Sunday, September 30, 2012

Halloween Town : A Nightmare Before Christmas RP

"Harrowing Halloween" is a new RP looking for all types of witty characters based in Tim Burton's holiday world, Halloween Town. You are free to develop your own original characters that thrive (or become trapped) in the town, or personalize an existing character from the movie. This is meant to be a fun, laid-back RP just in time for the Halloween. It is preferred that members are literate and post a few paragraphs per reply.

As for the major plot of the story-line, this is how the idea is flowing so far:

On Halloween night, a group of teenagers is 'lured' into the Hinterlands, which is the forest far from civilization where all of the Holiday World portals exists. On Halloween night, the door leading to Halloweentown is wide open, and the curious teenagers enter a graveyard scene until they're at the foot of the town.

They're greeted by townspeople who have been plotting for a while about how to get more seasonal time. Unanimously, they decided that to have their holiday be more important, they would have to destroy the other holidays that steal away their spotlight.

Once the clock strikes midnight, the teenagers would become 'trapped' inside of Halloweentown for an entire year until the door would open again. During which time, they would be 'cultured', slowly turning into halloween-esque creatures and forced into thinking that once they escape this town, they will have to return to Hinterlands each time the next holiday door is opened and destroy the town from the inside.

However, someone within the town thinks that this whole 'plan' is a terrible idea and that the other holidays should be left alone. This mysterious 'antagonist' begins kidnapping and killing certain townspeople to get their point across, making it clear that they don't want the teenagers in Halloweentown any longer.

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Pretty much any position is free to play. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them for you.

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Investors prepare for Obama victory, more gridlock

By MATTHEW CRAFT, Associated Press

NEW YORK --?As President Barack Obama widened his lead over Mitt Romney in polls this month, traders at hedge funds and investment firms began shooting e-mails to clients with a similar theme: It's time to start preparing for an Obama victory.?

What many in the market worry about isn't that high earners may pay more in taxes if Obama wins. It's gridlock in Washington come January, when more than $600 billion in spending cuts and tax hikes could kick in just as the country smacks into its borrowing limit again.?

In a second term, Obama would likely be pitted against a Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Investors say that's likely to set up a budget battle similar to August of last year, which ended with the country losing its top credit rating and panicked investors fleeing the stock market.

"If you have any kind of gridlock, you run the risk of inaction," says Tom Simons, a market economist at the investment bank Jefferies. "This is a situation where inaction is the worst outcome."

The next fight could get just as messy, but most on Wall Street think Congress and Obama would eventually manage to postpone some of the $600-billion-plus "fiscal cliff" and avoid tipping the economy into a recession.

The Congressional Budget Office recently laid out the grim consequences of dropping off the fiscal cliff. The economy would shrink at an annual rate of nearly 3 percent in the first half of next year and push unemployment up to 9.1 percent by the fall. Recent surveys of businesses suggest the threat is already weighing on the minds of executives when they're making hiring and spending plans.

For the world's biggest money managers, the fiscal cliff now ranks as the greatest hazard to the global economy, according to Bank of America's most recent fund manager survey. It topped the European debt crisis, a collapse in Chinese real estate and even a war between Israel and Iran.

The danger looms so large to most investors that they believe Washington will find a way to escape it.

"Ultimately, I think a deal gets done, but it's just a question of how long it takes to get there," says Jeff Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial. "By no means is it going to be an easy process. Gridlock means there's a greater chance that this drags on into next year."

Analysts at investment firms have kept a close eye on polling numbers and especially on the prediction market Intrade. National polls show voters leaning toward Obama. On Intrade, the odds have swung strongly in Obama's direction, jumping to a 76 percent chance of re-election, up from 51 percent at the start of September.

Democrats are far less likely to take the House from Republicans, who hold a 50-seat majority. Intrade markets put the chance that Republicans will control the House at 74 percent.

If these forecasts prove right, the balance of power in Washington would remain the same. Democrats keep the White House and a slim majority in the Senate, and Republicans keep the House.

What troubles investors is that the same cast of characters who fought over raising the debt ceiling last year could be taking up the same task again while debating how best to maneuver around the fiscal cliff.

Expect to see a replay of the debt-ceiling fight, says Ian Lyngen, a senior government bond strategist at CRT Capital. Except that this time the stakes are even higher.

"I'm sure it's going to go just like it did last time ? very messy," Lyngen says. "It will probably be a repeat of what we saw in the summer of 2011."

In one dizzying stretch that August, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 2,000 points in three weeks.

The widespread belief on Wall Street is that Congress and Obama will start negotiations over raising the debt limit and pushing back the fiscal cliff when they return in late November ? the so-called lame-duck session, because newly elected members of Congress will not have taken their seats.

Twists in the talks will likely rattle markets as the new year approaches.

"Ugly negotiations in the lame-duck session could really throw the market for a loop," says Kleintop. "It could be a painful process for investors."

In a report out this week, analysts at Goldman Sachs tried to estimate just how painful the process will be. Goldman expects the stock market will start sinking after the elections as people realize the fiscal cliff "will not be solved in a smooth fashion."

That's the reason Goldman forecasts that one broad measure of the stock market, the Standard & Poor's 500 index, will end this year at 1,250 ? a 13 percent drop from where it closed Thursday.

But all of that mayhem sounds better than the alternative: another recession caused by letting the $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts through. It's also why many take solace in the idea that, whatever their political party, nobody wants the economy to shrink.

Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at the brokerage BTIG, wonders if that's placing too much faith in Washington. "Republicans aren't losing the House," Greenhaus said. "So as the odds of Obama winning reelection go up, what you have to ask is: How are these two parties going to find middle ground in just a few months? I have no idea."

Below, James Poterba, National Bureau of Economic Research president, explains to CNBC how current fiscal policy could lead the nation into a recession if the economy falls off the fiscal cliff.

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Will Higher Heat Content In Trash Help Waste-to-Energy Stocks?

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently published an article describing an increase in the energy content of municipal solid waste (MSW). The reason for this increase is an increase in the percentage of waste from "non-biogenic" sources (i.e. plastics) as compared to biogenic sources (paper, cardboard, wood, food and yard waste, etc.) Biogenic waste has an average heat content of 11 MMBtu/ton, as compared to 23 MMBtu/ton for non-biogenic waste.

The EIA attributes the relative decrease in the amount of (biogenic) food containers and packaging (heat content 16.6 MMBtu/ton) and an increase in waste polypropylene (PP, 38 MMBtu/ton). PP is the relatively hard-to-recycle plastic #5, found in yogurt cups and other wide-necked containers, and has a much higher heat content that relatively easy-to-recycle plastics #1 and #2 (PETE at 20.5 MMBTu/ton and HDPE at 19.5 MMBtu).

The higher heat content of MSW should make generating electricity from MSW more efficient, and give a slight boost to margins of waste-to-energy companies like MSW electricity generators like Covanta (NYSE:CVA) and Algonquin Power and Utilities (AQUNF.PK), which generates thermal energy from MSW in addition to a large renewable energy business.

However, if increasing energy content of waste is to make a difference in the stock prices of MSW-to-energy firms, it will have to be sustained over the long term. I doubt the trend will continue for long. First of all, total MSW volumes are flat in the US, and falling on a per-capita basis, even while recycling rates are rising (EIA data).

I expect increased recycling to begin to reduce the energy content of the remaining waste as less-recycled, higher energy-content materials are increasingly recycled. Currently, only 13.5% of plastic containers in the waste stream are recovered, as opposed to 71% of paper and 33% of glass. Further, high-energy PP is becoming increasingly easy to recycle; I was recently pleased to find that it and LDPE (plastic #4, also with a relatively heat content of 24.1 MMBtu) are now accepted at my local transfer station.

While waste-to-energy companies may be getting a small margin boost from higher MSW heat content today, investors should not count on any such boost being permanent. That's a large part of the reason why my preferred investments in MSW are integrated companies like Waste Management (NYSE:WM), which can profit from both increased recycling and waste-to-energy opportunities.

Disclosure: Long AQN, MW

This article was first published on the author's Forbes.com blog, Green Stocks on September 6th.

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Vatican: 'Jesus' Wife' papyrus is a fake

An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said Friday.

"Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery," the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial by its editor, Gian Maria Vian. "In any case, it's a fake."

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Joining a highly charged academic debate over the authenticity of the text, written in ancient Egyptian Coptic, the newspaper published a lengthy analysis by expert Alberto Camplani of Rome's La Sapienza university, outlining doubts about the manuscript and urging extreme caution.

The fragment, which reads "Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'" was unveiled by Harvard Professor Karen King as a text from the 4th century at a congress of Coptic Studies in Rome last week.

Her study divided the academic community, with some hailing it as a landmark discovery while others rapidly expressed their doubts

"It's really pretty unlikely that it's authentic," University of Durham Professor Francis Watson told Reuters after he published a paper arguing the words on the fragment were a rearrangement of phrases from a well known Coptic text.

Watson, who has previously worked on identifying forged gospels, said it was likely to be an ancient blank fragment that was written over in the 20th or 21st century by a forger seeking to make money.

Watson argues that the words on the fragment do not fit grammatically into a larger text.

"It's possible to get hold of an old bit of unwritten-on papyrus and write some new stuff on it," Watson said. "There is a market for fake antiquities throughout the Middle East ... I would guess that in this case the motivation might have been a financial one."

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Manuscript experts who heard King's presentation quickly took to their blogs to express doubts, noting that the letters were clumsy, perhaps the script of someone unused to writing Coptic.

Writing from the conference, early Christian scholar Christian Askeland said specialists there were divided between two-thirds who were extremely skeptical, and one-third convinced the fragment was false.

"I have not met anyone who supports its authenticity," Askeland wrote from a session of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, where King gave her paper.

In an email to Reuters after the conference ended and before the Vatican editorial, King said: "Whether, in the end, the fragment will be shown to be authentic is still to be finally determined, but the serious conversation among scholars has begun."

During the conference King stressed that the fragment did not give "any evidence that Jesus was married, or not married" but that early Christians were talking about the possibility.

AnneMarie Luijendijk, associate professor of religion at Princeton University, said she concluded that the fragment was indeed an authentic, ancient text, written by a scribe in antiquity.

"We can see that by the way the ink is preserved on the papyrus and also the way the papyrus has faded and also the way the papyrus has become very fragmentary, which is actually in line with a lot of other papyri we have also from the New Testament," Luijendijk told Reuters during the conference.

The idea that Jesus was married resurfaces regularly in popular culture, notably with the 2003 publication of Dan Brown's best-seller "The Da Vinci Code," which angered the Vatican because, among other things, it was based on the idea that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children.

Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married and the Catholic Church, by far the largest in Christendom, says women cannot become priests because Christ chose only men as his apostles.

Additional reporting for Reuters by Philip Pullella.

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Samsung wins reconsideration of Galaxy Tab sales ban

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that a lower court should reconsider a sales ban against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 won by Apple in a patent dispute with the South Korean electronics maker.

The injunction was put in place ahead of a month-long trial that pitted iPhone maker Apple Inc against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in a closely watched legal battle that ended with a resounding victory for Apple last month on many of its patent violation claims.

However, the jury found that Samsung had not violated the patent that was the basis for the tablet injunction and Samsung argued the sales ban should be lifted. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said she could not act because Samsung had already appealed.

In its ruling on Friday, the Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington said Koh could now consider the issue.

The decision comes just a month before the South Korean corporation is expected to unveil the second generation of one of its most successful devices, the stylus-equipped Note.

The Galaxy 10.1 is an older model, but the ban still hurts Samsung in the run-up to the pivotal holiday shopping season.

The world's top two smartphone makers are locked in patent disputes in 10 countries as they vie to dominate the lucrative market, which is growing rapidly.

A U.S. jury found during the just-concluded trial that Samsung had copied critical features of the iPhone and iPad and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages.

(Reporting By Dan Levine; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn. Editing by Andre Grenon)

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Wall St marks best third quarter since 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street closed its best third quarter since 2010 after a wave of central bank actions sparked a dramatic reversal in equity markets, but signs of weakness in the economy drove stocks lower on Friday.

The S&P 500 climbed 5.9 percent over the past three months as central banks geared up to boost liquidity to markets and kick-start their flagging economies. The move has lifted the benchmark index as much as 17 percent this year, recently pushing the S&P to its best level in five years.

But on Friday, investors grappled with more disappointing U.S. economic data as business activity in the U.S. Midwest contracted for the first time since 2009. The news came on the heels of other weak regional manufacturing reports and a sharp drop in U.S. durable goods orders last month.

"The reality is that the fundamentals of the market certainly don't support a 17-plus-percent run-up year to date, but with all the QE (quantitative easing) action, that has had a huge, huge impact," said Oliver Pursche, president of Gary Goldberg Financial Services in Suffern, New York.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 48.84 points, or 0.36 percent, to close at 13,437.13. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index lost 6.48 points, or 0.45 percent, to finish at 1,440.67. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 20.37 points, or 0.65 percent, to close at 3,116.23.

For the third quarter, the Dow rose 4.3 percent and the Nasdaq climbed 6.2 percent.

For the month of September alone, the Dow gained 2.6 percent and the S&P 500 rose 2.4 percent, while the Nasdaq advanced 1.6 percent.

In contrast, the trend for the week was down, with the Dow off 1.1 percent, while the S&P 500 shed 1.3 percent and the Nasdaq dropped 2 percent.

In Friday's session, stocks came off their lows after Spanish bank stress tests were released, and were mostly within expectations. The independent audit showed banks will need 59.3 billion euros in extra capital to ride out a serious downturn.

But Spain still remains mired in difficulties. Moody's review of the country's credit rating, due later in the day, could add to its challenges. On Thursday, ratings agency Egan-Jones cut Spain's sovereign rating further into junk status, citing the country's faltering banks and struggling regional governments.

The euro fell against the dollar on Friday, declining for a second straight week, as uncertainty persisted about Spain's prospects for receiving a bailout to prop up its ailing banks.

Recent protests in Spain and Greece against austerity plans have also heightened investors' concerns as the turmoil could impede political maneuvering.

On the earnings front, U.S.-listed shares of Research in Motion jumped 5 percent to $7.50 a day after a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss.

Pledges by the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan to buy government bonds helped cement a summer rally in stocks and commodities.

But markets have lost some of their luster after the announcements from the central banks in the first half of September. After pulling back 1.7 percent over the last two weeks, the S&P 500 is now up 14.6 percent so far this year. The S&P 500's drop of 1.3 percent this week is its worst weekly decline since the start of June.

The coming months hold a series of difficult challenges for markets, including third-quarter earnings season, which is expected to show the first drop in earnings since 2009, and the U.S. presidential election in November.

Reflecting Friday's defensive tone, nine of the 10 S&P sectors fell. Only the S&P utilities index was positive, up just 0.5 percent.

The decline in the S&P technology sector index <.gspt> was limited, as Accenture PLC climbed 7.1 percent to $70.03. Accenture's gain followed its forecast of full-year earnings higher than analysts' estimates as the company bolsters its outsourcing business.

Nike Inc warned of slowing orders in China, becoming the latest company to sound a note of caution about how economic weakness in the world's second-largest economy was affecting its business. Nike's stock fell 1.1 percent to $94.91.

Trading was light on the quarter's last day, when money managers reposition their portfolios. About 6.15 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, Amex and Nasdaq, compared with the average daily volume of 6.38 billion.

Decliners outnumbered advancers on the NYSE by a ratio of 3 to 2, while on the Nasdaq, nearly two stocks fell for every one that rose.

(Editing by Jan Paschal)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-st-marks-best-third-quarter-since-2010-034432516--finance.html

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Target&#39;s up&up baby & toddler food pouches {Giveaway!}

Ear?lier this sum?mer, I shared with you how much we were lov?ing Target?s up&up dia?pers and now Tar?get is back with another fun promo, per?fect for those of you with lit?tle ones?Baby & Tod?dler food pouches!

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New Release Video Games: September 30th - October 6th, 2012 ...

The biggest game this week is Resident Evil 6, launching?with both a regular edition on Xbox 360 and PS3, and?Resident Evil 6 Archives and Resident Evil 6 Anthology launching alongside the game as well.

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Xbox 360

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission

NBA 2K13

Remington?s Super Slam Hunting Ultimate Sportsman Challenge

Resident Evil 6

Resident Evil 6 Archives

Nights: Into Dreams (XBLA)

Sonic Adventure 2 (XBLA)

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PlayStation 3

NBA 2K13 (Retail and PSN)

Remington?s Super Slam Hunting Ultimate Sportsman Challenge

Resident Evil 6 (Retail and PSN)

Resident Evil 6 Anthology

Nights: Into Dreams (PSN)

Sonic Adventure 2 (PSN)

Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (PSN)

Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon (PS2 Classic)

Ruff Trigger: The Vanocore Conspiracy (PS2 Classic)

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Carrier Command: Gaea Mission

Command and Conquer: Ultimate Collection

Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece

NBA 2K13

RAW: Realms of Ancient War

Remington?s Super Slam Hunting Ultimate Sportsman Challenge

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New Little King?s Story (PSN)

PlayStation Vita 3G/Wi-Fi System Bundle (Canada Only)

Over 40 PS1 Classics Added To The Vita Store?- Includes FF8, FF9, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve 1, Parasite Eve 2, More

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Nintendo 3DS

Art Academy: Lessons For Everyone! (Retail and eShop)

Crosswords Plus (Retail and eShop)

Academy: Chess Puzzles (eShop)

Cave Story (eShop)

Samurai G (eShop)

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Nintendo DS

Academy: Chess Puzzles (DSiWare)

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PlayStation Portable

NBA 2K13

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Nintendo Wii

NBA 2K13

Remington?s Super Slam Hunting Ultimate Sportsman Challenge

Drop Zone: Under Fire (WiiWare)

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iOS

Stunt Star: The Hollywood Years (iOS)

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Education of Business Online from NCSU Become An Internet ...

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That you can become a successful Internet marketing consultant even if you only have off line marketing background and are determined to work hard on your dream is true. Not much difference exists between off line marketing consultant and work as an Internet marketing consultant.

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As an Internet marketing consultant you are supposed to be very knowledgeable in Internet marketing in order to be able to facilitate your client?s work and help them succeed with your valuable Internet marketing analysis and advice. This calls for wide reading and research to equip you as a successful Internet marketing consultant.

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Kona Project 2 Messenger Bag from Brenthaven

I’ve recently been thinking about ways to keep gear dry when you get caught in the rain, and the Kona Project 2 Messenger bag from Brenthaven caught my eye because it’s built with an internal dry bag to keep your laptop and other electronics dry. ?It’s made of?water-shedding 1000D Cordura fabric, and it has patent-pending [...]

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$99 Parallella supercomputer appears on Kickstarter ? Computer ...

The launch of the Raspberry Pi has been a huge success story, and promises to get cheap computers into the hands of kids and hobbyists around the world. But it has also had another effect?it has inspired others to look into alternative methods of developing cheap computing platforms.

One company taking inspiration from the Raspberry Pi Foundation is Adapteva, which focuses on semiconductor technology and has developed a very efficient multicore microprocessor architecture. Now they intend to use that architecture to offer up a $99 supercomputer with the help of Kickstarter.

The project is called Parallella, with the main aim being to make parallel computing open and accessible to everyone at a very cheap price point. Adapteva intends to do this by using its Epiphany RISC processors, which promise up to 45GHz of CPU performance using only 5 Watts and fitting on a board the size of a credit card.

The Parallella computer itself combines the ?Epiphany Multicore Accelerator? consisting of 16 or 64 cores, with a dual-core ARM A9 processor, 1GB RAM, MicroSD, USB 2.0, HDMI, Ethernet, and Ubuntu Linux. It?s also a completely open platform, meaning everything is open source including the architecture and the SDK.

Pledging $99 on Kickstarter gets you a 16 core Parallella and 13GHz of? performance along with all the tools required to start developing software? on the board. And Adapteva isn?t kidding about the size of the device. The final Parallella will measure just 3.4 x 2.1-inches.

In order for the Parallella Kickstarter to be a success it has to reach a funding target of $750,000. Such a high target has been set due to the costs involved in retooling a chip foundry and mass producing the processors. But once that?s achieved the cost of the chips will fall to just a few dollars due to thousands of then fitting on a wafer.

With 29 days to go the Kickstarter has only reached $23,311, so it?s unclear if this project will happen. However, even if there aren?t enough individuals willing to pledge, one or two companies may step in and help get it to 750K if they think Parallella is worthwhile to their business interests.

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Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/99-parallella-supercomputer-appears-on-kickstarter-20120928/

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Karl Grossman: The Affable, Consensus-Seeking Bill Lindsay ...

Bill Lindsay, the affable, consensus-seeking presiding officer of the Suffolk County Legislature since 2006, is a victim of occupational exposure to asbestos.? It happened not during his government service but in his prior work as an electrician and as an official of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers inspecting job sites at which fellow electricians suspected they were being exposed to asbestos.

At the start of this year, Lindsay was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer caused by asbestos. This came shortly after he was unanimously re-elected to a seventh term as the legislature?s presiding officer, after county executive the Number 2 position in Suffolk County government.

Lindsay was an electrician for 15 years and for 23 years business agent and business manager of Local 25 of the IBEW, which covers electricians in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.? In working as an electrician, ?a lot of the time? he recounted last week, he had to ?scrape off the asbestos fireproofing? from beams before attaching electrical conduits to them. ?You ended up breathing in asbestos.?

And although ?asbestos was outlawed in 1972,? he noted, there were still large amounts of it in existing structures. As an IBEW official he would regularly go to where ?my members? were concerned about being exposed to asbestos. ?I implemented a program for my members in which a sample of the fireproofing would be sent to a laboratory for examination.?? This was needed because ?a lot of landlords lied about asbestos??claimed it didn?t exist in their buildings. The tests presented the proof.

But, in going repeatedly to the scenes of likely asbestos contamination, Lindsay was exposed, too, in addition to his exposure when he worked as an electrician. Of mesothelioma, he noted, ?You only get it from asbestos.?

Indeed, the website www.MesotheliomHelp.net opens under the heading ?Mesothelioma?The Cancer Caused by Asbestos,? with information on the connection including a 2010 National Academy of Sciences study. ?Asbestos is a known carcinogen and is proven to cause mesothelioma,? it states. ?Often called ?asbestos cancer,? mesothelioma is highly aggressive and is resistant to many standard cancer treatments.?

?The good news,? said Lindsay last week, ?is that on August 11 the doctor told me I was cancer-free. The bad news is that they took out my lung.?

His remaining lung has ?really picked up functionality and is operating at 94 percent,? he said. He?s generally ?feeling good?It depends on the day.? ?Lindsay will be 66 in November. He plans to continue on the legislature through the end of next year when its term-limit of six two-year terms kicks in for him. He then intends to retire. If there is a medical downturn before that, ?I would retire immediately.?

Lindsay, a Holbrook Democrat, has been popular with his peers as presiding officer. His approach as the legislature?s leader, he explained, has been to ?have a personal relationship with every legislator and work together to make a better government.?

What Lindsay has been hit with is mirrored in the millions of people similarly struck by cancer. The World Health Organization determined in 2010 that cancer had become the world?s leading cause of death, overtaking heart disease. Why the cancer epidemic? Report after report attributes it mainly to the toxic substances in the water we drink, the food we eat, the consumer products we use, the air we breathe. As the President?s Cancer Panel stated in a 2010 report, ?Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now,? we are ?bombarded continually with myriad combinations of these dangerous exposures.? ?It urged President Obama ?most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our nation?s productivity, and devastate American lives.? It emphasized that there are safe ?alternatives? to cancer-causing agents.

The U.S. government has generally failed to act because of the power of those poisoning people. I wrote a book on this in 1982, ?The Poison Conspiracy.? Asbestos, for example, was known as a carcinogen as far back as 1929 and nothing was done?and safe alternatives were always available. As to the corporations responsible, consider Johns Manville, the global giant in manufacturing asbestos products. In 1982, faced with thousands of asbestos injury lawsuits, it declared bankruptcy.

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Karl Grossman has covered Long Island politics for over 50 years.

Source: http://www.lipolitics.com/blog/2012/09/27/karl-grossman-bill-lindsay-the-affable-consensus-seeking-presiding-officer-of-the-suffolk-county-legislature/

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Movie review: &#39;Looper&#39; a smart trip to the future | The Salt Lake Tribune

This film image released by Sony Pictures shows Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a scene from the action thriller "Looper." (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Review ? Sharp script and solid acting propel thriller.

Rian Johnson?s stunning science-fiction thriller "Looper" is a movie that works because it takes time travel seriously.

Some filmmakers don?t, which is how we get movies like "Men in Black 3." But Johnson thinks through the implications and ramifications of time travel, realizing that time is not linear but a never-ending series of back-and-forth elliptical progressions and regressions, each affecting and altering the next. Fans of the classic British series "Doctor Who," which also is serious about time travel even when it?s whimsical in other areas, have been given a shorthand for this: "Timey-wimey."

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An assassin is confronted with his future, and his past, in this smart and thrilling sci-fi drama.

Where ? Theaters everywhere.

When ? Opens Friday, Sept. 28.

Rating ? R for strong violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and drug content.

Running time ? 118 minutes.

"Looper" begins with a fascinating premise: In the future, about 2070 or so, time travel will be invented ? but it will be outlawed, and only crime syndicates will be able to use it. Also, "CSI"-style technology will advance to where it?s impossible to dispose of a body, so crime lords will take care of matters by sending unwanted people 30 years into the past, where assassins ? called "loopers" ? will wait to kill the person and burn the evidence.

In Kansas, 2044, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a "looper" and gets paid handsomely for his work. Silver ingots are strapped to his victims just before they are sent back to him. Joe saves his money, except for what he uses to buy the era?s current designer drug and entertain his stripper girlfriend (Piper Perabo).

Joe knows he won?t live forever, because at some point the bosses in the future will "close the loop" by sending his older self back to be killed. His best friend, played by Paul Dano, becomes a case study in why it?s not smart to "let your loop run" ? allowing your future self to live ? as Johnson reveals in an early sequence that?s cleverly shocking.

But when Joe does meets his older self (played by Bruce Willis), something interesting happens. Actually, two interesting things happen. Johnson shows us the aftermath of one outcome ? which leads to another outcome 30 years later. Without getting all timey-wimey, just know that there?s a multileveled chase as young Joe tries to find old Joe, while old Joe embarks on a desperate mission of his own.

Oh, and there?s a farm woman (Emily Blunt) with a little boy (Pierce Gagnon) caught up in it all.

Gordon-Levitt and Willis pair up nicely, even though they scarcely look alike. Some prosthetic makeup work on Gordon-Levitt helps bridge the gap, as does his humorous re-creation of Willis? trademark mannerisms. In a scene opposite a crime boss, deftly played by Jeff Daniels, Gordon-Levitt gets the Willis squint down cold. The transition isn?t perfect, but the exciting action lets you forgive and forget quickly.

Johnson, who worked with Gordon-Levitt in his high-school noir debut "Brick," creates in "Looper" a fascinating look at the future, alternately gritty and shiny, and without trafficking in too many "Blade Runner" references. Johnson?s script is sharp and full of surprises, and his direction builds on the optimistic tone that is inherent in the best time-travel stories: the idea that there are always second chances to fix past mistakes.

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"Cheers": The Day Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson Ditched and Did Shrooms

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Starring on the classic sitcom "Cheers" brought lots of joy to Ted Danson - but ditching work once led to what he calls "the worst day of my life."

In a fantastic oral history of the NBC series in the new GQ, Danson says he once played hooky with Woody Harrelson, George Wendt, and John Ratzenberger.

"Shelley and Rhea were carrying that week's episode, and the guys were just, ?Let's play hooky.' We'd never done anything wrong before. John had a boat, so we met at Marina del Rey at 8 A.M. We all called in sick, and Jimmy caught on and was so pissed."

"Woody and I were already stoned, and Woody said, ?You want to try some mushrooms?' I'd never had them, so I'm handed this bag and I took a fistful," Danson continued. "On our way to Catalina, we hit the tail end of a hurricane, and even people who were sober were getting sick. Woody and I thought we were going to die for three hours. I sat next to George, and every sixty seconds or so he'd poke me and go, ?Breathe.' And I'd come back to life."

Danson and Harrelson weren't the only ones who overindulged, according to producer Dan Shannon, now an executive producer on "Modern Family." He said Kelsey Grammer would "ooze into the studio, his life all out of sorts."

"Jimmy would say ?Action,' and he would snap into Frasier and expound in this very erudite dialogue and be pitch-perfect," Shannon said. "And Jimmy would yell ?Cut!' and he would ooze back into Kelsey - glazed-over eyes, half asleep, going through whatever he was going through. It was the most amazing transformation I've ever seen."

Long also talked to the magazine about how the show kept the will-they-or-won't-they dynamic alive between her character, Diane, and Danson's Sam.

"Our audience was so tuned in to every move, because the flirting between Sam and Diane during the first season was totally outrageous," she said. "There was talk about 'Would it be right to advance the relationship, or could that condemn the relationship?' I put my two cents in - big surprise - and said, 'In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.' Ultimately, that's what worked."

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School Systems Blog - Four Gaming Resources for Learning

By: Aaron Morrison | September, 2012 | 125 views | No Comments | Posted in: Classroom Resources, Technology in the Classroom

Most educators view games as a way to incentivize students for good behavior, or to play during excess time in the class. However, using video games for learning purposes has caught fire in the classroom, and I don?t see it burning out anytime soon! In fact, MindShift just posted a video this week about How Games Are Being Used for Learning that I highly recommend checking out. Not convinced? Head on over to Mashable for another article about Why Education Needs to Get Its Game On.

The great thing about this educational tool is that you get to test it out yourself before using it with your students! Sounds like fun to me. So, here are four online games you can play?I mean, test out?before implementing them for learning:

  • FunBrain: More than 100 fun, interactive educational games and more! These games focus on developing skills in math, reading, and literacy. Ages preschool through 8th grade.
  • Arcademic Skill Builder: Teach basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills with these games!
  • MineCraft: This game is a neat educational tool! You can find an example of how it is used in the classroom HERE.
  • Math Moves U: These video games could make practicing math habitual, which is not easy to do!

Lastly, Free Technology for Teachers has an article that provides some tips for success and lessons learned concerning educational gaming. It has some great insight: Video Games in Teaching.

What do you think, do online video games belong in the classroom?

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Element 113 at Last?

Japanese researchers claim success in creating a third atom of the element, after nine years of searching


RIKEN in Japan Is it in there? Researchers at RIKEN in Japan claim conclusive proof that they have created element 113. Image: RIKEN

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By Richard Van Noorden of Nature magazine

After nine years of painstaking experiment, researchers in Japan reported yesterday that they have created a third atom of the element 113. That success, according to experts in the field, could see the element officially added to the periodic table. It would be the first artificial element to be discovered in East Asia, potentially giving the Japanese team the right to name it.

But that privilege is not assured. US and Russian researchers have also been hard at work on element 113, and say that they have created 56 atoms of it since 2003.

None of these sightings has been confirmed by the independent committee of experts appointed to rule on such matters. That shows how hard it is to prove the creation of new superheavy elements, although it also highlights the bureaucratic nature of the process set up to approve findings.

Quintillions of atoms
Since 2003, the Japanese team, led by Kosuke Morita, has been bombarding a bismuth target with a beam of zinc atoms at RIKEN?s Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science in Saitama, near Tokyo. Their goal was to fuse the atomic nuclei of these elements to produce an atom with 113 protons and 165 neutrons in its nucleus.

This fusion is extremely unlikely. Over nine years, the beam has been switched on for a total of 553 days, during which time 130 quintillion (1.3 ? 1020) atoms of zinc have been fired at the bismuth target. Indeed, says Morita, the team knew that success would be unlikely from the start: they calculated that they would see only 3?6 successes in every 100 quintillion attempts.

The team had their hopes up early. By 2004, they had spotted what seemed to be an atom of element 113. But successful fusions cannot be observed directly. Jamming that many protons and neutrons together creates an unstable tumult of forces, and the atom falls apart within a few milliseconds. It decays, either splitting into two smaller portions (?fission?) or spitting out a series of small, charged particles ('?-decay') that are detected when they embed themselves in a surrounding silicon semiconductor. The timings and energies of these decay products hint at what the original material was, but they provide certainty only if the final decay product is one whose properties are already known.

In the first two of RIKEN's possible observations of the element, researchers recorded four ?-decays followed by a fission reaction, which they assumed came from an isotope of dubnium (element 105). But it wasn?t clear that the chain of ?-decays began with element 113. That, at least, was the conclusion of last year?s technical report from the body that pronounces on such matters, a group of experts drawn from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

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Nor were the technical experts satisfied with separate observations reported in 2004 by a team of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. That team used a different reaction, slamming calcium into a target of americium (element 95) to create element 115. When this element fell apart, decaying to a stable dubnium end product, it was thought to produce element 113 along the way.

The Dubna experiments ? which would have created different, more stable, isotopes of 113 ? had the advantage that their reaction, in theory, worked 300?500 times as often as the Japanese experiment, says Yuri Oganessian, who works at the Dubna facility. On the other hand, each of the isotopes in the decay chain was new and had never been studied before. The team would have to study the chemical properties of the final atom in the chain to prove that it was dubnium, and therefore that element 113 had existed fleetingly inside their experiment, in order to satisfy IUPAC and IUPAP.

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Frisco, a pioneer in green building, celebrates a decade of energy ...

Frisco, a pioneer in green building, celebrates a decade of energy savings

This year, Frisco celebrates 11 years of energy efficient building after breaking ground as a national leader on efficient building a decade ago.

A Darling home at Panther Creek in Frisco.

Many residents may not know that Frisco was the first city in the nation to adopt the Energy Star building guidelines as its mandatory minimum standard for new home construction.

The Frisco City Council voted to make the Energy Start standards mandatory for residential and commercial builders starting in 2001 ? a decision that helped save nearly $45 million in residential utility costs for Frisco residents over the next decade.

Today, Frisco remains a leader, with only a handful of Texas cities joining them in having green building codes or specially written energy standards for public buildings. Those other cities are Dallas, Houston, Austin, Plano, and San Antonio.

Since the green building code was enacted more than 16,500 new buildings in Frisco have been built to? the program?s tighter guidelines, which required structures to use 15 percent less energy than they would following the national minimum building codes.

The average energy savings per home in Frisco was $436 annually as a result of the program.

These Energy Star homes accomplished this savings in a variety of ways, through a more tightly sealed building sheath or ?envelope?, the use of Energy Star appliances and more efficient lighting, said Steve Covington, chief building official for Frisco.

?They were a little more costly to the builder, upfront, but the savings cost to the customer offset that cost, as well as the improvement to air quality,? Covington said.

City officials have measured Frisco?s contribution to improved air quality by calculating the carbon dioxide, NOx (nitrogen oxides) and sulfur oxide pollution that was avoided by building more efficient homes. They calculate that the program saved 39,223 tons of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas; 112 tons of NOx, a contributor to ground-level ozone, and 121 tons of SO2? pollution.

Frisco?s green building program also focused on water conservation and waste recycling, encouraging builders to recycle lumber and bricks. The builders met the guidelines if their houses achieved a Home Energy Rating Score (HERS) of 86. (A home with a HERS score of 100 would typically meet minimum guidelines; homes with a lower score were more efficient and those with a score above 100 were using excessive energy.)

The EPA celebrated 20 years of the national Energy Star for buildings program in 2012, calculating that it had saved American families and businesses $230 billion on their utility bills. By 2012, the list of participating cities had grown to the hundreds, and many commercial and residential buildings also had voluntarily built to Energy Star standards.

As in Frisco, air quality, a key goal of the program, had benefited greatly with an aggregate savings across the nation of 1.7 billion metric tons of carbon pollution avoided.

The savings presented by a more efficient house has always been good for home owners, Covington said, helping protect them from high electricity bills and adding to the long-term value of their home and enhancing the value of the community.

But those positives aren?t always clear to the homebuyer at the point of sale, and for builders that presents a conundrum, he said. If they spend more initially for better heating and cooling units, efficient windows and other energy saving components, they can only get their money back if the customer also values these improvements.

Over time, consumers have recognized the value of an energy efficient home, and residential builders have been able to promote energy efficiency, turning it into an effective marketing tool, Covington said.

Enlightened consumers, in fact, are demanding energy efficient homes.

?I think people are expecting it nowdays,? says Chad Schramme, vice president for vice president of construction and purchasing for Darling Homes.

Darling has built about 1,000 homes in Frisco over the last 18 years. The local builder, owned by three brothers, was already developing a plan for ?whole house? efficiency when it moved into the Frisco market, Schramme said.

While some competitors might offer one or two ?green? features, those can sometimes fail to work appropriately if the entire house isn?t taken into consideration. For instance, a highly rated AC system won?t deliver on its promise if the house is not properly sealed, he said.

Darling wanted to make sure that all the efficiency aspects of a home worked together, so it developed a package of elements that work together.

Currently those elements include reflective radiant barrier roof decking, air returns in all bedrooms, a 16 SEER-rated AC system, conserving water shower heads and faucets and Energy Star-rated appliances, Schramme explained.

?I want everything working in unison on that house to drive down to the most efficient [operations], air quality, energy efficiency, moisture management and water efficiency,? he said. ?Those four things tie in that whole house approach.?

This fit perfectly into Frisco?s more ambitious plan, with Darling?s homes aiming to meet two compatible industry standards, a lower HERS score, which denotes energy savings, and the Energy Star guidelines set by the City of Frisco.

Frisco?s approach also is evolving. For the past year, building officials have been working on a revision to the city?s green building requirements, with input from builders, suppliers, installers and manufacturers in the building industries. (You can see the draft at the Frisco city green building webpage.)

The updated rules would allow builders more flexibility to use new programs that have arisen in reason years, explains Covington.

Builders will still have to go above and beyond, aiming for the same 15 percent better efficiency over the minimum building codes (currently, the 2009 Energy Code is the Energy Code for Texas), which the city estimates will save the typical homeowner $501 in electricity costs annually.

But builders will have the option of meeting those requirements by building to Energy Star or ?the Texas Green Built energy standards or other independent modeling systems that have come out and streamlined the process for the construction industry, Covington said.

Some of the new programs, such as the Texas Green Built program, may actually be more compatible with Frisco?s goals, Covington said, because they add water efficiency guidelines, an area the Energy Star program does not address.

Frisco?s updated draft ordinance aims for an increase in a building?s water efficiency of 25 to 35 percent.

The draft ordinance has yet to go before city council, so it is not in final form, he said.

?We look ahead to our community being a healthy community in the years to come, so our property values maintain a high value,? Covington said. ?With the economy lately and energy prices going up, that helps that homeowner stay in their home and know they?re not wasting energy.?

Frisco Green Building Statistics (as of Sept. 1, 2012)

Homes Built under the green building code??????..16,549

CO2 Avoided ??????????????????????.39,223 tons

NOx Avoided??????????????????????..112 tons

SO2 Avoided???????????????????????122 tons

Energy saved?????????????????????..4,650 kWh per home annually

or $436 average savings per home annually

Cumulative savings??????????????????479,749, 80 kWh saved

or $44,982,0992 utility costs savings / all homes

U.S. Energy Statistics

  • 23 percent of the energy used in the U.S. is consumed by the residential sector
  • The average annual energy bill for an average American home is $2,200, with nearly half of the energy being spent on heating and cooling.
  • 1.3 million ENERGY STAR homes, and 18,000 business buildings, have been certified in the U.S. since the program began in 1992.
  • In 2011, about 26 percent of all new single-family homes built in the U.S. earned the ?Energy Star label.
  • A home that meets Energy Star standards will use at least 15 percent less energy than a home meeting the minimum code (the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code).
  • The Energy Star program is a ?fully integrated, whole-house? approach, according to the EPA, requiring that house systems work well together and include air sealing, quality insulation, high-performance windows, high efficiency HVAC systems, Energy Star rated lighting and appliances and comprehensive water management systems that protect roofs, walls and foundations from moisture damage.

*Sources: Frisco Building department; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which with the Department of Energy, operates the Energy Star program.

Source: http://www.friscogreenliving.com/2012/09/28/frisco-a-pioneer-in-green-building-celebrates-a-decade-of-energy-savings/

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Reply - USVI Moving Center

The mgmt company says it was the owners who procured the refinishers and they are asking the owners for details.
7 months after we left they finally showed us this invoice dated last month for what was supposed to be a water ring repair.

Here's the plain-jane invoice.

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This wasn't the only thing they tried to ding us for. I had to argue that we were not responsible for washing their walls all the way up to their 18 ft ceiling. (The condo had no glass windows, just wooden louvers and screens.) We paid $2700 a month for the place and left it in good shape.

Our lease was up January 28. Date on "refinishing" invoice: August 10.

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