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Q: Java SimpleDateFormat for time zone with a colon separator? I have a date in the following format: 2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00
I have thrown the following SimpleDateFormats at it to parse it:
private static final SimpleDateFormat[] FORMATS = {
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"), //ISO8601 long RFC822 zone
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssz"), //ISO8601 long long form zone
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"), //ignore timezone
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmssZ"), //ISO8601 short
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmm"),
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd"), //birthdate from NIST IHE C32 sample
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMM"),
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy") //just the year
    };

I have a convenience method that uses those formats like so:
public static Date figureOutTheDamnDate(String wtf) {
    if (wtf == null) {
        return null;
    }
    Date retval = null;
    for (SimpleDateFormat sdf : FORMATS) {
        try {
            sdf.setLenient(false)
            retval = sdf.parse(wtf);
            System.out.println("Date:" + wtf + " hit on pattern:" + sdf.toPattern());
            break;
        } catch (ParseException ex) {
            retval = null;
            continue;
        }
    }

    return retval;
}

It seems to hit on the pattern yyyyMMddHHmm but returns the date as Thu Dec 03 00:01:00 PST 2009.
What is the correct pattern to parse this date?
UPDATE: I don't NEED the time zone parsing. I don't anticipate having time sensitive issues moving between zones, but how would I get the "-08:00" zone format to parse????
Unit test:
@Test
public void test_date_parser() {
    System.out.println("\ntest_date_parser");
    //month is zero based, are you effing kidding me
    Calendar d = new GregorianCalendar(2000, 3, 6, 13, 00, 00);
    assertEquals(d.getTime(), MyClass.figureOutTheDamnDate("200004061300"));
    assertEquals(new GregorianCalendar(1950, 0, 1).getTime(), MyClass.figureOutTheDamnDate("1950"));
    assertEquals(new GregorianCalendar(1997, 0, 1).getTime(),  MyClass.figureOutTheDamnDate("199701"));
    assertEquals(new GregorianCalendar(2010, 1, 25, 15, 19, 44).getTime(),   MyClass.figureOutTheDamnDate("20100225151944-0800"));

    //my machine happens to be in GMT-0800
    assertEquals(new GregorianCalendar(2010, 1, 15, 13, 15, 00).getTime(),MyClass.figureOutTheDamnDate("2010-02-15T13:15:00-05:00"));
    assertEquals(new GregorianCalendar(2010, 1, 15, 18, 15, 00).getTime(), MyClass.figureOutTheDamnDate("2010-02-15T18:15:00-05:00"));

    assertEquals(new GregorianCalendar(2010, 2, 1).getTime(), MyClass.figureOutTheDamnDate("2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00"));
    assertEquals(new GregorianCalendar(2010, 2, 1, 17, 0, 0).getTime(), MyClass.figureOutTheDamnDate("2010-03-01T17:00:00-05:00"));
}

Output from unit test:
test_date_parser
Date:200004061300 hit on pattern:yyyyMMddHHmm
Date:1950 hit on pattern:yyyy
Date:199701 hit on pattern:yyyyMM
Date:20100225151944-0800 hit on pattern:yyyyMMddHHmmssZ
Date:2010-02-15T13:15:00-05:00 hit on pattern:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss
Date:2010-02-15T18:15:00-05:00 hit on pattern:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss
Date:2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00 hit on pattern:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss
Date:2010-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 hit on pattern:yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss

A: tl;dr
OffsetDateTime.parse( "2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00" )

Details
The answer by BalusC is correct, but now outdated as of Java 8.
java.time
The java.time framework is the successor to both Joda-Time library and the old troublesome date-time classes bundled with the earliest versions of Java (java.util.Date/.Calendar & java.text.SimpleDateFormat).
ISO 8601
Your input data string happens to comply with the ISO 8601 standard.
The java.time classes use ISO 8601 formats by default when parsing/generating textual representations of date-time values. So no need to define a formatting pattern.
OffsetDateTime
The OffsetDateTime class represents a moment on the time line adjusted to some particular offset-from-UTC. In your input, the offset is 8 hours behind UTC, commonly used on much of the west coast of North America.
OffsetDateTime odt = OffsetDateTime.parse( "2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00" );

You seem to want the date-only, in which case use the LocalDate class. But keep in mind you are discarding data, (a) time-of-day, and (b) the time zone. Really, a date has no meaning without the context of a time zone. For any given moment the date varies around the world. For example, just after midnight in Paris is still "yesterday" in Montréal. So while I suggest sticking with date-time values, you can easily convert to a LocalDate if you insist.
LocalDate localDate = odt.toLocalDate();

Time Zone
If you know the intended time zone, apply it. A time zone is an offset plus the rules to use for handling anomalies such as Daylight Saving Time (DST). Applying a ZoneId gets us a ZonedDateTime object.
ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of( "America/Los_Angeles" );
ZonedDateTime zdt = odt.atZoneSameInstant( zoneId );

Generating strings
To generate a string in ISO 8601 format, call toString.
String output = odt.toString();

If you need strings in other formats, search Stack Overflow for use of the java.util.format package.
Converting to java.util.Date
Best to avoid java.util.Date, but if you must, you can convert. Call the new methods added to the old classes such as java.util.Date.from where you pass an Instant. An Instant is a moment on the timeline in UTC. We can extract an Instant from our OffsetDateTime.
java.util.Date utilDate = java.util.Date( odt.toInstant() );

About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
You may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. Use a JDBC driver compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later. No need for strings, no need for java.sql.* classes.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?

*

*Java SE 8, Java SE 9, Java SE 10, and later

*

*Built-in.

*Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.

*Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.

*Java SE 6 and Java SE 7

*

*Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.

*Android

*

*Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java.time classes.

*For earlier Android (<26), the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above). See How to use ThreeTenABP….

The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.

A: JodaTime's DateTimeFormat to rescue:
String dateString = "2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00";
String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ";
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(pattern);
DateTime dateTime = dtf.parseDateTime(dateString);
System.out.println(dateTime); // 2010-03-01T04:00:00.000-04:00

(time and timezone difference in toString() is just because I'm at GMT-4 and didn't set locale explicitly)
If you want to end up with java.util.Date just use DateTime#toDate():
Date date = dateTime.toDate();

Wait for JDK7 (JSR-310) JSR-310, the referrence implementation is called ThreeTen (hopefully it will make it into Java 8) if you want a better formatter in the standard Java SE API. The current SimpleDateFormat indeed doesn't eat the colon in the timezone notation.
Update: as per the update, you apparently don't need the timezone. This should work with SimpleDateFormat. Just omit it (the Z) in the pattern.
String dateString = "2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00";
String pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
Date date = sdf.parse(dateString);
System.out.println(date); // Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 BOT 2010

(which is correct as per my timezone)

A: if you used the java 7, you could have used the following Date Time Pattern. Seems like this pattern is not supported in the Earlier version of java.
String dateTimeString  = "2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX");
Date date = df.parse(dateTimeString);

For More information refer to the SimpleDateFormat documentation.

A: Thanks acdcjunior for your solution. Here's a little optimized version for formatting and parsing :
public static final SimpleDateFormat XML_SDF = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ", Locale.FRANCE)
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -8275126788734707527L;

    public StringBuffer format(Date date, StringBuffer toAppendTo, java.text.FieldPosition pos)
    {
        final StringBuffer buf = super.format(date, toAppendTo, pos);
        buf.insert(buf.length() - 2, ':');
        return buf;
    };

    public Date parse(String source) throws java.text.ParseException {
        final int split = source.length() - 2;
        return super.parse(source.substring(0, split - 1) + source.substring(split)); // replace ":" du TimeZone
    };
};

A: Here's a snippet I used - with plain SimpleDateFormat. Hope somebody else may benefit from it:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ") {
        public StringBuffer format(Date date, StringBuffer toAppendTo, java.text.FieldPosition pos) {
            StringBuffer toFix = super.format(date, toAppendTo, pos);
            return toFix.insert(toFix.length()-2, ':');
        };
    };
    // Usage:
    System.out.println(dateFormat.format(new Date()));
}

Output:
- Usual Output.........: 2013-06-14T10:54:07-0200
- This snippet's Output: 2013-06-14T10:54:07-02:00

Or... better, use a simpler, different, pattern:
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX");
// Usage:
System.out.println(dateFormat2.format(new Date()));

Output:
- This pattern's output: 2013-06-14T10:54:07-02:00

See the docs for that.

A: You can use X in Java 7.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
static final SimpleDateFormat DATE_TIME_FORMAT =
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

static final SimpleDateFormat JSON_DATE_TIME_FORMAT =
        new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX");

private String stringDate = "2016-12-01 22:05:30";
private String requiredDate = "2016-12-01T22:05:30+03:00";

@Test
public void parseDateToBinBankFormat() throws ParseException {
    Date date = DATE_TIME_FORMAT.parse(stringDate);
    String jsonDate = JSON_DATE_TIME_FORMAT.format(date);

    System.out.println(jsonDate);
    Assert.assertEquals(jsonDate, requiredDate);
}

A: Try this, its work for me:
Date date = javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseDateTime("2013-06-01T12:45:01+04:00").getTime();

In Java 8:
OffsetDateTime dt = OffsetDateTime.parse("2010-03-01T00:00:00-08:00");

A: If you can use JDK 1.7 or higher, try this:
public class DateUtil {
    private static SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX");

    public static String format(Date date) {
        return dateFormat.format(date);
    }

    public static Date parse(String dateString) throws AquariusException {
        try {
            return dateFormat.parse(dateString);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            throw new AquariusException(e);
        }
    }
}

document: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
which supports a new Time Zone format "XXX" (e.g. -3:00)
While JDK 1.6 only support other formats for Time Zone, which are "z" (e.g. NZST), "zzzz" (e.g. New Zealand Standard Time), "Z" (e.g. +1200), etc.

A: Try setLenient(false).
Addendum: It looks like you're recognizing variously formatted Date strings. If you have to do entry, you might like looking at this example that extends InputVerifier.

A: Since an example of Apache FastDateFormat(click for the documentations of versions:2.6and3.5) is missing here, I am adding one for those who may need it. The key here is the pattern ZZ(2 capital Zs).
import java.text.ParseException
import java.util.Date;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateFormat;
public class DateFormatTest throws ParseException {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String stringDateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZ";
        FastDateFormat fastDateFormat = FastDateFormat.getInstance(stringDateFormat);
        System.out.println("Date formatted into String:");
        System.out.println(fastDateFormat.format(new Date()));
        String stringFormattedDate = "2016-11-22T14:30:14+05:30";
        System.out.println("String parsed into Date:");
        System.out.println(fastDateFormat.parse(stringFormattedDate));
    }
}

Here is the output of the code:
Date formatted into String:
2016-11-22T14:52:17+05:30
String parsed into Date:
Tue Nov 22 14:30:14 IST 2016

Note: The above code is of Apache Commons' lang3. The class org.apache.commons.lang.time.FastDateFormat does not support parsing, and it supports only formatting. For example, the output of the following code:
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;
import org.apache.commons.lang.time.FastDateFormat;
public class DateFormatTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
        String stringDateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZ";
        FastDateFormat fastDateFormat = FastDateFormat.getInstance(stringDateFormat);
        System.out.println("Date formatted into String:");
        System.out.println(fastDateFormat.format(new Date()));
        String stringFormattedDate = "2016-11-22T14:30:14+05:30";
        System.out.println("String parsed into Date:");
        System.out.println(fastDateFormat.parseObject(stringFormattedDate));
    }
}

will be this:
Date formatted into String:
2016-11-22T14:55:56+05:30
String parsed into Date:
Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Format.parseObject(String) failed
    at java.text.Format.parseObject(Format.java:228)
    at DateFormatTest.main(DateFormatTest.java:12)

A: If date string is like 2018-07-20T12:18:29.802Z
Use this
SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");

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Unable to view the code window when I double click on the java classes or xml files, also the logcat and builds were showing empty.
How can I recover this issue?


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X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #3
Schrödinger's Corpse
Leah Williams (writer), Lucas Werneck & David Messina (artists), Edgar Delgado (colorist), Virtual Calligraphy's Clayton Cowles (letterer & production), Tom Muller (design), Valerio Schiti & Edgar Delgado (cover artists), David Baldeon; Stephanie Hans; Gerald Parel; Ivan Shavrin (Variant Cover Artists), Jonathan Hickman (Head of X), Shannon Andrews Ballesteros & Lauren Amaro (assistant editors), Jake Thomas (editor), Jordan D White (senior editor), CB Cebulski (editor-in-chief)
The Scarlet Witch rushes into the Vision's arms and kisses him, but is surprised to learn he is grieving the loss of his late wife. Captain America and Iron Man discuss possible theories for where the Scarlet Witch has been and what is going on with her. The Scarlet Witch appears scared, and the waters around Krakoa begin to stir, when suddenly, Northstar speeds onto the scene and begins attacking Magneto, punching him repeatedly and warning him that if he threatens his husband again, he will show him just how much he has been enhanced since they last fought. Northstar, as leader of X-Factor Investigations, then announces that the Scarlet Witch's reappearance changes nothing about X-Factor's investigation into her death, then invites the Avengers to dinner. As everyone gathers in the Boneyard, the Scarlet Witch is surprised to meet Speed and Wiccan. Speed introduces himself as the Scarlet Witch's son, but Wiccan tells him that she is not their mother, but another version of the Scarlet Witch. Rachel Summers enters the Scarlet Witch's mind to discover that she doesn't remember many important events, so with Jean Grey's help, Rachel telepathically brings the Scarlet Witch up to speed on recent important events in her life. Suddenly, three large monsters attack Krakoa. Cyclops asks Northstar to take lead on this, and the members of X-Factor, the X-Men and the Avengers work together to battle the monsters and protect Krakoa. While, in another realm, the Scarlet Witch runs from the cloaked figure who pursues her, only to discover that the mysterious figure is actually an older version of herself.
'Mmph -' the Vision mutters as he looks on in shock as the newly-returned Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch has embraced him and kisses him on his lips. The Vision pulls away from Wanda and tells her that he is relieved to see her alive, but admits to being confused. 'I had not finished grieving my late wife when I had to then begin grieving you...' Wanda goes wide-eyed – now it's she who is confused. "Wife"? She asks. Wanda turns and sees several of her longtime Avengers teammates nearby – Captain America a.k.a. Steve Rogers, Jan van Dyne the Wasp and Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man. 'Wanda, what's going on?' Captain America asks her, while Iron Man wonders how they can know this is really Wanda, as it could be a trick. Wanda looks scared as she finds herself on Krakoa, surrounded not only by the four longtime Avengers, but also members of the X-Men including Jean Grey, Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris, Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops. Her "father" Magneto is there, too and her twin brother, Pietro a.k.a. Quicksilver.
'Where have you been? Why did you let us believe that you were dead?' Iron Man enquires. 'Well, I -' Wanda begins, while Cap points out that Wanda might have been held somewhere. 'Her? Are you kidding, Cap? Id' like to see a kidnapper try to capture the Scarlet Witch!' Iron Man exclaims. Cap suggests that it could have been an enhancement or some sort of stasis spell. 'Is that what happened here, Wanda?' he asks. 'I don't know any more than you do' Wanda responds, while the water around Krakoa begins to bubble. 'I think we should -' Polaris starts to say, to which Iron Man interrupts her, telling her that he thinks the mutants have done enough talking. 'Stop – please -' Wanda utters, as she clutches her head, and the water continues to bubble and rise up.
Suddenly, there is a strong gust as Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar speeds onto the scene and slams into Magneto. The water settles back down, while Northstar punches Magneto repeatedly, over and over – and hard. He grabs the old mutant by his cape and looks him in the eye as he snaps: 'That was just a preview. I've been enhanced since we last fought, Magneto'. Northstar then calmly steps back and brushes some dust off his shoulders, while adding 'Threaten my husband again and I'll show you the extent of how much I've improved'. Northstar then turns and walks back towards the structure known as the Boneyard, the home and headquarters of his team, X-Factor, walking past Cyclops and Jean Grey, he announces that Wanda's reappearance alters nothing about X-Factor's investigation – an attack occurred, and Magneto is still a suspect. Northstar's husband, Kyle Jinadu-Beaubier is standing nearby and gets Northstar's attention. 'What? Oh, right – Kyle wanted me to tell you that dinner will be ready soon and the Avengers are still welcome to join us' Northstar mutters, turning his head slightly to his companions. 'Dinner? How can he think about that at a time like this?' Captain America asks. 'He's human' Northstar smiles.
The Avengers follow Cyclops, Jean, Polaris and Logan a.k.a. Wolverine into the Boneyard, with Magneto following them. 'Don't think we've forgotten about that confession earlier, Magneto' Iron Man remarks. 'Indeed. Wanda's being alive just raises more questions than answers...' the Vision points out. Suddenly, 'M-mom?' Tommy Shepherd a.k.a. Speed calls out, in shock. With him is his twin brother, Billy Kaplan-Altman a.k.a. Wiccan. 'Tommy, wait -' Bill calls out as Tommy races over and hugs the Scarlet Witch. 'You're okay!' Tommy exclaims, smiling. 'Hello... have we met?' Wanda asks, puzzled. 'That's not our mother. Though... she is the Scarlet Witch' Billy announces. Iron Man asks the powerful sorcerer what he means, to which Billy replies 'She's not... she's not entirely her. Like she's from the past or something'.
Someone asks Wanda what the last thing is that she remembers, but Wanda tells them that she doesn't know. 'Daddy – what's going on?' she asks, turning to Magneto. 'Oh, Wanda...' Magneto utters, frowning. Northstar instructs his teammate Rachel Summers to find Wanda's memory. Rachel stands in front of Wanda and tells her that this won't hurt, and that she is just going to take a peek under the hood. As Rachel telepathically enters Wanda's mind, she reaches out to speak to her mother, Jean Grey, informing her that Wanda remembers so little. Jean explains that Charles told them Wanda's last backup was quite outdated. 'I thought that the Council voted not to resurrect her' Rachel asks. 'Yes. That's correct' Jean confirms. Rachel tells everyone that she guesses they know where Magneto's Cerebro backup ended, and asks Jean if she can help her fill in Wanda's missing pieces. 'I can, but...is that wise?' Jean responds. Rachel tells her that it might not be, but that it is the right thing to do. 'Let's just play her greatest hits' Rachel suggests. 'As you wish' Jean agrees, as she joins Rachel inside Wanda's mind.
There, they bring Wanda up-to-date on some of the more significant recent events in her life. Her mental instability following the Vision's dismantling and loss of her children. Her manipulation by a powerful force causing her to snap and attack her teammates in the Avengers. Her creation of an alternate reality where she said those infamous words "No more mutants" resulting in the loss of powers for most of the mutant population on Earth. And her recent attempt to fix that mistake during an alien invasion.
Suddenly, there is a powerful rumbling which can be felt across Krakoa. 'What was that?' someone calls out. 'Northstar, can you -' someone begins, before Northstar speeds out over Krakoa to assess the situation. 'Tch' Northstar mutters as he sees three hideous, giant monsters have made their way onto the island nation. A large red serpent-like one, a gray beast with several arms and legs, and a huge brown creature with a long tail that looms over the Boneyard. Northstar returns to the Boneyard and reports that there are three giant Kaiju attacking the island at different coastal locations, and that one of them is nearby and incoming. Captain America asks why they are attacking, to which Northstar suggests they figure that out after the kaiju are dead on the ground. 'Fair point' Captain America agrees, before suggesting they split up and neutralize the threats from each coastal location before they move inland. Northstar puts a hand on Captain America's shoulder and tells him that he is relieved to hear he will help Krakoa. 'Of course. Please give Kyle a rain check on dinner' Cap replies. 'I absolutely will' Northstar tells him.
Northstar then turns to Cyclops and tells him that he has seen the Kaiju and that each is unique. 'Do you trust me to divide us up based on corresponding power sets?' Northstar asks. 'Absolutely' Cyclops tells him. He instructs Northstar to take point on this, and offers to assemble the war captains and rally backup. 'Understood' Northstar acknowledges. The heroes then turn to leave the Boneyard, while the Scarlet Witch looks at them and asks 'Wait...what about me?' Captain America tells her that until they understand what is goingg on with her, she had best remain here. 'You need to come with us' Speed smiles as he takes Wanda's hand. 'But I... why?' Wanda asks. 'Just trust us' Wiccan frowns.
Soon, the giant serpent-like kaiju thrashes about at the shore of Krakoa, hissing at several mutants on the beach. The serpent then shapes itself like a wheel and rolls onto the land, straight towards a young mutant. 'RUN!' the mutant calls out, gasping as the kaiju looms over him – 'I've got you' the Vision assures the young mutant as he flies down and grabs the mutant before the kaiju harms him. David Alleyne a.k.a. Prodigy rushes over to the Vision and tells him to help him evacuate the civilians, while Wolverine, Captain America, Jean Grey and Trevor Hawkins a.k.a. Eye-Boy stand ready, as Eye-Boy notes that the kaiju is gearing up for another spinning attack. 'Three o'clock' Eye-Boy calls out. 'Roger that' Captain America confirms, as he hurls his shield towards the kaiju's face – the shield slices the creature's face, drawing blood. The serpent releases a hideous screeching sound, before diving down into the spinning attack. 'Jean, twelve o'clock! Throw up a shield!' Eye-Boy calls out as the Vision and Prodigy stand in the kaiju's path. 'How are you able to predict its next strike so consistently?' the Vision asks Eye-Boy, who explains that it isn't a prediction, he can just see its intentions. 'That's handy. Better stay close, kid' Captain America suggests.
Elsewhere, the large multi-limbed kaiju smashes its way across the island. 'KRAAAOOOR!' it roars. Daken and Laura Kinney a.k.a. Wolverine can be seen evacuating young mutants from the kaiju's path. 'How about you pick on someone your own size?' the Wasp asks the creature as she switches to her giant-sized form and punches the creature in the face. 'Or someones!' Everett Thomas a.k.a. Synch of the X-Men suggests as he thanks the Wasp for the power loan, when he copies her power, becoming giant-sized himself, he shoves his elbow into the creature. Northstar and his twin sister, Aurora, fly towards the creature and as they clasp their hands, they release a powerful, blinding light which slams into the kaiju.
The third kaiju makes its way towards the Boneyard, where Magneto, Polaris, Sunfire, Rachel Summers and Iron Man are waiting. Rachel reports that she can't get a psychic hold on it, as its thoughts are incomprehensible to her and only hell-bent on destruction. 'Then we stop it here' Polaris declares. She instructs Iron Man and Sunfire to drive the creature two klicks south and put it in the path of the Boneyard. 'Can do' Iron Man acknowledges as he flies towards the kaiju and blasts it with energy. Sunfire does the same, and the creature moves closer to the Boneyard, where Polaris and Magneto are waiting for it.
The three kaiju suddenly crash to the ground – but they're not defeated, as the two land-based creatures roar in their native tongue. 'They -' Captain America begins. '- won't -' Iron Man continues. ' - die?' the Vision concludes, while Synch gasps. 'We need to evacuate all non-combatants from the island! The kaiju are self-healing!' Cyclops shouts, as the three large creatures begin to rise once more. 'Then what do we do?' someone asks. 'Then we... keep going until we make out last stand' the Wasp declares. 'For as long as we can' Rachel adds.
Meanwhile, for the Scarlet Witch, the wheel spins – another cycle of death and rebirth here. But for a moment, something shifted, a part of her departed. She is somewhere else, running through a strange realm. She had thought she had finally found her way out of here, but instead, she has woken up with even fewer memories. She runs as a figure in white follows her. She falls and finds herself in front of some sort of magical symbol, while the figure in white stands nearby. Wanda wonders if this is the way of things in the afterlife – there is no light at the end of the tunnel, nor is there a tunnel – there is only a fight. 'NO!' Wanda exclaims, while the magic symbols begin to whirl and flow before her. There is only a test of will to survive. An axe materializes from the magic symbols, and Wanda takes it. 'I get it now. I'm supposed to kill you' she remarks.
Wanda swings the axe, and the magic symbols floating before her spin around. 'Chaos magic. This place is made of chaos magic! It is of me! You will not kill me in this place again!' Wanda tells her mysterious assailant, while watching images of the kaiju attacking Krakoa through a portal. 'Finally, you figured it out' the cloaked figure utters, before pulling back the hood covering their face. Wanda gasps in shock – as looking back at her, is an older version of herself, with white hair and wearing her first pink and red costume!
Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Polaris, Sunfire, Synch, Wolverine III (all X-Men)
Aurora, Daken, Eye-Boy, Northstar, Prestige, Prodigy IV (all X-Factor)
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Captain America, Iron Man, Vision, Wasp
(in memories)
The Scarlet Witch at various stages
The Vision refers to not being finished grieving his wife, referring to Virginia, who died in Vision (2nd series) #12.
Magneto threatened to kill Northstar's husband in X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #2.
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2/3 of Electricity by Solar PV, Wind by 2050
Shailaja A. Lakshmi September 10, 2019
Remi Eriksen, Group President and CEO of DNV GL. Photo: DNV GL
Share of electricity in the final demand energy mix will more than double from today's level to 40% in 2050, with two thirds of that electricity provided by solar PV and wind, said DNV GL.
Electrification will transform how energy is produced and consumed. By midcentury, 40% of final energy demand will be met by electricity (up from 19% in 2017), 63% of which will be generated by solar PV and wind, said the third edition of the Energy Transition Outlook (ETO) by DNV GL.
Electrification is also having a dramatic effect on road transport and by 2032 half of new car sales globally will be electric.
The intrinsic efficiency of electric engines means that despite a 75% expansion of the global vehicle fleet by 2050, road transportation will use less energy in 2050 than it does today.
Meanwhile, global emissions will peak in 2025, yet we still exhaust the 1.5 degree carbon budget in 2028.
"Existing technology can deliver the future we desire – including meeting the 1.5°C target set out in the Paris Agreement. So far, support for the energy transition has been too sporadic. For example, German, Japanese and Chinese support for the solar industry has been vital in transforming its energy mix and Norway's and China's uptake of EVs has been rapid because of government support. We need widespread policy supporting emerging technologies, and continuing the support in the build-up phase to accelerate the energy transition" said Remi Eriksen, Group President and CEO of DNV GL.
The technology exists to meet the Paris target, but policies must be put in place that promote greater energy efficiency, more renewables and industrial scale carbon capture and storage.
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Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti above, met with Hitler in 1941. He had gone before the Royal Commission in Britain on January 12, 1937. Lord Peel spoke with him and said: You want to completely stop Jewish immigration. What do you want to do with the 400,000 Jews here at the present? It was brought out by the Mufti that 700,000 dunams were sold to the Jews by Arab landowners.
Mufti answered: They will live as they always did live previously in Arab countries, with freedom and liberty, as natives of the country. In fact, Moslem rule has always been known for its tolerance, and as a matter of fact, Jews used to come to Eastern countries under Arab rule to escape persecution in Europe. According to history, Jews had a most quiet and peaceful residence under Arab rule. Mufti told Sir L. Hammond that the Arabs would be happier under Turkish "Ottoman rule" than under the present mandatory rule.
The Truth: Jews and Christians in Muslim countries were Dhimmis, 2nd-3rd class people who had to pay a tax for living there. They were subjugated under rules others did not have. They were living under better conditions than Jews in Europe, that part was true, but were also attacked occasionally in pogroms. An example was in 1941, the Jewish community in Bagdad was attacked by mobs causing 180 Jews to die. This was at the start of WWII.
Note: This 1937 meeting occurred at the beginning of Hitler's attacks on Jews. England went along with his request and kept Jews out of entering "Palestine" which was the promised Jewish Homeland since 1920. At the same time, they allowed many Arabs in from surrounding states.
The Balfour Declaration was issued on November 2, 1917 pledging support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. An agreement was concluded on January 3, 1919 between King Hussein's son, Emir Feisal, chief Arab delegate at the Paris Peace conference. and Dr. Chaim Weizmann. It was endorsed and Palestine recognized as a separate Jewish entity, with which the then imminent Arab State would maintain diplomatic relations on condition that Britain and France met Arab demands in other territories. The British were highly ambivalent towards estabishing a Jewish national home. Sometimes they allowed Jews into the country, but at the most serious time nearing WWII, kept them away.
That the Arabs were on the side of the Axis during WWII is a known fact. Hitler's goal during that war was to exterminate all Jews in the world and managed to slaughter 6 million of the Jews of Europe. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was very jealous of Abdullah of Transjordan who was able to create a state out of the Ottoman Empire through the mandate held by Britain. England took 80% of land promised to the Jews by the League of Nations for a Jewish Homeland and gave it to Abdullah for his participation in fighting against the Ottomans during World War I. The fact remains that Chaim Weizmann's contribution to the British was his scientific endeavors to improve their ammunition which without this, they would have lost the war. Jews also fought for England.
One of the methods used by the Arabs against Israel today is to take known facts and twist them around to put themselves in a better light. Because so many of their people have been kept in an academic blackout, they believe all the propaganda their leaders feed to them. "It has not been uncommon for the PA to accuse Israel of imitating Holocaust crimes or claim that Israel uses the Holocaust as a tool for political and financial gain. At the same time they continue to show their admiration of Hitler. The one thing they are in denial of is that Arabs are Semites, same as Jews, and Hitler was creating the Aryan race, so they would have been next on the list of those unwanted people scheduled for the ovens as well. They are behind all the BDS groups and call Israel an Apartheid State though it has 1.7 million Arab citizens, which they are not in any form of definition Apartheid, yet they plan to have Palestine Judenrein, meaning that not one Jew will be allowed to live in their state, a truly Apartheid state.
My hope is that the rest of the world, though removed by 69 years from the end of WWII, have had more education and realize that Jews were the oppressed people of the Nazi party. 6 million were rounded up and killed unmercifully. Israel was created for Jews after the first World War of 1914-1917 since they had fared terribly from anti-Semtic acts for the past 2,000 years since losing their capital, Jerusalem, to the invaders, the Romans. They needed their own state. That is why the League of Nations decided that their land, which had been part of the holdings of the Ottoman Empire for the past 400 years, was to be given back to the Jews. It had lain fallow and the Ottomans had done nothing with it. It was nothing but swamps or desert and weeds. Arab nomads would ride through on camels, and that was about the most that happened with it. It was merely a crossroads without an inn. Jews lived there, but kept out of sight except in Jerusalem. They were treated as all Jews in the Middle East, that of Dhimmis class. In other words, they had been held down and not allowed to do anything of importance to the land due to their class.
Last week, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed. Just a few days before this date, the PA (Palestinian Authority led by Abbas) published an article demonizing Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister. They claimed that he has Nazi genes and uses racism, which is something Hitler was doing, against the Palestinians. The PA are showing their lack of education. One does not have "Nazi" genes and inherit a political agenda through their bloodline. Given a DNA test, Netanyahu will show he has very Jewish genes, inherited from the time before Moses. That's where environment comes in. If your parents are Nazis, there's a huge chance that they will teach you to believe in their philosophy. Who is actually practicing racism are the PA who plan on their state having no Jews living there. So for the PA to call Netanyahu a racist or having Nazi genes is ridiculous, but the sad thing is that their people will believe it and accept it as fact without any logical thinking. I have no doubt of this for why would they say something as ridiculous as this in the first place other than embarrass themselves before the rest of the world population.
The information on the Palestinians, Arabs who call themselves this term, is huge. Joan Peters wrote the national bestseller, "From Time Immemorial-the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine," which is something everyone should read before they comment on this group of people. The pocket-book version has 412 pages and another 164 pages listing her references. Joan was a Christian newspaper reporter on the Arab side of the conflict who decided to research her topic. When she did, she found the truth about the whole conflict. There had been no country called Palestine. It was simply Middle East Land that had been Judah and Samaria, or Eretz Yisrael that was renamed by the Romans after they conquered it. Arabs living there in 1920 when the League of Nations created the Jewish Homeland were nomadic, and a few owned land there. Most sold their land to the Jews as it was terrible land and they preferred to take their sale money and move to places such as Paris or Beirut where there was life. Only to the Jews was the land important. Joan's book remains to be the most thoroughly researched and solidly documented work on the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict. She did massive research and had gone to the Ottoman records, the reports of Western consular officers and observant travelers and other sources. It's a remarkable document in itself. With determination, brilliant detective work and patience, Peters managed to unearth a foundation of facts, research and commitment to truth. So the lady, who started by being on the Arab side of the conflict, did a 180 turn around and found herself on the Jewish side. She has since been an adviser to presidents. Her book gives us the proof that so called experts on the Palestinian issue speak from utter ignorance. Millions of people the world over are smothered by false history and propaganda and that is exactly what the PA are again dredging up.
The reason for this charge of Netanyahu having "genetic" Nazi genes even though he is a Jew, and no Nazi would have ever had a Jew in their midst, is because he is explaining that it is most important for the Arabs to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. This is why the ratio of Jews to Arabs must be that Jews are the largest group. It was not just any state coming into the UN. The Muslims have 48 Muslim majority states already and Palestine would be the 49th. Does anyone see India other than a Hindu state? The Muslims living there finally have their own state of Pakistan which is 97% Muslim with 172,800,000 Sunni and Shi'a. It's an Islamic state. The USA is a Christian majority country. Jews were originally the Israelite tribe who are followers of Moses and the Mosaic Law, called Jews -from the tribe of Judah who were established c1300 BCE.
Jews have been here for the past c. 3,314 years and they are being attacked for being awarded their own state legally by all the nations except one group of people calling themselves Palestinians who want to turn it into their Muslim state?
To have one Jewish state as a refuge in the world is why Jews need this state of Israel in the first place. Time has proved this need. With the Holocaust proving that 6 million Jews were slaughtered from 1939-1945 as the most recent event, leaving 14 million alive today, the need is great. The past has been such as being expelled from countries such as in the year 115 from Cyprus, 1290 from England, 1306 from France, 1355 from Spain. From 1882 to 1890, 750,000 Jews living in Russia were forced to re-settle into the Pale of Settlement, which was Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Poland and Ukraine, and were not allowed into Russia proper. They were expelled from Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1891. How about the massacres of 1096 in Europe, 1355 in Spain, 1420 from Toulouse, France, etc. Forced conversions were put upon Jews in 640, 721, and 873 in the Byzantine Empire. Jews are tired of living at the whims of other political agendas and being the scapegoats of everyone's problems. Though this is 2014, countries still behave like they did in 70 CE.
Facts About Israel, Division of Information Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem.


"I have been very fortunate to have received two awards from UEG. When I was a young researcher just trying to establish my own group I was awarded a "Rising Star" prize. This was a great boost to me at this important stage of my career. One of the real benefits was meeting other clinical scientists at a similar stage in their career." says Rebecca Fitzgerald who moved from UEG Rising Star 2005 to UEG Research Prize Awardee 2014.
The call for Rising Stars 2016 is now open! Support your country's emerging leaders and join UEG in promoting equality of opportunity, in particular regarding gender and nationality. UEG Member Societies may support a maximum of 2 candidates for this award. If 2 candidates are supported, at least one must be female.
The June issue of UEG Journal is now available and Editor-in-Chief Jan Tack reaches out to the individual members of your National Society with the attached letter. Please forward this letter to your membership or include it in an up-coming newsletter. There really has never been a better time to publish in our thriving journal!
New dimension for late-breaking abstracts at UEG Week: submission will open August 25 and abstracts may be submitted until September 18.


This jacquard weave bedspread has a 3D texture with a relief detail on the surface, inspired by butterfly wings. It is a striking, yet simple, bedspread that drapes beautifully over the bed due to its combination of different fabrics. The repetition of the pattern creates a calm expression and is a wonderful accent to the bedroom. Mix and match with the BUTTERFLY pillows in both sizes.
Care instruction: Wash at 30 degrees, Do not tumble.


Every week, Robert Stout of Kings County Jerky slices meat by hand.
Juan Delgado (left) and Steve Kempf of Brooklyn's Lee Spring company stand with a 50-year-old coiling machine, still in use today.
One day Chris Woehrle decided to finally leave his corporate job and pursue his dream: to become an artisanal food craftsman. And so, every day at home, he'd basically pickle stuff.
"I had a refrigerator full of plastic food buckets that were full of pickles and kimchee and sauerkraut and harissa and salsa and ketchup and mustard and, you know, any kind of craft food you could make," Woehrle says.
Woehrle lives in Brooklyn, where shops are filled with handcrafted, grass-fed, organically raised whatever. Too much of it, in fact. Every time Woehrle had a good idea, he found eight other companies were already making precisely the same kind of mustard or pickled radish.
"You don't want to play a marketing game where it's just like, let's out-market the other pickle people," Woehrle says.
Eventually, though, he and his partner found a hole in the market: all-natural beef jerky. Kings County Jerky was born. Two guys, a small warehouse in Brooklyn and 25 pounds of beef a day.
The Kings County approach is a model for how manufacturers in many sectors can do better. Ignore low-priced commodity products. Focus instead on customizing high-quality goods for a select audience willing to pay a premium.
It works even on something as simple as a spring.
"Springs are critical to the day-to-day functioning of everybody's lives," says Steve Kempf, CEO of Lee Spring in Brooklyn.
My eyeglasses have springs. Our audio recorders have springs. And each of those springs has to solve a slightly different problem.
"You take this wrench here for example," he said, picking up a wrench from his desk. "It's got a very unique L-shaped spring design. And so the product designer wants to come up with an elegant design, and he also has a very specific force he wants when you let go of this wrench so that it opens in your hands and feels comfortable."
Think of this as an artisanal craft wrench. And a craft wrench needs a craft spring. This is good business, by the way. Companies will pay more for a spring that precisely meets their needs than they will for some off-the-rack spring.
The springs at Lee Spring are gorgeous displays of ingenuity and skill. Making them requires knowledge and artistry. It's a true craft. Craft jobs typically pay more, so the workers at Lee Spring tend to do better than workers who don't have all those spring skills.
Even big manufacturers — like Toyota, General Electric, Dow Chemical — are focusing more of their business on custom-making products for customers willing to pay more. It's one of the best alternatives to competing with China and other low-wage countries, which have perfected the commodity business of turning out lots and lots of identical products as cheaply as possible.
Forget that model. In America, we can focus on craft. That's where the money is, and that's where the hope lies for American manufacturing.
Let's look at a part of the economy you can glimpse in the aisles of a grocery store. Maybe you've noticed a pickle jar with a rustic looking label or more microbrews in the beer aisle, brands you wouldn't see advertised on TV. These kinds of foods are becoming a regular offering. And as Planet Money's Adam Davison reports, far from being a niche market, craft food makers might just represent the future of American manufacturing.
ADAM DAVIDSON, BYLINE: One day Chris Woehrle decided to finally leave his corporate job and pursue his dream - to become an artisanal food craftsman. And so every day at home he'd basically pickle stuff.
CHRIS WOEHRLE: I had a refrigerator full of plastic food buckets that were full of pickles and kimchi and sauerkraut and harissa and salsa and ketchup and mustard and, you know, any kind of craft food you could make.
DAVIDSON: Chris Woehrle lives in Brooklyn, where shops are filled with hand-crafted, grass-fed, organically raised whatever. Too much of it, in fact. Every time Woehrle had a good idea, he found eight other companies were already making precisely the same kind of mustard or pickled radish.
WOEHRLE: You don't want to play a marketing game where it's just like, let's out-market the other pickle people.
DAVIDSON: Eventually, though, he and his partner found a hole in the market: all-natural beef jerky. Kings County Jerky was born. Two guys, a small warehouse in Brooklyn, and 25 pounds of beef a day. Food manufacturing - from a small shop like this one all the way up to those huge food conglomerates - add up to big business, well over half a trillion dollars a year. And the Kings County approach is a model for how all manufacturers can do better. Ignore low-priced commodity products. Focus instead on customizing high quality goods for a select audience willing to pay a premium. It works even on something as simple as a spring.
STEVE KEMPF: Springs are critical to the day to day functioning of everybody's lives.
DAVIDSON: Steve Kempf runs Lee Spring, which makes, no surprise, springs.
DAVIDSON: Steve listed off all the springs in his office for four minutes. We timed him. My eyeglasses have springs. Our audio recorders have springs. And each of those springs has to solve a slightly different problem.
KEMPF: You take this wrench here, for example, and it's got a very unique L-shaped spring design. And so the product designer wants to come up with an elegant design and he also has a very specific force he wants when you let go of this wrench so that it opens in your hands and feels comfortable.
DAVIDSON: Think of this as an artisanal craft wrench. And a craft wrench, of course, needs a craft spring. This is good business, by the way. Companies will pay more for a spring that precisely meets their needs than they will for some off the rack spring. Incidentally, it makes spring manufacturing also a lot more fun.
JUAN DELGADO: The puzzle solving is what I love to do, OK? If you don't have a puzzle for me, I tend to get bored.
DAVIDSON: Juan Delgado is a coiler, and when he started here, 35 years ago, Lee mostly did make standardized springs, same thing every day. Now each day there's a surprise.
DELGADO: A regular spring - let's see if I find - here's a regular compression spring. This is boring to me.
DAVIDSON: Then he pulls out this crazy cone-shaped spring.
DELGADO: This - I look forward to things like this.
DAVIDSON: Just look at the gorgeous way the coils taper and don't tangle when you press down. Making something like this cone-shaped spring, that requires knowledge, artistry, in other words it's a true craft. Craft jobs typically pay more, so Juan does better than someone who doesn't have all those spring skills.
Even big manufacturers, like Toyota, General Electric, Dow Chemical, are focusing more of their business on custom-making products for customers willing to pay more. It's one of the best alternatives to competing with China and other low-wage countries which have perfected the commodity business of turning out lots of identical products as cheaply as possible.


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§173e. Sec. 903. Amendments to Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. (As Enacted)
CBA, as Enacted (Contents)
Section 903, as Enacted
Amendments to Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946
Sec. 903. (a) Section 134(c) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 190b (b)) is amended by inserting "or the Committee on the Budget" after "Appropriations".
(b) Section 136(c) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 190d(c)) is amended by striking out "Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committees on Appropriations," and inserting in lieu thereof "Committees on Appropriations and the Budget of the Senate and the Committees on Appropriations, the Budget,".
(CBA, as Enacted)
This section was not classified to the U.S. Code.
This section was enacted as section 903 of Pub. L. 93-344 (Congressional Budget Act of 1974).
JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
The managers on the part of the House and the Senate of the conference of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 7130) issued an explanatory statement of the legislation. This was included in a House Budget Committee print in 1975 after the bill's enactment. It included the following description of this section:
Section 903. Amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946
The Senate amendment authorized its Budget Committee to meet while the Senate is in session. It also exempted the Budget Committees of both Houses from the legislative oversight provisions of section 136 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. The conference substitute retains these provisions.
[Joint Explanatory Statement on the Committee of Conference on H.R. 7130; (Committee Print), Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, 93d Congress, 2d Session, Washington D.C. 1975.]
Section 903. Amendments to Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946.
Classification to the U.S. Code
Pub. L. 93–344, §903, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 331. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 enacted this section into law.
Revision of title 31 of the u.s. code
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How do I get my 7-year old daughter to stop trying to get out of chores? I have tried everything except spanking. I do not believe in physical punishment at all for any reason. Thanks.
If you scold or lecture your daughter in an effort to convince her that she should care about tidying up the bathroom or sweeping the patio, you're not likely to get a cheerful response.
• Write 10 things that need to be done onto slips of paper and drop them into a hat. When it's chore time, invite her to reach into the hat to find out what she's responsible for doing this week.
• Create a bit of fun when it's chore time. Play loud music and have your daughter tidy up the living room for the duration of one or two songs. Or make a contest where you give everyone in the family a paper bag to toss in trash or items that need to be put away. Whoever has the fullest bag after 10 minutes can be crowned the Triumphant Trash-Nabber!
Need more ideas? Join me with Patty Wipfler from Hand in Hand Parenting for our Master Class February 20th on Teeth Brushing, Room Cleaning, Chores & More!
Parents do things endlessly for their children, and it's easy to feel shortchanged when they resist helping out. But I commend you for recognizing the importance of teaching your daughter to take responsibility for helping maintain the family home. And I'm especially glad that you understand how harmful physical punishments are to a child's sense of safety, connection and self-esteem.
P.S. Join me with the wonderful Patty Wipfler from Hand in Hand Parenting for a special Master class on Chores Wednesday, February 20th at 12:00 pm. Replay available if you can't attend live. Details here!


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Chuck Mosley–ex-Faith No More/Bad Brains/Cement–Announces North American Dates of "Reintroduce Yourself Tour"!
Legendary Front-Man Chuck Mosley–ex-Faith No More/Bad Brains/Cement–has concluded the European leg and now is launching the North American leg of his "Reintroduce Yourself 2017" Tour. The tour launched August 6th in Youngstown, OH and will wind throughout North America and winding up back in his home town of Cleveland, OH on November 3.
REINTRODUCE YOURSELF 2017 Tour Dates:
08/10 @ Maggie Meyer's Irish Pub – Huntsville, AL
08/11 @ Portside Lounge – New Orleans, LA
08/12 @ The Gig – Beaumont, TX
08/13 @ Vollie Ray's (Free Show) – Houston, TX
08/17 @ The Viper Room – West Hollywood, CA
08/18 @ Eli's Mile High – Oakland, CA
08/19 @ Alturas – Reno, NV
08/20 @ Solar Celebration – Madras, OR
08/23 @ Rock Hard Pdx – Portland, OR *
08/24 @ Shannahan's – Vancouver, WA *
08/25 @ Vista Bar – Boise, ID *
08/26 @ The Hideout Pub N Grub – Salt Lake City, UT
08/27 @ Herman's Hideaway – Denver, CO
08/29 @ Barleycorn's – Wichita, KS
08/30 @ 89th Street Collective – Oklahoma City, OK
08/31 @ The Prophet Bar – Dallas, TX
09/01 @ Hi-Tone – Memphis, TN (w/HEELS)
09/02 @ Star Bar – Atlanta, GA
09/03 @ The Sparrow – Charleston, SC
09/05 @ Altamont Theatre – Asheville, NC *
09/06 @ Calico Room – Wilmington, NC
09/08 @Jj's Bohemia – Chattanooga, TN
09/09 @ The Open Chord – Knoxville, TN
09/10 @ Springwater Supper Club – Nashville, TN
09/29 @ Dingbatz – Clifton, NJ
09/30 @ Country Corner – Setauket, NY
10/01 @ Ralph's Diner – Worcester, MA
10/02 @ Little Joe's Bar And Grill – Lewiston, ME
10/04 @ TBA – Syracuse, NY
10/05 @ The Mohawk – Buffalo, NY
10/06 @ Phantasy – Cleveland, OH *
10/07 @ Papa Pete's – Kalamazoo, MI
10/10 @ Big's Bar – Sioux Falls, SD
10/12 @ Prohibition Hall – Kansas City, MO
11/03 @The Agora (with Dog Fashion Disco) – Cleveland, OH
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huck Mosley has been reported dead at least three times in his life, but he says, "In reality its only happened once."
Now in the second year of his Reintroduce Yourself tour, which includes "a mix of old songs going back to the Haircuts That Kill days up through new material no more than a month old," Chuck's stubborn resilience has kept his career going through many phases. Currently playing out as a "semi-acoustic" four piece (including Cris Morgan on guitar, Joshua Nelson on bass, and Douglas Esper on percussion) Chuck is still challenging the boundaries of musical genres.
Last year saw VUA, who Chuck handles vocals/guitar duties in, release, Demos For Sale, on EMP Records (A label run by David Ellefson of Megadeth and Thom Hazaert), he sang and played guitar on the latest from indie group Indoria, even recording an early version of his song "Bella Donna" for their EP, You'll Never Make The Six. He also reunited with his old friends from Faith No More for two shows to celebrate the re-release of "We Care A Lot," which cracked the Billboard top 200, thirty one years after its initial release..
This year, EMP will reissue Cement's, The Man With The Action Hair, which was shelved just before its release due to a van accident that left Chuck with a broken back, unable to tour for over a year. The album was remastered by Bill Metoyer and features new artwork by Pip Logan.
Chuck also assumed lead vocal duties for Primitive Race, who will release their second disc, Soul Pretender this November through Metropolis. The album also features founding member Chris Kniker, a formidable record executive producer/producer for the likes of Lords of Acid, tweaker, Prong, RevCo, KMFDM and more. Kniker is joined by Dale Crover (MELVINS), Mark Gemini Thwaite (Peter Murphy, The Mission, Tricky), Erie Loch (Wiccid, Blownload) and the aforementioned Chuck Mosley. Primitive Race recently found themselves embroiled in an online scandal with pop sensation and form child star Corey Feldman, who felt compelled to block them on twitter.
While playing extensively through the US, the U.K., and France, Chuck spit out a dozen or so new songs, which are being fine-tuned in preparation for an upcoming recording session with renowned producer Matt Wallace (Maroon 5, Mushroomhead, Deftones)
When asked about producing Chuck's new songs, Mr. Wallace said, "I'm fucking thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Chuck again. I've always been a die hard fan of the honesty in his lyrics and his deceptively simple melodies, that always become earworms and soulworms."
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Inspired by the life and work of veteran British Museum collector Ivan T. Sanderson.
1951. Having traveled the world's tropics, Ivan has long been the zoologist to see strange and unusual creatures for the very first time. Naturally, when photographs of Yeti tracks along the Himalayas make international headlines, Ivan's curiosity is piqued.
A wealthy benefactor offers to fund an expedition to pursue Yeti, and Ivan finds himself at the crossroads of his career – does he assume the classified animals as comprehensive, or pursue the legendary Yeti disavowed by mainstream science?
A firm believer that science is the pursuit of the unknown, Ivan accepts, and with his wife/longtime field partner by his side, and his ring-tailed lemur on his shoulder, Ivan sets off to the Kingdom of Bhutan in search of the hirsute biped. Taken back to the romance of the early years of his career when he discovered animals no man had ever before seen, Ivan's passion for exploration reawakens.
But when a snowstorm strands the expedition on the mountain and his wife falls gravely ill, Ivan is forced to choose between pursuing the zoological find of a lifetime, and saving the first, and only, love of his life.


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It is important to be able to deal with grievances effectively and this means having a medium, allowing employees to communicate any issues or complaints that may arise. This allows the employer the opportunity to resolve the issue in a constructive and effective way thereby reducing the risk of any future issues including litigation. If an employee feels unfairly treated this can result in a serious and potentially costly claim of discrimination.
What about Interoffice Conflict Resolution?
Poor Communication: Different communication styles can lead to misunderstandings.
Different Values: Any workplace is made up of individuals who see the world differently.
Differing Interests: Conflict occurs when individual workers 'fight' for their personal goals, ignoring organizational goals.
Limited Resources: Too often, employees feel they have to compete for available resources in order to do their job.
Personality Clashes: All work environments are made up of differing personalities. Unless colleagues understand and accept each other's approach to work and problem-solving, conflict will occur.
Poor Performance: When one or more individuals are not performing – not working up to potential – and this is not addressed, conflict is inevitable.
Speak to each person involved privately to piece together a story.
Research each version of events and familiarize yourself with it.
Meet with the main employees involved in the conflict together in a private room.
Objectively recite the conflict back to participants, telling both sides how you understand it.
Reach a final solution based on participants' proposed solutions and ones you've come up with as the objective party.
Log the conflict–both sides of the story–and resolution into a document.
Ignoring conflict is often the easiest way to deal with it, however it won't make it go away. On the contrary, all it does is pushes it underground, only to have it resurface in a new form. By actively resolving conflict when it occurs, creates a more positive work environment for everyone.
For a full detailed guide for managing conflict resolution between employees, see "Manager Conflict Resolution Guide ". For a resource employees can use to defuse conflict, see "Employee Conflict Resolution Guide".
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require 'test_helper'

require 'symian/generator'
require 'symian/event'

describe Symian::IncidentGenerator do

  let(:simulation) { MiniTest::Mock.new }

  it 'should generate incidents with random arrival times' do
    gen = Symian::IncidentGenerator.new(simulation,
                                        :type => :sequential_random_variable,
                                        :source => { :first_value => Time.now,
                                                     :seed => (Process.pid / rand).to_i,
                                                     :distribution => :discrete_uniform,
                                                     :max_value => 100 })
    simulation.expect(:new_event, nil, [ Symian::Event::ET_INCIDENT_ARRIVAL, Symian::Incident, Time, nil ])
    gen.generate
  end

  it 'should generate incidents with arrival times from traces'

end

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Man arrested after high speed police chase and roof-top stand off
A wanted man has been arrested after leading police on a high speed police before trying to hide on a shed roof.
Officers tried to stop a silver Ford Mondeo with the occupants wanted for burglary offences.
The pursuit reportedly started in Pilling and ended in Garstang. A stinger device was 'successfully' used to slow the car down as it travelled through Nateby.
Police said 'desperate driving took over and they drove the wrong way on the one way system'.
One of the occupants was detained at the scene on Church Street in Garstang and another fled the scene before hiding on a roof shed behind The Kings Arms Hotel.
A negotiator was sent to the scene and the man eventually came down at around 4.45pm on Tuesday, June 16.
He was later arrested and taken into custody at Blackpool Police Station.
A Garstang and Over Wyre Police spokesperson said: "A successful 'stinger' use by Garstang Police in Nateby slowed down a Ford Mondeo being pursued by police.
"The occupants were wanted for Burglary offences and had taken the scenic route before two stung tyres and desperate driving took over and they drove the wrong way on the one way system.
"One detained at the scene while the other took off before trying to hide on an outbuilding roof off the High Street in Garstang.
"This male has also been arrested and both taken to Blackpool custody."
Men charged over trafficking and sexual abuse of women and girls
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New Studies of Health Management Apps
By Tom Stibolt, MD, Mobile Musings Column Editor
There have been a couple of interesting developments in mobile apps for disease management.
Fitness and Nutrition Apps
The first include the results of a recent survey of health app users, which was carried out by researchers at New York University Langone Medical Center and is published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research mHealth and uHealth. The researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1,604 mobile phone users throughout the U.S. They used a 36-item survey which assessed sociodemographic characteristics, history of and reasons for health app use/nonuse, perceived effectiveness of health apps, reasons for stopping use, and general health status. About half of the respondents had downloaded a health-related app. The most common apps used were for fitness and nutrition. Most respondents reported using these apps daily. Reasons given most frequently for not downloading apps were cost, lack of interest and fear that the apps would collect personal data. The users most likely to use health apps were generally younger, had higher incomes, were more educated, were Latino/Hispanic, and had a body mass index in the obese range (all P<.05).
The cost was an interesting finding in that many respondents stated that they were unwilling to pay for health apps. Among those that had downloaded apps, trust in their accuracy and data safety was high, and most felt that the apps had improved their health. About half of the respondents had stopped using some health apps, primarily due to high data entry burden, loss of interest, and hidden costs. The researchers conclude that app developers need to consider consumer concerns, including cost and time spent entering data. They also conclude that clinical trials are necessary to test the efficacy of health apps to broaden their appeal and adoption.
Asthma Action Plan App
The second development results from a study presented at the 2015 American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting. It describes use of an iPhone app that provides residents practicing in an outpatient setting with appropriate asthma action plans. The presenter notes that, although asthma action plans have been clearly demonstrated to improve patient outcomes, care providers often are uncomfortable in creating them.
Residents participated in a survey to measure pre- and post-intervention results from use of the iPhone app. Residents were given a seminar on the use of action plans and the iPhone app, and then used them in clinical practice. Prior to implementation of the app, 48 percent of residents did not know where to find an asthma action plan and an additional 34 percent did not know how to use one. Once the app was introduced to the residents, 87 percent of residents reported that they planned to use the action plan in the future and 67 percent reported a better familiarity with the use of an action plan. Further, prior to using the app, only 2 percent of residents reported they always used an action plan. Afterwards, 27 percent of residents reported that they always used the action plan. Also, those who reported never using the action plan decreased from 13 percent to 0 percent. (The app, My Asthma Pal, is available for free in the App Store.)
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Megan McLachlan talks to GLOW's head hairstylist Theraesa Rivers and head makeup artist Lana Horochowski about their Emmy-nominated episode "The Good Twin."
In Season 2 of GLOW on Netflix, we finally get to see what a show-within-a-show GLOW episode looks like in the form of "The Good Twin," which introduces us to Olga, Zoya's sister and title reference (both played brilliantly by Alison Brie).
The episode might be the riskiest of the series, but it pays off by not only giving us a look at what these ladies have been working on for nearly two seasons, but also by showing us that their work is actually pretty funny and entertaining.
I had the chance to chat with the Emmy-nominated hair and makeup team members, Theraesa Rivers and Lana Horochowski, behind the episode, who give us behind-the-scenes details of how they achieved five key looks from the episode.
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How They Created Olga
It's no coincidence that Olga has a famous American athlete's 'do.
"It's supposed to a spin on the Dorothy Hamill haircut," says Rivers. "It is a knock-off."
"There were so many discussions about that," offers Horochowski. "At first, we were just going to make [Olga] look like Zoya. We thought, 'She should just have the same makeup as Zoya.' Then, we thought, maybe that would be confusing. We went backwards and made it the opposite. She really wore no makeup and we just put that mole on her and that ridiculous wig, which actually ended up being way funnier than what we originally thought. She [Alison] is so funny, she's just such a funny person, that all you really had to do is put on the mole and she did the rest for us."
The Dance Sequence Between Beirut and Yolanda
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Beirut (Sunita Mani) and Yolanda (Shakira Barrera) channel some serious Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds vibes in this scene that utilizes a wind machine.
"It was a very touching scene to watch being filmed," says Rivers. "Both of them dance so beautifully. We used a lot of hairspray—teasing and hairspray and teasing the hair together to get it to stay. Then we shellack it so it can hold up to a high-powered fan or tornado or wrestling."
The Mysterious Beauty, Black Magic
Cherry Bang (Sydelle Noelle) returns to the ring as Black Magic, serving a new, inspired look (and some powder to the face of her opponents).
"The episode before, we get her backstory, but this is the first time we see her fully in her new get-up," says Horochowski. "Just like every other person on this show, it's a total collaboration between Beth Morgan (costumes) and Theraesa. We sit down together and Beth will show us a costume idea inspiration and then it blossoms from there. We talked about the bones on her, maybe we should do some sort of tribal look. Once we saw the color palettes, everything came together. It was a lot of trial and error, meetings and conversations, but between those two ladies and I, we fully collaborate on every single look you see."
Lois Daly's Hair is Real
One of the funniest moments of the episode is the fake commercial for Quilting Bee Easy, starring Lois Daly (Bonnie Hellman) and Joan Hannaford-Hobbs (Ren Hanami).
"That was her real hair," says Rivers of Lois's tresses. "There are a lot of tricks that we have. We do a lot of research with movies, television, and music videos, high school yearbooks, Time magazines from the '80s and that's where we get our inspiration from: real-life people and what was really happening during that time."
Keeping that Sweat-Filled Glow
When it comes to hair and makeup, GLOW offers a different type of challenge with touch-ups since the actresses are wrestling in the ring. Plus, these actresses on the show-within-a-show are not professional makeup artists, which adds a layer to their approach.
"The hardest part of the show is making everything seem a little more homemade and less professionally done," says Horochowski. "It's always tricky. [The GLOW team] really does consider us when they shoot this show, which is so nice. If they can get the closeups first, when they look the best, they do. And then they always try to do it where if something smears, it can be left. If they're sweating, they can stay sweating."
Season 1, 2, and 3 of GLOW are streaming on Netflix.
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Need to move a mattress, a refrigerator, or a week's worth of groceries? Just throw them in the basket of your bike — provided, of course, you've got a newfangled cargo bike, the "SUV" of cycling.
In Europe, cargo bikes are a common sight, having been around for 80 years or more. In the U.S., they're comparatively new and few. "A niche of a niche," cargo bike builder Lane Kagay calls them. Kagay hand-builds about nine of his CETMA-brand cargo bikes a week from a workshop in Venice, Calif.
Metrofiets Cargo Bikes of Portland, Ore., says its annual production is in the low hundreds. Co-founder Phillip Ross said that even at that level, his company qualifies as one of the biggest cargo-bike builders in the U.S.
Though cargo bikes are a niche market, experts say it's a niche that's growing fast, thanks in part to consumers who want to live greener lives and to the sheer novelty of using bikes to transport big, unlikely objects.
McKisson, publisher of TucsonVelo, a bicycle news site, said he and his wife have gotten rid of their car altogether. Now, when they need a week's worth of groceries for themselves and their two kids, they peddle down to the store, load up, and bring it home in one trip.
The website for Yuba Bicycles in Petaluma, Calif., shows a cyclist using its Boda Boda cargo bike to transport a full-sized surfboard.
The biggest difference between a conventional bicycle and a cargo bike is weight-carrying capacity. Cargo bikes are built to handle loads of up to 400 pounds. Their frames must be correspondingly strong. About 400 pounds is pretty much the upper limit, Kagay said, because above that threshold "considerations of propelling and stopping" become an issue.
Cargo space can be oriented different ways, depending on the rider's needs: some models carry cargo on a low-slung forward platform, in front of the rider, where, depending on the model, it either sits naked or inside a big container. In other designs, cargo sits behind the rider. While there's a limit to how much weight can be carried, volume is limited only by the width of the street.
Kagay's prices start at $3,100 per bike, delivered. The addition of a big wooden cargo box in front costs another $300. Ross's price for a fully built-out bike, delivered, is $3,795 and up.
Authorities on cargo bikes say there are no restrictions that apply to their use, over and above whatever restrictions a community may have imposed on conventional bikes.


As we approach winter, there is nothing better than cosying up at home with your favourite winter warmers, whether it is a hearty veggie stew, a warming fruit pie or a steaming mug of tea. So why not visit November's Farmers' Market and snap up your favourite warming treats.
Visitors can pick up seasonal fruit and vegetables from Jack's Veg and Perry Court Fruit & Veg, soft loaves from Gary's Artisan Bread and sweet treats from Deelicous Cupcakes and The Fudge Man. There's also the chance to stock up on your favourite blends of tea from Proper Tea Co. and some tasty nibbles from Simply Biltong and the French Delicatessen.
We are delighted to welcome three new traders to November's market! Gemma Lewis Cakes and Zizzies Patisserie will have tempting sweet spongy treats, while the Ashford Emporium will be selling handmade knitted accessories and wools.
As you browse the stalls, enjoy live music from local musician Fred Clark and DJ Gideon who will be playing well-known tunes on vinyl records.
Don't forget there is free parking in Edinburgh Road car park all day for visitors. The market will take place between 10am and 2pm on the cobbles of the lower High Street.
If you would like more information about trading at Ashford Farmers' Market, email Rachel.heather@ashford.gov.uk or tweet @love_ashford on Twitter with the hashtag #seeyousunday.


Reflecting the city's many-facetted character "La Couronne" combines classical elegance and contemporary style thus making it the highlight of Düsseldorf's premium residential segment.
Looking at the façade made of top-quality natural stones, the large window front, the upscale lobby, individually designed luxurious apartments, lofts and penthouses gives you an idea of timeless modern architecture. Innovative design and charming simplicity culminate in this architecturally unique high-end real estate.
There are 30 well-spaced condominiums each of which can be designed individually to represent your exclusive lifestyle. Three design lines called " Exclusive", "Trendy" and "Freethinking" provide a variety of top-class and outstanding interior decorations that leave noting to be desired.
Spacious living areas, top-quality materials, inviting outdoor areas as well as classy wellness bathrooms epitomize an exceptionally luxurious place combining freedom and relaxing in the city centre.
Besides individual and top-quality designs for your flat the service and the modern conveniences make "La Couronne" one of those residential properties that is in great demand in Düsseldorf. The light-coloured large underground car park provides ample parking space including your second car thus ensuring constant and stress-free mobility in the city centre. The concierge service makes the residents' life even safer and more comfortable at "La Couronne". Even requests that are not commonplace can be complied with.


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Pick two amino acid substitutions (two different positions) that you found in your HIV Structure Project. Use StarBiochem or Cn3D to locate those amino acids on the structure (either from Kwong or Stanfield).
Take a screenshot showing a view that shows the amino acid in question (one screenshot per amino acid). Save your screenshot in a PowerPoint slide and use an arrow or circle to point to the amino acid.
Interpret whether the amino acid is on the surface, buried, or at an interface with another protein, and whether the substitution should affect the function.
Brown, P.O. & Botstein, D. (1999) Exploring the new world of the genome with DNA microarrays Nature Genetics 21: 33-37.
DeRisi, J.L., Iyer, V.R., and Brown, P.O. (1997) Exploring the Metabolic and Genetic Control of Gene Expression on a Genomic Scale. Science 278: 680-686.
Number 5 from p. 110: Choose two genes from Figure 4.6 (PDF of figures on MyLMUConnect) and draw a graph to represent the change in transcription over time.
Number 6b. from p. 110: Look at Figure 4.7, which depicts the loss of oxygen over time and the transcriptional response of three genes. These data are the ratios of transcription for genes X, Y, and Z during the depletion of oxygen. Using the color scale from Figure 4.6, determine the color for each ratio in Figure 4.7b.
Number 7 from p. 110: Were any of the genes in Figure 4.7b transcribed similarly?
Number 9 from p. 118: Why would most spots be yellow at the first time point?
Number 10 p. 118 Go to http://www.yeastgenome.org and search for the gene TEF4; you will see it is involved in translation. Look at the time point labeled OD 3.7 in Figure 4.12, and find the TEF4 spot. Over the course of this experiment, was TEF4 induced or repressed? Hypothesize why TEF4's gene regulation was part of the cell's response to a reduction in available glucose (i.e., the only available food).
Number 11 from p. 120: Why would TCA cycle genes be induced if the glucose supply is running out?
Number 12 from p. 120: What mechanism could the genome use to ensure genes for enzymes in a common pathway are induced or repressed simultaneously?
Number 13 from p. 121: Given rule one on page 109, what color would you see on a DNA chip when cells had their repressor gene TUP1 deleted?
Number 14 from p. 121: What color spots would you expect to see on the chip when the transcription factor Yap1p is overexpressed?
Number 15 from p. 121: Could the loss of a repressor or the overexpression of a transcription factor result in the repression of a particular gene?
Number 16 from p. 121: What types of control spots would you like to see in this type of experiment? How could you verify that you had truly deleted or overexpressed a particular gene?
All journal club articles/microarray datasets are subject to approval by the instructor.
Store your journal entry in the shared BIOL368/F11:Class Journal Week 10 page. If this page does not exist yet, go ahead and create it.
What was the purpose of these readings?
What did I learn from these readings?
What did I not understand (yet) about the readings?
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Another month of nice growth for my retirement nestegg report. My first monthly report north of $200k and I cleared that hurdle by a good margin. Performance on a whole trailed the market some as my 401k performance as usual trailed and my individual stock as usual bested the SP500. It may be time for me to think about just moving all of my 401k money into a standard index fund and just worry about beating the market with individual stocks.
Another exciting fact is that I made my first contribution to a Roth IRA since 2008! We had put this off as we were saving for a house/land, but our house savings has now hit a point where I think we have more than ample money for a purchase so now we will start amping up the retirement contributions again which is exciting for me as I need more money where I can buy stocks where I have been relatively successful thus far.
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Well I gave a little back in the last two days so I will have to wait before I have a retirement nestegg report over $200k. A good month for my retirement nestegg growth but a good chunk of that was due to an extra $5400 that my company deposited in my 401k as part of my matching funds. My performance actually trailed the SP500 slightly this month. One item that I am considering is restarting contributions to our Roth IRAs which I have not contributed to since 2008! Our house/land fund is getting sufficiently big and I think it is time to start increasing our retirement savings again and I'd like to get some good contributions in before the April 15th deadline for 2011 contributions. Hopefully the market starts heading south again since I will not be a more active buyer of stocks going forward again.