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A Havant journalism student has won a national award for the precision and speed of her shorthand. Georgina Moore passed her 100 words-per-minute exam with 100 per cent accuracy and, according to the judges, she also produced the most technically-accomplished shorthand notes. She also passed her 110wpm exams. Ms Moore, 22, was presented with her award and £250 cash prize at a formal lunch. The third year University of Portsmouth student said: ‘Journalism is my passion and to be recognised on a national level for my shorthand is such a privilege. ‘I adopted the attitude of treating my degree like a full-time job. Some mornings I would be in library at 7.30am before my lectures started, mostly practicing my shorthand outlines. ‘Never did I once think I could achieve 100 words a minute at 100 per cent accuracy, let alone 110 words per minute. ‘I had no idea it was coming and I cannot explain how excited I was. Winning the award is an absolute honour.’

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In this Thanksgiving season, it’s traditionally permissible to show acts of gluttony and overindulgence. However in this time of year in fantasy football, such acts could have dire consequences. Here is a menu of players that will expand your fantasy waistline and slow you down followed by some more efficient options that will prime your team make a healthy sprint to the finish line this week. Fattening: Matt Schaub- The Texans QB has undoubtedly failed most fantasy owners who were really excited to draft him this year. His pedestrian 13TDs to 7INTs ratio isn’t exactly what most had in mind coming into week 12. In his last four games, Schaub only has 4TDs and has only thrown for over 300 yards only once. Houston plays Tennessee this week and although the Titans do give up a substantial amount of passing yards, they’ve only given up 12 passing TDs all year and are tied for 2nd in the league in INTs with 15. Try This Instead: Matt Cassel- Cassel is quietly having the best year of his career with 18TDs and only 4 INTS. The Chiefs QB has 9 TDs in his last four games with only one pick. While Cassel doesn’t throw for a ton of yards normally, he should catch a break going against a Seattle pass defense that gives up an average of 283 passing yards a game. Fattening: Maurice Jones-Drew- MoJo seemed to have finally kicked into gear by rushing for over 100 yards in each of his last three games. While impressive, those games were against sub-par defenses like Dallas, Houston, and Cleveland. This week, the Jags travel to New York to take on the best overall defense in the league. The Giants will attempt to cut off MoJo completely in the running and passing game and force Jacksonville to look to other options. The Giants allow fewer than 90 rushing yards and fewer than 200 passing yards on average so don’t look for MoJo to have the same kind of success he’s had in the last few weeks. Also, MoJo has been banged up all week (abdomen) and has been limited in practice so if you desperately have to play him, keep an eye on that as well. Try this instead: Mike Goodson- The Panthers starting running back by default is certainly taking advantage of the opportunity he’s been given since DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart have gone down. Goodson has rushed for over 100 yards in his last two games against pretty solid defenses in Tampa Bay and Baltimore. Look for that trend to continue against a Cleveland Browns defense that allows 116 yards on the ground a game. Even though Jimmy Clausen is back under center, don’t look for Carolina to get pass happy. The Browns don’t give up a lot of rushing TDs but Goodson should get a ton of shots this week to get off the schneid. Fattening: Reggie Wayne- Wayne had adequate numbers last week against a horrendous New England pass defense but things won’t be as easy this week. The Colts are taking on the best pass defense in the league this week in San Diego and with so many other components on the Indy offense missing, look for the Chargers to make a priority out of keeping the ball away from Wayne. He’s been able to compensate for his lack of TDs this year with receptions and yards but that won’t be the case this week against a defense that only allows an average of 183 aerial yards a game. Try This Instead: Sidney Rice- Brett Favre’s favorite target in 2009 finally returned last week after being activated off the PUP List and had an ordinary 3 receptions for 56 yards in last week’s catastrophe against Green Bay. With another week under his belt to get readjusted to the game and build up whatever chemistry he has with Favre, look for Rice to be a bigger contributor this week. The Vikings will be playing a Washington pass defense that allows an average of 280 yards through the air while giving up 18 passing TDs so far. Look for the old gunslinger Favre to throw a good amount of jump balls to Rice. About the Author Written by John Buffone John was born in Rural Valley, Pennsylvania. He attended Clarion University and received a degree in Mass Media Arts and Journalism. He currently hosts "The Sports Zone with John Buffone" on AM 1380 WTYM in Kittanning, PA. John is also a sports columnist for the Kittanning Paper and a contributor to Examiner.com, and CatholicSportsJournal.com.

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Reverse Lace Scarf Are you ready to try your hand at pattern work? This pattern is great for the beginning knitter … it’s super easy to knit, and almost any yarn will work! Needles: Use needles one or two sizes larger than specified in manufacturer’s gauge Materials: Varies – Try novelty yarns, space-dyed yarns, or combine two yarns like a thin mohair, angora, metallic, etc. … avoid yarns that are too bulky or are really fuzzy! Yardage: The yardage will vary based on desired length and width as well as gauge of yarn. Count on needing 150 yards for bulky yarns, up to 350 yards for fine yarns Skill Level: Easy Check out the Ravelry FiberWild! group to chat with others knitting this pattern and to find out about upcoming FiberWild and Friends events, new projects, patterns, yarn, kits and more! Thanks for viewing my pattern … Amy

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Monday, August 29, 2005 Excuses and Stuff Reasons writing is light today: - The dog ate my server. - Potential, impending career doom does dampen the spirit somewhat. - Hurricanes seem far more important than mocking Kos or Oliver Willis today. - Jeff Goldstein still does it better than I do. - I’m trying to kick the caffeine habit and the crankiness is running neck-and-neck with the urge to snooze. - Continued disappointment in the lack of groupies. - Sudden realization that no matter how brilliant I am, people still don’t do what I tell them to do. - All the good post titles have been taken. - Michael Moore has been strangely silent lately, leading to an increased sense of pop culture paranoia in Zombyville. - Sudden plummet in Ecosystem standing has left my blogging will broken and bruised. Anyway, thanks for all the well wishes, thoughts, and humorous comments. I’ll be back later.

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In short: Fantastic atmosphere! In full: A great run, well organised along a route taking in the sights! Excellent organisation, everything has been thought of. Quite pricey, but free lovely t-shirt, finishing time is txt to you within a couple of hours of finishing, and drinks provided free on-route and at end. Not great for PB since too crowded although route is flat. Date of review: October 14, 2009 In short: gorgeous race lovely organisers,sweet medal In full: generous goodies from sponsors,nice race t-shirt,showing off London at it's best,pens to seperate the fast from me & fellow slowcoaches-id love to be sub-2! Date of review: October 14, 2009 In full: I spent the hour before the start queuing first for the loo then for baggage check in then for the loo again and didn't get to do a warm up any thing else. However, the actual race was brilliant and not too much waiting around before we crossed the start line and bags of freebees when we crossed the finish. Date of review: October 14, 2009 In short: My first half marathon, and polar opposite from the poorly organised Asics 10k. Great day! In full: Loved it, didn't have any problems with the baggage storage. Didn't need to use the toilets, but the queues were pretty long, so that's probably the only negative. Most runners selected the right pen, saw very few walkers in front of me until the last few miles, and it's fantastic route. Will certainly run it again. Date of review: October 14, 2009 In short: Like the London marathon but smaller & shorter! In full: Where were the free boost bars?! Damm missed those. Actually thought the complete opposite to some of the other reviewers - I only counted 4 people walking before the half way mark (I started in the middle of the pink pen). Thought it was amazing so few people were walking compared to the Asics London 10km. Race was fantastic, only extra thing would have been a goody bag at the end and sunshine but you can't have everything! Was lovely that the definite majority were running for charity. Date of review: October 14, 2009 In short: Great race, pretty much completely flat, weather conditions were perfect, lovely course and great PB potential, only con is the number of people - or the fact that too many people ! In full: Brilliant race, my fav half so far (only done 3 though!). Weather conditions are perfect-cool but not too cold, fairly bright and no wind. Thought this race has great PB potential as pretty much flat, just a few slopes here and there but nothing to trouble a regular runner. Great atmosphere and even when there aren't lots of supporters around, the scenery is great and distracting. Only downside is the number of people, I do prefer smaller races, but then the amazing organisation comes with the bigger races I suppose. The one downside was people going to slow at the start - saw this on another review, people walking in the first mile or getting annoyed when you overtake them. Try and stick to a realistic time pen! Over than that great great race, and enjoyed the millions of free Boost bars! Will definitely be back next year! Date of review: October 14, 2009

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OSHA Launches Fall Prevention Campaign U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis recently announced a new campaign led by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent deadly falls in the construction industry. The awareness campaign will provide employers and workers with life-saving information about working safely from ladders, scaffolds and roofs. In 2010, more than 10,000 construction workers were injured as a result of falling while working from heights, and another 255 workers were killed. Secretary Solis made the announcement at the Action Summit for Worker Safety and Health, which was held at East Los Angeles Community College as one of multiple events this week honoring Workers’ Memorial Day. The Labor Department sponsored the summit in coordination with the University of California, Los Angeles’ Labor Occupational Safety and Health program, and the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health. Workers’ Memorial Day is observed annually on April 28 across the country to remember workers who lost their lives as a result of preventable injuries. “The best way to honor Workers’ Memorial Day is to make sure that another family does not have to suffer the pain of losing a loved one because of preventable workplace injuries,” said Secretary Solis. “Falls are the most fatal out of all hazards in the construction industry, accounting for almost one in every three construction worker deaths. Our simple message is that safety pays, and falls cost.”

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It is well known that polyacetylene is a one-dimensional conjugated macromolecule and a good representative for conducting polymers.1Pristine polyacetylene is a typical semiconductor, but its electrical conductivity can be amplified by over 14 orders of magnitude through doping.2,3 The maximum conductivity reported to date is more than 105 S/cm,4 which is comparable to those of copper and gold. It has been generally accepted that polyacetylene has a planar structure, irrespective of cis and trans forms, due to the strong π-conjugation between the sp2 hybridized carbon atoms in the polymer chain. If it were possible to modify such a planar structure of polyacetylene into a helical one,5,6 one might expect novel electromagnetic and optical properties.7,8 Here, we present a modern polymerization method for acetylene in an asymmetric reaction field using a chiral nematic liquid crystal (N*-LC) which is also called a cholesteric LC, which demonstrates the formation of a polyacetylene film comprised of helical chains and fibrils.6,9-14 Polymerization that results in helical geometry from primary to higher-order spiral morphology is discussed. back to top Chiral Dopants and N*-LCs The N*-LC to be used as an asymmetric solvent is prepared by adding a small amount of chiral compound, which serves as a chiral dopant, into a nematic LC (Figure 1). The formation of a N*-LC is recognized when the Schlieren texture characteristic of the nematic LC changes into a striated Schlieren or a fingerprint texture as seen under a polarized optical microscope (POM). The distance between the striae corresponds to half the helical pitch of the N*-LC. Note that as the degree of twisting in the N*-LC increases, the observed helical pitch is reduced. Figure 1. Chiral nematic LC (N*-LC) induced by an addition of chiral dopant into nematic LC. Schlieren texture (left) and fingerprint texture (right) are observed for nematic and chiral nematic LCs, respectively, in polarized optical microscope. The helical pitch of the N*-LC can be adjusted by two methods: changing the concentration or changing the twisting ability of the chiral dopant. It should be noted however that changing the concentration of the chiral dopant affects the mesophase temperature region of the N*-LC. Namely, it becomes narrower as the dopant concentration increases, eventually resulting in destruction of the mesophase when the concentration reaches a critical value. As a result, the alternative approach of using a chiral compound with greater twisting ability is employed. Axially chiral binaphthyl derivatives are good candidates for chiral dopants,15 since they have been reported to possess larger twisting abilities than asymmetric carbon containing chiral compounds.16 (R)- & (S)-1,1′-bi-naphthyl-2,2′-di-[para-(trans-4-n-pentylcyclohexyl) phenoxy-1-hexyl]ether were synthesized through Williamson etherification reactions of optically pure (R)-(+)- and (S)-(-)-1,1′-bi-2- naphthols respectively which have been functionalized with phenylcyclohexyl derivatives. These materials will be referred to as (R)- and (S)-PCH506-Binol (Figure 2). The substituent is composed of a phenylcyclohexyl (PCH) moiety, an n-pentyl group (5 carbon chain), and a hexamethylene chain linked with an ether-type oxygen atom, [-(CH2)6O- , 06], and thus abbreviated as PCH506. Figure 2. Construction of asymmetric reaction field for acetylene polymerization by dissolving Ziegler-Natta catalyst, Ti(O-n-Bu)4 – AlEt3, into the chiral nematic LC. The N*-LC includes an axially chiral binaphthyl derivative, (R)- or (S)- 2,2’-PCH506-Binol. To prepare an induced chiral nematic LC, 5-14 weight % of (R)- or (S)-PCH506-Binol was added as a chiral dopant to an equimolar mixture of the nematic LCs 4-(trans-4-n-propylcyclohexyl)ethoxybenzene (PCH302) and 4-(trans-4-n-propylcyclohexyl) butoxybenzene (PCH304). The PCH506 substituent group in the (R)- and (S)-PCH506-Binol enhances the miscibility between the nematic LC mixture and the binaphthyl derivative used as the chiral dopant. Usage of a similar substituent with a shorter methylene spacer such as PCH503 or normal alkyl substituent gave insufficient miscibility, yielding no chiral nematic phase. In polarizing optical micrographs of the mixture of PCH302, PCH304, and (R)-PCH506-Binol (abbreviated as R-1) and that of PCH302, PCH304, and (S)-PCH506-Binol (abbreviated as S-1), a striated Schlieren or a fingerprint-type texture, characteristic of chiral nematic LC phases, is observed (Figure 1). back to top Acetylene Polymerization in N*-LC At first it should be noted that although each component (PCH302 or PCH304) shows a LC phase, the LC temperature region is very narrow, i.e., less than 1 to 2 °C. This would be unsuitable for acetylene polymerization in a nematic LC or N*-LC reaction field, because the exothermal heat evolved during the acetylene polymerization would raise the temperature inside the reaction flask, and destroy the LC phase creating an isotropic one. Hence, an appropriate LC mixture is prepared by mixing the two LC components in equal amounts. In the LC mixture, the nematic-isotropic temperature, TN-I, is raised while the crystallinenematic temperature, TC-N, is lowered. In fact, the mixture exhibited the LC phase in the 20 to 35 °C region. Subsequently, the change of TN-I upon an addition of Ti(O-n-Bu)4 - AlEt3 catalyst was examined through DSC measurement. Even after taking into account the effect of supercooling for LCs, the catalyst solution consisting of the LC mixture and the chiral dopant had an available temperature range for polymerization from 5 to 25 °C. This sufficiently wide temperature region enabled us to perform the acetylene polymerization in the N*-LC phase. The Ziegler-Natta catalyst consisting of Ti(O-n-Bu)4 and Et3Al was prepared using the (R)- or (S)-chiral nematic LC as a solvent (Figure 2). The concentration of Ti(O-n-Bu)4 was 15 mmol/L, and the mole ratio of the cocatalyst to catalyst, [Et3Al] / [Ti(O-n-Bu)4], was 4.0. The catalyst solution was aged for 30 min at room temperature. During the aging, the N*-LC containing the catalyst showed no noticeable change in optical texture, and only a slight lowering of the transition temperature by 2 to 5 °C. The transition temperature between the solid and chiral nematic phases was 16 to 17 °C, and that between the chiral nematic and isotropic phases was 30 to 31 °C. No solidification was observed down to -7 °C as a result of supercooling. Thus the (R)- and (S)-chiral nematic LCs are confirmed to be chemically stable in the presence of the catalyst. It is therefore suitable to employ these LCs as an asymmetric solvent for acetylene polymerization. Acetylene gas (99.9999 % purity) was used without further purification. The polymerization temperature was kept between 17 to 18 °C to maintain the chiral nematic phase, by circulating cooled ethanol through an outer flask covering the flask. The initial acetylene pressure was 11.6 to 22.6 Torr and the polymerization time was between 10 to 43 minutes. After polymerization, the polyacetylene films were carefully removed from the container and washed with toluene several times under argon gas at room temperature. The films were dried under vacuum on a PTFE sheet and stored in a freezer at -20 °C. back to top Characterization of Helical Polyacetylene Film Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of the polyacetylene films show that multiple domains of spiral morphology are formed (Figure 3), and each domain is composed of a helical structure of fibrils with onehanded twist direction (Figure 3 inset). The multi-domain type fibril morphology of polyacetylene seems to replicate that of the N*-LC used in the interfacial acetylene polymerization. Figure 3. Hierarchical spiral morphology of helical polyacetylene film. The figure and inset show scanning electron microscope (SEM) photographs of multi domain type spiral morphology and right-handed screwed bundles of fibrils in a domain, respectively. Closer observation of SEM images indicates that helical polyacetylenes synthesized in the (R)- and (S)-chiral N*-LCs form the twisted bundles of fibrils and even screw-shaped fibrils with counterclockwise and clockwise directions, respectively. This result implies that the twist direction of helical polyacetylene is controllable by choosing the helicity, i.e., chirality of the dopant, when the N*-LC induced by the chiral dopant is employed as an asymmetric polymerization solvent. The helical pitch of the N*-LC depends on the helical twisting ability of the chiral dopant, as well as its concentration and optical purity. This means that the helical pitch of the polyacetylene chain can be also varied by changing helical twisting ability of the chiral dopant. Another axially chiral dopant, (R)- or (S)-6,6′-PCH506-2,2′-Et-Binol14,15 gave a shorter helical pitch of N*-LC by 0.3 μm than the corresponding (R) or (S)-PCH506-Binol. Acetylene polymerization using these types of highly twisted N*-LCs, designated (R-2)- and (S-2)-chiral nematic LCs, afforded clearer spiral morphologies consisting of helical bundles of fibrils (Figure 4). Namely, these bundles are aligned parallel to each other in the microscopic regime, and forms spiral morphologies in the macroscopic regime. It is noteworthy that the higher order structures observed in Figure 3 resemble the helical self-assembled microstructure of biological molecules such as lipids, which are rarely formed in synthetic polymers. This validates the use of N*-LC as a template polymerization medium for controlling a higher order structure of synthetic polymer. Figure 4. SEM photographs of helical polyacetylene films synthesized in the N*-LCs including (R)- 6,6’-PCH506-2,2’-Et-Binol. The left- and right-handed screw directions of helical polyacetylenes are determined by the chirality of the chiral dopants with R- and S-configurations, respectively. The bundles of fibrils for helical polyacetylenes synthesized in the (R-2)- and (S-2)-N*-LCs are twisted counterclockwise and clockwise, respectively (Figure 4). The hardness of helical polyacetylene are opposite to those of the corresponding (R-2)- and (S-2)-N*-LC whose directions are confirmed to be clockwise and counterclockwise, respectively, through the miscibility test with cholesteryl oleyl carbonate (Aldrich Prod. No. 151157). This is the same situation as the case of the (R-1)- and (S-1)-N*-LCs including (R)- and (S)-PCH506-Binol. In circular dichroism (CD) spectra of the polyacetylene thin films synthesized under the (R-2)- and (S-2)-chiral nematic LCs, positive and negative Cotton effects are observed respectively in the region from 450 to 800 nm corresponding to π -> π* transition of polyacetylene chain, despite the absence of chiroptical substituent in side chains. This indicates that the polyacetylene chain itself is helically twisted. It is evident that the above Cotton effect is not due to the chiral dopant [(R)- or (S)- 6,6′-PCH506-2,2′- Et-Binol], because the Cotton effect of the chiral dopant is only observed at shorter wavelengths such as 240 ~ 340 nm. From these results, it can be concluded that left-handed (counterclockwise) and right-handed (clockwise) helical polyacetylene chains are formed in (R)- and (S)-chiral nematic LCs, respectively, and that these helical chains are bundled through van der Waals interactions to form helical fibrils with the opposite helical directions to those of the N*-LCs. The bundles of fibrils further form the spiral morphology with various sizes of domains (Figure 5). Figure 5. Super-hierarchical helical structures from primary to higher order in helical polyacetylene. The present helical polyacetylene films have high trans content of 90%, and become highly conductive upon iodine doping. In fact, the electrical conductivities of the doped films are 1.5 ~ 1.8 × 103 S/cm at room temperature, which are comparable to those of metalic materials. The iodine-doped polyacetylene showed the same Cotton effect as that of non-doped polyacetylene, although the CD peak was slightly shifted to shorter wavelengths. This indicates that the helical structure is preserved even after iodine doping. Furthermore, CD and X-ray diffraction measurements showed that the helical structure was also preserved after heating up to 150 °C (which corresponds to the isomerization temperature from cis to trans form). It is well-known that the most stable structure of polyacetylene is the planar one. However, since the polyacetylene is actually insoluble and infusible, the helical structure formed during the polymerization can be preserved even if it is washed by toluene (Aldrich Prod. No. 244511) or thermally heated below the isomerization temperature. In other words, the insolubility and infusibility characteristics of polyacetylene are important for preserving the meta-stable helical structure.17 Lastly, it is worth noting that the present polymerization method using the N*-LC (i.e., cholesteric LC) as an asymmetric reaction field has profound versatility for the synthesis of helical π-conjugated polymers that do not contain chiral substituents in side chains. In fact, very recently, a number of helical conjugated polymers such as polybithiophene, polyethylenedioxythiophene derivatives, and phenylene-thiophene copolymers were synthesized through chemical and/or electrochemical polymerizations in N*-LCs environments.18-20 back to top We present current progress in the synthesis and also the novel properties of conjugated polymers by focusing on helical polyacetylene with super-hierarchical structure.14 Interfacial polymerization of acetylene was carried out in asymmetric reaction field consisting of a N*-LC and a Ziegler-Natta catalyst. Since the N*-LC is composed of a nematic LC and a chiral compound such as axially chiral binaphthyl derivative with R- or S-configuration, the helical directions of polyacetylene chain and fibril bundles and even the spiral morphology are determined by the chirality of the chiral dopant. The helical directions of the fibril and the bundle of the fibril in helical polyacetylene were found to be opposite to that of the N*-LC. The hierarchical spiral morphology involving the primary and higher order structures is generated in a synthetic polymer such as polyacetylene by using N*-LC as an asymmetric polymerization solvent. back to top - Chien, J. C. W., Polyacetylene - Chemistry, Physics and Material Science Academic Press, Orlando, FL, 1984. - Shirakawa, H., Louis, E., MacDiarmid, A. G., Chiang, C. K., Heeger, A. J., J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 1977, 578. - Chiang, C. K., Fincher, C. R., Park, Y. W., Heeger, A. J., Shirakawa, H., Louis, E. J., Gau, S. C., MacDiarmid, A. G., Phys. Rev. Lett. 1977, 39, 1098. - Naarrmann, H., Theophilou, N., Synth. Met. 1987, 22, 1. - Bozovic, I., Mod. Phys. Lett. B 1987, 1, 81. - Akagi, K., Piao, G., Kaneko, S., Sakamaki, K., Shirakawa, H., Kyotani, M., Science 1998, 282, 1683. - Aleshin, A. N., Lee, H. J., Park, Y. W., Akagi, K., Phys. 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HOW a routine gas bottle refill turned into a roaring fireball is what Clark Tanks general manager Lindsay Welsh wants to find out. Mr Welsh said his Dalby business was trading as usual yesterday after a gas bottle explosion at its Napier St facility on Thursday afternoon. He said a staff member had received burns to his hands after gas ignited while he was refilling a small gas cylinder from a larger one. "It was complete and he was just undoing the connection and it just burst into flames," Mr Welsh said. The worker was treated by paramedics and taken to Dalby Hospital to have his injuries checked. Mr Welsh was glad the fire had been contained to a designated area of the yard. He said damage was minimal. "It looked very dramatic because of gas going up. "We did lose some made tanks that were nearby." He said his company would work with gas supplier Origin and Workplace Health and Safety officers to find out the cause. "It is a mystery but we will investigate and get to the bottom of it. "I'm sure the wider industry will be interested in why this happened." Mr Welsh said his business' emergency procedures were followed and praised firefighters for controlling the flames. "As far as emergency situations go, it all went like clockwork. "The main thing is the worker is not seriously injured."

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Make a resolution towards better relationships It's a fact that the chances of sticking to a New Years resolution are slim to none. Most well intentioned resolutions are forgotten by February. The most common choices for people making new years resolutions usually involve things that most of us have in short supply. Namely time and money. While losing weight is a nice idea for many, the reality of finding time in the day to exercise or prepare healthy meals means that by the end of January the resolution has been forgotten. Instead of vowing to volunteer more, travel or get a better paid job, why not set attainable, specific goals? In other words, make baby steps towards getting a better job, such as giving your resume a makeover, or learning new skills. Don't expect to drop 20 kilos this year, instead just resolve to eat at least one healthy balanced meal a day. Even better, why not try focusing on things that will not mean spending any time, money, or energy? New Years is a time when we all get the chance to fix things, and start a new chapter. It’s a cliche, but losing weight or having a better job isn’t what makes people happy, but having great relationships is. Make 2013 the year that you reach out to old friends that have been neglected, forgive the ones who have let you down and give second chances. And be kind to strangers. You don’t know what role they might end up playing in your life. Having good relationships also means you will have the support, confidence and will to attain those other goals. Whatever your final goal is, we at The Free Press hope 2013 brings happiness and contentment for all our readers. We want to hear about all the news and events that mean something to you this year. Our resolution is to bring our readers all the information they want to know, but we need your help to do it. Happy New Year.

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Owens-Illinois, Inc., Toledo's second largest company, over the past 18 months has had to stamp out bankruptcy rumors while trying to cope with skyrocketing energy costs, soaring interest expenses, and a currency- exchange crisis. It was a time that would make a chief executive wish he were retirement age. At 70, Joseph Lemieux, chairman and chief executive for 10 years, is well beyond the usual retirement age. But in typical fashion, Mr. Lemieux, who is the oldest man ever to head the 98-year-old firm that invented mass production of glass bottles, is playing close to the vest with the answer to the question of when he will go. “I'm really old, aren't I?” he said with a good-natured chuckle during an interview last week at the firm's downtown riverfront headquarters after the annual shareholders' meeting. “I've stayed because the board has asked me to stay,” he said. If the company overcomes current problems, he added, “my guess is I won't be around much longer.” He is less clear on how long that might take. Friends and associates, who say that only partially explains his motivation for staying, say they wouldn't be surprised if he is on the job five more years. Affable and with a keen sense of humor, Mr. Lemieux nonetheless has a reputation for being a low-key leader who over the past decade has steered O-I away from the civic activism that once characterized the Fortune 500 firm. No one accuses Joe Lemieux, (who pronounces his name LEMyear) of being doddering. Not a large man, he possesses a confident stride and a full head of hair. And, in intonations instilled during an upbringing in Rhode Island, he speaks forcefully and convincingly about his belief in a firm where he has spent most of his life. O-I, with 34,000 employees worldwide, is a leading producer of bottles and jars for the brewery, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Mr. Lemieux, who made $2.2 million last year, has presided over the company during a period of declining use of glass bottles - O-I's main product. But he is respected as an able manager. “O-I is one of the best managed packaging companies in a difficult marketplace,” said Ben Miyares, vice president of industry relations at the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute in Arlington, Va. O-I's outlook has improved since late November, when panicked investors sent its shares to under $3 and it was unclear whether banks would renew a $4.5 billion credit line. The stock has rebounded, closing yesterday at $7.69 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, and the loans have been renewed. Anyway you cut it, however, it has been a difficult year for a septuagenarian executive with 44 years of service to O-I and a lot riding on the company's future. He owns more than a million shares of company stock. Two of his sons and a son-in-law are executives in the firm's glass division: Gerald Lemieux, the unit's vice president and general manager; Craig Lemieux, quality assurance director; and Jeffrey Wolff, an accounts manager. Among O-I's problems last year: a 77 percent drop in its share price. The company has a huge debt load. It owes $5.8 billion on which it paid $1.3 million in interest every day last year. The company has tried to diversify. Plastic bottles and jars, produced by O-I's Continental PET unit and other divisions, accounted for about a third of sales in 2000, up from 22 per cent three years earlier. George Staphos, a financial analyst with Salomon Smith Barney in New York, said O-I is a victim of a series of difficulties beyond its control, including economic problems in Latin America, rising energy costs, and currency exchange problems. For example, products sold in Australia and valued at $1,000 in that nation's currency would fetch $518 U.S. today compared with $655 U.S. at the beginning of last year. Executives said currency problems are abating, but high energy costs are not. “Certainly, after the last two or three years O-I is due to have two or three things go its way,” said Mr. Staphos. The firm has cut costs, and industry analysts consider it the most efficient producer of glass containers in the world. Still, O-I lost $270 million on $5.8 billion in sales last year. The firm's performance improved in the first quarter of 2001, when it made $49 million on sales of $1.3 billion. Executives predict a turnaround in the second half of the year, although some analysts don't expect major improvements until next year. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., the New York investment firm that acquired O-I in a leveraged buyout in 1987, continues to play an influential role in the Toledo company. Its stake in O-I has been cut to 25 percent. KKR representatives held 5 of 10 board seats until last year, when Henry Kravis, KKR managing member, stepped down and the board was reduced to nine members. Analysts believe KKR wants to sell its 36 million shares but has not done so because of O-I's low stock price. KKR's continued involvement in the Toledo firm could be influencing Mr. Lemieux's decision about retirement, associates said. He fears that the board of directors, with its strong KKR presence, would replace him with an outsider, who might break up the company, said William Laimbeer, a former top executive at O-I. “Joe would very much like to see O-I continue on in the way he brought it along,” added Mr. Laimbeer, father of professional basketball great Bill Laimbeer. Mr. Lemieux declined comment on the matter. Mr. Laimbeer, who was once regarded as a candidate for the top job at O-I, described Mr. Lemieux as a good friend who shares Mr. Laimbeer's love of basketball. “He's a basketball nut,” said Mr. Laimbeer. His friend, he said, is low key by nature. That trait was reinforced on a career path that began in O-I's accounting and auditing section in 1957 and then moved into manufacturing, with its nose-to-the-grindstone emphasis. Mr. Laimbeer lamented that O-I isn't as involved in community causes as the firm was under such high-profile leaders as the late Edwin Dodd. But different times call for different leadership styles, he said, and Mr. Lemiuex was sharp at cutting costs, which is what was needed during his tenure. Gary Schneider, an analyst with Bear Stearns in New York, said he found the O-I chief open during a recent visit to Toledo headquarters. “How do you have a high profile as manager of a company that investors in general believe is going to be seeking court protection in the next round?” he asked. Mr. Schneider, who was one of the few Wall Street analysts to warn that Toledo's Owens Corning might be headed for bankruptcy, said he believes O-I will survive the multibillion-dollar asbestos-liability crisis that has sent more than two dozen other firms into bankruptcy. O-I executives say bankruptcy is out of the question. The firm stopped making asbestos insulation that has been linked to lung cancer and other ailments in 1958, much earlier than other firms. The Bear Stearns analyst is recommending the stock for the first time in eight years, but warned that “it is not an investment for the faint of heart.” Analyst Joel Tiss, of Lehman Brothers in New York, also is bullish on O-I. “I own it myself,” he said. Skeptics have predicted the death of glass containers for years, he noted. Yet sales continue to grow at a respectable 1 to 2 percent a year internationally. O-I is one of two companies that produce 85 percent of the glass bottles in the world, he added. “When you have a large market share around the world with the best customers in the world, there is a definite franchise there,” Mr. Tiss added. He agreed O-I has a low profile, but doesn't think it hurts the company. “These guys are very focused on their business.” He praises Mr. Lemieux for grooming a strong group of potential successors. Wall Street analysts like David Van Hooser, chief financial officer. Other possible candidates mentioned by people familiar with the company include Thomas Young, the firm's legal chief, and R. Scott Trumbull, executive vice president in charge of international operations. Mr. Lemieux and other O-I executives have been more visible over the past year as the firm has tried to deal with bankruptcy rumors and other issues, Mr. Staphos added. “If anything, O-I has become a bit more open and communicative to the street. ... Joe now regularly participates in conference calls with analysts. That was something we had been hoping for for a while.” Mr. Lemieux said he tries to be communicative. “The real issue,” he said in a Blade interview, “is as long as we have currency, interest rates, and energy hitting us like they have, what are you going to say?” The low-profile approach of O-I and its chief executive isn't unusual in the packaging industry, observed Mr. Miyares, the industry official. Even with customers, he said, the O-I corporate attitude seems to be “you don't have to love me, you just have to respect me.” While defendable, that strategy doesn't build goodwill or enhance the firm's image. “They might benefit if their warm-and-fuzzy quotient was a little higher,” said Mr. Miyares.

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|Enter your zip to find stuff near you| This classified ad has expiredClick here to view current advertisements similar to this one. 7:00 am. Leave from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi located 128 kilometers (80 miles) west of Bangkok. It is Thailand's third largest province with an area of 19,486 square kilometers. The provincial area is mountainous and has the west border next to Myanmar. 9:30 am.- 11:00 am. Arrive the Hell Fire Pass Memorial Museum, a 500-meter long and 26-meter deep section of rock that was dug out by Prisoners of War intended to allow the 'Death Railway' to continue its route from Bangkok to Rangoon. Soldiers were forced to remove the rock using no more than picks, hammers and their bare hands. Of the 1,000 Australian and British soldiers who took 12 weeks to clear the stretch of mountain, 700 died. The Hellfire Pass Memorial and Memorial Museum were set up to commemorate these fallen. 11:30 am. - 12:30 pm. Stop for lunch at a local restaurant, Tam Krasae train station 1:00 pm. - 3:00 pm. Then, take a van to visit the Tiger temple where the real alive Bengal Tigers are living in the temple compound and some wild animals such as wild pigs, deer, antelopes, water buffalos, apes and a hand full other animals can be seen. The tigers are taken out from their cage from in the afternoon and visitors can even touch them. Have fun by taking photos with tame tigers and wild beasts. 3:00 pm. - 3:30 pm. Head to the Bridge over the River Kwai, the Death Railway constructed by Allied prisoners of war during World War II. Take good shots when the train riding across the River Kwai. 5:30 pm. Arrive at hotel in Bangkok

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AdBlock is an Internet browser extension that prevents certain advertisements from showing up while you browse the internet. AdBlock is currently available for the following browsers: Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Many other programs and extensions exist to block ads but are unrelated to AdBlock specifically (for instance AdBlock Plus, available for Firefox and others, is unrelated to AdBlock). Knowing how to disable AdBlock is important in particular for certain sites that may prompt you to turn it off briefly in order to access non-advertising materials. You might also turn it off if you find it interfering with non-ads or if you are choosing to switch ad-blocking software. Disabling AdBlock in Your Browser 1Open up your chosen web browser. You must disable AdBlock individually on each browser you use. Luckily, the process is very similar for each browser. - Check that you have the AdBlock software. 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Simply find the AdBlock app in list to adjust the settings. - You can now also download some ad-blockers for Safari on your iPhone, and they are easy managed by clicking through "Settings" → "Safari" → "Content Blockers" and disable/enable the blocker you installed from the app store. 3Check your settings for the internet provider to ensure your adblockers are working. Unfortunately, it is a bit harder to use AdBlock on a phone than on a computer. More often than not you need to go into the settings associated with your specific browser in order to give AdBlock (or others) permission to block ads. Disabling AdBlock for One-Time Exceptions 1Click on the AdBlock icon. Find the extension icon in the upper right corner of your browser window. There you'll get a variety of options to help you manage AdBlock (or other ad-blocking extensions). These will allow you to let certain ads in and to disable AdBlock automatically when you come to certain websites. - If the stop-sign icon is there but is gray colored, it means that AdBlock is currently paused/disabled. 2Choose "don't run on this page". This will disable AdBlock for the specific page you're currently visiting and AdBlock will remember this info for your future visits (in this browser). - You can also choose "Don't run on pages in this domain". If you click this, AdBlock will first prompt you to confirm the areas of the site you'd like affected, and then reload the page for you. You can do this with any website domain or specific page you're on, allowing you to create a large exception so you don't have to manually turn it on and off whenever you visit certain sites. - This process can be reversed the exact same way you turned it on. Just click the logo in the upper-right corner and choose "enable AdBlock on this page" - This may be helpful for video sites where you generally ignore ads, but need to disable AdBlock to watch the specific video you want. 3Click "Options" to manage your exceptions. You can see all of the sites you have disabled. You also get the "hits" AdBlock has picked up from each site trying to send you ads. You can add new exceptions or delete old ones with ease as well. - For different ad-blocking software, this menu may be called something slightly different like "Preferences" or "Filter Preferences". How do I disable AdBlock in UC Browser?wikiHow ContributorTap the Menu button and select "Add-ons." Tap the "AdBlock" option and then toggle the switch off to disable it. How do I disable AdBlock on an iPhone?wikiHow ContributorOpen the AdBlock app and swipe down from the top of your screen. When the AdBlock interface is disabled, it will turn orange. Why should I disable AdBlock? Why on earth would I want to get flooded with ads, porn ads and malware?wikiHow ContributorYou can block ads when they get in the way of using the computer. Too many ads take over, preventing navigation away from the page, hiding the wanted content, switching to the browser tab with the ad, or disturbing others with audio. You shouldn't disable the ad blocker if the ads disrupt computer operation. If your employer blocks your access to ads, you can't disable the ad blocker. How do I remove AdBlock from an iPhone using the Chrome browser?wikiHow ContributorClick the three lined button on the top right, find Settings, then click Extensions on the top left, then click the trash can under the extension. Done. What do I do if AdBlock is not on my computer in extensions, nor is the little stop sign on the screen, yet I'm being told it is running?wikiHow ContributorIf you did not see adblock in extension nor little stop sign on the screen, then go to settings from the tab. Pick Ad Block from the down arrow. Now unmark the block popup windows and filter page ads. That is all. - If you have uninstalled AdBlock from your browser and want it reinstalled, download the extension directly from the developer’s official website or from the Extensions manager in your browser. Sources and Citations - ↑ https://community.box.com/t5/Account-Information/How-To-Disable-Plugins-Add-Ons-Extensions-In-Multiple-Browsers/ta-p/19 - ↑ http://help.opera.com/Mac/11.60/en/extensions.html - ↑ http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11933 - ↑ http://lifehacker.com/the-best-ad-blockers-for-ios-9-1731433501 - ↑ http://lifehacker.com/the-best-ad-blockers-for-ios-9-1731433501 - ↑ http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/31/10880394/samsung-internet-android-ad-content-blocker-adblock-fast Categories: Basic Computer Skills In other languages: Español: deshabilitar AdBlock, Deutsch: Adblock deaktivieren, Português: Desativar o Adblock, Italiano: Disattivare AdBlock, Русский: отключить Adblock, 中文: 禁用 Adblock, Français: désactiver AdBlock, Nederlands: AdBlock uitschakelen, Bahasa Indonesia: Menonaktifkan Adblock, العربية: تعطيل إضافة مانع الإعلانات آدبلوك, हिन्दी: ऐडब्लॉक (AdBlock) को निष्क्रिय करें, Tiếng Việt: Tắt Adblock, ไทย: ปิดการใช้งาน AdBlock, 한국어: Adblock을 비활성화 하는 법 Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 3,246,519 times.

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This addon automatically turns in items to NPCs, to make reputation grinding more efficient. It was updated from Swimnurd's 'Swimcloth' addon, to include additional item turnins, including Horde cloth quartermasters. Right-clicking on the NPC to bring up the dialogue is all that needs to be done for the turnin to go ahead, the addon will click on the quest and complete the quest automatically (one click per turnin). The addon also lists how many more turnins can be made with the current amount of cloth, updating when more runecloth is accumulated. Note that the addon does not work if there is more than one quest which can be completed at a particular NPC, because it selects the first quest that the NPC offers. For example, if you still have the quest 'A Donation of Wool,' the addon will be unable to go straight to the Runecloth turnin ('A Donation of Runecloth'). However, earlier quests will often give enough rep for it to be worth doing them first! Currently supported items and NPCs: Runecloth to all 10 quartermasters All Alterac Valley turnins. MORE ITEM TYPES! Configure the addon to ignore quests for particular NPCs (i.e. A Donation of Wool).

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Welcome to the WrestlingINC.com WWE Main Event Recap. - The show begins with a memoriam to William "Paul Bearer" Moody, 1954 – 2013. Personally, I was deeply saddened when I read the news last night. The Paul Bearer character is part of the fabric of my childhood. That signature creepy but iconic voice was a familiar staple in the home. I love Mr. Moody for that and express my deepest condolences to his family. Sadly, we often don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. - We go to the opening package then pyro and crowd shots from Albany, NY. Michael Cole says we are 32 days away from WrestleMania and welcomes us to the show. - Randy Orton's music hits and he makes his way to the ring. The Miz is on commentary with Cole. Wade Barrett cuts a promo on his way down the ramp. Barrett wants to give us a glimpse into his life as a major Hollywood superstar. He says he was hobnobbing with Hollywood's elite during the premiere of his movie, Dead Man Down. Barrett sends to footage and interviews from the red carpet. Barrett makes his way in front of the announce booth and takes note of a "Marine" and "Hollywood wannabe" he hopes was paying attention to the video he just played. Orton finally gets tired of waiting and brings Barrett in the hard way. The ref backs Orton up in the corner as Barrett removes his shirt and the bell rings. Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett Barrett goes at Orton immediately but Orton ducks and unloads in the corner. Orton hits a reverse elbow after some back-and-forth and proceeds to systematically stomp on Barrett's body. Barrett fights to his feet and puts on the brakes off the ropes but Orton clotheslines him over the top as we take our first commercial break. Barrett has gained control as we return to action. He gets 2 on Orton and drops a big knee across Orton's gut. Orton fights up from a headlock and counters with a side suplex. Barrett slowly gets to his feet and Orton is happy to catch his breath. Orton hits a standing dropkick for 2. Miz says he has never been in a singles match with Barrett but he has been in the ring with him and says Barrett is a guy you have to watch. Orton hits mounted shots in the corner and hits a snap suplex for 2. Barrett immediately rolls out of the ring and draws Orton into a trap as he slams Orton into the steel steps and sends him back in the ring. They battle on the apron and Barrett hits a mule kick to Orton's gut, sending him back to the floor. Back from a break as we see a replay and Cole tells us that Barrett has been working Orton's abs while we were away. Barrett hits a big kick to Orton's skull and gets 2. Orton rolls back out of the ring and lures Barrett out but Barrett sends Orton to the steps again. Barrett wastes too much time up top in the corner and Orton takes advantage with a huge superplex. Orton slides into position but Barrett kicks out. The pace quickens with some nice back-and-forth. Orton hits his ropes DDT. "Vintage Orton," says Cole. Orton coils-up but Barrett escapes and drives Orton's throat across the top ropes as he drops to the floor. Barrett quickly reenters and kicks Orton in the face. Orton barely kicks out. Barrett pulls up his elbow pad and calls for the end but Orton counters with a powerslam and follows-up with the RKO for the win. Winner by pin: Randy Orton - Cody Rhodes walks in the back, toward the ring as we go to break. - A new WrestleMania promo runs with Cena and Rock featured and narrating. - We're back at the end of Cody's entrance. Zack Ryder is already in the ring. Cody Rhodes vs. Zack Ryder Ryder hits an early armdrag and a reverse elbow out of the corner. Ryder plants Cody face-first and Cody goes out to regroup. Cody gets the advantage back in the ring as Miz and Cole talk about the picture of the Internet Championship belt on Ryder's tights. Cole says it's goofy. Cody hits a front suplex on Ryder for 2. Ryder hits a face-plant and a double knee out of the corner to Rhodes. Ryder hits a missile dropkick and sets Cody up for the Broski Boot but Cody avoids. Cody hits the Disaster Kick and Cross Rhodes for the win. Cole calls it before the ref hits '3.' Winner by pin: Cody Rhodes - We go back to the ring for the entrance of Sin Cara, dressed in pink, and then a break. - We return as Antonio Cesaro removes his shirt in the ring and hands over at ringside and the bell rings. Sin Cara vs. Antonio Cesaro Cesaro takes Cara down immediately and slaps him around on the back of the head to add insult. Cara hits a beautiful takedown on Cesaro to send him out of the ring. Cara leaps out of the ring and delivers a hurricanrana to Cesaro on the floor. Cara throws Cesaro back in and sunset flips in the ring himself. Cesaro tries to keep his balance in the same spot we saw last week and finally reaches down between his legs and grabs Cara by the head and tosses him across the ring. Cesaro keeps control and hits a gutwrench slam for 2. Cesaro goes into a sleeper but Cara gets to his feet and Cesaro just lets go and sends Cara in. Cara counters off the ropes and rolls Cesaro up in a small package for 2. Cara slams Cesaro in a beautiful lucha lubre exchange and gets 2. Sin Cara hits a ridiculously cool-looking extended tilt-a-whirl head scissors takedown and Cesaro goes flying out of the ring. Cara charges but Cesaro catches him with a beautiful uppercut through the ropes from the floor. Cesaro smiles and adjusts his neck and goes up top. Cara hits the Enzuigiri and runs up for a hurricanrana but Cesaro blocks it and locks in for a powerbomb. Cara reverses momentum in mid-flight and hits the hurricanrana; Cesaro sells it beautifully. Cara scrambles in for the cover and gets the surprising win. Winner by pin: Sin Cara Cara celebrates and runs up the ramp. Cesaro doesn't know what hit him. Cesaro clutches his title in the ring after a replay. Instant Reaction: Going into this match I was sure The U.S. Champ Cesaro would get the win especially after losing so prominently to Ryback on RAW and Orton recently. That is a whole other issue I won't tackle here but I will say that it should come as no surprise that Cesaro gave Sin Cara what is likely his best match to date since joining the company. These two had great chemistry and their timing was crisp. Cara's offense has rarely looked better on WWE television. It will be interesting to see how this win for Cara plays out and hopefully something comes from it because WWE having their U.S. Champ lose again on TV for no good reason is not a good thing. - The last eight minutes of The Rock-Cena promo from RAW is shown. We go off the air with a shot of Cena and Rock standing with the WrestleMania NY/NJ sign in between them. Got a news tip or correction? Send it to us by clicking here.

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Another tribute has joined the “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” Victor Banner. Johanna Mason (Jena Malone) becomes the third victor added to the large banner, following Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). Johanna and her trusty ax were revealed Thursday (August 22), along with the message “Remember who the enemy is,” a line said by Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson). The next victor is scheduled to be revealed on the Hunger Games Explorer website Friday at 6 p.m. ET. “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” is in theaters November 22.

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That is a good question… I’ve been in some contact with @blackphantom and he stated that this week or next there would be an update for both this and tweetstream. He hasn’t been on the BP site for about a month now. Just what I know… and I would love to see both updated as well! This plugin and the tweetstream plugins are platform killers for BP (certainly for me) IMHO. If they don’t work and aren’t supported, I may have to look for a new platform in the months to come -and I really do love BP. I support Peter as much as I can and I encourage anyone using these plugins to donate to his cause (or any other plugin you use)….

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Global Network Navigator The Global Network Navigator (GNN) was the first commercial web publication and the first web site to offer clickable advertisements. GNN was launched in May 1993, as a project of the technical publishing company O'Reilly Media, then known as O'Reilly & Associates. In June 1995, GNN was sold to AOL, which continued its editorial functions while converting it to a dial-up Internet Service Provider. AOL closed GNN in December 1996, moving all GNN subscribers to the AOL dial-up service. As a web portal In September 1992, O'Reilly & Associates published the Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog. The company then created an online version using ViolaWWW, a web browser that introduced enhanced HTML features such as formatting, graphics, scripting and embedded applets, and demonstrated a kiosk version that was deployed briefly at the Computer Literacy Bookshop in late 1992. In February 1993, the company's CEO, Tim O'Reilly, authorized a four-person "skunkworks" team, led by Dale Dougherty, and began planning for what would become GNN. The website was officially launched in August 1993 at Interop in San Francisco. A press release described GNN as ... a free Internet-based information center that will initially be available as a quarterly. GNN will consist of a regular news service, an online magazine, The Whole Internet Interactive Catalog, and a global marketplace containing information about products and services. GNN was one of the pioneers of on-line advertising; it had sponsorship links by early 1994. According to Tim O'Reilly, the first advertiser was Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe, a now defunct law firm with a Silicon Valley office. (GNN was not, however, the first to do rotating banner ads; that was pioneered by HotWired in October 1994. Nor was GNN the first to do Internet advertising in general, since the email newsletter TidBITS pioneered that in July 1992.) That an online-only "magazine" would support itself by advertising, as GNN planned, was called "remarkable" in a September 1994 review of GNN. In May 1994, at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web, GNN was voted the "Best Commercial Site", and was among the top three in three other categories: "best overall sites"; "Most Important Service Concept", and "Best Document Design". The next month, GNN presented its own awards to twelve other websites, as the sponsor of the "Best of the Net" awards at Internet World in San Jose, California. By that time, GNN was being accessed 150,000 per week, and had more than 30,000 registered users (subscribers). By November the number had risen to 40,000. By mid-1994, GNN had twelve staff, including sales and marketing, technical, and editorial. By July of that year, GNN had 45 companies as clients, either buying advertising or selling products online at GNN. By year-end, NCSA's "What's New" page, among the most heavily visited web page at the time, was being jointly written by NCSA and GNN, and published both on their websites. In December, GNN recorded more than 2 million page requests from Web users. By April 1995, GNN staff had increased to 23. In June 1995, it had more than 400,000 regular viewers, of whom 180,000 were registered subscribers. Advertisers such as Mastercard and Zima paid rates of $110 to $11,000 a week. Dougherty held the title of publisher for GNN until it was sold to AOL in 1995. Jennifer Niederst was GNN's Art Director and the sole designer for the website. Public relations for GNN and its various initiatives was handled by Niehaus Ryan Haller. Potential readers were advised that they would need "an Internet connection, a World Wide Web (WWW) browser and a universal resource locator for GNN or a local copy of the GNN 'home page' (which is available via electronic mail)." The website was hosted at NEARNET, a project of Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Organization of the website The free service was divided into five parts: - GNN News - GNN Magazine - The Online Whole Internet Catalog - The GNN Marketplace - Navigator's Forum GNN web directory The Online Whole Internet Catalog - a forerunner of internet directory services like Yahoo! - was described in the August 1993 press release that introduced GNN as a place where "... subscribers can not only read about [Internet websites], they can actually connect to them with the click of a button." The catalog was organized into ten sections: - The Internet - Current Affairs - Libraries, Reference & Education - Government and politics - Work and Play GNN Marketplace (GNNDirect) The GNN marketplace included the following sellers: As an ISP Lisa Gansky became vice president and general manager of GNN programming after the sale was completed. She moved to AOL from O'Reilly & Associates, where she had been Vice President of Sales. A number of others working at O'Reilly's GNN website also moved, as did the GNN workplace, which relocated to Berkeley. Lydia Dobyns, who had not been with O"Reilly, was hired as vice president of product marketing and service operations for GNN. When AOL debuted GNN, it was as an Internet service provider (ISP), as a counterpoint to AOL's primary online service, which at the time offered its own content, with limited access to non-AOL Internet websites. The service cost $14.95 per month for 20 hours of Internet access, and the GNN website featured original content in six categories: personal finance, sports, education, travel, Story Cafe, and Web Review. GNN continued to offer unique content while part of AOL. In November 1995 it announced its second "Best of the Net" awards. In mid-1996 it introduced a three-minute daily audio clip called "Spanq", hosted by "Trip Anchor" and "Uncle Dutch". The show critiqued what was new on the Web, in a format described as "Siskel & Ebert meet Beavis and Butt-Head." GNN Server, a web page server platform (previously NaviServer) and GNN Editor, an HTML editor (previously NaviPress), were both groundbreaking for their time. AOL, which had purchased them, rebranded them and made them available for free on GNN. In late October 1996, AOL announced that it would offer a $19.95 flat-rate pricing plan for unlimited monthly access to both the Internet and AOL's private network, and that it would fold GNN into AOL. GNN was the fifth-largest ISP in the U.S., with 200,000 subscribers, a 3 percent market share. AOL had more than 6 million subscribers. AOL said it would take a charge of as much as $75 million in the quarter ending December 31 to reorganize and shut down GNN. In December 2000, an article in The Wall Street Journal said that AOL had, with GNN, an opportunity to build a competitive Web directory, but AOL had not done that, making possible the success of Yahoo!. (At the time of its initial public offering in 1996, Yahoo! was valued at $848 million.) In late 1996, AOL closed the Berkeley office of GNN, and laid off about 60 people. - "O'Reilly Internet Information Service (press release)". Computer Underground Digest. August 26, 1993. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Tim O'Reilly (November 26, 2001). "O'Reilly Network Weblogs: SLAC Symposium on the Early Web". The O'Reilly Network. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - John Labovitz (June 17, 1994). "Re: Ads on a WWW content page". Coalition for Networked Information. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - "Electronic Commerce". Computer History Museum. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Tim O'Reily (April 30, 2005). "Ten–No, Eleven–Years of Internet Advertising". O'Reilly Radar. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Adam C. Engst (July 20, 1992). "TidBITS Sponsorship Program". TidBITS. Retrieved October 15, 2015. - Thomas Forbes (September 15, 1994). "Far out: Global Network Navigator is at the leading edge of the cyber frontier, pioneering an approach that may well represent the future for magazine publishers.". Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management. Retrieved June 6, 2013. - "Awards". CERN's Access magazine. Fall 1994. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - "Best O' The Net (press release)". Global Network Navigator. June 1, 1994. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Abbot Chambers (November 1, 1994). "Mortgages over the Internet (and related articles)". Mortgage Banking. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Dale Dougherty (instructor) (Fall 1998). "Session 9, "Planning: GNN"". U.C. Berkeley SIMS IS-290 course, "Electronic Publishing". Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Philip Elmer-Dewitt (July 25, 1994). "Battle For The Soul Of The Internet". Time magazine. - "What's New With NCSA Mosaic: Archives for January 1995". NCSA. January 2, 1995. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Peter H. Miller (June 2, 1995). "Service Adds Another Portal To the Internet". New York Times. - Louis Trager (November 8, 1996). "AOL plans to absorb GNN". San Francisco Chronicle. - Peter H. Lewis (November 2, 1994). "Companies Rush to Set Up Shop in Cyberspace". New York Times. - Jennifer Niederst Robbins (2009). "lGlobal Network Navigator (GNN)". littlechair.com. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Dale Dougherty (October 1994). "GNN One Year Update". GNN (newsletter to subscribers). Retrieved December 17, 2011. - "Hostels Go On-Line". NY Daily News. May 21, 1995. - "A ripening Internet market, secure systems,". Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. 1995. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - "American Red Cross and Global Network Navigator Establish Online Donation System For Victims of Kobe Earthquake (press release)". Free Online Library. January 31, 1995. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Tim O'Reilly (February 22, 2009). "Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book". Forbes. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Mary Fricker (June 2, 1995). "America Online to Buy GNN; Boon for Sebastopol-Based Company". Press Democrat. - GNN press release (April 24, 1996). "GNN Gives the Next Generation Workforce A Look at an Internet Career as Part of Take Our Daughters to Work Day". PR Newswire. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Rose Aguilar (March 12, 1996). "AOL goes for Explorer after all". CNET News. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - "AOL unleashes Global Network Navigator at Internet World". Advertising Age. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - "GNN'S second annual 'Best of the Net' awards celebrate the rich diversity and character of the global Internet community; twenty awards presented in gala event and Esther Dyson chosen as Netizen of the Year". Business Wire (GNN press release). November 4, 1995. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - "GNN tries to get hip with new show". CNET News. July 8, 1996. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Jeff Pelline and Janet Kornblum (October 29, 1995). "AOL shifts prices, execs". CNET News. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Jared Sandberg (October 30, 1996). "AOL Plans $385 Million Charge Related to Accounting Change". The Wall Street Journal. - "AOL Time Warner Still Makes Sense". The Wall Street Journal. December 15, 2000. - Joseph Tartakoff (January 8, 2011). "IPO Readiness: How Facebook And LinkedIn Compare To Previous Tech Giants". paidContent. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - "AOL cuts its workforce". Sun Sentinel. November 14, 1996. Retrieved June 5, 2013. - Kaufeld, John (April 28, 1996). Global Network Navigator for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 352. ISBN 9781568848518. - GNN home page circa 1993, on an O'Reilly server - Archives of the GNN home page after GNN's acquisition by AOL in 1995

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There is one very bad, possibly dishonest, argument for austerity today, and that is the idea that cutting government spending will have no impact on the economy, even though we are in a liquidity trap. I normally attempt to debunk this argument by going through basic macroeconomic theory to show how, in a recession with unchanged interest rates, cutting government spending is bound to reduce aggregate demand and output. (See Wren-Lewis, S (2011), Lessons from failure: fiscal policy, indulgence and ideology, National Institute Economic Review vol. 217 no. 1 R31-R46. For those who like their theory state of the art, see Woodford, M. (2011), ‘Simple analytics of the government expenditure multiplier’, American Economic Journal of Macroeconomics, 3, pp. 1–35.) The data backs up the theory when the empirics are properly done, as this nice survey by Christina Romer shows. However I have in the past had more respect for the following argument, which we might call the case for ‘precautionary austerity’. Although there are good reasons why a rapid reduction in government debt is unnecessary, financial markets do not always behave rationally. There is a chance that markets might suddenly panic, and stop buying government debt, forcing up interest rates. As the cost of such an outcome would be very high, macroeconomic policy should do everything it can to avoid it – including reducing debt rapidly - even if that meant deepening the recession. That is the argument. I was never convinced by it, partly because I think this risk is pretty small. It is certainly wrong to use the Eurozone crisis as evidence otherwise, as I’ve argued here. I also agree with a recent post by Jonathan Portes, that the musings of the credit rating agencies tell us nothing about market sentiment. However Jonathan’s post also made me wonder whether the precautionary austerity argument was simply wrong. Jonathan and others make the argument that there is no way the UK (or US) government will ever default, because they will always prefer to make their central bank buy debt through printing money. While this seemed logical, I had worried about what would happen before this point. It is unlikely that the markets would stop buying debt at any price overnight. Instead, demand for UK government debt would be positive but less than supply, and so interest rates would begin to rise. If interest rates got quite high before the central bank was forced to print money, damage could still be done. Quantitative Easing (QE) is the process by which, in the UK, the Bank of England buys government debt in an effort to reduce longer term interest rates. At the moment, every month the Monetary Policy Committee reviews not just the level of short term interest rates, but also the scale of QE. Suppose, therefore, that interest rates on government debt did start rising because the market started to panic, and yet the economy remained depressed and the outlook for inflation was benign. In these circumstances the Bank would buy government debt as part of its inflation targeting strategy. There would be no need for the government to instruct it to do so. In principle the same logic would apply to the US. If the central bank acted quickly in this way, any significant increase in interest rates would be counteracted by aggressive action by the central bank. Of course this action would involve printing money on a massive scale, but it would be temporary, and so it would not be inflationary (see here). We do not need to worry about a market panic because of Quantitative Easing. In a sense it is the counterpart to the argument that we have a Eurozone crisis because the ECB is so reluctant to act as a lender of last resort to governments. We can go further. Even when markets are behaving rationally, they don’t just worry about the fundamentals (in this case the chances of default), but also what other market participants think. If you think there are enough people in the market that might panic, it is rational for you not to buy. But if you also know that there is a residual buyer who will never panic (the central bank), you can just focus on the fundamentals, which in this case includes how long QE will exist as an option. That in turn depends on the outlook for the economy. So QE is not only the fire engine that will put out the fire, it also reduces the chances of a fire occurring in the first place. The fire engine analogy is often extended to include moral hazard: the existence of the fire engine makes house owners less cautious, so fires are more likely. But Quantitative Easing will disappear once the recovery is secure. The central bank will sell back all the debt it now owns, as Japan did in 2006. For this reason it does not remove the need for governments to control debt in the longer term. Instead it just allows them to be more flexible in the short term, while we are at the bottom of a severe recession.There have been a number of studies trying to assess how effective QE has been in keeping long term interest rates low. However perhaps it has a more important precautionary role, which is to eliminate the possibility of a self-fulfilling panic in the government debt market. But if QE does this, why do we need deep austerity now to placate the markets?

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Last Thursday night Courtney Garnett sat in his New Orleans area home and committed to Sooner head man Bob Stoops and defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery. During that visit the 6-foot-2, 280-pou... Sooners Have Their Work Cut Out Keeping Commit Subscribe today to read the full article and get everything Rivals has to offer. - Member-only message boards - Exclusive highlights and recruiting interviews - Exclusive coverage of Rivals Camp Series - Breaking recruiting news

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Feb 22, 2010 After a monstrously difficult process and three different attempts to get the podcast recorded, here it is. I look at what I've been watching lately, and take a look at a couple of mermaid pictures, Miranda (1948) and Mad About Men (1954) which absolutely shit on Splash! (1984). I then go all artsy fartsy and discuss Max Ophüls' 1950 French film, La Ronde starring Simone Simon, Anton Walbrook and the magnificent Danielle Darrieux. Direct Download Link: Right Click and Save RSS Subscription Link" Right Click And Save

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District Taco Announces Taco Eating Contest — This sounds like a recipe for some fun, or vomit, or both. District Taco (5723 Lee Highway) will be holding a taco eating contest at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 10. Ten contestants will compete to see who can eat the most tacos (without throwing up — seriously, it’s a rule) in 15 minutes. If you think you’ve got what it takes, fill out an entry form and submit it by Thursday. See more information on the District Taco web site. Blame Technology for Rising Rents — Has your rent gone up recently? If so, a software program may be to blame. A number of large landlords are now using “sophisticated computerized models” to figure out how to price rentals. Arlington-based AvalonBay Communities, which owns rental communities in Ballston and near Shirlington, recently started widespread use of a software package called “Rainmaker” to squeeze every last dollar out of its properties. More from the Wall Street Journal. Flickr pool photo by BrianMKA

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Rowing, also known as crew, is a sport that’s growing in popularity – especially among collegiate-age young adults. It’s an activity that involves the entire body, from your feet to your neck. Though rowing provides a great workout, it’s also very straining on the joints in your body. Athletes who have participated in rowing for several years may suffer from various joint aches. Here are some common rowing injuries: Lower Back Pain – Low back pain is common in rowers. The muscles in the back are an important part of the strength behind each rowing stroke. However, the back can also become strained from the repetitive motion. Strength and flexibility training can help reduce your chances of hurting your back while rowing. Proper technique is also important. Check out our back braces to help alleviate back pain when rowing. Wrist Pain – The wrist is susceptible to tendonitis when rowing because of the repetitive motion of a rowing stroke. Wearing wrist braces both when rowing and not rowing can help alleviate stress on your wrist and help with the pain. Knee Pain – Patellofemoral pain (behind the kneecap) is also quite common in rowing. Much of the strength in each rowing stroke comes from the legs, which places stress on the knee. Rowers are also at risk for iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS). The iliotibial band glides along the outside of the kneecap while the knee is bent. This can result in inflammation. Wearing knee straps can help alleviate some of the irritation from these types of knee pain. Combine wearing protective gear while you row with proper training and you may help avoid some of the pain associated with rowing!

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Walking home The moon is drifting in and out of the clouds An old solo can roles along the cracked footpath Beer bottles swarm towards the gutter Trees sway and leaves hit my shoes as I walk I see eyes in the darkness of an alley A raspy cough is all I hear The clouds drift over the moon once more I push my headphones in and ignore the strange movements and noises of this world. © Copyright 2016 sweet agony xo. All rights reserved. Paste the link to picture in the entry below: Paste the link to Youtube video in the following entry: Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. Make sure your selection starts and ends within the same node. An annotation cannot contain another annotation. There was an error uploading your file.

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The what’s-for-dinner question frazzles all home cooks after a busy day. Here’s one answer: Bumble Bee’s new SuperFresh Premium Fresh Frozen, which are seafood dishes in the freezer case that serve two ($9.99). These healthy dinners include shrimp and garlic with herb-seasoned butter, which saute in 6 minutes; and salmon with pesto or garlicky black pepper and olive oil, which comes with a piece of parchment for steam-baking and is ready in 20 minutes. Fish is sourced from certified aquaculture farms, and cleaned and frozen within hours. Keep a few in the freezer for emergencies. They go beyond a can of tuna for a quick meal. Available at some Stop & Shop locations. ANN TRIEGER KURLAND

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ERNEST — The Todd Bird Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Blue Spruce Lodge at Blue Spruce County Park in Ernest. Club members Flo and Jim McGuire will present a slide program of their recent birding trip to Cuba. The McGuires traveled with a National Audubon Society-sponsored birding and cultural group and local ornithological guides to several areas of the island, where they photographed endemic species, including the Cuban trogon, the bee hummingbird and the Zapata wren. Refreshments will be provided. The meeting is open to the public. For information, call Patricia Johner at (724) 463-7414 or visit www.toddbirdclub.org.

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How to make the transition to PowerPoint 2010 from PowerPoint 2003. - Microsoft (2) Explains the key differences between PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2003, and the benefits of upgrading. “Your tutorials move at just the right pace for me to work alongside and take notes. So I am learning things that my campus class will not have time for.” —Toni M. more from our members »

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From worms to bobcats, animal species are abundant at Vicksburg National Military Park. But whether or not you see them when you visit the park depends on when, where, and how closely you look. Some species, like squirrels and turkey vultures, are commonly seen. Others, like alligators, bobcats, and beavers are much more secretive in their movements. But whether or not they are seen and appreciated by humans is not as important as each species' worth as a member of a functioning ecosystem. From the frogs and salamanders that act as ecological barometers; to the birds migrating through long-distance from South America; to the crayfish, mussels and fish making these southern streams their natural home; to the chiggers and mosquitos causing that unpleasant itching sensation; to the snakes and deer you catch slithering and bounding out of sight- all these animals and more help make the military park a haven of biodiversity in an ever more quickly developing world.

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January 21, 2014 at 12:00 AM SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - The South Plainfield Cultural Arts Commission is having its 6th annual Talent Showcase. The Showcase is scheduled for March 23, 2014 at Wesley Methodist Church on Plainfield Avenue in South Plainfield. Singers, dancers, musicians, jugglers etc are all encouraged to try-out for the Talent Showcase. The Talent Showcase is open to people of all ages. Auditions for the Showcase are scheduled for Sunday February 23rd, from 2-5 PM and Saturday March 1st from 2-5 PM. All auditions will be at Wesley Methodist Church on Plainfield Avenue. If you have any questions regarding the Talent Showcase or tryouts, please contact the South Plainfield Cultural Arts Commission at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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I loved this cafe. Quirky menu that was cooked and presented very well. Good wine list that has some unusual wines from around the world. Excellent service from waiting staff that knew their stuff. Own or manage this property? Claim your listing for free to respond to reviews, update your profile and much more.

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• Affidavit in Support of an Arrest Warrant – Dylan Ward • Government's Notice of Uncharged Conduct I • Superseding Affidavit Charging Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky & Dylan Ward • Search Warrants Affidavits • Defendants’ Motion for Pretrial Release • Estate of Robert E. Wone (Katherine E. Wone) v. Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky, Dylan Ward • Transcripts of police interviews of Price (here and here), Ward, and Zaborsky (here and here). For more on this case, check out the Who Murdered Robert Wone? blog.

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The following is a draft of the letter of resignation sent by Pastor Pete Nelson to the Calvary Chapel leadership, dated Feb. 8, 2006. Dear Calvary Albuquerque Leadership, As we are well under way on a new year and the end of two years of my serving as Senior Pastor in Albuquerque, I need to seek your counsel on the future of the church. I want to be honest and forthright in order to bring about the best in God's purposes for Calvary Albuquerque ("CA"). My desire is to speak the truth in love, that we may grow up in all things into Him who is the head — Christ. When I was first asked by Skip Heitzig to become Senior Pastor of CA in October 2003, he indicated that he had been sensing for some time a call by God to leave Albuquerque, pursue ministry in Southern California, assist Chuck Smith at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, and be close to his mother. After pursuing another pastoral position in Southern California, Skip was presented with the opportunity to take the Ocean Hills Community Church Senior Pastor position in late 2003. At the time he decided to accept the Ocean Hills position, Skip called to give me a formal invitation to assume the role of Senior Pastor at CA. Accepting the position of CA's Senior Pastor was a very difficult decision to make with many facets involved for consideration. In favor of this decision were the strong previous ties with the fellowship in Albuquerque where I had come to faith in Christ and served on staff for several years as Youth Pastor and my long time relationship with Skip as a mentor and pastor. On the other hand, at the same time I was being groomed for and preparing to eventually assume the Senior Pastor role at a large church in Denver. There were also strong ties in Denver with Tom Stipe, our friends, family, and the work that we had poured ourselves into up to that point. After careful consideration of Skip's commitments to us regarding the way the transition would be handled and much prayer seeking the Lord's will, Angie and I responded with both excitement and humility to the opportunity presented to assume the role of Senior Pastor at CA. On the basis of Skip's clear assurances that as the new Senior Pastor, I would serve in this role under the long established powers and responsibilities established in the church By-Laws (to lead the church, chair its Board of Directors and to appoint Board Directors charged with carrying out the long established and time-honored vision for the church). Angie and I decided that I would resign my position at Crossroads Church of Denver and we would sell our home and move our family to Albuquerque to embrace the body of CA and assume leadership of the church's ongoing Biblical mission. At CA's December 1, 2003 Board meeting, Skip formally announced his plans to leave CA effective almost immediately and announced to the Board that he has chosen me to succeed him as Senior Pastor of CA. This transition plan was unanimously approved by the full Board and I was asked to immediately relocate to Albuquerque and assume the role of Senior Pastor. During 2003 holiday services, Skip announced his departure and I was introduced as CA's new Senior Pastor. Under my leadership, CA was to remain an autonomous church in Albuquerque with local church government as required by the church's governing By-Laws. It was also understood that I would serve in accordance with the church's core values that were distinctive to Calvary Chapel laid down through Skip's past leadership. These core values include strong emphasis on expository teaching of the Scriptures, discipleship through home fellowships, pioneering mission works, media ministry and training men for church planting. Having served within the Calvary Chapel system for many years as a pastor, I was well acquainted with the well-established practices of governance associated with Calvary Chapel, as well as these important core values. Before accepting the Senior Pastor role in December 2003, I asked Skip how I should plan to transition the Board of Directors to members of my choice. Skip requested that he would like to stay on for a year to help smooth transition, but that I should immediately appoint the rest of the Board with whomever I wished. I began seeking the Lord's direction for new members according to Biblical standards based upon Skip's clear direction. On March 17, 2004, I sent a letter to the Board asking it to approve 3 new additional Board members of my choice in accordance with the church's Director appointment powers vested in the Senior Pastor. Skip refused this transition. Skip's stated reasoning was that it had always been his intention that the current Board membership would remain intact without adding any new Board members for a period of at least one year and that he would then evaluate the need for change. Skip indicated that he had recently held a Board meeting with non-local Board members only and that they had voted affirmatively in support of his new viewpoint regarding the Board's composition. In addition, during the official March 25, 2004 Board meeting. Skip proposed to transfer CA's radio station assets to a new company that he controlled. All non-Albuquerque directors voted in favor of the proposal. I, along with another Albuquerque Board member, voted against this proposal. We were both well aware that the radio stations were very valuable CA assets. Further, it was my understanding that these radio station assets serve as collateral under a bond indenture of CA and could not be transferred to Skip's company or another entity without breaching the CA covenants under the debt In a phone call the next day, Skip announced to me that I had "failed the test" by my negative vote on this matter and was now "on probation" in my role as Senior Pastor of the church. I was also told that I had been removed from the Board of Directors of the church for the same reason. At a later date, Skip reconsidered this "removal" and indicated that I remained on the Board of Directors. The long established By-Laws of the Church specify that the Senior Pastor cannot be removed from the Board of Directors and that only the Senior Pastor may nominate or propose a new Board Director or request the removal of a Board Director. At Skip's request, in the latter part of 2004, a CA Board member and I participated in a meeting held in Southern California with Skip and Paul Saber (Skip and Paul are members of both the CA and the Ocean Hills Boards of Directors), along with a consultant chosen by Skip. They proposed setting up a new national organization under Skip's control with an Albuquerque campus and Southern California campus, which was described as a new church model. Under this proposal, CA would become the new organization's Albuquerque campus. During this same timeframe, the Albuquerque Board Directors expressed serious concern about this proposed direction. Local directors were also concerned that Skip and Paul appeared to have serious conflicts of interest by serving on both the Boards of CA and Ocean Hills Community Church and their apparent unwillingness to acknowledge the impropriety of these conflicts of interest. On November 8, 2004, a local Board Director of CA sent a strong letter of objection articulating his concerns over the proposed actions. This resulted in Skip's request for this Board Director's immediate resignation. Skip has since requested and received the resignation of the other Albuquerque Board Director (other than myself) who opposed these proposed restructuring actions that would have placed CA into a new national ministry organization under Skip's control. On November 10, 2004, Skip flew to Albuquerque unannounced to discuss the Albuquerque director's letter. Skip indicated to me that if I did not approve that he remain President of the CA Corporation, he would either have to find someone else to fill the Senior Pastor role or return to Albuquerque himself to take over as Senior Pastor. Prior to the Board meeting on November 29, 2004 in Southern California, I, along with non-Albuquerque directors, had discussions in response to the local Board Director's protest letter and to address the proposed departure from the original governance model of CA and how it might be restored. At the November 29, 2004 Board meeting, Directors agreed to develop and put into place an intermediate plan to get the Board back to the original and long established governance model for CA. This plan included: 1) resignations from the Board by Franklin Graham and Greg Laurie to make three (including the Albuquerque Board member asked to resign) Board positions available for me to appoint members of my choosing, 2) the provision that Skip would serve as Board Chair until 2008 and then retire, and 3) any necessary amendment of CA's By-Laws to facilitate return to the original governance practices of CA. The Minutes of this Board meeting clearly reflect it was the clear intent of the two non-local resigning Directors that, as Board Chair, Skip's authority was to be limited to reviewing and approving my recommendations for new Board members and reviewing my proposed Board meeting agendas. It was specified that I would have complete authority over the operations and ministry activities of CA, including all operational and staffing decisions. During 2005, I did my best to implement and adhere to this Board approved plan. At our official December 12, 2005 Board meeting, Skip repositioned himself to remain Board Chair for an indefinite period of time to facilitate restructuring of CA's governance. As Board Chair, he indicated that he intended to run CA while serving as Senior Pastor at Ocean Hills, in California. It seems he now plans to ultimately have the power to make key decisions for CA to facilitate his vision for CA as part of his national ministry vision. His vision appears to have CA serving as part of this larger national ministry and includes having CA provide significant financial resources to fund his national ministry. Prior to the December 12, 2005 Board meeting, Skip contacted an Albuquerque Board member and requested him to submit his resignation. I was not allowed to nominate the two new local Board Directors of my choice (out of three previously approved by Skip) until after the Board meeting. In that Board meeting, Skip chose and approved a new Board member of his choice without my consent, which was in clear violation of the agreement reached in the November 29, 2004 Board meeting. In this meeting Skip proposed his perpetual Chairmanship of the CA Board. Skip also reasserted his plans to govern and control CA. In December 2005, subsequent to the Board meeting, Skip, as Chairman, sent a letter to all new Board members stating that they would not be qualified to serve as Board members if they did not support his governance vision. On December 25, 2005 I received a letter from Skip further setting forth the restructure for the implementation of his governance While I was away on vacation with my family the week between Christmas and New Years, Skip called a Board meeting (which was at that time a Board made up of myself, Skip, and one non-local Board Director and before my local nominees would officially become Directors on January 1) despite my clear communication through my assistant, that I would not be able to attend. In this Board meeting, Skip and the one non-local Board member, by means of a 2 Director quorum, voted to establish Skip's Chairmanship indefinitely. They also voted to amend the CA By-Laws to provide legal authority for this change. On January 18, 2006, Angie and I met with Skip and Lenya in Southern California to communicate our concerns as well as express our belief that the role of the Senior Pastor at CA is being undermined by these actions. We communicated the dilemma that this presents to us in our role at CA. Angie also expressed the present reality of Skip's actions as clear change in the original agreement when first presented with the opportunity in 2003. Skip agreed and cited my vote in the March 25, 2004 Board meeting as the beginning reason for this change. On January 24, 2006, I discovered that Chip Lusko announced to his department that he would not be around much this year due to the increasing demands with Skip's ministry needs. This announcement was made with the expectation that CA will continue to pay Chip's full salary. This followed an earlier announcement by Chip to his department that came to my attention that Skip's radio program operations will remain in Albuquerque and continue to be funded by CA indefinitely. This is a departure from the previous plan voted in by the Board in the November 29, 2004 meeting that clearly indicated that these operations and expenses would be systematically weaned off of CA over an agreed period of time. I am trying to be the best and most godly shepherd that I can be serving as Senior Pastor of the CA body. However, Skip's actions to date, proposed governance and organizational model undermines my ability to lead and perform effectively. Further, all of this restructuring and new vision for CA is going on without the knowledge of the local church body. I do not feel that I can effectively serve the body at CA under the present circumstances. I believe CA is at a fork in the road. I am seeking the Lord's will and unity as the highest priority for this church. Disclosure of these developments and issues to the church body could be very destructive. I am at the quandary and face a severe dilemma as the Senior Pastor of this church. I'm not claiming to be perfect, however I believe that I have walked in integrity before the Lord at each step of the transition process, but I am unwilling to be further compromised in my role as Senior Pastor. As the founder of CA, Skip feels he should still be in full control. I have been unable to obtain Skip's understanding of my concerns about his intentions. He has removed all past Albuquerque directors in retaliation for opposing him. I seek your assistance in dealing with this untenable situation. If the leadership of CA desires to support Skip's plans and actions, then the leadership of CA should appoint another Senior Pastor for the church. Skip's current plans for CA and the Senior Pastor role are not the basis upon which Angie and I were called by the Lord to lead this church. Because this was not the basis of our understanding and is contrary to Skip's initial assurances and later agreements, this letter is presented to you as Board members and leaders of CA for your prayerful consideration. We love this church and would be delighted to continue to lead the church on the basis of the original vision for CA and the assurances given to us. I love you and deeply appreciate your love for my family

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University of Dubai celebrates global recognition on becoming first in Middle East to offer ILM Levels 5 and 7 certifications University of Dubai celebrated yesterday the awarding of the British Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 5 and Level 7 programs to the university, making it the first university in the Middle East to offer these certifications to its graduates of the Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, and Master’s degree in Human Resources Management and Leadership. The ceremony, organized at the Dubai Chamber, was attended by Essa Al Zaabi, Senior Vice President for Institutional Support Sector at Dubai Chamber, and Professor Rao Onant, Head of Academic Affairs at University of Dubai, and a number of professors from the Faculty of Business Administration. Julie Cape, Director of Quality at the ILM in the Middle East, was also present on the occasion. During the ceremony, the University of Dubai received the Certificate of Accreditation from the ILM, as a delegation from the ILM briefed the details and the criteria for the Institute’s programs for the two levels. They also outlined the stages to be adopted for the granting of such certificates, and their benefits to the students. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Issa Bastaki, President of the University of Dubai, said the certificates programs of ILM for Levels 5 and 7 represent a quantum leap in the level of the programs offered by the university. Describing the programs as an international recognition for the university, Dr. Bastaki said the new programs will lead to an increase in the turnout of students at the University of Dubai. He explained that the most important characteristics of Levels 5 and 7 programs is that the students enrolled in the Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management and Master’s degree in Human Resources Management and Leadership are automatically entitled for the certifications. The students in the Bachelor’s degree receive the Level 5 certification while those in the Master’s degree receive the Level 7 certification. Julie Cape said the University of Dubai has succeeded in providing high quality academic programs that match international standards, and in turn is consistent with the standards of the ILM Institute. She added that certification Levels 5 and 7 not only enhance the knowledge level of the students but also improve their prospects in the job market and enable them to become effective and influential people in their work environment. She pointed out that the ILM Institute provides support for the University of Certification Programs through its regional office in Dubai. For more information please contact: PR Department, University of Dubai Tel: 04-207 2661; E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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Ty Dillon simultaneously beat Kyle Busch and fuel efficiency en route to his first win on the Nationwide circuit at the Lilly Diabetes 250 on Saturday evening. As if that wasn't good enough, Dillon also earned the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus: After the win, he thanked his pit crew and said he was looking forward to kissing the famous bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, via Dustin Long of Motor Racing Network: The No. 3 car led the last 24 laps of the race, just to put into perspective how well he closed. Busch was never able to regain the lead after struggling on a restart. The only drama at the end of the race was whether either driver would run out of gas. Both decided not to make one last pit stop to fuel up, so they were forced to ration what they had for the most important moments of the race, per NASCAR on ESPN: Ty Dillon has the lead, but Kyle Busch is right behind him with 22 to go; Question is whether they can make it to the finish on fuel.— NASCAR on ESPN (@ESPNNASCAR) July 26, 2014 Busch's pit crew decided to slow down until the final stretch and then push the car as hard as it could go. That plan unraveled, though, as Dillon opened up so large a lead that Busch was unable to make any movement up the leaderboard. Dillon was even forced to tone it down in the final five laps to ensure he'd have enough fuel left to finish, per Bob Pockrass of Sporting News: Dillon told to save fuel with 1.5-sec lead. 5 to go.— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) July 26, 2014 Yet he finished the race without any problems. What his win lacked in theater, it made up for with appreciation of Dillon's performance. You can see the rest of the top 10 below, via NASCAR.com. Here's a look at how Sunday's race impacted the points standings, via ESPN.com. Saturday was a good day to be a Sprint Cup driver. Some fans believe that drivers shouldn't be able to double dip; they either run the Sprint Cup or Nationwide Series. The race illustrated the difference between the experienced vets and the emerging drivers, even if Dillon got the better of Busch in the end. Busch, Matt Kenseth, Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano all led at least one lap throughout the race, and for the most part, they were hanging around the lead. Six of the top eight finishers on Saturday were Sprint Cup drivers. Logano in particular got off to a great start. He was one of the early leaders, grabbing the lead after a pit stop on the 18th lap. He lasted there until Lap 30, when he stopped to get two fresh tires. It seemed the only thing that stood in Logano's way was a good pair of windshield wipers: Logano single handedly taking out every bug at the track. #NASCAR— Glenn J Hull (@glennjhull) July 26, 2014 With the No. 22 car slipping back a bit, Harvick was able to gain a foothold. At this point, he was just getting greedy, having already won the pole for the Brickyard 400 earlier in the afternoon: Harvick takes the lead from Kenseth; it's that kind of day for Harvick thus far since he's already won the Brickyard 400 pole. #PitStudio— NASCAR on ESPN (@ESPNNASCAR) July 26, 2014 Harvick's pit crew had obviously figured out some sort of secret at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Throughout the entire weekend, he's had one of the fastest cars at the track. To see him out in front for a sustained period was no big surprise. What also helped Harvick was the relatively small amount of cautions throughout the race. With such a big track, the cars are more spaced out, which cuts down on the amount of accidents and cautions. The first yellow flag was as a result of debris on the track in the 16th lap. The second came nearly 40 laps later, when Jeffrey Earnhardt's engine gave out on him: Caution for Jeffrey Earnhardt. ... looks like an engine. #nascar— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) July 26, 2014 The problem for the drivers was that fluid leaked out of Earnhardt's engine as he circled around the track and headed for pit row. The trucks needed to clear the oil off before the race could get underway again. Pit road was especially slick. For Earnhardt, his exit from the race was a comically unfortunate metaphor: Caution as Jeffrey Earnhardt's race goes up in smoke.— NASCAR on ESPN (@ESPNNASCAR) July 26, 2014 When the race got back underway and all the cars had exited the pits in Lap 61, Logano was sitting on the lead after taking only two tires on the left side. Chase Elliott took only two tires as well, but most of the field went with the full four. Logano's strategy, though, was to make each pit stop as quick as possible. He and his pit crew executed a plan that would allow him to run the final 30-plus laps without having to make another trip down pit road: It was a gamble that didn't pay off in the end. Logano was able to move up as high as fourth, but he simply ran out of laps, despite having one of the few cars with enough fuel to finish the race without any issue. If the race was 10 laps longer, Logano might have been able to grab the win. Harvick was also undone by a poor pit strategy. He arguably had the best car on the day, but pitting in the 68th lap and then again six laps later pushed him to the middle of the pack, and he wasn't able to make up the ground in the final 26 laps. Saturday just goes to show that in-race adjustments and executing the right game plan is just as important as the strength of the car. Dillon and his pit crew did everything right, and they were justly rewarded. Dillon's been a fixture in the Top 10 on the Nationwide Series, but he's struggled to crack the Top Five. Getting that previously elusive first win may be the kick necessary for the 22-year-old to climb to the top of the points standings.

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Join us on a whistlestop tour of the busy Renault and Nissan stands at Paris Motor Show. Discover why the Alliance is committed to increasing the number of electric vehicles on Europe’s roads and why Quick Charging is the key to future growth. Meet ZOE, Renault’s latest EV and marvel at TeRRA from Nissan, an advanced 4X4 fuel cell electric vehicle concept. Also at the show is Nissan Pivo 3, an ultra-compact electric city car of tomorrow. The message from Paris? Zero Emission electric vehicles will help sustain personal mobility in the future, but they are here, now… and the Alliance is leading the EV charge.

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Calsters, the giant pension fund for California teachers, and Relational Investors LLC, think the CEO of Occidental Petroleum gets paid too much. The two funds sent a letter to Irani’s employer, Occidental Petroleum, saying they are fed up with the CEO’s lavish pay, which totaled $857 million over the past 10 years. The funds are so miffed by what they call Irani’s “lavish pay out” that they are looking to unseat four of 13 board members. In the letter, the funds point out that Irani’s “target awards are now nearly twice those of the CEO at Exxon Mobil, the largest company in the world, and over three times that of Occidental’s peer group average.” Here is a look at how Occidental, with a market value of $64 billion, stacks up against the total returns of those companies. Occidental had a total return of 873% from Dec. 31, 1999, through Dec. 31, 2009. By comparison, Exxon Mobil, with a market cap of $295 million, had a total returns, which include dividends, of 110% and Conoco Phillips, which has a market value of $87 billion, posted total returns of 184.6%. The other energy producer in the Wall Street Journal’s recent survey of CEO compensation with a better total return than Occidental was XTO Energy, a high-growth natural-gas company that was bought by Exxon late last year at a 25% premium. The $41 billion deal helped boost XTO’s total 10-year return to 3459%. (XTO’s CEO Bob Simpson was paid a total of $350 million over the last decade). So is Irani good or lucky? Irani is a trained chemist who took over the Occidental helm from long time CEO Armand Hammer in 1990. Hammer was a quixotic billionaire who ran Occidental like a closely held company. Since then, the company has stood out among other oil and gas producers. Irani reshaped Occidental, turing a hodge-podge of disparate business lines (there were meat processing and horse breeding units) into a pure oil-and-gas play. Irani’s lavish compensation is partly the result of contract terms he signed when he took a job with Hammer in the 90s, after the “old man,’’ as he was known, had been firing chiefs left and right. The contract ensured Irani would be handsomely paid, even if his tenure was short lived, says Fadel Gheit, an Oppenheimer analyst who has covered the company for 25 years and has a “buy” rating on its shares. “People say ‘how good can you be if oil prices go up, it goes up for everybody,’’’ Gheit says. “Well, oil prices also have gone down, and Occidental has managed to stay one of the most profitable in the industry.” Occidental’s also has amassed the highest percentage (73%) of proved reserves–or the percentage of reserves that are almost certain to be able to yield oil–among the big U.S oil companies, according to Raymond James. Gheit also credits Irani with being risk averse, which has led to potentially savvy moves, such as pulling out of off-shore oil drilling. Occidental also has mastered technology that helps it boost production in wells that have been neglected (such as in Iraq) or those that have thought to be tapped out (like in the United Arab Emirates). Until recently, Occidental had beat Wall Street’s earnings estimates for three consecutive years. But in the most recent quarter, the company missed expectations, owning to what the company’s finance chief said were “lousy” commodities trading results. Are the winds blowing against Irani? Nearly $1 billion of pay over 10 years is big money no matter the accomplishments, especially for a CEO without the widely known achievements of, say, a Steve Jobs of Apple. Gheit says the issue of Irani’s pay is up to the board. “Think of all those CEOs that were earning millions while their companies were losing money. Occidental is still making money.” Still, Gheit adds,”In my view, all CEOs are overpaid.”

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To the editor: Approximately three years ago, council voted to renew a contract with KC Riverstop, a privately owned company, to provide food service on publically owned (by the taxpayers) property in the Yacht Club complex. At that time, the new contract was an increase from the previous contract with KC, so that's good, right? The City Charter sets out specific rules when the city wants to enter into a public/private partnership for the benefit of the taxpayers. For example, if the city wants to purchase fuel, it makes a "Request for Proposal" with what it expects from the private businesses, then sets a period of time in which those interested can submit their proposal and opens the process to everyone, equally. It is the intent of this process to prevent city administration, or five council members, from directing city business exclusively to their friends or cronies. Seem reasonable? However, as the world of politics turns, it is shocking to tell you that sometimes the good intent of the rules for an R.F.P. do not coincide with the realities of politics. Three years ago, Mr. Leetz, who could count to 5, decided he would quash the RFP process. With his four other signers and council members from the Road Ahead Group, (aka, R.A.G.) awarded a contract to their friends at KC Riverstop. Was this legal? Yes. Without an RFP, however, no one knew what anyone was willing to offer for the opportunity to provide this food service at the beach. The Road Ahead gang flexed their political muscle and prevailed. Fast forward to last Monday's Council meeting (Feb. 11) when a request by K.C. Riverstop to renew their contract came before council. This time, Mr. Leetz could only count to 2. You see, the voters, in the last election, ran three of his crony R.A.G. friends off council. They were tired of the turmoil and dysfunctional behavior they saw at Council meetings. Just because he could not ramrod a vote this time around, master politician Leetz was far from defeated! The K.C. food business has many friends who care about that business and they rose to speak for K.C., as they had a right to do during public input, even if they were not taxpayers. We heard tear-filled testimonials from people who left their snow-covered mountain retreats in other countries to move to Cape Coral just so they could get their daily fix of cholesterol and alcohol (burger and a beer) from K.C. Riverstop. One council person told us that K.C. was "Kape Coral" and "Kape Coral" was K.C., and that this was "priceless" for Cape taxpayers. He chided council members who wanted R.F.P. info on a fair contract dollar amount to make their decision. Yes, he is up for election this year. Finally, when the vote was called, it was 6-2, to order the city to issue an R.F.P and give anyone a chance to present their business plan for this publically owned property and how much they would pay for a lease agreement. K.C. Riverstop should be first in line to submit their plan since they have a good reputation. Good luck! Mr. Leetz characterized the city as heartless (BTW, the press and the TV repeated this view) for taking away the livelihood of this poor, little "mom-pop" business. It is an election year for Mr. Leetz and his enthusiasm to filibuster votes, lecture his fellow council members and continually crown himself as the only true patriot in the Cape, is just starting. Perhaps Leetz can convince his friend Sullivan to allow him to place a military brass band and throngs of flag waving school children behind him on the dais and they can play "God Bless America" and wave flags when Leetz starts his sermons. Do you think the voters will see through this masquerade and invite Mr. Leetz to find other employment just as they did with his other Road Ahead cronies? F. C. Perry

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The University of Tennessee at Knoxville president is the grand marshal for the 2014 Mule Day parade. Dr. Joseph “Joe” DiPietro became president of UT in 2011 and also serves as chairman of the Board of Governors of UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Department of Energy, and as a member of the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees. Before becoming UT’s president, DiPietro served as chancellor of the UT Institute of Agriculture from 2006 to 2010. DiPietro is a veterinarian by training and previously oversaw UT Extension, AgResearch, the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and the College of Veterinary Medicine. During his tenure, the institute began interdisciplinary programs such as the Center for Renewable Carbon, the Tennessee Biofuels Initiative and began offering the master’s degree in landscape architecture. DiPietro and his wife Deb live in Knoxville and have three children and six grandchildren. In addition, the Mule Day office has selected Buddy Black as an honorary grand marshal for the parade to honor Black’s faithful service to Mule Day. Black was born in Milton, but currently resides in Woodbury. Black grew up on a family farm, working with and training mules as well as growing hay and hauling wood for neighbors free of charge. In 1990, Black met with a “Trail of Tears” group in Prater and led them into Woodbury on their way to Oklahoma. In 1986, Bill Smith asked Black to organize a 20-mule team for the annual “Good Ole Days” parade. Black is also a frequent participant in Murfreesboro’s Uncle Dave Macon Days, Auburntown’s Red Apple Days, the Woodbury Christmas Parade and Westmoreland Mule Day. Black is a founding member of the Middle Tennessee Mule Skinner Association and took over hauling the Mule Day grand marshal in Columbia 34 years ago. The Mule Day office has chosen to honor Black by having Terry Preston of Woodbury drive Black’s team and wagon as Black serves as honorary grand marshal.

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When I reviewed MIND MGMT Volume 1: The Manager, it took me a little time to get used to Matt Kindt's garage-art style, but the story itself pulled me in from the opening pages and had a fantastic payoff in the end. Part of the strength of that first collection was the fact that Kindt didn't know if anyone would buy the series, so he structured those first six issues in a way that had a solid beginning, middle, and end, just in case it was actually going to be the end. Luckily, it wasn't. The success of that first arc means that Kindt may actually get to see his Three Year Plan through to fulfillment, which is a good thing. However, it also means that the plotting for the second volume, MIND MGMT Volume 2: The Futurist (which collects MIND MGMT #7-12, a story from Dark Horse Presents #19, and comic strips from io9.com) is a little looser and ultimately a little less satisfying. But only a little. As far as the actual storytelling goes, this is still maybe the densest book on the market. Most of The Futurist contains excerpts from our main character Meru's true-crime novel Premeditated, and as with the marginalia of Volume 1, there are nicely crafted parallels between what happens in that text and the actual comic, page by page. Sometimes it's a thematic similarity, sometimes events from both narratives coincide. Over the first part of the book, there is also text in the bottom margin that explains, as we discover at its conclusion, the process by which an Assassination Letter is created and delivered — as well as hints about the establishment of Assassination Letter protocols. What's an Assassination Letter? Read the book. As far as the main story, Kindt opens up the world of MIND MGMT this time around with only minimal rehashing of events from Volume 1. Meru, our amnesiac heroine from Volume 1 is back, drawn into the world of psychic spies and assassins thanks to a mysterious letter (hmmmm?) that arrives on a Sunday morning. Sensing something is up with the letter, she sets out to discover who sent it, only to follow a daisy-chain of people who don't know anything except who passed on the letter to them. Her ability to accomplish this is strange in itself, and leads to the central reveal of this volume. But it's once she reaches the end of the line there, that the story begins in earnest with the reappearance of Lyme, a murder, and a globe-hopping journey to recruit allies against The Eraser. Who's the Eraser? Good question. The Eraser is an agent trying to reform MIND MGMT, but that's only part of the story; the rest of which is parceled out over the course of these six issues, demonstrating just how interconnected everything Kindt puts on the page really is. Really, just read the book. My favorite part of this collection, though, is the attention paid to Duncan, our titular Futurist. Duncan is the character from Volume 1 who could see the future by reading the minds of those around him and formulating a sense of inevitability based on everyone's intentions. He's a nicely tragic character who is also a major badass at the same time. The chapter devoted to his time spent amusing himself as a private investigator is brilliant, right down to the side text detailing the thoughts of everyone around him in the comic panels — even the animals. Back in the main story, before everything is said and done, we know secrets that had only been suggested, we've gone places no one is supposed to go, alliances form that shouldn't and alliances shift that were always destined to shift. It all culminates in an open-ended finale that lacks the sense of closure Volume 1 had, but signals a willingness to go big and pull the rug out from under all of our characters. And it's all told in that scratchy pen and ink with watercolor wash art that I've learned to love. At first glance it's a seemingly casual approach to the visual storytelling, but every page is filled with hints and details that expand the interpretations of what is happening in the narrative action. Seriously, the visuals are as dense with meaning as the actual text. And Kindt's use of color with those washes is just beautiful. MIND MGMT really has the feel of an actual physical artifact rather than something created digitally and mass produced. So, while Volume 1 could have stood on its own as a single story, Volume 2 is clearly intent on carrying on to the bitter end. Be warned. If you read Volume 2: The Futurist, you will have to keep reading MIND MGMT. It's that good. Even without the appearance of the talking dolphins. Paul Brian McCoy is the writer of Mondo Marvel and a regular contributor/editor for Comics Bulletin. His first novel, The Unraveling: Damaged Inc. Book One is available at Amazon US & UK, along with his collection of short stories, Coffee, Sex, & Creation (US & UK). He recently contributed the 1989 chapter to The American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s (US & UK) and has kicked off Comics Bulletin Books with Mondo Marvel Volumes One (US & UK) and Two (US & UK). Paul is unnaturally preoccupied with zombie films, Asian cult cinema, and sci-fi television. He can also be found babbling on Twitter at @PBMcCoy.

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gavtheoldskater wrote:just to add anorther 2p worth... my new o'neill rg8 turned up this afternoon after i posted my earlier comment. the o'neill large is definitely smaller thatn a ripcurl large, i'm 5ft11 (you'll have to google that to get metric) and i reckon any taller i would struggle but with the rc you could go taller. so for me a better fit, and i also reckon the quality of finish and fittings is way above rip curl. way way above. eivsemb wrote:Alright thanks guys, seems I will go for L. The problem is that I have a hard time finding stores with size large in stock, but many of them do have LT (or XL) in stock. Well I'm 184 cm tall, so just inbetween L and LT regarding height. Do you think the LT will feel too big or will it fit nicely? And one more thing, what is the difference between E-bomb and E-bomb Pro? The E-bomb pro is actually priced lower to my confusion.. Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests

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The FDLR met a few weeks ago in the forests of the eastern Congo to decide on a new leadership. No great surprises here: Gen. Gaston Iyamuremye (aka Gaston Rumuli), who had been serving as interim president since the arrest of Ignace Murwanashyaka in Germany in 2009, was confirmed at president. The vice-president is Callixte Mbarushimana, the controversial former Executive Secretary of the movement, based in Paris. This re-shuffle does not change the military leadership of the movement, which is led by Gen. Sylvestre Mudacumura and his deputy Gen. Stanislas Nzeyimana (aka Bigaruka), based in North and South Kivu, respectively. Gen. Rumuli, as he is known, is sixty-two years old now and is originally from Ruhengeri, in the north of Rwanda. He was the commander of a logistics battalion during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, although his exact involvement in the genocide not known. He worked his way up through the ranks of the FDLR in the Congo from brigade commander to G5 (head of mobilization and propaganda) to minister of defense and now president. His wife Josée lives in Rulindo, Rwanda, where she is a teacher. They have two daughters, who are also in Rwanda. The fact that the FDLR would appoint a military man based in the eastern Congo as the head of their civilian wing is significant. That wing was created in 2000 to give the group more international legitimacy and to network with the Diaspora and diplomats. It will obviously be difficult for Gen. Rumuli, as he is known, to field press calls and attend meetings with the Diaspora if he is based in the eastern Congo. It will also be more difficult for him to be arrested. This suggests that the military leadership is taking back control of the movement and emphasizing the military struggle - not too surprising, as they have become increasingly known for the serial abuses against the local Congolese population. Nonetheless, the group has maintained some high-profile leaders in the Diaspora, in particular the firebrand Callixte Mbarumshimana. Hopefully, this will give the French authorities more reason to prosecute him, especially as he has been known to get involved directly in military operations, as was recently evident when he intervened to halt a UN operation to return thousands of Rwandan Hutu civilians to Rwanda.

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CINCINNATI (AP) When they get back together again, the Cubs and the Reds will have spent a long time apart. Theyll have had two months to stew, or two months to forget. Two months to plot revenge, or two months to let go and move on. Which will it be? The NL Central rivals parted with angry words Thursday after the Reds won 3-1, splitting a four-game series that featured capacity crowds, a superstars return and some parting punches. Youve got two teams fighting for first place or to stay in the pennant race, and little things are upsetting, Reds manager Bob Boone said. Testosterone was flying around the field. Thats not all that spilled out at Great American Ball Park this week. The series represented Sammy Sosas chance to get back into baseball and fans good graces after a seven-game suspension for using a corked bat. His return caught the fans fancy. After drawing fewer than 29,000 fans for each of the first two games with Sosa still sitting, the Reds sold out the last two games with Sosa back to hitting. He hit a prodigious two-run homer in his first game back Wednesday, then added two harmless singles on Thursday before a crowd of 41,692 that was polarized by the sluggers fall from grace. When the Cubs came to town in April, Sosa was treated like baseball royalty. He got a standing ovation for hitting his 500th homer on April 4, the first historic hit at Great American Ball Park, and basked in adulation during the series. This time, he heard more boos than cheers, an indication that hes got a lot of work ahead to refurbish his reputation. He didnt want to talk about it after Thursdays game. Everyone else was talking about the second brawl at Great American in a week, and the teams rematch next Sept. 12 at Wrigley Field. Its baseball. People will remember things, said Cubs starter Mark Prior (8-3), who went six innings. Its a tight race, and its going to be intense to begin with, and this will probably carry over

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Uniblue SystemTweaker 2014 is a handy tool that will help you quickly apply a host of useful Windows tweaks, without the hassle of browsing endless Control Panel applets to track down the appropriate setting, or the potential danger of editing your Registry. Some tweaks may be entirely new to you. Once your PC has booted, for instance, Windows won't load the desktop until any login script has completed, but SystemTweaker can turn off this behaviour - and perhaps accelerate your startup time - in a click. And did you know that Windows can automatically activate any window just by hovering the mouse over it? It's another little-known feature that SystemTweaker can enable with a click. Other options are more familiar. You're able to customise the Start menu to add the Run command, a Favourites folder, Control Panel icon and more, and you may know where to find those settings already. Still, they're easier to locate and use here, all grouped together in the Start Menu section, and will help you quickly set up Windows to suit your needs. Elsewhere are assorted other tweaks to enhance your PCs performance, improve its security, and generally make your system easier to use. And extras include a basic System Information section, and a system Overview that, for instance, displays your Windows Update status so you can be sure it's enabled, and allows you to create a System Restore point in just one click. What's new in 2016 (see changelog for more)? - 2016 Version

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"The leaders of the (Syrian National) Coalition will meet today to discuss promises made by several major countries, which have asked us to cancel the boycott and give clear and specific support for the Syrian people," Coalition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib said Monday to reporters in Cairo. The Coalition had announced on Saturday its intention to withdraw from an 11-nation meeting of the Friends of Syria in Rome on Thursday and to cancel planned visits to Washington and Moscow in protest at the "international silence" over "crimes committed against the Syrian people." The boycott decision came after surface-to-surface missiles slammed into a district of Aleppo, killing at least 58 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The United States on Sunday urged the opposition group to reconsider pulling out of the Rome summit, which the new Secretary of State John Kerry will attend. Khatib said on Monday that a visit to staunch Damascus ally Russia would be "postponed until we see how things progress". "The Russian leadership has a particular moral and political responsibility because they are still supporting the regime with arms," he added. The opposition leader accused Damascus of rejecting a call for dialogue made at the end of January, saying "permanent procrastination... has crippled the initiative." "Dialogue is not meant to buy time and procrastinate. The regime rejected even the simplest humanitarian request, which was the release of the detainees. We demanded the freeing of the women first, but the regime did nothing," Khatib said. But he left the door open to future negotiation. "We will always consider decisions that could stop the killing and destruction." Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said on Monday during a visit to Moscow that the government was "ready for dialogue with all who want dialogue, including those who are carrying arms."

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Published on Monday, 16 July 2012 Written by The Editors Daphne's Greek, a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant chain with 55 locations across three states, announced a series of organizational changes. Five executives take on new challenges at the chain. These changes include: - Volker Schmitz becomes vice president of operations, responsible for the day-to-day operation of the restaurants. - Christy Geiling was promoted to vice president of marketing and brand development. - Craig Meunier advances to the newly created position of vice president of brand execution, responsible for implementing initiatives at the restaurant level. He will also focus on recruiting, training, store remodels, local store marketing programs and supporting new franchisees. - Nicole Jones will serve in the newly created position of vice president of food and beverage, with continued responsibility for new menu item development and supply chain and cost management. - Ricardo Camberos becomes vice president of treasury and cash management, a new position in which he will manage accounting requirements for Daphne's franchise effort as well as continue to manage company accounting.

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Ten years ago I hadn't even had the idea of the Roman Mysteries. (It came to me in August 1999). Now there are over 20 books out there, a whole world of plots and characters, all from my head. Fantastic! Amazing!* A letter from a fan asking me where I got all my ideas reminded me of an early inspiration. When I was about 11, the target age of my readers, I saw a movie which is still one of my favourites: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Although many people write it off as a silly musical, I dare to say it's probably the most accurate film about ancient Rome ever made. Have a look at the opening sequence on YouTube: COMEDY TONIGHT. As for my 17 books, they can probably all be summed up in the words of the title song: Something appealing, something appalling, something for everyone a comedy tonight! Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns, bring on the lovers, liars and clowns. Old situations, new complications, nothing portentous or polite, tragedy tomorrow: comedy tonight! Something convulsive, something repulsive, something for everyone: a comedy to night. Something aesthetic, something frenetic, something for everyone: a comedy tonight. Nothing of gods, nothing of fate, weighty affairs will just have to wait… Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone a comedy tonight! Something that’s gaudy, something that’s bawdy, something for everybody’s taste... Pantaloons and tunics, courtesans and eunuchs, funerals and chases, baritones and basses, panderers, philanderers, cupidity, timidity, mistakes, fakes, rhymes, mimes, tumblers, grumblers, fumblers, bumblers, no royal curse, no Trojan horse, and there’s a happy ending of course. Goodness and badness, man in his madness, this time it all turns out all right… comedy, comedy, comedy tonight! Lovers divided get coincided, something for everyone a comedy tonight! Father and mother get one another, something for everyone – a (tragedy) tonight! I get the twins, they get the best, I get a family, I get a rest, we get a few girls, I’ll get some new girls, I get the thing I want to be: Free! Nothing for kings, nothing for crowns, something for the lovers, liars and clowns. What is the moral? Must be a moral. Here is the moral wrong or right: morals tomorrow, comedy, comedy, comedy tonight! The Man from Pomegranate Street is out now and you can watch filmed adaptations of some of the earlier books via iTunes. * Fantastic! Amazing! is a quote from Funny Thing, which I know almost by heart...

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BINGO! We have a winner!! My sentiments exactly Soxcat. The reason why we could be better off with Young than Leinart, is that we don't need him to start right away. He can spend time learning behind McNair and learn whatever the coaches feel he doesn't have yet, such as reading a pro-defence. What I see in Young is huge potential that needs developing, what I see in Leinart is a good quarterback, who might or might not, be as good as he is ever going to be. My gut tells me that Young can be even better given time and good coaching. In fact I see us having McNair, Mauck and Young for the next 1-2 years, McNair being the starter, Mauck the backup in case of injury and Young the apprentice on the bench.

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Monday, 24 October 2011 Maritime Memories of Old Lyme Regis For the Year of Maritime Lyme, Lyme Regis Museum has organised a special local history exhibition at the Town Mill Malthouse. Entitled ‘Maritime Memories’, it brings together a wide variety of historic material relating to Lyme’s maritime past. Anyone interested in the town’s social history, the sea, and boats of all kinds will find something fascinating in the exhibition. The exhibition is on from Saturday 22nd to Sunday 30th October and admission is free. Amongst the exhibition material will be the lerrets, Vera (below) and Littlesea and a wealth of rarely seen photographs.

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On Tuesday, Major League Baseball unveiled its 2014 regular-season schedule, which has a touch of West Coast flair for the Indians. When the Tribe is not taking on its American League brethren, the club will be tasked with facing teams from the National League West as part of Interleague Play. The Indians begin next season out West, too. Cleveland will be in Oakland for Opening Day on March 31, when the teams engage in a three-game series by the Bay. The Indians return home to Progressive Field on April 4 for their home opener against the Twins, as part of a six-game homestand that features Minnesota and San Diego. Before the end of April, the Indians will return to the Bay Area for a three-game Interleague series against the Giants from April 25-27. The NL West's Rockies (May 30-June 1) also come to Cleveland next season, when the Indians will also have road trips against the D-backs (June 24-25) and Dodgers (June 30-Juy 2). Cleveland will not host its AL Central rivals from Chicago or Detroit until May 2-4 and May 19-21, respectively. The Indians will once again have a home-and-home Ohio Cup series with the Reds, with two games Aug. 4-5 in Cleveland followed by a pair on Aug. 6-7 in Cincinnati. The Tribe's road-heavy months will be April and June with 16 travel dates apiece. On either side of next season's All-Star break, Cleveland will have a 10-game homestand (July 4-13 against the Royals, Yankees and White Sox) followed by a 10-game road trip (July 18-27 against the Tigers, Twins and Royals). Next summer's All-Star Game is scheduled to take place on June 15 at Target Field in Minnesota. Arguably the most daunting road trip of the Indians' 2014 slate is a 10-day trek through Texas, Kansas City and Boston from June 6-15. The Indians can take some comfort in knowing that the schedule appears to ease down the stretch. In September, they'll have 16 home games compared to 11 road contests, finishing with a six-game homestand from Sept. 22-28 against the Royals and Rays. Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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A Waukesha man has overcome daunting odds to achieve Scouting's highest rank. Garrett Becker weighed 1 pound 7 ounces when he was born. He was 12 inches long. His father, Dennis, said the odds back then weren't good. "He was given, I think, a 15 percent chance to live six months," he said. Born prematurely with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and blindness, his parents wanted the best for their son. Garrett found his comfort in the outdoors, and in a leap of faith his parents took him to Boy Scout Troop 20 in Delafield. "My first thought in if we should get him into scouts was 'I'm not sure that he can do it, but we'll see what happens,'" Becker said. In nearly a decade with the troop, Garrett has earned 27 merit badges. But he wanted more. He wanted to be an Eagle Scout. Garrett's Eagle project involved collecting 200 items of clothing for the Hope Center. Once again, he beat the odds and collected more than 2,700 items. Scouts are to complete their Eagle requirements before turn 18. Garrett was granted an extension so that he was able to complete his requirements by age 21. Only 5 percent of Boy Scouts attain the rank of Eagle. Garrett once again defied the odds and passed his Eagle Board of Review. Next month, Dennis will take the Eagle pin he was presented in 1961 and present it to his son. "For me to give this pin to Garrett, I get choked up just thinking about it," he said. Garrett said he plans on staying on with Troop 20 and wearing the uniform. "A lot of people, a lot of friends," Garrett said of his troop. "It makes me feel happy."

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Public Access TV possible in Wilmington but not likely without legal action, says City Attorney 121 public access television channels operate across North Carolina – but not in Wilmington -- yet. The City recently hosted a public meeting to discuss whether the up-sides outweigh the risks and costs. As WHQR’s Rachel Lewis Hilburn reports, community members excited about public access shared ideas and raised questions -- but not before taking issue with the city’s presentation. About 70 people clustered around tables in City Hall to hear from Assistant City Attorney Joe Betts. Cable provider Time Warner is probably obligated to furnish a public access channel if the City requests it, says Betts, but they’re unlikely to comply without a push. “So the long and short of it is we believe we would probably have to file a court action in order to make it happen.” That analysis didn’t sit well with members of the public who have spent years campaigning for public access. One participant asked if anyone from the city could present the positive side. Several others questioned why city officials insist legal action would be necessary. “I think it a little bit premature until you ask Time Warner Cable ‘Will you provide the public access channel?’ Then their response dictates the action of the City. And until we ask that question, then we really don’t know.” Attorney Betts says taxpayers should consider potential cost overruns -- with a state contribution of just $2700 per month. And because the First Amendment protects free speech, the content presents its own set of challenges. “Yes, we must allow adult programming, anti-religious programming, anti-government. Anything that’s allowed in the First Amendment would be allowed on this channel – not just would be – but must be. We cannot deny access to anyone.” Steve Lee is a member of an advocacy group for public access TV in Wilmington. And he says the major concerns of city attorneys, legal and financial liability, are overblown. “Public access channels in 24 towns in this state have figured out how to deal with the content issue. Public access programming is protected by the first amendment. But you may not show obscene materials. You may not libel or slander and you may not invade people’s privacy with the programming.” Obscenity, though, which is prohibited by the FCC and North Carolina general statutes, doesn’t include so-called adult programming. “What you might call mature content – if it met the other programming requirements, then it’s possible that it could be shown. And it would be late at night.” Bishop Edward Williams, pastor of a Wilmington church, says part of the community’s apparent queasiness over a public access channel might also come from the perception that public access means a church-dominated channel. “What our mission has been recently is to basically change the face of what the community, from a psychological standpoint, views as public access, as, really church access. And we’re trying to open up to them what the benefits are to the community.” Those benefits, says Williams, include broadcasting high school sports, and affording greater outreach potential to area nonprofits. “Just to think about true public access being afforded to the City of Wilmington – it just makes me feel like leaping for the benefit of all the organizations that are doing such great work through the years and haven’t had a venue, basically, to tell their story.” Steve Lee says public access would be the great equalizer. “The lowliest person could tell a story and get it on public access television. And that’s the beauty of this.” City officials will compile all the public comments from last week’s meeting – adding in feedback from an online survey – and present it to City Council at the December or January meeting. Follow this link to the online survey. For more on the City's position, visit their website:

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Naturally, not being as rich as Nigella, I won’t be cooking with Champagne, but I might use a toasty cava if I can find one dry enough. A prosecco might be a better choice, given the difficulty of finding a really dry cava in Canuckistan.]]> This reminds me of Oscar Wilde’s saying, “I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” And gives me an idea for my dinner party tomorrow, which was to have been a picnic until Zeus heard about it and sent in the clouds.]]> I’m using this pic as inspiration, as tomorrow I’m hosting a dinner party with an Italian theme. And as readers of this blog know, I am no cook. Hell, after 13 years of living in Chinatown where I can get dim sum for $2 a plate and cooked shrimp for $5 a pound, I’m lucky I can even remember how to turn on the stove. I’ll be attempting a puttanesca sauce, which even a lug like me can get right, and if that fails I’ll be attempting to get my guests drunk on Negronis prior to the main course. Antipasti, puttanesca, chopped salad, and cannoli with perhaps a sorbetto for dessert. And lots and lots of wine. Wish me luck!]]> JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI – Official Trailer – Magnolia Pictures from Sundial Pictures on Vimeo. In the basement of a Tokyo office building, 85 year old sushi master Jiro Ono works tirelessly in his world renowned restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. As his son Yoshikazu faces the pressures of stepping into his father’s shoes and taking over the legendary restaurant, Jiro – san relentlessly pursues his lifelong quest to create the perfect piece of sushi. It’s available from Amazon, too,for those who can never get enough visual stimulation. Thanks to Brett Blair on Twitter for the tip! And that, my friends, is how I like to start a meal: with a half-dozen exquisite bivalves, a Martini, and a good friend (neither of which latter you can see because well, good Martinis are invisible and so are good friends until you need them). The Martini, in this case, was Elyx vodka, which my pal Jay Jonestells me is the premium offering from Absolut. Normally, of course, one is all about the gin, but one is curious and from time to time one likes to give vodka a chance. Normally, it’s the booze of choice for those who like to get drunk but don’t like to drink, a key ingredient in Cougartinis, a prerequisite to being featured on DouchebagsLoveGreyGoose.com , and normally I avoid it like the plague. See how tense the thought of such things makes me? I transubstantiated my tenses and persons! One is distraught! But the Blue Elyx Martini was everything a proper vodka Martini should be: as cold as my ex’s heart, as clear as Fate, as bracing as a letter from the bank. Occasionally one runs across a vodka that actually deserves the adjective “smooth” and Elyx is one of those rare distillates, it was positively Bond Villain-smooth, while at the same time it possessed enough body to assert itself in the company of the two plump, gorgonzola-stuffed olives that lolled wantonly within. But I was talking about oysters, wasn’t I? The Kusshi oysters were the smallest of the lot, only about the size of Manila clams which, for someone from Vancouver, was a bit of culture shock on a plate, ours tending more towards the size and texture of a catcher’s mitt. These were delicate of taste and texture, mild like a sea breeze with a slight, lemony sweetness. Best naked. One senses a theme. Why yes, it has been a long time since I’ve eaten an oyster…and you? The moderately-sized Joe’s Gold were creamy and rich, and lemon juice was a good foil for those, if you’re an oyster-foiling sort of person. The Sawmill Bay beach oysters were BC-sized (and you thought everything was bigger in Texas) and honestly unsubtle of flavour. Horseradish time, methinks. Meaty of texture, slightly liverish of taste, these are the kinds of oysters that put my old roommate off oysters: big enough that she could identify the component parts as they slid down her gullet, having deconstructed many a bivalve in high school biology class. Thank GOD in Ontario we dissected fetal pigs; I don’t run across a lotta fetal pigs in the food-and-bevvie-blogging bizness. In any case, they were delicious, briny, and assertive. I could live off Martinis and oysters, but you’d get pretty bored with the blog, if I even remained sober enough to type it all up, so there was more, much more: At a restaurant called Goldfish, I think I could be forgiven for sticking with fish all the way through, and so it came to pass that I ordered the Vodka-Cured (was it sick in the first place?) Salmon Pastrami for an appetizer. Or would that be the fish course? In any case, it came after the Martini-and-Oyster course which I always think of as the Monte Carlo Casino With James Bond on Your Arm course. As do all right-thinking people. Having been deprived of our fine Pacific salmon for several months, and fed insipid, pinkish farmed Atlantic fish, I was happy to see that these thickish slices of Sockeye were as sinisterly red as stigmata. As I’m not a mystic, I have to drop the metaphor there; if any of you know how stigmata taste, drop me a line in the comments; there’s bound to be plenty of interest in that sort of thing, at least in certain circles. Salmon pastrami. We were talking about salmon pastrami. And it was good. I didn’t know quite what to expect of pastramized salmon, but it was to regular smoked salmon as bacon is to regular slow-cooked pork, assertive but neither over-salted nor over-smoked. The peppery arugula salad was a great counterpoint, with a vinaigrette sharp enough to set off the fatty salmon, a sprinkling of fried potato shards for crunch, and some creme fraiche for richness. Objects in the blog may be huger than they appear. These East Coast scallops (I love it when the manager says “they’re from the East Coast. I KNOW! The East! But they’re actually quite good”) were massive, each almost the size of the palm of my hand, but there was not the slightest bit of toughness in them. They were perfectly prepared and that’s not easy with seafood this thick. Those brown nuggets in the foreground are delicious nubbins of bacon. Yes, yes, bacon has been done to death, but scallops can use the boost in flavour, and this particular bacon was marvelously understated, letting the taste of the meat dominate and bringing a richness and depth to the whole dish that the scallops alone would have lacked. It was served with roasted fingerling potatos, roasted asparagus, and roasted cherry tomatoes, which is the ONLY way to go with cherry tomatoes if you ask me; they’re the Dim Beauty Queens of the vegetable world, but roasting brought out the sweetness and flavours that are usually hidden behind underripe, frosty cuteness. Where was I? Oh yes, about to rhapsodize about the wine which Jeff recommended for this dish: a white Bordeaux, Château Bauduc 2009 sauvignon blanc/semillon, which is hilarious because my cousin married a Bolduc, although if she gets a discount on this delightful beverage she’s been holding out on me all this time. It’s a buttery, full-bodied wine with moderate oakiness, and went well with both the creamy scallops and the bacon, which is quite a feat if you ask me. I also had a glass of the Joie, and you’re lucky I can still read my notes from this point on. Joie is one of my favorite wineries, their rose is one of my favorite wines, and some day I will tell you one of my favorite wine stories which has to do with Joie but that’s not today. Today we must put such fripperies aside, as we have one more course to go at the Goldfish Saga. The things I do for you people. Dessert. Pudding. Afters. Whatever you call it, I haven’t seen much of it since I moved out of my mother’s house at the age of 17. Single women just do not make dessert if they’re not expecting: a) to seduce someone b) to have to bring it to a party and let’s just say it’s been a long time since I’ve brought anything but potato salad to a party. Which explains my love life, but there, I’ve said too much already… We were talking, or were about to talk, about the Strawberry Panna Cotta on a peanut butter shortbread. Honestly, do you give it ALL ALL CAPITALS or do you recognize the subjugate nature of the shortbread, as a substrate upon which the actual, starred player rests, and lowercase it? I don’t know from capitalization; I’m not German. In any case, howsoever, and whatevs, it was delicious. There was a swirl of balsamic reduction, which catalyzed the volatile elements in the strawberries (and how you dice strawberries that fine, I do not know. Perhaps there is an army of miniature Japanese strawberry-dicing robots somewhere under the counter) and caused the fresh scent to rise, as if we were walking through a strawberry field on a sunny morning. Now, two courses in a row where the main players were round and creamy is perhaps one too many, but je ne regrette rien. Nosiree, je ne regrette strawberry panna cotta pas du tout, no way. The shortbread was beautifully done, although the peanut butter was more theoretical than it should have been. I mean, it was probably safe for the allergic. And now in my notes I see that I have a recipe for another cocktail . Funny, don’t recall that one…but it does sound lovely. Here it is: Kiss from a Rose 1 oz Giffard Rose Syrup 1 oz lime juice 1 oz Hendrick’s gin (and no other) Mix and pour over ice. Hendrick’s, of course, is made with roses as an ingredient, and I’ve always wanted to experiment with rose water and Hendrick’s. This cocktail is sweetish, but not as sweet as a tiki drink, lightly pink, and rather girly. In fact, it goes down dangerously quickly if you don’t remind yourself it’s a third gin, which explains why this is only coming back to me now. All in all, a beverage suitable for my lifelong dream job, White Rahnee of Sarawak. I’ll sip it on the terrace while giving orders to my Joint Chiefs of Staff. Meantime, you can sip it at Goldfish in Yaletown, and you can read my good friend Heather’s report of the same meal at Blackbook once it’s up. The things I do for you people.]]> And so we’re off. A recent New York Times article reminded me of a reporting trip I took to New Orleans several years ago. While I was ostensibly in the Big Easy to investigate issues in education, all trips to N’awlins are really at their heart about food. So I ate, and ate, and when I had the weekend off, I rented a car, traveled further into Cajun country and ate some more. Then, I stumbled across this… Why, it was the 72nd Annual Shrimp and Petroleum Festival! As a lover of shrimp and a user of petrol, there was no question that I had to stop and partake. And so, I watched the crowning of the Shrimp and Petroleum Queen. I ate some shrimp. I ate some more shrimp. Fried and skewered, this dish featured a more traditional pairing of oil and crustacean. At the time, the combined celebration of two key Louisiana industries amused and perplexed. Now the troubled feeling in my belly that emerges as I think about the festival is not merely from too much deep fried fun. But the people of Morgan City, LA, home of the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary this September, are not letting the recent spill stop them. And who am I to judge? Unless, of course, said judging is of the festival’s beauty pageant, in which case, I’m partial to Miss Louisiana Crawfish Queen, who I believe has the experience necessary to wear the Miss Shrimp and Petroleum crown with style.]]> Soft shell crab in Florida? Who knew? Step aside, Maryland. In the Stygian waters of the vast St. John’s River estuary the blue crab is molting. Although shrimp is caught locally in Jacksonville, in summer it can be soft and lacking flavor. Catfish filet is local as well, and surprisingly good if you don’t mind a few inevitable bones. Soft shell crab, however, is clearly the best local catch. At Clark’s Fish Camp on Julington Creek, a fry house in the swamp, New York Robert went for the full, bona fide Southern experience by ordering the Swamp Fest Platter, a mixed fry of conch, mako shark, frog legs, catfish, squid, and gator tail. It’s all good, it’s all fried, and every platter comes with hush puppies. The insistent flavor of breading browned in corn oil nearly overwhelmed the light scallopy taste of conch, but gator tail survived the fryer with flavor intact. Yes, it does taste rather like chicken, but with chewier texture and, to Mr. Henry’s palate, a brighter and more interesting flavor. (With more than one million in Florida, the alligator is no longer endangered.) Mr. Henry stopped Robert from ordering the frightful Swamp Cocktail, a boozy brew of vodka, rum, blue Curacao, triple sec, orange juice, sour, and “a splash of Pepsi.” Hooooooo doggies! There was no need to prove manhood here, however. Local tap water is daring enough. A stroll along the boat dock revealed several large red-eared slider turtles on the surface of the black water as well as a small alligator toying with a floating wedge of cocktail lemon. More daunting than the swamp critters or the hundred or more stuffed animals on the walls, however, at the bar a group of ladies in Gator regalia jiggling iced after-dinner drinks snagged Robert in a flirty conversation that, but for the prudent intervention of Mr. Henry, might have culminated in more bona fides than he reckoned for.]]> When lunch is late, Mother Henry is not at her best. How do you hurry a mahi-mahi onto the lunch plate? The answer is salt. Sea salt liberally applied helped the fish thaw. Scouring the fridge for ingredients, Mr. Henry found a bottle of capers, a lemon, and some dried parsley flakes – just sufficient to construct a sauce piccata. Dredge the salted filet in flour (with black pepper) and sauté to a light brown in a mixture of butter and olive oil. Remove to a serving plate and deglaze your pan with lemon juice, white wine, or both. (Add more butter if you want more sauce.) Add capers and chopped parsley (fresh is preferable), combine briefly and pour over the filets. From start to finish the whole thing won’t take more than five minutes, so don’t begin until your guests are ready to eat. The recipe works equally well with filet of veal or breast of chicken. To assure the meat is evenly thin, pound it flat beforehand between plastic wrap. Capers are a curiosity – immature flower buds cured in brine or vinegar. The best ones are Italian cured only in rock salt. Before using these you should them soak in cold water for a few minutes. Mr. Henry’s friend Famous Howard lives exclusively on take-out. In his refrigerator there are precious few items, but always a bottle of capers. Howard finds the addition of capers adds immeasurably to the flavor of almost any sandwich. As a history buff Howard might be excited to learn that capers are mentioned in The Epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian story from the third millennium B.C.]]> As usual the task of pointing out the obvious fell to Little Henry. “This food is salty,” the young one said. Not until then did Aunt Bev notice that since arrival not once had she reached for the table salt. Considering tapas bars here don’t place salt shakers on the table, however, this is not so surprising. For more than a week it seems Mr. Henry and family have been living chiefly on salt, delicious flaked sea salt conveyed by little fishy vehicles remarkably fresh and completely addicting. Most of these little fishes arrive fried in the lightest of batters. A few come from the grill. The only way Mr. Henry’s delicate digestion succeeds in vanquishing the fried skins of crunchy baby squid or the dark oils of fresh anchovies is to wash them down with glasses and glasses of cava, local sparkling chardonnay available at Cuines Santa Caterina (smoke free) for a mere three bucks per glass. Since the Henrys arrived in Catalunya the Euro has risen 9% against the dollar. Extending fiscal principles established by Wall Street and Congress, when discussing money the Henry party prefers to call Euros “bucks” and wait until their VISA bill arrives next month before grappling with subtleties of foreign exchange. Why ruin the vacation spirit? Tapas are what you eat in Barcelona, by the way. Here one is best advised to forego the sit-down dinner which does not begin until after eight at the earliest, far too late for proper digestion before bed no matter how much cava you may swill. Regardless of the hour, the sit-down dinner is simply not prepared to the same high standards as tapas. Barcelona’s best cooks work behind the bar, not in the kitchen. Top in the hierarchy stands the fry chef. Exactly how these marvelous little fried tapas – paper thin artichoke slices, tiny bait fish each individually breaded, squid of every size and description – emerge without tasting greasy, heavy or bitter remains an enduring mystery. At Cerveseria Catalan yesterday the fried artichokes tasted of olive oil, but how can olive oil sustain the high heat of frying without breaking down? Late Friday night when Mr. Henry left the rental apartment in the old city to seek out an internet cafe that wasn’t too smoky, and by the way such a place does not exist, all at once he was surrounded by hundreds of running college students. With a rueful smile at the boundless energy of youth, Mr. Henry tried to maintain his footsore equilibrium. Not until a long-haired youth sprinted past with blood running down his face did Mr. Henry appreciate the unsettling fact that he was in the middle of a riot. When police vans turned the corner, sirens wailing, and helmeted police swinging clubs came running down narrow, walled Carrer Montcald, Mr. Henry felt like a player in history, namely, a peasant about to be crushed. Careful to avoid getting trampled, Mr. Henry ducked into the nearest opening to discover TextilCafe, a lovely snack bar in a beautiful Renaissance palace courtyard directly across from the Picasso Museum. (Cava there is only two bucks ninety….and be sure to order the babaganoush.) Once the street cleared of riot police, students, and cigarette smoke (every young Catalan without exception smokes cigarettes), Mr. Henry achieved his initial goal of hooking up to the internet only to discover that the Manolosphere in all its glorious components was down, that is, crashed, kaput, off the airwaves, a temporary case of server overload that not even cava could rectify. Indeed the day had not begun well. Once again Little Henry had pegged it. “This town is sketchy,” the young sage remarked fatefully. Later that morning exiting a crowded subway car Little Henry announced, “Mom, your backpack is open.” Moments before Mrs. Henry had felt a little tug at her back and had turned to get a look at the likely perpetrator. There were three thieves. When the train lurched the first stumbled forward creating a diversion. At that moment the second opened Mrs. Henry’s backpack and picked the wallet, immediately passing it to the third. With all the vigor of her 101 lb. frame she sprinted down the platform, reached out and clamped her hand on the thief’s greasy collar. Startled at having been caught, he turned and handed back her wallet with money and I.D. intact. Shaken but gratified, the Henry party retreated to eat more salty fishes and discuss where in future to secrete family belongings. As cava calmed his nerves Mr. Henry imagined where, had he only witnessed the deed in time, he would have placed the toe of his shoe on the foul miscreant’s hind quarters. Without doubt it would have gotten ugly. Perhaps not advancing age, jet lag, or that extra glass of cava explain why Mr. Henry’s reflexes are not what they ought to be. Since arrival more than a week ago, he hasn’t gotten one good night’s sleep. Streets in the old city howl all night long. The only quiet hours are in the morning from six till nine. No, in sum it must be said that Barcelona’s lifestyle is not conducive to good health. But at twelve midnight the Passeig del Born is rollicking.]]> Thirty years ago when a callow Mr. Henry first set foot here Barcelona was emerging from under Generalissimo Francisco Franco’ heavy boot. Each plaça exploded with folk singers shouting their long forbidden language. If you spoke Spanish in Catalunya, locals frowned. Now Catalan cuisine has seized the vanguard. Foam overspreads the culinary world. In one day Mr. Henry has already eaten foam crema catalan and foam tempura soy dipping sauce. As a mark of confidence in themselves today if you speak Spanish badly or Catalan barely at all, locals smile graciously and respond in beautifully phrased English. Wandering down the Argenteria Mr. Henry found Café El Magnífico, purveyor of estate coffees so rich and so delicate that not only is their name not a boast, it is a sharp understatement. Its natty proprietor, Salvador Sans, launched into an eloquent disquisition on the virtues of drip coffee over the iniquities of espresso. An acolyte of Bostonian George Howell, “god of coffee,” Salvador argued that espresso method’s heat and pressure not only destroys subtle florals and aromatics but also transforms desirable bitter flavors into harsh metallic ones. Mr. Henry appreciates the opinions of enlightened iconoclasts especially when their opinions bolster his own. For years he had hidden his preference for drip coffee over espresso fearing that to foist unwanted opinions on friends and relations might spoil their after-dinner happiness. No longer. Drippers unite! Take back the aromatics! In an act of divine mercy deserving of his name, Salvador telephoned his favorite Catalan restaurant, Taverna del Clínic, to secure a table for the Henry party who passed an evening feasting on sea worms with artichokes, whole squid with its ink intact, and braised rabbit ribs no bigger than the wishbone of a quail. Desserts were created by a chef who in 2006 won best chocalatier in the world. Magnífico.]]>

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I've recently been working on a problem in an application regarding collision detection. In researching it, I didn't find the solution I wanted on SO at the time and found it elsewhere. Once I had my solution working, I decided to return to SO to post a link to where I got my solution, and my port of it to Objective-C. Once I posted my link, I then used a search to find two other similar questions on SO that I had previously read during my early research, and posted links to my answer on those. My reasoning was that if I went through the process of reading all those posts looking for an answer, then so might others. Now it seems that all three of my answers have been downvoted. Is this because I posted the same links in a few places? If so, then what is the better way to try and bring these separate, but similar threads of discussion together in a way that helps people after me to find themselves directed to (what I perceive to be) an answer. I understand that I may have been downvoted legitimately (if I've done the wrong thing), but in saying that, I would have thought that someone downvoting without a reason would in turn earn a downvote of some form. By downvoting, we are judging the content being downvoted, and there should be a reason given for such a judgement.

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Update included about Leach and from Gov. Rick Scott's office: Broward school board member Katie Leach officially steps down in a few days and Gov. Rick Scott doesn’t appear to be in any rush to fill the vacancy. Leach, one of only two GOPers on the board, announced in late October that she was leaving due to her husband getting a new job in California. Her resignation letter stated she would leave on Dec. 21. The school district's communications office told us Leach was not expected to attend the last meeting of the year tomorrow but Leach contacted us and said she will be there. A Scott spokeswoman said today that there is no timeline for Scott to appoint a replacement. Several people have applied for the opening including Bayview elementary PTA president Heather Brinkworth, a former Broward reading teacher who has the backing of Leach and former state sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff (R-Fort Lauderdale). Brinkworth changed her voter registration from independent to Republican in October. The other applicant to watch is retired Broward principal Wanda Ross who is married to Broward Judge Dale Ross. Wanda Ross is a Republican and backed by former Republican state legislator and county commissioner Jim Scott. There have been rumors that Fort Lauderdale attorney Alexis Yarbrough plans to apply but Scott spokeswoman Jackie Schutz said that she hasn't so far. Yarbrough's husband is Shane Strum, a former chief of staff to Gov. Charlie Crist and a past Broward GOP chair. After Tuesday, the next regular school board meeting isn’t until Jan. 22. There are nine members on the board so a vacancy could leave the board with some tie votes.

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Showing official release groups by this artist. Show all release groups instead, or show various artists release groups. british harpsichordist, british organist, classical, harpsichordist, organist Last updated on 2013-01-16 13:56 UTC Bug Tracker | Use beta site Brought to you by MetaBrainz Foundation and our sponsors and supporters. Cover Art provided by the Cover Art Archive.

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If you would like us to speak at your genealogy society meeting, please let us know. USA | Washington | Wenatchee - April 13-14, 2007. The Washington State Genealogical Society will hold their 2007 Annual Conference and Business Meeting at the Wenatchee Center Hotel & Conference Center, hosted by the Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society. The theme will be, "Climbing Your Family Tree." Please stop by the Legacy booth with your questions or just to say hello. USA | Arizona | Tucson - April 18, 2007. Sun City Vistoso Genealogical Society. Millennia's Geoff Rasmussen will lead a discussion on using Legacy from 1:00 to 4:00pm. Held in the Apache Room in The Vistoso Center at 1565 Rancho Vistoso Blvd in Oro Valley, north of Tucson. For questions, please contact Barbara Krecklow at email@example.com. Canada | Alberta | Edmonton - April 21-22, 2007. Alberta Genealogical Society Conference 2007. Visit http://abgensoc.ca/events.html for more information. Millennia's Geoff Rasmussen will present 1) Research Guidance; 2) Insider's Guide to Legacy; 3) Sharing Genealogy Electronically. Stop by our booth and say hello. Canada | Saskatchewan | Regina - April 27-29, 2007. Saskatchewan Genealogical Society 2007 Seminar. Click here for more information. Millennia's Geoff Rasmussen will present 1) Organizing, Planning, and Sharing Using Legacy Family Tree; 2) Latest in Internet Genealogical Technology. USA | Oregon | Portland - May 8, 2007. Technology for Genealogists. The Oregon Historical Society sponsors a half-day seminar featuring Millennia's Geoff Rasmussen from 9am-1pm. The seminar will include: - Timelines & Chronologies: Secrets of Genealogical Success - Mapping Your Ancestors Electronically: Using Software and the Internet - Research Guidance: GenSmarts, FamilySearch, and Legacy. - Organizing, Planning, and Sharing Using Legacy Family Tree Registration is required and is limited. Visit http://www.hevanet.com/sclc/newsletter.htm for more information or call Carolyn Hixson at 503-306-5296. USA | Virginia | Richmond - May 16-19, 2007. 2007 NGS Conference and Family History Fair. A "Getting More from Legacy Family Tree" class will be taught on Friday the 18th. Visit http://www.eshow2000.com/ngs/2007 for more information. Visit us in booths 114 and 115.

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Why do some people gain weight when others don't? ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Do you have that friend—the one who can eat endless hot fudge sundaes and never gain weight? Or do you sometimes feel that even if you worked out three hours a day and ate nothing but celery sticks, you couldn't lose weight? Jeff Horowitz, assistant professor of kinesiology, recently received a five-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to look at what may be causing different people to gain or lose weight when they appear to eat and exercise the same amount. "When you gain or lose weight, it has to be due to an energy imbalance," Horowitz said. Although losing weight for most people is far from simple, the regulation of body weight boils down to simple math: calories eaten minus calories burned equals weight gained. If people gain weight at different rates despite eating the same number of calories, there must be a difference in how much energy is expended. For Horowitz's new study, participants will spend two weeks in the hospital with their diet and physical activity closely monitored. Volunteers will get 2,000 calories more than they need each day while Horowitz's team studies how quickly they gain weight and body fat. After two weeks, volunteers will go on a calorie-restricted diet, and the researchers will look at how quickly the extra weight and body fat come off. The primary aim of their study is to uncover what about the person's biology and metabolism differs to make some prone to gain a lot of weight and others more resistant. The inspiration for this project came when Horowitz was conducting a study on low-carb diets. It was important to that specific research project that volunteers maintain a steady weight. This worked for most participants, but there were a few people who seemed to lose weight no matter how many additional calories were added to their diets. One of Horowitz's collaborators, Ariel Barkan, a professor of internal medicine and of neurosurgery at the U-M Medical School, noted that he'd seen a similar reaction in a rodent study, with the same diet causing some to gain much more weight than others, despite similar activity levels. It turned out that animals with high levels of growth hormone were resistant to gaining weight. Horowitz returned to his study data, which included growth hormone samples from his volunteers, and found that there was a strong connection between those who had high growth hormone levels and those who had lost weight. Growth hormone spikes and falls a few times throughout the day. Those who lost some weight on the diet that should have kept their weight stable had higher spikes, not just consistently high hormone levels. To test the connection, Horowitz will use volunteers with growth hormone levels on the low side of normal. Some of these participants will receive a constant level boost of growth hormone during their two weeks of indulgence, while others will get additional growth hormone following the body's usual pattern of daily spikes. As part of the study, Horowitz will take muscle biopsy samples to measure muscle protein synthesis, which burns a lot of energy. Horowitz hypothesizes that one way growth hormone may help make people more resistant to gaining weight is by increasing the activity of bodily processes like this that expend a lot of energy throughout the day. If the researchers see that giving additional growth hormone alters weight gain, that could mean that it is an effective treatment for people who struggle with obesity. The bad news is, there's a linear decline in growth hormone as we age, so if Horowitz's theory is right, this could be one reason we gain weight as we get older—it's part of our body chemistry. Gaining weight reduces growth hormone, too, so you can get caught in a vicious cycle. The good news is, exercise boosts growth hormone, so those with milder weight control issues might simply find that enough physical activity to generate more growth hormone could help manage weight—separate from the calories the exercise burns. Horowitz plans to begin screening volunteers this month. For more information about the study, contact Sacha Hamady at (734) 647-9850. Producers: U-M has professional TV studios and uplink capabilities. Contact: Nancy Ross-Flanigan

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Part of N.T. Wright’s contribution to contemporary theology is his understanding of the place of Israel in the great, grand narrative of scripture. For most of us, Israel is like a mistake God made and wishes never happened. Jesus came to erase Israel, we seem to think. Therefore, we can save ourselves a lot of time and trouble and skip Old Testament studies, because it was all a big mistake. Or we might see Israel as simply a place to find great children’s stories — a spiritual version of Aesop’s fables. Therefore, we study Abraham in middle school but never among the adults. Several scholars have worked to better connect Old Testament and New, Israel and the church. We recently studied a series on the book Covenant: God’s Purpose, God’s Plan. by John H. Walton. The gist of the book is to show that God’s purpose in giving us the scriptures, old and new, is to reveal himself to his people. Why? Much of the answer is found in the fact that God is a covenanting god. He wants to be in relationship with certain elect people, with whom he makes covenants. He elected Abraham and Sarah, and their descendants through Isaac and Jacob, to be the parents of the nation of Israel. Why? (Gen 17:4-6 ESV) 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.” As we’ve earlier seen, Paul points out that the entry of the Gentiles into the Kingdom, which is the elect covenant people, makes Abraham the father of a multitude of nations. (Gen 22:17-18 ESV) 17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies, 18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.” And, of course, God’s promise to bless all nations through Abraham’s offspring (seed) further assures the eventual entry of the Gentiles. Through Isaiah, God charged Israel to be a light to the nations — (Isa 42:6-9 ESV) 6 “I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, 7 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. 8 I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.” (Isa 49:6-7 ESV) 6 he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” 7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.” God elected Israel, through Abraham, not just to be his people. They were to be a light to the nations. They were to display the greatness of YHWH, so that the Gentiles would be brought in. There’s a subtlety in the last several chapters of Isaiah, which speak of God’s “servant.” In some places, the servant is clearly Israel. In other places, it’s clearly the Messiah, Jesus. Wright explains that Jesus stepped up and did what Israel failed to accomplish by itself. He became a light to the nations, fulfilling Israel’s charge. As Simeon the prophet declared in the Temple when presented with the infant Jesus — (Luk 2:29-32 ESV) 29 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation 31 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.” But this describes, according to the Prophets, not the Messiah but Israel. Nonetheless, Simeon declares that Jesus will fulfill the purposes of Israel the nation! And as Paul proclaimed to King Agrippa, (Act 26:22-23 ESV) 22 “To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: 23 that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.” Therefore, it was Israel that was intended to suffer to show God’s love to the world, but Jesus who suffered in Israel’s place — (Isa 44:1-2 ESV) “But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen! 2 Thus says the LORD who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.” (Isa 45:4 ESV) 4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me. (Isa 48:20 ESV) 20 Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!” (Isa 49:3 ESV) 3 And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” (Isa 52:13-15 ESV) 13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. 14 As many were astonished at you– his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind– 15 so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand. (Isa 53:11 ESV) 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. You can see the ambiguity. “Servant” is plainly Israel in the first several passages, but by Isa. 52:13, “servant” seems to be an individual, the Messiah. Jesus thus became the light of the world and the Suffering Servant of Isaiah in place of Israel. His sacrifice was for Israel (into which the Gentiles have been grafted!), but also to complete the nation’s task. He completed the work God gave to Israel. It’s not entirely fair to ask whether Israel failed or succeeded, because Jesus, an Israelite, succeeded for Israel. And the history of Israel, you see, has become the history of Christianity — due to the ingrafting of the nations. This is one reason Jesus had 12 apostles. He was symbolically placing himself in the position of Jacob — also known as Israel — the father of 12 sons. It’s obscure to a Westerner, but an Easterner would know that numbers symbolize a message — a message that does not have to be explained to be understood. Jesus became the new Israel. In what sense is Jesus Israel? Well, he is light of the world, he is the Suffering Servant, he brought about the blessing of the nations, even the entire world, through his work on earth. But there’s another element. We Christians are baptized “into” Jesus. The church is the body of Christ. We are charged to complete his mission. (Mat 5:14-16 ESV) 14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Jesus literally spoke to Israel in calling them the light of the world, but we understand that, having been grafted in, we step into that calling as well. (Phi 2:14-16 ESV) 14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. Oh. It’s great that Jesus chose to step into Israel’s role as Suffering Servant, charged to show the world the nature of God in a most surprising, upside-down way — God who suffers for his children. We now share in that mission. (Rom 5:3-5 ESV) 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Mat 10:34-39 ESV) 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” This is tough stuff. Theology is fun, until it hits home. Here is home. (Rom 11:19-22 ESV) 19 Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.” And so we’ve come full circle.

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“As the Mayor of this City and an African-American man, I find the remarks made by Riley Cooper, repugnant, insensitive and ignorant, and all of us, regardless of race or nationality, should be offended by these comments,” Michael A. Nutter said in a release. “I recognize that the private sector is very different than the public sector in terms of rules and procedures, but I would note that in our government, if an executive branch ‘at-will’ employee, somewhat similar to Mr. Cooper’s status with the Eagles, made such comments, I would insist on a suspension at a minimum and would seriously have to evaluate terminating such an individual from employment with the City.” If that portion of the statement didn’t make Nutter’s position regarding the suitability of a fine clear, he had more on that point. “In a year when we celebrated the great achievements of Jackie Robinson in the movie ’42’, it is truly saddening that racial epithets are still being hurled like baseballs, or by a football player, at the human dignity of African-Americans and others,” Nutter said. “This incident is a disgrace, and cannot be excused by just paying a fine, as if it were a parking ticket.” The challenge, Nutter believes, is finding a sanction that matches the transgression. “Mr. Cooper has done something which he clearly knows was wrong and he has accepted personal responsibility, but the punishment should match the intense level of the offense,” Nutter said. “It is ultimately up to the Philadelphia Eagles and the NFL to determine whether what has been announced as a penalty is enough, but in my opinion it falls short of a serious recognition of just how offensive and hurtful these comments are to African-Americans and other people of good conscience who fight discrimination on many fronts — race, religion, gender, sexual preference, marriage equality, employment and many other areas. Sports players are in fact, knowingly or unknowingly, role models for our youth who often imitate their behavior and actions. It is my view that beyond any other punishment that could potentially result from this incident, Mr. Cooper must look deep in his heart to see how, beyond his personal public apology, he can repair the damage that he has caused to the Philadelphia community, and its relationship with the Philadelphia Eagles and the NFL.” We’re not sure how much damage has been done to the relationship between the Eagles and their city. No one blames the Eagles for Cooper’s remark, and few (apart from Nutter) have argued that something more than a fine should be imposed. Still, Nutter’s comments become yet another factor that could impact the willingness of Cooper’s teammates to welcome him back, whenever his self-imposed exit from the team ends.

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The Ecumenical Patriarch (Greek: Η Αυτού Θειοτάτη Παναγιότης, ο Αρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, Νέας Ρώμης και Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης) is the Archbishop of Constantinople - New Rome - ranking as primus inter pares (first among equals) in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. The Ecumenical Patriarch has been historically known as the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople, as distinct from the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople and the ancient Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. The current holder of the office is Bartholomew I. The Turkish government recognizes him as the spiritual leader of the Greek minority in Turkey, and refer to him as the Greek (lit. Roman) Orthodox Patriarch of the Phanar (Turkish: Fener Rum Ortodoks Patriği). The Patriarch was subject to the authority of the Ottoman Empire after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, until the declaration of Turkish Republic in 1923. Today, according to the Turkish law, he is subject to the authority of the Republic of Turkey and must be a citizen of Turkey to be elected Patriarch. The Patriarch of Constantinople has been designated the Ecumenical Patriarch since the sixth century. The exact significance of the style, which has been used occasionally for other prelates since the middle of the fifth century, is nowhere officially defined, but the title has been attacked in the West as incompatible with the claims of the See of Rome. In this capacity he is first in honor among all the Eastern Orthodox bishops, presides in person or through a delegate over any council of Orthodox primates and/or bishops in which he takes part and serves as primary spokesman for the Orthodox communion, especially in ecumenical contacts with other Christian denominations. He has no direct jurisdiction over the other patriarchs or the other autocephalous Orthodox churches, but he, alone among his fellow-primates, enjoys the right of convening extraordinary synods consisting of them and/or their delegates to deal with ad hoc situations and has also convened well-attended Pan-Orthodox Synods in the last forty years. In addition to being the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, he is the direct administrative superior of dioceses and archdioceses serving millions of Greek, Ukrainian, Carpatho-Russian and Albanian Orthodox in North and South America, Western Europe (where his flock consists mainly of the Greek, Slavic and other Balkanic diaspora), Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Korea and portions of modern Greece. His actual position is Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, one of the fourteen autocephalous and several autonomous churches and the most senior (though not oldest) of the four orthodox ancient primatial sees among the five patriarchal Christian centers comprising the ancient Pentarchy of the undivided Church. In his role as head of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, he also holds the title Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome. He should not be confused with the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, an office that is now extinct, and created after the Latin capture of Constantinople in 1204, during the Fourth Crusade. That office became effectively redundant after the city was recaptured by the Byzantine Greeks, half a century later. Thus he is also known, outside Orthodoxy, as the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople. His official title is "His All-Holiness the Archbishop of Constantinople New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch". Both Political and Administrative, The Patriarch had been bound to the Ottoman Empire from the Turkish conquest of Istanbul (Constantinople) in 1453, until the declaretion of Turkish Republic in 1923. From 1923, according to the Turkish Laws, he is bound to the Republic of Turkey and located under the sub-province governor of Istanbul's islands. Only independency of the Patriarch is religious, and technically Ecumenical Patriarch is not Ecumenical. Role in Orthodox episcopacy The Ecumenical Patriarch has a unique role among Orthodox bishops, though it is not without its controversy. He is primus inter pares ("first among equals"), as he is senior among all Orthodox bishops. This primacy, expressed in canonical literature as presbeia ("prerogatives"), grants to the Ecumenical Patriarch the right to preside at pan-Orthodox synods. Additionally, the canonical literature of the Orthodox Church grants to the Ecumenical Patriarch the right to hear appeals in cases of dispute between bishops. However, whether these canonical rights are limited only to his own patriarchate or are universal throughout the Orthodox Church is currently the subject of debate, especially between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Moscow Patriarchate. Historically, the Ecumenical Patriarch has heard such appeals and sometimes was invited to intervene in other churches' disputes and difficulties. Even as early as the time of St. John Chrysostom (5th century), Constantinople was instrumental in the deposition of multiple bishops outside its traditional jurisdiction. This still occurs today, as when in 2006 the patriarchate was invited to assist in declaring the Archbishop of the Cypriot Orthodox Church incompetent due to his having Alzheimer's disease. Additionally, in 2005, the Ecumenical Patriarchate convoked a pan-Orthodox synod to express the Orthodox world's confirmation of the deposition of Patriarch Irenaios of Jerusalem. In 2006, the patriarchate was invited to hear the appeal of a Russian Orthodox bishop in the United Kingdom in a dispute with his superior in Moscow, though the result of that appeal and the right to make it were both rejected by the latter. The Ecumenical Patriarch has no direct jurisdiction outside the Patriarchate of Constantinople granted to him in Orthodox canonical literature, but his primary function regarding the whole Orthodox Church is one of dealing with relations between autocephalous and autonomous churches. That is, his primary function is one of Church unity. This unique role often sees the Ecumenical Patriarch referred to as the "spiritual leader" of the Orthodox Church in some sources, though this is not an official title of the patriarch nor is it usually used in scholarly sources on the patriarchate. Such a title is acceptable if it refers to this unique role, but it sometimes leads to a belief that the office is thus the equivalent of an Orthodox papacy, an impression sometimes given from unqualified references in the press. In 2007, the Patriarch gave his approval to the Declaration of Ravenna, a Catholic–Orthodox document re-asserting that the bishop of Rome is indeed the Protos, although future discussions are to be held on the concrete ecclesiological exercise of papal primacy. According to "Subsistit in" in Lumen Gentium, the Patriarch is a validly consecrated bishop in Roman ecclesiology, and there is merely an imperfect ecclesial communion between Constantinople and Rome, which exists nevertheless and which may be improved at some point in history. Because of the work of Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios, who established September 1st as the day for the protection of the environment, and especially the ongoing work of the current Patriarch, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has been given the title, "Green Patriarch". Thus, the person of Bartholomew and by extension the position of the Ecumenical Patriarch is now being viewed as a religious spokesperson on environmental issues and the "green" spiritual leader in the world. The (arch)bishopric of Constantinople has had a continuous history since the founding of the city in 330 AD by Constantine the Great. After Constantine the Great had enlarged Byzantium to make it into a new city named after himself in 330, it was thought appropriate that its bishop, once a suffragan of Heraclea Pontica and traditionally a successor of St Andrew the Apostle, should become second only to the Bishop of Old Rome. Soon after the transfer of the Roman capital, the bishopric was elevated to an archbishopric. For many decades the heads of the church of Rome opposed this ambition, not because anyone thought of disputing their first place, but because they defended the 'Petrine principle' by which all Patriarchates were derived from Saint Peter and were unwilling to violate the old order of the hierarchy for political reasons. In 381, the First Council of Constantinople declared that "The Bishop of Constantinople shall have the primacy of honour after the Bishop of Rome, because it is New Rome" (canon iii). The Patriarchs refused to confirm this canon. Nonetheless, the prestige of the office continued to grow not only because of the obvious patronage of the Byzantine Emperor but because of its overwhelming physical and geographical importance. In practice, the Bishop of Rome eventually acknowledged this situation. The Council of Chalcedon in 451 established Constantinople as a patriarchate with ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Asia Minor (the dioceses of Asiane and Pontus) and Thrace as well as over the barbaric territories, non-converted lands outside the defined area of the Western Patriarchate (Old Rome) and the other three patriarchates, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, gave it appellate jurisdiction extraterritorially over canon law decisions by the other patriarchs and granted it honours equal to those belonging to the first Christian see, Rome, in terms of primacy, Rome retaining however its seniority (canon xxviii). Patriarch Leo I refused to accept this canon, basing himself on the fact that it was made in the absence of his legates. In the 6th century, the official title became that of "Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch." The current Patriarch (since 1991) is Bartholomew I who has become better-known than any of his predecessors in modern times as a result of his numerous pastoral and other visits to numerous countries in five continents and his setting up of a permanent bureau at the EU headquarters, in addition to enhancing the long-established Patriarchal Centre in Chambesy, Switzerland and also his ecological pursuits which have won him the epithet of "the Green Patriarch." When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, the Patriarchate had ceased to function. The office of Patriarch was eventually bestowed in 1454 to the illustrious Byzantine scholar-monk George Scholarius, who was well-known for his opposition to union with the Latin West and took the name of Gennadius II, by the conquering Islamic Ottoman ruler, Sultan Mehmed II, who wished to establish his dynasty as the direct heirs of the Eastern Roman Emperors, and who adopted the imperial title Kayser-i-Rûm "Caesar of Rome", one of his subsidiary titles but a most significant one. The Patriarch was designated millet-bashi (ethnarch) of the Millet of Rum (Turkish for Rome, i.e. Byzantium), which included all Orthodox Christians under Ottoman rule, regardless of their nationality (ethnicity) in the modern sense. This role was carried out by ethnic Greeks at their great peril, in the midst of enormous difficulties and traps and inevitably with mixed success. Several incumbents of the patriarchal throne were summarily executed by the Ottoman authorities, most notably Patriarch Gregory V on Easter Monday 1821 as partial retribution for the outbreak of the last and only successful Greek Revolution. In the 19th century, the rising tide of nationalism and secularism among the Balkan Christian nations led to the establishment of several autocephalous national churches, generally under autonomous Patriarchs or Archbishops, leaving the Ecumenical Patriarch only direct control over the ethnically Greek-originated Orthodox Christians of Turkey, parts of Greece and the archdioceses in America, Asia, Africa and Oceania where growing Greek and other migrant communities have gradually constituted a significant orthodox diaspora. Turkish and Armenian Orthodox Christians in Turkey have independent Churches. The monks of Mount Athos form an autonomous monastic community that recognizes the Ecumenical Patriarch as their only head and bishop. The EU treats this "Athonite Republic," or "Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain," as part of Greece, a member state. Issues of religious freedom The modern Turkish state still requires the Patriarch to be a Turkish citizen (though nearly all Greek Orthodox have left Turkey; see Population exchange between Greece and Turkey and Istanbul Pogrom) but allows the Standing Synod of Metropolitan Bishops to elect the Patriarch. Since the establishment of modern Turkey, therefore, the position of the Ecumenical Patriarch has been filled by ethnic Greeks, who must be Turkish citizens by birth. Human rights groups and Christian governments have long protested against conditions placed by the secular government of Turkey on the Ecumenical Patriarch, a religious entity. For example, the Ecumenical status accorded him within Eastern Orthodoxy, and recognized previously by the Ottoman governments, has on occasion been a source of controversy within the Republic of Turkey, which under its laws regarding religious minorities officially recognizes him as only the "Patriarch of the Phanar" (Phanar is the district in Istanbul where the patriarchate is located) and the spiritual leader of the dwindling Greek orthodox community of Turkey. This policy results in problems in the function of the Patriarchate, since clergy coming from abroad are not eligible to apply for residence and work permits. At the same time, the Turkish government has promoted a rival Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, whose congregation however has remained limited. Expropriation of Church property and the closing of the Orthodox Theological School of Halki are also cited by human rights groups. Lewis D. Eigen and others however have observed that the closing was aimed by the Turkish secularists at the Moslem radicals who would preach hate and terror if allowed to control their own religious seminaries. The Christians were caught in the "crossfire." However in 2004 Patriarch Bartholomew, with the help of Turkish Government, succeeded, after eighty years, to alter the composition of the twelve-member Standing Synod of Metropolitan Bishops in Constantinople so that it can include six bishops from outside Turkey. He has also been convening biennially in Constantinople convocations of all bishops in his jurisdiction. It is claimed that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has been the target of attacks on occasion from 1993 to 2004, including desecration of patriarchal cemeteries and personal assaults against the Ecumenical Patriarch. Recent News Coverage December 20th, 2009 Featured on CBS' 60 Minutes in a segment entitled "The Patriarch Bartholomew" - List of Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople - Mount Athos - Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople - Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople - Eastern Catholic Church - History of the Eastern Orthodox Church - Church of St George, Istanbul - Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate - Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople Notes and references - ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Oecumenical Patriarch." Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. - ↑ Website of BARTHOLOMEW, Archbishop of Constantinople New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, web: ec-patr.org/athp. - ↑ Constantine Markides: AG investigates church sex scandal. Retrieved on 2006-11-28. - ↑ BBC online: Orthodox leader demoted to monk. Retrieved on 2006-11-28. - ↑ Ecumenical Patriarchate: Press Release for the election of Bishop Basil of Amphipolis. Retrieved on 2006-11-28. - ↑ Divided in Ravenna, Russian and Estonian Orthodox to talk - ↑ http://www.goarch.org/news/patriarcal_ency-08-31-2009 and http://environment.about.com/b/2009/09/01/september-1-day-of-prayer-for-the-environment.htm and also see http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/2009-09-01-093.asp - ↑ See: http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2008/09/15-Green-Spiritual-Leaders.aspx?p=2 - ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople", Encyclopædia Britannica 2005 Deluxe Edition CD-ROM. - ↑ Ecumenical Patriarchate website: Biography of Patriarch Bartholomew I. Retrieved on 2006-11-28 - ↑ EU Turkey Civic Commission: EU Draft Report on Turkey's Progress Towards Accession 2006/2118 (INI). Retrieved on 2006-11-28 - ↑ 12.0 12.1 Greek Foreign Ministry - Ecumenical Patriarchate - ↑ Lewis D. Eigen, Turkish Discrimination Against Christian Schools–Or Is It?, Scriptamus, 2009, http://scriptamus.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/408/#more-408 - ↑ Human Right Internet: The United Nations Human Rights System. 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In the mid-1980s, first- and second-generation members of Sherwood Anderson's family decided to use royalties from Sherwood Anderson's books to help writers. It was an obvious decision that followed a course that Anderson himself took during his lifetime. In order to do this, the family established the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, a non-profit trust. Anderson helped both William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway get published when they were getting started. Faulkner reportedly asked Anderson to read his manuscript and Anderson replied, "Look, I'll send it to my publisher, as long as I don't have to read it." Joke or not, he knew talent when he saw it and wasted no time supporting it. It should be mentioned that both writers later parodied Anderson's work -- Faulkner with Mosquitoes and Hemingway with Torrents of Spring. Faulkner and Anderson were later reconciled. Anderson continues to incur writer and reader interest. An August 1998 issue of Newsweek, in commenting on the recent list of the 100 best 20th Century novels in English, called the short stories that make up Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (listed 24th) "our own favorite neglected masterpieces." Well-known writers when asked to lend their support to the foundation readily did so. Norman Mailer wrote back immediately, saying: "I would not hesitate to support something that was connected with Sherwood Anderson. Winesburg Ohio was one of the most important books in my developing life." Studs Turkel said something similar, and so it went. The founding members of the foundation were Anderson's daughter Marion Anderson Spear, first secretary-treasurer; and grandchildren Michael M. Spear, first president; David M. Spear, first vice president; and trustees Karlyn Spear Shankland, Elizabeth Anderson, Margaret Anderson Stuart. Charles Modlin and Hilbert Campbell, scholars at Virginia Tech at the time, also lent early support to the effort.

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Bridal Designers Dish for 'Martha Stewart Weddings' Ever wonder what goes through the minds of the country’s top bridal designers? They’re spilling their secrets in the latest issue of Martha Stewart Weddings, which hits newsstands on Sept. 5. “My dream client is someone who knows who she is and knows who she wants to be,” Vera Wang explains in the clip above. The designer, who created Kim Kardashian‘s three wedding gowns, says she loves the bridal looks of such icons as Grace Kelly and Yoko Ono. Meanwhile, Mark Badgley and James Mischka reveal that their first-ever celebrity client was X Factor judge Paula Abdul, while Reem Acra makes us jealous, sharing that lately, she’s been visiting various palaces around the world, designing for princesses. But sometimes, it’s just about the basics. As Amsale Aberra says, “I always make sure that what I design it is classic at the same time that it is current.” Pick up the issue — which includes dreamy gowns from Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Marchesa, Monique Lhuillier and more — on Monday. Courtesy Martha Stewart Weddings

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Pure PF3 Reviews By: MAN Sports Overall Score How is this Calculated? This product has been reported as discontinued. See why SupplementReviews.com is the most trusted source for unbiased supplement reviews (Infographic). This is one of the claims for this product. The one that I was really hoping for when trying this product was accelerated recovery. I recently returned to the gym after a long hiatus and muscle soreness and DOMS has been very prevalent because I have been pushing myself hard in an effort to return to where I was in terms of strength, endurance, LBM, and all of the other aspects that you lose over a long hiatus. Other claims for this product include regenerating and accelerating muscle tissue growth, no bloat or inflammation, replenishment of glycogen, and better nutrient absorption. Simple profile, 50 servings per container, 1 preworkout and 1 post. Each Serving is 2.8 grams, 2.6 of which is a prop blend of 75% bioactive Serum protein isolate and Betaine HCL. The listed amount of protein is 2.5 grams so I am assuming that the Betaine HCL is 100mg. The only info I could really find on Betaine HCL was that it is speculatively used to increase stomach acidity to assist in the breakdown and absorption of nutrients. I said speculatively because most sources say it really only has a positive effect if your acidity levels are too low to begin with so the beneficial aspect is certainly in question. I got the "flavorless" version of this in hopes to mix this with a pre/post workout shake. The first thing I noticed about this is that the mixability is HORRIBLE. Now it isn't hydrophobic per se but it sticks to itself and deposits and gets really sticky when wet. No matter how much you shake/stir it will stick to the bottom and sides of a shaker like peanut butter. The only option I really had was to take the scoops straight to the dome and chase with water. Even then I could not let it touch my teeth because it would stick on and between my teeth. I really did have to have a fine science with just taking this stuff. Flavorless also was not very flavorless. It was pretty much a weird sickly sweet, gritty taste that would have screwed up any flavored product that I could possibly have tried to mix it with. Again, not that I could, but definitely try a flavored version of you try it. There were a lot of bold claims associated with this product and sadly the ones I could make a determination on fell very flat for me. Along with this product I also took USP Labs Modern BCAA mixed with bulk L-Glutamine intraworkout and RCSS protein post workout. The one positive that stuck out was that there was very little, if any, bloating and what there was could have been attributed to taking protein and slamming eggs and egg whites every morning for breakfast. The biggest letdown for me was muscle recovery. Even though I have only been back on the horse a month or so, adding this to my stack did nothing to aid my recovery time. I have been facing a discouraging amount of DOMS and overall recovery coming back and was really hoping that this would provide a noticeable amount of relief in that area. I really noticed no increased recovery time whatsoever and after going hard for 3 days in a row sometimes 1 day off simply wasn't enough. As far as glycogen replenishment and nutrient absorption, it really is hard to tell how effective it was. I did add about 3 pounds back which made me appear slightly more filled out and my muscles looked fuller, but I think in general anybody with a decent lifting background that comes back after time off is going to experience that whether you are taking supplements or not. Holy heck is this stuff expensive! I was able to pick this up with free fermented leucine from nutraplanet for 47.99. The PF3 by itself now is 54.99. That comes out to more than $1/scoop. Also, I forgot to add that for the last few days I doubled up my dose to try to see an increase in effectiveness with little to no results. So minimum $2/day and up to $4/day for a product that helped little if any? No thanks on that one. With all of the hype and positive reviews on nutraplanet I was certainly hoping for a lot more out of this product than I got. I have worked out a lot harder and had a lot better recovery using specialized intras, humapro, ect. And while I know I should be experiencing more pain than gain at this point in my return, simply stated this product was a huge disappointment to me and I hope that I fare better with BioGrow which I am using moving forward. October 28, 2013 Awesome review!! Just as I suspected on this supplement. Thanks for that :)! Made me feel good about going Bio-Gro over this, and It still bothers me how this stuff has filler ingredients in it... Bio-Gro is 100% 1 ingredient. I hope you have a better experience on Bio-Gro, I am loving it, and my recovery is insane since I started it 4 tubs ago... leg days don't hit me bad at all, I can go very hard and barely feel it, crazy. Glad I respond to it. :)

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Friday, June 5, 2009 Prayer to Get A Job Prayer to St. Juan Diego for A Job Dear Juan Diego, when the Lady of Tepeyac Hill gave you her picture, she also gave you a task to fill your days with happy labor. It was your privilege and joy to spend the hours caring for the chapel of the Tilma, telling its story to those who came there. Here the time of your earthly pilgrimage passed quickly and happily because you worked for Our Lady of Guadalupe. Dear Juan Diego, please help me find steady employment that my time and talent may be devote to the tasks suited to my nature and ability. May my hours of toil then, give fair return and more to him who hires me. May my work not be done for mere profit, or just to make a living. Rather, may it be done to make of myself, one more able to honor the Creator. May it be done with reverence and appreciation of the materials, all supplied by God, and only modified by man. May my work be done to enjoy the benefits of skilled and honest craftmanship. And especially let my work be done to make known and lead others to love the same Lady you serve so well. Through Christ Our Lord,

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The U.S. Senate last week without fanfare performed one of their primary functions, one that they have managed to avoid for years. By a voice vote, without a word of opposition, the upper house of Congress ratified not one, not two, but four international treaties. In doing so, they broke a logjam that has been in place since the previous Congress and made the world a little safer for the fish of the Pacific — but continued to ignore a crucial treaty on their agenda dealing with the rights of the disabled. The Constitution gives the president the power to make treaties, but only “by and with Advice and Consent of the Senate … provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.” That function is one of the levers of power that separates the Senate from the lower chamber of Congress and is closely guarded. In recent years, however, exercising it has proved even more difficult than usual. The last treaty to make it through the Senate was in 2010, when the contentious New START, which placed limits on the number of nuclear weapons the United States and Russia can possess, passed in a lame-duck session. Even formerly non-controversial tax treaties — international legal documents intended to prevent double taxation on U.S. citizens living abroad — have been unable to break through the Senate chamber since then. That all changed last week. The four international treaties that broke the nearly four-year long drought all deal with supporting the $70 billion commercial fishing industry and protecting their interests off the U.S.’ shores. The Port State Measures Agreement commits member-states to “prevent, deter, and eliminate illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing;” the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean, and its counterpart for the South Pacific Ocean, aims to “ensure the long-term conservation and sustainable use” of fisheries; the fourth is an amendment to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries. All sailed through on a basic voice vote. Those treaties were the first to be ratified since 2010, but they weren’t the first to reach the Senate floor. In winter 2012, in the lame duck session that followed the elections, the full Senate voted on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). While not expected to be as easy as the passage of the recent treaties and their focus on protecting fish, a treaty designed to urge countries to provide the same level of access to public spaces for the disabled as the United States, and the same protections under the law, seemed guaranteed ratification as the clerk began to call the roll. Former Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS) sat on the Senate floor in the wheelchair that marked his recent hospitalization as votes rolled in. One by one, the former majority leader who once served as his party’s standard-bearer watched as friends and colleagues who had personally pledged their support suddenly shifted, throwing their votes into the “nay” column. Minutes later, the tally told the tale: the Disabilities Treaty had failed, coming just five votes shy of ratification. The failure of the CRPD was a “bitter moment” in the words of one Senate staffer. Several of the Republicans who voted against had told the aging Dole that their backing of the treaty was firm before casting their “no” votes before Dole’s very eyes. The fact that the Disabilities Treaty is based solely on the American Disabilities Act (ADA) and would require no change in law didn’t prevent their opposition. The argument that many Republicans gave at the time was that voting on another treaty in a lame duck session was a bridge too far. But Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has refused to let the Disabilities Treaty languish after that defeat, working with the administration last fall to raise the treaty’s profile and give senators the time they needed to review the document. Two hearings were held this session of congress to vet the CRPD once again, including one featuring testimony from two of Menendez’s Republican colleagues. “I am still convinced that we give up nothing, but get everything in return,” Secretary of State John Kerry said at the second hearing. “Our ratification does not require a single change in American law and isn’t going to add a penny to our budget.” Kerry’s appearance before the committee he’d once chaired, speaking on the treaty he had tried to shepherd through the last congress, was just a part of a full-court press from the administration on the treaty. Vice President Joe Biden met with leaders of national disabilities and veteran’s advocacy groups, along with top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power lobbied Congress and spoke on the CRPD’s benefits at a POLITICO event. And the White House and Menendez made sure to emphasize the bipartisan support for the treaty, particularly that of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) who has been a vocal proponent. CREDIT: Andrew Breiner Things seemed to be going well until just before the Christmas holidays at the Capitol building. It was then that SFRC ranking member Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) decided to voice his opposition to the treaty, despite previously showing a wary openness towards moving it forward. Specifically, Corker announced that in his view no combination of reservations, understandings, and/or declarations (RUDS) would bring him around anytime soon. RUDS are additional modifying language added onto treaties’ authorizations in the Senate to make them more palatable to the United States. Much like the controversial “signing statements” heavily utilized under the Bush administration, RUDS make crystal clear just what the U.S. believes a treaty says, and which parts it thinks do not apply to it. “I remain uncertain that even the strongest RUDS would stand the test of time, and I believe any uncertainty on this issue is not acceptable,” the Tennessee senator said in a statement. “Ultimately, I’m unable to vote for a treaty that could undermine our Constitution and the legitimacy of our democratic process as the appropriate means for making decisions about the treatment of our citizens.” Advocates were extremely disappointed in Corker for his reversal, particularly that it was dropped at a time when few would be paying attention to the treaty process. “The number one concern about this has been sovereignty, so we we want to make sure that the United States is predominant decision maker,” VetsFirst director of Veterans Affairs Chris Neiweem told ThinkProgress in January, adding that it was “frustrating” that Corker acknowledged neither the protections of American sovereignty already contained in the treaty nor that the military and veterans — charged with defending that sovereignty — are backing the CRPD. “So the sovereignty defending organizations are in full support but aren’t mentioned in this statement that comes out right before the holidays,” Neiweem said. Menendez made his own frustration at his Republican counterparts apparent in the statement released following the fishing treaties’ passage. “Approving these treaties demonstrates that a bipartisan commitment to protecting our oceans and our fishing industry exists in the U.S. Senate,” Menendez said. “It is not only possible, but necessary to put aside extremist politics, engage with the international community, and fulfill our Constitutional duty concerning treaties,” he continued, a subtle dig at the continued roadblock the Disabilities Treaty faces. Former Congressman Tony Coelho (D-CA), the sponsor of the original ADA, seemed stunned that the Senate could have moved on the fish conventions ahead of the Disabilities Treaty. “I think it’s real interesting as someone who has a disability … that [Senate conservatives] could pass multilateral agreements to protect fish internationally, but are unwilling to pass a multilateral agreement to protect one billion people with disabilities worldwide,” Coelho, who himself has epilepsy, told ThinkProgress. “I don’t know how people can make that judgment and live with it.” Coelho pointed to the bipartisan nature of both the original ADA and the ADA Amendments Act, lamenting that ultraconservatives in the Republican Party seem unwilling to back the treaty even with substantial reservations attached to it. Adoption of the fisheries conventions is a stark realization that the opposition to the Disabilities Treaty is more than what’s on the face of it, Coelho said, that it’s more of a political move from the Republicans in question as opposed to a reality with regards to international treaties. It hasn’t been as though the Senate Democrats and administration have been unwilling to work with the Republicans currently blocking passage. Menendez’s office had been working with Corker’s office and the State Department on a RUDS package prior to Corker’s shunning, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer told ThinkProgress. There’s tons of room for people to work, staffers say, but ultraconservative Republicans like Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) remain unwilling to move. David Kaye, an international law professor at the University of California – Irvine, spoke to ThinkProgress earlier this year on the stalling of the CRPD in the Senate. Kaye pointed to a piece from Cruz in the Harvard Law Review on the futility of treaties as an example on how far the Senate has slid from its past willingness to pass treaties. The first President Bush sent the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the Senate, Kaye noted, and got it passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — with substantial reservations — at a time noted archconservative Sen. Jesse Helms chaired the committee. “These RUDS satisfied Jesse Helms, they don’t satisfy Ted Cruz?” Kaye asked ThinkProgress incredulously. The unwillingness of the Senate to pass multilateral agreements now is already having negative impacts on negotiations on future treaties. “If you talk to people at State who regularly negotiate treaties and who’ve done it for a long time, they’ll say maybe ten, fifteen years ago, if we were in the middle of a treaty negotiation with our partners or potential partners, we might say we need something in this if we’re going to get the Senate to ratify,” Kaye said. “They can’t say that anymore.” International partners now believe that the Senate just won’t ratify the treaty no matter what, so why accommodate the United States? They may have a point, as the list of treaties that the United States has agreed to but not passed through Congress continues to grow: the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on testing nuclear weapons; the Law of the Sea, which has not been signed and received its own full court press in the first term of the Obama administration; and the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty — which has yet to even be sent to the Senate for consideration. There will be no third hearing on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the current congress. The next time that the chance will arise to swing Republican votes will come in mid-June with the release of the Supreme Court’s decision in a little known case that has become the main conservative argument against moving forward with the CRPD now. In Bond v. United States a chemical weapons treaty is being used to prosecute a case against an American citizen, who is accused of attempting to poison a rival for her husband’s affections. Corker specifically cited Bond in his statement last December as a reason to hold off on supporting the treaty, a point of linkage that advocates and the administration alike dismiss. A verdict that places limits on the federal government’s ability to broadly interpret treaties in cases like Bond, however, could potentially swing Corker and other skeptics back into the supporting camp. The chances of a potential reversal in the Senate, one that will find the votes needed to bring the treaty over the finish line, remain slim — but not utterly impossible. After all, one senate staffer ThinkProgress spoke to in January was unable to think of any treaty that would pass through the current Senate climate — an observation that the passage of the fishing conventions has proved wrong. “What we need is to have some of the enlightened Republicans — and there are many — who have been unwilling to support the treaty to come up with RUDS that will bring around the necessary votes to adopt it,” Coelho said. Advocates are working on it, he continued, and they remain hopeful that process can get process started in the next few weeks. But this is an election year, one in which the Republicans are poised to retake the Senate, and the odds of action dwindle as the full force of campaign season come upon Washington. And the Senate won’t move on the CRPD when the votes aren’t there to ensure that there won’t be a repeat of the heartbreak on the floor in December 2012. Despite the insistence last year that as many as nine Republicans remain on the radar for possible conversion, without Corker’s support to provide momentum out of committee the goal of getting the 67 votes needed seems just out of reach. So for now it appears that the fish of the world can count on the support of the U.S. Senate. The disabled population around the globe? Not so much.

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This attempt by religious zealots to dictate their morality to everyone comes despite a California Supreme Court decision last May, when, by a vote of 4–3, the Court ruled that the previous statutes or laws that limited marriage to only a relationship between a man and a woman represented violations of the equal protection clause of the California State Constitution. Therefore, the judges held, same-sex individuals (gays, lesbians) have the right to marry is protected by the state constitution. Ever since the court ruling, conservatives and religious foes have agitated against the idea of gay marriage, as if it represented the coming of the Antichrist. Californians must reject this overt attempt to put a religious agenda into basic state law. Vote No on Proposition 8. Watch the video below, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. (Hat-tip to Penman at Daily Kos) Don't forget: donations made even at this late hour can help tremendously. Donate here.

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Channing Daughters Winery2004 Fresh Red Merlot Channing Daughters Winery, located in Bridgehampton, is one of the most unique wineries on Long Island. While most around here focus on Bordeaux varietals like Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon...Channing Daughters is always trying new things. Think I'm kidding? Sure, they make Merlot, Cab Franc (only in good years though) and a few different Chardonnays...BUT they also make Blaufrankisch, Tocai Friuliano, a Fruilian-style white blend of Pinot Grigio, Pinot Bianco...and grow Dornfelder too. They also try just about every Chardonnay clone you can think of...with some always-interesting results. Truly an artisanal producer, they make extremely small lots, which almost always sell out to their wine club before even "hitting the street." Why do you think we had to join the club? These are wines that you have to get your hands on. This bottle, the 2003 Fresh Red Merlot, is one of the few wines they make every year. And, they make more of this than anything else. Eyes: This red is much lighter than any Merlot I've ever had. Light ruby that almost has a Pinot Noir look to it. Nose: Light red cherry is paired nicely with a smoky, cigar-box aromas. Maybe even a little black pepper spice...but just a little. Tongue: It's super soft and velvety on the tongue. Red cherry and the cigary-box remain...with almost non-existent tannins. This wine is uncomplicated and very drinkable . Overall: Extremely charming and "Fresh Red" is a good name for it. I've always been a fan of this wine and it reminds me a bit of a Beaujolais (not Noveau) but with an interesting smokiness that makes it perfect for grilled fare. We drank it last night along side spice-rubbed chicken with cilantro pesto and I think it paired very well. It really begs for the grill though, and they claim it can take a slight chill, which I believe given the lack of tannins. Reviewed March 3, 2005 by Lenn Thompson. Lenn Thompson writes about New York wines for Dan's Papers,

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I've been getting 'em, too, just this week since I disabled the new horrible Word Verification. I'm so peeved at Blogger right now . . . . I disabled mine too. So far no spam. It's too bad it has to be so complicated, but I am getting better at reading those two words. So sorry to hear that - I haven't had more than usual, but my spam filter always catches them. I hope that person goes away!!! I never did allow anonymous comments. Sorry you were getting spammed. I haven't had word verification since about the first month I began my blog. thanks Nancy for commenting on my blog pos about the mail! I love it!Love your blog too!Happy StitchesDorothy hope the spam goes away soon! I am getting pretty good at deciphering the new word verifications.....hope you are getting some sewing done....not much of that happening here! Post a Comment

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NILES, Ohio (WKBN) – A Niles man pleaded not guilty Friday to credit card misuse. Brandon Haun, 19, is also charged with receiving stolen property and forgery. Niles police had been looking for Haun since Tuesday. He is suspected of several thefts in the city in the last few weeks. Haun is due back in court in October.

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As Real Madrid continue to spend on players that they may or may not need, the issue arises as to who should start, who should sit on the bench, and who should be left out of the game day squad. With certain new transfers having enjoyed a particularly special World Cup, we now look to a potential formation, who will play in it, and who won’t. (This formation assumes the highly likely departures of Angel Di Maria and Sami Khedira). As successful as Ancelotti was in the past year employing a 4-3-3, he will likely be forced back into a 4-2-3-1 in order to accommodate another star attacker in James Rodriguez, who is less likely to be able to be converted into an elite central midfielder with the ability to flit out and into the channels opened up via the 4-3-3 like Angel Di Maria was. Should Keylor Navas make the switch to Real Madrid, forcing either Casillas or Lopez into the reserves, he would be the undisputed number 1 at the Bernabeu. Coming off of an incredible run in the World Cup with Costa Rica, Navas would be a welcome addition to a rotation whose age is beginning to show. With Casillas (33) and Lopez (32) starting to lose some of their unmistakable talent, a younger keeper must be brought in. However, as things stand, Diego Lopez belongs in goal for Los Blancos. A dismal World Cup by Iker Casillas only furthered to exploit some the faults that were occasionally on display in club play, especially in the Champions League final. Either keeper can perform at an elite level but it is a fact that Madrid will need to look for a new keeper in the coming transfer windows. Looking to a defensive line that will line up with four across the back, it looks likely that Carvajal will slot in at right back in a position that is still up for grabs, depending on Arbeloa’s form and fitness. Next to him, Sergio Ramos will find himself up against the likes of Luis Suarez, the perfect complement to Ramos’ physical yet usually controlled defensive game. Alongside Ramos, I favor Varane over Pepe due to the high-level of confidence that Varane played with at the World Cup, along with the unpredictability of Pepe’s actions and discipline. Varane rarely loses control of his emotions while Pepe is almost as likely to make an amazing last man tackle as he is to run over the player he is chasing, concede a penalty, or a receive a red card for arguing. The final defensive spot is occupied by Marcelo, even though he produced a dismal showing against Germany and was at fault for other goals, as he is Madrid’s best option as far as left-back is concerned. Despite rumors regarding a possible purchase of Wolfsburg left-back Ricardo Rodriguez, Marcelo has been a defensive stalwart in Madrid for the past couple years and will not be looking to lose out to the likes of Fabio Coentrao. Now for a midfield overloaded with talent, Ancelotti looks very likely to play Toni Kroos alongside Luka Modric in the two holding roles present in a 4-2-3-1. Both players possess an uncanny ability to counterattack at lightning pace and could prove the difference makers when coming up against the trio of Busquets, Iniesta, and Rakitic. Also, the instinct to score goals when given the opportunity makes this midfield duo one of the most formidable in all of Europe. Sliding out to the left midfield, we will find the reigning Ballon d’Or winner in Cristiano Ronaldo. A winger with some of the most dazzling footwork in the entire world, he is capable of creating opportunities, not just for his teammates but himself as well. Likely to take the most ambitious of chances, Ronaldo is a player unlike any other in the world and is truly one of the few able to single-handedly win games for a team with as much talent as Real Madrid. Operating opposite Ronaldo on the right side of the pitch is the most-expensive player in soccer history, Gareth Bale. Capable of beating his defender via dribble or explosive speed, Bale is a free kick specialist just as effective playing as a center-forward as a winger. He contributed 15 goals in 27 appearances for Madrid last campaign and will look to add to his tally and he grows more accustomed to the Galactico style of play. Finally, operating as the number 10 will be Madrid’s latest signing, James Rodriguez. Colombia’s golden child enjoyed a stellar World Cup, even scoring the goal of the tournament with a superb volley against Uruguay. A player able to play as a forward or as a number 10, Rodriguez will bring unparalleled dynamicity to an already formidable and versatile Real Madrid attack. The striker spot in our formation belongs to Karim Benzema by default, unless Real does indeed bring in another striker as rumored. The Frenchman enjoyed a good World Cup in his own right. The talisman to a French attack that fired on all cylinders, he showcased his ability to sneak in behind defenses and create opportunities by holding up play. An integral part of last season’s team, Benzema looks set to enjoy more success. On the bench, we will find Iker Casillas, the saint-like Spanish goalkeeper whose poor run of form both for club and country contributed to Diego Lopez overtaking him as Madrid’s number 1. Next are Alvaro Arbeloa, Pepe, and Fabio Coentrao. All could start on almost any other team but will provide depth to a Madrid team whose high-paced attack could leave them gassed in the final 10-15 minutes of matches. For midfield, Xabi Alonso and Isco will be used as substitutes capable of setting up goals and scoring them, respectively. Isco’s dribbling ability will make a capable replacement to James Rodriguez should he find himself injured or suffering from fatigue. Alonso’s classy style of play would calm down an attack bristling to head towards the opposition’s net. The final spot on the bench belongs to Jese Rodriguez. The young Spaniard enjoyed an exciting of the season before succumbing to an ACL tear in his right knee. A young player unafraid to both take on opposing players and score goals, he can slot in anywhere along the front line and present a fresh dose of energy to a team that may be faltering.

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Toyota Sued, Brand Slavery, Viral Vetting, Court Orders on Twitter - Toyota and Saatchi get sued for freaking a woman out with their stalkerish Matrix campaign. - If you guys are in NYC next week, join me at an AdForum social media sesh called Brand Servants or Brand Masters?. I think you can guess what it's about and why it might be relevant. Entry's $95; it'll be two hours long. - The October 23 deadline for the Viral Film Festival, held by Vanksen, fast approaches! Get your cool viral work in and see it projected over a panoply of drunk people in Paris on November 26. No cost to enter; this is all for the love of the crowd. (And some goodwill for Vanksen, natch.) - One tweet you probably don't want. - Something about nosepicking. - NPR wants hyperlocal journos.

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The Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-6, 1863 This is the Catherine Furnace. It was an Iron Furnace that was inactive during the battle. Stonewall Jackson will turn his column south at this location. This is the intersection of Furnace Road and Orange Plank Road (modern day Old Plank Road). This is were Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson decided to split their army in order to thoroughly trounce Federal General Joseph Hooker. This monument marks the location of the 114 Pennsylvania also known as "Collis Zouaves" during the May 3rd fighting. This is to Confederate General Baxton who fell in the attacks on May 3rd This is the site of the Burton farm. "Stonewall" Jackson studied the Union 11th Corps's position form this location (at the time it was open) May 2, 1863. 11th Corps Position This was taken from the Jackson Flank Attack area. It is located at the extreme right of the Union line. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's famous flack attack during the Battle of Chancellorsville is one of the most famous in military history. His troops will sweep across this picture from left to right (which at the time of the battle would have been wooded) May 2, 1863. This was taken from the Jackson Flank Attack area. Jackson's troops would have been heading the same direction the photo was taken. This was also taken at the Jackson Flank Attack area where the 75th Ohio was positioned. Jackson's troops would have been approaching from the horizon.(note: during the time of the battle this area would have been wooded) The gray roof in the center is the Wilderness Church. It's located on State Rt. 3 near the Union right flank. This Monument stands marks the location of the "Bushbeck" line. It was the last line of defense for the 11th Corps during Jackson's attack. Back Home Chancellorsville Index

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No arguments on The Sun's opposition to county pension plans ("A pension windfall," Dec. 18). But isn't the solution quite simple? Eliminate government pensions. All of them. Corporate pensions too. Pensions are a method to fund current operations with future taxes or earnings — both of which are uncertain. Instead, pay higher employee salaries so that the individual can invest in personalized pension and retirement plans. Instantly, no worries about pension fund malfeasance or ballooning untenable payments. Uncoupling works magic. Yes, of course, I am a simpleton thinking that our elected officials would ever do this, but small companies can try to lead the way. Now, how about handling health insurance identically? Robert Glaser, Owings Mills

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Basics of reverse mortgages There are no restrictions for how the money from a reverse mortgage loan must be used. Many people in retirement use it to supplement their income, pay for health care expenses, pay off debt or pay for home improvement jobs. Retirees can collect their payments on a reverse mortgage as a lump sum, fixed monthly payment, line of credit or some combination. However, before you rush to apply, there are some serious drawbacks to consider. "Reverse mortgages are a wonderful tool to have at your disposal, but you should only play that card if you're out of other options," says Phil Cook, a Certified Financial Planner professional in Manhattan Beach, California. Downside of reverse mortgages - May affect benefit eligibility. - Higher-than-average closing costs and interest rate. - May diminish value of estate. For starters, reverse mortgages are complex and costly -- and may affect eligibility for Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income benefits. As a result, homeowners interested in taking out a reverse mortgage are required to receive mandatory (free) counseling by an independent third party, including an agency approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development or a national counseling agency such as AARP. These organizations help homeowners review alternative options. "As you get older, it gets harder to grasp some of the terms in these kinds of transactions, so it's not a bad idea to have someone younger who you trust, like an adult child, involved in the process," says Cook. If you decide to proceed with the loan, you can expect to pay higher-than-average closing costs based on the value of your home, including origination fees, upfront mortgage insurance and appraisal fees. The interest rate you pay is also generally higher than that for a traditional mortgage. Keep in mind that anyone who takes out a reverse mortgage remains responsible for paying property taxes, insurance and repairs on their home. If you fail to comply, you may be required to repay your reverse mortgage early. Spending the equity in your home, of course, also diminishes the value of your estate -- leaving you less to pass along to your heirs down the road. "Always explore all other sources of income first before tapping into your home equity," advises Cook. "Liquidate your portfolio and cut down on your living expenses. If you still don't have enough, a reverse mortgage may make sense." To locate a Federal Housing Authority-approved lender or HUD-approved counseling agency, you can visit HUD's online locator or call the Multifamily Housing Clearinghouse at 1(800)-569-4287. NRMLA also maintains a database at ReverseMortgage.org.

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Winder Police were called to a soccer field on 2nd Street last week in response to a reported fight between two men. When police arrived, one of the subjects said he was driving and “somehow his vehicle struck another vehicle,” but he did not know how it happened. The driver claimed the owner of the other vehicle approached him and shoved him down the hill. The owner of the vehicle that was hit claimed he “nicely” asked the driver if he was responsible. The vehicle owner said the driver became very irate and began cursing him. According to the vehicle owner, the driver then violently bumped him in the chest. The vehicle owner said he pushed the man away, causing him to fall down the hill. A witness corroborated the vehicle owner’s story. Neither man was injured. The investigating officer advised the men to contact the Magistrate’s Court if they wished to pursue charges. Other incidents investigated by Winder Police this past week include: • entering auto on Jamie Court. • theft by conversion on Broad Street. • no insurance on East Candler Street. • damage to property at a West May Street address. • theft by taking on Griffith Street. • verbal dispute on Broad Street. • burglary at a New Street address. • criminal trespass on Lays Lane. • entering auto at a West New Street address. • lost or mislaid property reported on Monroe Highway. • lost property on East May Street. • damage to property on Wood Avenue. • damage to property on Saint Ives Lane. • gas drive off on North Broad Street. • criminal damage to property at a North Fifth Avenue address. • entering auto on Harpy Eagle Drive. • shoplifting on Monroe Highway. • criminal trespass at a Nancy Street address. • domestic violence on King Street. • aggravated assault at a North Broad Street location.

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This must be a winner! I can't see how this scent would be obnoxious or off-putting. Immediately upon applying my sample, I was reminded of Lorenzo Villoresi's Vetiver - which has a very earthy greenness to it. I seemded to notice an element of leather as well. Despite a faint hint of barnyard there is, as I experience this, an overriding imagery of non-flowery fresh outdoors and perhaps breezy wooded areas. It is certainly a complex and undoubtedly a very well constructed scent from which I get positive associations. 11th March, 2007 (last edited: 29th November, 2009)

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ATLANTA, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Brent McKenzie, based in Atlanta, GA, has joined ARMSRx Pharmacy Benefit Consulting, the nation's fastest growing pharmacy benefit firm, as Senior Vice President of Pharmacy Benefit Consulting. Mr. McKenzie offers his clients over 25 years of industry expertise in the employee Benefits and Pharmacy Benefit Management arena. Brent has worked with numerous market segments that include Insurance Carriers, Managed Care organizations, Third Party Administrators, large employers groups, brokers and consultants. Brent's experience includes work in the managed care and HMO industry with nationally know groups like Cigna, John Hancock, and Ameriplan where he worked with and handled large group sales and key account management for well-known Fortune 100 companies like Nabisco, Coca-Cola, and Delta. McKenzie also worked on the provider side of health care for Piedmont Hospital System handling direct contracting for large employer groups in Georgia. These well-known groups were companies like Georgia Power/Southern Company, General Motors, and Ga. Pacific. Piedmont used this framework to develop the foundation to start the first PHO in Ga. The last twelve years have been focused in the PBM world where Brent has worked across all market segments with many of the best known names in the industry. McKenzie worked for PCS where he interfaced with key managed care providers Avmed, Healthfirst and Humana. His experience with Express Scripts/PBM, Wellpoint PBM and HealthTrans/PBM along with numerous brokers, Third Party Administrators and consultants gives him a broad level of experience to guide his clients through the ever changing world of pharmacy management. Brent may be reached at 678-333-3630 or Brent@ARMSRx.com. |SOURCE ARMSRx Pharmacy Benefit Consulting| Copyright©2009 PR Newswire. All rights reserved

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From Bioinformatics.Org Wiki (Difference between revisions) |Line 18:||Line 18:| Latest revision as of 21:22, 14 August 2009 ERGO is an extensive microbial genome database including access to gene annotations, protein sequences, and networked metabolic/non-metabolic pathways.

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Who you got in the sausage races this weekend? I just love saying “sausage races.” - Matt Garza was dissappointed by his poor outing yesterday, but it sounds like he doesn’t think he pitched all that badly. “You could see of the stuff they were hitting, they didn’t hit me hard. Two hits, the hit to [Dan] Uggla and the home run, that’s it,” Garza said. “Everything else were jam shots or hit off the end of the bat, so it’s not like I missed my spots big time. I made a mistake to… it’s not even a mistake, it was a good pitch to McCann, a change-up down, he just went and got it. Uggla, I knew what he was looking for so I just tried to beat him. He hit a hard single to dead center. So you just tip your cap and say whatever, back in five days.” - I’m not saying he’s a future anything, and I’m not saying that numbers in AAA – particularly this year in the PCL, where the league average OPS is over .800 – necessarily translate to MLB, but Bryan LaHair’s numbers are becoming hard to ignore. Going into last night’s game, he had a video game/Barry Bonds-like line of .336/.410/.671 with 36 homers, 37 doubles and 105 RBI in just 122 games. Yeesh. He’ll probably be called up in September when rosters expand to 40, but will he actually play? Mike Quade certainly isn’t going to start him over Carlos Pena, and LaHair has played only a handful of games in the outfield this year. And then, after not playing, the Cubs will probably have to dump him from the 40-man roster to protect some kids from the Rule 5 Draft. Again, I’m not saying LaHair will be the one in a million players who “figure it out” at 28/29, but this is among the many reasons it probably would have been a good idea to trade Carlos Pena. - Mike Quade says he doesn’t really understand the waiver system, which is profoundly unsurprising. Here you go, Mike. - Kick a man while he’s down, will yah? Park Ridge is trying to have the honorary “Jim Hendry Way” designations removed from Northwest Highway. The residents say it’s not personal and not necessarily because Hendry’s been booted from the Cubs. They never wanted the sign, and now seems like as good a time as any to get rid of them. Do I make the Alfonso Soriano joke now? Nah. Too easy. Too mean. - Reader MichiganGoat (making his second appearance in the Bullets) passes along a Yahoo article with 25 “Things You Didn’t Know,” but I’m pretty sure we did all know this: Alfonso Soriano is the worst batter in all of baseball against both the slider and the curveball. What do you want to bet, if Tyler Colvin qualified, he’d be right up there with Alf? Carlos Marmol comes in as the relief pitcher most reliant on the slider, which means that if he and Alfonso Soriano ever faced each other, Soriano wouldn’t have a chance. Perhaps more interestingly, according to the numbers, Aramis Ramirez is the best in baseball against the curveball, and Starlin Castro is the best in baseball against the split-finger. - I was going to leave this alone, but now that it’s popped up twice, I can’t. Each of Phil Rogers and Bruce Miles have, in the last month, pointed to a lovely Fangraphs article, (which Rogers refers to as a “RotoGraphs” article, much in the way your grandpa might ask you to turn down the “televisor”) ranking NL starting pitchers. Each used the article to discuss where a particular pitcher is ranked, relative to the rest of the league. What neither recognized is that the rankings are for *fantasy* purposes. A pitcher’s value to a fantasy team can be quite different from his value to his actual team. K thx bye.

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Cat's At Home, at almost 14-1, came from off the pace to win Saturday's 73rd running of the $108,200 Westchester Handicap for horses three and older at Aqueduct. Cat's At Home, ridden by Filiberto Leon, finished strongly to reach the wire 2 1/2 lengths ahead of Little Hans. It was another 1 1/4 lengths to Milwaukee Brew. Postponed, Say Florida Sandy, and Country Only completed the order of finish. The win was the first in four starts this year for Cat's At Home, who earned $64,920 for Edward P. Evans. He stopped the timer after running the mile in 1:33.60 on a fast track. A 4-year-old son of Tabasco Cat, Cat's At Home won for the sixth time in 15 starts. "He's a little immature still, and he is hesitant when he races inside," said Ellie Diamond, assistant to trainer Mark Hennig. "So, the outside post (7) was a good draw for him. I think he enjoys the one-turn mile. He had more kick today. Last time, he ran a mile and a quarter and he was done at the three-eighths pole. Of course, today the competition was a little bit easier." Cat's At Home returned $29.20, 12.20, and $6.40. Little Hans paid $8.80 and $4.90 and Milwaukee Brew was $3.20. The winning exacta combination returned $141.50. Juan Serey, trainer of Westchester favorite Say Florida Sandy, said, "He likes to run from the gate, and he needs the rider to keep after him. He doesn't like it when the jockey takes hold of him. He's going in the Bold Ruler (Grade 3, April 14)." In the co-feature, Dat You Miz Blue scored a front-running 7 1/4 length victory as the odds-on favorite in the 22nd running of the $81,125 Broadway Handicap for fillies and mares three and older. "She's been doing good so far this year," said winning trainer Jimmy Jerkens. "She's stayed sound. She had a stifle that was bugging her last year and we had to stop on her. That seems to be the only thing that helps. The stifle has been fine so far. I'm going to take it one race at a time with her. We'll see how she comes out of this one, and start looking for a spot. I would think about stretching her out, especially since she hasn't had a knockdown, tough race yet this year. Winning this way keeps her confidence up and keeps her sound." Dat You Miz Blue carried Aaron Gryder seven furlongs in 1:21.06 on the fast track to earn $48,675 for Cynthia Knight with her sixth win in thirteen career starts. Dat You Miz Blue returned $2.70. (Charts, Equibase

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Shimla Mirch will see the dream girl work with the ace director after 39 years Ramesh Sippy has made films in various genres and has worked with various leading ladies as well, but there is one special heroine which the ace director always looks forward to direct. She is none other than Hema Malini. The duo have worked in films like Andaaz, Seeta Aur Geeta and Sholay before. Now, after 39 years, they are all set to come together for Shimla Mirch. Shimla Mirch is touted as Sippy’s comeback film as a director and therefore he has grand plans for it. He has also roped in National Film Award winning actor Rajkummar Rao for the lead role, while the leading lady for the film is yet to be finalised. Sources say that Hema Malini will play an important character in the film which will be pivotal to the plot. So all Sholay and Shaan fans get ready to have another blockbuster coming your way from the ace director. Keep reading this space for more updates on the film.

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OK, fess up. I’d bet most of you political junkies opted for that tense 1-0 Red Sox shutout of the Tigers over Tuesday night’s televised Boston mayoral debate. Those no-shows for the first of three televised mayoral debates must have been sweet music for state Rep. Marty Walsh. He took a whacking from City Councilor John Connolly, his smooth mayoral rival. But then, who was watching? |The article you requested has been archived|

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lindsay Mendez and More Set for THE 52ND STREET PROJECT, 5/7 Like Clockwork: The 52nd Street Project's Party Time Benefit is set for this Monday, May 7, hosted by Tony Award nominee Bobby Cannavale at Ars Nova. The benefit will feature songs with lyrics by Project kids, set to music and performed by professional artists. Uzo Aduba, Telly Leung, Arthur Lewis, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lindsay Mendez, Jessica Molaskey & John Pizzarelli, Matt Saldivar, Chris Sullivan will perform; tickets are $300 and $600. Tables of ten are available for $6,000, $12,000, $18,000 and $25,000. For further information, visit 52project.org. Contributions are tax deductible except for $150 per ticket. All ticket orders will be held at the door. The 52nd Street Project (The Project) was founded in 1981 by actor/playwright and 1994 MacArthur Fellow Willie Reale in response to a deepening need to improve the quality of life for New York's inner-city children. Reale, an actor, playwright, and company member of the Ensemble Studio Theater (EST), used his company privileges to reach out to the children of the neighborhood by creating theatrical endeavors specifically for them. This was done with the cooperation and support of EST and its across-the-street-neighbor, the Police Athletic League's Duncan Center. The Project is now an independent not-for-profit organization that creates over eighty new plays and serves over 130 children every year. The 52nd Street Project has been a place where many preeminent theater-makers have volunteered their efforts to mentor kids from Hell's Kitchen. To name just a few: Billy Crudup, Peter Dinklage, Edie Falco, Nancy Giles, James McDaniel, Frances McDormand, Cynthia Nixon, Oliver Platt, Martha Plimpton and Lili Taylor.

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Originally Posted by steadyrock I have occasionally wondered about the legality of doing this exact thing on public land. Assuming a legal but untraceable firearm such as a bent AK, can anyone comment on the legality of this in CA? Sounds pretty illegal to me. The rule of thumb I use is if its cool or fun it's probably illegal in California.

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The family resort in the Ore Mountains Welcome to Carlsfeld in the beautiful Ore Mountains ... an alpine and cross-country skiing and winter sports area rich in tradition. Carlsfeld is a state recognized recreational area, an ideal holiday resort for active family holidays. Carlsfeld is known for having the oldest round church in Saxony, the highest drinking drinking water reservoir in Germany, and for earlier production of the legendary bandoneon. Nestled in a large natural reserve, Carlsfeld is situated about 900 m AMSL. It is a beautiful hiking area, with clearly marked trails, the local mining history and the museums. Events in Carlsfeld The next 4 event dates in Carlsfeld A selection of the in place reservations, hotels and holiday homes

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LuxDeco recently published us on their ‘Best Luxury Weekend Escapes’ list. ‘Spend the weekend in royal territory at Norfolk’s Congham Hall Hotel. Situated just at the edge of the Sandringham estate, the Georgian hotel certainly isn’t short on noteworthy neighbours. Join in a game of croquet, chill out at the recently refurbished spa or enjoy one of the many nature walks for an easy country weekend. Also worth mentioning, the nearby Norfolk coast has been awarded the title of Area of Outstanding Beauty’

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Move with arrow keys and jump with spacebar. Shift is an online puzzle game which you can play for free here at CrazyGames. It has tags gravity, logic, and platform. It has been played 7438 times and has been rated 7.5 / 10 (from 103 ratings). Shift is one of the many puzzle games that we feature. If you want to play more games, check out Shift 4 or Shift 3. To play even more games, head over to the gravity page, the logic page, the platform page, or just check out the all time best games page. More » If the game is not working, please let us know by clicking here.

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DON’T tell Doctor Who but there is likely to be another adversary to add to the army soon as one Hampshire enthusiast is restoring what is thought to be the oldest surviving dalek. Built in 1963, the dalek has been rescued and restored and is currently residing in a garage in Dibden Purlieu. The prop can claim to have faced the first Timelord William Hartnell when the daleks debuted on screen. It went on to battle every Doctor in the original series, including Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker, making its final appearance with Sylvester McCoy in 1988. In its filming career the dalek was buried in sand, thrown into a tank of water, and actually stolen from the BBC studios. Doctor Who writer and historian Jon Green said the dalek is probably the most often-seen alien prop ever used in the series. “The theft, in 1973, was widely publicised and the BBC’s Blue Peter show broadcast an appeal for sightings, which resulted in a young viewer spotting it dumped in London. “It had been damaged but was thankfully safely recovered”, he said. The dalek is being restored by enthusiasts Chris Balcombe and ThePropGallery.com who between them bought all the parts of the original prop and restored it with the help of visual effects. Owner Chris has continued subtle restoration of the dalek, in a workshop near his home in Dibden Purlieu.

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Heart4Homeschooling, USA, North Carolina, Cleveland and Gaston County by Cheryl Vagnozzi The purpose of this group is to provide an atmosphere for support and fellowship, as well as a place to share and ask for advice, network, and offer activities and field trips for our homeschooled children and their families. This group is dependent upon its members actively participating as a TEAM (Together Everyone Achieves More!). Some of our other membership benefits educational links, monthly event calendar, PE program, Co-op, 4H clubs, history and science fairs, end of the year awards banquet, box tops for education program, and more! Heart4Homeschooling has a low membership dues of $10 for the year. Click here to post comments Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Homeschool Support Groups.

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The answer to the oft-asked question of what people want to see on the Internet is pretty much the metaphorical Holy Grail for Web publishing. If we knew the answer to that, then you’d likely see a lot more of it and a lot less of everything else – even if only for getting hits and not the more altruistic aim of giving the people what they want. However, one website may have worked out a way to predict what stories are going to be hits before it happens – and if it proves to be a consistent predictor of tastes, the Internet as we know it may be able to change. Adweek reports that a software built by the team behind Conde Nast’s Ars Technica site can track current pageviews and use that data to extrapolate how successful stories are likely to become. “Within two days [of being installed] we found it was working really well,” Ars Technica editor-in-chief Ken Fisher says. “We were identifying within an hour stories that would go on to do 900,000 views. And these were not pieces you’d hear by title and think, ‘That’s going to be killer.’ One was titled, Quantum Networks May Be More Realistic Than We Thought.” The technology is currently dubbed “the accelerator” (or, alternatively, “the watercooler program,” presumably after the hypothetical water cooler that the story will be discussed around should it prove to be appropriately “sticky”), and tracks not just raw pageview data in real time, but also where the traffic is coming from. “We can know after 20 or 30 minutes if organic traffic will be huge on a piece,” Fisher says. The site continues to boast that the program – which is said to be still new and in the development stages – has already found a “more than 95 percent” success rate in predicting which stories are going to be successful on the site. Ars Technica publisher Howard Mittman said that, should the accelerator continue to perform as well as it has done so far, “our hope is [that] we can roll this technology across other sites and help Conde Nast continue to grow.” While the technology as currently described can only predict behaviors of already-written and posted stories, if this model proves to be accurate on an ongoing basis – especially to 95 percent – then it can only be a matter of time before the arrival of a predictive model that can suggest whether or not a story will be successful from a one-sentence pitch alone. Could this mean that Internet publishing would become more focused on the big stories only, or that we’ll see more niche publishing in the future?

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January 14 is the start of COMELEC gun ban By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8) TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte – The Commission on Elections announced that the election gun ban will start on January 14 and will last till June 13, 2007. The gun ban is being imposed in order to curb political violence during the election season, the Commission on Election officials in the Region informed. COMELEC said that violence usually escalates during the election season. It could be recalled that during the last election, a mayoralty candidate in Hindang, Leyte was killed. Recent killings include that of the assassination of Congressman Bersamin of Abra which was believed to be politically motivated. During the election ban, politicians and their personal securities are not allowed to carry firearms. If needed, police securities may be assigned to them, the COMELEC said. The gun ban excludes the law enforcement community and the military. However these peacekeeping forces are required to be in uniform when carrying their service firearms. Security agencies which are tasked of guarding the transport of money to and from the bank are required to apply for exemption from the ban from COMELEC. The public is encouraged to be vigilant and help insure peace and security during the election season by reporting violations to the gun ban to the COMELEC. Those concerned are also called upon to adhere to the election gun ban. Furthermore, COMELEC informed that it is ready already for the filing of candidacies for the senatorial seats which will start on January 15 up to February 12 and up to March 29 for the filing of the application for candidacy for the congressional and local The prospective senatorial candidates are required to file their certificate of candidacies at the COMELEC Central Office. The prospective congressional candidates are required to file their candidacies at the COMELEC provincial offices in their respective areas while the local candidates may file their certificate of candidacies at their respective municipal COMELEC offices.

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Electric fencing for pigs and piglets is a relatively straightforward affair, especially since pigs have very little hair on their bodies and have sensitive snouts. Pigs are also intelligent animals, so they soon learn to stay away from an electric fence. However, it is widely understood that pigs generally bolt forward when startled, so you should always use strong galvanised wire, not polywires or fence tapes. If weaker fencing materials are used, there is a risk that an animal could become entangled in a broken, but still live, electric fence. Most electric fences for pigs use only two lines, one 15-25cm from the ground and another 40-60cm high. The lower line is designed to come into contact with the pig’s snout, especially if they are ‘snuffling’ around near the fence, while the other would come into contact with the pig’s body should it brush against it. Obviously, you should adapt the fence line heights depending on the type of pig(s) that you have or if you have piglets. Contact us at email@example.com for help and advice about electric fencing for pigs and piglets.

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