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Hadoop on a PersonalSupercomputerPaul Dingman – Chief Technologist, Integration Divisionpdingman@pervasive.com PERVASIVE DATA INNOVATION
Pervasive and Hadoop• Pervasive Software develops software products to manage, integrate and analyze data.• Innovation Lab projects around big data include: – Hadoop • Accelerate MapReduce (DataRush Community Edition) • High-speed add-ons for HBase, Avro, Hive (TurboRush) • Augment Sqoop • Enhance ETL capabilities – Benchmarks • Terasort • TPC-H • SIEM/LogAnalytics EPS • Genomics2
Why are many-core systems interesting?• Many-core processors make it possible to concentrate large amounts of processing power in a single machine. Coupled with newer storage technologies these systems can have high speed access to tremendous amounts of storage.• We have done a lot of work with multi-core systems at Pervasive Software. Our Pervasive DataRush ™ Dataflow Engine takes advantage of all available processor cores to efficiently process large volumes of data. – Analytics – Data mining – Genomics• Potential cost and energy savings due to the need for fewer nodes.• Potential performance gains by eliminating inter-node data exchange.3
Pervasive DataRush™ Speed and Scalability • World Record Performance set running Smith-Waterman algorithm • Code written on an 8 core machine scaled to 384 cores with no changes!4
Malstone-B10* Scalability 400 Run-time for 10B rows Run-time 350 370.0 300 3.2 hours with 4 250 cores Time in Minutes 200 192.4 1.5 hours with 8 150 cores Under 1 hour with 100 16 cores 90.3 50 51.6 31.5 0 2 cores 4 cores 8 cores 16 cores 32 cores Core Count * Cyber security benchmark from the Open Cloud Consortium5
How well does Hadoop work on many-coresystems?• One of the areas we wanted to explore with Hadoop is to determine how well it works on systems with lots of cores. In other words is it possible to run Hadoop in an environment where you could exploit the cores for complex operations, but still have the benefits of the distributed environment provided by Hadoop and HDFS?6
Master Node (NameNode/JobTracker) Commodity Box P1 P1 • 2 Intel Xeon L5310 CPUs 1.6 GHz (8 cores) Local DRAM (16 GB) • 16 GB DRAM (ECC) • 8 SATA Hard Disks (4 TB) • Mellanox ConnectX-2 VPI Dual Port Adapter Infiniband 500 GB … 500 GB local (8 spindles)7
Slave Nodes (DataNode/TaskTracker) • 4 AMD Opteron 6172 CPUs P1 P1 P1 P1 (48 cores) • Supermicro MB • 1 LSI 8 port HBA (6 GBps) Local DRAM (256 GB) • 2 SATA SSDs (512 GB) • 256 GB DRAM (ECC) • 32 SATA Hard Disks (64 TB) • Mellanox ConnectX-2 VPI 2TB … 2TB 2TB Dual Port Adapter Infiniband HDFS local (24 spindles, JBOD) (8 spindles)8
Hadoop Tuning• We worked from the bottom up. – Linux (various kernels and kernel settings) – File systems (EXT2, EXT3, EXT4) – Drivers (HBA) – JVMs• Initial tests were done using a single “fat” node (same config as worker nodes).• Made it easier to test different disk configurations.• For Hadoop tests we primarily used 100 GB Terasort jobs for testing. This test exercised all phases of the MapReduce process while not being too large to run frequently.10
Lessons Learned with Single Node Tuning• We found we could comfortably run 40 maps and 20 reducers given memory and CPU constraints• Use large block size for HDFS. – Execution time for map tasks was around 1 minute using 512 MB block size• More spindles is better – 1:1 ratio of map tasks to local HDFS spindles works well – EXT2 seems to work well with JBOD• Dedicated spindles for temporary files on each worker node• Configure JVM settings for larger heap size to avoid spills – Parallel GC seemed to help as well• Compression of map outputs is a huge win (LZO)• HBase scales well in fat nodes with DataRush (> 5M rows/sec bulk load; >10M rows/sec sequential scan)11
Varying Spindles for HDFS Terasort Average Execution Time 900 800 700 600 Time (secs) 500 400 Terasort Average Execution Time 300 200 100 0 8 16 24 32 40 48 HDFS Disks (2TB)12
Varying Spindles for Intermediate Outputs Terasort Average Execution Time 800 700 600 500 Time (secs) 400 Terasort Average Execution Time 300 200 100 0 4 x 2TB 8 x 2TB 16 x 2TB Fusion I/O Drive Flash RAID 0 (4 x 2TB) Drives for Intermediate Map Output13
Clustering the Nodes• We had a total of 64 hard disks for the cluster and had to split them between the two nodes.• Installed and configured Open Fabrics OFED to enable IPoIB.• Reconfigure Hadoop to cluster the nodes.15
Comparisons with Amazon Clusters• The Amazon clusters were used to get a better idea of what to expect using more conventionally sized Hadoop nodes (non-EMR).• We used „Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large‟ instances – 23 GB of memory – 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (Dual Intel Xeon X5570 quad-core “Nehalem” processors; 8 cores total) – 1690 GB of instance storage (2 spindles) – Very high I/O performance (10 GbE)• Used a similar Hadoop configuration, but dialed back the number of maps and reducers due to lower core count.• Used cluster sizes that were roughly core count equivalent for comparison17
Conclusions• From what we have seen Hadoop works very well on many-core systems. In fact, Hadoop runs quite well on even a single node many-core system.• Using denser nodes may make failures more expensive for some system components. When using disk arrays the handling of hard disk failures should be comparable to smaller nodes.• The MapReduce framework treats all intermediate outputs as remote resources. The copy phase of MapReduce doesn‟t benefit from locality of data.20
Questions?Follow up/more information:-Visit our boothPervasive DataRush for Hadoopwww.pervasivedatarush.com/Technology/PervasiveDataRushforHadoop.aspxPresentation content – email@example.com PERVASIVE DATA INNOVATION
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Occasional notes on New Hampshire's book community
from the Director of the Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library
Reader's Resources: GalleyCat
If you are interested in the world of book publishing--who got a book deal, which books are going to be movies, what publishing companies are up to--you should be reading GalleyCat. In addition to all the publishing news stuff there are also a ton of posts here about bookselling, writing, the zeitgeist of the book world, and other random bookish info. There are also reviews and coming attractions.
Jason Boog is the editor of the blog, and there are several regular contributors. GalleyCat is part of MediaBistro and includes info from them about jobs in publishing.
If you can only find time to read one book blog it should definitely be Book Notes NH. But if you had time for 2, GalleyCat is the one to add to your reading list.
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Friday, June 11, 2010 / 4:08 pm
Katherine and “Killers” director Robert Luketic have been busy promoting the action comedy in London this week. The duo attended the European Premiere of the film at the Odeon West End in Leicester Square on Wednesday and have been attending various press interview sessions during the week.
Thursday, June 10, 2010 / 2:25 pm
Speaking at the European Premiere of “Killers” in London last night, Katherine explained to reporters that she finds it tough leaving her daughter Naleigh behind, “It’s difficult but it’s like any working mom I think you have to make some compromises. It’s easier said than done, but I knew that I wanted to keep working, I love what I do but it’s really hard to leave her – I feel horrible.”
Thursday, June 10, 2010 / 1:08 pm
Katherine hit the red carpet in London for the European premiere of Killers on Wednesday, July 9th, where she chatted to the assembled press, posed for photographs and greeted fans.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 / 8:08 pm
Katherine Heigl attended the European premiere of Killers at the Odeon West End cinema in London’s Leicester Square this evening. She was accompanied on the pink carpet by director Robert Luketic, as co-star Ashton Kutcher was unable to attend.

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Little Flower Convent High School was established by the sisters of the Congregation of Mother of Carmel (C.M.C) in 1923. It is a large Congregation of sisters founded by St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara, numbering above 6000 working all over India and abroad. The charism of this Congregation is contemplation in action. CMC aims at the intellectual, social, economic, moral and spiritual formation of the people particularly of women and children, irrespective of caste, creed etc.
The CMC educational policy states that value formation is to education what the spirit is to the body. It is training for the life time. Imbibing right values becomes an investment in personal attitudes and convictions. So our educational mission takes the youth beyond facts and concepts to the level of the values. Care is taken to make educational process a tool for the cultivation of social, ethical and spiritual values which enable him or her to become an agent of social transformation.
The School is proud to have well stacked library with thousands of different books which nourishes the reading habit of students. Besides an open library is the big attraction in the in the school veranda that allows the students to give and take a book at a time. A well equipped laboratory is maintained to provide a good learning experience for the students.
To develop effective self directed learning skills, we have digitalized the classrooms. This really helps the pupils to identify what they need to learn find and use online resources and apply the information on the problem at hand. An over bridge in the school campus facilitates the passage of students from one block to the other especially during the rainy season.
Under the Bharat Scouts and Guides we have five companies consist of 160 Guides, led by five Guide Captains. The movement plays an important role in the moulding of a student to be a healthy and useful citizen.
Aiming at teaching the students the value of life and health as well as importance of respecting the human dignity, Junior Red Cross (JRC) has been formed in our school. Members in the movement take initiatives to reach out to the needy in their sufferings without any discrimination.
Ample opportunities are provided to bring out the latent talents of the students. The literary Association Meetings and Manuscript Magazine Competitions reflect the creative talents of the students. School Youth Festivals, Sports Day, Different Club Activities, celebrations associated with Onam, Christmas, Teacher's Day, Keralapiravi etc. are venues which ensure the exposition and growth of the talents of the students. Classes imparting moral and spiritual values mould and adapt the learners to shine and survive in the modern world.
The school as it stands today is a self-sufficient, stately and promising institute. A glance at the milestones covered is ample evidence of the heights the school has scaled through the years. Sr.Roselet CMC, the headmistress of the institution is a dedicated and inspiring leader who has shaped the conditions for the teachers and students to learn and succeed.
If LFCHS is today, proud of being an educational institution well-known for forming young girls of competence, it is mainly due to the untiring and dedicated service of a team of earnest and devoted personnel. Their sense of responsibility and loyalty, devotion to duty, spirit of co-operation, deep concern for every individual student and a personal touch in everything they do, has tremendously contributed to create and ambience congenial to successful learning and fostering a harmonious and cordial relationship between the staff and the students. The progress of the school has been stupendous in every direction. The school has offered responsible and worthy citizens to our motherland.
Little Flower Convent School situated in the centre of Irinjalakuda town wins the hearts of ample number of children regardless of caste and religion imparting knowledge.


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Another week of the Summer has gone by. August is always a tough month to find good new music. The labels focus their new releases for September. However, I’m getting better at discovering new talent, so let me tell you about what I found this week.
I got the program started with reprising the band…Wild Ones. They are mixed-gendered band out of Portland and I found them a couple of weeks ago and I have been listening to their new album KEEP IT SAFE quite a bit, which unusual for me. It’s just really well done with some great content. The track I played first, in July, was “Curse Over Me.”^ I also liked “It’s Real“ and “Golden Twin.” I’m thinking about putting it on my Best Of list but in the “My Own Desire” category. This cut was “Row.” ^You can download “Curse Over Me” from that link
I followed that with another reprised band…Ski Lodge. Ski Lodge is a quartet based in New York City and they play some up-tempo, Alt. or Indie Pop. They also tagged their music as So-Fi, which I don’t know precisely what that means. I originally debuted “Just To Be Like You,” back in May. It was the designated single; and it also has a nifty video for it too. However, the full album has been released so I felt compelled to play you a deeper cut from the CD…because it’s a good disc. The tune I aired was “Boy” and the new album is BIG HEART.
Changing musical direction with a nice little tune from Devon Sproule. She’s a singer/songwriter originally from Kingston, Ontario, Canada but she now makes her home in Charlottesville, Virginia. I ran across this song over the weekend on SoundCloud. (Man…I am loving SoundCloud these days). Anyway…I randomly found this single, “You Can’t Help It,” with Devon’s name attached to it; and I’ve played Devon’s music before but what struck me was that Devon only contributed the words. Mike O’Neill wrote the music. In fact, Mike really liked the music he created; he just couldn’t quite put the right words to the sound. So he enlisted Devon’s help and they came up with a really nice tune.
Next came a tune from Agua Roja. Agua Roja is another band I found by quirky happenstance on SoundCloud…but I’m glad I did. I don’t have a great deal of information on this band other than they are a trio from Paris; November is the lead singer’s name; and you can download that single, “Summer Ends“, for free via their Facebook Page. Well…it will cost you a “like” on their Facebook Page but that’s a bargain.
Let’s keep things moving here with an Emo-Indie, mixed-gendered trio from Houston, Texas. They call themselves Football, Etc. The band’s name is unusual and they are very serious about the sport. Their debut EP was called FIRST DOWN; their debut, full-length album was THE DRAFT; and their latest effort will be titled AUDIBLE. And all the songs titles are sports or game related…like “Safety,” “Away Game” and “Lambeau Leap.” It’s amusing but I think it can become tiresome and limiting. But we’ll see. I played the album’s pre-release single. It’s called “Fair.”
I followed that with new music from Lucius. It’s I originally found this band because of a tweet from Katie Costello, whom I love. By happenstance, I read Katie’s note about Lucius and it caused me to investigate further. The band is fronted by two fabulous singers, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig. They are supported by Dan Molad and Peter Lalish. The two ladies harmonizing is sublime. I saw them live at this year’s SXSW and they were outstanding. Well, they are back with a brand new album, WILDEWOMAN, which is due for release on October 15th and I sampled the lead off single; “Hey, Doreen.”
My lineage subject was Saint Motel. They are a quartet out of the Los Angeles area and I like what they do. They released an album back in 2009 and since then had been releasing a series of singles. Their follow up album, VOYEUR, finally dropped in 2012. Well…they are back to the singles strategy again and that’s what I have for you this morning. The new single is “My Type” and it has a Sixties Retro-Soul feel to it. It’s also a little bit of a departure from their previous material, which I like.
Part two of the lineage was “Puzzle Pieces,” which was originally released as a single in 2011 and was also included in their 2012 album, VOYEUR.
Keeping the music going here with a visit to today’s re-issue release of the week. It was from The Kinks. It’s the latest of the many Best Of compilations that have been put together on the Kinks. The differentiating piece of this collection is the addition of Ray Davies solo material and even a couple of solo tracks from Dave Davies. This collection is titled WATERLOO SUNSET: THE BEST OF THE KINKS AND RAY DAVIES. There were so many choices I went with the seasonal appropriate tune…”Sunny Afternoon.”
I closed off that two-song set with a track from the Arctic Monkeys. And WOW! What a great tune from Alex Turner and the boys for Sheffield, England. The tune I played, “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High,” is not even the lead off single. (I believe that “Do I Wanna Know” has that honor). The new album is simply titled AM and is set to drop on September 10th.
“Dandelion Wine” is the latest single from The Band In Heaven. They have been described as Nightmare Pop, which I don’t know what that means. I just thought it was worth sharing it as a sub-genre identifier. I checked out some of their earlier work and I kind of get that descriptive, however, with their latest album, CAUGHT IN A SUMMER SWELL, they’ve softened their artist approach to a more accessible version of DreamPop or Shoegaze. The album is set for release on the 17th of September.
Next was a brand new music from a band called No Middle Name. They are a self-described Lo-Fi, DreamPop band but it’s really a solo vehicle from David Bailey. If you listened live you would have heard that David wasn’t singing alone on the track I played, “Another Season.” Lindsay West, from the Lindsay West Band, helps out. There is a very clever video to this song that I’ve posted already on my Facebook Page and my Twitter feed.
Let me slip in one more from Panama Wedding. They are a synth Pop band based in New York City. They have just released this radio ready, summertime tune, as a single, called “All Of The People.” If you like this song…it’s available for a free download via the band’s SoundCloud page. How can you beat that?
Songs in BOLD are links to videos of that song. Songs that are ITALICIZED are links to Soundcloud Audio Files of said song.
Come listen LIVE on wmfo.org from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. (I could use the support) ;^)
If you are interested in having me produce a designed playlist for you; email me your contact details and we discuss how to make that happen.
If you missed the live version…check out the archived one. Here’s the LINK.
I suggest you follow me on Twitter and get an early taste on new music that comes out each week.
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FANS of “The Shield” rejoice – the end is not near.
That’s the word from John Landgraf, president and general manager of FX, and Shawn Ryan, executive producer of “The Shield,” who confirmed yesterday that TV’s toughest cop show – and the cable channel’s signature series – will continue for a seventh and final season next year in order to better wrap up the show’s many storylines.
That means the show’s sixth season – which premieres with the first of 10 episodes on Tuesday, April 3 (at 10 p.m.) – will not be its last, as had been feared by “Shield” fans who haven’t seen a new episode of their favorite series since March 21, 2006.
“I think in those 10 episodes, if I really wanted to, I could have satisfactorily wrapped up the story of Vic Mackey [series star Michael Chiklis] and the Strike Team,” Ryan said on the phone from L.A. yesterday.
“And these next 10 episodes that are about to hit the air really address Lem’s death and the Strike Team in a major way, but they sort of suck so much of the oxygen out of the room that I felt like there wasn’t enough time to wrap up” all the stories concerning the show’s many other characters.
Season five ended explosively (literally) last March when rogue cop Shane Vendrell (Walton Goggins) killed his friend, Det. “Lem” (or “Lemonhead”) Lemansky (Kenneth Johnson), with a small bomb concealed in a sandwich bag because Vendrell feared Lemansky would testify against him in an ongoing Internal Affairs investigation of Mackey and his “Strike Team.”
Vendrell and Lemansky were members of the team – led by the corrupt and combustible Mackey – which was a unit assigned to do battle with gangs and hardened criminals in the L.A. ghetto where “The Shield” takes place.
Work began just this week on the stories for the show’s final season, which will consist of 13 episodes, Ryan said.
When the series resumes April 3, Mackey will be dealing with Lemansky’s death, although it’s unclear when or if he’ll learn that Vendrell did him in.
In addition, the “Strike Team” will still be under investigation by the dogged IA detective, John Kavanaugh, played all last season by Forest Whitaker, who just happens to be up for a Best Actor Oscar this Sunday for “The Last King of Scotland” and who is returning to “The Shield” for at least some of the upcoming 10 episodes.

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As one way of celebrating South African first black president, Nelson Mandela’s Day, UNICEF and South Africa in collaboration with Malawi Government on Wednesday used the event to promote the ‘right to food’ in the country.
Speaking at Mzumazi Village in Lilongwe to mark Nelson Mandela’s 100 years, Chief of Nutrition at UNICEF Malawi, Sangita Jacob Duggal said malnutrition remains a challenge and a major contributor to preventable child deaths in the country.
UNICEF supports the Government of Malawi Department of Nutrition HIV and AIDs to plan, manage and carry out quality nutrition interventions. We have adopted Mzumazi Primary school and the village by establishing vegetable gardens in their homes so that they can have nutritious food, Duggal said.
She added that to ensure mothers and children receive life-saving nutrition in times of emergency caused by drought or floods, the project, which promotes backyard gardens, will give families a readily available source of food.
In November, 2009, the UN General Assembly declared July 18 as Nelson Mandela International Day in recognition of the former South African President’s contribution to the culture of peace and freedom.
She further said that UN recognizes Nelson Mandela’s values and his dedication to services for humanity.
As UN, we want to complement Mandela’s vision for promotion and protection of human rights, reconciliation, gender equality and the rights of children and other vulnerable groups as well as the fight against poverty and promotion of social justice, Duggal explained.
In her remarks, South African High Commissioner to Malawi, Thenjiwe Mtintso said she was grateful to the UN for coming up with a day to celebrate the life of the South African hero, who she described as non-violent, anti-apartheid and a freedom fighter politician.
The UN asks individuals around the world to mark Nelson Mandela International Day on July 18 every year by contributing at least 67 minutes of their time doing voluntary work in and with needy communities, Mtintso said.
According to the South African High Commissioner, the 67 minutes were to signify one minute for every year of Mandela’s public service at that time in 2009.
The 67 minutes have been increased to at least a day and global movement is growing for each one of us to improve each other’s lives. The theme of this international Day is Take Action, Inspire Change, Make Every Day a Mandela Day -a clarion call for everyone to take concrete action and inspire change and create a better world, Mtintso said.
She added that UNICEF proposed Mzumazi Village after realizing that there is need to establish vegetable gardens to address its nutritional deficit.
By establishing these gardens, we wish to assist families to grow their own nutrition vegetables to supplement their meals.
We encourage every family to maintain these gardens and even establish more, so as to be self-reliant when it comes to providing health food for everyone, Mtintso said.
Commenting on the occasion, Group Village Headman Mzumazi thanked UNICEF and the South African Government for coming up with the initiative.
I would like to thank the UN and South African Government for coming here to help us establish these gardens which will help us have nutritious food in our homes.
Source: Malawi News Agency


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Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has for decades been approved for use in sunscreens as a physical sunblock. It is not known whether reducing the size of TiO2 particles in sunscreens creates new issues of safety and/or effectiveness. A study was therefore conducted to investigate the relative risk of skin penetration by TiO2 nanoparticles in healthy fair-skinned individuals.
The protocol for the study was approved by the Research Involving Human Subjects Committee of the US Food and Drug Administration, and informed written consent was obtained from each of the study participants. The participants were 6 fair-skinned individuals with phototypes II and III skin as defined by a UV-sensitivity questionnaire 1 and dermatological evaluation, who were recruited from the Washington, DC area. Daily applications of sunscreen with and without TiO2 nanoparticles at a concentration of 2 mg/cm2 were made to 2 test sites (5 x 5 cm) on the lower back of each participant, with a separate site as an untreated control. Except for the absence of tocopheryl acetate, the 2 custom-prepared sunscreen formulations used in the study (sunscreen with uncoated TiO2 nanoparticles [sunscreen plus TiO2] and [sunscreen only]) were identical to previously reported formulations.2 The sunscreens were applied once daily for 3 days to 2 of the participants. To further detect penetration of TiO2 nanoparticles, sunscreen was applied once-daily for 8 days to the 4 other participants. One day after the final sunscreen application, 5 shave biopsy specimens were acquired from each participant (2 from the sunscreen plus TiO2 site, 2 from the sunscreen-only site; and 1 from the control site). Details of the procedures for biopsy and tissue specimen processing, and of the biomarkers for immunohistochemistry, have been described,3 as have details of the biopsy-sample preparation for electron microscopy.2 Transmission electron microscopy was used to assess the penetration of TiO2 particles through epidermal-dermal skin layers. Confirmatory identification was done with scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) analysis as previously described.2
Coelho SG, Patri AK, Wokovich AM, McNeil SE, Howard PC, Miller SA. Repetitive Application of Sunscreen Containing Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Human Skin. JAMA Dermatol. 2016;152(4):470-472. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2015.5944

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Duck season ends this evening, and many duck hunters wonder what went wrong.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, duck populations are very good, but ducks never arrived in great numbers to Arkansas. Stan Jones of Alicia, a member of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and owner of Stan Jones Mallard Lodge, owns some of the best duck habitat in northeast Arkansas. His properties are textbook examples of proper management, but Jones said ducks have been scarce.
From Jan. 23-29, the parking areas in the Long Bell area of Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area were deserted. A friend who took off work to hunt the last week at the Government Cypress Walk-In Hunting Area said there was hardly any shooting, even on blue-sky days with a steady north wind. On Tuesday, he said he killed two mallards and a wood duck, which he considered outstanding. He said no ducks flew until 9 a.m., and that they stopped flying at about 10:30 a.m. His best situation occurred when nine mallards landed around him while he put out decoys.
Several people reported one good shoot followed by subsequent days with no ducks in the same places. That is consistent with ongoing observations from Luke Naylor, the waterfowl program coordinator for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. For several seasons, Naylor has noted in the commission’s weekly waterfowl report that ducks are congregating in unhunted, often unmanaged areas. They go where people are not.
“Flooded fields, for example, were often devoid of ducks during this survey [Jan. 17-20], while purposeful sanctuary habitat or simply lightly hunted, harder-to-reach areas supported noticeable concentrations of ducks,” Naylor said in the Jan. 27 report. “Odd areas dominated by moist-soil plants appeared to host lots of ducks, including the nearly 27 percent of all mallards observed in this habitat type. Observers noted over 31 percent of mallards in oxbow lakes, buttonbush [buckbrush] habitat and agricultural reservoirs. Many of these areas showed little evidence of hunting activity and were off the beaten path.”
It is undeniable that a lot fewer ducks are spending winters in Arkansas. The AGFC’s first 2021 waterfowl survey, conducted Jan. 4-7, revealed that the Delta mallard population estimate was the second lowest since formal surveys began in 2009-10. The long-term mallard average is 826,000. Only 45% of that number was present Jan. 4-7.
The number of mallards in the final survey was still 200,000 shy of the long-term average. Tellingly, the report said that number was “in line with late-January mallard counts in recent years.”
Also, the report noted that “mallards typically account for 59% of all ducks during the late January count, but this year made up 44% of all ducks.”
Could it be that Arkansas duck hunters are living in the past?
“The Grand Prairie,” by Brent Birch, the definitive book of Grand Prairie duck hunting, details the importance of rice to Arkansas duck hunting. That might not be quite the case anymore.
Wes McNulty farms rice and soybeans in Jefferson County. Though his property isn’t on the Grand Prairie, it traditionally attracted a lot of ducks. McNulty also keeps some acreage in reserve for ducks in addition to his woodland habitat. He said it is obvious fewer ducks migrate into the area, and his harvest numbers reinforce the point.
“Since 1971, we averaged 280-plus pintails a year,” McNulty said. “In 2018-19, we killed 13. Last year, 57. This year, have yet to kill one.”
It’s not for lack of effort. McNulty’s college-age son hunts a lot, and he often brings friends. McNulty said that changes in rice harvesting are a major factor. There is far less rice in the fields when ducks arrive than there used to be. If food is consistently scarce, it stands to reason that the landscape will attract fewer ducks.
“I think there’s several things,” McNulty said. “It seems like pintails come down a lot later than used to. I always thought that pintails relied heavily on rice, but there’s not as much rice as we used to have, but we’ve still got the same amount of acres flooded. People say nobody’s flooding their fields. Well, that’s bull. If you drive around now, there’s twice as much water as used to be. I think zero grade rice farming has caused that to happen. There’s a lot more water than used to be in these fields.”
There might be a lot more water, but there’s a lot less food. Modern harvesters leave very little grain in the fields. If farmers don’t leave rice especially for ducks, there’s not much for them to eat.
“If I have a 200-bushel crop and I’m losing two bushels to the acre, that’s one percent,” McNulty said. “I used to lose five percent, so there’s a lot less waste grain to begin with.”
Stripper headers, which only take the grain off a rice stalk, leave even less.
“A blackbird will starve to death trying to make a living behind one,” said Bob Rogers of Maumelle, who farms rice in Prairie County.
Also, because of zero-grade field leveling, harvesters no longer drive over rice levees.
“Every time you crossed a levee with a combine, you lost grain every time because of the way the combine tilts, in addition to what the combine didn’t get,” McNulty said.
More important is when rice is harvested. Farmers once harvested their rice in late September to early October. That roughly coincided with the first part of the migration, so there was plenty of waste grain in the fields when ducks arrived.
“Now we get the vast majority of our rice out in August,” McNulty said. “What’s left is going to sprout in early September.”
Geese arrive in Arkansas about 45 days before ducks arrive, McNulty said, which reduces the food supply even more.
“If you get a big flock of geese in, they wipe the field out,” McNulty said.
Coincidentally, 90 percent of snow, blue, white-fronted and Ross’s geese used to winter on the Texas coast, where rice was the major crop. Most rice farming in Texas ended about 30 years ago, and that’s about when geese began migrating to Arkansas.
Finally, rice farmers manage their land after the harvest differently than they did two and three decades ago. McNulty said that in a zero-grade environment, farmers must keep their fields in production continuously.
“We try to get the stubble burned and leave it where we don’t disturb the soil at all. We don’t want to till the ground,” McNulty said. “It’s not that good for the ground, and it costs us a lot money to run tractors and equipment. If we can make one trip to roll the stubble down and burn it, we don’t have to do any field prep work at all.”
That’s not good for ducks, either, McNulty said. In the past, farmers tilled their stubble into the soil where it rotted and fortified the food chain.
“All that stuff we used to do supported the invertebrates and micro-organisms,” McNulty said. “The bottom line is that farming practices are totally different than they were 25 years ago, and zero-grade rice farming is the reason why.
“I’ve been doing zero-grade for 15 years if not longer, and that’s enough time where you could see a shift. When we had levees, we had draws in the fields where a lot of weeds grew. Ducks always got in little pockets in fields that were kind of nasty areas. With zero-grade you don’t have that. Weed control is better. It’s much more efficient.”
Another factor is the increasing popularity of duck hunting throughout the Mississippi Flyway. Ducks are hunted continuously and intensively starting in Canada in late summer. Many Arkansas duck guides start in Canada, where business is very prosperous and increasing. They kill mostly young of the year mallards over spinning wing decoys. Those are ducks that never even begin their first migration. Add to that the number of young-of-the-year ducks that are killed after they leave Canada but before they reach Arkansas.
Compounding the losses over 20 years might have changed duck migration dynamics to the point where we now have several generations of ducks that are no longer hard-wired to come to Arkansas.
“From Canada to here, there’s nowhere a duck goes where somebody isn’t shooting at them now,” McNulty said. “How many are guiding in Illinois and Missouri now? And you know how commercialized duck hunting is in Arkansas.”
As Birch noted in “The Grand Prairie,” ducks that do migrate to Arkansas gravitate to areas where they are least pressured. Those are largely private clubs around Humnoke, Humphrey, Stuttgart and DeWitt. Those clubs have small memberships. Hunting parties are small, and they hunt only in the mornings. Their woods are refuges for the rest of the day in addition to the dedicated rest areas that exist elsewhere on the clubs. Also, many of them plant rice especially for ducks, and they manage their woods properly, flooding them after trees go dormant and draining them before they leave dormancy. They consistently have ducks when nobody else does, and they have an increasingly larger share of diminishing numbers.
Another alarming trend appears in AGFC waterfowl reports. Species other than mallards are becoming less common in Arkansas. McNulty notices it, too.
“I have killed 37 teal this year,” McNulty said. “It was 396 teal up to this point last year. We haven’t killed a pintail, and very few spoonbills. Gadwalls are down considerably. I had gadwalls, pintails, teal and spoonbills, and now I don’t. I still have the same number of mallards, maybe more. I have developed more woody habitat. I don’t have traditional green timber habitat, but I have small patches of woods and sloughs that I have developed for ducks. We could hunt a certain patch and come out with five limits of ducks. Now I hunt it and come out with one limit.”


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What’s more difficult? Filing income tax returns or working hard to earn money to pay those taxes.
The good news is another tax filing deadline has come and gone. With the exception of those requesting extensions, the tedious chore of making all those calculations and completing all those forms is mercifully over for another year.
The bad news is that those of us in Colorado will have to work until April 25 to earn sufficient income to pay their taxes for next year. That’s when so-called Tax Freedom Day arrives in the state. That’s the day when taxpayers collectively have earned enough money to pay their federal, state and local taxes for the year. Nationwide, Tax Freedom Day comes on April 24.
The Tax Foundation — a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that monitors government fiscal policy — calculates Tax Freedom Day each year as way to illustrate the cost of government.
For 2015, Americans will pay a total of $4.8 trillion in taxes, about 31 percent of all income earned in the country. That’s more, by the way, than what Americans will pay for housing, food and clothing combined.
That means Americans will have to work 114 days into the year to earn enough money pay their taxes, 43 days to earn sufficient pay for federal, state and local taxes alone.
While people might be tired out from the tax filing process, there’s no respite until April 25 when it comes to earning money to pay taxes. On that day, though, we can at least take some satisfaction in that we’ve endured another taxing experience.


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The Rolling Stones final tour?
The Rolling Stones may embark on a huge 50th anniversary tour in 2011 - which could be their last.
The band's drummer, Charlie Watts, said the group - who are aged between 63 and 69 - cannot afford
to plan as far ahead as before, and may embark on one last huge tour next year.
He told Le Parisien newspaper: "We said that if we do something, it will be next year or the year after. We've reached an age where you can't look too far into the future."
The Rolling Stones' last tour, in support of their 'A Bigger Bang' album - which featured some 144 concerts, is the highest grossing of all time.
Meanwhile a digitally remastered version of an obscure 1972 film of the band in concert has been re-released. The film, called 'Ladies and Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones' originally opened in a limited number of British cinemas in 1973, and pieced together footage from several shows by the band in Texas in 1972.
In a video introduction to the film, lead singer Mick Jagger said: "Everyone's very together and on.
"I can remember the Rolling Stones being very, kind of, lackadaisical, very sloppy band on stage. But this was obviously not the case on this day."
In the film the group - with the lineup of Mick, Charlie guitarists Keith Richards and Mick Taylor and bassist Bill Wyman - play some classic songs from their late 60s period, including 'Brown Sugar' and 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', as well as tracks which were new at the time, such as 'Tumbling Dice' and 'Sweet Virginia' which were later included on their 'Exile On Main Street' album, which was also re-mastered and re-released earlier this year.Posted on 8 Sep 2010 16:30 to category : Music News
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Robert Bretz, 59, was discovered dead early Thursday afternoon in the squatters’ settlement off Cristianitos Road, near South El Camino Real in the far northwestern reaches of San Diego County, according to sheriff’s officials.
An autopsy determined that the cause of Bretz’s death was blunt-force injuries and the manner homicide, Lt. Kenneth Nelson said.
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Mr Trump has repeatedly slapped tariffs on Chinese goods, with fears growing China could hit back by targeting US crude oil.
Suresh Sivanandam, Asia refining senior manager at Wood Mackenzie, also warned: “From the US perspective, China is a significant market, but US shipments are just 3% of Chinese imports.
“There’s more of the US losing out here than China.”
This, OilPrice.com said, could see US oil producers forced to offer discounts on their goods in order to keep sales stable.
OIL PRICES: US oil prices could plummet as Donald Trump's trade war escalates
Also of concern is the successful oil production figures recorded by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in July, especially the near-record numbers posted by Saudi Arabia.
Throughout July, Saudi Arabia’s oil production soared from 230,000 barrels per day to 10.65 million barrels per day - a huge increase.
Nigeria and Iraq have also seen their production rise considerably, off-setting losses from Venezuela, Libya and Iran.
July closed with oil prices recording their largest monthly decline in two years.
October Brent crude futures fell $1.34 to settle at $74.21 a barrel. The September contract, which expires later on Tuesday, settled at $74.25. U.S. crude futures fell $1.37, or nearly 2 percent, to settle at $68.76.
Brent lost more than 6 percent in July, while U.S. crude futures slumped about 7 percent, the biggest monthly decline for both benchmarks since July 2016.
Oil prices extended losses in post-settlement trade, with U.S. crude at $68.32 a barrel, after data from the American Petroleum Institute showed domestic crude inventories rose 5.6 million barrels last week.[API/S]
A Reuters poll forecast stocks fell 2.8 million barrels. The U.S. Energy Information Administration data is due on Wednesday.

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It feels like a long-overlooked feature, but Vine could be about to give users a way to layer a music track over their six-second looping videos.
As you can see in the clip (marked “Test”) from Twitter’s UK Director Bruce Daisley below, there’s certainly a track playing and it’s not jumping between cuts, so it’s not insanely loud music playing in the room either.
There is, of course, no confirmation that this is indeed what’s being tested, nor indication that it will roll out for anyone else if it is. We’ve contacted Twitter for more information and will let you know if we hear back.
It’ll also be interesting to see if six seconds counts as ‘fair use’ in terms of licensing, else take-down requests could scupper the option.
It’d be a smart move if the feature was added as standard. There are currently third-party tools that can achieve the same thing, but keeping it all contained within one app would allow for a far better experience for creators – who are ultimately the lifeblood of Vine.
Given that many Vines already contain music and aren’t subject to take-down requests, that probably won’t be a huge stumbling block.


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For me one of the many highlights was hearing Judith Thurman give the 2009 Michael King Memorial Lecture.
The standard of this annual lecture (devoted to discussing the art of biography) is very high. Last year, Hermione Lee gave the lecture and I was also privileged to attend that. What a great opportunity for a New Zealand audience to hear from cutting edge exponents of the biographical endeavour.
Peter Wells (who by the way has newly entered the Blogiverse with his own blog) introduced the elegant, very cool Thurman by revealing she was wearing Yves St Laurent. Thurman elaborated further, and even more impressively to my mind, by divulging that she had acquired the garment at a thrift store.
She then went on to deliver an exquisitely written, interesting and funny lecture, telling us something of her own story: how she came to the place of telling other people's stories.
She was generous with advice and garnered wisdom. I jotted down such pearls as:
"Biography is the art of high-minded betrayal and dirty-minded fidelity."
[She would not write on a living subject]: "The storyteller takes his authority from death." - Walter Benjamin.
[Writing is sometimes] "a line by line combat with self-forgery"
[Describing a Classical Music Radio DJ]: "every vowel comes from a different country"
"The more you care about a subject, the more anxious you are, the stiffer, the more afraid of failure."
Her descriptions of learning to be a NEW YORKER writer were enthralling, both because she so clearly believes it is the best place for a journalist to be, and the high standards demanded of the writer are balanced by what must be the beguiling freedom to excel.
The grammatical perfectionists at the New Yorker did not seem to scare her, and we learnt why when she told us that her mother was a grammarian martinet who had taken it upon herself to punctuate the stream of consciousness in Ulysses.
Thurman took the audience in a hilarious meander through multiple versions of the opening paragraph of dozens of drafts of an (eventually successful) attempt to write a New Yorker essay on the subject of TOFU.
It was an assured exercise from writing class, and refreshing in its self-parody.
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Author Ann V. Collins identifies and evaluates the present stipulations and contributing components that sparked the race riots through the interval spanning the revolutionary period to global battle II all through the USA. throughout the lens of particular riots, Collins presents an overarching research of ways cultural components and financial swap intersected with political impacts to form human actions—on either person and crew levels.
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47 Lillian S mith, in her 1949 a utobiography Killers o f t he Dr eam, recounts how white children in the early 20th century learned about racial distinctions. “We were given no formal instruction in these difficult matters but we le arned our less ons well. ”48 Other writers, both black and white, who penned novels and other literary works played a large role in framing discourse at the time of these women’s childhoods. North C arolinian Tho mas Dix on, f or exa mple, wr ote a tr ilogy o f novels—made into a stage play in 1905 and the film The Birth of a Nation in 1915—that promoted the myths of white supremacy and the black male beast.
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In a divergence from normal thinking, research has shown that being fatter really is better, at least when it comes to being a sheep!
New research has shown farmers may be able to determine the sex ratios of lambs by raising omega-6 fatty acids in the diets of breeding stock, a discovery that could have major benefits for industry.
The discovery of a gene associated with a persistent viral infection that causes an incurable disease—ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP)—in sheep has led to the development of a genetic test that can be used to help reduce ...
A more cost-effective, longer-lasting selenium supplement for livestock may soon be available, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist.
A bloody, stinking sheep's carcass greets shepherd Yves Vignon as he walks to check on his flock on the foggy Alpine heights. It's the 17th of his ewes to be savaged in a month.
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research suggests that being a young mother is not a bad thing for a sheep and may mean ewes have more lambs that are just as healthy than those that are older when first bred.

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The James Bond Collection Launches
Collection features all 23 iconic Bond films together in one collection & includes a 24th space for SPECTRE
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Sydney, Australia (July 16, 2015) – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment are releasing a special edition collectible box-set on Blu-ray and DVD on September 23rd, ahead of the November 6th global release of SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond adventure.
Included in the Blu-ray boxset are two new featurettes are based on interviews with renowned Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. “The Shadow of SPECTRE” concentrates on the history of SPECTRE, the fictional global criminal syndicate and terrorist organization. The second featurette, “The Story So Far”, recaps and relives the significant moments from the previous three Daniel Craig Bond films.
The James Bond Collection features all 23 iconic Bond films together in one collection, which includes a 24th space for SPECTRE. Also included on both Blu-ray and DVD is a bonus disc exclusive featuring “Everything or Nothing”, a 90-minute documentary on the untold story of 007.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Uncle Goose® continues to redefine the toy wooden block category with the introduction of Stack and Scare, a four-set collection that combines comic book sensibility, transformer-like gadgetry, rock n' roll aesthetic and high-design appeal to recast the proverbial bedtime story villain as imaginative art that begs to be played with. The Stack and Scare line comes in four sets of "monsters" with suggested retail price of $48 per set.
Stack and Scare will be displayed in its entirety for the first time at the ABC Kids Expo, Oct. 15-18 in Las Vegas.
The Stack and Scare set represents the first collaboration with Seattle, Wash.-based Invisible Creature®, the design and illustration studio known worldwide for legendary album artwork on behalf of Foo Fighters, Nirvana, My Morning Jacket as well as award winning design work for Target stores and Seattle's Best Coffee®.
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Uncle Goose's traditional alphabet blocks feature non-toxic inks and are made from sustainable basswood sources from the U.S. Due to stepping out of the boundaries, Uncle Goose has seen profound support. The unique blocks are stocked in museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum.
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Founded in 1983, Uncle Goose exists in an era of smart phones, tablets and video games, yet it chooses to step back more than 100 years to make wooden alphabet, decorative and other specialty wooden blocks by hand from its company-owned facility in Grand Rapids, Mich. Simple, creative, old-fashioned (and maybe a little quirky), the essence of Uncle Goose can be found in its love of learning, design, and creativity. Uncle Goose blocks are sold in toy stores, design shops, museums and boutiques across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Africa. For more information, visit www.unclegoose.com.
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At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young-from cancer-and she and her sisters had grown up in time’s shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head now that each of them approached thirty-five-the deadline their doctors prescribed for having preventive surgery with the hope they could thwart their family’s medical curse. But Amy didn’t want to dwell on that now. She wanted to plan for a new baby, live her life. And with the appreciation for life’s smallest pleasures, she did just that. In What We Have, Amy shares a deeply transformative year in her family’s life and invites readers to join in their joy, laughter, and grief.
In a true story as compelling as the best in women’s fiction, written with the sagacity of Joan Didion and the elegance of Amy Bloom, Amy Boesky’s journey celebrates the promise of a full life, even in the face of uncertainty.
About Amy Boesky
A graduate of Oxford and Harvard, Amy Boesky is an associate professor of English at Boston College. She was one of the principal ghostwriters for the bestselling young adult series Sweet Valley High. She lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with her husband and their two daughters
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The singer, who died in 2011 of accidental alcohol poisoning, told of how she wanted to have a big family in a 2004 interview four months after the release of her debut album Frank.
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In a previously unpublished interview with journalist John Marrs (obtained by the Huffington Post), a then 20-year-old Amy gushed: "I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there’s rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.
"I think I’d be a good mum, well, I hope so. I hope I won't be a s*** mum.
"When I have kids I want to have loads of them, at least five. I’ll always work from home and have a studio in my house. I imagine I’m recording downstairs in my basement and the kids come down looking for their mummy then they’ll pretend to sing into the microphone and it’ll be cute."
Amy, who died at the age of 27, also laid out the plans she wanted to achieve before she hit the big 3-0.
The Back To Black singer said: "Ten years from now I’ll be 30, so I’ll maybe have one baby."
At the time of this interview, Winehouse was not taking drugs, and was without many of her signature tattoos and her beehive hairdo.
The Camden native also insisted that she was a "good girl" in her teenage years, saying: "I wasn’t a tearaway but I definitely wouldn’t conform to anything. I was bad with authority and didn’t want to be told what to do. I’ve never been an idiot – I was a smart girl but I’d do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager."
After laying out her long-term plans, the iconic star added that she hoped she would be remembered as a pioneer.
Sadly, Amy never got to achieve her dream family, divorcing from husband Blake Fielder-Civil after two years of marriage in 2009.
A year after the release of Frank, Amy began to dabble in drugs and alcohol, before quitting drug use in 2008.
However, she began to binge drink, and fell into a pattern of abstaining from booze before relapsing. This behaviour eventually led to her tragic death.
Next week (July 23) will mark the third anniversary of the singer's death.


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Acts of kindness, humor, music add silver lining
Two weeks into this changing world of social distancing and self-quarantining, finding the good news during the COVID-19 crisis becomes increasingly tricky.
And yet, good news does exist in this era of uncertainty.
As we grapple with the unknown, area residents are finding ways to foster hope and encourage a smile.
Take musician Burnley Cook, for example.
Instead of focusing on the loss of area musical performances and concerts and worrying about what may happen in the future, Cook refused to let the music die. Cook created the Facebook group “Music for the Masses” and invite fellow performers to share what they love most — their music. In a few short days, Cook’s group page attracted musicians from across the globe. Banjo players, organists, accordion players, show choirs and others posted one performance after another for all to enjoy.
Meanwhile, Father Mark Schoffner is looking to social media to bring smiles to the faces of students who miss the familiar sights and sounds of school. With a series of videos — many of them lighthearted and humorous — Schoffner shows students and maybe even a few parents the power of laughter and humor.
Cook and Schoffner, in their own ways, using their unique talents are just two instances of how area residents are trying to find small examples of goodness in these uncertain and dark times.
Like the spring flowers that burst forth after a harsh winter, good news appears when we least expect it.
As we navigate this period of uncertainty together and apart, let’s always be prepared to recognize good news when It happens.

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There have been several emails asking about my Friends With Bennies situation. A lot has happened, so here's the first part:
I was headed back to NYC, excited to get back home, sit on my own couch, watch the endless DVR, sleep in my own bed, hit up my favorite neighborhood cafe owned by the rasta, dread-wearing asian lady. I had lunch dates and dinner dates lined up. Happy hours to attend and friendships to resume. Particularly Steve. Steve and I were still talking, toeing the line between friends and more, trying to pretend there was no giant pink elephant teetering on the phone lines over which we spoke. Now, I was back and the promises made had to become reality. Steve had just moved into a new apartment around the corner from mine. He was excited for me to stay with him instead of he with me. I was excited too, but I wasn't sure if I was excited for the same reasons. I had been sifting through my feelings for him, trying to differentiate between loving him as I loved my MAN and as I loved a friend that happened to be a man. I was starting to feel like the latter which is classic B. Love the chase, hate to waste. I love the feeling of something blossoming, of the light drama of it all. The excitement. But I get bored quickly and once I get 'em, I start sabotaging or growing tired of the time wasted with them. Old habits die hard.
Plus, Steve had major competition. Nothing ruins a QB's season like having the next guy come in and take the team to the Super Bowl. I feared Steve's season was nearing its close.
But Steve was unaware of the possibility of a trade, so as soon as my feet hit the hot asphalt that is unlike any other city's, Steve was making plans. I was convinced I'd know the answer upon seeing him. He showed up that night and just as I'd suspected, the feelings threw darts at me, hitting hard, adding pressure, telling me the decision was already made. I knew what was to come and as he hugged me, I thought the words, realized they were hiding under the surface, ready to reveal themselves. He drew back and held me at arms length, going in to kiss me and the look in his eyes scared the crap out of me. He was all in.
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Telltale announced that The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, the third season of its The Walking Dead series, will premiere worldwide on December 20th.
That day, episode one will be available for purchase digitally for $4.99 on PC, Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360, PS3, iOS, and Android. A Season Pass containing access to all five episodes of the season as they’re released will cost $24.99.
For players who prefer a physical copy, on February 7, 2017, Telltale will release a Season Pass disc containing the first episode and access to episodes 2-5 as they’re released. The disc will be available for Xbox One and PS4 for $29.99 and is currently available for pre-order.
Telltale also revealed new art from A New Frontier, which you can check out below:
A New Frontier once again stars returning favorite Clementine, as well as a new character named Javier, “a young man determined to find the family taken from him.” Telltale revealed the first details of the new season back at E3.


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In a surprise to many economic-indicator watchers, the number of new people applying for jobless benefits fell -- an event that may point to slowing layoffs.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, weekly initial claims fell to 623,000 for the week ending May 23, which is down 13,000 from the revised figure from the week before. Because week-to-week comparisons can be volatile, the report also offered a four-week average. That number fell to 626,750 from 629,750. All of these numbers were adjusted for varying seasonal fluctuations.
But the news wasn't all good. The number of people receiving unemployment benefits still rose 110,000 to 6.78 million for the week ending May 16. That's another record total for the metric, making it 17 straight weeks with a record. The numbers for continuing claims tend to trail initial claims by one week. The four-week average also rose to 6,608,250, which represents a 123,750 jump.
When looking state-by-state, the largest jump in initial claims came from California, which reported an increase of 5,447 claims. According to the report, that state said the increase came from layoffs in construction, trade and service industries. Next in line was North Carolina at 2,693, saying the jump came from a wide cross-section of layoffs in industries like transportation, petroleum, construction, service and electrical equipment.
The largest decreases in initial claims reported came from Michigan and Kentucky, which said that fewer layoffs in the automobile industry and manufacturing likely contributed to the drop.
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What are the 3 New Agriculture Reform Bill in India?
There are 3 new farm laws in India which the government introduced in 2020.
The President gave his assent on September 27, 2020 to the three contentious agriculture Bills that were earlier passed by the Parliament.
Name of the 3 New Farm Laws are:
(1) The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020.
(2) Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020.
(3) Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020.
Key Points On New Farm Laws (Agriculture Bill) in India
- These reforms (Agriculture Bill) will accelerate growth in the sector through private sector investment in building infrastructure and supply chains for farm produce in national and global markets.
- Farmers will get better prices through competition and cost-cutting on transportation.
- These act were passed by the House and received the President’s assent turning them into laws.
- Government of India intended to help small farmers who don’t have means to either bargain for their produce to get a better price or invest in technology to improve the productivity of farms.
- According to the Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar “The Minimum Support Price mechanism will stay, and adequate protection of land ownership was in place to protect farmer interests”.
- The legislation on contract farming will allow farmers to enter into a contract with agri-business firms or large retailers on pre-agreed prices of their produce.
- The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020, seeks to remove commodities like cereals, pulses, oilseeds, edible oils, onion and potatoes from the list of essential commodities.
- The bill on Agri market seeks to allow farmers to sell their produce outside APMC ‘mandis’ to whoever they want.
- The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 allows the central government to regulate the supply of certain food items only under extraordinary circumstances.

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DC has, on average, the oldest commercial buildings among the states, according to a new study conducted by SMR Research Corp. Older buildings are those most likely to have the greatest potential for energy efficiency improvements.
The Forest Stewardship Council-US (FSC-US) has honored CityCenter in Las Vegas as the best commercial project of 2009 in the fifth annual Designing & Building with FSC Awards.
New survey shows 74% of facility executives are willing to pay a premium to retrofit space that they own for sustainability criteria.
The Society’s office building in Atlanta, GA, which underwent a major renovation in 2008, is one of only six buildings in the state of Georgia to receive a LEED Platinum rating,
USGBC has approved BOMI’s Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Building Systems, Part II (Design II) course which will help LEED professionals satisfy their credentialing maintenance requirements.
Chris Hodges, principal of FEA and an active member of IFMA, has authored this first guide, entitled “Getting Started.”
The first comprehensive study to explore the impact of project delivery methods and procurement procedures on achieving sustainable design and construction goals was released earlier this month.
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America recently announced its Plano, TX, headquarters has been awarded LEED® Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI).
Guest Contributor Lee Kaufman examines the total site portfolio to consolidate sustainability investments.
The University of San Diego’s new Student Life Pavilion is designed to set a new standard.


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He’s a drop out who mastered the art of closing the sale, but who needs to start over in order to get a gig on Wall Street, where salesmen and women are masters of the universe.
She’s a teacher collecting a little extra pay — “None of y’all’s business” why — by teaching night school. That’s where the Little Man can get his GED on.
White folks “Talking black.” A punchline in this funny trailer. Black folks running through a repertoire of comic gestures common to African American stand-ups and TV and film funnywomen and men.
“Night School” also features Rob Riggle, and was directed by Malcolm D. Lee from a Kevin Hart & Team script. So a little “Girls’ Trip,” a little “Get Hard,” and a little late for what looks like it could have been a summer comedy. Sept.


Buying a mattress can be a complicated affair. Not only do you have to make sense of the different construction technologies and materials but also issues like firmness, comfort, and price points. The selection of mattress assumes great importance because on an average not only do we spend about a third of our lives on it but also getting it wrong has lots of impact on our physical and mental health. Some important questions that you need to ask before you actually put down your money for a mattress:
What Is the Size of the Mattress I Should Buy?
The issue of the mattress size is critical as you need to have enough space to sleep comfortably. The length should enable you to stretch out comfortably and be wide enough for you and your partner. Ideally, you should pick a mattress that is 4-6 inches longer than you or your partner, whoever is taller, and it should allow enough space for both of you to sleep comfortably. Invariably, you will also have to pick a mattress that fits on a bed that sized right for your bedroom; too large a bed may hinder movement in the room and not allow essential furniture to be kept inside.
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A matter of concern with most mattress buyers, the firmness of a mattress as labeled by the manufacturer is subjective and differs from one manufacturer to another. The mattress that is labeled as “firm” by one may be called “medium’ by another. More than labels, you should look out for the mattress construction and the actual degree of support and comfort it offers to you. There is no ideal mattress firmness; you should pick one that feels comfortable and offers the kind of support that aligns your spine optimally to create the least stress points. Choosing a mattress that is too hard may prove as uncomfortable as one that is too soft; medium-firm seems to be a popular choice.
Typically, you should try to buy a mattress that is of the right size and is able to distribute the body weight evenly. It should resist motion transfer, feel comfortable, allow you to sleep cool, offer good edge support and be constructed well.


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A company of elite longbow archers perished aboard Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose when it sank almost five centuries ago, scientists have discovered.
Researchers have identified the elite archers who died alongside sailors on Henry VIII's flagship, due to evidence of repetitive strain in their shoulders and spines.
The ship sank off Spithead in The Solent in 1545, while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet. It stayed on the seabed until it was raised in 1982 and put on public display.
Over the past two years, scientists from the University of Swansea have been working to identify almost 100 skeletons kept at the Mary Rose Museum, in Portsmouth....
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