm.
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The world's first car that can carry the load of 450 tonnes, was tested at the coal mine "Chernigovets" in the Kuzbass region, according to "Rossiyskaya Gazeta". Former "world champion" in payload was a German Liebherr-T282B, but its capabilities are much more modest: This model is able to carry "only" 363 tons.
Dimensions of machines are impressive: length - 20 m, width - about 10 m, height - 8 m. But even more impressive propulsion power - 4665 hp And then she recalls not so much a traditional machine as a hybrid model. Under the hood Belaz - two diesel engines with 2 332.4 hp each. However, to transfer such a crazy power to the wheels through a traditional gearbox will not work - no construction will not stand. Therefore, diesel engines driving a generator, producing electricity, which supplies motors built into the wheel.
Power enough to move quite rapidly: dumper is able to reach 64 km / h. And this despite the fact that even with an empty body, it weighs 360 tons. Well, with a full load - 810 tons.
When this machine is to Guinness record in January 2014, the body downloaded over regulatory limits, Dump truck drove by a testing ground load weighing 503.5 tons.
This Belaz - the first instance of such a model - released by order of the holding "Siberian Business Union" specifically to work in Russia at the coal mine "Chernigovets".
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Good stuff there Victor yes most large diesel powered machines have no choice but to essentially become very large electric generator sets that generate power for the electric motors that power the whole machine; I think the largest non-electric drive may have been the Caterpillar 797 which is diesel hydraulic and drives through a torque converter and automatic gearbox.
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It is very intersting what will be the real fuel consumption because the empty truck is heavier than the standard haulers.
The body looks very shallow to me. I doubt the truck can hold 450 metric tons. For every mining truck is normal to carry the designed load + 10% extra - i.e. 496 metric tons.....
The body looks very shallow to me. I doubt the truck can hold 450 metric tons. For every mining truck is normal to carry the designed load + 10% extra - i.e. 496 metric tons.....
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Homeboy 1 Hey there goes that mother fucker kid Frost. (whistle)
Homeboy 2 Hey Frost come here ese!
Frost What's up?
Homeboy 1 Hey what's up holmes?
Homeboy 2 What's up how you doing?
Lady Hey guys!
Little Girl Hi Guys!!!
Homeboys 1 2 and Frost Hey what's up?
Lady Hi Guys!
Homeboy 2 Hey Frost I want to introduce you to one of the homeboys
the nieghborhood. This is Little School. School, that's Kid Frost.
Frost - What's up, holmes?
Little School - Hey Frost, bust an old school jam!
Frost - Alright little homie, yeah. Heh Heh!
[Verse 1 - Frost]
Q-vo, aqui estoy, yeah it's the big boy
down with the homegirls, down with the homeboys
kicking back, listening to a Huggy Boy rola
waiting for the night to hit so we can find some cholas
I told you I'll come back in nine tray
bumpin' in my six tray
cruising in the calle
I gots my parle
horale ese
cause when I do it, I do it all day (all day)
and then I come back again
with another stack to spin
on all my friends
and now I get my gangster roll on
brand new clothes on
and so on and so on
and now I need to beat the flow on
here it is right here Frost man go on
yeah it's smoke going out with a bang
cause it ain't nothing but a family thing, yeah
[chorus - Rich Garcia]
It's a family affair
It's a family affair
It's a family affair
It's a family affair
[verse 2 - Frost]
Oye vato, what's up loco?
check out the style of my vocal
and take a look and see what the cab dropped in
one big bad ass mexican
and I'm ready for anyone, down for anything
and I can pass any test that many bring
vatos wanna know where I'm from
I'm from the varrio East Los Aztlan
and ain't no nieghborhood can mess with that
cause it ain't where your from it's where you're at, now
chavalillos in the park after dark
and the hoodlums run scared when the dogs bark, so
get out the nieghborhood and don't look back
because I cut no slack when I'm holding a tech
and it's all about backing up your last name
we in the same game, it's a family thing
It's a family affair (me and la familia)
It's a family affair (always)
It's a family affair (together forever)
It's a family affair (ooh yeah)
[verse 3 - Frost]
Kid Frost back and I'm down
and my familia is anyone whose skin is brown
Rancheros and the trucks so the grey vans
taggers in the alley with a bag full of spraycans
here come the jura gotta bail out
and even them ..?.. and the cops bug they sell out
the cholos the cholas who ain't soft
it's the mean mafioso gangster Frost
comin' at ya, don't try to slam me
cause mexicans always got a big ass family
the quetes, the valas, the Chevy Impalas
the gang bang cycles with the media collars
so if you're brown you're down, so stay proud
and remember no busters allowed
cause the mexican people is a big ass gang, yeah
it's a family thing, huh
It's a family affair (hey now now yeah)
It's a family affair (me and la familia)
It's a family affair (It's a family affair)
It's a family affair (la la la la la la la)
It's a family affair (kicking it with the homegirls)
It's a family affair (kicking it with the homeboys)
It's a family affair (all night, all night, all day)
It's a family affair (all day, having a good time, yeah)
It's a family affair (eeeee)
It's a family affair (en la familia)
It's a family affair (together, together)
It's a family affair (forever, always)
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Film maker says Americans should only be permitted to own muskets
Paul Joseph Watson
February 22, 2013
Gun control advocate Michael Moore thinks that Americans should only be permitted to own muskets, a stance that would instantly criminalize nearly 100 million firearms owners. His message for everyone else? "If you are worried about your safety, get a dog."
The maker of Bowling for Columbine was asked by We Are Change's Luke Rudkowski what his stance was on the argument that Americans should have the right to own firearms in order to protect themselves against criminals, who will always find a way to get guns no matter what the law says.
"There's nothing wrong with the second amendment, as written, and as intended at that time – I think everybody has a right to own a musket," said Moore as he smirked and laughed.
Of course, the word "musket" does not appear anywhere in the second amendment.
"I think if somebody really believes they need a gun to protect themselves they should have a right to do that," said Moore, before dissuading people from doing so by referring to statistics which he claims show having a gun in the house raises the likelihood of someone in the house being harmed.
"If you are worried about your safety, get a dog," Moore concluded.
Despite his reservations about Americans having guns in their homes, Moore admitted in a 2008 Larry King interview that he owns a gun and also relies on armed security.
Despite his draconian advocacy for strict gun control, Moore routinely surrounds himself with armed bodyguards. Addressing a story about how one of his bodyguards was arrested at New York's JFK airport for carrying an unlicensed gun, Moore dismissed the issue as "propaganda put out by the right, by Fox News," claiming the bodyguard did not work for him.
The film maker argued that the bodyguard, Patrick Burke, was on his way to California to protect Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that the bodyguard was probably only hired to protect him by a film studio company. However, the Burke's gun was licensed in California but not New York, meaning that his crime of carrying an unlicensed weapon was most likely committed while protecting Moore.
In a separate interview, Moore warned that Obama's passage of the NDAA and his administration's drone assassination program represented the "early baby steps" towards tyrannical government, but refused to acknowledge that gun control was part of that process.
Moore denied that gun control was part of the Nazi move to dictatorship, arguing, "That's like saying Hitler and the Nazis invented the Volkswagen….so?"
Although gun control advocates have claimed that Hitler did not disarm the German people and that the 'Nazi gun control' argument is a myth, the facts show that Hitler did take existing gun control laws and make them more draconian with the 1938 weapons law, which prohibited Jews from "acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons," and ordered them to turn in all guns and ammunition to local police.
Historians like Israel Guttman have also outlined how the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis was hampered by the fact that imprisoned Jews did not have access to adequate arsenals of firearms.
In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings, Moore called for "strict gun control," labeling the event a "tipping point" that would lead to the demise of the National Rifle Association. However, in the three weeks following the incident, the NRA gained around 100,000 new members.
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CaptainMooki wrote:All I remember from the New Kid's cartoon was seeing them ride a yellow raft off a waterfall and praying them not to survive.
SuperDave was great especially with those live action tidbits at the end of each episode.
It was actually the Snorkles, not Snurkles who were the underwater followup to Smurfs.
I remember Camp Candy with John Candy as well as another camp based cartoon where all the kids were monsters except for two siblings.
Captain N the Gamemaster was good all except for it's lousy short, green, scratchy throughted Megaman.
The Super Mario show went through about as much versions as the games did, starting with the original with live-action host segments that at in one episode had a live-action style cameo from Insepector Gadget (he needed the plumbers to give his cybernetics a tune up for some reason). The Mario show was on Monday through Thursday with the Ledgend of Zelda cartoon on Fridays.
gravedale high. it was sorta... ok. all i remember is that my tv broke during an episode. coincidence? most likely...Ah I think you're thinking of that "moster school" cartoon with Rick Moranis as the human teacher.
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Iraqi Troops Mark Gains in Mosul
Iraqi Troops Mark Gains in Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi troops celebrated after driving Islamic State militants from some of their last strongholds in Mosul on Sunday, but heavy fighting continued just a few blocks away.
Lt. Gen. Jassim Nizal of the army's 9th Division said his forces have achieved "victory" in their sector, after a similar announcement by the militarized Federal Police. His soldiers danced to patriotic music atop tanks even as airstrikes sent plumes of smoke into the air nearby.
Iraq launched the operation to retake Mosul in October. IS now controls less than a square kilometer (mile) of territory in Mosul's Old City, but is using human shields, suicide bombers and snipers in a fight to the death.
The militants captured Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in a matter of days in the summer of 2014. Nizal acknowledged that many of his men were among those who fled the city at that time in a humiliating defeat for the country's armed forces.
"Some things happened here, that's true," he said. "But we have come back."
Much of Mosul's Old City and surrounding areas have been devastated by months of grueling urban combat. On Sunday a line of tired civilians filed out of the Old City on foot, past the carcasses of destroyed apartment blocks lining the cratered roads.
Heba Walid held her sister-in-law's baby, which was born into war. The parents of the six-month-old, along with 15 other family members, were killed last month when an airstrike hit their home. When Walid ran out of formula, she fed the baby a paste of crushed biscuits mixed with water.
Now they are among more than 897,000 people displaced by the fighting in Mosul.
The loss of the city would mark a major defeat for the Islamic State group, which has suffered a series of major setbacks over the past year.
U.S.-backed Syrian forces have pushed into the group's de facto capital, the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, but a final victory there could be months away, and the extremists still hold several smaller towns and villages across Iraq and Syria.


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Monday, December 13, 2010
I Will Save You by Matt de la Pena
Now, he's bound and locked away for pushing someone off a cliff. And he has all the time in the world to think about his life, from beginning to end....
Kidd remembers his mother, whom he lived with and loved very much. And a father who tried to love, but used his fists instead. He remembers seeing Mr. Red, Maria's friend, for the first time at Horizons, in his floppy sombrero and tie. He remembers Maria telling Kidd to stay away from Devon. But he's the only guy in Horizons who helped out Kidd, even though it may have hurt. But he also loves flirting with danger and death - it's a thrill ride Devon can't pass up on and one Kidd isn't too sure he wants to experience.
And one day, Kidd just walks out of Horizons, intent on finding a new life....He ends up finding Mr. Red again, who works at a campsite in Encinitas. Red hires Kidd on, and now all Kidd wants is a normal life. A hard worker, he does everything Red asks and more. He knows this won't last long, especially when Devon shows up and starts causing problems.
Devon takes Kidd on adventures, but they're dangerous and life-threatening. Kidd doesn't understand how Devon knows so much about him and what he's thinking, but even if he is dangerous, Devon makes sense. But then again, so does Mr. Red, who's the nicest guy Kidd ever met. But the person who changes his life is Olivia....
Some people have scars on the outside, some on the inside. Devon and Olivia have a lot of similarities, and that makes each one trust the other. And Kidd is determined to keep Olivia away from Devon, even if it means breaking all ties with him. Devon isn't about the leave....and one night, when the grunions come onto the beach, when Kidd and Olivia are sitting by the cliff, the dark comes out. But is the dark there to hurt or help Kidd?
Matt de la Pena is one of those authors who gets it right everytime. This book combines different voices in the form of diaries to flashbacks, to stream of consciousness to the present, all from the main character. De la Pena also combines characters that are in direct contrast with each other, from the privileged, to the lost; the capable to the troubled. It's the striking use of contrast that makes this book such a good read. It doesn't bog down, but instead makes the reader become incredibly close to Kidd, Red, and Devon. And it will definitely keep the reader in suspense until that sudden epiphany happens, when the reader is slowly drawn into the reality of what is happening in the novel. It will pull you and keep you turning the pages. One of the best I've read this year.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Now, at 16, her life revolves around bagging, tagging, and neutralizing those creatures that go bump in the night, keeping humanity safe from their deadly grip. Evie has the ability to see through glamours. What a normal human would see, she can see the rotting corpse of a hag, vampire, or zombie underneath.
Through her work at the IPCA (International Paranormal Containment Agency), she's neutralized, or "neutered" a vampire named Steve, become best friends with a mermaid named Alisha, works with a werewolf named Jaques, and is trying to avoid Reth, whom she had a brief and dangerous fling with. The only real person in her life is Raquel, the head of IPCA, but Evie still feels alone and lonely. At least she has her normalcy to rely on.
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The Rockies aren't waving the white flag just yet.
After they beat the San Diego Padres 6-3 on Wednesday to clinch their first series victory in 23 days, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki said: "The two times I've been to the playoffs (in 2007 and 2009), we had to come from behind in the second half. That's what I'm trying to preach to these guys every day, that we can do it."
In my one-on-one session with owner Dick Monfort on Tuesday, he ended the interviewing by saying: "Now we are going to get some people back. I haven't given up. I'm frustrated as hell, but I haven't given up."
But it's also time to get real.
The Rockies are 14 games under .500. Sure, they get slugger Carlos Gonzalez back Friday. And yes, they turned the power back on Wednesday with five home runs at Coors Field. But the truth is, the Rockies won't even sniff contention until they start getting much better starting pitching.
Jair Jurrjens needed 96 pitches and couldn't get through five innings Wednesday. He's sure not the answer, and he was packing his bags for Triple-A Colorado Springs after the game.
So where does that leave a current Rockies rotation that sports a 5.32 ERA?
• Lefty Jorge De La Rosa, whom Monfort said the Rockies aren't going to trade, is starting to pull his $11 million weight. He has posted victories in his last three starts, and he's 5-2 with a 3.73 ERA at Coors Field. Contending teams will be interested in De La Rosa — media reports say Baltimore is among them — but right now, he's a Rockie.
• Lefty Brett Anderson, coming back from a broken finger, will start Sunday. He provides a beacon of hope, but he has a lot to prove. He was 0-2 with a 3.60 ERA in three starts before his injury.
• Left-hander Tyler Matzek (1-3, 4.79) shows a lot of promise, but he's still looking down the rocky road of development.
• Lefty Franklin Morales (5-4, 5.28) was terrific in his last start Tuesday, but he has served up a team-high 18 homers this season.
• Right-hander Eddie Butler is ready to begin his minor-league rehab starts and then join the rotation, but for all of his talent, he has only one big-league start. No one is sure what he can contribute this year.
• Right-hander Jordan Lyles (5-1, 3.52 ERA) is still dealing with a broken left hand, though he should come back soon after the all-star break.
• Right-hander Tyler Chatwood is a long way from returning. He cut short his live bullpen Wednesday. He is far from being able to take the mound at Coors Field.
• Veteran left-hander Chris Capuano, now getting stretched out in Triple-A, is another option but not a promising one. And Monfort said Tuesday he wants the Rockies to "see if we can't find somebody who might fit our needs before the deadline."
The bottom line: For the Rockies to make a 180-degree turn, their pitching must do the same. I don't see that happening anytime soon.


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|The Plain Speaker, 18JUN1940, pg 28
Miss Mary Ann Quirk, daughter of Edward J. Quirk of Jeanesville, and Edward J. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Brown, of West Broad street, this city, were married this morning at 8 o'clock at St. Gabriel's church by Very Rev. Monsignor Dennis J. Kane, who also celebrated the nuptial mass which followed the ceremony.
The bride wore a gown of white marquisheer made with a high neckline, short sleeves and a full ruffled skirt. Her finger-tip veil of illusion was held in place by a cap of orange blossoms, and she carried an old fashioned bouquet of white roses, larkspur and sweet peas.
Miss Anna Turnbach, cousin of the bride, was bridesmaid and carrying out the all-white theme, wore a gown of white marquisheer similar to the bride's. She wore a doll hat of white maline trimmed with small white flowers, and her old fashioned bouquet of mixed flowers.
Walter H. Brown, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. The ushers were Eugene McElwee, cousin of the bridegroom, and Edward J. Corcoran.
Miss Margaret Flynn presided at the organ, and Patrick McHugh sang during the mass.
Immediately following the mass, a wedding breakfast was served at the Catholic Women's Club, after which the couple left on a motor trip through the New England States.
The bride is a graduate of West Chester State Teachers' College and is assistant music supervisor in the Hazle township schools. The bridegroom is a graduate of Villanova and is a member of the Green-Vine Junior High School faculty."
This is the wedding announcement for my grandmother and grandfather. I'm hoping that someday I'll be able to see a picture of the bride and groom. The descriptions of the dresses were fantastic! I'm told by my mom that it should be familiar...that she wore the same dress at her wedding, which I remember trying that on when I was in high school! It fit in my skinnier days, but it zipped on the side from the waist to the underarm. Very awkward to try to get off. I almost got stuck!
Some things that were not mentioned in the article:
1) The groom's parents, Thomas and Mary Brown Sr nee Barrett, were also married on June 18th in 1901 so it was their 39th anniversary that day!
2) It was the bride's 27th birthday on her wedding day!
3) Mary Ann's mother is not mentioned in the article. Her name was Alice Quirk nee Blanchfield and she died on September 23, 1915 in (or shortly after) childbirth when Mary Ann was only 2 years old. The child (gender unknown) died as well (or was stillborn).
4) The bride (as previously mentioned) was 27 and the groom was 31 when they married. A bit older than we would normally see for this period. I'm sure the fact that they were both college graduates had something to do with that!


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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I'd always wanted to read the Redwall series when I was a kid, but I somehow never got around to it. I enjoyed fantasy lit, but didn't really know which series or books were good.
I'm kind of glad that I didn't get sucked into the world of fantasy lit as a kid; I could have ended up wasting my life on D&D instead of enjoying the life of the starving writer (and I do enjoy it, believe it or not). But I'm also glad that I finally got to experience Redwall, and at a time of life when I won't be as tempted to make it my entire life.
The Redwall series is based at an abbey of mouse monks. The mice of Redwall are kind and gentle souls, friends with most of the other animal citizens of the Mossflower Woods. Our hero, Matthias the Mouse, is a young mouse living in the abbey. He doesn't see anything remarkable about himself, but when Mossflower and Redwall come under attack by the evil rat Cluny the Scourge, Matthias has to rise to the occasion.
Matthias is determined to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior, which legend says is hidden somewhere in the Abbey. With the help of Methuselah, an older, wiser mouse, and the moral support of Cornflower, his love interest, Matthias bands the mice of Redwall and the residents of Mossflower together to stand against Cluny and to protect their peaceful way of life from these oppressors.
The first book in the Redwall series is full of fun and adventure. It's decently written, and the characters are endearing. It's easy to see why the other characters in the book love Matthias so much — it's because he loves them. His love for Redwall and Mossflower are contagious, and his passion to save his home quickly ignites similar passions in his fellow mice, his woodland neighbors, and in the reader.
While it's a great way to start off the series, Redwall makes a great stand-alone volume, too. It's nice to see a book in a series that isn't just treated like a means to an end.
That said, I'm still interested in reading the next book in the series, which I hope to be able to do soon. I liked Jacques' characters enough to want more of them, even though there was adequate closure in this volume. That's the sign of a compelling story.


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Defense News ~ OWEGO, N.Y., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has formally delivered the 50th MH-60R helicopter, fully equipped for its mission to protect the U.S. Navy fleet from hostile submarines and surface ships.
The newest member of the SEAHAWK® family of maritime helicopters is designed and manufactured by Sikorsky, with advanced mission systems integration by Lockheed Martin. "I am extremely proud of the MH-60R team, which has enabled this important milestone in the Romeo's continued introduction to the fleet," said Rear Adm. Steve Eastburg, Program Executive Officer Air ASW, Assault and Special Mission programs. "The enormous multimission capability of this platform continues to be leveraged by the warfighter in new and innovative ways. It is truly a game-changing platform that will deliver powerful capabilities, ranging from low-end to high-end warfare, in the years ahead."
During the February 3 delivery ceremony at Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems & Sensors facility in Owego, NY, Rear Adm. Paul Grosklags, vice commander, Naval Air Systems Command thanked Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky employees and other key suppliers for their contributions to this important program.
"The MH-60R has evolved over 30 years, through lessons learned during developmental testing, fleet deployments and maintenance on these rugged airframes and mission systems, in the harshest maritime environments," said Grosklags. "It stands now as the premier multimission helicopter in operation today. The U.S. Navy is grateful for the tremendous teamwork and experience you bring to deliver this remarkable weapon system."
This week, an aircrew from Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron Seven Zero (HSM-70) will fly the 50th aircraft from the Owego, NY, facility to its new home at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla. The aircraft is the 10th MH-60R delivered to HSM-70, which was established in February 2009.
HSM-70 will deploy with 11 MH-60R aircraft aboard the USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group (CVN 77) in 2011. To date, the U.S. Navy has established and equipped four MH-60R squadrons, with plans to fill out 16 more through the purchase of 300 aircraft.
"The 50th delivery is a great opportunity to reflect on the success of the MH-60R within the fleet, to look forward to the expansion of the MH-60R throughout the helicopter community and to recognize the organizations that have brought this tremendous capability to the Navy," said Captain Dean Peters, the U.S. Navy's MH-60 program manager. "Today, these highly integrated platforms are building a situational awareness picture of the surface and undersea domains that is proving invaluable to fleet operators."
As mission systems integrator for the Sikorsky-built MH-60R, Lockheed Martin is responsible for integrating the helicopter's digital cockpit, a multi-mode radar, acoustic sonar suite, long-range infrared camera and other advanced sensors to detect, identify, track and engage surface and subsurface targets. Lockheed Martin also integrates a self defense system to protect the aircraft from missile threats.
"The highly integrated nature of the Common Cockpit⢠avionics suite and the mission systems allows the aircrew to spend less time interpreting data and more time prosecuting the target," said George Barton, Lockheed Martin's director of Naval Helicopter Programs.
U.S. Navy test squadrons concluded 1900 hours of rigorous MH-60R flight and mission systems evaluations in 2005. Since full rate production began in early 2006, Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky have delivered all MH-60R aircraft to the U.S. Navy ahead of schedule.
The companies expect to deliver up to 27 fully-missionized MH-60R aircraft in calendar year 2010 to the U.S. Navy as part of a five-year contract for 139 MH-60R aircraft through 2013. Extra production capacity exists to deliver an additional 20 aircraft each year for sale by the U.S. Government to international navies.
The U.S. Navy deployed with 11 MH-60R aircraft for the first time from January to July 2009 with the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) carrier strike group. During exercises in the western Pacific, the MH-60R proved to be an exceptional sub hunter and surface warfare weapons platform, accomplishing a 95 percent sortie completion rate, and showing it can perform utility and search and rescue missions among other secondary missions.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2009 sales of $45.2 billion.
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"And the winner is……..ppprrrrrmmmmmmm" (drum roll). Now, if you are anything like me, the image in your head is of some famous actress or actor fumbling with a large envelope, complaining about how is it hard to open. Luckily, for this post, we are going skip the envelope and talk about a winner who is a little closer to home for this Kiva Fellow. The winner I am talking about is CCT's very own, Andresa Javines, who is Citi Bank's "Entrepreneur of the Year" (MOTY) for Mindanao, Philippines.
So, what does it take to be named the "Microentrepeneur of the Year" (MOTY) by Citi Bank? Citi Philippines, in collaboration with Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and Microfinance Council of Philippines (MCPI) just hosted their 9th year of this award. The collaborators said that they "recognize outstanding entrepreneurs with assets less than PHP 1 million, who have achieved remarkable growth as indicated by employment generation, profits, sales turnover and other enterprise performance measures."
The field of microfinance has garnered criticisms in the recent years that have questioned the lack of employment creation and high interest rates. Although transparency is a key component of keeping microfinance acountable, it is important to recognize the success stories created as a result of microfinance loans. With this said, it is amazing to stand back and see people being honored for the gains they have as a result of their collaboration with a microfinance organization. CCT is also very proud of Ms. Javines and her accomplishments. CCT has submitted borrowers stories for the last eight years and Ms. Javines is their first borrower to win this prestigious prize.
Citi provided awards to individuals for different categories and within the categories, to the different island regions of the Philippines (Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao). The two categories of awards to honor different types of advancements in the industry. The award categories include the Masikap Awards and Maunlad awards. The Masikap award recognizes individuals who have set up businesses that are now providing a reliable source of income for their families. The Maunlad Awards recognize one person from each region who has grown their business and is now providing employment to others beyond their family circle. The prize that each person receives includes 100,000 Pisos, three-year health and life insurance coverage for all the winners, as well as a grant to attend an entrepreneurship management course in Bayan Academy, to ensure the sustainability of their businesses.
Nanay Javines got to travel outside of her province for the first time to visit Luzon for the Citi awards ceremony and for a reception at the CCT head office. Her eldest daughter and local branch staff loan officers also accompanied her. The CCT head office provided a lunch reception and gave Nanay Javines the opportunity to share her story of growth and success with her business of tuna packing. Her business caters to two clients who send sashimi grade tuna to Japan, Canada and the US. She also makes a gel ice concoction to place inside of the fish to preserve its freshness for travel.
Nanay Andresa shared her personal remarks with the CCT staff. "I started doing business as a young woman. I got married at 15. My husband and I rented a house until we found a residential lot that we could pay for by installment.
I started out running a sari-sari store from my house. A friend told me about CCT's programs. I became a CCT partner in the year 2000. I started out with a loan of P4,000. I completed payments on this loan, earning the trust of the loan officer and manager. In 2003, I built my house and started my tuna packing material business. In 2005, I bought two motorcycles, four low-cost subdivision lots and built a boarding house with eight rooms. The Lord's goodness [to me] does not end there. Two of my children have graduated from college and have found jobs. I have two other children who are still in school. One of them is hearing-impaired."
I pray God will keep blessing CCT, making it grow even more so that it will be able to help many other poor people like me. Our Lord is so good. One day is not long enough to speak of His goodness in my life." (Original speech given in Tagalog, translation provided by CCT's communications staff member, Myra Gaculais Del Rosario).
Nanay Javines stands in the company of other innovative microentrepreneurs in the Philippines. Other microentrepreneurs have businesses in industries that include the export of chicken lumpia (a traditional filipino dish), ready-to-wear clothing, herbal medicines and deep seas fishing. Some of those business gross between 2 and 4 million pisos a year now and employ up to 50 employees.
Microfinance has its criticisms, but stories like Nanay Javines show that access to capital via microfinance loans for small businesses can come together and work as they were intended. It can enable individuals to create income to help their families, take care of their necessities and begin to grow to a point where it creates jobs for other. A celebration is in order to honor those who are working hard to do things right to help themselves and others. Congrats Nanay Andresa on a job well done and an inspiring and ongoing life story.
Jill Hall is part of Kiva Fellows 16th class, working with Center for Community Transformation (CCT) in the Philippines. She is enjoying all the sights, sounds and food of her new home, the Philippines. Please support CCT borrowers by reading about their stories and making a loan today. Be a part of the movement of Kiva and join CCT's lending team or check out CCT's partner page. Former posts written by Jill about her experiences in Manila and Center For Community Transformation (CCT) can be found at:
The Circle of Life; Filipino Style
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Girlie's Peanut Butter: Borrower Verification in the Philippines
Study Now Pay Now: Funding Higher Education in the Philippines


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Feds Palling Around With Mexican Cartels
Two years ago the Washington Post reported that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency brought dangerous Mexican drug traffickers to the U.S. who, while continuing their criminal activities in Mexico and the U.S., also served as informants to the federal authorities in their war on drugs.
In June, Operation Fast and Furious came to light where the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed suspicious straw‐purchasers of firearms to buy weapons in the U.S. and smuggle them into Mexico. The purpose was to track the guns all the way to the ultimate buyer—a Mexican drug trafficking organization. Overall, the ATF facilitated the purchase of hundreds of guns by Mexican cartels. Many were later found in crime scenes in Mexico, including one where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was assassinated.
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Drug Enforcement Agency has been laundering millions of dollars for Mexican cartels. The goal of the undercover mission is to follow the money all the way up to the top ranks of the criminal organizations. However, as the NYT notes, "So far there are few signs that following the money has disrupted the cartels' operations and little evidence that Mexican drug traffickers are feeling any serious financial pain."
So there we have it: in the name of the war on drugs, the federal government has provided safe havens to Mexican drug traffickers, facilitated their purchase of powerful firearms, and has even laundered millions of dollars for the cartels.
After spending millions of dollars toward fighting the drug war in Mexico, the United States has little to show for its efforts. It seems Washington is becoming more desperate each year to produce new leads and results. These three incidents display a stunning lack of foresight and borders on the federal government aiding the Mexican drug cartels, with little to show in return. The unintended consequences of these programs aimed at dismantling the cartels would be laughable were it not for the thousands that have died in Mexico's drug related violence.
It is time for the United States to rethink the war on drugs and consider policies that will successfully undermine the Mexican drug cartels.


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As was widely expected, Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes held onto first place this weekend with $36.25 million. The critically acclaimed 3D sci-fi action sequel was down 50 percent from last weekend, which represented a very healthy second weekend hold for a blockbuster level film in the middle of summer. The film's second weekend hold was quite similar to the 49 percent 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes fell when it grossed $27.83 million during its second weekend of release. With a ten-day start of $139.21 million, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is running an impressive 32 percent ahead of the $105.21 million ten-day take of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. This weekend's hold is a strong sign for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes going forward, though the film will also soon be facing more direct competition from the likes of Universal's Lucy, Paramount's Hercules and Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy.
Universal's The Purge: Anarchy was easily the strongest of the weekend's three new wide releases, with a second place take of $29.82 million. The sequel to last year's break-out horror film debuted in line with expectations. However, the film did open 12 percent below the $34.06 million debut of The Purge. The Purge: Anarchy took in $13.01 million on Friday (which included an estimated $2.6 million from Thursday night shows), fell 27 percent on Saturday to gross $9.51 million and fell just 23 percent on Sunday to take in $7.29 million. That placed the film's opening weekend to Friday ratio at 2.29 to 1, which represented a bit less initial front-loading than the 2.03 to 1 ratio registered by The Purge. The Purge: Anarchy will hope to hold up a bit better than The Purge did, in part from not having to face competition from the likes of Man of Steel and World War Z. The Purge: Anarchy received a solid B rating on CinemaScore. The audience breakdown for the film skewed slightly towards female moviegoers (52 percent) and towards moviegoers under the age of 25 (61 percent).
Planes: Fire and Rescue debuted in third with $17.51 million. The modestly budgeted computer animated sequel from Disney opened slightly below pre-release expectations and 21 percent below the $22.23 million debut of Planes last summer. While this summer has had a relatively limited amount of choices for family audiences, Planes: Fire and Rescue may have failed to have capitalized from the fairly empty family marketplace due in part to arriving in theatres so soon after its predecessor. Planes: Fire and Rescue opened with $6.37 million on Friday, increased 4 percent on Saturday to take in $6.61 million and fell 31 percent on Sunday to gross $4.53 million. That gave the film an opening weekend to Friday ratio of 2.75 to 1. Planes: Fire and Rescue received a strong A rating on CinemaScore. The audience breakdown for the film was split evenly between genders and skewed towards moviegoers 25 years and younger (59 percent). Family audiences represented 78 percent of the film's overall audience.
Sony's Sex Tape debuted in fourth with a significantly poorer than expected $14.61 million. The R-rated comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel opened a disappointing 54 percent softer than the $31.60 million start of 2011's Bad Teacher. Sex Tape appears to have been hurt from both its poor critical reviews and from arriving in the marketplace on the heels of a number of successful comedies over the past few months (The Other Woman, Neighbors, 22 Jump Street and Tammy). Sex Tape opened with $5.67 million on Friday (which included an estimated $1.1 million from Thursday night shows), fell 7 percent on Saturday to gross $5.28 million and declined 31 percent on Sunday to gross $3.66 million. That placed the film's opening weekend to Friday ratio at 2.58 to 1. While Sex Tape could be helped out going forward by the lack of new comedies entering the marketplace over the next few weeks, its troubling C+ rating on CinemaScore isn't a good early sign. The audience breakdown for Sex Tape skewed slightly towards female moviegoers (53 percent) and moviegoers 30 years and over (52 percent).
Transformers: Age of Extinction rounded out the weekend's top five with $9.85 million. The fourth installment of Paramount's blockbuster sci-fi action franchise finally stabilized this weekend, as it was down a solid 40 percent. Transformers: Age of Extinction has grossed $227.00 million through 24 days of release. While that already makes the film one of the year's highest grossing releases thus far domestically, it is also a significant 28.5 percent softer than the $317.37 million 24-day take of 2011's Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Warner's Tammy placed in sixth with $7.40 million. The Melissa McCarthy comedy vehicle was down a solid 41 percent and was likely helped out a bit this weekend by the poorer than expected start of Sex Tape. Tammy has grossed a very solid $71.05 million in 19 days, which already gives the film a current total gross to opening weekend ratio of 3.29 to 1.
On the platform front, IFC Films' Boyhood maintained momentum nicely this weekend by taking in $1.17 million from 34 locations. That gave the film a strong per-location average of $34,418 for the frame and represented a 202 percent increase over last weekend's five-location start. Boyhood has grossed a strong $1.79 million in ten days of platform release and will expand into additional locations next weekend.


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Keanu Reeves speaks onstage while attending PBS' 2013 Summer Television Critics Association Tour to promote his documentary Side by Side at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday (August 6) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 48-year-old actor was joined by producer Justin Szlasa.
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Facebook borrowed $3 billion and doubled its credit line to $5 billion to help pay for the vesting of employee stock for its impending public offering.
Facebook has been borrowing more over the last year. Last February, it only had a $1.5 billion line of credit which rose to $2.5B in eight months, the New York Times reported. Facebook would have to be foolish not to garner all the loans it can right now -- because banks are practically giving the money away to "curry favor with Facebook."
According to the latest $5 billion credit agreement, JPMorgan Chase, which has the second spot among Facebook underwriters in the public offering, is the lead arranger on the new credit agreement. Similarly, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, Facebook's top underwriter, are both lead arrangers on the $3 billion bridge loan.
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In the regulatory filing, Facebook said that it would use the 364-day $3 billion bridge loan to pay for taxes on the vesting of employee stock by selling shares.The $5 billion credit line will be for working capital and general corporate purposes -- like fighting Yahoo's patent infringement lawsuit, according to Bloomberg News.


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Six Hawaiian Islands. Six unique experiences. From crystal blue waters to black sand beaches, Hawaii's iconic locations will fill any bucket list. But there's more to Hawaii than what you've heard about. Take a moment. Wander from the suggested route. Stumble upon food that locals love. Experience a culture full of welcoming aloha. You won't need a roadmap to find your most memorable moments. Get inspired at #LetHawaiiHappen.
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gfia necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 80 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
China Journeys (for site: china-journeys.com)
We are ex-employees of a UK tour operator disappointed with changes for the worse. We are going to go it alone and run our own trips to China based around a quality product and high levels of service. We need a logo that incorporates a feel for 'China', 'travel' and 'quality'. We would also like to incorporate an aspect of fun but that should not detract from the main three issues.
We aim to sell standard tours and tailor-made packages to discerning travellers. These people:
1. Enjoy life
2. Are probably professionals (or retired professionals) aged over 30
3. Get excited by something unusual
4. Do plenty of research to ensure they get what they want
5. Have a good general knowledge
6. Are not fooled by clichés or gimmicks
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Please note: At this stage we have seen over 50 designs. It has become clear that we want a 'mode of transport' to represent the Journey element. This is giving the necessary balance between China and Journey. Too many early designs only really focussed on the China aspect.
We are considering offering a second prize for a logo to be used on another related project. We see from 'Help' that this must be negotiated by 'Private Message'. We may be in touch with other highly rated designs.
The site is completely new so there are few preconceptions.
We want a logo that will sit comfortably on a web page. We are aiming for a 1200 pixel width two-column design.
The logo should be produced in a vector format with a quick-to-load file size.
The colour scheme has not been set so use any colours you feel appropriate.
The logo should not include the name 'China Journeys' or the website address. We will want these displayed as text on the face of the page.
China is a large country. We do not want a logo based around one geographic feature which might then imply that we cover only a limited part of that.
One example of symbolism that could work - but which is not the only one nor essential: The Five Elements
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