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Jamaat ud-Dawwa's (JuD's) leader Hafiz Saeed recently published an "open letter" to Pakistan's parliament, protesting its decision to restore on-land NATO supply routes and "conditional re-engagement" with the U.S. The pamphlet bears the letterhead of the JuD, but appears to speak on behalf of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC), further confirming the futility in attempts to distinguish between the two, or indeed between the DPC and the MJC brotherhood. This "open letter" was brought to light by journalist Omar Quraishi (thanks to @Vikram_Sood for the link) . The pamphlet was pasted outside one of Karachi's most upscale stores (اردو).
To the Members of Parliament:
As you are aware, the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) has presented its recommendations on relations with the U.S. and the issue of NATO's supply lines during the joint parliamentary session on March 20, 2012. News reports indicate that NATO supply lines are being restored due to U.S. pressure. It is also allegedly being proposed that taxes on NATO supplies be increased and that 50 per cent of the traffic be transported via rail.
The Difa-e-Pakistan Council has already communicated its thoughts to the Parliament on the above proposals, and would further like to remind the Parliament that:
- Parvez Musharraf entered into secret and verbal agreements with the U.S. that ultimately were detrimental to our own security and to the security of our Afghan brothers. However, if these agreements are now being given formal consent via the Parliament, it sets a very dangerous precedent.
- The East India Company had also entered into similar agreements with the Mughal Empire, which resulted in the colonization of India. If the Parliament accedes to these agreements, Pakistan's sovereignty will no doubt be compromised.
- We must be cognizant of the fact that restoration of on-land access routes to NATO will negatively impact our relations with China.
- The bold bipartisan decision to ban NATO supply routes after the Salala incident brought confidence to the people of Pakistan. However, if these routes were to be reauthorized, it would create confusion and instability in our country.
- It is indeed worrying that India is being given on-land access to Afghanistan and West Asia via Pakistan. In fact, this presents a far greater risk to Pakistan than the restoration of supply routes to NATO. The U.S. and India have recently concluded joint military exercises in Rajasthan. Granting India route access to Afghanistan via Pakistan and entering into trade agreements with that country present a security threat to Pakistan and risks annoying friendly nations such as China.
- We must consider that NATO containers travel through all provinces of Pakistan and have previously been targeted and could be targeted yet again if supply routes are restored. Thus, the U.S. might use repeated attacks on its trucks as a ruse to invade or establish a military foothold inside Pakistan, claiming a lack of confidence in the Pakistani armed forces' ability to safeguard their assets.
- The U.S. has never honored any of its agreements with Pakistan. It instead blamed Pakistan for the Salala altercation. Are we about to endorse these actions, and that too via our own Parliament? Would this happen, Pakistan will be engulfed yet again by the flames of terrorism fanned by the likes of the U.S., NATO and India.
Dear Members of Parliament, we ask that you consider our requests objectively. We ask that you depart from the tradition of parochial policy-making and think instead of Pakistan's citizens and its future generations. If you were to make your decisions against the will of the people of Pakistan, it will hurt the nation and our Afghan brothers. Please remember that those helping people who burn the Quran and kill our brothers will be accountable for their sins in this life and beyond. May Allah assist you in doing right by your people.
Your well-wisher,
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
Ameer, Jamaat ud-Dawwa Pakistan [Source]
The "open letter" is interesting because where India and the U.S. are concerned, the LeT/JuD (unlike other jihadi outfits) has seldom differed with sponsors in Rawalpindi. However, it would also be nearly impossible for a decision in Pakistan's parliament to have been concluded on the future of ties with the U.S. and on NATO supply routes without consultation and approval from GHQ.
Effectively, the GHQ is being drawn into making compromises on U.S. demands out of reluctance yet again, as it was at the beginning of U.S. operations in Afghanistan in 2001. It has since pursued a policy of supporting U.S.-led operations, while covertly attempting to undermine them. Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj's antics, the Haqqani network's activities inside Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden's discovery in Abbottabad are but examples of Pakistan's attempts at subversion.
While Rawalpindi might have agreed ostensibly to restore NATO supply routes, it does so out of necessity and with every intention to keep the pressure on the U.S. and allied forces with 2014 in mind. To that end, it might employ a series of agents to do its bidding. Historically, groups such as the LeT have been primarily been India-focused. But this might be changing if Rawalpindi is committed to temporary bonhomie with India. The recent attacks by the Taliban in Kabul and not-so-subtle threats in bullet #6 above might be harbingers of a dangerous summer.
Note: Source and additional detail updated based on the pamphlet on the Difa-e-Pakistan Council website.


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The Associated Press is reporting that more than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African American, according to an Education Department report.
The report raises fresh questions about the fairness of discipline meted out in the nation's public schools. From the Associated Press:
Black students are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to an early snapshot of the report released to reporters, the AP reports. The findings come from a national collection of civil rights data from 2009-10 of more than 72,000 schools serving 85 percent of the nation.
The Education Department said it would release more details Tuesday.
"The sad fact is that minority students across America face much harsher discipline than non-minorities, even within the same school," Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reporters.
Duncan said some school officials might not have been aware of inconsistencies in how they handle discipline, and he hoped the report would be an eye-opener.
According to the report, 42 percent of the referrals to law enforcement involve black students and 29 percent involved Hispanics, while 35 percent of students involved in school-related arrests were black and 37 percent were Hispanic …
We hope that this report will challenge educators to find new ways to address the discipline gap so that our children can receive educations instead of expulsions and suspensions that can cripple their academic careers.
Read more at the Associated Press.
Update: The Root covers the details of the Department of Education report here.


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Police: Man tries to rob Hip Hop Chicken
Employee at Glen Burnie business prevents robbery
Anne Arundel County police said they arrested a man in connection with an attempted robbery at a Glen Burnie business.
Officers were called to the Hip Hop Chicken in the 6600 block of Ritchie Highway around 10 p.m. Wednesday.
An employee told police that a man came into the business, assaulted him and attempted to take the money out of the cash drawer.
The victim told police he asked the same man to leave the business earlier due to his behavior, but he returned.
The victim prevented him from taking money from the register, but was struck in the face. The man who fled the business on foot.
Authorities said a suspect matching the man's description was found a short distance from the scene and detained.
The victim identified him as the man involved in the attempted robbery.
Police said 38-year-old Robert Bethea was arrested and charged.


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|Cover of The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir
Thanks so much for inviting me to guest blog.
My name is Laurie Sandell and I'm the author of The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir, The story is about growing up with my larger-than-life Argentine father, and slowly coming to realize that everything he'd told my family was a lie.
I think because my father was such a fantastic storyteller, everything he said--no matter how wild the tale--felt like the truth. I felt like the luckiest kid in the world when my father visited my sixth grade class and told them stories about smuggling horses through the jungles of Brazil, and escaping from an Argentine prison and swimming across the River Paranar, and catching a grenade in his helmet and tossing it back to its sender in Vietnam.
When I was in high school, he told me tales of his friendship with Pope John Paul II, and how he'd parachuted into the jungle with General Westmoreland, and had written position papers for Henry Kissinger. And again, I was in awe.
Years later, when I became a celebrity interviewer for Glamour magazine--sitting across from the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, and J. Lo, and Halle Berry--I felt the same feeling of excitement I'd felt in the presence of my "original celebrity," my father. So when it all fell apart and I realized his stories were nothing more than that--stories--I had to rebuild my own sense of identity from scratch.
It's interesting, when you have an immigrant parent, because identity is already such a strong and yet malleable thing: My father took enormous pride in his American citizenship, yet he was never really "of" America. He retained the strong accent of his youth.
He was brilliant, yet unable to rise through the ranks professionally (or legally). And yet no matter the adversity he faced, he felt, staunchly, that he was living in the greatest country in the world, where anything was possible. I sometimes reflect on the fact that much of the success I've had comes from lessons I've learned from my father--some directly, some in spite of what he taught me.
I hope you enjoy the book, and feel free to e-mail me with any comments or questions--I'd love to hear your feedback!
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Letters to the Editor for Oct. 3
Washington Depot's Norway Maples in danger
Almost 20 years ago, my spouse and I drove down from Sharon where we were looking for a second home, when we arrived in Washington Depot, and our very first impression of the town was its graceful Norway Maple trees in Bryan Memorial Plaza.
Unfortunately Norway Maples tend to get a bad rap these days, and while the Depot Norways' survived last October's snow storm in perfect form, that didn't stop a cabal of good-deed doers from cutting them down last week in order to Greenwich-ize the Depot. And to add insult to injury Washington is in the midst of its Plan of Development, a state mandated and somewhat democratic process that allows its citizens to say what they want the town to look like over the next ten years. What was this cabal thinking?
Last week the Norway's were massacred, but so was first rate journalism, when the New Milford Spectrum ran a fluff piece on their destruction complete with a photo of the massacre and caption about Washington's beautification plans. I kid you not!
In conclusion, Washington is also graced by many wise elders, but no one is suggesting that we make a preemptive strike on them, and put them in assisted living communities, just because they may or may not fall from a broken hip. May our Depot Norways rest in peace.
- Joseph A. Mustich, Washington
Postal Service union says Congress needs to act
I appreciate your newspaper's efforts to examine the situation at the U.S. Postal Service (news story, Sept. 28, "Connecticut's small post offices trying to survive in a poor economy"). The quotes that the Postal Service "is an integral part of our country's fabric and continues to bind the nation together" and is "the nation's most trusted government agency" are spot on.
However, your readers might benefit from a fuller explanation of the financial situation. It is not accurate that "The financial crisis the Postal Service is facing stemmed from a decline in mail volume due to electronic diversion and the economy," as reported. Nor is it the case that the Postal Service has a plan that would rectify the situation.
Here are some facts, all easily verifiable.
Most of the Postal Service's red ink is unrelated to mail volume, the Internet, e-mail or anything else to do with the mail. Instead, 80 percent of the red ink stems from an external political factor - the 2006 congressional mandate that the Postal Service pre-fund future retiree health benefits.
This is something that no other public agency or private company in the county is required to do, and it means an annual payment of $5.5 billion. Until this unfair mandate began in 2007, the Postal Service was making annual profits in the billions, well into the Internet age. Since then, it's used its operational profits, bank accounts and borrowing authority to pay costs required of no other institution.
Beyond leading the Postal Service to the financial brink, pre-funding also has diverted the time, energy and attention of the USPS away from doing what it's done for 200 years - adapt to the needs of an evolving society. Technological change is nothing new for the Postal Service, which successfully met the challenges posed by the telephone, the telegraph, the fax machine and more. It can do so once again, if Congress will fix the pre-funding mess it created, so the Postal Service can focus on developing a business plan for the future. The Internet offers both challenges and opportunities. While it's led to a substantial loss of mail, it's also led many people to order goods online that need to be delivered. And that rapidly growing e-commerce market has created much business for the Postal Service, auguring well for the future.
Degrading services and dismantling the network - whether ending Saturday delivery or reducing services to Connecticut's small towns - is not a business plan. Rather, it's a step toward destroying the world's most and efficient delivery system, one that is based in the Constitution and that remains the country's only truly universal communications network.
Ending Saturday delivery or otherwise degrading services would raise costs for small businesses (and their customers) that are open Saturday, need to send and receive financial customers, and would have to contract with expensive private carriers. That could affect the 734,564 small-business employees in Connecticut. It would also make it harder for the Postal Service to play its full role in e-commerce, because the best day to deliver packages is when people are home: Saturday.
Further, the $1.3 trillion mailing industry, which depends on a robust Postal Service, employs 7.5 million Americans in the private sector - including 121,519 Connecticut residents.
Your readers can have an impact, by asking their congressional representatives in Washington to address the pre-funding situation and do the right thing for Connecticut and the country.
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'I'M SPECIAL NEEDS': Cops say man faked Down syndrome, fooled caregivers to change diapers and bathe him
An Arizona man felt like he needed special attention.
So he allegedly pretended to have a genetic disorder in order to get it.
Late last week, cops arrested 30-year-old Paul Anthony Menchaca on felony fraud and sex abuse charges, accusing him of pretending to have Down syndrome and hiring workers to bathe him and change his diaper.
Authorities say all three of Manchaca's victims are women.
News outlet AZFamily reported Menchaca posted an ad in May on website Carelinx.com – an online caregiver search engine. Posing as a woman named "Amy," the man allegedly told one caregiver he wanted someone to take care of his son.
According to court documents, the first victim claimed she aided Menchaca 30 times at two different locations, neither of which were his home. She noted there were five "separate incidents when (Menchaca) aggressively said his genitals were not cleaned enough."
A second caregiver took over duties in July while a third took over in August. These two caregivers also agreed to change Menchaca's diapers, cops say.
The three caregivers told cops they communicated with "Amy" about payments and instructions through text messages. It was reportedly their only interaction with her.
An arrest report noted "Amy" asked all three caregivers to punish Menchaca whenever he "soiled his diaper by putting him in timeout and taking away his privileges."
All three women reportedly told cops the man would get sexually aroused during bathing sessions, ABC 15 reported.
In an interview with the news channel, one of the alleged victims said the man "couldn't use the bathroom" by himself and "acted like a child."
"He would act in tantrums, talk like a child, act like a child," the unnamed caregiver said. "Why would you do that? Why would you make us change you knowing you didn't have to. Why didn't you give us a choice?"
After a while, the first alleged victim grew wary of Menchaca and allegedly followed him home after he was dropped off by another caregiver.
When the woman knocked on the front door, she was reportedly greeted by the man's parents and learned their son doesn't have Down syndrome or need to have diapers.
The arrest document noted the three caregivers confronted Menchaca. Cops say that's when he admitted to lying about his "mental condition."
The three women also gave the phone number they used to communicate with "Amy" to cops, who confirmed it belonged to Menchaca.
During a court appearance after his Sept. 6 arrest, Menchaca told a judge, "I just want to let you know I am special needs."
"I do have a low IQ level. My mom and dad both have paperwork to prove that," he said. "I'm starting to talk to my dad about getting me some help and getting me into a counsellor and probably like a rehab centre to talk to somebody."
The man is currently behind bars on $15,000 bond. If he posts bond, a judge ordered that he not have contact with the three alleged victims.


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Out of the last five times you've made love, how many have you initiated sex, and how many has your husband initiated?
If you say he's initiated all 5, that could be a problem! Now, I know sometimes you just start making love because you're kissing and snuggling, and it's not clear WHO initiated. It just happened (all the more reason to go to bed at the same time, so that things can "just happen"!). And sometimes he has a really low sex drive, and so the whole initiation pattern is thrown off. I've got a series for women in that situation here. But quite often we get into this rut where he wants sex more than you do, and so he's the one who always initiates making love. And you're not even sure how to initiate sex with him, because you've never really done it! When I was researching my book The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex, I did surveys and interviewed both men and women. And here's what one guy said about initiating sex:
Men don't want to be placated; they want to be wanted.
Paul Byerly, who writes at the Generous Husband, puts it this way:
For men sex communicates love and acceptance, while a lack of sex communicates the opposite. I realise this is not usually what women are communicating with sex and saying no, but it is what men feel. Even when you convince a man this is not what she means, he will still feel it. When a man feels a good sexual connection with his wife he starts to want other forms of intimacy. Not tolerate, want. The need was always there, but it is hard to hear over the much louder need for sexual intimacy.
So, ladies, it's time to step up to the plate! But how do you initiate sex?
Today, I'd like to share 10 tips on how to initiate sex with your husband
–and help your husband feel like the most blessed man in the world!
1. DO Show Enthusiasm
Initiating sex requires enthusiasm. The following do NOT count as initiating sex:
- (Lying in bed, arms crossed. Turning head towards him). We can if you wanna.
- (Standing at the bottom of the stairs, heading up to bed). I'm heading to bed. If you come up within the next 10 minutes we may still have time, I guess.
- (Lying in bed, looking at the ceiling). So, I shaved my legs today.
- (Lying in bed, arms crossed). So…I guess we're due, eh?
(Sorry, that's the Canadian coming out in me in the last one). If you're going to initiate, the first step is NOT telling him "do you wanna?" The first step is getting in the right frame of mind for sex so that you're enthusiastic about it, too!
2. DON'T Overthink It
Why don't we initiate sex? Because often as soon as the thought pops into our heads we talk ourselves out of it.
Do I want to tonight? Well, I don't know. It is kind of late, and I do need my sleep. And he wasn't very nice to me tonight. He hardly hugged me when he came home from work. I just feel so distant right now. I can't make love if we're distant, can I? Wouldn't that be deceptive? And what if the kids wake up? And what if….
Turn it off! Seriously. When you get the thought, pounce on it (and pounce on HIM, too!) Start kissing him. Let your hands wander pretty much immediately (seriously–women don't like guys to GO FOR IT right away, so we often assume men need the lead up, too. They don't. Just zero in!). Don't second guess yourself. You'll be happier later–and you'll likely sleep better, too!
3. DON'T Be Embarrassed
"Good girls don't like sex."
Did you grow up thinking that? If you grew up thinking that only boys wanted sex, and girls just acquiesced, then you may think that it's your role to sit back and just respond to him. Anything else somehow upsets the apple cart. But good girls DO want sex! God gave us sex drives, too. And inside marriage sex is supposed to be a wonderful thing for both of you! Think about it this way: This is the only man on earth who can touch you like that. He's the only man on earth who really truly knows you. You don't need to be embarrassed around him. I know that can be a hard transition to make. But practice little things, like saying to him the morning after you made love, "I had fun last night", or "you made me feel great!" Practice talking about it afterwards, and it makes it easier to talk about it beforehand! So saunter up to him and whisper in his ear, "do you want me to drive you crazy tonight?" He'll get the message.
Are you TIRED of always being too tired for sex?
4. DON'T Beat Around the Bush
But remember: If you're too embarrassed to be that direct, or if you're embarrassed about saying, "do you want to make love tonight?", then you may not give clear enough signals. My husband was leaving for a business trip for a week recently, and he was spending the morning before he was picked up sorting papers and paying bills and getting some tasks done around the house. I kept getting up from my computer whenever he got up from his and walking over and seeing if I could get him interested in something, but I never let him know what I was doing. I thought he was just busy and wasn't interested. But after following him around like a puppy dog for an hour, he finally turned to me and said, "are you okay?", and I said, "I just thought we could go upstairs for some fun before you left." He jumped on board immediately. I had thought he was busy and was rejecting me, but he just really didn't know what I was getting at. Men are usually afraid of getting rejected, and if he tends to have the higher sex drive in your marriage, he may have conditioned himself to never think about it, or to try not to assume you're going somewhere, because he doesn't want to get his hopes up. Subtlety, then, isn't a good thing. Be obvious. It's easier on everyone!
5. DO Use Your Hands
Don't like talking about sex? You don't have to. Come up behind him, wrap your arms around him, start nibbling his ear, and let your hands wander. Watching a movie? Rest your hand in a creative place. And again–don't beat around the bush. Put your hand EXACTLY where you know he wants it. Or lead him to the bedroom–but not with HIS hand. You can get things going without saying any words, if the words make you shy. Just do it!
6. DO Be Creative
Initiating sex can start earlier in the day. You can text him at work ("You're in for it tonight!"). You can get dressed in your "pretty" underwear (not your functional underwear), and let him see, and say something like, "so this is what I'll be wearing all day today…." You can put a note in his lunchbox, like a Skor bar, and say, "Wanna Skor tonight?" If a thought occurs to you, do it! Chances are it's a good thought, and most guys won't laugh at you. They'll definitely go with it! I've got 10 super fun creative ideas to signal "I want sex tonight!", too.
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7. DO Laugh
It's okay to smile, and chuckle, and be giggly. It's okay to act like teenagers. It doesn't have to be super serious. You can joke around. "Hey, Big Man, do you have anything to help Little Ole Me?" You can flirt with your husband! It really is okay. And the more laughter, the more fun all around.
8. DO Be Eye Candy (It's Okay!)
Instead of wearing your flannel pyjamas, get into some silk ones. Or put on a matching bra and panty set, and as you get undressed, show him what you're wearing. Try putting on a teddy! Or go naked underneath a bathrobe and "flash" him while he's downstairs. Then walk away, and see if he follows.
9. DO Follow Through
If you've been texting him all day, or you whispered in his ear when he walked in the door, then do follow through. It's hard on a guy to get his engines revving and then stopping with no warning. Obviously if something comes up you may have to forego sex that evening, but if you've been hinting, then as much as possible, set the right conditions. Don't watch a chick flick if it's likely to make you so tired that at the end of it you want to collapse into bed. It may seem romantic, but if it will push bedtime back too far, then make love FIRST, before the movie. Don't get on the computer thinking, "after I'm done this we'll head upstairs." If sex is your plan, then make sure it happens early, when you're still thinking about it, rather than giving other things–the news, the computer, the movies–a chance to distract you and make you change your mind.
For a lot of men sex communicates love and acceptance, while a lack of sex communicates the opposite.
10. DO Be Active
Once you've caught his attention, and you're heading to the bedroom, don't let the initiation end. Be active as you make love. Touch him. Guide his hand. Be the aggressor–at least a little bit. Find a good position yourself. Get on top even! When you're active, it shows him, "I want to do this." If you lie there on your back and don't do much, he may think, "she's just doing this for me." Show him you are interested, and you do want this to happen–by making it happen!
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There's a joke in education along the lines that students are taught the notes their teachers wrote down at university 20 years earlier…without going through the heads of either.
I mention this because there have been a number of technical communicators who have started to question the technical writing best practices that have been taught to student Technical Authors for the past 30+ years. At Cherryleaf, we show on our advanced technical writing techniques course how some of the largest websites have been breaking the generally accepted rules for writing User Assistance – companies that test and test again to see what works best for their users. Ray Gallon of CultureCom has been developing his cognitive approach to User Assistance, and Mark Baker has been developing and promoting the idea of "Every Page is Page One" (EPPO) Help topics.
Mark has published his ideas in a new book called "Every Page is Page One". I was asked to review an early draft of the book, and, over Christmas, I was sent a copy of the published version.
In a nutshell, Mark's argument is that, with Web-based content, you don't know the context in which people are reading a Help page. You cannot assume that they have read any other pages prior to reading this topic. Therefore, you need to treat every page as Page One, the starting point, and include more introductory, contextual information in your topics. He argues that most Technical Authors have misunderstood minimalism, and the EPPO approach is actually more consistent with how John Carroll (the creator of minimalism) recommended User Assistance should be written.
The book provides recommendations on the level of detail you should include on a page before you need to create a new topic, and when and where to create links to other pages. He also compares EPPO to Information Mapping and DITA, and outlines how EPPO can complement these standards.
Reading the early PDF draft with a reviewer's eye was struggle at times, but reading the final version in printed book format was an easy and enjoyable exercise. Perhaps reading some sections for a second time helped, as well.
We agree with a great deal of Mark's ideas. We agree with the general idea of self-contained topics that provide the context for a task. We agree with the need for mini-Tables of Contents and a bottom-up approach to writing. We agree that tasks should include some contextual information. We agree online content can be atomised too much. We also liked his analysis of why screencasts are so popular, and the secrets to their success.
We have a few minor issues. Mark cautions against duplicating content on more than one Web page, because it's bad for Search Engine Optimisation. We believe you should write efficiently in a way that's best for the user, and that it's up to the Search Engines to improve their algorithms so they can differentiate between "good" duplication and "bad" duplication. Google should be adapting and learning from the way good content is written, not us having to create sub-optimal content in order to satisfy Google.
It's a book for people involved today in writing online User Assistance. Although the book is very clear and well structured, you probably need to have some experience of creating User Assistance to fully understand everything that's covered in the book. It's an important contribution to the discussion over whether technical communicators have focused too much on production efficiencies to the detriment of creating content that's actually of value to their users. It's worth getting a copy of this book.


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When my friend announced that she was having a baby, I was filled with glee. Not just because I was so happy for my friend and her fiancé, but because that meant I got to knit something for the wee one.
My friend is a knitter and has lots of other knitting friends, so I knew that she would be getting lots of knitted gifts for her first born son. I also knew that meant I needed to pick something that would be extra special. I thought about a blanket, but I had heard through the grapevine that she was getting a blanket as a group gift from some of the other knitters. I also thought about a sweater, but he was expected last week and it would be too hot for him to wear a sweater right off the bat. So I settled on a stuffed toy.
I had made the Monkey Jacobus by Annita Wilschut for my nephew a few years ago and it was a hit, so I knew this was the pattern I was going to knit. I absolutely LOVE this pattern. It is knit all in the round, which means no sewing of tiny parts when you are done! The thought of doing intarsia for the face in the round scared me to death, but her directions and photos make it not only crystal clear…but a snap to knit.
I use Liberty Wool Print in color 7821 Caribbean Tidepool, which is a great baby boy color. It is made up of blues and greens. It's one of those colors that isn't too soft or too bright. I decided to not try and match up the prints too much and just let the yarn do what it wanted to do. And I love the way that each of the monkey's appendages are different colors because of that. I think it gives the little guy a sense of whimsy. For the face and paws I used Liberty Wool Solid in 7836 Taupe. I wanted something that would coordinate well with the print, while standing out on its own. I found some scraps of a dark orange to make the mouth and some dark brown to embroider the eyes (safety first – nothing that the wee one could possibly pull off and put in his mouth). And since he is made from Liberty Wool, my friend can pop the monkey in washing machine when he gets dirty.
I really hope that the yet-to-be born little boy loves the monkey as much as I do and that they become best buds.
P.S. Wee one – you were supposed to come last week. I think your mom would appreciate it if you made an appearance soon!


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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
The Breath of the Wild Map
If you are struggling to lead Link around the vast Kingdom of Hyrule in the latest incarnation of The Legend of Zelda then you might want to use these interactive maps. In the Breath of the Wild the world of Hyrule is reportedly twelve times as large as the game world in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Sp you just might need to consult these maps.
Zelda Dungeon's interactive map of Breath of the Wild uses the Google Maps API to help you find your way around Hyrule. The map includes categorized map markers showing you the locations of important places and collectibles in the game. It also includes map labels and a handy search facility which can help you navigate around the map.
IGN's interactive Breath of the Wild map is similar to the map from Zelda Dungeon. It also includes categorized markers, map labels and a search facility. IGN's map of Hyrule appears to have been created using the Leaflet.js mapping library.
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Kerry Washington is our current jam here at LaineyGossip.com. Have you watched Scandal yet? Get on it!
It was announced yesterday, just as her Vanity Fair cover feature was going wide, that Washington married football player Nnamdi Asomugha in Blaine County, Idaho on June 24. JUNE 24! That was two weeks ago! As I always say, you can keep your sh-t tight in Hollywood. If you really want to, ahem, Henry Cavill. Sandra Bullock adopted a baby…during Oscar season, when she was the lead contender. Kerry Washington has her own Scandal Twi-Hards following her every move. And still she was able to pull this off.
Have you heard about that?
They watch the show. They are obsessed with the show. Olivia Pope and President Fitz are their Bella and Edward. And they ship Olivia and Fitz super, super hard. In their minds, what's on screen is what's real. Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn are for real, carrying on a secret relationship just like their characters.
Duana and I get mail about this all the time. This most recent message came in just 5 days ago, from Terry:
"As of right now Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn are secretly vacationing together in Turks and Caicos Island.Judy Smith the inspiration for the character of Olivia Pope is currently advising them.She sent out all those stories about his wife not watching the show to the tabloids.She even had the hosts of The View do an entire segment on their chemistry hinting at a possible relationship and she told Barbara Walters to compare them to Brangelina on the show.Any day now he will announce his divorce,stay tuned..........."
How will Scandal's Twi-Hards deal with this setback?
Well, obviously, this sudden marriage of hers is just a cover. She and Tony knew that the heat was coming. So she set up a fake wedding to throw people off and protect the true romance of her life.


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A novelty sex-toy created by Fleshlight(tm), a manufacturer of male masturbation aids. It is a fake penis that is always
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Hey, what did you just hit me with…<stares Mr. Limpy on the floor>…I'm so gonna kick your ass


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Wayne Rooney is expected to sign a new five-and-a-half year contract with Manchester United in the next 48 to 72 hours.
Rooney's future has been up in the air ever since Chelsea attempted to prise the 28-year-old away from Old Trafford last summer.
Rooney's current deal is due to expire at the end of next season, but Press Association Sport understands negotiations over a new contract are at an advanced stage.
It is understood that Rooney has almost agreed in principle to extend his contract until the end of the 2018-19 season.
That deal could be signed as early as Wednesday or Thursday.
Rooney is understood to be extremely happy at Old Trafford despite Chelsea's interest in him and United's current predicament.
The reigning champions look unlikely to qualify for the Champions League this year for the first time since the 1995-96 season.
David Moyes' side currently sit 11 points adrift of the top four in seventh position with just 12 matches remaining.
But despite the club's current form, Rooney has enjoyed working under Moyes, with whom he used to work at Everton, and the England striker is said to be content that better times lie ahead.
It is also understood that Rooney could replace the departing Nemanja Vidic as United skipper at the end of the current campaign.
Rooney recently spoke of his desire to break Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 249 goals for United. The England striker's current tally stands at 208.
"It is a great aim for myself to try and get Sir Bobby's record, both at club and international level,' Rooney told BBC's Football Focus.
"It is something which I would like to do. If I can do that I would be really proud because it has stood for a long time."
Rooney joined United from Everton in 2004 for £30million and has gone on to become a firm fans' favourite at the club.
Rooney has scored 11 goals so far this term for United.
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Prosecutors have finished presenting witnesses against a former dormitory supervisor accused of abusing students at Oprah Winfrey's school for poor South African girls.
Wednesday's testimony from the last prosecution witnesses wrapped up the first stage of the trial.
Proceedings began in July 2008 with Tiny Virginia Makopo pleading innocent to kissing and fondling six teenagers and a fellow supervisor.
The State alleges Makopo indecently assaulted the girls, aged 13 and 14, by kissing them with an open mouth, touching their breasts, forcing them to touch her breasts, and creeping into their beds and telling them to be lesbians. She is accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl by slapping her, pulling her hair, forcing her to sit on a bare floor for 15 minutes and rubbing custard into her hair. One of the girls was allegedly throttled and told she was so stupid she did not deserve to be at the school, a South African newspaper reported.
Makopo's lawyers are expected to start their defense next Monday.
Much of the evidence so far has come from students who testified behind closed doors because of their age.
The scandal erupted at Winfrey's $40 million school outside Johannesburg after it opened in 2007 amid great fanfare.
A verdict in the case could be months away.


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Diana has done significant work in organizational behavior and culture change, most recently in the health care space. Case examples include behavior change and reorganization at a leading health care company, developing innovative partnerships for the R&D division of a large pharmaceutical company, redesigning a large function for a New York financial institution, reimagining the marketing and promotion capability of a top music conglomerate, and creating a structural reorganization and business attraction strategy for the city of Newark, New Jersey.
Diana graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University with a BA in the history of science and medicine. She also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.


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Gentlemen, start your engines: The all-star season of RuPaul's Drag Race is right around the corner, premiering October 22. In this brand-new trailer, watch as Raven, Jujubee, Chad Michaels, Pandora Boxx, Tammie Brown, Yara Sofia, Mimi Imfurst, Nina Flowers, Latrice Royale, Manila Luzon, Shannel and Alexis Mateo battle for the honor to be Queen of Queens.
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What kind of leadership can help us avoid the traps of the Great Recession? How can each of us—not just those at the top—reclaim the high ground as the basis for sustainability and success in business as well as reward and fulfillment in personal life?
C. Clinton Sidle, leadership guru and director of the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, provides answers to these questions and more in his newest book, This Hungry Spirit: Your Need for Basic Goodness. Sidle integrates fresh perspectives on happiness, leadership, service, and success into a whole-life path for greater personal effectiveness and fulfillment. The better you know yourself and are grounded in the real you, Sidle says, the more likely you are to not only be happy and successful, but also do good in the world.
Clint Sidle is also the author of The Leadership Wheel and is a top leadership consultant for organizations around the world.
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Elsa Maxwell is one of the reasons I have stopped reading so much fiction. Clearly, one could simply never conger up such a character. In today's book-to-screen environment, there is clearly no actress who could even come close to playing Elsa Maxwell -- OK maybe Nathan Lane -- but no actress -- Wait...maybe Kathy Bates -- yes, I think it could be the best biopic ever. But we both know this will never happen.
Moving on...Elsa has been on my mind lately as I have been reading Sam Staggs wonderful book, Inventing Elsa Maxwell.
At the very same time, I received an e-mail from someone searching for a recipe. It seems that her client, a woman of a certain age, remembered a recipe from Elsa Maxwell for a soup with a chicken base and tomato purée. One might serve it hot or if chilled it would make a gelled consommé. I do love a challenge.
I grabbed my copy of How To Do It by Maxwell and found only a few recipes. My first guess was this gazpacho, though it is never heated.
Andalusian Gazpacho a la Joan FontainePlace the following in a bowl: 4 small cucumbers, seeded and finely chopped; 6 ripe tomatoes, peeled and coarsely chopped; 1 green pepper, finely minced; 1 clove garlic, finely mashed; 2 tablespoons grated carrot; 2 tablespoons grated onion. Add cold water to cover with 2 tablespoons lemon juice, or lime juice (I greatly prefer the latter); I teaspoon dry mustard, dash Tabasco, salt and pepper to taste. Chill thoroughly at least 8 hours. Serve in individual bowls with a dab of sour cream -- about 1 tablespoon -- on top.
The closest match was a consommé without tomato one. It is a spinach consommé that can be served hot or cold. For proof that Elsa Maxwell was from another generation, she lists the recipe as belonging Mrs. T. Reed Vreeland, known to subsequent generations as Diana! Maxwell notes that Vreeland acquired the recipe from Elise de Wolfe.
Mrs. T Reed Vreeland Consommé Vert- Pré
Make a very good rich bouillon. Add enough spinach juice to color it green, and just before serving add finely chopped fine herbes. Serve hot or iced.
Neither fit the criteria of the requested recipe. Since Maxwell mentioned de Wolfe, I thought I would try there. It is not a great stretch to think that someone who was familiar with Maxwell's recipes might also know de Wolfe's.
I checked Recipe's For Successful Dining. The recipe for Consommé Vert- Pré was identical to Elsie de Wolfe's with the only difference being de Wolfe's was Consommé Vert- Près and she called for "a little" juice to "make" it green. Spelling and word choice aside, I continued looking at the list of
Consommé Madrilene
Make a good chicken consomme. Add one tablespoon tapioca to each pint of liquid. Add finally a puree of tomatoes which has been strained through a cloth, and before serving add raw tomatoes cut in a a small dice and leaves of chervil.
This was, indeed, the long lost soup that our châtelaine had been craving. Everyone is happy.
Think about it...Kathy Bates as Elsa Maxwell... you would definitely go and see that movie. Sam, if you are reading this...call me.


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I am a rocket scientist now! (Doesn't mean I am any smarter than before)
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Heyo fellow HappyDiggers!
Never in my wildest dreams could I have expected my career to turn out the way it has so far. Ok... A little back story...
I come from a very hard working, lower to mid, middle class family. I was the second person in my direct family (after my mother) to receive a degree from a college. In saying this, I did not expect to be invited to any opportunity usually reserved for the top, best-of-the-best privileged people. That thought was recently shattered in the past few weeks.
As some of you may know, I have been looking for a new job now for about 1.5 years with no real promising offers. Either the offer amount was too low, the work itself did not interest me, or the location was non-ideal. This has driven me to push for ANY opportunity, but also send my resume to places that I didn't think would even consider someone like me. Oh boy I was wrong!
About a month and a half ago I received an email from a hiring manager directly. This rarely happens, usually it is an automated message BEFORE the HR people can even see my info. I was quite excited to see that I had made it through the stringent HR computerized filters. So I started reading the email (mind you I was at work in a meeting with my boss and coworkers) and I verbally shouted "YES!!" and did a did a fist pump...
In the email, I was asked if I would be interested in working on rockets!!! The manager was in need of a handful more engineers to get the project rolling in the right direction and to stay on schedule. We, set up an interview and about a week later I received an offer. Honestly, the offer could have been dirt. I wanted this job SO badly and I accepted.
Now... The present. Its been 2 weeks of rigorous training, long days, and headaches due to information overload. Best decision I have ever made. I don't think I have stopped smiling.
For those of you who are curious, I am now tasked to work on the SLS program. Yes, that one. The biggest, most powerful rocket ever designed. Bringing the US back into the space industry with the capability of deep exploration.
What I have learned from these many months of search is that there is always a place for you in this world that will excite your interest. You just have to be diligent and patient.
This is probably obvious, but I will be a very busy guy for the foreseeable future.


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Dachshunds get their time to shine
Talk about underdogs.
This year's Newport Beach Film Festival features a slew of marquee names, from rocker Billie Joe Armstrong to "Office" star Steve Carell to Oscar-nominated director Lasse Hallstrom. But when tickets went on sale April 1, the film that sold out first belonged to a group of stars with decidedly lower stature.
Those would be the canine leads of "Wiener Dog Nationals," a family comedy by first-time feature director Kevan Peterson that will have its world premiere Saturday at the Island Cinema 7. The filmmaker expects a crowd of dachshund owners to bring their pets to the screening — the theater, for this showing only, will lift its no-dog policy — and they'll have more than just the premiere to celebrate.
"We can now officially say we sold out before Green Day," said Peterson, a Los Angeles resident.
As a lover of the breed, Peterson felt proud to contribute to the admittedly slim history of dachshund-centric cinema. Wiener dogs have had notable bit parts in many movies — Peterson cited Slinky Dog in the "Toy Story" trilogy as a favorite — but only occasionally have they scored the leading role.
An Internet Movie Database title search brings up a 1915 silent comedy titled "Dicky's Demon Dachshund" (of which the Moving Picture World declared at the time, "Some amusing incidents occur in the picture which will be found to be a comedy worthwhile"), plus a 1917 animated short called "Evolution of the Dachshund." An episode of a 1970s mystery TV show also sports the grim title "Dirge for a Dead Dachshund."
Most prominent is the 1966 live-action Disney comedy "The Ugly Dachshund," in which a Great Dane puppy grows up amid a litter of wieners and needs an intervention to realize it isn't one of them.
Having already made his first foray into the genre, Peterson hopes to expand it again with his next film: the sequel "Wiener Dog Internationals," which is scheduled to start shooting this fall.
For now, though, he has a packed weekend ahead. "Wiener Dog Nationals" is part of a two-day family program at the festival, which includes classic Warner Bros. cartoons, dozens of other live-action and animated shorts, the high school drama "Underdogs" (about football, not dachshunds) and 1996's "Muppet Treasure Island," among others.
Finding his film in that company at all was a vindication for Peterson, who conceived the original idea after he attended the Wiener Nationals race in Los Alamitos in 2007. Although a boyhood friend of Peterson's had dachshunds, he never owned one himself. Still, he enjoyed the event so much that he approached representatives from Wienerschnitzel, which sponsors the annual race, and pitched an idea for a film about the competition.
Wienerschnitzel gave the filmmaker permission to use the company's logo — which features prominently throughout — and shoot footage at the Wiener Nationals. Tom Amberger, the vice president of marketing for Wienerschnitzel's parent company, the Galardi Group, said the restaurant chain hopes to promote the movie through marketing tie-ins in the coming months.
In terms of funding the film, though, Peterson was on his own. After unsuccessfully courting production companies, he scraped together a budget through funding platform Kickstarter and private investors. Soon, though, he got a major name in his cast: Morgan Fairchild, a veteran of "Dallas" and other TV shows, signed on to play the villainess Ms. Merryweather. The part had originally been written for a man, but when Fairchild expressed interest, Peterson happily rewrote the script for her.
"Wiener Dog Nationals," which will have a second screening Sunday at the Triangle Square Cinemas, tells the story of a boy who learns that his deceased mother owned a championship dachshund as a girl. He persuades his father to adopt a rescue dog — which his snide teenage brother labels "so disgustingly cute" — and enter it in a race. The dog, Shelly, who sports a lightning bolt-shaped birthmark on one leg, turns out to be a natural, and she racks up victories as Ms. Merryweather, whose dachshund is the reigning champion, attempts to thwart her progress.
The part of Shelly required three dachshunds and a pair of trainers, who had the toughest time not in any of the racing scenes but rather with one small moment: a scene in which the family's daughter dresses up Shelly for a tea party at home. Those few seconds, Peterson said, took half a day to film simply because the dachshund kept shaking off its costume.
"It did not want to keep the hat on top of its head," he recalled.
'Wiener Dog Nationals'
Where: Island Cinema 7, 999 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach (Saturday); Triangle Square Cinemas, 1870 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa (Sunday)
When: 3:30 p.m. Saturday; 12:30 p.m. Sunday
Cost: Both screenings sold out, but check venue box offices for last-minute tickets
Information: (949) 253-2880 or https://www.newportbeachfilmfest.com


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Bill Gates performed the London leg of his farewell tour this morning, telling aspiring entrepreneurs they should sign up to Microsoft's CRM platform and to try not to get sued.
Gates took to the stage at the Institute of Directors as the Eighties soft rock classic The Final Countdown played in the background.
He threw out lots of buzzwords such as "democratisation", "diverse economy", "simplicity" and "community" as he explained what he plans to do after he hangs up his Redmond boots.
When asked if he would run for president Gates quipped: "I'm certainly not going to do it."
Rather, he repeated that his full-time role after stepping down as Microsoft head honcho in July this year would be working with his missus at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
"There's a lot of reform and improvement that, by being off on the side and working with governments and development agencies and filling our unique role - I think that's the highest impact. But running for an election, worrying about the next election? I don't think I'll get into that," he said.
Gates also offered his own advice on how to keep stress levels down when being the boss of a business.
"There's certainly been stressful points along the way – try not to get sued by anybody... especially not your own government... especially if unjust."
Before disappearing for tea and sandwiches at Number 10 with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Gates couldn't resist needling his big rivals.
On IBM, when asked about the inflexibility of Microsoft's licencing, he said: "We'll match their Ts and Cs". And on Google, he said its advertiser-supported biz model was not "a charitable act". ®


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FACETIME- Chestertown bolt: Writing couple gets Starr treatment
Bucking a trend in a town that lures writers in and never lets them go, authorly couple Henry Wiencek and Donna Lucey are taking a hiatus from Charlottesville and heading east. And even though they'll be ensconced at Washington College on Maryland's Eastern Shore, they claim they won't escape Thomas Jefferson's reach.
For Wiencek, who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1999 book, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, that's probably a good thing, as he's currently working on Jefferson and his Slaves and will be writer in residence at the College's C.V. Starr Center for a year.
"It's a really dynamic, new place," says Wiencek, whose most recent book, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, fits in nicely with the Starr Center's focus on America's experiment in democracy. The Center, he says, is "interested in the same things I am– exploring the founding era."
By digging into the very old, Wiencek expects new insights, especially on the issues of race. "America was founded on ideals," he says. "How did Washington and Jefferson deal with the contradiction?"
The Starr Center was looking for a writer with a work-in-process for its $45,000 Patrick Henry Fellowship. Wiencek will teach one class in the spring, and gets a restored early 18th-century house in historic Chestertown, among other perks.
"It's like a mini-Georgetown on the Eastern Shore," says Lucey, a historian herself who, in 2006, penned the story of one of Albemarle's more eccentric couples, Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age. Since that book, Lucey has worked on magazine pieces and has begun developing a book idea about another Gilded Age couple in New York.
"Virginia," she reminds, "doesn't have a monopoly on eccentric characters."
Lucey and Wiencek met when they were writers for Time-Life books. Although they're both respected authors, that doesn't translate into a regular paycheck, so the fellowship offers a little breathing room. "It's hard to make it as a writer," says Lucey. "We're always hanging by our fingernails."
"It's a terrible struggle," agrees Wiencek, noting that books always take longer than expected. "You can't just throw material on the page," he says. "You've got to make sense of it."
Though many books already have been written about Jefferson, Wiencek claims he's found some things in the archives that have been overlooked, and he promises a very different interpretation.
"We've seen Jefferson's relations with slaves entirely through the eyes of Sally Hemings and her family," Wiencek says. "She was just one of 600 slaves at Monticello. Life for the Hemings family was one thing. Life for those laboring farther down the hill was quite different."
And the story of Jefferson and his slaves [see this week's essay– editor] resonates in America 200 years later, as 2008 sees its first African-American presidential candidate while 30 percent of Americans say they'd never vote for a black.
"That's directly out of Jefferson," says Wiencek.
The third president wrote that whites and blacks could never live under the same government, and that "black people were inherently inferior," Wiencek says. "That set the tone for the next 200 years."
And as revered as are all things Jefferson in Charlottesville, Wiencek utters near-heresy: "We followed the wrong leader. Washington freed his slaves and didn't look down on them. And that was troubling for many Americans."


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Testing of a new ozonation system for cooling towers
Recently, cooling towers have become recognized as a major source of Legionella infection. This fact has stimulated a growing number of lawsuits and it is expected that this trend will continue. In Europe, Australia, the Pacific Rim and the United States, awareness of the Legionella problem has grown to the point where disinfection is the primary requirement for cooling water treatment, exceeding corrosion and scale control in importance and potential economic impact.
Legionella can live inside of various species of protozoa where they are shielded from biocides. Under conditions of normal usage, Legionella and the protozoa that harbor them are not much effected by commonly used biocides. However, ozone has been shown fast and effective at killing Legionella and other bacteria, yeasts, molds, viruses, protozoa and algae. In addition, ozone breaks down quickly, leaving no residual that would prevent discharge of treated water. Many investigators consider ozone to be the most effective biocide for water treatment.
On the other hand, experience with ozone has resulted in some general concerns leading to a sense of confusion regarding its potential. These concerns include dosage, corrosion, dependability and cost.
Numerous methods have been presented to calculate the amount of ozone needed to treat a given volume of water. Unfortunately, they differ substantially and seldom work in practice. Some are based on the physical chemistry of ozone, others on real-world measurements and practical experience. However, all assume consistent water conditions as a foundation for developing a standard dosing formula. This is the problem. No two cooling towers are exposed to the same environmental conditions, and the water they contain differs in chemistry, type and amount of suspended solids, temperature and a host of other physical and chemical parameters. In addition, these parameters will change from day to day and season to season. Consequently, each cooling tower is a unique chemical system and no single formula can characterize the ozone needs of all towers.
Dissolving Ozone. Ozone does not easily dissolve in water (saturation @ 3 mg/L at room temperature), presenting the challenge of dissolving enough ozone to effectively disinfect and treat the water. Sparging, either into the sump itself or a contacting tower, often is used to obtain ozone solution. Due to ozones low solubility, a contacting tower of considerable height (often 20 feet or more) is needed to develop an adequate dissolved ozone residual. Sparging directly into a shallow sump does not allow much contact between gas and water and is ineffective at obtaining high ozone residuals. Most ozone generators used for cooling towers produce ozone by corona discharge. It often is overlooked that the hydrostatic head produced by water above a sparging diffuser pressurizes the system, resulting in collapse of the corona and significant reduction of ozone output. As a result, actual ozone output in the field often is significantly less than rated in factory bench tests.
The other important method is aspiration of ozone through a venturi injector into water flowing through a pipe. This can be effective, but requires a small diameter pipe (@ 3/4 inches) with limited water volume and specific percent pressure differentials. If proper conditions are not met, the gas and water separate into slugs or horizontal layers that minimize contact between gas and water. Even when conditions are ideal, the gas and water will remain mixed only for a limited distance (maximum 30 feet), and then only if the pipe is straight.
Too much ozone. Considering ozones low solubility and the absence of dependable methods to calculate ozone demand, it has been common to produce the maximum amount of ozone possible to ensure that enough will dissolve to cover all possible extremes. It is not uncommon for pounds of ozone to be supplied to cooling towers. Continuous release of excess ozone into the atmosphere may be a health hazard to those who are chronically exposed. Most humans are exquisitely sensitive to the odor of ozone and easily can smell it at concentrations far lower than would be required to produce any health impact. Still, any detectable ozone odor may cause people concern.
Many of the metals used in HVAC systems are oxidized easily and will react unfavorably when in contact with strong oxidants. Aluminum, zinc, copper and iron are examples of metals that will react with dissolved ozone. Additionally, excess ozone can outgas in pipes, tubes or other enclosed spaces, damaging corrodible metal parts even more aggressively than ozone in the dissolved state. Discussions of ozone corrosiveness often overlook the fact that high concentrations of other oxidants including chlorine also can result in similar levels of corrosion damage. Corrosion, then, is more the result of too much oxidant rather than the specific type and generally is not a problem in systems where ozone levels are consistent with demand.
Cost and Dependability
The cost of ozone generators escalates with increasing generating capacity. Systems required to produce and regulate large amounts of ozone require multiple generator tubes, high voltage and current levels, complex controls and accompanying circuitry and delicate balancing of power supplies to each generator. All these complexities have made ozone generators expensive and increase the potential for failure. As a result, they have a reputation for being delicate and undependable as well as a costly investment. The most dependable generators are simple, inexpensive and run unstrained but generate rather small amounts of ozone.
Solutions to the Ozone Problems
A prototype* recently donated to the Environmental Science Department of Pierce College for testing and evaluation is a simple sidestream system using a single tube corona discharge ozone generator that was set to produce 10 grams of ozone per hour during field tests. The system includes a novel approach towards mixing ozone and water, and the use of this mixture for tower treatment. An explanation of the system and the results of the first round of testing are presented here.
Ozone Mixing and Contacting
The system mixes ozone and water in a mixer/disinfector composed of 2-inch PVC pipe. Vertical and horizontal sections are connected by 90 degree elbows to form a rectangular-helical configuration that packs large lengths of pipe into a small space. Water passing through the elbows is sheared, producing turbulence after every turn. This turbulence and the intimate contact of water and fine ozone bubbles it produces is maintained throughout the length of the contactor/disinfector. Using an appropriate pump and flow rate, pipe of any diameter and length can be used to treat larger systems. The prototype system has a flow of 43 gpm with a turnover of the system volume through the contactor/disinfector every 12 minutes.
Disinfection of Tower Water
The contactor/disinfector treats water in the confined spaces of its piping. Here, bacteria and other microbiota, particles and dissolved chemicals are in contact with an emulsion of microscopic bubbles of ozone gas as well as the dissolved phase. Because ozone is much more concentrated and active in the gaseous state, the additive effect of both gaseous and dissolved phases allows small amounts of ozone to have the effect of much higher concentrations. After the water is disinfected in the contactor/disinfector, it then is reintroduced to the tower at the top of the fill where it cascades over the fill elements on its return to the sump. In this process, the fill is exposed to ozonated water for disinfection. In addition, when the fan is on, outgasing ozone is mixed with the aerosol plume. This would be expected to disinfect the drift plume to some degree.7 Since it is the aerosol plume that spreads Legionella, this aspect will be the focus of additional future testing.
Spot Treatment
Careful examination of a cooling tower will reveal protected surfaces, corners and other recesses that are not contacted by circulating water. These areas, often marked by algae, support microbial populations that are not exposed the biocide being used. To treat this problem, the system taps a flow of ozonated water directly from the contactor/disinfector outlet. This is diverted through tubing to a moveable nozzle that can be positioned to direct a small flow of ozonated water to a trouble area for spot treatment.
Corrosion Control
As mentioned previously, ozonated water from the contactor/disinfector is piped to the top of the fill where it is allowed to spill over the fill elements to return to the sump. In this process, ozone and other dissolved gases are removed by the natural tendency of a cooling tower to airstrip water cascading over the fill. Ozone is stripped from the water by the time it reaches the sump. Therefore, no ozone residual is developed there. Since the water is disinfected in the contactor/ disinfector, there is no need to develop an ozone residual in the sump itself. Removal of the ozone before the water reaches the sump minimizes corrosion problems because only the ozone-depleted sump-water passes to the chiller. The small amount of ozone used for spot treatment of sump and fill surfaces is consumed by the organics being treated and should not result in development of a corrosive residual in the sump water.
Cost and Dependability
No cost estimates were supplied for the prototype, and insufficient time has elapsed to evaluate the dependability of the ozone generator. The simplicity of the system, however, suggests it can be produced economically in regard to existing commercially available systems.
Field Tests
As part of ongoing research at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., the prototype was installed for testing on a 100-ton BAC cooling tower on campus. At this time, chemical feed lines were disconnected and the tower drained and refilled with city water from the makeup line. The test system has been operating since July 2000, with an ozone output of 10 gm/hr. Bacterial levels were monitored by heterotrophic plate counts following standard methods. It is well documented that ozone effectively kills a wide spectrum of microbes including Legionella and associated protozoa. Therefore, a heterotrophic plate count is a good indicator of ozones overall biocidal effect.
Plate counts on sump water from the test tower were made at regular intervals throughout the study. (See Table 1.) All counts were TFTC** and most actually were zero. A plate count below 500 cfu/ml is considered acceptable for drinking water and cooling towers with plate counts nearing 1 million cfu/ml have been defended as acceptable. The counts in this test were surprisingly low, therefore pond water was used as a control to confirm the methods.
Testing of the spot treatment system is planned for the upcoming spring when temperatures are high enough to allow typical bacterial activity.
Ozone Levels and Dosing
Dissolved ozone was measured with a Hach Indigo ozone test kit. Ozone levels in the output of the contactor/disinfector ranged from 0.28 mg/L to 0.60 mg/L, depending on water temperature. This is well into the concentration range for effective disinfection. At the same time, no ozone was detectable in sump water, confirming that air stripping in the fill cascade effectively removes ozone. An experiment was designed to determine how long the ozone system must run each day to accomplish disinfection.
The ozone system was turned off so an elevated level of bacteria could develop in the sump water. During this interval the average water temperature was 70 degrees Fahrenheit. After four days, the plate count reached 730 cfu/ml and this was considered adequate for the test. This experiment was conducted at a school, so it did not seem wise to allow the counts to go higher.
For the test, the ozone system was turned on at 8:00 am, and plate count samples were collected at the start and at two-hour intervals for the first eight hours and at 24 hours. Even with the relatively low starting plate count, it was expected that the ozone would reduce the bacterial levels in a progressive manner, allowing development of a decay-curve from the data. This curve then would be used to determine dosing in terms of how much time the ozone system should operate each day to obtain acceptable disinfection. Surprisingly, the plate count was zero (TFTC) at the first two-hour count and stayed TFTC from that point onward. (See Table 2.) The volume of water in the test system is 500 gallons. These results, then, indicate that two hours operation per day was adequate to disinfect 500 gallons of water. Ozone generation has been limited to two hours per day since (105 days), and plate counts have remained TFTC (Table 1), confirming the value of this dosing approach. In the warmer months this may need to be adjusted to provide for higher bacterial activity at higher temperatures. The dose can be increased easily by adjusting the ozone output to maximum, increasing the hours of operation, and/or using additional generators in parallel as required for really large systems.
Corrosion Rates
An important aspect of the system is the claim that the removal of ozone will minimize the potential for corrosion. To address this, the test tower was fitted with corrosion coupons. As illustrated in Table 3, copper, galvanized and soft iron corrosion coupons, exposed to the sump water for five months, showed levels of corrosion similar to or lower than those resulting from other corrosion control methods.
The results of these tests indicate that the prototype system accomplishes excellent disinfection of tower water during the late summer and fall, while producing less corrosion than most chemically treated towers. Dosing is reduced to a time of operation that can be fine tuned on site to obtain the best results. Finally the system is simple enough to be made dependable and inexpensive. Additional studies of the spot treatment system and plume disinfection are planned for the upcoming spring.
* Patent pending, Ozone Applications in Los Angeles.
**Note: According to standard methods,8 a plate count less than 30 cfu/ml on an undiluted sample is not statistically valid and must be recorded as "Too Few Too Count," or TFTC. Likewise, if more than 300 colonies appear on the sample with the highest dilution, it is not statistically valid either and must be recorded as "Too Numerous To Count," or TNTC.


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Taking ethanol incentives away from ethanol production may sound like a good idea with corn futures above $7.00/bu. and growing concerns over food prices. It's not though, says U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
Speaking to a group of agricultural media at the 2011 Commodity Classic on Friday morning, Vilsack handled a broad range of questions on the federal budget, the next farm bill and how much the administration supports renewable fuels.
"My concern now is, that we have folks who say in this fiscal climate we should lop off incentives for these programs as a way to save money,. Well, first of all it isn't going to save money. Then secondly, we saw what that did with biodiesel. Fifty percent of production ceased. There were 12,000 jobs lost. This was at a time when we were trying to create jobs and become more energy independent."
Critics of ethanol cite the cost of bioenergy incentives in today's fiscal time as the reason to eliminate them immediately. Vilsack contends that by keeping these intact, the industry can grow demand and build a reliable supply.
"That's part of growing ourselves out of this deficit, in addition to cutting ourselves out of a deficit. If we grow a biofuels industry, we will employ a million people in rural Amnerica and we have a $100 billion in capital investments. That is going to grow into a growing stream of revenue for our government and allow us to get our deficit more quickly under control."


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Canon PowerShot A3100 IS
The Canon PowerShot A3100 IS is a powered by a lithium-ion battery, a first for the popular "A" series of PowerShots. It features a 4x zoom, optical image stabilization, and a 2.7 inch LCD.
- Easy to use
- Compact
- First rate optics
- Excellent image quality
- Very good feature set
- Reasonably-priced
- No manual exposure capability
- Battery life could be better
- No optical viewfinder
- No handgrip
Quick Take
The A3100 is an almost ideal first digital camera and an excellent choice for the primary family camera.
Read Our Full Review: Canon PowerShot A3100 IS Review


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The Heroes Project
EVENT: Climb for Heroes
EVENT DATE: Apr 03, 2016
If you are ready for a true test of physical strength and mental fortitude, go for speed. It's a race to the top, fastest time from Base Camp to Summit. The winner will hold the title of "Fastest Badass on Baldy 2016", receive a massive trophy representative in size of the jaw dropping (and thigh burning) achievement, get an over flowing basket of hiking essentials and other goodies from A16, and – most impressive – earn the bragging rights that will give you a seat at the head of your table and 366 days (it's a leap year!) of admiration from your peers.
Fastest Badass competitors will need to arrive at 7:30 am on April 3rd to sign up and get up the mountain before the masses and their dogs start the trek to the top. If you are the ultimate competitor, and are looking to smoke your competition in 2016 AND crush the records over the past 3 years (thereby gaining a bigger head at an even bigger table), we have included times below and pictures of winners in the slide show for your viewing and day dreaming pleasure. Strap on your boots – and get some training in – these guys are fierce competitors.
1.) Click on the "Setup your climb for heroes fundraising page"
2.) Follow the steps to get registered for the event and get your CrowdRise page set up.
3.) Once your page and log in is created, use the "Edit fundraiser" tab to add a photo and some story text about why this cause is important to you.
4.) Share your unique URL with family, friends, co-workers and anyone else with an email address to have them donate to your page and raise as much money as possible.
5.) Pat yourself on the back. You are contributing to an incredible program that changes thousands of lives every year.
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The personal computer industry is in a free-fall at the moment, and the recent reports from industry analysts confirm the gravity of the situation, down by as much as 21%.
The Post-PC era is a market trend involving a decline in the sales of personal computers in favor of post-PC devices; which include mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. On post-PC devices, the use of traditional applications are de-emphasized in favor of mobile apps and cross-platform web applications as an alternative to application software that can only be used on a PC, along with an emphasis on portability and connectivity. As tablets and smartphones become more powerful, they are steadily eroding away at the PC. Additional factors for the decline include economic malaise, and markets in emerging countries are sluggish as well.
Industry insiders have been expecting some PC Buyers to postpone purchases of new systems until the launch of Microsoft's new operating system, however the magnitude of the slowdown in the third quarter came as a surprise.
Even more surprising, is the impact this is having on chip maker AMD, the main competitor to Intel. AMD has scaled back its chip manufacturing for the last three months of the company's 2012 fiscal year by more than 75 percent. You see, to make chips, AMD needs to buy silicon wafers, which it has planned on spending approx $500 Million. Well due to the declining market, they have reduced their promised silicon wafer purchase to only $115 Million.
The clouds on the horizon are darkening even more for AMD, as they are getting destroyed by an already poor market position. Their success in penetrating the tablet market has been dismal, and AMD continues to lose market share to Intel, all the while the PC market place continues to decline rapidly.
What does all this mean to you? Competition keeps prices low, and fuels innovation. Whenever a major competitor is in danger of losing market share, or worse, going under, it is never good for the consumer.
To survive, not only does AMD have to make drastic emergency measures, but it also needs the PC industry to revive. It's bad enough when a company needs to correct the course of their own ship, it's even more treacherous when they have to rely on the marketplace for survival as well.
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