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If you have suddenly been missing the Referers tab from your Manage Panel in your WordPress.com blog, I thought I'd let you know that it has moved. The Referers panel provided some basic blog statistics on visitors, search engine links, and incoming links, as well as most popular posts. I'll write in more detail about this later, but the developers have decided to clean up this entire page to make it more helpful and informative, and this included a move of the tab to the Dashboard panel and a new tab name Blog Stats.
I'm not too thrilled with it's location as I liked the convenience of having it on the Manage Panel (makes more sense, too). Still, this is a new and improved feature for blog statistics with much better listing.
A couple weeks ago, they switched the Referers history from one month to 7 days and I hate it, so if you hate it, then let them know through the Feedback link, and tell them what you think is an appropriate time period. Personally, I like two weeks to a month as I travel so much and often go quite a few days between checks.
The new location and layout for the Referers is still under development so your input is critical right now during the testing phase. I know it's the holidays and a busy time for a lot of people, but take a look and tell them what you think.
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Russia tends to be a land of innovation when it comes to its vehicles, especially if you consider "innovation" to be a foot-powered Lada. "Innovation" is definitely a word that came to my head when I saw this video of what appeared to be a UFO driving down a Russian motorway. The other word was "WHAT!"
After doing some heavy Googling this actually appears to be a form of agricultural sprayer instead of a truck with the most ridiculous lift kit, ever. Or aliens, for that matter. Even still, it's pretty crazy to be driving one of these down the highway and even overtaking others.
Plus that music is hilarious.
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Girl, 4, rescued after arm gets stuck in pool drain
Firefighters work for hour to free girl at Merritt Island apartments
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – A 4-year-old girl is recovering Monday from an hour-long rescue after her arm got stuck in a drain of a Brevard County apartment complex swimming pool.
Firefighters on Sunday worked to free the girl's arm, which became stuck at an apartment complex off Courtenay Parkway on Merritt Island.
The girl was in 5 feet of water, and witnesses had to support her feet to keep her head above water. She was also covered in a blanket to keep warm.
While one group of firefighters tried to free her arm, another group began draining the pool. More than 3 inches of water was drained before firefighters started to make some progress.
Using a string and a large syringe, witnesses said rescuers injected a slippery liquid into the drain and finally dislodged the girl's arm.
The girl was taken to a hospital but was expected to be OK. Officials said she suffered some bruising on her arm.
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Local 6 found that the pool received dozens of safety violations, causing residents to wonder why it was open at all.
"We told the apartment manager that there was this hole that was sucking up toys, his toys went down it," said resident Tamry Smith.
Firefighters said the cap that was supposed to be on the drain, wasn't.
Complex manager Caleb Santiago said his staff found the cap on the bottom of the pool Monday morning. Santiago said none of the pumps were on when the incident happened, so the drain wouldn't have had suction and the cap should have been on.
"Someone using the pool had to go out of their way to unsecure that cap," Santiago said.
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Serena Williams was up a set and a break in her Australian Open quarterfinal against 19-year-old American Sloane Stephens. Then, in a span of 25 minutes, she lost her serve, hurt her back while trying to avoid contact with the net, took her second injury timeout of the tournament, came away with a limp, could barely get her first serve over 90 mph, dropped her first set since the U.S. Open and went down 2-1 in the decider.
Her Wilson tennis racket paid the price.
The 15-time Grand Slam champion took a step toward her bench for the first changeover of the third set, paused and delivered two mighty whacks to the blue court in Melbourne, effectively destroying the innocent racket. She then chucked it at her tennis bag for good measure.
Serena said nothing during the outburst and steadied herself to win the next game. During that hold of serve, she was called for a foot fault. The linesman was unidentified at the time of this writing, but he shall forever be referred to as "the bravest linesman in the history of tennis."
Stephens went on to win the match, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. She became the first American player younger than Serena to ever beat ber.
It will be the first Grand Slam semifinal appearance for the Florida native.
Serena entered the match with only one loss since May.
After the match, she was asked about the incident. She answered with a smile.
"It made me happy, unfortunately."
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A Quick Note on Comments
I never drafted up a comment policy because, really, I've never had to. In a small blog like this, issues in comments rarely come up. Even when I get into very controversial topics, I'm impressed by the maturity and quality of the resulting discussion.
I'm also not very anal about rules in comments. I'm fine with people disagreeing with me, I'm fine with some discussions going slightly off topic, and as long as you guys are ok with it, I'm fine with you guys disagreeing with each other.
But after thinking about this for a few days, there's one thing I'm not going to tolerate:
Berating, judging and overall nastyness targeted at specific individuals or bloggers who are not participating in the discussion.
I'm also not going to put up with anyone telling me who I can and can't link to, other than, of course, the person being linked to and the wordpress TOS.
I don't think I really need to put a disclaimer anywhere, after all this is my blog and what I do with comments is my choice, but since a few days went by before I decided to delete those comments (actually, I didn't delete them, I flagged them as spam) I thought I owed somewhat of an explanation.
But yeah, I don't want to get caught up on blog wars that don't concern me.
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- Viewers on the West Coast were able to see the total eclipse
- During totality, the Earth's shadow completely covers the moon
- Next U.S. opportunity to see total lunar eclipse is in April 2014
The moon disappeared from view along the U.S. West Coast on Saturday amid a total lunar eclipse.
Images from Seattle, Washington, showed the moon's crescent waning from a Cheshire cat's grin to a shadowy sliver before disappearing entirely in the night sky.
All of the United States was able to see some portion of the event, though the West Coast had "a more complete view" and was able to see the totality -- the time when the Earth's shadow completely covers the moon.
The totality on the West Coast was timed as the moon sets and the sun rises, NASA said. It lasted 51 minutes.
"A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon, blocking the sun's rays and casting a shadow on the moon. As the moon moves deeper and deeper into Earth's shadow, the moon changes color before your very eyes, turning from gray to an orange or deep shade of red," the NASA website said.
"The moon takes on this new color because sunlight is still able to pass through Earth's atmosphere and cast a glow on the moon. Our atmosphere filters out most of the blue colored light, leaving the red and orange hues that we see during a lunar eclipse. If there are additional dust particles in the atmosphere, the moon will appear to be a darker shade of red," NASA said.
CNN iReporter Bob Cronk took time-lapse video images of the eclipse from his condo on the 17th floor in Portland, Oregon.
"I thought it was pretty cool," Cronk said. "I really wanted to see it turn red."
Instead, the moon disappeared behind fog.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, which is orbiting 31 miles above the moon, got a front-row seat to the lunar eclipse, the last of the year, NASA said.
The orbiter was to record how quickly certain parts of the moon would cool off during the eclipse, NASA said.
The next opportunity to view a total lunar eclipse from the United States is April 15, 2014.


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Snap o' the day: Gas shortage hits?
The "We pump it" Citgo on Ivy Road was not pumping it this morning, nor was it yesterday. The station is closed today, with plastic-bag covered pumps and no prices posted on its sign.
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No chance it just went out of business?
I'll bet that's it - otherwise they'd be open to sell overpriced ice and beer.
Joy Food Store on East High was out of gas for what seemed like at least a week. This was only about a week to ten days ago. So spot shortages are not new to this area I suppose.
The transport company delivering to Joy Food can't make much profit anyway though. Every time the delivery tanker pulls onto the lot he suffers a flat tire from a curb that sticks up. It's like the curb suddenly ends and is sticking up about 5 or 6 inches at the property line of Fitch Services. Roadside service has to be called in to install a new tire on back of the tanker. And this doesn't come cheap.
I think it depends on the station's supply arrangement. A couple stations in my area have been out, but most are fine.


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After taking very strong offense at the New York Post trying to photograph the ten-year-old daughter he fathered during an extramarital affair, Carl Paladino whined, complained, and threatened, arguing that his love child should remain part of his private life and wasn't fair game in his race for governor.
And just to show that he believes what is good for the goose is good for the gander, we have complete faith in Carl Paladino that he will refrain from bringing up opponent Andrew Cuomo's two daughters during...oh wait, too late, he just did.
Paladino criticized Cuomo for taking his two daughters to the Gay Pride Parade, calling him a bad father, and according to the New York Post statingg that Cuomo "has already displayed his lack of interest in being a good father."
Of course, as usual with Paladino (remember the proof he had that Cuomo had an affair), he doesn't really offer any other examples of how Cuomo has displayed his lack of interest in being a good father other than taking his two girls to the Gay Pride Parade. However, we here at Pol Position have no option other than to believe him because why would Paladino make an outrageous statement like that without the facts to back it up?
Because he's Crazy Carl Paladino, that's why! Just when you think this race couldn't get any more unbelievable, it goes and gets a little more unbelievable.
The latest controversy surrounds comments Paladino made before a group of Hasidic Jewish leaders over the weekend, in which he stated that he didn't support gay marriage because he didn't want kids "brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option."
Those comments immediately drew denouncements not only from Democrats, but many of Paladino's fellow Republicans, many of whom called on him to apologize, especially given the recent rash of anti-gay attacks in the city.
Speaking of, politely put, "politically incorrect" comments (we had originally called them "screwball comments" but got overruled) delivered by Paladino since he won the Republican Primary, not you can get them in condensed format. Somebody, and of course by "somebody" we mean New York Democrats, put all of Paladino's greatest sound bites together in one 50-second video that you can watch on YouTube.
We have a feeling that Carl Paladino is going to be a frequent visitor to the pages of Pol Position for the next couple of weeks.


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Yet even for Britain's beleaguered Chancellor, to be blessed by Olli Rehn, European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, must feel a bit like the kiss of death.
A mild mannered and basically decent Finn who has never looked comfortable in his role as Europe's economic slave driver in chief, Mr Rehn is admittedly only a spokesman for policies he surely cannot believe in.
There is, however, no quarrelling with the results – they have been utterly disastrous, helping to induce socially destructive levels of unemployment and economic contraction in large parts of Europe, and now open political insurrection in Italy. Praise from Mr Rehn – according to the economics commissioner, Britain is to be congratulated on its fiscal austerity – must therefore be seen as a form of petrification. Europe is steadily freezing over under his gaze.
Superficially, there are of course lots of similarities between what Mr Osborne is trying to do here in the UK and what Europe is imposing on its troublesome periphery. Virtually all advanced economies with big budget deficits are now engaged in varying degrees of fiscal consolidation.
Yet there are also key differences which set the British version of austerity, such as it is, apart from the sort of self-defeating fiscal consolidation we are seeing in the eurozone. This is now unambiguously apparent in the data. Revisions to UK GDP published on Wednesday show that last year the UK economy grew 0.3pc, and actually quite a bit more if you ignore disruptions to production of North Sea oil. It now appears that onshore Britain never had a double-dip recession. Unemployment is also falling, with substantial private sector job creation.
The eurozone, meanwhile, contracted by 0.6pc last year, and by considerably more in the nations with deficit challenges similar to those of Britain. The European Commission forecasts a further 0.3pc contraction this year, against 0.9pc growth in the UK. Nobody is pretending the British economy is a bed of roses, but relative to those with similar fiscal challenges, things aren't really that bad. What are the reasons for this?
One is that the timetable of fiscal consolidation isn't proceeding nearly as fast in the UK as it is in the eurozone periphery, and indeed has already been twice extended by Mr Osborne to take account of slower growth.
In Britain, we are said to be a quarter of the way into the deficit reduction programme, yet you wouldn't know this from the support the economy is continuing to get from relatively strong growth in government consumption, which in real terms was up 2.9pc year on year in the final quarter of last year.
OECD analysis suggests that in the four years to 2014, UK fiscal consolidation will have amounted to "only" 4pc of GDP. This compares with 16pc in Greece, 12pc in Portugal and 10pc in Spain and Ireland. Osborne talks tough on the deficit, but in reality he's just a wussy compared with the masochists of Europe.
For those who take the debate on fiscal multipliers seriously, this is a crucial distinction, for according to analysis by the International Monetary Fund there may be an optimal level of consolidation beyond which it can be quite counter-productive to stray.
This level is around one percentage point of GDP a year, which is roughly where the UK sits. Much higher than this and it becomes self-defeating, in that the task of fiscal consolidation is further steepened by the contraction in the economy it is likely to induce. Governments end up chasing their tails, with spending cuts weakening the economy to a degree where it becomes necessary to make still further cuts just to stay in the same place fiscally.
The other main difference is that unlike the eurozone periphery, forced to borrow in what is in effect a foreign currency that dances to the tune of German monetary demands, Britain still has its own currency and central bank.
This allows the UK to counteract fiscal consolidation with ultra-loose monetary policy, and most crucially of all, it allows the UK government to continue borrowing at extraordinarily low interest rates. Britain has therefore remained largely immune to the mutually reinforcing combination of rising sovereign yields and failing banks we have seen sweep the eurozone periphery.
In a recent paper, Paul de Grawe, of the London School of Economics, and Yuemei Ji of the University of Leuven, convincingly argue that excessive eurozone austerity is an entirely unnecessary panic reaction to widening sovereign debt spreads, which are in themselves a direct consequence of deficient European monetary policy.
German abhorrence of anything that looks like monetary financing of governments has prevented the European Central Bank from engaging in the sovereign bond buying, or quantitative easing, we have seen in Britain, the US and Japan.
It was only after the euro came to the very brink of collapse that the ECB was persuaded to start playing its proper role as a lender of last resort, first by buttressing the banking system with its LTRO programme, and later the sovereign debt market by promising to buy government bonds without limit.
Yet in order to assuage German concerns, this latter promise has been made conditional on governments agreeing a strict reform agenda, including punishing targets for fiscal consolidation. At the weekend, Italy voted decisively against such conditions, threatening renewed financial mayhem.
All this leads to two conclusions – one familiar and the other quite surprising. The familiar conclusion is that by imposing policies they think essential to keep the euro on the road, Europe's political elites are only further undermining it. People can see that austerity isn't working and are already, in their droves, voting against it. If this carries on, they'll eventually seek liberation from the euro's shackles.
As far as I can tell, Beppe Grillo is a comparatively harmless protest politician and, like all good comedians, he seems to talk a great deal of common sense. Unfortunately, there are much worse populists than him waiting in the wings. Far from reinforcing Europe's golden age of post-war stability, the single currency seems only to be tearing it apart.
The more surprising conclusion is that despite the strictures from both right and left, the Coalition has got the broad outline of fiscal consolidation more or less spot on. The composition could be better, but the macro-economics are about right.
None of this is to argue the eurozone periphery doesn't have a serious competitiveness problem . But for reform and austerity to command public support, it must be self imposed and democratically accountable, and it must proceed at a pace compatible with social and political stability. All these things are missing in what the eurozone is attempting to do.


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Mountainfilm necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 162 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
Please stay away from literal translations of our name as the festival is much more than mountains and film. The winning logo needs to be unique to Mountainfilm and stand alone as a symbol of the festival. Use of film, reels, cameras, etc. can be used to describe any festival and without the name Mountainfilm will not be associated with our festival alone. Please think outside of the name to design an iconic logo that is scalable, describable and unique.
Mountainfilm in Telluride
Mountainfilm in Telluride is one of the longest running adventure & environmental film festivals. Our mission is to educate and inspire audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining.
We began as a climbing festival in 1979 but have grown to encompass so many aspects of the world with Mountain Culture as our core.
We are now embarking on a new adventure of our own as we expand our presence int he world through a touring film festival, a DVD, web video, and multiple other forms of communicating with the world. Because of this we want to develop a unified logo design that will be recognizable, scalable and describable.
We need a visual representation of our brand that can easily translate to all of the various mediums we plan to engage (listed above). I would encourage you to visit our web site for more detailed information about our organization and what we stand for. I am also available to further elaborate or provide past logos that don't work.
We're trying to stay away from fully literal translations of ourname as the festival itself is so much more than mountains and film. Wehave a global consciousness and have a mission to educate and inspireaudiences. The winning logo will need to be unique to Mountainfilm andable to stand alone as a symbol of the festival. Use of film, reels,cameras, etc. can be used to describe any festival and without the nameMountainfilm will not be associated with our festival alone. Pleasethink outside of the name to come up with an iconic logo that will bescalable, describable and unique.
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SANIBEL, Fla. — It's Friday night in Sanibel, one of Florida's causeway islands, and like many other Jews on the island, I'm headed to church – the United Congregational Church of Christ on Periwinkle Way, to be precise. We're not searching for Jesus, though – our destination is the church's fellowship hall, where an Aron Kodesh sits unobtrusively in the corner, its doors opened only when the Jews convene for services.
The church has been an unlikely gathering point for members of Congregation Bat Yam for the past 20 years, though I've come on a quiet night, I later learn. The dozen older couples gathered for this yarmulke-optional service, many in flip-flops, are by no means representative of the crowd Friday night services usually attracts. "We have 132 families as members," says Mike Hochschild, a Sanibel resident for the past 12 years. "Eighty-three people showed up for our Passover seder."
As the only child in the room, my eight-year-old daughter, Amy, attracts appreciative glances from the worshippers, most of whom live far from their children and grandchildren. When the service wraps up and the lay leader asks if anyone has any good news, many are keen to talk. They voice the progress their grandchildren are making in distant states, glowing with pride as they share news of their family. One granddaughter is accompanying a Birthright group to Israel just weeks after receiving her graduate degree; another is performing in a play that night. The members of Bat Yam have chosen the Sunshine State for their retirement, but its price is distance from the kids and grandkids they cherish.
Later, over mango sorbetto from the local ice-cream shop, Mike describes why he loves the island. "We have 20 miles of biking trails, and no buildings higher than three stories," he says.
"Seventy per cent of the island is a nature preserve," adds his wife, Tanya. "Today, while playing golf, all I could hear was the hoarse croak of alligators in mating season."
True, in terms of wildlife, the causeway islands are rich. At the marina of the South Seas Island Resort on Captiva, a half-hour's drive north of Sanibel, we watch 1,300-pound manatee cows, bulls and calves feed on the seagrass that sustains them. We listen to the breathy snorting of these gentle giants of the sea, relatives of the elephant family who move slowly and lack any ability to defend themselves whatsoever. Their snouts and grey backs are the only parts of their mammoth bodies visible as they gorge, luxuriating in the marina's warm water.
Clambering aboard a Captiva Cruises ferry to Cabbage Key, more wildlife is minutes away as dolphins dip and dive in the vessel's wake. For a hobby orthithologist like me, the islands are a bird-watching mecca. Ospreys are almost as numerous and vocal as seagulls, grabbing fish from the gulf and trailing it in their talons to their nests. We see pelicans gliding inches from the ocean, egrets and herons standing stockstill in the shallows, and giant frigate birds suspended on the thermals as if attached to the string of a long kite.
But it's the shell-hunting we've come for. The location of the causeway islands coupled with the movement of the tides means that an exquisite array of shells washes up on the beach each day. Finding them means long walks on the soft white sand, with eyes to the ground and frequent stops to unearth and inspect a brilliant array of shells. With the help of a sheller's identification guide we separate bivalves from univalves, conches from whelks.
Later, at the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, we gawk at the immaculate specimens others have foraged from Florida's beaches: the brilliant, fiery orange hues of the lion's paw and the graceful arch of the lightning whelk. Behind glass cases we see the exquisitely symmetrical spots of the dubious volute and the sharp spines of paz's murex.
The word "paradise" is tossed around a lot in Sanibel, and you don't have to look far to see why. Devoid of high-rises, big-box stores and large shopping malls, the island is a place to appreciate the simple pleasures of life, particularly on the endless expanses of its pristine beaches. Families come to this conservation-focused island to cavort in the warm surf of the Gulf, build elaborate sand sculptures and hunt for the trophy shells that literally litter the beach.
For a deeper understanding of the island's ecology and wildlife, we take a guided tour through one of the nation's busiest national wildlife refuges, the 6,000-acre "Ding" Darling. Here, we learn about the ubiquitous mangrove trees with finger-like roots that anchor the islands in place. The only trees that survive in saltwater, the mangroves prevent hurricanes from tearing the islands to shreds and create invaluable habitat and nutrients for aquatic life. We watch tree crabs scurry over mangrove branches, ospreys feed their young and egrets as they catch their next meal. We also learn about the 11-foot American crocodile that once called Sanibel home.
"She lived quite happily in the "Ding" Darling refuge until folks starting feeling sorry for her," says Barry Litofsky, our naturalist. "They felt she should be with other crocs, so she was caught and relocated 60 miles away." Just months later, that old croc was back, though. "She'd swum up river, seen the sign for Sanibel and taken a right turn," jokes Litofsky. A popular fixture at the refuge, she stayed there until her death in 2010, but her passing caused enough commotion to warrant a memorial service at "Ding" Darling. "Two hundred and fifty people showed up for that service," he says with a wry smile. "They brought pictures and memories, toasting that old croc with Gatorade."
If You Go: For general information on Sanibel and Captiva, call 1-800-237-6444 and/or visit www.fortmyers-sanibel.com.


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Because the project would far exceed the city's zoning restrictions, Stanford is required to provide a series of negotiated "public benefits" in its development agreement with Palo Alto.
Negotiations between Stanford and the city began to accelerate in June, when the hospital offered the city $124 million in benefits, including new bike lanes, an expanded shuttle service, Caltrain Go Passes for all hospital employees and $23.1 million to support the city's affordable-housing programs. City officials are hoping to complete negotiations in the spring.
On Tuesday (Jan. 18), Stanford announced that it has upped its offer by $49 million — to $173 million. The additions include $12 million to support Palo Alto's efforts to combat climate change and encourage renewable energy, an accelerated payment schedule and an offer to pay $1.1 million if Stanford's expanded facilities end up costing the city more money than they generate.
The new offer aims to assuage the city's primary concerns about the hospital proposal — its impact on local traffic. Members of the City Council had consistently pressed Stanford to mitigate its traffic impacts and to address the shortage of local housing for the new employees. At one point, some council members had insisted that Stanford build housing for the new employees next to the hospital to reduce traffic impacts.
Though Palo Alto is no longer insisting that Stanford build hundreds of new homes, city officials and residents remain concerned about traffic impacts. The Draft Environmental Impact Report for the project stated that "there is no single feasible mitigation measure that can reduce the impacts to a less-than-significant level" but recommended a series of mitigation measures, including new undercrossings for bicycles and pedestrians, new traffic signals and programs to encourage workers to use public transportation.
Advanced Planning Manager Steven Turner, who is managing the Stanford Environmental Impact Report (EIR) process, said the bulk of the comments on the Draft EIR relate to potential traffic issues. Staff is now responding to these comments and will include its responses in the Final EIR, which the city plans to release in February.
Stanford's new package includes $126 million for programs relating to traffic reduction, including $91 million to pay for Caltrain Go Passes for all hospital employees. The cost of the Go Passes has increased from $65 million in the previous offer. Stanford is also offering to add four Marguerite shuttles to its fleet, to lease parking spaces in an East Bay lot, to pay for a transportation-demand manager and to support AC Transit and the U-line.
Though Stanford is proposing to include these transportation programs as "community benefits" in its development agreement, council members have characterized them in the past as "mitigation measures" that Stanford would be required to institute to get environmental clearance for the project.
City Manager James Keene said the council plans to evaluate both the mitigations (which will be listed in the project's Final EIR) and Stanford's proposed benefits the next few months before reaching a decision on the project in April. He called Stanford's latest proposal a "good foundation" for the coming discussions.
"We're pleased that we've received the proposed terms for the development agreement," Keene said. "I'm looking forward to us working through both of those (benefits and mitigations) side by side, together."
Stanford's new proposal also includes a $23.2 million payment to Palo Alto to "support affordable housing and sustainable neighborhood and community development" — up from the $23.1 million in its earlier proposal. Stanford is also now offering the city $12 million for projects and programs addressing climate change and investments in renewable energy and energy conservation — benefits that weren't included in its prior proposal.
Mike Peterson, Stanford's vice president for special projects, said Stanford put together its latest proposal after extensive conversations with city staff and community members since last July. He said Stanford decided to offer the city $12 million for renewable energy and conservation as part of its effort to support energy conservation.
Stanford is also offering Palo Alto $1.1 million to compensate the city for any increases in expenditures the city could potentially incur in providing services to the expanded hospital facilities. Though Stanford's economic consultant estimated that the city would realize an $8.4 million surplus over the 30-year development agreement period, the city's consultant said the project could lead to a potential deficit of $1.1 million.
"We basically said that while we don't necessarily agree with that analysis, in order to give you assurance that you'll break even, we'll offer up the $1.1 million," Peterson said.
Peterson said his conversations with Palo Alto officials over the past year have given him confidence about the project's progress. Stanford is facing a state requirement to seismically retrofit its hospital facilities by 2018.
"I think the nature of the work we've had with city staff and the council has been much more positive in the past year," Peterson said. "We definitely see movement in the positive directions — that's the most important thing."
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Award Will Help Animal Care Groups During Tough Times
The Berkeley Alliance for Homeless Animals Coalition will receive $474,200 on April 23 for winning the Maddie's Fund Lifesaving Award.
The award, given by Maddie's Fund and the Pet Rescue Foundation, a family foundation funded by Workday and PeopleSoft, will help the coalition to care for hundreds of homeless animals.
The coalition consists of the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society, the City of Berkeley's Animal Care Services and Home At Last, a Berkeley-based rescue organization.
The Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society will receive $200,240, Berkeley Animal Care Services will receive $176,320 and Home at Last Animal Rescue will receive $97,440.
The coalition was formed when the East Bay Humane Society submitted the application for the award last August on behalf of all three groups.
Katherine S. O'Donnell, director of development and communications at the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society, said the award would help the shelter weather the economic downturn.
"Our plan is to save as many animals' lives as possible within our means," she said. "The award money provides us the necessary support, but we will also need to rely on private donations."
The organization, located at 2700 Ninth St., closed its veterinary hospital to the public Feb. 1 due to financial losses and is focusing its effort on caring for its shelter animals. Its funding comes from adoption fees, private donations and grants.
Jill Posener, a member of the city's Citizens Humane Commission, praised the East Bay Humane Society for taking the lead in applying for the award.
"I think they did a great job," Posener said.
Kate O'Connor, manager of Berkeley Animal Care Services, said she was very excited about the award, which she said would go toward building the new Berkeley Animal Shelter on the northern end of Aquatic Park.
"I am very appreciative of it," O'Connor said. "The first thing that popped in my mind is that we could use it for the new shelter." She said that even with a capital fundraising campaign the shelter's construction fund is short by about $1 million.
O'Connor said the shelter is caring for 20 percent more animals compared with this time last year. It can cost between $500 to $1,000 to take care of old, injured or sick animals. Daily costs for every rescue is about $15, and many of them stay as long as six months.
Both the East Bay Humane Society and Home At Last take a lot of animals from the city shelter.
Posener said that the city's animal shelter could have used the money in various ways if it wasn't facing a construction budget shortfall.
"I am very happy," Posener said. "But it's disappointing that in the longer term we don't get to use the money for programs. Instead we have to use it for bricks and mortar. If we were not in bad financial straits it could have been used for education programs, additional spay and neuter sessions and broadening our outreach. It could also have been used to address staff shortage—the shelter has been having to close because of the lack of staff."
Posener said the funding shortage for the new building was so severe that city officials, in order to reduce expenses, were considering eliminating kennels, medical facilities and the "green element" from its design.
A bond measure approved by Berkeley voters is providing $7.2 million for the new animal shelter, and the city manager's office is contributing another $1 million, she said, adding that the amount still wasn't enough to buy or finish construction on a property of a suitable scale.
The shelter plans to move from 2013 Second St. to the old "Helmet Building" at 1 Bolivar Drive, Posener said, which was previously used by the Berkeley Fire Department, and also as a treatment center.
"It will probably be two years before the new shelter is up and running," she said. "The old building there hasn't been demolished yet."
Home At Last, which does not have an office and instead has volunteers working from home, will be using the award money to pay off bills and save the rest, said Traude Buckland, the group's treasurer.
"With the economy the way it is, it's nice to get a little extra, and nice to get the recognition," Buckland said.
Buckland said her group had been instrumental in getting the euthanasia rates at the Berkeley Animal Shelter down to less than 15 percent. Seven years ago the rate was 60 percent.
The Berkeley Animal Shelter currently has the lowest euthanasia percentage than any municipal shelter in California, Posener said.
Cats and dogs rescued by Home At Last are cared for at foster homes until they get adopted, which happens through their website or mobile adoptions every Saturday at Fourth Street and the first Sunday of every month at PetCo in El Cerrito.
Buckland said the coalition would have to report annual animal rescue and adoption numbers for three years to Maddie's Fund after winning the award.


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Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 19:18 - Legal Phrases and Expressions, Popular Latin Phrases, Mottos, SlogansTempus fugit
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Translation: Time flies
I already knew that Latin mottos were very common on sundials. As it turns out, clocks at one time also featured Latin phrases. Obviously, you can still custom engrave a quality mantle clock. But this particular masterpiece replicates Wedgwood's original designs from the 1880s and is already ornamented with a Tempus Fugit inscription. As for the price, it is unapproachable, alas!
By the way, the origin of the phrase probably can be found in a line from Viril's Georgics:
Set fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus,
singula dum capti circumvectamur amore.
Fairclough translates beautifully: "But time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall, while we, charmed with love of our theme, linger around each detail!"


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Judge: Developer's $400K driveway must go
Ruling a victory for Stratford condominium owners
BRIDGEPORT -- The millionaire developer who got Bridgeport to buy him a $400,000 driveway to his waterfront mansion may have to tear it up.
Superior Court Judge Dale Radcliffe's ruling Tuesday was a victory for some Stratford condominium owners over Manuel "Manny" Moutinho, and it turned a headache for Mayor Bill Finch into a throbbing migraine.
Radcliffe said Moutinho should not have been allowed to build the driveway, which runs over Bridgeport property to the developer's Stratford home. And the judge said Bridgeport shouldn't have paid for it.
"Neither the taxpayers of Bridgeport, which owns the property ... or their Stratford counterparts, the host municipality, are obligated to contribute to the upgrade, maintenance or repair of the right of way," Radcliffe wrote.
The judge's decision further frustrated members of the Bridgeport City Council who, from the beginning, were left in the dark over the Finch administration's deal with the controversial Moutinho.
"The whole thing is like a Greek tragedy now," said Councilman John Olson, D-132. "It's just getting worse and worse."
Last summer, Moutinho convinced the Stratford Board of Zoning Appeals to allow him to install a 1,000-foot gravel driveway from Sniffen Lane in Stratford through Bridgeport wetlands, for himself and three neighboring property owners.
Completed last month, the driveway replaced a dirt one off of Main Street across from Bridgeport-owned Sikorsky Memorial Airport. The new and old driveways ran through rights of way Bridgeport granted over airport land.
Residents of nearby Breakwater Key condominiums, furious that the project ruined their tranquil surroundings, in September sued Stratford and Moutinho to stop the work.
Radcliffe, in a 17-page decision, ruled that Moutinho had not provided enough justification for his driveway permits.
"I'm now going to call the Stratford zoning enforcement officer and tell him to have the developer rip it up," said attorney Richard Saxl, who represents the Breakwater residents.
Moutinho assumed the risk of beginning construction while the lawsuit played out in court.
"I asked the developer not to proceed with putting in the driveway when we filed our lawsuit, but he went ahead at his own risk, and now the judge has ruled against him and the zoning board," Saxl said. "It looks like a lot of money has gone down the drain."
And that money belonged to Bridgeport taxpayers.
As Hearst Connecticut Newspapers reported last month, the Finch administration quietly took over the driveway project from Moutinho, then hired the developer's own Mark IV Construction company to build it.
The justification? The city had finally negotiated a deal with Stratford, state and federal authorities to improve runway safety at Sikorsky Airport two decades after a plane crash there killed eight people.
The original dirt driveway used by Moutinho and his neighbors is in the way of the $42 million safety project. And for unknown reasons, according to Bridgeport, Moutinho was dragging his heels over building the new driveway.
"We went up and said, `We need to take it over. We'll build it for you just to get you out of our way,' " Sikorsky Airport Manager John Ricci told Hearst last month.
In March, Ricci -- with Moutinho's blessing -- had Stratford transfer the building permits to Bridgeport. Ricci then bypassed the competitive bidding process, instead soliciting three price quotes from Bridgeport contractors. Moutinho's price was the last submitted and the cheapest, so he got the contract to build his own driveway.
Although the mayor's office has continually defended the $400,000 expense as legal and necessary, Finch suspended Ricci with pay last month after Hearst asked the administration what it knew about Ricci's longtime friendship and real estate dealings with Moutinho.
Although Bridgeport was not a defendant in Breakwater's lawsuit, Radcliffe's decision puts the city in a difficult situation. Ricci, who has not returned reporters' phone calls since his suspension, said last month the city knew it was taking a chance when it decided to move ahead with the driveway work.
"Our city attorneys looking at the appeal thought it was worth the risk to do it," Ricci said.
During the one-day trial of the lawsuit on June 3 Radcliffe gave Saxl, along with Stratford's and Moutinho's lawyers, the opportunity to let Bridgeport join the case, but they declined. Bridgeport city officials were aware of the trial, but did not attend.
Because Bridgeport assumed Moutinho's building permits after he obtained them, Radcliffe's decision did not address the city's argument that Moutinho's driveway had to be relocated to accommodate the Sikorsky safety project.
Under the law, Radcliffe had to base his ruling solely on the information available to Stratford land use officials when they issued Moutinho's permits, and on any evidence presented at the June 3 trial.
As of last summer, Moutinho claimed he needed to build what at the time was a $200,000 driveway because state environmental officials had ordered Bridgeport to abandon the dirt driveway and because the right-of-way flooded.
"A search of the records fails to reveal any (state) order," Radcliffe wrote. In fact, the judge said, Moutinho could have repaired his existing dirt driveway -- at no expense to the city of Bridgeport.
So what now?
Moutinho and Stratford could ask the state Appellate Court to consider overturning Radcliffe's decision. And the Finch administration could ask the court to let Bridgeport join the appeal. But the city would not be allowed to introduce new evidence -- such as the need to improve airport safety -- for granting Moutinho's building permits.
Moutinho or Bridgeport could apply to Stratford for new permits, allowing them to keep the gravel driveway. Moutinho's lawyer, Danielle Bercury, did not immediately return calls and emails for comment.
Stratford Town Attorney Timothy Bishop said Radcliffe did a thorough and thoughtful job.
"The town really doesn't have a side," he said. "If on appeal the courts determine a different outcome is warranted, our role is to ensure that outcome is implemented and the rules are enforced fully and fairly."
Bridgeport City Attorney Mark Anastasi said in a prepared statement, "The city is reviewing the court's decision, as we are certain the named defendants are also doing, and we will determine an appropriate course of action."
In the meantime, Holly Fichtel, a Breakwater condominium owner, celebrated Radcliffe's decision.
"Hallelujah, hallelujah," Fichtel said. "We are really pleased."


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Last night was Retro Night at the Phillies/Padres game. This is the type of thing a team does to keep a sell-out streak alive when a) the Padres are in town, b) on a Friday night in summer, c) when the temperature at first pitch is 98 °F.
Pictured here is Phillies commentator Gary Matthews, surrounded by two gals who took the gimmick to heart (and, likely, the thrift shop), while a really creepy fellow contemplates his next move. Not pictured here are the HD video-board renditions of players morphed into images of Prince (Purple Rain version), Isaac (he of tending the Pacific Princess bar) and others.
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Instant payday loans are short-term money provisions. These money provisions provide instant cash direct into your account in less than 24 hours. You can apply for such loans online and offline, though online applying is preferred these days.
Payday Loans, Payday Loans Uk, Cash Loans, Instant Payday Loans, Cash Advance Payday Loans
The problem is that you borrow money for a reason ?the reason to tide over to payday, to fund a holiday, some home improvement etc. the focus on what the way we want to get the fast cash. For Instant Payday Loans has given a good answer to the spending question and suggested to spend now and repay the amount tomorrow. Altogether, it has become an ethos of the day.
Here is certain eligibility criteria that you need to fulfill in order to qualify for these payday loans. For example, it is must for you to be at least 18 years of age and to be permanent citizen of the UK. Besides that, the most important factor is that, you must have a stable employment and an active checking account. Your present job should be at least three months old. As older your job, the more your chances of securing instant approval gets brighter. A checking account is a bank account, in which your monthly salary is credited every month on the payday.
Before you hit the shops you should start with a planning of your expenses. You know that borrowing will almost always cost you money. Is saving is a possibility instead? You should think also about what you would do if interest rates rise again. Most people will look no further than their own bank or building society, but a variety of providers now offers instant payday loans. It is certainly pays to shop around. Do not assume that your bank will offer you the best deal. Go to a name that you can trust and steer clear of dubious-looking adverting sections.
Using Internet, many lenders have gone online to provide payday loans. Gone are the days when you had to submit supporting documents to apply for a cash loan. All you need to do now is simply login to a lender's website, complete online application form, and wait for them to do verification. The whole process can take as quick as one hour or so. And a little later, you will get the money deposited directly into your bank account.


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Milk meltdown: Nursing mom gets Burrito boot
If some of the protesters who showed up on the Downtown Mall on Friday, June 4, were feeling "let down," it's understandable. Though protests against the current situation in Iraq have become a near-everyday occurrence in Charlottesville, Friday's event had a different focus: the right of mothers to breastfeed their babies in public.
For folks who just strolled by, the purpose may not have been immediately clear.
"What's Bush done now?" asked one woman as she surveyed the stroller-saturated scene. Glimpsing signs reading "Breast is best" and "Formula is inferior," she asked, "Has he banned breastfeeding?"
In all, dozens of men, women, and children turned out to show support for what nursing mother Suzanna Stone calls a "beautiful, natural, normal, wonderful experience."
It didn't feel so wonderful two days earlier, Stone says, when she took her two children to lunch at new downtown eatery Atomic Burrito. While Stone and her five-year-old daughter, Gypsy, ordered burritos, six-month-old Phoenix had her standard liquid lunch, mom's milk.
But Stone says she hadn't been nursing long when the owner of the establishment approached her with what she calls a "shocking" message. "I just want to let you know that what you're doing is completely inappropriate for a restaurant this size," he told her.
Stone says she expressed her displeasure and asked for her money back.
"I had to pack my children and leave," she says. "I have never confronted this."
In fact, Stone says, she has met with only positive feedback to public nursing, even in some unlikely places.
"I sat on the floor of the Dollar General in Scottsville," she recalls. The employees of the store, she says, "asked only if I needed anything."
When she leaked her Atomic Burrito story on a homeschooling website, the parenting community quickly latched on.
"The fact that somebody is so close minded to think that breastfeeding is dirty is pathetic," raged Suzanne Lochner, mother of a six-year-old and a 15-month-old. Her children, she says, were breastfed "whenever they needed."
Doug Sulouff, father of year-old Cassidy, was on the scene to "show support."
And soon-to-be-dad Janus Raphaelidis said he "found it hard to believe that someone would be so stupid."
With all the backlash, Atomic Burrito owners Josh Yowell and Andrew Vaughan may have been feeling a bit, well, booby-trapped, but their quick response to the uproar pleased the protesters.
By Thursday afternoon, the two had crafted an official policy welcoming breastfeeding mothers to the establishment. "We love kids," says Yowell. "We want families to come here."
The whole incident, he explains, was a "big mistake."
Yowell explains that he had been approached by "an older woman" who told him she would be taking her lunch away since she was too uncomfortable to eat within sight of Stone and her hungry baby.
After thinking about what to do for a few minutes, Yowell says he made the decision he now regrets.
"I feel really bad about it," he says.
Vaughan, who wasn't present the day of the nursing incident, says he "hadn't slept" in the two days prior to the protest because of the stress. He says both he and Yowell want to make sure that all families feel welcome at the burrito joint.
"We want to raise awareness," says Vaughan, "and hopefully this won't happen again."
That's all Stone– and the other protesters– are hoping for.
With the success of the protest spurring them on, Stone says she's hoping Delegate Rob Bell, himself the father of a breastfed one-year-old, will sponsor a bill giving nursing mothers the right to breastfeed in any public place. Current state law allows women to nurse on any property owned by the Commonwealth, but leaves nursing at private businesses up to the owner's discretion.
Bell did not immediately return the Hook's call.
In the meantime, Stone says she holds no grudge against Atomic Burrito, and hopes others will follow her forgiving lead.
"They put up a sign welcoming nursing mothers!" Stone shouted to thunderous applause from protesters.
"I think this turned out perfectly," she says. "I think it's a good thing it happened."
Suzanna Stone was asked to leave a local eatery after breastfeeding her six-month-old daughter, Phoenix.
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Not exactly sure of your question. If you need to color match, you'll have to work with the vendor to get them done up right. If I remember correctly, you can send them a part to match and they will color match it and send it back to you along with the paint.
However I think most people assume you won't get a GOOD color match, and just redo the whole rifle.
HK semi-gloss black is a VERY good general-purpose black. Matte black is MATTE and tends to look a little more "washed out" for lack of a better description. Don't let "semi-gloss" fool you... it isn't "shiny" at all and perfectly appropriate for a combat rifle.
I have had good results when mixing about half-and-half HK semi gloss and matte but I'm not sure it is worth the effort to do all the mixing.
Not sure if Lauer has a FAL color in their listing? May be worth a look.


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"Wilmington Lacrosse applauds Rippin' Rope Lacrosse for the opportunities that it has created for the beginning lacrosse player and ones who desire to improve his or her skills through clinics and camps. The success of Rippin' Rope is a testament to the excellent teaching and coaching that players receive on all levels."
Carol Spiker, Wilmington Lacrosse
"... the kids really enjoyed the camp and we will surely be sending more this year."
- Brett Townsend, Head Coach, Dickinson High School
"...They came out energized and ready to roll."
Middletown Camp parent
".. we will definitely do this again. It was a great week!!!"
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Audi's E-tron electric sports car was one of our favorites at the Detroit auto show in January. Now the E-tron is back, at the Paris show, without a roof but with the addition of a twin-turbo V6 diesel behind the seats.
Electricity still plays a major role in the E-tron Spyder--the front wheels each have an electric motor for propulsion.
The E-tron Spyder comes in at 71 inches wide, 160 inches long and only about 44 inches high. That's longer and wider than the hardtop version. Audi says it highlights the sportier design and overall appearance of the car.
The open-top vehicle features frameless side glass that tapers down toward the rear. The windshield combines with the side glass to emulate the profile of a racing helmet's visor.
The front view of the E-tron is characterized by a sharp, sweeping line that identifies the car immediately as a four-ringed Audi. The angled front end gives the E-tron a sporty, wedgelike look and features two cooling intakes for the electric motors.
Like today's Audis, the headlights are ultra-efficient, light-emitting diodes. Audi's trademark four rings fold away exposing the charging station for batteries. A display showing the charge level and a map graphic indicating the current range is also under the panel.
Behind the seats of the E-tron are two cowls that act as cooling vents for the diesel engine and hide roll bars that pop up in the event of an accident.
The concept car wears 20-inch wheels with a similar look to that of the coupe concept but transformed into a three-dimensional turbine design. The rims are made of lightweight aluminum and carbon and are comprised of 66 individual components.
No word has been given on power and torque numbers for the E-tron Spyder, or electric range, but with a twin turbodiesel and two motors up front, we expect it to be seriously quick with loads of torque low in the rev range.


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Reality TV star-turned-DJ Paul "Pauly D" DelVecchio can't wait to meet his baby daughter, Amabella, for the first time, revealing even a custody battle with her mother can't dampen his excitement.
The former "Jersey Shore" star recently learned he's the father of the 5-month-old, and now he's fighting her mother, waitress Amanda Markert, for full custody of the tot.
Speaking for the first time since discovering he's a dad, DelVecchio tells In Touch magazine, "My number one focus is my daughter. Everything in my life will now revolve around her and what's best for her.
"I cannot wait to meet her. I've never been so excited in my entire life. I'm proud to be a father, and I'm ready for it."
The in-demand DJ met the baby's mother while performing at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino's Rehab party in Las Vegas. Markert kept the birth a secret until recently serving her one-time lover with paternity papers.


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The wait is almost over: Samsung Galaxy SIII i.e. GT-i9300 will debut in the next couple of weeks, followed by world-wide availability. We learned few surprises, though.
For a very long period of time, it was speculated what screen will power the Samsung Galaxy SIII i.e. GT-I9300. Galaxy SII (GT-I9100) shipped with 4.3" Super AMOLED Plus screen and 800×480 resolution. Current high-end, Galaxy Nexus (GT-I9250) features a massive 4.65 inch Super AMOLED Plus display with 1280×720 (i.e. HD Ready resolution). The rumors about the screen were quite wild, with some rumors even claiming a 1920×1080 resolution in a 4.8" screen. Besides the fact that such display doesn't exist (yet), it seems that Samsung decided to remain in the 4.3" display range, but the company wasn't able to bring HD Ready resolution in a small OLED matrix. Instead, the Galaxy SIII uses 4.3" Super AMOLED Plus display with 1024×600 resolution, which we saw on a large number of netbooks and first generation Android tablets.
Furthermore, processing power increased, but not to the factor you might have expected it. Galaxy SIII GT-I9300 will come with the same Exynos SoC which debuted in Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000, i.e. two Cortex-A9 cores operating at 1.4GHz, paired with a more powerful version of Mali T-400MP. The exact number of shader cores won't be known until the release date of either the tablet or the phone. If benchmark results hold true, Samsung Galaxy SIII will not feature a quad-core processor, as it was widely rumored.
Samsung I9300 (SIII) vs. I9250 (G Nexus) vs. I9100 (SII) vs. HTC One X
In terms of performance, screenshot above compares the Galaxy SIII to its predecessor (Galaxy SII), current high-end (Galaxy Nexus) and a quad-core Tegra 3 powered phone, the HTC One X. RightWare's Basemark ES 2.0 Taiji benchmark stresses the GPU portion of the chip, and it runs the benchmark in a native resolution. Thus, the results are not apples-to-apples but from the framerates extracted, you can see the amount of performance you can expect with GT-I9300.
If we take results from Pantech Vega (Qualcomm MSM8960) and Huawei's Ascend D quad XL phone (Hisilicon K3V2), it looks like Galaxy SIII will only be third best performing phone in this demanding GPU benchmark, with Adreno 225 GPU in Pantech leading the way, and Hisilicon Vivante-licensed GPU being close second.
This year is more and more looking like dual-core versus quad-core, and we're not that certain Samsung holds the best cards (which was the case with Galaxy SII and Galaxy Nexus).


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How concerned are consumers about Steve Jobs' departure from Apple?
Not too worried -- at least in the short term -- If sales are any indication. A survey by ChangeWave Research reveals that only about 4 percent of 2,300 people asked are less likely to buy Apple products now that Jobs is not the CEO of the company.
About 89 percent said they couldn't care less about whether Jobs was Apple's CEO when weighing whether to buy an iPhone or iPad.
The findings are boosted by two other surveys that show 80 percent of companies say the iPad is their preferred tablet and another survey that found 85 percent of consumer choose the iPad over other tablets.
"The results suggest that Jobs' previous absences have had an 'inoculating' effect that over time has allayed consumer concerns on whether the company could operate at the same level without Steve Jobs at
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It had to happen and it has. The holier than thou brigade have fired their angry arrows at the rising star of Ashtanga Yoga, Kino Macgregor, and they've thrown these white hot coals because Kino, in their opinion, is not adhering to the yoga philosophy laid down thousands of years ago and that's the point, it was laid down thousands of years ago.
The current Ashtanga yogi's take their philosophy and teachings mostly from those of Krishna Pattabi Jois who himself was the 'student', as it's commonly known nowadays though it may have been known as 'disciple' at the time, of Krishnamacharya who preached that one should make yoga propaganda and to get the message out there. I support that one.
Krishnamacharya in a thong
From my own experience the world would be a totally different place if everyone practiced yoga. I think it should be taught in schools as part of Physical Education and also as part of Religious Education as yoga crosses both boundaries. One only has to pick up an Ashtanga yoga book to know that there are eight limbs of which the asana's (physical postures) are only one. The eight limbs are very similar to the Buddhist eightfold path and also to the Ten Commandments though in Yoga, which is, or at least originally was (he says controversially), a hindu philosophy there is no commanding going on which is also the case with the Buddhist eightfold path – there is no reward and no punishment for following or for not following except that from and for your own self.
Yoga in schools has already courted controversy as it's 'not Christian', which is like most people then in the west, because for most people who say they are Christian, it's just a convenience so they know what to put in that blank box on passport and census applications.
Kino has been pointed at for her style of yoga clothes – talk about attachment and aversion! It gets hot in an ashtanga yoga class and I wear as little as I can get away with (vest and shorts and when it gets really sweaty the shorts get rolled up as high as is possible to go). In the warmer parts men mostly just wear shorts and in some cases, I will sit down before I say the next word – speedos ! – and women wear bikinis, but so what? If people are getting distracted by this or fearing that a bout of lust might come upon them, then that, at least, shows them where they're stuck. This clothes fascism is akin in some ways to the Catholic Church not allowing female priests, cardinals or popes although I think the only reason for that is because the celibate men have all the frocks.
Kino is trying to get yoga on to TV. This has amazingly upset the upper brethren of Mysore yogis. What seems to be the yoga moan lately is whether yoga should or shouldn't be an Olympic event or whether yoga should become prime time TV. The argument mostly being that the Asanas, what most of the world think is yoga, is not the whole yoga. My personal opinion on this is that when people come to yoga for whatever reason, they are all the better for it and some, probably quite a high percentage, eventually dig deeper and begin to want to breathe properly, try to then maybe regularly practice meditation which leads on to greater empathy and compassion and kindness and bigger eyes to see the world with.
If the population would frown at yoga on TV, yet sit glued to Strictly Come Dancing or the greatest karaoke show on Earth (X Factor) or watch endless programmes about chefs who cook with varying degrees of alcoholism and bad language, then abandon hope all ye who enter etc. Yoga will be on television, this much is for sure and there are many great teachers out there who will embrace the medium and hopefully for the right reasons and Kino should be right up there and lead from the front.
Like it or not, according to Bloomberg, 'Yoga is the fastest growing industry on Earth' (and without any TV!). Bill Harper of Yoga Journal announced, 'it's not just an activity, it's a lifestyle'. Are these facts a bad thing? Maybe only to the brethren of the mountain 'Holier' which is quite a bit higher up the valley than 'thou
My naked half leg (bottom right hand corner) at the end of a Kino workshop in London, England
Everyone has their own path to their own G-D and that's as it should be and whether the path is pathless or not is irrelevant.
see also, 'Kino MacGregor, London' at
'Yoga Mat Death' at
'Kino DVD review' at
Kino's 'how to' videos are here
The article this post addresses by Kino is at


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ACS Guidelines for Nutrition and Physical Activity
About 2 out of 3 Americans are overweight or obese. Many Americans are also less physically active than they should be. Obesity increases the risk of many types of cancer. It also increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other health outcomes, such as dying at an early age.
While it is not clear exactly how excess body fat, consuming too many calories, and lack of physical activity raise cancer risk, there is no question that they are linked to an increased risk of many types of cancer and that they are a serious and growing health problem.
The World Cancer Research Fund estimates that about 20% of all cancers diagnosed in the US are related to body fatness, physical inactivity, excess alcohol consumption, and/or poor nutrition, and thus could also be prevented.
Achieve and maintain a healthy weight throughout life
- Be as lean as possible throughout life without being underweight.
- Avoid excess weight gain at all ages. For those who are overweight or obese, losing even a small amount of weight has health benefits and is a good place to start.
- Get regular physical activity and limit intake of high-calorie foods and drinks as keys to help maintain a healthy weight.
Body weight and cancer risk
Being overweight or obese is clearly linked with an increased risk of several types of cancer:
- Breast (among women who have gone through menopause)
- Colon and rectum
- Endometrium (lining of the uterus)
- Esophagus
- Kidney
- Pancreas
Being overweight or obese also likely raises the risk of other cancers:
- Gallbladder
- Liver
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Cervix
- Ovary
- Aggressive forms of prostate cancer
In addition, having too much belly fat is linked with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, and is probably linked to a higher risk of cancers of the pancreas, endometrium (lining of the uterus), and breast cancer (in women past menopause).
Some studies have shown a link between weight loss and a lower risk of breast cancer after menopause. The risk of some other cancers may also be lowered by weight loss. While there is still much to be learned about this area, people who are overweight or obese are encouraged to lose weight.
Getting to and maintaining a healthy weight
A healthy weight depends on a person's height, so recommendations for a healthy weight are often expressed in terms of body mass index (BMI). BMI is a number that is calculated using your weight and height. In general, the higher the number, the more body fat a person has (although there are exceptions).
BMI is often used as a screening tool to help decide if your weight might be putting you at risk for health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. People should strive to maintain a healthy weight, as seen in the table below.
For most adults, experts consider a BMI within the range of 18.5 to 24.9 to be healthy, a BMI between 25 and 29.9 to be overweight, and a BMI of 30 and over to be obese.
The way to achieve a healthy body weight is to balance energy intake (what you eat and drink) with energy use (physical activity). Excess body fat can be reduced by lowering the number of calories you consume and increasing your physical activity.
You can lower the number of calories that you take in by eating smaller amounts of food (lowering portion sizes), limiting between-meal snacks, and limiting foods and drinks that are high in calories, fat, and/or added sugars, and that provide few nutrients. Fried foods, cookies, cakes, candy, ice cream, and regular soft drinks should be replaced with vegetables and fruits, whole grains, beans, and lower calorie beverages.
Be physically active
- Adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity activity each week (or a combination of these), preferably spread throughout the week.
- Children and teens should get at least 1 hour of moderate or vigorous intensity activity each day, with vigorous activity on at least 3 days each week.
- Limit sedentary behavior such as sitting, lying down, watching TV, and other forms of screen-based entertainment.
- Doing some physical activity above usual activities, no matter what one's level of activity, can have many health benefits.
Benefits of physical activity
Physical activity may reduce the risk of several types of cancer:
- Breast
- Colon
- Endometrium (lining of the uterus)
- Prostate (advanced cancers)
The risk of other cancers may be lowered as well, although the evidence is limited.
A physically active lifestyle may also lower a person's risk of other health problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and osteoporosis (bone thinning).
Being active may also help to prevent weight gain and obesity, which may in turn reduce the risk of developing cancers that have been linked to excess body weight.
Types of activity
Usual activities are those that are done on a regular basis as part of one's daily routine. These activities include those done at work (such as walking from the parking garage to the office), at home (such as climbing a flight of stairs), and those that are part of daily living (such as dressing and bathing). Usual activities are typically brief and of low intensity.
Intentional activities are those that are done in addition to these usual activities. These activities are often planned and done at leisure, as regularly scheduled physical activity or fitness sessions (exercise), such as a bike ride or a run. Other intentional activities may involve adding more purposeful physical activity into the day and making lifestyle choices to add to or replace other routine activities, such as walking to use public transportation or commuting by bicycle instead of driving.
Usual and intentional activities can also be grouped by intensity:
- Light intensity activities include activities such as housework, shopping, or gardening.
- Moderate intensity activities are those that require effort equal to a brisk walk.
- Vigorous intensity activities generally use large muscle groups and result in a faster heart rate, deeper and faster breathing, and sweating.
Examples of moderate and vigorous intensity physical activities
Moderate intensity
Vigorous intensity
Exercise and leisure
Walking, dancing, leisurely bicycling, ice and roller skating, horseback riding, canoeing, yoga
Jogging or running, fast bicycling, circuit weight training, aerobic dance, martial arts, jumping rope, swimming
Volleyball, golfing, softball, baseball, badminton, doubles tennis, downhill skiing
Soccer, field or ice hockey, lacrosse, singles tennis, racquetball, basketball, cross-country skiing
Home activities
Mowing the lawn, general yard and garden maintenance
Digging, carrying and hauling, masonry, carpentry
Workplace activity
Walking and lifting as part of the job (custodial work, farming, auto or machine repair)
Heavy manual labor (forestry, construction, fire fighting)
Recommended amount of activity
Adults should get at least 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity activity or 75 minutes per week of vigorous intensity activity, or an equal combination, in addition to normal activities of daily living.
When combining different types of activity, 1 minute of vigorous activity can take the place of 2 minutes of moderate activity. For example, 150 minutes of moderate activity, 75 minutes of vigorous activity, and a combination of 100 minutes of moderate activity plus 25 minutes of vigorous activity all count as the same amount.
This level of activity has been shown to have clear health benefits, including lowering the risk of dying at an early age and lowering the chance of getting or dying from certain types of cancer. Higher amounts of physical activity may be even better for lowering cancer risk.
It is not clear if daily activity provides the most benefit if done all at once or in smaller blocks of time throughout the day, but it is reasonable to get your activity in separate sessions of at least 20 to 30 minutes each.
For people who are not active or just starting a physical activity program, activity levels below the recommended levels can still help your health, especially your heart. The amount and intensity of activity can then be increased slowly over time. Most children and young adults can safely do moderate and/or vigorous activities without checking with their doctors. But men older than 40 years, women older than 50 years, and people with chronic illnesses or risk factors for heart disease should check with their doctors before starting a vigorous activity program.
Children and teens should be encouraged to be active at moderate to vigorous intensities for at least an hour a day, every day. Activities should be age appropriate, enjoyable, and varied, including sports and fitness activities in school, at home, and in the community. To help reach activity goals, daily physical education programs and activity breaks should be provided for children at school, and "screen time" (TV viewing, playing video games, or social networking on the computer and similar activities) should be limited at home.
Limiting time spent sitting
There is growing evidence that the amount of time spent sitting is important, regardless of your activity level. Sitting time raises the risks of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer, as well as of dying at a younger age.
Lifestyle changes and advances in technology have led to people being less active and spending more time sitting each day. This is true both in the workplace and at home, due to increased TV, computer, and other screen time. Limiting the amount of time spent sitting, as suggested in the table below, may help maintain a healthy body weight and reduce the risk of certain cancers.
Tips to reduce sitting time
Eat a healthy diet, with an emphasis on plant foods
Choose foods and drinks in amounts that help you get to and maintain a healthy weight.
- Read food labels to become more aware of portion sizes and calories. Be aware that "low-fat" or "non-fat" does not necessarily mean "low-calorie."
- Eat smaller portions when eating high-calorie foods.
- Choose vegetables, whole fruit, and other low-calorie foods instead of calorie-dense foods such as French fries, potato and other chips, ice cream, donuts, and other sweets.
- Limit your intake of sugar-sweetened beverages such as soft drinks, sports drinks, and fruit-flavored drinks.
- When you eat away from home, be especially mindful to choose food low in calories, fat, and added sugar, and avoid eating large portion sizes.
Limit how much processed meat and red meat you eat.
- Minimize your intake of processed meats such as bacon, sausage, lunch meats, and hot dogs.
- Choose fish, poultry, or beans instead of red meat (beef, pork, and lamb).
- If you eat red meat, choose lean cuts and eat smaller portions.
- Prepare meat, poultry, and fish by baking, broiling, or poaching rather than by frying or charbroiling.
Eat at least 2½ cups of vegetables and fruits each day.
- Include vegetables and fruits at every meal and for snacks.
- Eat a variety of vegetables and fruits each day.
- Emphasize whole fruits and vegetables; choose 100% juice if you drink vegetable or fruit juices.
- Limit your use of creamy sauces, dressings, and dips with fruits and vegetables.
Choose whole grains instead of refined grain products.
- Choose whole-grain breads, pasta, and cereals (such as barley and oats) instead of breads, cereals, and pasta made from refined grains, and brown rice instead of white rice.
- Limit your intake of refined carbohydrate foods, including pastries, candy, sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals, and other high-sugar foods.
Studies showing that higher vegetable and fruit intake reduces cancer risk have led researchers to try to figure out which specific nutrients from these foods are responsible. But many studies have not found that supplements containing certain nutrients (like vitamins) reduce cancer risk, and some have even suggested they may cause harm. This is complicated because researchers must try to choose how best to give the supplement, including the exact dose, what group of people to give it to, and how long to give it for, which isn't always known.
Studies of nutritional supplements to reduce cancer risk have not all been disappointing, but for the most part, research does not support their use in lowering cancer risk.
Foods and nutrients probably each have small effects on health that add up when consumed together, and they may interact in complex ways that are not well understood. The best advice at this time is to eat whole foods as part of an overall healthy diet as outlined in this guideline, with special emphasis on controlling calorie intake to help get to and maintain a healthy weight.
If you drink alcohol, limit your intake
People who drink alcohol should limit their intake to no more than 2 drinks per day for men and 1 drink per day for women. The recommended limit is lower for women because of their smaller body size and slower breakdown of alcohol.
A drink of alcohol is defined as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1½ ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits (hard liquor). In terms of cancer risk, it is the amount of alcohol consumed that is important, not the type of alcoholic drink.
These daily limits do not mean you can drink larger amounts on fewer days of the week, since this can lead to health, social, and other problems.
Alcohol is a known cause of cancers of the:
- Mouth
- Throat (pharynx)
- Voice box (larynx)
- Esophagus
- Liver
- Colon and rectum
- Breast
Alcohol may also increase the risk of cancer of the pancreas.
Alcohol also interacts with tobacco use to increase the risk of cancers of the mouth, larynx, and esophagus many times more than the effect of either drinking or smoking alone.
The recommendation for limiting alcohol is complicated because low to moderate alcohol intake has been linked with a lower risk of heart disease. Despite the effects on the heart, the American Heart Association states that there is no compelling reason for adults who do not drink alcohol to start drinking in order to reduce their risk of heart disease, because the risk can be lowered by other means (such as avoiding smoking, eating a healthy diet, staying at a healthy weight, and staying physically active).
Some groups of people should not drink alcohol at all. These include:
- Children and teens
- People of any age who cannot limit their drinking or who have a family history of alcoholism
- Women who are or may become pregnant
- People who plan to drive or operate machinery
- People who take part in other activities that require attention, skill, or coordination
- People taking prescription or over-the-counter medicines that interact with alcohol
Recommendations for community action
Although many Americans would like to adopt a healthy lifestyle, many encounter barriers that make it hard to do so. These guidelines therefore stress the importance of public, private, and community organizations working together at national, state, and local levels to apply policy and environmental changes that:
- Increase access to affordable, healthy foods in communities, places of work, and schools, and decrease access to and marketing of foods and drinks of low nutritional value, particularly to youth.
- Provide safe, enjoyable, and accessible environments for physical activity in schools and workplaces, and for transportation and recreation in communities.
Last Medical Review: January 11, 2012 Last Revised: April 13, 2017
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Superior's elected leaders approved a blueprint for future development in the town of 12,500 by passing a comprehensive plan Monday night, Dec. 10, that attracted no shortage of debate.
The most rigorous dispute centered on the future of a 15-acre parcel at the northeast corner of Coalton Road and McCaslin Boulevard, where a proposed residential neighborhood has run into stiff opposition from those who live nearby.
The area, known as "Opportunity Area 7," has been eyed by Richmond American for housing, but that possibility has enraged nearby neighbors who fear houses will be built too close to their own. They'd prefer the parcel become open space or be used for a community purpose, like a park or recreation center.
A couple of trustees, including Mayor Andrew Muckle, wondered why residents would risk having a large commercial development built at the corner in place of homes. But in the end, the board chose to keep the site's land use designation commercial, with the possibility of a community-oriented use there as well.
Superior carved out 11 other opportunity areas throughout town, where residential, commercial or civic projects have been identified as preferred uses. One of the most significant is Superior Town Center, at the southeast corner of McCaslin Boulevard and U.S. 36, where a high-density residential and walkable retail community is envisioned.
Superior's comprehensive plan, which was last updated in 2006, attempts to identify the sort of development the town would like to see in remaining vacant plots. The document acts as a vision statement only, and no zoning decisions were made Monday.
This year's update began early in the year and culminated last month with a robust debate at Town Hall that was cut short by a power outage.


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In 2013 I worked on The Great Gatsby, recreating New York of the mid 1920s. One of the tasks was to develop a shader that simulates the parallax of interior walls behind thousands of building windows. In short, its a simple texture raytracer. In fact it was quick and simple enough for a CgFx port so that artists can have an instant feedback when setting it up.
It was presented at an Autodesk event by our Lighting Lead and featured in Digital Media World interview:
A custom shader we developed was a hologram shader for buildings. Since we didn't have time to model interiors for every building in Manhattan, surfacing artist Artur Vill took an idea from video games, starting from our flat windows and shop fronts and letting us dial in parameters for room depth, wallpaper variation, interior lights, curtains - all from a shader that worked correctly in stereo. Viewers barely notice it in the final shots, but would definitely notice if it wasn't there, and just accept that all the windows have a proper room behind them.
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Updated 08-20-2015 at 08:55 AM by Artur
photo: Romanesco broccoli
I started playing with fractal shaders and in particularity I wanted to reproduce romanesco broccoli in SL. At first it was just a simple experiment but after each obstacle I got more persistent so eventually I discovered the world of calculus.
I'm going to skip the theory part about phyllotaxis, Fibonacci etc and get straight to the shader math. Good site that explains it all is: http://www.math.smith.edu/phyllo/
Most of the math was found on Wolfram and WikiPedia pages
First off we need to convert our UVs from cartesian to polar coordinate system
r = sqrt( pow( x, 2 ) + pow( y, 2 ));
theta = atan( x, y) + PI;
// Note that PI offset has been added for polar translation
// equation to work (for secondary florets)
Next, Golden Angle for distribution pattern.
golden = PI*(3-sqrt(5));
To draw a secondary florets or a circle on polar coordinates we can use polar translation equations
r2 = sqrt(r*r-2*r*r0*cos( theta-th0 )+r0*r0);
r = sqrt( pow( x, 2 ) + pow( y, 2 ));
theta = atan( x, y) + PI;
// Note that PI offset has been added for polar translation
// equation to work (for secondary florets)
golden = PI*(3-sqrt(5));
r2 = sqrt(r*r-2*r*r0*cos( theta-th0 )+r0*r0);
Updated 08-26-2013 at 05:13 AM by Artur
I've translated Malcolm Kesson's Cellular Automata SL into a Houdini VOP RSL Network (no reason). You can find the original SL on his website: http://www.fundza.com/rman_shaders/cellular/index.html
Main difference is that Houdini VOPs don't support Arrays so I used multiple connections and 8 texture calls instead of a for loop. Let me know if there is some better way of querying neigbours.
Original shader cell size and count is dependant on micropolgyons and controlled by shading rate. I've set the shading rate to a very high value and the cell count is controlled by geometric subdivision instead. That meant I couldn't use random function for initialization so I replaced it with cellnoise shadeop.
OTL library contains digital assets:
cellular - Object type digital assetbake3d - shadeop for pointcloud bakingtexture3D - shadeop for pointcloud readingcellnoise - rendermans cellnoise functioncellular_automata - cellular.sl VOP node version. Just a direct implementation of the code. Not used for anything.
Cellular is Object Type Digital Asset that contains shaders, geometry and ROPs for 'out of the box' test.
Download OTL cellular.otlDownload ZIP cellularotl.zip
Have fun.
Updated 03-01-2012 at 11:59 PM by Artur