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Friday, August 31, 2007

Good mail day

Don't you love it when you get good mail? My DH decided to look through my Amazon 'Wish List' and today I received 4 books from it. What a sweetheart...I think I'll keep him!

There were 2 quilt books, one of them a Piece O' Cake book (I always say I want to be a Piece O' Cake lady when I grow up!) and a hardback version of the first 3 Elm Creek Quilts books which I have never got around to reading. Also were two super gardening books recommended to me by my friend Anna .... who is not only a prolific quilter but a prolific gardener too!

So I have a lot of reading to do over this long weekend. Yay!!

I also conned my lovely neighbor, Lori, into standing on our rock wall and holding up a quilt so I could take a photo! I tried getting my 6 year old daughter to do it, and she was tall enough but her little arms just couldn't reach the edges! Lori did a great job - you can barely even see her fingers!
It is the same quilt as in the post below with my son sleeping under it. Now you can actually see the full thing, though I do think it's darling to see a quilt being used to keep a child warm and cosy :)

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Sunflower angels plus one of my little angels...

I wanted to do as I promised yesterday and make this a quilty-themed post so this afternoon I pulled out a quilt from the closet (I call it Sunflower Angels - from Garden Inspired Quilts by Jean and Valori Wells - see my Hotlist on the right) and put it, still folded, on my bed to photograph. Of course things came up (see end of post to see what exactly!) and I forgot about it. I came into my room just now to get the quilt and take a photo of it for you and what do I find but my youngest boy in my bed snuggled up under the quilt! So tonight you do get a photo of one of my quilts, just not in the usual way!
Now this boy has been causing trouble all week. I think with the excitement of school starting and things changing, he has been trying to make himself known. So here is the damage he did today, and the reason the title for today's post is quite ironic!
At the time I was not a happy mother and literally wanted to cry over spilt milk....but I was composed enough to take a photo as I knew that later on I would find it funny! Yep that's a whole brand new gallon of milk on my kitchen floor. I even got to move the fridge for this cleaning expedition.

PLEASE can someone tell me that something similar has happened to them?!! By the way, enough hours have passed that I am actually laughing at it now!!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Parents - gotta love 'em

OK this is totally not quilt-related but it's just too funny not to share. My parents are in their 70's, getting on in years - but they're still very active and I can barely imagine that they are that old! Now my father is quite an eccentric fellow - a wonderful man but a little different in many funny ways. Like the subject of death. He is very matter of fact about it (I have been given instructions NOT to fly all the way back to NZ and waste money since he'll be dead anyway) and has been planning it for years.
So yesterday what do I get in my inbox but a photo of my Mum standing at their new cemetary plots! My Dad was so excited to tell me all about them, where they were, how much they cost etc. I must admit, they will have a fantastic view when the time comes to live in said place!
Now the kicker is that he has also been telling everyone that my brother-in-law is going to make him his coffin! My BIL is a very talented carpenter and when I went back to visit in 2004, this was the subject of many conversations between the two. My Dad put the idea to him, and even was trying to sell the idea to all his aging friends! So I hear that Dad is still keen on this idea, as is my BIL, and knowing them, they'll actually do it!
I promise, back to quilty stuff tomorrow!

Monday, August 27, 2007

Paint finished!

Finally I have the orange room done done DONE! And I love it. And my husband really really loves it! I think it will be rather shocking to some visitors to my home, but hey it's my home, right?!

I must say though, it rather feels like you are sitting inside either a very ripe cantalope, a pumpkin, or a bubble mailer envelope! But it will be the most theme-appropriate room come Halloween!

Now my mind is spinning trying to think of the perfect quilt to make for the walls. I haven't made one with orange as the predominant color before, and I am getting quite excited at the prospect. Also on the agenda are curtains. I gave away the old ones - thanks to the Craigslist 'free' section (you would not believe how many people wanted those ugly things!) - which were cafe style, lacy, and white with baby blue. Yes you can tell why they would not work in this room!

Also, just to get something quilty happening in this post, above are some photos of one of my project boxes. I keep each quilt project I am working on in a separate container, and this one just has the most glorious array of colors. I get happy just by opening it! It is for a quilt which my dear friend Anna has designed and I have made a sample of it to test the pattern for her - you can get an idea of the colors I used just by looking in my project box.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Look what I won!

Today was a very exciting day. I received a call from the local library saying that I had won a silent auction they had a couple of weeks ago. What was I bidding on? One of their old wooden card catalogs! They had 4 to bid on, and I won mine for the grand sum of $55. At the time I thought it was a lot of money to bid, but after looking online and seeing that other libraries are selling theirs for $200 plus, I think I got a bargain! The librarian was telling me that they used these until 2001 and that they think they may be the last library in the US to make the change to computers. I am so happy to have a piece of local history in my home!

So I picked it up (had to take the 2 middle seats out of the minivan for that!) and it now is in my living room with the TV on top of it! We didn't have a nice entertainment cabinet and just kept putting off getting one. Now I know why - because it was foreordained in heaven that this card catalog was to be mine mine MINE! OK that's a bit dramatic, but hopefully you can see how excited I am by it!

It will house all my quilty stuff that I use while quilting in front of TV. And maybe a shoe or two, according to my 6 year old daughter.

I called my MIL and told her about it and the first thing she said was "Ooooh you can put all your fat quarters in it"!! Is that a wonderful MIL or what?!! And yes I think it will be perfect for some fat quarters!!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

I Love Color!

If you can't tell from the colors on my blog I am one of color's biggest fans! My living room is the tamest room in my house - it is a nice shade of milk chocolate brown.
Our bedroom is purple - and no, not a soft pretty shade of purple, but a deep yet bright...purple!

And our kitchen and hallway....well that is my current non-quilting project. I decided on my hubby's favorite - orange! I have done most of the cutting in, and as always happens, the color is a lot brighter once it's on the walls. So I suppose it's lucky that I love orange so much! Now I have to decide what to do with the lovely 70's fake brick on the back splash and the gorgeous cabinets circa 1973. And all of this must be done on a shoestring budget as we don't have a spare 40K to drop on a new kitchen like they do on all those shows on TV. But that's the fun of it all, right?! For some quilters color is a mystery - some are even scared of it. I know it can be hard to step out of the box of what we know and are used to doing. But I promise you, when you take that step out of that box and try something different, there are big returns! I think the biggest obstacle is wondering what others will think of our choices. Once you fall in love with color and realize that the only person who should love what you do is YOU then it all falls into place and you can experience color-freedom and the peace that comes from pleasing yourself first!

OK Pep-talk over! I must go finish the paint - hopefully I will have finished product photos next post!

Monday, August 20, 2007

My favorite book

Collaborative Quilting is my very favorite quilt book right now. Best of all, it's super cheap - only 13 bucks at Amazon....(see the link on the sidebar in my Hot List!) In fact I loved it so much and it was so cheap that I sent copies to my BIFF (Best Internet Friend Forever LOL) Anna, and my MIL, Carmen, both of whom are expert quilters.

It is jam packed full of colors, ideas, quilts, quilt room pics - because us quilters love to see where other quilters do their stuff, and most of all, inspiration.

It is written by Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston. On the surface they appear to have completely different styles, but they just work so well together, and combine their styles beautifully.

They work long distance, Gwen being in Michigan and Freddy in California. This gave my friend Anna and I great joy, as I am in New Hampshire and she is in Maryland. We have never met, but we quilt together :) We are working on the meeting thing though!

I would recommend this book to every quilter - even if your style is nothing like these ladies, it is a fun and entertaining read, and you gain valuable insight into the design process of two quilting superstars!!

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Got to start somewhere.....

What does one say to start their blog?! I suppose a big WELCOME! would be a good start!

I hope to stay inspired enough to write more than 3 posts (the most I have ever done on old blogs) and to provide some quilty entertainment!

I chose to name my blog "Applique Today" as I am an avid fan of applique and I need to look at that title to remind myself, "Joanna, Applique Today!" Each day I have is a little more joyful if I can applique - even if it's just squeezing in 10 minutes. Those 10 minutes add up though.

My technique of choice is needleturn. I never thought I would needleturn - it was a dirty word in my vocabulary! But after giving it a go, I discovered that it's so much easier to pick up a needle and fabric and do a few stitches by hand than it is to haul out a sewing machine and all that comes with it. Especially when there are 3 little kiddies in the mix! Plus I can sit on the couch, or in the car, or on the grass - it can go anywhere with me!

We just moved to our new home (not NEW new, just new to us!) in June and I am still unpacking my quilting supplies. The current project I am working on is a fundraising quilt for my daughter's school's PTO. The president of the PTO is our new neighbor so we have been bonding over selecting a design! So far a winter theme is prevailing. It has given me a great excuse to get those fabrics unpacked!

Now, I love love LOVE reading blogs with photos, so how can I not do that myself? The picture for the day is a closeup of a quilt I made for my dear friend Anna - needleturned and machine quilted. On my new Juki - LOVE that machine!


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Military leave for public employees.

Every officer and employee of the state or of any county, city, or other political subdivision thereof who is a member of the Washington national guard or of the army, navy, air force, coast guard, or marine corps reserve of the United States, or of any organized reserve or armed forces of the United States shall be entitled to and shall be granted military leave of absence from such employment for a period not exceeding twenty-one days during each year beginning October 1st and ending the following September 30th in order that the person may report for required military duty, training, or drills including those in the national guard under Title 10 U.S.C., Title 32 U.S.C., or state active status. Such military leave of absence shall be in addition to any vacation or sick leave to which the officer or employee might otherwise be entitled, and shall not involve any loss of efficiency rating, privileges, or pay. During the period of military leave, the officer or employee shall receive from the state, or the county, city, or other political subdivision, his or her normal pay. The officer or employee shall be charged military leave only for days that he or she is scheduled to work for the state or the county, city, or other political subdivision.

[2010 c 91 § 1; 2008 c 71 § 5; 2001 c 71 § 1; 1991 c 25 § 1; 1989 c 19 § 50; 1957 c 236 § 1; 1939 c 113 § 1.]

     Effective date -- 2001 c 71: "This act takes effect October 1, 2001." [2001 c 71 § 2.]

     Application -- 1991 c 25: "This act applies to all public employees and officers who reported for active duty or active training duty, under RCW 38.40.060, on or after August 2, 1990." [1991 c 25 § 2.]

Military family leave act: Chapter 49.77 RCW.

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October 04, 2006

Arizona Governor Signs Executive Order to Cut Greenhouse Gases

While California has just enacted legislation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has taken the simpler route of enacting an executive order with the same goal. Executive Order 2006-13, signed in September, sets a goal for the state to reduce GHG emissions to 2000 levels by 2020 and to 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2040. The order creates a Climate Change Executive Committee that will develop a strategy to implement the state's Climate Change Action Plan, which includes a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency policies. But unlike the California legislation, the Arizona goals lack the force of law. See the Executive Order (PDF 403 KB), the governor's press release (PDF 39 KB), and links to the Climate Change Action Plan on the Arizona Climate Change Advisory Group Web site. Download Adobe Reader.


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Streakin La Jolla mare runs big in first start of the year.

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Ed Borgstrom's Legacys A Streakin got a perfect trip in her season debut on Sunday to win the $15,992 John Deere AQHA Classic Stakes at the Rocky Mountain Turf Club near Lethbridge, Alberta.

The race is part of the Bonus Challenge program, and it included an added $7,500 to the purse for 3-year-old and up Challenge-enrolled horses.

Under jockey Juan Carlos Garcia, Legacys A Streakin picked up where she left last fall when she closed out her 2011 campaign with a victory in the $9,621 Horsemen’s Derby at Lethbridge on October 8. Today she completed the 300-yard course for trainer Laurie Ferguson in :15.65 for a 96 speed index.

The $8,475 winner's purse pushes the mares career total earnings mark to $57,897. D. Friesen, A. Janzen and K. Siebert bred the gray 4-year-old in Colorado from the Corona Cartel mare Legacy Tells All. She is 5-3-2 in 13 starts.

Also making her first start of the season, Czech finished a half-length off the winner to earn $4,158 for owner, breeder and trainer Richard Settje. Larris Allen rode the 3-year-old Corona Czech filly from the Strawfly Special mare Im Special Star. The brown filly had not started at Lethbridge since June 25, 2011. She completed her season last fall at Portland Meadows, where she was a finalist in the Baxter Andruss Oregon Bred Futurity (R).

Laurie Ferguson also sent out 7-year-old Sepratariat to finish a game third while earning $1,919. Ferguson also owns the Separatist gelding out of Pocketful Of Dreams, by Magic Dozen. Craig Wonnacott had the riding assignment. Howard and Toni Dixon bred the earner of more than $62,200 in Alberta.

CR Lil Bit Of Ivory and Memories N Moments were in a dead-heat for fourth. Completing the field were Dash Poruno, Vox and Shakeyobouti.


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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Rotana leaving Beirut

Rotana Music decided to leave its production facilities in Beirut-Lebanon and move to Amman-Jordan.

This big event (Beirut has been the historic base of Rotana) happens after important changes in Rotana, following the grouping of LBC Sat and Rotana's selling capacities (well actually a semi-merger, view my other posts on Rotana) Many of Rotana's most successful programs will actually be broadcasted on LBC (and probably produced in LBC's production facility in Adma-Lebanon) The rest (production wise) will move to Jordan.

The other reason is that Rotana's programs used to be produced at StudioVision's facilities. StudioVision's owners (Murr family) are reopening their own TV channel (MTV) and will also probably need a large part of the facilities.

To add spice to the issue, MTV is reportedly backed by Antoine Choueiri; Choueiri who lost the LBC media representation contract to...Rotana's RMS (Rotana Media Services) => Rotana had to leave StudioVision (MTV)'s facilities.


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The Arboretum maintains collections of rare and threatened plants of unusual scientific interest. Particular specialties are world conifers, primitive angiosperms, and bulb-forming plant families. Large assemblages of plants from California nativesAustralia, South Africa, and New Zealand are displayed on the grounds. Many of the species in these collections are not otherwise available for study in American botanical gardens and arboreta. More...

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    Over the past decade California gardeners have been eager to find ways to lower their water-use and attract native wildlife to the garden, while still maintaining attractive landscapes. One of the best ways to do this is to use plants native to California, and many local gardeners have found inspiration in the Arboretum's California collection. More ...
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    The Australian Garden

    The Arboretum's outstanding Australian collection celebrates the diversity of the Australian continent which stretches northward into the tropics and southward into the path of the rain-bearing westerlies, encompassing habitats as diverse as rainforest, heathland, and desert. More ...
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    The South African Garden

    For the flower aficionado the name South Africa must immediately bring to mind the fabulous Protea. In mid-winter, when the proteas reach their peak bloom, a visit to the Arboretum's South African Garden is a trip to a magical paradise of almost unearthly beauty. More ...

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    The New Zealand Garden

    The Edward D. Landels New Zealand Garden was dedicated in 1984 in order to bring this unique flora to the attention of residents of the opposite hemisphere. Many unusual and fantastic plants await the visitor, their odd forms revealing much about the forces that shaped their evolution. More...

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    Adjacent to the California Native Garden and to the left of the path leading to the New Zealand area, you'll discover the first evidence of the formation and planting of the new Butterfly Garden based on California native plants, small and modest at the moment, but holding promise of greater things to come. More..
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    Filled with the heady aromas of many mint family members not to mention innumerable bees and butterflies, the Succulent Collection and Fragrance Garden Garden sits across from Norrie's Gift Shop. More..
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1923 – Samaritaine Department Store, Paris

Architect: Franz Jourdain & Henri Sauvage A magnificent department store on the banks of the Seine that includes several buildings on a couple of streets. A richly decorated cast iron interior with many...

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1913 – Galleries Lafayette Department Store, Paris

Architect: Georges Chédanne & F. Chanut Originally there were two of these amazing spaces, but the second was removed in the 1950s. 35 metres tall, it is a riot of Art Nouveau decoration,...

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1932 – Etam Department Store, Paris

Architect: Franz Jourdain & Henri Sauvage A very interesting building on a narrow site, this small department store has Art Nouveau motifs and a fine original glazed canopy.

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1884 – New Central Stores & Offices, Leicester Co-operative Society

Architect: Thomas Hind Perspective published in The Building News, December 12th 1884.

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1930s – Printemps, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

An unusual looking department store in the main shopping district of Tours. This Printemps store has Art Deco touches but is poorly maintained.

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The Arbour House, is designed by Richard Kirk Architects and sits among a grove of fig trees along the Brisbane River, Australia. An old Poincianna tree dominates the site and the canopy of the roof and directional timbers used in the interior frames views towards it and the river beyond.

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Work-related dreams as related to job and life satisfaction in hairdressers

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Empirical studies largely support the continuity hypothesis of dreaming. The present study investigated the frequency and the emotional tone of dreams of hairdressers. A relationship was found between daytime mood (job satisfaction) and dream emotions. Life satisfaction that was low, on the other hand, was related to a heightened frequency of work-related dreams. It would be promising to study persons with different professions (stressful and demanding jobs) in order to study the effect of work-related variables and dreaming.

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Russ Cochran, Kenny Perry tied for lead in Senior PGA Championship

Russ Cochran hits out of a bunker on the ninth hole during the second round of the 74th Senior PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis.
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ST. LOUIS -- Longtime Kentucky pals Russ Cochran and Kenny Perry have shared a massive gallery the first two rounds of the Senior PGA Championship. Now, they also share the lead.

“It’s been a great couple of days,” Cochran said after the pair each shot 5-under-66 on Friday. “He’s one of my best friends. We had a good time out there.”

Cochran and Perry had matching 69s in the opening round and they tied for the best round Friday. They bonded in high school in Paducah, a three-hour drive from St. Louis, and when they play together for the third straight day Saturday the following is likely to grow.

“It’s been pretty neat for me to play alongside him for the last two days and for both of us to play tremendous,” Perry said. “We play a lot together.”

The relationship is tight enough that Perry can joke that at dinners Cochran is “like a woman” with non-stop patter.

“He’s got more stories. He’s hilarious. He’s so fun to be around, and I’m always the guy listening,” Perry said. “He controls everything when we’re out.”

On the course, Cochran admires Perry’s control, rhythm and power.

“The only thing I have to watch out for is Kenny hits it a long way,” Cochran said. “When someone hammers it you want to jump up and swing a little harder than you should.

“So, I try not to do that.”

Japan’s Kiyoshi Murota was two strokes back after a 70. Jay Haas and Duffy Waldorf, tied for the lead after the first round, matched Loren Roberts at 4 under. Roberts had a 68, and Haas and Waldorf shot 72.

The 54-year-old Cochran tied for seventh in the 1992 PGA Championship at Bellerive won by Nick Price. Cochran was tied for second after two rounds before falling back with a 76.

The left-hander began play on the back nine and had five birdies in a span of six holes, peaking at 8 under before a bogey on No. 6. He was proudest of a birdie on perhaps the most challenging hole on the course, the 477-yard par 4 at No. 10 with a creek guarding the green, hitting a 5-iron approach to about 4 feet.

“I kind of felt like I hit the lottery a little bit,” Cochran said. “Anytime you birdie that hole, you really feel like you’ve done something good.”

The 52-year-old Perry had five birdies in a bogey-free round, helped by a handful of 300-plus drives. Though somewhat new to the Champions Tour, he has been impressed by the consistency.

“They don’t back up out here,” Perry said. “You’ve got to keep your foot on the gas pedal, keep making birdies.”

Waldorf had a rocky round with six bogeys and five birdies, and joked when he was asked for a recap, “Oh great, my whole card we’re going to go through.”

Defending champion Roger Chapman just made the cut at 4 over after a 74.

“I haven’t played very well this week,” Chapman said. “So yeah, if I make the cut it’s a bonus.”

Bernard Langer made a 12-stroke improvement with a 67 and also was 4 over, rebounding from an opening round marred by consecutive triple bogeys.

Georgia club pro Sonny Skinner, who was a stroke back after the first round, shot 73. He was among 10 players, including Tom Watson, at 2 under.

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the state's Fair Political Practices Commission investigated donations by out-of-state groups. / Rich Pedroncelli, AP

WASHINGTON - Two out-of-state groups that funneled millions of dollars into California's elections last year are paying a combined $1 million for not properly disclosing their donations, the state's top political watchdog announced Thursday.

The settlement against Americans for Responsible Leadership and the Center to Protect Patient Rights, a separate group with ties to the conservative funding network of billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, is the largest in the California Fair Political Practices Commission's 40-year history.

"This case highlights the nationwide scourge of dark money non-profit networks hiding the identities of their contributors," the commission's chairwoman, Ann Ravel, said in a statement.

The commission described the groups "as part of the 'Koch Brothers Network' of dark money political non-profit corporations." The Kochs have denied any role in the California initiatives involved in Thursday's settlement.

The year-long investigation, undertaken by the commission and lawyers in California Attorney General Kamala Harris' office, drew national attention for the spotlight it put on the role of non-profit advocacy groups in elections.

It was triggered when Americans for Responsible Leadership, an Arizona-based non-profit group, donated $11 million to the Small Business Action Committee, an organization that opposed a tax-hike initiative from California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, and supported another measure making it harder for labor groups to collect union dues for political activity.

Americans for Responsible Leadership initially did not report where it got its money.

After a complaint from a liberal watchdog group, Ravel's agency went to court, forcing Americans for Responsible Leadership to reveal that its donation came from another Arizona non-profit group, the Center to Protect Patient Rights. The center, which has opposed President Obama's health care law, received nearly $115 million in the past year from Freedom Partners, a non-profit trade group supported by the Kochs, according to Freedom Partners' most recent tax filings with the IRS.

Malcolm Segal, the Center to Protect Patient Rights' attorney, said Thursday the center's failure to disclose its role was inadvertent. "There was never any intention to conceal information from the public," he said. "It was a mistake." He noted that the settlement was a fraction of the $33 million penalty the group faced.

Kirk Adams, the president of Americans for Responsible Leadership, said he feels "completely exonerated." California authorities found no criminal wrongdoing, and the settlement makes it clear "there was no intent to subvert any statute," he said.

Koch spokesman Rob Tappan said the company played no role in last year's California initiative. James Davis, a spokesman for Freedom Partners, said his group "never provided support to anyone or organizations" directly involved in the California propositions.

The Fair Political Practices Commission said the Center to Protect Patient Rights made separate, improperly disclosed contributions - totaling more than $4 million - to another group active in state politics last year, the California Future Fund.

Ravel said the commission is moving forward with plans to force top officials with that group and the Small Business Action Committee to pay a combined $15 million to the California Treasury.

The settlement announcement comes during Ravel's last week on the job. She will head to Washington next week to join the Federal Election Commission, which polices political activity at the federal level.

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PALATKA, Fla. -- Putnam County Sheriff's Deputies serving a search warrant shut down drug house Thursday.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant to a residence on the 100 block of Kane Road, according to a release from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.

The search warrant followed a month long investigation into the owner of the home, who is accused of manufacturing and selling methamphetamine at his residence.

Law Enforcement Officers from the Sheriff's Office and Florida Highway Patrol along with Putnam County Fire and Rescue personnel arrived at the residence at 11:45 a.m. to execute the warrant, the release detailed.

Nine adults and two small children were allegedly found inside the house, as well as in a camper home on the property. The two young children, who were two and four years of age, were released into the custody of Florida Department of Children and Families Services Child Protective Investigators, according to the PCSO.

Detectives also allegedly located a used meth lab, chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine, processed methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia inside the home.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office Meth Lab Response Team was called to the scene to clear the home of highly volatile chemicals involved in the manufacturing of meth.

All nine adults were arrested and booked into the county jail.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- On Monday morning, jurors were reporting for duty with several trials underway as the wheels of justice are moving again after a three week break.

The old Duval County Courthouse is back in action this week as the new courthouse is being prepped for staff so it's ready for legal business next Monday.

Last Friday, the new courthouse passed fire system tests that had kept the doors closed to court employees and the public.

"Just ready to move into the new courthouse," said Doris Johnson, a civilian bailiff who has been without a check for two weeks because of the delay.

Clerk of Court Jim Fuller says the old courthouse is filing the gaps while his staff later this week completes the transition into the modern $350 million facility.

"It is a big building. We've had our people over the last couple of days checking all the computers," said Fuller, who doesn't want to see any hiccups on Monday.

Shane Hall, who operates a hotdog stand, was back at the old courthouse for the week after taking a two week break from action.

"It is better than nothing ... you got to roll with the punches," said Hall, who is still waiting to hear if he will get a permit to set up shop near the new courthouse.

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When it comes to climate, it's five past midnight. Time for the Big Fix.

On June 23, 1988, NASA's chief climate scientist, James Hansen, traveled to Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. As it happened, the temperature in Washington that day hit 98 degrees, overwhelming the air-conditioning system in the hearing room. Hansen told the sweltering lawmakers that the four warmest years on record had all occurred in the 1980s, that 1988 was on track to be the warmest year yet, and that, overall, global temperatures had risen by nearly half a degree over the previous three decades. He described the odds that this increase had occurred by chance as negligible-around the order of 1 percent. "The greenhouse effect has been detected," he said. "It is changing our climate now."

In the two decades since Hansen's Senate testimony, average global temperatures have risen by another half a degree. Just as he predicted, 1988 broke all previous temperature records. The 1988 record, however, has long since been overtaken: the 10 warmest years on record have now all occurred since 1995. (The very warmest was 2005, 2007 ranks fifth, and 2006 sixth.) Global warming is today widely recognized as one of the greatest dangers facing humanity -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called it "the defining challenge of our age" -- as well as a threat to countless plant and animal species. And yet, over the past 20 years, no real progress has been made toward dealing with the problem. Indeed, just the opposite. Between 1988 and 2005, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions grew by almost 20 percent, from less than five billion tons to almost six billion tons a year, while global emissions during the same period climbed by 34 percent.

Over the past few years, I've interviewed scores of experts on climate change, including Hansen. A point that they have stressed to me over and over again is the extreme urgency of the situation. The time "is already five past midnight," said Konrad Steffen, a climatologist at the University of Colorado. (At the time of our conversation, I was visiting Steffen's research station on the Greenland ice sheet, which holds enough water, were it to melt, to raise global sea levels by 20 feet.)

What is crucial to understand, these scientists emphasize, is that the problems associated with rising temperatures become inevitable long before they are actually experienced. There is a time lag in the system; it takes several decades for the earth to respond fully to any change in greenhouse gas levels. Thus, global warming is always much farther along than it appears. Scientists have estimated that in addition to the one degree of warming that has already occurred, another degree of warming has, in effect, been built into the climate, and will take place even if greenhouse gas concentrations could -- somehow -- be held constant at today's levels.

"I've been involved in a number of fields where there's a lay opinion and a scientific opinion," Robert Socolow, codirector of Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative, told me. "In most of the cases, it's the lay community that is more exercised, more anxious. But, in the climate case, the experts -- the people who work with the climate models every day, the people who do ice cores -- they are more concerned. They're going out of their way to say, ‘Wake up! This is not a good thing to be doing.'"

What will it take to change the situation? After 20 years of climbing temperatures, shrinking glaciers, accelerating sea-level rise, progressively more dire warnings, and increasingly inexcusable attempts at denial, what is finally going to compel the United States to act?

Clearly, presidential leadership will be key. Both senators John McCain and Barack Obama have repeatedly spoken about the need to combat global warming, and that is a hopeful sign. Both men support cap-and-trade programs to reduce CO2 emissions: Obama has called for cutting them to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050; McCain wants to reduce emissions by that date to 60 percent below 1990 levels.

"John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming five years ago," a McCain ad declares. "Today, he has a realistic plan that will curb greenhouse gas emissions. A plan that will help grow our economy and protect our environment." Obama, speaking after touring a solar-powered facility in Nevada this summer, said, "What we are seeing here... is that a green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future. It is now. It is creating jobs, now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-a-barrel oil, now. And it can create millions of additional jobs and entire new industries if we act now."

A growing number of corporate and religious leaders are also speaking out in favor of carbon limits. By now, just about everyone has seen the ads, sponsored by Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, that show the Reverend Al Sharpton and the televangelist Pat Robertson joking about how they disagree about everything except the need to save the planet. In May, Alcoa, General Electric, National Grid, and Pacific Gas & Electric joined with groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense to urge the Senate to approve the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which would have for the first time, imposed a cap on U.S. carbon emissions.

"A ‘yes' vote for the Climate Security Act represents historic leadership to advance bipartisan solutions to climate change," the coalition wrote in a May letter to members of the Senate. "A ‘no' vote will slow progress and maintain the status quo, which only increases the risk of unavoidable consequences."

Meanwhile, when oil hit $140 a barrel this summer, it seemed finally to bring home to Americans a message that decades of warnings from environmentalists had failed to: finite resources don't last forever. Lately the news has been filled with stories of Americans rethinking gas-guzzling cars, long commutes, and hard-to-heat McMansions. A recent report by Cambridge Energy Associates, a private company that advises corporations and governments on energy and environmental matters, notes that "for the first time since the 1970s and early 1980s the number of miles driven by Americans has clearly begun trending downward." In July, at the G8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, the United States for the first time agreed to a numerical target for emissions reductions, pledging, along with the world's other industrialized nations, to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2050.

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The line " takes several decades for the earth to respond..." as a crucial point about the lag between cause and effect brings to mind conversations with the ignorant.

To connect with the layperson, rather than tie the present to the future (change now will take a long time to show effects), I'd suggest to tie the past to the present (we are only now realizing the full effects of the late 1970's. The cost of our actions in the 1980's will become known in the next decade).

From that slant, the magnitude of the built-in debt, and the need to act promptly become more tangible.

The "big fix" for Wall Street or why we cannot find money to address the global challenges of climate change.

Billions of dollars in bailouts and year-end bonuses are being directed to the "wonder boys" on Wall Street. These self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe have turned a great capitalist system into a paltry gambling casino. In the light of all their greedy risk-taking and conspicuous hoarding behavior, they can no longer be called by any name other than "thieves of the highest order".

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The most fascinating things about Hansen's 1988 testimony are a) that the claims of the modelers remain almost exactly the same, after 20 years; b) that after more than $60 billion in research in the US alone, absolutely no scientific evidence has been found connecting CO2 to climate to any measurable (much less catastrophic) degree; c) that every testable prediction of the models has proven wrong; and d) that the True Believers, having lost all sense of what science is about, are simply redoubling their efforts to find excuses, rather like the Ptolomaic astronomers finding ever more epicycles.

In half a century, with economies destroyed, rainforests devastated to plant eucalyptus and oil palm, and countryside and wilderness vandalized with useless monster wind turbines across the globe, our children will remember Hansen as one of the greatest environmental criminals of all time.


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The Apple iPhone 4S, left, is displayed next to the Samsung Galaxy S III at a store in San Francisco. / Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP

Question: Will 8 gigabytes leave me with enough storage space on a smartphone?

Answer. Look on your own computer first: The volume of songs, photos and (especially) videos that you'd want to copy to the phone from there will provide your answer.

Apps by themselves generally don't take up much space. Most of them run less than 50 megabytes. For instance, Facebook is a 41-megabyte download on an iPhone and 17 MB on my Android phone. Only a thimbleful of apps, such as Apple's 496 MB iMovie and action games like Asphalt 8: Airborne, 884 MB on an iPhone, and Grand Theft Auto III, 1.2 GB on an Android phone, make a meaningful dent in your device's capacity.

(If you were wondering, USA TODAY's app takes up about 20 MB on an iPhone, 8MB in Android and 4 MB in Windows Phone.)

Audio and image files don't take up much space on their own (unless you're taking photos with the Nokia 1020's 41-megapixel camera), and even in bulk it's hard to fill up a phone with those alone. Any one movie, however, can gobble up hundreds of megs by itself.

Fortunately, you don't need to keep your entire music, picture and video library on your phone - as long as you can sync over enough to keep yourself entertained on a long flight or on vacation, you should be fine. You can also supplement whatever's on your phone with content streamed from apps like Spotify, Pandora or Netflix (though live video can eat into a bandwidth cap).

With all that in mind, I think most non-intensive users who aren't looking to watch movies on the screen in their pocket will be fine buying the smallest capacity available. That's usually 8 GB, but Apple's iPhone 5, Samsung's Galaxy S 4 and other high-profile devices start at 16 GB.

If you plan to keep a few flicks on your phone or can't live without having a large fraction of your music collection available, buy the next step up, 16 or 32 GB - unless the model you have in mind lets you add storage with a microSD card. Those are laughably cheap, with 32 GB cards going for $20 and change.

Remember that you won't get the full capacity advertised, since system files and bundled apps eat up some of the storage. (You also lose a bit because vendors artificially define a gigabyte as 1 billion bytes when it's actually 1,073,741,824 bytes.)

But that gap varies by operating system and manufacturer. On 16 GB iPhones, users report having from 13 to 14 gigs available, and an 8 GB Nexus 4 gives the user 5.7 GB to play with. But on a freshly-reset Galaxy S 4, I saw only 9.1 GB at the user's disposal (that's why there's no 8GB model), and HTC's 8 GB 8XT Windows Phone had just 4.8 GB available out of the box.

Most users will still be fine with those limited allocations, but phone vendors and wireless carriers ought to disclose them upfront.

Tip: With Android Device Manager, Google finally helps you find a lost phone

Android users no longer need to install extra programs to locate a missing phone, force it to ring and, if necessary, erase it remotely: In early August, Google launched a free Android Device Manager service. To activate it, sign into the ADM page with your Google account and follow its prompts to change the settings on your phone that will grant the service permission to find and wipe your phone.

I tested this a couple of weeks ago on a loaner phone and can confirm it works as advertised. But without the ability to push a message to a lost phone's screen ("Return this by 5 p.m. or the drone strikes commence"), Android Device Manager doesn't match the utility of third-party options like Lookout and Android Lost - or the find-my-phone tools that Apple and Microsoft have shipped with iOS and Windows Phone since 2010.

Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C. To submit a tech question, e-mail Rob Follow him on Twitter at

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NEW YORK - With those lush lips and moody eyes, Megan Fox is every bit as impossibly, sensually hot in person as you would expect.

Just, please, please, don't call her a bombshell in front of her kids. Fox, who plays intrepid reporter April O'Neil in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot opening Friday, cringes visibly when she thinks about her two toddlers, Noah, almost 2, and Bodhi, 5 months, one day being confronted with images of their mother all sexed up.

"I wanted to be a superhero for my children. They can't really see Transformers, because it's too sexualized for them to deal with their mother. That's their mother bent over the car. We don't need to go there - maybe ever," says Fox, 28, referring to her breakout performance in Michael Bay's 2007 cinematic explosion.

In TMNT, though, she's much more wholesome as a news junkie who figures out that a quartet of reptiles in humanoid form are defending New York City from the evil Foot Clan. She campaigned for the role as a die-hard fan of the Turtles.

Fox got the part. And then nature took its course.

"I got pregnant 10 days into shooting. Total surprise," she says. "I had months left to film this movie. I was exhausted. I was nauseous. I was doing lots of running and I get thrown around. All the tough stuff was left to the other characters."

Whoever moans about carefully choreographed celebrity interviews has never met Fox, who's delightfully candid. She'll tell you that she doesn't drink anything except for sake, but loves going to bars and verbally sparring with guys. To avoid the paparazzi, she and husband Brian Austin Green mostly keep their boys at home - "but they do get out," she laughs. She's "terrified" of Googling herself. And she doesn't mind that people underestimate her intelligence, either.

"It's hard to upset me," says Fox. "In terms of being intelligent, I think that's a stigma that comes with being an actress. Some of the responsibility I carry on my own back, for the types of movies that I do. For agreeing to pose for GQ with cherries in my mouth. I'm hoping that getting older will work in my favor. It's easier for me to take responsibility for it than to blame outside forces."

She goes and calls her second son "indomitable."

Wait, she knows multisyllabic words like that one?

"Yeah. Cannot be defeated," says Fox, giggling.

So she's fully aware of her arm-candy image, but she's also totally fine with it. Acting, she says, is a job that enables her to give her sons a nice life. And while she says she gets misquoted all the time, she's not inclined to speak up and clarify anything. She's not doing films because it makes her feel cool, or because she was "born to be a thespian," she says, describing herself as the opposite of ambitious.

"Life is too short for me to not have fun at work. I'm not on a campaign for an Oscar. It's not something I'm chasing down or would be validated by. I like doing movies like this because I have fun promoting them and I have fun watching them," she says. "I love this one and I'd like to keep doing stuff like this."

She'll be promoting this one worldwide through December. And then next spring, depending on how the first TMNT performs, she'll start prepping for the second one.

"I don't have an emotional tie to my career or my image or a celebrity. It's a job I do to look after my family. I like it. I'm lucky that I've somehow developed the connections I've had," she says.

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McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Dish and Gannett say they have reached an agreement in a fee dispute that had threatened to leave more than 2 million Dish subscribers in 19 cities without access to local television stations owned by Gannett.

The companies said Monday that they reached a long-term agreement but didn't give further details.

WTSP 10 News is owned by Gannett.

Dish Network Corp. had claimed that Gannett Co. was asking for a 300 percent increase in fees for the right to carry 22 Gannett stations affiliated with NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. Gannett has said it was seeking a fair deal in line with market rates.

The two sides are also fighting over Dish's new digital video recorder, which allows customers to automatically skip commercials from the previous night's prime-time broadcasts.

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WASHINGTON - A key U.S. senator said Friday he will hold a hearing this fall on the self-defense laws known as "stand your ground."

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the assistant Democratic leader, will conduct the hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee panel on civil rights that he chairs. Details on who will testify and the date of the hearing, likely to be held in September when senators get back from their summer recess, will be announced in the coming weeks.

The announcement came hours before President Obama made extraordinary comments Friday about unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, whose death last year captivated the nation and sparked a debate about race. A jury acquitted George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in Trayvon's death.

"I think it would be useful for us to examine some state and local laws to see if ... they are designed in such a way that they may encourage the kinds of altercations and confrontations and tragedies that we saw in the Florida case," Obama said.

There are about 30 states with some version of a "stand your ground" law. Most of these laws say an individual has no duty to retreat if attacked and has the right to use lethal force for protection if they feel their life is in danger. The Zimmerman jury was instructed to consider Florida's version of "stand your ground" during its deliberations.

Durbin's office said the September hearing will look at the influence of the gun lobby and American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization that provides state legislators with model legislation, in creating and promoting these self-defense laws.

The hearing will also explore the ways in which these statutes have changed the legal definition of self-defense and whether the laws have encouraged unnecessary shooting confrontations. The civil rights implications when racial profiling and "stand your ground" laws mix together will also be discussed, Durbin's office said.

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Apple on Tuesday announced record revenue and profits for another consecutive quarter, largely ruled by sales of over 20 million iPhones and over 9 million iPads. International sales and developing markets, including a 600 percent increase in China, are also increasingly responsible for Apple's booming sales, accounting for 62 percent of revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2011.

Apple recorded revenue of $28.57 billion for the quarter, up 82 percent year-over-year. The company converted $7.79 billion of its revenue into profit, up over 120 percent. That's also up sequentially from the second quarter's $25 billion in revenue and $6 billion in profit respectively. Gross margins were up to 41.7 percent.

A large chunk of that revenue is due to massive increases in iPhone and iPad sales. Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones, a 142 percent increase over last year's third quarter, and up sequentially from last quarter's 18.65 million units. The iPhone accounted for $13.3 billion of quarterly revenue, or 46.6 percent.

Apple moved every iPad it could make in the quarter, selling 9.25 million units—nearly three times as many iPads as it sold for the iPad's launch last year. iPads and related accessories generated about $6 billion in revenue, or about 21 percent of the quarterly total.

iPod sales were down 20 percent year-over-year—good for 7.54 million units. That downward trend has been well established following the introduction of the iPhone 3G in 2008.

Apple COO Tim Cook noted that over half of all iPod sales are iPod touches, though, which adds to the overall iOS platform's growth. All told, the company sold about 33.4 million iOS devices in the last quarter, or about 367,000 devices per day. Apple said that over 222 million iOS devices have been sold through June since the platform launched with the original iPhone in 2007.

Mac sales were up almost 14 percent year-over-year. Apple sold 3.95 million Macs, which didn't quite top its previous 4.1 million unit record, but it's still a record for the June quarter. Cook also noted that year-over-year growth beat the industry average considerably. "To grow at 14 percent when the market is growing at 2.6 pecent is certainly something to be proud of," he said during Tuesday's earnings call.

Despite beating the industry's average, though, Mac sales grew slower than expected. Cook attributed this to three factors: iPad cannibalization, customers waiting for Lion, and the MacBook Pro factor.

"In terms of cannibalization, we do believe that some customers chose to purchase an iPad instead of a new Mac during the quarter," Cook said. He noted that Apple sold more iPads to K-12 education markets than Macs; total iPad sales were almost triple total Mac sales in the June quarter.

Customers that are waiting for Lion will be taken care of this week, as Apple confirmed that the new OS will ship on Wednesday. But Cook noted that new MacBook Pro introductions have a considerable effect on Mac sales. "The MacBook Pro makes up the majority of the units that we sell in the Mac area," he said, noting that Apple introduced new MacBook Pros third quarter last year, but only had new iMacs this past quarter. We wonder if new MacBook Airs expected shortly will have a similar effect on next quarter's results.

International sales now account for 62 percent of Apple's quarterly revenue. In particular, sales in "greater China," which includes China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, accounted for $3.8 billion for the quarter. "China was very key to our results," Cook said. "This has been a substantial opportunity for Apple and I firmly believe that we're just scratching the surface right now."

Developing and emerging markets were especially important for iPhone growth. Apple added 42 new carriers in 15 different countries throughout the quarter, with China, Latin America, and the Middle East driving increasing numbers. "These markets are a bit more difficult to do well in, so I think we have a very good focus here," Cook said.

"We can compete with anyone," Cook noted, perhaps addressing criticism from Google's Eric Schmidt, who recently suggested Apple couldn't compete with Android except through lawsuits.

Apple said it expects to report revenue of about $25 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter, with gross margins down to 38 percent. When asked why the company was forecasting on the low end, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer attributed it to "a future product transition that we are not talking about today." In other words, expect the iPhone 5 to launch right around the end of the September.

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The Mozilla Foundation's open source e-mail client Thunderbird hits version 1. …

Missing features and flaws

While Thunderbird may have successfully reached its 1.0 milestone, it is still pretty clear to us that it has some missing features and a bunch of shortcomings. First and foremost, Thunderbird is a great mail application that appears to be positioning itself to be a replacement for both home and corporate users alike. What Thunderbird needs to be complete is tight integration with a calendaring and task list application so that it can compete with other full-featured PIMs. At this point in time, Thunderbird supplies neither of these functionalities and such applications are lacking. The good news is that the Mozilla Organization has a relatively new project called Sunbird (in early beta) which supplies just that: a calendar with task list.

Newsgroup (NNTP) support was extant, but poorly implemented in many regards. While Thunderbird was able to decode independent UUencoded attachments, it was unable to handle multi-part UUencoded attachments. If you like to browse the binaries, then this mail client is currently not the application for you. What was also rather surprising was the lack of spam filtering support for the newsgroups. Considering that Usenet receives so much daily spam, it was shocking to realize that it was not possible to use the Bayesian filter to toss out the spam from the newsgroups.

Speaking of the Bayesian filter, we can say that it is definitely good. Unfortunately, it is not a good as it could be. As someone who receives close to 1,000 spam messages a day, even after training Thunderbird 0.9 for a month, it still let too much spam through. In my personal experience, I have found the open source project, Popfile, to be a superior spam filtering solution partly because it has the ability to sort mail into more than just the regular two bins of "spam" and "not spam." Thunderbird should aim to be as good a spam filter as Popfile. (Since they are both open source, maybe someone needs to start integrating the best parts of Popfile into Thunderbird.)

Mac OS X users will be slightly disappointed to hear that Thunderbird has no support for the Mac OS Address book, yet. Rumor has it that support for this should be coming in subsequent releases of Thunderbird.

Another thing that bothered us was that the default behavior for every POP mail account created was to "delete mail from server." While it is true that a good POP client should delete mail off the server after downloading, we imagine that some people who are used to using webmail will be seriously disappointed. Immediately after they create their account, all of their mail will have been deleted off the server and they cannot access it via the web anymore. It would be a very smart idea to add an extra step in account creation process to ask the user how they want their POP mail handled in this regard. Advice should be given to warn heavy webmail users with small inboxes that it is a good idea to leave mail on the server up to a few weeks (or months) before deletion.

Other nit-picky stuff which we would like to see added/fixed/improved:

  • Ability to set a default (global) date sort direction. (By default every
    folder of every account sorts chronologically with the oldest mail first.
    Some people prefer to have the newest mail show up at the top. While this
    can be changed for each folder, it requires that the user click the "Date"
    header in every folder in every account.)
  • A panel for monitoring spam filter accuracy (false negatives, false
    positives, overall accuracy, daily accuracy graphed/trended over a month or
  • A right-click option to "Empty Junk Mail" folder (so that it behaves
    like the trash can.)

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As many of you will recall, we ran an article earlier this summer featuring a major review of USB Flash drives. In the article, we mentioned that these drives are reaching the point where the user can not only carry all of their data with them, they can also carry small applications. Well, now it seems that a release of Thunderbird called "Portable Thunderbird" has been unleashed and will soon become part of the official Thunderbird development. This version of Thunderbird is just like the regular version except for the fact that it will run completely from a device like a USB Flash drive without leaving any files on the host computer it was running on. Consequently, no matter where you go, you can have your Thunderbird mail client with all of your saved e-mail with you. (In case any of your were wondering, yes, there is also a Portable Firefox as well.)

Without a doubt, Mozilla Thunderbird is a very good e-mail client. It sends and receives mail, it checks it for spam, handles multiple accounts, imports data from your old e-mail application, scrapes RSS news feeds, and is even cross-platform. So is it ready for prime time? For some people not needing calendaring or task list functionality, we think Thunderbird is an excellent solution. If your current mail client is not good enough for your needs any more or if you are tired of always checking your Gmail from the web, we recommend that you give Mozilla Thunderbird a try.

  • Cross-platform: Windows, Macintosh, and Linux
  • Multiple accounts/Global Inbox
  • Data conversion/Import tool
  • Saved searches/Virtual folders
  • Built-in Bayesian spam filtering

  • No calendar/task list
  • Weak Newsgroup ability
  • No Mac OS Address Book support
  • Lack of data import for on Mac OS X

A big thanks goes out to Whiprush, Soko, and the rest of #Linux for their input on this review.

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ZoneAlarm caught using fake antivirus scare tactics

ZoneAlarm has been using marketing tactics very similar to the ones used by …

Check Point, a security company that offers various products to protect consumers and businesses, is imitating the tactics of fake antimalware programs. Over the last few days, ZoneAlarm users have been receiving a warning from their security software that tells them they are not protected against a new piece of malware. The warning is titled a "Global Virus Alert," shows "Your PC may be in danger!" in bright red, and urges the user to "SEE THREAT DETAILS" and "GET PROTECTION." The prompt is very poorly designed: it looks a lot like malware masquerading as an antivirus (in fact, we would say that newer fake antimalware prompts are more believable than ZoneAlarm's warning).

Exhibit A: The alarmist Zone Alarm prompt

Exhibit B: A warning from a fake antimalware product

The only thing saving Exhibit A from simply being a prettier Exhibit B is the branding: assuming you know your firewall is from ZoneAlarm, you might guess the prompt is actually legitimate. But why would your firewall issue a virus warning? The strategy is the same used by fake antimalware writers employ: warn users about a threat and suggest they download your solution to fix the problem.

It's really unfortunate that the designers of this prompt did not take the time to think about how their users might interpret it. Real antimalware software should never ever stoop to the level of fake antimalware software; taking marketing advice from malware writers completely undermines the advice tech-savvy users give their friends: ignore these types of messages.

ZoneAlarm's customers are enraged, calling the notification a scare tactic, and many of them have opted to uninstall the software. A thread on the company's forums has now been set as a Sticky, amassing 60 posts and over 27,000 views at the time of this writing.

"We thought we were being proactive with our virus message," a Check Point spokesperson told Ars. "After listening to consumer feedback, we realized that it was misinterpreted and have turned the pop-up message off... It was never our intent to lead customers to believe they have a virus on their computer. This was purely an informative message about a legitimate and serious virus that also included information about the differences in protection of various products, and how to get protection against it."

Let this be a lesson to all security companies: the marketing department should not be allowed to make security warning decisions.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Art Education for Art's Sake

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Street Art of Oscar Wilde- the original art for art's sake advocate. CC Image courtesy of bixentro on Flickr.
Last week's LA Times article about the brand-new study by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities closes with a quote from one of the few skeptics of this otherwise widely-hailed report. Ellen Winner, the chair of the Psychology department at Boston College, takes issue with the research in the report, despite her strong support of art education. Read on to find out why an arts advocate might criticize this very popular report.

     Winner believes that the research is somewhat misleading, telling the LA Times that other factors are at play in student success. "You can't infer arts is causing...test scores to go up. It could be kids who take lots of arts courses are very driven students." In a 2000 article that she co-authored with a colleague, Winner wrote, "Studying the arts should not have to be justified in terms of anything else…. they are time-honored ways of learning, knowing, and expressing."
     In a perfect world, Winner's way would be perfectly effective, and all of us arts advocates could go home, put up our feet, and eat bon bons all day. But it isn't that easy, and I think it is naive to suggest otherwise. (Remember January’s Spending Reduction Act that threatened to kill the NEA, NEH, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting?)

    As Winner correctly points out, arts advocates often do have to rely on trendy arguments and new research to make the case for arts funding. As the little guys, we often need some extra ammunition, and those tend to come in the form of hard positive outcomes. When you are fighting for your microscopic piece of the budget pie, we often feel the need to take whatever we can get in terms of an argument that sounds convincing to someone on the fence. So the "human spirit" angle doesn't end up getting much play.
     However, Winner's point is a solid one. Even as we use new advocacy strategies to make our case on the local, state, and national levels, it's important to keep in mind the inherent value of the arts beyond what they can deliver. Art for art's sake can’t be our only advocacy strategy, especially in These Dire Economic Times. But it is one that those of us in the trenches should keep in mind as we're fighting the good fight.

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Illini Win Game But Not Henson`s Approval

December 22, 1991|By Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune.

CHAMPAIGN — It was your basic no-win situation for Illinois Saturday night.

The Illini were playing host to Maryland-Baltimore County, perhaps the weakest team on their schedule, and then discovered that UMBC`s best player would be out with a sprained ankle.

Anything less than a double-digit victory by the Illini over the aptly-named Retrievers would be considered a shocker. Though Illinois managed to dispose of Maryland-Baltimore 84-71 before 11,576 in Assembly Hall, the Illini impressed few observers, including coach Lou Henson.

``Other than Scott Pierce, none of our guys played more than average,``

said Henson.

The victory did help to dull the memory of last week`s 36-point loss to Temple, the school`s worst defeat in 17 years. Center Deon Thomas, who missed several days of practice last week due to illness and subsequently was benched at the start of Saturday`s game for not informing the coaching staff that he would miss last Monday`s practice, led all scorers 21 points in 28 minutes of action. Pierce added 17 points and a team-high 11 rebounds.

Thomas entered the lineup with a little over four minutes gone, and Henson said that Thomas still appeared to be weakened by a combination of the flu and a sore throat.

``Deon, you can tell, is out of shape,`` Henson said. ``He`s just not right physically. It`s just a case now of trying to get him into shape.``

The Illini (5-2) will face two Top 20 teams in the next three games, beginning with No. 17 Missouri (7-0) on Monday in St. Louis. Then it will be No. 7 Connecticut (6-0) on either Jan. 4 or 5, depending on the NFL playoff schedule at Assembly Hall.

``We`re going to have to improve 200 percent to beat Missouri,`` said Henson. ``Whether we can do that, I don`t know.``

The Retrievers (1-6) were just as bad as advertised. They had lost their season-opener to Kansas by the unfathamoble margin of 64 points, and came into Saturday`s game without leading scorer and rebounder Soni Nixon, who was ranked sixth in the nation among Division I rebounders at 12.7 per game.

Sometimes the Retrievers looked like a mirror image of Illinois during the Temple fiasco. At one point during the first half, one of the UMBC players actually attempted to take control of a loose ball by trying to dribble it with both hands.

Illinois could not quite get rid of UMBC, which kept climbing to within 10 points late in the second half before knocking itself back out of the game again. The Retrievers could have pulled to within nine points with 10 minutes left, but a Brian Watkins basket was negated by a charging call, and Illinois regained control shortly afterwards.

``That was definitely a momentum-changer,`` said UMBC coach Earl Hawkins. ``That basket could`ve been a big one.``

Illinois took a 45-34 first-half lead despite making 12 turnovers. Henson started a three-guard lineup in Thomas` absence, But the three, Brooks Taylor, T.J. Wheeler and Rennie Clemons, combined for nine turnovers in the opening 20 minutes. The Illini wound up with 21 turnovers on the night, and Henson termed the efforts of his guards as ``lackadaisical.``

Pierce led the Illini with 13 points in the first half on 6-of-9 shooting, as the Illini pounded the ball inside and shot 59.4 percent (19 of 32) for the half.

Illinois heads into St. Louis for Monday night`s game with a 16-5 series edge over Missouri, including eight straight since the so-called ``Braggin`

Rights`` series became an annual affair played in the St. Louis Arena.

This time the Tigers will be able to play standout guard Anthony Peeler, who was academically ineligible last year.


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Lunchtime indulgence

Fish crisped up in bacon fat tops a delicious variation on the classic BLT

March 07, 2012|By JeanMarie Brownson | Special to the Tribune

We happily spent endless Saturdays on the sidelines at soccer fields, football fields and in the waiting rooms at indoor tennis facilities and piano studios. Now, the kids live at college. Saturdays offer a world of new possibilities. So we think about exercising and then plan leisurely lunches with fellow empty-nesters.

On one such Saturday, we swooned over a crispy BLT fish sandwich at a local restaurant. Unforgettable layers of spicy catfish, smoky bacon, sweet tomatoes and crunchy lettuce piled on a rich egg bun slathered with spicy mayo. The garlicky slaw served alongside likewise captivated. The combo delivered a clear missive: Make this at home. And often.

Lunches at my family's cabin taught me that fish and bacon fat enjoy a natural partnership. The sweet taste of most fish and the rich smoke of bacon complement each other beautifully. I'm sure the cabin's stock of cast-iron pans contributed to the marriage — lending stunning texture to the northern pike and walleye my father snagged. Even the kids' blue gill catch benefited from the smoky fat and hot pan.

Early on I learned that bacon makes every day feel like a vacation. At the cabin, my mom would save the bacon drippings in the pan from breakfast in case someone caught fish that day. Now, I keep a small jar of bacon drippings in my fridge — it lasts there for months.

It's like a jar of gold. Use a spoonful to flavor a pot of beans, fry an egg, saute spinach or enliven a tomato sauce. And always use it in the cast-iron skillet when cooking fish. Yum.

For my version of those memorable BLT fish sandwiches, I enjoy wild-caught Alaskan cod or farmed catfish.

Sprinkle the fish generously with a spicy Cajun seasoning before it goes into the hot bacon-fatted pan. Then turn on the exhaust fan so you can cook with plenty of heat to create a rich, golden char.

Crispy fish BLT sandwiches with sriracha mayo

Prep: 40 minutes
Marinate: 30 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Servings: 4

Note: You'll need to be a bit of a short-order cook to coordinate the sandwich assembly so the bread is hot and crusty and the fish perfectly cooked. Be sure to have all the sandwich fixings near the work surface for speedy assembly as soon as the fish is cooked. Sriracha is a Thai hot sauce; you may substitute another hot sauce, but check the heat level before making the mayonnaise.

4 skinless thick fish fillets, such as wild-caught Alaskan cod, each about 6 ounces
1 to 2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning blend, or see recipe below
4 thin slices applewood smoked bacon, cut in half
4 slices brick or Monterey jack cheese
4 sandwich buns (such as brioche)
2 tablespoons sriracha mayonnaise, see recipe below
8 thick slices ripe tomato, such as Campari tomatoes
4 thin slices large dill pickle, optional
8 small romaine leaves

1. Rinse fish fillets; pat dry with paper towels. Place on a baking sheet. Generously sprinkle Cajun seasoning on both sides. Let stand at room temperature, up to 30 minutes, or refrigerate for several hours.

2. Meanwhile, cook bacon in large, well-seasoned, cast-iron skillet (or nonstick skillet) over medium heat, turning, until crisp, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a plate; reserve the pan drippings.

3. Heat the skillet with the drippings over medium-high heat. Add fillets in a single, uncrowded layer (in batches if necessary). Cook without turning until darkly golden, about 5 minutes. Carefully flip; brown the second side, about 2 minutes. Top with a slice of cheese; remove from the heat.

4. Meanwhile, toast the buns in a toaster oven or on a grill pan until golden. Spread sriracha mayonnaise over the insides of the buns.

5. Build each sandwich with 1 fillet, 2 tomato slices, 1 pickle slice if using, 2 half-pieces bacon and lettuce leaves.

Cajun spice mixture:
Mix 1 teaspoon each salt, freshly ground black pepper, paprika and oregano with 1/4 teaspoon each cayenne and dried thyme.

Sriracha mayonnaise:
Mix 1/4 cup mayonnaise with 2 tablespoons sriracha hot sauce and 1 or 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro. Refrigerate covered up to several days.

Nutrition information:
Per serving: 540 calories, 19 g fat, 9 g saturated fat, 104 mg cholesterol, 47 g carbohydrates, 43 g protein, 1,285 mg sodium, 3 g fiber.

Kale and hearty coleslaw

Prep: 20 minutes
Chill: 1 hour
Servings: 6

1/4 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons creme fraiche, sour cream or plain Greek yogurt
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 clove garlic, crushed
1/2 teaspoon saltv 1/2 small head (8 or 9 ounces) Napa cabbage, very thinly sliced, 3 to 4 cups
1 bulb (6 or 7 ounces) fresh fennel, very thinly sliced, about 1 cup
1 to 2 small tart red apples, cored, coarsely chopped
2 to 3 cups mixed baby kale leaves or baby arugula

Mix mayonnaise, creme fraiche, cilantro, garlic and salt in a bowl. Stir in cabbage, fennel and apple until well mixed. Refrigerate, covered, until chilled, 1 hour or more. Stir in kale shortly before serving.

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Per serving: 108 calories, 8 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 8 g carbohydrates, 1 g protein, 278 mg sodium, 2 g fiber.


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'A View From the Bridge' tops 2005 SCR program

December 02, 2005|By TOM TITUS

* EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of four columns reviewing local theater in 2005.

Playwright Arthur Miller left us last year, but his powerful works live on, to be reexamined by new generations of theatergoers.

This year, South Coast Repertory revived one of Miller's most visceral plays, "A View From the Bridge," and it's this column's choice as the top production on the company's two Costa Mesa stages in 2005.

Directed by Martin Benson -- certainly no stranger to Miller with "Death of a Salesman," "The Crucible" and "All My Sons" on his resume -- this modern tragedy, centered on an obsessively jealous dock worker, had lost none of its effect in this, a 50th anniversary production.

The play, as reviewed in this column, "packs all the physical and emotional power as Budd Schulberg's Oscar-winning movie 'On the Waterfront,' which preceded 'View' by one year. Seething machismo courses through the veins of the dock worker characters in each story."

Another revival, this one in a more comic vein, ranks second on our year-end list: Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," directed by Warner Shook. This comedy, with its three leading performers transplanted from a Northern California production, was "a joyous event ... the dialogue crackles with comic intensity," the Pilot's review commented at the time.

Richard Greenberg's world premiere, "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way," directed by Mark Rucker, checks in at No. 3. This one was "pure out-and-out comedy with a dab of social satire -- Greenberg at his most biting and hilarious."

"Dumb Show," David Emmes' production of Joe Penhall's scathing seriocomedy, ranks fourth -- "a roasting of celebrity and its illegitimate cousin, tabloid journalism."

Fifth was Rucker's staging of Christopher Shinn's world premiere of "On the Mountain," in which actress Susannah Schulman "grabs the audience by the heart and clings for dear life."

Schulman's portrayal was the finest individual accomplishment by an actress at South Coast Rep in 2005. She shares this spotlight with SCR veteran Richard Doyle, who gave the performance of his career in "A View From the Bridge."

Other actors etching memorable accomplishments during 2005 were John de Lancie in "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way," Tony Ward in "Vesuvius," Micheal McShane in "Dumb Show" and Paul Morgan Stetler in "Born Yesterday."

Joining Schulman on SCR's honor roll of actresses for the year are Adriana Sevan in "The Clean House," Linda Gehringer in "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way" and Jennifer Lyon in "Born Yesterday."

Next Friday, the spotlight swings over to our local community theaters, recognizing the year's finest productions and performances.

Collegiate theater will be applauded Dec. 23, following by the announcement Dec. 30 of the Daily Pilot's man and woman of the year in theater. Stay tuned.

* TOM TITUS reviews local theater for the Daily Pilot. His reviews appear Fridays.

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